Rachel Potter

To recommend an interested clinician, or to request additional information, please contact Rachel Potter, MDCH Vaccine Preventable Disease Epidemiologist, at 517-335-9710 or at PotterR1@michigan.gov.

"Influenza surveillance works when an adequate number of physicians are willing to participate and is only as good as the data they provide," says Rachel Potter, D.V.M., M.S., epidemiologist, Division of Immunization, MDCH.

These activities usually take less than 30 minutes per week.For their efforts, sentinels receive free laboratory testing for 11 specimens per site per season, weekly influenza activity reports and free, hard-copy subscriptions to CDC publications Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and Emerging Infectious Diseases.Sentinels who report regularly also receive free registration at one of eight MDCH Regional Immunization Conferences.

For more information, please contact Rachel Potter at 517-335-9710 or potterr1@michigan.gov with questions or to enroll.

For more information or to enroll, contact Rachel Potter, DVM, MS, at the MDCH Bureau of Epidemiologyat potterr1@michigan.gov.

Start now by contacting Rachel Potter at (517) 335-9710 or potterr1@michigan.gov to find out more.

MDCH Web site to which readers can be directed for details:http://www.michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132-2940 2955 22779-122498--,00.html

For more information please contact Rachel Potter, DVM, MS, Epidemiologist with the Michigan Department of Community Health at (517) 335-9710