Ann Arbor, MI- U-M invites the public to participate on tweet chat about H1N1. This chat will allow the discussion of the latest updates and information about swine flu. Members of the public are invited to submit queries for the tweet chat that will take place on October 22, from 10 in the morning until noon on Twitter.

Sandro Cinti, M.D. will answer the questions during the first part of the chat, from 10am to 11am. Sandro Cinti, M.D. is an infectious disease expert at the University of Michigan Health System and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.

Matthew Davis, M.D. will be the one to answer the questions on the second part which is from 11am to noon. He is a pediatrician and internist who directs the C.S. Mott
Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health. He is also an associate professor of public policy at the U-M Ford School of Public Policy,

If you want to participate on the tweet chat, you must first set up a Twitter account if you do not have one yet. submit your questions in the chat, direct message them via Twitter to @UMHealthSystem. Effort will be made to answer all the questions. However, that will also depend on the volume of questions because there may not be enough time.

To follow the chat, log in to Twitter.com or Tweetchat.com using your Twitter
log-in information, from 10 a.m. – noon Thursday, Oct. 22, and follow the hash
tag #H1N1swinefluchat.

A transcript of the chat will be posted online at

http://www.med.umich.edu/flu/tweetchats.htm.

Resources:

Twitter.com/UMHealthSystem

Tweetchat.com

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