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Past Presentation

Comprehensive Management of Osteomyelitis in the Diabetic Foot | May 18, 2023

Date of Presentation: May 18, 2023

Type: Past Presentation  

Audience: Clinical  

Program: Infectious Disease  

Keywords: #diabetes  #foot  #glycemic control  #infection  #osteomyelitis  #ulcer  #vascular disease  

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS, provides a clinical update on emerging COVID-19, Mpox and infectious disease topics. Then, Meghan Brennan, MD, MS, Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, reviews the comprehensive management of osteomyelitis in the diabetic foot, and provides a 4-pronged approach to caring for patients with diabetic foots, including practical, clinical management in the area of glycemic control, vascular disease, biomechanics and local wound care, and infection. Dr Brennan examines recent highlights in each of these physiologic domains, discusses a clinical case, and provides valuable insight as to how we can prevent major amputation and death associated with diabetic foot ulcers, paying special attention to infection and vascular disease, for patients in our Indian Health Service, Tribal and Urban Indian primary care clinics.

 

Recording:

Presented by:

Meghan Brennan, MD, MS | Jonathan Iralu, MD, FACP, FISDA

Dr. Meghan Brennan, MD, MS, is a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin in the Division of Infectious Disease within the Department of Medicine. She is a member of the Preventing Amputations in Veterans Everywhere (PAVE) Committee at the William S. Middleton Memorial VA Hospital. Dr. Brennan is a recipient of the 2017 Association of America Medical Colleges (AAMC) Early Career Women Faculty Leadership Development Seminar Awardee. Dr. Brennen’s clinical specialties are general infectious disease and the treatment and management of patients with diabetic foot ulcers. Dr. Brennan’s research focuses on the management of patients with diabetic foot ulcers. She co-directs the Madison VA’s diabetic foot ulcer clinic, a team of infectious disease providers and podiatrists working together to achieve limb salvage. She also conducts health services research on diabetic foot ulcers, specifically focusing on gaps in care amenable to health service interventions, and improving PCP-specialists and specialist-specialist collaboration to address this multifaceted problem.

Dr. Jonathan Iralu, MD, FACP, FISDA, is the Indian Health Service Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases. He has a special interest in HIV, tuberculosis, and sexually transmitted disease care in rural communities. His research has focused on undifferentiated febrile illness in the American Southwest and on rural HIV care delivery. He has worked at Gallup Indian Medical Center since 1994 and is an instructor at Harvard Medical School and Senior Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Global Health Equity in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Date added: May 18, 2023