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Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) | February 15, 2024

Date of Presentation: February 15, 2024

Type: Past Presentation  

Audience: Clinical  

Program: Infectious Disease  

Keywords: #antimicrobial resistance  #MDROs  #multidrug resistant organisms  

In this series of presentations, Dr. Jorge Mera, ECHO Medical Director and Director of Infectious Diseases at Cherokee Nation, provides a clinical update on COVID-19, RSV and influenza. Then, Cal Ham, MD, MPH, Deputy Lead, Antimicrobial Resistance Team, Prevention and Response Branch with Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control, reviews Carbapenemase-producing Organisms including prevention and response in healthcare settings. Dr Ham provides a background and epidemiology, covers the spread in healthcare facilities, public health solutions and ideas for collaboration between public health and healthcare facilities.

Recording:

Presented by:

Cal Ham, MD, MPH | Jorge Mera, MD, FACP

Cal Ham, MD, MPH is the Deputy Lead for the Antimicrobial Resistance Team with the Prevention and Response Branch, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Jorge Mera, MD, FACP, is the Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services (CNHS), the largest tribally operated health care system in the United States. He completed his fellowship in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and is Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) in Infectious Diseases. During recent years Jorge’s efforts have been dedicated to organizing the Cherokee Nation HCV elimination program, as well as the HIV/HCV ECHO project. He is also the Director of the HIV clinic since 2012 and the Principal Investigator of the End the HIV Epidemic for the CNHS. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine of the Oklahoma State University Health Science Center and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

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Date added: February 8, 2024