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Building Confidence in COVID-19 Vaccines | COVID-19 Clinical Updates | August 4, 2021

Date of Presentation: August 4, 2021

Type: Past Presentation  

Audience: Clinical  

Program: Virology  

Keywords: #covid clinical updates  #vaccine confidence  

In this presentation, Tyanne Conner, Native Boost Project Coordinator at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, shares practical tips for building COVID-19 vaccine confidence among your patients, then Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services, summarizes the latest clinical updates focused on COVID-19 prevention, transmission, vaccination, and treatment, and provides the latest update on variants.

Recording:

Presented by:

Tyanne Conner, Dr. Jorge Mera

Tyanne Conner, MS, is the Native Boost Project Coordinator at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board

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: September 16, 2021