Clinical Update | Vaccine Task Force | November 19, 2020
Date of Presentation: November 19, 2020
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical
Program: Virology
Keywords: #covid clinical update #vaccine task force #vaccine training
In this series of presentations, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS, gives a clinical update on COVID-19. Then Dr. Kailee Fretland, Pharmacist at the Bemidji Area Indian Health Service, and Dr Holly Van Lew, Pharmacist at the Phoenix Indian Medical Center, share critical information on determining the needs for COVID-19 planning and preparation at the facility level, including resources for identifying high risk groups, training materials for vaccinators, and planning resources on the IHS COVID-19 vaccine website. Dr Fretland and Dr Van Lew also explain the different documentation strategies required for COVID-19 vaccine administration data and describe the first COVID-19 vaccines anticipated to be available and the complexities associated with the storage and handling of the earliest available vaccines.
Recording:
Presented by:
Dr. Jorge Mera, Dr. Kailee Fretland, Dr. Holly Van Lew
Jonathan Iralu, MD, FACP, 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. Dr. Iralu has worked at the 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.
Kailee Fretland, PharmD, is a Pharmacist at the Bemidji Area Indian Health Service
Holly Van Lew, PharmD, is a Pharmacist at the Phoenix Indian Medical Center
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Date added: November 19, 2020
