IHS COVID-19 Clinical Readiness and Patient Care | May 21, 2020
Date of Presentation: May 21, 2020
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical
Program: Virology
Keywords: #covid clinical updates #telehealth
Dr. Jeff McCollum, Director of the Division of Epidemiology and Disease Prevention for the Indian Health Service, provides a situation report on COVID-19. Then, Dr. Jon Iralu, Chief Clinical Consultant for Infectious Diseases at IHS, provides a clinical update. Finally, Dr. Chris Fore, Director of TeleBehavioral Health Center of Excellent introduces a panel discussion on providing telehealth care in response to COVID-19.
Recording:
Presented by:
Jeff McCollum, Dr. Jonathan Iralu, Dr. Chris Fore
Jeff McCollum, DVM, MPH, is the Director of the Division of Epidemiology and Disease Prevention for the Indian Health Service.
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.
Chris Fore, PhD, is the Director of TeleBehavioral Health Center of Excellent at Indian Health Service.
Resources Provided:
- COVID-19 Clinical Update (Presentation Slides)
- Adapting Ambulatory Care to COVID - Using Telehealth in Care Delivery (Presentation Slides)
Date added: May 21, 2020