Post-Acute COVID-19 Evaluation and Management of Pulmonary Complications | COVID-19 in Children | Epi and Public Health Updates | May 24, 2021
Date of Presentation: May 24, 2021
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical
Program: Virology
Keywords: #covid and kids #covid resource drop #public health updates #pulmonary complications
In this presentation, Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services, and Whitney Essex, Family Nurse Practitioner at Cherokee Nation Health Services focus on post-acute covid-19 evaluation and management of pulmonary complications and COVID-19 in children. Then, Brigg Reilley, Epidemiologist and ECHO faculty member, provides valuable COVID-19 related resources produced by the FDA and CDC, updated COVID-19 numbers and vaccination rates in Indian Country, an overview of recent COVID-19 news, and lessons learned.
Recording:
Presented by:
Dr. Jorge Mera, Whitney Essex, Brigg Reilley
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.
Whitney Essex, MSN, FNP-BC, received her Master of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2011 and is board certified in family practice by the American Nurses’ Credentialing Center. Whitney has been a Nurse Practitioner with Cherokee Nation Health Services since 2012 and works in the Infectious Diseases Department where she coordinates the Cherokee Nation Hepatitis C Elimination Program and co-directs the Ending the HIV Epidemic Program. Whitney assists in the maintenance of a general infectious diseases clinical service, providing primary care for HIV, HIV-PrEP, hepatitis C, and other infectious diseases related patients. She also serves as faculty for several infectious diseases-related virtual ECHO clinics across Indian Country.
Brigg Reilley, MPH, has worked with IHS and NPAIHB for a combined 12 years, starting with the HIV program. Brigg now supports the National Program’s management and evaluation for HIV and HCV. Prior to IHS, he worked for Doctors without Borders in several international projects and for the Office of Public Health in Louisiana. Brigg has an MPH from Tulane University.
Resources Provided:
- Post-Acute COVID-19- Evaluation and Management of Pulmonary Complications (Presentation Slides)
- COVID-19 in Children (Presentation Slides)
- Public Health and Epi Updates (Presentation Slides)
- FDA Authorizes Longer Time for Refrigerator Storage of Thawed Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Prior to Dilution, Making Vaccine More Widely Available (FDA)
- Trends in Number of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the US Reported to CDC, by State/Territory (CDC)
- COVID-19 Dashboard (Johns Hopkins)
- Estimated 7-13 Million Excess Deaths (The Economist)
- COVID-19 Mortality Among American Indian and Alaska Native Persons — 14 States, January–June 2020 (MMWR)
- Mindful State (WA DOH)
- Tribe records 13 assists, vaccinates most of the Portland Trail Blazers (News-Smoke Signals)
- Cherokee Nation Latest, Largest Oklahoma Tribe To Offer COVID Vaccine To Anyone Who Wants One (News-Public Radio Tulsa)
- US tribe shares vaccine with relatives, neighbors in Canada (News-AP)
- COVID-19 Vaccination among American Indian and Alaska Native People (KFF)
- Makah, Quileute tribes extend reservation closure (News-Peninsula Daily)
- Lessons Learned Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic (Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol)
- COVID-19 - Lessons Learned and Questions Remaining (Clinical Infect Diseases)
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Screening in the U.S. (AJPM)
- Can Indian Health Care Providers Mandate their Employees Receive the COVID-19 Vaccine? (AIHC)
- Acute covid-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (BMJ)
- COVID-19: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis in children (Up-to-date)
- Systematic SARS-CoV-2 screening at hospital admission in children:a French prospective multicenter study (Clin Infect Dis)
- Acute covid-19 multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (BMJ)
- Health Department-Reported Cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) in the United States (CDC)
- Clinical manifestations of COVID-19-associated multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and adolescents (UpToDate)
- Suggested approach to the evaluation of patients with suspected COVID-19-associated multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (UpToDate)
- COVID-19: Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) clinical features, evaluation, and diagnosis (UpToDate)
Date added: May 24, 2021