Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus | January 16, 2025
Date of Presentation: January 16, 2025
In this series of presentations, Dr. Jorge Mera, provides an overall infectious disease clinical update. Then, Dr. Tim Uyeki, Chief Medical Officer of the Influenza Division at CDC, reviews the latest and provides updates on the H5N1 response.
Recording:
Presented by:
Tim Uyeki, MD, MPH, MPP, FAAP
Chief Medical Officer | Influenza Division | National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases | Chief Medical Officer, CDC H5N1 Response | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. Tim Uyeki is Chief Medical Officer for the Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He received a B.A. in Biology from Oberlin College, a medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, a master’s degree in public health (epidemiology) and a master’s degree in in public policy, both from the University of California, Berkeley. He completed residencies in pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and in preventive medicine and public health at UCSF-UC Berkeley, and the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service applied epidemiology fellowship program. Prior to joining the CDC, he worked as an attending physician at UCSF SFGH for five years, pediatric critical care transport for UCSF for one year, and as a pediatric hospitalist for 2.5 years. Dr. Uyeki has worked at CDC on the epidemiology, clinical aspects, prevention and control of influenza in the U.S. and worldwide since 1998. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. Dr. Uyeki has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization on clinical and epidemiological issues related to seasonal, zoonotic, and pandemic influenza, including extensive international H5N1 outbreak experience for WHO and CDC in several countries.
Dr. Jorge Mera
Faculty
Dr. Jorge Mera is the director of the Infectious Disease Department at the Cherokee Nation Health Services, the largest tribally operated health care system in the United States. In 2014, in response the HCV national epidemic he launched the first ProjectECHO hub in the state of Oklahoma. This hub was focused on Hepatitis C treatment and elimination and has provided treatment recommendations to over 1400 American Indian/Alaska Native patients with HCV. In addition, Dr. Mera has been instrumental in the implementation of other ECHO hubs across Indian Country. These hubs have focused on COVID-19, HIV, HIV PrEP, infectious diseases, substance use disorders and eliminating the HIV/HCV/SUD/Syphilis syndemic. Dr. Mera 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 in Infectious Diseases. He is an Associate Professor in the Infectious Diseases Division at the University of New Mexico, Health Science Center, Strategic Advisor for Project ECHO in Latin America, as well as the ECHO Medical Director for the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board. Dr. Mera is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
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Dr. Jon Iralu
Faculty
Dr. Iralu, MD, MACP, FISDA, 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. He has worked at 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.
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- Infectious Disease Update (Presentation Slides)
- Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus (Presentation Slides Available Soon)
Date added: January 8, 2025
