Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus | January 16, 2024
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 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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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
