Clinical Update | August 19, 2020
Date of Presentation: August 19, 2020
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical
Program: Virology ECHO Program
Keywords: #covid clinical updates
In this session, Dr. Jorge Mera, Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Services, shares clinical updates on COVID-19. Then, Whitney Essex, Family Nurse Practitioner at Cherokee Nation Health Services, provides answers to previously submitted questions from participants.
Recording:
Presented by:
Dr. Jorge Mera, Whitney Essex
Jorge Mera, MD, FACP, is the Director of Infectious Diseases for Cherokee Nation Health Service, the largest tribally operated health care system in the United States. He oversees surveillance, policies, and programs to treat and prevent the transmission of COVID-19, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV and HCV.
Whitney Essex, MSN, FNP-BC, is a Family Nurse Practitioner for Cherokee Nation Health Services. Mrs. Essex works in the Infectious Diseases Department, where she is the coordinator for the Cherokee Nation Hepatitis C Elimination program. She assists in the maintenance of general infectious diseases clinical services, as well as the provision of medical care for patients accessing HIV, PrEP, Hepatitis C, and other infectious diseases-related services.
Resources Provided:
- Clinical Update (Presentation Slides)
- Questions and Answers (Presentation Slides)
- COVID-19 Among American Indian and Alaska Native Persons (CDC/MMWR)
- Signing-up to Give Convalescent Plasma (Red Cross)
- Risk assessment of airborne transmission of COVID-19 by asymptomatic individuals under different practical settings
Date added: August 19, 2020