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COVID Minutes Podcast Episode 2 - Testing and Prevention Strategies

COVID Minutes Podcast Episode 2 - Testing and Prevention Strategies

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Date & Location

11/11/2020 - 11/11/2021, 12:00AM CST Online

Overview

This podcast discusses testing strategies and updates as well as prevention strategies for COVID-19 to include PCR testing, antigen testing and the role of antibody testing.  COVID-19 infection control and lessons learned is also discussed. 

Target Audience

This educational activity is designed to meet the educational goals of physicians and other healthcare professionals specializing in infectious diseases, family and community medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine, and all those involved with the management of patients with coronavirus. 

Learning Objectives for the Episode 2

  1. Discuss PCR testing, Antigen testing, and the role of antibody testing and its advantages and disadvantages. 
  2. Discuss hospital control measures and what has been learned from the COVID-19 pandemic 

Program Registration Information

Registration Fees - $0.00

Continuing Medical Education Education Credit - Accreditation and Designation Statement

The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Long School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of .25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Certificate of Attendance

Healthcare professionals will receive a certificate of attendance and are asked to consult with their licensing board for information on applicability and acceptance.

Credit may be obtained upon successful completion of the activity’s evaluation.

Release date:  11/11/2020 Credits expire: 11/11/2021

Course Director/Faculty

Jan PattersonJan E. Patterson, MD, MS, MACP
FIDSA, FSHEA, CHCP
Professor of Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Pathology
Associate Dean for Quality & Lifelong Learning
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine
UT Health San Antonio

Dr. Patterson is a Professor of Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Associate Dean for Quality & Lifelong Learning at The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, UT Health San Antonio.  She is clinician and a healthcare epidemiologist and has served on the Infectious Diseases Society of America Board of Directors and is Past President of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.  She is a longtime infectious diseases consultant to Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council (STRAC) and has also served on CDC’s Healthcare Infection Practices Advisory Committee and has been a consultant to San Antonio Metro Health Department.  She has been a site principal investigator for new antimicrobial agents and is currently a co-investigator for the NIH Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial (ACTT) studies as outlined above and is a sub-investigator for the Novavax SARS-CoV-2 vaccine trial at UT Health and University Hospital.

Faculty

Jason BowlingJason Bowling, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine/Infectious Diseases
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine
UT Health San Antonio

Dr. Bowling is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, UT Health San Antonio.  He is a clinician and a healthcare epidemiologist at University Health. He is also an investigator for the Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial (ACTT) conducted at University Hospital and a sub-investigator for the Novavax SARS-CoV-2 vaccine trial at UT Health and University Hospital.

 

Relevant Financial Disclosures

Dr. Jan Patterson has disclosed that she is a NIH ACTT co-investigator and sub-investigator for the Novavax SARS-CoV-2 vaccine trial.        

Dr. Jason Bowling has disclosed that he is an NIH ACTT co- investigator and sub-investigator for  the Novavax SARS-CoV-2 vaccine trial.         

The Office of CME has submitted educational grants to commercial interests and are pending review/approval.

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COVID Minutes Podcast Episode 2: Testing and Prevention Strategies

11/11/2020 - 11/11/2021, 12:00AM CST Online 

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