75 - Unforgettable Cases in Tropical Medicine

Thursday, October 12, 2023

1:45 PM – 3:00 PM US ET

Location: 210 ABC

All relevant financial disclosures have been mitigated.

Interactive Moderator(s)

Heather Yun, MD (she/her/hers)

Deputy Commander for Medical Services
Brooke Army Medical Center
San Antonio, TX, United States

Slides
Carlos Franco-Paredes, MD, MPH

Faculty
Department of Medicine - Division of Infectious Diseases
Hospital Infantil de Mexico, Mexico and Instituto Conmemorativo de la Salud, Panama
Denver, CO, United States

Panelist(s)

NA

Nelson Agudelo Higuita, MD

Associate Professor
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Oklahoma City, OK, United States
Luis Marcos, MD, MPH, FIDSA

Associate Professor of Medicine
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY, United States
Gabriela Zambrano, Internal Medicine Specialist (she/her/hers)

Chair of the Infectious Diseases Course of the Faculty of Medicine
Central University of Ecuador
Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador

Disclosure(s):

Heather Yun, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Carlos Franco-Paredes, MD, MPH: No financial relationships to disclose

Nelson I. Agudelo Higuita, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Sapha Barkati, MD, MSc, DTM&H: No financial relationships to disclose

Luis A. Marcos, MD, MPH, FIDSA: No financial relationships to disclose

Gabriela Zambrano, Internal Medicine Specialist: Moderna, Inc.: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Pfizer, Inc.: Grant/Research Support (Terminated, February 28, 2023)

CME Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
MOC Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of MOC Credit
CNE Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of ANCC Credit
ACPE Credits: ACPE 1.25 knowledge-based contact hours of pharmacy CE
ACPE Number: JA0007082-0000-23-002-L01-P

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

describe the diagnostic reasoning process of experts approaching unknown tropical medicine cases;
explain common causes of fever in returning travelers/recent immigrants;
investigate geographic variability in causes of illness and infection globally