83 - Migrant Health and Its Impact in Latin America

Thursday, October 12, 2023

3:15 PM – 4:30 PM US ET

Location: 205 ABC

All relevant financial disclosures have been mitigated.

Moderator(s)

Heather Yun, MD (she/her/hers)

Deputy Commander for Medical Services
Brooke Army Medical Center
San Antonio, TX, United States
Laila Woc-Colburn, MD

Associate Professor
Emory University School of Medicine
Decatur, GA, United States
Gustavo Lopardo, MD (he/him/his)

Department Infectious Diseases
FUNCEI
Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Monica Thormann, MD

President
Asociación Panamericana de Infectología
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Faculty(s)

JT

Jaime Torres, MD

Tropical Medicine Institute, Universidad Central de Venezuela
Caracas, Miranda, Venezuela

Slides
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

Slides
Alfonso Rodriguez-Morales, MD, MSc, DTM&H, DipEd, FRSTM&H(Lon), FFTM RCPS(Glasg), FACE, FISAC, HonDSc (he/him/his)

Faculty and Senior Researcher
Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Americas (Colombia) / Universidad Cientifica del Sur (Peru) / Lebanese American University (Lebanon)
Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia

Slides

Disclosure(s):

Heather Yun, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Laila Woc-Colburn, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Gustavo D. Lopardo, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Monica C. Thormann, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

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

Co-organized by LATAM

Learning Objectives:

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

describe the unique position of the Darien Gap in migrant health and PanAmerican biosecurity;
explain issues specific to migrant health in Ecuador to generalizable lessons beyond;
identify the role of human migration on dynamics of infectious disease emergence and reemergence

Presentations:

3:15 PM – 3:40 PM US ET

The Darien Gap and the ID and Health Gap Among Migrants
Speaker: Jaime Torres, MD – Tropical Medicine Institute, Universidad Central de Venezuela
3:40 PM – 4:05 PM US ET

Going From South to South: Ecuador and ID Among Migrants
Speaker: Gabriela Zambrano, Internal Medicine Specialist (she/her/hers) – Central University of Ecuador
4:05 PM – 4:30 PM US ET

Emergence and Reemergence of Infectious Diseases in Latin America and Beyond: Links With Migration
Speaker: Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, MD, MSc, DTM&H, DipEd, FRSTM&H(Lon), FFTM RCPS(Glasg), FACE, FISAC, HonDSc (he/him/his) – Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Americas (Colombia) / Universidad Cientifica del Sur (Peru) / Lebanese American University (Lebanon)