CME link for Episode 26: Stress About Strep: What to Do When It Won't Go Away

https://cmetracker.net/UTHSCSA/Publisher?page=pubOpen#/getCertificate/10092937Stress About Strep: What to Do When It Won’t Go Away

FACULTY:

Theresa (Tess) Barton, MD is a pediatric infectious disease doctor with UT Health San Antonio and University Hospital. She is passionate about working with adolescents with HIV, and that interest has evolved.

OVERVIEW:
Pediatrics Now Host and Producer Holly Wayment interviews Tess Barton, MD about what to do when strep keeps coming back or won’t go away. Wayment and Dr. Barton also discuss a new pertussis concern.

Doctor/Provider/Clinic Staff to Infectious Disease Doctor Number: 210-890-2699

Referral Info:

OCCAPI Clinic:

Diagnostic testing and treatment of congenital infections including: CMV, syphilis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV

Located at UH Rio Tower

Dr. JB Cantey

FFACTS Clinic:

Testing and prophylaxis for newborns exposed to HIV infection

Treatment and primary care services for children and adolescents living with HIV infection

Comprehensive care with case management and mental health services

Dr. Tess Barton

PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES CLINIC

UH Rio Tower, Drs. Barton and Cantey

We see a variety of infections and communicable diseases, as well as follow-up care after hospitalization for severe infections. That includes follow-up after severe COVID infections, or long-term COVID illnesses.

DISCLOSURES:
Theresa (Tess) Barton, MD has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. Planning Committee member Steven Seidner, MD has disclosed he receives funding from Draeger Medical for the Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of the Infinity Acute Care System Workstation Neonatal Care Babylog VN500 Device in High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) Mode in Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) Neonates for which he is a co-principal investigator. The relevant financial relationships noted for Dr. Seidner have been mitigated.

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio and Deepak Kamat, MD course director and content reviewer for the activity, have reviewed all financial disclosure information for all speakers, facilitators, and planning committee members; and determined and resolved all conflicts of interests.

CONTINUING EDUCATION STATEMENTS:

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing education for physicians.

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 0.50 AMAPRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CREDITS:
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.50)
Non-Physician Participation Credit (0.50)

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Strep Throat That Won’t Go Away or Keeps Coming Back and an Outbreak of Bordetella parapertussis