Tuberculosis 2024

Overview:

Tuberculosis 2024
Lisa Y Armitige, MD, PhD

Tuberculosis is the number one infectious killer worldwide. This lecture will review the current state of tuberculosis in the US and regionally as well as the current guidelines for testing and treatment of patients with latent TB infection as well as TB disease.

 

After this presentation, attendees will be able to:

1.     Describe the current epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB) in the United States and globally.

2.     List the groups of people who are more likely to be exposed to or infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb).

3.     Describe the diagnostic tools used to identify TB.

4.     Identify and implement treatment regimens used to treat TB.

Presenter:

Lisa Y Armitige, MD, PhD

Co-Medical Director,Heartland National TB Center

University of Texas at Tyler HSC

 

Financial Disclosures:

Lisa Y Armitige, MD, PhD, has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee members (Mark Nadeau, MD, MBA; Nehman Andry, MD; Maria Del Pilar Montanez Villacampa, MD, Stacy Ogbeide, PsyD; Yun Shi, MD, PhD; Marcy Wiemers, MD; Christine Song, DO; Gabriela Gibson-Lopez, PsyD; Margaret Finley, MD; Richel Avery, MD; Khorshid Amirkhosravi, MD; Jeff Svec, MD; Oralia Bazaldua, Pharm D; Kelsi Sexton Barajas, MA, MEd) have no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee member Carlos Roberto Jaén, MD has disclosed he receives royalties from General Practice and Family Medicine for being UpToDate Editor-in-Chief.

Credits:

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hours)

Target Audience:

Specialties – Primary Care; Family Medicine
Faculty, residents, other health care providers and staff from our department; physicians and health care providers from San Antonio and South Texas; and medical students in our third-year clerkship and fourth year rotations.

Accreditation:

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

Credit Designation:

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Attendance. For information on applicability and acceptance, please consult your professional licensing board.

For activity related questions, please contact:
Name: Kelsi Sexton Barajas- FCM Grand Rounds Coordinator
Email: sextonk@uthscsa.edu

For CME general questions, please contact
Ph: (210) 567-4445
Email: cme@uthscsa.edu