Presenters:
Eduardo Macias Enriquez, MD
Overview:
Improving prenatal screening of congenital heart disease in rural, underserved areas with the aid of
tele-health
Objectives:
To increase awareness and education for pediatric providers
Eduardo Macias Enriquez, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Texas in San Antonio and serves as the Fetal Cardiology Director. He graduated with honors from medical school at the Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez in 2010. He completed his pediatric internship and Residency at Texas Tech in El Paso Texas in 2016 and fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Washington University in Saint Louis Missouri in 2019. In 2019, he also received additional training in fetal echocardiography at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. He has devoted his career to improving prenatal screening of congenital heart disease in the underserved population of South and West Texas. To achieve this, he has implemented ultrasound protocols, given numerous lectures, and trained sonographers, obstetricians, family practitioners, Ob/GYN residents and MFM fellows in San Antonio, Uvalde, and El Paso, Texas. In addition, he has successfully developed a fetal cardiology telehealth service with Uvalde Texas. He is also part of the Educational Committee of the Fetal Heart Society, where he spearheads an international committee with a similar goal of improving care in underserved regions through education and training of medical personnel.
Financial Disclosures:
Eduardo Macias Enriquez, 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.
Credits:
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hour)
Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hour)
MOC-2 credit (1.00 hour)
Target Audience:
Pediatric Doctors and Providers
Faculty, residents, health care providers; medical students and trainees.
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.