Upcoming Classes

Date: January 20, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Location: Online Live Webinar
No CE (Continuing Education) is available for this webinar

Course Description

This webinar will focus on the strategies and benefits of implementing Rapid ART services in the context of a Sexual Health Clinic. This content will explore programmatic and clinical considerations of Rapid ART services and will emphasize the benefits for patients and providers. 

Speaker Bio

Dr. Jason Halperin received his Master of Public Health from Columbia University in New York and completed his medical degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in 2010. He moved to New Orleans for his internal medicine residency at Tulane University and fell in love with our incredible city. He left for a short-time to do his Infectious Diseases fellowship at New York University before returning to join CrescentCare. He is the HIV/ID Clinician Lead at CrescentCare – the largest provider of HIV services in New Orleans — and oversees the programming for HIV and HCV treatment and prevention, as well as its clinical research department. Dr. Halperin spearheaded CrescentCare’s nationally recognized Rapid Start program for people who are newly diagnosed with HIV. In March 2020, he oversaw and implemented CrescentCare’s COVID-19 response, including the development of its testing services and then vaccination clinic. He is also an assistant professor of medicine at Tulane University.

The Southeast Prevention Training Center Learning Community seeks to build capacity across the southeast region, particularly in rural and underserved areas, to best serve patients diagnosed and living with a STD and/or HIV. 

This community learning platform is desgined to discuss challenging cases or barriers and garner the group’s feedback on solutions.

If you would like to be a part of the Georgia Department of Health ECHO community, please go to or share the following link https://forms.gle/LLXjCm8chrZmCY9z9 to complete the registration form. (The GDH ECHO registration will not register you for CE. Please complete the NNPTC registration to be eligible for CE.

ACCREDITATION:

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the AccreditationCouncil for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the University of Alabama School ofMedicine (UASOM); the southeast STD/HIV Prevention Training Center; the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB),Division of Infectious Diseases, Sexually Transmitted Diseases Program; UAB Alabama AIDS Training Education Center(AATEC) / Southeast AIDS Training Center (SEATEC); and the Jefferson County Department of Health. The UASOM isaccredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University Of Alabama School OfMedicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim onlythe credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. UAB is an equal opportunity /affirmativeaction institution.

The Virtual STD Intensive Course  content includes bacterial (gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis) and viral (HPV, HSV) sexually transmitted infections, HIV prevention, vaginitis and PID, and case management discussions, as well as practice in taking a sexual history.

 Each course is limited to 12 - 15 participants, and is delivered via an interactive  online platform over four days (Monday - Thursday), from 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM MT.

After completing this registration form, you will be contacted by a member of the Denver PTC staff for a brief interview to determine course eligibility. You will then be given an access code to complete the registration process. You are not registered for this course unless you have received a confirmation that the registration process is complete.

STI Case Discussions - Thursday, February 10, 2022 / 8am until 12:00pm (CST)

Target Audience:  Physicians, midlevel practitioners (PA, NP), nurses, and other health professionals who see patients with or at risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

Course Description: Faculty from the St. Louis STI/HIV Prevention Training Center will use case discussions to present important diagnosis and treatment issues for common STIs.

Course Objectives:

• Explore using trauma informed care for sexual history taking.                                                                                                                                            • Discuss current diagnosis and approaches to syphilis.                                                                                                                                                        • Discuss the management of urethritis, including clinical strategies for chlamydia.                                                                                                                • Discuss common STI clinical scenarios.

Target Audience:  Physicians, midlevel practitioners (PA, NP), nurses, and other health professionals who see patients with or at risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

Course Description:  This course, an intensive overview of STDs, includes 14 hours of lecture over two days. (Optional clinical training can be scheduled on a case by case basis).  Topics presented include:  gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, trichomoniasis, PID,  genital herpes, HPV, hepatitis B, chancroid, urethritis/cervicitis syndromes, pediculosis/ scabies, HIV/AIDS, prevention strategies / PrEP / EPT, and case studies.

Course Objectives:  At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe clinical features of reportable STDs: syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia.
• Understand current STD epidemiological patterns
• Describe clinical features of common bacterial STDs:  syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia
• Recognize clinical presentations of common viral STDs:  genital herpes, HPV
• Demonstrate improved skills in completing STD history and physical exam.
• Discuss clinical characteristics of common vaginal infections:  trichomoniasis, bacterial vaginosis, candidiasis
• Integrate HIV risk assessment into patient care.
• Demonstrate universal precautions during specimen collection.
• Describe current approaches to STD/HIV prevention including pre-exposure prophylaxis and expedited partner therapy.
• Discuss evidence-based strategies for STD treatment, according to CDC’s STD Treatment Guidelines.