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Overview
Date & Location
07/07/2021 – 07/25/2023, 12:00 AM CST Online
Overview
The episode discusses the thrombotic complications of COVID-19 and describes the effects of COVID-19 on the heart. It will also compare and contrast the types of myocarditis related to COVID-19.
Target Audience
This educational activity is designed to meet the educational goals of physicians and other healthcare professionals specializing in infectious diseases, family and community medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine, and all those involved with the management of patients with coronavirus.
Learning Objectives for the Episode 9
- Discuss the thrombotic complications of COVID-19
- Describe the effects of COVID-19 on the heart
- Compare and contrast types of myocarditis related to COVID-19
Program Registration Information
Registration Fees - $0.00
Continuing Medical Education Education Credit - Accreditation and Designation Statement
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio designates this enduring material for a maximum of .50 AMA PRA Category 1 Creditsâ„¢. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Certificate of Attendance
Healthcare professionals will receive a certificate of attendance and are asked to consult with their licensing board for information on applicability and acceptance.
Credit may be obtained upon successful completion of the activity’s evaluation.
Release date: 07/07/2021 Credits expire: 07/25/2023
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Faculty
Jan E. Patterson, MD, MS, MACP
FIDSA, FSHEA, CHCP
Professor of Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Pathology
Associate Dean for Quality & Lifelong Learning
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine
Íø±¬³Ô¹ÏDr. Patterson is a Professor of Medicine/Infectious Diseases and Associate Dean for Quality & Lifelong Learning at The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, Íø±¬³Ô¹Ï. She is clinician and a healthcare epidemiologist and has served on the Infectious Diseases Society of America Board of Directors and is Past President of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. She is a longtime infectious diseases consultant to Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council (STRAC) and has also served on CDC’s Healthcare Infection Practices Advisory Committee and has been a consultant to San Antonio Metro Health Department. She has been a site principal investigator for new antimicrobial agents and is currently a co-investigator for the NIH Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial (ACTT) studies as outlined above and is a sub-investigator for the Novavax SARS-CoV-2 vaccine trial at Íø±¬³Ô¹Ï and University Hospital.
Allen Anderson, MD, FACC, FAHA
Chief, Janey & Dolph Briscoe Division of Cardiology
Director, UT/UHS Heart and Vascular Institute
Janey Briscoe Distinguished University Chair in Cardiovascular Research
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine
Íø±¬³Ô¹ÏAllen S. Anderson, MD, FACC, FAHA has just assumed his new role as Chief of the Cardiology Division and Professor of Medicine (tenure) in the Department of Medicine at the University of Texas San Antonio. Formerly, he was the Medical Director of the Center for Heart Failure in the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute of Northwestern Medicine and Chief of the Section of Heart Failure and Transplant in the Division of Cardiology and Professor of Medicine at Northwestern Medicine. His research interests include the non-invasive assessment of heart failure and cardiac transplant patients, valvular heart disease in heart failure patients and the development of novel therapeutic approaches for advanced heart failure patients.
Dr. Anderson, a Georgia native, graduated from the Emory University School of Medicine. He completed internal medicine training, including a chief residency, at New York University/Bellevue Medical Center, followed by general cardiology fellowship at the University of Chicago and one year of advanced heart failure/transplant training at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. He is Board Certified in Cardiovascular Diseases and Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation.
Relevant Financial Disclosures
Dr. Jan Patterson has disclosed that she is a NIH ACTT co-investigator and sub-investigator for the Novavax SARS-CoV-2 vaccine trial and has received an honorarium from Pfizer for an antifungal symposium and has received honoraria from Medscape.
Dr. Allen S Anderson has disclosed that he is a consultant for Edwards, on the speakers bureau for Relypsa, Novartis and Pfizer and provides Research Support for Abbott (Thoratec/St. Jude).
