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Contact Us: Denise Tyrrell Conneccut ID Society 127 Washington Avenue East Building, 3rd Fl North Haven, CT 06473 Tel: (203) 865-0587 ext 111 Fax: (203)492-3836 e-mail: [email protected] Website: www.CTIDSociety.org Announcement: Please Join Us 36th Annual Conference of the Conneccut Infecous Disease Society Thursday May 17th, 2018 Yale West Campus 100 West Campus Drive Orange, CT Register today [email protected] Note from the President Dear colleagues and members of CIDS, It is my pleasure and privilege to serve as the president of the Society and to address you in this newsleer. The 35th annual conference of the Conneccut Infecous Disease Society took place May 18, 2017 at the Yale West Campus in Orange, CT. It was a well-aended conference highlighted by an outstanding lecture on hospital-associated infecons and the importance of anbioc stewardship de- livered by our keynote speaker, Dr. Louise Dembry. We had a variety of infecous disease topics presented by excellent speakers who discussed prosthec joint infecons, Clostrid- ium difficile, updates on HIV and Hepas C, outpaent an- bioc therapy, and new diagnoscs. Dr. Mahew Carer gave a comprehensive update on the state epidemiology and emerging infecons. As usual, local invesgators displayed their research results at the poster presentaon. Parcipants had the opportunity to network with colleagues and learn about new products from our sponsors. The conference was followed by an ABIM Maintenance of Cerficaon (MOC) group module session led by Dr. David Banach. The 2017 meeng marked the end of Dr. Steven Aronin’s two years of service as CIDS President. I want to personally thank him for his dedicaon, commitment and leadership. We appreciate the feedback provided by par- cipants and will use it to plan our next annual meeng for 2018. As the current president, my goal is to allow CIDS to evolve in response to the members’ challenges and needs. I would like to connue the progress made by my predecessors on building a Research Network and on offering MOC sessions for members who are preparing for recerficaon. In addion, I plan to enhance the CIDS website and provide access for CT infecous disease providers to web-based lectures on common infecous disease topics. Furthermore, I would like to offer HIV Training to residents in Graduate Medical Educaon Programs in CT with collaboraon with the CT AIDS Educaon and Training Center in an effort to improve the care for the HIV populaon in CT. Please join me in welcoming our new member to the CIDS Execuve Board of Directors – Dr. Nicholas Benne, Pediatric Infecous Disease, Conneccut Children’s Medical Center. We look forward to seeing you at our 36th annual meeng, scheduled for May 17, 2018. I welcome any suggesons about topics that you would like to discuss in the conference. We hope to build together a strong and collaborave infecous disease society in our state of Conneccut Sincerely, Lydia Barakat Liberia Healthcare Workforce Program Liberia has the lowest doctor to populaon rao in the world, which was ex- acerbated by the recent Ebola epidemic. Residual unspent Ebola funds have been reappropriated to support medical educaon in Liberia. Under the aus- pices of the Office of Global Health of the Yale University Department of Med- icine, I am the program director of the World Bank funded Liberia Healthcare Workforce program. This program supports the Internal Medicine residency training program run by the Liberia College of Physicians and Surgeons (LCPS). The scope of our acvies include selecon and deployment of faculty to Libe- ria (from the sub-Saharan African region), curriculum strengthening, support- ing educaonal programs ulizing e-learning plaorms and innovave peda- gogic approaches, development of subspecialty training pathways including in Infecous Diseases, as well as strengthening training in Infecon Control and HIV/AIDS. Co-funding is also provided by HRSA for the outlined acvies. Onyema Ogbuagu, MB.BCh, FACP Dr. Ogbuagu is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Student Elecve Director, Secon of Infecous Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine; Director, Clinical Trials Program, Yale AIDS Program; and Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Liberia Healthcare Workforce Program. Clare Nsenga Foundaon Dr. Kevin Dieckhaus MD (UConn Health) has been returning regularly to the rural Kisoro district of Uganda since 2002. He is the medical director of the Clare Nsenga Foundaon, a Conneccut and Ugandan-based 501c3 organizaon focused on improving healthcare in the village of Cyanika. Kisoro district is one of the least developed districts in Uganda. In 2007, the foundaon opened the Clare Nsenga Clinic as level-2 health center, and now operates the clinic in conjuncon with the Ministry of Health. The clinic consists of two treatment rooms, a community educaon room, dispensary, and laboratory space. The site is permanently staffed by a clinical officer and three nurses, and manages approximately 1500 visits per month, 80% of which are chil- dren, and 50% of which come from neighboring Rwanda, only 1/2 kilometer away. The clinic serves as a focal point for emergency care, roune medical needs, childhood vaccinaon, as well as numerous community support and public health programs. The foundaon has supported the local community by leading local iniaves addressing sanitaon and hygiene, malaria prevenon through inseccide-treated net distribuon, HIV/AIDS, syphilis, orphan support, health educaon, mental health, the development of women’s job skills for household financial stability, and many others. A computer lab was established in the neighboring Katarara primary school, making it the first primary school in the Kisoro district with access to the internet. Over 60 trainees and faculty from UConn’s School of Medicine and residency training programs have joined Dr. Dieckhaus in Kisoro to volunteer direct medical services at the clinic and nearby St. Francis Mutolere Hospital, as well as to promote the mulple ongoing com- munity support and public health iniaves. The clinic is currently expanding with the addion of staff housing and a new maternity ward and birthing center, projected to open in summer 2018. Future plans include opening addional inpaent services for men and children. More informaon about the work of the Clare Nsenga Foundaon, including photographs of the clinic and current expansion project, can be seen at www.cnfcare.org We invite you to send us “field notes” or photos highlighng your exceponal work locally or globally. u u u SAVE THE DATE t t t 36th Annual Conference – May 17, 2018 HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE 35TH ANNUAL MEETING 2017 CID Poster Presentaon Winners L to R: Young Invesgator Award – Christoper Mashiak: The Effects of Locus of Control, Social Support, and Sgma on the HIV Care Con- nuum in the Aging HIV-Infected Populaon; Thornton Award – Kelsie Cassell: Associaon Between Sporadic Llegionellosis and River Systems in Conneccut; Andriole Award – Laura Scaramella: The Epidemiology of Rotavirus in Conneccut, 2011-2016; Friedland Award Presentaon – Friedland Award – Lichen Sun: Descripve Epidemiology and Trends of Human Infecons with Avian Influenza A(H7N9) in Mainland China during the First Four Seasons. The award was accepted by the second author of the abstract, James Hadler, MD. Our Mission CIDS is a local state organizaon that represents physicians, sciensts, and other health care professionals in the discipline of infecous disease. The CIDS mission is to enhance the care of the CT community, promote knowledge and clinical experse, advocate for scienf- ic sound human public policy, and advance collaboraon with other services and professional colleagues. BECOME A MEMBER FIELD AND GLOBAL EXPERIENCE L to R: Lydia Barakat, MD, Key Note Speaker Louise Dembry, MD, and Steven Aronin, MD L to R: Jack Ross, MD and Razeq Jafar, PhD President Lydia Aoun Barakat, MD Infecous Disease Yale University School of Medicine Vice President Jack Ross, MD Chief, Infecous Disease/Allergy Harord Hospital Treasurer Michael Simms, MD Chief, Secon of Infecous Disease Saint Mary’s Hospital Secretary/Newsleer Editor Margaret Fikrig, MD Infecous Disease Yale University School of Medicine Immediate Past President Steve Aronin, MD Iterum Therapeucs Board Members: Jessica Abrantes, MD, Resident, UCONN School of Medicine David Banach, MD, MPH, UCONN Health Nicholas Benne, MA, MBBChir, PhD, CT Children’s Hospital Mahew Carer, MD, MPH, Conneccut State Epidemiologist Kevin Dieckhaus, MD, UCONN Health CIDS Board of Directors Our Execuve Board embraces Infecous Diseases specialists from aroud the state and represents a wide rate of experse. Become a Member of CIDS We encourage you to become a member of CIDS. Being a member will provide you several advantages, including but not limited to: vong privileges, free access to our website www.CTIDSociety.org and relat- ed posted CME, and discount on the annual CIDS meeng. CIDS Membership Fee: $75 Annual CIDS Meeng Registraon Fees: Members: $50 Non-members: $150 Students & Residents: Free We look forward to seeing you at our annual meeng Thursday May 17th, 2018. Please do not hesitate to contact us for feed- back, quesons, or comments at [email protected] – we like to hear from you. Sincerely, Margaret Fikrig, MD Lydia Barakat, MD CIDS Newsleer Editor CIDS President
