Presenter: Rosalyn Plotzker, MD, MPH & Elizabeth Kessler, MPH
Online CME Credit
Fee: Free
Provides 1.00 hours of CE/CME credit (Presented: July 20, 2023; Reviewed July 1, 2024; Expires June 30, 2025)
Congenital Syphilis
Overview
This training is in collaboration with the California Prevention Training Center and the Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center-Nevada. Prevention of congenital syphilis (CS) is critical, given that untreated syphilis during pregnancy may lead to miscarriage, stillbirth, blindness, deafness, and/or bone deformities in infants. While CS can be fully prevented through timely syphilis screening and adequate treatment during prenatal care, the number of CS cases in Nevada and the United States continues to rise. This webinar will discuss the epidemiology of syphilis in Nevada, and review the screening updates, pathophysiology, and treatment.
Learning Objectives
Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:
- Describe congenital syphilis epidemiology
- Discuss screening updates and POT screening
- Explain the pathophysiology, manifestations, and treatment for congenital syphilis
The Pacific AETC-NV offers engaging and interactive online learning opportunities to increase healthcare providers' knowledge and awareness of HIV and STI-related health topics. To view all session topics available, please click on Pacific AETC Nevada’s E-Learning page for more online and on-demand learning opportunities.
Presenter
Rosalyn Plotzker, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor | UCSF Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Clinical Faculty| California Prevention Training Center | Provider | UCSF Anal Neoplasia, Clinic, Research and Education (ANCRE) Center | Public Health Medical Officer| CDPH STD Control Branch
Elizabeth Kessler, MPH
OPHIE Surveillance Manager | Office of Public Health Investigations and Epidemiology | Division of Public and Behavioral Health | Nevada Department of Health and Human Services
The Pacific AETC is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award $3,887,700.00. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.
Step One - Pacific AETC Nevada’s E-Learning Registration:
Please follow the link to register with the Pacific AETC Nevada’s E-Learning program. In order to continue funding and provide educational programming for health professionals around HIV/AIDS, we need all participants to register through PAETC-NV.
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This webinar requires you to login into the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Office of Continuing Medical Education’s (UNR Med CME) website to complete your registration. If you do not have a UNR Med CME account, you will need to make one.
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- After registration, you will click “begin the activity”
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Accreditation Designation Statements
The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Continuing Education Credit
The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine approves this program for 1.00 hours of nursing continuing education credit.
As an accredited provider of continuing medical education through the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine must ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its educational activities. In order to assure that information is presented in a scientific and objective manner, The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine requires that anyone in a position to control or influence the content of an accredited activity disclose all financial relationships within the prior 24 months with any commercial or proprietary entity producing health care goods or services relevant to the content being planned or presented. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated. Following are those disclosures.
All other presenters, planners or anyone in a position to control the content of this continuing medical education activity have indicated that they do not have financial relationships with ineligible companies related to the content of this activity.
2016-2017 CPA surveillance data
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Slide 51 courtesy of Dr. Eric Tang and the California Department of Public Health
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