Presenter: Janice Louie, MD, MPH & Susan McElhany, DMD
Online CME Credit
Fee: Free
Provides 0.75 hours of CE/CME credit (Presented: February 25, 2025; Reviewed March 13, 2025; Expires March 13, 2028)
Demystifying Latent Tuberculosis Infections and Treatment for the Primary Care Provider
Overview
This recorded webinar is a collaboration with the Curry International Tuberculosis Center and The Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center-Nevada. Persons with HIV and co-infected with TB bacteria are more likely to progress to TB disease. This webinar addresses the impact of latent TB infection on persons with HIV.
Learning Objectives
Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:
- Explain why identification and treatment of latent TB infection (LTBI) is key to eliminating TB disease
- Explain the impact of LTBI on persons with HIV and the essential components of an individual TB Risk Assessment Tool
- Explain the advantages and disadvantages of TB blood tests, IGRAs
- Describe other diagnostics necessary to distinguish LTBI from active TB disease given that TB skin tests (TST) or TB blood tests (IGRAs) cannot rule-out active tuberculosis disease.
- Discuss the current recommended short-course treatments for LTBI and the advantages versus disadvantages, to inform appropriate use in clinical practice
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
Janice Louie, MD, MPH is Medical Director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Program, and Assistant Clinical Professor in the University of California San Francisco Department of Medicine. Her primary focus is to ensure continued excellence in the clinical management of tuberculosis, provide mentorship and training to fellows, residents, and other trainees, and advancing clinical practices in tuberculosis with a focus on the elderly.
Susan McElhany, DMD, is the Tuberculosis Program Manager for the Office of State Epidemiology, within the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health, 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.
Step Two - UNR Med CME Login for receiving CME/CE credit:
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.
Once you have signed into the UNR Med CME websites, follow the instructions below to watch the webinar and collect your CME, CE, and pharmacy credit.
Instructions for receiving CME/CE credit:
- Click on the registration button above
- Click on the course to register
- After registration, you will click “begin the activity”
- YouTube will be embedded into the website
- Watch the YouTube video
- Click to claim credit
- Enter the activity code that was provided to you in the email confirmation
- Claim credit and generate the certificate
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Evaluation and Claim Credit
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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 0.75 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 0.75 hours of nursing continuing education credit.
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