CTS-07 - COVID-19 Update in Central and South American Region

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM EDT

Moderator(s)

Laila Woc-Colburn, MD

Associate Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
Decatur, GA, United States

I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Speaker(s)

Martín Stryjewski, MD, MHS

Associate Professor
Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas (CEMIC)
Buenos Aires

Basilea (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant; Fulcrum (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Advisor or Review Panel member, DSMB; Glaxo Smith Kline (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant; NIH (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Grant/Research Support, UM1AI104681 Subaward A039068; Pfizer (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Speakers' bureau; Wockhardt (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Advisor or Review Panel member, DSMB
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Alberto Chebabo

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Claudia Cortes, MD

Associate Professor
University of Chile
Santiago, Chile

GSK (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Speakers' bureau; Merck (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Speakers' bureau; pfizer (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Speakers' bureau
Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, MD, MSc, DTM&H, DipEd, FRSTM&H(Lon), FFTM RCPS(Glasg), FACE, FISAC, HonDSc

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Faculty of Health Sciences
Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Americas Pereira CO
Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia

I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
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Mario Melgar

I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Gabriela Zambrano S., MD

Associate Professor
Universidad Internacional del Ecuador UIDE
Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador

I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Brenda Crabtree-Ramírez, MD

Assistant Professor, HIV Program. UNAM.
Infectious Diseases Department
Infectious Diseases Department. Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán
Tlalpan, Distrito Federal, Mexico

MSD (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Grant/Research Support; MSD, Janssen, GSK (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Speakers' bureau
Clevy Perez, MD

President
SDI
Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic

I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Monica Thormann, MD

President
Asociación Panamericana de Infectología
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Participants should be aware of the following financial/non-financial relationships:

Laila Woc-Colburn, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Martín E. Stryjewski, MD, MHS: Basilea (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant; Fulcrum (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Advisor or Review Panel member, DSMB; Glaxo Smith Kline (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant; NIH (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Grant/Research Support, UM1AI104681 Subaward A039068; Pfizer (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Speakers' bureau; Wockhardt (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Advisor or Review Panel member, DSMB

Alberto Chebabo: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Claudia P. Cortes, MD: GSK (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Speakers' bureau; Merck (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Speakers' bureau; pfizer (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Speakers' bureau

Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, MD, MSc, DTM&H, DipEd, FRSTM&H(Lon), FFTM RCPS(Glasg), FACE, FISAC, HonDSc: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Mario Melgar: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Gabriela Zambrano S., MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Brenda Crabtree-Ramírez, MD: MSD (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Grant/Research Support; MSD, Janssen, GSK (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Speakers' bureau

Clevy Perez, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Monica Thormann, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

CME Credits: Maximum of 1.5 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
MOC Credits: Maximum of 1.00 hours of MOC Credit

No CPE credits

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

discuss the current COVID-19 updates in Central and South America
discuss the COVID-19 vaccine response in Central and South America

Presentations:

Argentina
Speaker: Martín E. Stryjewski, MD, MHS – Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas (CEMIC)
Brasil
Speaker: Alberto Chebabo
COVID19 in Mexico
Speaker: Brenda Crabtree-Ramírez, MD – Infectious Diseases Department. Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán
COVID-19 in Colombia
Speaker: Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, MD, MSc, DTM&H, DipEd, FRSTM&H(Lon), FFTM RCPS(Glasg), FACE, FISAC, HonDSc – Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Americas Pereira CO
Ecuador
Speaker: Gabriela Zambrano S., MD – Universidad Internacional del Ecuador UIDE
Guatemala
Speaker: Mario Melgar
Rep Dominicana
Speaker: Clevy Perez, MD – SDI
Summary of the LATAM during COVID API
Speaker: Monica Thormann, MD – Asociación Panamericana de Infectología
Where the pandemic has taken us after 18 months. Chile Update
Speaker: Claudia P. Cortes, MD – University of Chile