Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD

Guest: Gail Hansen, MPH

Join State Epidemiologist, Dr. Gail Hansen, from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, as she discusses lessons learned from the 2004 Kansas outbreak of Bite Mites.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD

Guest: Linda Murray, MD, MPH

Join the Chief Medical Officer for the Cook County Department of Public Health in Chicago, Illinois, Dr. Linda Rae Murray, explain how to diagnose and treat itch mite bites.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD

Guest: Patrick O'Neal, MD

Dr. J. Patrick O'Neal Director of Preparedness for the State of Georgia, discusses the public/ private partnerships in disaster preparedness.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD

Guest: Mike Murphy

Dr. Bruce Bloom will be discussing the management of the chaos at the Minneapolis Bridge Collapse with first responders: Mike Murphy, Operations Supervisor and Jeff Czyson also Operations Supervisor At North Memorial Ambulance.

Host: Michael Benson, MD

Your patient plans a business trip to Mumbai, India. Can he drink the bottled water there? He then plans to vacation in Cancun. Is it safe to eat an apple from the local street vendor? Our guest is Dr. Phyllis Kozarsky. She is an Expert Consultant, in the Division Of Global Migration and Quarantine, at the CDC, and a Professor of Medicine And Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine, at Emory University. She is also one of the editors of the CDC’s medical guide for travel medicine, Yellow Book.

Host: Michael Benson, MD

You are planning a trip to Sierra Leone to do medical humanitarian work. What vaccines do you need? Where can you find out? You are listening to ReachMD XM 233, the channel for medical Professionals. Our guest, Dr. Phyllis Kozarsky is an Expert Consultant, in the Division Of Global Migration and Quarantine, at the CDC, and a Professor of Medicine And Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine, at Emory University. She is also one of the editors of the medical guide for travel medicine, Yellow Book.

Host: Michael Benson, MD

How do you advise your patients who travel internationally for work or play? When they travel to some tropical beach for vacation they definitely to not want to bring back memories of a date with Plasmodium falciparum. Our guest, Dr. Phyllis Kozarsky is an Expert Consultant, in the Division Of Global Migration and Quarantine, at the CDC, and a Professor of Medicine And Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine, at Emory University. She is also one of the editors of the medical guide for travel medicine, Yellow Book.

Host: Michael Benson, MD

Yellowbook.com is a web site for looking up phone numbers. Yet for physicians, another Yellow Book, this one published by the CDC, is much more useful. It is guide for giving medical advice to travelers and is up-dated every two years. Dr. Phyllis Kozarsky, an Expert Consultant in the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine at the CDC, and a Professor of Medicine And Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine at Emory University, is one of the editors of this important medical guide for travel medicine.

Host: Michael Benson, MD

Guest: Christie Reed, MD, MPH

Your patient is planning to adopt a baby from China? What medical advice can you give her? What can she expect in terms of health exams for the baby? Another aspect of family travel is travel oversees with small children? What are some of their health issues with these long trips? Learn the answers from our guest, Dr. Christie Reed. She is a Travelers' Health Science Officer at the Centers for Disease Control. She is also the GeoSentinel Project Director of the Geographic Medicine and Health Promotion Branch within the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine. As one of the editors of the CDC’s medical guide for travel medicine, Yellow Book she is a nationally recognized expert on travel medicine.

Host: Michael Benson, MD

Guest: Christie Reed, MD, MPH

You plan to spend two weeks in Madagascar at a clinic for victims of the Tsunami. Will you actually do any good or will your presence merely be an added burden for an overstrained system? What precautions do you need to take so that you will remain a treater and not become a patient? What about patients who travel to other countries for medical treatment? Learn about both aspects of medical tourism with our guest Dr. Christie Reed. She is a Travelers' Health Science Officer at the Centers for Disease Control. She is also the GeoSentinel Project Director of the Geographic Medicine and Health Promotion Branch within the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine. As one of the editors of the CDC’s medical guide for travel medicine, Yellow Book she is a nationally recognized expert on travel medicine.