Implementing Telehealth in HIV Care

Reetu Grewal, M.D., is the medical director at UF Health Family Medicine and Pediatrics – Baymeadows. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and has received the AAFP Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education and the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award. She enjoys focusing on wellness, doing office procedures and teaching medical students. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her family, exercise and hiking.

Creating Communities of Practice for HIV Care and Treatment: What We Need to Know!

Dr. Natella Rakhmanina is a Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University and serves as a Director of the HIV Program at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC, USA.  Dr. Rakhmanina obtained her MD degree at People’s Friendship University in Moscow, Russia, and her PhD degree at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.  For more than 20 years she has been providing clinical care to HIV-infected infants, children and adolescents, and continues her practice treating pediatric and adolescent patients in metropolitan DC area.  She is certified in HIV medicine and is a successful clinical researcher, focusing her research on the treatment and prevention of HIV in children and adolescents and serving as a principal investigator of NIH, CDC and industry funded pediatric and adolescent HIV studies.  Dr. Rakhmanina is also a Senior Technical Advisor at Elizabeth Glaser Pediatrics AIDS Foundation leading several projects on pediatric and adolescent HIV treatment in Sub-Saharan African countries.  Dr. Rakhmanina is a Chair of the Committee on Pediatric AIDS at the American Academy of Pediatrics, member of the US Department of Health and Human Services Panel on the Pediatric Antiretroviral Therapy and Management Guidelines at the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council in National Institutes of Health, member of the Pediatric Advisory Working Group at the World Health Organization, and a Regent of the Board and Chair of the Bylaws committee at the American College of Clinical Pharmacology.

Achieving Health Equity: Countering Racism & Implict Bias in Healthcare

It is important for health care leaders to understand the impact of racism, implicit bias and health inequities on access to and quality of HIV care and treatment for Black Women. As supported by data, increased morbidity and mortality among Black Women will remain constant if these healthcare realities are not successfully addressed. 

 Our webinar speakers Dr. Dazon Diallo and Ethlyn McQueen-Gibson will explore how providers and clients can maximize health promotion and wellness, resilience, and self care education, leading to necessary positive and sustainable change.

Learning Objectives: 

• Discuss the unique perspectives of health inequalities on the lives of Black
  youth-, young adult-, middle-, and older-aged Black women.
• Understand the common social determinants associated with lack of access to health care 
• List the health inequities that drive disparate rates of HIV and STIs among Black women across the life course 
• Describe implicit bias as a tool of racism in its impact on health care
• Detail the global health care access barriers created by provider bias and stigma 
• Analyze the factors that foster resilience in Black women across the lifespan

The A-B-C’s of Hepatitis C & HIV Co-infection

Webinar Description

Hepatitis C virus infection affects a large percentage of people with HIV. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that in 2009, approximately 21% of adults with HIV in the US also tested positive for the hepatitis C virus. This webinar, hosted by Ronni Marks, will discuss the risk factors and preventative measures of hepatitis C virus infection for people with HIV.

Faculty 

Ronni Marks

Hepatitis C Mentor & Support Group, Inc.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Understand the importance of HIV and HCV testing
• Describe the syndemic connection between infectious disease, substance use and sexual activity
• Identify the benefits of having a support system

Maximizing Healthcare Services through Strategy and Structure

Learning Objectives: 

• Understand core competencies of organizational strategic planning
• Define organizational efficiency and effectiveness within an organization
• Create measures for success for organizational and individual employee capacity
• Learn procedures that will maximize assessment and evaluation of change for organizational goals.

Community Engagement with Community Health Workers in HIV Care.

Learning Objectives: 

• Boost awareness of community engagement tactics within HIV care.
• Describe strategies public health departments, community health
  centers, and community-based organizations can undertake to advance
  the community health workers workforce.
• List examples of services community health workers provide from care
  coordination at an individual level to population health improvements.

Best practices in Supporting People who use Methamphetamines in Washington DC

Webinar: Best practices in Supporting People who use Methamphetamines in Washington DC

Perry Halkitis, PhD & Jessica Martinez

Learning Objectives:
· Describe the history and production of illegally manufactured methamphetamine (i.e., crystal meth)
· Deconstruct the need for a holistic approach to training methamphetamine addiction of individuals.
· Identify treatment options for methamphetamine use in gay, bisexual, and other MSMs
· Discuss biases that impact patient/client relationships to foster better empathy, dialogue, and capacity building from providers to methamphetamine users.
· Describe a greater understanding of methamphetamine use in the DMV from a lived-experience/provider perspective.

 Release date: 1/28/2021
Expiration date: 1/28/2022
 Estimated time to complete activity: 1 hour
 Jointly provided by Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and HealthHIV

Target Audience
This activity is intended for physicians, physician assistants, pharmacist, registered nurses and social workers engaged in the care of patients who use methamphetamine.

Joint Accreditation Statement 

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and HealthHIV.  Postgraduate Institute for Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physician Continuing Medical Education

The Postgraduate Institute for Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 Continuing Physician Assistant Education

Postgraduate Institute for Medicine has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1.0 APA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid until 1.29.2022PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Continuing Psychologist Education

Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibly for the content of the programs.

Continuing Pharmacy Education

Postgraduate Institute for Medicine designates this continuing education activity for 1.0 contact hour(s) (0.1 CEUs) of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. 

Type of Activity: Knowledge 

Continuing Nursing Education

The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.0 contact hour. Pharmacotherapy contact hours for Advance Practice Registered Nurses to be determined.

Continuing Social Worker Education

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Postgraduate Institute for Medicine is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit.  Postgraduate Institute for Medicine maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 clinical continuing education credits.

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest

Postgraduate Institute for Medicine (PIM) requires instructors, planners, managers, and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose any real or apparent conflict of interest (COI) they may have as related to the content of this activity. All identified COI are thoroughly vetted and resolved according to PIM policy. PIM is committed to providing its learners with high quality activities and related materials that promote improvements or quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary business interest of a commercial interest.

Faculty
The faculty members have nothing to disclose.
Planners and Managers
The PIM planners and managers have nothing to disclose. The HealthHIV planners and managers have nothing to disclose.

Media
Internet

Hardware/Software Requirements 

This activity requires internet connection and computer audio for functionality.

Request for Credit

In order to obtain your CME/CE certificate, please follow the steps below at the conclusion of the activity:

1. Go to www.cmeuniversity.com
2. Login or Create a New Account (will take less than 1 minute)
3. If you receive a message when creating a new account that “the email you entered is already in use”, please click the Forgot my Username or Password link to have your Username and Password sent to you via email
4. After logging in, you may be asked to verify/update your information; after doing so, click Save at the bottom of the page
5. Type in 15804 at the top of the page, “Find Post-Test/Evaluation by Course”, and click enter
6. Click on the activity title when it appears
7. Choose the type of credit you desire
8. Complete the online Evaluation
9. Receive an immediate CME/CE Certificate to download and/or print for your files
10. For Pharmacists: Upon completing the activity evaluation form, transcript information will be sent to the NABP CPE Monitor Service.

If you have questions regarding the certification of this activity, please contact PIM via email at inquiries@pimed.com.

Racial injustice and meaningful involvement of PLH

The racial justice & MIPA session will engage participants with interactive activities, discussions, and team building exercises. Upon completion participants will have a greater understanding of the intersectionality of HIV and racial injustice. In addition, participants will be able to gain important tips towards operationalizing MIPA within their organizations.

Learning Objects:

• Recall the importance of integrating MIPA and racial justice principles into your HIV work
• Discuss why just calling it MIPA and racial justice doesn’t work
• Discuss practical ways to implement MIPA/RJ into your organizational work
• List first steps to living these principles in our daily organizational goals

Please view the Youtube video to watch the session.

Assessing Organizational Cultural Responsiveness to Engage Clients

The LGBTQIA Inclusion session will engage participants with interactive activities, discussions, and team building exercises. Upon completion participants will have a greater understanding of LGBTQIA language, culture, and appropriate ways to engage community members. In addition, participants will be able to differentiate between gender identities, sexual orientation, and other cultural definitions.

Learning Objects:

• Define the Culture & Understanding the language
• Discuss cultural humility and check personal bias’s
• Determine how to involve LGBTQIA community in accomplishing the mission of the organizational programs

Please view the Youtube video to watch the session.

Patient-centered care: Implementing harm reduction & motivational interviewing

Harm reduction is a range of public health policies designed to reduce the harmful consequences associated with various human behaviors, both legal and illegal. Harm reduction policies are used to manage behaviors such as recreational drug use and sexual activity in numerous settings that range in services. Motivational Interviewing is a person-centered, evidence-based, goal-oriented, strengths-based method and for enhancing intrinsic motivation to change by exploring and resolving ambivalence with the individual. To effectively facilitate harm/risk reduction changes for individuals, we must apply motivational interviewing skills to facilitate behavior change.

Learning Objects:

• Define harm/risk Reduction as it applies to HIV prevention
• Explain client/patient-centered harm/risk reduction practices
• Discuss what Motivational Interviewing is
• Practice Motivational Interviewing for the purposes of harm reduction

Please view the Youtube video to watch the session.