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Webinar | Navigating the numbers and dealing with SARS CoV2 in children
Dear Colleagues
The third wave of COVID-19 is upon us. Once again, we are faced with the unique challenges of SARS-CoV-2 and the pressures the wave brings. Discovery Health, SAMA, UFFP and SAPPF recognise the need for sound clinical guidance for and by the profession at this critical time. This is why we are reinstating the COVID-19 Clinical Brief Webinar series.
This CPD-accredited series (launched in 2020) will continue to support doctors on the frontlines during this third wave with credible, practical information about a range of topics related to COVID-19. Ironically – seeing that it is Youth Month in SA – our youth seem to be more affected by this third wave than by the previous two. This is why we are starting this series with topics focussing on this aspect of the disease. In addition, we hope to remain a trusted source of support for your personal wellbeing and practice sustainability during and beyond these challenging times.
To help with your scheduling, please reserve this time slot on Thursday evenings for this series: Navigating the third wave.
Details for the first webinar in the series
Date: 24 June 2021
Time: 19:00
Topic: Navigating the numbers and dealing with SARS CoV2 in children
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Panel of experts Professor Refiloe Masekela and a panel of other experts will lead this webinar.
Professor Refiloe Masekela is a paediatric pulmonologist and is the Head of Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. She is an Honorary Visiting Associate Professor at the Queen Mary University London, UK. Her research interests include asthma in African children, and she is a steering committee member of the Global Asthma Network. She is the Vice President of the Pan African Thoracic Society and a member of the European Respiratory Society Global Lung Initiative Network of Clinical Research Collaboration. She has an interest in lung physiological testing, particularly lung function testing in children and the determination of normative lung reference equations in African children and adults. She has published in peer-reviewed publications and has written six chapters in a book on respiratory diseases in children. She has been invited to present her research and give lectures at national and international congresses. She is also a member of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society Diagnostic Working Group as an executive member of the South African Thoracic Society, a member of the South African Cystic Fibrosis Scientific Committee and a past chairperson of the South African National Asthma Education Programme.
Professor Moherndran Archary is an Associate Professor of Paediatric Infectious Disease in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at King Edward VIII Hospital affiliated to the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu Natal. He is actively involved with the management of children and adolescents with infectious diseases locally within South Africa and internationally. He was a member of the South African COVID-19 Ministerial Advisory Committee and is involved in several COVID-19 research protocols. His other research interests include antiretroviral medicine therapeutics, viral resistance, and optimal timing of the initiation of antiretroviral therapy in the developing world.
Dr Deepthi Raju Abraham, affectionately known as Dr Dee, is the current Head of Paediatric Rheumatology and Immunology Services at Tygerberg Academic Hospital. She is a senior lecturer and a practicing paediatric rheumatologist who has a special interest in paediatric immunology. She is involved in post-graduate teaching and interesting research in both the fields of paediatric rheumatology and immunology, including multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C). Dr Abraham is a protagonist by nature and a positive and effective optimist in action. She is a lupus warrior. Living with lupus has helped give her purpose, more clarity and helped her to acknowledge that every moment in life is an act of faith.
Queries regarding CPD points
This webinar is CPD accredited. If you have any questions about CPD points, please email cpd@discovery.co.za
Did you miss any of our previous COVID-19 webinars?
You can view and listen to all previous webinars and podcasts here.
Medical Practice Consulting has partnered with Discovery to make the webinars aired in the first series viewable for CPD points.
You can register here if you missed the opportunity to earn CPD points at live webinars.
We wish you strength and assure you of our ongoing support during these challenging times.
Regards
Dr Maurice Goodman
Chief Medical Officer
Discovery Health
The hosts of this series, Discovery, SAMA, UFFP and SAPPF are not positioned to comment on the material presented during these webinars. Given the rapid pace at which knowledge needs to evolve to effectively combat the pandemic, not all information presented at these sessions may be evidence-based. However, it is presented by leading experts of the highest calibre at the cutting edge of Covid research and management. We are confident that the clinicians attending these webinars will use their individual clinical judgement and discretion about which advice and guidance they choose to apply in the management of their patients.
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