Curriculum and Invited Lecturer

Viruses (29.5 hours)

Polio (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Dhanya Dharmapalan, Apollo Hospitals, India

Viral gastroenteritis (30 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Karen Bowlware, OU, US

Respiratory viral infections, including emerging coronaviruses (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Rita Wilson-Dib, OU, US

Viral diseases with cutaneous manifestations (2 hours 45 min)

• Measles (45 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, Stanford, US
• Other viral exanthems (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Sylvia Freire, Brasilia, Brasil
  Topics: Rubella, Enterovirus, Herpesvirus, Parvovirus
• Poxviruses (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Aroop Mohanty, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India

Viral hepatitis (2 hours 30 min)

• Hepatitis A (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. José Henao-Cordero, OU, US
• Hepatitis B (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Crystal David, Oklahoma State University, US
• Hepatitis C (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Crystal David, Oklahoma State University, US
• Hepatitis D (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Crystal David, Oklahoma State University, US
• Hepatitis E (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Christina Rostad, Emory, US

Viral febrile syndrome: arboviruses (2 hours 45 min)

• Epidemiology, public health measures and outbreak recognition (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Victor Bertollo Gomes Porto, Programa Nacional de Imunizações, Brasilia, Brasil
• Diagnosis and management (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Kleber Luz, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil
  Topics: Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika, Oropouche and Mayaro, Other arboviral diseases
• Congenital Zika (45 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Karin Nielsen, UCLA, US

Viral hemorrhagic fevers (8 hours)

• Yellow fever (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Alicia Hidrón Botero, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín, Colombia
• South American hemorrhagic fevers (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Adolfo Valdivia, Hospital de Clínicas La Paz, Bolivia
• Filoviridae (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Jil Haase, NIH, US
• Hantavirus (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Gregory Mertz, University of New Mexico, US
• Lassa fever (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Maria Gabby Frank, Johns Hopkins, US
• Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Saima Ali, Indus Hospital, Pakistan
• Rift Valley fever (30 min) - Guest Instructors: Dr. Jürgen A. Richt and Dr. Natasha Gaudreault, Kansas State University, US
• Kyasanur Forest disease (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Sunit Singh, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Centre for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi, India

Viral infections of the nervous system (6 hours)

• Viral infections of the CNS: an overview (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Nelson Agudelo, OU, US
• Equine encephalitis (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Douglas Drevets, OU, US
• Rabies (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Alan Jackson, University of Calgary, Canada
• Japanese encephalitis (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Douglas Drevets, OU, US
• Nipah (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Zakiul Hassan, Pandemic Sciences Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK
• West Nile, St. Louis and other arboviral encephalitis (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Douglas Drevets, OU, US
• Herpes B virus (30–45 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Jeffrey Cohen, NIH, US
• HTLV-1 (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. André Coelho, University of Brasilia, Brasil

HIV (6 hours)

• Epidemiology (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Michelle Lewis, OU, US
• Diagnosis and clinical features (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Michelle Lewis, OU, US
• Management (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Michelle Lewis, OU, US
  • Coinfections, with emphasis on tuberculosis and cryptococcosis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Diana Varela, Hospital Escuela Universitario, Honduras
• HIV prevention (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Juliana Lapa, University of Brasilia, Brasil
• Cancer in HIV (45 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Ramya Ramaswami, NIH, US
• Management in children and perinatal transmission (45 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Misty Oldham, OU, US
• HIV in East Africa: service delivery model and the comprehensive bundled package (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Lisa Abugoi, University of Colorado, US

Bacteria (32.75 hours)

Gastrointestinal infections (4 hours)

• H. pylori infection (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Jessica Bass, NIH, US
• Nontyphoidal salmonellosis (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. David Pegues, University of Pennsylvania, US
• Shigella and other Enterobacterales (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Wilbur Chen, University of Maryland, US
• Typhoid fever (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Dhanya Dharmapalan, Apollo Hospitals, India
• Cholera (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Pranab Chatterjee, Johns Hopkins, US

Respiratory and eye infections (6 hours 30 min)

• Diphtheria (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Herberth Maldonado, Universidad del Valle, Guatemala
  • Diphtheria in Africa (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Anne von Gottberg, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), Johannesburg, South Africa
• Pertussis (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Herberth Maldonado, Universidad del Valle, Guatemala
• Pneumonia, including legionellosis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Brian Scott, OU, US
• S. pyogenes (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Madeleine Cunningham, OU, US
• Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Emmy Okello, Uganda Heart Institute, Uganda
• S. pneumoniae (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Michael Bronze, OU, US
• Trachoma (60 min) - Guest Instructor: The Carter Center, US

Sexually transmitted infections

• Syphilis (45–60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Karen Wendel, University of Colorado and Denver Health Public Health Institute, US
• Other STIs (60–90 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Michelle Salvaggio, OU, US
  Topics: Gonorrhea, Chlamydial infections, including LGV, Chancroid, HPV infections

Infections of the nervous system (3 hours)

• Bacterial meningitis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Douglas Drevets, OU, US
• Tetanus (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Louise Thwaites, Oxford, UK
• Botulism (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Joe McLaughlin, Alaska Health Department, US

Skin and soft tissue infections (4 hours 30 min)

• Skin and soft tissue infections (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. George Kurdgelashvili, OU, US
• Anthrax (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Mary Wright, NIH, US
• Noma (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Mutjaba Bala, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Nigeria
• Nocardiosis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Raisa Alvarez, VA Medical Center, Oklahoma City, US
• Endemic treponematoses (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Lorenzo Giacani, University of Washington, US

Bacterial febrile syndromes (8 hours)

• Rickettsial infections (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Lucas Blanton, UTMB, US
• Scrub typhus (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. David H. Walker, UTMB, US
• Q fever (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Bradley Dye, OU, US
• Leptospirosis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Paul Le Turnier, Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne, French Guiana
• Tick-borne and louse-borne relapsing fever (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Philip E. Stewart, NIH, US
• Bartonellosis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Lizbeth Cahuayme-Zuniga, University of Michigan, US
• Tularemia (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Deidra Bowman, VA Medical Center, Oklahoma City, US
• Brucellosis (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Georgios Pappas, Institute of Continuing Medical Education of Ioannina, Greece
• Plague (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Georgios Pappas, Institute of Continuing Medical Education of Ioannina, Greece
• Melioidosis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Christina Yek, NIH, US

Mycobacterial disease (5 hours)

• Tuberculosis (2 hours) - Guest Instructors: Dr. Luciana Medeiros, Dr. André Coelho and Dr. Denise Araraki, University of Brasilia and Ministry of Health, Brasil
  • Epidemiology (15 min)
  • Clinical manifestations (30 min)
  • Diagnosis (15 min)
  • Treatment, including HIV coinfection (30 min)
  • Latent TB (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Samantha Whiteside, Oklahoma State Department of Health, US
• Hansen's disease (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Bruno Vitiritti, Universidade Alto Vale do Rio do Peixe, Caçador, SC, Brasil
• Buruli ulcer (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Paul Converse, Johns Hopkins, US
• Nontuberculous mycobacterial infections (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Carlos Franco Paredes, Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez, Mexico, and Colorado State University, US

Fungi (14 hours)

Superficial and subcutaneous mycoses (5 hours)

• Dermatophyte infections (45–60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Sarah Delliere, Université de Paris, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Institut Pasteur, France
• Mycetoma (30–45 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Ahmed Fahal, WHO Collaborating Center on Mycetoma and Skin NTDs, Khartoum, Sudan
• Chromoblastomycosis (30–45 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Daniel Wagner, Federal University of Maranhão, Brasil
• Sporotrichosis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Dayvison Francis Saraiva Freitas, Fiocruz, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Protothecosis (20–30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Cornelia Lass-Flörl, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria
• Rhinosporidiosis (20–30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Duane Hospenthal, San Antonio, Texas, US
• Lobomycosis (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Marcus Teixeira, University of Brasilia, Brasil
• Entomophthoromycosis (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Duane Hospenthal, San Antonio, Texas, US
• Phaeohyphomycosis (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Daniel Wagner, Federal University of Maranhão, Brasil

Systemic mycoses: dimorphic fungi (5 hours)

• Histoplasmosis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Diego Falci, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
• Paracoccidioidomycosis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Priscila Marques de Macedo, Fiocruz, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Coccidioidomycosis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Marcus Teixeira, University of Brasilia, Brasil
• Talaromycosis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Tanaya Siripoon, Mahidol University, Thailand
• Emergomycosis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Nelesh Govender, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Systemic mycoses: other

• Cryptococcosis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Nathan Bahr, University of Minnesota, US
• Candida auris (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Michalis Lionakis, NIH, US
• Infections caused by molds (2 hours) - Guest Instructor: Dr. David Denning, University of Manchester, UK
  • Risk factors for and diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis and mucormycosis (30 min)
  • Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis: diagnosis, management and prognosis (30 min)
  • Allergic aspergillosis and chronic forms of fungal rhinosinusitis (30 min)
  • Antifungal therapy of mold infections, including antifungal resistance (30 min)

Parasites (35 hours)

Protozoa · Sarcodina (2 hours)

• E. histolytica and other ameba species (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Debbie-Ann Shirley, University of Florida, US
• Free-living ameba (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Jeannette Guarner, Emory, US

Protozoa · Mastigophora (5 hours)

• Giardiasis (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Idalia Valerio, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas, Costa Rica
• Trichomoniasis (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Patricia Kissinger, Tulane, US
• Chagas disease mini-symposium (2 hours 30 min) - Guest Instructors: Dr. Luciana Medeiros, Dr. Rodrigo Gurgel-Gonçalves, Dr. Eduardo Nasser (University of Brasilia), Dr. Anis Rassi Jr. (Anis Rassi Hospital, Goiânia), Dr. Lígia Pierrotti (University of São Paulo) and Dr. Maria da Consolação V. Moreira (Federal University of Minas Gerais), Brasil
• Sleeping sickness (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Verlee Lejon, Research Institute for Development, France
• Leishmaniasis (2 hours)
  • Visceral leishmaniasis (45–60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Naomi Aronson, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, US
  • Cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Ciro Martins Gomes, University of Brasilia, Brasil

Protozoa · Ciliophora

• Balantidium coli (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Idalia Valerio, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas, Costa Rica

Protozoa · Apicomplexa (6 hours 30 min)

• Malaria (3 hours)
  • Epidemiology, life cycle and pathogenesis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Tuan M. Tran, Indiana University School of Medicine, US
  • Clinical manifestations, diagnosis and treatment (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. John Woodford, QIMR Berghofer, Australia
  • Preventive chemotherapy and vaccines (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Bickey Chang, NIH, US
• Babesiosis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Peter Krause, Yale, US
• Toxoplasmosis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. José Montoya, Sutter Health, US
• Cryptosporidiosis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Rachel M. Chalmers, Cryptosporidium Reference Unit, Public Health Wales, UK
• Other intestinal apicomplexa and sarcocystosis (30 min) - Guest Instructors: Dr. Jorge Alberto García Aguilar and Dr. Jackeline Alger, Hospital Escuela Universitario, Honduras

Helminths · Nematodes (10 hours)

• Adult nematodes residing in the intestine (2 hours) - Guest Instructor: Nelson Agudelo, OU, US
  Topics: Ascariasis, Hookworms, Strongyloidiasis, Trichuriasis, Enterobiasis, Capillariasis, Trichostrongyliasis
• Adult nematodes in blood, lymphatic or subcutaneous tissue (3 hours)
  • Lymphatic filariasis and miscellaneous filariae (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Philip Budge, Washington University, US
  • Onchocerciasis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Thomas Nutman, NIH, US
  • Loiasis and mansonellosis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Amy Klion, NIH, US
• Larval stages causing disease in other tissues (5 hours)
  • Dracunculiasis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: The Carter Center, US
  • Trichinellosis (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Katarina Popovic, OU, US
  • Toxocariasis (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Donna Tyungu, OU, US
  • Gnathostomiasis (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Verajit Chotmongkol, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
  • Baylisascariasis (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Andrew Abbott, CDC, US
  • CNS angiostrongyliasis (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Vernon Ansdell, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, US
  • Abdominal angiostrongyliasis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Idalia Valerio, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas, Costa Rica
  • Cutaneous larva migrans (45 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Eric Caumes, Sorbonne University, Paris, France

Helminths · Cestodes (5 hours)

• Adult tapeworms in the intestine (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Elise O'Connell, NIH, US
  Topics: Taeniasis, Diphyllobothriasis, Hymenolepiasis, Dipylidiasis
• Larval stages causing disease in other tissues
  • Cysticercosis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Elise O'Connell, NIH, US
  • Cystic and alveolar echinococcosis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Enrico Brunetti, Pavia, Italy
  • Sparganosis (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Elise O'Connell, NIH, US
  • Coenurosis (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Elise O'Connell, NIH, US

Helminths · Trematodes (3 hours 30 min)

• Liver flukes
  • Fascioliasis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Luis Marcus, Stony Brook, NY, US
  • Clonorchiasis and opisthorchiasis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Paul James Brindley, George Washington University, US
• Lung flukes (paragonimiasis) (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Iván Darío Vélez, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
• Blood flukes (schistosomiasis) (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Charles King, Case Western, US

Insects

Phthiraptera: lice (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. James Diaz, LSU, US

Hemiptera: true bugs (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Rodrigo Gurgel-Gonçalves, University of Brasilia, Brasil

Topics Covered

• Reduviidae (kissing bugs)
• Cimicidae (bed bugs)

Coleoptera: beetles (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Ronald Cave, University of Florida, US

Siphonaptera: fleas (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Adelaide Miarinjara, University of La Réunion, France

• Tungiasis (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Lynne Elson, Oxford, UK

Lepidoptera: moths and butterflies (60 min)

Guest Instructors: Dr. Mark Fox and Dr. John Carlson, CDC and Ochsner, US

Hymenoptera: wasps, hornets, ants and bees (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Hal Reed, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, US

Diptera: flies

• Psychodidae: sand flies (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Shaden Kamhawi, NIH, US
• Ceratopogonidae: biting midges (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Bethany McGregor, USDA, US
• Culicidae and mosquito control strategies (45 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Tovi Lehmann, NIH, US
• Simuliidae: black flies (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Elmer Gray, University of Georgia, US
• Tabanidae: horse and deer flies (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Bradley Mullens, University of California Riverside, US
• Glossinidae: tsetse flies (30 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Geoffrey Attardo, UC Davis, US
• Myiasis (60 min) - Guest Instructor: Dr. Rebecca Chancey, CDC, US
  Topics: Muscoidea, Calliphoridae, Sarcophagidae, Oestridae

Arachnids

Scorpionida: scorpions (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Masood Khalid, OU College of Medicine and Oklahoma Poison Center, US

Acari: mites and scabies (30 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Aileen Chang, UCSF, US

Acari: ticks (45–60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Ruth Scimeca, Oklahoma State University, US

Araneae: spiders (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Catherine Scott, McGill University, Canada

Venomous and Poisonous Animals

Bats (60 min)

Instructor: Dr. Lynda Loucks, UCO, US (Early October)

Pentastomiasis (30 min)

Instructor: Dr. Diane Barton, Charles Sturt University, Australia (Early October)

Leeches (30 min)

Instructor: Nelson Agudelo, OU, US

Trauma Due to Fish (30 min)

Instructor: Dr. Peter Drevets, UTMB, US

Toxic plants by organ system (5 hours)

Guest Instructors: Dr. Kristie Edelen and Dr. Eszter Moore, OU College of Pharmacy & Oklahoma Poison Center, US

Topics Covered

• Neurotoxins
• Cardiotoxins
• Cytotoxins
• Hepatotoxins
• Nephrotoxins
• Gastrointestinal irritants
• Dermatotoxins

Pre-departure evaluation and counseling

Vaccination and immunoprophylaxis (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Andrés Henao-Martínez, University of Colorado, US

Topics Covered

• Vaccine and drug interactions
• Travel vaccines: yellow fever, typhoid

Protection against vector-borne diseases (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Francesca Norman, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Spain

Topics Covered

• Malaria chemoprophylaxis
• Vaccines: yellow fever, chikungunya, Japanese encephalitis, dengue, tick-borne encephalitis

Food and water precautions: traveler's diarrhea (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Andrés Henao-Martínez, University of Colorado, US

Environmental hazards and risks

Altitude sickness (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Elaine Reno, University of Colorado, US

Decompression illness (60 min)

Guest Instructor: To be announced

Extremes of temperature (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Brent Brown, OU, US

Injury and trauma (30 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Mathieu Potin, Chemin des Croix-Rouges, Switzerland

Modes of travel

Air travel (30 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. José Henao-Cordero, OU, US

Cruise ship travel (30 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Mathieu Potin, Chemin des Croix-Rouges, Switzerland

Travelers with special conditions or circumstances

Immunosuppressed traveler (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Joseph Sassine, OU, US

Pediatric traveler (30 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Stefan Hagmann, Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital, NJ, US

Pregnant traveler (30 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Britany Jasper, Cambridge University, UK

Visiting friends and relatives (65 min)

Guest Instructor: Tara Lombardo, RPN, Dawson Travel Clinic, Guelph, Canada

Long-term traveler, including post-travel screening (45 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Norman Beatty, University of Florida, US

Last-minute traveler (30 min)

Guest Instructor: Gail Rosselot, Travel Well of Westchester, US

Humanitarian aid workers (30 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Aula Abbara, Imperial College London, UK

Military deployment (30 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. William Bennet, Uniformed Services University, US

Mass gatherings (30 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Salim Parker, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Sex tourism (30 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Gerard Flaherty, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

The sick or asymptomatic returning traveler (2 hours)

Fever and rash

Guest Instructor: Dr. Wasin Matsee, Mahidol University, Thailand

Respiratory disease

Guest Instructor: Dr. Luciana Medeiros, University of Brasilia, Brasil

Eosinophilia

Guest Instructor: Dr. Amy Klion, NIH, US

Core topics

Overview of the Refugee Admissions Program (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Taylor Fisher, HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), US

Evaluation of the refugee or immigrant (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Shelby Beamon, PA-C, OU, US

Immunization in immigrants (30 min)

Guest Instructor: Shelby Beamon, PA-C, OU, US

TB in immigrants and pre- and post-departure screening (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Philip Angelides, University of Colorado, US

Cancer in immigrants (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Nelson Agudelo, OU, US

The migrant farmworker (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Emma Cortes, Brown University, US

Human trafficking (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Philip Angelides, University of Colorado, US

Modern slavery (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Kevin Bales, University of Nottingham, UK

Female genital mutilation (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Janine Young, University of California San Diego, US

Evaluation of the victim of torture (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Jayantha Herath, Ontario Forensic Pathology Service and University of Toronto, Canada

Cases and context

History of tropical medicine (45 min)

Guest Instructor: Patricia Martin Marcos, OU, US

The Syrian crisis (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Jacques Mokhbat, Lebanese American University Medical Center – Rizk Hospital, Lebanon

The Darién Gap (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Amanda Gabster, Florida State University, US, and Sistema Nacional de Investigación, Panama

The Central American crisis (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Rachel Schwartz, OU, US

The Yanomami

Guest Instructor: Ana Paula dos Santos da Silva Merval, DSEI Yanomami, Brasil

The Gaza conflict (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Souha Kanj, Lebanese American University, Lebanon

The Maasai (30 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Scott Smith, Kilimanjaro Mission Hospital, Kenya

Syphilis, the US government and Guatemala (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Jonathan Zenilman, Johns Hopkins, US

Surgery, trauma and acute care

Surgery and trauma in the tropics (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Arthur Grimes, Department of Surgery, OU, US

Burns (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Joel Prince, Department of Surgery, OU, US

Anesthesia in the tropics (30 min)

Guest Instructor: Peter Agaba, Makerere University, Uganda

Blood transfusion in the tropics (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Cody Cox, OU, US

Organ systems

Cardiovascular disease (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Chittur Sivaram, OU, US

Respiratory disease (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Cedel Thom-Fernandes, Guyana

Renal disease (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Gabriela Canté López, Guatemala

Hematological diseases (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Sanober Nusrat, OU, US

Neurological disease (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Arnold Thompson, Clínicas Bendaña, San Pedro Sula, Honduras

Diabetes in the tropics (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Jonea Lim, OU, US

Ophthalmology (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Jeremy Tan, OU, US

ENT and oral disease (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. David Shaye, Harvard Medical School, US

Skin disorders (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Elmer López Lutz, Honduras

Psychiatric and substance use disorders (60 min)

Guest Instructors: Dr. Mauricio Orellana, Dr. José Roberto Galindo and Dr. Irina Alvarez, Honduras

Podoconiosis (30 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Gail Davey, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

Cancer

Cancer in children (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Nickhill Bhakta, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, US

Infectious causes of cancer (45 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. José Mercado Matos, NIH, US

Nutrition, mothers and children

Nutrition (60 min)

• Nutritional deficiencies, including vitamins and minerals - Guest Instructor: Dr. Leah Anderson, OU, US
• Obesity - Guest Instructor: Dr. Emma Punni, OU, US

Obstetrics in the tropics (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Theresa Mansingh, Guyana

Child health (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Claudia Olivera, Clínicas Bendaña, San Pedro Sula, Honduras

Global health and health systems

The Millennium Development Goals and neglected tropical diseases (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. David Molyneux, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK

Global health governance and health systems (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Daniel Sledge, OU, US

Ethics and tropical diseases (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Roxana Lescano Guevara, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru

Challenges of public health research in low-resource settings (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Manuel Sierra, Honduras

Traditional medicine (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Merlin Willcox, University of Southampton, UK

Transplantation in the tropics (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Jessica Fernandes Ramos, University of São Paulo, Brasil

Epidemiology and field methods

Study design and statistics (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Daniel Zhao, OU, US

How to perform a disease outbreak investigation (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Mike Mannell, Oklahoma State Department of Health, US

Disaster rapid needs assessment (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Sarah Elizabeth Scales, University of Nebraska, US

Mass drug administration (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Nicholas Presley, The Carter Center, US

Environment and One Health

WASH, including latrines (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. John Scott Meschke, OU, US

One Health (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Hélène Carabin, University of Montreal, Canada

Climate change and spillover (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Jonathon Gass, Tufts University, US

Effects of climate change on health (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Manuel Sierra, Honduras

Indoor pollution (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Changjie Cai, Hudson College of Public Health, OU, US

Heavy metal poisoning (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Masood Khalid, OU College of Medicine and Oklahoma Poison Center, US

Medicines and infection control

Essential drugs (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Nayle Ibragimova, OU, US

Quality of medical products and public health (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Paul Newton, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Oxford, UK

Infection control in the healthcare setting (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Ana Rosales, Hospital San Juan de Dios, Guatemala

Antimicrobial stewardship (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Valéria Paes Lima, University of Brasilia, Brasil

Antimicrobial resistance in the tropics (60 min)

Guest Instructor: Dr. Ana Gales, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brasil

Online laboratory sessions

Diagnostic microbiology (8–9 hours)

Guest Instructor: OU Microbiology, US

Topics Covered

• Stains
• Bacteriology
• Virology
• Mycobacteriology
• Mycology
• Protozoa I
• Protozoa II
• Helminths
• Stool examination

A hands-on laboratory module is also part of the in-person course in Brasil.