22 APRIL COVID-19 ECHO clinic
Channel: Department of Medicine, UCT and GSH
Date: 2020-04-23

WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL: 

COVID-19 ECHO clinic facilitators: Wendy Spearman and Mark Sonderup

INTRODUCTION BY CHAIR: Graeme Meintjes

SPEAKERS
Professor Mary-Ann Davies :
Western Cape Department of Health and UCT School of Public Health

“ Update on COVID-19 surveillance in the Western Cape and South Africa”

Professor David Boulware :
Professor David Boulware is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine at the University of Minnesota, US. He is a physician-scientist who has established and led a very productive program of research with colleagues in Uganda and South Africa over the past 15 years focused on cryptococcal and tuberculous meningitis.
He is now leading a clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of COVID-19 in health care workers in the US and Canada that has enrolled almost 1000 participants to date, as well as an early treatment trial evaluating hydroxychloroquine in patients who have been symptomatic for less than 4 days. He will discuss:
“ COVID-19 infections in health care workers in the US, the evidence regarding chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19, and the clinical trials he is leading.”
For background reading, his group has recently published a review of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 that can be accessed at:
https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofaa130/5820538

PANEL TO ADDRESS QUESTIONS AND ENGAGE IN DISCUSSION:
Keertan Dheda: Respiratory Physician/Critical Care Specialist, Groote Schuur Hospital/UCT
Sean Wasserman: Infectious Disease Specialist, Groote Schuur Hospital/UCT
Bridget Hodkinson: Rheumatologist, Groote Schuur Hospital/UCT
Ashley Chin: Cardiologist/Electrophysiologist, Groote Schuur Hospital/UCT