20 May 2020 COVID-19 ECHO clinic
Channel: Department of Medicine, UCT and GSH
Date: 2020-05-21

WEDNESDAY 20 May 2020:

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

INTRODUCTION: Graeme Meintjes

SPEAKERS
Mary-Ann Davies:
Western Cape Department of Health and UCT School of Public Health
“Brief update on surveillance of COVID-19 infections in the Western Cape”

Dr. O'Donnell is a pulmonologist and critical care specialist. His research interests centre around global health including tuberculosis (TB), HIV, and severe acute respiratory infections. His research is centered in South Africa and Uganda with training/education and capacity building work in Ethiopia. In the last 3 months he has been involved in the critical care of patients with COVID-19 in New York, the most severely affected city by the pandemic globally.
His talk will cover his clinical experience of managing patients with COVID-19, his group’s recent study published in the Lancet on critical care outcomes in New York City, and a randomised controlled trial using convalescent plasma that he is currently leading.

PANEL TO ADDRESS QUESTIONS AND ENGAGE IN DISCUSSION: 
Ntobeko Ntusi: Cardiologist and Head of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital/UCT
Richard van Zyl Smit: Pulmonologist & Critical Care Specialist, Groote Schuur
Hospital/UCT