CDC Contraception Guidance: U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (US MEC) and U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use (US SPR)
Participate in this session to learn about major updates to CDC contraceptive recommendations, U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 2024 (US MEC) and U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, 2024 (US SPR). These evidence-based recommendations seek to remove unnecessary medical barriers to accessing and using contraception and to support the provision of person-centered contraceptive counseling and services. We will share strategies to use updated contraceptive recommendations in different clinical settings.
Speakers: Antoinette Nguyen, MD, MPH and Kathryn Curtis, PhD
Patient-centered approaches to menopausal symptoms and contraception in peri-menopause
This session will offer practical knowledge to support your patients through perimenopause and menopause. Health care providers are vital in supporting patients through these significant life stages. This session will equip you with the latest information on the pathophysiology, symptomatology, contraception options, and patient-centered management strategies for perimenopause and menopause.
Speaker: Jennifer Karlin, MD, PhD
Jennifer Karlin, MD, PhD, is a board-certified, full-scope family physician and fellowship-trained family planning specialist in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Trained as an anthropologist and historian of medicine, her mixed-method research addresses how we can alter healthcare relationships and systems to encourage patient empowerment, equity, and quality—as defined by patients themselves. Her research focuses on understanding patient preferences for treatment options in sexual and reproductive health including self-injection of contraceptives, self-management of medication abortion, and patient preferences for contraceptive counseling. Focusing on physician identity formation, she investigates how health care providers can approach their clinical practices from a historical, trauma-informed, and self-reflexive perspective to improve quality of care, provide person-centered care, and decrease additional trauma caused by the medical system. Dr. Karlin serves in an advisory role as a medical consultant for the California Family PACT program and the Clinical Training Center for Sexual and Reproductive Health (CTC-SRH) and as an associate editor for Annals of Family Medicine.
Infectious Vaginitis: Challenging Cases
Objectives:
1. Learn how to identify and treat patients with drug resistant Trichomonas vaginalis infection
2. Understand how to treat Trichomonas infection in the setting of 5-nitroimidazole hypersensitivity
3. Discuss the treatment of recurrent BV, including male partner treatment in some circumstances
4. Discuss the treatment of complicated cases of vulvovaginal candidiasis
Speaker: Christina Muzny, MD, MPH
Dr. Christina Muzny obtained her medical degree at the Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center College of Medicine followed by an internal medicine residency and an infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She joined the ID faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2010. She obtained an MSPH in Epidemiology at the UAB School of Public Health in 2017. Her clinical and research interests focus on HIV and STIs, particularly vaginal infections. Her current NIH/NIAID-funded R01 research focuses on the pathogenesis of bacterial vaginosis in addition to the optimal treatment regimen for trichomoniasis in women and men. Dr. Muzny is a Full Professor in the UAB Division of Infectious Diseases with secondary appointments in the Departments of Epidemiology and Obstetrics & Gynecology. She is also the Medical Director of the UAB Vaginitis Clinic and UAB Sexual Health Research Clinic as well as the Chair of the UAB Institutional Review Board.
STIs
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