Credit Hours: 1.00

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

Improve diagnostic skills for identifying MPX by reviewing epidemiology, clinical presentation, and natural history
Follow local guidelines regarding eligibility for MPX vaccine and understand how to access vaccine for patients.
Describe the indications for treatment of MPX with tecovirimat (T-Poxx).

Abstract

Ken S. Ho, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the Department of Medicine has earned both his Doctor of Medicine and Master of Public Health degrees from the University of Maryland. He then completed his internal medicine residency and fellowship training in infectious diseases here at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. His research interests focus on novel biomedical HIV prevention strategies and community implementation of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). He has over a decade of experience as a clinical trials investigator and has led several clinical trials of oral and topical PrEP. He has been involved with UPMC vaccine distribution efforts for monkeypox and is a member of the UPMC "T-poxx" team, tasked with providing the UPMC system with access to T-poxx through an emergency investigational new drug (eIND) protocol. He also will be the site investigator for the STOMP (Study of Tecovirimat for Human MonkeyPox virus). We look forward to learning more from Dr. Ho about monkeypox.

Suggested Additional Reading & Joint Accreditation Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements:

Kevin P. Delaney, PhD1; Travis Sanchez, DVM2; Marissa Hannah, MPH2; O. Winslow Edwards, MPH2; Thomas Carpino, MPH3; Christine Agnew-Brune, PhD1; Kaytlin Renfro, PhD1; Rachel Kachur, MPH1; Neal Carnes, PhD1; Elizabeth A. DiNenno, PhD1; Amy Lansky, PhD1; Kathleen Ethier, PhD1; Patrick Sullivan, PhD2; Stefan Baral, MD3; Alexandra M. Oster, MD. Strategies Adopted by Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men to Prevent Monkeypox virus Transmission — United States, August 2022. MMWR Weekly/September 2, 2022/71(35);1126-1130.

Joint Accreditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit[s]™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This educational activity is approved for 1.0 contact hours.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Authors:

Ken S. Ho, MD, MPH — Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
No planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.

No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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