Executive Summaries

Annual Wellness Visits & Preventive Screening Schedule

This summary outlines the key aspects of Annual Wellness Visits (AWVs), particularly focusing on Medicare Annual Wellness Visits (MAWVs), based on the provided source material.

It covers their importance, the different types, eligible providers, required components, documentation, handling of concurrent medical issues, and practice models.

Tropical Medicine Case Presentations: Schistosomiasis

This document summarizes the key findings, discussions, and outcomes of two tropical medicine case presentations:

The first case describes a pediatric patient from Peru with symptoms mimicking hematologic malignancy, ultimately diagnosed with paracoccidioidomycosis.

The second case involves an adult patient with liver cirrhosis and pulmonary hypertension, presenting with a history of schistosomiasis.

2025 Update on Mpox: Epidemiology, Transmission, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention

This document provides an overview of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, covering its virology, history, current epidemiology, transmission, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

The information is based on a presentation drawing heavily from recent review articles, including one published in JAMA in October 2024 and another from 2022. The nomenclature changed from monkeypox to mpox in November 2022, recommended by the WHO and adopted by the CDC, primarily to reduce stigma associated with the name.

More Turns Than a Back Road: The Career Journey of an Academic Clinician-Scientist

This document outlines the winding career path of Barbara Trautner, M.D., Ph.D. an academic clinician-scientist, emphasizing key pivot points, research evolution, and lessons learned.

From Data to Action: Using Science to Transform Perinatal Mental Health Care

This summary outlines key insights regarding the challenges and advancements in integrating mental health care into perinatal settings, based on the provided audio excerpts.

The speaker's passion for this work is deeply rooted in a powerful personal history involving transgenerational trauma stemming from her grandmother's untreated psychiatric illness after her mother's birth.

This experience highlighted the critical importance of maternal mental health and its potential transgenerational impact.

Molecular Aspects of Fructose Metabolism and Metabolic Disease

This presentation provides a comprehensive overview of the molecular landscape of fructose metabolism and its intricate relationship with metabolic disease. The research highlights the distinct metabolic fate of fructose, the crucial role of intestinal CHRBP in regulating fructose absorption, and the differential susceptibility to fructose-induced metabolic dysfunction across mouse strains, potentially driven by variations in intestinal handling.

These findings underscore the complexity of dietary sugar metabolism and suggest that personalized approaches considering individual differences in nutrient handling may be critical for mitigating the adverse effects of excessive sugar consumption.

Gynecological Health in Women with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

This summary presents a detailed discussion on gynecological care for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID), emphasizing the unique challenges, considerations, and essential aspects of providing comprehensive care to this population.

The speaker, outlines learning objectives that include describing the intersectionality of gynecologic health and common ID conditions, addressing sexual activity and the elevated rates of abuse among women with ID, and providing practical tools for incorporating routine gynecologic review into healthcare visits.

Community Conversations and Caregiver Connections

This summary outlines key information from a webinar focused on ending infant sleep-related death by building a community of pediatricians educated about the death review process and prevention outcomes.

The project is funded and collaborates with the Texas chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics to create a webinar series specifically for physicians to understand the child death review process, how to access and use the data, and how to develop prevention programs.

Screening, Diagnosis, and Management of Chagas Disease in the United States

This presentation is focused on the epidemiology, clinical aspects, diagnosis, and management of Chagas disease within the United States. The presentation aims to equip healthcare providers with the knowledge necessary for effective screening, diagnosis, and treatment of this often-overlooked parasitic infection.

Dr. Clark emphasizes the importance of understanding risk factors to identify individuals who should be screened and provides detailed information on available diagnostic tools and treatment options.

Potential Synergies Between Bioethics and Health Policy Research

The presentation details the center's activities, which are structured around three pillars: education, clinical ethics, and research, along with two crosscutting programs in health policy and collaboration/outreach. In the area of education, the center is involved in ethics curricula for undergraduate and graduate medical education, including dedicated pathways in medical ethics and health policy.

Their activities also extend to clinical ethics through fellowships, continuing medical education, and ethics consultation services at major healthcare institutions.