Executive Summaries Archive: June 2025

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.