Dr. Mattia Chason leads this case discussion on caring for children with fever in resource limited settings.
Dr. Chason is an attending pediatric hospitalist at Children’s National Medical Center for the Mid-Atlantic Kaiser Permanente Medical Group. He recently graduated from the Children’s National Health System Pediatric Residency program and was awarded a certificate in Global Child Health for his commitment to improving the health and lives of children in developing countries. His interest in global health dates back to college when he began participating in medical mission trips to Central America (Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Nicaragua) with US volunteer physicians. While a medical student at Tufts University in Boston, he continued to pursue opportunities in developing countries and was selected amongst students nationwide to work for three months in the pediatric ward at the “Hôpital Albert Schweitzer” in Lambaréné, Gabon. At the end of his first year of medical school, he spent two months in Vellore, India where he worked at a major referral center and provided clinical care through mobile clinics stationed in rural villages. As a second year resident interested in exploring the field of infectious diseases, he spent four weeks in Lima, Peru at the “Instituto Nacional De Salud del Niño.” He worked hand in hand with arguably the most renowned pediatric infectious diseases specialist in the country. As a third year resident at Children’s, he spent five weeks in Luang Prabang, Laos at the “Lao Friends Hospital for Children.” His main focus was educating Laotian pediatricians while supervising the care of hospitalized children. Most recently, he travelled through Project Medishare in partnership with George Washington University to Haiti, providing clinical care and serving as a mentor to US medical trainees from GWU.
Session Objectives:
- Develop a differential diagnosis for children presenting with fever in developing countries
- Identify how to evaluate and diagnose patients presenting with fever in resource limited settings
- Describe management of children presenting with fever in resource limited settings
