Join us for a session on an issue central to global health led by Dr. Nathalie Quion.
Nathalie Quion, MD, is currently the Medical Director of Children’s Health Center at Adams Morgan and Shaw. She is a faculty member of the Division of General and Community Pediatrics and provides technical support and advocacy to the Community Based Children’s Tuberculosis Program in the Philippines and provides technical advice and support to the Philippine Ambulatory Pediatric Association. She is able to arrange for resident rotations at the teaching hospital of the University of Philippines- Philippine General Hospital in Manila. She leads a medical mission every February in Romblon, Philippines. Dr. Quion is co-Chair of the DC AAP Immigrant Child Health Committee and leads the Immigrant Health Elective. She completed her medical degree at the University of the Philippines, finished her pediatric residency training at University of Texas and completed her Master’s in Public Health at the University of Massachusetts.
Session Objectives:
- Describe the epidemiology of global pediatric TB disease and how this contributes to the diagnosis of clinical TB disease and high burden settings
- Identify current TB diagnostics and their limitations for pediatric TB disease
- Understand how to evaluate for and make a clinical diagnosis of pediatric TB disease in resource limited and resource rich settings
- Describe the public health approach to TB prevention and new options for TB preventative therapy
