International Adoption and family travel

Host: Michael Benson, MD
Guest: Christie Reed, MD, MPH

Your patient is planning to adopt a baby from China? What medical advice can you give her? What can she expect in terms of health exams for the baby? Another aspect of family travel is travel oversees with small children? What are some of their health issues with these long trips? Learn the answers from our guest, Dr. Christie Reed. She is a Travelers' Health Science Officer at the Centers for Disease Control. She is also the GeoSentinel Project Director of the Geographic Medicine and Health Promotion Branch within the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine. As one of the editors of the CDC’s medical guide for travel medicine, Yellow Book she is a nationally recognized expert on travel medicine.