Clinician's Roundtable Health issues of new imigrants traveling back home
Aug 20, 2007
13:00
Host: Michael Benson, MD
Guest: Christie Reed, MD, MPH
Your patient plans to spend a month with relatives in India. He or she grew up there. Does your patient need any special counseling or treatment before returning to his or her ancestral“home”? Hint: the answer is yes. Our guest, Dr. Christie Reed 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.
Guest: Christie Reed, MD, MPH
Your patient plans to spend a month with relatives in India. He or she grew up there. Does your patient need any special counseling or treatment before returning to his or her ancestral“home”? Hint: the answer is yes. Our guest, Dr. Christie Reed 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.