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Covid-19 has a wide spectrum of disease manifestations. This talk will highlight the pathophysiology of the most common manifestations of COVID on various organ systems of the body.\u00a0 The latest evidence based clinical guidelines for the management of patients infected with COVID-19 will also be presented.<\/p>\n

Click this link<\/a><\/span> to watch the second session of the series!<\/p>\n

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About the Panellists<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n

GUEST-OF-HONOUR – <\/strong>Mr <\/b>Luis Alberto Melo Moran <\/b>is Ambassador of Panama in Singapore since February 2020. Mr Melo was Partner and Director of Business Development at Consensus Consultores (Consulting firm specialized in strategic acquisitions, energy and telecommunications) with wide experience in management of regional projects. Prior to Consensus Consultores, Mr Melo served as Ambassador and Chief of the Office to the President of Panama, Martin Torrijos.<\/p>\n

Mr Melo graduated from the University of Science and Technology in Panama with a Bachelor of Business Administration and has a Master degree in Government.<\/p>\n

SPEAKER – <\/strong>Dr Jyoti <\/b>Somani<\/b> <\/b>is a Senior Consultant with the National University Hospital (NUH) Singapore, Division of Infectious Diseases and is the Clinical director of the Antibiotic Stewardship Programme (ASP) in NUH. As of July 2020, she is the Director of the Hospital Epidemiology Unit and the Deputy Chair of Infection Prevention.<\/p>\n

She graduated from the University of Cincinnati Medical School in the United States in 1991, and completed her Internal Medicine Residency from the University of Chicago Hospitals in 1994, and her 3 year Infectious Disease Fellowship in 1998 from Emory University.\u00a0 She was an Assistant Professor at Emory University Division of infectious Diseases from 2000-2008, and has also been in Private Practice in the U.S. 2008-2012. She has also worked internationally in Chennai, India and Jakarta, Indonesia. She came to Singapore in Nov 2014 and was at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, before joining the Division of Infectious Diseases in\u00a0 NUH in Dec 2018.<\/p>\n

SINGAPORE CO-CHAIR – A\/Prof Swaine Chen <\/b>is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore, a Group Leader at the Genome Institute of Singapore, and an Editor of the journal Microbial Genomics. He specialises in the bacterial genetics and manipulation of wild type clinical isolates and has expertise in the application of genomics for investigation of outbreaks of bacterial disease.<\/p>\n

He received an A.B. in Chemistry and Mathematics from Harvard University and an M.D.\/Ph.D. in Developmental Biology from Stanford University. After a postdoc at Washington University in St. Louis in molecular microbiology, he received the Singapore National Research Foundation Fellowship in 2010 and started his lab at NUS.<\/p>\n

PANAMA CO-CHAIR – Dr Ana <\/b>Bel\u00e9n<\/b> <\/b>Ara\u00faz<\/b> <\/b>is an Infectious Diseases specialist who works in the Hospital Santo Tomas, a third level public Hospital in Panama, as Deputy Medical Director.\u00a0 She completed her internal medicine in Hospital Santo Tom\u00e1s and infectious diseases training at Universidad de Guadalajara. She has a Master in Science degree from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Gorgas Diploma course in tropical medicine from University of Alabama.<\/p>\n

She is Professor of Internal Medicine in Universidad de Panama, with research interests related to surveillance of mycotic infections in HIV and Candida auris infections in Panama. She is the President of the Panamanian Infectious Diseases Society.<\/p>\n

PERU CO-CHAIR – <\/b>Dr Juan Carlos <\/b>Samam\u00e9<\/b> P\u00e9rez-Vargas <\/b>is a Medical Oncologist at the Cl\u00ednica San Felipe of the ALIADA Cancer Center \u2013 Breast & Gi Units, Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza in Lima, Per\u00fa. With experience in the field of care, research and teaching.\u00a0With a Master in Clinical Research and international internships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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