Managing the Risk of Respiratory Tract Infections for Health Care Practitioners in the Covid Era
Dr Orville Nembhard
Duration: 60 minutes
CE: 1.0
Learning Objectives
Participants should gain an understanding of:
- The genesis of Covid-19 disease
- Covid-19 pandemic and its place in the history of pandemics
- Appreciation of Coronaviruses and their medical importance
- Appreciation of relationship of Covid-19 to SARS and MERS
- Impact of Covid-19 disease locally and internationally
- Examine current respiratory disease landscape
- Place Covid-19 in context of respiratory diseases
- Introduce “tripledemic”
- Identify key mitigating/protective factors for practitioners
Orville D. Nembhard, MB BS MPH MBA GPOHP
Dr Orville Nembhard is a graduate of The University of the West Indies from which he holds Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees as well as a master’s degree in Public Health. He also has a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Leicester, as well as diplomas in Occupational Health and HIV treatment from the University of Illinois and Washington respectively.
His work experience includes the Ministry of Health, lecturing in the department of Community Health and Psychiatry at The University of the West indies, and being Caribbean Medical Advisor for a large pharmaceutical company. He is the founder and Director of Health Plus Associates, a multidisciplinary medical centre in Kingston, Jamaica. His hobbies are fishing, music, singing, and most recently learning to play the steel pan.