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COVID-19 Grand Rounds

AIDS Foundation Chicago (AFC) COVID-19 Grand Rounds Series 

This is an ongoing series of webinars focused on various topics and issues related to coronavirus and COVID-19. These webinars feature guest speakers who are experts in their subject area. They are held approximately twice a month and are open to the HIV workforce in Chicago and Illinois as well as communities we serve. 

The goal of this series - which will end when COVID-19 is no longer a “thing” - is to help keep us informed on COVID-19, to support our efforts in separating truth from fiction, to provide opportunities to ask questions, and to bolster our information dissemination efforts with our communities impacted by this pandemic.  

For more information on the COVID-19 Grand Rounds, or if you have suggested topics or speakers to suggest, please contact Jim Pickett at jpickett@aidschicago.org.

Click here to view a schedule and to register for upcoming COVID-19 Grand Rounds events.

 

Recordings and slide sets from previous COVID-19 Grand Rounds

COVID-19 Grand Rounds - The Impact of COVID-19 on Chicago’s Housing & Homelessness Systems: A Client and Systems Perspective

Hosted Thursday, December 9, 2021

Featuring Tyshon Shepard, Christina Manheimer, FNP-C, APRN, Rush University College of Nursing Office of Faculty Practice, and Brandi Calvert, AIDS Foundation Chicago

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COVID-19 Grand Rounds - The Personal and Professional Impact of the Pandemic on LGBTQ Latino/a/x Health Care Providers in Chicago

Hosted Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Moderated by Julio Rodriguez, ALMA

Featuring David Munar, Howard Brown Health, Luis Lira, Esperanza, and Monica Ortiz, Health Care Advocate

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COVID-19 Grand Rounds - Before the Dam Breaks: Impact of Social Safety Nets on COVID-19 & HIV

Hosted Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Moderated by Christina Adeleke, Policy and Communications Manager, North Carolina AIDS Action Network

Featuring Breanna Diaz, Policy Director, Positive Women's Network-USA and Mark Misrok, Executive Director, National Working Positive Coalition

 

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COVID-19 Grand Rounds - Putting Community First: Trustworthiness, Diversity and Inclusion

Hosted Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Featuring Michele Andrasik, PhD, HIV Vaccine Trials Network

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COVID-19 Grand Rounds - Racial Disparities a Year and a Half into the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for HIV

Hosted Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Presented by Gregorio Millet, M.P.H., amfAR

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COVID-19 Grand Rounds - COVID-19 Vaccines: Promises and Limitations

Hosted Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Presented by Monica Gandhi, Univeristy of California San Francisco (UCSF)

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COVID-19 Grand Rounds- Vaccines and Variants: What you should know as we head into the fall.

Hosted Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Presented by Dr. Gerald E. Harmon, American Medical Association (AMA)

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COVID-19 Grand Rounds - Systemic Racism and Health Disparities; The Impact of COVID-19 on Latino/a/x populations.

Hosted July 6, 2021

Featuring Dr. Paulina Rebolledo and Dr. Valeria Cantos

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What About Long COVID? Lessons Learned and Unlearned from HIV and ME/CFS for Multiple Pandemics, Complex Chronic Conditions and Health Equity.

Featuring JD David, Advocate

Hosted June 15, 2021

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In for the Long Haul: Understanding the needs of people living with post COVID-19 syndrome 
Featuring Dr. Rasika Karnik, University of Chicago and Pato Hebert, artist/advocate

May 11, 2021

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Slides from Dr. Rasika Karnik

 

Building the Frontlines of Chicago’s COVID-19 Response: Furthering health equity, community partnerships, and diversifying public health approaches
Featuring a Chicago Department of Public Health panel
Hosted April 27, 2021 

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COVID-19 Grand Rounds: Provider, Personal, and Public Health Perspectives on Vaccine Equity
Featuring Janet Lin, MD, MPH, MBA, Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago; and Terrance Weeden, DO, Adolescent Medicine Fellow, Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago/Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Hosted April 5, 2021

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COVID-19 Grand Rounds: Ignorance and Arrogance - How Public Health is Fighting more than a Virus AKA – How I have aged 10 years in 365 days
Featuring Julie Pryde MSW, MPH, Administrator Champaign-Urbana Public Health District
Hosted March 23, 2021

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Tuskegee....Henrietta.... & Medical Mistrust: Shifting the Narrative on Consent: Why I Joined a COVID-19 Clinical Trial
Featuring Kieta D. Mutepfa, MSW
Hosted February 23, 2021

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Voices and Experiences from Erie Team Members on the Vaccination Frontlines
Featuring a panel of Erie team members
Hosted February 9, 2021

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COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS: Similarities,  Differences, and Common Questions 

Featuring Dr. Robert Fullilove - Professor Sociomedical Sciences at the  Columbia University Medical Center; Associate Dean, Community and Minority Affairs   
Hosted February 5, 2021

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Updates in COVID Vaccinations and Therapeutics 
Featuring Dr. Claudia Hawkins, Northwestern
Hosted January 19, 2021

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The COVID-19 Prevention Network Research Priorities and Vaccine Roll Out Challenges and Opportunities
Featuring Dr. Stephaun Wallace Director of External Relations, COVID-19 Prevention Network (CoVPN) & HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN)
Hosted December 17, 2020

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COVID-19 testing and contact tracing among most vulnerable populations in the United States
Featuring Dr. John Schneider, University of Chicago
Hosted December 8, 2020

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The First 401 Patients with COVID-19 at the University of Chicago: Lessons and Future Implications
Featuring Dr. Renslow Sherer, University of Chicago.
Hosted November 12, 2020

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Maintaining Vaccine Confidence in the Midst of Madness – and Despite the Politics 
Featuring Mitchell Warren, Executive Director, AVAC 
Hosted October 27, 2020

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AFC COVID-19 Grand Rounds with Daliah Medhi: Betwixt and Between, My COVID Journey (personal reflections on being a “long hauler”)
Hosted October 15, 2020 

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AFC COVID-19 Grand Rounds with Norma Rolfsen: Living in Covidland
Hosted September 30, 2020 

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AFC COVID-19 Grand Rounds with Dr. Monica Gandhi: Reasons for Facial Masking for COVID-19:  Transmission, Severity of Disease and Immunity 
Hosted September 15, 2020 

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