Engaged Opportunity Grants
Tick-Borne Illness in Primary Care
Identifying knowledge gaps and creating training programs to educate primary-care clinicians about tick-borne diseases
Many tick-borne illnesses have overlapping symptoms, and primary-care clinicians don’t always have the training to effectively diagnose and treat them. Since these clinicians are often the first point of contact for someone suffering from a tick-borne disease, it is especially important that they know about emerging diseases and pathogens in the region. To address this issue, a team of faculty and students is collaborating with the Tompkins County Department of Health and local infectious disease specialists to engage with primary care clinicians on tick-borne disease education. The goal is a Continuing Medical Education–accredited seminar series about tick-borne diseases for primary-care clinicians.
Grant category: Other
Topics: Education; Health, Nutrition and Medicine
The Team
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Emily Mader, Department of Entomology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Laura Harrington, Department of Entomology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Caroline Yancey, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
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Graduate student:
Darryl Ware, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
- Community partner: Tompkins County Health Department
- Community partner: Dr. Douglas MacQueen, Cayuga Medical Associates
- Community partner: Dr. Jeffrey Snedeker, Northeast Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
Engaged Opportunity Grants
Supporting a wide range of community-engaged learning projects, from student leadership programs and partnership building to events and conference travel. Open to all faculty and staff.