Come see what Ohio State Internal Medicine Residency and Ohio State Med-Peds Residency are all about! We are thrilled to host ✨YOU✨ for our Diversity in Internal Medicine and Med-Peds visiting student program. #RepresentationMatters #Match2024 Check out our website for more details: medicine.osu.edu/imvssp

🚨Clinical trial alert🚨 We are screening participants from endemic regions for Chagas disease. Those that qualify will be enrolled in a clinical trial using a new therapy that is much less toxic than the current treatment. Please contact for more details. BCM_TropMed

Live parasites at the BCM_TropMed vaccine center! Ascaris suum (large roundworm of pigs) is a parasitic nematode that can infect and cause ascariasis in pigs. Human can also get infected, by ingesting food contaminated with infective eggs from this parasite. Jill Weatherhead, MD, PhD

This was a major full circle moment, as I was exposed to this amazing field as an undergraduate by Dr Bruce Christensen at UW–Madison 🪱❤️

Today we’re graduating our 10th class (10 years) of our Baylor National School of Tropical Medicine ⁦BCM_TropMed⁩ ⁦Texas Children’s Global Health⁩ Summer Tropical Medicine Institute in conjunction with ⁦Baylor University⁩ Univ and their undergraduate health and science majors

Big congrats to Eva Clark selected by BCM ID Fellowship as BCM Department of Medicine ID Faculty of the Year for her commitment to clinical education and her enthusiastic support of research mentees in ID, travelers health, global health and trop med. She is 1 in a million! BCM_TropMed

I learned about qPCR basics today thanks to Yifan--excited to apply all my new knowledge! Jill Weatherhead, MD, PhD BCM_TropMed

See our new review of peds toxocariasis in Houston. We advocate for⬆️Toxocara surveillance in kids, dogs/cats and the environment + ⬆️education of the public to⬇️Toxocara-related morbidity. journals.lww.com/pidj/abstract/… BCM_TropMed BCM Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship ASTMH Clinical Group Mary Fortini Texas DSHS

This summer we hosted a ⭐️ Kalamazoo College Kalamazoo Chemistry & Biochemistry rising junior Angela Jacobo in our BCM_TropMed lab in Houston, TX. Angela mastered folding/purifying Toxocara recombinant proteins that will be used in our novel Toxocara diagnostic immunoassay. 🪱 Dr. Dani Arias-Rotondo

Thanks so much to Texas DSHS for allowing us to present these important diseases today! Awareness is key in beginning to combat this problem

I didn't get testing accoms until my USMLE exams but I have experienced these exact hurdles--it is exhausting

Any other parasitologist at #IDweek? Come join us at unforgettable cases in #TropMed #parasites BCM_TropMed

Interested in travel medicine? Come see this rockstar BCM Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Dr Tara Ness Atlas Infectious moderate the session on Travelers Rash through a dermatological lens!! #IDWeek2023

It was so fun to walk people between the posters for the full clinical and epidemiological experience!

Dr Yifan Wu speaking at our BCM_TropMed retreat about his work on Ascaris and gastric changes! No one can match Yifan’s excitement about science! 🪱

Check out our new paper led by Fabrício M. S. Oliveira which provides more evidence that Ascaris infection leads to long term inflammation in the lungs 🪱 congrats to Fabricio and team!

As I sit down today for my weekly review of filarial infections I am excited to break out my new Christmas present--a mug heavily inspired by Dr. Glaucomflecken Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!

When your mentors love worms, this is how you show appreciation! Jill Weatherhead, MD, PhD and Eva Clark have been incredible role models and working with them is a literal dream come true

Our annual ASTMH accredited DTM course started this week. Expert BCM_TropMed faculty including school Dean Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD provide didactic lectures and lab experience in-person and via zoom to accommodate global learners. Check our website for info: bcm.edu/education/nati…

#Cysticercosis is an infection caused by the pork #tapeworm, common in #LatinAmerica. Sarah Gunter Megan Duffey, MD et al found evidence that it's also present in #Texas. #NeglectedTropicalDisease BCMHouston BCM_TropMed @MEBottazzi Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD mdpi.com/2076-0817/13/1…