Southeast AETC
Vanderbilt Comprehensive Care Clinic
Vanderbilt Health at One Hundred Oaks
719 Thompson Lane, Suite 37189
Nashville, TN 37204
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Regional Scope
The Southeast AETC serves Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee through its central office and local partners.
Contact
For HIV training, technical assistance, and/or capacity building assistance anywhere in the Southeast AETC region, contact Jennifer Burdge, MEd, with the following information: Name, email, phone, city, state, and description of need.
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Stephen P. Raffanti, MD, MPH
Principal Investigator -
Cody Chastain, MD
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Jennifer Burdge, MEd
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Anna Person, MD
Clinical Director -
Sean G. Kelly, MD
PrEP Director -
Clare Bolds
Program Manager -
Sally Burgess
Associate Program Manager -
Abel Belachew
Health Policy Services Analyst -
Daniel Farlow
Web Developer -
Jake Souvannaraj
User Experience Designer -
Renee S. Garside, AS
Budget Analyst -
Alan Lamb
Sr. Accounting Clerk
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COVID-19 Updates and Recommendations from the National Dental Association
With the current increase in COVID-19 cases in the United States (U.S.), this information will benefit not just dentists but all healthcare providers.
As of December 20, 2020, the following states are permitting dentists to administer the COVID-19 vaccine: Arkansas, Idaho, Louisiana,...
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Short Bites: State of Oral Health Equity in America 2021 -- Research Report #1
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, many adults faced barriers to receiving oral health care, increasing their risk of infection and the need for emergency hospital visits. And now, as unmet dental needs worsen while the pandemic lingers and people suffer the loss of jobs and dental insurance,...
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Short Bites: Dental Procedures during Pandemic Are No Riskier Than a Drink of Water
Study shows SARS-CoV-2 infection risk at the dentist’s office is low.
A new study’s findings dispel the misconception that patients and providers are at high risk of catching COVID-19 at the dentist’s office.
SARS-CoV-2 spreads mainly through respiratory droplets, and...
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Short Bites: Tongue and Mouth Issues in COVID-19 Patients
CHICAGO (Feb. 12, 2021) – The American Dental Association (ADA) has been tracking developments of tongue and mouth issues COVID-19 patients experience since early on in the pandemic. Oral health is an important and vital part of overall health, and the ADA is continuing to...
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Short Bites: Unmasked Patients-Conflicts, Accommodations, and Common Sense
Even before COVID-19 inexorably changed social and clinical protocols, dental offices dealt with patients who claimed to “know better” than their providers when it came to health risks. From unvaccinated patients to incomplete health histories, failure to cooperate results in ethical and legal...
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Short Bites: HIV Oral Health and COVID-19
The relationship between oral health and overall health has been well established for many comorbidities including diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
We are still learning about COVID-19 and how it affects people living with HIV. Based on limited data, people with HIV who are on...
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Short Bites: Report Finds COVID-19 Rate Among Dentists is Less than One Percent
CHICAGO, Oct. 15, 2020 — Although assumed to be at high risk for COVID-19, fewer than one percent of dentists nationwide were found to be COVID-19 positive, according to a first-of-its-kind report in the U.S. based on data collected in June 2020. The result is far below that of other health...
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Short Bites: Citizen Scientists Take on the Challenge of Long-Haul COVID-19
Highlights from the NIH Directors Blog (9/3/20), by Dr. Francis Collins
Among the many longer-term health problems that have been associated with COVID-19 are shortness of breath, fatigue, cognitive issues, erratic heartbeat, gastrointestinal issues, low-...
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Short Bites: Personal Protective Equipment Optimization
With the number of Coronavirus cases surpassing 7.3 million and 210,000 deaths in the United States, dental offices continue to be faced with shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE). Surge capacity refers to the ability to manage a sudden increase in patient volume that would severely...
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Short Bites: Testing and Clinical Management of Health Care Personnel Potentially Exposed to HCV — CDC Guidance
Recommendations and Reports / July 24, 2020 / 69(6);1–8
Exposure to hepatitis viruses is a recognized occupational risk for health care personnel (HCP). This report establishes new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance that includes recommendations for a testing...
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Short Bites: Study Shows Oropharyngeal Secretions as Alternative for COVID-19 Detection
As the global battle to understand and eliminate the coronavirus continues, a new study published in the Journal of Dental Research demonstrates that testing of oropharyngeal secretions (OS) may reduce the number of false-negative results from nasal swab testing of patients who have...
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Short Bites: CDC Guidance for Dental Settings Echoes ADA Guidance During COVID-19
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued updated interim infection prevention and control guidance for dental settings during the COVID-19 response on May 19, 2020, very similar to science-based guidance issued earlier in May by the American Dental Association (ADA).
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Curing Hepatitis C in People with HIV in the United States: A Federal, State and Local Collaboration
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) co-infection affects roughly 25% of people with HIV in the United States (U.S.).[i] To effectively combat this epidemic, ongoing provider education has been identified as a key initiative to enhance screening, diagnosis, linkage to care, and treatment of HCV. While...
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Short Bites: The Association between Oral Hygiene and Heart Disease
The emergence of chronic disease complications in controlled HIV disease has changed the landscape of HIV clinical care. HIV infection confers an increased cardiovascular disease risk which is thought to be due to a complex interplay of mechanistic factors. While traditional cardiovascular risk...
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Short Bites: The Association between Oral Disease and Type of Antiretroviral Therapy among Perinatally HIV-Infected Youth
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been very successful at preserving immune function and controlling opportunistic infections among individuals infected with HIV. Oral mucosal diseases associated with advanced immunosuppression, including candidiasis and hairy leukoplakia, are significantly...
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Short Bites: HIV in the Southeast United States
Southern states today account for an estimated 44 percent of all people with an HIV diagnosis in the U.S.,[1] despite having only about one-third (37%) of the overall U.S. population. Diagnosis rates for people in the South are higher than for Americans overall. Eight of the 10 states...
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Short Bites: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Update
HPV oral and oropharyngeal cancers are more difficult to detect than tobacco-related cancers because the symptoms are not always obvious to an individual, and health professionals may lack the education and background to diagnose HPV-related lesions. Although there are many adjunctive oral...
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Short Bites: What Is a Dental Emergency?
What is a dental emergency?I often get this question from non-dental personnel including case managers, physician assistants, nurses, and nurse practitioners. The following is a short list of questions you can ask patients to guide dental referrals for...
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Short Bites: Effects of Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) on Oral Lesions
A recent study that was conducted among 1200 HIV patient of whom 600 each belonged to with ART and without ART and the occurrence of oral candidiasis and oral hairy leukoplakia. This study shows that oral candidiasis and leukoplakia was less among patients on ART as well as a decrease in the...
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Short Bites: Do I Pre-medicate Patients Based on a High Viral Load and Low CD4 Count?
The question I most commonly get asked by oral health providers is...
Do I pre-medicate patients based on a high viral load and low CD4 count?
There is no supporting data to support the need for routine antibiotic coverage pre or post dental treatment based on...
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Short Bites: Xerostomia in Patients with HIV
It is estimated that 1.1 million people in the United States are infected with HIV. Of those, 1 in 7 do not know they are infected.[1] The number of new HIV diagnoses fell 19% from 2005 to 2014.[1] Because HIV testing rates have remained stable or increased in recent years, this decrease in...
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Short Bites: Periodontal Health in the Era of Antiretroviral Therapy
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services currently recommends that every person with HIV begin antiretroviral therapy (ART) as soon as possible after diagnosis. Increased availability of testing and treatment along with the above guidelines have reduced the number of new HIV infections...
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Short Bites: One in Nine American Men are Infected with Oral HPV
According to a new study published in the Journal Annals of Internal Medicine, one in nine American men is infected with the oral form of the human papillomavirus (HPV). Nationwide, rates of oral HPV infection are 11.5% of men vs. 3.2% women. HPV 16, the most common type of high-risk HPV and...