Estimated time to complete activity: 90 minutes
Target Audience
This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of nurses, physicians, and other health and legal professionals involved in the treatment and care of victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Statement of Need/Program Overview
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the pediatric sexually abused population are rare. This webinar will review the epidemiology, clinical presentation, and indications for testing STIs in children.
The forensic implications of different STIs will be discussed in depth, as well as new technologies and currently accepted recommendations and guidelines for treatment.
Educational Objectives
After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:
- Understand differences in pre-pubertal physiology that makes children different than
- adolescents
- Understand the epidemiology of STI’s in children
- Recognize how and when to test children for STI’s based upon organism
- Recognize how and when to treat when there is concern for STI
Faculty
Raquel Vargas-Whale MD, MS, FAAP
Fellow, Child Abuse Pediatrics, University of Utah Medical School, Center for Safe and Healthy Families, Salt Lake City, UT
Faculty Bio
Dr. Vargas-Whale is a Pediatrician and Fellow in the field of Child Abuse Pediatrics at the University Of Utah School Of Medicine. She attended graduate school at the University of North Texas, obtaining a master’s degree in Psychology with an emphasis on child development and applied behavior analysis. She attended Medical School at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and completed her General Pediatrics Residency at The Cleveland Clinic, in Ohio.
She is a member of the Ray E. Helfer Society, a Fellow of The American Academy of Pediatrics, and member of American Indian Science and Engineering Society. She enjoys her cultural mentorship role with Native America Research Interns at the University of Utah. Her research interests are in the areas of intimate partner violence and child maltreatment with special attention to Indian Health Systems.
She has experience in working with Native and Latino communities. She practiced as a General Pediatrician for The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma for 4 years. Her practice emphasis was in the area of behavioral health and child development.
Raquel is proud to be an enrolled member of The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Her mother is Choctaw and her father is Quechua of the highland tribes in the Peruvian Andes, South America. She was raised in Venezuela and is fluent in Spanish.