Continuous HIV High-risk Obstetrical Services During a Hurricane
Carmen D. Zorrilla, MD
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Principal Investigator: Maternal-Infant Studies Center (CEMI)
University of Puerto Rico (UPR) School of Medicine, San Juan, PR
Videos of live meetings of PRN in NYC are owned and published by Physicians’ Research Network, Inc.
Copyright © 2017. All rights reserved.
Carmen Zorrilla is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American Academy of HIV Medicine. Dr Zorrilla is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the UPR School of Medicine, and her HIV-related research includes behavior interventions and clinical trials with HIV-infected and at-risk populations as well as pregnant and non-pregnant women. She has served as the PI for several projects including a Longitudinal Women’s HIV Clinic and for several other clinical trials including empowerment interventions. The transmission rate of HIV infection among the more than 500 infants born to pregnant women living with HIV during the past 12 years at her clinic has been zero. And she has also contributed to Puerto Rico’s success in eliminating perinatal HIV transmission. Dr. Zorrilla is currently the PI of the UPR Clinical Trials Unit (UPR-CTU) sponsored by NIAID, and the UPR Mentoring Institute for HIV and Mental Health (sponsored by NIMH). She has also helped establish a multidisciplinary clinic for pregnant women with Zika, and is the San Juan PI for the NIH sponsored Zika International Pregnancy Study (ZIP).
At the completion of this educational session, learners will:
- Be better informed about the necessary steps for Hurricane preparedness.
- Be aware of the impact of natural disasters, particularly Hurricanes on continuity of care for people living with HIV.
- Know the effects of sustained major power loss on Health Care services including emergency, inpatient and ambulatory care.
- Appreciate the lessons of Hurricane Maria’s aftermath and needs for recovery.
This PRN CME activity is funded in part by unrestricted educational grants from:
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Merck & Co, and ViiV Healthcare.
To obtain CME credit for this PRN program, please visit the
PRN Courses Page at the Clinical Education Initiative (CEI) web site. PRN and the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) jointly sponsor PRN enduring materials for CME, and provide them at no cost to the AIDS Institute of the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) for broadcast through the CEI. We thank the NYSDOH for making our CME programs available to a wider audience, and hope you will also browse the many other educational opportunities offered by the CEI.
