Jessica Snowden: The Tip of the Iceberg: Understanding the Long-Term Impact of COVID-19

ECHO Discovery Summary

Key Takeaways:

• Many people who develop COVID-19 experience long-term effects and ongoing health problems after their infection—a condition known as long COVID.
• Researchers are still working to understand the best strategies to diagnose and treat long COVID, and these strategies may inform programs, policies, and practices.
• ECHO cohorts and IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network (ISPCTN) sites across 14 different states in the United States, have enrolled children and their parents in the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) study—an NIH initiative to define long COVID, determine what causes it, and identify strategies to diagnose and manage it.
• In an effort to improve vaccination uptake in children, the ISPCTN is starting the Improving COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Using mHEALTH Tools (MoVeUP) study that will explore methods for helping families make decisions about vaccinating their children.

Speaker:

Jessica Snowden, MD, MS, MHPTT

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children’s Research Institute

Speaker Bio:

Jessica Snowden, MD, MS, MHPTT, is Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Arkansas. She is the Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pediatrics and Associate Director of Clinical and Translational Research at Arkansas Children’s Research Institute. Dr. Snowden received her BS and MD at Texas A&M Health Sciences Center and her Masters degrees (MS Clinical Research; MHPTT Health Professions Teaching and Technology) from the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Date: Wednesday, June 8th, 1 to 2pm ET