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Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colin J Forsyth, Jennifer Manne-Goehler, Caryn Bern, Jeffrey Whitman, Natasha S Hochberg, Morven Edwards, Rachel Marcus, Norman L Beatty, Yagahira E Castro-Sesquen, Christina Coyle, Paula Stigler Granados, Davidson Hamer, James H Maguire, Robert H Gilman, Sheba Meymandi, US Chagas Diagnostic Working Group, Recommendations for Screening and Diagnosis of Chagas Disease in the United States, <\/span>The Journal of Infectious Diseases<\/em>, 2021;, jiab513, <\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/infdis\/jiab513<\/a><\/p>\n

Wheelock AE, Sandhu SK, Loskill AJ, Marcus RR, Gopal DM, Hamer DH, Hochberg NS. Testing for Chagas disease in an at-risk population. J Card Fail. 2021 01; 27(1):109-111. PMID: 32905847. PubMed<\/a><\/p>\n

Hochberg NS, Wheelock A, Hamer DH, Marcus R, Nolan MS, Meymandi S, Gilman RH. Chagas Disease in the United States: A Perspective on Diagnostic Testing Limitations and Next Steps. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021 Feb 1;104(3):800-804. doi: 10.4269\/ajtmh.19-0871. PMID: 33534741; PMCID: PMC7941835. PubMed<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Abstracts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reifler K,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Wheelock A, Hall SM, Dauphinais M,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Roytburd<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>S,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Maiullari<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>M, Salazar A, Maldonado A, West HM, Kohler JR, Barnett ED, Gopal DM, Hamer DH, Bourque DL.\u00a0<\/em><\/span>Antitrypanosomal<\/span><\/em>\u00a0therapy for Chagas Disease: A single center experience with adverse drug reactions and strategies for enhancing treatment completion.<\/em> <\/span><\/span>Antitrypanosomal Chagas PLoS abstract.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Reifler K,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Campbell JI, Barnett ED, Bourque DL, Hamer DH, Samra H, Camelo I. Diagnosing Chagas disease in pregnancy and childhood\u2014<\/em><\/span>what\u2019s<\/span><\/em>\u00a0old and new<\/em>. <\/span>\u00a0Chagas Diagnosis in Pregnancy and Childhood Clin Lab abstract <\/a>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Wheelock A, Sandhu S,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Reifler K,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Carrion M, Bourque DL, Hamer DH, Hochberg NS. Improving clinician awareness and screening for Chagas disease with an educational Intervention<\/em>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Chagas Awareness and Screening AJTMH abstract<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reifler KA,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Wheelock A, Hall SM, Salazar A, Hassan S, Bostrom JA, Barnett E, Carrion M, Hochberg NS, Hamer DH, Gopal DM, Bourque D. Chagas cardiomyopathy in Boston, Massachusetts:\u00a0<\/em><\/span>identifying<\/span><\/em>\u00a0disease and improving management after community and hospital-based screening<\/em>. <\/span><\/span><\/span>Chagas Cardiomypoathy PLoS abstract<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Wheelock, A., Sandhu, S., Bielick, C., Reifler, K., Carrion, M., Janiszewski, K., Hamer, D., & Hochberg, N. (n.d.). 2021 ASTMH Annual Meeting . In Is education enough? An intervention to improve screening for Chagas disease at an academic safety net hospital in the US<\/i>. Chagas Ed ASTMH abstract<\/a><\/p>\n

Kimball, A., Bourque, D., Hochberg, N. 2021 SGIM Annual Conference. In Caring for the Cross-Border Migrant: Addressing Equity in Care. SGIM 2022<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reifler K, Sinha P, Dauphinais M, Bourque DL. \u201cGood for Hearts, Better for Budgets: a cost-effectiveness evaluation of screening for Chagas disease. Oral presentation at American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), Toronto,\u00a0CA. 2025.<\/p>\n

Reifler K, Dauphinais M, Wheelock A, Carrion M, Kimball S, Barnett E, Hochberg N, Bourque DL, Hamer DH. \u201cImpact of Educational Activities and an Electronic Medical Record Template on Chagas Disease Screening.\u201d Poster presentation at American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), New Orleans, LA.\u00a0 2024.<\/p>\n

Reifler K,\u00a0Wheelock AW, Dauphinais M, Hamer DH, Bourque DL. \u201cNavigating Barriers: Chagas disease treatment tolerability and adverse events in Boston.\u201d Oral presentation at the Novartis New England Neglected Tropical Diseases Consortium, Cambridge, MA. 2024.<\/p>\n

Reifler K,\u00a0Wheelock A, Hochberg N, Hamer DH, Gopal D, Bourque DL. \u201cChagas Cardiomyopathy in Boston, Massachusetts: Identifying Disease and Improving Management After Community and Hospital-Based Screening.\u201d Oral and poster presentations at\u00a0University\u00a0of Texas Medical Branch 1st\u00a0Annual Symposium on Tropical and Emerging Infectious Diseases for Clinicians and Translational Scientists, Galveston, TX. 2024.<\/p>\n

Wheelock A,\u00a0Reifler K, Salazar A, Hall S, Hamer DH, Hochberg N, Bourque DL. \u201cFacing Adversity: Chagas Disease Treatment Tolerability and Adverse Events at an Academic Safety-Net Hospital in New England.\u201d Oral presentation at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting, Chicago, IL. 2023.<\/p>\n

Wheelock A,\u00a0Reifler K, Hochberg N, Hamer D, Gopal D, Bourque DL. \u201cMigration Timing and its Association with Chagas Disease Features in a Chagas Disease Cohort in New England.\u201d Poster presented at ID Week, Boston, MA. 2023.<\/p>\n

Hamer D,\u00a0Reifler K. \u201cChagas Disease at Boston Medical Center: Not as Exotic as It Sounds.\u201d Department of Family\u00a0Medicine\u00a0Grand Rounds, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA. 2023.<\/p>\n

Reifler K,\u00a0Hall S, Wheelock A, Gopal D, Hochberg N, Hamer DH, Bourque DL. \u201cWithout Skipping a Beat: Symptoms and Sequelae of Chagas Disease Among Migrants in a Non-Endemic Region.\u201d Oral presentation at the Conference of International Society of Travel Medicine, Basel, Switzerland. 2023.<\/p>\n

Reifler K,\u00a0Hall S, Wheelock A, Hamer D, Gopal D, Hochberg N. \u201cThe Heart of the Matter: Cardiac Involvement of Chagas Disease at a Tropical Medicine Clinic in Boston.\u201d Oral presentation at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting (virtual due to COVID-19). 2021.<\/p>\n

Wheelock A, Sandhu S,\u00a0Reifler K,\u00a0Bielick\u00a0C,\u00a0Niemierko\u00a0M, Hamer DH, Hochberg, N. \u201cIs Education Enough? An Intervention to Improve Screening for Chagas Disease at an Academic Safety Net Hospital in the US.\u201d Poster presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting (virtual due to COVID-19). 2021.<\/p>\n

Reifler K, Hall S, Hamer DH, Gomes J, Yarrington C, Barnett E, Carrion M, Manne-Goehler J, Koehler J, Gopal D, Salazar A, Hochberg N. \u201cTreatment of Chagas Disease at an Urban Academic Medical Center in Boston.\u201d Poster presented at the Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine (virtual due to COVID-19). 2021.<\/p>\n

Wheelock A,\u00a0Reifler K. \u201cChagas Disease at Boston Medical Center: Optimizing Screening and Referral Practices in General Internal Medicine.\u201d Department of Internal\u00a0Medicine\u00a0Grand Rounds, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA. 2021.<\/p>\n

Alyse Wheelock, MD<\/span>, Sukhmeet Sandhu, MD<\/span>, Alyssa Loskill, BA<\/span>, Rachel Marcus, MD<\/span>, Deepa Gopal, MD<\/span>, Davidson. H. Hamer, MD<\/span>\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0<\/span>Natasha Hochberg, MD, MPH. Testing for Chagas Cardiac\u00a0Disease at a Large Safety-net Hospital in New England. Boston University Internal Medicine Residency Program. 2020. [Link]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Media<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bailey August 26, M. (2021, August 26). Bettering Chagas Disease Screening is an immigrant health equity issue<\/i>. HealthCity. Retrieved March 15, 2022, from https:\/\/healthcity.bmc.org\/policy-and-industry\/bettering-chagas-disease-screening-immigrant-health-equity-issue\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Doc Molly podcast: D<\/span>ialogue for clinicians to use with their Spanish-speaking patients to walk them through the process of Chagas screening, diagnosis, and follow-up care.\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/docmolly.com\/detection-chagas-disease\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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