A Voice for Chagas Bringing Awareness to a Neglected Tropical Disease in Florida
Wednesday, 02/12/2025-02/12/2025, 09:30 am-11:30 am
First Floor Collaboration Space, Louis Calder Memorial Library
1601 Northwest 10th Avenue,
Miami, Florida, 33136
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Cost: free

Join us for a presentation and panel discussion with Florida medical experts on the complexities of Chagas disease, highlighted in Daisy Hernández’s “The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease,” the 2024-2025 One Book, One U selection for the University of Miami.

FEATURING PRESENTATIONS BY

Norman L. Beatty, M.D., FACP
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases, University of Florida College of Medicine
“Introduction to Chagas Disease” and “Chagas Disease in Florida and Next Steps”

Ivan Alberto Gonzalez, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical, Pediatric Infectious Disease, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
“Chagas Disease in Pediatrics”

Julia Bini Viotti, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Infectious Diseases, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
“Chagas Disease in Solid Organ Transplantation”

AND A PANEL DISCUSSION MODERATED BY

Jose F. Rodriguez
Director of Access Services and Learning Commons, University of Miami Libraries