The Global Interdependence Center – Solve Long Covid Initiative Program Series: Session III: Long Covid and Children
Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2022
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The Global Interdependence Center – Solve Long Covid Initiative Program Series: Session III: Long Covid and Children
The Global Interdependence Center, in partnership with the Solve Long Covid Initiative, is conducting a year-long webinar and conference series exploring the pandemic’s long-term healthcare, policy, and economic impact, specifically the implications of long haul COVID or long COVID.
Our next event in the series, “Long COVID and Children” will explore the unique features of post-viral illness in pediatric populations. Our medical, policy, and lived experienced experts will discuss the challenges faced by families with sick children and how Long COVID is changing the day-to-day lives of millions of young people.
This program, in partnership with the Solve Long Covid Initiative, will feature speakers Megan Carmilani, Founder of Long Covid Families, Dr. Peter Rowe, Director of the Children’s Center Chronic Fatigue Clinic and Professor of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins, and Stewart Gittelman, Former CEO of Advanced Care, Inc. (ACI), and Trevor Gittelman, a myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) patient.
Over the next twelve months, GIC and SLCI will bring together world-class immunologists, medical experts, policymakers, and economists to explore critical insights into defining, diagnosing, optimizing treatments, and healthcare policies for long COVID and analyzing its impact on U.S. and global labor markets.
About the David R. Kotok Global Healthcare Series
GIC launched the David R. Kotok Global Healthcare Series in 2020; a virtual program series focused on the roles health and healthcare policy play in the interdependent global community. As a part of the series, the GIC has launched the “Analyzing Pandemics: Economic and Policy Impacts” executive briefings to explore the 100-year global pandemic event. Past briefings focused on the disease and the cure, COVID-19’s impact on food supply chains, artificial intelligence, climate change, and higher education.
In 2021, David Kotok and the Solve Long COVID Initiative offered a new gift to the GIC for funding, sponsorship, and logistical support for the Long COVID Program Series. The series serves as a neutral forum to elevate, vet, and share information about changing interdependencies caused by Long COVID’s impact on medical research, health care policy, fiscal policy, monetary policy, finance, trade, politics, and culture.
About the Solve Long Covid Initiative
The Solve Long Covid Initiative represents a collection of new and expanded programs in research, advocacy, and education that will improve outcomes for the millions suffering from post-infection diseases. Based on more than 30 years of research and advocacy experience advancing the understanding of post-infection diseases, the Solve Long Covid Initiative takes a strategic approach to integrating pre-pandemic and post-pandemic knowledge and community insights. Our work in the post-infection disease space has allowed us to create connections and build partnerships with researchers, clinicians, patients, government, and industry leaders.
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Megan Carmilani
Founder, Long Covid FamiliesMegan Carmilani is a disability advocate with decades of experience fighting for awareness and healthcare for the disabled. Diagnosed with a post-viral syndrome as a child, her lived experience as a disabled teen, adult, and parent is what drives her work. She created Long Covid Families to give children and caregivers support and guidance, with a focus on self-determination, empowerment, and equity.
Stewart Gittelman
Former CEO of Advanced Care, Inc. (ACI)Stewart was CEO of Advanced Care, Inc. (ACI), which he owned with his wife Nancy for 25 years. At the time of its sale in 2014, ACI was the largest, independently owned acute care home infusion provider in New York State.
Trevor Gittelman
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) PatientTrevor Gittelman is an investor, musician and eighteen year sufferer of myalgic encephalomyelitis, which is Long Covid, but with a different origin. He is 29 years old and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Lisa McIntire Shaw
Founding Partner of Cygnus Asset Management, LLCLisa McIntire Shaw is a founding partner of Cygnus Asset Management, LLC based in Charlotte, NC. She has more than 30 years of experience in the financial arena. Her areas of special interest include international markets; charitable trusts; strategic wealth preservation; and domestic, corporate, government and municipal bonds.
Peter C. Rowe, MD
Director of the Children's Center Chronic Fatigue Clinic and Professor of Pediatrics, Johns HopkinsDr. Rowe received his BA from Trinity College, University of Toronto, and attended medical school at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He completed his residency training in Pediatrics, fellowship training, and Chief Residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Emily Taylor
Vice President of Advocacy and Engagement, Solve M.E.Emily Taylor is the Director of Advocacy and Engagement for Solve M.E. She brings to the organization over fifteen years of policy, organization, and advocacy experience in both the non-profit and government sectors.
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