Medicine Grand Rounds

"Tuberculosis-What's New in 2022"
James McAuley, MD

Dr. McAuley is an internist and pediatrician as well as an adult and pediatric infectious disease specialist. He received his BS, MPH, and MD from Northwestern University, and completed residency and fellowship training at the University of Chicago. His Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene is from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He completed further public health training at the CDC where he served in the Epidemic Intelligence Service. From 1992 until 2011 he started a TB/HIV program at an FQHC and served as the Chicago Tuberculosis Program Medical Director and then as Medical Director at Cook County Jail. He next became Director of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Program Director for the Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program at Rush University. He was a member of the CDC Advisory Committee on the Elimination of Tuberculosis and an investigator in the CDC TB Epidemiological Studies Consortium. In 2011, he re-joined CDC as a medical officer to support the integration of program and clinical activities in PEPFAR Zambia. He served as the CDC Zambia Country Director and led efforts in two major Public-Private initiatives – Saving Mothers Giving Life, and Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon. Dr. McAuley twice served in Sierra Leone 2014-15 as the CDC Team Lead where he directed 60-100 CDC workers as they sought to contain the West African Ebola Epidemic. In 2016 he received the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Global AIDS Program Kellie Elizabeth Lartigue-Ndiaye Humanitarian Award for exceptional compassion in carrying out the Global AIDS Program mission. In 2016, Dr. McAuley took the role of Clinical Director of the Whiteriver Indian Hospital which serves the White Mountain Apache Tribe on the Fort Apache Reservation in Arizona. Since arriving in Arizona he has recruited over 25 providers and guided Whiteriver to become one of the first IHS Joint Commission accredited Primary Care Medical Home facilities. In an effort to address significant causes of morbidity the Whiteriver team has investigated, presented and published work on Staphylococcus aureus, Streptooccus pyogenes, and SARS-CoV2.

Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Statement:

All Faculty, CME Planning Committee Members, and the CME Office Reviewers have disclosed that they have no financial relationships with ineligible companies that would constitute a conflict of interest concerning this CME activity.

Learning Objectives:

• Diagnose a variety of internal medicine illnesses
• Understand more clearly advances in therapy
• Become truly professional physicians