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Vulvovaginal Candidiasis Update: Challenging Patients and New Treatment Options

Thursday, October 27, 2022| 7:00 - 8:00 PM EST | 1 CE / 0.5 Rx
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We will provide an update on acute and recurrent RVVC highlighting the challenges in treating patients with currents oral and topical azoles and provide an update on the new treatments recently approved for use in VVC.

Learning Objectives

The learner will be able to understand and outline:
1. The epidemiology of vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC), including RVVC and its impact on Quality of Life measures
2. Challenging patients with suboptimal response to traditionally available oral and topical therapies
3. Current guidelines for treating acute and recurrent VVC, including resistant infections
4. New agents available for treatment of acute VVC and prevention of recurrent VVC
5. Review of new agents in the pipeline




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About the Presenters

Dr. Lucinda Farina

Cindy Farina, PHD, CNM
Associate Professor, Frontier Nursing University, Cleveland, OH
Dr. Cindy Farina is a nurse midwife educator based in Ohio. Cindy has over 30 years’ experience as a nursing educator in midwifery and women’s health. She is currently an Associate Professor of Nursing at Frontier Nursing University in Kentucky and has served in various nursing education faculty positions at Case Western Reserve University, Kent State University, Walden University, and other institutions. She is a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM), holds an BSN from Brockport State College in New York, and MSN from Case Western Reserve, and a PhD from Walden University with a specialty in Human Services and Public Health. She has developed curricula and teaches university level courses in midwifery and women’s health, and is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society.

Dr. Christina Muzny 

Christina Muzny, MD, MSPH, FACP, FIDSA
Associate Professor of Medicine, Obstetrics/Gynecology, & Epidemiology
Vice Chair, UAB Institutional Review Board
Medical Director, UAB Vaginitis Clinic
Dr. Christina Muzny obtained her medical degree at the Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center College of Medicine followed by an internal medicine residency and an infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She joined the ID faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 2010. She has since obtained an MSPH in Public Health (Epidemiology) at the UAB School of Public Health. Her clinical and research interests focus on the HIV and STIs in women, specifically vaginal infections. Dr. Muzny currently has R01 and R21 funding from NIH/NIAID to study the pathogenesis of BV. She has also participated in multiple clinical trials on the treatment of trichomoniasis in women. Dr. Muzny is a tenured Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UAB with secondary appointments in the UAB Department of Epidemiology and Obstetrics & Gynecology. She is currently the Medical Director of the UAB Vaginitis Clinic.