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Kara Abarcar ’19 Presents at Global Health Conference in Washington, DC

In the summer of 2016, Global Health Scholar and second year medical student Kara Abarcar travelled to Chongqing, China with Drs. Lisa V. Adams and Elizabeth Talbot to assist doctors and nurses at a a large pediatric hospital to improve the way they counsel their patients with TB. She conducted a seminar on the Teach-Back Method, incorporating the use of scripts and culturally-appropriate patient education materials. She presented the project at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) conference in Washington, DC in April 2017.