covid-19: on the frontlines

Guest: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP

With the growing amount of illicit pharmaceutical drugs and medical supplies filling the global market amid the COVID-19 pandemic, are we at risk of facing another public health crisis? Listen in as Dr. Charles Turck brings this troubling trend to light.

Published June 3, 2020

Guest: John Russell, MD

Could immunization techniques of the past help us in our current hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine? To find out, Dr. John Russell reviews the history of immunizations going all the way back to the 1100s.

Published May 29, 2020

Guest: John Russell, MD

Could immunization techniques of the past help us in our current hunt for a COVID-19 vaccine? To find out, Dr. John Russell reviews the history of immunizations going all the way back to the 1100s.

Published May 29, 2020

Guest: Mangala Narasimhan, DO, FCCP

Managing COVID-19 continues to be a work in progress as healthcare systems struggle to prepare for high volumes of patients in such a quick time. To help address this, Dr. Mangala Narasimhan shares her experiences and the importance of planning for double during this outbreak.

Published March 16, 2020

Host: Victor Test, MD, FCCP
Guest: Andrew Klein, MS, RT

Tune in as Andrew Klein, a clinical nurse specialist in respiratory therapy, discusses his experiences caring for COVID-19 patients in a teamwork environment. Through these collaborations, the best care can be made available during this pandemic.

Published March 26, 2020

Host: Steven Simpson, MD, FCCP

Tune in as Dr. Steven Simpson speaks with a clinician on the frontlines of COVID-19 who shares her experience managing a COVID-19 case that was caught days after the patient was admitted to the hospital.

Published May 19, 2020

Host: Michael D. Christian MD

Triage focuses on doing the greatest good for the greatest amount of people. Dr. Mike Christian from the Task Force for Mass Critical Care explores the why, when, and ethics of triage to aid the imbalance of supply and demand in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Published April 16, 2020

Guest: Martha Billings, MD, MSc
Guest: Renea Jablonski, MD

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians have quickly transitioned to telemedicine. To give us a better idea of what that transition has looked like in practice, Dr. Martha Billings and Dr. Renea Jablonski share their experiences in a pulmonary clinic setting.

Published March 19, 2020

Host: Mario R. Nacinovich, Jr., MSc
Guest: Salman Ahmed, MD, MPH

During the COVID-19 pandemic, e-consults have become the new norm, but what impacts do they have on patient care? To find out, Mario Nacinovich is joined by Dr. Salman Ahmed, who takes us through his research finding that e-consults might not just be the appropriate choice, but the preferred one over face-to-face appointments.

Published May 13, 2020

Host: Mario R. Nacinovich, Jr., MSc
Guest: Randy Young, MD

Here to give us a firsthand look into how ICUs across the country are confronting the COVID-19 pandemic head-on is Dr. Randy Young, a critical care doctor who’s treating COVID-19 patients in the mid-Atlantic area. Dr. Young joins Mario Nacinovich to discuss what he has seen during the pandemic and how the ICU is responding to both expected and unexpected challenges.

Published May 13, 2020

Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Guest: April Taylor, MS, MHA, CPPS, CPHQ

Every organization has disaster preparedness plans for one-day and one-week events like fires, hurricanes, and earthquakes, but how do those plans come into play during a pandemic like COVID-19 when there isn’t an end date in sight? Joining Dr. Matt Birnholz to discuss this and more is April Taylor, Senior Director of Improvement and Project Management at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Published May 13, 2020

Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Guest: Mark R. Cullen, MD

Here to share what we might soon learn about the COVID-19 pandemic is Dr. Mark Cullen, Scientific Committee Chair for the academic arm of the COVID-19 research database, which is a secure repository of HIPAA compliant, de-identified, and limited patient-level data sets.

Published May 13, 2020

Host: Mario R. Nacinovich, Jr., MSc
Guest: Mark R. Cullen, MD

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, endemic challenges surrounded fragmented data sets and long perspective clinical trials. But now, recently developed data sets are available to public health and policy researchers to not only overcome that challenge, but also to combat this global pandemic. Dr. Mark Cullen, Scientific Committee Chair for the academic arm of the COVID-19 research database at Stanford University School of Medicine, joins Mario Nacinovich to explain.

Published May 13, 2020

Host: Matt Birnholz, MD

In the absence of a vaccine, researchers have reported the potential need for long-term social distancing measures through 2021. Tune in as Dr. Matt Birnholz breaks down these findings and what the potential impacts might be if these warnings are ignored.

Published May 11, 2020

Host: Mario R. Nacinovich, Jr., MSc
Guest: Renata Schiavo, PhD, MA

COVID-19 is constantly referred to as a global pandemic, but how often do you think of it as an info-demic? Or as a health equity issue? Joining Mario Nacinovich to give us a look at COVID-19 through a different lens is Dr. Renata Schiavo, Senior Lecturer, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Sociomedical Sciences and Founder and President of the Board of Directors of the Health Equity Initiative. Dr. Schiavo discusses common barriers faced by the most vulnerable populations and how we can protect them during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Published April 28, 2020

Guest: Michael Greenberg, MD

Dermatologist Dr. Michael Greenberg has been in practice for over 40 years, but never had he received anything like what a patient recently gave him—which might not have happened if it wasn’t for the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Greenberg explains how this unique experience gave him a new perspective on the power of gratitude and how it can serve as a bigger lesson for us all.

Published April 27, 2020

Host: Shira Johnson, MD
Guest: James Withers, MD

The street medicine movement is faced with the challenge of administering treatments and protection methods to a population that is often excluded and in dire need of care, and that challenge has only been intensified during this unprecedented time. Street physician Dr. Jim Withers, who’s credited with starting the street medicine movement, is here to share what it’s like to care for the homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Published April 27, 2020

Host: Mario R. Nacinovich, Jr., MSc
Guest: Anthony Dragun, MD

Throughout this global pandemic, radiation oncologists are faced with the challenge of finding ways to continue administering the necessary cancer treatments while limiting their patients’ risk of exposure to COVID-19. Dr. Anthony Dragun from the MD Anderson Cancer Center is here to explain how that can be done and why these new approaches should be embraced even after the COVID-19 pandemic is over.

Published April 27, 2020

Host: Mario R. Nacinovich, Jr., MSc
Guest: Jonathan Riess, MD, MS

Due to the many challenges and complications that are now facing oncologists and their patients requiring lung cancer treatment, lung cancer care is changing in many ways to help minimize a patient’s risk of exposure, as Dr. Jonathan Riess from the UC Davis Medical Center explains.

Published April 24, 2020

Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Guest: Kathryn J. Ruddy, MD
Guest: Joerg Herrmann, MD

To give us a better sense for how some cardiology and oncology specialists have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Joerg Hermann and Dr. Kathryn Ruddy, who are two members of the cross-disciplinary Cardio-Oncology clinic at Mayo Clinic, discuss their perspectives on this pandemic and how they’ve been treating immunosuppressed patients.

Published April 21, 2020