General Medicine and Primary Care

Guest: Emily F. Conant, MD

When stay-at-home orders were put into place, healthcare institutions were forced to adapt the way they screen, care for, and treat patients. With that in mind, Dr. Emily Conant, Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, explains their three-step process to keep breast cancer patients and staff safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Published September 23, 2020

Host: David E. Griffith, MD

Guest: Amy Levinger, MSN, FNP-C

Guest: Timothy Aksamit, MD

The care team supporting a patient with mycobacterium avium complex, or MAC, lung disease is just as important as the treatment itself. Joining Dr. David Griffith to discuss how we can provide optimal treatment using established guideline-based strategies all while protecting patients’ quality of life are Dr. Tim Aksamit and pulmonary nurse practitioner Amy Levinger.

For more information and to access clinician & patient tools about NTM and MAC Lung Disease, click here to visit the CHEST Foundation NTM webpage.

This program is produced in partnership with the American College of CHEST Physicians, and is sponsored by Insmed Incorporated.

Host: Tom Corbridge, MD, FCCP

Guest: Matt Hegewald, MD FCCP

With uncontrolled asthma placing such a tremendous burden on our patients and our society, how can we use the latest treatment guidelines to help alleviate that burden? Dr. Matt Hegewald is here to talk about the new and emerging guideline-based treatments for uncontrolled asthma, like long-acting muscarinic antagonists.

A non-promotional, non-CME educational program brought to you by CHEST in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline.

Host: Tom Corbridge, MD, FCCP

Guest: Navitha Ramesh, MD, FCCP

Now that long-acting muscarinic receptor antagonists (LAMAs) have entered the scene, Dr. Tom Corbridge is joined by Dr. Navitha Ramesh, a pulmonologist and critical care physician at UPMC, to review some patient cases demonstrating how LAMAs may be changing the way we approach step-up treatment for some patients with asthma.

A non-promotional, non-CME educational program brought to you by CHEST in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline.

Host: Megan Carreon, MHA, RRT

Guest: Amy Levinger, MSN, FNP-C

Guest: Timothy Aksamit, MD

There are numerous factors that contribute to an overall wellness of patients with of NTM refractory MAC lung disease. Listen in as Megan Carreon, Assistant Professor with the Division of Respiratory Care at UT Health San Antonio, Texas, sits down with pulmonary nurse practitioner Amy Levinger from NYU Langone Health and Dr. Tim Aksamit, Associate Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Mayo Clinic.

For more information and to access clinician & patient tools about NTM and MAC Lung Disease, click here to visit the CHEST Foundation NTM webpage.

This program is produced in partnership with the American College of CHEST Physicians, and is sponsored by Insmed Incorporated.

Host: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, a global concern among healthcare professionals has been the shortening supply of personal protective equipment like N95 masks. But now, that concern might become a thing of a past thanks to a recent development made by a team of researchers. To find out more about this discovery, Dr. Charles Turck joins us to discuss the innovation that could become a huge win in the battle against COVID-19.

Published August, 19 2020

Host: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP

Now that we’re several months into the pandemic, many states and counties are turning to the local data gathered on COVID-19 incidence to help inform their plans moving forward. But are those reports really the most accurate sources of information? To find out, Dr. Charles Turck is here to discuss a recent report discussing how disparities in access to COVID-19 testing sites may be skewing case estimates.

Published August, 19 2020

Host: Matt Birnholz, MD

Guest: Saleemah McNeil, CLC, MS, MFT

Both the COVID-19 pandemic and the global protests against racism have had far-reaching impacts on black communities. To vocalize the importance of mental health care, Dr. Matt Birnholz is joined by Saleemah McNeil, a psychotherapist and founder of Oshun Family Center, who shares what her center is doing to help.

Host: Andrew Wilner, MD, FACP, FAAN

Guest: William W. Li, MD

How do the lungs of healthy patients differ from the lungs of patients with COVID-19 or the flu? That’s the exact question Dr. William Li wanted to answer, and now, he’s sharing the results of his study that was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Published August 12, 2020

Host: Princy Mathew

Guest: J.W. Freiberg JD, PhD

Did you know that 47 percent of adults in American are affected by loneliness? And now that the COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated this health threat, Princy Mathew sits down with Dr. J.W. Freiberg to discuss his book Surrounded by Others and Yet So Alone and how we can help our patients who suffer from chronic loneliness.