Infectious Diseases

Infectious Diseases

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Infectious Diseases episodes

  • Battling Burnout & Bias with Locum Tenens
    Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO
    Guest: Roni Devlin, MD

    As rates of burnout continue to rise in the healthcare community, how can help our female physicians combat it? Dr. Jennifer Caudle joins Infectious Disease Specialist, Dr. Roni Devlin, to discuss how we can prevent burnout for female physicians.

    11 min
  • Strategies for Stopping the Spread of Monkeypox
    Host: John Russell, MD
    Guest: Randy Young, MD

    As monkeypox continues to spread across non-endemic countries, how can we detect it in our patients? And what’s being done to stop the spread? Guest and fellow ReachMD Host Dr. Randy Young, a pulmonary disease and critical care medicine physician, joins Dr. John Russell to discuss what physicians should be looking for and how this virus has impacted public health.

    13 min
  • Monkeypox: A Guide for Dermatologists Amid a Global Outbreak
    Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
    Guest: Esther Freeman, MD, PhD
    Guest: Steven Chen, MD, MPH, MHPEd

    With the recent rise of monkeypox cases around the world, dermatologists will be some of the first to evaluate and diagnose patients with the disease. So to help those on the frontlines, Dr. Esther Freeman, Director of Global Health Dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Dr. Steven Chen, Assistant Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School, share what dermatologists need to know about monkeypox.

    12 min
  • Exploring the Impacts of the Pandemic on Medical Students
    Host: Peter Buch, MD, FACG, AGAF, FACP

    The COVID-19 pandemic has entirely transformed the educational community, especially for medical students. To find out more about this impact, Dr. Peter Buch is joined by two fourth-year medical school students, Miss Sheila Eghbali and Mr. Kyle Glose, to discuss their experiences.

    13 min
  • Monkeypox: What Clinicians Need to Know
    Host: John Russell, MD
    Guest: Amesh Adalja, MD, FIDSA

    Monkeypox is not something we’re used to seeing in non-endemic countries like North America and Europe. Yet its spreading has some experts scratching their heads. Dr. Amesh Adalja, a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, shares with Dr. John Russell what clinicians need to know about monkeypox amid the global outbreak in non-endemic countries.

    14 min
  • Examining the Employment Effect of COVID-19 in the Healthcare Field
    Host: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP

    Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare field has been hit hard—facing employment challenges, increased burnouts, and more. Yet salaries have been slow to rise, and conditions haven't improved. Dr. Thuy Nguyen from the University of Michigan School of Public Health joins Dr. Charles Turck to share how employment in the healthcare field has changed over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    8 min
  • Boosting Immunity Amid a Pandemic: The Role of Behaviors, Diet, & Environment
    Host: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP
    Guest: Heather Moday, MD

    When we say the words behavior, diet, habits, and environment, chances are you don't think of the body's immune system. But based on recent research, all of those factors play a role in influencing immune function. So how can we keep them in mind and boost our immunity in the face of prevalent diseases, including COVID-19? Find out with Dr. Charles Turck as he speaks with Dr. Heather Moday, author of The Immunotype Breakthrough: Your Personalized Plan to Balance Your Immune System, Optimize Health, and Build Lifelong Resilience.

    11 min
  • Diving Into Dysphonia & Vocal Fatigue: A Conversation on Voice Problems Amid COVID-19
    Host: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP
    Guest: Amy McGorry PT, DPT, MTC
    Guest: Catherine C. Crowley, PhD, CCC-SLP

    COVID-19 has led to several unexpected challenges, impacting several parts of the body, including our patients' voices. What do we need to know about these impacts to better care for our patients? To answer this question, Drs. Amy McGorry and Catherine Crowley of Long Island University in New York join Dr. Charles Turck to share their clinical experience with vocal fatigue and dysphonia related to COVID-19.

    11 min
  • Looking into Long-Term Cardiovascular Impacts of COVID-19
    Host: Matthew Sorrentino, MD
    Guest: William W. Li, MD

    Some patients who recover from COVID-19 may continue to experience long-term cardiovascular complications. So what symptoms should we be looking out for? Joining Dr. Matthew Sorrentino to discuss the long-term cardiovascular impacts of COVID-19 is Dr. William Li.

    11 min
  • COVID-19 & Pregnancy: What Do We Need To Know?
    Host: Hector O. Chapa, MD, FACOG
    Guest: Dani Dumitriu, MD, PhD

    The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on all patients, especially pregnant women. Here to walk us through her research on the pandemic's impact on the psychosocial health of mothers and the neurodevelopment of their fetuses is Dr. Dani Dumitriu, a pediatrician, neuroscientist, and pediatric environmental health scientist at Columbia University in New York.

    12 min