Infectious Diseases

Guest: Maureen Brogan, MD

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted care across all specialties, and the 2021 American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Annual Meeting offered a platform for nephrologists to share their experiences. Tune in to hear how Dr. Maureen Brogan adapted her practice to overcome supply and staffing shortages.

Host: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP

Guest: Leslie Cooper, Jr., MD

Can COVID-19—along with its vaccines—impact the heart? Dr. Charles Turck is joined by Dr. Leslie Cooper, a myocarditis expert and chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Diseases at Mayo Clinic in Florida, to investigate the cardiac impacts of COVID-19 and the COVID-19 vaccines. For more information about referring a patient to Mayo Clinic, please visit mayoclinic.org.

Host: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP

Guest: Animesh Ray, PhD

Getting ahead of the next pandemic may be possible thanks to deep machine learning’s ability to predict the structure of antibodies. And while that may sound like science fiction, this technology is currently being studied, which is why Dr. Animesh Ray from the Keck Graduate Institute joins Dr. Charles Turck to provide insight on where the research currently lies and what we have to look forward to.

Host: Mario R. Nacinovich, Jr., MSc

Guest: Randy Young, MD

Amid the surge of the Delta variant, critical care physician Dr. Randy Young is traveling to ICUs across the country to help treat patients. Tune in to hear Dr. Young share how this surge is impacting both patients infected with the variant and the healthcare professionals caring for them.

Host: Jennifer Shu, MD, FAAP

Tune in to hear pediatrician Dr. Jennifer Shu share what we currently know about the risks and impacts of the Delta variant on our youngest patients and perhaps even more importantly, how we can help keep them safe.

Published September 23, 2021

Host: Jennifer Shu, MD, FAAP

School’s back in session, and that means it’s time we take a look at how we can help keep children safe and healthy both inside and outside the classroom with pediatrician Dr. Jennifer Shu.

Published September 21, 2021

Host: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP

Guest: Pradipta Ghosh, MD

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing how we practice medicine in a variety of ways, especially in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, a recently developed AI model can help us predict the disease course of patients infected with COVID-19, and here to share how that model was developed based on pandemics of the past and how it can be used in the current—and even future—pandemics is Dr. Pradipta Ghosh, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at UC San Diego.

Host: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP

Guest: Alberto Augsten, PharmD

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients turned to alcohol as a way to cope with this sudden and unprecedented global health crisis, and the rates of alcohol dependency are only continuing to rise according to recent studies. That’s why Dr. Charles Turck speaks with board-certified clinical toxicologist Dr. Alberto Augsten to help us better understand the challenges in screening patients for alcohol dependency amid the COVID-19 pandemic and how we can overcome those barriers to get our patients the best—and necessary—treatment.

Published August 20, 2021

Host: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP

Guest: Shantanu Nundy, MD, MBA

With all of the chaos and changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, it can be easy to focus on the negative impacts of this global health crisis. But for one physician, the same chaos and changes are exactly what forged his unique perspective: one that recognizes the benefits that has come out of the pandemic.

Joining Dr. Charles Turck to share why he believes the COVID-19 pandemic has changed healthcare for the better is primary care physician Dr. Shantanu Nundy, author of a recent article published in The Washington Post titled, “A Surprising Pandemic Side Effect: It Has Improved Healthcare.”

Published June X, 2021

Host: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP

Guest: Gail Saltz, MD

The quarantine blues may have come to an end, but as the country continues to reopen, a whole new set of mental health challenges are just beginning. So how can we help our patients who found comfort in social distancing and mask-wearing mandates navigate this change and return to public places? To find out, Dr. Charles Turck speaks with psychiatrist Dr. Gail Saltz, who discusses the lasting effects of the quarantine blues, how we can help patients who are suffering from anxiety, and more.