Southern Medicine

On this podcast, we're speaking with Laray Seier a registered nurse who lives and works in Birmingham Alabama. Laray is an old high school friend of our Executive Director, Randy Glick, that he keeps in touch with through Facebook. He was shocked to hear she was recovering from Coronavirus. With so much confusion and misinformation swirling around we thought it would be helpful for our listeners to hear a first hand account from someone who has had the virus and is on the road to recovery.

Dr. Peter Rice will discuss the COVID-19 response in a rural community in southeast Alaska. Topic will include their experience to date with cases, their preparations for the surge and creation of a COVID unit, as well as an overview of the State of Alaska COVID-19 response.

Dr. Mohammed Iyoob Ilyas discusses the effect of the coronavirus on surgical patients. He will provide insight into why elective surgeries are being canceled or rescheduled, how emergency procedures are being addressed, and will offer recommendations for patients who develop surgical complaints.

During this podcast Dr. Kevin Johnson will discuss the importance of communicating the science and discoveries in biomedical informatics to a lay audience. He will cover topics such as precision medicine, artificial intelligence (AI), privacy, and physician burnout.

James Lowery, a US citizen living in Cyprus, shares with SMA his experience of being abroad during the COVID-19 pandemic. He discusses how the country is addressing the Coronavirus, including the guidelines for sheltering in place. James also offers insight into accessing health care as a noncitizen during this time.

SMA President Dr. Philip Hartman is joined by Dr. Holly Danneman who shares her experiences of working with GO Pantry, a nonprofit organization that provides food for children in Northern Kentucky when schools are not open. She offers insight into how these types of programs have been affected in multiple ways by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as physicians' roles in feeding children within their communities.

New and intriguing developments that are in trials will potentially improve, in the future, the ability to appropriately use biologics (stem cells) and other treatments. In this podcast, Dr. David Joyner discusses new orthopedic modalities and therapies - including BFR therapy, how biologics help graft healing in ACL reconstruction surgery, and new interventions being studied to assist in articular cartilage repair/reconstitution.