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Hear from Dr. Frank Dumont, who took a step away from Estes Park Medical Center to Virta Health, where he serves as one of the medical directors. 

Virta Health Corp. operates as an online medical clinic. The Company offers clinically proven therapies by combining advanced biochemistry, clinical expertise, data science, and digital tools for treatment and reversal of type two diabetes.

Listen to this intriguing discussion on how carbohydrate restriction can help with diseases like diabetes, in some cases eliminating the need for insulin, as well as how this nutritional approach is related to more tangential areas of medicine such as fueling athleticism.

Hear a great, dynamic conversation with Dr. Bernard Birnbaum, NCMS 2020-2021 Physician of the Year, about National Doctors’ Day, how we should be celebrating NoCO physicians, and questions we should all be asking to continue to improve not only the medical profession but health care. 

Hear an emotional, passionate conversation with Mark Wallace, MD, former Director of Public Health and Environment for Weld County, that was given a surprising award created by the opinion staffers at the New York Times 

The COVID-19 pandemic has not only changed physical health forever, it has changed behavioral health forever. Hear Janis Potorff  from North Range Behavioral Health discuss how COVID-19 will impact behavioral health in your community and what physicians need to know. 

If you ever need to speak to someone about your mental health or you are looking to refer a patient to services, you can refer them to the crisis hotline at 844-493-TALK and/or refer them to the North Range Behavioral Health Warm line at 970-347-2120.

This episode features Sarah Rowan, MD who started an amazing movement of portraits at the beginning of the COVID-19  pandemic in April. Hear about her and her story as she brings healthcare heroes of color and their brave faces to the forefront of recognition. 

In this episode, Samantha Mack, MD discusses the hot topic of convalescent plasma (CCP). Dr. Mack is certified by the American Board of Pathology in anatomic and clinical pathology, pediatric pathology, and blood banking/transfusion medicine.  She received her MD from the University of Nebraska Medical Center then completed anatomic and clinical pathology residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.  She subsequently pursued a fellowship in pediatric pathology at Boston Children’s Hospital then finished her training with a fellowship in blood banking/transfusion medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Bonfils Blood Center (now Vitalant), and Children’s Hospital Colorado. 

Listen in on this insightful conversation and learn more about CCP and its role in the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Joseph Gregory, MD, the physician executive for the western region of Banner Medical Group, provides the breath of fresh air we all need as  we finish out 2020 and move into 2021. 

Dr. Gregory provides insight to many questions, including better patient care, where primary care may be headed, and his personal experience leading a team through COVID-19. 

He discusses that primary care physicians are suffering the loss of relationships with their patients, and that a cultural erosion in primary care is among us. He challenges physicians to learn that a response is needed to this disruption. 

In discussing leading a team through COVID-19, he specifically walks us through a strategy that started out as something small that ended up being exactly what his team needed- a daily "huddle".

Listen to this insightful conversation that leaves you with the appropriate word for this year, "grace". 

Sean Pauzauskie, MD has an exciting hobby that takes his love for brain waves farther. Find out what he does and how he continues to be a member to follow in the Northern Colorado Medical Society!