Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Jennifer Shu, MD, FAAP An important component of protecting our patients from the COVID-19 pandemic is taking care of their mental health. With that in mind, Dr. Jennifer Shu provides tips for keeping your young patients safe during the winter, and as they go back to school during the pandemic.

Host: Hector O. Chapa, MD, FACOG Guest: Cameron Ayala Hundreds of millions of people worldwide suffer from lymphedema and lymphatic diseases. Joining us to provide a personal perspective on this condition is Cameron Ayala, a former reality TV persona, compression specialist, and lymphedema patient who will be sharing his experience with Dr. Hector Chapa.­

Host: Hector O. Chapa, MD, FACOG Guest: Joshua D. Lee MD, MSc Dr. Hector Chapa and Dr. Joshua Lee discuss the status of opiate use and what we can do to turn things around.

Host: Hector O. Chapa, MD, FACOG Guest: Joshua D. Lee MD, MSc 2021 brought revived hope to the opioid crisis battle with the Department of Health and Human Services' announcement of a plan to drop the X-waiver requirement for buprenorphine prescriptions. How might this elimination and other new developments help us win the battle against opioid addiction? Explore this question and more with Dr. Hector Chapa and Dr. Joshua Lee, Director of the NYU Fellowship in Addiction Medicine.

Host: Hector O. Chapa, MD, FACOG Guest: Meredith Williamson, MD One of the most common medical complications during pregnancy and the postpartum period, perinatal depression affects many women and often goes undetected. What steps can we take to improve the detection and care for women suffering from this condition? Dr. Meredith Williamson, a licensed psychologist at Texas A&M Health Family joins Dr. Hector Chapa to discuss the concerns of mental health in perinatal women.

Host: Hector O. Chapa, MD, FACOG Guest: Robert Owens Carpenter, MD, MPH, FACS, FASMBS Burnout is a common response to work overload in the field of medicine. What can we do to best avoid this? Dr. Hector Chapa joins Dr. Robert Owens Carpenter, the Texas A&M University College of Medicine’s Director of Wellness, to discuss the importance of managing mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, not only for patients but healthcare professionals as well.

Host: Hector O. Chapa, MD, FACOG Guest: Dave McIntosh, PhD, MA Based on the latest research, a zip code is more effective in determining a patient’s health and life expectancy than genetics. Join Dr. David McIntosh, vice president, and chief inclusion and diversity officer at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, as he sits down with Dr. Hector Chapa to discuss social determinants of health and the impact they have on patients.

Host: Hector O. Chapa, MD, FACOG Guest: Dave McIntosh, PhD, MA Large communities of color and low socioeconomic status communities are often faced with higher mortality rates due to disparities in healthcare. How do these factors impact patient outcomes? Dr. David McIntosh, vice president and chief inclusion and diversity officer at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, discusses how social disparities in race and gender affect patients' outcomes.

Host: John Russell, MD Guest: William G. Callahan, DO The COVID-19 pandemic has compelled many to stay home, but for those venturing out, how can we encourage them to stay safe? Dr. Bill Callahan, a family physician at Abington Jefferson Health and outdoorsman, sits down with Dr. John Russell to discuss how to stay safe during this winter pandemic.

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: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP To give us a better look into how counties and cities across the nation are reacting to the racial disparities in healthcare that were brought into the limelight by the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Charles Turck reviews the declaration made by officials in Ohio’s most populated county that racism is a public health crisis.

Host: Paul Doghramji, MD Guest: Jonathan Stokes The World Health Organization recently listed antibiotic resistance as one of the biggest threats to global health, causing researchers to search for potential antibiotic candidates to combat this crisis. To find one such candidate, one research team turned to an unexpected source: artificial intelligence. Here to walk us through the team’s approach and findings is Johnathon Stokes, the lead author of the study that identified a powerful new antibiotic compound.

Host: Paul Doghramji, MD Guest: Maria Escolar, MD, MS Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) is a rare genetic disorder that when left untreated, can have severe and even fatal consequences. Here to review the available treatment options for these patients is Dr. Maria Escolar, the Director of the Program for the Study of Neurodevelopment in Rare Disorders and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Host: Paul Doghramji, MD Guest: Megan Arnot Menopause is an inevitable transition in every woman’s life, but what if engaging in a basic physiological need like sex could delay its onset? Researching this potential connection is Megan Arnot, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University College London. As the lead author of the study, she walks us through her findings and the range of factors they investigated, like the type of sexual activity and whether or not women lived with a partner.

Host: Mario R. Nacinovich, Jr., MSc Guest: Charles P. Gerba, MD The novel coronavirus outbreak that began in late 2019 may be the first global epidemic pronounced in the social media age, with myths and misinformation populating just as quickly and frequently as new cases. But is there any truth behind these claims? Here to shed light on this global health crisis is microbiologist Dr. Charles Gerba.

Host: Paul Doghramji, MD Guest: Gregory S. Sawicki, MD, MPH Even though there currently isn’t a cure for cystic fibrosis, there may finally be hope on the horizon for the more than 70,000 people around the world who are living with this debilitating disease. Joining Dr. Paul Dogramji to talk about the emerging treatment options for cystic fibrosis is Dr. Gregory Sawicki, Director at the Cystic Fibrosis Center and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

Host: Mario R. Nacinovich, Jr., MSc Guest: Paul Orchard, MD Although it only affects about one in 18,000 people, the impacts of adrenoleukodystrophy cannot be underestimated. That’s why Dr. Paul Orchard joins Mario Nacinovich to talk about this rare—and fatal—genetic disease, why it’s often underdiagnosed and confused with other conditions, and how we can treat it once we’ve reached an accurate diagnosis.

Host: Paul Doghramji, MD Guest: David H. Peyton, Ph.D. The vaping epidemic is becoming more and more concerning, but could new research prompt people to quit? To find out, Dr. Paul Doghramji speaks with Dr. David Peyton about his recent study that challenges the claim that vaping devices take less of a toll on our health than tobacco smoking.

Host: Jenn Simmons, MD Guest: Susan Domchek, MD Tune in as Dr. Jen Simmons is joined by Dr. Susan Domcheck, who debunks the common misconception that men don’t have to worry about the BRCA mutation and dives into the explorations of the BFOR Study.

Host: Jenn Simmons, MD Guest: Dike Drummond, MD Half of all doctors report troubling symptoms like depression, exhaustion, dissatisfaction, and a sense of failure, and Dr. Dike Drummond was one of them. Experiencing burnout not once, but twice led him to dedicate his career to coaching physicians and healthcare organizations, which he dives into with Dr. Jen Simmons.