Clinician's Roundtable

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.