Weekly Rounds

Vivek and Ben host a roundtable discussion about the racial disparities in the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Featured guests are Congresswoman Robin Kelly (D-IL 2nd District), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust, and Marisa K. Dowling, MD, MPP, health policy fellow in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Utsav and Vivek discuss how researchers are building a better test for COVID-19 and the possibility of point of care testing in the US. Featured guest is David Alland, MD, MSc, Chief of Infectious Diseases and professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Continue the conversation with Weekly Rounds on Twitter. 

Utsav and Vivek sit down with Natasha Priya Dyal, MD, editor of Infectious Disease Advisor to discuss the implications of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a pandemic. In part three of this three-part miniseries, we discuss the strain COVID-19 could inflict on the U.S. healthcare system.  Continue the conversation with Weekly Rounds on Twitter. 

Utsav and Vivek sit down with Natasha Priya Dyal, MD, editor of Infectious Disease Advisor to discuss the implications of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a pandemic. In part two of this three-part miniseries, we discuss what the term "pandemic" means.  Continue the conversation with Weekly Rounds on Twitter. 

Utsav and Vivek sit down with Natasha Priya Dyal, MD, editor of Infectious Disease Advisor to discuss the implications of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a pandemic. In part one of this three-part miniseries, we discuss risk mitigation.  Continue the conversation with Weekly Rounds on Twitter. 

Utsav and Vivek discuss how officials in the US are adapting COVID-19 clinical flowcharts in light of its ongoing spread and how clinicians can lead the fight to dispel the prejudicial myths associated with this emerging infection. Featured guests are Preeti N Malani, MD, MSJ, the Chief Health Officer and a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Michigan, Gilbert C Gee, PhD, a Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA, and George, a student at New York University. Continue the conversation with Weekly Rounds on Twitter. 

Utsav and Vivek discuss intermittent fasting as described by a recent review published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Featured guests are Mark Mattson, PhD, a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University and Fatima Stanford MD, MPH, MPA, an obesity medicine physician, scientist, and policy maker at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Continue the conversation with Weekly Rounds on Twitter. 

Utsav and Vivek discuss the state of medical cannabis in the United States as described a panel of speakers at the Science of Cannabis Symposium, which we attended on November 15th. Continue the conversation with Weekly Rounds on Twitter. 

Weekly Rounds is a podcast where we break down clinical stories. We discuss what you need to know about research from peer reviewed journal publications and scientific meetings, as well as hot topics in medicine.