Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP Guest: Andrew Clark, MD Emerging treatment options have helped patients with HIV live longer, but the aging population faces its own unique challenges. To explore how we can combat these challenges—including the ongoing stigma around HIV—Dr. Charles Turck is joined by Dr. Andrew Clark, who is the Global Medical Lead at ViiV Healthcare.

Host: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP Guest: W. Frank Peacock, MD For patients with opioid-induced constipation (OIC), can Narcan play a role in finding a new treatment option? Dr. Charles Turck is joined by Dr. Frank Peacock from the Baylor College of Medicine to explore key data on the role of methylnaltrexone in the treatment of OIC.

Host: Peter Buch, MD, FACG, AGAF, FACP Guest: Wendy Wright, DNP, FNP-BC, ANP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, FNAP Physicians and advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) may practice differently but they can still get their patient to the same outcome. So where do the conflicts arise? Join Dr. Peter Buch as he walks us through this with Dr. Wendy Wright, nurse practitioner and founder of Wright & Associates Family Healthcare.

Host: Mario R. Nacinovich, Jr., MSc Guest: Walter Koroshetz, MD Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rare neurogenerative disease, and organizations including the FDA and NIH are working to accelerate potential therapies. What’s on the horizon for the treatment landscape? Mario Nacinovich joins Dr. Walter Koroshetz, who is the Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, to explore these new developments.

Host: Mario R. Nacinovich, Jr., MSc Guest: Richard Kojan, MD As the fight against Ebola continues, can a new biosecure emergency care unit (CUBE) and therapeutic guidelines from the World Health Organization (WHO) help combat this disease? Mario Nacinovich joins study Dr. Richard Kojan, President of the Alliance for International Medical Action, to discuss these new guidelines.

Host: Mario R. Nacinovich, Jr., MSc Guest: Charles P. Gerba, MD A recent case of polio emerging in New York City have clinicians questioning whether or not we need to be concerned about a spread. What do we need to know about this case—and our potential risk—of polio? Joining Mario Nacinovich to take a look at this case is microbiologist Dr. Charles Gerba, a Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Arizona.

Host: Mario R. Nacinovich, Jr., MSc Guest: Charles P. Gerba, MD With rates of monkeypox continuing to rise, what do we need to know about this disease? And how easily can it spread from one person to another? Tune in to hear from renowned microbiologist, Dr. Charles Gerba, a Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Arizona as he explores these topics with Mario Nacinovich.

Host: Javed Butler, MD Guest: Tariq Shafi, MD Although population-level differences between estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and measured glomerular filtration rate are well-known, the individual-level differences are not. So what clinical implication can this have for our patients? Learn about these fresh findings with Dr. Javed Butler and Dr. Tariq Shafi, the John D. Bower Director of the Division of Nephrology and Professor of Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Together, they discuss a recent study from the Annals of Internal Medicine that explored this topic.

Host: Mario R. Nacinovich, Jr., MSc Guest: Julia Bilinska, MD Guest: Aatish Patel, MD Monkeypox continues to spread around the globe, and its clinical manifestations can differ from what we’ve seen. What are the newest symptoms of this disease? Learn more about these manifestations from Drs. Aatish Patel and Julia Bilinska from Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London as they talk about their research with Mario Nacinovich.

Host: John Russell, MD Guest: Randy Young, MD As monkeypox continues to spread across non-endemic countries, how can we detect it in our patients? And what’s being done to stop the spread? Guest and fellow ReachMD Host Dr. Randy Young, a pulmonary disease and critical care medicine physician, joins Dr. John Russell to discuss what physicians should be looking for and how this virus has impacted public health.