Clinician's Roundtable

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 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: 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: 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.