20 April 2020: College Fellow and Board Chair, Thomas Fekete, MD, MACP, is quoted in this NBC 10 piece discussing the realities of finding reliable antibody testing. (Source: NBC 10)
A new tool in the hunt for the coronavirus is being unveiled by medical systems across the country, and it’s called antibody testing. Testing that will determine on a bigger scale the scope of infections is ramping up now, though it likely won’t be reliable for a few weeks.
16 April 2020: College Fellow, Trustee, and Chair of the Section on Public Health and Preventive Medicine Priya Mammen, MD, MPH, writes about her experiences as an emergency room doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer)
The frontlines right now are defined by contradictions: unrelenting responsibility, yet also merciful permission to leave social isolation.
14 April 2020: College Fellow Nadia Dowshen, MD, MSHP, writes an OpEd for Philadelphia Inquirer how telemedicine appointments are helping them learn more about their patients. (Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer)
A pediatrician caring for youth living with HIV and transgender youth learns how telemedicine can help treat these vulnerable patients in new ways.
14 April 2020: College Fellow, Carmen Guerra, MD, MSCE, takes a hard look at the health, economic, and cultural factors that have resulted in the dramatic spread of COVID-19 among the African-American community. (Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer)
In order to understand why so many African Americans are dying, it?s important to see the reasons why they are more likely to contract COVID-19 in the first place. There are many.
13 April 2020: College Fellow, Tine Hansen-Turton, MGA, JD, writes a piece for Philadelphia Inquirer highlighting the plight of those working to protect some of our most vulnerable citizens from COVID-19. (Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Human services providers for those with intellectual disabilities, autism, brain injury and behavioral challenges are valiantly grappling with a no-win situation: how to manage safely through the COVID-19 Pandemic.
12 April 2020: College Fellow, Amy Goldberg, MD, was featured in an article from The Inquirer about Philadelphia’s busiest COVID-19 hospital: Temple University Hospital’s Esther K. Boyer Pavilion.
Temple sees more COVID-19 patients than any other Philly hospital. We take you inside.
7 April 2020: College Fellow, Natalia Ortiz, MD, has been working with the Society of Ibero-Latin American Medical Professionals to record videos in Spanish to educate the community on how to prevent the transmission of COVID-19.
SILAMP Health will be sharing up to the minute information on best practices for the medical community, the Hispanic community, and everyone affected by the Coronavirus SILAMP/ COVID-19.
6 April 2020: College Fellow Generosa Grana, MD, talks to the Haddonfield-Haddon Township Patch about the efficiency of telemedicine visits for her cancer patients. (Source: Haddonfield-Haddon Township Patch)
Even with stay-at-home orders in place, patients can still connect with their Cooper healthcare providers from their living room.
6 April 2020: College Fellow Dr. Paul Offit speaks to the Philadelphia Inquirer (Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer)
CHOP’s Paul Offit talked to The Inquirer about the process of vaccine development, the risk of rushing it, and the role of vaccination amid the coronavirus outbreak.
3 April 2020: College Fellow Dr. Erin Narewski writes for the Philadelphia Inquirer (Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer)
There are so many changes to our lives in this 100-year plague, so many decisions yet to be made, some easy, some hard. How do we make this one?