Post-Call: Frontline Health Stories

Dr. Alopi Patel is an anesthesiologist and pain specialist focused at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. She states that the current opioid crisis and COVID-19 crisis has significant challenges for women's health requiring much needed support in the United States on the frontlines.

Guests: Dr. Alopi Patel, Anesthesiologist and Pain Specialist, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Host: Dr. Anita Gupta,  https://anitagupta.com/about

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Dr. Rita Agarwal is an anesthesiologist at Stanford University. She states that the current omnicron and COVID-19 crisis has significant challenges  requiring much needed support for healthcare workers in the United States on the frontlines. 

Guests: Dr. Rita Agarwal, Anesthesiologist, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA

Host: Dr. Anita Gupta,  https://anitagupta.com/about

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Dr. Lalitha Sundararaman is an anesthesiologist and clinical instructor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. She is also Co-Founder and Director Prana Holistic Center Chennai. She states that the current COVID-19 crisis in India has significant challenges ahead requiring much needed hospital beds and oxygen tanks. 

Guests: Dr. Lalitha Sundararaman, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, Anesthesiologist, www.pranaholistic.in

Host: Dr. Anita Gupta,  https://anitagupta.com/about

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Dr. Shelley George is an anesthesiologist and associate program director at Temple University School of Medicine and currently frontline managing patients in Center City Philadelphia. She states that the the current crisis in Philadelphia is improving and there is hope and we have learned a great deal from the pandemic. However, there are still significant challenges ahead managing critically ill patients on the frontline especially in inner city and urban city centers such as Philadelphia. 

Guests: Dr. Shelley George, Temple University, Philadelphia, Anesthesiologist

Host: Dr. Anita Gupta,  https://anitagupta.com/about

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Dr. Anjana Kundu is a pediatric anesthesiologist on the frontlines in Ohio managing patients with COVID-19. She has been an advocate in creating, growing and leading pediatric pain management and palliative care programs and has played key roles in founding and leading national organizations, including the Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine. 

Guests: Dr. Anjana Kundu, Pediatric Anesthesiologist, based in Ohio 

Host: Dr. Anita Gupta,  https://anitagupta.com/about

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Kathleen Bailey, a nurse practitioner in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital, is caring for people with some of the most severe cases of COVID-19. She stated in a interview, that 'It’s busy, the patients are sick, but most of them are getting better so I think that is sort of what keeps us going," Bailey said. Bailey has been a nurse since 2004 and a nurse practitioner since 2014. Helping others has been her dream since she was a child. "My aunt is a nurse, and I just saw the impact she had on people and how she helped people, and I knew that was in my blood and what I wanted to do," she said.

Guests: Kathleen Bailey, Johns Hopkins, Intensive Care Unit @KatBaileyNP

Host: Dr. Anita Gupta,  https://anitagupta.com/about

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Dr. Taras Grosh is an anesthesiologist specializing in regional and orthopedic anesthesia as well as the management of acute and chronic pain. He uses peripheral nerve blocks to help patients to have less surgical procedures with less pain, require fewer opioids, and subsequently have fewer opioid-related complications.  

Guests: Dr. Taras Grosh, University of Pennsylvania, PA

Host: Dr. Anita Gupta,  https://anitagupta.com/about

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Dr. Shravani Durbhakula, M.D.,  creator of neuromodulation video curriculum called PainRounds.org, board certified interventional pain physician and anesthesiologist, faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Director of Medical Education for the Pain Treatment Center, the Program Director of the multi-disciplinary pain fellowship, and the Course Director of the School of Medicine Topics in Interdisciplinary Medicine Pain curriculum. She has been featured on National Public Radio for her work in education innovation and in British Medical Journal's International Women's Day 2020.

Guests: Dr. Sharvani Durbhakula, MD, Connect on Twitter @ShravaniD_MD

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Dr. Leena Mathew, M.D., a Board Certified Anesthesiologist and Interventional Pain Management specialist with 20 years of experience at Columbia University. She is the Director of the Pain Medicine Fellowship at Columbia University and is a health and wellness coach with training in Functional Medicine and Acupuncture. Dr. Mathew is a member of Columbia University’s Academy of Clinical Excellence. She is the named as a Top Doctors in America, Exceptional Women in Medicine and ranked as New York Magazine’s Best Doctors. 

Guests: Dr. Leena Mathew, MD, Connect on Twitter @lmathew9001 

Host: Dr. Anita Gupta, https://anitagupta.com/about 

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Somya Bajaj, former Goldman Sachs analyst, she is currently appointed at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington DC, leading large scale infrastructure projects to develop the global economies of diverse regions to improve business growth focused in US and India.  Somya has worked with the Government of Brazil and the African Development Bank to increase investment in pharmaceutical manufacturing and make medicines affordable and accessible. Over her career, she has focused her work on the improvement of  the quality of health. She is the author of Their Way, The Highway which are personal accounts of the people she worked with across India.  As a co-founder of Citizens for Public Leadership, an NGO that trains the youth to engage in politics, she is determined to involve the brightest minds to ensure equitable access for the most vulnerable focused on health equity, economics, and education. Somya attended Princeton University for a Masters in Economics and Public Policy with focused interest in equitable access and education.  

Guests: Somya Bajaj, World Bank, Fmr. Goldman Sachs Analyst

Host: Dr. Anita Gupta,  https://anitagupta.com/about, 

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