The Open Forum Infectious Diseases Podcast
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Open Forum Infectious Diseases (OFID) provides free podcast interviews with experts in the field, keeping you up to date with the latest research on your computer or on the go.
The Open Forum Infectious Diseases Podcast
2y ago
In episode 38 of the OFID podcast, OFID Editor in Chief Paul Sax, MD, interviews Chris Stolarski, associate director of university communication at Marquette University, about his frightening experience with COVID-19 infection and hospitalization, and sharing his story to encourage others to get vaccinated. ..read more
The Open Forum Infectious Diseases Podcast
2y ago
In episode 37 of the OFID podcast, OFID Editor in Chief Paul Sax, MD, and Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, professor of medicine and director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, square off in a spirited draft of the top animal-related infections ..read more
The Open Forum Infectious Diseases Podcast
3y ago
In episode 36 of the OFID podcast, OFID Editor in Chief Paul Sax, MD, interviews Emily Oster, PhD, professor of economics at Brown University and author of several books assessing risk during pregnancy and raising kids, to discuss communicating risk to readers and precautions parents should take in the time of COVID-19 ..read more
The Open Forum Infectious Diseases Podcast
3y ago
In this episode, Dr Saad Fyyaz discusses key points from a recent case report published in EHJ – Case Reports ..read more
The Open Forum Infectious Diseases Podcast
3y ago
In episode 35 of the OFID podcast, OFID Editor in Chief Paul Sax, MD, is joined by Zeynep Tufekci, PhD, sociologist and associate professor at the University of North Carolina, to discuss the logic behind her prescient COVID-19 pandemic conclusions, and her use of op-eds in prominent news outlets to amplify her findings ..read more
The Open Forum Infectious Diseases Podcast
3y ago
In episode 34 of the OFID podcast, OFID Editor in Chief Paul Sax, MD, speaks with David Meltzer, MD, PhD, professor and chief of hospital medicine at the University of Chicago, about his research linking low vitamin D levels with COVID-19 susceptibility, the limitations of currently available data, and if vitamin D supplementation is wise ..read more
The Open Forum Infectious Diseases Podcast
3y ago
In episode 33 of the OFID podcast, OFID Editor in Chief Paul Sax, MD, speaks with Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, author and associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, about being an evidence-based medicine proponent, the handling of COVID-19 in the U.S., and voicing his thoughts on social media ..read more
The Open Forum Infectious Diseases Podcast
3y ago
In episode 32 of the OFID podcast, OFID Editor in Chief Paul Sax, MD, invites University of Alabama Jim Straley Chair in AIDS Research Michael Saag, MD, to walk through his harrowing experience with COVID-19, offer a comparison between COVID-19 and HIV, and what gives him hope for the future ..read more
The Open Forum Infectious Diseases Podcast
4y ago
In a pre-pandemic OFID podcast, OFID Editor in Chief Paul Sax, MD, takes on Monica Mahoney, PharmD, clinical pharmacy coordinator of infectious diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in a podcast draft. This time, the pair debates their top ID internet resources (COVID-19 excluded).
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The Open Forum Infectious Diseases Podcast
4y ago
In episode 30 of the OFID podcast, OFID Editor in Chief Paul Sax, MD, speaks with David Boulware, MD, MPH, about the large, double-blind, internet-based trial he and his team conducted finding hydroxychloroquine is no more effective at preventing COVID-19 infection than a placebo.
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