A new weekly series all about Long COVID. Dr Funmi Okunola MD interviews a wide range of experts in the field about the disease, its possible causes, the assessment, diagnosis and management and the mechanisms of rehabilitation and recovery from Long COVID.
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Professor James Jackson PsyD is a licensed neuropsychologist and internationally renowned expert on Long Covid and its effects on cognitive and mental health functioning. He is a research professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt, University School of Medicine Consortium in Nashville, Tennessee in the USA. He is interviewed by Dr Funmi Okunola about the psychological management of mental illness in Long COVID.
References
1. “Clearing the Fog from Surviving to Thriving with Long COVID – A Practical Guide”.
2. The Long COVID Handbook by Gez Medinger & Professor Danny Altmann
3.Dindo L, Van Liew JR, Ar...
Episode 11 • 14 September 2024 • 34m and 1s
Professor James Jackson PsyD is a licensed neuropsychologist and internationally renowned expert on Long Covid and its effects on cognitive and mental health functioning. He is a research professor of Medicine and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt, University School of Medicine Consortium in Nashville, Tennessee in the USA. He is interviewed by Dr Funmi Okunola about the nature and rehabilitation of Brain Fog in Long COVID.
He is also author of “Clearing the Fog from Surviving to Thriving with Long COVID – A Practical Guide”.
REFERENCES
1. “Clearing the Fog from Surviving to Thriving with Long COVID – A Practica...
Episode 10 • 7 September 2024 • 32m and 17s
THIS PODCAST WAS RECORDED ON THE 17th JANUARY 2024
Professor David Cutler, the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University in the U.S.A., research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the National Academy of Medicine in the USA talks about the economic cost of Long COVID.
REFERENCES
1 Otto Eckstein
2 Cutler DM, Summers LH. The COVID-19 pandemic and the $16 trillion virus. Jama. 2020
Oct 20;324(15):1495-6.
3 Cutler DM. The economic cost of long COVID: an update. Publish Online July. 2022.
Episode 9 • 31 August 2024 • 33m and 48s
Dr Richard J. Baron MD - President and CEO of the American Board of Internal
Medicine and the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, talks to Dr Funmi
Okunola about how Primary Care needs to adapt to provide medical services for
Long COVID and other forms of chronic disease.
1. The Patient Centered Medical Home, History, Seven Core Features, Evidence and
Transformational Change – Published by the Robert Graham Center, 2007
2. Homer CJ, Baron RJ. How to scale up primary care transformation: what we know and what we need to kn...
Episode 8 • 24 August 2024 • 27m and 7s
Dr Funmi Okunola MD interviews Professor Michelle Harkins MD – Professor of Medicine at
the School of Medicine at the University of New Mexico in the USA about how to diagnose Long COVID in Primary Care. Professor Harkins runs a Post COVID clinic and Project Echo telehealth program that provides real time education and case discussions for community health practitioners for the management of Long COVID in the community.
1. Pinto MD, Lambert N, Downs CA, Abrahim H, Hughes TD, Rahmani AM, Burton CW,
Chakraborty R. Antihistamines for postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The...
Episode 7 • 17 August 2024 • 24m and 5s
Professor Todd Davenport is the Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Physical Therapy in the School of Health Sciences at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, USA is interviewed by Dr Funmi Okunola about Post Exertional Malaise in Long COVID and ME/CFS.
REFERENCES
1. Davenport TE,Stevens SR, Stevens J, Snell CR, VanNess JM. Lessons from myalgic
encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome for Long COVID: Postexertional
symptom exacerbation is an abnormal response to exercise/activity. J Orthop
Sports Phys Ther. 2022.
2. Long COVID Physio’s Pacing Vid...
Episode 6 • 10 August 2024 • 37m and 22s
Highly respected investigative science journalist, filmmaker, Long COVID advocate and Long Hauler Gez Medinger talks about his personal Long COVID story in this interview with Dr Funmi Okunola.
REFERENCES
1 The Long COVID Handbook by Gez Medinger & Professor Danny Altmann
2. Patcai J. Is ‘Long Covid’similar to ‘Long SARS’?. Oxford Open Immunology. 2022 Jan
1;3(1):iqac002.
3. Gez Medinger You Tube Channel
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. PACE trial & ME/CFS & Shepherd CB. PACE trial claims for recovery in myalgic
encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome–true or false? It’s time for
Episode 5 • 2 August 2024 • 38m and 5s
This is the second of a two-part series of episodes about Paediatric Long Haulers. Dr Danilo Buonsenso is a is a Physician-Scientist and a specialist in Infectious Diseases in children. He talks with Dr Funmi Okunola MD about how to diagnose and manage children with Long COVID.
Dr. Buonsenso currently works at the Department of Women, Child and Public Health at the Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, Italy.
Research Articles and Links:
1. Bygdell M, Kindblom JM, Martikainen J, Li H, Nyberg F. Incidence and characteristics in children with post–COVID-19 condition in Sweden. JA...
Episode 4 • 27 July 2024 • 31m and 47s
In this episode Dr Danilo Buonsenso explains the underlying mechanisms of Long COVID in children.
Dr Danilo Buonsenso MD Phd is a Paediatric Infectious Disease Specialist and Physician Scientist who currently works at the Department of Woman, Child and Public Health at the Gemelli University Hospital in Rome. He has a PhD in Public Health and Biomolecular Sciences and is currently doing his MSc in Infectious Disease at Oxford University.
References
1. The WHO definition of Post-COVID condition in children.
2. Bygdell M, Kindblom JM, Martikainen J, Li H, Nyberg F. Incidence and characteri...
Episode 3 • 20 July 2024 • 27m and 20s
Professor Danny Altmann is a Professor of Immunology at Imperial College London in the UK. In this interview, Professor Altmann will describe the functional changes in the body that occur with Long COVID.
1. Altmann DM, Whettlock EM, Liu S, Arachchillage DJ, Boyton RJ. The
immunology of long COVID. Nature Reviews Immunology. 2023
Oct;23(10):618-34.
2.Elneima O, McAuley HJ, Leavy OC, Chalmers JD, Horsley A, Ho LP, Marks M,
Poinasamy K, Raman B, Shikotra A, Singapuri A. Cohort profile:
post-hospitalisation COVID-19 (PHOSP-COVID) study. International Journal
of Epidemiology. 2024...
Episode 2 • 13 July 2024 • 36m and 49s
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