Join experts and ACPeds members for open discussions on controversial topics surrounding COVID-19.
Hosted by ACPeds Executive Director, Dr. Michelle Cretella, and joined with experts from the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), together we will explore the science behind Hydroxychloroquine and masks.
Each session will be an hour-long, consisting of a 30-minute presentation from an expert, followed by a 30-minute open discussion.
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Hydroxychloroquine
September 19th at 1 pm EDT
Dr. Jane Orient, Executive Director of AAPS
Summary: The COVID-19 crisis is providing an opportunity to reassess some long-held dogma: namely that viral diseases are untreatable. There is good basic science explaining how hydroxychloroquine can prevent viral replication and for the importance of nutritional elements especially vitamin D and zinc. The randomized controlled trial may be the gold standard, but most of our treatments must be based on other forms of evidence, especially during an emergency. There is much better evidence for the safety and efficacy of HCQ than for many if not most other drugs, including OTC drugs. Like all drugs, HCQ has some side effects.
About the speaker: Jane M. Orient obtained her undergraduate degrees in chemistry and mathematics from the University of Arizona in Tucson, and her M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1974. She completed an internal medicine residency at Parkland Memorial Hospital and University of Arizona Affiliated Hospitals and then became an Instructor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and a staff physician at the Tucson Veterans Administration Hospital. She has been in solo private practice since 1981.
Dr. Orient has served as Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) since 1989. She is currently president of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. She is the author of YOUR Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism about National Healthcare; Sutton's Law (a novel about where the money is in medicine today); two novels on Kindle books, Neomorts and Moonshine (where environmentalism is leading us as foreseen in the 1980s); and the second through fifth editions of Sapira's Art and Science of Bedside Diagnosis, published by Wolters Kluwer. More than 200 of her papers and op-ed pieces have been published in the scientific and popular literature on a variety of subjects including risk assessment, natural and technological hazards and nonhazards, and medical economics and ethics. She is the editor of AAPS News (www.aapsonline.org), the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness Newsletter (www.ddponline.org), and Civil Defense Perspectives (www.physiciansforcivildefense.org), and is the managing editor of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (www.jpands.org).
Universal Masking
What does science suggest?
September 26th at 1 pm EDT
Dr. Marilyn Singleton, Past President of AAPS
Summary: Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO, the CDC and NIH’s Dr. Anthony Fauci discouraged wearing masks as not useful for non-health care workers. Now they recommend wearing cloth face coverings in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain (e.g. grocery stores and pharmacies). The recommendation was published without a single scientific paper to support that cloth masks actually provide any respiratory protection. Is the revised recommendation an attempt to cover all reasonable preventive bases? Have recent studies demonstrated efficacy without negative side effects? We will explore the data.
About the speaker: Dr. Singleton is a board-certified anesthesiologist and immediate past president of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. She graduated from Stanford and earned her MD at UCSF Medical School. Dr. Singleton completed 2 years of Surgery residency at University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, and her Anesthesia residency at Harvard’s Beth Israel Hospital. She was on the faculty at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland before returning to California for private practice at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley. While still working in the operating room, she attended UC Berkeley Law School focusing on constitutional and administrative law. She interned at the National Health Law Project, and practiced insurance and health law. Dr. Singleton has published numerous articles, given presentations on health policy, and had many radio and television appearances. She started a blood pressure screening clinic at her church and make-shift clinics in two rural villages in El Salvador. Dr. Singleton ran for Congress in 2012.