We're joined by Drs. Liise-Anne Pirofski of Albert Einstein College of Medicine & Shmuel Shoham of Johns Hopkins University to examine convalescent plasma and its role in the treatment of COVID-19.

IDSA Board members Drs. Angie Caliendo of Brown University & Kim Hanson of the University of Utah discuss the challenges their teams are facing, including morale and little information on the biology of COVID-19. 

IDSA speaks with Dr. Mark Dougherty and ICU Nurse Leader Donita Cantrell of Baptist Health Lexington, Dr. Javeed Siddiqui of TeleMed2U & Dr. Ricardo Franco of the University of Alabama on PPE shortage, how it’s affecting medical professionals & the innovative ideas they have to deal with it.

Snapshot from the Frontlines is a new IDSA series that allows ID professionals to share their firsthand accounts as they fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Medical experts are given the opportunity to raise important issues and challenges affecting healthcare professionals.

Today we speak to Dr. Mark Dougherty from Baptist Health Lexington, Dr. Javeed Siddiqui of TeleMed2U, Donita Cantrell, ICU Nurse Leader from Baptist Health Lexington and Dr. Ricardo Franco of The University of Alabama.

IDSA discusses the global effects of the COVID-19 pandemic with Dr. Anne Spaulding of Emory University, Dr. Mahmood Dalhat of the Nigerian Society of Infectious Diseases & Dr. Najwa Khuri-Bulos of the University of Jordan.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America's Guideline Update presents concise summaries of  important IDSA guidelines.  This podcast discusses the Primary Care Guidelines for the Management of Persons Infected With HIV: 2013 Update by the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 

For details of the guidelines presented, please go to www.idsociety.org .

Presented by: 

Neil S. Skolnik, M.D.,

Professor of Family and Community Medicine

Temple University School of Medicine

Associate Director

Family Medicine Residency Program

Abington Memorial Hospital

Michael A. Horberg, MD

Executive Director

Mid-Atlantic Permanente Research Institute, 

Rockville, Maryland