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AMA Update 145: Four physicians discuss moving beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

How will our nation—and America’s physicians—move beyond this pandemic? Tune in to hear expert physician perspectives on what lies ahead—and to learn how to prepare yourself, your practice and your patients for what’s next. Our physician guests include: Georges Benjamin, MD, Executive director, American Public Health Association; Céline Gounder, MD, Senior fellow and editor-at-large for Public Health, Kaiser Family Foundation and Kaiser Health News; clinical associate professor, Medicine and Infectious Diseases, New York University; Stephen Parodi, MD, executive vice president, External Affairs, Communications, and Brand, The Permanente Federation; associate executive director, The Permanente Medical Group

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AMA Update 124: The FDA on Paxlovid and COVID-19: What physicians need to know, Part II

In part two of this three-part series, Stephanie Troy, MD, senior medical officer, Division of Antivirals, Office of Infectious Disease in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research’s Office of New Drugs, FDA, discusses what to know about Paxlovid as treatment for COVID-19.

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AMA Update 123: The FDA on Monoclonal Antibody Therapeutics: What physicians need to know, Part I

AMA president Gerald Harmon, MD, welcomes experts from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to discuss what prescribers need to know about COVID-19 therapeutic drugs, Paxlovid and Molnupiravir. Alternative treatment options for high-risk outpatients with mild-moderate COVID-19 are also discussed.

Guest: John Farley, MD, MPH, director, Office of Infectious Diseases in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research’s Office of New Drugs, FDA

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AMA Update 118: AMA President Gerald Harmon, MD, discusses physicians’ vital role in a «pandemic of mistrust»

AMA CXO Todd Unger talks with AMA President Gerald Harmon, MD, a family medicine specialist in Pawleys Island, S.C., about the important role physicians can play at this pivotal time in the pandemic and the support they need to do so.

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