How do comorbidities influence COVID outcomes?

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Addressing COVID-19 in Special Populations
How do comorbidities influence COVID outcomes?

In today’s episode, ‘Addressing COVID-19 in Special Populations with Underlying Co-Morbidities’, Dr. Susan Gaeta MD, FACP, Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center, episode host, MCN’s Founding Medical Director, Dr. Edward Zuroweste, MD, and co-host, Dr. Elena V. Rios, MD, MSPH, MACP, President and CEO of the National Hispanic Medical Association, discuss the challenges posed by co-morbidities, particularly for low-income and low-resourced populations such as migrants and immigrants.

In this brief discussion, clinicians will learn about strategies for screening, prevention, and treatment of patients with COVID and underlying co-morbidities such as hypertension, diabetes, some cancers, asthma, and other conditions. They will also learn as how the prioritization of preventative measures, vaccination, early treatment, and other strategies can impact health outcomes for patients with underlying co-morbidities and the needs of members of special populations.

This is one of several episodes exploring the long-term impacts of COVID in the ‘COVID’s Lasting Impact: Caring for Immigrant, Migrant and Asylee Patients’ podcast miniseries. Find this series, a part of our podcast, ‘On the Move with MCN’, wherever you listen to podcasts, or click one of these. Be sure to subscribe to get notified of future episodes!
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Guest

Dr. Susan Gaeta, MD, FACP
Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine
at MD Anderson Cancer Center

Dr. Gaeta is Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center and prior attending in the Critical Care Department for 10 years. Gaeta is Chair of Inpatient Clinical Informatics and Patient Safety Quality Officer for the Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Gaeta has published and presented nationally on Immunotherapy Adverse Events, Covid in cancer Patients, Sepsis in cancer patients, ED Surge and Overcrowding.

Gaeta is currently pursuing a MS in Health Care Transformation at UT Austin and has been appointed National Hispanic Medical Association Leadership Fellow 2022-2023, Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture (CESLAC) Accelerating Latinx Leadership Spring 2023 Cohort.

Dr. Gaeta graduated from the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. While in medical school she was actively involved in the Chicano Medical Student Association (CMSA) and was the Northern California Coordinator 1997. Dr. Gaeta completed an Internal Medicine Residency in Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC and a Critical Care Fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Co-Host

Dr. Elena V. Rios, MD, MSPH, MACP
President & CEO, National Hispanic Medical Association
President, National Hispanic Health Foundation

Dr. Rios serves as President & CEO of the National Hispanic Medical Association, (NHMA), representing 50,000 Hispanic physicians in the United States. The mission of the organization is to improve the health of Hispanics. Dr. Rios also serves as President of NHMA’s National Hispanic Health Foundation to direct educational and research activities.

Dr. Rios also serves on Better Medicare Alliance and the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda Boards of Directors, Centene Health Policy Advisory Committee, Centene Health Equity Committee, Cancer Treatment Centers for America Hispanic Advisory Council, Morehouse Health Equity Committee, Office of Research on Women’s Health Advisory Committee, NIH, US Department of Health and Human Services, and the VA National Academic Affiliations Council. Dr. Rios has lectured, published articles and has received several leadership awards, including awards from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Congressional Black, Hispanic, Asian and Native American Caucuses, American Public Health Association Latino Caucus, Association of Hispanic Health Executives, Minority Health Month, Inc., Hispanic Magazine, Verizon’s First Pollin Community Service Award, and Amerigroup. Dr. Rios was appointed to the Minority Alumni Hall of Fame of Stanford University in October, 2006, as a Fellow of the New
York Academy of Medicine in 2007, the Institute of Medicine Global Forum for Health Professions Education in 2014, as a Fellow of the American College of Physicians in 2016, and as a member of the Society of Medical Administrators in 2017.

Prior to her current positions, Dr. Rios served as the Advisor for Regional and Minority Women’s Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health from November 1994 to October 1998. In 1998-2004, Dr. Rios served as Executive Director, Hispanic Serving Health Professions Schools. In 1993, Dr. Rios was appointed to the National Health Care Reform Task Force as Coordinator of Outreach Groups for the White House. From 1992-94, Dr. Rios worked for the State of California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development as a policy researcher.

Dr. Rios has also served as President, Chicano/Latino Medical Association of California, Founder of the National Network of Latin American Medical Students, member of the California Department of Health Services Cultural Competency Task Force, the Stanford Alumni Association, Women’s Policy Inc., Care First Blue Cross Blue Shield Board of Directors, Nurse Family Partnerships, Campaign Against Obesity, and Partnership for Prevention Boards of Directors, PacifiCare-UnitedHealthcare California Investment Committee, CDC Health Disparities Committee, ASU Health Futures Council and the AMA’s Disparities Commission and Minority Affairs Consortium Steering Committees.

Dr. Rios earned her BA in Human Biology/Public Administration at Stanford University in 1977, MSPH at the UCLA School of Public Health in 1980, MD at the UCLA School of Medicine in 1987, and completed her Internal Medicine residency at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose and the White Memorial Medical Center in East Los Angeles in 1990, and her NRSA Primary Care Research Fellowship at UCLA Division of General Internal Medicine in 1992.

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