Should we be concerned about the JN.1 COVID variant?
Catch up on the latest information about COVID, RSV, and Influenza in today's podcast.

Today’s episode, ‘COVID-19 Just Won’t Go Away! Updates & New Insights in Patient Care’, addresses the rise of the new dominant COVID-19 variant, JN.1. Guest, MCN’s Chief Medical Officer, Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH, and episode host, MCN’s Amy Liebman, MPA, discuss the latest updates on COVID-19, RSV, and Influenza.

Clinicians will learn about the JN.1 variant, and treatment and prevention strategies, with a particular emphasis on vaccines and clinical considerations for anti-viral treatment options.

This is one of several episodes exploring the long-term impacts of COVID in ‘COVID’s Lasting Impact: Caring for Immigrant, Migrant and Asylee Patients,’ MCN’s 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 links. Be sure to subscribe to get notified of future episodes!

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Guest

Dr. Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH, FAAFP, SFHM
Chief Medical Officer at Migrant Clinicians Network

As the Chief Medical Officer for Migrant Clinicians Network, Dr. Madaras is responsible for the oversight of MCN’s clinical activities. He also serves as a subject matter expert for various topics in migrant and immigrant health including COVID-19 clinical education.

Dr. Madaras received his MD and Master’s in Public Health from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1993, and worked in Gabon, West Africa as an Albert Schweitzer Fellow in pediatrics. Later he worked with the American Refugee Committee on the Congo/Rwandan border during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He also worked on the Hungarian border with the former Yugoslavia in 1995. Since 1996, Dr. Madaras has worked as a board-certified family physician in both inpatient and outpatient medicine in Pediatrics, Adult Medicine and Obstetrics. He served as a frontline clinician at the Keystone Health Center, a community health center, where he cared for farmworkers and their families and became Assistant Medical Director from 2001 to 2005. In 2005, he became a hospitalist in Chambersburg and Waynesboro Hospitals in south central Pennsylvania, where he continues to work part time. In 2016 he became a Senior Fellow of Hospital Medicine. In 2020, he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians (FAAFP).

Episode Host

Amy Liebman, MPA, MA
Chief Program Officer, Workers, Environment and Climate

Amy K. Liebman, MPA, MA has devoted her career to improving the safety and health of disenfranchised populations. She joined Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) in 1999 and currently serves as the Chief Program Officer: Workers, Environment and Climate. With MCN she has established nationally recognized initiatives to improve the health and safety of immigrant workers and their families. She oversees programs ranging from integrating occupational and environmental medicine into primary care to designing worker safety interventions. She is a national leader in addressing worker safety and environmental justice through the community health worker (CHW) model. She has been a strong advocate for worker health and safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading programs to improve access to care and culturally contextual education for migrants and immigrants. Prior to her current position, she directed numerous environmental health and justice projects along the US-Mexico Border including an award-winning, community-based hygiene education program that reached thousands of families living without water and sewerage services. She has spearheaded policy efforts within the American Public Health Association to support the protection of agricultural workers and served on the federal advisory committee to the EPA Office of Pesticide Programs. Her programs have won several awards including the 2008 EPA Children’s Environmental Health Champion Award and the 2015 National Safety Council Research Collaboration Award. In 2011, Liebman received the Lorin Kerr Award, an APHA/Occupational Health and Safety Section honor recognizing public health professionals for their dedication and sustained efforts to improve the lives of workers. She is a past Chair of APHA’s Occupational Health and Safety. Liebman has been the principal investigator and project manager of numerous government and privately sponsored projects. She has authored articles, bilingual training manuals and other educational materials dealing with environmental and occupational health and migrants. Liebman has a master’s degree from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Master of Arts from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

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