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Monkeypox Update: Common Questions Answered by Dr. Paul Auwaerter of Johns Hopkins
Pre-recorded and released September 1, 2022
Monkeypox Conversation with Dr. Paul Auwaerter: September 2022 Update
Dr. Paul Auwaerter, Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine will provide a critical update and answer commonly asked questions about Monkeypox. In a conversation with Dr. Bill Detmer, President and CEO of Unbound Medicine, Dr. Auwaerter updates attendees about the current state of the outbreak, treatment options, vaccines, and testing in an interesting question and answer format.
Topics Discussed:
- Latest updates about the outbreak
- Trends and expectations for the coming weeks and months
- Common questions answered
QUESTION & ANSWER | |
00:00 | Introduction Bill Detmer MD, President of Unbound Medicine, and Paul Auwaerter MD, Johns Hopkins Medicine |
01:30 | Epidemiology: Where are infections occurring and why? |
04:01 | Molecular evolution: How has the virus changed over time? |
05:57 | What is the relationship between transmissibility and the seriousness of the illness? |
07:53 | Guidance for the clinical management and treatment? Cidofovir, Tecovirimat, Brincidofovir |
10:31 | What has been your experience with Monkeypox at Johns Hopkins? |
11:55 | Vaccine use: pre-exposure prophylaxis and post-exposure prophylaxis |
14:07 | Incubation period of the disease |
15:01 | Presentation of the disease: Where should I look to find lesions? |
17:10 | Exposure: How different is this infectious disease than others, particularly COVID-19? |
19:15 | What is the future of monkeypox outbreak? |
21:41 | Will the vaccines become more effective, faster to combat this current and future outbreaks? |
24:05 | What factors are contributing to what seems to be more infectious diseases? Climate change, population increase, advances in science |
26:53 | Conclusion |
FEEDBACK APPRECIATED
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Johns Hopkins Antibiotic (ABX) Guide: https://www.hopkinsguides.com
Unbound Medicine: https://www.unboundmedicine.com
About the Presenter
Paul Auwaerter, MD, MBA
Paul G. Auwaerter is the Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine serving as the Clinical Director for the Division of Infectious Diseases and Director of the Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Center for Environmental Infectious Diseases.
He serves as the Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins Point of Care-Information Technology (POC-IT) Center producing the Johns Hopkins Guides – Antibiotic (ABX) (Antibiotic), HIV, Osler, Psychiatry, and Diabetes Guides. In 2018, Dr. Auwaerter served as President for the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the largest professional society worldwide related to infectious diseases.
William M. Detmer, MD, MSc
Bill Detmer is CEO of Unbound Medicine. He entered medical school at UC-San Francisco the year the first Macintosh computer was launched and soon found himself using it to organize the reams of basic science and clinical knowledge he needed to learn. That led to a career-long pursuit to solve the "knowledge problem” in healthcare – despite the wide availability of high-quality medical information and advanced technologies for delivery, two-thirds of questions that arise in daily clinical practice are never answered.
Bill’s pursuit of knowledge solutions has traversed becoming a general internist and faculty member at UCSF, completing training at Stanford in the nascent field of medical informatics, developing the first web-based search interface to the world’s medical literature and commercializing it with Ovid Technologies, and starting Unbound Medicine 21 years ago. Today, Unbound Medicine partners with medical and nursing associations, 500+ healthcare institutions, and over 6 million health professionals worldwide to deliver knowledge where and when it is needed on the user’s device of choice.
