On the Move

How do comorbidities influence COVID outcomes? In this episode Dr. Susan Gaeta MD, FACP, Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center, will discuss the challenges posed by co-morbidities, particularly for low-income and low-resourced populations such as migrants and immigrants. Clinicians will learn about strategies for screening, prevention, and treatme...

¿Cómo podemos proteger a los empleados, colegas y pacientes de las enfermedades infecciosas transmitidas a través del aire? La pandemia COVID-19 y otras enfermedades infecciosas que se transmiten por aire han traído la necesidad de revisar, mejorar e implementar los controles de infección. En este episodio, la Dra. Marysel Pagán Santana quien es directora de salud ambiental y ocupacional y, gerent...

How has COVID care evolved in underfunded communities at the US-Mexican border and what can we learn from it? In this episode, Dr. Roberto Johansson, MD, PhD, FAAP, known as Dr. Bert, General and Critical Care Pediatrician at Salud de Familiar La Fe in El Paso, Texas, and episode host, MCN’s Chief Program Officer of International and Emerging Issues, Deliana Garcia, will discuss what has changed w...

How has COVID-19 care changed after the end of the Public Health Emergency? In this episode, Esther Rojas, Project Coordinator at Migrant Clinicians Network, and our host and Founding Medical Director Ed Zuroweste, MD, will discuss how clinicians can navigate providing comprehensive COVID prevention and care despite the changing COVID landscape, waning public interest, and fewer resources. Clinici...

How can clinicians prepare for the diagnosis, intervention, and treatment of COVID-19 to be primarily addressed in the outpatient setting? In this episode Dr. Trinidad Solis, MD, MPH, Deputy Health Officer at Fresno County Department of Public Health, will address the clinical presentation of COVID-19 with a particular focus on addressing the needs of high-risk, vulnerable patients who may not hav...

How does COVID impact the experience of patient’s family members and family caregivers? In this episode, Kaethe Weingarten, Ph. D. (she/her), Director of the Witness to Witness (W2W) Program for MCN, will discuss a model of witnessing that can account for a range of feelings family members may experience, from helplessness and frustration to attunement and competence. The discussion will include w...

Named after MCN’s own Candace Kugel, FNP, CNM, MS and Founding Medical Director Ed Zuroweste, MD, the Kugel & Zuroweste Health Justice Award recognizes the frontline clinicians who are making an impact at the intersections of health and vulnerability within migrant and mobile populations, with the caveat that the individual must still early in their career and without any other national recogn...

In this episode of "On the Move with MCN," Migrant Clinicians Network's Founding Medical Director Ed Zuroweste, MD, and Chief Medical Officer Laszlo Madaras, MD, address one of the hottest topics concerning the pandemic: vaccines.