Capturing COVID

Trigger warning: mentions of eating disorders, suicide 

On today’s episode of Capturing COVID Jason Newland MD, MEd sits down with Katie Plax, MD to discuss her role as an adolescent medicine physician and community health leader during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Plax joins the podcast to share her experience with supporting disadvantaged youth during the pandemic and the many challenges that came with it. Whether it was dealing wi...

On today’s episode of Capturing COVID Jason Newland MD, MEd sits down with Jessica Gold MD, MS to talk about her experiences as a psychiatrist for healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Joining the pod to discuss her experiences grappling with the meaning of being a non-emergent physician during the height of the pandemic, the loneliness that many of us are still struggling with coming out of this traumatic experience, to...

On today’s episode of Capturing COVID Jason Newland MD, MEd sits down with Jeannie Kelly MD, MS to discuss caring for pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Kelly joined the pod to share her experience leading the COVID-19 response for obstetrical inpatient services as the obstetrics representative on the BJC Healthcare COVID-19 Command Center. Jeannie made many critical decisions during the pandemic, such as setting up t...

On today’s episode of Capturing COVID Jason Newland MD, MEd sits down with fellow Oklahoman, Jay Malone MD, MS, PhD, HEC-C, to discuss ethical decisions and the pediatric intensive care unit during the pandemic. Dr. Malone joined the pod to share his experience as a front line medical professional treating COVID patients. Jay was a leader during the pandemic, especially in making critical ethical decisions about distribution of sca...

On today’s episode of Capturing COVID Jason Newland MD, MEd sits down with Cynthia Williams MSW to discuss her experience during the pandemic. Cynthia is the Assistant Dean for Community Partnerships at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. She joined the pod to share what it was like to see COVID-19 disproportionately impact our black community. This episode really emphasizes the struggles that the social constru...

On today’s episode of Capturing COVID Jason Newland MD, MEd sits down with Dr. Jennifer Schuster MD, MSCI and Dr. Jennifer Goldman, otherwise known as “The Jens.” They discuss the Kansas City community during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially COVID-19 testing in schools and getting kids back to school. The Jens joined the pod to share their experience as pediatric infectious disease physicians working in the community as leaders fo...

On today’s episode of Capturing COVID Jason Newland MD, MEd sits down with Sharonica Hardin-Bartley PhD, PHR to discuss the University City School District during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Hardin-Bartley joined the pod to share her experience as a superintendent during the pandemic as leader for her families. She shares what it was like to see COVID-19 disproportionately impact our communities of color. This episode really emphasi...

On today’s episode of Capturing COVID Jason Newland MD, MEd sits down with Mary Hartman MD, MPH to discuss the COVID unit and ICU during the pandemic. Dr. Hartman joined the pod to share her experience as a front line medical professional treating COVID patients in the “COVID Cove.” Dr. Hartman was a leader during the pandemic, especially in treating COVID patients during this time of unknown. This episode really emphasizes hard wo...

On today’s episode of Capturing COVID Jason Newland MD, MEd sits down with Ray Kreienkamp MD, PhD to discuss COVID-19 and its impact on children with diabetes, getting back to sports for water polo athletes, and the COVID-19 Pandemic Task Force. Dr. Kreienkamp joined the pod to share his experience as a medical resident in pediatrics during the pandemic. Ray was not only influential in the world of water polo during the pandemic, b...

On today’s episode of Capturing COVID Jason NewlandMD, MEd sits down with Hilary Babcock MD, MPH to discuss critical decision making during the pandemic. Dr. Babcock joined the pod to share her experience as an influential leader locally and nationally. Dr. Babcock was a critical member of the team that decided policies, not only with quarantine and isolation, but also hospital policies such as symptom screening and who would recei...

On today’s episode of Capturing COVID Jason Newland MD, MEd sits down with Rachel Orscheln MD to discuss getting kids back to school in the fall of 2020. Dr. Orscheln joined the pod to share her experience advising schools returning to in-person learning, collaborating with the Missouri government, and coming up with the Modified Quarantine initiative. Dr. Orscheln was an unsung hero during the COVID-19 pandemic and d...

On today’s episode of Capturing COVID Jason Newland MD, MEd sits down with fellow physician, sports lover, and podcaster Mark Halstead MD to discuss getting kids back to playing competitive high school sports during the pandemic. Join us in hearing the detailed challenges that came along with keeping the public safe but also getting kids back to their normal routine. Dealing with interprofessional communication, count...

On today’s episode of Capturing COVID Jason Newland MD, MEd sits down with a friend that he met because of the pandemic, Katie Smith MEd, LAT, ATC. Katie joined the pod to share her stories and experience as an Athletic Trainer and the leader of the Athletic Pandemic Task Force. Through this taskforce, Jason and Katie worked together to get kids back to playing sports in the safest way possible during the summer of 20...

On the first episode of Capturing COVID Jason Newland MD, MEd sits down with friend and colleague Luke Starnes BSN, PhD. Luke joined the pod to share his stories and experience as an infection preventionist at Missouri Baptist Medical Center during the pandemic – dealing with access to testing and PPE, creating solutions during the various surges, and making tough decisions during a time of complete unknown. We g...