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SUMMARY:Why Sex Matters: Sex differences in COVID and beyond
DESCRIPTION:Dec. 1\, 1 p.m. ET\nCOVID-19 has\, in many ways\, been a different pandemic for men and women. Men are more likely to develop severe disease\, while women more often endure long-haul symptoms. Cases of myocarditis have occurred primarily in young men after vaccination while women have greater stroke risk. COVID also triggers different stress-related mental health challenges. This webinar explores how biological sex shapes our immune response\, how gender affects the way we experience stress—and how COVID focuses attention on the longstanding need to understand how sex and gender affect health and disease. \nView the recording \n\n\nLouise McCullough\, M.D.\, Ph.D.\, the Roy M. and Phyllis Gough Huffington distinguished chair of neurology at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston and chief of neurology at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center\, researches cerebral vascular disease with a focus on sex differences in cell death pathways during stroke. During the pandemic\, she turned her attention to sex differences in COVID—the strong inflammatory response in men that can lead to severe symptoms from a ‘cytokine storm\,’ and the adaptive immune response in women\, which may be linked to long-haul symptoms and perhaps the development of auto-antibodies. Among her many awards\, Dr. McCullough received the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in 2016. \n\n\nSara Ghandehari\, M.D.\, is a pulmonologist and director of pulmonary rehabilitation in the Women’s Guild Lung Institute at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She is also an associate clinical professor of medicine at Cedars-Sinai and U.C.L.A. David Geffen School of Medicine. In caring for COVID patients\, she sees the greater severity of symptoms in men\, including severe lung damage. Dr. Ghandehari hypothesized that female hormones might have a protective effect\, and she and her colleagues conducted a pilot study of progesterone to reduce inffammation. Her work is part of broader investigations into COVID disparities and the potential role of sex hormones in immunomodulation. \n\n\nPsychologist Carolyn M. Mazure\, Ph.D.\, is the Norma Weinberg Spungen and Joan Lebson Bildner Professor in Women’s Health Research and director of Women’s Health Research at Yale\, an interdisciplinary research center on the health of women and the interplay of sex\, gender\, and health. She is internationally recognized for her work on depression\, in which she was the among the first to demonstrate how stress is a more potent pathway to depression in women than men and to use these findings to inform treatment interventions. During the pandemic\, Dr. Mazure has focused on the consequences of stress on women. She chaired the American Psychological Association’s Summit on Women and Depression\, has testified before Congress on women’s health\, and served on the advisory committee for the NIH Office for Research on Women’s Health. \n\n\nModerator: Michele Cohen Marill \n\n\n\nLouise McCullough \n\n\nSara Ghandehari \n\n\nCarolyn M. Mazure \n\n\nMichele Cohen Marill \n\n 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/why-sex-matters-sex-differences-in-covid-and-beyond/
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SUMMARY:Beyond newsstands: how to expand your freelance business through niche publications
DESCRIPTION:Dec. 8\, 2021\, 3 p.m. ET\nThere is a whole world of potential clients for freelancers to tap beyond newspapers\, general interest science and health magazines\, women’s magazines and other traditional consumer publications. Trade groups publish magazines for members\, companies for customers and universities for alums. Media conglomerates may have a stable of specialized publications targeting various professional groups. \nMany are looking for talented freelance writers to fill out the pages\, whether digital or print. In this AHCJ webinar\, freelance members will learn where to find niche publications and the pros and cons of working for them. They will get advice on pitching and introducing themselves to editors. They’ll learn about potential conflicts of interest if writing for both niche and consumer publications. And they will be able to ask questions of the panelists\, two editors and one freelancer who earns six figures by including non-consumer publications among her clients. \nView the recording \n\n\nJen A. Miller is an award-winning freelance writer and author. She’s a regular contributor to The New York Times and writes their weekly running newsletter. She also has written for The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, SELF\, Buzzfeed\, The Philadelphia Inquirer and for niche publications\, including Medscape\, Clinical Laboratory News and HealthTech. Miller is the author of the e-book\, Notes from a Hired Pen: Where to Find New Freelance Writing Clients and Turbocharge Your Career. \n\n\nRachel Coker is the director of research advancement at Binghamton University. Her mission is to advance an understanding of and appreciation for the university’s research and scholarship. Coker writes and edits its digital research magazine\, Discover-e\, an electronic newsletter and other material. One recent article on Discover-e profiled a graduate student’s research into how people with psychopathic traits achieve occupational success. Coker directly hires freelancers. \n\n\nShannon Muchmore is a senior editor at Healthcare Dive\, a vertical at the digital platform Industry Dive\, whose target audience is industry decision makers. Healthcare Dive provides in-depth journalism into news and trends shaping healthcare. Topic areas including health IT\, policy and regulation\, insurance\, digital health\, payer-provider partnerships\, value-based care and more. Before taking the job at Healthcare Dive\, Muchmore worked in the D.C. bureau for Modern Healthcare. She is actively seeking freelancers. \n\n\nModerator: Barbara Mantel \n\n\n\nJen A. Miller \n\n\nRachel Coker \n\n\nShannon Muchmore \n\n\nBarbara Mantel \n\n 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/beyond-newsstands-how-to-expand-your-freelance-business-through-niche-publications/
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SUMMARY:Regret the error: How greater access to medical records could make patients safer
DESCRIPTION:Dec. 8\, noon ET\nJournalists should prepare to help their readers\, listeners and viewers for an inevitable downside of a welcome development with electronic health records. A federal rule that took effect in April has made it easier for many patients to access their medical records. While this move is welcomed by patient advocates\, it also will reveal many more cases of incorrect information recorded about people’s medical histories and treatments. \nThis webinar follows up on questions raised by veteran health care journalist Cheryl Clark in a series of articles for MedPage Today\, including one titled “Open Notes Shines Light on Errors in Patient Medical Records—Will the new rule lead to a flood of correction requests?” This webinar will begin with a brief talk by Clark about her articles\, followed by presentations from two of the leaders in efforts to help patients get easier access to their medical records. \nView the recording \n  \nCatherine DesRoches\nDeven McGraw\nKistein Monkhouse\nCheryl Clark\nKerry Dooley Young\n  \n\n\nThrough OpenNotes\, Catherine DesRoches is a leader of efforts to make health care more transparent by inviting doctors\, nurses and therapists to share their notes with their patients. She came to OpenNotes from Mathematica Policy Research\, a national firm with extensive expertise in social policy research\, where she was a senior fellow studying the use of electronic health records by hospitals and physicians\, the effect of health care organizations on physician clinical practice. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts\, School of Public Health\, she received her doctoral degree at the Joseph P. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. \n\n\nFormerly the director of the Center for Democracy & Technology\, Deven McGraw served as deputy director\, of health information privacy at the Department of Health and Human Services in the Obama administration. During her time at HHS\, McGraw led efforts to issue guidance on the right of individuals to access and obtain a copy of their health information. She has a masters degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and a law degree from Georgetown University\, in addition to a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland in journalism. \n\n\nKistein Monkhouse is the chief executive officer and founder of Patient Orator\, a digital health platform addressing healthcare disparities. She also produced the film\, “Humanizing Healthcare.” Monkhouse’s earliest experience in health care included working as a home-care coordinator and as a nursing assistant. She holds a masters in public administration from Long Island University. \n\n\nA medical and science journalist for more than three decades\, much of it spent at the San Diego Union­-Tribune\, Cheryl Clark developed one of the nation’s first beats on HIV-AIDS at a major newspaper in the early 1980s. She’s written more than 1\,000 stories about physicians and hospital quality and safety\, fraud\, over-utilization\, outcome research\, variation\, and healthcare policy. “I read the 3\,000­-page federal payment rules\, and I read the Affordable Care Act. Details are important\,” Clark wrote in her biography for the AHCJ website. \n\n\nModerator: Kerry Dooley Young \n\n\nThere will be a question-and-answer period after their presentations. \n 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/regret-the-error-how-greater-access-to-medical-records-could-make-patients-safer/
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SUMMARY:Words matter: Responsible reporting on alcohol use and misuse
DESCRIPTION:Dec. 15\, noon CT/1pm ET\nAs evolving science has helped researchers understand the science of addiction disorders better\, it’s become clear that much of the language we use to describe those conditions is outdated and can increase stigma\, particularly with disorders related to alcohol use. Journalists need to be aware of appropriate terms and their meanings as well as common misconceptions about alcohol use disorder. This webinar will cover the appropriate terminology in covering alcohol disorders\, current insights into how scientists now think of alcohol misuse\, and common misconceptions about alcohol use and risks\, including popular misunderstanding of the risks of alcohol use during pregnancy.  \nThe webinar features Dr. George Koob\, director of the NIAAA\, as well an NIAAA researcher\, a researcher into prenatal alcohol exposure\, and a journalist and best-selling author of a memoir about living with an alcohol disorder. These are some of the topics the webinar will address: \n* Basic terms everyone should accurately understand\, such as “overdose” and “blackouts”* Stigmatizing words to avoid* New terms that can increase the public’s understanding* Thinking of alcohol issues as a spectrum* Recognition of alcohol disorders as affecting all ages and genders* The most up-to-date research into risks of alcohol exposure during pregnancy \nView the recording \nGeorge F. Koob \nSarah Hepola \nLuisa Zuccolo \nPatricia Powell \nTara Haelle \n\n\nGeorge F. Koob\, Ph.D.\, is the director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)\, where he provides leadership in the national effort to reduce the public health burden associated with alcohol misuse. As NIAAA Director\, Dr. Koob oversees a broad portfolio of alcohol research ranging from basic science to epidemiology\, diagnostics\, prevention\, and treatment. Dr. Koob earned his doctorate in Behavioral Physiology from Johns Hopkins University in 1972. Prior to taking the helm at NIAAA\, he served as Professor and Chair of the Scripps’ Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders and Director of the Alcohol Research Center at the Scripps Research Institute. \n\n\nSarah Hepola is the author of the bestselling book\, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank To Forget\, a memoir that was also the first book (that she knows of anyway) to discuss the science of blackouts. She began her journalism career twenty years ago at the Austin Chronicle\, where she wrote about culture\, and her gigs since then have included: music critic\, travel writer\, beauty columnist\, sex blogger\, and personal essays editor. In 2010\, she quit drinking after a pretty robust career in that\, too. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times\, the Guardian\, Elle\, Glamour\, Salon\, and Texas Monthly\, where she is a writer-at-large. She lives in Dallas with a very fluffy gray cat named Wallace. \n\n\nLuisa Zuccolo is Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology at the University of Bristol. Following her first degree in Physics\, she obtained a Fellowship from the University of Turin\, Italy\, in Cancer Epidemiology and Surveillance. She then moved to the University of Bristol and was awarded a pre-doctoral Fellowship from the UK Medical Research Council to complete an MSc in Epidemiology (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and a PhD in Genetic Epidemiology (University of Bristol). She was then awarded a second MRC Fellowship in population health science epidemiology\, after which\, in 2018\, she secured a tenured position at the University of Bristol. Dr Zuccolo researches the causal effects of alcohol on health\, in particular of prenatal alcohol exposure\, using methods and designs that improve causal inference. She is also interested in barriers to and effects of prolonged breastfeeding. \n\n\nPatricia Powell\, Ph.D.\, is the Deputy Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Dr. Powell works closely with the NIAAA Director to provide scientific leadership in the development\, implementation\, and management of NIAAA’s broad research portfolio. Previously\, Dr. Powell held the position of NIAAA Associate Director for Scientific Initiatives. In that role\, she oversaw a broad range of research activities\, sought opportunities to jumpstart or expand projects that reflected the Director’s priorities\, and identified opportunities for NIAAA to become more involved in existing activities and initiatives across the National Institutes of Health\, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\, and beyond. Dr. Powell has 20 years of research experience in developmental genetics and in cellular and molecular biology. \n\n\nModerator: Tara Haelle \n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/words-matter-responsible-reporting-on-alcohol-use-and-misuse/
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SUMMARY:Omicron\, future variants and reporting on COVID-19 in 2022
DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE: Dec. 17\, 12:30 p.m. ET \nOmicron is the latest SARS-CoV-2 variant to rock the scientific world\, but it won’t be the last. This webinar will explore what we are learning about omicron\, how the vaccines will work against it and its likely impact on those who have previously been ill or remain unvaccinated. What does it mean for kids? How do we assess our risks for this holiday season? What do variants like omicron mean for how the pandemic will unfold in 2022 and the likelihood that it will still be with us in 2023? Experts will answer those questions and more. Bara Vaida\, AHCJ core topic leader on infectious disease\, will moderate. \nView the recording \nKatelyn Jetelina \nJoshua Schiffer \nBara Vaida \n\n\nKatelyn Jetelina\, M.P.H.\, Ph.D.\, is a professor at the University of Texas Health Center\, an epidemiologist\, biostatistician\, researcher\, wife\, and mom of two little girls. She has a research lab and teaches graduate-level courses and she also writes the newsletter ‘Your Local Epidemiologist’. Her main goal is to “translate” ever-evolving public health science so that people will be well-equipped to make evidence-based decisions\, rather than decisions based in fear. \n\n\nJoshua Schiffer\, M.D.\, M.Sc.\, is an infectious disease physician and researcher who develops mathematical models to address significant medical challenges.A major focus of his work is to analyze strategies to achieve an HIV cure in people who require antiviral drugs for their entire lifetime\, due to reservoirs of latent virus. His team is also currently focusing on COVID-19\, including developing models of the immune response against the coronavirus and the best treatment strategies.
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/omicron-future-variants-and-reporting-on-covid-19-in-2022/
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