CCO Infectious Disease Podcast
Weekly updates on new data and best practices in patient care for a variety of infectious diseases including COVID-19, HIV, and viral hepatitis, from Clinical Care Options. Gain practical strategies and earn CME/CE credit for selected episodes.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 461
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Starting ART: Dialogues on Optimizing Engagement in HIV Care
In this podcast episode, Isolde Butler, MD, MPH, a healthcare professional caring for people living with HIV, and Marissa Gonzalez, an individual living with HIV, discuss strategies to improve health…
Engagement in Care: Dialogues on Optimizing Engagement in HIV Care
In this podcast episode, Babafemi Taiwo, MBBS, and Vincent Crisostomo discuss the evolving treatment landscape for aging people living with HIV, encompassing the clinical and external resources neces…
Providing Options for PrEP Reengagement: Strategies to Support PrEP Persistence and Reengagement
In this episode, Kevin Astle, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, AAHIVP, CDCES, discusses data and recommendations for providing HIV prevention options as a strategy to support PrEP persistence and engagement, inc…
Selected FXR Agonist PBC Studies: Conference Coverage of AASLD
During the 2023 American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases conference, exciting and important results from many primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) clinical trials were reported, including 3 …
PrEP Talks: Strategies for Advanced Practice Providers to Increase Uptake
In this episode, Dr Tavell Kindall and Jona Tanguay discuss actionable strategies for advanced practice providers to increase the frequency at which PrEP is offered and initiated in primary care sett…
Where We Want to Be: The Search for a Cure for HIV
In this third of 3 episodes, global HIV experts and advocates discuss the current status of HIV cure research, including key concepts to understand and communicate when counselling patients, colleagu…
CRE-ating Success: How I Use Rapid Diagnostic Tests to Manage Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales Bacteremia
In this podcast, Julie Ann Justo, PharmD, MS, FIDSA, BCPS, discusses treatment of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) infections, including:
- Burden of CRE infections in the United States
- Mechan…
Investigational PPAR-delta Agonist for PBC Treatment and Race-Based Considerations for PBC Diagnosis: Conference Coverage of AASLD
During the 2023 American Association of the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) conference, exciting and important results from many primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) clinical trials were reported, inclu…
PrEP Talks: Uptake in Young Adults and Adolescents
In this episode, Errol L. Fields, MD, PhD, MPH, and Armonté Butler, MPH, a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) advocate, discuss strategies for overcoming barriers to uptake of PrEP for HIV in adolescent…
Investigational Dual PPAR Agonist, FXR Agonist With Fibrate, and Hyperlipidemia in People With PBC: Conference Coverage of AASLD
During the 2023 American Association of the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) conference, exciting and important results from many primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) clinical trials were reported, inclu…
Are We Making Our Patients Fight for PrEP?
In this episode, Martin Rios discusses how pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) persistence depends on healthcare professional knowledge, including:
- Their own experiences with the various PrEP providers th…
Q&A on HIV PrEP: Episode 6 on Cisgender Women
In this episode, Meredith Clement, MD, and Whitney C. Irie, MSW, PhD, discuss key considerations for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake in cisgender women, including:
- How to incorporate conversat…
The Rise of RSV: Updates on Seasonality
In this episode, Helen Y. Chu, MD, MPH, shares updates on RSV seasonality, including:
- Surveillance limitations due to the testing availability in adults
- Current 2023/2024 season trends, including pred…
Ready, Set, Vaccinate! RSV Vaccination for Older Adults
In this episode, Rick Zimmerman, MD, MPH, FAAFP, discusses RSV vaccines in older adults, including:
- Breakthroughs in RSV vaccine development
- RSV vaccine snapshot in older adults
- FDA-approved RSV vaccin…
A Difficult Differential: Clinical Presentation and Diagnosis of RSV in Adults
In this episode, Angela Branche, MD; Pamela Rockwell, DO, FAAFP; and Richard Zimmerman, MD, MPH, FAAFP, discuss the clinical presentation of RSV in older adults and available diagnostic tests for RSV…
Q&A on HIV PrEP: Episode 4 on Adolescents and Young Adults Part 2
In this episode, Samantha V. Hill, MD, MPH, and Eunice E. Radcliff, MD, discuss key considerations for PrEP uptake in adolescents, including:
- Advice on talking with parents about the importance of ad…
Podcast on On-Demand PrEP: Strategies to Support PrEP Persistence and Reengagement
In this episode, Jean-Michel Molina, MD, PhD, discusses the data and recommendations for considering on-demand PrEP as a strategy to support PrEP persistence and engagement for men who have sex with …
Role of Quantitative HBsAg Testing in Clinical Practice for People With CHB
Should quantitative HBsAg testing be used routinely in clinical practice for patients living with chronic hepatitis B?
In this episode, Tatyana Kushner, MD, MSCE, discusses the role of quantitative he…
Which Patients With Hepatitis B Should We Be Treating?
Are we treating HBV early enough? Is it time to move the goalposts regarding the timing of treatment initiation? What are the potential benefits of earlier treatment?
To answer these questions, Ira M.…
A Hidden Annual Epidemic: The Burden of RSV in Adults
In this episode, Angela Branche, MD; Pamela Rockwell, DO, FAAFP; and Rick Zimmerman, MD, MPH, FAAFP, discuss the burden of RSV in older adults, including:
- RSV burden throughout life
- RSV seasonality in …