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Jan 12, 2022 by Specialty Pharmacy Continuum

“I would argue that physicians should generally not switch patients from an INSTI regimen only in light of weight gain, mainly because we don’t know what regimen we should switch these patients to, or if it will help,” said Kristine Erlandson, an associate professor in the Division of Infectious Disease at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Jan 12, 2022 by Medscape

“I think even just a couple of years ago, people felt that xenotransplantation for the heart and other organs was still a long way off. And it seems like it’s started to move very quickly,” Larry A. Allen, University of Colorado School of Medicine, told theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology.

Jan 6, 2022 by The Scientist

“Using this approach to target and reprogram immune cells represents an innovative application for cardiovascular medicine and opens up exciting opportunities for developing novel therapeutics,” Ronald Vagnozzi and Timothy McKinsey, heart researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus who were not involved in the study, write in a joint email to The Scientist.

Jan 6, 2022 by Fox 31

“Pulse oximeters are a great way to give us some reassurance. If the oxygen saturation is at 89-90% or higher, then your oxygen levels are adequate,” explained David Beuther, a pulmonologist with National Jewish Health [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Jan 7, 2022 by Denver Gazette

Anuj Mehta, a Denver Health intensive care physician and researcher [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said Friday that omicron will likely make it “much harder to access health care” in the coming weeks, thanks to the sheer number of infections it’s bringing to Colorado.

Jan 7, 2022 by HealthDay

While unvaccinated people are at greater risk of hospitalization and death than those who have been vaccinated, that makes people feel “like you are rewarding intransigence,” Matthew K. Wynia told the Times. He is director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado and has advised the state on how to ration COVID treatments.

Jan 10, 2022 by Washington Post

Colorado’s crisis-standards activation focuses on EMS — including ambulance and paramedic services — “because the pinch points are largely not in the ICU, which is what we were worried about previously,” said Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Jan 7, 2022 by HuffPost

“The current guidance is that you isolate for at least five days and then, if your symptoms are improved or if you had no symptoms at the time of testing, that you wear a well-fitting mask for an additional five days,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention and control at UCHealth in Colorado [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Jan 12, 2022 by Infectious Disease Special Edition

Joshua Barocas, an associate professor of medicine at the University Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, said the medication shortages and ineffectiveness against omicron are concerning because “treatment is effectively our last line of defense.”

Jan 12, 2022 by Colorado Sun

At Denver Health, medical director Connie Price [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] said a review of patient records in January discovered that about 60% of the hospital’s COVID-positive patients had been admitted for reasons unrelated to the disease. This is a change from previous waves.​ In August, Michelle Barron, UCHealth’s senior medical director of infection prevention and control [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], did a smaller review of COVID-positive patient records and found that about 95% of them had been admitted for treatment for the disease. “So it’s a big turn in what we’re seeing now,” she said.

Jan 12, 2022 by Fox 31

Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth, Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], told FOX31 this figure is wildly different from her own statistical analysis of patients back in August, indicating more than 95% of COVID patients were in their hospital because of COVID with the delta variant.

Jan 10, 2022 by Denver Post

Eric Poeschla, chief of infectious disease at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, tweeted Sunday that the percentage of their COVID-19 patients in intensive-care units or on ventilators has dropped, but he’s concerned the number of seriously ill patients could increase again, simply because of the “tsunami” of people who have been infected. It’s a particularly difficult moment for hospitals, because so many employees are out sick with the virus, he said.

Jan 10, 2022 by CPR News

“It's sad to me,” said Anuj Mehta, a pulmonary critical care physician with Denver Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. Since the first cases arrived in the United States about two years ago, scientists have developed tools to manage the pandemic, such as wearing a mask and getting COVID-19 vaccinations. “They're easy. They're not a big deal. And the fact that there's still so much reluctance to do those basic things, I find to be really sad,” Mehta said. “Because I think we were together on this as a community in March of 2020, and that very quickly fell apart.”

Jan 6, 2022 by 5280

“There are patients in their twenties, thirties, and forties who were highly productive and are now unable to walk across the room without feeling exhausted,” says Natasha Altman, an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].​ The clinic is the brainchild of Sarah [Jolley], a pulmonary and critical care medicine specialist at the CU School of Medicine who was developing a post-ICU clinic to aid long-term recovery when COVID-19 hit in spring 2020.

Dec 31, 2021 by Forbes

“There continues to be more data that suggests waning immunity after 6 months, and this waning immunity is likely contributing the rise in the number of COVID-19 cases we are currently seeing across the United States,” Michelle Barron, Senior Medical Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] recently explained.

Dec 29, 2021 by Channel 7

Michelle Barron, the medical director of infection control and prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says people should also consider smaller New Year’s Eve events this year.

Dec 30, 2021 by Fox 31

“I think people need to be very thoughtful about New Year’s Eve parties this weekend. I think knowing who’s going to be there, what their vaccine status and if possible getting tested before people get together is the safest way people can do it,” said Jean Kutner, Chief Medical Officer at UCHealth, University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Jan 4, 2022 by CPR News

What does that mean for Coloradans going about their daily lives? Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention at UC Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], and Sam Dominguez, a pediatric infectious disease doctor at Children’s Hospital [and professor of pediatrics at CU School of Medicine] spoke to Colorado Matters about omicron.

Jan 5, 2022

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Dec 29, 2021 by Healio

An ideal candidate for a diabetes fellowship is a primary care physician interested in treating diabetes, but who is also committed to their community and their specialty, according to Cecilia C. Low Wang, professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and director of the Glucose Management Team at University of Colorado Hospital.

Dec 29, 2021 by CPR News

Other community leaders, like Lily Cervantes, say overcoming misinformation is hard. “I spoke to a new mom who said she didn’t have the time to leave her apartment to get the vaccine and had no one available to help her care for her newborn,” said Cervantes, an associate professor in the department of medicine, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Dec 28, 2021 by Fox 31

“The idea is this is not a free pass. If you have COVID, you can still transmit it and be very thoughtful about that,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Dec 21, 2021 by Colorado Springs Gazette

The job of the Board of Health is to use their collective expertise to carefully consider and analyze complicated and conflicting data and make decisions about public health where the benefits outweigh the risks, writes Erik Wallace, an Internal Medicine Physician and Associate Dean for Colorado Springs Branch at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Dec 22, 2021 by Seattle P-I

Commentary by Matthew Wynia, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. “I’m an infectious disease specialist and bioethicist at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus. I worked with a team nonstop from March into June 2020, helping my hospital and state get ready for the massive influx of COVID-19 cases we expected might inundate our health care system.”

Dec 17, 2021 by Fox 31

The Colorado Avalanche will be off for the next week due to an ongoing COVID-19 outbreak on the team and across the National Hockey League. “That’s where I respect what the Avalanche has done. They are testing and making sure people are vaccinated,” David Beuther, a pulmonologist National Jewish Health [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said.

Dec 19, 2021 by 9News

While the delta variant is the most common strain of COVID-19 right now, health officials believe the omicron variant will likely be dominant in the United States within a few weeks. “I don’t think that is something individuals need to be concerned about and especially not yet,” said Michelle Barron, an infectious disease expert at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Dec 17, 2021 by Fortune

To be successful, testing strategies need adequate resources, Joshua Barocas, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, added during the IDSA call. “The test-to-stay strategy is a very good strategy,” Boracas said, “but we have to understand that different school districts have different resources.”

Dec 20, 2021 by Channel 7

Meanwhile, over at UCHealth, Michelle Barron says they have seen some decreases in hospitalizations. She’s hoping the trend will continue over the holidays. Roughly 85% to 90% of the patients in the hospital are unvaccinated, according to Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Dec 21, 2021 by CBS4

UCHealth Senior Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] offered up her best advice on how to do so. “I understand we’re all pent up and want to do things in a ‘normal’ way,’” she told CBS4’s Mekialaya White.

Dec 22, 2021 by CPR News

I wasn’t the only one at work or among my friends to experience this kind of lingering cold and COVID-19 anxiety. So I reached out to Michelle Barron, an infectious disease expert at the CU School of Medicine on the Anschutz Medical Campus, who’s helped guide Colorado through the pandemic.

Dec 13, 2021 by Healio

“We know that poor-risk cytogenetics are associated with worse outcomes in patients treated with conventional therapies. We also know that TP53 mutations frequently co-occur with poor-risk cytogenetics…,” Daniel A. Pollyea, clinical director of leukemia services, associate professor of medicine and hematology and Robert H. Allen MD chair in hematology research at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical School, told Healio.

Dec 15, 2021 by Medscape

One potential limitation of this technology is that it requires the patient to engage the app and read the appropriate phrase to be useful, observe the editorialists, Neal Ravindra, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, and David Kao, University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Dec 16, 2021 by Reuters

People should gather outdoors, wear masks and perform rapid tests before meeting unvaccinated family and friends and before returning to work, said Joshua Barocas, associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Dec 15, 2021 by Medscape

“Here’s my practical advice for this holiday season...try to match up the risk reduction practices that you can sustain with the activities that you feel are going to sustain you,” Joshua Barocas, associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, said.

Dec 9, 2021 by CPR News

What’s the big picture impact when hospitals are on that brink? UCHealth ICU doctor Abbey Lara [associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] puts it simply — it means things like care gets delayed, patients face more waits or they don’t get much-needed diagnostic tests. In the worst-case scenario, “patients who could have survived something, they had their life cut short because they weren't able to access care,” she said.

Dec 17, 2021 by Department of Medicine

The Department of Medicine (DOM) is seeking an outstanding leader, mentor and administrator to serve as Vice Chair of Faculty Development and Mentorship. Mentorship and faculty development are core values and strategic priorities of the Department of Medicine. In an era of increasing clinical demands and time pressures, we recognize the singular importance of mentorship and faculty development.

Dec 14, 2021 by Department of Medicine

The Department of Medicine (DOM) is seeking an outstanding leader and manager to serve as Vice Chair of Research.

Dec 13, 2021 by Department of Medicine

Steven Johnson, MD, professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, was recognized by leaders of the National Institutes of Health for his contributions to the NIH “Coronavirus Disease 2019 Treatment Guidelines.”

Dec 1, 2021 by Fox 31

“It’s premature, again, to sort of know what this is going to do, but it shouldn’t change your plans for the holidays,” said Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].​

Dec 7, 2021 by 9News

Michelle Barron with UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine] said it isn’t so much about the number of mutations, but what the virus mutates into that determines the answer.

Dec 6, 2021 by CBS4

“If you look at data from South Africa, [omicron] seems to be spreading 2-3 times more quickly than delta, which means it’s going really fast,” said Michelle Barron, Senior Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Dec 7, 2021 by CPR News

“I think that we’re still seeing, every day, a significant number of admissions,” said Abbey Lara, a pulmonary critical care physician at UCHealth [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Nov 29, 2021 by The New York Times

Robert H. Eckel, a former president of the American Heart Association, and an endocrinologist and lipid specialist at the University of Colorado, told me he “occasionally” indulges in foods outside a wholesome dietary pattern. The operative word here, though, is “occasionally.”

Nov 29, 2021 by The New York Times

The new antivirals are different. “You could potentially pick up your prescription and go home,” said Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection prevention and control for UCHealth, a health care system in Colorado, [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Nov 30, 2021 by Denver Gazette

Anuj Mehta, a Denver Health physician [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] who led the drafting process, said that the “psychological distress” caused by even considering a triage scenario is “extreme.”

Nov 30, 2021 by Denver Post

“The perfect system is not that none of them come back to the hospital,” said Anuj Mehta, a pulmonary critical care physician at Denver Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], who outlined the updated document Monday. “If two or three come back, that’s a win.”

Nov 29, 2021 by CPR News

“If we can decompress the hospital system by 10 percent, I mean, that would be a boon to our nurses and respiratory therapists and physicians and other healthcare workers,” said Anuj Mehta, a pulmonary care physician with Denver Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], who helped draft the new document. The new rules will help “so we can take care of the other patients in the hospital better and likely improve survival for everybody.”

Nov 30, 2021 by CPR News

It’s an inevitability that the omicron variant will be detected in Colorado, in the opinion of Anuj Mehta, an ICU pulmonologist with Denver Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] who advises the state on pandemic-related issues like vaccine allocation and hospital guidance. “I think it’s a matter of time, but I don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion that it’s already here,” he told Colorado Matters.

Nov 29, 2021 by 9News

Michelle Barron is the senior medical director of infection prevention and control for UCHealth [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] and a member of the Colorado Governor’s Expert Emergency Epidemic Response Committee. 9NEWS spoke with her Monday about what we know so far about the omicron variant.

Nov 29, 2021 by Fox 31

“I know they take a percentage of them from all the different hospitals and do sequence analysis,” said Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “Within the next couple of weeks, it would not surprise me at all if we have a couple of cases,” Barron said.

Nov 23, 2021 by Colorado Sun

“If you could decrease our COVID hospitalization by even 10 to 15%, that has huge impacts for our margins,” Michelle Barron, an infectious disease specialist at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] said earlier this month.

Nov 23, 2021 by CPR News

Eric Poeschla worries the numbers will only grow over the holidays. “Everyone’s not only getting together, but the sort of mixing nationwide and this vast shuffling thing we do every Thanksgiving and Christmas (increases the likelihood of more spread of the virus),” said Poeschla, chief of infectious diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, “And so there’s almost certainly going to be a further jump.”

Nov 21, 2021 by Denver Post

Anuj Mehta, a pulmonary critical care physician at Denver Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] who wrote a first draft of updates to the current guidelines, noted there was some controversy about whether vaccination status should be a factor in decisions, but said he agreed with adding it. “Our ethical principles are to save the most lives,” not to punish irresponsible behavior, he said.​ The frustration that some vaccinated people feel is understandable, but in medical ethics, it’s not acceptable to withhold care from people because they may have contributed to their illness, said Matthew Wynia, director of the University of Colorado’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities.

Nov 18, 2021 by Fox 31

Jean Kutner, chief medical officer [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said the situation is impacting patient care. “We do have more patients that we’re needing to double up on space. We’re having patients where we’re sort of constantly moving them around the hospital to make sure if a patient needs critical care, then they’re in a critical care bed,” Kutner said.

Dec 1, 2021

In this issue, hear from the new Chair of Medicine Vineet Chopra and receive the latest update and news for the Department of Medicine.

Nov 17, 2021 by Fox40 (Sacramento)

Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention and control for University of Colorado Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], has some tips for Turkey Day hosts this year. “You want to have an honest conversation with whoever’s coming and you can decide whether or not that is something that will dictate who comes or who doesn’t come,” Barron suggested.

Nov 18, 2021 by McKnights Long-Term Care News

Upper-level residents were more likely to respond that they knew how much therapy patients received at a SNF. But post-acute care knowledge didn’t otherwise vary at all by residency year or experience level, reported Christine D. Jones, of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Nov 15, 2021 by Medpage Today

While “interesting,” the “subgroups with ‘significant benefit’ don’t necessarily make sense,” said late-breaking clinical trial session discussant Larry Allen of the University of Colorado.

Nov 12, 2021 by Washington Post

Eric G. Campbell, a University of Colorado health-policy expert who has done extensive research on the impact of financial conflicts of interest in medicine, said Califf’s past ties with industry should not disqualify him. “To my knowledge those relationships have been fully discussed and widely debated in the academic and political arena,” Campbell said, adding that many academic trials are underwritten by drug companies.

Nov 14, 2021 by USA Today

“Especially for the older LGBT community, who grew up when being gay was dangerous, or even illegal, to stay safe they had to develop this silence about who they are,” said Carey Candrian, an LGBTQ elder-care expert and associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. “That stays with them, despite growing acceptance and new laws. They’re fearful to disclose their identity.”

Nov 11, 2021 by NPR

It also allows for workers to be moved around and, in some cases, to care for a sicker level of patient than they normally would. And it also gives hospitals and doctors emergency protection from liability. This is welcome news for frontline providers like Lily Cervantes. She’s a hospitalist at Denver Health [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. LILY CERVANTES: It’s a message to the state that we’re taking this seriously because our health care workforce is burned out.​ I spoke with another doctor, Denver Health pulmonologist Anuj Mehta [assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. He says hospital patients may experience slower or delayed care. ANUJ MEHTA: You may wait a lot longer for a nurse to come to you when you're, like, in the emergency room or on the hospital floor. One nurse may be taking care of a lot more patients.

Nov 9, 2021 by CPR News

“I think it’s actually a kick in the pants for even people who are vaccinated, that even routine health care things may get delayed and everybody will be impacted when they go to the hospital,” said Anuj Mehta, a pulmonary and critical care physician with Denver Health Committee [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] and advisor to the Governor’s Expert Emergency Epidemic Response.​ Everyone is working really hard, taking care of hospitalized COVID patients, Lily Cervantes, an associate professor in the department of medicine, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, who also cares for patients as a hospitalist at Denver Health. She stressed Coloradans could help by getting vaccinated, if they aren’t already. “We all know that the majority of these hospitalized COVID patients are unvaccinated. And so protecting ourselves, protecting others through vaccination and mask use is critically important.”

Nov 11, 2021 by Colorado Newsline

“What we are largely talking about with most of these dilemmas is the other end of the spectrum,” said Matthew Wynia, the director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. “It’s trying to find those people who will be OK even if they don’t get a service that they would normally get… These predicting models are almost the opposite. We’re not trying to predict mortality. We’re trying to predict whether you’ll be OK if you don’t get this service.”

Nov 11, 2021 by Channel 7

“We’re not trying to predict mortality. We’re trying to predict will you be OK if you don’t get the service?” said Matthew Wynia, the Director of the University of Colorado's Center for Bioethics and Humanities.​ “If we’re discharging people, are sending them out from the [emergency department] to only present tomorrow with the same complaint, they should, based on this principle, be admitted,” said Anuj Mehta, a pulmonary critical care physician at Denver Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Nov 11, 2021 by Denver Post

If the situation worsened enough to require rationing, decisions would depend on the answers to three general questions, said Anuj Mehta, a pulmonary critical care physician at Denver Health[ and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], who wrote a first draft of updates to the current guidelines: Will the patient get better with a lower level of care? Would the patient likely die anyway, even with maximum care? And if patients would be fine with outpatient care, can they get it, or would factors like being uninsured get in the way?​ The scoring system doesn’t allow the triage team to consider non-medical factors, like a person’s socioeconomic status, but those could be relevant in deciding who can safely be sent home with a referral to outpatient care, said Matthew Wynia, a member of the advisory group and director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities on the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus.

Nov 22, 2021

The Department of Medicine is seeking an Executive Vice Chair to serve as the senior leader and second in command to the Chair of Medicine. With the DOM Chair of Medicine, the EVC helps to create the strategic, clinical, operational and academic priorities and acts as a key liaison with internal and external partners.

Nov 11, 2021 by Washington Post

“He could be helping us in finishing off this pandemic, especially with a vulnerable population,” says Joshua Barocas, an associate professor of medicine with an expertise in infectious diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. “We’re looking at millions and millions of people worldwide. He could be a global ambassador, and instead he’s chosen the pro-covid, anti-public-health route.”

Nov 9, 2021 by KUNC (Greeley)

We also talked with Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, about the ethics behind the governor’s new order.

Nov 9, 2021 by 9News

“We would normally need to have one nurse for every three people on a medical floor, but because we are so crowded and we just don’t have enough nursing staff, we might end up having one nurse for every four or five or six people on a medical floor,” said Matt Wynia [director of the CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities] who helped craft Colorado’s CSC during the pandemic.

Nov 10, 2021 by PBS News Hour

Nationwide hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 have been on the rise again. The numbers are rising in the Midwest and New England, and remain dangerously high in parts of the West. Some states like Colorado have seen spikes that threaten to overwhelm hospitals. Amna Nawaz discusses with Ivor Douglas, chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Denver Health and a professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Nov 10, 2021 by Fox 31

“Getting vaccinated is incredibly important, getting your booster if you haven’t received it already and being smart about what makes sense to you. If you have someone in your household that can’t get vaccinated or has an underlying illness that would put them at risk of a bad infection, then think about what you’re doing and mask if appropriate,” said UCHealth’s Medical Director of Infection Prevention Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Nov 9, 2021 by Fox 31

“We were hoping at this point we’d be like the rest of the United States and down trending, but obviously not the case,” said Michelle Barron, the Senior Medical Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Nov 9, 2021 by Colorado Sun

“A lot of this has to do with the nature of respiratory viruses,” said Michelle Barron, an infectious disease specialist at the hospital who is one of the co-authors of the study [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “We don’t get long-term immunity. It is often time-limited. I think most people logically know this. How many times have you had a cold more than once? Having that natural immunity doesn’t prevent you from getting infected again.”

Nov 8, 2021 by CBS4

“It’s not just the beds, it’s having a nurse and having a physician to take care of the patient. That has several ramifications. It means many of our critical care physicians who just got off a shift or a rotation, and are planning to see patients in outpatient clinic for a week or two, might be pulled from clinic and rescheduling patients,” said David Beuther, a pulmonologist and Chief Medical Information Officer at National Jewish Health [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Nov 3, 2021 by Fox 31

Anuj Mehta, assistant professor of medicine and pulmonologist at Denver Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], addressed some of the most common concerns.

Nov 2, 2021

In this issue, hear from the new Chair of Medicine Vineet Chopra and receive the latest update and news for the Department of Medicine.

Nov 1, 2021 by Colorado Sun

Bringing more Spanish speakers into Colorado hospital rooms has only become more critical in the past 19 months as the pandemic has disproportionately affected the state’s population of more than 1.25 million Latino residents and highlighted the “stark inequities faced by the Latino, Spanish-speaking community,” said Lilia Cervantes, associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Nov 4, 2021 by Fox 31

“You want to have an honest conversation with whoever’s coming and you can decide whether or not that is something that will dictate who comes or who doesn’t come,” said Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection prevention and control for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Oct 31, 2021 by Denver Post

Just last week, Robert Schwartz, a Denver geriatrician [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], put his Nuggets season tickets up for sale after attending one game and realizing no one at Ball Arena was enforcing the venue’s mask mandate....“Our state is going in the wrong direction,” Schwartz said. “The community has to get wise to the role they’re playing in this. It’s really frustrating to see people who won’t do the minimum in a setting that could become a super spreader.”

Nov 1, 2021 by CPR News

“It was worth, in my mind, absolutely worth the squeeze,” said Michelle Barron, [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine and] the senior medical director of infection control and prevention for UCHealth, one of the state’s largest health systems. “I find it unfortunate that there were individuals that had to be let go, but I also feel strongly they don’t belong in health care.”

Nov 1, 2021 by CPR News

“I am very concerned that we are going to exceed capacity and what dictates capacity is going to be the number of safely staffed beds,” said Anuj Mehta, a pulmonologist with National Jewish Health and Denver Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], who serves on the Governor’s Expert Emergency Epidemic Response Committee. “It’s no longer a question of ventilators. It’s a question of safely staffed beds. If you typically have one nurse for two ICU beds, and now you’re asking that one nurse to care for four ICU patients, that’s not safe anymore.”

Nov 4, 2021 by The Guardian (London)

“If you have been waiting for an elective procedure for the last 18 months and are finally scheduled – you’re vaccinated, you don’t have Covid – your procedure might still get canceled if a hospital is totally full,” said Anuj Mehta, a pulmonologist with Denver Health who serves on the governor’s expert emergency epidemic response. “While this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated at this point – and the surges in the hospital are entirely being driven by unvaccinated folks – it is having a massive bleed-over effect on to the entire population.”​ The state had also not had surges on the scale of other states, said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention and control for UCHealth. Other states “had flames from the get-go, whereas we have been smoldering along this whole time, and we are finally hitting that peak of saturation and seeing flames finally,” said Barron.

Nov 3, 2021 by NBC

The majority of Covid hospitalizations are among unvaccinated people, “at somewhere between 80 and 90 percent across Colorado,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection control and prevention for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], the largest hospital in the Denver area.​ Doctors and nurses have been taking extra shifts and working overtime to meet the growing need, said Eric Poeschla, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Colorado Hospital, where 85 percent of all Covid patients are unvaccinated.

Nov 4, 2021 by Colorado Newsline

“A year ago, we had criteria for when to implement things like mask mandates and we have blown past that,” said Matthew Wynia, the director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. “I understand the political basis, because people really don’t enjoy mask mandates, but without it there’s a fair number of people who just won’t do it … I hate it, but I think it ought to happen right now for a month. We’ve got to make our way through this.”

Nov 2, 2021 by Denver Gazette

But the state has not had to ration care in Colorado during the pandemic, said Matt Wynia, the director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus.

Nov 1, 2021 by 9News

The biggest ethical issue Colorado faces, according to Matt Wynia, the Director for the Center of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado, is choosing where to transfer patients and move staff, since hospitals in areas with a less vaccinated population are more overwhelmed than hospitals in areas with a higher percentage of people vaccinated against COVID-19.

Nov 2, 2021 by Washington Post

Right now there are “two Colorados,” said Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. “If you’re in the health-care system — if you’re a patient needing services in a hospital or if you’re a medical practitioner, things are really bad,” he said. “But if you’re a regular citizen just walking around on the street, you wouldn’t know it. People are behaving as though things are normal.”

Oct 27, 2021 by Healio

“Severe asthma remains a big problem, and there are many patients who continue to have poor asthma control despite standard of care therapy and even advanced biologics,” Michael E. Wechsler, of the department of medicine at National Jewish Health [and CU School of Medicine], told Healio.

Oct 21, 2021 by CPR News

UCHealth’s Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] said especially the unvaccinated should think twice about attending. “I wouldn’t, certainly, but I also obviously feel strongly about vaccines. And so, I think you're at high risk in getting something or potentially giving it to someone,” said Barron, the senior medical director of infection control and prevention for UCHealth.

Oct 26, 2021 by KRDO (Colorado Springs)

“It’s consistent and the studies show that one: you can become reinfected, and two: even having had infection before, you’re still two times more likely to get COVID-19 if you weren’t vaccinated, so the vaccine is still highly protective," said Michelle Barron, Senior Medical Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Oct 21, 2021 by Channel 7

Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection prevention and control for UCHealth, said they are seeing a record number of Respiratory Syncytial Virus cases. RSV is a respiratory virus that causes cold-like symptoms.

Oct 21, 2021 by CBS4

Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection prevention and control for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], agrees. She says that while vaccine efficacy varies, being vaccinated severely cuts your risk for hospitalization and breakthrough cases are among at risk populations who can get a booster. “I want to reassure people that are vaccinated that aren’t eligible for a booster yet that they are still considered protected,” Barron says.

Oct 27, 2021

Scientists have discovered genetic markers in the blood of those infected with COVID-19 that may predict the severity of the disease.

Oct 17, 2021 by Chemical & Engineering News

One of those pills, phentermine, is still widely prescribed, says physician Daniel Bessesen, a researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. People taking phentermine on average lose between 5 and 10% of their starting weight. For people whose insurance won’t cover drugs like Wegovy, it’s the best available option, Bessesen says.

Oct 20, 2021 by The Guardian (London)

Kidneys regulate blood concentrations of water and salt. So, the organs are the immediate interface between us and the climate crisis – because when it starts getting hot, we lose a lot of water and salt through sweat, says Richard Johnson, professor of medicine and head of renal diseases and hypertension at the University of Colorado.

Oct 18, 2021 by CPR News

Carey Candrian, an associate professor at the CU School of Medicine, is the mind behind the portrait series. She studies how communication shapes — and is shaped by — perception, attitudes and biases in the LGBTQ+ community. She’s interviewed dozens of older adults from the community about their experiences with palliative care, hospital visits and living in assisted living or skilled nursing facilities.

Oct 20, 2021 by CBS4

“The predictability of this virus is that it’s completely unpredictable,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Oct 18, 2021 by Fox 31

Serious breakthrough cases are no longer rare but remain uncommon, according to Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention with UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “I’d say two-thirds of our hospitalizations of individuals who are fully vaccinated are over the age of 60 and have underlying co-morbidities; whether it’s diabetes or obesity. The age is really an important distinction,” said Barron.

Oct 18, 2021 by Channel 7

The small study sounds promising and provides some proof that mixing shots is safe, but Michelle Barron, a senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said more studies are needed.

Oct 11, 2021 by Colorado Sun

Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, says the standards should have been used more widely during the pandemic. Wynia is a national expert on formulating crisis standards of care. He was instrumental in helping Colorado to rewrite its crisis standards during the early weeks of the pandemic, and he has also provided guidance to states and hospitals nationwide.

Oct 8, 2021 by 9News

“We certainly had been seeing some of our numbers go up and down, but never significant enough to say that we’re in decline,” said Michelle Barron, UCHealth Senior Medical Director of Infection Prevention [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Oct 8, 2021

Carey Candrian, PhD, associate professor of medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, is telling stories of LGTBQ women in the exhibit, “Eye to Eye: Portraits of Pride, Strength, Beauty,” opening Thursday, Oct 14, at the Fulginiti Pavilion for Bioethics and Humanities on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. The show features Dr. Candrian’s photo portraits of 20 different women, accompanied by quotes about their struggles being LGBTQ at a time when coming out could mean losing your job, your home, or even your family and friends.

Sep 21, 2021

V. Michael Holers, MD, head of the Division of Rheumatology in the Department of Medicine, and colleagues have been awarded a $3.7 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to establish a Center for Mucosal Immunobiology and Rheumatic Disease Pathogenesis at the CU Anschutz Campus.

Oct 4, 2021 by Fox 31

“If you decide you’re hosting and your rules are ‘no one comes unless you’re vaccinated’ and have no symptoms, then that should be the rule,” Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth, said.

Oct 5, 2021 by Fox 31

The battle against COVID-19 is far from over, but Colorado doctors said there are five recent developments that make them hopeful. “We have a bunch of new stuff coming in the pipeline,” said Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Oct 7, 2021 by Center for Public Integrity

Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, said individual doctors should not have to decide who might receive certain resources when they may not be as focused on how many resources are available more broadly. “You want the doctor at the bedside to be able to serve as the advocate for their patient,” Wynia said. “You don’t want them being the judge deciding between their patients.”

Sep 29, 2021 by Medpage Today

There are also specific obstacles, explained Daniel A. Pollyea, of the University of Colorado: “The longstanding challenge in treating secondary AML has been that these patients, who are usually older, don't respond as well as de novo patients to traditional therapies. And a recently approved treatment involves chemotherapy, which not all secondary AML patients can tolerate, so a lot of them are left out,” he said.

Sep 28, 2021 by Steamboat Pilot & Today

“I am very concerned,” Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention and control for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said last week. “The thought is we are going to have a bad respiratory syndrome season.”

Sep 29, 2021 by Fox 31

“It’s terribly concerning,” said Rebecca Keith, director of the Post-COVID Pulmonary Center at National Jewish Health [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “I mean, COVID is going to have a long-lasting impact I think well into our future. I do think that people who present to our clinics after COVID and potentially enroll in trials, that probably is under-representing the population in general that may have some ongoing symptoms after COVID.”

Sep 18, 2021 by Hilton Head (S.C.) Island Packet

Matthew Wynia, a University of Colorado professor of medicine and health ethics expert, said state authorities should be responsible for establishing strategies needed to make triage decision fairly, so doctors and nurses aren’t left making those calls on their own at a patient’s bedside.

Sep 20, 2021 by KKTV (Colorado Springs)

“This year is a little different than last year in that last year we had school closures, we had mandated masks, we had a lot of uptick in the flu vaccines with the concern that we were going to have this terrible flu case, in addition to COVID. None of that is in place now, or it’s in a limited fashion,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention and control for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Sep 22, 2021 by Fox 31

According to National Jewish Health Allergist Flavia Hoyte [associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], “Most people who have allergies know what their allergies feel like and when they tend to peak.”

Sep 21, 2021 by Steamboat Pilot & Today

“Third doses imply that, for whatever reason, you didn’t have a full response to the (vaccine) series,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention and control for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “A booster implies that you did fine, you got a full response from it, but it’s because of time or for whatever reason, you need your immune system to be reminded about it.”

Sep 16, 2021 by Fox 31

“It’s not considered unsafe, at least based on the students that have been performed in several European countries. The question is whether it’s the right combination, or whether she should just wait for the J&J boosters,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth.

Sep 17, 2021 by CBS4

“They felt like there wasn’t sufficient data to recommend it broadly to all,” Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth, Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] said.

Sep 17, 2021 by Fox 31

Jean Kutner, chief medical officer at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], summarized Friday’s decision by the FDA. “It’s a recommendation process, so we make sure that we’re using the best evidence to keep us all safe from COVID,” she said.

Sep 21, 2021 by CPR News

Michelle Barron from UC Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] said concerned patrons like Hancock should first consider the venue and what the vaccination status might be of those around you. “I think you have to sit down and sort of do the math in your head as to what the implication is, A) you got COVID, or B) What's the real risk?” Barron said.

Sep 19, 2021 by Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Marc Moss, head of the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine-Anschutz, told reporters that frontline health-care workers are approaching a breaking point after providing around-the-clock care for COVID patients for more than 18 months.

Sep 12, 2021 by Healio

For Robert H. Eckel, emeritus professor of medicine in the divisions of cardiology and endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, emeritus professor of physiology and biophysics and Charles A. Boettcher II Chair in Atherosclerosis at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, a desire to learn about the underlying mechanisms driving disease sparked an early interest in what would become groundbreaking research in the fields of lipid metabolism and cardiometabolic health.

Sep 12, 2021 by AJMC

Michael E. Wechsler, a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], discusses the conditions that can develop as a result of abnormal eosinophilic activity.

Sep 14, 2021 by Well + Good

“Any acute viral infection causes a release from the body of inflammatory mediators, which can make us very drowsy,” says UCHealth pulmonologist and sleep specialist Neale R. Lange [assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “It’s an instruction set to our body to increase its temperature—which is why you’ll often get a fever in the first few days of being sick—because a higher temperature helps defend against the virus or bacterium.”

Sep 15, 2021 by Boise State Public Radio

One of the things we insist on in our triage protocols is that the individual doctor at the bedside should not be the one making that decision, because that doctor may not know that there is a bed available in a hospital six doors away,” said Matthew Wynia, founder of the University of Colorado’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities. “So there really needs to be a committee that has good situational awareness of where the beds are, across the city or across the whole state.”

Aug 31, 2021 by NBC News

Adit Ginde, who is researching monoclonal antibodies at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, says awareness is a major problem: “Patients and the general public haven’t generally heard of this treatment.”

Sep 10, 2021 by Denver Post

Adit Ginde, an emergency department physician at UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine], described antibody treatments as one layer in overall protection against COVID-19. The vaccine reduces the probability that a person will be infected at all, or that a vaccinated person’s “breakthrough” infection will be severe.

Sep 10, 2021 by 9News

Anuj Mehta with Denver Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] worked with the state on Colorado’s vaccine distribution plan. “Global pandemic ethics would suggest we should really try to get everyone in the world vaccinated,” said Mehta.

Sep 14, 2021 by Fox 31

“Some of the people that get reinfected may have compromising conditions that affect their immune system,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Sep 13, 2021 by Fox 31

“We continue to follow the science and see where the risk appears and who would potentially benefit most from these things,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Sep 15, 2021 by CBS4

“Hospitalization is really the important measure because we really want to keep people from getting sick enough to have to be admitted to the hospital,” said Thomas Campbell, professor of medicine [at CU School of Medicine] and chief clinical research officer for UCHealth.

Sep 15, 2021 by 9News

“We are definitely continuing to see an increase unfortunately in hospitalizations with this COVID surge, and we’re seeing higher numbers than we have seen in many, many, many, months,” said Jean Kutner, UCHealth’s Chief Medical Officer [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].​ “I think that part of what we’re seeing is for about 18 to 20 months people were not getting their routine care, and so even if they don’t have COVID, they’re still ending up in the hospital, and that is with COVID putting an added strain on,” Anuj Mehta [critical care doctor at Denver Health and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] said. “In terms of our intensive care unit, we’re seeing high censuses of much higher than they were pre-pandemic – not as bad as spring 2020 but not too far from that.”

Sep 6, 2021 by TCTMD

Senior associate editor Pamela Peterson, (Denver Health Medical Center, and CU School of Medicine), and associate editor Sula Mazimba, (University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville), say the burden of CVD in Black communities “remains disproportionately high and is a primary cause of disparities in life expectancy between Black and white individuals.”

Sep 8, 2021 by Chicago Tribune

Laura Scherer, a researcher at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said such distrust for medical authority is nothing new. She co-authored a recent study that found people who believe online misinformation about one health topic, such as phony cancer cures, are apt to believe it about others, like the supposed danger of the human papillomavirus vaccine.

Sep 2, 2021 by 9News

“The new wave of COVID patients in predominantly unvaccinated people may ultimately break the souls of my colleagues,” said Marc Moss, head of Pulmonary Sciences Critical Care Medicine at University of Colorado School of Medicine-Anschutz. “We will continue to provide excellent care to patients, but many healthcare workers are simply exhausted.”

Sep 2, 2021 by CBS4

“After receiving my first vaccine shot in our hospital auditorium, I cried with joy when I realized I might not die in the line of service, and with a sense of relief I immediately returned to the ICU to care for my COVID patients. There was hope. However, that December sense of hope now seems short-lived,” says Marc Moss, Head of The Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine at University of Colorado School of Medicine-Anschutz.

Sep 3, 2021 by Channel 7

Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection prevention and control at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], stressed that enjoying the weekend and staying safe is all about balance. “For these types of activities, the people that are at highest risk of getting COVID and having a complication are the ones that are unvaccinated; the vaccinated ones still could potentially because of just volumes get infected,” Barron said.

Sep 7, 2021 by Fox 31

Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says last year there was not much flu activity at all because people were working from home, many schools operated remotely, and masking was prevalent.

Sep 6, 2021 by Channel 7

Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said there’s an important distinction between a variant of concern and variant of interest. "So it's not a variant of concern. A variant of concern is delta, where we know it's impacting people, we know it's spreading and we know that it's causing problems," Barron said.

Sep 2, 2021 by KUNC

Colorado hospitals are filling with COVID-19 patients again, and medical staff are feeling the stress. Some hospitals are seeing more COVID-19 patients now than this time last year. Michelle Barron is the senior medical director of infection prevention for UC Health [and professor of medicine for CU School of Medicine], overseeing 13 hospitals across the state.

Sep 7, 2021 by 9News

UCHealth’s Chief Medical Officer, Jean Kutner [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said they saw a significant increase in COVID hospitalizations in the last 10 days of August. “We are prepared,” Kutner said. “We were hoping that the story would be different.”

Aug 30, 2021 by Fox 31

Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], is among the staff to receive the third shot so far. “I don’t know the exact number but it’s quite a few. I think it speaks to the number of people wanting to get that extra protection,” Barron said.

Aug 27, 2021 by Channel 7

“The first two doses never get them to the level [of protection] that they need. Getting that third dose will get more of them to the level that’s needed,” said Thomas Campbell, chief clinical research officer with UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. Campbell said vaccine protection significantly drops for people with weak immune systems over time compared to healthy people.

Aug 29, 2021 by Denver Post

Michelle Barron, senior director of infection prevention and control at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said she has “significant concerns” about reaching the levels seen in last winter’s peak again, and it’s likely that seasonal flu will return this year, after it almost disappeared last year due to anti-COVID precautions. Doctors and nurses are taught not to judge patients’ choices when delivering care, but dealing with another wave that could largely have been prevented if more people had gotten vaccinated is taking a toll, Marc Moss, head of pulmonary sciences and critical care medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, said….“I’m afraid that this wave, because of the reason it’s happening… is going to break the souls of health care workers,” he said. “I’m concerned people are just going to say, ‘I can’t do it anymore.’”

Aug 31, 2021 by Fox 31

Elizabeth Harry is the senior medical director of well-being at UCHealth [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] and said they have gone to great lengths to try and limit compassion fatigue by encouraging staff members to talk about it. “The most important thing is to acknowledge it and have an honest dialogue that it’s happening,” she said. “These are really compassionate people, and it is hard to watch suffering.”

Aug 30, 2021 by Channel 7

“The key thing is for people to recognize is that even if you’re younger, you still can end up in the hospital,” said UCHealth senior medical director of infection control and prevention Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “You could end up in the intensive care unit, and you can be quite sick from it.”

Sep 3, 2021 by Department of Medicine

The Department of Medicine announces the 2021-2022 Grand Rounds schedule. This year’s speakers includes 24 of our own expert faculty from the University of Colorado as well as an impressive list of colleagues from other institutions.

Aug 24, 2021 by U.S. News

Still, Robert Eckel, past president of the American Heart Association and immediate past president of medicine and science at the American Diabetes Association [and professor emeritus of medicine at CU School of Medicine], suggested that the findings should be interpreted with caution. “These data in the abstract are interesting,” said Eckel, but are not definitive proof that drinking more water is protective of cardiovascular health.

Aug 19, 2021 by CBS4

“I’ve had some patients that have had breakthrough cases, despite being fully vaccinated,” said David Beuther, a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], who serves as a professor of medicine and the hospital’s chief medical information officer. “They’re grateful that they’re not in the hospital, because who knows, they could have been without the vaccine.”

Aug 20, 2021 by Kaiser Health News

“Arguably, I think that the federal government is simply trying to stay ahead of the curve,” said Joshua Barocas, associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado. But, he said, “I have not seen robust data yet to suggest that it is better to boost Americans who have gotten two vaccines than invest resources and time in getting unvaccinated people across the world vaccinated.”

Aug 23, 2021 by Rocky Mountain PBS

Today’s milestone puts us one step closer to altering the course of this pandemic in the U.S.,” acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock said. In Colorado, Thomas Campbell [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], who called the approval a “landmark,” is hoping for that outcome.

Aug 21, 2021 by CBS4

“We saw that antibody response went from about 48% up to about 68%, so a significant change,” Meghan O’Meara, a nurse practitioner with the organ transplant team at UCHealth University of Colorado [and instructor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] said.

Aug 25, 2021 by 9News

Thomas Campbell is the Chief Clinical Research Officer at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] answered questions about the new findings. What does J&J say about the new findings? “When they were given a second dose of the same vaccine they had a nine-fold increase – that’s a 900% increase – in antibody levels,” Campbell said.

Aug 23, 2021 by Fox 31

Ivor Douglas, director of the intensive care unit at Denver Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says attention should be paid to how successful Colorado has been in keeping COVID-19 numbers down compared to other states. “This is not Alabama, this is not Texas and not Florida. But we are in trouble,” Douglas said.

Aug 25, 2021 by Colorado Sun

For Marc Moss [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], the day begins before 7 a.m. Time for rounds. These are anxious weeks again in the intensive care unit at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, where Moss works. After a decline in patients earlier this summer that the hospital’s doctors and nurses had hoped signaled the effective end of the coronavirus pandemic, the number of people in the unit sick with COVID-19 is rising again.

Aug 4, 2021 by Department of Medicine

Congratulations to all Department of Medicine faculty who were named on this year's list.

Aug 16, 2021 by Healio

“Rivaroxaban was clearly beneficial in patients with chronic kidney disease and was particularly effective at reducing the risk of limb events in patients — that is, acute limb ischemia and above-the-knee amputation,” Judith Hsia, with the department of medicine at University of Colorado School of Medicine, told Healio.

Aug 13, 2021 by The Atlantic

“Having a PFO [patent foramen ovale] is not a risk factor for stroke in general,” John Carroll, a cardiologist and a professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, told me. “In most people,” he said, “it’s an innocent remnant of the fetal circulation. You could close a quarter of the U.S. population and probably bring benefit to a very small number of those people.”

Aug 12, 2021 by Tallahassee Democrat

Over the past year, there has been a surge of migrants heading to the U.S. from countries in Central America, predominantly Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador….But migrants aren’t thought to be a significant source of the coronavirus variants circulating in the U.S. “There is no evidence whatsoever that this is a true statement,” Carlos Franco-Paredes, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, said in an email.

Aug 13, 2021 by Fox 31

At UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, medical director of liver transplantation and section head of hepatology James Burton [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] said more than half of his patients have some kind of alcohol-related liver disease. “When the mayor shut down the city and closed down the liquor stores and everyone had a run in the liquor stores, I mean, that really showed that this was a problem,” Burton said.

Aug 17, 2021 by CBS4

Thomas Campbell, Chief Clinical Research Officer for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said the vaccines are effective but will need boosters over time. “The primary series we currently do of two doses doesn’t work well enough,” Campbell said.

Aug 17, 2021 by Fox 31

“There’s many ways to game the system,” said Thomas Campbell, the chief clinical researcher for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. He has some advice for anyone considering that. “I would say don’t do it. We don’t know if it’s necessary for you. We don’t know what the risks are for you doing that. I’d say be patient and wait for further guidance from your health care provider,” Campbell said.

Aug 18, 2021 by Fox 31

The Problem Solvers posed five booster questions to Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] after U.S. health officials announced their recommendation that patients who received the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine get one booster shot eight months after their last does.

Aug 17, 2021 by 9News

This week the Biden administration could recommend booster shots for Americans who received a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine – before that can happen, the Food and Drug Administration must authorize it. Many people have questions about COVID, boosters, variants and vaccines, so we took them to UCHealth Senior Medical Director of Infection Prevention, Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Aug 16, 2021 by Fox 31

“It’s something that’s been percolating along, and I think we’ve anticipated that boosters would be potentially something in the future,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “The fact that they’re applying I don’t think is anything that should be a surprise.”

Aug 12, 2021 by 9News

“We can have COVID, which is potentially going to surge, and then on top of that potentially flu and other respiratory viruses as well. In our thinking it’s not just thinking COVID but thinking broadly,” said Michelle Barron, an infectious disease specialist with UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine].

Aug 10, 2021 by TCTMD

Since renal impairment is common among PAD patients and can increase blood levels of rivaroxaban, the trial investigators sought to assess whether the benefit of the therapy in this patient population outweighed any major increase in bleeding, said lead author Judith Hsia (University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora).

Aug 9, 2021 by Fox 31

Todd Bull, a pulmonologist with UCHealth and the director of University of Colorado Hospital’s Comprehensive Lung and Breathing Program, said particulate matter from the fire travels in the atmosphere. The particles are so small they are unable to be seen by the human eye. But all together, they create the haze in the sky. “Most Coloradans have sat around a campfire, and when that smoke shifts towards you, that’s what your experiencing,” Bull said.

Aug 9, 2021 by CBS4

“If your eyes are really irritated you can buy over-the-counter saline or saltwater drops without medication just to lubricate dry eyes,” said David Beuther, a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health. If you have a sore throat, you can use lozenges. Sinus issues can be helped with a saline rinse like a neti pot or squeeze bottle, also sold over the counter. Beuther adds, “And even gargling some of that saltwater solution can help your throat.”

Aug 10, 2021 by 9News

"...this kind of persistent regional haze and in particular pollution combined with the ozone for days and weeks on end is pretty unusual. And I think it's becoming more common, which is a big concern," said David Beuther with National Jewish Health, a Denver hospital that specializes in respiratory treatment.

Aug 8, 2021 by CBS4

“Most healthy patients are going to have some sort of irritating symptoms that are temporary, like irritation of the eyes, the throat, dry mouth, and maybe even some cough or chest tightness,” said David Beuther, a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Aug 7, 2021 by Steamboat Pilot & Today

“PM 2.5 matters,” said Jeff Sippel, a pulmonologist with the UCHealth Comprehensive Lung and Breathing Program in Aurora….PM 2.5 is shorthand for fine particulate matter that is more dangerous to human health because the microscopic particles of air pollution can get deep into human lungs or even into the blood stream, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Aug 7, 2021 by Fox 31

“I think most people can get out and exercise regularly, with a few important clarifiers,” Jeff Sippel with UCHealth said. “What I would recommend is early in the morning is going to be better, perhaps later in the evening after the air has settled, and after a rainstorm, things like that, to minimize the exposure.”

Aug 8, 2021 by Fox 31

“So that really acknowledges the unfortunate importance of, how’s California doing? How’s Washington doing? Our fates are all linked,” said Jeff Sippel [associate professor of clinical practice of medicine at CU School of Medicine] with UCHealth. Sippel says UCHealth’s pulmonary clinics have been busy this week, with patients reporting eye and throat irritation, and asthma exacerbations.

Aug 9, 2021 by Channel 7

Requiring health care workers to get vaccines isn't anything new. In recent years, Michelle Barron, the medical director of infection control and prevention at the hospital, says workers statewide had to get the flu shot, along with any other vaccine required for employment, like mumps and measles. But even then, people put their body over their job. “We did go through the termination process. Luckily, there wasn’t that many. It was under ten people at that time. But we still did this,” Barron said.

Aug 9, 2021 by CBS4

“We have very good data looking at individuals that have received vaccination, did not receive vaccination, and looked at whether or not the rates of vaccination in those groups are the same. It’s not. If you just had natural immunity, your risk of getting infected is twice the amount of if you got vaccinated,” said Michelle Barron.

Aug 9, 2021 by 9News

“This is the most scrutinized vaccine that’s been given in our history,” Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention and control [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said. “It is safe. It is highly effective, and it is the way we are going to get ourselves out of this pandemic.” Barron said the majority of UCHealth employees disagreed with the group of protesters outside the hospital Monday.

Aug 7, 2021 by Associated Press via MSN

But the verdict is still out on whether the general population might need them, said Michelle Barron, senior medical director for infection prevention at UCHealth, a not-for-profit health care system. She said the best data in favor of possible boosters is for people whose immune systems are compromised.

Aug 6, 2021 by Channel 7

Senior Medical Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] says time is of the essence, and people need to stop waiting and debating and get vaccinated. “There has been over a billion vaccines given across the world. They are safe, they are highly effective, and if we are ever going to get back to some type of normalcy, everybody has to pitch in, and everybody has to care about somebody beyond themselves,” Barron said.

Aug 10, 2021 by 9News

“There’s was a concern that anthrax might be weaponized and be used as a biological or bioterrorism weapon to attack the United States – to attack the United States military,” said Thomas Campbell, UCHealth Chief Clinical Research Officer [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Aug 12, 2021 by CBS4

“It’s affecting everyone across all sorts of different levels of education, religion, etc.,” said Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection prevention and control at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “There is no one who is potentially being spared.”

Aug 12, 2021

Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc, chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Michigan Health System, has been named chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, effective Oct. 18, 2021.

Aug 3, 2021 by Eat This, Not That!

“This amount has been shown to help reduce your risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, depression, stroke, type 2 diabetes, colon and breast cancer, and decreased cognitive function,” Judith Regensteiner, director and a founder of the Center for Women’s Health Research at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, told Consumer Reports.

Jul 31, 2021 by The New York Times

Last season, Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], advised the franchise on Covid-related issues. As the vaccine became widely available this spring, she led informational sessions with the team and privately with players’ families if requested.

Aug 4, 2021 by Channel 7

Thomas Campbell, a professor of medicine [at CU School of Medicine] and chief clinical research officer for UCHealth, said people who are immunosuppressed — which includes people battling cancer, people with chronic conditions that require treatment and those who have received an organ or bone marrow transplant — are at a higher risk of a breakthrough case. That means they can contract the virus even if they are fully vaccinated, according to Campbell.

Aug 2, 2021 by CBS4

Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] heads the infection prevention department at UCHealth, one of the Denver metro area’s largest testing providers. “I don’t know if it’s all being fueled by delta (variant), but I think we are seeing an increase in the number of tests being done,” Barron said.

Aug 2, 2021 by Reuters

“This is like a wildfire, this is not a smoldering campfire. It is full-on flames right now,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention and control at Colorado’s UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Aug 5, 2021 by 9News

“You can still enjoy time with your friends and family,” said Michelle Barron with UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine]. “But knowing the status of vaccination is a big deal, and I think that’s something I would include in the equation.” Barron is referring to COVID precautions to consider, including masks, when it comes to getting together with people, going out and big crowds.

Jul 29, 2021 by KOAA

Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention and control for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says no matter what you may believe your risk level is to COVID-19, the delta variant is on the move right now. “The spread is real, if you look at the numbers and the reports coming out of the states that are really having horrible surges at their hospitals … that is real. There is no doubt about that.”

Jul 29, 2021 by Fox 31

“The professional ethics around here are quite clear: If you are a health professional and you’ve taken an oath not to harm your patients, and if you catch COVID — even if you’re asymptomatic, and you end up giving it to a patient, that is the very definition of unethical for a healthcare professional,” said Matthew Wynia, director of bioethics and humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Jul 27, 2021 by Denver Business Journal

“We’re very excited and grateful for the high ranking,” said Jean Kutner, chief medical officer for the University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “What it shows is, while collective attention has been on Covid-19, we have continued to take care of all of our patients and the other diseases and illnesses they have. We focus on quality and the safety of those patients.”

Jul 26, 2021 by CBS4

Michelle Barron, the Senior Medical Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says the number of cases there has gone up, once again. “About 6% of our COVID patients are in the vaccinated — that means 94% are unvaccinated,” she said.

Jul 28, 2021 by Denver Post

Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said patients and visitors to the hospital won’t have to get the shot, though they’re encouraged to do so. The Oct. 1 deadline is meant to give everyone “ample opportunity” to schedule their shots around summer vacations and other commitments, she said. “The focus is the safety of our staff, our patients, our visitors,” she said.

Jul 29, 2021 by The Coloradoan (Fort Collins)

A study led by D. Ross Camidge, director of thoracic oncology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and CU Cancer Center member, has helped to define MET amplification as a rare but potentially actionable driver for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Jul 21, 2021 by Technology Networks

A study led by D. Ross Camidge, director of thoracic oncology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and CU Cancer Center member, has helped to define MET amplification as a rare but potentially actionable driver for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Jul 19, 2021 by OncLive

Daniel Pollyea, associate professor of medicine/hematology, and the clinical director of Leukemia Services at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, discusses indications for anti-CD33 therapy in the treatment of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

Jul 18, 2021 by The Gazette (Colorado Springs)

Erik Wallace, associate dean and associate professor of medicine for the Colorado Springs branch of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, founded the grassroots group with the goal of reducing the community’s deaths by suicide using guns through education and awareness. … “It’s going to take time, but if you limit access to lethal means, the chance of dying from a suicide decreases,” Wallace said.

Jul 20, 2021 by Longmont Leader

It’s essential, however, to take individual health status into account when deciding how to best reduce the risks of ozone exposure, said Todd Bull, pulmonologist and director of the Comprehensive Lung and Breathing Program at the University of Colorado Hospital.

Jul 12, 2021 by CPR News

Lily Cervantes, an associate professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine at Denver Health and CU School of Medicine, interviewed in segment “Life Expectancy In Colorado Fell Sharply During The Pandemic, Especially For People Of Color,” on Colorado Matters.

Jul 15, 2021 by CPR News

“I think what the data are basically showing is that, by neighborhood, cases are higher in neighborhoods where people live in closer contact,” said Lilia Cervantes, an associate professor in the department of medicine at Denver Health [and CU School of Medicine].

Jul 14, 2021 by CBS4

“The initial estimates from the original strain of COVID were that you would likely spread it to two or three people. With the Delta variant, it’s more like four to five people. And then those four to five people go on to spread it to four or five more people,” said Michelle Barron, an infectious disease expert at UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine].

Jul 15, 2021 by 9News

Michelle Barron with UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine] said doctors’ understanding so far is that a person’s natural immunity to COVID is a lot more tailored to what specifically happened to their body, while the vaccine is more encompassing, including protection against variants.

Jul 14, 2021 by 9News

“We know viruses, respiratory viruses like colds, can cause asthma exacerbations,” said Anne Fuhlbrigge, a pulmonologist with UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] and co-investigator in the study. “That is playing a role in this. There was less exposure to other people, social distancing and masks -- allowed asthma patients to be free from other viruses.”

Jul 14, 2021 by CBS4

UCHealth Senior Director of Infection Prevention, Michelle Barron, is following the research. “We know that these are probably not going to last our lifetime, so without question, at some point, we probably will need another shot just like we do with flu or tetanus,” said Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “With these variants that are circulating, does that impact the efficacy? I think that’s the ongoing debate.”

Jul 10, 2021 by NPR

All this portends a more uneven pandemic, says Fernando Holguin, [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine and] a pulmonologist and critical care doctor at the Latino Research and Policy Center at the Colorado School of Public Health. He worries cases, hospitalizations and deaths will keep flaring up in less-vaccinated communities, especially predominantly Hispanic communities in parts of Colorado or other states where overall vaccination rates are poor.

Jul 15, 2021 by NBC News

Natasha Altman, a cardiologist at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], agreed that it may be too soon to understand the vaccines’ effects on long-term Covid-19 symptoms. “I think the trends are going to only really going to start bearing out in the next six months,” she said.

Jul 7, 2021 by Health Central

“When your body is inflamed from RA, your body diverts its energy to healing,” explains Kevin Deane, a professor of rheumatology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Jul 2, 2021 by Infectious Disease Special Edition

“We found that innate immune markers increased in frequency in modern people from the town compared with plague victims,” said Paul Norman, an associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus. “This suggests these markers might have evolved to resist the plague.”

Jul 3, 2021 by Denver Post

“It’s as if we’ve been in a war zone for the last year,” said Marc Moss, head of the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, who has researched burnout among hospital workers. “It’s not anyone’s fault. We have tough jobs and we see tragedy.”

Jul 6, 2021 by The New York Times

Carlos Franco-Paredes, an associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine who has inspected immigration detention centers during the pandemic, said that several factors were to blame for the surge, including transfers of detainees between facilities, insufficient testing and lax Covid-19 safety measures.

Jul 8, 2021 by News Medical

“Unfortunately, until we can safely, rapidly, and affordably vaccinate enough people to achieve collective immunity, we cannot afford to disregard the benefits of naturally acquired immunity in those whose prior documented infections have already run their course,” writes Martin Krsak [assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] and colleagues.

Jul 7, 2021 by Channel 7

“Delta is here,” Michelle Barron said. Barron is the senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth. She says the delta variant isn’t going away anytime soon. “The part that’s concerning is the delta variant is highly, highly contagious — more contagious than the standard COVID virus we saw at the beginning. Actually 60% potentially more contagious.”

Jul 6, 2021 by 9News

“The presence of the delta variant, which is significantly more contagious, but also has been shown to have poorer outcomes, people get sicker from it, is probably what we’re seeing represented with that,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Jun 21, 2021 by Healio

Previously, the SOLOIST-WHF trial showed that sotagliflozin reduced cardiovascular deaths as well as hospitalizations and urgent visits for heart failure among patients with diabetes who were recently hospitalized for worsening heart failure, Michael Szarek, a visiting professor in the division of cardiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, told Healio Primary Care.

Jun 24, 2021 by Medpage Today

“With a response rate of 14%, and only half of that population showing a significant durable response, it is certainly problematic, and doesn’t predict clinical benefit,” said Christopher Lieu, of the University of Colorado. “I think everyone feels the pressure and stress of trying to improve treatment options for what is essentially an orphan disease, but unfortunately the response is simply too low to support the indication at this time.”

Jun 24, 2021 by Steamboat Pilot & Today

The general rule of thumb is the worse the air quality is then the shorter amount of time residents should spend outdoors, said Todd Bull, director of the Center for Lungs and Breathing at UCHealth Pulmonary Vascular Disease Clinic part of Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. “It doesn’t take much exposure. If you have underlying respiratory disease, even a short exposure can result in significant worsening of breathing,” said Bull, who works in pulmonary disease and critical care medicine.

Jun 20, 2021 by Denver Gazette

Matthew Wynia is a Professor in the Schools of Medicine and Public Health and Director of the University of Colorado’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities, located on the Anschutz Medical Campus: “I’m not usually a fan of lotteries — they’re a tax on people who are bad at math, my math teacher once joked. But unlike a lottery, which requires buying a ticket, entry into the COVID-19 vaccination sweepstakes is automatic and free for everyone who gets the vaccine. Here’s why I’m in favor of them.”

Jun 18, 2021 by Denver Post

“It’s been so interesting because for the last year with COVID, we basically didn’t see anything else and it was such a bizarre thing to see,” said Michelle Barron, senior director of infection prevention and control at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Jun 22, 2021 by Fox 31

“We can use a pill as post exposure medication. For example, we do that in influenza patients. In a nursing home, if somebody comes down with influenza – then the other people who have been in association with the person who had the flu – take the pill to prevent them from the influenza,” said Lakshmi Chauhan, an infectious disease expert with UCHealth [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Jun 28, 2021 by Department of Medicine

The University of Colorado Department of Medicine is pleased to announce the 2021 recipients of the Outstanding Early Career Scholars Program (OECSP) awards: William Cornwell, MD; Katharina Hopp, PhD; and Christine Swanson, MD.

Jun 15, 2021 by Best Life

“The association between caffeine and heart failure risk reduction was surprising,” David P. Kao, the study’s senior author, assistant professor of cardiology, and medical director at the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, said in a statement.

Jun 15, 2021 by SciTech Daily

“While smoking, age and high blood pressure are among the most well-known heart disease risk factors, unidentified risk factors for heart disease remain,” according to David P. Kao, senior author of the study, assistant professor of cardiology and medical director at the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Jun 15, 2021 by CPR News

Denver has hit the 70 percent threshold for resident vaccination, but some of its Latino neighborhoods are getting vaccinated at much lower rates, according to Lilia Cervantes, an associate professor in the department of medicine at Denver Health [and CU School of Medicine].​

Jun 11, 2021 by KUNC (Greeley)

“If people don’t like the idea of an incentive, you have to think: okay, so what are the alternatives?” said Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz. “Because in the end, for many vaccines we have, if the vaccine is important, we have had to implement mandates in order to keep people vaccinated over time.”

Jun 11, 2021 by Fox 31

“It is generally recommended if you’re going to get multiple vaccines that you sort of distribute them on different arms so that [your child is] not completely in pain the rest of the day. But yeah, you can get a COVID shot, a flu shot – whatever they need – you can get them all at the same time,” said Michelle Barron, Senior Medical Director of Infection Prevention & Control at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Jun 13, 2021 by Fox 31

Bill Cornwell with University of Colorado Hospital [and CU School of Medicine] says the condition called “Myocarditis” is rare and it’s unclear at this point if there is a link to the vaccine. “The obvious concern is that in some way, somehow the vaccine stimulates your immune system and which then acts against your heart, causing injury to your heart,” said Cornwell.

Jun 13, 2021 by 9News

Michelle Barron is an infectious disease expert at UC Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. She said it is good news that trends are moving in the right direction for now but testing can’t just go away. “COVID has done this lovely rollercoaster and so in the summer months we might get a bit of a reprieve but that doesn’t mean we are done with this,” Barron said.

Jun 15, 2021 by Fox 31

“People’s bubbles, if you didn’t follow the rules of the bubble, you got kicked out of the bubble, right? Or some people never had bubbles so I can see this as being a very philosophical dividing thing and can see how this would be of concern,” said Michelle Barron, Senior Medical Director of Infection Prevention & Control at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Jun 11, 2021 by NBC News

It’s been the same for Ken Lyn-Kew, a pulmonologist in the critical care department at National Jewish Health [and clinical instructor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]: “None of our ICU patients has been vaccinated.” Unvaccinated children, too, seem to be at increased risk for severe illness.

May 28, 2021 by Medscape

When Marisha Burden, division head of hospital medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, would go to medical conferences, it seemed as if very few women were giving talks. Could she be wrong? she wondered.

Jun 7, 2021 by PBS News Hour

Carey Candrian from the University of Colorado School of Medicine is a scientist who has spent much of her career investigating how healthcare can be compromised if an open discussion with patients is avoided. Candrian offers her Brief But Spectacular view on reimagining the language we use in healthcare, especially around elderly LBGTQ members.

Jun 6, 2021 by Fox 31

UCHealth is holding a vaccination clinic at a bus on the concourse at section 116/117. Anyone wanting to get the Johnson & Johnson one shot COVID-19 vaccine can do so at the stadium. “There are 90 people on the schedule. We have 70 players and coaches and 20 fans total,” Jean Kutner [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], with UCHealth said.

Jun 9, 2021 by Fox 31

“If you look at different data sets, it all shows the same thing: as the uptake of vaccines goes up, the number of cases goes down,” said Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “I just want to make sure people don’t get complacent. If you haven’t gotten your vaccine, it’s still important that you get it.”

Jun 14, 2021 by CU Anschutz Today

University of Colorado Department of Medicine and Rice University researchers teamed up on a non-invasive diagnostic that changes color as a biomarker of active inflammatory bowel disease. The engineered strain of the harmless gut bacteria E. coli senses fluctuations in pH levels, changing color as the pH decreases.

May 23, 2021 by FreeThink

His current collaborator, Colorado immunology professor Sean Colgan, points out, specifically, “It turns out that measuring pH within the intestine through noninvasive ways is quite difficult.” But those tens of thousands of genetic sensors in bacteria can do the job just fine.

May 20, 2021 by Livestrong.com

Acid reflux — or heartburn — occurs when stomach acid flows backward into the esophagus, Jennifer Czwornog, gastroenterologist with UCHealth Gastroenterology Clinic at Cherry Creek Medical Center [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], tells LIVESTRONG.com.

May 21, 2021 by CBS4

Chris Lieu, the Associate Director of Clinical Research at the CU Cancer Center, explained the change stems from an increase in the number of colorectal cancer cases among younger people.

May 21, 2021 by Explica.co

“We found that innate immune markers were increased in frequency in contemporary society compared to plague victims, suggesting that these markers may have evolved to resist plague,” concludes the study’s co-lead author Paul Norman, associate professor in the Division of Personalized Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

May 24, 2021 by Physician's Weekly

Session co-chair and pediatric pulmonologist Jennifer Taylor-Cousar, of National Jewish Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said it is important to determine the safety and efficacy of monoclonal antibody treatments in this group of at-risk younger children. “At National Jewish we take care of some really sick, complicated kids,” she said. “(This treatment) is not indicated for my 8-year-old patient with interstitial lung disease, but it sure made me nervous not to give it to her.”

May 24, 2021 by Fox 31

“Opioids are easy to prescribe — and yes, they are effective. They will alleviate your pain. The problem is they are not the recommended first line treatment for pain,” said Bill Cornwell, a cardiologist with University of Colorado Hospital [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. Cornwell helps treat patients at UCHealth’s post-COVID clinic. He says identifying effective treatment for long-haulers is a moving target.

May 27, 2021 by CBS4

“Other countries are having huge surges, and the need for them to get even just one vaccine probably trumps any need for a booster at this point,” said UCHealth Senior Director of Infection Prevention, Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “But that can change on a dime.”

May 20, 2021 by 9News

Michelle Barron with UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine] says there's no definite answer, but it probably has a lot to do with COVID infection rates staying low.

May 25, 2021 by Real Simple

Additionally, Bill Cornwell, [assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] a cardiologist at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital who works with patients at the hospital’s Post-COVID Clinic, notes that some of the symptoms in more serious cases of the infection may include severe difficulty breathing, chest pressure and/or pain, and confusion.

May 14, 2021 by AJMC

There are likely to be multiple mechanisms accounting for the relationship between these 2 conditions, said Fernando Holguin, a pulmonologist and critical care doctor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Holguin discussed these topics at this year's American Thoracic Society (ATS) meeting.

May 13, 2021 by KOAA (Pueblo)

Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says many drugs are generally dosed based on a person’s weight because that’s how those medicines work the best. “If you're taking a medication by mouth or by IV (intravenously), the idea is that you're trying to get a concentration into your bloodstream.”

May 19, 2021 by CBS4

Thomas Campbell is the principal investigator of the study and Chief Clinical Research Officer of UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. Results from a UK study showed the vaccine was 96% effective against the original COVID virus, 86% against the UK variant.

May 17, 2021 by Channel 7

Michelle Barron, the medical director of infection control and prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, said the latest guidance from the CDC was meant to show people who are still on the fence about getting the vaccine some of the benefits that come with it, besides protecting yourself from COVID-19, though she admitted she was a bit nervous about how people were going to take the information.

May 14, 2021 by CPR News

Michelle Barron, [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] who specializes in infectious diseases at UCHealth called it a “calculated gamble” that may result in increased vaccination rates. “I think it’s a very calculated gamble. I think the odds are in its favor...” Barron said. “And I really do think it will incentivize a lot of people (to get vaccinated), but we'll see.”

May 14, 2021 by CBS4

Studies are showing that those vaccinated, without other health risks, are well protected. “I actually agree with that completely,” said Michelle Barron, an infectious diseases specialist with UCHealth Hospital [and CU School of Medicine].

May 18, 2021 by Department of Medicine

The University of Colorado Department of Medicine announces the 2021-22 Program for Academic Clinician Education (PACE) Scholars.

May 11, 2021 by HuffPost

“Some countries may require a negative COVID-19 test before entry, including returning to the U.S.,” said Andrés Henao, an internal medicine physician, infectious disease specialist, and director of the UCHealth Travel Clinic [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “Visit a travel clinic before international travel for more comprehensive prevention recommendations.”

May 7, 2021 by Vox

The problems start with the death certificate. Ivor Douglas, chief of the Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Medicine division at the Denver Health Medical Center [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], explained that death certificates emphasize the primary cause of death, which is the most immediate condition leading to the fatality. Death certificates also have space for secondary and indirect causes.

May 10, 2021 by 9News

Thomas Campbell, UCHealth’s chief clinical research officer [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], updated 9NEWS on the trial so far.

May 10, 2021 by Channel 7

Thomas Campbell, a University of Colorado School of Medicine and UCHealth virologist and infectious-disease specialist, spoke with Denver7 about the future of booster shots and their efficacy with COVID-19 variants.

May 6, 2021 by Eat This, Not That!

“A lot of them are requiring ICU care,” said Michelle Barron, head of infection prevention and control at UCHealth, one of Colorado’s large hospital systems, [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] as compared with earlier in the pandemic.

May 6, 2021 by 9News

We talked to Richard Zane with UCHealth, Connie Price with Denver Health [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] and Jim Neid with HealthOne.

May 6, 2021 by CBS4

“They pulled together six different modeling teams and they took six different looks at what would happen over the next several months and all six different models agreed we would hit a peak,” said UCHealth Hospital [and CU School of Medicine] Infectious disease specialist David Beckham.

May 12, 2021 by Denverite

Gaby Frank was in Argentina in December 2019 when she first got reports about a new respiratory infection in China. The disease did not have a name. The reports from specialists around the world only mentioned multiple cases of pneumonia. Frank, who’s a hospitalist at Denver Health [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], is trained in managing viral outbreaks.​

May 2, 2021 by Fox 31

Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth, is not only armed with the knowledge to battle the virus, she is also filled with an experience that allows her to understand the emotional pain. “I could really empathize with family and patients in terms of what they were going through,” Barron said.

May 5, 2021 by Rocky Mountain PBS

The COVID-19 pandemic is the kind of health catastrophe that Michelle Barron has spent decades preparing for. It's “not something you hope for, but you always think about and plan for, and obviously your training goes into motion,” she said. Barron is the senior medical director of infection prevention and control for UCHealth, which praises her as “the top infectious disease expert in Colorado.”

Apr 30, 2021 by 9News

For the past year, Michelle Barron has shared her expertise in the field of infectious disease. The Senior Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] is a frequent voice in 9NEWS stories, sharing updates on the pandemic and vaccine efforts.

May 4, 2021 by AAMC

For Sunita Sharma, COVID-19 started out simple. In September, a week after working in an intensive care unit, the pulmonologist developed muscle aches and a low-grade fever for a couple of days. But tougher symptoms soon hit. Sharma, who works at UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine] in Aurora, Colorado, developed sweats that drenched her sheets and a cough so bad she could barely talk.

Apr 30, 2021 by Rocky Mountain PBS

Sarah Jolley of UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine], who was Cindy Schulz’s COVID outpatient rehabilitation doctor, called hers a “pretty unique case. One, [to] have reinfection with COVID, and then also to have reinfection that results in being as sick as Cindy was the second time around and needing to go to the hospital and requiring a fair bit of oxygen for her COVID infection.”

May 4, 2021 by Colorado Springs Gazette

The variant, first discovered in Brazil, is more likely to reinfect people who have already had COVID-19 compared to the original virus, said David Beckham, associate professor of infectious disease at the University of Colorado.

May 3, 2021 by Fox 31

Experts say it is better to keep a mask handy as rules vary for different circumstances. “Having a mask is just courtesy I think,” said infectious disease expert Michelle Barron of UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine].

May 5, 2021 by Bakersfield

“A lot of them are requiring ICU care,” said Michelle Barron, head of infection prevention and control at UCHealth, one of Colorado’s large hospital systems, as compared with earlier in the pandemic. The median age of COVID-19 patients at UCHealth hospitals has dropped by more than 10 years in the past few weeks, from 59 down to about 48 years old, Barron said. “I think we will continue to see that, especially if there’s not a lot of vaccine uptake in these groups,” she said.

Apr 26, 2021 by STAT

“The problem with the Apple Watch is that it’s sort of screening everybody and there’s such a high rate of false positives,” said Michael Rosenberg, an electrophysiologist at the University of Colorado who published a paper in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, on the use of machine learning to predict A-fib and other conditions.

Apr 27, 2021 by KVNF (Paonia)

Kate Redmond interviews two COVID ‘long haulers’ about coronavirus symptoms that they have had for months. She also speaks with Bill Cornwell [assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] of UCHealth in Aurora on the medical phenomena of patients who are not getting better long after their covid diagnosis.

Apr 27, 2021 by NPR

At hospitals run by the University of Colorado, Michelle Barron says the median age of COVID patients has dropped by more than a decade. It’s now people in their late 40s. “A lot of them are requiring ICU care, whereas before, a lot of them were more so just on the floor and still requiring hospitalization but not quite as sick.”

Apr 27, 2021 by Journal-Advocate (Sterling)

“Interestingly, some of our patients who’ve had COVID in the past have noted that their symptoms improve after receiving the COVID vaccine. People will say that all of a sudden their shortness of breath or their fatigue start to get better. However, this is not everybody,” said Rebecca Keith, a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Apr 26, 2021 by KKTV (Colorado Springs)

“There’s a spectrum,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth. “Some people had no symptoms, and so you’re worrying about some things that may not even happen. ... Younger people seem to have more reactions than older people. That probably is something to do with just their immune system being more robust.”

Apr 23, 2021 by Fox 31

Michelle Barron, Senior Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said speaking with friends and family about their vaccine experiences can soothe concerns. “The vaccine has proven to be very safe, and getting it can protect not only you but your family and friends as well,” said Barron.

Apr 23, 2021 by Channel 7

Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], told Denver7 she was excited about the outcome because it could help end the pandemic.

Apr 22, 2021 by The New York Times

Matthew Wynia, an ethicist and infectious disease physician at the University of Colorado, said that health officials faced a frightening trade-off in choosing between a pause and warning: They would know only hypothetically the lives a pause may have cost, but they would know exactly who may have suffered or died from clots.

Apr 25, 2021 by CBS4

Denver Health Medical Center’s chief medical officer Connie Price [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] noted, “It’s an incredibly rare event and probably does greater good for the population is what the verdict was and in that regard, it’s not a surprise.”

Apr 28, 2021 by Department of Medicine

Robert Schwartz, MD, to retire as head of Division of Geriatrics, and Dan Matlock, MD, has been appointed interim division head.

Apr 28, 2021 by Department of Medicine

Kathleen Barnes, PhD, division head of the Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine (BIPM), and the founding director of the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine (CCPM) has been appointed the Departmental Endowed Chair in Medicine.

Apr 15, 2021 by Denver Post

Testing is important, but it’s only useful if facilities that use it to make good decisions about housing prisoners, said Carlos Franco-Paredes, an infectious diseases specialist at UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine] who works with incarcerated populations. . . . “What matters is not the number of tests, but how do you use that information from testing,” he said.

Apr 21, 2021 by CBS4

“Today, Novavax began what we call a blinded crossover,” said Thomas Campbell, [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine and] lead investigator at the study site at UCHealth, one of 115 sites.

Apr 15, 2021 by CBS4

“I feel like it’s just another thing that we knew was likely to happen,” said Michelle Barron, Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “The idea behind a booster is to stimulate your immune system. It’s something that your body has potentially now seen before with the first vaccine, so it’s not starting over in terms of the education of the immune response.”

Apr 19, 2021 by 9News

“I would definitely say the pandemic is not over yet,” said Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “Somewhere between 70%, 80% is probably the point at which we will feel comfortable that enough people are protected that it’s not going to spread.”

Apr 17, 2021 by Greeley Tribune

Michelle Barron a top infectious disease expert in Colorado affiliated with UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FDA recommended pausing use of the J&J vaccine on April 13 due to an association with rare blood clotting issues in six women between the ages of 18-48.

Apr 15, 2021 by 5280

While it may be tempting to move about more freely after getting the first dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines (it does offer some immunity), UCHealth infectious disease specialist Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] advises against it. “I think it gives people a false sense of security,” she says.

Apr 8, 2021 by Science Times

“It is a receptor that surveils the intercellular compartment of a cell, looking for danger molecules or pathogens,” said Carlo Marchetti of the CU Cancer Center and among the authors of the study.

Apr 7, 2021 by Study Finds

“Longitudinally, we were able to see that within an individual, changes in the microbiome were associated with changes in behavior,” says principal study investigator Catherine Lozupone, a microbiologist at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus, in a media release.

Apr 12, 2021 by Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch

“It’s more than licorice sticks. It could be jelly beans, licorice teas, a lot of things over the counter. Even some beers, like Belgian beers, have this compound in it,” as do some chewing tobaccos, said Robert Eckel, a University of Colorado cardiologist and former American Heart Association president.

Apr 13, 2021 by The Colorado Trust

“Data suggests that primary care providers aren’t comfortable even with routine trans care,” says Micol Rothman, an endocrinologist at the UCHealth Integrated Transgender Program who helps teach the ECHO Colorado classes. For example, trans men who still have a cervix require a Pap smear to test for cancer, something that some providers aren’t comfortable doing: “So many patients have experiences of having to teach their providers these things. It’s exhausting.”

Apr 12, 2021 by WebMD

Sarah Jolley, a pulmonologist specializing in critical care at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora and director of the Post-COVID Clinic, said, “In this cohort, similar to others, this seems to be more pronounced in women.”

Apr 9, 2021 by Medscape

“These data mirror what we have seen across long-term cohorts of patients with COVID-19 infection. Notably, mild illness among previously healthy individuals may be associated with long-term persistent symptoms,” said Sarah Jolley, a pulmonologist specializing in critical care at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital and director of the Post-COVID Clinic [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Apr 14, 2021 by Denver Business Journal

Chief Scientific Officer Charles Dinarello, a major player in this corner of biology, is a distinguished professor at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. “He discovered the field of cytokine biology,” Olatec CEO Damaris Skouras said. “He has tireless commitment to Olatec and the next generation of inflammation therapeutics. ... Between Aurora and Boulder, where our regulatory team is based, Colorado is a hub for us, and a very important one.”

Apr 14, 2021 by NBC Sports

In an effort to make sure everyone associated with the team understands that the vaccine is safe and effective, Michelle Barron, an infectious diseases expert at UCHealth and the CU School of Medicine, will lead a virtual educational seminar for the entire organization on Friday.

Apr 13, 2021 by Castle Rock News Press

Radhika Acharya-Leon, section chief for medical oncology at Highlands Ranch Hospital [and assistant professor of family medicine for CU School of Medicine], said the consequences of delayed treatment are starting to emerge each day where the disease is more progressed in colon, breast, prostate and lung cancer cases. Larry Allen, an advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist with UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said they saw a 40% decrease in heart patients at the peak of the pandemic. “When (patients) stay home with cardiac disease, there is permanent damage.” Allen said. “By the time we saw them, the damage was so much worse than it could have been and so much harder for us to treat.”

Apr 12, 2021 by Washington Post

“There were kids … who just broke down,” said Brian L. Stauffer, [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine,] chief of cardiology at Denver Health Medical Center and one of the leaders of the Boulder trial. “One individual sat there, and recovered, and said, ‘Let’s do it.’ … It’s been great to see people participate that way. We frequently don’t give college kids enough benefit of the doubt.”

Apr 14, 2021 by 9News

“The important part of tracking variants is to understand what variants are circulating, which ones are taking over. We know that this happens, all these viruses do this. Eventually, a variant takes over, it’s called a ‘replacement strain,’” said David Beckham, an infectious disease physician and virologist for UCHealth [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Apr 14, 2021 by CPR News

Ken Lyn-Kew, a pulmonary and critical care physician at National Jewish [and clinical instructor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]:“We’ve already seen throughout the country, and also here in Colorado, a lot of vaccine hesitancy. People fear the unknown. And when we have these vaccines ... it’s very hard to separate the truth from what rapidly propagates on social media.”

Apr 2, 2021 by HCPLive

In an interview with HCPLive this week, David Badesch, of the Divisions of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, discussed the novel mechanisms and makeup of sotatercept, a drug originally developed for anemia-associated care.

Apr 2, 2021 by Grand Rapids Business Journal

This was a wake-up call to yet another possible nefarious side-effect of the virus. In a commentary examining the findings, Van Andel Institute’s Patrik Brundin, along with Avindra Nath of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and J. David Beckham of University of Colorado, said the cases suggest that COVID-19 may be part of a “perfect storm” for Parkinson’s disease.

Apr 1, 2021 by Wine Spectator

“One of the key side effects of alcohol intake is fatigue, and if you are still experiencing fatigue or other side effects after COVID-19, you may want to abstain from alcohol intake until you are fully recovered,” said Anuj Mehta, a Denver-based pulmonologist at National Jewish Health [assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] and chair of Colorado's task force for the vaccine.

Apr 6, 2021 by Douglas County News-Press

McCumber’s physician, Radhika Acharya-Leon, section chief for medical oncology at UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said had McCumber not been persistent in finding a place to do the biopsy and move treatment forward, she would likely have not made it through the year.

Apr 4, 2021 by Denver Post

There are more than a dozen passport initiatives underway, according to The Washington Post, which creates an issue of coordination. “One problem we may bump into pretty quick here is if there are competing private sector initiatives and they have different levels of privacy protection, different levels of accessibility, different levels of opt-out,” said Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus.

Apr 5, 2021 by 9News

Michelle Barron, an expert with UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine], says Colorado’s in a race between vaccines and a fourth wave. Either way, a fourth wave will look different.

Apr 3, 2021 by Westword

During an October 2020 press conference, Carlos Franco-Paredes, an infectious-disease doctor associated with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said that ICE leadership should release as many detainees as possible, especially ones that were medically vulnerable, because of the dangers of catching the virus. “There’s not really any other way to protect them,” Franco-Paredes said.

Apr 2, 2021 by Telluride Daily Planet

“It’s obviously an incredible exciting time,” said Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection prevention and control at UCHealth. But she stressed: “Though you do have some level of protection after your first shot, you’re not considered fully vaccinated until you’ve had both doses of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines, or a single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine” against the coronavirus.

Apr 7, 2021 by 9News

Is it too soon to be lifting these orders? 9NEWS asked the Jefferson County Health Department, Tri-County Health Department Director John Douglas and UCHealth Senior Medical Director of Infection Prevention Michelle Barron to answer that question

Apr 2, 2021 by CBS4

“We can see the finish line, but we’re still two miles away,” said UCHealth Director of Infection Prevention, Michelle Barron. “When we talk about people being vaccinated, I think you need to understand where they are in the vaccine series.”

Apr 6, 2021 by CBS4

“I think it’s something we should be aiming for and I think there are ways we could potentially try to get to that point,” said Michelle Barron the Senior Medical Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Apr 1, 2021 by Fox 31

Michelle Barron, Infectious Disease Specialist with UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]: “I’m concerned about big crowds without control measures, so certainly there are sporting events happening and opening up. But those are controlled conditions where people are masking and distancing and in small groupings, as opposed to what we saw in some other states where we saw just masses of people in close proximity.”

Apr 5, 2021 by CBS4

“It in no way cut corners, it in no way decreased our ability to evaluate safety,” Thomas Campbell, the chief clinical research officer at UCHealth and the associate dean for clinical research at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. “There was just overwhelming community support for these trials, such that there were many more people that came to us asking to join the trials than we had the capacity to enroll.”

Mar 29, 2021 by Sprudge

As reported by the New York Times, the new study isn’t exactly new at all. Led by David Kao, a cardiologist at University of Colorado School of Medicine, researchers re-examined the Framingham Heart Study (FHS), “a long-term, ongoing cardiovascular cohort study of residents of the city of Framingham, Massachusetts” that began in 1948 and has grown to include over 14,000 participants.

Apr 1, 2021 by HCPLive

Led by David B. Badesch, of the Divisions of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, investigators conducted a 24-week, randomized, placebo-controlled, multicenter assessment of subcutaneous sotatercept versus placebo in adult patients with PAH.

Mar 31, 2021 by Radiology Business

“Quantifying population-based adherence rates and understanding factors associated with annual adherence is a critical first step in improving screening adherence and ultimately reducing lung cancer death,” corresponding author Stephen Malkoski, with the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine at CU Anschutz, and co-authors wrote March 30 in JACR.

Mar 29, 2021 by AMA

“Contrary to how we behave, your attention is a limited resource, and you need to protect that,” Elizabeth Harry, senior director of clinical affairs at the University of Colorado Hospital, said during a recent AMA webinar. “If we don’t have space to actually give proper attention to things, we’re going to start making mistakes and we’re not going to give our best care.”

Mar 26, 2021 by 9News

“It’s like physically reliving the previous experience,” Elizabeth Harry, the senior director of clinical affairs at UCHealth’s University of Colorado Hospital, explained. “You’ll have the same sort of stress response that you had with the first event, and that’s what sort of happens when you don’t process trauma.”

Mar 29, 2021 by Channel 7

When the ventilator was no longer working, Mark Steele and his team placed Bryan on an ECMO machine. “What happens is as the lungs become so bad, the ventilator can’t oxygenate them, so it’s not enough. The ECMO circuit does a lot the ventilator wouldn’t,” said Steele [professor of clinical practice of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Mar 29, 2021 by BizWest

Brian Stauffer, director of the cardiovascular disease core curriculum at the Anschutz Medical Campus will help oversee a study on the CU Boulder campus to determine whether the Moderna vaccine can prevent transmission of COVID-19.…“Until we know how much vaccination protects you from infecting others, it is hard to know how much to relax restrictions and fully reopen things,” said co-principal investigator Stauffer, medical director of the CTRC and chief of cardiology at Denver Health Medical Center.

Apr 1, 2021 by 5280

As the medical director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Denver Health, Ivor Douglas [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] knows better than most how devastating a toll COVID-19 has taken. “We’ve lost 400,000 people, which is as many Americans as were lost in the Second World War,” he says. (The number topped 520,000 in early March.) “And we’ve done it in a year.”​

Mar 24, 2021 by The New York Times Magazine

The Circulation study employed observational data, but its initial aim was not to assess the relationship between coffee and heart failure. This is how the lead author David Kao, a cardiologist at University of Colorado School of Medicine, characterized it to me: “The overall question was, What are the factors in daily life that impact heart health that we don’t know about that could potentially be changed to lower risk.”

Mar 18, 2021 by Deseret News

“The problem with COVID long-haulers is we really don’t understand the mechanism of their symptoms. We don’t think it’s related to the fact that they may have ongoing virus in their body since most of them have totally cleared the virus. And we don’t necessarily know if it’s related to a kind of antibody response,” said Anuj Mehta, who works in critical care medicine at Denver Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Mar 18, 2021 by Health

These side effects usually start within a day or two of getting the vaccine, the CDC says, and they might impact your ability to do daily activities, including working out. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Those common side effects are ultimately a sign that your immune system is responding to the vaccine, David Wyles, infectious disease specialist and head of infectious disease at Denver Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], tells Health.

Mar 19, 2021 by 9News

UCHealth is administering tens of thousands of doses a week and, so far, has tracked two doses they couldn’t use. One of which was accidentally dropped. Michelle Barron, with UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine], said they treat the vaccines like liquid gold.

Mar 19, 2021 by CPR News

At UCHealth, one of the state’s biggest vaccinators, people are neither encouraged or discouraged from taking selfies. But, stresses infectious disease expert Michelle Barron, [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine,] “we ask people to be polite when they do it. To make sure that people who are in the picture want to be in the picture.”

Mar 18, 2021 by Channel 7

Vaccination group 1B.4 will begin receiving the COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, expanding the potential pool of recipients by millions of Coloradans....“It’s something that we’ve been working on for quite some time,” said Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Mar 19, 2021 by Contagion Live

Lilia Cervantes, of Denver Health and the University of Colorado, and colleagues, noted that Latinx people are more likely to be infected, hospitalized, and to die of COVID-19 compared to White individuals. In an effort to better understand the causes of the disparities, Cervantes and colleagues conducted semistructured interviews of 60 Latinx adults who were hospitalized in public hospitals in Denver and San Francisco between March and July 2020.

Mar 22, 2021 by Department of Medicine

Mark Earnest, MD, division head of the Division of General Internal Medicine, has been appointed the Meiklejohn Endowed Chair of Medicine.

Mar 22, 2021 by Department of Medicine

Geoffrey R. Connors, MD, FACP has been appointed the Department of Medicine vice chair of education.

Mar 19, 2021 by Department of Medicine

We're excited to announce the Chief Medical Residents for 2022-2023: Bradie Campbell, MD; Meryl Colton, MD; Tiffany Gardner, MD (CRQS); Dante Mesa, MD; Yunan Nie, MD; Cara Saxon, MD; Emily Scott, MD.

Mar 17, 2021 by 9News

Michelle Barron with UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine] said the studies, along with a general understanding of how vaccines work, have contributed to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updating their guidelines. “A little bit of both,” said Barron. “People shouldn’t be surprised things changed.” Barron added that decisions are being made as experts are gaining more understanding about the virus.

Mar 16, 2021 by CBS4

“For the amount of planning that goes into this, staying two steps ahead is so important in terms of again making it easy,” said Michelle Barron, Director of Infection Prevention for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “We want to make sure everyone has access, and to do that we want to be ready to go from the minute they say it’s time to go.”

Mar 14, 2021 by Pueblo Chieftain

“As time goes on, through the medical community there’s more and more opportunities to learn about this,” said Rebecca Keith, a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] who works in the hospital’s Center for Post-COVID-19 Care and Recovery. “Just like anything new, providers need to learn about it, reach out to other providers in the community and try to adjust their practice for patients who are suffering from this kind of long-haul COVID.”

Mar 11, 2021 by Healio

“Is our general advice to [patients with obesity or overweight] to exercise and lose weight wrong?” Anthony D. Elias, professor of medicine and medical oncology at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and member of the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines Panel for Breast Cancer, who was not involved with the study, said in the release.

Mar 4, 2021 by Medical News Today

Lead author Laura D. Scherer, with the University of Colorado School of Medicine, explains the implications of these findings: “Inaccurate information is a barrier to good healthcare because it can discourage people from taking preventive measures to head off illness and make them hesitant to seek care when they get sick. Identifying who is most susceptible to misinformation might lend considerable insight into how such information spreads and provide us with new avenues for intervention.”

Mar 5, 2021 by Channel 7

“Telehealth will be here to stay,” said Patrick Ryan, an internal medicine physician at Denver Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. . . .“Before the pandemic started, we had not done any telehealth at all,” said Ryan. That changed within a matter of weeks for Ryan and his team at Denver Health. They’ve now had more than 200,000 appointments over the phone or on video chat since the pandemic started.

Mar 4, 2021 by CGTN

Sarah Jolley [assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] runs UCHealth’s post COVID clinic, one of at least 21 facilities run by U.S. hospitals and health systems currently treating people who suffer this way.

Mar 10, 2021 by NBC News

Covid-19 symptoms are variable, but overall, the first few waves of symptoms — flu-like illness, gastrointestinal issues and neurologic symptoms — tend to mirror what a typical non-long-hauler patient would experience, said Rebecca Keith, an associate professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at National Jewish Health [and CU School of Medicine]. Keith is a co-director of National Jewish Health’s post-Covid-19 clinic.

Mar 10, 2021 by KOAA (Pueblo)

Thanks to a lot of cooperative behind-the-scenes work from Vitalant and UCHealth, Paul was introduced to his donors. One of them is Amos Bailey, a palliative care physician at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora and faculty member at the CU School of Medicine.

Mar 5, 2021 by Best Life

“You want to follow your normal routine of making sure you’ve had something in your tummy," UCHealth's Medical Director of Infection Prevention [and Professor of Medicine at CU School of Medicine] Michelle Barron, told NBC affiliate 9News. The experts at Nebraska Medicine add that proper nutrition may be able to help combat any dizziness or lightheadedness that can occur in those nervous about getting the jab.

Mar 5, 2021 by Fox 31

“We are very excited to spend time one by one, reaching out to our patients and we are using any means possible,” said Hillary Lum, a geriatrician at the clinic. She helped organize about 30 medical students to reach out directly to about 1,000 UCHealth patients, answer any vaccine questions they might have and help make their appointments.

Mar 2, 2021 by Health Central

Red yeast rice extract—known commonly as “RYRE”—contains the same chemical, monacolin K, that is used in lovastatin, a prescription statin drug that prevents the body from producing cholesterol. As such, says Robert Eckel, an endocrinologist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and former president of the American Heart Association, it should be treated as one and only used, if at all, under your doctor’s supervision.

Mar 1, 2021 by Everyday Health

The study results might look much different if researchers focused only on men with hypogonadism who would meet the clinical criteria for treatment with testosterone supplements, says Robert Eckel, past president of the American Heart Association and a professor emeritus at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Mar 3, 2021 by HealthDay

José M. Sanchez, from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, and colleagues examined the risk for nonhemorrhagic stroke among American Indians compared to Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians using the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project for all adult California residents receiving care from 2005 to 2011. Data were included for 16,951,579 patients followed for a median of 4.1 years.

Mar 1, 2021 by CBS4

“Inaccurate information is a barrier to good health care because it can discourage people from taking preventive measures to head off illness and make them hesitant to seek care when they get sick,” said lead author Laura D. Scherer, with the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Feb 28, 2021 by 9News

Fernando Holguin has spent the last year treating COVID-19 patients – but on Sunday, Hollywood took a minute to honor health-care workers like him. "This year has been like no other. For those of you who are not in the hospital, you don’t see it every day like we do," Holguin said. “There’s a lot of really difficult, emotional moments being with these patients in the ICU and talking with their families.”

Mar 1, 2021 by Fox 31

“Seeing this discordance between the two people is very much expected. One might have had milder disease, one might be older and one might be younger,” said Michelle Barron with UCHealth.

Mar 1, 2021 by Colorado Sun

At UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, Jon Treem [instructor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] is part of a team of palliative care specialists that treats patients with serious and complex illnesses, helping them manage symptoms to increase their quality of life.

Mar 1, 2021 by NBC News

Rebecca Keith, an associate professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at National Jewish Health [and CU School of Medicine], is a co-director of the facility's post-Covid-19 clinic....“It takes a multidisciplinary approach to try to help people," she said. "Hopefully, as time goes on, science will catch up and we'll have more to offer.”​ Sarah Jolley, a pulmonary and critical care specialist at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], called for the medical community to create standardized definitions and guidelines of care.

Mar 2, 2021 by Fox 31

“It’s the SARS-CoV-2 virus you get infected with but if you get sick, like shortness of breath, cough, lose your sense of taste or smell. That’s COVID19,” David Wyles, the Chief of Infectious Diseases at Denver Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said.

Mar 1, 2021 by Deseret News

Anuj Mehta, professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Denver Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], told KDVR the COVID-19 vaccine is safe for those with long-term COVID-19 symptoms.

Mar 2, 2021 by CBS4

“It’s not apples and apples when we’re comparing across these trials,” said Thomas Campbell, chief clinical research officer for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Mar 1, 2021 by Fox 31

“We knew we were going to hit a big surge,” said Anuj Mehta, a pulmonologist [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] who saw the sickest of those patients in the hospital’s intensive care unit. “We overwhelmed, I think, the people resources, but luckily we never ran out of hospital beds or ventilators,” Mehta said.

Mar 3, 2021 by Fox 31

“I think, unfortunately, COVID-19 is going to be with us for the long term,” Michelle Barron, Medical Director of Infection Prevention for UC Health said.

Mar 2, 2021 by CBS4

“I hope [Polis] is right. As far as concerts and 30 person barbecues, those kind of things, I just don’t know. I think a lot of that depends on what we do now. What we are doing now lays the foundation for that to even be a conversation,” said Michelle Barron, Sr. Medical Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Mar 3, 2021 by Department of Medicine

Virologist and professor of medicine Mamuka Kvaratskhelia, PhD, and colleagues in the Division of Infectious Diseases have published in Nature Microbiology their discovery that a human cellular protein – Sec24c – critically regulates HIV-1. Sec24c, binds to the outer shell (capsid core) of an incoming virus and is necessary for proper infectivity.

Feb 18, 2021 by Healio

Column by Rocio Pereira, chief of endocrinology at Denver Health, associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and a former chair of the Endocrine Society Committee on Diversity and Inclusion: “To bring about significant change in the endocrine workforce, blind hiring/selection practices would need to be applied at every stage in the workforce development pipeline, starting from undergraduate and medical school training, through junior faculty and promotion to senior leadership.”

Feb 23, 2021 by HealthDay

That thought was echoed by Robert Eckel, past president of the American Heart Association and immediate past president of medicine and science with the American Diabetes Association and a professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Colorado. “This trial was not [designed] to assess safety of testosterone,” he noted, leaving the question of whether taking testosterone replacement therapy might actually pose a heart risk unanswered.

Feb 19, 2021 by Pharmacy Times

“It was surprising to see that more than 5% weight loss at 2 years was associated with poorer distant disease-free survival,” said Anthony D. Elias, University of Colorado Cancer Center, a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Clinical Practice Guidelines Panel for Breast Cancer, in the press release.

Feb 19, 2021 by News-Review (Petoskey, Mich.)

“The association between caffeine and heart failure risk reduction was surprising,” senior author David Kao said in a news release. Kao is an assistant professor of cardiology and medical director at the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Feb 23, 2021 by Men's Health

“The association between caffeine and heart failure risk reduction was surprising,” summarized the author of the study David Kao, assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine.

Feb 18, 2021 by The New York Times

“Usually, researchers pick things they suspect would be risk factors for heart failure — smoking, for example — and then look at smokers versus nonsmokers,” said the senior author, David P. Kao, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Colorado. “But machine learning identifies variables that are predictive of either increased or decreased risk, but that you haven’t necessarily thought of.”

Feb 24, 2021 by Denver Post

“I’ve never seen flu this low,” said Larissa Pisney, medical director of infection prevention and control for UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “This is certainly unprecedented.”

Feb 19, 2021 by CBS4

“We think less frequently than the flu and so I don’t know whether every year or every five years, but there’s probably going to be some sort of revaccination effort for COVID-19,” said David Beuther, associate professor of medicine at National Jewish Health [and CU School of Medicine].

Feb 24, 2021 by Fox 31

Despite a lack of hard data on the effects of the vaccine on long haulers, Anuj Mehta, professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Denver Health, says there’s no reason to believe it isn’t safe for them.

Feb 24, 2021 by CPR News

“I’m nervous about the variants,” said Anuj Mehta, a pulmonologist with National Jewish Health and Denver Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], who serves on the Governor’s Expert Emergency Epidemic Response Committee. “I’m just concerned that the variants could potentially fuel another surge.”

Feb 19, 2021 by Fox 31

“I will give everyone a sense of caution,” said Michelle Barron, Senior Medical Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “We don’t know when that next wave is going to come and we’re not at the point yet where we’re done with this.”

Feb 23, 2021 by Denver Post

Photo: C. Lamont Smith, right, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from Hillary Lum [associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] during the UCHealth COVID-19 vaccination clinic inside New Hope Baptist Church on Feb. 13, 2021 in Denver. UCHealth is coordinating with the church, the Center for African American Health, the NAACP and other organizations to distribute 750 vaccines to underserved and minority communities in the metro area.

Feb 22, 2021 by Fox 31

“We want everyone, especially those in underserved and vulnerable communities, to have access to the COVID-19 vaccine. Minority communities have been disproportionately impacted during the pandemic,” said Jean Kutner, chief medical officer of University of Colorado Hospital and professor at the CU School of Medicine.

Feb 11, 2021 by Medscape

“Adhesion formation is the main underlying etiology of small bowl obstruction, and adhesions are responsible for significant morbidity and healthcare expenditures, with limited effective options at this time for preventing adhesion formation,” lead author Frank Scott, assistant professor of medicine, Crohn’s and Colitis Center, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, told theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology.

Feb 15, 2021 by Ladders

“The association between caffeine and heart failure risk reduction was surprising,” says senior author David Kao from the University of Colorado in a media release. “Coffee and caffeine are often considered by the general population to be ‘bad’ for the heart because people associate them with palpitations, high blood pressure, etc.”

Feb 15, 2021 by Sci News

“While smoking, age and high blood pressure are among the most well-known heart disease risk factors, unidentified risk factors for heart disease remain,” said David Kao, a researcher at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Feb 17, 2021 by CPR News

Fernando Holguin, a pulmonary and critical care physician at Anschutz Medical Campus, said the studies reflect what he’s seen. “There were no hospitalizations related to these events and people recover in one to two days,” Holguin said. He said the symptoms pale in comparison to those who get hit hard with COVID-19. “You’re not going to land in the hospital, you’re not going to have shortness of breath,” Holguin said.

Feb 13, 2021 by Denver Post

People may think they’re invincible with the vaccinations, but until 70% to 80% of people are vaccinated, the risk of spreading coronavirus remains, including the chance of exposure for others, said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention for UCHealth.

Feb 12, 2021 by Channel 7

On Wednesday, we invited Michelle Barron, the medical director of infection control and prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], to talk about the vaccine and answer some of your concerns surrounding the two vaccines currently available to the public.

Feb 13, 2021 by Rocky Mountain PBS

At a community COVID-19 vaccination clinic, Fernando Holguin offered a stark message for those unsure about whether to get their shots. “I see patients in the intensive-care unit with COVID. I’ve seen many patients die,” he said. “You do not want to ever ... have to live through that or take that risk.” Holguin is a UCHealth doctor, University of Colorado medical professor and Mexican immigrant.

Feb 10, 2021 by Medpage Today

“FDA approval of Libtayo will change the treatment paradigm for patients with advanced basal cell carcinoma,” Karl Lewis, of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said in a statement from Sanofi and Regeneron.

Feb 9, 2021 by CNN

“The association between caffeine and heart failure risk reduction was surprising,” said senior author David Kao, medical director of the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Feb 11, 2021 by CBS4

“We’ve just had so much infection and so much viral replication going on throughout the world, that eventually there’s going to be a change that’s going to be meaningful and that’s really what we’re starting to see,” said David Beuther, an associate professor of medicine at National Jewish Health [and CU School of Medicine].

Feb 8, 2021 by 5280

There is not any data on the prevalence of vaccine guilt, but Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at University of Colorado’s Anschutz campus, surmises that many people who have already received the COVID-19 vaccine probably feel like their doses could have gone to someone more deserving. “I think it’s a really common phenomenon,” he says.

Feb 8, 2021 by Out Front Magazine

“We do have life-saving vaccines. These vaccines are important to saving individuals but they are also important to reduce the transmission” Carlos Franco-Paredes, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said. “For the Latino community, I would like to inform, I would like to inform everyone, as a healthcare worker, as a physician, as a Latino physician, I believe in these vaccines.”

Feb 10, 2021 by 9News

Michelle Barron, with UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine], said virus mutations are expected. “Nature copies itself. It’s like handwriting,” she said. “It’s literally printing it out. At some point, it will make a mistake. The 100th time it copies itself, that mistake gets perpetuated, sometimes that’s meaningful. Sometimes it’s not.”

Feb 7, 2021 by Channel 7

Michelle Barron, the medical director of infection control and prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], joined Denver7’s Jason Gruenauer to answer your questions about the COVID-19 vaccine.

Feb 6, 2021 by CBS4

“You got something real, and it wasn’t the placebo,” echoed Michelle Barron, an infectious disease specialist at UCHealth Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “I kind of scan our list every day to see what gets reported. Fatigue, headache, the sore arm of course. Some people including myself had muscle aches and body aches, but they lasted maybe six hours.”

Feb 10, 2021 by Colorado Times Recorder

Photo: The Rev. Timothy E. Tyler celebrated as elders received their COVID-19 vaccines at Colorado’s oldest Black church in Denver. He was speaking with Shanta Zimmer, an infectious disease expert at UCHealth and the University of Colorado School of Medicine who volunteered to give vaccines at the church on Sunday. Photo by Cyrus McCrimmon for UCHealth.

Feb 8, 2021 by CPR News

Photo: Ellis Linville, Sr., gets his second COVID-19 shot, from Sunita Sharma [associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] at Shorter AME Church in Denver, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021.

Feb 1, 2021 by Colorado Springs Gazette

Op-ed by Erik Wallace, an associate professor of Medicine and associate dean for the Colorado Springs branch at the University of Colorado School of Medicine: “We all need to do a better job of working together to address the challenges of homelessness and avoid the vitriol and criticism that has become too commonplace and accepted in society today.”

Jan 28, 2021 by GeriPal

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) older adults have lived through a lifetime of discrimination, social stigma, prejudice, and marginalization. Is the care that we are giving them in later life changing any of that or are we pushing them back into the closet? This is what we talk about in this week’s podcast with Carey Candrian from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Angela Primbas from Stanford University (and future geriatrics fellow at UCSF).

Jan 28, 2021 by Healio

“The media attention impacts the stress levels of my patients,” Sean Iwamoto, assistant professor of medicine in the division of endocrinology, metabolism and diabetes at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, and co-chair of the Endocrine Society’s Transgender Research and Medicine Special Interest Group, told Healio.

Feb 4, 2021 by Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Our results clearly raise concern about the ability of the health care system to ensure equitable care for people with disability,” added senior author Eric G. Campbell, professor of medicine and director of research for the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Feb 2, 2021 by Real Simple

“The key is to remember to wear your mask around others, pay attention to cleaning of surfaces, and try to limit your activities to areas that are well ventilated or outdoors,” says Michelle Barron, UCHealth senior medical director of infection prevention and control [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Jan 28, 2021 by Real Simple

“Both of these types of masks have the ability to prevent transmission of the virus that causes COVID-19,” so you wouldn't need to double mask if you use one of these, says Michelle Barron, UCHealth senior medical director of infection prevention and control [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Jan 28, 2021 by 9News

It’s why Jose Castillo-Mancilla, associate professor of medicine, is working to recruit more people of color for UCHealth’s third vaccine trial.

Feb 3, 2021 by Denver Gazette

Others may want to see data or have harder reassurances, said Michelle Barron, a senior medical director and infectious disease expert at UCHealth. Still more just want to wait it out for a few months.

Feb 4, 2021 by 9News

“After the first dose of the vaccine, depending on which one you get, there is a little bit of a difference but you are not at the 95% range [of immunity],” said Michelle Barron from UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine]. “You are somewhere between 50 to 70 percent potentially protected, which means you can get COVID in-between vaccines.”

Feb 3, 2021 by The New York Times

Thomas Campbell [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], who is overseeing the trial site at UCHealth in Colorado, said he has received more than 2,000 emails and hundreds of calls from would-be volunteers.

Feb 3, 2021 by CBS4

“It’s very positive,” said Thomas Campbell, [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine and] lead investigator for the trial site on the Anschutz Medical Campus. So far, 216 people are enrolled at Anschutz. The goal is 30,000 participants over 115 sites in the U.S. and Mexico.

Feb 3, 2021 by Denver Post

Who gets the vaccine first doesn’t necessarily reflect who wants it most, because people who don’t have internet access or the time to make many phone calls are less likely to successfully navigate the sign-up system, said Matt Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at University of Colorado’s Anschutz campus.

Jan 26, 2021 by AMA

In an interview, AMA member Matthew K. Wynia, professor of medicine and public health and director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado in Aurora, explored why the medical profession’s role in the Holocaust is essential learning for medical students in 2021.

Jan 22, 2021 by CPR News

That’s common for older LGBTQ adults, said Carey Candrian, an assistant professor and researcher at the University of Colorado. And many feel isolated, she added. “And I just get chills when I say that, because I think for people who don't identify as LGBT, I think it's so easy to forget the work that hiding requires,” Candrian said.

Jan 25, 2021 by WTKR (Norfolk, Va.)

“Outcomes related to hospitalizations for COVID-19, admission to the intensive care unit in need for assisted ventilation and death is two to three times higher than people who live with diabetes than those who don’t,” said Robert Eckel, a current professor of medicine with the University of Colorado, Anschutz and former president of the American Diabetes Association.

Jan 27, 2021 by Washington Post

David Beuther, a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health, a leading respiratory hospital, [and an assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] echoed those concerns. Not only will the situation vary from place to place, but it’s also in constant flux.

Jan 23, 2021 by Fox 31

“This is a real phenomenon but we’re still trying to understand exactly who it happens to and why it happens to particular patients,” said Sarah Jolley, director of the clinic [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. Jolley says they often see long-term symptoms in young patients who were in good health before COVID-19. Symptoms typically include exercise intolerance, fatigue, shortness of breath and persistent cough.

Jan 26, 2021 by CBS4

“We’re excited about the mass vaccine event,” explained Jean Kutner, UCHealth’s chief medical officer. “And as we are issuing invitations to make vaccine events we’re giving them the choice because we want people to be able to access whatever location is more convenient for them.”

Jan 26, 2021 by Denver Gazette

“It’s not pleasant for most people but it’s not going to kill them either,” said Michelle Barron, Senior Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “With all vaccines, you look at the risks and the benefits. The risk of getting COVID is still pretty high and the benefit of getting this vaccine is that it will probably prevent you from getting COVID, or if you do get the virus, it will be significantly milder.”

Jan 25, 2021 by 9News

“They are still very committed to the trial and are still very much willing to continue to participate in the trial,” said Thomas Campbell [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] who oversees the trial at UCHealth.

Jan 22, 2021 by Denverite

[UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital] Chief Medical Officer Jean Kutner said the hospital is hosting vaccination clinics at places where certain communities already congregate. On Sunday, the hospital vaccinated nearly 250 people at the Shorter Community AME Church in Denver, which serves predominantly Black parishioners. UCHealth hosted a similar vaccination clinic at Salud Family Health Center in Aurora on Jan. 14 and 15, helping vaccinate about 500 people.

Jan 26, 2021 by CBS4

“We’ve done a good job of listening to what we’re supposed to do: wearing masks, washing our hands, maintaining social distancing,” said Marc Moss, Director of Critical Care for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “I think maintaining those requirements is probably why we’re seeing fewer cases.”

Jan 25, 2021 by Department of Medicine

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Robert W. Schrier. Dr. Schrier was the past Department of Medicine Chair for 26 years, from 1976 to 2002 as well as the Head of the Division of Nephrology from 1972 to 1992.

Jan 19, 2021 by Healio

Nephrology News & Issues has also added to its Editorial Advisory Board members who represent the many aspects of nephrology and the communities served. Lilia Cervantes, from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, who has studied access to dialysis care for illegal immigrants and historically underserved communities, has joined the board.

Jan 19, 2021 by 9News

Thomas Campbell, chief clinical research officer at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said he encourages people to get the second dose of the vaccine as soon as it’s available to them. Campbell said there’s very little information on the efficacy for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines if only a single dose is given.

Jan 15, 2021 by Channel 7

“That is what has been proposed in the United Kingdom,” said Thomas Campbell, chief clinical research officer for UCHealth. Let’s start there. Yes, the U.K., for example, is now suggesting a second dose at the end of 12 weeks. But Dr. Campbell points out that’s the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is different from what’s approved in the U.S.

Jan 15, 2021 by Fox23 (Tulsa, Okla.)

Jean Kutner, chief medical officer of UCHealth University at Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said she’s volunteering at a clinic hosted by a church that brings in the vaccine and helps build trust between health care workers and residents. For now, UCHealth schedules appointments online, but Kutner said a COVID-19 hotline is in the works because of the volume of calls from seniors.

Jan 19, 2021 by CPR News

For weeks, Abbey Lara has been watching COVID-19 patients in the intensive care beds in her Aurora hospital, wondering when the next crush of the extremely sick would arrive. “I’m pleased to say we are not seeing the huge surge I think we were all somewhat anticipating,” said Lara, who treats pulmonary and critical care patients in the COVID-19 section of the ICU ward at University of Colorado Hospital, one of the state’s biggest and busiest.​ The arrival of vaccines should now give people hope, but they’ll need to keep their guard up, said Sunita Sharma, a pulmonary and critical care medicine physician at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. “I think there is definitely light at the end of the tunnel,” she said. “I just don’t want people to give up that level of vigilance, because I think that's what's keeping our numbers in check right now.”

Jan 11, 2021 by Colorado Sun

“The hope was that it would help patients recover faster … it would help them get better faster or prevent their disease from progressing,” said Tim Jenkins, an infectious disease doctor at Denver Health [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] whose job is to evaluate potential therapies for COVID-19 patients. “None of these recent studies have shown that.” Still, patients hospitalized with the coronavirus are sometimes “very passionate” about receiving the plasma because they’ve heard about it in the news, said David Beckham, a University of Colorado physician and researcher who is studying the neurological effects of COVID-19.

Jan 11, 2021 by 9News

“We don’t know if this vaccine protects against COVID illness, and that’s the purpose of the phase 3 study, is to evaluate a vaccine for efficacy,” Thomas Campbell, UCHealth’s Chief Clinical Research Officer [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], told 9NEWS.

Jan 11, 2021 by Fox 31

Jean Kutner, the chief medical officer [at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says the Novavax vaccine works differently than the others. It uses a spike protein made in a lab to create antibodies. “It has shown very good response in terms of being able to create that immune response,” Kutner said.

Jan 13, 2021 by Colorado Politics

University of Colorado bioethicist Matthew Wynia says he has done a breakdown to learn more about the people who are refusing the vaccination. “It tends to not be the clinicians,” he said. “It’s not the doctors and nurses. It’s the MAs and front desk and folks. And maybe, more importantly, these are people who have less control over their schedule, who may not be able to take time off, or are able to get child care.”

Jan 5, 2021 by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Our study doesn’t answer the question of why football athletes tend to underestimate their risks of injury or concussion,” said Christine Baugh, an assistant professor of medicine at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Jan 4, 2021 by Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“That athletes underestimated their risk of concussion and injury in this study raises important ethical considerations,” wrote Christine Baugh, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and member of the CU Center for Bioethics and Humanities. “What is the threshold for college athletes to be sufficiently informed of the risks and benefits of football to make decisions that align with their values and preferences?”

Jan 4, 2021 by KUNC

“Not to generalize, but in the communities where we were seeing this occurring — and not just the Latino community, but kind of the people of color overall — their job positions put them in places where they could not socially isolate,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of Infection Prevention for the University of Colorado hospital system [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Dec 30, 2020 by 9News

Lung scarring, fatigue, chest and muscle pain and intermittent fever are among the long-term side effects that could be caused by COVID-19, particularly in seniors. That's according to Thomas Campbell, who specializes in internal medicine and infectious disease at University of Colorado Hospital [and CU School of Medicine].

Jan 4, 2021 by Denver Post

When COVID-19 was found in December 2019 in China, doctors and scientists had to make guesses about what treatments might help, said Ivor Douglas, a pulmonologist and intensive care specialist at Denver Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. Usually, that meant trying drugs that worked against similar conditions, he said.

Jan 4, 2021 by Bloomberg

“I suspect it’s more widespread than we know,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention and control at UCHealth, a health-care system with a dozen hospitals and hundreds of clinics in Colorado. “It’s a function of ‘if you look for it, you will find it.’”

Dec 30, 2020 by 9News

“I’m not surprised,” said Michelle Barron, Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “Now that it’s in Colorado, it’s probably in more locations and we just haven’t detected it yet, but that won’t be a surprise and shouldn’t cause alarm.”

Jan 2, 2021 by Washington Post

“It’s a very stigmatized population, and there are people who say, ‘They’re in prison, they must have done something terrible, and they don’t deserve a place in line,’” said Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado and a member of the state’s medical advisory group. But viewing the priorities in terms of who deserves to be inoculated, he said, “might end up prolonging the pandemic and killing more people.”

Jan 5, 2021 by CPR News

One reason some areas have been able to move forward more quickly than others is that, due to inaccurate employment information on health care workers, some counties got more of the vaccine than they need for the earliest groups, according to Anuj Mehta [assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] of Denver Health who chairs the group that advises the governor on vaccine allocation.

Jan 4, 2021 by Fox 31

Jean Kutner, the Chief Medical Officer at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says healthcare workers share that same hope. “Hope that every shot in an arm we get is one less patient we will see in that COVID critical care unit,” Kutner said.

Jan 3, 2021 by Fox 31

“It gives them information on the locations, times that they can potentially come and it’s still by appointment only. People should not be showing up hoping that they’ll get a vaccine,” said Michelle Barron, Medical Director of Infection Prevention with UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Dec 31, 2020 by CBS4

“Unfortunately, nothing this year has been that easy,” said Michelle Barron, Senior Medical Director of Infection Prevention for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. Since Polis’ announcement, receptionists at UCHealth have been inundated with phone calls asking for the vaccine. “Our switchboards are going crazy,” Barron told CBS4’s Dillon Thomas.

Dec 30, 2020 by Fox 31

“It’s well-intended. They want people to get the vaccine. There’s obviously a lot of interest but I think it’s more complicated than people realize,” said Michelle Barron, head of infection prevention with UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] ....“People are excited to qualify but we don’t have enough vaccine to be able to say, ‘Sure, come on in.’ The process will be very driven by having an appointment and a specified time.”

Dec 24, 2020 by CURE

It is one of the most common types of leukemias in adults; however, the disease comprises only about 1% of all cancers. There are a variety of treatment options available for patients with AML, with more clinical trials evaluating new therapies in the pipeline. In this episode of the “CURE talks Cancer” podcast, we spoke with Dan Pollyea, from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, about these treatment options.

Dec 23, 2020 by CPR News

Over the course of the first week of vaccinations, the four hospitals worked to get residents vaccinated sooner. Shanta Zimmer senior associate dean of Medical Education who also works as an infectious disease specialist at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus said in an email that as of Dec. 19, at least 1,134 residents had received invitations.

Dec 28, 2020 by Fox 31

Jean Kutner, the chief medical officer, says a few dozen existing patients over the age of 75 who had My Health Connection patient portal accounts were randomly selected for the pilot program..... She says once Governor Jared Polis and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment give the green light to vaccinate patients over the age of 75, her system will be ready. “I think a lot of us really feel a lot of hope now,” Kutner said.

Dec 26, 2020 by Fox 31

“It is very much on our minds about the potential post-holiday surge. I would say that we’re not going to breathe easy and really feel that we’ve turned a corner until probably three weeks into January,” said Jean Kutner, Chief Medical Officer at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Dec 21, 2020 by Eat This, Not That!

“We present evidence that fructose, by lowering energy in cells, triggers a foraging response similar to what occurs in starvation,” notes lead study author Richard Johnson, professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.

Dec 18, 2020 by WHYY

“I think there’s no doubt from what you’ve said that what you experienced would probably be classified as a medical mistake or a medical error. It’s the kind of error we would call a ‘diagnostic delay,’” said Matthew Wynia, director of the Center of Bioethics and Humanities at University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus.

Dec 18, 2020 by Fox 31

Parosmia is a condition where a person experiences a distortion of their sense of smell. David Beckham, a neuro-infectious disease expert with UCHealth [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says a form of this a neurological side effect of COVID-19 is commonly found in larger studies.

Dec 22, 2020 by 9News

“If you work at a grocery store or you work at one of these places or you’re a teacher even like how would we know?” said University of Colorado Hospital’s infectious disease expert, Michelle Barron.

Dec 18, 2020 by 9News

The decrease doesn’t necessarily mark a trend, according to infectious disease specialist Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “A week is probably not long enough for us to really declare this a true trend. It’s hopeful. Certainly, I think we’d all take the news that we’re declining,” Barron, who also practices for UCHealth, said.

Dec 18, 2020 by CBS4

“So far it’s been very mild. We have seen very few flu cases, very few hospitalizations if any, I don’t even know if we have had a hospitalization from flu yet,” said Michelle Barron, Senior Medical Director of infection of prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Dec 21, 2020 by 9News

“Typically, the patients who qualify have to meet all of the requirements, which are comorbidities like diabetes, or heart disease, or over the age of 65,” Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], told 9NEWS. Colorado’s Department of Public Health said it got 1,130 doses on Dec. 2 and another 960 on Dec. 9, a small amount for a state that has daily covid numbers in the thousands. “It’s supply chain, honestly,” Chief Medical Officer at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital Jean Kutner [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] said.

Dec 21, 2020 by CBS4

“We enrolled 217 participants,” said Thomas Campbell, principal investigator for the Stage 3 Moderna vaccine clinical trial at UCHealth on the CU Anschutz campus, one of 99 sites. “We have an obligation now that we know the vaccine works to provide it to those people. That’s my personal view,” said Campbell.

Dec 21, 2020 by Fox 31

The 67-year-old does not know if he received the vaccine or a placebo. He reported having side effects after the second dose of some soreness and flu like symptoms, which Thomas Campbell [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] says are common. “This is the way we can say for certain whether a vaccine works or not.”

Dec 19, 2020 by Denver Post

In making recommendations on who should receive vaccine first, the goal is to save the most lives, end the pandemic and maintain critical societal functions, said Anuj Mehta, a pulmonary and critical care physician at Denver Health and National Jewish Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Dec 17, 2020 by Highlands Ranch Herald

With a nearly full ICU, the hospital is working to ensure clinical care is remaining high while staff receives inoculations, with some recipients having minor side effects like a temporary fever or flu-like symptoms. “It’s a monumental feat from a logistics perspective,” said Tom Purcell, chief medical officer at the hospital [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “We look at it every single day, the ICU coverage is at a critical level right now.”

Dec 18, 2020 by Department of Medicine

The University of Colorado Department of Medicine announces a new research support program for early career investigators, whose research careers have been affected by COVID-19. The department will provide $50,000 for salary support to extend active and eligible Mentored Career Development Awards for six months.

Dec 14, 2020 by ABC News

“Today I added “Dr” to my profile name. Thanks WSJ for the nudge,” wrote Dr. Laura Scherer, an assistant professor [of medicine in the Division of Cardiology] at the University of Colorado Medical School.

Dec 16, 2020 by Scientific American

“Industry is more likely to fund research that is likely to show the benefits of their product or detract from [its] harms,” says Lisa Bero, a pharmacologist at the University of Colorado who studies research bias. “The problem with that is that those might not be the most important health questions.”

Dec 16, 2020 by 9News

“Typically, the patients who qualify have to meet all of the requirements, which are comorbidities like diabetes, or heart disease, or over the age of 65,” Michelle Barron, senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth, said.

Dec 10, 2020 by 9News

With the help of infectious disease specialists from UCHealth and Denver Health, we explored what life could look like after people start getting vaccinated for COVID-19. Here is part of our conversation with Michelle Barron of UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], and David Wyles from Denver Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Dec 13, 2020 by Steamboat Pilot & Today

Michelle Barron, senior medical director for infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], noted everything at this time is still an estimate — actual numbers will be known upon actual arrivals. The operations and logistics are complex, she said, and along with the vaccines, must come the supplies required to actually administer them. There’s also a lot of paperwork.

Dec 15, 2020 by Fox 31

“There are more similarities than there are differences,” said UCHealth Chief Clinical Research Officer Thomas Campbell. Campbell was heavily involved in Moderna’s trial in Colorado, and said there was a high interest in participation, which greatly helped.

Dec 7, 2020 by Channel 7

“I think one of the things that has struck me in this effort is the really incredible public support for these trials,” said Thomas Campbell, Chief Clinical Research Officer for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Dec 16, 2020 by CPR News

Thomas Campbell, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the lead investigator at the UCHealth trial site, said among the people who got sick after receiving the vaccine, they were less likely to develop severe symptoms. “We don’t yet know whether these vaccines prevent transmission to other individuals,” he said. “That’s something we will learn in the coming months.”

Dec 14, 2020 by Denver Post

“As vaccines come out we can’t be lax on the public health measures,” said Anuj Mehta, a pulmonary and critical care physician at Denver Health and National Jewish Heath [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “It’s going to be months before we are able to get back to a closer semblance of normal.”

Dec 16, 2020 by Channel 7

“Everybody’s so excited. There’s like this energized feeling throughout the building now where everybody is just feeling like maybe there’s light at the end of the tunnel coming,” said Michelle Barron, the UCHealth Infection Prevention senior medical director.

Dec 15, 2020 by Fox 31

“There’s probably a window where you’re protected against getting infected, but it’s not a lifelong thing,” says Michelle Barron. Barron says immunity gradually goes down over time, potentially lasting as little as three months.

Dec 16, 2020 by 9News

When asked about the fear many have expressed over the new vaccines, UCHealth Infection Prevention Senior Medical Director [and CU Professor of Medicine] Michelle Barron said, “as physicians, we need to show we are getting it, the community needs to show they are getting it.” Barron added that it’s critical for health care workers to understand what people’s concerns are and address them.

Dec 12, 2020 by Fox 31

Michelle Barron, Medical Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says they weren’t entirely sure how many doses they would receive until the official announcement from the state. “We had no idea what to anticipate. We were just hopeful we were going to and we were hoping that we would have enough for what is now the 1A grouping,” Barron said.

Dec 8, 2020 by Outside

“You have to try to prevent the loss of muscle and bone, and while cardio will make your heart and lungs fitter, it won’t increase—and might not even prevent—loss of muscle mass,” says Wendy Kohrt, an exercise physiologist and a professor of geriatric medicine at the University of Colorado [School of Medicine].

Dec 4, 2020 by Verywell Health

“This study is similar to what we were seeing before COVID-19 in regards to hyperglycemia contributing to poor outcomes,” Cecilia C. Low Wang, professor of medicine in the division of endocrinology, metabolism, and diabetes, at the University Of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus School Of Medicine, tells Verywell. “But the big question now is whether COVID-19 is causing hyperglycemia. This virus brings all sorts of complications.”

Dec 7, 2020 by Colorado Sun

“We created this monster to some extent,” said Matthew Wynia, the director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. He is firmly in the public health camp. But he said some of the ethical discussions surrounding vaccine allocation priorities focused on reciprocity.

Dec 9, 2020 by CBS4

“It’s not just rolling up your sleeve and getting the injection,” said Thomas Campbell, Chief Clinical Research Officer at UCHealth. Campbell runs the trial for UCHealth and says the Denver officers’ jobs, as well as diverse backgrounds and ages make them good candidates. “We wanted to enroll participants who because of their work, their occupation, where they live, they were at increased risk for SARS-CoV-2 exposure,” Campbell said.

Dec 4, 2020 by 9News

Thomas Campbell, [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] who is heading the COVID vaccine trial at UCHealth, said he leaped at Pazen’s offer because police officers were exactly the type of people they were hoping to enroll. “We wanted to enroll people who, because of their occupations, were at increased risk of exposure,” Campbell said.

Dec 9, 2020 by 9News

After two healthcare workers experienced an allergic reaction from the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, Britain regulators are warning individuals with a history of severe allergic reactions against receiving the vaccine. “First, this is not unexpected. We know virtually any vaccine, any medicine can cause an allergic reaction,” Thomas Campbell of UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] told 9NEWS.

Dec 9, 2020 by Fox 31

“This is probably a more realistic timeline, and if people get it sooner, people will be happy,” said Medical Director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “I think the key is the supply chains and that’s ultimately what’s going to determine whether those timelines are that far out or potentially sooner.”

Dec 8, 2020 by Reuters

“As with all vaccines, it may work really great in certain patient subsets, but not as well in others ... Does that mean you are free to hop on a plane or have 30 people over at your house? Probably not,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director for infection prevention at Colorado’s UCHealth.

Dec 7, 2020 by CBS4

“In terms of figuring who gets it first the state will be offering guidance to us in terms of the phases — who they think is appropriate and how they go about that. So I think ultimately it will be not as difficult as it might appear to be on the surface,” said Michelle Barron, infectious disease specialist at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital.

Dec 3, 2020 by Fox 31

“We didn’t know when we were going to get it, we didn’t know how much we were going to get and then we didn’t know who would actually take the vaccine if they received the shipments,” said Michelle Barron, senior medical director of Infection Prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Dec 2, 2020 by Fox 31

“It’s a big operation but I think lots of really smart people have been working on this,” said UCHealth Medical Director of Infection Prevention Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “It’s going to be sent to us in shipments and over time, there will be enough for everybody.”

Dec 4, 2020 by CBS4

“It’s a little bit different of a mechanism in that it actually again still affects replication,” said Michelle Barron, infectious disease specialist at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] in Aurora. “But it binds to the part of the proteins on the surface of the virus itself.”

Dec 7, 2020 by 9News

“We are very happy for the reprieve, if you will,” said Darlene Tad-y, the vice president of clinical affairs for the Colorado Hospital Association and a practicing hospitalist at UCHealth University of Colorado hospital in Aurora. “It’s given our hospital members, the staff within our hospital members, a little bit of breathing room.”​

Dec 6, 2020 by Fox 31

“We are preparing as if we are going to continue having a spike in cases really all the way through January, by the time you take into account Thanksgiving and Christmas,” said Jean Kutner, Chief Medical Officer at University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Dec 9, 2020 by The New York Times

Matthew Wynia, director of the Center of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado, said that giving the powerful access was patently unfair. “That’s one of the reasons why we decided that we would allocate this only through the state and only through this random allocation process,” he said, “so that no one could get a leg up by virtue of their special connections.”

Dec 10, 2020 by Department of Medicine

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus are part of the NIH-funded study, the Collaborative Cohort of Cohorts for COVID-19 Research (C4R) Study, which includes 37 academic medical centers across the country.

Dec 1, 2020 by UPI

“Some of the earliest art in the world are these mysterious figurines of overweight women from the time of hunter gatherers in Ice Age Europe where you would not expect to see obesity at all,” lead study author Richard Johnson said in a news release. “We show that these figurines correlate to times of extreme nutritional stress,” said Johnson, a professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Nov 26, 2020 by POZ

Joining her is Kristine Erlandson, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine who specializes in infectious diseases. “Our findings in previous research suggest that an innovative approach to exercise is needed to improve physical function, reduce fatigue and to maintain a long-term exercise habit among older people with HIV,” [Allison] Webel [associate professor at Case Western Reserve University] said in a press release about the grant.

Nov 29, 2020 by Fox 31

Todd Bull, a pulmonologist with UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine], says there is still a lot to learn about how blood clots occur in COVID-19 patients. “Increased blood clotting surround COVID-19 infections seems to be very real, we’re studying this still,” Bull said. “It’s sort of this fascinating aspect that we have not seen in other viral infections.”

Dec 1, 2020 by Fox 31

Thomas Campbell, the chief clinical research officer for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] said, “If we can get to 80 percent vaccination or even something slightly lower than that, there are some models that suggest that that may be able to provide us with protective herd immunity.”

Dec 1, 2020 by NPR

It’s not a population that public health experts initially thought would need much convincing, says Anuj Mehta, a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health in Denver and chair of Colorado's COVID-19 vaccine allocation committee [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]....Mehta says the fast vaccine development timeline is not, on its own, cause for concern. “The speed is not because people were cutting corners, but because of the urgency and the number of people working together on it,” he says.

Nov 30, 2020 by Fox 31

“One of the things to note is that reporting was delayed because of the holidays. Because people were off, we’re probably going to see a huge bump in those numbers in the next day or two,” said UCHealth Infection Prevention Sr. Medical Director Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Dec 1, 2020 by Denver Post

“It is always a bit politically charged because different people have different motivations,” said Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado. “But it has played out in spades with the COVID pandemic because there is such a lot of political motivation to say, ‘Oh, it’s not that many people. It’s not so dangerous.’”

Nov 24, 2020 by Department of Medicine

The University of Colorado Department of Medicine is pleased to announce that Wendy M. Kohrt, PhD, has been named a University of Colorado Distinguished Professor by the CU Board of Regents on November 12, 2020. This is the highest recognition that can be bestowed on a University of Colorado faculty member and is a well-deserving honor for Dr. Kohrt.

Nov 19, 2020 by Healio

Most patients experienced tumor shrinkage that in some cases met the criteria for objective response, according to study co-author Antonio Jimeno, professor of medicine/oncology and otolaryngology at University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Nov 19, 2020 by Medpage Today

Long-term care is ideally personalized to each patient, according to Larry Allen, and Colleen McIlvennan, both of University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, writing in an accompanying editorial.

Nov 18, 2020 by Medscape

“This is a trend we’ve seen coming for about 5 years, but it’s still a little mind-boggling to see how quickly the numbers are diverging,” said first author John D. Carroll, from the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Nov 11, 2020 by 9News

About a month into the pandemic, Michelle Barron, professor at the CU School of Medicine specializing in infectious diseases, took the advice she had been giving others for years and sought the help of a therapist. She shared her reasoning in an episode of the CU Anschutz podcast “COVID Reflections” which focuses on the evolution of the coronavirus pandemic.

Nov 13, 2020 by CPR News

Outdoor activities like skiing — where people have plenty of room to spread out — are relatively safe, said Michelle Barron, who specializes in infectious disease at the University of Colorado hospital.... “It’s apres skiing, it’s maybe some hot tubbing and condo life and that concerns me because I think that those are the instances in which spread, obviously, could occur,” Barron said.

Nov 12, 2020 by Elite Daily

With colder weather rolling in, there are fewer options for lower risk outdoor gatherings. Michelle Barron, Senior medical director for infection prevention and control at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], tells Elite Daily if you aren’t part of an individual’s bubble, attending Friendsgiving can put you at high risk for contracting or transmitting COVID-19.

Nov 16, 2020 by Conde Nast Traveler

“Unfortunately, we have seen the numbers increasing nationwide, so it becomes even more important to assess the risks for your family,” says Andrés Henao, an internal medicine physician, infectious disease specialist, and assistant professor for the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Nov 19, 2020 by Channel 7

“It has been very busy [in the ICU] and it has really, as you mentioned, gone up in the last two weeks,” said Julia Limes of UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine]. . . .“We have started deploying people from other parts in the hospital to come and help us on both the COVID floors and in the COVID ICU,” said Limes.

Nov 15, 2020 by 9News

Fresh off the frontlines, Marc Moss [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] took the podium from Governor Jared Polis during a COVID-19 press conference on March 30...“We’re only at the beginning of this crisis,” Moss said during the press conference. Nearly eight months later, the doctor’s perspective remains unchanged. “We’re on the first lap,” Moss told 9NEWS on Sunday. “I still think we’re near the beginning of this pandemic.”

Nov 17, 2020 by Westword

“I think that this [GEO staff] outbreak is the result of two factors,” says Carlos Franco-Paredes, an infectious-disease doctor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus who has testified in lawsuits filed against GEO Group and ICE. “A, the third wave of COVID-19 community-based transmission; and B, the lack of preparedness needed to protect detainees during this pandemic. The latter factor is important to emphasize because it reveals the inability of detainees to shield from the pandemic. They just don’t care about detainees.”

Nov 18, 2020 by Fox News

Each shot is comprised of the same formulation, meaning there is no difference between the shots, but the reason there has to be two is because the body responds to each differently. The first dose, Anuj Mehta, a pulmonary and critical care physician at National Jewish Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], previously explained to Fox News, acts as a primer for the body’s immune system, and the second dose, given three weeks later, will kick it into gear, so to speak.

Nov 16, 2020 by Fox 31

Thomas Campbell agrees. He’s the Chief Clinical Research Officer at UCHealth who is overseeing the trial. Campbell says this vaccine is similar to the Pfizer vaccine, and has similar early data. “When you do two experiments, two scientific experiments and get the same answer you have much greater confidence in the results,” Campbell said.

Nov 17, 2020 by CBS4

“We have two independent scientific experiments that come up with the same results that demonstrate that both of these vaccines are highly effective,” said Thomas Campbell, a professor of infectious disease medicine at CU Anschutz Medical Campus. “We are able to do that already with lots of other vaccines, I don’t think that will be a big issue.”

Nov 16, 2020 by Channel 7

“That, I think, is very reassuring that you have two independent experiments that have come to the same conclusion, that the conclusion is real,” said Thomas Campbell, the chief clinical research officer for UCHealth and the associate dean for clinical research at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Nov 12, 2020 by 9News

The Colorado Hospital Association (CHA) said that across the state, there is still hospital capacity. “Now compared to what happened in the spring, we are seeing more patients who have COVID hospitalized staying in the medical floor. They are sick. Sick enough to be in the hospital but not so sick they are needing intensive care,” Darlene Tad-y [associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] told Next.

Nov 16, 2020 by Channel 7

“We’re increasing the number of beds needed for COVID patients on a day to day basis,” said Jean Kutner, the chief medical officer at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “We’ve expanded now into our third Intensive Care Unit.”

Nov 4, 2020 by Colorado Springs Indy

“Everybody across the board — nonclinical staff, EMTs, nurses, physicians — has a pretty high degree of concern around exposing themselves or their families to COVID,” says Elizabeth Harry, senior director of clinical affairs at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and visiting associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Nov 2, 2020 by KOAA

Thomas Campbell, chief clinical research officer of UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said this is one of about 40 COVID-19 clinical trials in which UCHealth locations are participating. In July, UCHealth announced [uchealth.org] it was partnering with CU School of Medicine to recruit participants for another vaccine trial at University of Colorado Hospital on the Anschutz Medical Campus.

Nov 5, 2020 by CPR News

“One of the best practices we learned from other states that have already responded to significant outbreaks was to stand up a statewide transfer center,” said Darlene Tad-y, CHA vice president of clinical affairs [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “This will allow us to respond rapidly to capacity issues that a city or region of Colorado may face.”

Oct 23, 2020 by NDTV Food

“Recent studies have shown that the reason fructose intake is strongly associated with development of metabolic syndrome is that fructose intake activates an evolutionary-based survival pathway that stimulates foraging behavior and the storage of energy as fat,” said lead author Richard Johnson, professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.

Oct 27, 2020 by Fox 31

“She is the poster child for what she’s been doing,” said Radhika Acharya-Leon, a medical oncologist at UCHealth [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. Acharya-Leon is McCumber’s doctor. She said McCumber should serve as an example for others who find themselves timid to return for exams, check-ups or even appointments.

Oct 26, 2020 by Westword

“There’s an ongoing outbreak at the facility,” Carlos Franco-Paredes, an infectious-disease doctor associated with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said during an October 26 virtual press conference advocating for the release of detainees, particularly medically vulnerable detainees, from the facility. “There’s not really any other way to protect them.”

Oct 27, 2020 by Fox 31

“Right now, we don’t have anything that we can offer people who are exposed and at risk for getting sick,” Brian Montague, an infectious disease specialist said.

Oct 26, 2020 by CBS4

“It’s only available through clinical trials so we have a chance to really evaluate if it works,” said Brian Montague, an infectious disease physician [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], who is leading one of those clinical trials.

Oct 28, 2020 by 9News

“In the span of about seven months, the whole world has come together to communicate and share ideas and perform clinical research and we’ve identified ways to improve outcome from patients in a very short period of time in terms of medical research,” explained Marc Moss, the critical care director at University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “It’s unprecedented what’s happened. We still have a lot of work to do though.”

Oct 16, 2020 by CNN

Sunnie Kim, gastrointestinal medical oncologist at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, called it a "great response" on Twitter, adding “hope we can all get to a better place with gender equality and continue to debunk outdated stereotypes.”

Oct 19, 2020 by Healio

“Systemic lupus erythematosus often requires inpatient hospitalization,” Elena Weinstein, of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, told Healio Rheumatology. “About 20% to 25% of individuals with SLE are hospitalized each year.”

Oct 16, 2020 by Healio

“A post-internal medicine resident training program in cardiometabolic medicine would encompass metabolic elements of endocrinology — no emphasis on thyroid disease, bone disease, reproductive medicine or pituitary and adrenal disease — and focus instead on obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance and lifestyle medicine,” writes Robert H. Eckel, emeritus professor of medicine in the divisions of cardiology and endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, [at CU School of Medicine].

Oct 16, 2020 by UPI

“There have been many reports suggesting that sugar or other added sweeteners such as high-fructose corn syrup may be able to cause or aggravate various behavioral disorders,” study co-author Richard Johnson told UPI. “The evidence is based on the unique ability of fructose to lower energy that triggers a foraging type of response,” said Johnson, a professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Oct 18, 2020 by Healthline

If you’re traveling, consider staying at a hotel rather than with relatives, unless everyone in the group is very low risk and has plenty of space to spread out, said Andrés Henao, internal medicine physician, infectious disease specialist, and director of the UCHealth Travel Clinic at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Oct 21, 2020 by Yahoo! News

Gwen A. Huitt, an infectious disease physician at National Jewish Health [associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says that since early in the pandemic, “we’ve known that some simple measures can drastically reduce the rate of infection with the novel coronavirus.”

Oct 16, 2020 by NBC

A huge, global study of potential medications to treat Covid-19 suggests remdesivir — one of the few available drugs for the virus — may offer no real benefit to the sickest patients. But doctors on the front lines of treating severe cases advise caution when interpreting the findings. "We already knew that in sicker populations, it didn't really change outcomes," said Ken Lyn-Kew, a pulmonologist in the critical care section at National Jewish Health.

Oct 16, 2020 by CBS4

“I think it has gone really well, there’s been tremendous support for this vaccine trial both by the community as well as our institutions, UCHealth and the CU Anschutz Medical Campus,” said Thomas Campbell, UCHealth Chief Clinical Research Officer and a professor of infectious disease at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. “Because of the broad support we’ve received, we’ve been able to enroll not only a large number but diversity in our participants to try to represent the communities that COVID-19 affects in Colorado.”

Oct 19, 2020 by Fox 31

Michelle Barron, an infectious disease doctor at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] says, “I wouldn’t say you can’t do it. I just think you have to be very thoughtful. The biggest thing, if you feel sick at all, do not show up!”

Oct 21, 2020 by CBS4

UCHealth Medical Director of Infection Prevention Michelle Barron says hospital treatment has evolved since the start of the pandemic. “We know how to manage these patients. We did some things early on that we just wouldn’t have thought of doing, like making people lie on their bellies, even if they weren’t necessarily requiring oxygen yet, intubating them sooner, using some of the medications we have access to, didn’t exist at that time,” said Barron.

Oct 19, 2020 by 9News

“The best information we have is with influenza and clearly we know we have to get a shot every year because of that and we would assume that coronavirus probably also have some level of copying errors,” said Michelle Barron, medical director of Infection Prevention and Control at University of Colorado Hospital.

Oct 18, 2020 by Fox 31

“The reality is Jan. 1, 2021, it’s not over,” Michelle Barron, Medical Director of Infection Prevention for UC Health University of Colorado Hospital said. Barron says after a person is exposed to someone with COVID-19, testing too soon can be misleading. “Once you’re exposed, its not wham-bam and you’re sick in the moment,” Barron said. “It usually takes three to five days for the infection to manifest.”

Oct 18, 2020 by Denver Post

An average of 78% of intensive-care hospital beds and 79% of acute-care beds across Colorado were in use over the seven days ending Thursday. That doesn’t put hospitals at the breaking point, but they are monitoring that to decide about opening additional beds or canceling procedures that aren’t urgent, said Darlene Tad-y, vice president for clinical affairs at the Colorado Hospital Association [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “It’s a signal for us to pay attention,” she said.​ Typically, hospitals can get an idea of what the flu season will be like by looking to Australia, whose winter flu season is during the Northern Hemisphere’s summer, said Michelle Barron, medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Oct 12, 2020 by Radiology Business

“Even a modest decrease in PTL (physician task load) was associated with a decrease in burnout, suggesting standard process improvement has the potential to positively impact PTL when looked at using this lens,” Elizabeth Harry, senior director of clinical affairs at the University of Colorado Hospital [and visiting associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], and co-authors concluded.

Oct 12, 2020 by Channel 7

UCHealth’s director of infection prevention Michelle Barron says just like checking the weather on Halloween, we should be checking local COVID numbers, too. “If you’re in a community where there’s high rates of COVID, then going out and about is probably not a good idea,” Barron said. “But, doing things outdoors is obviously going to be much safer than if you have lots of people crowded in a small area without a lot of ventilation.”

Oct 14, 2020 by Fox 31

Sarah Jolley [assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] is a pulmonary critical care doctor at the outpatient clinic. “It does seem like if we can get people therapy early on, that can help to preserve some of their function,” Jolley said.

Oct 14, 2020 by 360Dx

“Collaborations like this are crucial in moving research forward and advancing and expanding clinical testing to as many members of our community as possible,” Kathleen Barnes, professor and director of CCPM at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said in a statement.

Oct 9, 2020 by 9News

Gov. Jared Polis’ (D-Colorado) medical advisory group has released a preliminary plan for distributing the COVID-19 vaccine in Colorado, when it becomes available. “It’s really a values proposition, so everybody is equal,” said Anuj Mehta with National Jewish Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Oct 9, 2020 by CBS4

“The president received the same combination of two monoclonal antibodies that are being used in the clinical trials. The president did not enroll in a clinical trial, the president received these antibodies through what’s called ‘compassionate use,’” said infectious disease expert Thomas Campbell [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Oct 8, 2020 by Newsy

“Shortening the course of illness, getting people feeling better, faster, getting people discharged from the hospital faster,” said Thomas Campbell, Associate Dean for Adult Health Research at the University of Colorado.

Oct 6, 2020 by Fox 31

“We’ve seen tremendous changes in how we have cared for patients with COVID infection over the past six months. It’s amazing to think this is a brand-new disease none of us have ever seen. We’ve learned from our own experiences. We have participated in 38 clinical trials of various ways of treating COVID-19 and learning from various colleagues across the country. We are definitely seeing better outcomes month over month,” said Jean Kutner is the chief medical officer for University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Oct 5, 2020 by Health Writeups

Jean Abbott is a retired emergency medicine physician. She also teaches at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. According to her and her colleagues, hospitals and Palliative Care Centers must plan ahead and always be ready for any pandemic or emergency.

Oct 1, 2020 by Healthline

Jean Abbott, a retired emergency medicine physician who teaches at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, told Healthline she was led to strong language in her study out of angst. She also wanted to push the concept of doing this better, even in possible near-future pandemic lockdowns.

Oct 1, 2020 by Channel 7

At UCHealth, director of infection prevention Michelle Barron [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] explains this winter could be unpredictable. “There is the risk that we have a number of flu hospitalizations and then COVID-19 surges and then our hospital capacity will be diminished,” Barron said.

Oct 4, 2020 by Fox 31

Todd Bull, a pulmonologist with UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said Sunday he sees patients have symptoms, such as shortness of breath, fatigue, joint issues, or unclear thoughts for an extended period of time.

Oct 7, 2020 by Fox 31

“So far the antibodies appear to be very well tolerated without any serious side effects,” said Thomas Campbell of UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and CU School of Medicine]. “These monoclonal antibodies may provide benefits to people with COVID-19 illness by helping them get better faster.”

Oct 5, 2020 by 9News

“They found evidence that there was some potential benefit for people with COVID-19 illness, particularly for those people who had not yet developed their own natural antibody response,” said Thomas Campbell, [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine and] an infectious-disease specialist who oversees the trial at UCHealth.

Oct 5, 2020 by Wall Street Journal

But their immune systems are another important factor, researchers say. “When you challenge a body with a virus or a vaccine, there’s just not the vigorous response,” said Cari Levy, a geriatrician who is a professor at the University of Colorado.

Oct 7, 2020 by The New York Times

“Wow,” said Matthew K. Wynia, an infectious disease specialist and director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado. He noted that the editorial did not explicitly mention Mr. Biden, but said it was clearly “an obvious call to replace the president.”

Oct 3, 2020 by Boston Globe

After hearing Conley’s press conference on Saturday, Matthew Wynia, director of the Center of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said he worried the public was hearing “contradictory statements” that make “things even more uncertain than they need to be.”

Sep 25, 2020 by St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“It’s more than licorice sticks. It could be jelly beans, licorice teas, a lot of things over the counter. Even some beers, like Belgian beers, have this compound in it,” as do some chewing tobaccos, said Robert Eckel, a University of Colorado cardiologist and former American Heart Association president. He had no role in the Massachusetts man's care.

Sep 30, 2020 by Colorado Springs Indy

“We are very worried you could get COVID and flu at the same time,” says Michelle Barron, medical director for Infection Control and Prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital on the Anschutz Medical Campus, and professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Sep 23, 2020 by 9News

“Everybody that works in the UCHealth system, regardless of your role, has to get a flu shot every year,” said Michelle Barron, medical director of Infection Prevention and Control at UCHealth University Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “We’ve been very successful in terms of getting that done every year and our rates of compliance are 99% or 100% every year.”

Sep 30, 2020 by Fox5 Atlanta

That may not be the case, says Fernando Holguin, director of Asthma Clinical and Research Programs at the CU School of Medicine and pulmonologist at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital. Holguin led a study that looked at research data from 15 other studies of COVID-19 infections in people with asthma. His team found the airway disease may not be as high-risk as first thought. “Asthma is not likely something that raises the risk of having severe pneumonia from COVID,” Holguin says.

Sep 30, 2020 by Healio

“Obviously, we would love to see fewer cases. There’s no doubt about that. And, if we can flatten the curve even further, that’s certainly ideal,” William Janssen, section head of critical care medicine and professor of medicine in the division of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at National Jewish Health [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said during the virtual discussion Aug. 27.

Sep 24, 2020 by CNN

“We need to think about how we’re going to provide care for patients who may be recovering for years after the virus,” said Sarah Jolley, a pulmonologist with UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital and director of UCHealth's Post-Covid Clinic [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Sep 24, 2020 by Fox 31

“That’s not really a surprise to us,” said Michelle Barron, an infectious disease expert at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. “If you think about most of the respiratory viruses, how many colds have you had in your lifetime? A lot. And often it can be the same virus that infects you.”

Sep 18, 2020 by Healio

Marc P. Bonaca, associate professor and director of vascular research at University of Colorado School of Medicine and executive director of clinical research and community health at CPC Clinical Research, presented the new analysis at the virtual European Society of Cardiology Congress.

Sep 23, 2020 by News Medical

“In essence, we propose that Alzheimer’s disease is a modern disease driven by changes in dietary lifestyle in which fructose can disrupt cerebral metabolism and neuronal function,” said Richard Johnson, Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine, CU Anschutz Medical Campus.

Sep 22, 2020 by Valdosta (Ga.) Daily Times

“After conducting an extensive competitive evaluation, we selected AristaMD for their best-in-class technology, service and ability to launch the eConsult platform directly through the Epic EHR, creating a user-friendly experience for answering eConsults with minimal provider burden and workflow changes,” said Anne Fuhlbrigge, Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at the University of Colorado.

Sep 23, 2020 by KSAT (San Antonio)

“It’s more than licorice sticks. It could be jelly beans, licorice teas, a lot of things over the counter. Even some beers, like Belgian beers, have this compound in it,” as do some chewing tobaccos, said Robert Eckel, a University of Colorado cardiologist and former American Heart Association president. He had no role in the Massachusetts man’s care.

Sep 20, 2020 by CBS4

Sarah Jolley, a pulmonologist with UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says Elizabeth isn’t alone. “We have certainly had patients who have had prolonged symptoms after COVID.”

Sep 22, 2020 by Today

At UCHealth in Colorado, volunteers are rolling up their sleeves for a shot at protection from coronavirus. Thomas Campbell [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] is chief investigator, leading Phase 3 trials of Moderna’s experimental vaccine.

Sep 14, 2020 by Taiwan News

As COVID-19’s global rampage continues, countries around the world are in a race to develop not only effective vaccines but also promising therapies. The 2020 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science is jointly awarded to Charles Dinarello, university professor of the University of Colorado, [and two others] for their groundbreaking discoveries about three cytokines critically involved in the pathogenesis of various autoimmune diseases--interleukin-1(IL-1), tumor necrosis factor (TNF), and interleukin-6 (IL-6).

Sep 15, 2020 by Channel 7

Rowan completed a portrait of Abigail Lara. Lara said it was overwhelming seeing herself how patients see her at their bedside. “Wow. This is raw. This is real. It was exactly what I am doing in that moment. I have my respirator on, my PPE on, and I am taking care of patients,” Lara, a pulmonary physician at the University of Colorado, said.

Sep 14, 2020 by Colorado Real Estate Journal

Eric Poeschla, head of infectious diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, believes architects, developers and builders should focus on increasing open areas, improved ventilation, increased humidity and hands-free devices and fixtures.

Sep 10, 2020 by Fox 31

“The costume masks are probably not sufficient. So you really have to have a mask underneath their costume,” said Michelle Barron, the medical director and infection prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Sep 9, 2020 by Colorado Springs Independent

Inmates are at higher risk than the general population for catching and dying from COVID-19, according to Carlos Franco-Paredes, an associate professor of medicine and infectious disease at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Sep 4, 2020 by U.S. News & World Report

“A lot of people with asthma think they have a predisposition to severe COVID, and they worry a lot about going out. They should take precautions like using their masks, but they may not need to worry so much,” said study author Fernando Holguin. He’s director of the Asthma Clinical and Research Program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Sep 8, 2020 by 9News

The dramatic temperature drop Colorado experienced Tuesday could keep cardiologists on their toes. “We’re expecting a busy week,” said Prateeti Khazanie, a cardiologist with UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “The temperature went from about 101 degrees on Saturday over Labor Day weekend to 35 degrees today. So, we are looking out for our patients.”

Sep 7, 2020 by Channel 7

“This highlights that people under the age of 45 are being missed and people are still dying of that cancer under the age of 45,” said Denver Health Gastroenterologist Alvaro Martinez-Camacho [associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Sep 7, 2020 by Fox 31

“The particulate matter is an irritant and increases mucus production in the lungs and causes increased inflammation in the airways … so this is a really potent trigger for many people, unfortunately, to worsen their breathing,” Jeffrey Sippel said, a pulmonologist at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and associate professor of clinical practice of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Sep 3, 2020 by CBS4

“I think it’s actually a really clever way of doing this in a way that makes sense,” said Michelle Barron, infectious disease specialist at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Sep 10, 2020 by CPR News

In April, Abbey Lara [associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] worked her first shift treating pulmonary and critical care patients in the COVID-19 section of the ICU ward at University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora. She counted 16 patients: two African American patients, one Filipino patient and 13 Latino patients. “It was incredibly striking,” said Lara, the daughter of migrants from Mexico.

Sep 9, 2020 by KXAS-TV (Fort Worth, Texas)

“When it comes to our immune system’s ability to fight things long-term, the antibodies are key,” stated Ashley Frazer-Abel, assistant professor from University of Colorado School of Medicine at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.

Sep 1, 2020 by Real Simple

“Just like we check the weather on Halloween to see what precautions and extra gear might be needed, knowing the current state of COVID-19 in your community will be important in determining if it is safe or not,” says Michelle Barron, medical director for infection prevention and control at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Aug 31, 2020 by Outbreak News Today

“It’s important to study infections like Chagas disease and its tie to fatal or disabling cardiac disease because it can help inform public health programs that can save people’s lives,” said lead author Andrés Henao-Martínez, assistant professor of infectious diseases at the CU School of Medicine.

Sep 3, 2020 by Wyoming Public Radio

“There have been recent examples of that,” said Thomas Campbell, a virologist and infectious disease specialist with the University of Colorado School of Medicine and UCHealth. “For instance, with remdesivir, there was a phase 3 trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the DSMB monitoring that study found evidence that remdesivir was providing benefit for treatment of severe and critical COVID."

Aug 31, 2020 by Colorado Sun

“It is super-complex to think about how to do this,” said Anuj Mehta, a pulmonologist and critical care specialist at National Jewish Health and Denver Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] who is helping to lead some of the discussions.​ “You can’t even plan for all these things in advance because your allocation protocol might change based on all the circumstances,” said Matthew Wynia, a bioethicist who leads the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Aug 20, 2020 by Medpage Today

Whereas much of Healthy People 2020’s focus was on individual health behaviors, the new set of targets pays more attention to overall well-being, a “very important area” that is related in part to the consequences of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke, commented Robert Eckel, of the University of Colorado in Aurora.

Aug 25, 2020 by OncLive

Erin Schenk, assistant professor of medicine and medical oncology, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado Cancer Center, discusses the rapidly evolving treatment landscape in lung cancer.

Aug 24, 2020 by Medscape

“Whether it’s within the VA or outside the VA, the assessment of interventional quality is paramount to ensure that patients receive the best possible care, veterans or nonveterans,” said Stephen Waldo, who is affiliated with both the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center.

Aug 20, 2020 by The New York Times

“These patients are so underserved,” said Rebecca Boxer, medical director of clinical trials at the Kaiser Permanente’s Institute for Health Research in Colorado [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “They do not get access to innovative new drugs and trials.”​ “There just isn’t a culture in nursing homes that is attuned to doing research and clinical trials,” said Mathew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado.

Aug 25, 2020 by Fox 31

“All the data, so far, for this particular vaccine — from the earlier stage trials — looks very promising,” said UCHealth infectious disease expert Thomas Campbell.

Aug 25, 2020 by CBS4

“If it’s effective and safe, then it could be a game changer,” said Thomas Campbell, infectious disease physician and principal investigator for the study at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. He understands minorities’ reluctance to participate. “There have been abuses in the past,” Campbell said, “what we would consider to be unethical experimentation.”

Jul 27, 2020 by UCHealth Today

For the ninth year in a row, U.S. News and World Report ranks UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (UCH), located on the Anschutz Medical Campus, No. 1 on its list of the state’s best hospitals. UCH is also ranked among the nation’s best in nine specialties including No. 2 in pulmonology & lung surgery.

Aug 18, 2020 by OncLive

Paul A. Bunn, Jr, distinguished professor, James Dudley Chair in Lung Cancer Research, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado, and a 2014 Giant of Cancer Care® in Lung Cancer, discusses potentially targeting HER3 in non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Aug 17, 2020 by Healio

The definition of metabolic syndrome has been argued upon for decades, and debate continues with the definition of cardiometabolic syndrome, according to Robert H. Eckel, emeritus professor of medicine in the divisions of cardiology and endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, emeritus professor of physiology and biophysics and Charles A. Boettcher II Chair in Atherosclerosis at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, past president of the American Heart Association and current president of medicine and science of the American Diabetes Association.

Aug 17, 2020 by Steamboat Pilot & Today

In terms of smoke coming from the wildfires surrounding Steamboat Springs, the people who most need to take extra caution are those with existing respiratory issues, said Sarah Jolley, an assistant professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. For people with conditions including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, or any other form of lung disease, wildfire smoke could “increase the risk of exacerbation and infection,” Jolley said.

Aug 14, 2020 by International Business Times

Mark Kearns, a pulmonary critical care physician at Denver Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]: “We know that many of our patients that have recovered from COVID, even people that have been severe enough to require care in the hospital or ICU like months later still having symptoms. Whether that be ongoing shortness of breath, fatigue — [they] just haven’t been able to return back to their normal state of health.”​ Despite the warning, Sarah Jolley, director of the Post-COVID Clinic at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], revealed there isn’t a definitive link between those who are recovering from the coronavirus and poor air quality.

Aug 14, 2020 by KOAA

“These are our future doctors and medical leaders of tomorrow. And the more experience we can give them in the pandemic today, the better equipped they will be to handle future pandemics,” said Renna Becerra, inpatient internal medicine liaison for the CU School of Medicine Colorado Springs Branch and co-investigator of the project.

Aug 17, 2020 by Colorado Sun

When the new coronavirus first swept through Colorado earlier this year, baffling doctors with its myriad of symptoms and methods of spread, Brian Stauffer, the head of cardiology at Denver Health, soon began to notice a different kind of pandemic mystery. People, it seemed, had stopped having heart attacks.... A new study from Stauffer and several Denver Health colleagues offers the first clue to the answer in Colorado.

Aug 20, 2020 by USA Today

At the University of Colorado, Thomas Campbell [professor of medicine] said his medical practice has used its electronic medical records to identify and reach out to everyone at high risk for COVID-19. “I’ve already had over 100 people email me personally and said ‘sign me up,’” said Campbell, also an infectious disease physician at UCHealth.

Aug 15, 2020 by 9News

Thomas Campbell, an infectious disease physician at the CU School of Medicine, told 9NEWS they have started outreach but not recruitment. “We have received a lot of interest; we already have close to 100 people who have stepped forward and said, ‘I want to volunteer for this study,’” Campbell said.

Aug 4, 2020 by UCHealth Today

The StopRA trial has screened more than 20,000 people, looking for antibody that greatly increases the risk of rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease that attacks the joints

Aug 4, 2020 by Healthline

It’s behavior that worries Michelle Barron, the medical director of infection prevention and control at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital. “I think unfortunately the whole mask thing and many of these things have become so politicized there’s certainly so much information out there that’s just terrible and it’s left a lot of people on the fence in terms of really understanding what’s at stake,” Barron told Healthline.

Aug 3, 2020 by 5280

In search of what I might call a more humanistic view on air travel in the time of COVID-19, I reached out to an unlikely source: an infectious disease specialist. Michelle Barron is the medical director of infection control and prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Aug 2, 2020 by Denver Post

“And that’s the key to this,” said Michelle Barron, a professor of medicine in the division of infectious disease at CU’s Anschutz Medical Campus. “I think that’s important, if we can maximize all we can do (off the field), or we can’t do it. That means, if (players) don’t follow the rules, you’re off the team for the rest of the year. There has to be some level of consequence for people who don’t follow the rules.”

Jul 27, 2020 by OncLive

Paul A. Bunn, Jr, distinguished professor, James Dudley Chair in Lung Cancer Research, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado and a 2014 Giant of Cancer Care® in Lung Cancer, highlights encouraging data with fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (Enhertu) in HER2-mutant non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Jul 28, 2020 by Denver Business Journal

For University of Colorado Hospital, Covid-19 has reinforced the importance of close collaboration between academic and clinical partners. “We were able to stand up very quickly a process for embedding evidence-based clinical pathways and guidelines,” Jean Kutner, chief medical officer of UCH [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], told Denver Business Journal.

Jul 17, 2020 by News-Review (Petoskey, Mich.)

Those consequences are distinct from the well-established connections between poverty and poor health, said Edward Havranek, director of medicine at Denver Health Medical Center [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. And although the exact reasons for the link between plunging income and later health problems aren’t clear, one obvious suspect is stress. “As our wealth drops, we have the same set of obligations,” Havranek said.

Jul 21, 2020 by Fox 31

“I think the public is much more aware of the benefits of genetic testing in getting information back that can help them make really important decisions about their own life, their treatment, their risk of developing disease and more. I also think there’s a real altruistic nature to our patient population. They want to contribute to research and discovery, and I appreciate those who have joined this initiative.” Kathleen Barnes, Director Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine and University of Colorado School of Medicine Professor

Jul 20, 2020 by Fox 31

“The question is, is this the beginning [like] what happened back in March when it started this way and then it escalated, or this sort of a slow steady increase that we’ll see that will remain manageable,” Michelle Barron, Medical Director of Infection Prevention and Control at the University of Colorado Hospital UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] said, adding “Or will it go back down? I think those are the things that remain definitely unknown.”

Jul 13, 2020 by Healio

In a related editorial, Marc P. Bonaca, associate professor and director of vascular research at University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Connie N. Hess, associate professor of medicine at University of Colorado School of Medicine, wrote: “Taken together, these observations confirm the risk profile of patients with symptomatic atherosclerotic vascular disease and the important association of polyvascular disease with outcomes”

Jul 13, 2020 by ACP Hospitalist

ACP Member Read G. Pierce, agreed that building relationships with clinical colleagues can help one find joy and sustenance in work. In the spring, the hospitalist and associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus created an hour-long Zoom forum with his colleagues to connect and debrief. They call it “Fears, Beers, and Cheers.”

Jul 14, 2020 by USA Today

Unlike traditional vaccines that expose participants to a small amount of virus, this vaccine focuses on the genetic code of the coronavirus and its spike protein, said Thomas Campbell, an infectious disease doctor at the CU School of Medicine and University of Colorado Hospital. The recruitment period will last about two months, and the call will go out through UCHealth’s My Health Connection patient portal.

Jul 9, 2020 by CBS4

“The vaccine is intended to prevent COVID-19,” said Thomas Campbell, an infectious disease physician at the CU School of Medicine and University of Colorado Hospital. “So the trial will evaluate how well the vaccine does that and it will also evaluate whether or not the vaccine is safe for people to get.”

Jul 13, 2020 by Fox 31

The Medical Director for Infection Prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, Michelle Barron, [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] said based on the information local schools have right now, they appear to be making sound choices on reopening schools.

Jul 10, 2020 by Channel 7

David Beuther serves as a pulmonary physician and the chief medical information officer at National Jewish Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. This year, he served on the Douglas County advisory board to help reopen schools in the fall. He supports the mask mandate and is afraid that if people don’t start to take masks more seriously the state could need to shut down again.

Jul 9, 2020 by CBS4

Marc Moss, UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital Director of Critical Care [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], says right now they’re seeing a slight increase in hospital patients with COVID-19. “That’s concerning,” Moss said. “Because that little blip going from 20 to 27, then it’s 30, 40 and were back up to the 160 people we had in the hospital.”

Jul 10, 2020 by Channel 7

“Growing up, I was always pretty interested in science. I have a few family members who are in medicine and nursing,” said University of Colorado fourth-year medical student Lauren Heery. “Helping people through my direct knowledge as a scientist, and now as a medical student, was I think what interested me the most.”

Jul 17, 2020 by CPR News

CPR News continues to speak with experts, doctors, researchers and people who’ve recovered. We want to bring you the stories of people who are caring for COVID-19 patients in their own words. Why do they do what they do? What do they remember about seeing their first coronavirus patient? And...what do they hope we take away from this pandemic. Here’s what seven medical professionals had to say.

Jul 17, 2020 by Department of Medicine

The Academic Clinician Education (PACE) program supports the career development of our department’s clinician-educators. These faculty members make crucial contributions to the success of our department by developing and improving innovative educational programs, and engaging in educational research to guide how we teach and assess health professional learners.

Jun 30, 2020 by Highlands Ranch Herald

“If you look at our number of covid patients compared to other hospitals, our numbers have generally been lower,” said Radhika Acharya, medical director of the cancer center [at Highlands Ranch Hospital and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “I think it was because we were early adopters so we could keep our patients safe.”

Jul 6, 2020 by Colorado Springs Gazette

Fernando Holguin, the director of the University of Colorado’s Latino Center for Research and Policy Center, focusing on Latino health disparities, said that during the peak of hospitalizations in March and April, he recalls walking through the UCHealth intensive care unit, when he realized just by looking around that the pandemic was spreading rampantly among the minority community. “It seemed like maybe 80% were brown or Black. Most were Hispanic or had Hispanic last names,” Holguin said. “The disparities were really obvious.”

Jul 2, 2020 by Detroit News

“I’ve been watching that map. Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, New Mexico. From the Colorado standpoint, we’re well aware of what’s going on around us and we’re very anxious,” said Michelle Barron, medical director of infection prevention and control at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “The next couple of weeks are critical.”

Jul 7, 2020 by Fox 31

“I think [people are] scared. I think they’re scared they have the disease. They don’t want to infect other people in their family and also I think people in Colorado are smart,” UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital Director of Critical Care [and CU School of Medicine Professor of Medicine] Marc Moss said.

Jul 7, 2020 by New York Post

“If you want to have the full life you are hoping for on the other side of COVID-19, then resume your doctor appointments, check your health numbers, like blood glucose, and if you have diabetes, your hemoglobin A1c, cholesterol, and blood pressure, and get a plan for preventing heart disease and stroke,” said Robert H. Eckel, American Diabetes Association president of medicine and science and an endocrinologist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Jul 7, 2020 by Elemental

It’s still unclear whether the new-onset cases are unique to the novel coronavirus or if they’re occurring in people who might already be prone to developing diabetes when facing systemic infection or severe stress from an illness, such as a cytokine storm, says Robert Eckel, president of medicine and science at the American Diabetes Association and professor of medicine emeritus in the division of endocrinology, metabolism & diabetes at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Jul 9, 2020 by 9News

“Our site here at University of Colorado Hospital is part of a nationwide network called the COVID Prevention Network, which is set up so that it has a cohort of sites that are available to sequentially enroll into multiple vaccine studies,” said Thomas Campbell, an infectious disease physician at the CU School of Medicine and University of Colorado Hospital. “If it works, the Moderna vaccine could be a real game-changer for the pandemic.”

Jun 30, 2020 by Medscape

Jacinda Nicklas, from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, presented findings of the BAB trial during the virtual American Diabetes Association (ADA) 80th Scientific Sessions.

Jun 30, 2020 by 5280

But Bill Burman, director of Denver Public Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], sees just as much of a problem with the bottomless mimosas, burger-and-a-beer lunch combos, and all-day “happy hours” that restaurants and bars marketed before the COVID-19 lockdown—and will revive after it’s over.​

Jun 27, 2020 by CPR News

Sarah Rowan is an infectious disease specialist at Denver Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] by day and an artist in her free time. She also emailed some friends from local hospitals, like Shanta Zimmer, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Colorado Hospital Anschutz Medical Campus.​

Jun 30, 2020 by ABC15 (Phoenix)

“People who’ve experienced military triage and having to make these decisions on the battlefield are sometimes scarred for life by this. It’s not something you ever really forget,” said Matthew Wynia, an infectious disease and public health expert from the University of Colorado.

Jun 26, 2020 by 5280

This randomized clinical trial began on March 18 in collaboration with UCHealth and various hospitals (over 2,000 patients are enrolled nationally). While the trial began with a broad range of COVID-19 patients, it has since narrowed to only enrolling people on a ventilator. “What’s currently being enrolled is a little further along the spectrum of severity than what the ruxolitinib study is enrolling,” says Thomas Campbell, professor of medicine-infectious diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Hydroxychloroquine Update: On Monday, June 15, the FDA revoked the authorization for physicians to prescribe hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 outside of research studies. UCHealth is currently conducting four such trials: two inpatient and two outpatient ones, though due to press coverage, including President Donald Trump’s inaccurate claims on the drug, patients are increasingly hesitant to participate. “We worry that people are forming opinions outside of the science. We want to encourage people to enroll in trials so that we actually can get the definitive answer,” says Jean Kutner, professor of medicine at [CU School of Medicine and] UCHospital.

Jun 30, 2020 by CU Anschutz Medical Campus

For Kristina Slunecka, it was the woman locked down in her assisted-living facility room, unable to leave the confines of her four walls even to go outside because of COVID-19. For Desirae Martinez, it was the elderly man beginning their first call with, “I don’t have much to say,” and still chatting with his newfound friend an hour later.

Jun 18, 2020 by Boulder Weekly

In Colorado, the state legislature created The Sickle Cell Research and Treatment Center in the early 1970s as part of the CU School of Medicine. With an emphasis on research and education, the purpose of the Center is to “help to assure that persons living with sickle cell disease across the lifespan have the specialty services that they need [and] to be champions in the systems where sickle cell patients receive care,” says Director Kathryn Hassell.

Jun 22, 2020 by Time

“You have some stakeholders who want to downplay things and make it sound like we’ve had a wonderful response, it all worked beautifully,” says Matthew Wynia, director of the University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities and a member of the study committee. “And you’ve got others who say, ‘No, no, no. Look at all the people who were harmed.’”

Jun 23, 2020 by NPR

The findings are consistent with several studies following asymptomatic patients in China, which have found that many can develop lesions in the lungs despite having no outward symptoms, says Jennifer Taylor-Cousar, a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] not involved with the paper. “It probably is, at least in this disease, pretty common,” she says.

Jun 21, 2020 by Fox 31

“We don’t know what’s gonna happen in the future, and I think that’s creating a little stress in people,” said Director of Critical Care at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital Marc Moss [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. Moss says during the peak, their hospital was taking care of more than 140 COVID-19 patients. That number is now less than 10.

Jun 19, 2020 by CPR News

Ivor Douglas, an ICU pulmonologist at Denver Health [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said the number of patients in his ICU is far below its peak in April. “The volume of very gravely ill patients with COVID-19 has settled to a low plateau,” Douglas said. At the same time, he said, those patients still in the hospital have acute health problems related to the virus. ​ Michelle Barron, the Medical Director for Infection Control and Prevention at the University of Colorado hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], is feeling encouraged but remains cautious. “I think that we’re kind of at that critical crux in terms of determining ... whether we will hopefully continue to be able to see a decline,” Barron said.

Jun 22, 2020 by 9News

Michelle Barron, an infectious disease specialist at UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said the uptick in cases isn’t all bad news, and that hospitalizations have held more or less steady on recent weeks.

Jun 22, 2020 by Department of Medicine

University of Colorado Distinguished Professor Charles Dinarello, MD, has today been named one of the winners of the 2020 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science “for the development of cytokine-targeting biological therapies for treatment of inflammatory diseases.” Dr. Dinarello shares the prize with Dr. Marc Feldmann and with Dr. Tadamitsu Kishimoto.

Jun 12, 2020 by Colorado Springs Business Journal

Q32 Bio — US 10,233,235 “Modulating the Alternative Complement Pathway” application pertains to methods and compositions for modulating, e.g., stimulating or inhibiting, activity of the alternative complement pathway....Q32 Bio was seeded and incubated by Atlas Venture with foundational science from renowned researchers in immunology Michael Holers, and Joshua Thurman, from the CU School of Medicine at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.

Jun 17, 2020 by U.S. News & World Report

“I think one of the biggest concerns about testosterone therapy is whether it is really needed,” said Robert Eckel, professor of medicine and an endocrinologist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Jun 11, 2020 by Daily Beast

Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz, said his eyebrows didn’t shoot up when he read the email—but “they arched a little.”

Jun 16, 2020 by The New York Times

Public health officials say that indicates the virus has been present in prison populations for far longer than had previously been understood. “If you don’t do testing, you’re flying blind,” said Carlos Franco-Paredes, an infectious-disease specialist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Jun 13, 2020 by CBS4

But others wonder if it’s ethical to infect people with a potentially lethal virus with no reliable treatment. And Matthew DeCamp at UCHealth says, as coronavirus transmission rates decline, a challenge trial is a harder sell. “It’s harder to justify adding on risk and exposing people to additional risk,” said DeCamp, internal medicine doctor at UCHealth and associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado.

Jun 13, 2020 by CNBC

Even if you’re not exhibiting symptoms, you could be shedding pieces of the virus. If the test comes back positive, then it is assumed that “you’re sick and infected,” David Beuther, a pulmonologist at National Jewish Health [and assistant professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], tells CNBC Make It.

Jun 12, 2020 by CPR News

“You might be safe where you may not get it again, but it’s likely just with most respiratory viruses, it’s temporal,” said Michelle Barron, medical director for Infection Control and Prevention at the University of Colorado Hospital. “So you have some protection from getting the infection again for like a month or two, and then it goes away.”

Jun 16, 2020 by CBS4

“The patients that require supplemental oxygen or ones that are on mechanical ventilation appeared to be the ones that benefited the most,” said William Janssen, the Section Head of Critical Care at National Jewish Health [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “We’ve been using steroids in many of our patients with COVID-19 as well.”

Jun 12, 2020 by Department of Medicine

The University of Colorado Department of Medicine is pleased to announce the 2020 Rising Star Award recipients. The Rising Star Award recognizes outstanding early-career faculty members who exemplify the department’s core values of excellence in patient care, research, education and community service.

Jun 11, 2020 by CPR News

After any potential exposure to COVID-19 it’s important to wait five to seven days — or until you show symptoms — to get a test, said Michelle Barron, medical director for Infection Control and Prevention at the University of Colorado Hospital on the Anschutz Medical Campus.

Jun 9, 2020 by Fox 31

“I think we’re hoping we’re ahead of this curve, but widespread testing is kind of the key to that,” says Michelle Barron. Barron is UCHealth’s Medical Director for Infection Prevention and Control, and says the new policy went into place Monday.

Jun 9, 2020 by CBS4

Michelle Barron, medical director of infection prevention and control at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], encourages everyone to continue to be mindful of steps people can take to reduce exposure to and transmission of COVID-19.

Jun 2, 2020 by Medscape

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, and metastatic non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the deadliest form, with a 5-year survival rate of just over 5%.​

Jun 1, 2020 by Medscape

On May 18, Colorado Doctors for Camp Closure members offered enough masks to supply all 510 detainees at the GEO Aurora ICE detention facility, but ICE refused the offer, says Danielle Loeb, a member of the organization and an associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado.

May 29, 2020 by Channel 7

Denver Health Internal Medicine doctor [and CU School of Medicine Assistant Professor] Jeremy Long told Denver7 Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance companies deciding to reimburse more providers for telehealth has increased access to healthcare.

Jun 1, 2020 by CPR News

Michelle Barron, who oversees infectious disease control and prevention at UCHealth, got a cut and color May 22 from her stylist David MacDonald at Moda Salon in Denver. She’s known him for 20 years. As someone who is trained in infectious disease prevention, she grilled her stylist about how well he sanitizes the salon before she became his client. “Even before coronavirus I was the crazy person wiping everything down with wipes and using hand sanitizers,” Barron said. (Photo credit: CPR News.)

May 29, 2020 by CPR News

David Beckham at University of Colorado Hospital [and CU School of Medicine] has started a clinical trial that compares patients treated with plasma to a database of patients who did not receive the plasma nor participated in other clinical trials. So far, he and his team have enrolled 82 patients.

Jun 4, 2020 by Denverite

“I think that’s the key thing for people to also understand is that we don’t know if there’s going to be another big wave where we see hundreds of cases (a day) or if we’re going to see maybe 10 cases,” says Michelle Barron, an infectious disease specialist at Aurora’s University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Jun 1, 2020 by Denver Post

The new coronavirus mostly spreads via droplets when someone shouts, chants, sneezes or coughs, and people are most at risk when they are within 3 to 6 feet of an infected person, including carriers of the virus who don’t have symptoms, said Michelle Barron, medical director of infection control and prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

Jun 4, 2020 by Washington Post

Now, as medical institutions explore resuming non-coronavirus research, they say it will be hard to make up for lost time. Some researchers have to rebuild their colonies of specially bred animals. Many labs are implementing staggered work shifts to limit the number of employees at any one time. “I don’t see how we can maintain the levels of activity we had in the past,” said Craig Jordan, a leukemia researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

May 27, 2020 by 9News

“For us to be able to know how much disease is out there, we have to be able to test for it,” said Michelle Barron, an infectious disease specialist with UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

May 27, 2020 by KUNC

Since the pandemic began, Carlos Franco-Paredes, an infectious disease expert at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, has visited jails in Colorado, Maryland and Michigan to carry out inspections.

May 27, 2020 by The New York Times

Abigail Lara [associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] now wears one in a Covid-19 section of the I.C.U. “It takes a little bit of getting used to, but I find them to be comfortable,” she said. “I think we all appreciate that we were given this level of protection.”

May 18, 2020 by Livestrong

Here’s a quick primer on how circulation works: “Oxygen-rich blood comes out of the heart and delivers oxygen to your body through the arteries, giving your muscles and brain energy,” says Marc Bonaca, director of vascular research and associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and spokesperson for the American College of Cardiology.

May 18, 2020 by Women's Health

Caffeine is a powerful stimulant. This means it can wake you up, help you stay focused, and even get things moving in the bathroom. But this also means it spikes your blood pressure and stresses your heart, says Amber Khanna, a cardiologist at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

May 18, 2020 by Newsweek

Robert H. Eckel, a past-president of the American Heart Association and Clinical Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado School of Medicine who did not work on the study told Newsweek the findings are limited because the researchers relied on the participants accurately reporting what they ate.

May 15, 2020 by Health Central

“Testosterone drops with age more than with menopause,” says Margaret Wierman, professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and former Vice President of Clinical Sciences at the Endocrine Society.

May 14, 2020 by Chemical & Engineering News

The test only takes 30 min and does not require mass spectrometers or other specialized equipment. This short turnaround time and easy processing is “really appealing,” says HIV researcher Jose R. Castillo-Mancilla of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, who was not involved with the study.

May 21, 2020 by Westword

Carlos Franco-Paredes, an infectious-disease doctor with the University of Colorado, has urged the ICE facility to reduce the detainee population and release vulnerable individuals. “The potential for the spread of one of these outbreaks within that detention facility may have significant casualties,” Franco-Paredes wrote in a letter to local ICE leadership in March.

May 18, 2020 by Fox 31

Marc Moss, professor of medicine and head of the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado School of medicine also took part in the Q&A seminar. “It’s [the pandemic] made a job where you’re dealing with people in crisis even more difficult,” said Moss, referring to the difficulty of making a connection with patients and their families during the pandemic.

May 15, 2020 by Colorado Sun

Darlene Tad-y, the vice president of clinical affairs for the Colorado Hospital Association [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said the early studies on remdesivir are guiding hospitals’ decisions. “They’re looking to these studies to help identify patients who are in similar situations as those in the study,” she said.

May 17, 2020 by Denver Post

Patients also have to be at least 18 and able to understand that the treatment is experimental, said David Beckham, an associate professor in the infectious diseases division on the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus.

May 13, 2020 by CBS Sacramento

One key strength of this study is that the “period of observation is longer — 20 years,” said Bob Eckel, a past president of the American Heart Association and a professor emeritus of medicine at the University of Colorado.

May 12, 2020 by PopSugar

“Seasonal allergy symptoms are driven by allergies to pollen, and most commonly to pollen that comes from plants or trees that utilize wind pollination. Anything that can make pollen more or less airborne can lead to changes in pollen counts and changes in allergy symptoms,” explains Lorelei Vandiver, an allergy and immunology specialist at UCHealth [and instructor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

May 11, 2020 by Washington Post

Carlos Franco-Paredes, a clinician from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, examined the jail last week as part of the lawsuit….Franco-Paredes said during Monday’s hearing that during his inspection last week, jail officials appeared to be following jail operating recommendations by the CDC. “I think for the most part they were in compliance with CDC guidelines at the time of the inspection,” he said.

May 7, 2020 by 9News

“The problem is that you’re touching everything,” said Michelle Barron, the medical director of Infection Prevention and Control at UCHealth’s University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

May 8, 2020 by Newsweek

“In a fast-moving pandemic, protecting individuals’ rights to privacy limits the ability of the government to protect the health of the population,” says Eric Campbell, a researcher with the University of Colorado’s medical campus specializing in health policy and bioethics.

May 12, 2020 by Colorado Sun

“I feel like we understand the disease better than we did in the beginning,” said Marc Moss, [head of the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine for CU School of Medicine] who works in pulmonology and critical care at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital. “I think a lot of medicine is pattern recognition and the more patterns you see the more comfortable you are caring for those patients.”

May 6, 2020 by Colorado Springs Independent

With campuses closed and hospitals becoming front lines in the fight against the novel coronavirus, students like those at University of Colorado School of Medicine have been thrown for an unprecedented loop. “It’s really changed everything,” says Erik Wallace, associate dean of the university’s Colorado Springs branch, who adds that when the pandemic hit, program officials essentially had to scrap normal curriculum at every level.

May 6, 2020 by CURE

D. Ross Camidge is the director of thoracic oncology and the Joyce Zeff Chair in Lung Cancer Research at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, that had to rapidly react to the developments of the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 1, 2020 by CBS4

For professionals, there’s a sort of “grin and bear it” reaction with every trip to the grocery store, as described by UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and CU School of Medicine] infectious disease specialist Michelle Barron.

May 2, 2020 by ABC News

“We’ve always had universal safety precautions for everyone in the hospital and operating room. Now, they are enhanced,” said Jean Kutner, chief medical officer for UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine].

May 7, 2020 by Medscape

After COVID-19 hit the Denver area, internist Jean Kutner, and her clinical colleagues drastically reduced the number of patients they saw and kept a minimum number of people in the office.

May 4, 2020 by Fox 31

“I think remdesivir is the first step in developing effective treatments for COVID-19. It’s probably not the last step, and it may not turn out to be the best,” said Thomas Campbell, professor of Medicine-Infectious Diseases at the CU School of Medicine. Doctors at UCHealth are also examining Ruxolitnib, Sarilumad, and hydroxycloriquine, other drugs touted as potential game changers.

Apr 28, 2020 by Healio

“Of note, the majority of patients with ovarian cancer included in the study achieved a best overall response of stable disease along with noted clinical observation of tumor regression in injected as well as uninjected lesions, which supports further investigation of this tumor type,” Antonio Jimeno, professor in the [division] of medical oncology at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, said during a presentation.

Apr 28, 2020 by MD Magazine

Marc Bonaca of the University of Colorado in Aurora, Colorado: “We are trying to do everything virtually for our patients with vascular disease. The need to come back for recurrent procedures or other issues is a real problem because we don’t want them to get infected. It’s a very fragile population.”

Apr 27, 2020 by Health

Inflammation may also play a big role in blood clotting among COVID-19 patients. “When there is very active and severe inflammation in the body, the surface of blood vessels can become disturbed and the clotting system can be activated,” Kathryn Hassell, a hematologist at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], tells Health.

Apr 23, 2020 by CPR News

Other public health researchers say testing may be able to catch up, given the increased and growing availability. “I think it (testing) has significantly improved, and certainly from where we started to where we are now, it’s like night and day,” said Michelle Barron, [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] who specializes in infectious disease at UC Health.

Apr 30, 2020 by CBS4

“Do you think the drug is working?” Gionet asked Connie Price, the Chief Medical Officer at Denver Health Medical Center [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “I think so, all early indications are that it is, and we need more data,” Price responded. “It prevents the virus from getting into the cell and replicating.”

Apr 29, 2020 by Channel 7

UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital is one of 150 hospitals around the world participating in the Gilead trial to determine if remdesivir should be given for five days or ten. “We did not see a significant differences in benefit from five days to ten days,” said Thomas Campbell, a professor at the CU School of Medicine and is helping to spearhead UCHealth’s portion of the study.

Apr 29, 2020 by Fox 31

The trials started in February, and about a month ago, CU became involved. To date, 31 patients from UCHealth have been a part of the trial. “It’s very exciting,” said Thomas Campbell, a professor at the CU School of Medicine and part of a team that’s leading the trial at UCHealth. “This may change things for patients with COVID-19 in that we may now have a proven effective treatment.”

Apr 29, 2020 by CPR News

Early results from clinical trials of remdesivir, an antiviral drug that has been tested in Colorado hospitals on patients with COVID-19, show that those treated with the drug may be getting better faster, with fewer deaths. “What I can say is that many patients have gotten better,” said Thomas Campbell, professor in the CU School of Medicine. He’s one of the physicians leading remdesivir clinical trials at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital.

Apr 23, 2020 by LiveScience

“This is not a new phenomenon,” said Marc Moss, the division head of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. There are other conditions in which patients are extremely low on oxygen but don’t feel any sense of suffocation or lack of air, Moss told Live Science. For example, some congenital heart defects cause circulation to bypass the lungs, meaning the blood is poorly oxygenated.

Apr 23, 2020 by Fox 31

As of Thursday, Denver Health had 64 COVID-19 patients. Fourteen of them were on ventilators. And since the beginning of the year, the hospital has treated and discharged 175 coronavirus patients. “We’ve had some extraordinary successes,” said Ivor Douglas, [professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine and] the director of the hospital’s medical intensive care unit.​

Apr 22, 2020 by Colorado Springs Indy

“Individuals who have been experiencing homelessness, particularly chronic homelessness, have a high burden of chronic diseases that make them more susceptible to getting a severe infection,” says Heather Cassidy, community engagement director at the University of Colorado School of Medicine’s Colorado Springs branch.

Apr 16, 2020 by Fox21 (Colorado Springs)

“Our homeless neighbors often have high prevalence of chronic conditions and suppressed immune systems that make them particularly vulnerable to a severe course of illness if they get infected with coronavirus,” said Medical Advisor Heather Cassidy [assistant professor of medicine and director of community engagement for the CU School of Medicine Colorado Springs Branch].

Apr 18, 2020 by Denver Post

Michel Chonchol, a nephrologist at University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said kidney disease interferes with the immune system, making patients on dialysis more vulnerable to all types of infections.

Apr 16, 2020 by Coloradoan

CU School of Medicine’s 2020 graduating class will begin their residencies in July.

Apr 22, 2020 by Colorado Sun

“We are being very safe, very clean,” said Jean Kutner, chief medical officer of UCHealth’s University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora.

Apr 20, 2020 by Fox 31

Since the pandemic began, UCHealth has added virtual visits to more than 700 clinics. Demand for the service has increased more than 1,000 percent.

Apr 20, 2020 by KOAA

Erik Wallace, Associate Dean for the Colorado Springs Branch, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, says environment and other social determinants are also factors.

Apr 29, 2020 by Today

Jeffrey Wallace, a gerontologist with the University of Colorado Hospital [and CU School of Medicine], tells TODAY’s Al Roker how he believes we can protect vulnerable nursing home residents during the coronavirus pandemic.

Apr 16, 2020 by CPR News

Michelle Barron, medical director of infection prevention at the University of Colorado Hospital [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said, so far, “The swab test is really quite good in terms of being able to detect active virus.”

Apr 18, 2020 by Wall Street Journal

Marc Moss, a professor of medicine [at CU School of Medicine] who has studied health-care-worker burnout, said nurses and doctors who work in the ICU traditionally have high rates of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress syndrome and suicidal thoughts…. Support from the public also helps.

Apr 18, 2020 by Denver Post

Darlene Tad-y, the Colorado Hospital Association’s vice president for clinical affairs, did not exactly downplay the severity of the problem. In an interview Wednesday, Tad-y, who also practices medicine at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora [and is associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], said it speaks volumes that the state’s 81 acute-care hospitals are now operating under a “Crisis Standards of Care” agreement, which lays out protocols for both the present and the worst-case scenario.

Apr 10, 2020 by Medscape

The findings provide some additional value from data accrued from highly selected populations that consuming isoflavone-containing foods, particularly on a background of a heart-healthy dietary pattern, reduces the risk of developing heart disease, Robert H. Eckel, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, told theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology.

Apr 13, 2020 by Mother Jones

Carlos Franco-Paredes, a professor in the University of Colorado School of Medicine’s infectious diseases division, emphasized that crowded, enclosed spaces are the opposite of social distancing. By the time ICE quarantines a symptomatic detainee, that person will have likely have already infected others, he said. Those infected people will transmit the virus to others.

Apr 13, 2020 by Fox 31

Some doctors at National Jewish Health in Denver are in New York this week helping the medical team at a Mount Sinai Hospital care for their COVID-19 patients. Josh Solomon is one of them. He is an associate professor of medicine at National Jewish Health [and CU School of Medicine] who specializes in pulmonary and critical care. “I’ve of course never seen anything like it,” he said from New York. “They got what we have, times 10.”

Apr 14, 2020 by The Mercury News

In a time when the pandemic has taken away people’s control over many aspects of their lives, “advanced care planning is one of the things under their control right now,” said Hillary Lum, a geriatrician and professor the University of Colorado.

Apr 12, 2020 by Fox 31

Typically, these discussions about who should speak for you if you’re ill and how aggressive potentially end-of-life medical care should be are difficult. But the coronavirus pandemic is making them easier, said Dan Matlock, an associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine who specializes in geriatrics.

Apr 15, 2020 by CBS4

Infectious disease specialist Michelle Barron of UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital says time of exposure remains a big deal. “You still have to have some pretty generous contact time and so if you’re running… you’re fine if you’re passing people and making sure you’re staying some distance apart.”

Apr 11, 2020 by CPR News

Thomas Campbell, at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, is working on a clinical trial of sarilumab, an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. The trial was developed jointly by the pharmaceutical companies Regeneron and Sanofi.

Apr 10, 2020 by Fox 31

“The healthcare system needs to not forget that we saw this stark disparity and make changes to address it going forward,” said Shanta Zimmer, University of Colorado School of Medicine Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion. “We need to make sure that no sectors of our population are left behind.”

Apr 10, 2020 by CPR News

Marc Moss, head of the Division of Pulmonary Sciences & Critical Care for the CU School of Medicine, interviewed (Starts at 24:21 and ends at 33:10).

Apr 16, 2020

During recent grand rounds for the Department of Medicine, faculty members from the School of Medicine weighed in on ways to combat the inflammation storm in COVID-19.

Apr 3, 2020 by Medscape

Interview with Marc Bonaca, a cardiologist as well as a vascular medicine specialist at University of Colorado, about one of the hottest topics being presented at the virtual ACC are the results of the VOYAGER PAD trial.

Apr 6, 2020 by She Knows

The symptoms of RA depend, to some extent, on how far the condition has progressed. According to Kevin Deane, a rheumatologist with UCHealth Rheumatology Clinic-Anschutz Medical Campus, as well as an associate professor of medicine and the William P. Arend Chair for Rheumatology Research at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, the most common symptoms at the onset of RA are pain, stiffness and a feeling of swelling in and around the joints.

Apr 5, 2020 by Colorado Springs Gazette

Op-ed by Jake Fox, a Colorado Springs native and a fifth-year medical and public health student at CU, and Erik Wallace, an Associate Professor of Medicine at the CU School of Medicine: “Our best recourse as a nation is one that abides by our guiding principles in medicine — as we navigate this crisis together, we should strive to uphold the value of individual lives and minimize death as best we can.”

Apr 6, 2020 by CPR News

Hillary Lum, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, said people should make decisions based on their perception of the quality of life.

Apr 6, 2020 by Fox4 (Cape Coral, Fla.)

“I think a lot of it is, again, having a physical barrier is actually not such a bad thing,” explained Michelle Barron, the medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital.

Apr 2, 2020 by 9News

Four weeks after Colorado announced its first case of COVID-19, we asked UCHealth’s Michelle Barron five important questions.

Apr 7, 2020 by 9News

“It has, for some patients in the past, shown that it might have helped in previous outbreaks of virus infections like Ebola or previous SARS outbreaks,” said University of Colorado Hospital Infectious Disease Specialist David Beckham, adding that it’s unclear how effective plasma transfusions will be against COVID-19.

Apr 7, 2020 by Fox 31

“When someone gets infected with COVID-19, their body makes an immune response,” UCHealth [and CU School of Medicine] infectious disease specialist David Beckham said. Last week, UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital became the first in the state to treat COVID-19 patients with a serum made up from the blood, specifically antibodies, from someone who recovered from the disease.

Apr 7, 2020 by Channel 7

“We are going to study the data to understand if these patients are actually getting better or improving with the treatment," said David Beckham, a UCHealth infectious disease expert. "Right now we don’t know if convalescent serum is going to make COVID-19 patients any better.”

Apr 6, 2020 by CBS4

“We don’t have great evidence that this is going to work,” said David Beckham, an infectious disease researcher with the CU School of Medicine. He says convalescent plasma has the potential to work in some patients, but he sees it as a stopgap.

Apr 7, 2020 by AAMC

A pilot test being run by UCHealth, affiliated with the University of Colorado School of Medicine, shows a typical way that medical institutions plan to carry out those principles. Matthew Wynia, director of the university’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities, says that each day, triage teams there get sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) scores about every inpatient.

Apr 7, 2020 by Boise State Public Radio

“You don’t want the individual clinician — the doctor, the nurse — at the bedside trying to make decisions within their own patients about who gets this and who gets that,” added Matt Wynia who directs the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado.

Apr 6, 2020 by KUNC

“There are some folks who might be under the impression that if there's a need to make these kinds of triage decisions that their doctor would be looking at them and saying, “are you worthy of a ventilator or not?” And that’s not the preferred way to do this. Nationally the consensus is that your doctor should be able to advocate for you as their patient,” said Matthew Wynia is the Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Apr 3, 2020 by Newsweek

The teams have better “situational awareness” of the resources available in nearby hospitals, which can affect decisions about what to do with individual patients. “God forbid someone makes a tragic choice to allocate a resource to one person and the other ends up dying, and then three days later you realize there was another hospital six miles away where we could have transferred them,” says Matthew Wynia, director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado.

Apr 3, 2020 by The Atlantic

“We need to be able to look back and say we made those decisions in a way that maintains the trust of the community, that maintains social cohesion, and allows us to heal,” says Matt Wynia, the director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado at Anschutz.

Apr 8, 2020 by 9News

“I understand the fear,” UCHealth Rheumatologist Kevin Deane [associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine] said. “However, we don’t know that the medicine works [for COVID-19].”

Apr 6, 2020 by CPR News

On Monday, Jason Persoff, assistant director of emergency preparedness at the UCHealth hospital [and associate professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine], too tempered his initial optimism, saying the state’s data “suggests that the curve might, might, be flatteni