Episode 19: Emergency Departments During the Pandemic

On June 7, 2020, our host Dr. Marianne Ritchie was joined by Dr. Theodore Christopher, Dr. Anna Marie Change and Dr. Judd Hollander for a discussion on the state of Emergency Departments as a result of the Pandemic.Dr. Christopher is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Jefferson University Hospital.Dr. Chang is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Jefferson University Hospital.Dr. Judd Hollander is Associate Dean for Strategic Health Initiatives at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University and Professor and Vice Chair of Finance and Healthcare Enterprises in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Each week we highlight the #RealChampions in your life! Your family, friends, or colleagues who go the extra mile to help others in their community. For this week, Your Real Champion was our guest, Dr. Anna Marie Chang! Dr. Chang is an Emergency Medicine doctor who became a patient with COVID-19. She inspires us with her resilience and dedication as she uses Telehealth to care for other patients from her sick bed, then leads the charge by donating her own plasma and setting up a research project to study the value of plasma infusions in COVID-19.