‘Polio Pioneer Sees Shades of the 50s and 60s in Today s Pandemic Joe Brandt
Dr. Stephen Gluckman is holding onto two pieces of vaccine history.
One, from the 1950s, labels him a Polio Pioneer. He was one of the million-plus children around the country who took part in the clinical trial for Jonas Salk s polio vaccine.
Another shows that Gluckman, a Penn Medicine physician, received his second shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine early this month, decades after he participated in Salk s trial.
He thought about the past a few times as he lined up for those doses. In some ways, it was the same: another mass vaccination efforts in which he got multiple shots. But his parents might have been more scared of polio than he was at the time.
Health IT News noted.
Even before the COVID-19 public health emergency, healthcare had a cyber target on its back, said Christopher Logan, director of healthcare industry strategy at the software company VMware. We ve been measuring the risks and the threat for telemedicine-type services for many years.
The question is not one of computer literacy, but whether basic security measures are in place, added Northwell Health s chief quality officer and deputy chief medical officer, Mark Jarrett. Providers associated with larger hospitals may have the privilege of an additional layer of security, while smaller or medium-sized providers are basically on their own, he said.
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Sharon Stoll, DO, MS
Dr. Sharon Stoll is a board certified neurologist, she is a multiple sclerosis specialist and assistant professor, in the department of neurology at Yale School of Medicine. She completed her neurology residency training at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA and her Neuroimmunology fellowship at Yale New Haven Hospital. Dr. Stoll continues to play an active role in academic development and continuing medical education and serves as the course director for Yale’s annual MS CME program. She is an investigator on several international multi-center clinical trials and currently serves on several advisory boards including BeCare MS Link, Forepont Capital Partners, One Touch Telehealth and JOWMA. Dr. Stoll has received numerous awards including the Rodney Bell teaching award and is a national multiple sclerosis society clinical fellowship grant recipient. Dr. Stoll also spent time as a medical editor at ABC news headquarters and is currently me