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In this episode of the "Meet the Board" podcast series, Briana Contreras, Managed Healthcare Executive editor, speaks with Ateev Mehrotra, a member of the MHE editorial advisory board and a professor of healthcare policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School. Mehtrotra is also a hospitalist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. In the discussion, Contreras gets to know Mehrotra more on a personal level and picks his brain on some of his research interests including telehealth, alternative payment models and price transparency.

FDA approves first generic of Symbicort for asthma and COPD and first therapy for rare seizure disorder, Rinvoq and Lynparza get nods for new indications, the agency approves a new delivery system for Alzheimer’s therapy, regulators extend review for Opzelura for skin condition and issue CRL for Fasenra for chronic rhinosinusitis.

William Dietz, MD, PhD, Professor and Director of Sumner M. Redstone Global Center for Prevention and Wellness at George Washington University, addressed to MHE the degree obesity is a risk factor at for severe COVID-19 and what those reasons are for obesity increasing the risk. This video is in correlation to Managed Healthcare Executive's March Issue cover story highlighting the dangerous pairing of COVID-19 and Obesity.

Aaron Glatt, MD, Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Chief of Infectious Diseases/Hospital Epidemiologist at Mount Sinai South Nassau and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, addressed to MHE the degree obesity is a risk factor at for severe COVID-19 and what those reasons are for obesity increasing the risk. This video is in correlation to Managed Healthcare Executive's March Issue cover story highlighting the dangerous pairing of COVID-19 and Obesity.

A Johns Hopkins study found an association between use of e-cigarettes and prediabetes. More research is needed to tease out the possible causal elements of the association. Meanwhile, a federal government survey found that 1.72 million high school students and 320,000 middle schoolers are current users of e-cigarettes.