Episode 233: Dr. David Boulware
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. David Boulware is an infectious disease physician-scientist with formal training in clinical trials, public health, and tropical medicine. Dr. Boulware combines his clinical research with nested basic science investigations into disease pathogenesis to conduct translational research. His primary research interests are in meningitis in resource-limited areas including diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and quality improvement initiatives incorporating cost-effectiveness analyses in order to translate knowledge into improved care. Dr. Boulware's current research is focused on improving the clinical outcomes of HIV-infected persons with cryptococcal meningitis, the second most common AIDS-defining opportunistic infection in Sub-Saharan Africa and the most common cause of adult meningitis. Dr. Boulware leads a multidisciplinary, international research team with active research collaborations with partners in Uganda, South Africa, Ethiopia, Brazil, Botswana, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
In their conversation, Drs. Tro and David talk about how Dr. Boulware found his way into infectious disease, Dr. Boulware's career following the advent of Covid, Hydroxychloroquine studies, Ivermectin studies, the Activ-6 trial, monoclonal antibody treatment, Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA, and Dr. Boulware's take on the medical field post-Covid.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Low-Carb MD Podcast. |
| 0:03.8 | No one is beyond help. |
| 0:05.8 | No one is beyond hope. |
| 0:08.5 | As we've always said, we're bringing you medical information and cutting-edge science, |
| 0:12.7 | but none of this is medical advice. |
| 0:15.7 | Please seek out input from your own doctor. |
| 0:19.6 | Guys, welcome to the Low-Carb MD Podcast. |
| 0:27.7 | I have a amazing guest. |
| 0:30.5 | Somebody who I've been very interested in, I've followed on social media, I've watched |
| 0:33.7 | lecture, I've read his publications in the New England Journal and JAMA Lancet, Nell |
| 0:39.7 | Swear, Dr. Bullwear, he's an infectious disease doctor. |
| 0:45.2 | He went to medical school in Indiana University, Residency and Fellowship at the University |
| 0:53.1 | of Minnesota and he is a professor of medicine as well as a professor of epidemiology and |
| 1:01.5 | you are at University of Minnesota, right? |
| 1:03.6 | That's where you teach and do your research. |
| 1:06.9 | Indeed, Minnesota, it's a place where if you don't like cold weather, then you probably |
| 1:13.5 | have never been here, but you come in August, you fall in love, it's a great place. |
| 1:18.8 | By the time November rolls around, you realize you've made a terrible mistake. |
| 1:23.3 | So I want to, first of all, I'm humbled that you've come on board. |
| 1:27.3 | We've had some infectious disease doctors come on board and kind of set the record straight, |
| 1:31.2 | and one of the things that I really want to focus in on and maybe start in on was, you |
| 1:37.5 | know, the PTSD we've all had over the past two years and I know as an infectious disease |
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