A Woman's Journey Presents: Long COVID

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There is a growing number of survivors of COVID-19 who are still dealing with symptoms, including shortness of breath, fatigue, headaches, palpitations, and impairments in mental health and cognition. The Johns Hopkins Post-Acute COVID-19 Team Program is a collaboration between the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins with the goal to provide interdisciplinary, standardized care to address the unique needs of COVID-19 survivors. Learn more about long COVID during this specialized program with rehabilitation physician Alba Azola, M.D., neuromuscular physician Tae Chung, M.D., and pulmonologist Ann Parker, M.D., Ph.D.

SPEAKERS

Alba Azola, M.D., (Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Post-Acute COVID-19 Team; Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) is a rehabilitation physician helping patients restore function and movement after an injury or illness. Her expertise includes neurorehabilitation and rehabilitation for swallowing disorders.

Dr. Azola completed her residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, where in her final year she was awarded the Frank L. Coulson, Jr. Award for Clinical Excellence. Prior to the residency, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Swallowing Neurophysiology Laboratory at Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Azola received her medical degree from the Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico, where she grew up. After the devastating hurricane Maria in 2017, she returned to her homeland to help with hurricane relief.

 Dr. Tae Hwan Chung (Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) is an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation and neurology at Johns Hopkins. His areas of training and expertise include neuromuscular disorders and physical medicine and rehabilitation.

Thanks to his diverse background, Dr. Chung is uniquely positioned to diagnose and treat a variety of neuromuscular conditions and pathology by using electrodiagnostic procedures and immune and rehabilitative treatments. Dr. Chung is particularly interested in rehabilitative treatments and therapeutic exercise for various neuromuscular diseases, such as myositis, peripheral neuropathy and motor neuron diseases.

Dr. Chung runs a multidisciplinary rehabilitation clinic with the Johns Hopkins neuromuscular rehabilitation team, which he helped develop with physical, occupational and speech therapists, who are dedicated to helping patients with rare neuromuscular diseases. 

Ann Marie Parker, M.D., Ph.D. (Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Post-Acute COVID-19 Team; Assistant Professor of Medicine) is an instructor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her clinical focus is in pulmonary and critical care medicine, with a special interest in critically ill oncology patients as well as delirium and rehabilitation in the ICU.

She earned her M.D. at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She completed her residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center and a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Parker joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2016.