At Cortron media, our coverage of the COVID-19 virus began Jan 20th 2020 when we produced an interview with Dr. Amesh Adalja and transmitted his appearance live via satellite to CGTN, a Chinese television network.
Since that first interview, Dr. Adalja has appeared in about ninety live television interviews in our studios! In those interviews, he has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and Network Affiliate stations. Additionally, he has participated as the featured guest on several Internet podcasts that originated from our studios as well.
Dr. Adalja is considered to be one of the premier and most sought-after technical
experts during the pandemic, for good reason. Shown below is the bio we present to the networks regarding his background and qualifications as an on-air presenter and his first live shot at the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak.
Since that first interview, Dr. Adalja has appeared in about ninety live television interviews in our studios! In those interviews, he has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and Network Affiliate stations. Additionally, he has participated as the featured guest on several Internet podcasts that originated from our studios as well.
Dr. Adalja is considered to be one of the premier and most sought-after technical
experts during the pandemic, for good reason. Shown below is the bio we present to the networks regarding his background and qualifications as an on-air presenter and his first live shot at the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak.
Dr. Amesh A. Adalja, MD, FIDSA., is a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Health Security, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, and, Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC. He also serves on the City of Pittsburgh’s HIV Commission. He is board certified in internal medicine, emergency medicine, infectious diseases, and critical care medicine. Dr. Adalja is a member of the Infectious Disease Society of America's (IDSA) Public Health Committee, the American College of Emergency Physicians Pennsylvania Chapter’s EMS & Terrorism Disaster Preparedness Committee and the US Department of Health and Human Services’ National Disaster Medical System Disaster Medical Assistance Team, with which, he was deployed to Haiti after the earthquake in 2010. He has also served on US government panels tasked with developing guidelines for the treatment of botulism and anthrax in mass casualty settings as well as a FEMA working group on nuclear disaster recovery.
Dr. Adalja is an Associate Editor of the journal Health Security and was a contributing author for the Handbook of Bioterrorism and Disaster Medicine. He has published in such journals as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases, and the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Adalja is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American College of Physicians, and the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Adalja completed 2 fellowships at the University of Pittsburgh—one in infectious diseases, for which he served as chief fellow, and, one in critical care medicine. He completed a combined residency in internal medicine and emergency medicine at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, where he served as chief resident and as a member of the infection control committee.
During the course of his coverage of the pandemic, Dr. Adalja has played an important role in alerting officials and healthcare managers to what he saw as key issues and pressure points for our national treatment and testing organizations going forward. Foremost in his assessment was the likelihood of overloading our hospital Intensive Care units if cases increased too rapidly.
Fortunately, at the time of this writing, various states are feeling empowered to begin to open select segments and regions within their territories to return to normal work and activity. Of course, we hope that easing restrictions will be achieved without a marked increase in hospitalizations and fatalities.
Regardless, Dr. Adalja is poised to continue to offer opinion and advice in whatever situations we find ourselves as a nation. And Cortron Media will do everything possible to put him on the air whenever and wherever he is needed.
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