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Discussing Your Questions About Health and Wellbeing
Providing a Professional & Honest Approach to Health
David Nayak, MD MPH
Producer & Host
Board Certified, Internal Medicine
Provides long-term, comprehensive care in the office and in the hospital, managing both common and complex illnesses
Board Certified, Allergy-Immunology
Recognized specialists in allergy and immunology
Master of Public Health
Working with specific populations and communities to improve their health through awareness, education, policy, and research
Latest Episodes
Episode 19: Can the flu vaccine give me the flu?
Episode 18: Quick Hits: What's the purpose of a Stay-At-Home Order?
In Episode 18, we begin Dr. Dave On Call-Quick Hits and discuss the purpose of a Stay-At-Home Order. In the United States, we are recording about 150K COVID-19 cases on a daily basis, and in the next month or so, we should likely be over 200K daily.
Episode 17: My experience in the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trial
In Episode 17 of Dr. Dave On Call, I discuss my experience in the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trial. This episode has been a culmination of about 2 months of my observations while participating as a research subject in the Moderna mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine trial.
Episode 16: The COVID-19 saliva test-An interview with creator, Dr. Martin Burke
In Episode 16, we discuss the COVID-19 saliva test with creator, Dr. Martin Burke, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (U of I).
Episode 15: Forgiveness and our health: An interview with Dr. Fred Luskin
Episode 14: COVID-19 vaccine research update with lead investigator, Dr. Richard Novak
In Episode 14 of Dr. Dave On Call, we discuss the Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trial of Moderna lead by Dr. Richard Novak, Chief of Infectious Diseases at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Episode 13: Food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic
In Episode 13 of Dr. Dave On Call, we discuss food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic. We speak with Jennie Hull, Director of Programs at the Lakeview Pantry, Chicago’s oldest and largest food pantry.
Episode 12: Interview with John M. Barry, author of the New York Times bestseller, "The Great Influenza"
In Episode 12 of Dr. Dave On Call, we interview New York Times best-selling author, John M. Barry. We discuss his book about the 1918 Influenza pandemic and its parallels to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Episode 11: The COVID-19 response in prisons
In Episode 11 of Dr. Dave On Call, we discuss the COVID-19 response in the Illinois prison system with Dr. LaMenta Conway, Deputy Chief of Medicine for the Illinois Department of Corrections.
Episode 10: Multi-system Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) and COVID-19
In Episode 10 of Dr. Dave On Call, we discuss with 2 pediatric specialists, Multi-system Inflammatory Syndrome in Children and its association with COVID-19.
Episode 9: Surviving COVID-19, a near-death experience
Episode 8: The disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on ethnic minorities
In Episode 8 of Dr. Dave On Call, we discuss the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on ethnic minorities with Dr. Kiarri Kershaw, Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine whose speciality is Social Epidemiology.
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Dr. Dave Ensures Chicago Restaurants Open Safely
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Dr. Dave Helps Ensure Chicago Restaurants Can Re-Open Safely
After thorough contact-tracing, testing, disinfecting, and with the confidence of @drdaveoncall we are officially OPEN FOR BUSINESS..... View this post on Instagram #Repost @halfsourchicago ・・・ Making the soup to reopen today was very therapeutic. After being informed...
Dr. Dave Provides Consulting to Chicago Restaurants
View this post on Instagram #Repost @piecechicago with @make_repost ・・・ Piece customers, Yesterday we were informed by one of our employees that he/she tested positive for COVID-19. After discussing this with our consultant, Dr. David Nayak, specialist in...
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