MPT - Your Health

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) partners with Maryland Public Television (MPT) for a special series called "Your Health," which features UMMS specialists who share their medical expertise with viewers all across Maryland.

UMMS guests appear every other week in a special "Your Health" segment on MPT's program "Direct Connection," airing live Monday nights at 7pm.

The show takes calls from viewers, so you have the opportunity to speak directly to our experts and get your questions answered.

Your Health: Fall and Winter Respiratory Viruses

Monday, November 21, 2022, 7 pm, on Maryland Public Television

Greg Schrank, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Associate Hospital Epidemiologist at the University of Maryland Medical Center discusses the recent surge respiratory viruses.

Past Segments

• Children and RSV Infection with Steven Czinn, MD
• A Pediatrician’s Advice to Protect Kids this Respiratory Virus Season with Steven Czinn, MD (November 14, 2022)
• Getting to the Next Million Organ Transplants with Daniel Maluf, MD (October 31, 2022)
• Barriers to Breast Cancer Screening with Shana O. Ntiri, MD, MPH (October 24, 2022)
• Latest Robotic Joint Replacement Surgery Technology Available with David Dalury, MD (September 19, 2022)
• Vascular Disease Awareness Month with Deidre Smith MS, AGNP-BC (September 12, 2022)
• New Mental Health Crisis Line with Stephanie Knight, MD (Aug. 15, 2022)
• Cancer Survivorship with Harvinder Singh, MD (June 27, 2022)
• Men's Health with Kyle Fletke, MD (June 13, 2022)
• Stroke Awareness Month with Carolyn Cronin, MD, PhD (May 23, 2022)
• Women's Health Month with Harry Johnson, MD, and Mokerrum Malik, MD (May 9, 2022)
• Donate Life Month/Transplants with Chandra Bhati, MD (April 25, 2022)
• Head and Neck Cancer with Rodney Taylor, MD, MPH (April 18, 2022)
• Cancer Updates with Kevin Cullen, MD (March 7, 2022)
• Heart Health with Mukta Srivastava, MD (Feb. 14, 2022)
• First FDA-Approved Drug for Alzheimer's Disease in 18 years with Julia Biernot, MD (June 14, 2021)
• Teen Mental Health and COVID-19 with Sarah Edwards, DO (January 25, 2021)
• COVID-19 Long Haulers with Andrea Levine, MD (January 11, 2021)
• Adults with Autism with Peter Crino, MD, PhD (November 18, 2020)
• Breast Reconstruction: What are the Options with Erin M. Rada, MD (October 5, 2020)
• Pregnancy During COVID-19 with Sarah D. Crimmins, DO (July 30, 2020)
• Healthcare Heroes with Amit Chandra, MD, and Heather Brock, RN (May 20, 2020)
• Heart Attack & COVID-19 with Mark R. Vesely, MD, and Jeremy Stephen Pollock, MD (May 19, 2020)
• Colorectal Cancer with Andrea C. Bafford. MD (March 30, 2020)
• HIV and AIDS in our Community with Sarah Schmalzle, MD (December 27, 2019)