ep. 16

The Intersection of Pain and COVID-19 with Soo Kim, MD

Working on the pandemic’s front lines, Soo Kim, MD, was part of the medical team at Johns Hopkins University that first identified and treated signs and symptoms of Long COVID and its chronic pain symptoms. Her groundbreaking involvement in one of the first Post-Acute COVID Syndrome (PACS) Clinics has since become the blueprint for how many physicians treat acute and chronic pain among Long COVID patients.

In this episode of the Pain Matters Podcast, host Shravani Durbhakula, MD, MPH, MBA, is joined by special guest host Mustafa Broachwala, DO, to interview the Director of Pain Medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital, Soo Kim, MD, to discuss her contributions to Long COVID research and some of the novel therapies she’s developed and encountered to treat COVID-19-related pain.

Tune in to discover:

  • How doctors first discovered the existence of Long COVID
  • The science behind Long COVID-related pain syndromes
  • Diagnostic tools for identifying certain Long COVID-related pain syndromes 
  • Novel therapies to treat neuropathic and neuralgic pain in COVID-19 patients