We continue to carry out our education, research, and clinical care missions, while ensuring the health and safety of patients, learners, faculty and staff. Hear from Dr. Paul Klotman, Baylor president, CEO and executive dean.
2024 Messages
Week 237 - Oct. 4, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman answers your questions about COVID, RSV, seasonal flu, avian flu and West Nile Virus.
Week 236 - Sept. 27, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman talks about an at-home flu vaccine, Avian flu, COVID and three new transformative gifts to support the future home of the School of Medicine and School of Health Professions in the Lillie and Roy Cullen Tower.
Week 235 - Sept. 20, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman provides a comprehensive report on how avian flu started, what is happening now and what we might expect.
Week 234 - Sept. 13, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman provides a comprehensive report on the mpox outbreak, including the differences between the two types of mpox virus – Clade I and Clade 2.
Week 233 - Sept. 6, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman has updates on COVID-19 and other viruses and goes over some interesting facts about listeria, which has been in the news recently because of an outbreak at a deli meat company.
Week 232 - Aug. 30, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman gives updates on West Nile, free COVID tests and Paxlovid discounts. Also, congratulations are in order for new appointments and recipients of the Golden Apple Teaching Awards.
Week 231 - Aug. 23, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman gives updates on COVID, mPOX and bird flu, and provides news on a CDC alert on a dramatic rise in cases of highly transmissible parvovirus B19, sometimes referred to as “slapped cheek disease” because children present with bright red cheeks after infection.
Week 230 - Aug. 16, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman discusses the summer COVID spike, and takes a look at Mpox, Avian flu and West Nile virus.
Week 229 - Aug. 9, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman welcomes Dr. Gabriel Loor, surgical director of the Lung Transplant Program at Baylor, to talk about the many advances in the last several years.
Week 228 - Aug. 2, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman provides a comprehensive update on COVID and addresses the issue of heat.
Week 227 - July 26, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman talks about the history and groundbreaking advancements of heart transplantation with Dr. John Goss, head of the College's transplant program.
Week 226 - July 19, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman provides a mammoth update on genetic research, bird flu, consumption of raw milk and COVID data.
Week 225 - July 12, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman talks about the danger of heat following Hurricane Beryl, along with news on West Nile, H5NI and COVID.
Week 223 - June 28, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman focuses on measles and outlines the measles vaccine recommendations by the CDC.
Week 222 - June 21, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman shares both “the case for nature” and “the case for from the lab” of how the COVID pandemic began.
Week 221 - June 14, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman takes a look at Joro Spiders, COVID, enteroviruses and H5N1 in birds and mammals.
Week 220 - June 7, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman invites Dr. Paul Ling to discuss his work with elephants and the deadly Endotheliotropic Herpes Virus.
Week 219 - May 31, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman tackles all sorts of illnesses: avian flu, RSV, seasonal flu and COVID.
Week 218 - May 24, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman goes over the long history of the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Baylor's work together.
Week 217 - May 17, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman goes on location to the Cullen Eye Institute in the Lee and Joe Jamail Specialty Care Center to learn about the light adjustable intraocular lenses system offered to patients.
Week 216 - May 10, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman reviews interesting findings on variant mutations, using the case of a 72-year-old patient who had COVID-19 for 613 days.
Week 215 - May 3, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman shares some of the stats behind the post-COVID increase in spending and decrease in savings, as well as recent COVID activity.
Week 214 - April 26, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman talks to special guest Dr. Ben Arenkiel, who talks about his research focusing on neural circuits in the brain.
Week 213 - April 19, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman takes a closer look at avian influenza and coronaviruses (MERS, SARS, etc.) and the likelihood of either becoming the next pandemic affecting humans.
Week 212 - April 12, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman reports on dropping hospitalizations across all age groups and talks about the total solar eclipse.
Week 211 - April 5, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman discusses a CDC report that COVID vaccine cuts the hospitalization risk in immunocompromised people. He also talks about avian flu in cattle and poultry and the first reported human case in Texas.
Week 210 - March 29, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman visits the Orthotics and Prosthetics lab. National Doctors Day honors the dedication and compassion of the more than one million physicians worldwide and hear tips to properly prepare for the eclipse.
Week 209 - March 22, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman touches on the lessons learned from the pandemic. Shoutouts to Dr. Kanta Velamuri and Dr. Bert O'Malley and his team for significant professional accomplishments. And congratulations to our students on a very successful Match Day.
Week 208 - March 15, 2024
Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. Paul Klotman talks about who should get another COVID shot this spring. The CDC recommended another round of vaccinations for those 65 and older.
Week 207 - March 8, 2024
Dr. Paul Klotman In this week’s video, we take a look at Florida, which is experiencing a measles outbreak in Fort Lauderdale-area schools with six confirmed cases.
Week 206 - March 1, 2024
Dr. Paul Klotman In this week’s video, we take a look at Florida, which is experiencing a measles outbreak in Fort Lauderdale-area schools with six confirmed cases.
Week 205 - Fed. 23, 2024
Dr. Paul Klotman answers several questions, including, “What is Alaskapox?”
Week 204 - Fed. 16, 2024
Dr. Paul Klotman visits with Dr. Kendal Hirschi, professor of pediatrics-nutrition at Baylor, and gets a tour of his research greenhouse at the Children’s Nutrition Research Center.
Week 203 - Fed. 9, 2024
Dr. Paul Klotman looks at the prevalence of anxiety symptoms that were largely blamed on loneliness from COVID isolation.
Week 202 - Fed. 2, 2024
Dr. Paul Klotman introduces Drs. Maresso and Dr. Mike Tisza to talk about the next big step in wastewater surveillance – to detect all known human viruses – flu, RSV, mpox, rotavirus and thousands more, in addition to COVID, to anticipate outbreaks.
Week 201 - Jan. 26, 2024
Dr. Paul Klotman discusses the decline in Covid, flu, and RSV numbers as well as the increase in measles cases in Europe.
Week 200 - Jan. 19, 2024
Dr. Paul Klotman takes us to Dr. Livia Eberlin's lab for a look at one of her most exciting inventions, the MasSpec Pen.
Week 199 - Jan. 12, 2024
Dr. Paul Klotman answers some of the questions he received over the holidays.
Week 198 - Jan. 5, 2024
Dr. Paul Klotman reports on a lead change among the variants reported, with the JN.1 Omicron variant taking the lead over HV.1.