Lecture abstract:

In the “BYO Case Review” session, led by Drs. Pierre Kory and Paul Marik, experts discuss complex medical cases, focusing on long COVID and severe conditions. They explore practical challenges and insights from real-life examples, including a Long COVID patient and a girl with post-COVID neuropsychiatric issues. The panel emphasizes teamwork in medicine, the importance of sharing knowledge, and the pursuit of new treatments for emerging health challenges.

Dr. Marik, an innovator in the practice of critical care medicine, has had an immeasurable impact
on the practice of medicine during his 30-year career. With over 500 peer-reviewed journal articles, 80 book chapters, and four critical care books, Dr. Marik is the second-most published critical care physician in the world. He is quadruple board-certified in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Neurocritical Care, and Nutrition Science. He also holds advanced degrees in Pharmacology and Anesthesia.

Dr. Marik is known for developing several revolutionary protocols, notably for treating sepsis with intravenous ascorbic acid. In April 2020, Dr. Marik founded FLCCC with fellow critical care colleagues who recognized the urgent need for effective prevention and treatment therapies for COVID-19.

Since then, Dr. Marik has built on this body of work to develop treatment strategies for other complex conditions, like cancer and Type II diabetes, using lifestyle changes, readily available FDAapproved medications, and nutritional supplements. In August 2023, he published ‘Cancer Care: The Role of Repurposed Drugs and Metabolic Interventions in Treating Cancer.’ This unbiased, objective, and truly scientific evaluation of alternative interventions for the management of cancer has already had a positive impact on the lives of cancer patients.

Dr. Marik’s medical career began in 1989 in Soweto, South Africa. He moved to the United States in 1992, working at Wayne State University, Detroit Receiving Hospital, and several other facilities in the northeastern U.S. before eventually settling at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) in 2009. In early 2022, Dr. Marik retired from his position at EVMS to dedicate more time to leading the FLCCC and fighting to protect the doctor-patient relationship.

Dr. Kory is considered a world pioneer in the use of ultrasound by physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of critically ill patients. He helped develop and run the first national courses in Critical Care Ultrasonography in the U.S. and served as a director of these courses with the American College of Chest Physicians for several years. He is also the senior editor of the most popular textbook in the field titled, ‘Point of Care Ultrasound.’

Dr. Kory and Dr. Marik first collaborated on the research and treatment of septic shock patients with high doses of intravenous ascorbic acid. The two later went on to co-found the FLCCC Alliance with other critical care specialists from around the country and around the world.

Not only did Dr. Kory lead ICUs in multiple COVID-19 hotspots throughout the pandemic; he also co-authored more than 10 influential papers on COVID-19. The most impactful was a paper that was the first to support the diagnosis of early COVID-19 respiratory disease as an organizing pneumonia, thus explaining the critical response of the disease to corticosteroids.

His book, ‘The War on Ivermectin,’ chronicles the personal attacks, professional setbacks, and nefarious efforts of the world’s major health agencies and medical journals to dismiss and deny ivermectin’s efficacy as a treatment for COVID-19. In 2022, he founded his own telehealth practice.

Known as a Master Educator, Dr. Kory has won numerous departmental and divisional teaching awards in every hospital he has worked. He has delivered hundreds of courses and invited lectures throughout his career.

Scott Marsland has been a registered nurse since 1997 and a certified family nurse practitioner since 2014. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with an MS in Nursing from SUNY Upstate Medical University. He has been a writer, speaker, organizer, and leader for community health for more than 20 years. Marsland played an instrumental role in the formation of the Ithaca Free Clinic (IFC) in 2005. The IFC was the first free integrated medicine clinic in the United States and today serves more than 4,000 people annually. Marsland worked at the bedside in a Level 1 trauma center from 2016-2021, attending to patients through the early part of the pandemic. In January 2022, Marsland joined Dr. Pierre Kory during the startup of a telemedicine practice, and they became partners in June 2022. He currently manages the care of more than 200 long COVID and vaccine-injured patients.