Student Presenter(s): Joshua Gray
Faculty Mentor: Rajendram Rajnarayanan
School/College: Osteopathic Medicine, Jonesboro

Many people missed appointments with their primary care physicians during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. This study was a literature review that focused on how these missed appointments and associated preventative health screenings could lead to an increased number of new disease diagnoses, such as breast or lung cancer, in the years following the pandemic. In this review, we considered not only how much of an increase in disease we could expect to see, but also which populations may be disproportionately affected due to missed preventative healthcare screenings. This data allows us to consider both how we could improve the healthcare system for the next pandemic, as well as how we should increase our vigilance against these diseases in the near future.