GREP add space after comma

I'm sorry this is so basic, but it's making me insane. I need to find commas which are immediately followed by any letter character and put a space between the comma and the letter.
Example: MD,DDS,PHD needs to be MD, DDS, PHD
I know I start with this: (,)[\l\u]
I just don't know how to keep the comma and same character.
Thanks for any suggestions.

You can use the following expression
Find: (,)(\w+)
Change: $1 $2
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