Mitchell Feldman, MD, MPhil
What has kept San Francisco as a safe haven against COVID-19 as the rest of the state of California’s numbers climb? Dr. Mitchell Feldman, Chief of the University of California San Francisco’s Division of General Internal Medicine, explains. Read his analysis on COVID and the future of mentoring programs here.
Tom Staiger, MD
Dr. Tom Staiger, Medical Director at the University of Washington Medical Center, shares how his institution is learning from former hotspots to address the current rise in COVID cases in Washington state. Read more to discover what resources he and his team have used to adjust their medial surge staffing plans.
Robert Fogerty, MD, MPH
How do you allocate hospital resources and plan care for a tsunami of patients carrying a novel, highly infectious virus? Dr. Robert Fogerty, Director of Bed Services at Yale New Haven Hospital, had to do just that when COVID-19 struck New Haven, Connecticut. With over 400 COVID-19 patients admitted at its peak, read how Dr. Fogerty had to create and implement new care strategies under such strenuous circumstances.
Sunil Sahai, MD
Sunil Sahai, newly appointed Division Chief of General Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, talks about stepping into his new role during the initial days of COVID-19. He discusses how his leadership was tested when faced with the impossible task of leading a new team during a once-in-a-century pandemic while also being in the at-risk population. Read his experience and advice to fellow SGIM members here...
Kimberly Peairs, MD
Kimberly Peairs, MD, Associate Vice Chair of Ambulatory Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, worked quickly early on in the COVID-19 crisis to create the Johns Hopkins Ambulatory Incident Command team. This team of institutional ambulatory leaders has worked together to organize and perform over 25,000 tests. She has also helped establish the Employee Covid Call Center (ECCC) which has fielded over 10,000 calls regarding clinical guidance to suspected COVID patients. Dr. Peairs shares her thoughts on the new “normal” of ambulatory care as more states open, and how clinical guidelines are adjusted as new information about COVID is released. Read her story here...
Eboni Price-Haywood, MD, MPH, FACP
Dr. Eboni Price-Haywood has been conducting research on COVID-19 at the Ochsner Center for Outcomes and Health Services Research. She recently co-authored a study examining disparities between black and white hospital patients in New Orleans. Read about her discoveries and find out why black Americans are disproportionally effected by COVID-19. here..
Simranjit Singh, MD
Frontliners: Simranjit (Sam) Singh, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Indiana University, shares what it is like to coordinate patient care across different hospital divisions, and how COVID-19 has altered non-COVID patient care as a hospitalist. Read his story here..
Nicole Lurie, MD, MSPH
Frontliners: Dr. Nicole Lurie, Strategic Advisor to the CEO at the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations now leads the organization’s international incident management team for COVID-19 vaccine development. Read about the importance of international cooperation when facing a massive public health crisis.
Dr. Noble Maleque, MD
Dr. Noble Maleque, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Emory University has been working directly with COVID-19 patients as a hospitalist and Associate Program Direct for residents. Read how he continues to practice empathy in his patient care, and how the pandemic has altered his approach to medical training.
Christopher O’Donnell, MD
Dr. Christopher O’Donnell, Associate Professor of Medicine at Emory University, faces COVID-19 patients every day. Working directly with “Persons of Interest”, read how he and many others face the difficult challenge of caring for infected patients while protecting their families and loved ones at home.
Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc
Dr. Karen DeSalvo, SGIM President and Chief Health Officer at Google, explains how the world’s largest search engine, Google, has made providing authoritative information on COVID-19 its top priority. Read about the novel ways in which technology and big data are being used to track and potentially slow a pandemic.
Dan Hunt, MD
Dr. Dan Hunt, Director of the Hospital School of Medicine at Emory University has organized more than 250 clinicians across Atlanta in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read about what it takes to organize a response team that large to such an unprecedented medical emergency and the advice he has for other SGIM members during this time. Visit https://www.sgim.org/career-center/covid-19-resources/frontliners to read his story.