JAMA Author Interviews

Noninvasive ventilation (NIV), working with dying patients' families, use of experimental therapies, and more. JAMA Associate Editor Derek Angus, MD, MPH, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, provides a COVID-19 ICU management update. Watch the recording of this livestream

How does the current pandemic compare to historical infectious outbreaks and what can we expect in summer and fall of 2020? Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, director of the Human Nature Lab, Co-director of the Institute of Network Science, and Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, discusses the epidemiology of COVID-19.

Hospitals need ways to make rational, fair decisions about who gets ICU beds and ventilators if COVID-19 patients overwhelm capacity. Douglas B. White, MD, MAS, Director of the Program on Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness at the University of Pittsburgh, discusses a framework for those decisions and a guideline he helped develop for allocation of scarce resources in public health emergencies.

As COVID-19 spreads globally, populations who survive their illness will become immune. Mayo Vaccine Research Group Director Gregory Poland, MD, discusses antibody responses, duration of immunity, vaccine safety, and the prospects for using convalescent serum to passively immunize people unexposed to SARS-CoV-2.

The ARDS in COVID-19 patients appears more responsive to PEEP and prone ventilation, but seems to require prolonged ventilation and may be associated with myocardial injury. Michelle N. Gong, MD, MS, Chief of Critical Care Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, discusses her department's experience managing critically ill coronavirus patients, procuring diagnostic tests and personal protective equipment (PPE) for her staff, and more.

The strategy for managing the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted from containment to mitigation. What does that mean for US hospitals and health systems? Kaiser Permanente Executive Vice President Stephen M. Parodi, MD, discusses telemedicine, protecting health care workers, equipment allocation planning, and more.

Diagnostic testing, NSAIDs, ACE Inhibitors, antivirals, and more. Anthony Fauci, MD from NIAID discusses latest developments in the spread and clinical management of COVID-19 and the SARS-CoV-2 virus with JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner, MD. JAMA Coronavirus Resource Center

Coronavirus testing will help countries manage coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) but will raise questions about how to counsel patients about their test results. The CDC's Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases Jay C. Butler, MD, talks with JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner about what to advise healthy patients with positive PCR results, sick patients with negative test results, exposed health care workers, and more.

Physicians in Lombardy, Italy, have been overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients requiring critical care. Based on an existing ECMO center network they developed an ICU network to rapidly identify, triage, and manage patients infected with SARS-2-CoV. Maurizio Cecconi, MD, of Humanitas University in Milan discusses the region's approach to the surge, including clinical and supply management, health care worker training and protection, and ventilation strategies, with JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner. Read the article: Critical Care Utilization for the COVID-19 Outbreak in Lombardy, Italy: Early Experience and Forecast During an Emergency Response

Interview with Victor M. Montori, MD, MSC, author of When Guidelines Recommend Shared Decision-making

Coronavirus testing, mortality, vaccine development, containment vs mitigation, and more. JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner, MD, interviews US NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, MD, about the latest developments in SARS-CoV-2 science and global spread of infection. JAMA Coronavirus Resource Page

Interview with Michael J. Barry, MD, Task Force member and coauthor of Screening for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adolescents and Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Interview with Jonathan A. Patz, MD, MPH, author of A Low-Carbon Future Could Improve Global Health and Achieve Economic Benefits

Interview with Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., author of The Inevitable Reimagining of Medical Education

Interview with Chyke A Doubeni, MD, MPH, author of Screening for Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Interview with David Naylor, MD DPhil, author of The Evolution of Schools of Thought in Medicine: Healthy Tensions

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By mid-February 2020 there were 60,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the vast majority diagnosed in Hubei Province (including Wuhan city) in mainland China. China CDC Chief Epidemiologist Zunyou Wu, MD, PhD discusses the latest COVID-19 developments in the country with JAMA Editor in Chief Howard Bauchner, MD.

In February 2020 the nature of the 2019-nCoV outbreak is still slowly coming into focus but it appears to be acting more like bad pandemic influenza (efficient spread, overall lower mortality) than like SARS (less efficient spread, overall higher mortality). Anthony Fauci, MD, of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) discusses the latest developments with JAMA Editor in Chief Howard Bauchner. Coronavirus Resource Center

Interview with Jenny A. Doust, BMBS, author of Potential Consequences of Changing Disease Classifications

Interview with Martin A. Makary, MD, MPH, author of Billing Quality Is Medical Quality

Interview with Jack Resneck, MD, author of Refocusing Medication Prior Authorization on Its Intended Purpose

Interview with Anthony S. Fauci, MD, author of Coronavirus Infections—More Than Just the Common Cold

Interview with I Glenn. Cohen, JD, author of Ethical and Legal Aspects of Ambient Intelligence in Hospitals

Interview with Maya M. Hammoud, MD, MBA, author of Improving the Residency Application and Selection Process: An Optional Early Result Acceptance Program

Interview with Donna Michelle Zulman, MD, and Abraham Verghese, MD, authors of Practices to Foster Physician Presence and Connection With Patients in the Clinical Encounter

Interview with Claire J. Creutzfeldt, MD, author of Treatment Decisions for a Future Self: Ethical Obligations to Guide Truly Informed Choices

Interview with Julia A. Segre, Ph.D., author of Manipulating the Human Microbiome to Manage Disease

Interview with Mercedes R. Carnethon, PhD, author of Disparities Research, Disparities Researchers, and Health Equity

Interview with Anthony S. Fauci, MD, author of Comorbidities in Persons With HIV: The Lingering Challenge

Interview with Michael J. Barry, MD, USPSTF member and coauthor of Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Interview with Mark D. Huffman, MD, MPH, author of Implementation Strategies for Cardiovascular Polypills

Interview with Amol S. Navathe, MD, PhD, author of Addressing Bias in Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Interview with Stephen Baldassarri, author of Vaping—Seeking Clarity in a Time of Uncertainty

Interview with Pascale Carayon, PhD, author of Improving the System to Support Clinician Well-being and Provide Better Patient Care

Interview with John P. A. Ioannidis, MD, DSc, author of Neglecting Major Health Problems and Broadcasting Minor, Uncertain Issues in Lifestyle Science

Interview with Deborah Dowell, M.D., M.P.H., author of Patient-Centered Reduction or Discontinuation of Long-term Opioid Analgesics: The HHS Guide for Clinicians

Interview with William H. Shrank, MD, MSHS, author of Waste in the US Health Care System: Estimated Costs and Potential for Savings

Interview with S Claiborne Johnston, MD, PhD, author of The Risk and Cost of Limited Clinician and Patient Accountability in Health Care

Interview with Melissa A. Simon, MD, MPH, Task Force member and coauthor of Screening for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Interview with Francisco G. Cigarroa, MD, author of The Advancing American Kidney Health Executive Order: An Opportunity to Enhance Organ Donation

Interview with Frank B. Hu, MD, PhD, author of Can Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Be Part of a Healthy and Sustainable Diet?

Interview with Benjamin Daniel Sommers, MD, PhD, author of Medicaid Expansion and Health: Assessing the Evidence After Five Years

Interview with Anna D. Sinaiko, Ph. D., author of What Is the Value of Market-Wide Health Care Price Transparency?

Interview with Michael J. Barry, MD, USPSTF member and coauthor of Medication Use to Reduce Risk of Breast Cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Interview with Yngvild Olsen, M.D., M.P.H., author of Lessons Learned From the Opioid Epidemic

Interview with Karina W. Davidson, PhD, MASc, author of Screening for Social Determinants of Health: The Known and Unknown

Interview with Carol M Mangione, MD MSPH, USPSTF member and coauthor of Risk Assessment, Genetic Counseling, and Genetic Testing for BRCA-Related Cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement Audio at 5:55 was changed to reflect a revised risk increase statement.

Interview with Joanna Paladino, MD, author of Communication Strategies for Sharing Prognostic Information With Patients: Beyond Survival Statistics

Interview with Daniel Brodie, MD, author of Extracorporeal Life Support for Adults With Respiratory Failure and Related Indications: A Review