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2020 Annual Report
The theme of our 2020 report focuses on how we’re extending our reach in diverse ways.
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Residents Helping Residents
Mita Shah Hoppenfeld, MD, rising chief resident in internal medicine, recently started a GoFundMe project to help raise money for residents and doctors fighting COVID-19 in New York hospitals.
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Stanford ValleyCare Launches First Clinical Trial
Stanford ValleyCare’s first-ever clinical trial ended up being a rapidly-approved ongoing adaptive trial during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Interferon-lambda Clinical Trial Underway
Researchers are examining whether the drug interferon-lambda can act as an effective therapy for patients with mild cases of COVID-19…
Medicine Grand Rounds - Focusing on COVID-19
Upcoming Grand Rounds
Time: June 10 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Location: Virtual attendance only. Join via Zoom
Feature Presentation: Health Equity in Hispanic and African American Communities with COVID-19
Presenters: Fernando S Mendoza, MD; Kenji Taylor, MD
Rotating Weekly Updates and Panelists (Note: Not all panelists below will present every week but many will be able to help answer questions)
Presenters: Megan Mahoney, MD; Neera Ahuja, MD; Norm Rizk, MD; Ann Weinacker, MD; Sang-ick Chang, MD; Scott Boyd, MD, PhD; Sam Shen, MD; Benjamin Pinsky, MD; Nigam Shah, MBBS, PhD; Marina Martin, MD; Lisa Shieh, MD, PhD; Lucy Tompkins, MD, PhD; Marisa Holubar, MD
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Spotlight
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Breaking Bad at Stanford: Treating a Growing Population of Patients Who Admit to Methamphetamine Abuse
Methamphetamine abuse is known to be bad for many reasons; one of the least known is its association with pulmonary arterial hypertension. Roham Zamanian has followed the geographic spread of the meth epidemic from its US origin in the California Central Valley to current hotbeds in Appalachia and the Ohio Valley.