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COVID-19 Vaccine in Massachusetts

December 14, 2020 – TRANSCRIPT – SLIDES – VIDEO– RESOURCES

Moderator:

    • David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, President, Massachusetts Medical Society

Speakers:

    • Eric Rubin, MD, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine and NEJM Group

    • Paul Biddinger, MD, Medical Director for Emergency Preparedness at Mass General Brigham and Chair of Governor Baker’s Advisory Committee on COVID-19 Vaccination

    • Larry Madoff, MD, Medical Director, Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences, Massachusetts Department of Public Health

    • Simone Wildes, MD, Infectious Disease Specialist at South Shore Health and Chair, Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Diversity in Medicine

    • Asif Merchant, MD, Geriatric and Palliative Care Medicine Specialist and Chair of the MMS Committee on Geriatric Medicine

Hunger and Housing: Lessons from COVID-19

September 23, 2020 – TRANSCRIPT – SLIDES – VIDEO

Moderator:

    • Kathryn Brodowski, MD, MPH, preventive medicine physician, Chair of the MMS Committee on Nutrition and Physical Activity

Speakers:

    • Megan Sandel, MD, MPH, Associate Director of the GROW Clinic at Boston Medical Center, Principal Investigator with Children's HealthWatch, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health

COVID-19 and School Reopening

September 9, 2020 – TRANSCRIPT – SLIDES – VIDEO

Moderators:

    • David Rosman, MD, MBA, President, Massachusetts Medical Society

    • Michele Parker, MD, President, Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians

Speakers:

    • Jeffrey Riley, M.Ed., Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

    • Lloyd Fisher, MD, President, Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

    • Elisa Choi, MD, Governor, Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Physicians

    • Sandra Nelson, MD, infectious disease specialist, Massachusetts General Hospital

    • Larry Madoff, MD, Medical Director, Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences, Massachusetts Department of Public Health

COVID-19 and Vulnerable Populations

June 30, 2020 – TRANSCRIPT – SLIDES – VIDEO

Moderator:

    • Simone Wildes, MD, Infectious Disease Specialist at South Shore Health and Chair, Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Diversity in Medicine

Speakers:

    • Monica Bharel, MD, MPH, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Public Health

    • Mary Bassett, MD, MPH, Director, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights

Practice Operations and Delivering Patient Care

May 26, 2020 – TRANSCRIPT – SLIDES – VIDEO

Moderator: 

    • Dr. Barbara Spivak, president and chairperson of the board of the Mount Auburn Cambridge Independent Practice Association and Chair of the MMS Committee on the Quality of Medical Practice 

Speakers: 

    • Lauren Peters, Undersecretary of Health Policy with the Executive Office of Health and Human Services

    • Dr. Ben Kruskal, Medical Director at New England Quality Care Alliance

    • Dr. Michael Sheehy, Chief of Population Health and Analytics at Reliant Medical Group 

Physician Wellness in the Time of COVID-19

May 12, 2020 – TRANSCRIPT – VIDEO

Moderator:

    • Dr. James Baker, Chair of the MMS Committee on Mental Health and Substance Use and physician consultant for MCSTAP (Massachusetts Consultation Services for Treatment of Addiction and Pain)

Speakers:

    • Dr. Wendy Dean, Co-Founder of Moral Injury of Healthcare

    • Dr. Steve Adelman, Medical Director, Physician Health Services, and clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School

Challenges, Changes, and Updates of Telehealth Services

April 28, 2020 – TRANSCRIPT – VIDEO

Moderators:

    • Dr. Randy Bak, a pediatrician and Chair of the MMS Committee on Information Technology

Speakers:

    • Dr. Joseph Kvedar, president of the American Telemedicine Association and co-chair of the American Medical Society Digital Medicine Payment Advisory Group

    • Dr. Dhrumil Shah, a family medicine physician and CMIO/CIO at Compass Medical

Massachusetts Medical Society’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic

April 14, 2020 – TRANSCRIPT

Speakers:

    • Dr. Maryanne Bombaugh, then-President

    • Dr. David Rosman, then-President-Elect

    • Dr. Carole Allen, then-Vice President

    • Lois Cornell, Executive Vice President
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