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Medical Grand Rounds: Boston Biomedical Community Come Together to Respond to COVID-19

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  • On March 12, 2020, the Department of Medicine held a virtual Grand Rounds Presentation
  • The talk featured experts from the greater Boston biomedical community who are collaborating research efforts to quickly and effectively respond to COVID-19
  • In the video, they discuss the current state of the pandemic in the U.S., and how research will help us better understand everything from the epidemiology to diagnostics to treatment of COVID-19

On March 12, 2020, the Department of Medicine held a virtual Grand Rounds presentation that featured experts from the greater Boston biomedical community who are collaborating research efforts to quickly and effectively respond to COVID-19. They discussed the current state of the pandemic in the U.S., and how research will help us better understand everything from the epidemiology to diagnostics to treatment of COVID-19.

The session was moderated by Katrina Armstong, MD, physician-in-chief in the Department of Medicine at Mass General, and speakers included Bruce D. Walker, MD, of the Ragon Institute at Mass General; Marc Lipsitch, DPhil, of the T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Pardis Sabeti, MD, DPhil, of Harvard University and the Broad Institute; Galit Alter, PhD, of the Ragon Institute at Mass General; Mark Namchuk, PhD, of Harvard Medical School; Dan Barouch, MD, PhD, of the Ragon Institute and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Lindsey Baden, MD, from Brigham and Women’s; and Mark Schwartz, a member of the  Mass General Board of Trustees.

Watch the Grand Rounds presentation

COVID-19 disease information from Mass General

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