Posts by Chana A. Sacks, MD
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Prescribing Potentially Inappropriate Medications to Older Adults Is Common, Costly
Between 2014 and 2018, 43 billion doses of potentially inappropriate medications were dispensed to adults over 65, with spending of $25.2 billion.
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Centralized Processes Facilitate Clinical Trial Enrollment During COVID-19
Massachusetts General Hospital has established a centralized scientific review committee to determine which COVID-19 trials will be conducted here; a core group of physicians works with study teams to ensure we are offering trial enrollment to as many patients as possible.
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Medical Grand Rounds: Publishing in a Pandemic: How Medical Journals are Responding to COVID-19
On April 16, 2020, the sixth lecture in the Medical Grand Rounds' COVID-19 series focused on the role of medical journals in the development of new therapies and approaches to patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biography
Chana A. Sacks, MD, an internist at Mass General and instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School, is a vocal advocate for gun violence prevention. In 2012, she was a resident in the Mass General Intensive Care Unit when her cousin's seven-year-old son, Daniel, was killed during the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Since then, she has dedicated her career to tackling gun violence as a public health epidemic and advocating for more research on the issue. In 2015 she co-founded the Mass General Gun Violence Prevention Coalition, a multidisciplinary initiative dedicated to reducing morbidity and mortality from firearm-related violence and promoting great gun safety through research and education. She participated in a panel discussion on the challenges of student activism to end gun violence during Boston's 2018 HUBweek. Dr. Sacks has published extensively on the topic of gun violence prevention in The New England Journal of Medicine and The Journal of the American Medical Association. She earned her BA in history from Georgetown University and her MD from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
