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Medical Grand Rounds: Impact of COVID-19 among Older Persons

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  • On May 28, 2020, the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital held its 12th Virtual Grand Rounds presentation related to COVID-19
  • The presentation featured a panel of experts from the Boston medical community including Christine Seel Ritchie, MD, MSPH, Sharon Levine, MD, and Jehan Alladina, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital

On May 28, 2020, the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital held its 12th Virtual Grand Rounds presentation related to COVID-19. The presentation focused on the impact of COVID-19 on older populations.

The panel included Mass General physicians Christine Seel Ritchie, MD, MSPH, director of research in the Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine and director of the Mongan Institute Center for Aging and Serious Illness, Sharon Levine, MD, geriatric medicine specialist, and Jehan Alladina, MD, physician in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care. The session was moderated by Katrina Armstong, MD, physician-in-chief in the Department of Medicine at Mass General. Other speakers included Susan L. Mitchell, MD, MPH, and Sharon K. Inouye, MD, MPH, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Shalender Basin, MB, BS, Laura Nelson Frain, MD, MPH, and Shoshana Streiter, MD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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