NEJM Interviews

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NEJM Interview: Ilya Golovaty on platforms offering direct-to-consumer prescribing of medications for weight management. Feb 21, 2024

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Ilya Golovaty is an acting assistant professor of medicine at the University of Washington. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. I. Golovaty and S. Hagan. Direct-to-Consumer Platforms for New Antiobesity Medications — Concerns and Potential Opportunities. N Engl J Med 2024;390:677-680.

NEJM Interview: Dave Chokshi on ethical issues faced by safety-net health systems in the United States. Feb 14, 2024

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Dave Chokshi is a professor at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at the City College of New York and a physician at Bellevue Hospital. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. D.A. Chokshi and F.P. Cerise. Ethical Issues in Providing Care in Safety-Net Health Systems. N Engl J Med 2024;390:581-584.

NEJM Interview: David Higgins on public confidence in the value of childhood vaccines and the importance of combating misinformation about vaccination. Feb 07, 2024

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David Higgins is a research fellow and investigator at the Adult and Child Center for Outcomes Research and Delivery Science and a general academic pediatrician in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. D.M. Higgins and S.T. O’Leary. The Risks of Normalizing Parental Vaccine Hesitancy. N Engl J Med 2024;390:485-487.

NEJM Interview: Andrew Lea on how experience with a 1970s computerized diagnostic program can inform efforts to implement machine-learning prediction models in medicine. Jan 24, 2024

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Andrew Lea is a resident physician in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. A.S. Lea and D.S. Jones. Mind the Gap — Machine Learning, Dataset Shift, and History in the Age of Clinical Algorithms. N Engl J Med 2024;390:293-295.

NEJM Interview: Thomas Gallagher on historical and current ethical approaches to responding to harmful medical errors. Jan 17, 2024

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Thomas Gallagher is a professor in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. T.H. Gallagher and A. Kachalia. Responding to Medical Errors — Implementing the Modern Ethical Paradigm. N Engl J Med 2024;390:193-197.

NEJM Interview: Joseph Friedman on increases in drug-related mortality among adolescents and approaches to overdose prevention. Jan 10, 2024

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Joseph Friedman is a medical student at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA who has a Ph.D. in social medicine. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. J. Friedman and S.E. Hadland. The Overdose Crisis among U.S. Adolescents. N Engl J Med 2024;390:97-100.

NEJM Interview: Crystal Cené on the potential benefits, particularly for Black birthing people, of partnerships between perinatal care providers and community-based doulas. Dec 27, 2023

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Crystal Cené is chief administrative officer for health justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion and associate chief medical officer for health equity at UC San Diego Health, a professor of clinical medicine at the University of California, San Diego, and a member of the Journal’s Perspective Advisory Board. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. D. Pressley Byrd and Others. Community-Based Doulas — Can Clinicians Share Power to Improve Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes? N Engl J Med 2023;389:2405-2407.

NEJM Interview: Bernard Lo on the evolution of the ethical and legal framework for making medical decisions for patients who lack decision-making capacity. Dec 20, 2023

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Bernard Lo is a professor of medicine emeritus and director of the Program in Medical Ethics emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. B. Lo. Deciding for Patients Who Have Lost Decision-Making Capacity — Finding Common Ground in Medical Ethics. N Engl J Med 2023;389:2309-2312.

NEJM Interview: Laura Stark on the history of rules governing human-subjects research and potential lessons for the regulation of artificial intelligence. Dec 13, 2023

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Laura Stark is an associate professor at the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. L. Stark. Medicine’s Lessons for AI Regulation. N Engl J Med 2023;389:2213-2215.

Is Xenotransplantation Ready for Prime Time? — ITT Episode 22 Dec 06, 2023

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This podcast episode examines the need for and promise of xenotransplantation, considering first the plight of patients and then the progress being made by researchers. . Is Xenotransplantation Ready for Prime Time? N Engl J Med 2023;389:e49.

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