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Department of Medicine Grand Rounds - Update on Covid-19: Epidemiology, Virology, Prospects for Drugs and Vaccines, and UCSF’s Experience in the Navajo Nation (Zoom Only)

Session moderated by Bob Wachter

Speakers:

Sriram Shamasunder, Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine; Director of the HEAL Initiative – Report from the Navajo Nation

George Rutherford, Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Director of the Prevention and Public Health Group – Epidemiology and the Next Stage

Joel Ernst, Professor of Medicine and Chief of UCSF Division of Experimental Medicine – Viral Immunity and Vaccines

Melanie Ott, Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology and Professor, Dept. of Medicine – Virology of SARS-CoV-2

Nevan Krogan, Professor, Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology; Director of Quantitative Biosciences Institute –  SARS-CoV-2 and Drug Discovery

Followed by a panel discussion, including Joel Ernst, Melanie Ott, Nevan Krogan and:

Donald Ganem, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases; Head of Infectious Disease Research at Novartis, 2011-18 – SARS-CoV-2 and the Role of Biopharmaceutical Companies

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The session will be recorded for later play :
https://medicine.ucsf.edu/covid-19-news-coverage