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Featured speakers in the fifth lecture of the Medical Grand Rounds' COVID-19 series included Keith Flaherty, MD, Michael Mansour, MD, PhD, and Kathryn Hibbert, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital; Kathryn Stephenson, MD, MPH, and Barbra Blair, MD, from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Richard Kaufman, MD, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital; and Scott Gottlieb, MD, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and current fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

 The current COVID-19 outbreak has led to many questions around how to incorporate palliative care into the evolving clinical environment. This combined Grand Rounds presented on Thursday, April 2, 2020, featured a panel of experts from across Harvard Medical School, with a focus on principles and skills most useful to practitioners in both the inpatient and outpatient settingSpeakers:

April 7, 2020 - Presented by the American Medical Informatics Association

Presenters: Zhu Hong, PhD; Gong Mengchun, MD; Tuan Ngo; Carl Leitner, PhD; Hamish Fraser, MD

As part of AMIA's ongoing COVID-19 Webinar Series - and in collaboration with Digital Square - this webinar will provide an up-to-the-minute presentation of the use of informatics on a global scale to screen for and manage the COVID-19 pandemic. The session will include officials in China and Vietnam, and a view from the situation in Singapore, Korea, and Hong Kong. Presenters will engage in frank discussions of successes and innovations as well as the challenges and roadblocks. There will be a particular emphasis on the development, deployment, and evaluation of medical information systems in East Asia, and the lesson learned from China’s initiatives to bring the outbreak under control.