Interview with Robert M. Wachter, MD, author of Reimagining Specialty Consultation in the Digital Age: The Potential Role of Targeted Automatic Electronic Consultations

Interview with Chyke A Doubeni, MD, MPH, USPSTF member and coauthor of Screening for Pancreatic Cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement

Interview with Gary H. Gibbons, M.D., author of Accelerating the Science of SCD Therapies—Is a Cure Possible?

Interview with Alexandra K. Glazier, JD, MPH, author of Success of Opt-In Organ Donation Policy in the United States

Interview with Daniel Brodie, MD, author of Extracorporeal Life Support for Adults With Respiratory Failure and Related Indications: A Review

Interview with Joanna Paladino, MD, author of Communication Strategies for Sharing Prognostic Information With Patients: Beyond Survival Statistics

Interview with Carol M Mangione, MD MSPH, USPSTF member and coauthor of Risk Assessment, Genetic Counseling, and Genetic Testing for BRCA-Related Cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Audio at 5:55 was changed to reflect a revised risk increase statement.

Interview with Karina W. Davidson, PhD, MASc, author of Screening for Social Determinants of Health: The Known and Unknown

Interview with Benjamin Daniel Sommers, MD, PhD, author of Medicaid Expansion and Health: Assessing the Evidence After Five Years

Interview with Frank B. Hu, MD, PhD, author of Can Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Be Part of a Healthy and Sustainable Diet?

Interview with Francisco G. Cigarroa, MD, author of The Advancing American Kidney Health Executive Order: An Opportunity to Enhance Organ Donation

Interview with Melissa A. Simon, MD, MPH, Task Force member and coauthor of Screening for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Interview with S Claiborne Johnston, MD, PhD, author of The Risk and Cost of Limited Clinician and Patient Accountability in Health Care

Interview with William H. Shrank, MD, MSHS, author of Waste in the US Health Care System: Estimated Costs and Potential for Savings

Interview with Deborah Dowell, M.D., M.P.H., author of Patient-Centered Reduction or Discontinuation of Long-term Opioid Analgesics: The HHS Guide for Clinicians

Interview with John P. A. Ioannidis, MD, DSc, author of Neglecting Major Health Problems and Broadcasting Minor, Uncertain Issues in Lifestyle Science

Interview with Pascale Carayon, PhD, author of Improving the System to Support Clinician Well-being and Provide Better Patient Care

Interview with Stephen Baldassarri, author of Vaping—Seeking Clarity in a Time of Uncertainty

Interview with Amol S. Navathe, MD, PhD, author of Addressing Bias in Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Interview with Michael J. Barry, MD, USPSTF member and coauthor of Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Interview with Anthony S. Fauci, MD, author of Comorbidities in Persons With HIV: The Lingering Challenge

Interview with Julia A. Segre, Ph.D., author of Manipulating the Human Microbiome to Manage Disease

Interview with Donna Michelle Zulman, MD, and Abraham Verghese, MD, authors of Practices to Foster Physician Presence and Connection With Patients in the Clinical Encounter

Interview with Maya M. Hammoud, MD, MBA, author of Improving the Residency Application and Selection Process: An Optional Early Result Acceptance Program

Interview with I Glenn. Cohen, JD, author of Ethical and Legal Aspects of Ambient Intelligence in Hospitals

Interview with Anthony S. Fauci, MD, author of Coronavirus Infections—More Than Just the Common Cold

Interview with Jack Resneck, MD, author of Refocusing Medication Prior Authorization on Its Intended Purpose

Interview with Martin A. Makary, MD, MPH, author of Billing Quality Is Medical Quality

Interview with Jenny A. Doust, BMBS, author of Potential Consequences of Changing Disease Classifications

By mid-February 2020 there were 60,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the vast majority diagnosed in Hubei Province (including Wuhan city) in mainland China. China CDC Chief Epidemiologist Zunyou Wu, MD, PhD discusses the latest COVID-19 developments in the country with JAMA Editor in Chief Howard Bauchner, MD.

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Interview with David Naylor, MD DPhil, author of The Evolution of Schools of Thought in Medicine: Healthy Tensions

Interview with Chyke A Doubeni, MD, MPH, author of Screening for Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Interview with Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., author of The Inevitable Reimagining of Medical Education

Interview with Michael J. Barry, MD, Task Force member and coauthor of Screening for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adolescents and Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Interview with Victor M. Montori, MD, MSC, author of When Guidelines Recommend Shared Decision-making

Physicians in Lombardy, Italy, have been overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients requiring critical care. Based on an existing ECMO center network they developed an ICU network to rapidly identify, triage, and manage patients infected with SARS-2-CoV. Maurizio Cecconi, MD, of Humanitas University in Milan discusses the region’s approach to the surge, including clinical and supply management, health care worker training and protection, and ventilation strategies, with JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner.

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Critical Care Utilization for the COVID-19 Outbreak in Lombardy, Italy: Early Experience and Forecast During an Emergency Response

Coronavirus testing will help countries manage coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) but will raise questions about how to counsel patients about their test results. The CDC's Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases Jay C. Butler, MD, talks with JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner about what to advise healthy patients with positive PCR results, sick patients with negative test results, exposed health care workers, and more.

The strategy for managing the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted from containment to mitigation. What does that mean for US hospitals and health systems? Kaiser Permanente Executive Vice President Stephen M. Parodi, MD, discusses telemedicine, protecting health care workers, equipment allocation planning, and more.

The ARDS in COVID-19 patients appears more responsive to PEEP and prone ventilation, but seems to require prolonged ventilation and may be associated with myocardial injury. Michelle N. Gong, MD, MS, Chief of Critical Care Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, discusses her department's experience managing critically ill coronavirus patients, procuring diagnostic tests and personal protective equipment (PPE) for her staff, and more.

As COVID-19 spreads globally, populations who survive their illness will become immune. Mayo Vaccine Research Group Director Gregory Poland, MD, discusses antibody responses, duration of immunity, vaccine safety, and the prospects for using convalescent serum to passively immunize people unexposed to SARS-CoV-2.

Hospitals need ways to make rational, fair decisions about who gets ICU beds and ventilators if COVID-19 patients overwhelm capacity. Douglas B. White, MD, MAS, Director of the Program on Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness at the University of Pittsburgh, discusses a framework for those decisions and a guideline he helped develop for allocation of scarce resources in public health emergencies.

Interview with Sandro Galea, MD, author of The Role of Physicians in Addressing Social Determinants of Health

Infectious epidemics have always driven change and triggered discrimination in human societies. Frank Snowden, DPhil, Professor Emeritus of History and History of Medicine at Yale University and author of Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (Yale University Press, 2019), puts the COVID-19 pandemic in historical context.

Interview with Chien-Wen W Tseng, MD, MPH, USPSTF member and coauthor of Screening for Bacterial Vaginosis in Pregnant Persons to Prevent Preterm Delivery: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement

Questions about testing, chloroquine toxicity, duration of immunity and reinfection, and what to expect next are gripping the US as the novel coronavirus spreads. JAMA Associate Editor Preeti Malani, MD, professor of medicine and Chief Health Officer at the University of Michigan, discusses recent developments in a live conversation with JAMA Editor in Chief Howard Bauchner. Recorded on April 6, 2020.

Interview with Jeffrey A. Linder, MD, author of Delayed Antibiotic Prescriptions in Ambulatory Care: Reconsidering a Problematic Practice

Interview with Madison Kilbride, PhD, author of The Need to Improve the Clinical Utility of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests: Either Too Narrow or Too Broad

Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, of Harvard University discusses public health strategies and policies for lifting shelter-in-place and quarantine and for returning the US to a new post-first-wave normal. Recorded Monday April 20, 2020.

Interview with Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH, author of Increasing Access to FDA Inspection Reports on Irregularities and Misconduct in Clinical Trials