Coping with COVID: Education & Awareness, featuring former US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy

Coping with COVID: Education & Awareness, featuring former US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy

Author: Hindu American Foundation March 19, 2020 Duration: 1:05:55

In the special episode of That's So Hindu, HAF Co-Founder Dr. Aseem Shukla (Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery in the Department of Urology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania) moderates a discussion on the COVID-19 pandemic, featuring: 

  • Former US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy;
  • Dr. Lavannya Pandit (Assistant Professor of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine; full-time staff physician at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, Houston, Texas) 
  • Dr. Mihir Meghani (HAF co-founder and board of director member; Emergency Medicine Physician at Kaiser Permanente in the East Bay, CA)
  • Dr. Rajiv Pandit (HAF board member; Otolaryngologist and Clinical Instructor in the Dept. of Surgery and Section Chief of Otolaryngology, at Methodist Dallas Medical Center)
  • Dr. Abhay Dandekar (pediatrician in practice at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, CA, served as a pediatric residency and clerkship director, and is an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at University of California, San Francisco), and; 
  • Dr. Kavita Pallod Sekhsaria (HAF National Leadership Council member; clinical psychologist working for Quince Orchard Psychotherapy; Board of Advisors for MannMukti, which aims to fight mental health stigma in the South Asian Community). 

Legal disclaimer: Nothing being said on this call should constitute medical advice. Consult with your physician & with local recommendations. Stay up to date on current recommendations at CDC.gov


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