American Medical Association/The Permanente Federation tweet chat

Doctors and health care systems play a key role in the reopening of America. Join the AMA and The Permanente Federation in the tweet chat, "Clinical perspectives on safely reopening America," to discuss suppression strategies for COVID-19 including:

• Expanding testing
• Responding to surges
• Scaling telehealth

Our participants will address a proper roadmap that brings a “new normal” while protecting the health of Americans.

Take part in the discussion at @AmerMedicalAssn and use the hashtag #SuppressCOVID.

• American Medical Association (@AmerMedicalAssn)
• Permanente Docs (@PermanenteDocs)

• Danielle Allen, director, Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics (@dsallentess)
• Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA, president, American Medical Association (@PatriceHarrisMD)
• Stephen M. Parodi, MD, executive vice president, The Permanente Federation; and associate executive director, The Permanente Medical Group (@StephenParodiMD)

Participants can reply in one of three ways, all of which much include #SuppressCOVID. Include #SuppressCOVID on every response or else it will not be seen in the tweet chat feed.

• Quote retweet the moderator’s question with your answer
• Directly reply to the moderator’s question post
• Create a new post with your answer and [A1/A2/A3, etc.] as it corresponds with that particular question

Suggested language you can use

Organizations

• Join us for a tweet chat on how to return to normalcy while protecting the health of Americans. Ask your questions with #SuppressCOVID. @AmerMedicalAssn @PermanenteDocs

Individuals

• Join me this Thursday for a discussion on strategies to suppress COVID-19 and how health care systems support the reopening of America. Follow #SuppressCOVID @AmerMedicalAssn @PermanenteDocs

Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA

Patrice A. Harris, MD, MA, a psychiatrist from Atlanta, became the 174th president of the American Medical Association in June 2019, and the organization’s first African-American woman to hold this position. Dr. Harris has diverse experience as a private practicing physician, public health administrator, patient advocate and medical society lobbyist. She has long been a mentor, a role model and an advocate.

 

 

 

 

Danielle Allen

Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, and director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, is a political theorist who has published broadly in democratic theory, political sociology and the history of political thought. Allen is also the principal investigator for the Democratic Knowledge Project, a distributed research and action lab at Harvard University.

 

 

 

 

Stephen Parodi, MD

Stephen Parodi, MD, is executive vice president of External Affairs, Communications and Brand at The Permanente Federation, and is also an associate executive director for The Permanente Medical Group. Dr. Parodi’s areas of responsibility include patient safety, the care of complex patients, laboratory medicine, risk management, transgender health, nephrology, renal transplant services and infectious disease.