EP 90: Designing for Long Covid | Lekshmi Santhosh

How do you design care for patients with Long Covid? Will the
pandemic lead to a redesign of medical education? Can design
principles create safer standards in healthcare? Dr. Lekshmi
Santhosh specializes in adult pulmonary and critical care medicine
with a focus on medical education. She attends in the Medical ICU,
the Neuro ICU, on the Internal Medicine teaching wards, and has a
clinic at the Pulmonary Outpatient Faculty Practice at
UCSF-Parnassus. She is the founder and Medical Director of the
multidisciplinary OPTIMAL Clinic (pOst-covid-19/PosT-Icu
MultidisciplinAry cLinic) at UCSF Health. She serves as the
Associate Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care
Medicine Fellowship and the Assistant Site Director for the
Internal Medicine Residency at Parnassus. She also is the Director
of the Department of Medicine Grand Rounds. She obtained her
Master's in Health Professions Education from UC-Berkeley. Her
primary interests in medical education research are related to ICU
transitions of care, women in leadership, clinical reasoning, and
subspecialty career choice. Episode Mentions: Interview w Lekshmi:
What We Do — and, Frustratingly, Don’t — Know About Long Covid
Article: Long Covid-19 may remain a chronic condition for millions
Article: On the Long Road to Understanding Long Covid, This UCSF
Initiative Leads Article: Feeling Dismissed? How to Spot ‘Medical
Gaslighting’ and What to Do About It. Follow Lekshmi: Twitter |
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