Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This lecture, the 24th in the series, is in memory of Reza Gandjei, who was a UCSF medicine resident in the 1990s and died far too young. Reza, who was both a Marshall and Rhodes Scholar while a student at Harvard Medical School, had a particular interest in healthcare ethics and policy, and so speakers in this series have been international experts in these topics.
This year’s Gandjei lecturer is Megan Ranney, MD, MPH of Brown University. Dr. Ranney is an emergency medicine physician, health policy researcher, science communicator, and advocate whose expansive work has focused on firearm violence prevention, population health, digital health, physician burnout, and the impact of COVID-19. Her recent piece in the Washington Post about healthcare worker burnout in COVID has widely resonated and she has been a trusted voice throughout the pandemic.
She serves as the Academic Dean for the School of Public Health, as well as founding Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health. She is co-founder and Senior Strategic Advisor to the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine (AFFIRM) at the Aspen Institute, which creates practical, scalable, and immediate health-based solutions to reduce all forms of firearm-related injuries in the United States. She is co-founder and president of the board for Get Us PPE, a startup dedicated to matching donated personal protective equipment to those who need it most, and recently started the Long COVID Initiative at Brown University with Dr. Ashish Jha. She has been PI or Co-I on over a dozen federally funded grants and has been featured by hundreds of media outlets.
Note: Closed captions will be available within 48-72 hours after posting.
Program
Bob Wachter: Introduction
00:03:44-01:28:00 – Conversation with Megan Ranney, MD, MPH (Academic Dean, School of Public Health, Brown University)
Bob Wachter: Closing
See previous Medical Grand Rounds:
• February 3: The Downslope of the Omicron Surge, and What to Do as We Turn the Corner
youtube.com/watch?v=JKaPbBQNneE
• January 27: Rebuilding What We've Lost in Covid: A Perspective from the ICU
youtube.com/watch?v=EgIXrcKRWYw&t=1s
• January 20: The Revolution in Continuous Glucose Monitoring for Diabetes
youtube.com/watch?v=UxTcwFQvNoA
• January 13: The Omicron Whirlwind: A Conversation with Eric Topol - The Current and Future State of the Pandemic
youtube.com/watch?v=lCAvFHd3B38
See all UCSF Covid-19 grand rounds, which have been viewed over 3M times, here: https://medicine.ucsf.edu/covid-19-news-coverage
This lecture, the 24th in the series, is in memory of Reza Gandjei, who was a UCSF medicine resident in the 1990s and died far too young. Reza, who was both a Marshall and Rhodes Scholar while a student at Harvard Medical School, had a particular interest in healthcare ethics and policy, and so speakers in this series have been international experts in these topics.
This year’s Gandjei lecturer is Megan Ranney, MD, MPH of Brown University. Dr. Ranney is an emergency medicine physician, health policy researcher, science communicator, and advocate whose expansive work has focused on firearm violence prevention, population health, digital health, physician burnout, and the impact of COVID-19. Her recent piece in the Washington Post about healthcare worker burnout in COVID has widely resonated and she has been a trusted voice throughout the pandemic.
She serves as the Academic Dean for the School of Public Health, as well as founding Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health. She is co-founder and Senior Strategic Advisor to the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine (AFFIRM) at the Aspen Institute, which creates practical, scalable, and immediate health-based solutions to reduce all forms of firearm-related injuries in the United States. She is co-founder and president of the board for Get Us PPE, a startup dedicated to matching donated personal protective equipment to those who need it most, and recently started the Long COVID Initiative at Brown University with Dr. Ashish Jha. She has been PI or Co-I on over a dozen federally funded grants and has been featured by hundreds of media outlets.
Note: Closed captions will be available within 48-72 hours after posting.
Program
Bob Wachter: Introduction
00:03:44-01:28:00 – Conversation with Megan Ranney, MD, MPH (Academic Dean, School of Public Health, Brown University)
Bob Wachter: Closing
See previous Medical Grand Rounds:
• February 3: The Downslope of the Omicron Surge, and What to Do as We Turn the Corner
youtube.com/watch?v=JKaPbBQNneE
• January 27: Rebuilding What We've Lost in Covid: A Perspective from the ICU
youtube.com/watch?v=EgIXrcKRWYw&t=1s
• January 20: The Revolution in Continuous Glucose Monitoring for Diabetes
youtube.com/watch?v=UxTcwFQvNoA
• January 13: The Omicron Whirlwind: A Conversation with Eric Topol - The Current and Future State of the Pandemic
youtube.com/watch?v=lCAvFHd3B38
See all UCSF Covid-19 grand rounds, which have been viewed over 3M times, here: https://medicine.ucsf.edu/covid-19-news-coverage
