COVID-19: A Conversation from the Front Line
Dr. Jonathan Graf and Dr. Jeremy Samuel Faust

We all have questions about what is really happening on the front lines of medicine right now. Sherith Israel is lucky to have some experts who will talk about what they are seeing, working on, and planning for in their fields in this community forum on COVID-19. Interviewed by our host, Dr. Jonathan Graf, this is sure to be an informative opportunity to hear from and ask questions of our guest, Dr. Jeremy Samuel Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the division of health policy and public health, and an instructor at Harvard Medical School.

Please submit questions for consideration by email to programs@sherithisrael.org by Friday, May 1.

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Dr. Jonathan Graf is a professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco and a practicing internist and rheumatologist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General and UCSF Medical Centers. He specializes in autoimmune and rheumatic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and is the director of the UCSF Rheumatoid Arthritis cohort. His research focuses in part on rheumatoid arthritis and the relationship between chronic inflammation and heart disease. He also studies biomarkers and precision guided therapy in the treatment of autoimmune diseases. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where he also received a medical degree. He did his residency in internal medicine and fellowship in rheumatology at UCSF and joined the faculty in 2003. He has won numerous UCSF teaching awards and been elected a UCSF Department  of Medicine Master Clinician. He is married to Rabbi Jessica Zimmerman Graf.

Dr. Jeremy Samuel Faust is a proud emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the division of health policy and public health, and an instructor at Harvard Medical School. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and appears frequently in Slate. He has appeared on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, NBC, ABC’s 20/20, NPR and others. Academic writing credits include the Journal of the American Medical Association, the BMJ, Lancet Oncology, and the Annals of Emergency Medicine, where he serves as an associate editor for News and Perspectives. He is medical editor-in-chief of ACEP Now, the monthly magazine of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is also the co-host of the award-winning medical education FOAMcast. His primary hobby is serving as the artistic director and conductor of the Longwood Chorus, an 80-voice ensemble of health care professionals and students dedicated to creating high quality choral music in Boston. He is board president and artistic advisor of the GRAMMY-award winning ensemble Roomful of Teeth. His favorite movie, by a substantial margin, is Casablanca.