Jama Author Interviews: Covering Research In Medicine, Science, & Clinical Practice. For Physicians, Researchers, & Clinician

In the wake of new legal challenges to race-conscious admission policies, JAMA Interim Executive Editor Gregory Curfman, MD, discusses racial and ethnic diversity in undergraduate and medical school admission policies with Roy H. Hamilton, MD, MS, from the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Related Content: Defending Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Undergraduate and Medical School Admission Policies

JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani, MD, MSJ, discusses potential next-generation COVID-19 vaccines with Peter Marks, MD, PhD, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the US Food and Drug Administration. Related Content: Urgent Need for Next-Generation COVID-19 Vaccines

In this JAMA author interview, we speak with Robert M. Califf, MD, Commissioner of the FDA, about a remarkable advance in the technology of hearing aids. Dr Califf has done important work to secure the entry of over-the-counter hearing aids into the market, providing a less expensive alternative to traditional hearing aids. In this interview, Dr Califf tells the story of how this technology has finally been made available to the public. Related Content: Over-the-counter Hearing Aids: From Research to Policy to Practice

Interview with Chris Zielinski, Visiting Research Fellow and Faculty of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Winchester, UK, James Kigera, Editor-in-Chief, Annals of African Surgery, and James Tumwine, Editor-in-Chief, African Health Sciences, authors of COP27 Climate Change Conference—Urgent Action Needed for Africa and the World. Hosted by JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD. Related Content: COP27 Climate Change Conference—Urgent Action Needed for Africa and the World Conflict and Climate Collide to Create an Acute Hunger Crisis for an Unprecedented 345 Million People Climate Justice and Health Children, Climate Justice, and Lessons From Puerto Rico

Interview with Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD, MPH, USPSTF member and coauthor of Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. Hosted by JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS. Related Content: Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea USPSTF Updates Recommendation for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Screening in Adults

Interview with Carol Mangione, MD, MSPH, USPSTF chair and coauthor of Hormone Therapy for the Primary Prevention of Chronic Conditions in Postmenopausal Persons: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. Hosted by JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS. Related Content: Hormone Therapy for the Primary Prevention of Chronic Conditions in Postmenopausal Persons Hormone Therapy for the Primary Prevention of Chronic Conditions in Postmenopausal Persons Menopausal Hormone Therapy for Prevention of Chronic Conditions

Interview with Martha Kubik, PhD, RN, USPSTF member and coauthor of Screening for Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement, and Screening for Depression and Suicide Risk in Children and Adolescents: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. Hosted by JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS. Related Content: Screening for Anxiety in Children and Adolescents Screening for Anxiety in Children and Adolescents Screening for Depression and Suicide Risk in Children and Adolescents Screening for Depression and Suicide Risk in Children and Adolescents Screening for Anxiety in Children and Adolescents Screening for Pediatric Anxiety Disorders

In this JAMA Author Interview, JAMA Interim Executive Editor Greg Curfman, MD, speaks with Mary M. McDermott, MD, professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, on current therapies for peripheral artery disease and a new clinical trial she directed on the use of telmisartan, an angiotensin receptor blocker, for patients with peripheral artery disease. Related Content: Effect of Telmisartan on Walking Performance in Patients With Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease

Interview with Katrina E. Donahue, MD, MPH, USPSTF member and coauthor of Screening for Syphilis Infection in Nonpregnant Adolescents and Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement. Hosted by JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS. Related Content: The Critical Need to Modernize Syphilis Screening Screening for Syphilis Infection in Nonpregnant Adolescents and Adults Screening for Syphilis Infection in Nonpregnant Adults and Adolescents Screening for Syphilis

JAMA Network Open Editor Frederick Rivara, MD, MPH, discusses approaches to reducing firearm violence with several JAMA Viewpoint authors: Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH (Boston University), Elinore J. Kaufman, MD, MSHP (University of Pennsylvania), and Roger A. Mitchell Jr, MD (Howard University). Topics include the state-level response to firearm-related harms, the paucity of data on firearm violence, and the pervasive health effects of firearm violence on neighborhoods and in the carceral system. Related Content: The Epidemiology of Firearm Injuries in the US: The Need for Comprehensive, Real-time, Actionable Data Violence and the Carceral State: A Public Health Continuum State Firearm Laws and Firearm-Related Mortality and Morbidity Examining the Impact of Firearm Safety Laws on Suicides Physicians and EMS Who Responded to Mass Shootings Develop Consensus Recommendations for Improving Care Approaches to Reducing Firearm Violence

CRISPR genome editing is a revolutionary technology that can be used to make highly targeted changes in DNA in living cells. JAMA Associate Editor W. Gregory Feero, MD, PhD, Maine Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency, and Matthew J. Kan, MD, PhD, University of California San Francisco, discuss how CRISPR works and how CRISPR-based technologies are being used in ongoing trials to treat a wide variety of medical conditions. Related Content: Treatment of Genetic Diseases With CRISPR Genome Editing With First CRISPR Trials, Gene Editing Moves Toward the Clinic

Arguably, a clinician’s most important role is providing an accurate and actionable diagnosis for patients. But challenges stand in the way, including tool limitations, inequitable access, and discontinuity of care. In this roundtable Q&A discussion, Urmimala Sarkar, MD, MPH (Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, UCSF), Jonathan H. Chen, MD, PhD (Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University), and Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD (Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation), discuss issues affecting diagnostic excellence, the emergence of artificial intelligence–driven tools, and ways to make the diagnostic process patient-focused. Hosted by JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD. Related Content: Decoding Artificial Intelligence to Achieve Diagnostic Excellence Diagnostic Excellence Achieving Diagnostic Equity in Cardiovascular Disease Achieving Diagnostic Excellence in the 21st Century Achieving Diagnostic Excellence

Interview with Michael D. Cabana, MD, MA, MPH, USPSTF member and coauthor of Screening for Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes in Children and Adolescents: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. Hosted by JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS. Related Content: Screening for Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes in Children and Adolescents Screening for Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes in Children and Adolescents Screening for Type 2 Diabetes in Children and Adolescents

Over a nearly 40-year career at the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci, MD, has seen a seismic shift in the way that science is communicated to and received by the public. In conversation with JAMA Network Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, Fauci reflects on his career at NIAID, the joys and challenges of advising 7 presidents, and shares his strategies for communicating scientific information in an ever-changing environment. Related Content: Dr Fauci and the Art of Science Communication Dr Anthony Fauci—Communicating Science in a Polarized Era

Interview with John B. Wong, MD, USPSTF member and coauthor of Statin Use for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. Hosted by JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS. Related Content: Statin Use for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults Statin Use for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults Statins for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Statin Usage in Primary Prevention—Comparing the USPSTF Recommendations With the AHA/ACC/Multisociety Guidelines Statins for Primary Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Statins and Primary Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Prevention—What We Know, Where We Need to Go, and Why Are We Not There Already?

President Biden has signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act containing important provisions related to prescription drug costs. JAMA Health Forum Editor John Z. Ayanian, MD, MPP, and Deputy Editor Melinda B. Buntin, PhD, discuss the effects of these provisions on patients with Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH, of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Related Content: New Reforms to Prescription Drug Pricing in the US Estimating Rebates and Other Discounts Received by Medicare Part D Estimation of the Share of Net Expenditures on Insulin Captured by US Manufacturers, Wholesalers, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, Pharmacies, and Health Plans From 2014 to 2018 Spending by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Before and After Confirmation of Benefit for Drugs Granted US Food and Drug Administration Accelerated Approval, 2012 to 2017 Improving Prescription Drug Affordability Through Regulatory Action

In this Author Interview, JAMA Deputy Editor Gregory Curfman, MD, discusses the state of coronary artery bypass surgery in 2022 with E. Magnus Ohman, MD, from Duke University. The conversation emphasizes methods to preserve patency of saphenous vein bypass grafts, the subject of an article in the August 9, 2022, issue of JAMA. Dr Ohman wrote the accompanying Editorial. Related Content: Association of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy With Ticagrelor With Vein Graft Failure After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Balancing the Risks and Benefits of Antiplatelet Therapy After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

Electronic health records (EHRs) hold great promise to assist clinicians, but current versions are less user-friendly than ideal. JAMA Associate Editor Tracy Lieu, MD, MPH, spoke with Kevin B. Johnson, MD, MS, University of Pennsylvania, and William W. Stead, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, about how to improve EHRs to protect cognitive attention and optimize their potential to provide cognitive support to health care professionals. Related Content: Making Electronic Health Records Both SAFER and SMARTER

On August 3, 2022, the US Department of Health and Human Services released 2 major reports in response to a presidential memo calling for a whole-of-government response to the SARS-CoV-2 sequelae known as “Long COVID." JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, discusses these new reports and the research and support needed to address this pervasive health concern with HHS Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, MD. Recorded July 29, 2022. Related Content: Addressing the Long-term Effects of COVID-19 Association Between BNT162b2 Vaccination and Long COVID After Infections Not Requiring Hospitalization in Health Care Workers Long COVID: The US Federal Response (Video)

Interview with Lori Pbert, PhD, USPSTF member and coauthor of Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Promote a Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults Without Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. Hosted by JAMA Senior Editor Kristin L. Walter, MD, MS. Related Content: Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Promote a Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults Without Known Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Promote a Healthy Diet and Physical Activity for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Adults Without Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Promote a Healthy Diet and Physical Activity to Prevent CVD in Adults Without Risk Factors Implications of the New Recommendation on Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Improving Behavioral Counseling for P