EP #69 - Public Health, COVID-19, and Protest - Peter Chin-Hong

Today, we have discussion of COVID-19, public health, and the George Floyd protests with Dr. Peter Chin-Hong.

Peter Chin-Hong is a medical educator who specializes in treating infectious diseases, particularly infections that develop in patients who have suppressed immune systems. He directs the immunocompromised host infectious diseases program at UCSF. His research focuses on donor derived infections in transplant recipients and molecular diagnostics of infectious diseases in patients with suppressed immune systems.

He earned his undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University, before completing an internal medicine residency and infectious diseases fellowship at UCSF, where he is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Yearlong Inquiry Program in the School of Medicine. He is also an Inquiry Advisor to medical students. He was the inaugural holder of the Academy of Medical Educators Endowed Chair for Innovation in Teaching.