Author Archives: Philip A. Lederer MD

Risk and Resilience Among Families in Urban American Indian/Alaska Native Communities

Dr. Daniel Dickerson from UCLA is already one of my favorite researchers because of his work on drumming and recovery among Native Americans. He has also written about the Native Drum, Dance, and Regalia (NADDAR), a health-promoting intervention recently developed for urban American Indian/Alaska (AI/AN) families that provides workshops on drumming, dancing, and regalia making.Continue reading “Risk and Resilience Among Families in Urban American Indian/Alaska Native Communities”

Dr. Jim Muller in the Boston Globe

I was delighted to read the front page article in yesterday’s Boston Globe about Jim Muller, a good friend of mine, regarding the importance of US-Russian cooperation to prevent nuclear war. Jim is a cardiologist and researcher who also speaks fluent Russian and has spent decades working against nuclear weapons. (In 2018 I was aContinue reading “Dr. Jim Muller in the Boston Globe”

Machine Learning for Antibiotic Resistance

Today I turn your attention to a paper in Science by Mathew Stracy and colleagues, Minimizing treatment-induced emergence of antibiotic resistance in bacterial infections. The researchers used whole genome sequencing and machine learning and looked at a large number of urinary tract and wound infections. They discussed the importance of resistance being driven by “rapidContinue reading “Machine Learning for Antibiotic Resistance”

CDC’s Sexually Transmitted Infections Treatment Guidelines

A recent issue of JAMA has published a clinical guidelines synopsis of the 2021 CDC Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) Treatment Guidelines. The JAMA synopsis was written by Drs. Aniruddha Hazra; Maggie Collison, and Andrew Davis. (The original STI treatment guidelines were written by a group of nine experts). The two-page JAMA clinical guidelines synopsis is well written, andContinue reading “CDC’s Sexually Transmitted Infections Treatment Guidelines”

Two decades ago… our trip to West Virgina

Two decades ago, a group of students from Brown University drove to rural West Virginia for our spring break. I was the leader and was accompanied by friends Murtuza Gunja, Ja-Yun Cho, Ben Sigelman, Suraj Gorkhali, Jenny Partivit, Margaret Sweitzer-Hamilton and several others. It was a week of trying to repair houses while learning aboutContinue reading “Two decades ago… our trip to West Virgina”

What would Dr. Paul Farmer say about Russia/ Ukraine?

East-West tensions are escalating, as Russian nuclear forces are on high alert following Western sanctions that forced the Central Bank to raise its key rate to save the ruble. Meanwhile, gunfire continues in and around the Ukrainian capital. If Dr. Paul Farmer were alive today, what would he say about these events? It’s impossible toContinue reading “What would Dr. Paul Farmer say about Russia/ Ukraine?”