Bechara Choucair MD Archives

Podcast: Advancing health care in our communities

June 20, 2022

The 2022 season of The Permanente Medicine Podcast launches with host Chris Grant welcoming Kaiser Permanente leaders Bechara Choucair, MD, and David Grossman, MD, as they share perspectives on the importance of social and community health.

Bechara Choucair, MD, and Stephen Parodi, MD discuss public health impacts of COVID-19

November 23, 2020

COVID-19 is the latest in a series of developments that have had a profound impact on public health, according to Kaiser Permanente physician leaders.

Kaiser Permanente creates COVID-19 Social Health Playbook

October 13, 2020

Health care system provides model for screening patients for access to food, housing, and other essential factors for health.

Kaiser Permanente leaders describe capabilities to suppress COVID-19 in NEJM Catalyst

June 9, 2020

In an article published this week in NEJM Catalyst, Kaiser Permanente physicians and leaders acknowledge the conundrum of reopening the country for business while preventing successive waves of coronavirus infection, and describe the next strategic phase in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic: disease suppression.

Announcing support for California flavored tobacco ban bill

February 5, 2020

Kaiser Permanente announces support for legislation banning flavored tobacco and Governor Newsom's youth vaping prevention efforts.

David Grossman, MD, and Bechara Choucair, MD, detail health care’s role in curtailing violence in Health Affairs article

October 7, 2019

Kaiser Permanente leaders David Grossman, MD, MPH, and Bechara Choucair, MD, write about the role health care plays in addressing violence in an article published today in Health Affairs.

Stopping violence: What can health care do right now?

October 7, 2019

David Grossman, MD, MPH, senior investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, offers the Permanente perspective on reducing harm to patients and the workforce.

Kaiser Permanente physician leaders pen perspective piece on firearm injury prevention

August 1, 2019

Kaiser Permanente’s Firearm Injury Prevention Task Force co-leads David Grossman, MD, MPH, and Bechara Choucair, MD, co-authored an article recently published in Pediatrics on the role health systems have in preventing firearm injury. The article states that in order for health professionals to be effective in protecting patients from firearm injury, they must know how to identify high-risk individuals and have the tools necessary to intervene effectively.