David Grossman 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.

Vaccine Equity Toolkit designed to help address equitable access

March 24, 2021

As vaccines bring hope to end the pandemic, Kaiser Permanente’s toolkit offers approaches to enhance equitable vaccine administration for communities hit hardest by COVID-19.

Doctors’ expertise helps steward COVID vaccines

February 3, 2021

Permanente physicians are sharing their expertise to help guide the fair and equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to Kaiser Permanente members, employees, and the community.

JAMA features viewpoint on population genomics co-authored by David Grossman, MD

July 30, 2020

David Grossman, MD, of Washington Permanente Medical Group, and Eric Larson, MD, of Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, published a peer-reviewed viewpoint in JAMA about the potentially powerful implications of population genomics for the future of health care.

David C. Grossman, MD, quoted on JAMA study linking poverty to gun suicide in children

January 29, 2020

David Grossman, MD, senior investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle, shared his thoughts on The Trace news site on a new JAMA Pediatrics study that shows children living in poor areas are nearly twice as likely to die from firearm suicide compared to those growing up in wealthier neighborhoods.

David Grossman, MD, highlights the importance of investing in social determinants of health

October 16, 2019

David Grossman, MD, shares his thoughts on Kaiser Permanente expanding its annual spending to $2.8 billion in an effort to address social determinants of health among patients and local communities.

Tweetcap: The intersection of violence and health

October 10, 2019

See what people were saying at the Health Affairs Violence and Health forum in Washington, D.C.

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.