Stephen Parodi MD Archives

Permanente physicians quoted in HealthITAnalytics on patient monitoring study

November 18, 2020

Kaiser Permanente research published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that hospitalized patients monitored with an innovative clinical decision-support tool significantly improved outcomes and lowered the risk of death.

Experts discuss growing potential of in-home care

October 7, 2020

Permanente physician leader Stephen Parodi, MD, was among the experts discussing how technology helps drive preventive care and healing as care extends into the home.

Permanente infectious disease specialists power COVID-19 response

September 20, 2020

On the front lines of Kaiser Permanente’s pandemic response, infectious disease leaders play a key role in sharing research, building guidelines, and charting a national roadmap to flatten the coronavirus curve.

Physicians promote flu messaging during a pandemic

September 8, 2020

This year’s flu season arrives with the backdrop of a pandemic, prompting physicians and health officials to get creative in promoting flu shots and finding safe ways to deliver the vaccine, according to a recently published Washington Post story.

Stephen Parodi, MD, describes epidemiologist’s role as ‘dynamic and exciting’

August 21, 2020

Stephen Parodi, MD, shared his insights on the field of epidemiology and what makes it personally fulfilling for him in U.S. News & World Report.

Stephen Parodi, MD, says reinstituting interventions needed to reduce COVID-19 spread in California

July 9, 2020

Citing record numbers of COVID-19 cases in California’s hospital system – including 800 patients hospitalized at Kaiser Permanente medical centers in California – Stephen Parodi, MD, told CNN International that it’s time to reinstate some of the coronavirus safety measures that had been lifted in recent weeks.

Stephen Parodi, MD, discusses disparate COVID-19 interventions across the U.S. with Wall Street Journal

June 25, 2020

Stephen Parodi, MD, executive vice president of The Permanente Federation and national infectious disease leader at Kaiser Permanente, recently discussed the effects of disparate approaches to COVID-19 interventions across the United States with The Wall Street Journal.

Stephen Parodi, MD, tells FierceHealthcare that multipronged strategy is needed to suppress coronavirus

June 10, 2020

Stephen Parodi, MD, national infectious disease leader for Kaiser Permanente, commented in Fierce Healthcare on Kaiser Permanente’s multipronged COVID-19 suppression strategy, which was outlined in a NEJM Catalyst article earlier this week. That strategy includes 8 key capabilities health systems need to consider as the country reopens.

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.

Berkeley coronavirus testing lab highlighted by Stephen Parodi, MD, in Voice of America video

May 12, 2020

Stephen Parodi, MD, an associate executive director of The Permanente Medical Group in Northern California, told Voice of America that Kaiser Permanente is working with “light speed” to build a new 7,000-square-foot testing lab in Berkeley.