EP 90: Designing for Long Covid | Lekshmi Santhosh

Design Lab with Bon Ku

How do you design care for patients with Long Covid? Will the pandemic lead to a redesign of medical education? Can design principles create safer standards in healthcare?

Dr. Lekshmi Santhosh specializes in adult pulmonary and critical care medicine with a focus on medical education. She attends in the Medical ICU, the Neuro ICU, on the Internal Medicine teaching wards, and has a clinic at the Pulmonary Outpatient Faculty Practice at UCSF-Parnassus. She is the founder and Medical Director of the multidisciplinary OPTIMAL Clinic (pOst-covid-19/PosT-Icu MultidisciplinAry cLinic) at UCSF Health.

She serves as the Associate Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship and the Assistant Site Director for the Internal Medicine Residency at Parnassus. She also is the Director of the Department of Medicine Grand Rounds. She obtained her Master's in Health Professions Education from UC-Berkeley. Her primary interests in medical education research are related to ICU transitions of care, women in leadership, clinical reasoning, and subspecialty career choice.

Episode Mentions:

Interview w Lekshmi: What We Do — and, Frustratingly, Don’t — Know About Long Covid

Article: Long Covid-19 may remain a chronic condition for millions

Article: On the Long Road to Understanding Long Covid, This UCSF Initiative Leads

Article: Feeling Dismissed? How to Spot ‘Medical Gaslighting’ and What to Do About It.

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