JAMA Internal Medicine Author Interviews

Interview with Andrew Mente, PhD, author of Associations of Fish Consumption With Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality Among Individuals With or Without Vascular Disease From 58 Countries, and Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH, author of Fish, Cardiovascular Disease, and Mortality—What Is the Global Evidence?

Interview with Elizabeth Selvin, PhD, author of Risk of Progression to Diabetes Among Older Adults With Prediabetes, and Kenneth Lam, MD, author of Prediabetes—A Risk Factor Twice Removed

Interview with Samyukta Mullangi, MD, MBA, author of The COVID-19 Pandemic—An Opportune Time to Update Medical Licensing; also with Mitchell H. Katz, MD, chief executive officer of New York City Health and Hospitals and author of Modernize Medical Licensing, and Credentialing, Too—Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic

Interview with A Jay Holmgren, MHI, author of Assessment of Electronic Health Record Use Between US and Non-US Health Systems, and Christine A. Sinsky, MD, author of Advancing Practice Science With Electronic Health Record Use Data

Interview with Lauren Hersch Nicholas, PhD, author of Financial Presentation of Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias, and Jason Karlawish, MD, author of Desktop Medicine and the Practice of Wealth Care

Interview with Donald R. Sullivan, MD, MA, MCR, author of Trends in Noninvasive and Invasive Mechanical Ventilation Among Medicare Beneficiaries at the End of Life, and Anand S. Iyer, MD, MSPH, author of Noninvasive Ventilation in Seriously Ill Older Adults at the End of Life—The Evidence Remains Elusive

Interview with David H Howard, PhD, author of US False Claims Act Investigations of Unnecessary Percutaneous Coronary Interventions, and Paul S. Chan, MD, author of Potential Association of the ISCHEMIA Trial With the Appropriate Use Criteria Ratings for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Stable Ischemic Heart Disease

Interview with Madeline R. Sterling, MD, author of Experiences of Home Health Care Workers in New York City During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A Qualitative Analysis, and Theresa A. Allison, MD, PhD, author of Extreme Vulnerability of Home Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic—A Call to Action

Interview with Daniel M. Weinberger, PhD, author of Estimation of Excess Deaths Associated With the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States, March to May 2020

Interview with James M. Brophy, MD, author of Bayesian Interpretation of the EXCEL Trial and Other Randomized Clinical Trials of Left Main Coronary Artery Revascularization, Mario Gaudino, MD, author of Characteristics of Contemporary Randomized Clinical Trials and Their Association With the Trial Funding Source in Invasive Cardiovascular Interventions, and Sanjay Kaul, MD

Interview with Hsien-Ho Lin, MD, ScD, author of Contact Tracing Assessment of COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics in Taiwan and Risk at Different Exposure Periods Before and After Symptom Onset

Interview with Mara A. Schonberg, MD, MPH, author of Effect of a Mammography Screening Decision Aid for Women 75 Years and Older: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial, and Quyen Ngo-Metzger, MD, MPH, author of The Life and Death of Mammograms in Patients 75 Years and Older—To Screen or Not to Screen?

Interview with Brad Spellberg, MD, author of Evaluation of a Paradigm Shift From Intravenous Antibiotics to Oral Step-Down Therapy for the Treatment of Infective Endocarditis: A Narrative Review

Interview with Christina Vandenbroucke-Grauls, MD, PhD, author of Evaluation of the Association Between Gastric Acid Suppression and Risk of Intestinal Colonization With Multidrug-Resistant Microorganisms: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, and Todd Campbell Lee, MD MPH, author of Deprescribing Proton Pump Inhibitors: Overcoming Resistance

Interview with Laura Hawks, MD, author of Trends in Unmet Need for Physician and Preventive Services in the United States, 1998-2017, and John Z. Ayanian, MD, MPP, author of Looking Back to Improve Access to Health Care Moving Forward

Interview with Jay Sengupta, MD, author of Outcomes Before and After the Recall of a Heart Failure Pacemaker, and David O. Arnar, MD PhD EMPH, author of Long-term Outcome of Implantable Cardioverter/Defibrillator Lead Failure

Interview with James S. Goodwin, MD, author of Association of the Work Schedules of Hospitalists With Patient Outcomes of Hospitalization

Interview with Alicia Fernandez, MD, author of Physician and Trainee Experiences With Patient Bias, and Lisa A. Cooper, MD MPH, author of Confronting Bias and Discrimination in Health Care—When Silence Is Not Golden

Interview with Katherine L. Possin, PhD, author of Effect of Collaborative Dementia Care via Telephone and Internet on Quality of Life, Caregiver Well-being, and Health Care Use: The Care Ecosystem Randomized Clinical Trial, and Jennifer Tjia, MD, MSCE, FAAHPM, author of A Telephone-Based Dementia Care Management Intervention—Finding the Time to Listen

Interview with Dimitrios A. Koutoukidis, PhD, author of Association of Weight Loss Interventions With Changes in Biomarkers of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Interview with Kari A O Tikkinen, MD, PhD, author of Decision Aids for Prostate Cancer Screening Choice: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Interview with George F. Sawaya, MD, author of Estimated Quality of Life and Economic Outcomes Associated With 12 Cervical Cancer Screening Strategies: A Cost-effectiveness Analysis, and Sarah Feldman, M.D. M.P.H., author of Screening Options for Preventing Cervical Cancer

Interview with Krisda Hirschman Chaiyachati, MD, MPH, MSHP, author of Assessment of Inpatient Time Allocation Among First-Year Internal Medicine Residents Using Time-Motion Observations, and Christopher Moriates, MD, author of A Modern Snapshot of the Daily Work of Medical Interns—The Burden of Indirect Patient Care

Interview with Christopher W. Goodman, MD, author of A Clinical Overview of Off-label Use of Gabapentinoid Drugs

Interview with Dae Hyun Kim, author of Evaluation of Changes in Functional Status in the Year After Aortic Valve Replacement, and Emily Finlayson, MD, MS, author of Invasive Procedures to Improve Function in Frail Older Adults: Do Outcomes Justify the Intervention?

Interview with Aaron Kesselheim, author of Analysis of Proposed Medicare Part B to Part D Shift With Associated Changes in Total Spending and Patient Cost-Sharing for Prescription Drugs, and Francis J. Crosson, M.D., author of Managing the Cost of Medicare Part B Drugs: Implications for the Program and Beneficiaries

Interview with Robert W. Yeh, MD, MSc, MBA, author of Temporal Trends in Unstable Angina Diagnosis Codes for Outpatient Percutaneous Coronary Interventions, and David L. Brown, MD, FACC, author of Gaming, Upcoding, Fraud, and the Stubborn Persistence of Unstable Angina

Interview with Mikel Izquierdo, Ph.D, and Nicolás Martínez-Velilla, PhD, authors of Effect of Exercise Intervention on Functional Decline in Very Elderly Patients During Acute Hospitalization: A Randomized Clinical Trial, and William J. Hall, MD, author of A Novel Exercise Intervention and Functional Status in Very Elderly Patients During Acute Hospitalization

Interview with Julia Baudry, PhD, author of Association of Frequency of Organic Food Consumption With Cancer Risk: Findings From the NutriNet-Santé Prospective Cohort Study, and Jorge E. Chavarro, MD, ScD, author of Organic Foods for Cancer Prevention—Worth the Investment?

Interview with Ananias C Diokno, MD, author of Effect of Group-Administered Behavioral Treatment on Urinary Incontinence in Older Women: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Interview with Daniel Scott. Reuland, MD MPH, author of Evaluating Shared Decision Making for Lung Cancer Screening, and Bruno Heleno, MD, PhD, author of Estimation of Overdiagnosis of Lung Cancer in Low-Dose Computed Tomography Screening

Interview with Alexander T. Sandhu, MD, MS, author of Association Between Offering Limited Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Echocardiograms and Overall Use of Echocardiography

Interview with Albert L. Siu, MD, MSPH, author of Association of a Bundled Hospital-at-Home and 30-Day Postacute Transitional Care Program With Clinical Outcomes and Patient Experiences, and Matthew J. Press, MD, MSc, author of Hospital-at-Home Care Programs—Is the Hospital of the Future at Home?

Interview with M. Carrington. Reid, MD, PhD, author of Association Between Psychological Interventions and Chronic Pain Outcomes in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Interview with W. David Bradford, PhD, author of Association Between US State Medical Cannabis Laws and Opioid Prescribing in the Medicare Part D Population, Jason M Hockenberry, PhD, author of Association of Medical and Adult-Use Marijuana Laws With Opioid Prescribing for Medicaid Enrollees, and Kevin P. Hill, MD, MHS, author of The Role of Cannabis Legalization in the Opioid Crisis

Interview with Caroline Mitchell, MD, MPH, author of Efficacy of Vaginal Estradiol or Vaginal Moisturizer vs Placebo for Treating Postmenopausal Vulvovaginal Symptoms: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Interview with Nisha Bansal, MD, MAS, author of Long-term Outcomes Associated With Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator in Adults With Chronic Kidney Disease

Interview with Nicola Montano, MD, PhD, author of Prevalence of Pulmonary Embolism in Patients With Syncope

Interview with Lilia Cervantes, MD, author of Association of Emergency-Only vs Standard Hemodialysis With Mortality and Health Care Use Among Undocumented Immigrants With End-Stage Renal Disease

Interview with Jennifer P. Stevens, MD, MS, author of Comparison of Hospital Resource Use and Outcomes Among Hospitalists, Primary Care Physicians, and Other Generalists, and C. Seth. Landefeld, MD, author of The Costs and Benefits of Hospital Care by Primary Physicians: Continuity Counts

Interview with Lena K. Makaroun, MD, author of Wealth-Associated Disparities in Death and Disability in the United States and England

Interview with Michelle M. Mello, JD, PhD, MPhil, author of Patients’ Experiences With Communication-and-Resolution Programs After Medical Injury

Interview with Sham Mailankody, MB BS, and Vinay Prasad, MD, authors of Research and Development Spending to Bring a Single Cancer Drug to Market and Revenues After Approval; and Merril Goozner, MS, author of A Much-Needed Corrective on Drug Development Costs

Interview with Jeffrey Trost, author of Eliminating Creatine Kinase–Myocardial Band Testing in Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome: A Value-Based Quality Improvement

Interview with Allan S. Detsky, MD, PhD, author of Medical Assistance in Dying: Our Lessons Learned

Interview with Kevin G. Volpp, MD, PhD, and David A Asch, MD MBA, authors of Effect of Electronic Reminders, Financial Incentives, and Social Support on Outcomes After Myocardial Infarction: The HeartStrong Randomized Clinical Trial

Interview with Laura Young, MD PhD, and Katrina E. Donahue, MD, MPH, authors of Glucose Self-monitoring in Non–Insulin-Treated Patients With Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Care Settings: A Randomized Trial

Interview with Lara Goitein, MD, and Marcia Angell, MD, authors of Mother’s Day for Women in Medicine—Better Than Roses, and Eleni Linos, MD, author of Discrimination, Physician Mothers, and Desired Workplace Changes

Interview with Joshua Halpern, MD, author of Cost-Effectiveness of Common Diagnostic Approaches for Evaluation of Asymptomatic Microscopic Hematuria, and Leslee L. Subak, MD, and Deborah Grady, MD, MPH, authors of Asymptomatic Microscopic Hematuria—Rethinking the Diagnostic Algorithm

Interview with Lauren Daskivich, MD, MSHS, author of Implementation and Evaluation of a Large-Scale Teleretinal Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Program in the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, and Urmimala Sarkar, MD, MPH, author of Seeing the Effect of Health Care Delivery Innovation in the Safety Net

Interview with J. Michael McWilliams, MD, PhD, author of Changes in Postacute Care in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, and Carrie H. Colla, PhD, author of Moving Forward With Accountable Care Organizations: Some Answers, More Questions

Interview with Linda S. Kinsinger, MD, MPH, author of Implementation of Lung Cancer Screening in the Veterans Health Administration

Interview with Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, author of Comparison of Hospital Mortality and Readmission Rates for Medicare Patients Treated by Male vs Female Physicians, and Anna L. Parks, MD and Rita F. Redberg, MD, authors of Women in Medicine and Patient Outcomes

Interview with Kenneth M. Langa, MD, PhD, author of A Comparison of the Prevalence of Dementia in the United States in 2000 and 2012

Interview with David K. Humphreys, BSc, MPhil, PhD, author of Evaluating the Impact of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” Self-defense Law on Homicide and Suicide by Firearm and Michelle M. Mello, JD, PhD, MPhil, author of Testing the Immunity of the Firearm Industry to Tort Litigation

Interview with David M. Levine, MD, MA, author of The Quality of Outpatient Care Delivered to Adults in the United States, 2002 to 2013 and Eve A. Kerr, MD, MPH, author of The Quest to Improve Quality

Interview with Stanton A. Glantz, PhD FACC, author of Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research and Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH, author of Food Industry Funding of Nutrition Research

Interview with Dong Wook Chang, MD, author of Association Between Intensive Care Unit Utilization During Hospitalization and Costs, Use of Invasive Procedures, and Mortality, and Neil Halpern, MD, author of In Between the Intensive Care Unit and the Ward

Interview with Brian S. Schwartz, MD, MS, author of Asthma Exacerbations and Unconventional Natural Gas Development in the Marcellus Shale

Interview with Eric C. Sun, MD, PhD, author of Incidence of and Risk Factors for Chronic Opioid Use Among Opioid-Naive Patients in the Postoperative Period

Interview with Gregory M. Marcus, MD, MAS, author of Effect of the Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT) on Conduction System Disease, and Sanjiv M. Narayan, MD, PhD, author of Can Cardiac Conduction System Disease Be Prevented?

Interview with Lara Goitein, MD, MDT and Brent James, MD, authors of Standardized Best Practices and Individual Craft-Based Medicine: A Conversation About Quality

Interview with Michael E. Johansen, MD, MS, author of Estimation of Potential Savings Through Therapeutic Substitution

Interview with Salomeh Keyhani, MD, MPH, author of Common Reasons That Asymptomatic Patients Who Are 65 Years and Older Receive Carotid Imaging, and Larry B. Goldstein, MD, author of Screening for Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis: Evidence-Based Opinion

Interview with Adam S. Miner, PsyD, author of Smartphone-Based Conversational Agents and Responses to Questions About Mental Health, Interpersonal Violence, and Physical Health

Interview with Ellen T. M. Laan, PhD, author of Efficacy and Safety of Flibanserin for the Treatment of Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder in Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, and Steven Woloshin, MD, MS, author of US Food and Drug Administration Approval of Flibanserin: Even the Score Does Not Add Up

Interview with Jennifer L. Wolff, PhD, author of A National Profile of Family and Unpaid Caregivers Who Assist Older Adults With Health Care Activities

Interview with Peter P. Reese, MD, MSCE and Vishnu S. Potluri, MD, MPH, authors of Honoring Patient Preferences in Initiation of Dialysis: Problems, Proposals, and a Path Forward, and Susan P. Y. Wong, MD, author of Timing of Initiation of Maintenance Dialysis: A Qualitative Analysis of the Electronic Medical Records of a National Cohort of Patients From the Department of Veterans Affairs

Interview with Alwin F. Steinmann, MD, author of A New Era for Residency Training in Internal Medicine, and Patrick G. O’Malley, MD, MPH, author of Research in Medical Education and Patient-Centered Outcomes: Shall Ever the Twain Meet?

Interview with Martin Marshall, MD, and Andrew B. Bindman, MD, author of The Role of Government in Health Care Reform in the United States and England Permalink

Interview with Curtis J. Donskey, MD, author of Contamination of Health Care Personnel During Removal of Personal Protective Equipment, and Michelle Doll, MD, author of The Increasing Visibility of the Threat of Health Care Worker Self-contamination

Interview with James C. Robinson, PhD, author of Association of Reference Payment for Colonoscopy With Consumer Choices, Insurer Spending, and Procedural Complications, and David Lieberman, MD, author of New Approaches to Controlling Health Care Costs: Bending the Cost Curve for Colonoscopy

Interview with Marianne C. Snijdewind, MA;, author of A Study of the First Year of the End-of-Life Clinic for Physician-Assisted Dying in the Netherlands, and Barron H. Lerner, MD, PhD, author of Euthanasia in Belgium and the Netherlands: On a Slippery Slope?

Interview with Charles Harding, AB, author of Breast Cancer Screening, Incidence, and Mortality Across US Counties, and Joann G. Elmore, MD, MPH, author of Effect of Screening Mammography on Cancer Incidence and Mortality

Interview with Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD, author of Crisis Awaiting Heart Transplantation: Sinking the Lifeboat

Interview with William M. Sage, MD, JD, author of Use of Nondisclosure Agreements in Medical Malpractice Settlements by a Large Academic Health Care System, and Michelle M. Mello, JD, PhD, MPhil, author of Should Malpractice Settlements Be Secret?

Interview with Emilio Ros, MD, PhD, author of Mediterranean Diet and Age-Related Cognitive Decline: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Interview with Emily Finlayson, MD, MS, author of Functional Outcomes After Lower Extremity Revascularization in Nursing Home Residents: A National Cohort Study, and William J. Hall, MD, MACP, author of Lower Extremity Revascularization in Nursing Home Residents: Surgery as Palliation

Interview with Matthew J. Bair, MD, MS, author of Evaluation of Stepped Care for Chronic Pain (ESCAPE) in Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Conflicts: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Interview with Charles Seife, MS, author of Research Misconduct Identified by the US Food and Drug Administration: Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of the Peer-Reviewed Literature

Interview with Teresa M. Waters, PhD, author of Effect of Medicare’s Nonpayment for Hospital-Acquired Conditions: Lessons for Future Policy, and Patrick J. Brennan, MD, author of Incentivizing “Structures” Over “Outcomes” to Bridge the Knowing-Doing Gap

Interview with Laurent Azoulay, PhD, author of Tramadol Use and the Risk of Hospitalization for Hypoglycemia in Patients With Noncancer Pain, and Lewis S. Nelson, MD, author of Tramadol and Hypoglycemia: One More Thing to Worry About

Interview with Brian L. Rostron, PhD, MPH, author of Estimation of Cigarette Smoking–Attributable Morbidity in the United States, and Steven A. Schroeder, MD, author of Even More Illness Caused by Smoking Than Previously Estimated 

Interview with Diana M. Zuckerman, PhD, author of Lack of Publicly Available Scientific Evidence on the Safety and Effectiveness of Implanted Medical Devices, and Joshua Sharfstein, MD, author of Improving Medical Device Regulation: A Work in Progress

Interview with Lena M. Chen, MD, MS, author of Use of Medical Consultants for Hospitalized Surgical Patients: An Observational Cohort Study, and Gulshan Sharma, MD, MPH, author of Medical Consultation for Surgical Cases in the Era of Value-Based Care

Interview with Walter N. Kernan, MD, author of Litigation Seeking Access to Data From Ongoing Clinical Trials: A Threat to Clinical Research, and I. Glenn Cohen, JD, author of Clinical Trials and the Right to Remain Silent

Interview with Arnold S. Relman, MD, author of Physicians and Politics, and David J. Rothman, PhD, author of The Political Polarization of Physicians in the United States: An Analysis of Campaign Contributions to Federal Elections, 1991 Through 2012

Interview with Karen Smith-McCune, MD, PhD, author of Choosing a Screening Method for Cervical Cancer: Papanicolaou Testing Alone or With Human Papillomavirus Testing, and Sarah Feldman, MD, MPH, author of Can the New Cervical Cancer Screening and Management Guidelines Be Simplified?

Interview with Daniel J. Elliott, MD, MSCE, author of Effect of Hospitalist Workload on the Quality and Efficiency of Care, and Robert M. Wachter, MD, author of Hospitalist Workload: The Search for the Magic Number

Interview with Timothy F. Jones, MD, author of High-Risk Use by Patients Prescribed Opioids for Pain and Its Role in Overdose Deaths, and Christopher M. Jones, PharmD, MPH, author of Sources of Prescription Opioid Pain Relievers by Frequency of Past-Year Nonmedical Use: United States, 2008-2011

Interview with Jeff D. Williamson, MD, MHS, author of Cognitive Function and Brain Structure in Persons With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus After Intensive Lowering of Blood Pressure and Lipid Levels: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Interview with Madhav Goyal, MD, MPH, author of Meditation Programs for Psychological Stress and Well-being: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Interview with Lillian C. Buchhalter, author of Features and Outcomes of Patients Who Underwent Cardiac Device Deactivation, and Sunita Puri, MD, MS, author of Deathbed Shock: Causes and Cures

Interview with Eileen Rillamas-Sun, PhD, MPH, author of Obesity and Late-Age Survival Without Major Disease or Disability in Older Women

Interview with Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, author of The Institute of Medicine Report Sodium Intake in Populations: Assessment of Evidence: Summary of Primary Findings and Implications for Clinicians

Interview with Donald S. Likosky, PhD, author of Growth in Medicare Expenditures for Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Comparison of 1998 Through 1999 and 2008, and Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, author of Going After the Money: Curbing the Rapid Growth in Medicare Expenditures for Medical Services More Than 30 Days After Hospital Admission

Interview with Christine A. Sinsky, MD, author of Medicare Payment for Cognitive vs Procedural Care: Minding the Gap, and Paul B. Ginsburg, PhD, author of Using Science to Shape Medicare Physician Payment: Comment on “Medicare Payment for Cognitive vs Procedural Care”

Interview with Erin L. Richman, ScD, author of Fat Intake After Diagnosis and Risk of Lethal Prostate Cancer and All-Cause Mortality, and Stephen J. Freedland, MD, author of Dietary Fat and Reduced Prostate Cancer Mortality: Does the Type of Fat Matter?

Interview with Melissa W. Wachterman, MD, MPH, MSc, author of Relationship Between the Prognostic Expectations of Seriously Ill Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis and Their Nephrologists, and Mack Lipkin, MD, author of Shared Decision Making

Interview with Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, author of Improving Health With Partnerships Between Academia and Industry, and Richard S. Lehman, MA, BM, BCh, MRCGP, author of Nullius In Verba: Don't Take Anyone's Word for It