Esther Choo is an emergency medicine physician and health services researcher based in Portland, Oregon.
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Esther K. Choo, M.D.,M.P.H., is an emergency physician in Portland, Oregon and an associate professor at Oregon Health & Science University. She cofounded Equity Quotient, a company that conducts assessments of healthcare company culture, and was a founding member of TIME'S UP Healthcare, which advocates for workplace safety and dignity for women. She is a past president of the Academy of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine, and a popular health communicator who writes for NBC Think and Self magazine, has a regular column for The Lancet focused on health disparities and appears as a medical expert on CNN and MSNBC. Choo is the host of the Doctor's Log podcast.
Esther Choo’s TED Talk
Esther Choo, Helen Walters, Whitney Pennington Rodgers
How health workers are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic
46 minutes 33 secondsThe coronavirus pandemic is unlike anything we've ever seen in health care, says emergency physician Esther Choo. Sharing insights into how health workers are responding to the outbreak, she explains what makes this public health emergency different from others -- and provides a few simple things you can do to help. Watch to the end to hear about Choo's work deploying mobile ICUs across the United States as hospitals start to reach capacity. (This virtual conversation is part of the TED Connects series, hosted by current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers and head of curation Helen Walters. Recorded April 7, 2020)Posted Apr 2020
