Leading with inclusion during the COVID-19 pandemic: Stronger together

Lakshmi Warrior1, Christine Y Kim2, Daniel J Burdick2

  • 1From the Division of Neurology (L.W.), Cook County Health, Chicago, IL; Department of Neurology (C.Y.K.), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Evergreen Health Neuroscience Institute (D.J.B.), Evergreen Health Medical Center, Kirkland, WA; Department of Neurology (D.J.A.), St. Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, PA; Rhode Island Hospital/The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (L.B.), Providence; Department of Neurology (K.R.C.), Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, VA; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (N.S.D.), New York; Division of Neurology (E.T.D.), MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, Baltimore, MD; Department of Neurology (K.D.O.), University of Colorado, Aurora; Department of Neurology (G.L.G.P.), University of Miami-Miller School of Medicine, FL; Department of Neurology (J.K.C.-G.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Neurology (M.N.B.), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; San Antonio Military Medical Center (J.C.M.), TX; and University of Oxford (G.C.D.), Oxford, United Kingdom. lwarrior@cookcountyhhs.org.

Neurology
|August 21, 2020
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