Ellen Rand

Oct 20, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Naomi Tweyo Nkinsi |Ellen Rand |Beth Boynton

Imagine waking up one day with a white patch somewhere on your body. It’s not painful or itchy, but over time it grows and changes, with more patches appearing almost daily. In a short space of time, these patches have fundamentally altered the appearance of your skin and your interface with the world. This is the reality for over 1.5 million Americans living with vitiligo.

Jan 20, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Sofia Dobrin |Monique Hedmann |Leonard Wang |Ellen Rand

One of my most stressful high school class memories was an AP English class I took during my junior year. Each week, we had timed writings where we were given a specific amount of time to write an essay on a given topic. As soon as the timer went off, we had to put our pencils down and raise our hands, signaling that we were done, regardless of what was on the paper. Early in the semester, I struggled with this task and dreaded it intensely.

Jan 6, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Sara Pastoor |Toby Terwilliger |Sheila Nazarian |Ellen Rand

We’ve known for the last decade that electronic health records (EHRs) have a significant impact on physicians’ ability to deliver high-value care. It not only has a largely negative influence on their quality of life, which bleeds over into the entire health care landscape, but also impacts their ability to successfully adapt practices to evolving payment models intended to improve patient health outcomes — especially important for primary care.

Feb 3, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Wendy Schofer |Natasha Abadilla |Ellen Rand |Curtis G. Graham

My eyes fell upon a horrible newspaper headline from 2008: “Fat kids die earlier.” That is the first article that I remember talking about obesity in childhood, but there were plenty more in the early 2000s. At the time, I clipped it because it reinforced my approach at the time: identify issues, educate, act, and avoid. Over the past two decades, there has been an increase in the prevalence of children being diagnosed as overweight and obese. The jury is out on the specific reasons why.