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Dr. Yvonne Maldonado has been on the frontline of global health challenges. Nothing prepared her for COVID-19.
Sue Dremann, Palo Alto Weekly, April 15, 2022
Dr. Yvonne "Bonnie" Maldonado was in a San Francisco hotel room preparing to go out for a New Year's Eve dinner with her husband, when she saw a television news story about an ongoing outbreak of severe pneumonia in China... Read the full profile of Dr. Maldonado and the work that received the Tall Tree Global Impact Award.
Yvonne Maldonado on the COVID-19 vaccine for kids
Farrin Abbott, November 8, 2021
Dr. Maldonado explains the implications for parents and guardians as younger children join the ranks of the vaccinated. Read more in the Stanford Report.
'Final frontier': Pfizer begins COVID vaccine trials for children 5-11
Luz Pena, June 8, 2021
Watch Dr. Bonnie Maldonado explain the COVID vaccine trials for younger children.
COVID-19 as a ‘wake-up call’ for creating more equitable health care
Brian Conlin, December 8, 2020
Bonnie Maldonado is interviewed alongside Melissa Bondy on the devastating but disparate impact of COVID-19 on Black and LatinX communities. Read More on the Stanford Medicine Scope blog.
Stanford COVID-19 in Children Seminar Series
November 5, 2020
Watch Bonnie Maldonado take a deep dive into pediatric epidemiology and transmission of COVID-19.
October 28, 2020
Watch Bonnie Maldonado present at the first session of the COVID-19 in Children seminar series, with Drs. Phil Pizzo and Charles Prober.
Bonnie Maldonado, la doctora Hispana que ha liderado el manejo de respuesta a la pandemia en los centros médicos de Stanford.
Univision, October 3, 2020
Watch Bonnie Maldonado profiled on Univision Bay Area. (In Spanish)
Stanford/Packard Grand Rounds
September 22, 2020
Watch Bonnie Maldonado present with Dr. Roshni Mathew on Understanding the Epidemiology and Clinical Manifestations of COVID-19 in Children: An Update.
UCSD Grand Rounds
August 5, 2020
Watch Bonnie Maldonado deliver grand rounds on COVID-19 and kids.
A Stanford virus expert combats the COVID-19 pandemic
Erin Digitale, Stanford News, June 12, 2020
People can be taught to do their own nasal swabs for accurate COVID-19 testing, limiting the exposure of health care workers and the use of protective equipment, according to Stanford researchers. Read More.
Stanford leaders and health experts detail university’s COVID-19 surveillance testing program
Chris Peacock, September 2, 2020
A panel of Stanford medical experts described steps the university has taken to develop and implement a COVID-19 testing program that will supplement, but not be a substitute for, basic precautions. Read More.
Self-swabbing tests for COVID-19 accurate and safe, study reports
Stanford News, June 12, 2020
People can be taught to do their own nasal swabs for accurate COVID-19 testing, limiting the exposure of health care workers and the use of protective equipment, according to Stanford researchers. Read More.
Watch Jonathan Altamirano and co-author Prasanthi Govindarajan, discuss the study results with JAMA Network Open live on June 16, 2020.
A Pediatrician And A Parent Weigh In On Drop In Child Vaccinations
WBUR, June 11, 2020
Here & Now's Tonya Mosley speaks with Yvonne Maldonado, a professor of pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine, and Jessica Booth, a mother and educator who has done vaccine education outreach in the Seattle region. Listen
Bay Area Scientists in Race to Stop Coronavirus - Collaboration may be secret weapon
San Francisco Chronicle, April 3, 2020
Bay Area doctors, scientists, infectious disease specialists, software developers and molders of public opinion are using their skills to fight the COVID-19 pandemic — sequencing genomes, processing laboratory tests, conducting drug trials, mapping the spread and mutations of the mysterious pathogen. Read More.
Bonnie Maldonado: The science is clear. Vaccinations save lives.
Future of Everything podcast, February 19, 2019
An expert in infectious diseases says that vaccinations are more powerful than ever, but better communication by the medical community is needed to combat misinformation. Read More.
Q&A: Stanford Medicine Professor Yvonne Maldonado on receiving the 2018 RISE Award for mentoring and leadership
Stanford Daily, November 1, 2018
Pediatrics, health research and policy professor Yvonne Maldonado M.D. ’81 received the 2018 Reach, Inspire, Serve and Engage (RISE) Award in May for her research in global health and for her mentoring of undergraduates and medical students. Awarded by the Stanford Medicine Alumni Association, RISE recognizes excellence in leadership, volunteerism, mentoring or teaching. Read More.
Pediatric researcher celebrated for her perseverance, accomplishments
Stanford Medicine Scope Blog, June 28, 2018
The forces that hold some people back don’t seem to apply to Yvonne Maldonado, MD, senior associate dean for faculty development and diversity at the School of Medicine, who goes by "Bonnie." Read More.
Children's health, the measure of success when addressing climate solutions
Bonnie Maldonado speaks at a special satellite session of the Global Climate Action Summit 2018 in San Francisco. Watch the video (presentation starts at 2:34).
SPHERE: Collaborative Research and Precision Medicine
June 5, 2018
Watch Bonnie Maldonado present about the Stanford Precision Health for Ethnic and Racial Equity (SPHERE) program via UCTV.
Yvonne A. Maldonado: A Diversity Strategy for Academic Medicine
January 18, 2018
Bonnie Maldonado presents at Stanford Medicine X about advancing diversity in academic medicine. Watch on youtube.
Pursuing parity: A new generation of female faculty is gathering data on why there should be more of them
Stanford Medicine magazine, Spring 2017
Odette Harris was the only black woman in Stanford School of Medicine’s class of 1996. Upon graduation, she became Stanford’s sole first-year neurosurgery resident. Read more
Zika Virus Epidemiology and Congenital Zika
March 29, 2017
Bonnie Maldonado presents about Zika virus at UCSD. Watch on UCTV.
Researchers tackle unusual challenge in polio eradication
Stanford Medicine Scope blog, April 7, 2015.
A newly recognized form of poliovirus has emerged from one of the vaccines being used to eradicate the paralyzing illness. Stanford’s Yvonne Maldonado and others are studying how to solve the problem. Read more
Emerging form of poliovirus threatens hopes for eradication
Stanford Medicine News, April 3, 2015.
Polio is a tricky foe. One of the biggest hurdles in the World Health Organization’s polio eradication campaign is that the virus causes no symptoms in 90 percent of people who contract it. But these silently infected individuals can still spread the virus to others by coughing, sneezing or shedding it in their feces. And those they infect may become permanently paralyzed by or die. Read more
Working to prevent sexual assaults in Kenya
Stanford Medicine Scope blog, December 18, 2014
The little girl bounded up to us, wearing a filthy pink sweater, with a beaming smile on her face, and gave me a huge hug. Surprised at the reception, I hugged her back and swung her gently back and forth. She giggled and ran to hug my colleagues, then, hopping over an open sewer, darted into an alley that lead to her home. We followed as quickly as we could over the slippery mud, down one alleyway than another. Within a few minutes we reached her house, a 5’ by 10’ structure made of mud and wood, without windows, electricity, or locks. Read more
Empowerment program greatly decreases incidence of rape, study finds
Stanford Medicine News, April 13, 2014
A low-cost empowerment program for adolescent girls in Kenyan slums sharply curtails rape and sexual harassment of these girls, who live in an environment where women have low status and are frequently attacked, a large new study shows. Read more
Birth control counseling may reduce AIDS transmission in Africa, say researchers
Stanford Medicine News, July 25, 2012
Family planning counseling could prove to be a cost-effective way to help minimize the number of children born HIV-positive in sub-Saharan Africa, a new study by School of Medicine researchers suggests. Read More
Updated 11/17/21