Sameed Khatana

Khatana, MD, MPH, is a Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine and a physician at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of the University of Pennsylvania Health System or the Perelman School of Medicine.

Sameed Khatana

The Increasing Death Toll in the U.S. From Extreme Heat

Last summer, in the Pacific Northwest, record temperatures melted power cables and buckled roads. Seattle reached a record high of 108 degrees and millions of area residents struggled under the weight of unprecedented heat. Just...