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Who Was Medicine Designed For?: Dr. Joel Bervell, Internal Medicine Resident and “The Medical Mythbuster”
Episode 594
"I'd already finished my cardiovascular unit. I'd finished my pulmonary unit. I had never heard about this in any of my classes." That was Dr. Joel B…
2 months, 1 week ago
Building A Nursing Workforce That Reflects The Patients It Serves: Dr. Ernest Grant, Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging at Duke University School of Nursing
Episode 593
Despite gains in recent years, Black, Hispanic, and Asian communities are still under-represented in the U.S. nursing workforce. We’re going to explo…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Unexpected Similarities of Elite Sports and Medicine: Samantha “Sammy” Kolowrat, Olympic Athlete and Anesthesiology Resident at Vanderbilt University
Episode 592
What does it take to compete on the world's biggest stage and then pivot to one of the most demanding training paths in professional life? Today's gu…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Education As A Beacon Of Hope: Dr. Genesis Mwamba, Founder & Executive Director, Lead Me Back Foundation
Episode 591
An 11-year-old boy in rural Zambia once told Dr. Genesis Mwamba that he was about to attend school wearing shoes for the first time in his life. That…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Modernizing PA Practice Laws to Match the Realities and Needs Of Healthcare Delivery: Dr. Jennifer Kolb, Chief Medical Officer of the American Academy of Physician Associates
Episode 590
"We have an untapped army of 200,000 PAs that really could step up and drive some change in the healthcare system if we weren’t restricted,” says Dr.…
3 months ago
The Interplay of Behavioral Science and Communications Technology in Tobacco Cessation: Dr. Amanda Graham, Chief Health Officer at Truth Initiative
Episode 589
Most adults who smoke want to quit, and about half try to do so in any given year, yet fewer than one in ten succeed. That persistent gap between int…
3 months, 1 week ago
A Physician's Personal Reckoning with GLP-1s and the Future of Weight Management: Dr. Christle Guevarra, DO, Family and Sports Medicine Physician
Episode 588
"I always remember feeling like I was part of the clean plate club," says Dr. Christle Guevarra, recalling a childhood spent quietly convinced that h…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
From Building A National Movement to Building Up Women in Midlife: Shannon Watts, Founder of Moms Demand Action and Author of Fired Up
Episode 587
Millions of Americans were saddened and outraged by the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in 2012 that took the lives of twenty children and six adults,…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Creating Alignment On Improving End Of Life Care: Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider, Founder & President of End Well
Episode 586
In the United States, nearly 70% of people say they want to die at home, yet the majority still die in medical settings, often after receiving care t…
4 months ago
Traceability Is Key To Building Trust in AI Tools: Rhett Alden, PhD, Chief Technical Officer, Health Markets and Raman Kaur, APN-c, BSN-RN, VP of Elsevier Health Education
Episode 585
While Elsevier’s most recent Clinician of the Future Report shows increasing adoption of artificial intelligence tools among physicians and nurses, a…
4 months, 1 week ago