Doctors Who Create

In this episode, our guest is Dr. Siyu Shi, MD, MBA. Dr. Shi is an investor at F-Prime Capital, the independent venture capital subsidiary of Fidelity Investments. She has over 10 portfolio companies, across healthcare sub sectors including MedTech, IT, and therapeutics, in which she led or co-led the investment. She also collaborates with Eight Roads, F-Prime's sister company, based in Asia to work with Chinese startups. She talks about her experience both as an internal operator and an outside investor and why she ultimately chose F-Prime. This episode ought to be of interest to anyone interested in becoming a physician entrepreneur and in understanding how a hard science background can be useful for a career in finance. Follow us on Twitter @doctorsinbiz to meet more creative doctors! This episode was hosted and edited by David Park. Timestamps (01:10) Why choose a business career over residency? (02:25) Working as a founder vs. investor (03:40) Transferable skills of science to venture capital investing (05:10) F-Prime's investment capabilities and range (06:04) Eight Roads and working with Chinese startups (07:59) Sourcing startups (08:40) F-Prime's differentiator within the VC industry (09:51) AI hype (11:11) Engrail Therapeutics: most recent investment (13:10) Startup accelerators at Stanford (15:52) Assessing entrepreneurial DNA (16:44) IPO successes (19:02) Advice for future investors and founders (19:55) Weightlifting

In this episode, our guest is Dr. John Whyte, MD, MPH, and CMO of WebMD. Dr. Whyte brings years of experience from working for the FDA, CMS, and Discovery Channel to WebMD and helps create high level strategy. Focusing on healthcare mis/information, we discussed the role of AI, drug advertising, challenges during the pandemic, and consumerism in healthcare. This episode ought to be of interest to anyone interested in taking agency over their health information or becoming a physician-businessperson. Follow us on Twitter @doctorsinbiz to meet more creative doctors! This episode was hosted and edited by David Park. Timestamps (01:08) Role of CMO at WebMD (02:17) Balancing corporate and clinical work (06:10) Med school to health policy space (08:45) Choosing the right content for WebMD (11:35) AI in healthcare delivery (14:35) Health is wealth (15:30) Growth strategies and initiatives (18:31) Direct-to-consumer drug advertising (21:55) Misinformation and transparency (24:23) Data trends from search engines (26:29) Challenges and opportunities during the pandemic (27:45) Controlling social media algorithms (33:03) Retail healthcare and consumerism (36:10) Personal goals

In this episode, our guest is Dr. Reid Waldman, M.D., Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2024, dermatologist, and founder and CEO of Veradermics. With over $40 million raised, Veradermics is looking to change the fact that there has been little to no innovation in dermatology in recent years. Dr. Waldman took a huge risk by jumping from medicine to the startup space. He talks about how he can make a much larger impact on patients' lives through Veradermics than by being an individual physician. This episode ought to be of interest to anyone interested in becoming a physician entrepreneur and understanding how a medical background can provide an edge in starting and growing a successful business. Follow us on Twitter @doctorsinbiz to meet more creative doctors! This episode was hosted and edited by David Park. Timestamps (01:16) Background (02:45) Hacking Dermatology to $40M raised (04:23) Meeting his lead investor during Series A (05:10) Why has there been little innovation in dermatology? (07:07) Physician entrepreneur (08:42) Taking risks: from medicine to startup (10:49) Goal of Veradermics (11:39) Veradermics differentiator (13:40) Challenges (14:51) Learning on the job (19:49) Thought partners

In this episode, our guest is Dr. David L. Nathan, M.D., psychiatrist, founder of Doctors for Drug Policy Reform (D4DPR), and creator of the universal cannabis symbol. We talk about his motivation behind founding a non-profit and the challenges that came with it. We also explore what it's like working with politicians to make physician voices heard and to create evidence-based policies. In 2019, Dr. Nathan testified in front of the Congressional Judiciary Committee regarding cannabis regulation and legalization. He professes his love for graphic designing and labeling which, with the help of his son, Eli, led to the creation of the International Intoxicating Cannabis Products Symbol (IICPS), adopted by four states now. This episode ought to be of interest to anyone interested in advocacy work in healthcare and understanding a doctor's perspective on drug legalization and regulation in the U.S. Follow us on Twitter @doctorscreate to meet more creative doctors! This episode was hosted and edited by David Park. Music for this episode is credited to Nightfloat. Timestamps (00:57) What's D4DPR? (02:08) What does D4DPR do? (05:17) Biden pardons Marijuana users (07:44) Starting a non-profit (14:30) Testifying in front of Congress (16:00) Increase in ER visits by children in newly legalized states? (21:40) Evidence-based public health policy (26:13) Risks of underage use of cannabis (32:40) Designing the universal cannabis symbol (37:37) Destigmatizing cannabis use (40:50) Hit'em where they ain't

In this episode, join Dr. Lucy McBride as we unravel the intricate tapestry of what true health entails. She is the host of the podcast “Beyond the Prescription,” where she brings on guests ranging from musicians to politicians, discussing how their life challenges allowed them to view holistic health differently. She shares her personal motivation behind creating the podcast and the health challenges she faced as a young adult. Dr. McBride is currently a practicing primary care physician based in D.C.   This episode was hosted and edited by David Park. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us @doctorscreate with any questions, comments, or feedback!

In this episode, Dr. Shilpa Darivemula shares about how her experiences as both a dancer and a doctor led her to create the Aseemkala Initiative. This group is dedicated to harnessing the power of traditional dance to perform modern stories about healthcare inequities. Dr. Darivemula is trained in a form of Indian classical dance known as Kuchipudi. She is also an OB/GYN, currently completing a General Obstetrics and Gynecology Reproductive Health Fellowship at UNC. You can learn more about the Aseemkala Initative at https://aseemkala.org. Dr. Darivemula was also involved in the Re-imagining Medicine Festival, which we covered in Episode #49. You can also watch the performances from the 2023 Reimagining Medicine Festival here. This episode was hosted and edited by Mekala Neelakantan. Check out https://www.doctorswhocreate.com/about for the full podcast team. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

In this episode, learn more how to harness the power of technology to improve mental health, from digital psychiatrist and creative extraordinaire Dr. Nina Vasan. She shares about her experiences as the founder and executive director of Brainstorm: The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation, designing new tools for Pinterest and TikTok, as the chief medical officer of Real, a startup dedicated to expanding online access to psychiatric treatment, and as the author of Do Good Well: Your Guide to Leadership, Action, and Social Innovation. You can find out more about her latest work at @NinaVasan on Twitter or Instagram. This episode was hosted and edited by David Park. Check out https://www.doctorswhocreate.com/about for the full podcast team. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

In this episode, learn more about the Reimagining Medicine Festival, a traveling, virtual festival exploring the intersection of arts with justice in medicine. The theme of this year's festival, hosted by Weill Cornell and sponsored by the American Medical Women's Association Dance and Theater Task Force, is "Metamorphosis." We hear from members of the planning committee, Kate Cox, Andrea Samson, Jasmine Thomas, and Sophia Salingaros about the process of creating this community space and how they have bridged their personal experiences with dance, art, and medicine! Check out https://www.reimaginingmedicinefestival.org/ for information about how to participate! This episode was hosted and edited by Darlina Liu. Check out https://www.doctorswhocreate.com/about for the full podcast team. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback! We will be back with our regularly, monthly podcasts in Spring 2023!

In this episode, Elaine Ma interviews Dr. Mimi Winsberg, a Harvard and Stanford trained psychiatrist. While serving as the resident psychiatrist at Facebook, she co-founded the behavioral health startup, Brightside Health. Most recently, Dr. Winsberg released her first book, titled “Speaking in Thumbs” a psychiatrist decodes your relationship texts so you don't have to. During their conversation, they explore the intersections of tech, psychiatry, and interpersonal relationships. This episode was hosted by Elaine Ma and edited by Darlina Liu. Check out https://www.doctorswhocreate.com/about for the full podcast team. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

Dr. Evan Ashkin is the director and founder of the North Carolina Formerly Incarcerated Transition (NC FIT) program, which helps connect chronically ill formerly incarcerated individuals to primary care medical services. He currently serves as a professor of family medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, teaching in the underserved track of the residency program, and sees patients at Piedmont Health Services, which serves vulnerable populations. You can reach Dr. Ashkin with questions or comments at ashkin@med.unc.edu. If you're interested in hearing more about the program, please visit their website at ncfitprogram.org. To hear more about the Transitions Clinic Network upon which the NC FIT program was based, please visit their website at https://transitionsclinic.org/. If you're interested in an overview of post-release healthcare and re-entry programming, you can read more about it in an article co-authored by Dr. Ashkin, called “Prison And Jail Reentry And Health”: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb20210928.343531/. References of interest: • The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (https://newjimcrow.com/) • 13th by Ava Duvernay (a documentary viewable on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80091741) This episode was hosted and produced by Margaret Wang. Check out https://www.doctorswhocreate.com/about for the full podcast team. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

Dr. Yuan He is currently an attending primary care doctor with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Karabots Pediatric Care Center, a pediatric clinic serving patients in West Philadelphia. Dr. He is also a postdoctoral research fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania and an affiliate trainee at the CHOP PolicyLab, where she examines racial disparities in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems and tries to understand how different systems can work together to advance health equity and support marginalized youth. She can be contacted via Twitter @yuanheMD, or for more detailed inquiries, emailed at hey@chop.edu. This episode was hosted and produced by Margaret Wang. Check out https://www.doctorswhocreate.com/about for the full podcast team. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

In this episode, learn more about how one general surgeon created balance in his life and moved his family and work to New Zealand! Dr. Charles Black is a prolific writer and photographer. In his most recent Doximity Op-Med he writes about how "Good Enough is Good Enough, in the OR and in Life." You can read more about Dr. Black's creative pursuits on his personal blog and on Doximity. If you are interested in contributing to the Doctors Who Create podcast or joining the team, send us an email at dwcfilesubmission@gmail.com. This episode was hosted by Darlina Liu and edited by Mekala Neelakantan. Check out https://www.doctorswhocreate.com/about for the full podcast team. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

Listen to Dr. Jacyln Perrault's original "Vaccine" song parody, sung to the tune of Dolly Parton's "Jolene" in this episode of Doctors Who Create. As an IM resident, Dr. Perrault has managed to inject creativity into her work inside and outside the hospital. Aside from songwriting and singing, she explores her talents through Indonesian gamelan music and artistic endeavors. If you are interested in contributing to the Doctors Who Create podcast or joining the team, send us an email at dwcfilesubmission@gmail.com. This episode was hosted and edited by Darlina Liu. Check out https://www.doctorswhocreate.com/about for the full podcast team. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

In this episode, Margaret Wang interviews Dr. Subha Airan-Javia, CEO and founder of CareAlign, a digital tool used by healthcare systems in conjunction with the electronic medical record to facilitate efficient clinical workflow, provider communication, and patient safety in the hospital. Dr. Airan-Javia is also a distinguished hospitalist and previous Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Penn Medicine, with recent induction as a Fellow into the American Medical Informatics Association. If you are interested in contributing to the Doctors Who Create podcast or joining the team, send us an email at dwcfilesubmission@gmail.com. This episode was hosted and edited by Margaret Wang. Check out https://www.doctorswhocreate.com/about for the full podcast team. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

This episode was brought to you by some of the newest members of the Doctors Who Create podcast team! In this episode, Elaine Ma interviews Dr. Roberta Kung, anesthesiologist and founder of GiftedTaste. This experiential platform focuses on promoting wellness and empowering women through retreats and other innovative programming. Dr. Kung shares candidly about the personal and professional experiences that have shaped her journey. If you are interested in contributing to the Doctors Who Create podcast or joining the team, send us an email at dwcfilesubmission@gmail.com. This episode was hosted by Elaine Ma and edited by Michel Liu. Check out https://www.doctorswhocreate.com/about for the full podcast team. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

Now that we're a few months into our intern year, I sat down with my class to discuss how we've managed to create a community amongst ourselves and how we've been able to keep up our creative hobbies in residency. In this episode, we cover so many topics from Dungeons & Dragons to boy bands. Come join us as we talk about how we bring fun, play, and creativity back into medicine. If you are interested in contributing to the Doctors Who Create podcast or joining the team, send us an email at dwcfilesubmission@gmail.com. This episode was produced by Darlina Liu. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

We are back (after a brief hiatus as we both started intern year)! In this episode, we sat down with Dr. Adam Stern, psychiatrist and author of Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training. His memoir was featured on People Magazine's Book of the Week and Amazon Editor's Pick for Best Biographies and Memoirs. He shares about the creative process in transforming his writing from idea to publication, as well as the experience of imposter syndrome in medical training. You can read more of Dr. Stern's works here: https://www.adamsternmd.com/ If you are interested in contributing to the Doctors Who Create podcast or joining the team, send us an email at dwcfilesubmission@gmail.com. At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Mekala Neelakantan. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

Dr. Eleanor Love created The Simple Sunflower in medical school, inspired to combine her passions for floristry and medicine. Her organization collects flower donations from wedding parties and rearranges them into bouquets for patients in hospitals in her local community of Richmond, VA. The Simple Sunflower has grown and grown since its inception in 2019. In this podcast episode, Dr. Love shares her best floral arrangement tips, the uncanny similarities between radiology and flower arranging, and her philosophy about the role of creativity in science. You can learn more about The Simple Sunflower at: https://www.thesimplesunflower.com/ If you would like to support the cause, they are accepting donations via their GoFundMe page: https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-simple-sunflower At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Mekala Neelakantan. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

Meet Dr. Syed Hoda! A person, photographer, poet, bone and soft tissue pathologist, and so much more... In this episode of Doctors Who Create, Dr. Hoda talks about his path to medicine and beyond. He speaks candidly about creativity and its role in our personal and professional lives. For all the new interns out there this July, you won't want to miss out on his valuable advice for keeping life balanced. For even more worldly wisdom, you can follow Dr. Hoda on Twitter at @01sth02. At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Mekala Neelakantan. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

In this episode of Doctors Who Create, Drs. Mekala Neelakantan and Karan Pandher reflect back on their experiences creating and maintaining a relationship throughout college, medical school, and into residency. They speak candidly about both the joys and challenges of dating another person in medicine. Listen to this episode to hear their advice on love and the couples match! At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Mekala Neelakantan. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

For Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we interview Dr. James Lee, a psychiatry resident at the University of Washington and author of the recent NEJM perspective piece entitled, "Combating Anti-Asian Sentiment - A Practical Guide for Clinicians." Learn more about how you can better support AAPI patients and colleagues, amidst surging rates of anti-Asian attacks and hate crimes. In this episode, Dr. Lee speaks candidly about his own experiences as an Asian American clinician and about the creative process of advocacy. You can read Dr. James Lee's guide published in the New England Journal of Medicine here: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2102656?query=featured_home! To sign up for free bystander intervention training through Hollaback! x AAJC, check out: https://www.ihollaback.org/bystanderintervention/ To watch the 5-part PBS documentary series "Asian Americans," stream it here: https://www.pbs.org/show/asian-americans/ At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Mekala Neelakantan. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

A big congratulations to all those future doctors out there! In this special episode, we are shaking things up... join co-producers Darlina Liu and Mekala Neelakantan as they share their stories from the one-of-a-kind residency application season this year, from applying to interviewing to Match Day itself. With the rapid transition from in-person to virtual, applicants, programs, and schools had to creatively adapt to a new format and brainstorm new experiences. In this conversation, we cover a lot of ground, including Dr. Bryan Carmody's Sheriff of Sodium blog, those dreaded Google spreadsheets, and grassroots initiatives on #MedTwitter. To learn more about the history of the NRMP Match, check out Dr. Carmody's blog here: https://thesheriffofsodium.com/author/jbcarmody/. To support BIPOC med school grads, check out @MedGradWishList on Twitter. At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Mekala Neelakantan. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

In this episode of Doctors Who Create, co-producer Mekala Neelakantan interviews Dr. Shikha Jain (@ShikhaJainMD), a hematology and oncology physician who has found creative ways to advocate for her patients and colleagues. She founded IMPACT, a COVID-19 action and advocacy group, the Women in Medicine Summit and Symposium, and the Rush Center for the Advancement of Women in Health Care, just to name a few. Dr. Jain also has devoted her time to writing, public speaking, and research. To learn more about her work, you can listen to her podcast, Oncology Overdrive: https://www.healio.com/news/hematology-oncology/resources/oncology-overdrive/2020-episodes. Or check out her TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEyWOYXW80. At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Mekala Neelakantan. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

Welcome to the last episode in our Re-imagine Healthcare mini-series! This time, we'll be talking all about consults. Whether you're the primary team or the consulting service, you can learn something new in this episode, where we chat with Dr. Michelle Brooks (@michellebr00ks) and Dr. Jose Barreau (@HaloHealthInc) about their ideas on how to improve the clinical workflow and ultimately, better communicate with one another. If you missed the rest of our mini-series, be sure to check out episodes #31 Re-Imagine Rounding and #32 Re-imagine Notes! At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Mekala Neelakantan. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

Welcome to episode 2 of 3 in our Re-imagine Healthcare mini-series! This time, we'll be talking all about medical documentation. In this episode, learn how Dr. Danielle Ofri, Dr. Prashant Patel, and Dr. Ken Braslow write their clinical notes and hear their ideas on how to improve the documentation process. You can check out more of Dr. Ofri's work at www.DanielleOfri.com and the Bellevue Literary Review, www.BLReview.org. Or at the upcoming virtual screening of Why Doctors Write on January 11th, 2021: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/bellevueliteraryreview/463821#. You can learn more about Luminello, the user-friendly EHR founded by Dr. Braslow, at www.luminello.com. Stay tuned for our next episode on Re-Imagine Consults. If you'd like to share your ideas about how to improve consultations, send us an email at dwcfilesubmission@gmail.com. At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Mekala Neelakantan. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

Welcome to our Re-imagine Healthcare mini-series, where we will put our creativity into action to rethink elements of our clinical practice... starting with medical rounds. In this episode, we interview Dr. David Hill, Dr. Mark Loehrke, Dr. Anika Kumar, and Dr. Oliver Hulland about how they round, why they round, and what ways we can make rounding better. If you'd like to share your ideas about electronic medical records (EMR) and consults for the next episodes in this series, send us an email at dwcfilesubmission@gmail.com. At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Mekala Neelakantan. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

Four years ago, Dr. Kelly Wong was inspired to help patients stuck in the hospital exercise their right to vote. This became PatientVoting. In this episode, learn about how to broach the conversation of voting with your patients and more. Check out PatientVoting.com for details on how to request emergency absentee ballots in your state. VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! The episode was edited by Darlina Liu. At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Mekala Neelakantan. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

We are collecting audio submissions for our special series on "Re-imagining Healthcare"! This is your opportunity think creatively by sharing how you practice medicine and brainstorming new approaches to rounding, medical documentation, and consults. Here are some questions to think about: [Rounds] 1) What is the purpose of rounding? 2) How do you round? 3) How can we improve rounds for the patient and for the team? [Medical Documentation] 1) What is the purpose of medical documentation? 2) How do you approach note writing? 3) How can we improve the electronic medical record system? [Consults] 1) What is the purpose of a consult? 2) How do consults work at your hospital? 3) How can we improve the consult system? Feel free to respond to whichever questions or topics resonate with you the most. If you would like a chance to be featured, send an audio clip (aim for under 5 minutes, .mp3 format preferred) to dwcfilesubmission@gmail.com by Friday, October 23rd, 2020. We look forward to hearing from you! If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email us at dwcfilesubmission@gmail.com as well. At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Mekala Neelakantan. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

There is so much creativity within our community and we wanted to dedicate part of our platform to showcase those voices. In this long awaited episode, we hear from talented artists, board game creators, cartoonists, singers, writers and more! We would like to thank the following contributors for sharing their stories: Dr. Akshata Hopkins Dr. Lakshman Swamy (@laxswamy @CritCareGame) Dr. Nitya Rajeshuni Dr. Jack Maypole Virali Shah Dr. Nitin Kapur Dr. Jet Patterson The episode was edited by Darlina Liu. At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Shiv Nadkarni. Social media outreach by Mekala Neelakantan. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

We are collecting audio submissions for our September episode! If you would like a chance to be featured, send a 1-3 minutes audio clip (.mp3) to dwcfilesubmission@gmail.com by Friday, August 14th, 2020. Some questions to answer: Who are you? What is your creative outlet? What are the challenges to being creative in medicine? If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Doctors Who Create through our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DoctorsWhoCreate/ At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Shiv Nadkarni. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

In this episode, Doctors Who Create founder Dr. Vidya Viswanathan sits down with Dr. Diana Montoya-Williams and Dr. Joanna Parga-Belinkie to discuss the making of their podcast on medicine and motherhood, Baby Doctor Mamas (https://babydoctormamas.com/). The episode was edited by Darlina Liu. At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Shiv Nadkarni. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

Breonna Taylor would be turning 27 today if she hadn't been killed by police in a no-knock raid on March 13. Racism is a public health crisis. We as healthcare providers have a moral imperative to address it. Doctors Who Create stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Here are some ways you can help: Educate yourselves. Learn more about the history of racism in our country. If you need a starting point, this curriculum has great resources that you can follow for the month of June: bit.ly/junejustice Volunteer, donate, participate in local government. You can donate directly to communities in need through mutual aid funds. Here is a list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Fw6ru83MuRaerWTCyPPjbcwIhXaXIqy_SbE_8bAyB2M/edit#gid=394516378 and https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/12y7-Wa4gi8HUeFTv17gPcbMGuVX5cqIudLJmhOrq1-k/mobilebasic Be an active ally in your everyday life. Use your voice to speak out against the racism you witness and encounter. You have more power than you think.

In this episode, Dr. David Hindin shares his experience as a Biodesign Innovation Fellow at Stanford and teaches us how to apply the principles of design thinking to solve problems in the time of COVID-19. You can find more from Dr. Hindin on Twitter (@DavidHindin), Instagram (@thesurgeonlife), or his YouTube channel! At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Shiv Nadkarni. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

In this episode, we talk to Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako, an MS-4 at Yale, who writes and speaks about health disparities, social determinants of health, and issues of race and diversity within the medical curriculum. If you like what you hear, be sure to follow Max on Twitter @MaxJordan_N or listen to his podcast, Flip the Script, at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/flip-the-script/id1479201110 At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Shiv Nadkarni. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat and YouTube's Audio Library. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

In this episode, we discuss how to create serious games for medical education with Dr. Michael Cosimini. Learn more about his card game, Empiric, which teaches about guideline based antibiotic selection in pediatrics. More information at @EmpiricGame or @ MichaelCosimini on Twitter or at EmpiricGame.com At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Shiv Nadkarni. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

This month, Shiv sits down with Dr. Guy Leschziner, a consultant neurologist at Guy's & St. Thomas' Hospitals. A specialist in sleep, Guy has also worked across various media: he's been featured on BBC's Mysteries of Sleep podcast and on channel 4's The Secrets of Sleep, has written a book, and has most recently collaborated with artists on an exhibit at the Science Gallery in London. Listen as he shares his experience educating the public in this unique way. At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Shiv Nadkarni. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

Join us in this candid episode about all the creativity that goes behind creating a private practice and about the ways that Dr. Dana Wang thinks about art in her design of Rivia Medical and her practice of psychiatry. More information about Rivia Medical can be found here: https://riviamedical.com/ At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Shiv Nadkarni. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

"The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person." -Czeslaw Milosz Hello from London! This month, we sit down with Dr. Sam Guglani, poet, writer, and oncologist here in the UK. Sam is also the director and founder of Medicine Unboxed, which is a conference for health professionals and the public to use the arts and humanities to explore medicine, life, and death. Listen as we discuss how valuing literature, poetry, and the arts can lead to better caregiving, and thus, better doctoring. At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Shiv Nadkarni. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat and YouTube's audio library. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

In this episode, we spoke with Dr. Mini Tandon, a child psychiatrist who wrote a children's picture book series about the adventures of Dr. Mini Mental Health and the young Willie Wannaknow. Wanna know more? Read about her book series here: http://www.drminimentalhealth.com At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Shiv Nadkarni. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu (@darlinaliu) and Shiv Nadkarni (@_shivn). But who are they really?! In this special episode, we're taking you behind the scenes to meet the producers, hear about their own creative passions, and get a heads up about their plans for this podcast. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

As people from all walks of life enter the medical field, how do they grapple with having their lives taken over by the arduous but rewarding monster that is medicine? How do they build upon their previous identities without erasing them? Listen as we discuss these questions and more with musician-ENT Tiffany Peng-Hwa, who entered the field as a trumpeter and teacher, and now uses her identity as a physician to increase her impact. At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Shiv Nadkarni. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat, YouTube's audio library and clips from the Cornell Music in Medicine Program. As always, please tweet us (@doctorscreate) with any questions, comments, or feedback!

This week, we hear from a doc who is and has been doing some really interesting research in neurotheology, a field that studies the neuroscience of religious and spiritual beliefs. This director of integrative health at Jefferson University Hospital will tell us how he came to these interests, what they mean for his life and medical practice, and what they mean for humanity. Let's sit down with Dr. Andrew Newberg to hear what he has to say. At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and Shiv Nadkarni. Music for this episode is credited to the band, Nightfloat, and YouTube's audio library. As always, please tweet us with any questions, comments, or feedback. We hope you enjoy this episode! Correction: In my first question, I ask Dr. Newberg about what got him interested in pioneering a field like "neuroethology." This should be "neurotheology."

In the last episode of this month's Spotlight Series, we don't dance around the subject… we're talking about how knowledge about movement can influence our practice of medicine. In this episode, we interviewed Nina Shevzov-Zebrun and Dr. Elizabeth Barchi about their plan to teach others about movement and medicine and we interviewed Marleigh Stern who created a documentary about creatives in medicine during medical school and her inspiration from her own dance background. Thanks to Darlina Liu for producing this episode, to our podcast leads, Shiv and Darlina, and to the band Night Float for providing our music. This episode was sponsored by the Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine as part of our four-episode Spotlight Series featuring: Medicine & Improv, Medicine & Writing, Medicine & Art, and Medicine & Dance. We hope you've enjoyed this series as much as we have! "Our program takes a broad, inclusive approach to medical humanities, with the goal of supporting students' creative and intellectual interests outside the scope of traditional medical education. Many of our students come into medical school with a passion for the humanistic disciplines. Others develop this along the way, after encountering particular experiences or questions over the course of their training and looking to art or history or one of the social sciences to explore them more deeply. Students can do this through one of our mini-courses, like Art & Anatomy or Medical Improv, or through our Rudin Fellowship in Medical Ethics and Humanities, if they have a more targeted research project in mind. Many of our courses actually grow out of student-generated ideas—Medical Improv is a great example. Participants in our program often report that it helps sustain the many dimensions of their identities beyond their interest in biomedicine, and that the freedom of choice (either in selecting seminars or in the Rudin Fellowship, where students design completely individualized projects) is validating and empowering in a context that can often feel very hierarchical. It is imperative that we recognize and support each of our students as a whole person if we want them to develop into the kind of physicians who treat each of their patients as a whole person." – Katie Grogan, Associate Director, MSPHM

Since starting medical school, I've begun seeing biology and medicine in art everywhere I look: at the MoMa, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, even the random art galleries in Chelsea… I see folded proteins and cells and viruses. In Episode 3 of our Spotlight Series, we are going to talk about how art and medicine go hand in hand. From the work of Dr. Mike Natter to making murals in a hospital waiting room to learning Art & Anatomy with Laura Ferguson, we can paint a colorful picture about the literal art of medicine. More information about Art & Anatomy can be found here: https://artandanatomy.com/ Thanks to Darlina Liu for producing this episode, to our podcast leads, Shiv and Darlina, and to the band Night Float for providing our music. This episode was sponsored by the Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine as part of our four-episode Spotlight Series featuring: Medicine & Improv, Medicine & Writing, Medicine & Art, and Medicine & Dance. "Our program takes a broad, inclusive approach to medical humanities, with the goal of supporting students' creative and intellectual interests outside the scope of traditional medical education. Many of our students come into medical school with a passion for the humanistic disciplines. Others develop this along the way, after encountering particular experiences or questions over the course of their training and looking to art or history or one of the social sciences to explore them more deeply. Students can do this through one of our mini-courses, like Art & Anatomy or Medical Improv, or through our Rudin Fellowship in Medical Ethics and Humanities, if they have a more targeted research project in mind. Many of our courses actually grow out of student-generated ideas—Medical Improv is a great example. Participants in our program often report that it helps sustain the many dimensions of their identities beyond their interest in biomedicine, and that the freedom of choice (either in selecting seminars or in the Rudin Fellowship, where students design completely individualized projects) is validating and empowering in a context that can often feel very hierarchical. It is imperative that we recognize and support each of our students as a whole person if we want them to develop into the kind of physicians who treat each of their patients as a whole person." – Katie Grogan, Associate Director, MSPHM

Welcome to Episode 2 of our Spotlight Series, where we will be discussing the many ways that doctors and doctors-in-training can hone their writing skills, outside of clinical notes. In Part One, Dr. Colleen Farrell speaks candidly about her journey through writing and medicine, including her experience with writing about mental health, the confidence gap she witnessed in clinical medicine which inspired her Rudin Fellowship Project, and the essence of storytelling. Thanks to Darlina Liu for producing this episode, to our podcast leads, Shiv and Darlina, and to the band Night Float for providing our music. This episode was sponsored by the Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine as part of our four-episode Spotlight Series featuring: Medicine & Improv, Medicine & Writing, Medicine & Art, and Medicine & Dance. "Our program takes a broad, inclusive approach to medical humanities, with the goal of supporting students' creative and intellectual interests outside the scope of traditional medical education. Many of our students come into medical school with a passion for the humanistic disciplines. Others develop this along the way, after encountering particular experiences or questions over the course of their training and looking to art or history or one of the social sciences to explore them more deeply. Students can do this through one of our mini-courses, like Art & Anatomy or Medical Improv, or through our Rudin Fellowship in Medical Ethics and Humanities, if they have a more targeted research project in mind. Many of our courses actually grow out of student-generated ideas—Medical Improv is a great example. Participants in our program often report that it helps sustain the many dimensions of their identities beyond their interest in biomedicine, and that the freedom of choice (either in selecting seminars or in the Rudin Fellowship, where students design completely individualized projects) is validating and empowering in a context that can often feel very hierarchical. It is imperative that we recognize and support each of our students as a whole person if we want them to develop into the kind of physicians who treat each of their patients as a whole person." – Katie Grogan, Associate Director, MSPHM

Welcome to Episode 2 of our Spotlight Series, where we will be discussing the many ways that doctors and doctors-in-training can hone their writing skills, outside of clinical notes. In Part One, we share some six word stories from fourth year medical students, a project coordinated by Max Wang and others from the NYU Gold Humanism Society. Eli Cahan, an editor of Agora, NYU Medicine's arts and literary magazine, discusses receiving feedback for work in journalism. And Dr. Jules Lipoff shares some words of advice about the process of publishing narrative medicine. Thanks to Darlina Liu for producing this episode, to our podcast leads, Shiv and Darlina, and to the band Night Float for providing our music. This episode was sponsored by the Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine as part of our four-episode Spotlight Series featuring: Medicine & Improv, Medicine & Writing, Medicine & Art, and Medicine & Dance. "Our program takes a broad, inclusive approach to medical humanities, with the goal of supporting students' creative and intellectual interests outside the scope of traditional medical education. Many of our students come into medical school with a passion for the humanistic disciplines. Others develop this along the way, after encountering particular experiences or questions over the course of their training and looking to art or history or one of the social sciences to explore them more deeply. Students can do this through one of our mini-courses, like Art & Anatomy or Medical Improv, or through our Rudin Fellowship in Medical Ethics and Humanities, if they have a more targeted research project in mind. Many of our courses actually grow out of student-generated ideas—Medical Improv is a great example. Participants in our program often report that it helps sustain the many dimensions of their identities beyond their interest in biomedicine, and that the freedom of choice (either in selecting seminars or in the Rudin Fellowship, where students design completely individualized projects) is validating and empowering in a context that can often feel very hierarchical. It is imperative that we recognize and support each of our students as a whole person if we want them to develop into the kind of physicians who treat each of their patients as a whole person." – Katie Grogan, Associate Director, MSPHM

We're kicking off our Spotlight Series on the NYU School of Medicine with a spotlight on improv and medicine! In this episode, we interviewed Nick Kanellis who taught a "Medical Improv" seminar and his students who shared about their experiences. Listen to learn more about improv games you can play to improv-e your skills with patients. Thanks to Darlina Liu for producing this episode, to our podcast leads, Shiv and Darlina, and the band Night Float for providing our music. This episode was sponsored by the Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine as part of our four-episode Spotlight Series featuring: Medicine & Improv, Medicine & Writing, Medicine & Art, and Medicine & Dance. "Our program takes a broad, inclusive approach to medical humanities, with the goal of supporting students' creative and intellectual interests outside the scope of traditional medical education. Many of our students come into medical school with a passion for the humanistic disciplines. Others develop this along the way, after encountering particular experiences or questions over the course of their training and looking to art or history or one of the social sciences to explore them more deeply. Students can do this through one of our mini-courses, like Art & Anatomy or Medical Improv, or through our Rudin Fellowship in Medical Ethics and Humanities, if they have a more targeted research project in mind. Many of our courses actually grow out of student-generated ideas—Medical Improv is a great example. Participants in our program often report that it helps sustain the many dimensions of their identities beyond their interest in biomedicine, and that the freedom of choice (either in selecting seminars or in the Rudin Fellowship, where students design completely individualized projects) is validating and empowering in a context that can often feel very hierarchical. It is imperative that we recognize and support each of our students as a whole person if we want them to develop into the kind of physicians who treat each of their patients as a whole person." – Katie Grogan, Associate Director, MSPHM

At the inaugural Creativity in Medicine Conference held in Philadelphia on April 20, 2019, we hosted a live podcast taping of the #MedHumChat. Listen to the discussion between Dr. Colleen Farrell, Dr. Margot Hedlin, Grace Oliver, and the med twitterverse as they discuss Rafael Campo's poem "Why Doctors Write" and the role of social media in medicine. Thanks to Dr. Colleen Farrell, Dr. Margot Hedlin, and Grace Oliver for sharing, to Darlina Liu for producing this episode, to our podcast leads, Shiv and Darlina, and to the band Night Float for providing our music. Join the Med Hum Chat community on Twitter at https://twitter.com/medhumchat.

Presenting the first episode of a collaboration between Doctors Who Create and Equal Treatment, a medical educational platform that brings awareness to health care issues involving race, immigration, and underserved populations. In this episode, we interview Dr. Oanh Nguyen at UCSF about the implications of adverse health outcomes and costs in undocumented immigrant population with end-stage renal disease. Thanks to Amanda Labora and Hattie Huston-Paterson for conducting this interview and to Shiv Nadkarni for producing it, to our podcast leads, Shiv and Darlina, and the band Night Float and AShamaluevMusic for providing our music. For further reading on this topic, please find Dr. Nguyen's JAMA article at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30575859.

In this DWC podcast, we hear from psychopharmacologist, psychiatrist, musician, and drug legalization advocate Dr. Julie Holland. She takes us through the whirlwind that is writing her fourth book, talks about her experience being a physician in the media, and tells us the whole truth about cannabis and other drugs. Thanks to Shiv Nadkarni for conducting and producing this interview, our podcast leads, Shiv and Darlina, and the band Night Float (formerly, Trisomy Rescue) and AShamaluevMusic for providing our music.

Have you ever wondered what a musical about medical school would be like? In today's episode, we give you a peek into Medicine the Musical and a behind the scenes discussion with Dr. Michael Ehrenreich, the creative extraordinaire who wrote and directed this musical. In addition to his work as a dermatologist, he has invented board games, designed new bikes, and written numerous novels and plays. Thanks to Darlina Liu for producing this episode, our podcast leads, Darlina and Shiv, and the band Night Float (formerly, Trisomy Rescue) for providing our music. Check out our site at www.doctorswhocreate.com and tweet us your thoughts at @doctorscreate!