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Jonathan M. DePierro, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is Clinical Director of the Center for Stress, Resilience and Personal Growth. National Suicide Prevention Helpline 800-273-8255 SAMHSA Toolkit. https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/suicide-prevention NYC Well - 1-888-NYC-WELL

Darryl Hollar, Ruchi Tiwari, Cathleen Matthew, Alex Ingber join me to discuss the roll out and clinical model behind Sinai's remote monitoring program and our strategy regarding connected devices more generally.

Shoshanah Brown, Dr. Katie Ender, and I discuss issues of equity in healthcare and how we experience disparities from the perspective of a community based non profit, a large academic health center and a healthcare administrator all trying to work towards eliminating disparities.

Episode 34 Social Determinants of Health with Ashely Fitch by Mount Sinai Health Partners

Dr. Anitha Iyer, Director of Behavioral Medicine and Population Health at Mount Sinai, discusses how she views the integration of BH in ambulatory care and how to make it a core element of our long term population health strategy.

David Kerward discusses his vision for a unified digital experience for Mount Sinai patients and discusses how he thinks the digital experience will shape healthcare.

Stella Safo and Saranya Loehrer discuss the role of physicians and other healthcare providers in helping shape policy by taking a more active role in the voting process AND by having those discussions with their patients. Topics of disparities in healthcare and the exacerbation of those disparities in COVID are also discussed. See bios below: https://www.votehealth2020.com Dr. Stella Safo is a HIV primary care physician with experience in clinical transformation and healthcare redesign within Mount Sinai Health System and Premier Inc, where she respectively serves as an Assistant Professor and Strategic Advisor. Dr. Safo received her medical education from Harvard Medical School and a masters degree in public health with a focus on global health at the Harvard School of Public Health; she completed a residency in Primary Care and Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York followed by an HIV fellowship from the HIV Medical Association. Her research areas focus on qualitative analyses of healthcare delivery to vulnerable populations around the world. Saranya Loehrer is the founder of VoteHealth 2020, a growing non-partisan coalition of health professionals collaborating to increase the number of our peers and patients registered – and voting safely – this November. In addition, Saranya serves as the Head of Innovation at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and a leader of IHI’s Leadership Alliance, a group of 50+ leading US health care executives working courageously and collaboratively to deliver on the full promise of the Triple Aim. Prior to joining IHI, Saranya worked for Physicians for Human Rights, leading global and domestic grassroots advocacy efforts to create more just and scientifically sound HIV/AIDS policies. She received her MD from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, where she was an Albert Schweitzer Fellow, and her MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health, where she was a Zuckerman Fellow.

Originally recorded in April, Dr. Mark Gwynne, President of the UNC Health Alliance discusses health system strategies for population health in the midst of COVID.

Dr. Sean Morrison discusses the role and value of palliative care in healthcare. This topic is more relevant now than ever. During this discussion, Dr. Morrison also has to manage an emerging situation with a home bound patient further illustrating the issues discussed.

Dr. Martin Malachovsky MD MPH talks about the challenges and opportunities for his practice in the midst of COVID 19. He discuss his use of telemedicine as well as the financial stressors this has placed on physicians in New York City.

Denise Prince SVP and COO for Population Health at Mount Sinai discusses her leadership philosophy and what it takes to drive population health oriented change at scale.

Dr. Julie Nissim, an independent primary care physician in NYC, discusses the challenges of starting her own practice and touches on how isolating it can be in private practice. She talks about how she dealt with these issues and the value of connection with fellow practitioners.

Asim Baig, Ironman triathlete and MSHP Volunteer, and Emily Weinger, MSHP Program Coordinator, share how Mount Sinai uses volunteers to support population health efforts. Asim also shares his inspirational story and how he uses the support he receives from volunteers as motivation to volunteer himself.

Dr. Jonathan Arend discusses the implementation and successes of the outpatient clinical pharmacy program at a very large resident practice. He discusses how this resource has helped physicians with limited time manage complicated patients and get better outcomes.

Dr. Jay Wisnicki discusses his patient-centered approach to care over his career and how he has turned that into a sustainable model of care in a high needs neighborhood.

Dr. Sabina Lim discusses the state of behavioral health in NYC and how she is working to put together a strategy to improve access and services to those that need it.

In the second in a series of conversations about engaging physicians in population health, the Mount Sinai Health Partners provider engagement team describes the secret to their success.

Dr. Sonia Gidwani discusses her model of providing person-centered primary care using email and a balanced, cross-trained staff to find new ways to improve. She also discusses how she used high school and medical school students to help her fine tune her EMR and ultimately provide more efficient, higher quality care.

Alicia Gresham discusses how she has worked to build and refine the network of the future at Mount Sinai.

Ed Lucy, Chief Contracting Officer, discusses the changing world of payer negotiations as systems move to value. Ed brings a wealth of experience and context from both the payer and provider side of the equation.

Dr. Greg Dodell speaks about practicing primary care and endocrinology in NYC even after a fire destroyed his office. He also discusses his use of mindfulness meditation not only for himself but his patients.

ER Physician Dr. Kevin Munjal leads our community paramedicine program and has been an advocate of emergency services reform to better help our population. In this episode he describes how the program started, how it works, and his hopes for the future of community paramedicine.

Neha Dubli discusses the keys to engaging frontline providers in population health efforts with an emphasis on trust, accountability, and building for the future of healthcare.

Dr. Linda DeCherrie discusses the Visiting Docs program which serves high risk patients and provides home-based primary care. This program has been in existence for over 20 years and just one example of the necessary delivery system changes needed to manage populations.

As part of our interview series with primary care providers in New York City, Dr. Danuta Jankowska discusses how she has overcome the many challenges for primary care physicians by self-education, hard work and a team-based approach to care.

Stephen Furia discusses direct to employer relationships and other market dynamics impacting driving population health and increased value in healthcare.

Mike Berger, VP, Population Health Informatics and Data Science discusses his views on how data will impact the future of population health operations and delivery systems.

Maria Alexander, Senior Director of Clinical Operations and Government Channels discusses the interactions between CMS and delivery systems working on population health and shares insights into the intended impact of recent health policy changes.

Dr. Margaret Kearns-Stanley discusses her journey into primary care as well as the challenges of doing primary care in NYC.

Dr. Jonathan Ripp describes his work at Mount Sinai battling physician burnout.

Healthcare is changing in many ways including new ways in which payers and systems are partnering to achieve the Triple Aim. Tom Valdivia of Bright Health discusses payer-provider partnerships and their work with Mount Sinai Health Partners.

Dr. Stella Safo talks about redesigning primary care for population health.

Ruchi Tiwari talks about the emergence and role of clinical pharmacy in primary care and in population health.

Amanda Widmaier from Mount Sinai Health Partners discusses the role of data in population health.

Maria Basso Lipani, Senior Director of Care Management for Mount Sinai Health Partners, discusses the role of care management in population health.

Niyum Gandhi, EVP and Chief Population Health Officer at Mount Sinai discusses population health and the Sinai journey towards value in healthcare.

Dr. Rob Fields, SVP and CMO for population health introduces the MSHP podcast series. Subscribe for future episodes!