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Guest: Michelle Sie Whitten, Co-Founder, President & CEO Michelle started Global Down Syndrome Foundation because when she was pregnant with her daughter, she discovered that Down syndrome was the least funded genetic condition by our National Institutes of Health.  People with Down syndrome are born with three copies of chromosome 21, they're really highly at risk for certain disease, like Alzheimer's and autoimmune disease.  They're highly protected and it is very rare for a person with Down syndrome to get a solid tumor cancer or certain kinds of heart attack and stroke.  Global Down Syndrome Foundation is an international non-profit and one of their biggest successes has been the lobbying in Washington D.C.  They work with three affiliates, one being the C Center for Down syndrome Children's Hospital Colorado. They also support over 200 scientists between Anschutz Medical Campus and the University of Colorado Boulder through our Crnic Institute.  Coming up is the Be Beautiful Be Yourself Fashion show.  This year they are giving away two Quincy Jones exceptional Advocacy awards, one to Sophia Sanchez, she was in the prequel to the Hunger Games and the other is Woody Harrelson for his work in Champions.  The local ambassador this year is Zaya Biel.  The event is on November 16th at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel.  https://bebeautifulbeyourself.org/

In this episode, we welcome Dr. Heather Coats and Dr. Kelly Henrichs. Moderated by Dr. Betty Ferrell, this episode discusses the adult-gerontology nurse practitioner's role in hospice and palliative care. Listen in as Heather and Kelly touch on common areas for the nurse practitioner, examples of when two APRNs work together to care for a patient, the differences between primary and specialty care, and more.  This podcast episode coincides with an article written by Heather and Kelly in the June 2024 issue of the Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing. 1. Coats, Heather PhD, APRN-BC; Henrichs, Kelly DNP, RN, GNP-BC. The Role and Professional Standards of the Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner in Hospice and Palliative Care. Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing 26(3):p 116-121, June 2024. | DOI: 10.1097/NJH.0000000000001025. Resources from the Episode: ACHPN® Credential AACN Call for Action: Nurses Lead and Transform Palliative Care ANA Call to Transform Palliative Care About the Speakers: Moderator: Dr. Betty Ferrell, PhD, MSN, RN, CHPN®, FAAN, FPCN, Director of Nursing Research & Education and Professor, City of Hope  Featuring:  Dr. Heather Coats, PhD, APRN-BC, FAAN, Director of Research, HPNA, and Assistant Professor, University of Colorado College of Nursing  Dr. Kelly Henrichs, DNP, RN, GNP-BC, Specialty Director, AGPCNP Program, Associate Professor, University of Colorado College of Nursing    Dr. Henricks  works at CU as an associate professor, where she has taught for nearly 10 years and her clinical specialty is Gerontology. She was recently appointed the specialty director of the Adult/Gerontology Nurse Practitioner Program at CU and teaches across the undergraduate and graduate program. Her research interests are focused on older adults, and how to shift nursing student attitudes toward them. She is passionate about improving care and outcomes for the older adult population. She currently practices in the UCHealth Senior's Clinic as a nurse practitioner.  Dr.  Coats, PhD, APRN-BC, FPCN, FAAN is Director of Research for Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) and faculty at the University of Colorado, College of Nursing, Anschutz Medical Campus, in Aurora, CO. With a well-founded base of palliative, oncology, and hospice care spanning over 26 years, Heather is sought out as a researcher, teacher, and consultant to nurses, physicians, and other health care professionals. She has been in numerous leadership positions and developed national/international recognition through her impact on the PC/EOL field. Heather is a well-known palliative care nurse leader who has communicated extensively through her publications, presentations and consultations with patients, families, and clinicians on the importance of palliative care for individuals living with serious illness.    Nationally, she was invited to the prestigious keynote at the AAHPM/HPNA National Assembly to present the “State of the Science” for three years, and a subsequent keynote for the HPNA Clinical Practice Forum. She was the 2021 HPNA Vanguard recipient, is a Fellow in Palliative Care Nursing, and a Fellow of the Western Academy of Nurses, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Internationally, she has been invited to both India and Japan to share her knowledge and expertise in PC/EOL nursing.  Her program of research which investigates the use of person-centered narrative interventions to improve communication between patients, family caregivers, and clinicians has been funded by NIH and the Cambia Health Foundation. In 2015, she earned her PhD in Nursing from the University of Arizona, College of Nursing, earned her master's in nursing: Adult Nurse Practitioner from the University of Colorado, College of Nursing in 2006, and received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from University of Arkansas, Eleanor Mann School of Nursing in 1996. 

Dr. Sean Colgan is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Immunology at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus. He earned his Bachelor's, Masters, and PhD degrees from Colorado State University. He completed a post-doc at Brigham and Women's under the mentorship of one of our former guests - Dr. Jim Madara. He then spent 12 years on faculty at Harvard Medical School before being recruited to the University of Colorado. Today, Dr. Colgan shares his scientific philosophy and his optimistic outlook on the future of biomedical research.  This series is sponsored by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, or FASEB. Representing more than 110,000 researchers in the life sciences, FASEB is a federation of scientific societies that advances health and well-being by promoting research and education in the life sciences through collaborative advocacy and service to its societies and their members. To learn more about FASEB, go to www.faseb.org.  Dr. Colgan's website: https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/gastroenterology/research/research-laboratories/sean-colgan-lab Credits: Executive Producers:  -       Bejan Saeedi  -       Joe Behnke  -       Michael Sayegh  -       Carey Jansen  -       Nielsen Weng  Faculty Advisors   -       Brian Robinson  -       Mary Horton  -       Talia Swartz  -       Chris Williams  -       David Schwartz  Twitter: @behindthescope_  Instagram: @behindthemicroscopepod  Facebook: @behindthemicroscope1  Website: behindthemicroscope.com

On this week's Additive Insight podcast, TCT editors Laura Griffiths and Sam Davies find a rare quiet moment during the Additive Manufacturing Users Group Conference to share what they've seen and learned. We discuss a prime example of AM collaboration in a joint keynote between Robert Ducey of LAIKA Studios and Nicholas Jacobson of the University of Colorado's Anschutz Medical Campus, an inspiring fireside chat with this year's AMUG Innovators Award recipient Diana Kalisz, a refreshingly open presentation from NASA that showed why it's important to share our challenges and failings in order to push the industry forward, and much more.

Is high-fructose in our diet leading to Alzheimer's?  HealthCall's Lee Kelso explores the possible connection with Richard J. Johnson, M.D., professor of medicine at the University of Colorado's Anschutz Medical Campus, and the lead author of a study on this topic. The discussion centers around how our bodies may be going wrong in an evolutionary survival mechanism that leads to neurological damage, and how fructose, a form of sugar found in high concentrations in many foods, can contribute to this mechanism. The conversation provides an interesting look at the role of fructose in our diets and its effect on our bodies.  Watch the video version at www.healthcall.liveSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Delaney Wesselink, PT, DPT, CEDS *Sometimes just being with our patients and listening is what's needed *This patient population is fragile - forward fold to compression fractures? *Evidence based activity for eating disorders is discussed and isn't for everyone *Assessing strength, balance, fall risk. *Listen to pause and rethink common phrases we use to motivate patients *empathy - "It's so hard to be in a brain that tells me I have to exercise for my mind to quiet down." *What happens with over exercise and the microtears in muscle that you don't have nutrition reserves to repair?    Delaney's Seasonings: *link to Michelle Laging episode *Keep articles handy to share with patients *Advice to newer professionals - Don't be so hard on yourself *Sitting and talking is way more valuable than “OK great, let's work on strength” Bio: Originally from Boise, Idaho, Delaney received her BS in Exercise Science at the University of Montana in Missoula, MT. Expanding upon her love for the mountains, she pursued her Doctorate in Physical Therapy at the University of Colorado at the Anschutz Medical Campus, and has since made Denver her home. Delaney began her career working in pediatrics with children with developmental disabilities, although she has always had a passion for inpatient rehabilitation and acute care. Delaney is an avid snowboarder, soccer player, and outdoor enthusiast. She strives to teach patients to honor their bodies through movement while creating a healthy and meaningful relationship with exercise. https://www.denverhealth.org/services/acute-center-for-eating-disorders   With your host Beth Harrell IG  @beth.harrell.cedss   Supervision Freebies  

Get your EVOLVE merch today at https://evolve-cast.myshopify.com Tanya Halliday is an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah in the Department of Health and Kinesiology where she conducts research related to weight management and appetite regulation. Hallilday is also a Registered Dietitian and has a background in sports nutrition and obesity medicine. She became interested in research while an undergraduate Nutrition major and student-athlete at the University of Wyoming. Initially her interests were related to nutrition and athletic performance, but they expanded to a focus on how lifestyle interventions can be utilized to prevent and treat obesity-related comorbidities. Following her Dietetic Internship at the University of Houston, Tanya completed her PhD in Clinical Physiology and Metabolism at Virginia Tech and then went on to train as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Colorado's Anschutz Medical Campus. She moved to Salt Lake City to begin working at the U in 2018 and has fallen in love with all of the outdoor recreation opportunities available in the Wasatch. Tanya grew up in a small town outside Boston, MA but fell in love with the Rocky Mountain West during a family vacation to a horse ranch in Wyoming in middle school. She grew up playing soccer, which eventually transitioned into playing for the University of Wyoming, working as a ski instructor at a small mountain in New Hampshire, and horseback-riding.   After her soccer career ended Tanya fell in love with trail running, outdoor adventures, and weight lifting. She has completed a few marathons (including Boston in 2021 where she raised money for the Cam Neely Cancer Care Foundation) and competed in a bodybuilding show (Figure division). More recently Halliday has developed a passion for Reformer Pilates and currently teaches 1 day/week at Rocksteady Bodyworks in Holladay, UT. Tanya is passionate about advocating for cancer research and support for those going through cancer treatment. In 2018 her younger sister, Jessica, was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, and despite being an absolute fighter, unfortunately passed away in October 2021. When Jess was diagnosed she and Tanya started "Buck Off Cancer" (a play on words and a nod to Jess' dedication to a career as an equestrian), which is now a 5013c non-profit.  Follow Us! EVOLVE Insta: https://www.instagram.com/official_evolve_podcast/ Steve Cutler Insta: https://www.instagram.com/stevecutler_/ W Myles Reilly Insta: https://www.instagram.com/wmyles.reilly/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/stevecutler_ Web: https://www.evolve-cast.com Shop: https://evolve-cast.myshopify.com The EVOLVE Podcast is produced by Steve Cutler, all rights reserved. The mission of the EVOLVE Podcast is to empower people to disrupt their lives to EVOLVE their body, mind, soul and tribe. Steve Cutler helps people and organizations Evolve to higher levels. As a coach and consultant Steve has helped hundreds of people and businesses improve processes and protocols that have led to skyrocketing performance. With over 20 years in health, fitness, tech and entrepreneurial ventures Steve brings a strong background in operations, marketing, sales, and financial performance. Currently Steve runs EVOLVE, a lifestyle clothing, coaching and consulting business. Steve is the host of the EVOLVE Podcast, a podcast that disrupts peoples lives leading them to greater growth and evolution. #evolve #evolvepodcast #stevecutler #disrupt

In this special episode of What's on the Block? Wendy Charles from BurstIQ goes over some of the most important myths about Blockchain utilization in the Healthtech space, and debunks them.Talking Points:Regulation and BlockchainClinical researchFDA and research using BlockchainWendy Charles:Dr. Wendy Charles has been involved in clinical trials from every perspective for over 30 years, with a strong background in operations and regulatory compliance. She currently serves as Chief Scientific Officer for BurstIQ, a next-gen blockchain-based data management platform for the health and life science sector. She is also a faculty member in the Health Administration program at the University of Colorado, Denver. Dr. Charles augments her blockchain healthcare experience by serving on the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum Expert Panel, HIMSS Blockchain Task Force, Government Blockchain Association healthcare group, and IEEE Blockchain working groups. She is also involved as an assistant editor and reviewer for academic journals. Dr. Charles obtained her Ph.D. in Clinical Science with a specialty in Health Information Technology from the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus. She is certified as an IRB Professional, Clinical Research Professional, and Blockchain Professional.BurstIQ:LifeGraph® from BurstQ takes the complexity out of managing sensitive human data freeing you to build trust through hyper-personalized health, work, and life digital experiences. Powered by an innovative Web 3.0-ready blockchain platform, LifeGraphs equip your business with trusted, secure, and intelligence-driven data ecosystems.This episode of What's on the Block? is hosted by Maxine Ewing and is produced by X4 Technology. https://www.x4-technology.com/

Sustainable Development Goal: 12 Responsible Consumption and Production focuses on ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns. Quinn Grundy is a registered nurse and an Assistant Professor with the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto and a Faculty Associate with the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus. She is a fellow with the WHO's Collaborating Centre for Governance, Accountability, and Transparency in the Pharmaceutical Sector and the Centre for Sustainable Health Systems at the University of Toronto. Dr. Grundy's research explores the interactions between medically-related industry and the health system, health professionals, and the production of health-related research and the implications for equitable, sustainable public health care. She is the author of Infiltrating healthcare: How marketing works underground to influence nurses (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018). Daniel Eisenkraft Klein is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health. His SSHRC-funded doctoral research centres on how the pharmaceutical industry frames its involvement in the policymaking sphere. Daniel is presently also a Research Consultant for the Opioid Industry Documents Archive at John's Hopkins University, and has previously taught on the Commercial Determinants of Health at Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Health Sciences. CREDITS: This podcast is co-hosted by Dr. Erica Di Ruggiero, Director of the Centre for Global Health, and Ophelia Michaelides, Manager of the Centre for Global Health, at the DLSPH, U of T, and produced by Elizabeth Loftus. Audio editing is by Sylvia Lorico. Music is produced by Julien Fortier and Patrick May. It is made with the support of the School of Cities at U of T. 

Guest: Monique McCoy Vice Presidents of External Affairs Brent's Place is a long-term home away from home for families and children with cancer and other life threatening illnesses while they receive treatment at local hospitals.  They are one of the only places in the region that can keep families together.  Due to COVID they had to cancel the volunteer program, but they have been able to bring that back.  They are celebrating their 25th year and are excited to be able to bring back the block party this year after not being able to hold the event for the last two years.  There will be a free community carnival and fun walk at Anschutz Medical Campus starting on July 23rd from 9a-1p.  https://www.brentsplace.org/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we welcome Dr. Jason Falvey, PT, PhD, DPT who speaks on his experiences and thought process in formulating his research. Join us for a discussion on topics such as tenure, grants, and more! Biography: Jason Falvey is a PhD trained clinician-scientist who studies post-acute and long-term care for older adults. He has been a physical therapist for 10 years, working mostly in the home health care setting,  and also holds a board certification in geriatric physical therapy. Jason completed his PhD at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus and is currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Yale School of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics.  He has authored or co-authored 24 peer-reviewed publications in top ranking rehabilitation, geriatric, and orthopedic journals, and has been an invited speaker at multiple national conferences.  His primary research focus is evaluating the utilization and impact of post-acute rehabilitation on functional recovery, community reintegration, and symptom burden for older adults recovering from disabling hospitalizations or major surgery. Jason's research additionally extends to assessment of how social and environmental factors influence successful aging in place for vulnerable older adult populations in home and community settings. 

In today's episode we discuss how the study of animal genes may shed light on human disorders of aging such as stroke, heart disease and Alzheimer's disease. We know that our circadian wake and sleep rhythms are controlled by a biological master clock deep in the hypothalamus of the brain. And that the change in melatonin levels, dropping with daylight and rising at night, mediates the master clock, and other on-off switches of biological clocks throughout the body. So waxing and waning of light creates our daily wake/sleep cycles. But animals that hibernate, such as bears, bats and groundhog, spend months in a cold dark cave or burrow. So what triggers a  hibernating animal like the groundhog to wake up and emerge from its burrow? Contemplating the differences between the daily external triggers of the human master clocks and the signals for the hibernating animal master clocks, there are lessons to learn from comparing clock genes in humans and hibernating  mammals. Understanding how animal genomics can shed light on human disease  underpins the research of today's guest, Dr. Katharine Grabek, co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of FaunaBio. Katharine earned her PhD in Human Medical Genetics at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus. She next trained as a postdoctoral scholar in computational biology in Dr. Carlos Bustamante's lab at Stanford. Her research has focused on utilizing proteomic, transcriptomic and genomic approaches to identify the molecular components underlying the highly dynamic phenotype of hibernation. With her two colleagues, Katharine founded FaunaBio, where they study whether solutions to our worst diseases could be  hidden in the animal kingdom?   To learn more about FaunaBio or contact Katharine Grabek:Twitter: @FaunaBio LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/29016965/admin/Dr. Grabek: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krgrabek/ Contact Dr. Gillian Lockitch Schedule a complimentary Living Younger Discovery call with me at https://calendly.com/askdrgill/discovery-phone-chat  Order your copy of Growing Older Living Younger: The Science of Aging Gracefully and The Art of Retiring Comfortably at the Growing Older Living Younger website  wwww.askdrgill.com  

Your pelvis changes during menopause–inside and out. The vaginal and vulvar tissues become thinner; the pH and microbiome in your vagina can shift; and the scaffolding that supports your pelvic organs can weaken, increasing your risk for pelvic organ prolapse. There's help for all of that, so you can continue running, riding, lifting, having sex, and enjoying an active life free from pain, infection, and injury. We talk about all that and more this week with urogynecologist Kathleen Connell, MD. Kathleen is chief of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She is the co-director of Women's Pelvic Health and Surgery, a multidisciplinary practice at the Anschutz Medical Campus. Her surgical practice focuses on pelvic floor disorders including pelvic organ prolapse, urinary and fecal incontinence, and reconstructive pelvic surgery. She has done research on https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17100935/ (genital health and bicycling) and https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1743-6109.2011.02437.x (genital health and saddle selection). You can learn more about her and her work at https://som.ucdenver.edu/Profiles/Faculty/Profile/20463 (CU School of Medicine). **Support the Podcast** InsideTracker: 20% off at http://insidetracker.com/feisty (insidetracker.com/feisty) Previnex: 15% off your first order with code HITPLAY at https://www.previnex.com/ (https://www.previnex.com/)  Bonafide: 20% off your first purchase when you subscribe to any product with code HITPLAY at  http://hellobonafide.com/hitplay (hellobonafide.com/hitplay) Nutrisense: Use code "HITPLAY" at https://nutrisense.io/hitplay (nutrisense.io/hitplay) for $30 off any subscription to the CGM program Velorosa Cycling: Enter HITPLAY15 at checkout and receive 15% off an order of full-priced cycling wear at http://velorosacycling.com/ (velorosacycling.com) Go to http://feistymenopause.com/podcastguide (feistymenopause.com/podcastguide) for more information about the Hit Replay Podcast Guide subscription This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Andy A. Jhanji joined the Florida State University Foundation in August 2011 as executive vice president, overseeing the Foundation's day-to-day operations and advancement strategy. Andy recently assumed the additional responsibilities of Interim Vice President of University Advancement.Jhanji has worked in public higher education for three decades. Before arriving at FSU, his most recent positions included serving as vice chancellor for university advancement and chief of staff to the chancellor at the University of Colorado Denver and the Anschutz Medical Campus. Prior to that, he served as the special assistant to the chancellor, preceded by holding the position of director, research and technology transfer at the University of Colorado Denver.During Jhanji's time as executive vice president at the FSU Foundation, he has played a key role in the planning and execution of Raise the Torch: The Campaign for Florida State, a $1 billion capital campaign and the most ambitious in University history. He also oversaw the financing and purchase of a new home for the organization, bringing the Foundation closer to campus.In Jhanji's new interim role, he will lead FSU's fundraising, alumni relations, advancement services and real estate activities, overseeing the FSU Alumni Association, FSU Foundation and the FSU Real Estate Foundation.Jhanji earned a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Project Management degree from Western Carolina University. Jhanji, his wife Jane and son Trent live in Tallahassee.

My name is Jacob Steere-Williams, I am a Historian of Epidemic Disease and Public Health at the College of Charleston. I'll be guest hosting a series of episodes for this special program, but you can catch most of them with the regular host and founder of COVID-Calls, Scott Knowles. My guests today: Nadja Durbach is Professor of History at the University of Utah. She received her PhD from the Johns Hopkins University and is the author of three books on the history of the body in Modern Britain: Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907 (2005), Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture (2010) and Many Mouths: The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State (2020). Claas Kirchhelle is Assistant Professor of History (Wellcome Trust University Award) at University College Dublin. His research focuses on the history of microbes, infectious disease control, and the development and regulation of antibiotics and vaccines. He has authored three books on the history of antibiotics in food production (Pyrrhic Progress, 2020 (Rutgers)), animal welfare science and activism (Bearing Witness, 2021 (Palgrave)), and typhoid control (Typhoid, 2022 (Scala)). He is also co-curator of two multi award-winning exhibitions on the history of penicillin (Back from the Dead) and typhoid (Typhoidland). Daniel Goldberg, is an Associate Professor at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado's Anschutz Medical Campus. Trained as an attorney, a historian of medicine, and an ethicist, his work is wide-ranging on issues of public health law and ethics, population-level bioethics, the social determinants of health, chronic disease, and pain. Dr. Goldberg has published in virtually every important venue, including the American Journal of Bioethics and the New England Journal of Medicine, and he's been extraordinarily active the past two years in op-eds and interviews about the ongoing pandemic.

Acquired neurologic conditions can lead to functional challenges and changes that might increase risk for suicide. In this episode, Dr. Jordan Wyrwa and Dr. Lisa Brenner discuss three recent research papers on suicide rates among Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Stroke. They talk about the similarities and differences of how these conditions impact mental health and offer guidance to providers on suicide risk screening and lethal means safety. Learn more from the resources below. Articles Discussed: Suicide and Traumatic Brain Injury Among Individuals Seeking Veterans Health Administration Services Between Fiscal Years 2006 and 2015 Suicide Among Veterans with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis  Suicide After Stroke in the US Veteran Health Administrative Population Lethal Means Safety for Providers: Information on lethal means safety  Free training on lethal means safety   Guest Bios:   Lisa A. Brenner, Ph.D., is a Board-Certified Rehabilitation Psychologist, a Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), Psychiatry, and Neurology at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, and the Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center. She is also Vice Chair of Research for the Department of PM&R. Jordan Wyrwa, DO, is a Board-Eligible Fellow Physician in Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine at Children's Hospital Colorado. He is a recent graduate of the University of Colorado, PM&R Residency Program.

One of our more popular episodes was with Dr. Simon Kim in Episode 7. For today, we are bringing that episode out of the vault.  Receiving a prostate cancer diagnosis can be a frightening experience that could cause much anguish for men and their loved ones. We are fortunate to have Dr. Simon Kim, a urologic oncologist, as our guest for the show today to walk you through the process. In this episode, Dr. Kim explains what it all means. He discusses the various options and clarifies where to go from there. Stay tuned for more!  Dr. Kim is a board-certified urologic oncologist at the University of Colorado's Anschutz Medical Campus. He has worn many hats including Director of Robotic Surgery. Dr. Kim's clinical practice focuses on the surgical management of prostate, bladder, kidney, testes, adrenal, and penile cancer. He has been independently funded by the NIH to develop decision aids for men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer. He has published more than 180 manuscripts and serves as assistant editor for the Journal of Urology. Be sure to listen in today to get Dr. Kim's expert advice. Disclaimer: The Prostate Health Podcast is for informational purposes only. Nothing in this podcast should be construed as medical advice. By listening to the podcast, no physician-patient relationship has been formed. For more information and counseling, you must contact your personal physician or urologist with questions about your unique situation. Show Highlights: What it means to be a urologic oncologist and what it takes to become one. Dr. Kim explains how he typically delivers the biopsy results. Dr. Kim shares his recommendations for men in preparing for a prostate cancer consultation. Dr. Kim recommends some reliable online resources for prostate cancer patients (see the links below!). The kind of information you can expect to receive from a pathology report. The information that is obtained from the Gleason Score. The guidelines that Dr. Kim relies on when making his decisions. The criteria that Dr. Kim uses for determining who does and doesn't need additional imaging at the time of the diagnosis. A brief rundown of the typical discussion that Dr. Kim has with his patients regarding their treatment options and the various risk groups. Dr. Kim is busy initiating a multi-disciplinary clinic for cancers. Looking at some different therapies, like cryotherapy, for prostate cancer. Dr. Kim talks about the Conquer Cancer Foundation, which recently honored him with an award. The outcome for localized prostate cancer is usually very good. Remaining fully informed is key for prostate cancer patients.   Links and resources: Follow Dr. Pohlman on Twitter and Instagram - @gpohlmanmd  Get your free What To Expect Guide (or find the link here, on our podcast website)   Join our Facebook group  Follow Dr. Pohlman on Twitter and Instagram  Go to the Prostate Health Academy to sign up for the wait-list for our bonus video content.  You can access Dr. Pohlman's free mini webinar, where he discusses his top three tips to promote men's prostate health, longevity, and quality of life here. Additional Resources: Journal of Urology American Cancer Society American Urologic Association  Know Your Options  Conquer Cancer Foundation 

Both the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines were built using new mRNA research, to astounding success. What's the next big thing mRNA science could tackle? Guests: Justin Richner is an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine. David Bentley is the co-director of the RNA Bioscience Initiative at the University of Colorado  Anschutz Medical Campus.

Both the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines were built using new mRNA research, to astounding success. What's the next big thing mRNA science could tackle? Guests: Justin Richner is an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine. David Bentley is the co-director of the RNA Bioscience Initiative at the University of Colorado  Anschutz Medical Campus.

In this episode—which skews more toward a scientific audience until the last five minutes—two American Cancer Society grantees spoke with each other about their recently published new findings in breast cancer research. Sonia de Assis, PhD, is interested in epigenetic inheritance: “In addition to genetic material or DNA, our parents also pass to us molecular memory of their environmental exposures, and that can affect our risk or predisposition to disease including cancer.” Matthew Sikora, PhD, focuses on invasive lobular carcinoma, a type of invasive breast cancer. He feels that “advances in treatment are hindered by our poor understanding of the distinct biology of invasive lobular carcinoma,” and his lab has identified a potential therapeutic target. Sonia de Assis, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Oncology at Georgetown University. She recently published findings showing that, “systemic alterations play a dominant role in epigenetic predisposition to breast cancer in offspring of obese fathers and is transmitted to a second generation:” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-86548-w. Matthew Sikora, PhD, of the Univ. of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus and DC, is an Assistant Professor of Pathology. His latest work is titled, “Mediator of DNA damage checkpoint 1 (MDC1) is a novel estrogen receptor co-regulator in invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast:” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33947745/. 1:49 – Dr. de Assis on epigenetic inheritance and her recently published findings 5:30 – Reactions from Dr. Sikora and what stood out to him about Dr. de Assis's findings: “Figure 2A really smacked me in the face and just got me going…” 9:23 – “Do you think it's actually the tRNA levels that are different that are causing the phenotype, or are those indicative of a different epigenetic context in the sperm?” 11:31 – “One thing I want to make clear is that we think the non-coding RNAs act with a hit-and-run effect…” 12:35 – Dr. Sikora on invasive lobular carcinoma and his new publication 16:08 – Invasive lobular carcinoma versus invasive ductal carcinoma 19:12 – “That's a fabulous question, and my R01 reviewers had the exact same question a few cycles ago…” 22:27 – “How do you see using MDC1 as a therapeutic target because of this dichotomy that's a tumor suppressor but also an oncogene?” 24:30 – They note some interesting connections between their work 27:13 – Dr. de Assis explains why it's important to understand epigenetic memory 28:50 – Dr. Sikora describes why he became interested in invasive lobular carcinoma

In this episode, we hear from Ben Brewer who is the Director of Clinical Psychology and Counseling for the department of hematology and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus. We discuss his interest and background in philosophy and how this informs some of his work in supporting those impacted by hematological malignancies. He shares why this work is so meaningful to him and where he finds joy, meaning, and enthusiasm outside of work as well.

Matt has a chat with Neill Epperson, MD – Chair of the Psychiatry department at the Anschutz Medical Campus – for a compelling discussion on the present state of mental health care here in the United States.

Since 1986, Gequinn Mattox has worked for the University of Colorado and as a Program Coordinator on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO in the Center for American Indian & Native American Health. Since 2003, Gequinn has been an event planner & coordinator for a variety of events. She may be late to launch a business in the event planning industry, but Gequinn is not new to the industry and has been tagged to be the favored up-and-coming event planner of Colorado. Gequinn is a true “Event Slayer” in her own right. www.ybdevents.com00:00 - 00:24 Overview of Gequinn Mattox, her pandemic pivot story, and today's podcast topic00:24 - 07:35 Rhea's Marketing Essentials: Choosing the right agency for your business07:35 - 08:43 www.peppershock.com/product/stash-20-of-a-stock-offer/ for $20 of a stock offer from the Stash App08:43 - 08:59 Welcome to the Marketing Expedition Podcast08:59 - 11:28 Welcome Gequinn Mattox11:28 - 13:11 Gequinn talks about being a Pandemic Compliance Advisor and what that looks like13:11 - 15:01 Hear Gequinn discusses what lead her to create her own business15:01 - 18:33 Events Gequinn did pre-COVID18:33 - 26:22 Ways Gequinn got through the pandemic and kept her event planning business alive and what the future looks like26:11 - 32:14 Marketing and networking tips from Gequinn32:14 - 35:56 Advice from Gequinn to someone wanting to pursue a career in event planning35:56 - 41:20 How Gequinn stays on top of the latest trends41:20 - 42:31 Huge thanks to Gequinn for sharing her knowledge and journey42:31 - 42:47 Thanks for listening, find more podcasts online at www.peppershock.com42:47 - 43:19 Check out www.themarketingexpedition.com to build relationships with others and find the latest marketing trendsStash is an app for banking, saving, and investing. Try it with this link and add cash, you'll get $20 of stock and we'll get a bonus too.#pandemicpivot #COVID #entrepreneurs #womeninbusiness #digitalmarketing #startups #opportunities #networking #marketing #branding #advertising #eventplanning

In this episode of the Epigenetics Podcast, we caught up with Dr. Srinivas Ramachandran, Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, to talk about his work on ​in vivo nucleosome structure and dynamics. Dr. Srinivas Ramachandran studies the structure and dynamics of nucleosomes during cellular processes like transcription and DNA replication. During transcription, as the RNA polymerase transcribes along the DNA, it needs to pass nucleosomes. Dr. Ramachandran investigated the effect of nucleosomes on transcription and also studied how different histone variants affect this process. He found that the first nucleosome within a gene body is a barrier for the progression of RNA polymerase, and that presence of the histone variant H2A.Z in this first nucleosome lowers this barrier. Furthermore, Dr. Ramachandran developed a method called mapping in vivo nascent chromatin using EdU and sequencing (MINCE-Seq), enabling the study of chromatin landscapes right after DNA replication. In MINCE-Seq, newly replicated DNA is labeled right after the replication fork has passed by with the nucleotide analog ethynyl deoxyuridine (EdU), which can then be coupled with biotin using click chemistry. After the purification of newly replicated DNA and MNase digestion, the chromatin landscape can be analyzed. In this interview, we discuss the story behind how Dr. Ramachandran found his way into chromatin research, what it was like to start a wet lab postdoc with a bioinformatics background, and what he is working on now to unravel nucleosomal structure and dynamics in his own lab.   References Christopher M. Weber, Srinivas Ramachandran, Steven Henikoff (2014) Nucleosomes are context-specific, H2A.Z-modulated barriers to RNA polymerase (Molecular Cell) DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2014.02.014 Srinivas Ramachandran, Steven Henikoff (2016) Transcriptional Regulators Compete with Nucleosomes Post-replication (Cell) DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.02.062 Srinivas Ramachandran, Kami Ahmad, Steven Henikoff (2017) Transcription and Remodeling Produce Asymmetrically Unwrapped Nucleosomal Intermediates (Molecular Cell) DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.11.015 Satyanarayan Rao, Kami Ahmad, Srinivas Ramachandran (2020) Cooperative Binding of Transcription Factors is a Hallmark of Active Enhancers (bioRxiv) DOI: 10.1101/2020.08.17.253146 Contact Active Motif on Twitter Epigenetics Podcast on Twitter Active Motif on LinkedIn Active Motif on Facebook Email: podcast@activemotif.com

We had the pleasure of interviewing Matt Golub of Splitstep over Zoom video! The Denver, CO based acoustic, rock collective Splitstep deliver a bright sound with their melodic choruses, musical builds, and heartfelt lyrics. The band is currently completing work on their debut album Kaleidoscope.  They have released two single songs “Highway” and“The Shoulder” with a video for “The Shoulder” premiering now: https://folknrock.com/videos/exclusive-video-premiere-splitstep-the-shoulderAt its core, Splitstep is guitarist/singer/songwriter Matt Golub and drummer Daniel Carrillo. Together, they are creating a musical collective by inviting a rotating cast of musicians and vocalists to join them in the crafting of their original music.For “The Shoulder” singer Ashlei Brianne joins Golub as the twosome seem to effortlessly blend their vocals in this vulnerable and honest song.  Also lending their musical chops to the song is Andy Sydow on piano, Kevin MacKinnon on bass and of course Daniel Carrillo on drums.“When people hear this song, I want them to understand the “me too” movement from two different perspectives. Understandably, it is difficult for any woman who has experienced trauma with men in the past to open up and be comfortable with a new man in her life. At the same time, however, there are good men living in this new progressive world that are struggling to gain trust in a new, budding relationship. I certainly have had times where I see so much potential in a new relationship, only to have it plagued by the woman’s past experiences with men. I wrote this song to give a voice to the people who struggle and try so hard to gain trust from someone that they care about. I hope this song and its music video illustrates a story that every modern, single person can relate to” – Says singer and writer Matt Golub.When he is not writing and recording, Matt is a medical student at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO. Daniel (aka BeatmasterD) is a well-known drummer in the Denver music scene who lends his talents to a variety of music projects.We want to hear from you! Please email Tera@BringinitBackwards.com.www.BringinitBackwards.com#podcast #interview #bringinbackpod  #foryou #foryoupage #stayhome #togetherathome #zoom #aspn #americansongwriter #americansongwriterpodcastnetwork​​Listen & Subscribe to BiBFollow our podcast on Instagram and Twitter! 

Join me for the career story reflections of Kelley Colvin, Research Instructor at the Anschutz Medical Campus. A story about pivotal moments at a young age that help her learn and grow into the person she is today. You’d think as a leader of a research lab that Kelley was always a brainiac student, but school was a real struggle for Kelley early on. She was super shy and didn’t know how to read. All that turns around in the 7th grade after her 6th grade teacher helps her find success in school and she finds sports. A college softball scholarship takes her to Nebraska where following her love for Biology reveals her strengths in molecular and cellular experimentation. With her MA and a clearer direction, she comes back to Colorado to work at National Jewish for a 3-year stint. Which ultimately connects her to her current business partner and then the two of them establishing their lab at Anschutz, The MYKC Lab. Kelley’s words of wisdom: “You have to really like yourself for who you are, if there’s a quirk you don’t like, work on it, change it. Everyone can change.” --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor — the newly approved triple combination CFTR modulator therapy. What are the benefits? For which patients? What are the potential adverse effects? Who's most likely to receive them? In this issue, Dr. Scott Sagel from the Breathing Institute at the Children's Hospital Colorado, part of the University of Colorado's Anschutz Medical Campus, takes us to the clinic to discuss some answers.Take our post-test to claim CME credits. To read a companion newsletter click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lyle Laverty, former Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks, reflects on the Buffalo Creek fire set ablaze 24 years ago. Why separate loved ones from each other during a health crisis?  Steve Reiter's wife has been at Anschutz Medical Campus for 20 days due to pneumonia from a bacterial infection and she has not been able to see any member of her family, except through Face Time. Jason McBride is welcomed back by Kim and talks about the positive indicators of both the stock market and oil futures. The post COVID-19 Restrictions Cruelly Separate Hospitalized Family Members appeared first on The Kim Monson Show.

What happens when you put on a game face and the effort leaves you depleted, depressed and desperate for answers? That’s what happened to Missy Franklin, the world’s sweetheart in the swimming pool with five Olympic gold medals to her name. Being unstoppable isn’t about winning all the time. In this emotional podcast, Franklin opens up about her early years as a competitive swimmer, her devastating shoulder injury prior to the 2016 Olympics and how she rose from the depths of depression to fight her way back to the surface. In her journey to push through her fear of not being good enough, Franklin talks about the first time she spoke openly about depression and the healing power of talking about this taboo subject. With the worst now behind her, Franklin reveals her game plan for pushing through the feeling that the world is going on without you. Recently retired from competitive swimming, and married to the love of her life, Franklin talks about her number one priority in life and how to be unstoppable for the rest of your life. Missy is joined later in the show by Dr. Neill Epperson, professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine on the Anschutz Medical Campus. Dr. Epperson speaks about the stigma pro athletes face when talking about mental health, the difference between men and women in their susceptibility to mental health issues, the warning signs when someone may be slipping into depression, and why we are mentally unprepared for the unpredictable stress from the coronavirus pandemic. #UnstoppablePodcasts

Matt and Debbie sit down with Scott Cypers, director of Stress and Anxiety programs at the Johnson Depression Center, at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus to discuss the implications of COVID-19 on the family and on parenting.

Receiving a diagnosis of prostate cancer can be a frightening experience, and it could cause a lot of anguish for men and their loved ones. Fortunately, we have urologic oncologist, Dr. Simon Kim, as our guest for today's show, to walk you through the process. In today's episode, Dr. Kim talks about what it all means, what your options are, and he discusses where to go from there. Stay tuned to find out more.    Dr. Kim is a board-certified urologic oncologist at the University of Colorado's Anschutz Medical Campus. He has worn many hats including Director of Robotic Surgery. Dr. Kim's clinical practice focuses on the surgical management of prostate, bladder, kidney, testes, adrenal, and penile cancer. He has received independent funding from the NIH to develop decision aids for men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer. He has published more than 180 manuscripts and he is currently serving as assistant editor for the Journal of Urology. Be sure to listen in today, to get Dr. Kim's expert advice.   Disclaimer: The Prostate Health Podcast is for informational purposes only. Nothing in this podcast should be construed as medical advice. By listening to the podcast, no physician-patient relationship has been formed. For more information and counseling, you must contact your personal physician or urologist with questions about your unique situation.   Show Highlights:   What it means to be a urologic oncologist and what it takes to become one. Dr. Kim explains how he typically delivers the biopsy results. Dr. Kim shares his recommendations for men, to prepare for a prostate cancer consultation. Dr. Kim recommends some reliable online resources for prostate cancer patients. The kind of information you can expect to receive from a pathology report. The information that is obtained from the Gleason Score. The guidelines that Dr. Kim relies on when making his decisions. The criteria that Dr. Kim uses in determining who does and doesn't need additional imaging at the time of the diagnosis. A brief rundown of the typical discussion that Dr. Kim has with his patients, regarding their treatment options concerning the various risk groups. Dr. Kim is busy initiating a multi-disciplinary clinic for cancers. Looking at some different therapies, like cryotherapy, for prostate cancer. Dr. Kim talks about the Conquer Cancer Foundation, which recently honored him with an award.  The outcome for localized prostate cancer is usually very good.  Remaining fully informed is key for prostate cancer patients. Links and resources: Follow Dr. Pohlman on Twitter and Instagram - @gpohlmanmd   To get your free What To Expect Guide, go to www.prostatehealthpodcast/clinic Or find the link on our podcast website - www.prostatehealthpodcast.com    Journal of Urology - https://www.auajournals.org/ American Cancer Society - https://www.cancer.org/ American Urologic Association - https://www.auanet.org/ Know Your Options - https://www.cancercenter.com/community/blog/2016/07/know-your-prostate-cancer-options Conquer Cancer Foundation - https://www.conquer.org/

A conversation with Dr. Nichole Zehnder, Assistant Dean of Admissions and Student Affairs at the University of Colorado School of Medicine [Show summary] Dr. Nichole Zehnder, Assistant Dean of Admissions and Student Affairs at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, shares an overview of the school’s unique offerings and admissions process for prospective med school applicants. Get to know the University of Colorado School of Medicine [Show notes] Today's guest, Dr. Nichole Zehnder, earned her MD at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in 2006. She did her residency in internal medicine and is a practicing physician affiliated with the University of Colorado Hospital, and she's also an Associate Professor of Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado. More importantly, for purposes of this interview, she is the Assistant Dean of Admissions and Student Affairs at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Can you give an overview of the Colorado School of Medicine's program, focusing on the more distinctive elements? [1:37] The University of Colorado School of Medicine is a four-year MD/PhD program. We're LCME accredited and affiliated with AAMC. We offer spots for 10 MSPP students, so 10 MD/PhD students in each of our intern classes, and then 174 MD spots. I think there's a few different distinct parts of our curriculum, some of which are just blooming on the horizon, which I'd love to feature here, as well as some things that are already in existence. Some of the more notable parts of our school and our curriculum as it exists right now are our longitudinal interprofessional curriculum. We're fortunate to be on one of the biggest healthcare campuses in the United States. We have our medical school, our dental school, our PA school, our pharmacy school, and our nursing school all here on our campus. And with that, we think that we should take that geographic advantage and have our learners learn together in a true interprofessional environment. That starts here at CU in the first year, continues all the way through the fourth year or the senior year of medical school. That's one of our really distinct opportunities that our students can take advantage of. And that's true for both MD and MD/PhD students. I think a few other parts of our curriculum really deserve a shout out. One is, we have quite a few developed, longitudinal, integrated clerkships in our clinical year. Our students who will be entering in this year's intern class, so the 2020 intern class, have the opportunity to, if they want, participate in five different longitudinal integrated clerkship models. Everything from urban underserved care at our Denver Health site to our C-CLIC, which is our rural and community longitudinal integrated clerkship. The longitudinal clerkship model is a model that's been done for decades. Here at CU, we've been doing it for about the past six or seven years. And that's done in the clerkship phase of training, so the clinical phase of training, which for some schools is the third year, for some schools it's earlier. For us right now, it's in the third year, and I'll get to that part here in a second. But the students have the opportunity to do the entirety of their clerkship or clinical year at this specific site. The Colorado School of Medicine has a branch in Colorado Springs, although most of your campus is outside of Denver. What is the advantage of that? Why would a student choose that? [4:09] Our main campus is located at the Anschutz Medical Campus. That's in Aurora, which is east of the Denver Metro area. Colorado Springs is about an hour south of the Denver area, and we have 24 of our students do their clinical training down in Colorado Springs. One might think with Colorado Springs that they may be more interested in mountain medicine or rural medicine, but actually we have students who are interested in all of those things.

Dr. Natalia Vergara is an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Eye Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine on the Anschutz Medical Campus. Natalia uses stem cells to understand how the retina forms during development and how it degenerates during disease with the goal of developing therapies to help patients who suffer from vision loss. In her free time, Natalia loves hanging out, cooking, and enjoying food with friends and family, including her husband and two young kids. Natalia is also an avid traveler, and she delights in the thrill of discovery that comes along with exploring new places. Natalia received her B.S. in biochemistry from the National University of the Litoral in Argentina. She worked as an instructor and research intern at the National University of Entre Rios for about three years before beginning graduate school. Natalia was awarded her PhD in retinal regenerative biology from Miami University in Ohio. Afterwards, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Wilmer Eye Institute of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She served as a Research Associate Faculty member at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine for about two years before joining the faculty at the University of Colorado. Natalia has received awards for research and for mentoring, including the Ruben Adler Research Award from the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2012, and she was selected as an Emerging Vision Scientist to participate in the Third Annual EVS day on Capitol Hill by the National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research in 2017. In our interview, Natalia tells us more about her life and science.

On this episode of the Healthy Wealthy and Smart Podcast, I welcome Dr. Jason Falvey on the show to discuss healthcare fake news.  Dr. Jason Falvey is a physical therapist working as a post-doctoral research fellow at Yale University in New Haven, CT.  Jason’s research interests focus on improving post-acute care quality and outcomes for older adults recovering from major medical events, such as surgery or critical illness. In this episode, we discuss: -The definition of fake news as it relates to healthcare and medical disinformation -What Jason recommends you do when you encounter articles with a high comment to retweet ratio -How you can avoid falling trap to your biases by crowdsourcing to interpretate literature -The importance of seeking information not affirmation -And so much more!   Resources: NY Times Fight Fake News Why Healthcare Professionals Should Speak Out Against False Beliefs Jason Falvey Twitter Jason Falvey Yale Email: jason.falvey@yale.edu  The Outcomes Summit, use the discount code: LITZY For more information on Jason: Dr. Jason Falvey is a physical therapist working as a post-doctoral research fellow at Yale University in New Haven, CT. He holds a bachelors degree in English, and a doctor of physical therapy degree from Husson University in Bangor, Maine and a PhD in Rehabilitation Science from the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus.  He is also a board-certified geriatric clinical specialist. Jason’s research interests focus on improving post-acute care quality and outcomes for older adults recovering from major medical events, such as surgery or critical illness. To date, Jason has authored or co-authored 18 peer reviewed papers in widely read rehabilitation journals.   Read the full transcript below: Karen Litzy:                   00:01                Hey Jason, welcome back to the podcast. I'm happy to have you back on even though we're not talking about what we usually talk about when you're on these podcasts and we have our specials with Sandy Hilton and Sarah Haag but I think this is still a really great topic and I'm happy to have you on to dive into it. Jason Falvey:                 00:24                It’s great to be back and I have been excited to present this topic for a couple of months. While it’s no sex podcast part five I think we can definitely got come up with some interesting points for the audience. Karen Litzy:                   00:37                Yeah, I think so too. And so everyone today we are talking about fake news as it relates to health care. Because I know a lot of you that are listening are in the healthcare world and if you're not, this is also a great way for you to kind of understand that everything that you read on social media isn't true gasp, right. So, Jason, let's talk about first, what in your opinion, is the definition of fake news as it relates to healthcare and let's say medical disinformation? Jason Falvey:                 01:19                Yeah, I like the term medical disinformation because fakes news is not nearly as common in medicine, you know, as far as the falsified information. But medical disinformation is much more common than people may realize. The context is most of the hundred shared articles of last year, over 50% of them are of poor evidence quality when experts have actually rated that. So when I talk about fake news and medical disinformation, I'm really kind of breaking it down to a handful of categories. So there's fake news that's rare, but it does happen that's false or completely inflammatory, you know, that is completely falsified data, or completely false claims that are created to either scare somebody into making different health care decisions or drive them towards a curative product that may be your marketing. So that’s not common, but that definitely is out there. I think the more common pieces of fake news and medical disinformation are hyperbolic and intentional. Jason Falvey:                 02:34                So the splashy headline that says Bacon Causes Cancer, you know, where people are putting that headline so it’s clicked on and read when the real story behind a lot of that evidence is substantially more nuanced. And then there's also hyperbolic and unintentional where a well meaning university employee publishes a press release on investigators article and misstates or over-interprets the conclusions to be much broader, more sweeping than they are suggesting that a drug cures cancer or Alzheimer when really it was affective in early stage studies for one particular protein in a mouse model. So those are the three definitions I tend to stick with, but really it's medical information that's not fully accurate, that’s shared widely and may influence healthcare decision making. Karen Litzy:                   03:32                When we talk about these flashy headlines and this medical disinformation whether intentional or unintentional, as healthcare professionals, sometimes we're responsible for sharing that. It's not just the lay public. Right. So when you look at these headlines and you read through let's say a press release, is that where it ends? Do you say to yourself, yeah, this sounds good. I'm going to share it. Jason Falvey:                 04:05                I think that should be the focus of what we talk about today and that is how do we as health care providers recognize fake news? How do we kind of avoid unintentionally sharing it and how do we avoid intentionally sharing it? So I think my guiding principle for all of these things, for any healthcare professional, it's Hippocratic oath, it's do no harm. And then health care beyond what we do with patients and beyond the hands on care that we provide sharing misinformation, whether intentionally or unintentionally has the potential to cause harm. Patients for going standard of care treatment and in lieu of an alternative medicine or unproven other therapy that may actually cause their health to decline, you know, or causing them to participate in a treatment that is unlikely to benefit them and causes harm both financially or time and potentially health care harm. So I think Hippocratic oath above all else should really drive our decision making and the impetus for why we should care about this. And the other guideline I use is I really want patients and providers both to be looking at social media and healthcare information that they're sharing and really make sure that they're seeking information, not affirmation. So they're seeking to broaden or challenge their pre held assumptions and not just share things, read things and kind of propagates a worldview that just affirms that are already firmly held biases to harm a patient. Karen Litzy:                   05:58                Okay. Yeah, but so you mean we can't cherry pick things to confirm our own biases to make ourselves look better? Is that what you're trying to say here? Jason Falvey:                 06:16                Yeah, that sounds like a terrible polarizing thing to say, but I'm really going to stand by that I think and just say I really don't think we should be cherry picking evidence and just sharing evidence that is fully supporting our world view. We may have a brand to keep, you know, I don't think I would widely share studies that I think are well done that maybe say physical therapy isn't as helpful as other things, but I certainly would acknowledge that they exist. I don't think I would market them heavily, but I certainly wouldn't ignore them or basically say that they're not accurate either. But I think we have to be really careful, especially when we're talking about vulnerable patient populations, thinking about patients with dementia or patients with cancer who are really hanging on hope that there's something medically that can be done that's outside of what's already been offered to them and kind of have a cure. And I think it's really important that we choose our language and we choose what we share, how we share, and the quality of what we share very carefully. Karen Litzy:                   07:29                Well, and you know, that goes back to do no harm. And I think goes back to being an ethical person because when you look at these vulnerable populations, like you said, the elderly people with possibly terminal diseases, people with chronic pain, these are people who are looking for things that they feel they have not gotten that will fix them. Right? And so that's where snake oil salesmen come in. That's where people sort of touting that they have this great flashy thing that isn't supported with evidence, but it sounds really, really good. And so how do we as healthcare professionals combat that without looking combative and turning off those people that we actually want to help? Jason Falvey:                 08:22                Yeah. How do we combat that information without unintentionally propagating it either. I think when we evaluate information, I think one of the things I really encourage is time, take time to think about the information, take time to research the primary source of that information. Take time to recognize if there is potentially both sides of an issue. So outside of things like, you know, vaccinations causing autism, which is a clearly manufactured result. If you follow back the evidence or if you go ahead and follow back evidence about infant chiropractic work. But I guess generally falsified or highly, highly, highly biased to the point where there really isn't a pro side, but a lot of medical things have a potential pro and con side. So I think it's important to recognize the nuance and carefully layout reasons one why you disagree with something and two the rationale methodologically, not just your opinion of kind of how you came to that conclusion. Jason Falvey:                 09:42                But I think you have to do that without validating what you think is a very poor quality or highly biased or dangerous source to share. If, for example, you saw a tweet about the harms of vaccination and it may be, it was for your older adult population getting the chicken pox vaccine and it caused them Alzheimer's, you know, caused them to get dementia. Let's say you just saw a story like that. Which is not true. How do you, you know, how do you combat that? Some people would just retweet it with a really dismissive comment, like this is garbage. Don't listen to them. Well then doing that, and I'm guilty of this in the past as well, we've actually unintentionally propagated that information. Right now I have not very many followers, so 2000 followers all of a sudden see that and potentially one more retweets it and then another 2000 people. So I unintentionally exposed 4,000 people. Even if I'm dismissing that information, I've lent it credibility by sharing yet. Jason Falvey:                 10:51                I think what I have to do is write something about the study, not actually link or validate in some way and not unintentionally spread fake news. And there's not an easy way to do that. So I think you really have to toe the line between not sharing the primary sources, potentially providing that provider of fake news, financial revenue from clicks, which is a lot of times what they want. Or providing a really misguided researcher, a clinician validation that their technique is not loved by the general medical population because they're jealous of his success, you know, something that they can take it the other way to spin it as a positive for their business. Karen Litzy:                   11:39                Right. And because if you're re tweeting this and clicking on it and retweeting it, you're giving it life, which is what they want. That's what we don't want to do. Jason Falvey:                 11:52                Right. And I think that's one of the ways that propaganda is designed right from the early days of using propaganda as a war tool. It was shared not just for people that believed in it heavily. It was shared in outrage and passed along and whispered about which served the exact same purpose. So really it's hard to discipline ourselves in a really, like we see something, we feel like we immediately have to react on social media and immediately have to comment on it. And I've been guilty of sharing articles that are either satire and actually taking them seriously, which has happened once in a fatigue non-caffeinated state. And also information or studies, which I think in hindsight probably weren't high quality or perhaps overstated its conclusions. My own articles have had overstated conclusions written and press releases that weren't by me or interpretation of written press releases that are perhaps more definitive than I would have wanted, you know, not fake news, but certainly unintentionally declarative about the quality and strength of the evidence versus, you know, the hypothesis generating evidence that it was. Karen Litzy:                   13:16                Yeah, absolutely. You sort of alluded to one way as healthcare providers that we can combat the fake news or the medical disinformation and that's taking time to read the source if it's a press release, to read the article, to maybe look at the methodology and to see how would rate this study? So that's one way we can combat it, which takes time. And like you said, on social media, people often react quickly because it's emotional. So maybe we need to take a deep breath and then take a moment and think about what we want to do. Do we want to share this misinformation or do we want to read it and come up with maybe another way to share more positive information? What else can we do as healthcare providers to get around this fake news? Jason Falvey:                 14:14                When we encounter something that we think is fake news or unintentionally or intentionally hyperbolic to the point where we think it's harmful to patients. And I think that's the line I draw. If I think that potentially sharing or engaging with this information in any way which propagate information that's harmful to patients. I generally take a little extra caution. And one of the things I look at, you know, I see in politically or in health care news, if I see a that goes out that has a really high comments or retweet ratio. So there's this term ratioed and it's not scientific and it's not peer reviewed. But I find that the good starting point when you see a tweet from a government official or a healthcare provider, healthcare related source, and there's more than double the amount of comments, then there is retweets and the likes. Jason Falvey:                 15:18                It makes me go and do a little bit more investigation. You know, sometimes those comments are positive and way to go. And sometimes there's a lot of skepticism or criticism of the findings or people really, you know, offering some real insight into some of the problems in methodologically or otherwise. And often a well done methodological study can be completely blown out of the water on Twitter by a very poorly written headlines. Right. We should care about storylines, not just headlines. And one of the ways we do that, looking at comments, retweets, and the likes, looking at that ratio and look at the source, right? Who's retweeting? And so I pay attention to that because most fake news on the Internet is actually propagated by bots. So there's a very high percentage of fake news that was propagated by automated accounts that are automatically set up to capture certain hashtags or certain language and amplify it. Jason Falvey:                 16:23                You know, if you're a political audience would know that that's how the Russians basically designed the misinformation campaign to influence the 2016 election using bots to amplify certain messages. Well, that happens to a lesser extent in health care. There are certain pockets, you know, of health care professionals, and there may be some in our profession that provide certain treatments. There may be some in other alternative medicine professions, there may be some in mainstream medical professions that are physicians or nurses who use their medical expertise and propagate information about medical techniques like abortion or vaccines in a way that makes them seem more credible. So I look at who's retweeting what the population of people are retweeting is, who the person the primary sources coming from. Right. You said if it's a summary of an article from a press release or somebody's blog, like I want to go and find that primary source and then also look at the bias of the person who may be interpreting that information for me if they're a credible source. Karen Litzy:                   17:40                Yeah. And I think you also want to keep in mind those hot button issues may have more misinformation about them. Like you said, vaccines, abortions, these are hot button issues, right? So you have to I think take a more examining eye to some of these hot button issues then with others. That's not to say that other issues in health care do not have as much misinformation surrounding them. But when you're talking about things that are really emotional for people, I think that's when you have to also take a good editing eye to some of this information being put out there. Jason Falvey:                 18:26                Looking at the source of information is one thing you can see. Cleveland clinic has accidentally posted fake news before where they put in like a really positive result from an innovative experimental therapy for cancer. And they put it in a brain scan and said this person had a miraculous results forgetting to mention that they also were receiving the standard care and this additional therapy would, they didn't know if that was the cause or if it was just a normal reaction to the normal care. But then all of a sudden you created a demand for something that is at best maybe ineffective and at worse, we don't know if it's harmful. By having a high visibility site, your responsibility for news is even higher. So I think that's an important piece. Like know who's tweeting it, but then go back and make sure you have the whole story. If it sounds too good to be true. Jason Falvey:                 19:38                This is the humanities education that a lot of PT students have complained that they've had to take history and literature and policy courses throughout their undergraduate degrees and some have suggested streamlining education to really eliminate those things. My counter argument is those skills you learned from critical thinking and critical reading and analysis and understanding of historical context and how to read hyperbole, how to read marketing and different kinds of language really with a critical eye, you tend to develop a radar for when you're suspicious of information and when you want to go and look a little deeper, even if it's from what you view as a pretty credible source. Karen Litzy:                   20:27                Yeah, absolutely. So we've got taking your time really looking at not only the source of the article but who's re tweeting it and that retweet to comment ratio. Is there anything else that we should be doing as healthcare professionals to make sure that we're not propagating this misinformation? Jason Falvey:                 20:54                Another thing I think would be really helpful is crowd sourcing, right? So most of us are networked on social media with a lot of other really knowledgeable professionals. You know, I know that on my Twitter feed alone, half the people are probably smarter than me. Karen Litzy:                   21:10                Oh, I don’t know about that. Jason Falvey:                 21:14                But that's intentional, right? Like I want to be in a community of really intelligent people who think about issues critically, who may have different opinions than me. And I could say, I just read a study about Xyz and the conclusion seems flawed. Who would want to, you know, and maybe I don't name the article, maybe I don't put a link to it. I just put the tweet and throw out a few names and say, Hey, I would love if some of my community would like to take a look at this and tell me what they think. Right. If I'm on the borderline of whether or not I think this is legitimate or I asked somebody in the profession, you know, lean on them to really make sure that I'm taking that extra step to not share information that is influencing medical decisions in a negative way. Jason Falvey:                 22:03                And I teach my patients these same strategies, right when I'm talking to patients and caregivers who are googling information, WebMDing, looking at blogs, and I've had patients with significant neurological illnesses that are terminal. And one of the places I've practiced, and I won't name that place if it's a relatively rare disease, but this person searched the literature and she was very well educated person, searched the literature high and low for a cure for her neurodegenerative disease and found one that was highly controversial. Probably harmful. And she invested thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of travel over three months for something that was not beneficial while she was askewing typical medical care. So you know, that kind of taught me how to teach patients, not just how to look for information, right? That's part of the problem. But how to evaluate information, how to triangulate information to make sure that the reference that they found is supported by expert opinion and maybe other articles and making sure that there's a critical mass of support for this particular treatment before they really make a major alteration to their course. Jason Falvey:                 23:21                A single article about a vitamin supplement that might help that has little harm. You know, that may be something that I don't intervene on, but somebody who's thinking about making massive changes to their medical routine, whether it has directly to do with Rehab or not. I encourage people to look at the literature critically and I use the word triangulation and I draw it out. I'm just like, you should be able to verify this information should be similar between these three things. Right? And if they tell me that they've done that and they found those three things, I'm more comfortable, even if I disagree, at least I've done my diligence to make sure they looked at the issue in a robust way and not fallen victim to something that was purely a single tweet or Facebook post of medical disinformation. Karen Litzy:                   24:15                That's a shame. And I think it's important that you brought up that as healthcare professionals, we should be talking to our patients about this and we should be teaching them stuff. Glad that you went through that. Yes, we should be teaching them what to look for. If we can have a more educated patient base and a more educated base of health care professionals that high in the sky view. Of course the amount of misinformation may be less. Jason Falvey:                 24:45                Yeah. And I think there are certain countries that have done a lot of work. Norway for example, has done a lot of work from a country perspective on educating citizenry on medical and you know, general disinformation, both political and medical and teaching, how to recognize it. Giving a lot of the same strategies we've talked about of really time and a little bit of additional resource and that solves so many of the problems. If you don't change some of these decision making process and they still are firm believers in the medical information at that point then you go to some of the other strategies, you know, more targeted intervention. But I think as a general population strategy, those are great places to start and really just, I tell patients all the time, I am going to be telling you seek information, not affirmation. Jason Falvey:                 25:45                If you have a friend who told you about this treatment, you need to remember that everybody responds individually, the medications and treatments and you know, cause I think we've all had patients that say my friend got this therapy and their knee got better, really inappropriate for that patient. But it's really hard to walk that back, you know, from just your professional opinion. So teaching them how to look for information and letting them look for it on their own instead of providing it to them I have found is sometimes a helpful strategy because it feels like I'm not forcing my view on them. At the end of the day you can rest knowing that you put tools in people's hands, you know, health care providers or patients teach them how to do these things. I mean, but it does take some effort on their part too. Jason Falvey:                 26:37                You definitely have to want to read these things carefully and you have to have the mindset that you don't want to just look for information that validates what you already believe. And I've seen this, you know, I don't like to pick on dry needling, but I definitely have seen people who are very strong believers in dry needling, just cherry pick evidence that supports their worldview, without recognizing that there's a lot more nuance to that discussion. And I'm not anti or pro dry needling. I'm pro information. Looking carefully and realizing that there are patients who do benefit from it, but it is certainly not a blanket treatment that everybody should be using and it's a tool in your bag, like everything. So, I think it's really important to just have that seek information, not affirmation. If I can say something a few times on this podcast that will be what it is. Karen Litzy:                   27:40                Well, and then my next question would be, after having this great conversation, is there anything we missed and is there anything that you really want people to stick in people's minds, which I think you just said it, but I'll ask the question anyway. Jason Falvey:                 27:55                Yeah. And I think the other thing is like, when you are a healthcare professional, I think investing money in like high quality sources or whatever source. For me, I tend to read a newspaper in New York Times or Washington Post. I have a subscription to it. I try to support that kind of, you know, to provide financial resources to a place that I trust to provide good information because that is positive reinforcement, right? I try not to provide positive financial rewards to places that are providing this information. And you do that by clicking on their articles, right? You read a headline and it's like vaccines cause autism study says, and I clicked on that headline, I’ve unintentionally propagated and supported financially that fake news provider who now is incentivized to create more fake news. So I think it takes a lot of discipline to not fall victim to our need to read everything. Jason Falvey:                 29:02                And you know, sometimes we have to think about the greater good is not clicking on that article. Shutting it down, blocking that news source or whatever, if you really feel like it's egregious enough and not engaging with it. Creating polarization. Polarization is what creates ratings on television. Polarization is what creates ratings on radio, polarization is what gets people to download podcasts and things that are highly controversial. Polarization, you know, sells books, right? The top selling books on New York Times bestseller lists are generally, there's political books that exist, sometimes multiple political books that are on that list from different points of view. So I think it's really important that we don't support agregious, you know, fake news providers or fake healthcare news providers and don't engage with them on Twitter because that's giving them a form of a positive attention. Even if you're criticizing their work, that they can go ahead and leverage to share more. Karen Litzy:                   30:13                Yeah, I thank you for all that great information. And hopefully the listeners can really take this in and understand that what we do on social media has ramifications one to our profession and two to the people we serve. So before we leave, I have a last question and normally I ask people, what advice would you give to yourself as a new Grad? But I'm going to ask you, what advice would you give to yourself as a new Grad physical therapist in light of fake news? Jason Falvey:                 30:50                Oh, that's a great question. Beyond the sentence I said of seek information not affirmation, which I think is helpful for research and beyond, I think one of the things I would tell myself as a new Grad physical therapist in this era is I would be incredibly thankful for my English education, my bachelor's degree in English, all of the humanities and critical thinking classes that I took and all of the writing that I did because trust me, I wrote enough papers as an undergraduate that probably could have qualified this fake news cause I didn't really read the books very carefully and really had some made up opinions about what I thought was happening. So I think I can recognize the difference in that writing now. And I would tell myself, be appreciative of the education in humanities and the historical context that you've gained and use those skills. Don't forget about them. They are valuable parts of your tool bag. They are not direct patient care skills, but there among the most critical soft skills you can obtain to really do a good service to your patients and teaching them how to use those skills and taking healthcare into their own hands. Karen Litzy:                   32:13                Awesome. Well, thank you so much. This was a great discussion. I'm glad we finally got to do this. Where can people find you if they want more info or to ask you questions? Jason Falvey:                 32:26                Yeah, so I am listed on the Yale site, I am not officially representing Yale now just to put that out there, but my email address is on the Yale division of geriatrics site. I'm also on Twitter at @JRayFalvey and I'm sure you'll put that in your show notes. Those are the two things. And hold me accountable. Do you see me sharing something that you think is not a great source of information? Tell me about it. Right. And I think holding each other accountable is part of this process and doing that in a professional way is all the better. Karen Litzy:                   33:07                Thanks again for coming on. And everyone, thanks so much for listening. Have a great couple of days and stay healthy, wealthy and smart.   Thanks for listening and subscribing to the podcast! Make sure to connect with me on twitter, instagram  and facebook to stay updated on all of the latest!  Show your support for the show by leaving a rating and review on iTunes!

LIVE from the Combined Sections Meeting in Washington DC, I welcome Dr. Mike Pascoe on the show to discuss the use of social media to disseminate physical therapy educational resources.  Mike Pascoe, PhD, is a neurophysiologist and assistant professor in the physical therapy program at University of Colorado.  His scholarly efforts center around the investigation of constructivist approaches in technology-enabled learning environments (e.g., wiki usage, interactive modules, cadaver skin examination, etc..) to improve learning outcomes and student satisfaction in anatomy courses. In this episode, we discuss: -Research highlights in the field of cadaver anatomy -How Mike utilizes social media and live blogging during his anatomy courses -How the Anatomical Board serves anatomy educational goals in Colorado -Cognitive principles of learning for success in PT school -And so much more!   Resources: #APTACSM Twitter Mike Pascoe Twitter Mike Pascoe Website  Mike Pascoe Snapchat TedxBoulder - Mike Pascoe - The Ultimate Gift - Donating your Body to Science Learning Scientists Website My wife Stephanie’s website - https://spascoedpt.com/training/ University webprofile - https://som.ucdenver.edu/Profiles/Faculty/Profile/15328 Research Gate profile - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Pascoe2 Academic website - http://mikepascoe.strikingly.com Light field photography - article Student created wiki - article Live blogging - article State Anatomical Board, body donation - TEDx Talk Writings on medium.com - https://medium.com/@mpascoe AnatomySnap information - https://www.snapdex.com/anatomysnap YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/redbnr22/videos Vimeo channel - https://vimeo.com/pascoe Add me on SnapChat - https://www.snapchat.com/add/anatomysnap Publons peer review profile - https://publons.com/researcher/1374925/michael-a-pascoe/     For more information on Mike: Mike received his PhD in neurophysiology from the University of Colorado (Boulder) in Dec 2010. He then joined the faculty of the Physical Therapy Program in the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus. He teaches clinical anatomy and in his spare time loves hanging out with his wife Stephanie and their dog Maia.             Read the full transcript below: Karen Litzy:                   00:01                Hey everybody, this is your host, Karen Litzy and we are coming to you live from the combined sections meeting in Washington DC. And I have the pleasure of once again seeing assistant professor Mike Pascoe. I saw him late last year in Denver. So Mike, Welcome to the podcast. Thank you for coming on. Mike Pascoe:                00:18                It's my pleasure. Thanks for having me. Karen Litzy:                   00:20                All right, so we read your bio, but what I would love to hear from you is a little bit more about yourself so the listeners kind of know where you're coming from and what we have in store for our talk today. Mike Pascoe:                00:32                Yeah, let me give you some things about myself that I really just drive who I am and what I do. So I am a Colorado native, so there's just a lot of fun things to do in Colorado and I've managed to stay in a really awesome place. And so there's a lot of fun to have there and a lot of that fun I have with my family. So I'm married to Stephanie Pascoe, she's a PT, so she's the clinical half of the marriage. And so we liked doing a lot of things together and we like keeping our two daughters busy as well. So very family driven and we've got a lot of fun with a five year old and a three year old girls. So I like to bill myself as a minority in a sorority. That's what things look like around my house. Lots of pink and yeah, so I basically am here at CSM with Stephanie and we both get to go do our own things and check out the various different talks, different posters, different presentations. And I've been able to come to CSM since I started at CU in 2011 so yeah, it's been a great conference. Great to catch up with old friends and make some new ones. Karen Litzy:                   01:36                And so today we're only on day one of the conference, but have you gone to any lectures or any poster presentations that really stand out in your mind? Mike Pascoe:                01:45                Yeah, I really wanted to see what Chad Cook and others had to say about predatory publishing. So that was very informative. I'm aware of the concept and fortunately have not fallen prey myself, but it was good to just see the numbers and how big of a problem in this, you could, you could call it an epidemic. So Karen Litzy:                   02:03                Yeah, package that really well. Predatory journals, predatory conferences, things like that. I mean it's a thing and people fall for it. Mike Pascoe:                02:11                Yeah, they said that the analogy is everyone's got a rich relative in Africa that just died and wants to offer you $1 billion. So it's a new spin on that old email tactic. Karen Litzy:                   02:23                Exactly, exactly. And it's unfortunate. It's unfortunate, but hopefully they're chorus kind of gave you a little bit of insight on what to watch out. Mike Pascoe:                02:33                Yeah. If you go onto Twitter, which if you're not on Twitter, then I don't know what's going on. It's the best way to find out what's going on, at the conference. Great #APTACSM. And that's where a lot of us are sharing the real pearls from the session. So there's a lot to catch up on there. But then following that was a real exciting meeting of special interest group with the Academy of physical therapy education. Then that's the anatomy educators special interest group. So that grew last year was the first year there were maybe 50 of us and now there's 133 so we're really growing a nice base and we're really starting to cut our teeth on what we wanted to find and how we want to really enhance PT education specifically in the anatomy domain. Karen Litzy:                   03:16                Great. So now let's talk about that. So let's talk about your teaching background and what you’re doing over there at the University of Colorado medical campus. Mike Pascoe:                03:27                Yeah, so about 80% of my time on campus in my role is as a teacher. So I'm really striving for excellence there. And basically I started in 2011 they hired me with very little teaching experience at the professional level, but I really had a passion for teaching undergraduate students when I was a graduate ta. So that's where I first fell in love with teaching anatomy. And then I got on board with CUPT and I teach PT anatomy. That's my main role. About 50% of my job is designing and delivering the content for the PT students. But I've also been able to extend into the physician assistant and a medical student anatomy courses. So that keeps me pretty busy. It's a lot of gross anatomy. It's a lecture in the morning and then going into the lab in the afternoon and looking at the cadaver donors. Karen Litzy:                   04:17                I remember those days. Mike Pascoe:                04:20                I'm telling Ya, it's the most memorable and favorite course of all PT students Karen Litzy:                   04:26                It actually was my favorite course and I firmly believe every human being should take gross anatomy because you should know what's going on in your body. Mike Pascoe:                04:35                You should know how the equipment operates. And there's some real good research out there and you know, a lot of people can identify where the heart is, but you ask them where the liver is and that's where we need a little bit of improvement. Karen Litzy:                   04:46                Absolutely. So now outside of teaching, what other things are you working on? Any kind of research? Mike Pascoe:                04:53                Absolutely. And you know what I've learned from all the excellent mentoring I've had in my role is that you should really cover your basis. It should really be optimized in what you're doing with your research as an educator. So what you do is you do education scholarships. So I walked away from bench research and neurophysiology and now my laboratory is the classroom. So I do educational research. It's every bit as rigorous as looking through a microscope and you know, modifying genes in a lab. But basically the students are my subjects and I will take an idea that I think is going to be a way to improve my anatomy, teaching, design a protocol, get my IRB approval, collect the data, get some graduate students under my mentorship to help run through the project. Sometimes we find a positive result and sometimes we don't, but we send those results out anyway and I've been able to get some projects out the door. Mike Pascoe:                05:46                Just a couple of highlights. There's a type of photography called light field photography, so that's been really interesting to see how you could change the focal point of a cadaver photo after the photo's been taken. Lot of anatomy clustered together, so it's often hard to get everything in focus so that gets around that. But also publishing on students using a Wiki to organize their study materials and why blogging. Actually I got to do a lot of live blogging, have a PT conference and we surveyed the people using a viewing the coverage and they really had positive rankings and satisfaction with the coverage. So I'm really promoting that and hoping that more PT conference organizers jump on top of that. It's a compliment to Twitter. Karen Litzy:                   06:31                So how were you live blogging and how is that different? I was going to ask is that, what kind of platform is that? Mike Pascoe:                06:37                Yeah, we use a platform called cover it live. They're still out there. No conflict of interest, no disclosure, no relation, but basically what you do with live blogging as you can really issue more of a transcript of what's going on there. No character limits. Like Twitter, Twitter is usually more about the bite size pieces, but a live blogging is much more of a script and you can really capture a lot. You can integrate photos. And what's been really fun is to capture the question and answer session part of the session. People really rated that as a really good feature of live blogging. Karen Litzy:                   07:11                So you pretty much have to know how to type well to do that. Mike Pascoe:                07:14                Right. Karen Litzy:                   07:16                Because for someone like me who has to look at the keys at the same time, cause I never learned how to type. Yeah, that would be my problem. Mike Pascoe:                07:23                Hunting and pecking is hard, but the bigger skill is contextualization and knowing your audience. And it was real good for me to learn about how to interpret what a physical therapist was saying about a whiplash and the anatomy of neck muscles and how that can be put together so that way a PT audience would benefit the most. So yeah, that's a big skill as well. Karen Litzy:                   07:47                That's awesome. I've never heard of that. I mean I don't think I can do it because like I said, I can't really type, but I love the fact that it's long form. And so if I wanted to, if, if I wanted to watch you do this, how do you, how do you do that Mike as not for you as a person blogging but as the consumer. Mike Pascoe:                08:09                So we have to get a marketing campaign out there. And what we ended up doing was just promoting the link to the webpage through social media. So fortunately people are very aware of that conference has come with their own hashtags and people are having conversations around the conference leading up to the conference. So we took advantage of that. Now we would just publish in advance, these are the sessions Mike is going to be covering. So come back this day at this time for the live coverage. The real beauty of this platform too, as you can play them back, well you don't play them back, you, you scroll through a timeline and you get to look at the content that way. So it was really rewarding to know that you're helping people real time, but for the busy clinician that can't step of treating patients at 2:00 PM that could come in and look at it later. That's really good. Karen Litzy:                   08:59                Sounds great. So aside from being a little more innovative in your teaching and in academia, in education, which obviously, is a must these days. What else are you doing as your role at CU or your role as an educator? Mike Pascoe:                09:19                So another real cool role that I took over about a year ago was, it's an administrative role, but it's for the state, Anatomical Board of Colorado. I serve as the secretary treasurer. And so I oversee the day to day operations at the anatomical board. And basically this is still educational because what we do with the anatomical board, our big mission is to serve the educational goals of anatomy education in the state of Colorado. So think of every health care profession program, PT, OT, MD, dental graduate programs. Whenever a program would like to use a donor for an educational resource, they approach us, they make a request, we take a look at how many donors we have available. And we're very fortunate in Colorado that we have a very large donor pool, a large donor base, and I help assign the donors. And so indirectly I'm able to impact thousands of students a year with anatomy education simply by facilitating the use of cadaver dissection. Karen Litzy:                   10:21                That's awesome. Very cool. I often wondered how that worked now, well at least now I know how it works in Colorado. So you had mentioned earlier the use of social media. So if people are listening to this and they're not familiar with you, I obviously suggest following you on social media, but how has your use of social media impacted the way that you teach and the way that you sort of view education in physical therapy? Mike Pascoe:                10:51                Yeah, so I incorporate social media into my teaching directly and indirectly. So directly I have recognized that there's a real power behind this, this cognitive psychological principle called retrieval practice. So any way you can get your students to practice retrieving information without the learning materials in front of them, they're going to benefit. Studies have shown that for decades. So how am I going to, aside from doing like the polling audience response system, how can I really get their attention? And I found what's really successful is to use social media and people are doing Twitter, people are doing Instagram, but students really pay the most attention to content on snapchat. And if you're not familiar with snapchat, the thing that makes it different, what sets it apart is that the content disappears after 24 hours. So when you're doing retrieval practice, you don't need it necessarily for the student to preserve the questions and answers. Mike Pascoe:                11:49                They just need practice interacting with the content that goes away. And they know this. So there's something about the way the brain is wired and the brain pays more attention to ephemeral content so they know it's going to go away. And so I, I push out questions during the semester and they get the question, they get the answer later. So it's great for the students, but it's great for me, the educator I found with Twitter and Instagram, it really took so much time, to perfectly create the right content. But everybody on snapchat understands that it's raw, it's unedited and it's uncurated. So as long as I put the correct information out there, it's quality enough. So it's very quick. It's very rapid. And every time the students find out that I run in anatomy related snapchat account, they can't believe it. At first they’re in disbelief like what's going on. Mike Pascoe:                12:38                But once I convinced them that this is educationally based on sound pedagogy, they're onboard. And then I'll have a break from it and they'll bug me. We need more snaps. Pascoe put some more content out there. So if you want to check out what I'm talking about, the handle, the username on snapchat is anatomy snap. I'm all one continuous word and I'm telling you, it's been really exciting. I collected data this summer. I'm looking at the data now and hoping to see, number one, if students found it satisfactory, but number two, how did their exam scores look? They could have been the same. They could have been worse, it could have been better. The exciting thing is I've learned how to put a protocol together that will allow me to level up beyond satisfaction. And did your learning change has your knowledge base change? So stay tuned for that publication. Karen Litzy:                   13:28                Awesome. And now can you give an example of some of your snaps? So yeah, give me a couple of examples so that people kind of get an idea of what you mean. Like what do you mean you're putting stuff out for anatomy? Like just taking a picture of like a muscle or dissected bodies. So give me an example, but before you do well give me an example for us then I have another question. Mike Pascoe:                13:53                Yeah, no, it's good to leverage it. Leverage the principles, you can get retrieval practice and you can also get leverage examples and just to like real life examples. So you're at a table, you're just going through the upper extremity anatomy and you're between lectures or whatever you're doing as an educator. Put your hand on the table and elevate your thumb and get the extensor pollicis longus tendon to pop up. Take a picture, add text. What tendon end do you see here? Drawn Arrow. Then you can take it further. Just keep building, keep elaborating. What's the line of inquiry that the student would go through? How would you go through this at the cadaver? What anatomical region does this tendon define? Anatomical snuffbox? The next snap question is now what structures as a physical therapist are you most interested in finding in the stock box? So then you could go through that. You can step through a very sequential Socratic series of snaps, and then you can say, okay, everybody send me a snap of your snuffbox if you so choose. They'll usually do this without solicitation. But that's an example. Karen Litzy:                   14:59                So I think that's great and it actually leads perfectly into my next question is, are you creating a curriculum for your snaps or is it just off the cuff? Mike Pascoe:                15:10                You know, I'm very mindful and aware that doing things intentionally is the best way to go. So what I did for the summer is I did focus my snaps on a specific aspect of anatomy in the course and that was blood flow diagrams. So I do look at my learning objectives and those informed my teaching methods. So these snaps, although they seem frivolous and accessory, what they really do is there a direct extension of being able to describe the path that blood takes from the left ventricle to a distant site in the body. So it is very informed. It's very intentional, it's in the curriculum, but you have to be mindful that not all students are going to go there. It has to remain optional. I do not think it's appropriate to push your students into social media. There's a lot of valid reasons students don't want to go there, but for the ones that are there, I've found it's 90 to 95% of the students. And you know what? It's a great way to role model and show them how to be professor professional and how to use social media in an appropriate way. That's beyond tearing down somebody's beliefs and ideals. Karen Litzy:                   16:16                Well said. So there is a method to your madness is what you're saying. There is not, it's not random like, oh, I stub my toe today, I know I'm going to do something on the foot. Mike Pascoe:                16:28                Yeah, exactly. It's intentional and yeah, it's been out for so long that it's just time that everybody had a good understanding of how to use it appropriately and then how we can really think about incorporating it into education. Karen Litzy:                   16:40                I think that's a great way to incorporate into education and hopefully people listening to this will now follow anatomySnap. No S. I follow you on snapchat and I can say that it's really interesting. It's really interesting even as a, a more quote unquote seasoned PT because I feel like you can never have too much anatomy. That's so great. Now, anything else that you're doing that's kind of outside of the box with your students or even without your students as far as furthering your education? Mike Pascoe:                17:16                I think that another thing to bring up here is how there's a real need for physical therapists that are anatomy instructors to understand what is needed to know and what is nice to know. So that's my second area of work. The first area is the technology integration, but I've really developed some nice ways to look at what do anatomist that teach physical therapy students need to teach their students. So I'm just looking at the data now, but I recently put out a survey to about 200 people in the, that our stakeholders for the physical therapy programs, talking faculty, clinical instructors, recent graduates, the two most recent classes. Do you and your opinion think that in your practice you need to name all 10 bronco pulmonary segments of the lung? That was an example of an objective for which most people rated. No. Mike Pascoe:                18:11                Like that is not essential. So I take that feedback and I improve my curriculum. On the other hand, should a PT student be able to know name every spinal segment that is serving a muscle, the myotomal innovation and most people, the majority came back saying, yes, that's neat to know. So it's been really nice not being a PT to survey a wide base of people. The next step is going to be to survey the community at large to kind of level up the methodology, get a consensus document together and then present that to the educators in the PT Community. Karen Litzy:                   18:49                Great. Well it sounds to me like you're up to some really fun stuff and I look forward to touching base again when you have a lot of this data together and you're ready to present. So is there anything that we didn't touch on? Mike Pascoe:                19:03                Well, Gosh, let's see here. Anything else? I guess if you're really interested in body donation, it's often, it's often confused with my driver's license has a heart. Mike Pascoe:                19:17                But that's organ donation and that's totally separate. You do need to opt into whole body donation. And I go through this concept in a six minute ted talk and basically if you, if you just search youtube for Pascoe Ted x, you'll find a nice little talk I was able to put together for Tedx Boulder in Colorado and just kind of let people know what body donation is all about. And the title of the talk is the ultimate gift because we have extreme gratitude to the individuals that make this choice to, to give us the ultimate gift, the body that has served them all of their life. And now we'll go on to serve health care professionals as they work toward being able to take care of, to treat those patients. Karen Litzy:                   20:04                I love it. So everyone, don't worry, we will have links to everything on the show notes under this episode. So before we wrap things up, I have one more question. Given where you are now in your life and in your career, what advice would you give to yourself as a new Grad or to your students? Like when you were a student, what advice would you give to yourself? Mike Pascoe:                20:40                So there's two I want to give you. One is more like the life side of things and learning to say no, I had definitely gotten myself in trouble. Okay. So I'm super passionate about teaching and every time I was approached with a teaching opportunity I rationalized how I could make it work and I trick myself and I got way overloaded with teaching. So I would go back to, you know, 27 year old Mike. Like you're going to have a lot of opportunities, but there's a, there's a tactful way to say no. And even though that time may not be the right time, things do cycle back around, you'll get another pass at it if it was meant to be. And then the other more practical. For those of you that are PT students, those of you that are looking at getting into PT school, you have to look at your study techniques. Mike Pascoe:                21:27                So I've totally revolutionized the way I do office hours. When students come in and they've had a bad performance on an anatomy exam and they say, I don't understand, I studied so much, I blow a whistle and I throw a yellow flag on the ground and I say, hold up. The penalty on the field is quantity does not equal good learning. So you have to look at these psychological, cognitive principles of learning and what got you through in Undergrad will not get you through in PT school. The volume is too much. So in the show notes, I'll give you a link to a really excellent website that summarizes these key principles of learning and you've got to look at your study habits. Then you've got to be prepared to change them. Otherwise you're in for a really painful and arduous path through your physical therapy curriculum, in other programs that you might be pursuing. Karen Litzy:                   22:20                Amazing advice. Thank you so much. What's the name of the website? Mike Pascoe:                22:24                So the name of the website is a learning scientist. And I believe if you just Google learning scientists, you're gonna find a website that has principles of effective learning. Karen Litzy:                   22:36                Thank you so much for sharing that. And I'm sure the students and myself will greatly benefit from that. So thank you. And now where can people find you on Twitter? We know where they can find you on snapchat. How about Twitter? Mike Pascoe:                22:49                Yeah, go ahead and look for me @mpascoe. You know what, if you're looking at the Hashtag for the conference, I'm tweeting up a storm here, so that will be a good place to catch some of my contributions and go from there. Karen Litzy:                   23:05                Awesome. Well Mike, thank you so much for taking the time out at CSM where we, everybody's busy. I get it. We're all busy. So I really appreciate you for taking the time out coming on the podcast and sharing all this great info. So thank you so much. Mike Pascoe:                23:19                Yeah, my privilege and thanks to you, Karen, for getting everyone together and being a vessel for getting this information out. Karen Litzy:                   23:25                Thank you very much. And to all the listeners, have a great couple of days and stay healthy, wealthy, and smart.     Thanks for listening and subscribing to the podcast! 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  A lot of people in science, engineering, and health professions have a good idea but they don’t know what to do with it. Maybe they had two or three good ideas that just went down the drain. How do you translate your idea into something that creates value for a patient? According to Arlen Meyers, the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs is a global biomedical and clinical innovation and entrepreneurship network whose mission is to help members get their ideas to patients. Arlen is the president and CEO of the said society. He’s also a radio co-host in Colorado Business Roundtable, and a professor emeritus of otolaryngology, dentistry, and engineering at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He discusses in detail what the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs is all about, and touches on data and machine learning, physician entrepreneurship, digital health technology, and the experiences that helped him progress down the road. Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: The Society of Physician Entrepreneurs with Arlen Meyers We’re extremely fortunate to have Arlen Meyers. He’s the President and CEO of the (https://www.cobrt.com/radio-podcast/) . He’s a professor emeritus of Otolaryngology, Dentistry and Engineering at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Arlen, thank you for taking your time to be here. Thanks for having me. Tell me a little bit about what you’re doing with the Society of Physicians and who you serve. The Society of Physicians Entrepreneurs is a global biomedical and clinical innovation and entrepreneurship network. Our mission is to help our members, which are fairly eclectic, to get their ideas to patients. Everyone I know in science, engineering, and health professions have a good idea but they don’t know what to do with it. Typically, it goes down the drain in the shower. Maybe you had two or three good ideas and they went down the drain. How do you translate the idea into something that creates value for a patient? That process, which we refer to in sick care have a $3.2 trillion healthcare spending, which is masquerading as a sick care system. 90% of the budget goes toward taking care of sick people. I’m a recovery Ear, Nose and Throat surgeon. I spent my career at the Anschutz Medical Campus in the University of Colorado School of Medicine teaching people how to do surgery on that stuff. I’ve had a fairly complicated medical career. I didn’t like the idea of how this was playing out in terms of innovation. I felt that for a very long time and to a certain extent now, the two most important components of the innovation supply chain, the doctor and the patient, were ignored. It was the biomedical industrial complex that came up with bright shiny objects and said, “These are great. Why don’t you buy them for this ridiculous cost?” Now, we wind up with high-cost, low-value stuff. Why? Because of a number of reasons, but one of them is because we didn’t engage end users early enough in what is described as design thinking, lean startup methodology, consumer engagement and customer discovery. I didn’t like that, I thought that was stupid. I decided with some other folks to do something about it. When did you decide? This is something that I had been involved with for a long time. I graduated from business school in 1984. In those days, having someone with a white coat sitting next to pinstripes was rare. I’ve always had this bug about the business of science and medicine. Part of it comes from my background. My dad was a pharmacist, he was a son of an immigrant. It was a great generation, depression to immigration, the whole drill. He worked like a dog and was the embodiment of the American dream. We lived in a nice house. I took a look at that and said, “Maybe that’s where this entrepreneurial thing came from.” My first job was working in his corner store. He...

Topic:Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Environmental Justice and Equitable Development Series – current political climate in Charlottesville and beyond Guest & Organization:Dayna Bowen Matthew is the William L. Matheson and Robert M. Morgenthau Distinguished Professor of Law and F. Palmer Weber Research Professor of Civil Liberties and Human Rights at the University of Virginia. Matthew is a leader in public health who focuses on racial disparities in health care. She joined the Virginia faculty in 2017. She is the author of the book “Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care.” Matthew previously served on the University of Colorado law faculty as a professor, vice dean and associate dean of academic affairs. She was a member of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities on the Anschutz Medical Campus and held a joint appointment at the Colorado School of Public Health. She has also taken on many public policy roles. Matthew worked with a law firm partner in 2013 to found the Colorado Health Equity Project, a medical-legal partnership incubator aimed at removing barriers to good health for low-income clients by providing legal representation, research and policy advocacy. In 2015 she served as the senior adviser to the director of the Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where she expedited cases on behalf of historically vulnerable communities besieged by pollution. She then became a member of the health policy team for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, and worked on public health issues. During 2015 and 2016 she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow, in residence in Washington, D.C., and pivoted her work toward population-level clients. She forged relationships with influential policy groups such as the Brookings Institution, where she is currently a non-resident senior fellow, and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. Resources: https://www.amazon.com/Just-Medicine-Racial-Inequality-American/dp/147989673X (Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care) https://content.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/dm5e/1188391 (University of Virginia School of Law)

Mexico and the United States may not agree on a border wall, but the countries did just sign a historic agreement over water. A water resources expert says what it means for Colorado and for conservation in Mexico, which lags way behind. Then, during the Cold War, Rocky Flats made plutonium triggers for nuclear bombs, and property values for nearby residents plummeted. Now, those residents are getting compensation for their financial loss. And, we remember a poet from Denver who had Down Syndrome and later developed Alzheimer's Disease. Her family donated her brain to the University of Colorado Medical School at the Anschutz Medical Campus so scientists can study the link between the two conditions. Also, the debate over using marijuana in social settings.

Kieran McConnellogue is Vice President for Communication at the University of Colorado. He is responsible for communications and media relations for CU's four-campus system (Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver, the Anschutz Medical Campus) with some 63,000 students and 32,000 employees. His primary communications responsibilities are with the university's president and its governing Board of Regents. He has been at CU for 11 years. Before that, he was Vice President for University Affairs at the University of Northern Colorado. He worked there for 14 years, starting as senior writer/editor and leaving as Vice President. Before his work in higher education, McConnellogue began his career as a newspaper reporter for various newspapers in Colorado. He also has been a freelance writer for a variety of magazines and provided radio essays for an affiliate of National Public Radio and Public Radio International.

Kimberly Muller, Director of CU Innovations, Anschutz Medical Campus, Colorado, talks about the collaboration between StartUp Health and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and the unique opportunities they provide to startups as a test bed for validating and implementing health innovation. GUEST: Kimberly Muller, CU Innovations HOST: Unity Stoakes, StartUp Health LOCATION: StartUp Health Studio, StartUp Health Village, New York, NY IN THIS EPISODE: StartUp Health Colorado: A Unique Collaboration The Anschutz Medical Campus, an Extraordinary Place Providing Startups a Test Bed for Health Innovation (Access the full transcript here: https://medium.com/p/ec2fd328b185)