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Runback Episode!! That's Camellia Podcast interviews............ Dr. Mariah Prince-Allen Dr. Mariah Prince-Allen is a board-certified family nurse practitioner with a passion for revolutionizing women and healthcare. Mariah has earned her Master's and Doctorate degrees from Duke University. Throughout her career, she observed a crucial gap in foundational care for women, which inspired her to take action.  She founded Telehealth for HER, a virtual wellness practice dedicated to empowering perimenopausal women. Through this innovative platform, she offers a holistic approach to wellness, focusing on addressing the root causes of symptoms and helping women feel confident and energized.  In addition to her role at Telehealth for HER, Dr. Prince-Allen serves as a clinical associate at Duke School of Nursing and contributes her expertise as a published author in leading nursing journals. Dr. Mariah Prince-Allen is a sought-after speaker, having presented at numerous conferences and retreats where she educates women about perimenopause and empowers them with valuable insights. Come on let's have a conversation!   Do you have an "Aha moment" of perimenopause, send me a note and I'll have you on the show to share with our community! Contact Dr. Mariah Prince-Allen on the links below: wellness@telehealthforher.co www.telehealthforher.com IG: @telehealthforher FB: @TelehealthForHER TikTok: @telehealthforher   Ready to embark on your own journey towards "enough"? Visit Camellia's website at thatscamellia.com to learn more about her life coaching services. Check out Camellia's new E-book available now on Kobo.com! Don't forget to like, subscribe, and leave a review if you enjoyed this episode! Share the love! Know someone who might benefit from this reflection? Share this episode with them and spark a meaningful conversation. Stay tuned!

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That's Camellia Podcast interviews............ Dr. Mariah Prince-Allen Dr. Mariah Prince-Allen is a board-certified family nurse practitioner with a passion for revolutionizing women and healthcare. Mariah has earned her Master's and Doctorate degrees from Duke University. Throughout her career, she observed a crucial gap in foundational care for women, which inspired her to take action.  She founded Telehealth for HER, a virtual wellness practice dedicated to empowering perimenopausal women. Through this innovative platform, she offers a holistic approach to wellness, focusing on addressing the root causes of symptoms and helping women feel confident and energized.  In addition to her role at Telehealth for HER, Dr. Prince-Allen serves as a clinical associate at Duke School of Nursing and contributes her expertise as a published author in leading nursing journals. Dr. Mariah Prince-Allen is a sought-after speaker, having presented at numerous conferences and retreats where she educates women about perimenopause and empowers them with valuable insights. Come on let's have a conversation!   Do you have an "Aha moment" of perimenopause, send me a note and I'll have you on the show to share with our community! Contact Dr. Mariah Prince-Allen on the links below: wellness@telehealthforher.co www.telehealthforher.com IG: @telehealthforher FB: @TelehealthForHER TikTok: @telehealthforher   Are you ready to make a bold move? Sign up with Camellia for her mini coaching session and when action is taken, it will change your life!  Book online with Camellia https://linktr.ee/thatscamellia  https://calendly.com/thatscamellia/podcast-interview-schedule-and-topic-confirmation Book Camellia for mentoring and/or inspirational coaching or speaking engagements on www.camelliavarnado.com Untitled form - Google Forms

Send us a Text Message.Dr. Jonas Hannestad, M.D., Ph.D. is Chief Medical Officer of Gain Therapeutics ( https://www.gaintherapeutics.com/ ), a company focused on the discovery and development of groundbreaking medicines that transform lives and provide hope and improved quality of life to people suffering from debilitating neurodegenerative diseases, rare genetic disorders and cancer.Dr. Hannestad joined the Company in March 2024 and brings 25 years of translational and early clinical development experience in CNS. His academic work focused on immuno-neurology, particularly on the effect of systemic inflammation on myeloid cells in the brain, and his drug development expertise spans multiple indications, including Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and ALS. Previously, Dr. Hannestad served as Chief Medical Officer at Tranquis Therapeutics and Capacity Bio, SVP of Clinical Development at Alkahest, Medical Director at Denali Therapeutics, and Director of Neuroscience Discovery Medicine at UCB Pharma. Prior to his industry career, Dr. Hannestad led the Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit at the Yale School of Medicine. He did postdoctoral work and residency training at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Duke School of Medicine, and the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Cell Biology from the University of Messina, Italy, and his M.D. from the University of Oviedo, Spain.Support the Show.

Welcome to Season 9: Green Horizons! In this series, we are talking about the positive role of big institutions, universities and governments, in the climate movement. As we continue our conversation of climate education and action at Duke University, in this episode, we are sitting down with two esteemed Duke University professors, Dr. Valerie Sabol, a clinical professor in the Duke School of Nursing, and Robin Kirk, a professor in the practice of cultural anthropology at Duke. Join us as we delve into a discussion about their involvement in the brand new Climate and Sustainability Teaching Fellows program at Duke, uniquely designed to infuse climate change and sustainability education into classes' curriculum that are not centrally focused on the issue. From exploring the intersection of human rights and environmental issues to integrating sustainable healthcare practices, Kirk and Sabol share the innovative approaches they developed through the program and the profound impact on students' perspectives and engagement. Don't miss this conversation on reshaping education for a sustainable future. ______ Visit our website to keep up with the OC team! ⁠⁠https://operationclimatepo.wixsite.com/operationclimate⁠⁠ Follow us on Instagram at ⁠⁠@operationclimate⁠⁠! Follow us on Twitter at ⁠⁠@opclimate!⁠⁠ Subscribe to us on ⁠⁠Youtube!⁠⁠ To contact us, DM us on Instagram or email us at operationclimatepodcast@gmail.com! ____________ Guest: Dr. Valerie Sabol and Robin Kirk Host: Zoe Kolenovsky Reporters: Marie-Hélène Tome and Maya Slack Audio Editor: Charlotte Caddell Music Credit: Cali by Wataboi, Positive Fuse by French Fuse --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/operation-climate/support

www.drfitnessusa.com Leif Meneke is a human optimization coach and founder of Grey Fox Consulting where he guides business leaders to transform their businesses and their lives. Leif is a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach and a certified Integrative Health Coach from Duke School of Integrative Medicine.   His broad expertise was built on and around Wall Street as a leadership development expert and human capital management consultant for highly complex global organizations like American Express, Pfizer, and Deutsche Bank.   @DrFitnessUSA @LeifMeneke @femininebodydesign   https://www.linkedin.com/in/leifmeneke/ https://www.instagram.com/thefibitz/ https://www.facebook.com/Leifnyc   #leadership #business #entrepreneur #healthiswealth #fitness #strengthtraining

www.drfitnessusa.com Leif Meneke is a human optimization coach and founder of Grey Fox Consulting where he guides business leaders to transform their businesses and their lives. Leif is a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach and a certified Integrative Health Coach from Duke School of Integrative Medicine.   His broad expertise was built on and around Wall Street as a leadership development expert and human capital management consultant for highly complex global organizations like American Express, Pfizer, and Deutsche Bank.   @DrFitnessUSA @LeifMeneke @femininebodydesign   https://www.linkedin.com/in/leifmeneke/ https://www.instagram.com/thefibitz/ https://www.facebook.com/Leifnyc   #leadership #business #entrepreneur #healthiswealth #fitness #strengthtraining

Carl Birman currently owns and operates his very own Birman Law Office, graduating from Duke School of Law. Carl had great insights into the necessity of mentors in the field of law, what inspired him throughout his legal experience, as well as some great stories, from the storyteller himself.https://www.linkedin.com/in/carldavidbirman

About This EpisodeCarolyn Carpenter defines boldness as going beyond our limiting dimensions. She encourages us to push back against self-imposed boundaries and open ourselves to the possibilities that life offers. As President of Johns Hopkins National Capital Region and a mother of two, she discusses how this boldness manifests in both our personal and professional journeys. Carolyn encourages us to not allow the limitations we put on ourselves to restrict our potential to live authentically. It's not only about managing our energy, but about letting go of fear and anxiety and embracing optimism as well. Carolyn also describes how to recognize patterns of opportunity and tap into our creative intelligence.  About Carolyn CarpenterCarolyn Carpenter serves as President of Johns Hopkins National Capital Region (NCR), where she leads all hospital-based and community-based ambulatory sites across the National Capital Region on behalf of Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM), including Sibley Memorial Hospital and Suburban Hospital. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Ms. Carpenter served as the President of Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and Corporate Vice President of Sentara Healthcare. Ms. Carpenter joined Sentara after twenty years of progressive leadership responsibility at Duke Health. During that time, she served in a variety of capacities including Chief Operating Officer of 900+-bed Duke University Hospital, Associate Dean of the Duke School of Medicine, Associate Vice President of Oncology Services for the Duke Health System, and Associate Chief Operating Officer for Medical/Surgical/Critical Care Services. Ms. Carpenter received her B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania and her MHA from Medical College of Virginia. She completed an administrative fellowship at Duke. She is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health. In 2016-7, Ms. Carpenter was among the inaugural class of Carol Emmott Fellows, a select fellowship for women leaders aimed at empowering female health executives to bridge the gender gap in the C-suite and transform health care. Additional ResourcesLinkedIn: @CarolynCarpenter

Wednesday's special edition of "Closer Look with Rose Scott" focused on the federal effort to end the HIV epidemic in the United States by 2030. Rose talked with a public health expert, HIV researchers, and the leader of a local reproductive justice advocacy organization about new research that reveals the U.S. may not be on track to meet its national goal. Guests include: Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, the dean of the Duke School of Nursing and the director of the Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health, Dr. Melanie Thompson, an Atlanta-based HIV researcher and provider, Dázon Dixon Diallo, the founder and president of SisterLove Inc. and Ulysses Burley III, an internationally recognized public health expert and founder of UBtheCURE LLC.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke Divinity School and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at Duke held a seminar on September 9, 2022 with Brett McCarty, ThD titled “Churches Promoting Recovery: Faith-Based Responses to Substance Use Issues.” Dr. McCarty is an Assistant Research Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School; Associate Director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative; and Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke School of Medicine. TMC Seminars are a semi-monthly gathering of faculty, students, clinicians, and others interested in the intersections of theology, medicine, and culture. For more information and recordings, visit tmc.divinity.duke.edu/seminar/​.

North Carolina took a big and important step toward making Medicaid expansion a reality last week when Gov. Roy Cooper signed a bill to make it the 40th state to take the plunge. As welcome as this news is, however, it's important to point out that expansion will not be a magic overnight healthcare solution. […] The post Dean Vincent Guilamo-Ramos of the Duke School of Nursing on NC's shortage of primary care providers appeared first on NC Newsline.

Goldie Taylor is a veteran journalist, cable news political analyst and human rights activist. Currently a contributing editor at The Daily Beast, where she writes about national politics and social justice issues, Taylor has been a working journalist for over thirty-five years. She got her start as a staff writer at the Atlanta Journal Constitution and as a desk assistant with CBS News Atlanta. The former television news and communications executive has been featured on nearly every major network—including NBC News, MSNBC, ABC News, BBC, BET News, SkyNews, CNN and HLN—and she has been a guest on programs such as HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, The Dr. Phil Show, The Steve Harvey Show, Tom Joyner Morning Show, and Good Morning America. Taylor is a frequent guest on a full host of local and national radio shows, including NPR's All Things Considered, 1A and Barbershop, and has been regularly published in print and digital publications. In recent years, she has written for Rolling Stone, Salon, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Creative Loafing, St. Louis Post Dispatch, The Grio, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Huffington Post, CNN.com, MSNBC.com, Ebony, and Essence among others. In November 2015, Taylor penned the cover story for Ebony Magazine about the legacy of comedic icon Bill Cosby and made a cameo appearance on BET's Being Mary Jane. She was a contributing producer for “CNN Presents: The Atlanta Child Murders” and has been an executive consultant to the presidents of both NBC News and CNN Worldwide. A sought-after public speaker, Taylor has addressed audiences at—among others—the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Harvard University, Morehouse College, Emory School of Law, Princeton University, Duke School of Law, National Association of Black Journalists, University of Missouri School of Journalism and The King Center. A somewhat less than devoted runner, late blooming golf, and self-professed connoisseur of mediocre whiskey, Taylor has three grown children and three grandchildren. She lives in Boston where she is senior vice president and chief communications and marketing officer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. MORE: goldietaylor.com

The "Can the Clinician See You Now? Context and Connection in Racially Discordant Clinical Encounters" topic was originally presented during National Minority Quality Forum's weekly webinar series. Listen now for a closer look at addressing existing disparities. Panelists: Kenyon Michael Railey, MD Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Family Medicine and Community Health at Duke School of Medicine, Medical Director of Duke Physician Assistant Program, Vice Chair of Diversity & Inclusion at Dept. of Family Medicine and Community Health, Founding Course Director of the Cultural Determinants of Health and Health Disparities curriculum at Duke School of Medicine Laura Lee Hall, PhD President of National Minority Quality Forum's Center for Sustainable Health Care Quality and Equity (Moderator)

In this episode, Terra Bohlmann interviews Leif Meneke. Leif Meneke is a human optimization coach and founder of Grey Fox Consulting, an elite human performance optimization firm. Leif spent nearly two decades on Wall Street in leadership development and human capital management, and more than 30 years reclaiming and optimizing his own health and teaching and coaching others to do the same. Today he combines these two passions — leadership and health — to help high performers optimize their whole human experience to live their most vital lives.Leif is a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach and a certified Integrative Health Coach from Duke School of Integrative Medicine. He holds a Master's in Management. As entrepreneurs we are also leaders. If you are ready to maximize your performance, you will love this episode where Leif shares his Moment of Clarity and offers you a 45-minute complimentary ($750 value) Moment of Clarity as well. FREE GIFT => visit www.GreyFoxConsulting.com/Terra to book your Moment of Clarity session with Leif Meneke.

In this episode of the AWARE Podcast's Cognition and Well-Being series, Stuart Slavin, MD, MEd, ACGME's Senior Scholar for Well-Being, discusses the concept and experience of shame with Dr. Will Bynum, MD, Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the Duke School of Medicine. Dr. Bynum speaks to his own relationship with shame over the course of medical school and residency. He then explores the ways in which his experience allowed him—and those of us working in graduate medical education to rethink the standard approaches to working through shame at both the personal and institutional levels. Additionally, they discuss the role of self-conscious emotions such as shame, guilt, and pride from the perspective of residents striving for excellence in graduate medical education.

Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is rare and accounts for only 1% to 5% of all breast cancers, but it is considered an aggressive cancer because it grows quickly and is more likely to come back after treatment than other types of breast cancer. It causes symptoms of breast inflammation like swelling and redness, which is caused by cancer cells blocking lymph vessels in the skin causing the breast to look "inflamed." Gayathri R. Devi, PhD, is a two-time American Cancer Society grantee who recently received a Mission Boost Grant to “boost” her inflammatory breast cancer research and move it closer to patients. Dr. Devi joined the podcast to talk about risk factors for IBC, how it's different from other breast cancer types, and recent advances in her lab with promising clinical implications. Dr. Devi is Program Director for the Duke Consortium for Inflammatory Breast Cancer, Associate Professor of Surgery and Pathology at Duke School of Medicine, and the Director of the Duke North Carolina Central University bridge office as part of the Duke School of Medicine Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. 3:18 – The symptoms and signs of inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) 6:34 – How inflammatory breast cancer differs from other, more common breast cancers 9:36 – Risk factors for inflammatory breast cancer 14:22 –Instead of a single tumor mass, IBC patients have small groups of tumor cells called emboli found in the breast, skin and lymph nodes around the breast tissue. What are emboli? How do they form? 16:00 – Why do emboli form in this way? 18:51 – What makes these emboli resistant to treatment and able to spread? 21:43 – On her ACS-funded research, which focuses on the environment in which the IBC emboli form, in the breast. Why is the breast environment so important? 28:35 – Adaptive stress response 31:15 – “I'll give you an example here and talk a little about our research findings that are clinically relevant.” 38:25 – How do we target inflammatory breast cancer therapeutically? 40:47 – The 3M approach: Models, Mechanisms, and Measures 45:30 – If she could wave a magic anti-IBC wand, where would we be in 5 years? 48:27 – The impact that ACS funding has had on this area of research 49:54 – “Another very important distinction about ACS…” 51:47 – How inflammatory breast cancer recently affected her family

Hi friends, this is Dr. Michael Williams and welcome to another episode of the diversify in path podcast. This podcast explores how investing in diversity can lead to a high return of investment in pathology and laboratory medicine by learning from the knowledge and experiences of diverse voices within in our field.  My next guest is Dr. Andrea DeyrupDr. Deyrup received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in 1991 before joining the University of Chicago for her Ph.D. (Pathology, 1997), M.D. (2000) and residency (Anatomic Pathology, 2000-2003). She completed her formal training in soft tissue pathology at Emory with Dr. Sharon Weiss and joined the faculty there in 2004. She has published extensively in the field of soft tissue and bone pathology.Since 2015, Dr. Deyrup's career has focused on medical education. At that time, she joined the faculty of the Duke Pathology Department as Course Director of the first-year medical school pathology course; in January of 2019, she was named the Director of Undergraduate Medical Education for the Pathology Department. She also serves on the Undergraduate Medical Education Council for the Association of Pathology Chairs, participated in the 2020-21 Duke Teaching for Equity Fellows Program and was a member of the Duke School of Medicine Health Professions Anti-Racism Task Force.  Dr. Deyrup is one of the co-editors of the new Robbins Pathology textbook, Essential Pathology and of the upcoming 11th edition of Robbins Basic Pathology. Dr. Deyrup is actively committed to antiracism efforts and to improving discussion of health disparities in medical education Twitter: @ATDeyrupMDPhDYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_C1NfzSg96ybalbjl8XydAWebsite: https://www.pathologycentral.org/

Eric Perakslis, the chief science and digital officer for the Duke Clinical Research Institute at the Duke School of Medicine

Dr. Heather Jeffcoat is a graduate of University of California, San Diego and the Doctor of Physical Therapy program through Duke School of Medicine. She founded Fusion Wellness & Femina Physical Therapy(FeminaPT.com) in 2009 and now has 4 Los Angeles locations (Sherman Oaks, Glendale, MidWilshire and Claremont, CA. Her work focuses on pelvic and sexual health education for all, and she lectures internationally on Female Sexual Dysfunction and chronic pelvic pain. She is also the author of Sex Without Pain: A Self Treatment Guide to the Sex Life You Deserve and has been featured in numerous online, radio and television spots including ABC, Cosmo, US News & World Report, Livestrong, Prevention, and many more. Offering 20% off a PDF download of my book at SexWithoutPainBook.com to your listeners with code TRAP20 We discuss topics including: What is pelvic floor dysfunction? What is motility function? How gut problems can be related to the pelvic floor Understanding the gut and rectum What is the “Bristol Stool Scale”? _________________ If you have any questions regarding the topics discussed on this podcast, please reach out to Robyn directly via email: rlgrd@askaboutfood.com You can also connect with Robyn on social media by following her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn. If you enjoyed this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes and subscribe. Visit Robyn's private practice website where you can subscribe to her free monthly insight newsletter, and receive your FREE GUIDE “Maximizing Your Time with Those Struggling with an Eating Disorder”. For more information on Robyn's book “The Eating Disorder Trap”, please visit the Official "The Eating Disorder Trap" Website. “The Eating Disorder Trap” is also available for purchase on Amazon.

In today's podcast, our guest, Joe Doty, shares how to be aware of and overcome workplace burnout. Joe is Executive Director at Feagin Leadership Program and Duke School of Medicine Leadership Development Program (LEAD). Nowhere has burnout been more prevalent than for frontline medical workers. In his role at the Duke School of medicine, Joe has seen close-up the impacts of burnout on medical professionals. In this episode, you will get: A deeper understanding of why burnout happens A methodology for ‘seeing' burnout through self-awareness The basic skills of leadership, influencing others, and emotional intelligence The importance of resilience and how to become more resilient Thanks to Joe, today's episode is packed with a lot of practical advice and wisdom. So come on in, grab a snack, welcome!

This week Dr. Kim is talking with Dr. Heather Jeffcoat about one of the most important things you didn't know you needed to know about: pelvic health. Did you know 3 out of 4 women experience pain during sex? Whether you are one of those women or not, this episode is for you.  Dr. Heather Jeffcoat is a graduate of University of California, San Diego and the Doctor of Physical Therapy program through Duke School of Medicine. She founded Fusion Wellness & Femina Physical Therapy (FeminaPT.com) in 2009 and now has 4 Los Angeles locations (Sherman Oaks, Glendale, MidWilshire and Claremont, CA) plus offer Telehealth consultations. Her work focuses on pelvic and sexual health education for all, and she lectures internationally on Female Sexual Dysfunction and chronic pelvic pain. She is also the author of Sex Without Pain: A Self Treatment Guide to the Sex Life You Deserve  and has been featured in numerous online, radio and television spots including ABC, The Washington Post, Cosmo, Glamour, Huffington Post, US News & World Report, Livestrong, Prevention, Health Magazine, Popsugar, Bustle and many more. You can follow her on Instagram @TheLadyPartsPT and her office @FeminaPT and @FusionWellnessPT Listeners of The Parentologist Podcast can get 20% off a PDF download of her book at SexWithoutPainBook.com to with code PARENT20. Links mentioned during the episode: https://aptapelvichealth.org/ https://www.pelvicpain.org/ https://ohnut.co/    

LISTEN: The Wilson Center for Science and Justice at Duke Law hosts a timely roundtable discussion about people with mental illnesses who are criminally accused and found incompetent to proceed in the criminal legal system; how competency restoration poses a challenge and costly management problem for state mental health and criminal legal systems; alternative pathways to community reentry for this population; the ethical-legal aspects; how mental health authorities and policymakers in different states are (or aren't) dealing with it, and what should be done. Panelists: Dr. Reena Kapoor, from Yale School of Medicine; Dr. Debra Pinals, from University of Michigan Law and Medicine; Larry Fitch, from University of Maryland Medical School; and Dr. William Fisher, who works with the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. Dr. Jeffrey Swanson from Duke School of Medicine moderates.

In this episode, Hall welcomes Wes Barton, Founder and Managing Partner at Third Prime. Headquartered in New York, New York, Third Prime is a venture capital firm focused on identifying and investing in seed-stage companies that are using technology to develop business models with the potential to disintermediate incumbents within the fintech and proptech sectors.Prior to founding Third Prime, Wes spent nearly 9 years as a Vice President at Trimaran Capital Partners, a private equity firm based out of New York City, where he underwrote and managed private investment opportunities across diverse industries. While at Trimaran, he also worked with Trian Partners, a multi-billion dollar hedge fund, to identify and invest in public distressed equity and credit opportunities.Before Trimaran/Trian, Wes spent 2 years as an investment banker with Bank of America advising public and private technology and media companies on corporate strategy and capital market initiatives and practiced law in the M&A department at the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP where he represented companies and investment firms with respect to acquisition and disposition of assets and broader corporate matters. Wes received his J.D. from Duke School of Law in 2002 and his undergraduate degree from Western Kentucky University in 1999. Wes discusses his investment thesis and some of the startups he has invested in which fit that thesis. He shares some of the challenges they face in launching their businesses and suggests some good opportunities for investors to pursue. You can visit  Third Prime at , via LinkedIn at , and via Twitter at .  Wes can be contacted via email at , via LinkedIn at , and via Twitter at . Music courtesy of . 

Early patient exposure and the option to pursue research or an additional degree during the program's third year, make Duke University Med School a unique choice for applicants [Show summary] Dr. Linton Yee, Associate Dean for Admissions at Duke University School of Medicine discusses the program's integrative learning approach that offers students hands-on training from day one.  Interested in doing research during your time at medical school? Duke University School of Medicine might be the program for you. [Show notes] How would you like to take the entire didactic portion of medical school in the first year of medical school and spend your third year doing research or pursuing another degree? That's what students at Duke School of Medicine can do. We're going to hear from Duke School of Medicine's Associate Dean of Admissions right now. Welcome to the 432nd episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Thanks for tuning in. Are you ready to apply to your dream medical schools? Are you competitive at your target programs? Accepted's Med School Admissions Calculator can give you a quick reality check, just go to Accepted.com/medquiz, complete the quiz, and you'll not only get an assessment, but tips on how to improve your chances of acceptance. Plus, it's all free. Our guest today is Dr. Linton Yee, Associate Dean for Admissions at Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Yee earned his bachelor's and MD at the University of Hawaii. He then did his residency in Pediatrics at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and a fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles. From 1996 to 2007. He practiced and taught Pediatric Emergency Medicine in Hawaii and California, before taking a position at Duke University as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics' Division of Emergency Medicine, and a pediatric emergency room physician. He's also Duke Medical's Associate Dean for Admissions, and it's in that capacity that I have invited him back to Admissions Straight Talk for a show devoted to Duke Medical. Dr. Yee, can you give an overview of Duke Medical's highly distinctive curriculum? [2:11] We've had this curriculum in place for a number of years, and the goal is to produce leaders in medicine and also to help the applicant and the student, eventually, understand the link between clinical medicine and research, and how both of these things help to promote, advance, and improve medical practice. Our curriculum is changing right now, and we're putting in new elements in what we call ”patient first.” I think all the applicants and med students out there have to understand that the patient is the center of your universe and everything you do has to be done to improve their well-being. So we're shifting a lot of our thinking now, and actually using the immersion of the med students into the first year, from day one so you're seeing patients from day one. We're then integrating a lot of the biomedical concepts with that. So you'll have early clinical exposure, and you'll have a lot of the foundations within that first year. That first year is still your basic science year, but with a lot of clinical elements integrated in. The second year is still your clinical year and then the third year is where we actually have you do research or get an advanced degree. That's where you get a chance to choose your own direction and get to pursue your passions. If you think about it, there are very limited opportunities for you to do that within med schools in the United States. So this is really a chance to do what you want to do and to utilize everything that you've done in the past to pursue what you're passionate about and that's kind of how things are set up over here. If you're having all of your early clinical exposure and also doing the entire didactic portion in your first year (which many medical schools take two years to do) how do you fit it all in? [4:02]

Join Mercedes Carnethon as she interviews authors Brendon Bellows, Dhruv Kazi, and Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo to discuss two articles published in the special issue: “Cost-effectiveness of Hypertension Treatment by Pharmacists in Black Barbershops” (https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.051683 ) and “Scaling Up Pharmacist led Blood Pressure Control Programs in Black Barbershops: Projected Population Health Impact and Value” https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.051782. Dr. Joseph Hill: Welcome to Circulation on the Run. My name is Joe Hill and I'm the editor-in-chief of Circulation. In recent months, we witnessed horrific acts of discrimination and violence against African-Americans. We are shocked and appalled, but yet we also recognize that this is in many ways nothing new. At Circulation, we are highly committed, longstanding commitment to shining a bright light on these pervasive inequities. And we are not willing to simply catalog the woefully longstanding racism that pocks our society, but rather we intend to shine a bright light on solutions. And with that, we are launching the first annual issue on disparities in cardiovascular medicine. This will be released in mid June corresponding to the date of Juneteenth, which is the date in the 19th century when a group of slaves in Galveston, Texas was apprised of the fact that they were no longer slaves now for two years. Dr. Joseph Hill: I'm honored to have our three editors who are running this podcast and this issue with us, they are Dr. Mercedes Carnethon from Northwestern University, Dr. Karol Watson from UCLA, both of whom are associate editors with the journal. And I'm pleased that Michelle Albert, who is one of our senior guest editors at UCSF will be joining us. These three professionals have led this initiative and I would like to spend a few minutes talking with them about this. First let's turn to Michelle if I may. Michelle, what do you think is required from a workforce perspective to make headway, to eliminate these disparities? Dr. Michelle Albert: Thank you, Dr. Hill. And I would first say that it is an honor to have been able to participate in this disparities issue focused on African-Americans and health. First, I think that it is important for our audience to understand that the metrics actually behind a workforce. In cardiovascular medicine, only 13% of fellows are underrepresented fellows, meaning black or African American, Hispanic, or Latinx, native Americans, Alaska natives, and Pacific Islanders. And only 9% of faculty are UIM in cardiovascular medicine. This stems from a pipeline or pathway issues that go all the way back to kindergarten and middle school. Indeed, over the last three decades only, although there's been a 50% increase in applications for blacks and Hispanics, the applications have only increased by 1.2% and there has been a drop in Alaska native and American Indian applications by 30%. Dr. Michelle Albert: So with regards to how improve these statistics, we have to have multifaceted approaches related to understanding pipeline barriers, which include things like lack of encouragement, lack of role models and paying attention to recruitment, but not just the only recruitment at the pre-medical level, immediate pre-medical level, but way prior to the pre-med level, we have to engage middle-aged and high school students in STEM and thereafter at the pre-medical level, we have to make sure that students get the appropriate advice to ensure successful careers in college that would then engender successful applications to medical school. Dr. Michelle Albert: Once we get into the actual medical institutional systems, we have to address structural barriers to discrimination that exist, that impede the progress through pathways in medicine. And these barriers exist at the medical school level, the residency level, fellowship level and faculty to leadership levels. I would say just a couple of examples at the medical school level to address would be actually paying attention to the fact that MCAT scores, we need to pay attention to a whole range of MCAT scores that focus on success in medical school and not just a specific hard cutoff. In residency we need to focus on evaluation disparities for UIM versus non UIM that then set the pathway again for a lack of progress into extremely competitive specialties like cardiovascular medicine. At the fellowship level we know that only 6% of program directors actually value diversity as one of the top three entities when ranking applicants. Duke School of Medicine actually had a really innovative process of holistic review and at all levels there should be holistic review that pays attention to distance, travel and metrics as well as attributes. Dr. Michelle Albert: And at Duke for example, what they did was they tripled actually their UIM enrollment in cardiology fellowship from 9% to 33% after employing a holistic review process that focus less on metrics and more on a combination of metrics, distance traveled, et cetera. Once folks are in the pipeline we have to set up systems of support to help trainees and faculty thrive in clinical learning and work environments because we noted small differences and assess clinical performance, amplify to large differences and evaluations, grades, and awards that have gone toward consequences for our workforce. And then I would say these are not my recommendations here or not all inclusive. But two other things I think that we really need to pay attention to besides the mentorship and sponsorship is actually stemming isolation for trainees and faculty within our structures and systems as well as ensuring that we all have implicit bias training and also the effect of implicit bias training is measured over time on the impact on healthcare outcomes and our pipeline outcomes. I know that was a mouthful, Joe, but this is a very complicated topic. Dr. Joseph Hill: Well, it certainly is Michelle. And I think all our listeners know that you have been and are a major leader on an international scale around these topics. Thank you for your leadership. My next question has to do with building trust with black patients in terms of their willingness to engage with their physician and also participate in research studies and trials. Karol, Dr. Watson from UCLA, maybe you can comment on that. Dr. Karol Watson: Yes, I would be happy to. And I have to piggy back on what Michelle just said. You start off talking about trust, there has to be a trust between the patient and the provider, the researcher and the participant, and that trust really it's multifactorial as Michelle states, but it really does rely on having a workforce that looks like the patient population, having principal investigators that look like the participants. We have an issue with trust in medicine in many areas, but one of them is lack of trust amongst African-Americans. When surveys are done and they ask patients to endorse or not endorse certain statements, the statement I trust my healthcare provider, it's less likely to be endorsed by African-American patients than others. And much of that mistrust is well earned. We're all aware of some horrific medical injustices that were meted out to certain communities, including African-American communities. Dr. Karol Watson: We're all aware of the Tuskegee syphilis study, but there are many others. So without trust, there really cannot be a healthy, collaborative care model that ensures optimal patient outcomes. So I think one of the most important things that we have to stop doing is thinking of blaming the patient for being, "Nonadherent, non-compliant, difficult," because many things go into that equation and much of it is on our backs. And as Michelle says, we have to diversify our workforce to start off. And I think there are so many other levels of Michelle really nicely laid out, but there are really so many other levels and including getting more African-Americans into clinical trials and we can't just do the same thing we've always done and expect to get different results. So we say, "Oh, African-Americans just won't up for research." Well, maybe we're not making that research relevant, appropriate, and easy for them. Dr. Karol Watson: If we ask people to come to our research centers between 8:00 and 5:00, Monday through Friday, when they're working three jobs and they have to watch their grandkids and they have no one to help. That's a very difficult ask, when you're asking people who are struggling for basic needs and basic survival to do extra things. It's a very difficult ask and we have to make it easier for them because I am of a firm belief that everyone wants to do the right thing. They want to help medical professionals get the research needed, do the right thing to care for their own health, but it has to be accessible and that's something we haven't done a great job doing. Dr. Joseph Hill: Well, thank you. What a challenge and that's why I think this issue that the three of you have spearheaded has helped move that needle around those sorts of questions. So my last question is a broad one and maybe even the hardest one that I will throw to Dr. Carnethon and that is what are the biggest remaining threats? What does the future look like when you put your headlights on high beam to solve these problems? Dr. Mercedes Carnethon: Well, thank you so much Dr. Hill, and it's great to follow my colleagues who've offered wonderful insights from multiple perspectives. When we think about the path forward, we have to really consider how we got here. And we didn't get here solely through faults in one system, for example, academic medicine, we got here because of the broader systemic and structural issues that have led to differences in access, that have led to the mistrust we're talking about and that have led to fewer opportunities for academic advancement for black adults within this country. And the path forward is going to have to be a collaborative path. It can't just be the researchers and clinicians within academic medicine making a change because we can't make those changes and reach out in isolation of the context in which the patients who were seeking to help live in. So it requires partnerships with individuals at the community level, so that we can think about how we roll out effective interventions. Dr. Mercedes Carnethon: So those interventions that work one-on-one how do we get those out to the people who need them the most? That requires partnerships with the community and even changing the environments in which people live, making them healthier. It requires partnerships with academic institutions building off of the point that Dr. Albert made about needing to start and bolster the pipeline early so that we can get researchers and clinicians who look like the patients that they're trying to serve. And ending as well with Carol's point, when we run a study and we don't have representation from across a range of socioeconomic status from multiple individuals, black individuals, white, other races and ethnicities, we don't know how well those therapies are going to work, or whether there are unique situations that are going to lead them to be less effective in one group versus another. So I think I would end really with the point that the path forward to promoting equity is one that's going to involve partnerships across multiple different domains. And I do feel very hopeful that we can get there, especially as we're calling attention to these important issues right now. Dr. Joseph Hill: Well, I will end by saluting the three of you because you are in fact pointing away to a path forward and concrete things to make a difference. And it is my pleasure and honor to work with the three of you leaders. And I'm so proud of this issue, which will be a recurring issue and in June of every year. And thank you again for what you've done, you're making an important difference in our world. Dr. Karol Watson: And thank you so much for Dr. Hill for spearheading and supporting this effort. It is so important. Dr. Mercedes Carnethon: Yes, thank you. Dr. Joseph Hill: My pleasure. Dr. Michelle Albert: It's indeed an honor. And we have to lead by example, and I hope that we do. Dr. Mercedes Carnethon: Thank you so much. Dr. Mercedes Carnethon: I'm really excited as we move past our discussion amongst the editors to have an opportunity in this podcast to also speak with a team of authors who submitted two papers to our very special issue we have with us today, Dr. Brandon Bellows, Dr. Kazi and Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo who are sharing their findings about pharmacist led interventions to manage blood pressure among black Americans in barbershops. So thank you so much for submitting your important work to Circulation. I'd like to start with questions for you, Dr. Bellows. So your particular manuscript is addressing the cost effectiveness of hypertension treatment by pharmacists in black barbershops. Thank you for working on this very important work, because it really extends some of what we talked about earlier, which is the need to scale up and disseminate what we know to be effective interventions in populations. So can you tell us a little more about what you studied and what was unique? Dr. Brandon Bellows: Yeah, thank you so much. So we studied the value of a program to bring clinical pharmacists into black owned barbershops as you mentioned, and have the pharmacist partner with the barbers to manage hypertension in black men. As we know, black men are disproportionately impacted by both hypertension and cardiovascular disease. So our work was based on a randomized trial that was performed in barbershops in Los Angeles County. And this was led by the late Dr. Ron Victor. So we're really building upon his great foundation. In that trial they found that the pharmacist-barber collaborations substantially reduced systolic blood pressure by over 20 millimeters of mercury, relative to Barber's providing education alone over one year. So given that having pharmacist drive around barbershops and Los Angeles is a very expensive proposition, but we wanted to know if the potential benefits long-term would outweigh some of those high upfront costs and would it be a cost-effective to do this in Los Angeles? So really focused on the trial. Dr. Brandon Bellows: So to do this, we combined the data from the randomized trial with our computer simulation model to try and project long-term clinical outcomes. So upto 10 years, so for both blood pressure, cardiovascular disease events, as well as the economic outcomes. So total healthcare costs, costs of the program and so on. So what we found was that having pharmacists work with barbers and these black owned barbershops was a cost-effective way to reduce blood pressure in black men. Over 10 years, we projected that the program would cost about $2,400 more, and that's total healthcare costs than barbers providing education alone so they enter the control arm in the trial, and we found that they would prevent about 30% of cardiovascular disease events over 10 years. So the incremental cost effectiveness ratio or ICER, which is how we define cost-effectiveness was $43,000 per quality adjusted life year gained. Dr. Brandon Bellows: And this is below the threshold recommended by the American Heart Association of $50,000 per quality adjusted life year gained to define something as highly cost-effective. So doing this with a highly cost effective way to improve blood pressure in black men. So one thing that makes our study unique is that our computer simulation model allows us to explore different designs of the program to see how that might impact the cost effectiveness. So for example, if we were to use only generic antihypertensive medications, or if we were to decrease the length of the intervention from one year to six months, the pharmacist barber program was even more cost effective. So given the long-standing disparities in cardiovascular disease that have been experienced by black men in the United States, we're really hoping that how our research can help motivate healthcare payers to adopt these kinds of non-traditional approach delivering hypertension care, because if nobody's paying for it, then there's not going to be uptake in the community. Dr. Mercedes Carnethon: Yeah. Brandon, thank you so much for sharing that and sharing the details about what you found. I love this line of work because quite often we've spent a lot of time discussing and describing disparities, but less attention considering ways in which we can reduce disparities by reaching people where they are. So that brings me to you Kazi. So your study uses the same population, but addresses a slightly different question that I think is very relevant to our audience as we seek to try to promote cardiovascular health equity. So tell us a little bit about what you did in the same population and what you found. Dr. Dhruv Kazi: I want to also start out by acknowledging that the study is anchored in the vision and genius of the late Dr. Ron Victor, who ran the barbershop based blood pressure controlled studies in Dallas, and then in Los Angeles. And kind of motivated by his pragmatic optimism, this idea that we have a problem where others high rates of uncontrolled blood pressure in black men, but it is a problem that can be addressed through a novel intervention that will then have to be contextualized. He was open-eyed about the need for contextualization that even though there's a large 20 millimeter mercury reduction in blood pressure, any intervention, when we go beyond Los Angeles would have to be contextualized for geography and for payer. Would treating blood pressure in Dallas, or San Francisco, or Detroit, or Atlanta would look different from both the economics and the practical aspects of delivering this care in Los Angeles?   Dr. Dhruv Kazi: So we set out to ask the question that if we were to make these barbershop based pharmacists led blood pressure control programs more widely available across the country in urban areas, metropolitan areas, and were able to enroll black men with uncontrolled blood pressure into these programs, what would the clinical impact be and what would the economic constraints be for these programs to be sustainable? We estimated that about 950,000 black men could be enrolled in a program of this nature. So that's about a third of black men with uncontrolled hypertension and that doing so on an annual basis would reduce about 8,600 or 8,600 major adverse cardiovascular events. That's about including 1800 MIs and 5,500 strokes. So quite a large number of events, but 40% of events in enrolled populations. And we then set out to ask, "Well, that's great. If we could deploy these programs at scale, there's the potential for substantial clinical impact, what would the economic constraints have to be for this program to be sustainable?" Dr. Dhruv Kazi: So if we imagine that this were not a delivery program but rather a pill, and you were willing to pay $100,000 to reduce per quality adjusted life here for blood pressure control medication, how much would we be willing to pay for this barbershop based program? And we found that approximately it would have to be delivered at a cost of $1,400 per patient per year. Now, $1,400 per patient per year is a substantial amount of money when you scale it up across the entire eligible population, but at the same time would require innovation and delivery that goes beyond pharmacists driving from one barbershop to another. So what we hope is that our work will stimulate this conversation around how can we take this intervention that is highly effective, that is potentially scalable and adapted in a way that we can afford to deliver it nationwide without losing effectiveness that we saw in the Los Angeles trial? Dr. Mercedes Carnethon: Thank you so much Dr. Kazi. And this just generates a lot of discussion as we really think about how we can bring interventions to people and how we can have an impact. So Kirsten, I'm so pleased that you were also able to join us as one of the senior authors, senior members of these research teams, because we really value your perspectives as well about where do the findings from this study situate us in the field. How do we move forward to achieve our goals of achieving equity and particularly among black patients and black adults in this country who we know have experienced significantly higher rates of hypertension and hypertension related disorders, we have a significant need here. So tell us how do we use this important information in order to make a difference? Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo: Thank you so much for having us and congratulations on this really important issue. Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo: I think what we see here in why these papers and this work is important is that it is really trying to take the important science that we're producing, trying to aim that addressing disparities and put it in the context that we could ideally rapidly translate it to actually help and address this issue. And with hypertension, we have both the urgency of declining rates of blood pressure control in the US as well as the persistent disparities that we see. So we have this effective intervention marrying a care provided by clinical pharmacists with community-based venues and partnership with black barbershops that is highly effective. The detailed studies led by Brandon really suggest that even in LA, pharmacists driving around this is a cost-effective intervention and that if we were to scale it, it could actually reach a lot of black men in the US and even though $1400 per person per year is a lot of money, it's actually not out of context of other things that we do that are high priority for our healthcare systems. Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo: So what we hope is that these two papers together help us to start to bring more people to the table to how we can translate now an effective trial, a trial that can effectively scale in a cost-effective way to thinking about what we could actually do. So how might this look? We think this is something that we hope health systems start to engage in. When they see disparities in the care for their members, for their patients, how could they think more creatively? Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo: How could payers, how could Medicaid for example, think about incentivizing different ways of delivering hypertension care? How could we think in other contexts about departments of public health or cities that really want to have a population-based approach to improving cardiovascular health? And money isn't everything, but is an important thing that many of these entities are thinking about and understanding both that this is a cost-effective intervention and that the amount per person to actually achieve this important role in cardiovascular health is not out of scale for other things that we prioritize in terms of health I think is important and that's what we hope people will take away from these important studies. Dr. Mercedes Carnethon: Wow, I really appreciate the time and attention that your team put into designing these really high impact research studies that achieve what our goal is, is to really think about ways in which we can address and eliminate disparities. I've really loved hearing about this work, and I hope that a broad audience receives it and really thinks about some of what we talked about before, which are the multiple different parties and disciplines that are required to come to the table for us to effectively address disparities. So thank you so much for spending time with us at our Circulation on the Run podcast, Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo from University of California at San Francisco, Dr. Brandon Bellows from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Dr. Kazi from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. So thank you so much for spending time with us today. Dr. Dhruv Kazi: Thank you for having us. Dr. Brandon Bellows: Thank you. It's been a pleasure. Dr. Mercedes Carnethon: And finally, I'd like to end by thanking our listeners for spending time with us today. We hope that you enjoyed the podcast, and we hope that you will enjoy the issue even more. Dr. Greg Hundley: This program is copyright of the American Heart Association, 2021. The opinions expressed by speakers in this podcast are their own, and not necessarily those of the editors or of the American Heart Association. For more, visit ahajournals.org.  

Hello everyone! Welcome back to the Peak HUman podcast, I'm Brian Sanders and I hope everyone is doing well and eating a Sapien diet and living that Sapien lifestyle. I guess I'll clarify what that is. Many people are already doing it without realizing it - I'm just trying to give it a name. It's really just what seems to be the natural human diet. It's a framework and isn't the same for everyone and changes based on many factors such as where you live to where you are in your life or health journey. It's based on whole foods, ancestral principles and food preparation techniques. It focuses on the best, most bioavailable, nutrient dense nutrition which is from animal foods. It incorporates the least toxic plant foods. It's not carnivore, keto, paleo, or Whole 30 but has elements of these. I hate to have labels but none of the other dietary labels fit what I believe is a pretty basic framework for human nutrition. The lifestyle component is big as well and includes all the natural ways humans have always stayed healhty like getting outdoors and adequate sun, sleep, a form of movement, and so on.  This is such a cool episode because Dr. Van Vliet's research is a brilliant intersection of 2 topics that should be near and dear to the hearts of everyone listening - how animals are raised affects the nutrient profile of the meat and how this in turn affects human health. He uses cutting edge science to go beyond the 3 macros, or 13 vitamins & minerals listed on nutrition labels, to up to 70,000 secondary compounds found in food. He also is working on a much-anticipated study (maybe only to me and those listening) which is randomized controlled and looks at red meat in the context of a healthy diet! How cool is that! This is what we've all wanted for so long. Compare eating red meat in the context of a whole foods diet compared to eating it with a bunch of processed foods that would be thought of as a Standard American Diet. Get ready to meet your new best friend in the nutrition research field. I'm so glad Dr. Van Vliet is doing this research and that he spent a solid 90 minutes with me exploring much of it. Get ready for a good one! Dr. Stephan van Vliet is a human nutrition scientist at the Duke School of Medicine. Dr. van Vliet earned his PhD in Kinesiology and Community Health as an ESPEN Fellow from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and received post-doctoral training at the Center for Human Nutrition in the Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine. Dr. van Vliet also holds a Masters in Nutrition Science.   GET THE MEAT! http://NosetoTail.org GET THE FREE SAPIEN FOOD GUIDE! http://Sapien.org   SHOW NOTES: [5:15] His background and education.  [8:50] Research into Metabolomics. [17:00] A deep dive into the metabolomics of faux meat and real meat. [23:50] Why the quality of your calories matter.  [28:30] The importance of having a healthy dietary pattern. Cohort Profile: The 45 and Up Study  Nurses Health Study: Healthful and unhealthful plant-based diets and the risk of coronary heart disease in US adults  The Oxford Vegetarian Study: an overview Vegetarian Dietary Patterns and Mortality in Adventist Health Study 2 | Cardiology | JAMA Internal Medicine Lifestyle and reduced mortality among active California Mormons, 1980–2004  [40:30] His work with animal instincts and how they eat. [42:30] How the health of soil, crops and livestock are all intertwined.  [51:10] Animal instincts on what they need to eat to be healthy.  [58:10] Animal's special ability to eat and digest what we can not. [1:05:00] The importance of biodiversity on a rotational grazing pasture.  [1:13:50] Is there such a thing as “the best diet”? [1:17:30] Combining plant and animal foods to offset some of the negatives of the other.  [1:27:10] Why is it better to eat nose to tail?   GET THE MEAT! http://NosetoTail.org GET THE FREE SAPIEN FOOD GUIDE! http://Sapien.org   Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg  

Link to images and a full transcript of the interview.In this episode, I was so happy to have the opportunity to interview Dr. Feliccia Smith and Ellen Stevenson.  Feliccia Smith is a Professor of Business at North Greenville University. Her area of emphasis is Leadership and Organizational Change. She is passionate about battling inequality and injustice in our society.  Feliccia is the Founder and CEO of Black Girl Justice Movement. She is a member of the Greenville NAACP. She is also the Co-Chair of the Community Remembrance Project of Greenville County, SC. Feliccia aspires to be a beacon in the legacy of Black Leadership.Ellen Stevenson is “mostly retired” from her roles as a leadership and organization development consultant working with private, nonprofit and public-sector organizations.  Her passion in the last 15 years has focused on nonprofit board excellence.    Ellen currently serves as co-chair of the Community Remembrance Project of Greenville SC and as Board Chair for the Hispanic Alliance.If you'd like to support the work that Ellen and Feliccia are doing through the Remembrance Project of Greenville County, here's a donation link.You can also check out the website to the Community Remembrance Project of Greenville County for videos of past events and for schedules of upcoming events.You can also visit their Facebook Page.  We spoke of the Tulsa race massacre. For those of you interested in learning more, here's a current article giving a little of the related history. Learn More about the Equal Justice Initiative.  Here's a link to my bookshop.org site, if you're interested in reading Bryan Stevenson's book,Just Mercy.  For those of you interested in reflecting more deeply and more broadly about reconciliation, following are some additional references:The Reconciliation Poetry site.  I especially enjoyed the essays on Three Practices:  Awareness, Lament, Hope.Also, Duke School of Divinity has great resources for a Christian view of reconciliation.  They offer a Summer Institute of Reconciliation bringing together leading thinkers and speakers on the subject.  This is broader than the notion of racial reconciliation, but it offers a deep dive on the concept of reconciliation which can be meaningful to us all at many different times. Thanks to support from:Podcast Coordinator: Emma WiniskiSocial Media and Marketing Coordinator: Kayla NelsonSound:  FAROUT Media   

On this episode, we welcome Dr. Geeta Swamy, who ist he Associate Vice President for Research at Duke University and the Vice Dean for Scientific Integrity at the Duke School of Medicine. Find the Womxn's Health Collaborative online: Twitter: @WomxnsHC Website: https://www.womxnshealthcollaborative.org/

Today’s Coaching Through Stories episode features Dr. Dean Taylor, a professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, the Director of the Duke Sports Medicine Fellowship Program, and team physician for Duke University. He is also actively involved in leadership initiatives in the Duke School of Medicine and the chairman of the Feagin Leadership Program. Prior to earning his MD from Duke University, Dr. Taylor received his B.S. degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and served in the United States Army for 24 years. In today’s podcast, Dr. Taylor points out the role of emotional intelligence in leadership and why it is especially important today while leading through a Pandemic. Dr. Taylor emphasizes how his approach is more than patient-centered and requires teamwork, critical thinking, integrity, and trust within the team he is leading in order to have success. Episode Highlights: Dr. Taylor’s current role and passion Story that started Dr. Taylor on the path he’s currently on How Dr. Taylor got into his profession What pushes Dr. Taylor to pursue a career in orthopedic surgery and leadership development How Dr. Taylor maintains trust in himself while remaining empathetic by asking himself, what does this person need from me right now? Great leaders understand when to shift their focus on each stakeholder dependent on the situation which requires strong self-awareness and presence Lack of commitment to get better and learning from failure impacts our ability to grow Dr. Taylor shares his definition of leadership: it begins with ethically influencing others for the benefits of patients Influence provides a leader with the role to make things better for the population you are working with rather than focusing on authority Executive coaching provides health care professionals with the ability to reflect on their experiences and maximize learning and growth The difference between a great leader and an average leader is time and commitment to growth Dr. Taylor shares an experience where he was accidentally injured in the operating room while observing a resident and how his reaction to this accident impacted the resident’s performance and patient’s experience. Dr. Taylor’s ability to control his emotions and behavior during an event that could have ended his career motivated him to learn more about leadership development. The pandemic has challenged our comfort zone, focusing on what we can do for others and looking outward rather than inward improves our ability to take care of our own well-being Selfless service means to prioritize other’s needs over individual wants and desires while maintaining personal and professional balance. Self care is the foundation of selfless service and it begins with self-awareness. Dr. Taylor defines emotional intelligence within 4 buckets, (1) self, (2) others, (3) awareness, and (4) management. The ability to recognize and understand thinking and emotions effectively in self and in others and to use this awareness to effectively manage your behavior and relationships. Dr. Taylor discusses a time where he lacked emotional intelligence and how that could have impacted patient care should his colleague not provided some important information regarding the patient’s needs in that moment Leaders in healthcare must strike a balance between empathy without setting themselves up for compassion fatigue   Three Key Points: Self-awareness and empathy are critical to performance and leadership Emotional Intelligence is a critical component for interpersonal and professional effectiveness. Commitment to growth and learning sets great leaders apart from average ones.   Resources Mentioned: Patient Stories: Humans of the Hospital Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap . . . And Others Don’t by Jim Collins The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity by Dr. Ronald Epstein M.D. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Have you ever thought about donating your body so scientists and students could learn more about anatomy, diseases, and how to take care of humanity? Gwendolyn Keith is the Program Coordinator of the Anatomical Gifts Program at Duke University School of Medicine, and she comes on to tell us all about how Anatomical Gifting works.Beyond the Obituary is hosted by Joe Smolenski and is a production of Earfluence.

Now that we know what the plans are for the beginning of the school year for Durham Public Schools and as more workplaces are opening back up for in-office employees, many parents are facing questions about child care. In this new CityLife episode, host Beverly Thompson talks with Dr. Ibukun Akinboyo, an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Duke School of Medicine and June Shillito, Director of Yates Baptist Church Child Development Center about what child care might look like in the coming months as well as the concerns and questions that many of us have. About CityLifeCityLife, a talk show that features information on current City issues and upcoming events, airs daily on Durham Television Network (Spectrum ch. 8 and AT&T U-verse ch. 99) and on YouTube. For more information about the City of Durham, call (919) 560-4123, like on Facebook, and follow on Twitter, Instagram, and Nextdoor. City Life is now an audio podcast! Find it on iTunes or wherever you get your podcast.

Now that we know what the plans are for the beginning of the school year for Durham Public Schools and as more workplaces are opening back up for in-office employees, many parents are facing questions about child care. In this new CityLife episode, host Beverly Thompson talks with Dr. Ibukun Akinboyo, an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Duke School of Medicine and June Shillito, Director of Yates Baptist Church Child Development Center about what child care might look like in the coming months as well as the concerns and questions that many of us have. About CityLifeCityLife, a talk show that features information on current City issues and upcoming events, airs daily on Durham Television Network (Spectrum ch. 8 and AT&T U-verse ch. 99) and on YouTube. For more information about the City of Durham, call (919) 560-4123, like on Facebook, and follow on Twitter, Instagram, and Nextdoor. City Life is now an audio podcast! Find it on iTunes or wherever you get your podcast.

The protests sweeping the country for more than a week are calling for an end to racism and discrimination by police and in the law. Guy-Uriel Charles, professor of law at Duke School of Law, about how protests can lead to legislation and political change. Also, NPR Books editor Petra Mayer joins host Jeremy Hobson to talk about the new "Hunger Games" prequel, "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes," and a few other book suggestions.

"Eating is not simply filling some gustatory hole, eating is knitting yourself into the fabric of life that's going on all the time, all around you...and how you knit yourself in can either make that fabric a beautiful thing, or it can make it tattered. Right now, I think a lot of our eating is creating tatters all across the world. What would be great is if the kinds of eating we do, beginning with the growing of food and the harvesting of food and the distribution and the cooking and sharing of food...could create a beautiful tapestry."   Dr. Norman Wirzba is a Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Theology, Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and the Senior Associate Dean for Institutional & Faculty Advancement at Duke School of Divinity. Dr. Wirzba pursues research and teaching interests at the intersections of theology, philosophy, ecology, and agrarian and environmental studies, and has published several books on food and land. He serves as Series Editor for a group of books called “Culture of the Land”. As an editor, Dr. Wirzba contributed to Wendell Berry’s work in The Art of the Commonplace. He is the director of a project called “Facing the Anthropocene” wherein he works with an international team of scholars to rethink several academic disciplines in light of challenges like climate change, food insecurity, biotechnology and genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, species extinction, and the built environment.   In this episode... How connecting with the land fosters empathy and stewardship Why the environmental preservation movement has seen so little progress How children model Presence and show us how to be in the Now Restlessness that is inherent in the social condition Examining sacrifice How the world economy thrives on ingratitude How operating in a world where speed, homogeneity, and mechanization are the production norm, ultimately degrades life at every level Our human creaturely condition Nurturing the world that nurtures us The importance of moving cautiously in a world that we don't fully understand The mental health benefits of growing food, cooking, and eating in community Food as the ultimate cross-disciplinary subject   Resources Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Wendell Berry Mary Oliver normanwirzba.com https://divinity.duke.edu/faculty/norman-wirzba

Bien Tran attended Duke School of Law and started his career at Fulbright & Jaworski LLP as a litigation lawyer and operated his own law office prior to joining Bush & Ramirez L.L.C. In 2012 Bien decided to take a stab at the world of hospitality with Hughes Hangar, a bar and event space. Hughes Hangar was followed by The De Gaulle, and Bien's most recent project Chapman and Kirby. In addition, Bien has been active in the political landscape for over a decade. Bien has also been active in the business community with the belief that we've all been given great opportunity, and we have an obligation to pay it forward by creating opportunity for the next generation. Show notes… Favorite success quote or mantra: "I don't have to do anything today except be grateful for what I have." It puts everything else into perspective. In this episode with Bien Tran, we discuss: Putting your responsibilities into perspective Bien's escape from Vietnam at the close of the war Learning to acclimate to a new country/culture Gratitude Being mindful that there are always people worse-off than you are Planning your life from a very early age Envisioning what your end goal is and planning/taking the proper steps to achieve that Bien's strong desire to help people and enact change Balancing law and hospitality Investing in a restaurant/restaurateur Legal documents shouldn't be your only safety net; get involved with trustworthy, decent people Money is only a small portion of what you're looking for when finding a business partner The importance of creating a unique atmosphere Opening a corporate event space Being happy/avoiding stress Recognize what is important and give back Today's sponsor: Gusto offers modern, easy payroll, benefits, and HR to small businesses across the country — they were even named best online payroll by PCMag. And as a listener, you'll get three months free when you run your first payroll. Sign up and give it a try at Gusto.com/unstoppable.  BentoBox helps restaurants grow their business through a connected suite of tools, offering them an integrated website to connect with their guests and drive revenue online. Restaurant owners and operators are able to easily update menus, promote specials, take catering and event inquiries, sell merchandise, gift cards and more. Revel Systems integrates front of house and back of house operations into a single dashboard. Designed to increase security, stability, ease of use, and speed of service, Revel's streamlined ecosystem provides businesses with the right tools to grow. Learn more at revelsystems.com/unstoppable.   Knowledge bombs Which "it factor" habit, trait, or characteristic you believe most contributes to your success? Being creative What is your biggest weakness? Inability to disconnect, need more time to recharge the batteries What's one question you ask or thing you look for during an interview? Give them a tour of the space and ask what they would change about it What's a current challenge? How are you dealing with it? "Early on I didn't thank the staff enough after a stressful shift." Constantly remind yourself to show gratitude to your staff Share one code of conduct or behavior you teach your team. Make the guests feel comfortable What's one book we must read to become a better person or restaurant owner? Bill and Melinda Gates annual letter GET THIS BOOK FOR FREE AT AUDIBLE.COM  What's the one thing you feel restaurateurs don't know well enough or do often enough? Lack of creativity, being too similar to every other restaurant What's one piece of technology you've adopted within your four walls and how has it influenced operations? video cameras If you got the news that you'd be leaving this world tomorrow and all memories of you, your work, and your restaurants would be lost with your departure with the exception of 3 pieces of wisdom you could leave behind for the good of humanity, what would they be? The most important currency in life is compassion Love is a one way street; love people for who they are not for whether they love you back Stop worrying so much about yourself; take care of yourself but be less ego-centric Contact info: Chapman and Kirby website Facebook: @ChapmanAndKirby Twitter: @chapmanandkirby Instagram: @chapmanandkirby Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for joining today! Have some feedback you'd like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the top of the post. Also, please leave an honest review for the Restaurant Unstoppable Podcast on iTunes! Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. And finally, don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. Huge thanks to Bien Tran for joining me for another awesome episode. Until next time!   Restaurant Unstoppable is a free podcast. One of the ways I'm able to make it free is by earning a commission when sharing certain products with you. I've made it a core value to only share tools, resources, and services my guest mentors have recommend, first. If you're finding value in my podcast, please use my links!

J. Lloyd Michener, MD, is Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Director of the Duke Center for Community Research, and Clinical Professor in the Duke School of Nursing. He co-chairs the Community Engagement Steering Committee for the Clinical Translation Science Awards of the NIH, and is a member of the Board of the Association of American Medical Colleges[AT2] . Dr. Michener is Past President of the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research and received the APTR Duncan Clark Award in 2013. He is also a past member of the Institute of Medicine Committee that led to the publication of “Primary Care and Public Health: Exploring Integration to Improve Population Health.” Dr. Michener is a steering committee member and principal investigator for The Practical Playbook.

A few months after her 40th birthday, Jane Shealy woke up and realized she'd forgotten to get married and have children. One thing led to another, and a few years later, Jane found herself in China with baby Maggie in her arms. In this episode, the mother-daughter duo shares what makes their relationship so special. Jane is an editor for the Duke School of Nursing. Find the full transcript at www.listeningbooth.info.

Duke employees Kara Lyven and Marianne Drexler wake up every day and go to work at the very place that saved their lives. They share their patient stories, and reflect on how their experiences help them find joy and gratitude in everything they do. Lyven is senior associate for patient safety at Duke University Hospital. Drexler is program coordinator for the Longitudinal Clinical Skills Foundation course in the Duke School of Medicine. Find the full transcript at www.listeningbooth.info.

Dr. Sophia Smith is a 2-time cancer survivor, so she's well acquainted with the anxiety that persists after treatment ends. Her research found that many cancer survivors also struggle with PTSD. This led her to create something really innovative—an app, called Cancer Distress Coach. In this episode, Dr. Smith is joined by Bridget Koontz, MD, who shares how her patients responded to the app. Dr. Smith is an associate professor in the Duke School of Nursing. Dr. Koontz is a radiation oncologist and an associate professor of radiation oncology. Find full transcript at www.listeningbooth.info.

Because it’s medical school interview season, Dr. Ziggy Yoediono wanted to give you a perspective on how to ace traditional medical school interviews. This is based on his experience of having done admissions interviews for Duke School of Medicine and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry as well as for one of Harvard’s psychiatry residency programs. Because Dr. Ziggy saw the same fundamental problems repeatedly when he interviewed applicants, he has framed advice as the 4 P’s for Acing Traditional Medical School Interviews.

(43:52) Romal Tune is the son of a drug-addicted single parent mother. He found his way out of poverty and graduated from Howard University and Duke School of Divinity. He became a minister, a sought-after speaker, and social entrepreneur. Outwardly, he was successful but inside he was battling the trauma and emotional brokenness caused by his upbringing. After reconciling with his mother, she died of lung cancer. Romal then endured his second divorce. Questioning his faith and will to live, he made a choice to examine his life and seek counseling. In his book titled Love Is An Inside Job, he shares his process of applying therapy and faith to anger, shame, and self-doubt. No longer carrying the emotional weight, he now empowers others to stop living a life hindered by the past by helping them heal their stories. Romal is now a global leader who takes individuals and institutions from setbacks to success by using the power of story. If you don’t have time to listen to the entire episode or if you hear something that you like but don’t have time to write it down, be sure to grab your free copy of the Action Plan from this episode-- as well as get access to action plans from EVERY episode-- at JimHarshawJr.com/Action/. Let's connect: Website | Facebook | Twitter About Your Host Jim Harshaw My name is Jim Harshaw. And I know where you’re at. You’re working hard and qualified for what you do but you aren’t getting what you want. You have plans on getting to the C-suite or launching a business but ultimate success seems as far away today as ever. You’re at the right place because you can get there from here. And I can help. Who I Am I’m a speaker, coach, and former Division I All-American wrestler that helps motivated former athletes to reach their full potential by getting clarity on what they really want and taking aggressive action to lead their ideal life not just despite their prior failures but because of them. I’m a husband and father of four. And I’m a serial entrepreneur. I’ve launched multiple successful businesses as well as the obligatory failed one. I’ve been the executive director of a non-profit and have raised millions of dollars. I’ve worked in sales. I’ve even been a Division I head coach. While I was born in a blue-collar home I have spent my life surrounded by Olympians, CEO’s and millionaires. Jim Rohn said, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” I’ve been lucky. I’ve learned the habits of successful people and guess what. You’re just like them. I know because I know your type. You’re programmed for hard work, which is a prerequisite for success, but you’ve never been shown how to use what you know to create the life you want with the tools you have. I will show you how. Why You Are Here You've worked hard to achieve greatness. You’ve set goals and maybe even set records. You’ve definitely failed and you’ve at some point found yourself questioning if you were on the right track. You need to understand this: You are far more prepared to succeed than those who’ve not tried, competed, struggled and overcome like you have. That’s the value of your education as someone who aims high. You are prepared to be as successful as your wildest dreams will allow. Here I will teach you, with the help of brilliant minds that have been shaped by failure, struggle, and adversity, to be who you want to be. I sense that you want this because you have read this far. To take the next step today, click here. FOLLOW JIM Website | Facebook | Twitter

In this episode Jessy and Rebekah review a menstrual cup that allows you to have sex with the partner of your choosing while you’re on your period without ruining anyone’s sheets! And then WTMV welcomes their first guest, Lucy Frank! Lucy is about to graduate from Duke School of Nursing and visited WTMV to talk about appropriate use of pronouns in a medical scenario and, really, in life. And then Jessy, Rebekah and Lucy played a celebrity themed drinking game with T-Rex arms? You’ll have to listen for details. 0:39: Jessy and Rebekah (but mostly Jessy) offer a completely unpaid review of SoftCup. It’s great. We (mostly) love SoftCup. But, Dear SoftCup, please sponsor our podcast. Okay thank you. 7:40: Rebekah’s sister Lucy comes to WTMV to talk about the appropriate use of pronouns in the world but, more specifically, in a medical context (FYI: she’s a nurse). Welcome to Welcome to My Vagina, Lucy! 15:30: Watch Jessy’s amazing video called “Intersex Basics.” It’s all about the fact that gender exists on a spectrum and how people oversimply everything to make it easier to fit those they interact with into neat little boxes. But we all know that life is never easily categorized. People are complicated and that is what makes us amazing. So watch her video.  Also, read Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Eugenides wrote this book because he was dissatisfied with the way literature and history dealt with intersex anatomy and emotions. Read it and then let’s talk about it. 17:30: Say it with us: being transgender is not a problem. 19:20: “Vanessa Goes to the Doctor.” This video is EVERYTHING. 23:30: Here is a link to Duson Spectrum, the Gay-Straight Alliance at Duke School of Nursing. 24:30: Here is a little information about “Let’s Talk About Sex!” It’s an interactive workshop for healthcare providers and students to get used to, you guessed it, talking about sex! All in an effort to make it more comfortable for the provider as well as the patient. 27:00: Ethan Cicero is awesome. He wrote an incredible, and deeply troubling, article about the barriers to care for transgender people that everyone should read. Seriously. Read it. His efforts have shed much needed light on this issue and are hopefully leading to higher educational standards across the medical community. 29:50: Lucy gives us some really wild statistic about victims of sex trafficking. It’s horrible. We all have to do better but health care providers are oftentimes the only people outside sex trafficking rings that come in contact with victims. Contact us! Watch us! Love us! Email: welcometomyvagina@gmail.com Instagram: @welcometomyvagina Twitter: @welcometomyvag

Noted Emory professors Joseph Crespino (History) and Natasha Trethewey (English/Creative Writing) along with moderator Kevin Young (English/Creative Writing) explore how history, poetry, and a "historical imagination" help illuminate our understanding about ourselves and our times. "Neil Asks" is a nonprofit founded to continue the legacy of L. Neil Williams Jr., 1936-2012. Neil worked effectively and enthusiastically to further the continuing importance of the arts, higher education, religion, the law, and business. He was known for his insightful questions, which guided groups toward greater understanding, innovation, service and hope. Emory University - particularly Emory Libraries - benefited greatly from Neil's generosity. A native of Charlotte, Neil joined The Duke Endowment's Board in 1977 and served as chair from 2011 to 2012. In addition, served as Chair of the Vasser Woolley Foundation and Trustee of the Halle Foundation, both based in Atlanta. After earning a law degree at Duke School of Law, he spent (most of) his professional career at Alston & Bird in Atlanta.

Today, Erica Sweet of Sweet Science Living will be in my spotlight as she discusses her training as an Integrative Health Coach from Duke School of Integrated Medicine. We will talk about the science and history that supports the practice of Mindfulness, and about her workshops and one on one sessions, events, and Sweetshops that she hosts from coast to coast to spread this practice to her Modern + Mindful Tribe. Erica will guide, inspire and motivate listeners to a higher understanding of the life enhancing benefits of meditation!

A few episodes ago I had the pleasure of speaking with Sue Bohle about the Serious Play Conference. The conference in its sixth year was hosted at UNC Kenan-Flagler business school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The conference moves around every year so I was very excited that it was in my own backyard this year. While the conference wasn’t exclusively about creating serious games for healthcare there were a number of speakers there talking about the games they were developing. In today’s podcast, I have an interview with for brilliant minds who are using gamification, a term will be discussing shortly, to help individuals with learning, education, engaging, and managing health and behavioral challenges. My four guests are Doug Watley with breakaway games, Lynn Fiellin with the Yale Center for Health and Learning, Dan shirtless with the "Breathe Free" game, and Randy Brown of Virtual Heroes. This is just a small selection of the many speakers and attendees present at this conference. I encourage you to find out more about "serious play" and "serious games" Give a listen to my interview with Sue Bohle. My first interview is with Doug Watley the CEO of breakaway games. His game "Vital Signs", was just awarded one of two best in show awards.  One of the sessions that fascinated me was the discussion of how a 2-D player game was created to help at-risk middle school-aged children work through scenarios of behavior choices and what the consequences would be. Let’s learn about Lynn Fiellin's Play2Protect game. I had a really interesting conversation with Dan Scherlis he is both a professional game developer and now a health games executive producer. It’s very interesting thoughts on the word game of vacation and told me about a game he’s working on "Breath Free" to help smokers try to quit. We even talked about good versus evil. My last interview is with Randy Brown of virtual heroes is a fascinating spinoff of Epic Games Unreal Engine creating virtual worlds to help teach and connect individuals in a variety of professions from the military to public service to healthcare. His company, Virtual Heroes is working with the Duke School of Nursing on an IRB study for Type II diabetes support in a virtual world. Let’s hear what Randy has to say. Thank you for listening to get social health I hope you found serious games for healthcare as interesting as I did. As a reminder go give a listen to my other podcast with Sue Bolla the executive director of the Serious Play Conference. I’ve published over hundred episodes of Get Social Health. There have been a lot of fascinating, fun and interesting conversations with healthcare practitioners, digital health thought leaders, physicians nurses and healthcare professionals who are actively using social media to further their healthcare messages. When you visit the get social health.com website you’ll find on the right-hand side a search bar so type in a topic and will be able to find some really great interviews. If you have a suggestion for an interview either a topic or an individual I’d love to hear about it please reach out to me via Janet@getsocialhealth.com one thing I would ask is for you to take the time to give me a review or rating it helps other individuals find the podcast and we could always use a few more listeners. I appreciate your listening today have a great week.

Janet Bettger, associate professor and health services researcher at Duke School of Nursing, DCRI, and DGHI, explains how walking pace or “gait speed” predicts your future health.

Vandana Shashi, professor of pediatrics at Duke School of Medicine, shares how genomic sequencing helps doctors discover, identify, and even cure mystery illnesses in children.

Dean of Duke University Chapel Sam Wells and Duke School of Medicine Dean Nancy Andrews hold a dialogue on February 12, 2009.