Podcasts about harvard vanguard medical associates

Les Schwab, MD is a primary care physician with 40 years of experience in medical practice and healthcare organizational leadership. Most recently he served as the Chief Medical Office at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates.  Les has attained certification in coaching and now operates a coaching and consulting practice focused on performance improvement and leadership development.  He also served as principal investigator for a randomized controlled study of a coaching intervention that demonstrated a decrease in physician burnout.

Jacob Mirsky, MD, MA is a primary care physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital Revere HealthCare Center and a consultation physician at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine. Dr. Mirsky attended medical school at the University of California San Francisco and completed residency in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston as part of the Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates primary care track. In addition to his primary care practice, he leads virtual group visits (also called shared medical appointments) in primary care focused on healthy lifestyle change for symptom management and disease prevention. He helped open the MGH Revere Food Pantry in 2019, which provides free plant-based foods to patients with food insecurity, and he currently serves as its Medical Director. Dr. Mirsky also founded and is the Medical Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine Healthy Lifestyle Program (HLP). The HLP has a mission to establish healthy lifestyle change as the standard of care for preventing and treating chronic disease.In this conversation Dr. Mirsky talks about the idea, background and concept of shared medical appointments, also called group visits. Dr. Mirsky discusses the benefits of group visits for both - the patient and the provider - especially for managing and reversing conditions like hypertension, type II diabetes, and helping with weightloss through lifestyle medicine. He touches on how it enhances patient experience, allowing them more time with provider and building a support group; and contributes to physician satisfaction potentially counteracting burnout. Tune in to learn more about the evolution of the program and the success stories of patients who participate!To learn more, please visit:Website: https://www.massgeneral.org/medicine/internal-medicine/healthy-lifestyle-programTwitter: @DrJacobMirsky Emory Lifestyle Medicine invites you to join our upcoming virtual holiday cooking class on Friday, November 19 ar 12pm EST! Learn more of register HERE.Leave a review for our show on your favorite podcast platform, and get a chance to win a free admission to the class! Please send email to krystyna.rastorguieva@emoryhealthcare.org after you leave the review, to enter the raffle! We thank you for your support and value your feedback! This podcast is brought to you by Emory Lifestyle Medicine & Wellness. To learn more about our work, please visithttps://bit.ly/EmoryLM

In this episode covering vulvodynia, Dr. Selk interviews Dr. Elizabeth Stewart, the co-founder and Director Emerita of the Vulvovaginal Service at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Atrius Health in Boston, the author of "The V Book", and co-creator of the educational website vulvovaginaldisorders.com. Topics discussed include the definition of vulvodynia, known causes of vulvodynia, what questions to ask when patients present with pain, how to diagnose vulvodynia, how to counsel patients, treatment options, helpful resources for patients, frequency of follow-up, and the probability of complete resolution of symptoms.

Dr. Michael Johnson is no stranger to alien and UFO-related experiences. However, this is the first time that he’s going public in such a manner as now, and we are honoured to be one of the first ones to have interviewed him in this capacity. Dr. Johnson is a retired Harvard Medical School psychiatrist and professor, having received his BA from Earlham College in Richmond Indiana, and MD from Indiana University School of Medicine. Following his medical residency in psychiatry, Dr. Johnson served as a “Lieutenant Commander” and “Staff Psychiatrist” at a US Naval Hospital, subsequently moving to Boston to become the “Psychiatrist-in-Chief” at the Massachusetts Osteopathic Hospital, before eventually taking the position as Staff Psychiatrist at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in Cambridge. Dr. Johnson’s first contact with abduction experiences was just after a fellow renowned Harvard physician, Dr. John Mack, referred one of his abductee patients to him. After hearing of the abductee’s experiences, Dr. Johnson continued to research the phenomena and has gathered an incredible amount of material. From ever-advancing neuroimaging technology, to increased professional interest from across the world, Dr. Johnson has been at the forefront of the medical investigations of abduction. During this interview, we begin by exploring Dr. Johnson’s experiences from the beginning. When did he first come across the Alien Abduction Phenomenon? What makes a case particularly believable or compelling? How much is “real,” and how much is merely a psychological anomaly? Furthermore, how has the abduction experience evolved over time? We then explore how certain experiences might have geographical correlations. Furthermore, what about the involvement of psychedelics? Is what we see under certain influences “real” or “all in our heads”? How have ancient civilisations interacted with psychedelics in the past? Could certain substances facilitate our communication with “other-worldly” entities? Also, what about the treatment of mental disorders? Could this type of research help with general psychiatric experiences? What is the exact relationship between substance-induced psychedelic experiences, and involuntary experiences? What does ayahuasca and DMT teach us about these topics?

Roanne Weisman is an award-winning medical/science author of seven trade health books published by McGraw-Hill and Harvard Medical School, as well as Health Communications, Inc. Her co-authors include faculty of Harvard Medical School and leading academic medical centers. Her feature stories have appeared in magazines including Prevention, Country Living, Alternative Medicine, and Body and Soul, as well as magazines of Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, both teaching institutions of Harvard Medical School. She also writes regularly for online health education sites. She is the principal of the Write Way to Health, which provides communications consulting and editorial services to large organizations. Barbara Kivowitz, MSW, is a psychotherapist and health care consultant. She has worked with Stanford Health Care and Medical School, UCSF Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and other health care organizations, and their patients and family caregivers, to help them understand the benefits of a “relationship-focused” model of care. She is a frequent speaker at clinical and patient/caregiver conferences. She has direct experience helping couples and families living with illness through her work as a therapist and an advisor to a hospice. In addition, she has authored several articles on couples and illness, and on living with pain, one of which was published in Women’s Day and another in the journal of the American Pain Foundation. Her blog about couples and illness has been nominated for best literary and best patient blog. She served on the board of trustees of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates. She has graduate degrees from Harvard University and Simmons School of Social Work. Lucy Jane Bledsoe is the author of the Evolution of Love and five previous novels, including A Thin Bright Line. Her fiction has won a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature, an American Library Association Stonewall Award, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, a Pushcart nomination, a Yaddo Fellowship, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. She’s been a six-time Lambda Literary Award finalist and a two-time Ferro-Grumley Award Finalist. Bledsoe lives in the Bay Area where she spends as much time as possible kayaking in the bay, as well as hiking and cycling in the hills.

Dr. Larissa Nekhlyudov is a board-certified general internist and Medical Director of Primary Care Associates, Longwood. Dr. Nekhlyudov practiced internal medicine at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates for over 15 years. In this episode she discusses the importance of effective communication between the primary care physician & oncologist for AYA patients diagnosed with cancer.

Betsy Johnson is president and CEO of MaineHealth Accountable Care Organization. With over 17 years of experience in healthcare leadership and 20 years of clinical practice experience in internal medicine, Dr. Johnson brings to the MaineHealth Accountable Care Organization (ACO) her passion for building and supporting a community model of health care that is value-based, integrated, and patient-centered. Through teamwork and partnership across the health system, she has helped facilitate the transition of the MMC Physician-Hospital Organization (PHO), Community Physicians of Maine (CPM) into an integrated ACO advocating for a culture of accountable care, provider engagement, transparency, and achievement of the Quadruple Aim for over 1400 providers and 10 acute care hospitals. Before coming to the ACO, she served as chief medical officer at Martin’s Point Health Care where in addition to leading the Quality Division for both the health plans and delivery system, she led the integration of three medical groups into one group-employed model, as well as their transformation toward patient-centered medical homes. She previously served as chief of internal medicine and adult urgent care at the Kenmore Center, part of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in Boston. After receiving her BA from Bowdoin College, Betsy obtained an MD from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and a Master of Health Care Management from Harvard School of Public Health. She currently serves on several boards including Maine Quality Counts and Coverys, and serves as chair of Onpoint Health Data’s board of directors. She sees patients at Maine Medical Partners Falmouth Internal Medicine and serves as faculty on MaineHealth’s Physician Leadership Development Fellowship https://www.themainemag.com/radio/radio-guests/dr-betsy-johnson-president-ceo-mainehealth-accountable-care-organization/

School nurses are facing many changes in the policies and protocols for administering epinephrine at school. Laws have been passed in over 45 states that allow the use of stock epinephrine. Many school nurses now have the responsibility of teaching unlicensed persons to administer epinephrine in emergency scenarios. In this segment we look as sound policies to guide an emergency response. Carrie Clarke has been a school nurse in South Dakota's largest school district for over fifteen years. She is the past president of the South Dakota School Nurses Association, winner of the 2010 Voices of Meningitis Challenge and currently serving as one of the Epinephrine Resource School Nurses for South Dakota. Dr. Michael Pistiner is a pediatric allergist for Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates and a voluntary Instructor of pediatrics at Boston Childrens Hospital. He serves as a voluntary consultant for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, School Health Services. He is a fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics where he is a member of the Council of School Health and the Section of Allergy & Immunology

On the Wednesday, December 7th 2011 broadcast at 11AM Pacific/2PM Eastern my special guest commentator is H. Eugene Lindsey, MD of Atrius Health, an alliance of six leading medical groups who joined together as a non-profit alliance, dedicated to transform the delivery of health care in eastern and central Massachusetts. For more information, see: http://www.atriushealth.org/   Dr. Lindsey has been President and CEO of Atrius Health and also of its largest affiliate, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, since February 2008.   Previously he was Chairman of the Board of Directors for Atrius Health and Chairman of the Board of Directors for Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates. Dr. Lindsey joined Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in 1975 and practiced cardiology and internal medicine at the Kenmore, Wellesley and West Roxbury Harvard Vanguard practices. He served on the board of Harvard Community Health Plan/Harvard Pilgrim Health Care from 1991 to 2000. Dr. Lindsey received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Lindsey is a sought-after speaker on the healthcare topics of payment reform, accountable care organizations, practice innovation, quality and efficiency.   Please join us!.

On Jan. 18, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first new non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor in nearly a decade. It was known throughout much of its development as TMC125, and is now known by its generic name, etravirine, and the brand name of Intelence. Etravirine's approval follows on the heels of the approvals of four other new antiretrovirals, making this an unprecedented time in the history of HIV/AIDS medicine. To learn more about etravirine, and its potential impact on the treatment of HIV-infected patients, we spoke with Dr. Cal Cohen, research director of Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates and Community Research Initiative of New England in Boston, Mass. He is also a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cohen has participated in research on etravirine, and has also received funding from Tibotec, which developed etravirine.