Podcast appearances and mentions of Matt Lambert

Our podcast show today features Professor Dan Awrey of Cornell Law School, and Matt Lambert, Deputy General Counsel of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (“CSBS”) who discuss the pros and cons of Congress enacting a statute which would require federal charter for non-banks engaged in the payments business. At present, such non-banks are generally required to be licensed by state departments of banking under money transmitter laws. On November 14 of last year, on our podcast show, Professor Awrey discussed his working paper “Money and Federalism” in which he advocates for the enactment of Federal legislation creating a Federal charter for non-banks engaged in the payments business, like PayPal and Venmo. The article may be accessed online at SSRN and will likely be published in a law review at some time in the future. The abstract of Professor Awrey's article states, in relevant part: The dual banking system is now under stress. The source of the stress is a new breed of technology-driven financial institutions licensed and regulated almost entirely at the state level that provide money and payments outside the perimeter of both conventional bank regulation and the financial safety net. This article examines the rise of these new monetary institutions, the state-level regulatory frameworks that govern them and the nature of the threats they may one day pose to monetary stability. It also examines the legal and policy cases for federal supremacy over the regulation of these new institutions and advances two potential models, one based on complete federal preemption, the other more tailored to reflect the narrow yet critical objective of promoting public confidence and trust in our monetary system. The CSBS on Nov. 12 of last year published an article on its website entitled “The Reality of Money Transmission: Secure, Convenient, and Trusted under State Supervision” in which it purported to dispel several myths about state money transmitter and money services statutes. CSBS stated: Recent statements about money transmission in the United States have perpetuated myths about consumer protections and the safety and soundness of this vibrant, secure, and trusted part of our country's payments ecosystem. It is time that we dispel some of these myths by explaining the realities of the state-developed, nationwide framework for regulation, licensing, and supervision of money transmission. While targeted reforms made through cooperation between the states and federal government may be appropriate, a complete overhaul of an established, secure, convenient, and stable money transmission ecosystem is an unwarranted federal overreach. Because of these sharp differences of opinion between Professor Awrey and CSBS, we decided to invite Professor Awrey and Matt Lambert to be our guests on this show and to discuss the following issues: The historical background to and rationale for state money transmitter laws How the National Multistate Licensing System (“NMLS”) and state supervision work today The emergence of new business models: e.g. PayPal, Stripe, Crypto A brief history of recent federal proposals: from the OCC fintech charter to the current stablecoin bills How state legislatures and regulators have responded to the emergence of new business models (e.g. model act amendments and adoption, new chartering frameworks) Where the federal government can meaningfully improve on these state level responses (standardization, bankruptcy protection, payment network access, systemic risk regulation, international coordination) Where state regulators have a comparative advantage (novel chartering, supervision) Where we think the nonbank payment industry and regulation are heading in 2025 and beyond Alan Kaplinsky, Senior Counsel and former practice group leader of the Consumer Financial Services Group, hosts the podcast show.

On this episode, we are thrilled to be talking to the 2024 Club Executive of the Year, Matt Lambert, CCM, CCE, CAM. In November, Club Management magazine named Matt Lambert the 2024 Club Executive of the Year. He currently serves as the General Manager/Chief Operating Officer of The Country Club at Mirasol in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. Lambert has more than 24 years of experience in the club industry. Get to know Matt in this episode!

  Thabo Shole Mashel speaks to Matt Lambert, CEO of the International Hotel School, about the many types of courses you can embark on to work on a cruise ship. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There's no denying the many positives you can gain from working on a cruise ship.You get to travel the world while earning good money! Perhaps this is a career many young people in SA should consider? So how does one get a job on board a cruise liner? Matt Lambert, MD of International Hotel School joins us on the line now  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Regulators take confidentiality seriously. So, when regulators from different states, agencies, or industries need to communicate, how do they do it? As it turns out, regulators spend months (and sometimes years) carefully setting up the infrastructure and processes so that, when the need arises to communicate with one another, they know exactly what can be shared with whom and when.This week, Matt Lambert sits down with me to talk through these "information sharing agreements," why they matter, the work that goes into making them, and what the industry should know about how their regulators communicate. Guest: Matt Lambert, CSBS Deputy General Counsel - Policy 

In this episode, Dr Kat Ralston chats to Dr Matt Lambert about hyperacute stroke. They discuss a targeted approach to first assessment, including how to utilise your team effectively in a time-pressured environment. They explore the evidence behind different treatment options and share practical tips on thrombolysis and thrombectomy. Dr Lambert is a consultant in Stroke and Medicine for the Elderly in NHS Tayside and was clinical lead for stroke in Tayside from 2016 until 2023. During this time they led a significant reorganisation of stroke services which led to significant improvements in the delivery of stroke care as measured by the Scottish Stroke Care Audit and laid the foundations for introducing a mechanical thrombectomy service for acute stroke in Tayside. They have an interest in quality improvement and completed the Scottish Quality and Safety Fellowship. Since late 2023 Dr Lambert has been the Stroke Specialty Advisor to the CMO and National Clinical lead for Stroke in Scotland. Dr Kat Ralston is a Geriatric Medicine Registrar and member of the RCPE Trainees and Members' Committee, currently working in Edinburgh. -- Useful Links -- NIHSS training - https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/public-education/know-stroke/health-professionals National Clinical Guideline for Stroke for the UK and Ireland - https://www.strokeguideline.org/ Endovascular thrombectomy after large-vessel ischaemic stroke: a meta-analysis of individual patient data from five randomised trials - https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(16)00163-x Recording Date: 11 March 2024 -- Follow us -- https://www.instagram.com/rcpedintrainees https://twitter.com/RCPEdinTrainees -- Upcoming RCPE Events -- https://events.rcpe.ac.uk/ Feedback: cme@rcpe.ac.uk

Join us on the latest episode! Our Guest: Dr. Matt Lambert, Director For Emerging Technology And Virtual Health Innovation At NEOMWhat you'll get out of this episode: Dr. Lambert's role in the NEOM project The vision behind NEOM: Future of healthcare and technology Challenges and opportunities in virtual care innovation Cultural integration and sustainable development To learn more about NEOM: Website: https://www.neom.com/en-usX: https://www.twitter.com/NEOMDr. Lambert's SocialsLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-lambert-md/Our sponsors for this episode are:Sage Growth Partners https://www.sage-growth.com/Quantum Health https://www.quantum-health.com/WHAT IS SLICE OF HEALTHCARE?The go-to site for digital health executive/provider interviews, technology updates, and industry news. Listed to in 65+ countries.#DigitalHealthcare #HealthcareData #HealthcareInnovation #SliceOfHealthcare #NEOM #thelinecity

In the year ahead, the value-based care landscape is expected to be more challenging for healthcare providers as new regulations from the federal government take effect. A key strategy to manage and thrive in this increasingly complex environment is leveraging technology.   In this episode, Dr. Matt Lambert, chief medical officer of Curation Health, will detail best practices for healthcare leaders to implement technology that will help ease the transition to value-based care, describing how automation and other applications can significantly help with risk management, care coordination and data.  In addition, Lambert discusses the overall value-based care landscape and his predications for 2024.

With a record 11 retailers, this year's class of Young Retailer of the Year honorees proves the future of the independent channel is in good hands. In this episode, the final in the five-episode series, we'll meet Matt Lambert and John Luhring and hear how innovation will be a key driving the industry and independent channel. Music Credits: "Let That Sink In" by Lee Rosevere

Tym razem odcinek rozpoczyna zapowiedź burczenia. Kilka słów poświęciliśmy recepcji w Wielkiej Brytanii polskich wydarzeń politycznych. W ramach nowinek-starowinek jeden z nas przybliżył metodą porównawczą początki ludów: Polaków i mieszkańców Brytanii. Drugi wskazał na historię księgozbioru jednego z członków Kręgu z Krzyżowej. W dziale lektur jeden z nas opowiedział o filmie dokumentalnym dotyczącym lęków i niechęci nazistów. Drugi z nas przedstawił treść seminarium młodych badaczy, którzy skupili się na zagadnieniach ludobójstwa w historii. Temu tematowi poświęcona była też przedstawiana przez niego książka. Druga z publikacji dotyczyła historii fotografii w jednym z miast współczesnej Polski. Wreszcie przypomniał o ukazaniu się polskiej wersji wydawnictwa korespondencji prowadzonej przez wdowę po jednym z członków Kręgu z Krzyżowej. Głównym tematem tego odcinka były ślady przeszłości. Ale takie, które z racji swojej odmienności kulturowej stały się nieczytelne dla współczesnych odbiorców. Zwróciliśmy też uwagę na ślady ludzkiej działalności, które pozostały odciśnięte… w naturze. Omawialiśmy możliwość wykorzystywania tego typu pozostałości w edukacji historycznej. Wreszcie, odwołując się do metafory palimpsestu, wskazywaliśmy na bogactwo historii, a wraz z nią wiedzy o człowieku, które nas otacza. - Rozgrzewka:)) - Nowinki / starowinki - 8:33 - Lektury - 20:38 - Temat przewodni - 44:51 Pełny tekst opisu zamieściliśmy na stronie internetowej naszego projektu: http://2historykow1mikrofon.pl/zapomniane-kultury/ Wymienione w czasie audycji publikacje i materiały: - Film: Eldorado. Wszystko, czego nienawidzą naziści, reż. Benjamin Cantu, Matt Lambert, Niemcy 2023 https://www.filmweb.pl/film/Eldorado%3A+Wszystko%2C+czego+nienawidz%C4%85+nazi%C5%9Bci-2023-10036982 - Christian Tröbst, Feya von Moltke, Wiara i opozycja. Listy z lat 1957-1959, przekład i opracowanie Krzysztof Ruchniewicz i Marek Zybura, przedmowa do wydania polskiego Helmut Caspar von Moltke, Wrocław 2023, https://esbn.pl/Wiara-i-opozycja-Listy-z-lat-1957-1959-p104 - Norman M. Naimark, Genozid. Völkermord in der Geschichte, Darmstadt 2018. - Światłem zapisane. Fotograficzna historia Ełku, Ełk 2023, https://muzeum.elk.pl/wystawy/1wystawy-czasowe-mhe/wystawa-swiatlem-zapisane-fotograficzna-historia-elku/5514/ Krzysztof Ruchniewicz Blog: www.krzysztofruchniewicz.eu Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/krzysztof.ruchniewicz.3 Instagram: www.instagram.com/ruchpho/ Twitter: twitter.com/krzyruch YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCT23Rwyk…iew_as=subscriber Przemysław Wiszewski Blog: www.przemysławwiszewski.pl Facebook: www.facebook.com/przemyslaw.wiszewski Instagram: www.instagram.com/przewisz/ Twitter: twitter.com/wiszewski YuoTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCuq6q08E…iew_as=subscriber Do nagrania intro i outro wykorzystaliśmy utwór RogerThat'a pt. „Retro 70s Metal” (licencja nr JAM-WEB-2020-0010041).

In this week's Missouri Corn Talk, Missouri Corn Merchandising Council board member and north-central Missouri farmer Matt Lambert has more about a recent sustainability trip to Germany with the U.S. Grains Council. He also talks about sustainable practices used on farm to maximize inputs and reduce runoff.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Dans cet épisode, Colette et une amie lisent un extrait du livre “Les bijoux indiscrets” de Denis Diderot.

Episode 98 of Live On Set marks the return and final apperance of podcast favorite, Matt Lambert. Topics include: Austin inducts Matt into the exclusive Live On Set Five Timers Club, Freevee/Amazon's Jury Duty, and HBO's Succession.

Despite the healthcare industry implementing value-based payment models for well over a decade, healthcare providers and payers still face challenges in the execution and expansion of pay-for-performance programs.  In this episode of Healthcare Insider, Kevin Coloton, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Curation Health, and Dr. Matt Lambert, Chief Medical Officer of Curation Health, share practical tips for providers and payers to be successful in value-based care wherever they are in their journey – whether that be starting a value-based care program from the ground up or how to expand current efforts. Coloton and Lambert also describe the common pitfalls to avoid as healthcare organizations continue on their value-based care path such as investing in a myriad of technology solutions in an effort to maximize insights from data. 

"How do we get to the point where we feel seen and cared for and heard?" - matt lambert matt lambert is a non-binary, trans, multidisciplinary collaborator and co-conspirator working towards equity, inclusion, and reparation. On the Eve of their "Self" exhibition opening at Contemporary Craft, matt shares thoughts on craft, historiography, and better questions to ask at a party. http://www.mattlambertstudio.com/

Cleveland Clinic recently announced that they would begin charging for certain patient-initiated messages. This flies in the face of everything the industry is talking about when it comes to patient engagement and value-based care. At the same time, it is quite unreasonable to think that a doctor should be available for questions at any time, for free. How can we protect the clinicians' time AND provide the patients with the care and attention they need?  And why are we moving away from value-based care? Craig Joseph, MD, Chief Medical Officer of Nordic Consulting Partners, and Matt Lambert, MD, Chief Medical Officer for Curation Health join Don Lee to share their take. Craig's article that led to this episode: To charge or not to charge For full show notes and links, visit https://thehcbiz.com

Welcome to the WISDOM PODCAST. A conversation amongst artists, creators and owners from around the world, giving Wisdom on how they do it. On Episode 31 we are joined by Matt of Factor's Fashion House who is accompanied alongside Co-owners Nick and Heather. High Tailoring / High Sport — this is the ethos behind Factor's, an Atlanta-based brand launched by founder Matt Lambert in 2020. After honing his talents over twelve years in made-to-measure suiting, Lambert offers a focused vision in the world of bespoke tailoring. Classic silhouettes meet looser cuts, elongated lengths and dramatic lapels; texture is presented through thoughtful fabrication, with an overarching intent to be draped on the body. Coupled with adaptability, the longevity of garments inspires the shedding of tradition within the confines of tailored clothing. Factor's is a contemporary presence generating an unyielding balance of sleek fluidity, character and attitude.

Episode 82 of Live On Set is an episode truly unlike any other. A scheduling conflict leads to the resurrection of an episode in Live On Set's Lost Tapes collection. Tune in to hear the once briefly released episode, Fight Club, starring Austin's good friends, Matt Lambert & Matt Williams. For this can't miss episode, the group provides a unique approach to Barstool's 2020 question: If you are in a bar fight, what celebrity would you choose to back you up?

Hello and welcome to the Alcohol Alert, brought to you by The Institute of Alcohol Studies.In this edition:Shift in England’s drinking during COVID-19 could lead to 150,000 more cases of disease by 2035 🎵 Podcast feature 🎵The global burden of poor analysisMinimum pricing has never been promoted as a panaceaPubs: “lost forever” or consolidated?Health Disparities white paper delayedBoris Johnson “minimises” sexual harassment and blames alcoholIndustry arguments dominate Commons debate on alcohol tax reformAlcohol packaging captures the attention of and creates appeal among young peopleAlcohol Toolkit Study: updateWe hope you enjoy our roundup of stories below: please feel free to share. Thank you.IAS BlogsTo read blogs click here.Shift in England’s drinking during COVID-19 could lead to 150,000 more cases of disease by 2035 🎵 Podcast feature 🎵A new IAS and HealthLumen modelling study suggests changes in alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to lead to thousands of additional cases of diseases and premature deaths.The pandemic saw heavier drinkers consuming more alcohol and this trend is continuing. If consumption does not return to 2019 levels or lower, England could see an additional 147,892 cases and 9,914 additional premature deaths from nine alcohol-related diseases, costing the NHS £1.2bn.Three scenarios were modelled between 2022 and 2035 to project how recent changes in drinking may affect health harm from nine alcohol-related diseases: high blood pressure, stroke, liver cirrhosis, and six forms of cancer. The research found:Joint Lead on the study Dr Sadie Boniface said:“Much of the health harm from alcohol is from chronic diseases which take years to develop. Our results shed light on the long-term impacts of recent changes in drinking patterns.“These increases in alcohol harm, lives lost, and costs to the NHS projected in our study are not inevitable.“Deaths from alcohol are at record levels, and this research should act as a ‘wake-up call’ to take alcohol harm seriously as part of recovery planning from the pandemic.”A very similar modelling study by the University of Sheffield was published at the same time and backed up IAS’ findings. The Sheffield study looked at more diseases across a longer period of time, so projected higher alcohol-related deaths and hospital admissions.Dr Boniface was interviewed on the BBC News, explaining the study findings and implications:If you missed our launch webinar, where Dr Boniface and Sheffield’s lead author Colin Angus presented their studies, you can catch up on YouTube here.The global burden of poor analysisIn mid-July, a new Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study was published in The Lancet. The GBD study is a long-running observational epidemiological study. Their new publication was widely covered in the media with most either stating that “alcohol is never good for people under 40” or “Young people should not drink alcohol but older people may benefit from small amounts”.The study found that for men aged 15-39, the recommended amount of alcohol before “risking health loss” was just 0.136 of a standard drink a day. For women of the same age, the “theoretical minimum risk exposure level” was 0.273 drinks – about a quarter of a standard drink a day.Among those aged 40-64, safe alcohol consumption levels ranged from about half a standard drink a day to almost two standard drinks. For those aged 65 or older, the risks of “health loss from alcohol consumption” were reached after consuming a little more than three standard drinks a day.The senior author, Dr Emmanuela Gakidou, professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine, said:“Our message is simple: young people should not drink, but older people may benefit from drinking small amounts.”This is in contrast to their study four year ago, which said that even the occasional drink was harmful to health and suggested governments should advise people to abstain entirely.Colin Angus wrote an IAS blog criticising elements of the study, for instance the study saying “older people may benefit from drinking small amounts” could be seen to suggest non-drinking older people should take up drinking for its supposed protective effects. Another major issue he flagged was that the study tells you “absolutely nothing about the difference in risks between age groups or the absolute risks that people are facing as a consequence of their drinking”.In the media Mr Angus said:“Younger people are, on average, much less likely to become ill or die from any cause than their older counterparts. Assessing how we should set drinking guidelines or prioritise interventions to minimise the total harm of alcohol requires an assessment of absolute, not relative risk.“The GBD’s own figures suggest that there are over 14 times as many alcohol-attributable deaths in the UK among 70-74 year-olds than 20-24 year olds, which rather contradicts the assertion in this new study that we should focus on the drinking of younger age groups.”Statistician Sir David Spiegelhalter also criticised the study on Twitter:Minimum pricing has never been promoted as a panaceaIn the 22nd of July’s BMJ Editorial, IAS’ Dr Sadie Boniface discussed the new WHO report on minimum pricing policies for alcohol, explaining the report structure and stating that minimum pricing “is an effective part of the policy toolbox for reducing harm from alcohol”.Following a number of recent reports that minimum pricing has failed in Scotland, Dr Boniface writes in the Editorial:“Minimum pricing has never been promoted as a panacea, so arguments that it does not singlehandedly eliminate harm from alcohol can be rejected. Proponents do not claim, for example, that minimum pricing is enough to reduce alcohol consumption and harm among people who are dependent on alcohol, for whom the wider healthcare and support needs are obvious. Minimum pricing is one policy in the toolbox, needed alongside others as part of a coherent strategy.”Dr Boniface discusses what a coherent policy landscape would look like, with population level policies implemented, effectively monitored and evaluated, alongside a suitably resourced and accessible healthcare system offering support. She explains that policies have to be independent from industry influence, an influence which remains a major challenge to a coherent approach.Pubs: “lost forever” or consolidated?According to real estate consultancy Altus Group, there were 39,970 pubs in June, down by more than 7,000 since 2012. Altus said after struggling through Covid the industry now faces soaring prices and higher energy costs.Altus said that pubs which had "disappeared" from the communities they once served had either been demolished or converted for other purposes, meaning that they were "lost forever".A 2017 IAS publication found publicans often attributed pub closures to failures of their managers who are unable to respond to shifting consumer expectations. It also found supermarkets undercutting pubs in price was the major threat to pubs’ commercial viability. As shown below, the gap between on and off-trade consumption has been steadily widening for many years:Another reason for pub closures is consolidation of business into bigger bars. This ONS report in 2018 showed that while small pubs were closing, big pub chains were consolidating business, with employee numbers and overall revenue remaining relatively constantThe Government said:"We've cut taxes for hundreds of thousands of businesses by increasing the Employment Allowance while slashing fuel duty. We've also introduced a 50% business rates relief for eligible High Street businesses and prevented bill increases by freezing the business rates multiplier, saving businesses £4.6bn over the next five years."Health Disparities white paper delayedThe Health Disparities white paper – due to be published in late July – has been delayed for the summer and will only go ahead if given the green light by the new Prime Minister.The white paper is set to include further legislation to increase alternatives to tobacco products and increase alcohol-free products in pubs.An ITV article said:“In recent weeks charities and other health groups have been pushing for the paper to introduce preventative measures and measures that have a population wide focus. Sources said there was a risk that a future pm could drop this agenda - although pointed out that the policies had been framed as "non-nanny state" - perhaps to try to make sure it had Cabinet support.”The white paper is said to include a change to the classification of no and low alcohol beers. Currently no-alcohol has to be 0.5% or lower and low-alcohol 1.2% or lower. This could rise to 1% and 3% respectively.The change is said to be designed to help people cut down alcohol consumption “by helping brewers make low-strength options more appealing”.Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, chair of the AHA, suggested that more evidence was needed on low-alcohol products but said “if it could be done in a way without brand promotion, we would be supportive”.However, Gilmore said the plan was “tinkering round the edges” and that the government had “consistently put its head in the sand on evidence-based policies that have been shown worldwide to reduce harm”, mainly by increasing prices and reducing availability.Boris Johnson “minimises” sexual harassment and blames alcoholWhile being question by the Liaison Committee about his handling of the conduct of former deputy chief whip Chris Pincher, Boris Johnson said there’s a problem with alcohol in Westminster and that “some people simply can’t take their drink”.Conservative committee member Caroline Nokes MP asked him “have you just sat there and told us that alcohol is an excuse?”, to which Boris disagreed.In the resignation letter of parliamentary private secretary Mark Fletcher, he wrote about the Pincher assault:“You suggested that the events of that night were the fault of the colleagues who were present for allowing him to drink too much. Such a view seems to me an attempt to absolve Mr Pincher of his actions and, in so doing, to be an apologist for someone who has committed sexual assault.”Ian Hamilton, of the University of York, wrote in the Independent that alcohol should not be used as an excuse for predatory sexual behaviour as this displaces responsibility from the perpetrator. He wrote:“While the victim is left with the impression that it was the drug rather than the person responsible, the perpetrator tries to evade taking responsibility for what they did. This hardly gives anyone hope that this predatory behaviour will change. Even if predators become abstinent from alcohol, this won’t magically displace their thought processes and perception about what is permissible and what isn’t, in relation to others.”Industry arguments dominate Commons debate on alcohol tax reformOn 7 July the Commons debated the proposed reform to alcohol duty, with discussion of its impact on the alcohol industry – particularly the wine industry – dominating proceedings.Welsh Conservative Alun Cairns opened the debate and asked for “minor adjustments” to the strength bands and Small Brewers’ Relief.Various other MPs spoke of the new system being too complicated, with too many tax bands, and how wine producers will find it difficult as wine strength is dependent on the weather.Liberal Democrat MP Daisy Cooper said: “Overall, the alcohol duty reforms proposed by the Government just tinker around the edges in dealing with the pressures facing hospitality”, seemingly not recognising the importance of the public health element of the reform.Shadow Exchequer Secretary, Abena Oppong-Asare MP, said Labour agrees the system should be simplified and be more consistent, and be balanced across public health and supporting business. She said the wine bands should be looked at, as the new system has too much red tape, as should changes to beer duty which currently would help bigger brewers more than small brewers.Oppong-Asare went on to point out the cider exceptionalism, with it having a lower rate than beer in the proposals, and asked the Treasury to explain why this is when strong cheap cider causes so much harm.Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Lucy Frazer MP responded to the majority of the concerns and said they will be looked into. She did highlight that public health was a major reason for the reform. Alcohol packaging captures the attention of and creates appeal among young peopleA new Stirling study has highlighted the impact alcohol packaging has on capturing the attention of and creating appeal among young people.50 current drinkers aged 18-35 participated in 8 focus groups, in which they were asked about a range of alcoholic products.Daniel Jones, the lead author, said:“Five main themes emerged from our data: the ubiquity of alcohol packaging; its appeal and ability to catch attention; its association with particular occasions and activities; its ability to inform perceptions; and its engagement of both visual and non-visual senses – taste, touch, sound and smell.”Notably, some participants reported purchasing alcohol products solely on pack appeal, with one saying: “I don’t actually like beer, but I bought it specifically because I liked the packaging”.Drinkers preferred exclusive-looking “limited edition” packaging over large price marks portraying the drink as value for money, as they felt value drinks were inferior. Most retained expensive or “cool” empty bottles for display or collection.Matt Lambert of the Portman Group said:“This study demonstrates that the packaging of a product is designed to appeal to different audiences, something that would ring true across all forms of marketing and is not in itself a surprise.”He added that the group's code of practice ensures alcohol is not marketed inappropriately and highlighted how adherence to the code had contributed to “over a decade of decline in underage drinking in Scotland”.Alcohol Toolkit Study: updateThe monthly data collected is from English households and began in March 2014. Each month involves a new representative sample of approximately 1,700 adults aged 16 and over.See more data on the project website here.Prevalence of increasing and higher risk drinking (AUDIT-C)Increasing and higher risk drinking defined as those scoring >4 AUDIT-C. A-C1: Professional to clerical occupation C2-E: Manual occupationCurrently trying to restrict consumptionA-C1: Professional to clerical occupation C2-E: Manual occupation; Question: Are you currently trying to restrict your alcohol consumption e.g. by drinking less, choosing lower strength alcohol or using smaller glasses? Are you currently trying to restrict your alcohol consumption e.g. by drinking less, choosing lower strength alcohol or using smaller glasses?All past-year attempts to cut down or stopQuestion: How many attempts to restrict your alcohol consumption have you made in the last 12 months (e.g. by drinking less, choosing lower strength alcohol or using smaller glasses)? Please include all attempts you have made in the last 12 months, whether or not they were successful, AND any attempt that you are currently making.The UK Alcohol Alert (incorporating Alliance News) is designed and produced by The Institute of Alcohol Studies. 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Episode 72 of Live On Set marks the return of podcast favorite, Matt Lambert. Episode 72 is both the season 4 finale and fourth time Matt has joined Austin on Set. Topics consist of: Reminiscing on Matt's first three appearances on the show, picking our top 5 sodas, and if we were villains in a superhero film, what we superhero would we face.

Hello and welcome to the Alcohol Alert, brought to you by The Institute of Alcohol Studies.In this edition:Alcohol packaging as a health communications tool 🎵 Podcast feature 🎵WHO marketing report exposes loophole; Assembly agrees to action plan; and industry donations to the WHO FoundationIs it enough to reduce youth exposure to alcohol ads?Should people who are overweight have lower drinking guidelines?The pollution of health discourse and need for effective counter-framingEurope ignoring alcohol harm as impediment to sustainabilityAlcohol Toolkit Study: updateWe hope you enjoy our roundup of stories below: please feel free to share. Thank you.IAS BlogsTo read blogs click here.IAS Annual Report 2021/22Our Annual Report 2021/22 is available on our website here, detailing the work our team has done over the past year. Thank you to everyone who has supported IAS this year!EventsAlcohol Health Alliance: Alcohol Harm and EthnicityThe next AHA Seminar Session will be held on 29th June 2022 at 2PM. The speakers Dr Laura Goodwin, Jo-Anne Puddephatt and Jaz Rai OBE will be discussing alcohol harm and ethnicity, and the event will be chaired by Dr Andrea Mohan. You can sign up to the seminar on Eventbrite.WHO Less Alcohol Unit: Zero and low-alcohol beverages: real improvement or apparent solution?Join the WHO for the upcoming webinar ‘Zero and low-alcohol beverages: real improvement or apparent solution?’ on 23 June 2022 at 13:30 to 15:00 CET (Central European Time).This webinar aims to raise awareness about Zero and low-alcohol beverages (NoLos) by untapping their potential and hidden pitfalls, scoping existing policy and regulatory gaps and identifying potential harm and public health measures to address a future increase in NoLos consumption. Register hereAlcohol packaging as a health communications tool 🎵 Podcast feature 🎵A study in April surveyed 1,360 people aged 18-35 to understand exposure and engagement with messaging on alcohol packs, as well as support for product and health information.Participants of the study were asked questions about a vodka bottle that either had no warnings on it, small text warnings, or large text or pictorial warnings.Two fifths (40%) rarely or never saw health-related information on packs, with almost 75% rarely or never reading or looking closely into this. However, there was strong support for displaying information such as units and ingredients.Products with health warnings were more likely to be seen as unappealing and socially unacceptable, and to positively impact alcohol-related cognitions and behaviours. For instance, pictorial warnings were 10 times as likely to positively influence cognitions and behaviours.For this month’s podcast we spoke to lead author Daniel Jones, of the University of Stirling’s Institute of Social Marketing and Health, who explained that more research is needed for us to understand how effective product warnings could be in reducing harm:“The warnings on products aren’t designed to be effective or engaging. There’s definite potential for better warnings to work and consumers are entitled to know what is in the products they are consuming.Real life studies in the UK are required for us to understand the positive impact such warnings could have.”WHO marketing report exposes loophole; Assembly agrees to action plan; and industry donations to the WHO FoundationA comprehensive new report from the World Health Organization released this month highlighted the increasing use of sophisticated cross-border online marketing techniques for alcohol and the need for more effective regulation.The publication – the first of its kind from WHO to look at the full extent of marketing across national borders – stated that such marketing happens “regardless of the social, economic or cultural environment in receiving countries”. It also showed that young people and heavy drinkers were often targeted by marketing.Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus said:“Controls on the marketing of alcohol are much weaker than for other psychoactive products. Better, well enforced and more consistent regulation of alcohol marketing would both save and improve young lives across the world.”The report highlighted the issue of online advertising and difficulties regulating it, as well as sponsorship of sporting events, and targeting of young people and women. It concluded that national governments need to integrate comprehensive restrictions or bans of alcohol marketing in public health strategies. It highlighted key features and options for the regulation of cross-border marketing of alcohol and stressed the need for strong collaboration between states in this area.Member States agree to alcohol action planIn related news, during the World Health Assembly last week, delegates agreed to the 2022-2030 alcohol action plan to help implement the Global strategy to reduce harmful alcohol use.The strategy has not been very effective, so the action plan proposes operational objectives and principles, key action areas for Member States and relevant partners, and sets global targets, indicators, and milestones for monitoring progress.WHO Foundation should not accept alcohol industry donationsPerhaps suggesting a lack of policy coherence within the WHO, a BMJ Commentary piece published the week before the Assembly highlighted that the WHO Foundation – which was set up to fundraise for the WHO – does not reject alcohol industry donations and funding.Initially alcohol industry gifts and funding were red listed along with arms and tobacco, but were moved into the orange category (judged on a case-by-case basis), and then seemingly removed entirely in January 2022.The authors of the Commentary say that this exposes WHO to potential influence by the industry’s conflicting interests. They write that the Gift Policy lacks transparency, preventing scrutiny, and that such funding should be explicitly rejected.They conclude that:“As improvements to the sustainability of WHO’s current financing model remain uncertain, safeguards against corporate influence must be strengthened. Clarification of WHOF’s policy not to accept donations from the alcohol industry is an important first step.”Is it enough to reduce youth exposure to alcohol ads?The Advertising Standards Authority published a report stating that children’s exposure to alcohol and gambling adverts on TV has decreased significantly over the past ten years:The numbers are also segmented by country, with the average number of alcohol ads seen by children in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland each week being 0.8, 0.9, 1, and 1 respectively.However, a research publication released this month shows that reality TV “bombards” young people with images of alcohol use, drawing attention to the additional considerations regarding alcohol on TV.Dr Alex Barker’s study looked at all reality TV shows that aired over the year from August 2019 and recorded any alcohol content either shown or implied. He found actual alcohol use was seen in 966 intervals across 212 episodes, with wine and champagne the most common type of alcohol consumed on screen. Using viewing figures, they estimated that alcohol content was seen 3.5 billion times by the UK population, including 197.3 million times by children aged under 16.Professor Sir Ian Gilmore responded to the study, saying that:“As alcohol is an age-restricted, health harming product, children and young people, in particular, should be protected from exposure to alcohol marketing on the television shows that they watch…the Government must introduce comprehensive restrictions to ensure that young people are protected from alcohol marketing in all its forms in TV programming.”Read our blog by Dr Barker on the study.Should people who are overweight have lower drinking guidelines?At the European Congress on Obesity a study presented suggested that excess weight increases the chances of developing alcohol-related cancers. The authors used UK Biobank data to show that despite drinking within the 14-unit guidelines, those who were overweight or living with obesity were three times more likely to develop such cancers.Study author Dr Elif Inan-Eroglu of the University of Sydney said:“Alcohol drinking guidelines should also consider the obesity levels of people. People with obesity, especially those with excess body fat, need to be more aware of the risks around alcohol consumption.”Dr Alison Giles drew attention to the call for improving information on alcohol packs:"What is crucial is that people who drink alcohol understand these risks, and better product labelling and public health campaigns can raise awareness of this. It's simply a case of people having the right to know the health risks of alcohol in order to make informed decisions about what they consume."Industry body the Portman Group’s Matt Lambert said:"We believe in having clear information on pack that aids rather than alienates consumers. It is likely that having varied guidance for people would be confusing, counterproductive and also potentially patronising.”The pollution of health discourse and need for effective counter-framingProfessor Nason Maani and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine discussed the framing of health in public discourse in a BMJ Opinion piece, and how large commercial actors actively shape how health issues are framed to further their economic and brand interests.Prof Maani explains that harmful product industries, from tobacco and sugar sweetened beverages to alcohol and fossil fuels, frame consumption as a matter of personal responsibility and freedom of choice, and focus on “downstream” treatment rather than “upstream” prevention efforts: “These framings reduce faith in national and international regulatory agencies, undermine the public’s trust in science and evidence, and promote industries’ preferred solutions such as self-regulatory corporate social responsibility or “better regulation” as alternatives to effective public policy.”He says to combat this we need:Europe ignoring alcohol harm as impediment to sustainabilityThe global alcohol prevention NGO Movendi International published an insightful paper at the beginning of May which looked at alcohol policy commitments by 32 European countries in relation to the sustainable development agenda.Countries, including the UK, submitted voluntary national reviews to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development forum, however 28% of these did not mention alcohol at all despite it being an impediment to 14 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.Only 25% mentioned one or more of the WHO’s alcohol policy “best buys” among actions they are taking to reduce alcohol harm.The study states its findings “show that these effects are not considered in the design of measures to achieve these goals”.Alcohol Toolkit Study: updateThe monthly data collected is from English households and began in March 2014. Each month involves a new representative sample of approximately 1,700 adults aged 16 and over.See more data on the project website here.Prevalence of increasing and higher risk drinking (AUDIT)Increasing and higher risk drinking defined as those scoring >7 AUDIT. A-C1: Professional to clerical occupation C2-E: Manual occupationCurrently trying to restrict consumptionA-C1: Professional to clerical occupation C2-E: Manual occupation; Question: Are you currently trying to restrict your alcohol consumption e.g. by drinking less, choosing lower strength alcohol or using smaller glasses? Are you currently trying to restrict your alcohol consumption e.g. by drinking less, choosing lower strength alcohol or using smaller glasses?All past-year attempts to cut down or stopQuestion: How many attempts to restrict your alcohol consumption have you made in the last 12 months (e.g. by drinking less, choosing lower strength alcohol or using smaller glasses)? Please include all attempts you have made in the last 12 months, whether or not they were successful, AND any attempt that you are currently making.The UK Alcohol Alert (incorporating Alliance News) is designed and produced by The Institute of Alcohol Studies. Please click the image below to visit our website and find out more about us and what we do, or the ‘Contact us’ button. Thank you. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit instalcstud.substack.com

This week Jeremy talks to Matt Lambert about being an OG from Sid Mashburn, balancing being a musician while simultaneously starting his career, and how the pandemic helped give birth to his new brand, Factor's. Matt discusses disregarding trends, the "dramatic moments of attitude" in his suits, the attention to how a garment's lifespan impacts his designs, and why his models are pouting in mirrors and slouching to show off the functional 'fits all in our Season 11 premiere.https://www.f-act-ors.com**Sponsored by Standard & Strange – Get the facts on denim

Matt Lambert is a breath of fresh air. For all his accolades, awards and success, he's very down to earth and open. It helps that he has retained an excellent kiwi accent. At least, it helps for me. Matt is one of those chefs who always knew that's what he wanted to do. At 11 years old, he asked a chef if he could start his apprenticeship then and there. Once he did get started, there was no holding him back. When you read about Matt, you read phrases like “internationally acclaimed Michelin star chef”, “sought-after fixture of New York's legendary culinary scene” and “top culinary talent. These are absolutely accurate. Matt started his own restaurant, The Musket Room, in New York in 2013 to showcase New Zealand food and wine. Four months in and he had a Michelin star. When he moved back to Aotearoa in recent years, he was welcomed back with open arms, and he is still spruiking New Zealand to those overseas. Except that overseas for now is here in Australia. Matt is based in Auckland but oversees the Rodd & Gunn Lodge Bar Group which fuses good food and hospitality with kiwi clothing brand, Rodd and Gunn. There's a venue in Auckland, Queenstown, a smaller bar iteration in Chadstone and this month, Matt is in Brisbane to launch the global flagship The Lodge Bar and Dining in the James Street precinct.

Episode 55 of Live On Set marks the return of Austin's friend, Matt Lambert. Tune in to hear Austin and Matt discuss the following topics: Dua Lipa's Orlando show, The Batman, and the growing international fan base of Live On Set.

What you'll learn in this episode: How we can examine almost any political topic through the lens of jewelry Why it's important that jewelry be embraced by academia, and how every jewelry enthusiast can help make that happen (even if they're not in academia themselves) Why a piece of jewelry isn't finished when it leaves the hands of its maker How matt works with collaborators for their column, “Settings and Findings,” in Lost in Jewelry Magazine How jewelry has tied people together throughout time and space About matt lambert matt lambert is a non-binary, trans, multidisciplinary collaborator and co-conspirator working towards equity, inclusion, and reparation. They are a founder and facilitator of The Fulcrum Project and currently are a PhD student between Konstfack and University of Gothenburg in Sweden. They hold a MA in Critical Craft Studies from Warren Wilson College and an MFA in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art. lambert currently is based in Stockholm Sweden and was born in Detroit MI, US where they still maintain a studio. They have exhibited work nationally and internationally including at: Turner Contemporary, Margate, Uk, ArkDes, and Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden, Museo de la Ciudad, Valencia , Spain and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, US. Lambert represented the U.S in Triple Parade at HOW Museum, Shanghai, China, represented the best of craft in Norway during Salon del Mobile, Milan, Italy and was the invited feature at the Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece during Athens Jewelry Week. Lambert has actively contributed writing to Art Jewelry Forum, Garland, Metalsmith Magazine, Klimt02, Norwegian Craft and the Athens Jewelry Week catalogues and maintains a running column titled “Settings and Findings” in Lost in Jewelry Magazine. Additional Resources: matt's Website matt's Instagram Photos: Brooches 2019 Made in collaboration with Maret Anna Sara Image credit: Talya Kantro https://maretannesara.com/pile-power/ Pile Power is a new, elaborative section of Máret Ánne Saras bigger body of work: Pile O ?Sápmi. The project has developed into a multi prong exploration using the remaining material from Sara´s Pile O' Sápmi as shown in Documenta 14. Sara invited matt lambert to enter a dialogue with the intent for finding methods to use all available material that was remaining from earlier pieces. Matt Lambert is recognized through international exhibitions in platforms such as craft, jewelery, performance, design, sculpture and fashion, and has been listed on the top 100 designers for jewelry and accessories by the Global Jewelry and Accessories Council as well as receiving the Next Generation Award from Surface Design Association.  Sara invited Lambert to collaborate using the materials remaining from the Pile O´ Sápmi project after finding a connection through a conviction for socio-cultural sustainability as well as minority comradery between indigeneity and queerness. The Pile Power collaboration is producing larger performative objects using the remaining jaws of the reindeer skulls used in Saras earlier work, as well as more wearable works from the remaining reindeer-porcelain skulls that Sara commissioned to her Pile O' Sápmi Powernecklace shown at Documenta 14. Both of these veins of working promote the conversation around sustainable practices of indigenous  peoples. In Pile Power, body and material form a new basis for approach for themes addressed in the Pile O ?Sápmi project. Based on creative dialogue, a thematic jewelry collection will nomadically carry a new segment of an urgent discourse through bodies and humans. the integumentary system as dialogical fashion installed at  IASPIS Stockholm Sweden 2017 8 x 5.5 x 3 feet Comprised of 15 wearable objects temporal drag only accepting gaudy currency, saving for kitsch omega and sugar free nirvana installed at  IASPIS Stockholm Sweden 2017 10 x 5.5 x 2.5 feet Comprised of 55 wearable objects Tools of Ignorance As installed at Pried The Society of Arts + Crafts Boston MA USA, 2019 Transcript: matt lambert doesn't just want us to wear jewelry—they want us to question it. As a maker, writer, and Ph.D. student, matt spends much of their time thinking about why we wear jewelry, who makes it, and what happens to jewelry as it's passed from person to person. They joined the Jewelry Journey Podcast to talk about the inspirations behind their work, why jewelry carries layers of meaning, and why wearing jewelry (or not wearing it) is always a political act. Read the episode transcript here. Sharon: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Jewelry Journey Podcast. This is the second part of a two-part episode. Today, my guest is Matt Lambert, who is joining us from Stockholm. Matt is a maker, writer and performer currently pursuing a Ph.D. Matt's jewelry journey has taken them from country to country. If you haven't heard part one, please go to TheJewelryJourney.com. Welcome back. You're still making though, right? matt: I am. I am definitely still making. It has not left my bones. It will probably never leave my bones, but it is something I constantly question, like what does it mean to make? What are we making? Sharon: Do you think about where you're making your jewelry? Like you were just in a show in Finland. matt: Those objects also push an interesting thing into play. I was having some hand problems because of Covid. I sleep in a very precarious position for my hands, and I was losing feeling in my right hand because I have an anxiety disorder. When I'm stressed, I basically ball up my hand, and I was pinching a nerve. I was thinking about Covid, the spike in the Black Lives Matter Movement, so many other incredible layers of politics and body awareness and attempts to consciously raise our awareness of what's going on in the world. So, I started a dialogue with someone who's trained in a lot of work but specifically in box making, which is a totally different skillset. We share knowledge of material, and I cast my hands in different gestures of resistance or solidarity. There are three that are new, which is the fist for resistance, the peace sign, and the opening/offering hand. I cast them, and I worked with the box maker to make jewelry boxes for my hands that are actually wearable on my hands. There's a hole, and I can buckle a box around my hand. A lot of my work questions what jewelry is. Is this jewelry? Is my hand the jewel, or is the box that's worn around my hand the jewel? I'm interrogating what a piece of jewelry is or what could it be. I also spoke at KORU7, the Finnish jewelry triennial, which was very meaningful to show and speak at because that's the first place I ever went outside of North America. I told myself, “I'm going to be here one day,” and I got into the exhibition, so that was very emotional. Then they sent me an invite to ask if I would speak, and that was a proud moment. These are milestones in my career, and I have gratitude for the invitations. They mean something in that way of feeling herd, or at least wanting to be listened to for a moment. Sharon: I saw the boxes on Instagram, and I thought, “Oh, those are beautiful boxes,” but I was going, “O.K., do you stick your hand in them or wear them around? What do you do with them?” The leather was beautiful. I thought, “Wow, gorgeous purse!” matt: Those are probably more theoretical and abstract works in jewelry, but it's questioning self-care and preservation. When we make gestures, when we show someone the peace sign or we have the fist of resistance or we offer someone something, do we mean it? Are we trying to freeze it in time? When does a gesture become shallow? It becomes commodified. Through jewelry, when you just consume it, when does our body also become that? It was me saying, “Hey, jewelry can talk about this,” and a lot of my work now is saying jewelry can do this. I call it a not-so-solo show that will be going up in the spring at Bornholm, which is a craft center on an island that is technically Danish. It's between Denmark and Germany. I'll have a larger solo show, but it's a not-so-solo show. It will talk about the different collaborations I have with Masada, who's indigenous, Sámi. Our work is talking about the rights of indigenous people, and there will be new collaborations: one set I've already been doing, one of the hand boxes will be there as well, and the work I do with the choreographer Carl Berg. It's me playing with the elasticity of what jewelry is. There's always some sort of wearable thing, but then it's like, is that the work? Is it a marker of the work? Does it represent my research? Is it a token of that? Is it a souvenir? It's also challenging you as the wearer. When you wear my work, to me, you're also carrying what I stand for, what I believe in or what I'm doing, so we share something together. When people ask, it gives you an opportunity to share the possibility of jewelry, and that's also what I love. When you wear my necklace, I want to know what you tell people. The best part is when I'm with people and someone goes, “What do you do?” at a dinner party, and whoever I'm with that knows me usually loves looking at that person. They go, “What do I do?” Sharon: That's not an easy question to answer. What do you say? matt: I don't. I literally look at the person next to me. I go, “What do I do?” And I love the multiplicity because my work exists. I teach now. I write. I will be announcing being an editor for publications. There are always 12 projects. I make wearables. I make unwearables. I work with dancers. I work with choreographers, so I'm a performer now. There isn't an easy way, and that's a challenge under capitalism. We want to define people by what they do, especially in a U.S. context. It's not super common in Europe to be defined by what you do as it is in the U.S., so it's challenging. I'm just me. I exist. That comes with its own set of consequences, but you're talking about someone who wants to know. It's also a very liberating space to be in. Sharon: Yes, I can see how it would be the most satisfying answer if I'm asking what you do at a party. Let me ask you this, because you mentioned Lost in Jewelry Magazine. Is that only an online publication? matt: Yes, that came out through Day By Day, which is a gallery in Rome. She approached me because she comes from a design background and has graphic design experience, and she discovered jewelry and became an addict like me. I think some people find it and it's like the back of your head falls off, and you want to read as many books and info and see everything you can. I see you at all these events too, and there's always something to learn. She wrote me and said, “Hey, you have a voice. What do you want to do with it? Could I give you space, and what would it look like?” So, I proposed a running column called Settings and Findings. Sharon: What did you mean by that, Settings and Findings? matt: It's a play on words. There are categories if you go to purchase materials for jewelry. A setting is what usually would hold a stone, but it's word play. You have a table setting.  What are you holding on to? What are you making space for? And a finding is a component in jewelry, but it's also what you're discovering. I write about different people that have different projects. I like research projects, collaborations or specific bodies of work, looking at things that aren't in the main canon. I often give people a space to say, “What are you setting and finding for this particular moment or for this project?” It's a way to also show that we are doing artistic research, whether we're aware of it or we frame it as that or not. It's become a tool for me to see how different people talk about their research. There are some coming up that are poems. Some people have written beautiful, long things, or sometimes I help them write it. It's finding that balance, since not everybody writes, but it's working with and taking time with someone or a group of people to talk about research in the field, about using the word research. It's a thing to point to in my Ph.D. as well. It's an investigative tool. Normally when you do academia, you do what's called literature review. You say what exists in the books. It's a way for me to say, “This is research that already exists. This is stuff that's happening.” I'm not alone in this and people might not contextualize it in an academic way, but I'm using my position to contextualize in that way if they aren't. I'm putting it in a space so they can say, “This is research. We don't need academia to do research as jewelers, but we could frame it as that.” Sharon: I can understand the settings and what are you holding onto. The findings are what you're finding out about yourself or the pieces you're making? matt: Really, whatever you want. I think there's one article up by Viviana Langhoff who writes jewelry and adornment theory. She wrote a very beautiful, more poetic piece of writing about settings. She has built a platform to talk about equity and inclusion for diversity in the field, both in fine jewelry and in art jewelry, and she mixes the two in her space. She has a gallery in Chicago. The findings are about what you find when you do that. What is happening because you're doing that? What are you discovering or what have you discovered through your work? She's somebody who has created a space. So, what happens? How does the community respond? Who comes into that? If it's an individual person, what have you learned by making this work? Where are you at now? You did this. You felt the urge. What are you holding onto? Your finding is what you find out there, where the setting is or what you could share. It's purposely ambiguous because it's to invite commercial jewelers and groups and galleries and spaces and art jewelers to share a space. There are some coming up where it's like four sentences, and then there are people that have written me an essay. That's what I think is beautiful, that we all can exist together in this one location. Sharon: It's interesting. As I said, I hadn't ever seen it before, Lost in Jewelry. Let me ask you this, because in introducing you or when you were writing the introduction, I need a translation of this. You're described as a nonbinary trans collaborator and co-conspirator working towards inclusion, equity and reparation. I don't know that means, I must say. matt: Yes, my body, as I identify, I am white; I am part of the colonial imperial system in that way. I identify as nonbinary, which is under the trans umbrella, as in transgender. Primarily, from where my body stands, I don't believe in the gender construction. Like I said, my original background is in human sexuality and the psychology of it. It's not a conversation I'm interested in defining, which then leaks into jewelry and gender and who wears jewelry. As we're talking, that's probably a big reason why jewelry also interests me. Co-conspirator and collaborator— Sharon: I get collaborator. Co-conspirator— matt: Co-conspirator, I'm interested in working with people that have goals or missions or focuses that are towards equity and decolonizing. I'm for reparations, and so I work, like I already mentioned, in the fight for indigenous rights in Scandinavia and Norway. The co-conspirator, that's a goal. It's conspiring to say, “This is what we need to do.” I'm on the equity train, and people that are seeking to find that and use jewelry as a vehicle, I want to co-conspire with those people to figure out what projects need to happen, what happenings need to happen to do that. I want to see jewelry do that, and I want to selfishly keep it in jewelry and see what happens when we do that through jewelry, because I think it's where the potential is. I think jewelry's the best from where I sit, and with my knowledge of these things, I want to see that happen. One of the other pieces for Settings and Findings is by SaraBeth Post, who's a Penland resident in glass who is making necklaces out of simple glass pendants, but she was auctioning them off to raise funds for certain court cases or for other notable movements within Black Lives Matter. That's a way of using more commercially-driven, wearable work to move to a different area. There are so many incredible ways to use jewelry. It disrupts and it challenges, and that's why I'm excited about jewelry. Sharon: Do you think everything you're saying about jewelry and how it affects people, the connections—the mining and the metal and all that—do you think it's more accepted where you are in Europe? Are you in an environment where people talk about this, or do people look at you like, “What are you talking about?” matt: The United States, as far as talk about equity and those conversations, is very ahead of where it is, but that's also because the U.S. is founded on imperialism and slavery, so it has no mechanism of denial. There are places in Europe that have that, and there are other places that do not. So, yes and no would be the answer. It depends on whom I'm speaking with or where we're at. It is challenging because in the U.S., these are more contemporary conversations than we're having where I'm based now in Sweden. They also exist differently because their history and involvement in colonialism and imperialism is different. It exists. That's actually what I wrote my thesis on for my critical craft master's. I was looking at examinations of the history museum in Sweden and representation within it. It's a different conversation, so that's been a challenge, but it's a great learning experience for me because not everybody has the same knowledge. I think these conversations add an academic level. You see jewelry in a room and academics are like, “Wait, what? You want to play with jewelry?” Sometimes I find myself in this weird gray space, because you're fighting a different wave, like, “Yes, let's do this.” How do you make it make sense for everybody? I'm excited to see more people do what they love to expand the field so all of us can home in on exactly what we love doing. But it is a challenge right now because the conversations, there's a lot of potential we could say in them. They've been going on, but I think there's still a lot of potential. I think that's the amazing thing with this idea around jewelry. Is it a field? Is it a format? What is it? What can we do with it? Sharon: As you're making things, are you thinking about how you can express some of this through what you're making? I'm thinking about the laser-cut leather necklace. To me, it's a fabulous necklace. That's why I say I'm fairly shallow. It's a fabulous necklace; I don't look at it and go, “What does it mean in terms of equity?” Do you think about those things? Are you trying to express these things through your jewelry? matt: I think I'm more in the camp of my body lives, breaths, eats and sleeps this, so whatever I make, it's already going to be there. I don't make things with the idea of “This going to be about this.” It's more of, “What do I feel in my body and is this going back to being a craftsperson?” Sharon: You're saying that because of who you are and because it's what you live and breathe, it's in your jewelry. You don't have to say, “Oh, I think if I braid the leather this way, it means A, B, C.” matt: Yeah, no. I think there's a lot of talk in the world now about being authentic and living your authentic life and going down those rabbit holes, but I think there are many different ways to be a craftsperson. I think you could love a material and use it throughout your whole life; I think there could be people that can stretch across them. I think we need everybody to sustain and talk about it as a field. I have a deep concern about jewelry being a field and how we continue that. I think how we broaden that is the biggest thing, not coming from a point of scarcity. I'm at a point in my career where I trust my body. It's the same as trusting your gut. Also, sometimes, it just makes you feel good. There's nothing wrong with art if it just makes you feel good. When I made that leatherwork, I knew nothing about computers. I had briefly worked and tried to be a woodworker. It was not for me. I like my fingers. I don't like getting up at 4 a.m. I tried to work for a prestigious cabinet making company. I have a lot of respect for woodworkers; it's just not a frame of craft that I can make or produce in. When I went to Cranbrook, they were like, “Oh great, you can go work in the woodshop then.” I worked in the library—you know me; I read everything—which I loved, but then they were like, “Great, woodshop,” and I was like, “Oh, O.K.” and then they were like, “You're going to be the laser cutting technician.” I've made it a point in my whole career to use things that don't plug in. I grew up half my life in the woods where the power went out easily, and I wanted to be able to make my work without an electrical cord. So, that was a challenge, but that series also developed. I was sitting there and thinking about the simple sash chain you get at the hardware store. It's like one-on-one aluminum link, a very affordable, cheap, go-to chain, and then my brain was like, “What if I tweak it and do this and this?” If you look at the leather, it's not mathematically proportionate; it's hand-drawn. It comes from that. Then I was speaking to friends and all of a sudden, it was like, “This is what it could mean.” You see meanings after you do it when it's done. What I also love about that work is that I can't tell you how long it takes, because those pieces are family for me. I would lay out patterns, and then I would buy everybody pizza and beer and call my friends and I would prepare them. They have to be soaked in certain things, and other things we were figuring out the best way to weave. Everyone would sit around in a circle and weave necklaces. For me, it's about family and community and the linking of things. That's for me, but if you like my work because of something else, there is nothing wrong with that.  That's the research I'm interested in now. It matters why we make, but it also matters why we wear and why we buy. How do we talk about all of that together? That is what I think of as the work. As craftspeople, yeah, the work is the object we make, but even after we die, the work continues. How do we think about or frame what it means to you, then, to wear my necklace, and what do you get out of it? What fulfills you could be totally different than what I do, but that adds to what the work is. I think my jewelry is so beautiful because it could have this life. After you wear it, what happens to it? Does somebody else wear it? Do you give it to somebody? That adds another stratum of meaning, so over time, you continuously compress different meanings. Even if it goes behind a museum case—I'm not saying my work will do that—but when people's work goes behind a museum case, when you see it and when a five-year-old sees it versus a 70-year-old, versus someone from one country and another, that's another meaning: how they relate to it, how they could think of themselves wearing it, what they think it's about. It just piles more and more meaning. It all goes back to someone's body, not the body or a body, but all of our bodies. So, all of a sudden, you have objects that have this compression of people. If that doesn't allow you to have a point to talk about equity and humanness and labor and class and all those complex things, that's jewelry. It ties directly to us as people. It's important what you get out of wearing my necklace, why I made it, but it also almost doesn't matter in a way, because we're contributing to the pile. In theory that's called thickening, the thickening of a history. There isn't one history of something; it's historiography. It's the multiple possibilities of something. When you see jewelry, you can project yourself onto it. You can say, “I'm going to wear that to this party. I'm going to wear it to this thing, to this wedding, to a christening, to a birth, to this grocery store.” That's a potential history when you see it, and what if we tied all of those together? Even when you look at an object, that's why I love jewelry. Sharon: Matt, thank you so much. You gave us a lot to think about. I could talk with you for another hour. Thank you so much for being with us today. matt: Yes, it's a super pleasure again. Like I said, you're one of my very first collectors I ran into in Stockholm by happenstance. Sharon: It's a great happenstance. Thank you so much. matt: Thank you, Sharon. Thank you again for listening. Please leave us a rating and review so we can help others start their own jewelry journey.

What you'll learn in this episode: How we can examine almost any political topic through the lens of jewelry  Why it's important that jewelry be embraced by academia, and how every jewelry enthusiast can help make that happen (even if they're not in academia themselves) Why a piece of jewelry isn't finished when it leaves the hands of its maker How Matt works with collaborators for their column, “Settings and Findings,” in Lost in Jewelry Magazine How jewelry has tied people together throughout time and space About Matt Lambert Matt Lambert is a non-binary, trans, multidisciplinary collaborator and co-conspirator working towards equity, inclusion, and reparation. They are a founder and facilitator of The Fulcrum Project and currently are a PhD student between Konstfack and University of Gothenburg in Sweden. They hold a MA in Critical Craft Studies from Warren Wilson College and an MFA in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art.  Lambert currently is based in Stockholm Sweden and was born in Detroit MI, US where they still maintain a studio. They have exhibited work nationally and internationally including at: Turner Contemporary, Margate, Uk, ArkDes, and Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden, Museo de la Ciudad, Valencia , Spain and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, US. Lambert represented the U.S in Triple Parade at HOW Museum, Shanghai, China, represented the best of craft in Norway during Salon del Mobile, Milan, Italy and was the invited feature at the Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece during Athens Jewelry Week. Lambert has actively contributed writing to Art Jewelry Forum, Garland, Metalsmith Magazine, Klimt02, Norwegian Craft and the Athens Jewelry Week catalogues and maintains a running column titled “Settings and Findings” in Lost in Jewelry Magazine. Additional Resources: Matt's Website Matt's Instagram Transcript:  Matt Lambert doesn't just want us to wear jewelry—they want us to question it. As a maker, writer, and Ph.D. student, Matt spends much of their time thinking about why we wear jewelry, who makes it, and what happens to jewelry as it's passed from person to person. They joined the Jewelry Journey Podcast to talk about the inspirations behind their work, why jewelry carries layers of meaning, and why wearing jewelry (or not wearing it) is always a political act. Read the episode transcript here.    Sharon: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Jewelry Journey Podcast. This is a two-part Jewelry Journey Podcast. Please make sure you subscribe so you can hear part two as soon as it comes out later this week. Today, my guest is Matt Lambert, who is joining us from Stockholm. Matt is a maker, writer and performer currently pursuing a Ph.D.    Matt's jewelry journey has taken them from country to country. What sticks in my mind is one of my first encounters with them on an Art Jewelry Forum trip. I saw them in a hotel lobby in Sweden wearing one of their iconic creations, a laser-cut leather neckpiece I flipped over. We'll hear all about their amazing jewelry journey today. Matt, thanks so much for being here.   Matt: Thanks so much for having me, Sharon. It's a pleasure.   Sharon: Your jewelry journey has taken you all over the world. I'm always amazed when I hear how you hop from country to country. So, tell us about it. How did you get into it?   Matt: Originally I was trained as a psychologist.   Sharon: Wow!   Matt: It's kind of strange, but it makes perfect sense for what I do now in human sexuality and gender. I was researching body politics and what it means to be a person and be represented through media or in other cultures. I started off in that community, and I took a metalsmithing course on a whim. There was a woman in one of my classes who was taking it as her art elective. I thought we were going to be making something completely different by forging silver. I was like, “Wait, what? You can do that?” I really fell into it.   I was a researcher for the APA doing government research—   Sharon: APA being the American Psychological—   Matt: The American Psychological Association. After community college, I went on to Wayne State and studied under F.M. Larson for metalsmithing. At the very end, Lauren Kalman joined. She is tenured and was well-known at Wayne State University in Detroit.    The work I was doing was very rigorous. I worked in a rape and trauma research lab with no windows in a basement, and I wasn't finding a way to talk about people and bodies and those things in the ways I had hoped. It was fulfilling me, but not in every aspect of my life.  So, I kept pouring myself into this strange thing of contemporary jewelry.    I never thought I would go to grad school. I wound up going to Cranbrook Academy of Art, which is just 40 minutes down the road from Wayne State. Even then, I thought I was going to go across the country for art school. I fell in love with the program at Cranbrook. Iris Eichenberg, who teaches there, told me, “You have to fail really bad in order to learn what's good and what's good for your practice.” It was so liberating that I could apply all the research I learned and used and still use it today, but to put it and manifest it in jewelry. That opened Pandora's box.    Sharon: How did you decide to go from studying psychology and being at Wayne State to go to such a renowned art school that you don't know? It's for art jewelers, basically.   Matt: Yeah, it's renowned. I think it shares the number one space for metalsmithing and jewelry, and it's renowned also for hollowware and gate making. It has a long history of Americana metalsmithing. With Iris being there for contemporary jewelry, it sounds a little bit pretentious.    The relationship I was in wanted me to stay local. It was like, “You should apply.” I really thought through everything weird and wonderful that I wanted to be doing, and I was like, “If I'm going to stay, then you have to take this all on.” Iris was like, “O.K., let's do it.” Even if didn't work out, it was like, “I can just go back to psychology if this doesn't work.”   Cranbrook has an international reputation which also meant traveling a lot. In between semesters, I was the assistant for Christoph Zellweger, who's based out of Zurich, Switzerland. I don't know if they're still there now, but at the time, I was their assistant in Switzerland during my years there. My partner was Monica Gaspar, so I got a theorist who I also got to work with. Then I kind of traveled everywhere. Before I started at Cranbrook, the first time I was in Europe, we had to go to KORU7, which is the jewelry triennial in Finland. They also do seminars. So, for me, it became a very global, European to North American perspective.   Sharon: I'm always amazed at your country hopping. Was this something you were considered a natural at? Were you finger painting at age five and your parents were saying, “Oh, they're going to be an artist”?   Matt: I do have a background in wildlife illustration. I was homeschooled until sixth grade, but I was put in a lot of enrichment programs, so I did have ceramics; I had languages; I had all sorts of courses and electives. Growing up I trained in something called monart, which is not taught in public school; it's only for private training. It's a way of drawing where you draw from negative space, which I think contributes to my work, as I think through negative space. I was doing a lot of wildlife illustrations. I have quite a few childhood publications, like realistic waterfowl and birds of prey. I dabbled a little bit with Sidney Shelby. The Shelby has an art program for auto illustration, too.   So, there is some of that. I thought I was going to go into drawing and painting before I went into psychology, but I had an evaluation at community college when I started and they kind of broke my dreams. They said I was terrible and said, “You shouldn't be an artist.” I would always say, “If you're told you shouldn't be an artist, you probably should be.” So, I went into psychology as a shelter to do that.    I'm a big advocate for trade schools and community colleges as places to find yourself. I fell in love with metalsmithing there, and I knew I would never leave it. My mother's cousin was actually a former a Tiffany's jeweler, so there is a little bit in the family. She was a cheerleader for me. She was like, “You're doing what? Oh, have you found a hammer and silver? Great.” She trained under Phil Fike, who was at Wayne State University when she was there. It's always interesting what she thinks I do because I'm not a very technical, proper silversmith like she was. When I finally went to school and said I was going to do this officially, she gave me her studio.   Sharon: Wow! You have two master's degrees and now you're working on a Ph.D. Can you tell us about that? One is critical art, or critical—   Matt: Yeah, critical craft theory. I graduated Cranbrook in 2014 from metalsmithing and jewelry, and I had electives in sculpture and textile. At the same time, I should say, I had also apprenticed as a leatherworker doing car interiors, like 1920s period Rolls-Royces, so I had a leather background I was able to bring to Cranbrook. A lot of my work was varied, but there was a lot of leather involved. After that, I had a partial apprenticeship in semi-antique rug restoration. There's a lot of training in leather-working material.   So, I graduated, and I met Sophia. We had met a few times, and then she ended up being the evaluator/respondent for our graduation show. So, she saw my work as I wished it to be, and she offered me a solo show. She said, “An agent is coming to see the gallery. Come help out. Come see this world,” which is how we met.   Sharon: And her gallery is in Sweden, right?   Matt: Her gallery is in Stockholm, yes, in Sweden. I had a show, and that was amazing. There's a government program called IASPIS, which is an invite-only program that the Swedish government runs. It's the international arts organization. I was invited there because they were looking for—they added applied arts, and I was the first jeweler and metalsmith to be there. That's a three-month program where you're invited to live and work, and that gives you great networking opportunities not only with Sweden, but also with Scandinavia at large for museums and shows. I was the first foreigner at Tobias Alm, who was a Swedish jeweler and the first Swedish artist in jewelry to be there. That just upped and changed my life. I got into museum shows and met people and had a career for about four or five years and loved it; it was amazing and I wanted more.    I love theory. I am a theory addict, so I was like, “A Ph.D. is the next logical thing.” I was applying and making finals, but jewelry is a hard sell, if you will, in academia. Warren Wilson College is in North Carolina in the States. There is a think tank out of the Center for Craft, which is located in Asheville, North Carolina, and they deal with all kinds of craft. They're a great epicenter and source of knowledge for American craft discourses. Out of this came this development of this program. They partnered with Warren Wilson College to create a master's, which is a two-year program at Warren Wilson College, which is just 20 minutes away from Ashville.    It's low residency, so there's two weeks per term you'd be in person and the rest you could live anywhere, which was perfect for me because I was traveling so much. So, you do two weeks on campus in the summer and live in the dorm, and then you do two weeks—when I did it, at least, it was with the Center for Craft. We had a classroom there. Namita Wiggers is the founding director, and we got to work with amazing theorists: Linda Sandino, Ben Lignel, who's a former editor for Art Jewelry Forum, Glenn Adamson, the craft theorist, Jenni Sorkin, who lives in California teaching, Judith Lieman—this is an amazing powerhouse. There's Kevin Murray from Australia, who runs the World Crafts Organization. I was a bit part in it. He also edits Garland, which is an Australia-based publication for craft. It was an amazing pulling together of craft theory. At this time, I also thought I was dyslexic, so I was trying to find a new way to write being neurodivergent. Writing has now become—   Sharon: You do a lot of it. When I was looking last night, I could see you've done a lot of writing. My question is, why did you not stop and say, “O.K., I'm going to make things I like”? What was it that attracted you to theory? Maybe it's too deep for me.    Matt: I think we've positioned the Ph.D. to be the next step always, but I don't think academia is for everybody. A master's even, I always questioned, do we as makers always need to be in academia? For me, though, my drive is that I think jewelry is in one of the best theoretical positions to talk about a lot of very difficult contemporary issues. Craft in general, but I think jewelry because it's so tied to the body. It's so blurry because it's design; it's fashion; it's craft; it's art; it's a consumable good; it can be worn. It challenges how we exhibit it. If you need to wear it to experience it, how does a museum show it?    For me, it's this little terror or antagonizer that I think theoretically, from my background, is a great place to stay with, and I think that it's been neglected in certain spaces. It's the only field to not be in the Whitney Biennial. It ties perfectly with certain forms of feminism and queerness, which is the theoretical basis I come to it from, to talk about these things. It can't be always defined, and that's what I love about jewelry. People find it surprising when I'm like, “I love talking about commercial jewelry or production jewelry,” because if that's what turns your gears, what you love to wear or buy or make, I want to know why. I want to see jewelry expand and envelope all of this, so that we can be at the Whitney Biennial. We also could be everywhere else.   Sharon: Can't you do that without the Ph.D.? I'm not trying to knock it. I'm just playing devil's advocate.   Matt: Yeah, I think someone else can do that as well. For me, though, I truly love theory. I love the academics. For me, that is an actual passion. It's what drives me. It's not necessarily the physical making; it's the theory behind why. I'm actually questioning my practice. Should I be making physical objects now, or should I just be celebrating people that make physical objects? My making practice is almost entirely collaborative now, working with other jewelers or performers or choreographers or educators and using jewelry as a way of introducing or as producing an output.    How does jewelry fit into research? I think research output is an interesting thing for me. I can go on about this all day. So, for me, I want to make an academic foothold for jewelry. I want to do that work. I see that as my facet. I don't think everybody needs to go and do that. I want to see everybody find the thing they love as much as I love academia and theory. I want to push on so we can expand the field together.   Sharon: I think that's great. It's great to hear, because it's a strong voice giving credibility to the field, as opposed to, “Oh, you must be interested in big diamonds if you're talking about jewelry.” You're talking about it on a much deeper level. It's hard to explain to people why you like jewelry or jewelry history, so it's good to hear.    Last night—I say last night because I was refreshing my memory—I was looking at one of your articles about the “we” in jewelry. Can you tell us about that?   Matt: Absolutely. I write for multiple publications: Metalsmith Magazine, which is in the U.S. and is part of SNAG, the Society for North American Goldsmiths; Norwegian Craft; Art Jewelry Forum. I run a column called Settings and Findings out of Lost in Jewelry Magazine, which is based in Rome. I also write for Athens Jewelry Week catalogues, which has gotten me into writing a series for Klimt, which is a platform for makers, collectors, wearers, and appreciators based out of Barcelona. They invited me to write a five-part series after they had republished an essay I wrote for Athens Jewelry Week. Those people gave me an amazing platform to write, and then Klimt was like, “What do you want to do?” and I was like, “Five essays about what we do with jewelry.”    One of them is the “we” article. That came from being in lockdown and the theorist Jean-Luc Nancy, who wrote about something called “singular plural.” It's just saying that we don't ever do anything alone, and I think jewelry is a beautiful illustration of that. I moved during the pandemic to do the Ph.D., and I found myself wearing jewelry to do my laundry because I got to do it with a friend. It's so sappy in way, but it's true. It's a way to carry someone else with you, and jewelry is not an act done alone. I mean, we're trained as jewelers. We're trained by someone, so we carry that knowledge with us. We are transmitters as makers, but then we have collectors and wearers and museums and other things, and they need to be worn. It needs to be seen in some fashion or valued or held.    My personal stance is that jewelry, once it leaves my hands as a maker, isn't done. I'm interested as a researcher, as a Ph.D., in how we talk about that space in between. If you wear one of my pieces, and someone listening wears one of my pieces, and that same piece is in a museum, how we understand that is completely different. Jewelry creates this amazing space to complexify, and that's when you talk about bodies and equity and race, sex, gender, size, age. All the important things that are in the political ethos can be discussed through jewelry, and that's the “we” of jewelry.    We have this controversy about the death of the author and authorship doesn't matter, but speaking through craft, we are never alone. To me, it's like I make through the people I've learned through. I am a transmitter to the people that I teach and to me, that's what craft is. Also, craft is a way of looking at the world, at systems, and who we learn from and how we learn. I think jewelry is one of the most obvious “we's.”   Sharon: This is a question that maybe there's no answer to, but is jewelry separate from craft? There's always the question of what craft is. Is craft art? Is it jewelry?    Matt: That depends on whom you ask. I personally do not believe in the art versus craft debate. I am not in that pool. I believe craft is a way of looking at anything in the world. I think craft is learned through material specificity. I usually enjoy metalsmithing. It's through copper or silver, but it's really spending time with something singular to explore its possibility. It's a way of learning how things start, how things are produced, how labor works, where there are bodies and processes, so you can pick up anything in the world and look at anything and see people and humanity. Even through digital technology, someone has to write a program. It gives you a skillset to look at the world, and that's how I approach craft.    You're going to find so many different definitions, but coming from that perspective, that is what I believe, and that's why I think craft is so valuable. To answer if jewelry is craft, yes and no. You can talk about jewelry through craft, but you could talk about jewelry through fashion. You can talk about jewelry through product design. Again, I think that's why jewelry is beautiful and problematic, because it can be so many things at the same time.    Sharon: I'm intrigued by the fact that you're interested in all kinds of jewelry, whether it's art jewelry or contemporary jewelry. When you're in the mall and you see Zales and look in the window, would you say it all falls under that, with everything you're talking about? Does it transmit the same thing?   Matt: Through a craft lens, you can look at any of that. You can go to Zales and the labor is wiped out. You're no longer going to your local jewelry shop. The person is making your custom ring, but when you look at that ring, you have an ability to go, “Someone had to facet the stone and cut it, a lapidary. Someone had to make the bands. Someone had to mine the stone. Someone had to find this material.” It allows you to unpack where objects are coming from and potentially where they're going.    You can understand studio practices because you're relating more directly to a maker, who has more knowledge of where their materials come from, rather than the sales associate at the Zales counter. It's a simpler model, but it is the same thing to me. The way I look at it, that is craft's value to my practice. I'm very careful to say it's my practice because there are so many definitions, but that's what I think is sustainable in this training. You can be trained as a jeweler and not make jewelry, but it's still valuable in your life because you can apply it to anything.   Sharon: I was also intrigued by the title of an article you wrote, “Who Needs Jewelry, Anyway?” So, who does need jewelry?   Matt: Yeah, that's one that kicked it up to the next level. There are moments in my career where I can feel the level upward, like I enter a space that's different. That was an essay that was written for Athens Jewelry Week. That was the first essay I wrote before I had the feature at the Benaki Museum. At Athens Jewelry Week, those women worked their tails off to make that event happen.    I wrote that when I was at the tail end of my second master's, and I was frustrated. I think we see that students are frustrated and people are questioning, especially during Covid, especially during Black Lives Matter, especially during the fight for indigenous rights, do we need jewelry? What does this mean? It's a commodity. It can be frivolous. It's a bauble. It can be decorative. Like, what are we doing? I think that is something we should always question, and the answer for that can be expressed in many ways. It can be expressed from what you make, but also what you do with what you make. How do you live the rest of your life?    There isn't a one-lane answer for that, but that's what that essay was about. We don't need jewelry, but we really do. The first half of the essay is saying what the problem is, but the problem is also where the solutions sit. It's all about how you want to approach it. That is what that essay was saying. You can consume this and wear it; it is what it is, and that's fine. You can participate in systems and learn and discover and know who you are wearing and support them. Wearing jewelry is a political act no matter what jewelry you're wearing. Where you consume is a political act. Political neutrality is still a political statement. That article specifically was for art jewelry, and it was saying, hey, when you participate, when you buy, when you wear, when you make, it means something. You're bringing people with you; what people are you choosing to bring? It was stirring the pot, and it was very intentional to do that.   Sharon: I couldn't answer the question about who needs jewelry. You're asking me, but certainly I can think of people who say, “I don't need it,” who have no interest or wouldn't see the continuum behind a ring or a piece of jewelry.    This is a two-part Jewelry Journey Podcast. Please make sure you subscribe so you can hear part two as soon as it comes out later this week. 

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Our guests: Dr. Matt Lambert, Chief Medical Officer & Kyle Swarts, Chief Growth Officer at Curation Health "Curation Health is an advanced clinical decision support platform designed to assist providers and health plans in navigating the journey to value-based care." In this episode, we discussed: What they liked about HLTH What excites them about the event (and attending next year) The lack of health systems present, and what that means for the industry HLTH vs. HIMSS The startup section of the conference The New England Patriots & the Buffalo Bills ...and more! Our sponsors for this episode are BlocHealth, Curation Health, ChenMed & MediTelecare. BlocHealth is building the ecosystem of services and solutions to power the future of healthcare. For more information, please go to www.blochealth.com follow BlocHealth on social media - @blochealth "Curation Health's advanced clinical decision support platform seamlessly integrates into the electronic health record and leverages more than 750 proven clinical and quality rules. With this intelligent point-of-care platform, you can power a scalable risk adjustment process and amplify quality program performance." For more information, please go to www.curationhealthcare.com & follow Curation Health on social media - @curationhealth "ChenMed brings concierge-style medicine and better health outcomes to the neediest populations – moderate-to-low income seniors with complex chronic diseases. For more information, please go to www.chenmed.com & follow ChenMed on social media - @chenmed "MediTelecare provides behavioral telemedicine services to residents of skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, using state-of-the-art telehealth technology. For more information", please go to www.meditelecare.com & follow Meditelecare on social media – @meditelecare To learn more about Curation Health please use the links below: - Website - LinkedIn - Twitter - YouTube Also, be sure to follow Slice of Healthcare on our social channels: - Website - Facebook - LinkedIn - Twitter - YouTube - Newsletter

Matt Lambert is the Co Founder of R&L Energy Rentals, and the Co Owner of Pinkwater Canada. Matt started R&L Energy Rentals with his business partner at just 19 years old when he saw an opportunity in the equipment rental industry.Learn more about Matt & R&L Energy Rentals at https://rlenergyrentals.ca/This episode was sponsored by Record360. Record360 is the leading provider of inspection management software for the equipment rental industry. Record360 is trusted by thousands of rental businesses to provide quick, clear documentation of assets before and after rent.https://record360.com/Episode Timestamps[01:05] - How did you first become involved in the equipment rental industry?[02:34] - What was it like starting your own equipment rental business at 19 years old?[03:48] - What is the Well Site Combo Unit?[10:54] - Explain some of the challenges you faced in the first 12 months?[12:47] - What does the R&L Energy Rental Team look like today?[14:04] - How did you become associated with Pinkwater Canada?[15:46] - Did you feel a lot of pressure starting a company?[17:29] - How did you develop your entrepreneurial mindset?[21:36] - Did anyone ever tell you that you are too young to run your own company?[24:32] - Can passion be taught?[25:49] - Did you development a business plan when you started your business?[29:22] - Has COVID-19 affected your business?[31:29] - What are some of the challenges working in the oil & gas industry?[35:04] - How can small businesses set themselves apart from the competition?[39:23] - Who do you think played a big influence on you from a mentor perspective?[41:32] - If you could give some advice to your younger self, what would you say?[44:27] - How do you define success?Get in contact with The Rental Journal PodcastWebsite: https://www.therentaljournal.com/contact-usEmail: mark.simonsen@therentaljournal.com

In this episode, Dr. Matt Lambert, chief medical officer at Curation Health, joins host Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about the history of fee-based care and what the healthcare industry needs to do to make the leap to value-based care.

We must transition away from our hospital-based fee-for-service healthcare delivery system and more towards a capitated outpatient and in-home primary care delivery model. This week we spoke to Dr. Matt Lambert from Curation Health and discussed the intricacies of overcoming value based care adoption.Being a doctor is your calling because you couldn't imagine doing anything else. Let's talk about your career goals in medicine. Connect with us and tell us how you dream of practicing medicine. Want to learn more about how we do healthcare? Visit our resource center and check out how we are transforming healthcare. Don't forget to subscribe to ChenMed Rx to receive the latest news and articles from ChenMed.

Our guest: Dr. Matt Lambert, Chief Medical Officer at Curation Health. "Curation Health is an advanced clinical decision support platform designed to assist providers and health plans in navigating the journey to value-based care." In this episode, we discussed: Rethinking how we are training & educating future clinicians Providing them with the right tools and support to succeed in value-based care Training the next generation of clinicians ...and much more! Our sponsors for this episode are BlocHealth, Curation Health, ChenMed & MediTelecare. BlocHealth is building the ecosystem of services and solutions to power the future of healthcare. For more information, please go to www.blochealth.com and be sure to follow BlocHealth on social media - @blochealth "Curation Health's advanced clinical decision support platform seamlessly integrates into the electronic health record and leverages more than 750 proven clinical and quality rules. With this intelligent point-of-care platform, you can power a scalable risk adjustment process and amplify quality program performance." For more information, please go to www.curationhealthcare.com and be sure to follow Curation Health on social media - @curationhealth "ChenMed brings concierge-style medicine and better health outcomes to the neediest populations – moderate-to-low income seniors with complex chronic diseases. Operating over 50 medical centers in eight states, we are known to our patients as Dedicated Senior Medical Center, Chen Senior Medical Center, or JenCare Senior Medical Center." For more information, please go to www.chenmed.com and be sure to follow ChenMed on social media - @chenmed "MediTelecare provides behavioral telemedicine services to residents of skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, using state-of-the-art telehealth technology. For more information", please go to www.meditelecare.com and be sure to follow Meditelecare on social media – @meditelecare To learn more about Curation Health please use the links below: - Website - LinkedIn - Twitter - YouTube Also, be sure to follow Slice of Healthcare on our social channels: - Website - Facebook - LinkedIn - Twitter - YouTube - Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the Alcohol Alert, brought to you by The Institute of Alcohol Studies.In this edition:IAS seminar on Alcohol and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development GoalsExtensive OECD publication details the investment case for alcohol control policies 🎵 Podcast feature 🎵New minimum unit pricing studies in Scotland bolster the argument for its implementation 🎵 Podcast feature 🎵Confusion over WHO global alcohol action plan 🎵 Podcast feature 🎵Brain imaging study suggests there is no safe level of alcohol consumption for brain health Study highlights the prevalence of alcohol advertising in the Rugby Six Nations Parliament debates labelling and the Misuse of Drugs ActWe hope you enjoy our roundup of stories below: please feel free to share. Thank you.Alcohol and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development GoalsIAS sustainability series, seminar 1. Seminar speakers: Chair: Kristina Sperkova, Movendi InternationalDudley Tarlton, United Nations Development ProgrammeProfessor Jeff Collin, University of EdinburghAadielah Maker Diedericks, South African Alcohol Policy AllianceThe Institute of Alcohol Studies hosted the first seminar in its four-part series on alcohol and sustainability, 10 June 2021. The seminar focused on the impact of alcohol on the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the opportunities for improved alcohol policy arising from the Goals.Goal 3.5 explicitly targets alcohol, with the commitment to ‘Strengthen the prevention of treatment of substance abuse, including…harmful use of alcohol’. Beyond that, alcohol has been identified as an obstacle to achieving 14 of the 17 SDGs, which can be seen as social, environmental, and economic. Social goals such as ending poverty, hunger, achieving gender equality and maintaining peace and justice, are all affected by alcohol harm. Kristina Sperkova, President of Movendi International, highlighted that alcohol pushes people into poverty and keeps many there, and consumes spending that would otherwise be used on education and food. There are many studies that demonstrate the link between alcohol use and violence, particularly between young men and relating to domestic violence. Ms Sperkova detailed the high environmental cost of alcohol production. Land required to grow crops for alcohol reduces biodiversity. Huge amounts of water are used for alcohol production, with 870 litres of water needed to produce one litre of wine. She pointed out that alcohol is often produced in places that have scarce water supplies, to serve the desires of higher income countries that have an abundance of water.The economic burden of alcohol use across the world is enormous, with high-income countries seeing annual losses of between 1.4% and 1.7% of GDP due to alcohol harm. Much of this is due to the loss of productivity. In England in 2015, 167,000 working years were lost due to alcohol. It was suggested that more effective alcohol control policies would not only reduce the harm but would also help finance sustainable development. The investment case Dudley Tarlton, Programme Specialist at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), introduced the work UNDP is doing in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), to present the case for improving and implementing effective alcohol policies, with economic rationale being the main driver.WHO’s SAFER initiative details the five most cost-effective interventions to reduce harm. Mr Tarlton stated that these five interventions would give a 5.8% return on investment.  Modelling by UNDP across 12 countries including Russia, Turkey, and Ethiopia, shows that investing in WHO’s recommended prevention measures would generate 19 billion USD over the next 15 years – mainly due to productivity gain – and 865,000 deaths would be averted. UNDP is also looking into investment cases relating to alcohol-attributable deaths from causes such as liver cirrhosis, road injuries, tuberculosis, and HIV. They are drafting toolkits for countries to take up these policies and could be instrumental in getting revenue to help close covid-related fiscal gaps. As lower socioeconomic groups would disproportionately benefit from the health benefits of increased alcohol taxes, Mr Tarlton highlighted that part of Goal 10 on reducing health inequalities would be targeted by such taxes. The obstacle of the alcohol industryProfessor Jeff Collin, Edinburgh University, posited how the alcohol industry has positioned itself as aligned with the SDGs and as engines of development. The International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD) has a toolkit for governments on how to build partnerships with the alcohol industry. Diageo’s ‘Business Avengers’ coalition highlights their role in aiming to achieve the SDGs. Namibian Breweries (NBL) has listed out which SDGs it is helping, including SDG 3: “NBL has a responsibility to minimise harmful alcohol consumption.”Prof Collin explained that the industry is using the commitment of governments and organisations to SDG 17 – ‘Partnerships for the Goals’ – to push their own strategic agenda, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic. Pre-pandemic, Diageo collaborated with CARE to address barriers to gender inclusion in the alcohol giant’s supply chain. Following the outbreak of the pandemic, Diageo supported CARE’s emergency response, giving clean water supplies, hygiene kits, and food. According to Prof Collin’s work, the alcohol industry is using corporate social investment (CSI) and philanthropy to shape policy and pursue partnerships, to further its strategic interests. This is especially true in its targeting of women in developing countries, who are seen as a key emerging market. Pernod Ricard India launched an initiative around women entrepreneurs, which aptly shows the two faces of alcohol philanthropy, with the company’s CMO Kartik Mohindra stating: “It is quintessential for brands to create products that appeal to them [women]. And if they don’t have more women in senior leadership roles, they are not likely to have the significant insights needed to tap into the highly sensitive minds of their ever-growing numbers of female consumers.”In Southern Africa – as Aadielah Maker Diedericks of the Southern African Alcohol Policy Alliance (SAAPA) discussed – there are particularly striking examples of industry-government partnerships and conflicts of interest, with civil society in the region perceiving Big Alcohol’s involvement in the region as a form of neo-colonisation. Ms Diedericks explained that policy makers are often on the boards of alcohol companies in the region, that governments hold shares in the industry, and the industry’s agenda is often successfully pushed through. Very few Southern African countries are taking on issues of marketing, pricing, and availability, instead focusing on road safety and underage drinking. Both Prof Collin and Ms Diedericks said that SDG 17 has confused countries, with governments thinking the only relationship with the alcohol industry is one of partnership, ignoring potential conflicts of interest. South Africa case studySouth Africa has seen intense lobbying by the industry in recent months, with Ms Diedericks saying that they are using the narrative of job promotion to demonstrate their value. This is despite R246billion being spent on alcohol harm compared to R97billion in revenue. The industry has campaigned extensively around the idea of economic loss associated with alcohol control policies, using dubious research to back up their claims. This comes at a time of high unemployment rate in South Africa and therefore gets a lot of media attention. Ms Diedericks described the relationship between industry and South Africa’s government as “abusive” due to the industry threatening disinvestment in the country if there were controls to alcohol availability. What next? The speakers argued that the SDGs need to be used better as a rallying point for alcohol control measures. SDG 17 in particular should be used to develop policy coherence and that the building of coordinated approaches across other unhealthy commodities, such as junk food, should be considered. There needs to be clear rationale for why enacting alcohol control policies would help achieve the SDGs, and taxation has a lot to offer towards sustainable financing. Please watch the full seminar below, or click here for a 30minute edited version. Join us in September for seminar two in our four-part series. New OECD report models economic effect of alcohol policies  🎵 Podcast feature 🎵The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published a book entitled ‘Preventing Harmful Alcohol Use’, 19 May 2021. It analyses the cost of alcohol consumption in 52 countries (OECD, EU and G20 countries), due to reduced life expectancy, increased healthcare costs, decreased productivity, and lower GDP. As with the IAS seminar on alcohol and sustainability, this report provides clear economic rationale for why countries should consider implementing alcohol control policies. The report looks at trends and patterns in alcohol consumption in the 52 countries, as well as looking at the regional differences across Europe. The following statistics and modelling relate to the 52 countries, unless otherwise stated. Health and economic burden of alcoholHealth care costs for alcohol as percentage of total health care expenditureChildren’s education and bullyingPolicies for reducing consumption The report looked at which alcohol control policies countries currently implement and those that they should consider. It mentions the World Health Organization’s Global Strategy and Global Action Plan in reducing the harmful use of alcohol, referring to these as the best practice policy responses. The report states that:“policies to reduce the harmful consumption of alcohol and associated harms cannot be addressed through one policy intervention – rather, a suite of interventions is needed within a comprehensive strategy”. This will “require a multi-sectoral approach, including health, law enforcement and social services sectors”.How would policies affect health and the economy?  Simulation modelling shows varying degrees of impact of alcohol control policies across the countries. Across the 48 countries analysed by OECD it was found that savings in healthcare costs are greater than the costs of running interventions.How has minimum unit pricing affected Scotland and Wales so far? 🎵 Podcast feature 🎵Since Scotland implemented minimum unit pricing for alcohol (MUP) in May 2018 and Wales in March 2020, initial studies have shown a substantial shift in alcohol purchases and consumption. On 28 May 2021, The Lancet published a study, by Professor Peter Anderson and colleagues, that analysed the purchasing habits of over 35,000 British households, in order to assess the impact of MUP in Scotland and Wales. Purchases in northern England were compared with Scottish purchases, and western England purchases with Wales. The measured changes associated with MUP were: price paid per gram of alcohol, grams of alcohol purchased, and amount of money spent on alcohol.The results of the study were:In Scotland the price per gram saw a 7.6% increase and a purchase decrease of 7.7%In Wales the price increased by 8.2% and purchasing decreased by 8.6%The biggest changes were in households that generally bought the most alcohol. Little change was seen in households that bought small amounts of alcohol and those with low incomesFollowing The Lancet report, on 17 June 2021 Public Health Scotland released its report Monitoring and Evaluating Scotland’s Alcohol Strategy. The report looked at alcohol purchasing, affordability and consumption in Scotland in 2020. The report found that:The report also shows a reduction in alcohol-specific deaths in Scotland from 2018-2019, with the rate for men being the lowest since 1996. However, rates are still higher in Scotland than in both England and Wales. Alison Douglas of Alcohol Focus Scotland (AFS) said:“We're really pleased to see that as a nation we are drinking less for the third year running and that alcohol consumption is at a 25-year low - this is a good indication that minimum unit pricing is having the intended effect. But given nearly a quarter of Scots are still regularly drinking over the chief medical officers' low-risk drinking guidelines, we can't afford to take our eye off the ball where preventing alcohol harm is concerned.” AFS has called on the government to raise the level at which MUP is set from 50p to 65p per unit, arguing that inflation has made it less effective since the legislation was passed eight years ago. Following the success Scotland has seen, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, Chair of the Alcohol Harm Commission, and Dr Katherine Severi, Chief executive of IAS, called on the UK Government to introduce MUP in England. They argued that there is now sufficient evidence of MUP’s effectiveness and that it is now more urgent than ever due to increases in high-risk drinking and alcohol-specific deaths in England. Public Health Scotland released an interim report at the end of June, which suggests that there is little evidence that MUP has led to people substituting cheap alcohol with other substances or illicit alcohol. Confusion over WHO’s global action plan on alcohol 🎵 Podcast feature 🎵In mid-June, the World Health Organization (WHO) published the first draft of its ‘Global alcohol action plan 2022-2030’. The action plan’s aim is to aid in the implementation of WHO’s Global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol, which in turn aims to reduce morbidity and mortality due to harmful alcohol use and the ensuing social consequences. The strategy aims to “promote and support local, regional and global actions”, giving guidance and support on policy options, national circumstances, religious and cultural contexts, public health priorities, as well as resources and capabilities. In response to the draft action plan, media across the UK focused on a statement included that said:“Appropriate attention should be given to prevention of the initiation of drinking among children and adolescents, prevention of drinking among pregnant women and women of childbearing age.”Most news reports lambasted the wording that women of childbearing age should be prevented from drinking. Two prominent commentators quoted in press reports were Christopher Snowdon of the Institute of Economic Affairs, and Matt Lambert of the Portman Group, who said it was “unscientific, patronising and absurd” and “sexist and paternalistic” respectively. Responding to the media furore, Professor Niamh Fitzgerald, University of Stirling, spoke on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour: “It is striking that the commentators in the reports are from the alcohol industry. It is clearly an attempt to discredit WHO…before a WHO forum next week [week-commencing 21 June], which is looking at empowering governments against industry marketing. This is a first draft and that mention, which is ill-advised, doesn’t appear in the actions, so we shouldn’t worry that WHO is trying to stop women of childbearing age from drinking.”Dr Sadie Boniface, the Institute of Alcohol Studies’ Head of Research, said “It is a shame that this one phrase in the report has hoovered up attention. This is the launch of an ambitious plan to address alcohol harm, and alcohol is the top risk factor globally for mortality among 15–49 year olds.”According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Dag Rekve, Alcohol Policy Advisor at WHO, said:“It was just meant as the period where you are potentially carrying children and this is not generalising to all women in that age. It can be interpreted that we are saying that women of childbearing age should not drink alcohol and is a completely wrong interpretation and we will make sure that it’s not interpreted like that. If the media also can pick up on the incredible harm from alcohol in the world in the same way they picked up on this poorly formulated phrase, then perhaps we could really achieve something.”No safe level of alcohol for brain health A yet to be peer-reviewed study suggests that all levels of drinking are associated with adverse effects on the brain.Researchers at Oxford University, led by Dr Anya Topiwala, used brain imaging data from 25,000 participants of the UK Biobank study and looked at the relationship between this and moderate alcohol consumption. The results found that higher consumption of alcohol was associated with lower grey matter density and that alcohol made a larger contribution than any other modifiable risk factor, including smoking. Negative associations were also found between alcohol and white matter integrity. Particular damage was seen to the anterior corpus callosum, which connects the frontal lobes of the left and right hemispheres of the brain and ensures both sides of the brain can communicate with each other. Dr Topiwala, said “There’s no threshold drinking for harm – any alcohol is worse. Pretty much the whole brain seems to be affected – not just specific areas, as previously thought.”In response to the study, Dr Sadie Boniface, IAS Head of Research, said:“While we can’t yet say for sure whether there is ‘no safe level’ of alcohol regarding brain health at the moment, it has been known for decades that heavy drinking is bad for brain health. We also shouldn’t forget alcohol affects all parts of the body and there are multiple health risks. For example, it is already known there is ‘no safe level’ of alcohol consumption for the seven types of cancer caused by alcohol, as identified by the UK Chief Medical Officers.”The authors highlighted that one of the limitations of the study was the use of the Biobank data: that the sample is healthier, better educated, less deprived, and with less ethnic diversity than the general population. Dr Rebecca Dewey of the University of Nottingham responded to this, saying that “Therefore some caution is needed, but the extremely large sample size makes it pretty compelling”. The study argues that current drinking guidelines could be amended to reflect the evidence about brain health rather than solely about cardiovascular disease and cancer risk. Professor Paul M. Matthews, Head of the Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, supported this suggestion. Alcohol, rugby and adolescent drinking A study by Dr Alex Barker and colleagues that looked at the prevalence of Guinness advertising in the 2019 Rugby Six Nations Championship, found the following across the 15 games:Two weeks after this study was published it was announced that the National Football League (NFL) in the US was to get its first spirits sponsor, with Diageo signing a multiyear deal. Until four years ago advertising of spirits was banned in the NFL, with beer advertising dominating. Why is this important? Dr Barker’s research states that exposure to alcohol advertising is associated with adolescent initiation of drinking and heavier drinking among existing young drinkers. It goes on to explain that the Advertising Standards Authority in the UK does not regulate footage of imagery from sporting events and although this should be covered by Ofcom it is not. Sports sponsorship is self-regulated by the Portman Group, whose code states that it “seeks to ensure that alcohol is promoted in a socially responsible manner and only to those over 18” and that “drinks companies must use their reasonable endeavours to obtain data on the expected participants, audience or spectator profile to ensure that at least the aggregate of 75% are aged over 18”. The study authors point out that even if 75% of the audience are adults, as sporting programmes are very popular with children they are still being exposed to regular alcohol advertising. If the remaining 25% are children, with huge sporting events there will still be millions of children seeing such advertising. The England versus Croatia Euros 2020 game had a UK audience of 11.6 million, which would potentially mean 2.9 million children seeing alcohol advertising during that game alone – a number acceptable under the self-regulatory rules.  The researchers argue that this weak regulatory approach should be reviewed and “Restrictions on, and enforcement of, alcohol advertising during sporting events are needed to protect children and adolescents from this avenue of alcohol advertising.” They go on to say that future studies should look at if this increased exposure leads to increased sales for alcohol brands. The conversation around advertising of unhealthy commodities in sport has picked up in June, due to the actions of footballers at the European Football Championship.Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo removed bottles of Coca-Cola from a press conference and held up a bottle of water declaring “Agua. Coca-Cola, ugh”. A few days later Paul Pogba removed a bottle of Heineken from his conference. This led to the launching of a Muslim athletes’ charter, which seeks to "challenge organisations" to make progress in supporting Muslim sportsmen and women. There are 10 points in the charter, such as “non-consumption of alcohol, including during celebrations, the provision of appropriate places to pray, halal food, and being allowed to fast in Ramadan”. UEFA, the governing body of the Euros, then threatened to fine teams if players continued to snub sponsors. England’s manager Gareth Southgate came out in support of sponsors, saying “the impact of their money at all levels helps sport to function, particularly grassroots sport…we are mindful in our country of obesity and health but everything can be done in moderation”.What happened in Parliament? Obesity strategyThe House of Commons debated the implementation of the 2020 Obesity Strategy on 27 May. Minister Jo Churchill (Department of Health and Social Care) brought up the topic of alcohol labelling. She highlighted the number of calories some people in the UK consume via alcohol: “each year around 3.4 million adults consume an additional day’s worth of calories each week from alcohol”. She went on to state that the Government will be publishing a consultation shortly on the introduction of mandatory calorie labelling on pre-packed alcohol and alcohol sold in the on-trade sector. Churchill said that the main aim was to ensure people were fully informed so that they can make educated choices on what they consume. Labour MP Dan Carden’s contribution focused solely on alcohol labelling. He brought attention to the fact that non-alcoholic drinks have to display far more nutritional information than alcoholic drinks. He also pushed the UK government for a national alcohol strategy, as “We had the highest rate of deaths from alcohol on record this year. Alcohol-specific deaths are at an all-time high at a moment when drug and alcohol services are underfunded and mental health services are overstretched.” During the debate, Alex Norris MP (Labour) and Jim Shannon MP (Democratic Unionist Party) agreed that there needs to be a stronger alcohol strategy. Carden also spoke of the importance of bringing together strategies to combat obesity, drugs, gambling and alcohol.Food and drink regulationsThe House of Lords debated the Food and Drink Regulations 2021 on 19 May. Baroness Finlay of Llandaff discussed alcohol labelling, saying that people had the right to information in order to take control of their health and make informed choices. She argued that alcoholic drink labelling should form part of an obesity strategy and a comprehensive alcohol strategy. “If the role of food labelling is to inform, to empower people to protect themselves from harm and to allow regulation to support that duty to protect our citizens from harm, updating the labelling becomes a moral imperative.”Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle of the Green Party agreed with Baroness Finlay that alcohol labelling is currently inadequate.Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist (Conservative) responded to Baroness Finlay “The Department of Health is planning to issue a consultation on calorie labelling for alcohol in the near future with a view to making it a requirement from perhaps 2024.”Misuse of Drugs ActThe Commons debated the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act on 17 June. MPs agreed that the UK’s current drug policy is not working. Labour MP Jeff Smith argued that it should be liberalised to reduce harm, advocating the legalising of cannabis. He stated that alcohol is more harmful than many illegal drugs and yet it is legal. “We mitigate the harm from alcohol use by legalising it, regulating it, making sure that it is not poisonous and making it safe, and we can invest the tax raised from its sale in the NHS and public messaging.”Labour, Conservative and SNP MPs agreed with Smith, with Allan Dorans of the SNP saying that “Advice, support and education should be provided in the same way as they are for other health issues, including alcohol and tobacco.” The UK Alcohol Alert (incorporating Alliance News) is designed and produced by The Institute of Alcohol Studies. Please click the image below to visit our website and find out more about us and what we do, or the ‘Contact us’ button. Thank you. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit instalcstud.substack.com

The movement to value-based care will necessitate a major paradigm shift in how physicians practice medicine. They can no longer be “cowboys” in the wild west of fragmented, uncoordinated care delivery where information technology is focused on fee-for-service. Instead of cowboys, we need “quarterbacks”, communicating with an interdisciplinary care team and facilitating hand offs across the care ecosystem. In this environment, information technology is like the offensive line, protecting the physician and creating the opening for a meaningful play. Our guest this week is Dr. Matt Lambert, Chief Medical Officer of Curation Health, an advanced clinical decision support platform for value-based care that drives more accurate risk adjustment and improved quality program performance by curating relevant insights from disparate sources and delivering them in real time to clinicians and care teams. Author of two books, and with more than 20 years of experience as a clinician, CMIO, and change leader in value-based care, Matt's insights will expand your vision of health value! Episode Bookmarks: 4:00 Physician Workflow Optimization in the movement to Value-Based Care (Cowboys vs. Quarterbacks) 6:30 VBC is requiring providers to optimize workflow to support team-based care (the Quarterback role) 7:00 APIs will enable EHR systems to evolve over time to better support value-based care 7:30 Curating meaningful information (and minimizing noise) to providers at the point-of-care 8:00 Using AI to decrease cognitive load for providers 8:20 “Healthcare doesn't have a data problem. It has a clinical workflow problem.” 9:00 Physician Burnout ("a public health crisis that urgently demands action") 10:30 How VBC is changing regulations and documentation standards for electronic health records 12:00 “The CMIO role is the bridge, it's the translator between the clinical world and the technical world." 12:25 NLP models often overwhelm providers with data that is not meaningful 12:45 Reducing disruptions and hard stops in provider workflow with technology-enablement 13:00 Dr. Lambert discusses his own personal experience with physician burnout 14:45 Simplicity as the ultimate form of sophistication and the artful design of clinical documentation solutions 17:00 How healthcare technology companies come short when they don't have strong clinical leadership 18:00 Expanding focus beyond point-of-care to clinical documentation integrity teams 18:30 HCC recapture for risk adjustment and how algorithms can help capture new HCCs 19:30 Using NLP to identify new diagnoses from discharge summaries 20:30 Dr. Lambert discusses a use case for HCC coding optimization with RAF lift to improve ACO performance 21:45 How HCC coding optimization can improve patient engagement and better address SDOH 24:20 Referencing Trenor Williams, MD and his work in SDOH and social risk intelligence 24:45 Social applications of the risk adjustment model 25:45 The impact of COVID-19 on the future of value-based care 26:00 Referencing his recent HIStalk article on subscription revenue models 26:15 Post-pandemic interest from providers in subscription models and VBC 27:00 Deferred care during the pandemic and how that will affect population health 27:50 Risk adjustment over FaceTime and over the telephone 28:30 The similarities between post-COVID healthcare in US and the National Insurance Act of 1911 in the UK 29:30 Post-viral syndrome and long-term sequelae related to COVID-19 33:00 Eric Neil (Chief Information Officer, UW Medicine):  “There are no old and bold CIOs!” 33:45 Providers have the best technology at home but are averse to new HIT solutions in the ambulatory care setting 34:00 A design flaw of the EHR Meaningful Use program that encouraged only platform adoption 34:30 How the Pareto Principle applies to Health Information Technology and workflow automation

The World Health Organisation has been accused of sexism after releasing a draft report that pushed for women of "child-bearing age" to be prevented from drinking alcohol.The controversial advice was laid out in WHO's draft of its Global Alcohol Action Plan 2022-2030, which urges countries to raise awareness among the public about the risks and harms associated with alcohol consumption, with particular focus on how children are impacted when exposed to alcohol while still in the womb.In order to lessen these impacts, the organisation suggests preventing not only pregnant women from drinking alcohol, but any woman of "child-bearing age"."Appropriate attention should be given to prevention of the initiation of drinking among children and adolescents, prevention of drinking among pregnant women and women of child-bearing age," the report states.Under this advice, steps would be taken to prevent millions of women from drinking alcohol, just because they are considered to be in their peak child-bearing years.The report sparked instant backlash, with Matt Lambert, CEO of the Portman Group, the social responsibility and regulatory body for alcohol in the UK, branding the advice "sexist and paternalistic"."We are extremely concerned by the WHO calling on countries to prevent drinking among women of child-bearing age in their latest action plan. As well as being sexist and paternalistic, and potentially restricting the freedoms of most women, it goes well beyond their remit and is not rooted in science," Lambert said."It is wrong to scaremonger in this irresponsible way and associate women's alcohol-related risks with those of children and pregnant people."Social media users were quick to lash out at the organisation, with many branding the suggestion "disturbing"."Tied to that is a rather disturbing thought that the point of 'women of child-bearing age' is to have children. What if some of those women choose not to … or cannot? Will they need to carry a permission slip to get a drink, or will they be banned anyway?" one Twitter user wrote.Another user wrote: "Just to be safe, better lock all women of child-bearing age on 'health ranches' where they are not allowed to ride in cars, ascend to altitudes above 8500 feet above sea level, take hot showers, eat raw oysters, or use the acne drug Accutane."A 2018 study, published in the New Zealand Medical Journal, found 23 per cent of women who took part in the Growing Up in New Zealand study continued to drink in their first trimester - when the risk of damage to nerve tissue was the highest - despite knowing they were pregnant. Thirteen per cent continued drinking after the first three months.Up to 3000 New Zealand children are born every year with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder as a result of their mother drinking alcohol during pregnancy.The Ministry of Health says there is no safe level of alcohol consumption while pregnant.Chief executive of Alcohol Change UK, Dr Richard Piper, told The Telegraph: "Drinking alcohol in the early stages of pregnancy, even before many people realise they're pregnant, can be very damaging for a foetus.""It's important that people understand these risks, but also vital that we balance this against each adult's right to make informed decisions about what we do with our bodies, no matter our age or sex."

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Our guest: Dr. Matt Lambert, Chief Medical Officer at Curation Health. "Curation Health is an advanced clinical decision support platform designed to assist providers and health plans in navigating the journey to value-based care" On this episode, we discussed: - His background - How he got to where he is today - His role as the Chief Medical Officer at Curation Health - His recent article on HIStalk - His book "Unrest Insured" - ...and much more! Our sponsors for this episode are BlocHealth and Curation Health. BlocHealth is building the ecosystem of services and solutions to power the future of healthcare. Through their platform, healthcare professionals and organizations can enter, upload and share core credentialing documents and information. Professionals and organizations then have the opportunity to use that information to order multiple services and solutions like credentialing, state license registration, certifications, payer enrollment, renewals, and more! On average, the BlocHealth platform saves users 40-60% on credentialing and licensing-related costs. Organizations can use BlocHealth as an extension of their team, or as their whole licensing and credentialing team. For more information, please go to www.blochealth.com and be sure to follow BlocHealth on social media - @blochealth "Curation Health’s advanced clinical decision support platform seamlessly integrates into the electronic health record and leverages more than 750 proven clinical and quality rules. With this intelligent point-of-care platform, you can power a scalable risk adjustment process and amplify quality program performance." For more information, please go to www.curationhealthcare.com and be sure to follow Curation Health on social media - @curationhealth To learn more about Curation Health please use the links below: - Website - LinkedIn - Twitter - YouTube Also, be sure to follow Slice of Healthcare on our social channels: - Website - Facebook - LinkedIn - Twitter - YouTube - Newsletter

Join us for a special Shop Talk edition of the Stand For Ag podcast with Missouri Leopold Conservation Award recipients and host, Ryan Britt. Matt Lambert (2017 recipient), Curtis Delgman (2018 recipient) and Joshlin Yoder (2020 recipient) discuss their conservation successes and challenges, where to focus when first implementing land management practices and carbon credits.

My guest in this episode is Matt Lambert, a lifelong George Harrison fan hence the reference to "Dark Horse" in the episode title. Matt's story, like so many of us, contains real highs and some challenging, painful lows. As Matt and I talked three important themes emerged for me which were the importance of focusing on people's strengths, the need to push yourself out of your comfort zone and how vital it is to find your own voice, through whatever route. This approach to life has held Matt in good stead professionally but more importantly in the close knit and talented family he and "the love of his life " Heidi have built with their three children Nathan, Ella and Luke. Matt is a self-confessed name dropper, and his often-hilarious stories span famous politicians, the Royal family and Bill Gates offering to be the Saudi Arabian Ambassador!! At the other end of the spectrum, we also talk about bullying at school, the pain of divorce, handling grief and Internet child safety. Like life itself, this episode is a roller-coaster ride but if you stay on to the end I guarantee the world will seem a better place . Matt talks towards the end of the episode about The Patchamama Project which his daughter Ella set up during lockdown. Through a worldwide network of volunteers they make and distribute reusable sanitary pads to refugees around the world. Do please take a look at The Pachamama Project | Fighting Period Poverty and if you are able to donate a little even better Matt's song choices in this episode are : 60's - The Beatles - Old Brown Shoe 70's - Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop 80's - John Martyn - Grace & Danger 90's - Dodgy - Staying Out For The Summer 00's - Coldplay - Yellow 10's - Nothing But Thieves - If I Get High 20's - New Rules - Mountains Those selections , along with a song from every other artist and band mentioned in our chat, are included in this Spotify Playlist , just cut & paste into your browser. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0VPjLXJk0QtfAzPHoTirAu?si=uQcY6nIYRSqdM9YlTIU5OwMusic Talks supports the "Chapter" functionality available in most Podcast apps and is a great way to listen in more than one sitting.

Host Matt Fisher's guest is Dr. Matthew Lambert, Chief Medical Officer of Curation Health, Their discussion covers iteration not failure for implementation and development of technology; background and history of Medicare Advantage; importance of accurate coding and data collection to understand patient populations; evolution to collect data about more than just health to include social factors. Healthcare de Jure is brought to you by Carium. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play HealthcareNOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

The pandemic has had a tremendous impact on the business of healthcare.  With states canceling elective procedures and people deferring care for fear of being exposed to the virus, hospital and medical practice revenue is down. On the flip side, many health plans are sitting on a mountain of premiums that aren't being spent because of this deferred care, possibly leading to rebates in some cases and a ton of uncertainty in pretty much all cases. One less obvious outcome of all of this may fall on Medicare Advantage plans in 2021, and it threatens to lower payments by 4-6% in 2021. Medicare Advantage, of course, is the rapidly growing model that'll cover more than 24 million Americans this year. According to a recent Avalere report, these plans may be looking at both a sicker population and reduced payments in 2021 because of this deferred utilization. Here to help us understand why, and to share some advice for how Medicare Advantage plans can weather the storm is Dr. Matt Lambert, a practicing ER clinician, and Chief Medical Officer at Curation Health. A few actions Dr. Lambert suggests are:   Focus on the long game and be patient. For example, don't pay out more to shareholders and, instead, place revenue in short-term investments that they can access without penalty. Prioritize virtual care/telemedicine enablement/reimbursement now and moving forward. This will enable more members to access care while avoiding in-person treatment risks. Lead with interventions and the type of claim vs. volume of claims. MA plans will be best served to focus on capturing the key conditions that map specifically to chronic conditions as they drive the most improved outcomes, utilization and costs.   There's a lot of nuance to this story and the way Medicare Advantage payments are calculated. Dr. Lambert breaks it all down for us. Enjoy!   Dr. Matt Lambert Dr. Matt Lambert brings more than 20 years of experience as a clinician, CMIO, and change leader in value-based care, ensuring that patients receive more comprehensive care and that payers and providers better capture the value of their services. He is a practicing, board-certified emergency medicine provider who previously founded his own physician staffing company. Dr. Lambert was one of the founding members of Clinovations. During his time there he served as part of the leadership team for several electronic health record implementations at the nation's largest public health system in New York City, the University of Washington in Seattle, Johns Hopkins, Barnabas Health, Medstar, and Broward Health. He is also the author of two healthcare books: Unrest Insured and Close to Change: Perspectives on Change and Healthcare for a Doctor, a Town, and a Country. mlambert@curationhealth.com   Curation Health Curation Health was founded by a team of healthcare veterans and clinicians to help providers and health plans effectively navigate the transition from fee-for-service to value-based care. Their advanced clinical decision support platform for value-based care drives more accurate risk adjustment and improved quality program performance by curating relevant insights from disparate sources and delivering them in real time to clinicians and care teams. With Curation Health, clinicians enjoy a streamlined, comprehensive clinical documentation process that enables better clinical and financial outcomes while simultaneously reducing clinical administrative burdens on providers. Curation Health takes pride in combining the flexibility and speed of a startup with decades of leadership experience and know-how from roles in leading companies including Clinovations, Evolent Health, and The Advisory Board Company.   Web: curationhealthcare.com. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/curationhealth/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/curationhealth Case Study: https://curationhealthcare.com/a-case-study-on-curation-health-and-a-physician-group-in-the-midwest/   Links and Resources   Report: COVID-19 Pandemic May Reduce MA Risk Scores and Payments (Avalere) Unrest Insured by Dr. Matt Lambert Close to Change: Perspectives on Change and Healthcare for a Doctor, a Town, and a Country by DR. Matt Lambert Episode #122: Headwinds Impacting the Shift to Value-Based Care with Kyle Swarts and Dr. Matt Lambert   The #HCBiz Show! is produced by Glide Health IT, LLC in partnership with Netspective Media. Music by StudioEtar

Don't forget to Rate AND Review us on iTunes!SUPPORT PERCEIVED VALUE!www.patreon.com/perceivedvaluewww.perceivedvaluepodcast.com/how-to-support-donate/Want a chance on the mic? Visit our events page at www.perceivevaluepodcast.com/events to find out when Perceive Value Podcast will be in your area! Instagram + Facebook: @perceivedvalueFind your Host:sarahrachelbrown.comInstagram: @sarahrachelbrownThe music you hear on Perceived Value is by the Seattle group Song Sparrow Research.All You Need to Know off of their album Sympathetic Buzz.Find them on Spotify!––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––The Fulcrum Project residency brought together active participants in the craftscape with eight residents who have been made vulnerable due to the high-risk they experience resulting from poverty and other structural forms of oppression and repression further emphasized due to the pandemic. With this project, the aim is to support residents with professional development as well as exposing residents to the multiplicity of possibilities that exist within a craft discourse. The outcome will be to give residents better tools and information on opportunities and structures to support young careers, while providing unrestricted financial support. Building upon the expertise and pool of knowledge of the presenters, the Fulcrum Project residency provides residents with diverse and valuable resources, varying from practical and foundational proffesionalization strategies - such as bio, cv writing, portfolio compiling,... -, to more advanced conceptual discussions. As a result, residents gain [or improve existing] skills with which they will be able to use or subvert as they will have gained a better understanding of possibilities to make decisions with more rounded understanding of unconventional possibilities and paths to build a practice. This format is inspired by Felipe Castelblanco’s parasitic university program, and shares an interest in using institutional resources to better a community at large.Instagrams:@the_fulcrum_project@matt_lambert_studio@feather_chiaverini Donations to The Fulcrum Project: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10KQh3TNYIKmooz2ZkwxM8vfLH6qq1u1RBx4Rc5t6agI/edit?usp=sharing Further Reading/listening from/by/with matt:This is Where We MeetA publication from the MA in Critical Craft at Warren Wilson that matt was an assistant editor and provided a contributing essay A Queer Consideration of Dirt and the Importance of Tending (located on p.219) digitally viewable in entirety and for hard copy purchase here:https://www.macraftstudieswwc.com/publication-vol-1-20182020 Nicholas Mirzoeff in Conversation with matt lambertListen here for a discussion on decolonizing national museums:https://soundcloud.com/user-79249665/matt-lambert-paired-conversation Matt Lambert in conversation with Máret Ánne Sara about nomadism, indigenous rights and colonialismRecognizing ground: where indigenous and queer practices meethttp://www.norwegiancrafts.no/articles/recognizing-ground-where-indigenous-and-queer-practices-meet Upcoming:Desire Paths @ The Center for Craft curated by Lauren Kalman and matt lamberthttps://www.centerforcraft.org/news/the-center-for-craft-announces-curatorial-fellows

September 9, 2020: Today we talk ‘virtual care platforms’ with Rachael England and Matt Lambert from HealthNXT. There’s a million point solutions around telehealth, remote patient monitoring, virtual hospital, virtual physical therapy etc. Clinicians can often have two dozen logins and apps. How do we orchestrate and knit together all of the virtual health options to create a one stop shop platform? What’s the best roadmap? What leadership and operational changes need to be made? How do we enhance both the consumer and clinician experiences around it? Key Points:The core foundational philosophy should be all around the experience of the user [00:05:20]Give your patients a singular experience [00:05:40]In terms of development of the product, we have to really question, why are we so behind in healthcare? [00:08:15]It's not just the patient portal, it’s everything else around it [00:10:45]How do we extend outside the four walls of the hospital? [00:19:10]Cost avoidance tips [00:25:00] https://www.thehcigroup.com/healthnxt

While much of today’s healthcare news is righty focused on the efforts to stave off the global coronavirus pandemic, there is other news to report – and Monitor Mondays will have a complete wrap-up on all of it during the next edition of the weekly Internet radio broadcast, while also looking ahead.And given the tendency of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to issue waivers and guidance with a unique style of ambiguity, a great deal of confusion also continues to come from hospitals and health systems in their efforts to remain compliant – while at the same time tending to their mission of delivering patient care amid the crisis. So during this special 60-minute live edition, we’ll also have our panelists standing by to answer your questions.Other segments to be featured during the live broadcast include the following:RAC Report: Healthcare attorney Knicole Emanuel, a partner in the Potomac Law Group, will file the Monitor Mondays RAC Report.Monday Focus: Kathy Pride, executive vice president of coding and documentation services for Panacea Health, will report on two interim final rules, including an expansion and relaxation of guidelines for telehealth services.Court Report: Famed whistleblower attorney Mary Inman, partner in the London office of Constantine Cannon, will report on two prominent examples of the need for independent regulatory oversight: the removal of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and news that Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, has filed a whistleblower complaint with the Office of Special Counsel, claiming that he was transferred to a “less impactful position” at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) after he was reluctant to promote the use of drugs such as hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients.Legislative Update: Former CMS official Matthew Albright, now chief legislative affairs officer for Zelis, will report on the status of healthcare legislation associated with the current COVID-19 pandemic.Risky Business: Healthcare attorney David Glaser, shareholder in the law offices of Fredrikson & Bryon, will join the broadcast with his trademark segment, reporting on regulatory ambiguity during the pandemic.Outpatient Therapy Update: Nancy Beckley, president of Nancy Beckley and Associates, will return to the broadcast to report on inequities for outpatient therapy providers as it pertains to payment, reimbursement, telehealth, and service delivery.Monday Rounds: Ronald Hirsch, MD, vice president of R1 RCM, will be making his Monday Rounds with another installment of his popular segment. Special Report: RACmonitor investigative reporter Edward C. Roche, PhD, JD, will provide a status report on COVID-19 testing in the United States.COVID Q&A: Navigating COVID-19 guidance continues to be a major challenge for healthcare professionals – and that is why Monitor Mondays will devote additional time during this live broadcast to answer your questions. Returning to the broadcast will be Matt Lambert, MD, an emergency medicine physician and chief medical officer for Curation Health.

Today on Health Care Rounds, John speaks with Kyle Swarts and Dr. Matt Lambert. They discuss their journey to simplify value-based care with Curation Health, an advanced clinical decision support platform serving the health care community in improving overall performance. In this episode, Swarts and Dr. Lambert emphasize their aim to navigate a strategy to close care gaps between providers and patients while maintaining overall satisfaction. They also discuss the high demand of value-based care in the industry as well as some major shifts happening in health care in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The costs of managing prolonged ICU stays for COVID-19 patients, combined with lost revenue from decreased ambulatory visits and the cancellation of elective procedures, will have health systems and provider groups emerging from the ongoing pandemic with significant financial challenges. It will be more important than ever to ensure that clinical documentation reflects the true complexity of care being delivered. Reporting our lead story during this edition of Talk Ten Tuesdays will be Matt Lambert, MD, an emergency medicine physician and the chief medical officer for Curation Health.The live broadcast will also feature these other segments:Mental Health Report: H. Steven Moffic, MD, one of America’s foremost psychiatrists, returns to the broadcast to report on the impact of climate change on mental health – part of an exclusive series he is authoring for ICD10monitor.Tuesday Focus: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced expanded coverage for essential diagnostic services amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Susan Gatehouse, founder and CEO of Axea Solutions, reports on this latest development.Coding Report: Laurie Johnson has an update on the deadly coronavirus that continues to dominate international as well as domestic news headlines. TalkBack: Erica Remer, MD, founder and president of Erica Remer, MD, Inc. and Talk Ten Tuesdays co-host, will return to the broadcast to report on another thought-provoking topic that has captured her attention.

The 1,000-bed USNS Comfort, a hospital ship that in the past has provided humanitarian relief around the world, is now anchored on Pier 90 in Manhattan to provide humanitarian relief as COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronarvirus, ravages New York City, now the epicenter of the pandemic. Also in New York City, the famed Jacob Javits Center has been converted to a 1,200-bed field hospital by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In the meantime, the White House is warning the nation to expect the worst, reporting that up to 200,000 deaths from COVID-19 could occur. As President Trump put it, “this is going to be a very, very painful two weeks.”The broadcast includes the following updates, and then segue to the town hall:Alvin Gore, MD, CHCQM, is a physician advisor and director of utilization management at St. Joseph Health in Sonoma County, Calif, and also a member of the board of directors of the American College of Physician Advisors;Matt Lambert, MD, an emergency medicine doctor and the chief medical officer (CMO) for Curation Health;Dennis Jones, administrator of patient financial services for Montefiore Nyack Hospital in Nyack, N.Y., and a frequent panelist on Monitor Mondays and Talk Ten Tuesdays; andHoward Stein, DO, MHA, CHCQM-PHYSADV, associate director of medical affairs and a senior physician advisor at CentraState Health System in Freehold, N.J.Legislative Update: Former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) official Matthew Albright, now chief legislative affairs officer for Zelis, will report on pending legislation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.Risky Business: Healthcare attorney David Glaser, shareholder in the law offices of Fredrikson & Bryon, will join the broadcast with his trademark segment, in which he reports on problematic issues facing providers.Monday Rounds: Ronald Hirsch, MD, vice president of R1 RCM, will be making his Monday Rounds with another installment of his popular segment.

In this episode, Scott talks to Matt Lambert, Chief Medical Officer for Curation Health. Here, he discusses his book Unrest Assured, the rebranding of Trust Healthcare into Curation Healthcare, interoperability in IT, and more.

Health systems have been working hard to lay the foundation for taking on a larger case mix of value-based contracts. 75% of health systems surveyed said they are ready to accept downside risk in the next two years, up from 42% in 2015. As health systems are discovering, value-based care reimbursement is more complicated and requires a new level of specificity in documentation. The question is, are health systems really ready to take on downside risk while continuing to manage FFS contracts? Today we have Kyle Swarts, Chief Growth Officer, and Matt Lambert, MD, Chief Medical Officer from TrustHealthcare to help us answer that question. We discuss challenges and opportunities facing health systems as they embrace the shift to value. Enjoy! Highlights from Headwinds Impacting the Shift to Value-Based Care It's time for providers to take on risk. Everyone has a population health department but fee-for-service is still driving your overall strategy. The threshold for making the jump to VBP. Why it's so difficult to get doctors on board with VBP. "It's not how sick your patients are, it's how well you document how sick your patients are." The risk of moving slowly to VBP. The promise of 60 minute home visits with a physician finally has a reimbursement model. Where we will see new consolidation in response to VBP. The two big reasons specificity in documentation is key to successful downside risk contracts. Reimagining EHR design to foster VBP. AI success is all about physician adoption. Kyle Swarts, Chief Revenue Officer Kyle is a growth-minded leader who has overseen sales, marketing, and business development at healthcare consulting, revenue cycle management and information technology companies for the past 12 years. Matt Lambert, MD, Chief Medical Officer Matt brings over twenty years of experience as a clinician, CMIO, and change leader to value-based care, ensuring that patients receive more comprehensive care and that payers and providers better capture the value of their services. TrustHealthcare Founded in 2018 by a team of healthcare veterans and clinicians with private equity funding from Windrose Health Investors, TrustHealthcare's mission is to empower healthcare provider organizations and health plans to successfully navigate from fee-for-service to value-based care. The TrustHealthcare platform seamlessly integrates with the electronic health record and leverages more than 500 proven clinical rules – while also connecting CDI specialists, clinicians, and coders in one simplified workflow. With TrustHealthcare, providers and health plans can rest assured that they are capturing the full value of patient care in real-time. Links and Resources TrustHealthcare Website TrustHealthcare Linkedin Unrest Insured by Matt Lambert, MD A Primer on HCC codes and Risk Adjustment Related Episodes: Top 10 Things to Ensure Success in a Value-based Healthcare World Value-based Payment: Progress, Trends and Direction w/ Jason Helgerson The Future of Value-Based Payment w/ François de Brantes of Remedy

In this final week of Biblical Justice, we hosted a Q&A with Rev. Patrick Schlabs, Matt Lambert, the Very Rev. Peet Dickinson, and hosted by Hunter Myers. Listen to our panel discuss practical questions from parishioners.

We've all heard the ten commandments, but how do they actually affect our lives from day to day? In this week's Fall Formation, Matt Lambert teaches us the role the ten commandments play in our lives. Discover how God uses the ten commandments to impart justice to the world.

Knowing wise principles is one thing; applying them wisely is the real challenge! Did you know that a whole book of the Bible is devoted to how hard it is to actually be wise? This writer named Qoheleth sought wisdom and found earth too crushing and heaven too far for wisdom to truly matter. So, why is wisdom so hard to apply and what hope do you have to be wise? This week Matt Lambert explores the book of Ecclesiastes.

You may have found a few "life hacks" along the way. But, what is real wisdom? Is it an order? A skill? A desire? A disposition? Or is it ultimately a mystery? The book of Proverbs may simply answer, "Yes!" In this Fall Christian formation series, Matt Lambert explores wisdom & the good life in the book of Proverbs. Listen & discover the Bible's captivating case for wisdom in a broken, confusing world.

Host Chad Radford speaks with Matt Lambert of Night Cleaner and All the Saints. Photo by Kristy Lambert.

I hope you enjoy this interview that I recorded with Matt Lambert, who is a social innovator and strategy consultant. Matt has had an interesting career and life journey that had him move from the US to Montenegro with his family. In one of his corporate jobs, Matt was urged to find what he loves and then craft a role around that, which had a powerful influence on how he viewed his career path from then on. There are tons of takeaways in this episode as Mike shares his hard-won insights on how to get unstuck. Episode Highlights: Why leaders need to recognize and support people's unique strengths How you can create a job for yourself instead of just accepting what's out there Why it's ok to feel discontent with the different stages of life How it's good to challenge systems and ways of thinking that aren't working for us If you're going to challenge a system, you have to understand the system How living in a foreign country teaches humility "Just keep swimming." Failure means you're trying... it's ok to make mistakes Don't let an old story from your childhood hold you back from pursuing your dreams You can always change and do something different Connect with Matt: Look for him on social media: @musingmr https://mattlambert.me/ Here's to Getting Unstuck, Cynthia This week's healthy episode is sponsored by Wellness by Cynthia. Wellness by Cynthia is my own site and blog where I educate and dish about my favorite wellness products, tips, and experiences. Check it out! https://wellnessbycynthia.com/   BONUS: If you enroll as a Young Living essential oils rewards member, I’ll give you $10 towards your second order when you contact me and mention the code “Goal Magic.” Intro Music: We are One  by Vexento We Are One by Vexento https://www.youtube.com/user/Vexento https://soundcloud.com/vexento Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/Ssvu2yncgWU Outro music: Nostalgia by Tobu  tobumusic.com/license https://soundcloud.com/7obu/nostalgia

Another return guest for the video log this week, with Matt Lambert (Head of Physical Education and Health at Heretaunga College and PE Gear Shed superstar). We get to have a quick chat about the Armoury and how HC use it within their PE programme, as well as a few questions around the physical performance of our young people from a perspective of what we as educators do well and what we could do a little better. The episode has a couple of guest appearances too, the Heretaunga College Caretaker and his lawn mower, as well as the Heretaunga College School bell. It does seem schools are the worst places to record podcasts and video logs!

Another return guest for the video log this week, with Matt Lambert (Head of Physical Education and Health at Heretaunga College and PE Gear Shed superstar). We get to have a quick chat about the Armoury and how HC use it within their PE programme, as well as a few questions around the physical performance of our young people from a perspective of what we as educators do well and what we could do a little better.The episode has a couple of guest appearances too, the Heretaunga College Caretaker and his lawn mower, as well as the Heretaunga College School bell. It does seem schools are the worst places to record podcasts and video logs!

Join us as we talk with two educators about why they do Flipped Learning with Facebook, why it makes flipping easy and avoiding the pitfalls. Follow: @jonbergmann @LBsPE @bamradionetwork #edchat #flipclass #teachers Matt Lambert is currently in his 11th year of teaching Physical Education and Health at a secondary school called Heretaunga College in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. He is the Head of a department of six innovative flippers and runs a Facebook page called the ‘PE Gear Shed’ which allows PE teachers from New Zealand and around the world to share, discuss, collaborate and form connections. Max Pearson is been a Secondary School Physical Education teacher (Ages 13-18) for the past 7 years. He operates an online flipped personal training resource called ‘MadeFitness’ which allows athletes and non-athletes from around the world to learn about how to train successfully in the gym.

Examples of converting theory to practical application with Flipped Learning Follow: @jonbergmann @LBsPE @bamradionetwork #edchat #flipclass #teachers Matt Lambert is currently in his 11th year of teaching Physical Education and Health at a secondary school called Heretaunga College in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. He is the Head of a department of six innovative flippers and runs a Facebook page called the ‘PE Gear Shed’ which allows PE teachers from New Zealand and around the world to share, discuss, collaborate and form connections. Max Pearson is been a Secondary School Physical Education teacher (Ages 13-18) for the past 7 years. He operates an online flipped personal training resource called ‘MadeFitness’ which allows athletes and non-athletes from around the world to learn about how to train successfully in the gym.

In episode 4 of NZPETeachercast, we talk senior courses with Matt Lambert. Matt is the head of department of Physical Education and is taking a really unique approach to course design.

In episode 4 of NZPETeachercast, we talk senior courses with Matt Lambert. Matt is the head of department of Physical Education and is taking a really unique approach to course design.