Podcasts about medikidz

Dr Takijah Heard is a Chicago native, born on the south side of Chicago. Dr Heard received her doctorate of medicine from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She remained on the south side at UIC/Advocate Hope Children's Hospital for her pediatric residency. Dr Heard's pediatric neurology residency and epilepsy fellowship was completed at Harvard's Boston Children Hospital. After completing her fellowship in epilepsy, she attended the Harvard School of Public Health to learn more about how to conduct epilepsy research in order to impact the world on a broader level. She has travelled to various countries in Central America and Africa including Zambia and Tanzania teaching and spreading awareness about epilepsy. In 2018, Dr Heard continued these educational efforts by travelling to Kenya with a mentoring program called I Am Abel Foundation.Dr Heard's teaching skills have been honored as she was the recipient of the Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award during her first position as the Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Houston. She has worked extensively with the Epilepsy Foundation of Texas and Greater Chicago and now functions as a board member and physician advisor. She currently serves on the Physician Advisory Board for the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago. Dr Heard's passion for epilepsy has been shared on National Public Radio (NPR), FOX News in Chicago and WGN local news in Chicago. She has been named as one of 2013's Top America Doctors. Dr Heard has authored chapters in books and articles focused on pediatric epilepsy. Additionally, she has been featured in an award winning book called Against All Odds Celebrating Black Women in Medicine that has recently turned into a documentary renamed Changing the Face of Medicine which was released in 2017.Dr Takijah Heard is currently working as pediatric neurologist and epileptologist at NorthShore University Health System as the Director of Pediatric Neurophysiology. She also works at Neurabilities Healthcare treat a more broad range of neurologic disease, behaviors and epilepsy. She cares for kids with any and all neurologic issues but has a special passion for children with seizures. She has helped with the creation of the MediKidz comic book series highlight her personal patients ability to conquer their epilepsy. She continues to teach medical students and residents about pediatric neurology and epilepsy in hopes of broadening the field. In 2022, she was awarded the Chicagoland Mentor of the Year Award by a medical mentoring group called the I Am Abe Foundation. She currently in on Instagram as the Baby Brain Doctor in an effort to increase education through the media avenues. She has pushed her passion for epilepsy awareness to the Mrs. America platform. She was crowned Mrs. Illinois on 6/17/23 and will be competing for Mrs. America on 8/26/23 in Las Vegas, Nevada. If crowned Mrs America, she will have a national platform to influence change in epilepsy education, care and awareness. In the meantime, she will use her 1 year of reign as Mrs. Illinois to increase epilepsy awareness through various speaking and appearances throughout Illinois.

Dr. Kim Chilman-Blair’s career began with a Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacology, followed by a Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacology and Psychological Medicine. Throughout her undergraduate studies, Dr. Chilman-Blair trained and worked as a freelance academic medical writer and editor, writing both for medical journals, and as an international medical journalist. She then undertook a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree at Otago Medical School to become a clinical doctor.  During her years as a junior doctor, Dr. Chilman-Blair also studied a Masters in Entrepreneurship through the Otago Business School.  After two years as a house surgeon, Dr. Chilman-Blair left her clinical job to create Medikidz—an initiative dedicated to explaining complex medical information to children through comic books.  After seven years as Founder and CEO of Medikidz, Dr. Chilman-Blair left to start up a new initiative to explain medical information to all patients regardless of age, condition, gender or ethnicity—Medicine X: (ie Medicine Xplained by doctors, for patients)—of which she is currently the Founder and President.  Dr. Chilman-Blair brought together the world’s best storytellers, world renowned artists and skilled doctors to create digital stories explaining complicated medical conditions in an animated and understandable format. All medicine ‘xplained’ stories are based on real patients, who describe their journey with a complicated condition—the normal anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, symptoms, investigations, treatments and how to become involved in clinical trials.  In addition to the digital stories, Dr. Chilman-Blair created Facebook support groups for patients to ask Medicine X in house doctors medical questions about their specific medical affliction.    Dr. Chilman-Blair joins me today to discuss her background and how her daily efforts to help patients understand their diagnosis led her to creating Medicine X. She shares with us the metamorphosis from Medikids to Medicine X. She explains how she structures her trials and how she is scaling the company to different diagnoses and different regions.    “Now more than ever, patients are needing to be able to access information they can understand from in a digital way and not have to leave the house if they don't have to. So I think that we have been lucky enough to be able to keep continue to serve people in this way. So this year, it's it's tricky because it's hard for anybody to really be able to plan for anything. We know that life will probably not go back to anywhere normal as we know, until at least September, in terms of just you know, travel and things. So we're really just focusing on innovation and growing, what we can provide to patients.”  - Dr. Chilman-Blair   Today on When She Founded: How comic books play a role in her company’s story Her move from patient care to the business side  The approach to funding The evolution of her business model How the pandemic has impacted her business How serving the community translates into revenue   Connect with Dr. Chilman-Blair on LinkedIn or the website of Medicine X The link for the interview with vaccine legend Moncef Slaoui about the upcoming COVID vaccine/s at the White House. To view Interview. Click here Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes! Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of When She Founded with your host, Somer Hamrick. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to visit our website, connect with Somer on LinkedIn, and share your favorite episodes across social media. Are you are female founder that would like some support with business development, visit us at Launch to Leads Lab?

010 -  Hello! This week I am joined by Jeannie Schnur. Jeannie actually reached out to me with her story after I began the podcast and I'm so happy she did. In the episode, we talk about how important it is to find a group or organization to get connected with, we talk more about self-care, and about how to get into your community with your special needs stories. Jeannie is a mom to three, her oldest son has a seizure disorder called Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome. This means he could have multiple seizures a day, among other concerns. Jeannie starts by telling us how important it is to find other parents, families, groups; that you can relate to and find more information. We talked about how to combat unpleasant feelings and look for the positive side of things, daily. Jeannie shared how she loves upbeat music, being outdoors, deep breaths and purposely connecting to what's good and brings her joy.  When we got down to talking about self-care, we both came to the conclusion that its easy to feel guilty about taking time for ourselves. We also agreed that it was self-imposed guilt and we need to break free from it! Her motto is doing self-care that actually makes her feel better about herself. Jeannie's  belief is that helping others can shift the focus off our own worries and struggles. A big project she was involved in is making a comic book based on her son's journey. With the help of the company Medikidz, she was able to shine a light on LGS and give other kids and teens a look into that world. I can't wait to see what else Jeannie accomplishes and I'm so happy we had her share her journey on the show.Connect with Jeannie:IG: https://instagram.com/jenesnrConnect with Kara:IG: https://www.instagram.com/Kararyska/ Website: https://www.kararyska.com/Pathway to Peace Consult: Link HereFull Show NotesClick HERE to Join The Special Needs Mom Podcast Community

Telling your child you have cancer is not an easy thing to do. When do you tell them? How much do they need to know? If you have young children is it easier to not tell them at all? On this episode, Kellie Curtain speaks with breast cancer survivor and mum-of-two Anita Ledger and John Freidsam from CanTeen about starting the conversation, dealing with a child in denial and the importance of keeping the lines of communication open no matter your child's age. RESOURCES: BCNA's My Journey Online Tool BCNA Online Network Telling your children (bcna.org.au) My parent has cancer - support and information (CanTeen.org.au) Dealing with your parents cancer (CanTeen fact sheet) Parenting Through Cancer (CanTeen booklet) CanTeen Connect for Parents Medikidz comic book (early breast cancer) Medikidz comic book (metastatic breast cancer) Upfront About Breast Cancer is a production of Breast Cancer Network Australia. Our theme music is by Tara Simmons, and this episode is proudly brought to you by the Dry July Foundation. Want to get in touch? Email us at contact@bcna.org.au, or call our Helpline on 1800 500 258. Find out more about Breast Cancer Network Australia at https://www.bcna.org.au/

Medical procedures may sound scary. The Medikidz help Melissa conquer her fears by taking her on a journey through the human body to understand how PICC lines work and how to keep it clean and dry to avoid infection.

The Medikidz take Dean on a journey to the bone marrow to learn more about how blood cells work, symptoms and treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), possible side effects, and how to find more support.

The Medikidz take Lucas on a journey through the bladder to learn more about how clean intermittent catheterization (CIC) works in boys, how to use a catheter properly, and how to avoid infections.

The Medikidz take Jackie on a journey through the bladder to learn more about how clean intermittent catheterization (CIC) works in girls, how to use a catheter properly, and how to avoid infections.

The Medikidz take Ella on a trip to the lungs and pancreas to explain how the lungs and pancreas function, what cystic fibrosis does to the body, how genes work, and how cystic fibrosis is treated.

The Medikidz teach Cameron, June, and Marcus what happens in a clinical trial and how clinical trials help doctors and scientists find new treatments to help kids with different illnesses around the world.

The Medikidz take Steve on a journey through the human body to learn more about living with a rare bleeding disorder known as hemophilia, preventing bleeds, and how to explain it to his friends and family, in this audiobook version of our award-winning comic book Understanding Hemophilia.

Medical procedures can be scary. In this audiobook version of our award-winning comic book Understanding CT Scans, the Medikidz help Megan overcome her fear of getting a CT scan.

Damon is an expert in managing his childhood cancer, osteosarcoma (bone cancer), but his sister Dara is scared and confused. The Medikidz help him explain what cancer does to the body, cancer treatment and how to support him in this audiobook version of our award-winning comic book Understanding Osteosarcoma.

The Medikidz take Raj on a trip through the human body to better understand how Crohn's disease/colitis affects the body and how he can manage it, in this audiobook version of our award-winning comic book Understanding Crohn's Disease.

Medical procedures can sound scary. The Medikidz help Freddy overcome his fears about having a blood test, in this audiobook version of our award-winning comic book Understanding Blood Tests.

The Medikidz teach Cameron how attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects his behavior and how he can manage it in this audiobook version of our award-winning comic book Understanding ADHD.

Gabriel is living with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). He and the Medikidz take a trip through the human body to teach newly diagnosed Tia about OCD symptoms, triggers and treatment in this audiobook version of our award-winning comic book Understanding Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

It important to have the support of friends and family when you find out you or a family member has cancer. The Medikidz help Alex explain to his classmates how cancer affects the body, different types of cancer treatments and the possible side effects, in this audiobook version of our award-winning comic book Understanding Childhood Cancer.

Zoe runs out of her ballet class because she is embarrassed about her skin condition. The Medikidz take Zoe on a trip through the human body to explain psoriasis symptoms, triggers, treatment and how to talk about psoriasis with others in this audiobook version of our award-winning comic book Understanding Psoriasis.

Eleanor has an invisible illness. She doesn't know why she feels too sore to play soccer with the other kids. The Medikidz take her on a journey through the human body to help her understand the symptoms of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), and explain this chronic illness to her friends. Listen to this audiobook version of our award-winning comic book Understanding Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA).

Teaser episode about the evolution from Medikidz and its signature comic book line distributed to 50 countries in 30 languages, to Jumo with its digital platform of podcasts, videos, apps, and enterprise solutions.

Medikidz is a children’s medical education organization that works closely with healthcare professionals, families, children and patients to produce unique learning materials in an interactive, powerfully-visual comic book format, thereby helping to educate children about their health as well as the health of those around them. We were joined by CEO and co-founder Dr. Kate Hersov on the podcast to learn more about this really intriguing and engaging patient educational material changing how Pediatrics engages their patients.