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Medicaid provides health coverage for more than 70 million Americans, including children, veterans, seniors, and people with disabilities. But as Congress works toward a reconciliation bill, proposed cuts totaling $880 billion have raised serious concerns about the program's future and the impacts on patients and providers.In this episode, Chip Kahn sits down with Dr. Bruce Siegel, President and CEO of America's Essential Hospitals, as he reflects on his 15 years of leadership, the critical role of serving uninsured and low-income patients, and the high stakes of the Medicaid debate unfolding in Washington.Key topics include:The evolving role of essential hospitals and the need to serve uninsured and low-income patients;Medicaid's role in the health system and why it is essential for patient care;The real-world impact of Medicaid cuts, including consequences for nursing home stays, community-based services, and hospital operations;Debunking the misconception that having insurance doesn't improve health outcomes; and,Bruce's advice for future health care leaders and what's next for him after America's Essential Hospitals.Guest Bio: With an extensive background in health care management, policy, and public health, Bruce Siegel, MD, MPH, has the blend of experience necessary to lead America's Essential Hospitals and its members through the changing health care landscape and into a sustainable future. With more than 350 members, America's Essential Hospitals is the only national organization representing hospitals committed to serving those who face financial and social barriers to care. Since joining America's Essential Hospitals in 2010, Siegel has dramatically grown the association as it strengthened its advocacy, research, and education efforts. His intimate knowledge of member needs comes in part from his direct experience as president and CEO of two member systems: New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and Tampa General Healthcare. Just before joining America's Essential Hospitals, Siegel served as director of the Center for Health Care Quality and professor of health policy at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. He also served as New Jersey's commissioner of health. Among his many accomplishments, Siegel led groundbreaking work on quality and equity, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is a past chair of the National Quality Forum board and the National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality. Modern Healthcare recognized him as one of the “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare” from 2011 to 2019 and 2022 to 2024; among the “50 Most Influential Clinical Executives” in 2022, 2023, and 2024; among the “Top 25 Diversity Leaders in Healthcare” in 2021; one of the “50 Most Influential Physician Executives” from 2012 to 2018; and among the “Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare” in 2014 and 2016. He also was named one of the “50 Most Powerful People in Healthcare” by Becker's Hospital Review in 2013 and 2014. Siegel earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton University, a doctor of medicine from Cornell University Medical College, and a master's degree in public health from The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Why is New York City's obesity rate about one-third lower than Houston's? In this episode, I discuss how the environments of these two major U.S. cities shape health outcomes. From daily walking habits to weather patterns, food choices, and public transportation, learn how these factors contribute to the stark differences in obesity rates. 1-2-1 Online Fitness Member Inquiry FormPre-order My Book, "Your Fat Loss Journey Starts Here", on KindleReferenced Threads Post on Adin RossMy InstagramMy XMy ThreadsMy TikTokMy YouTube ChannelMy ArticlesFree Workout PlanFree Fat Loss GuideFree Protein Cheat SheetFree Calorie Calculator Timestamps:(00:11) NYC vs. Houston: Obesity Rate Differences(02:27) Adin Ross' Gym Progress(03:37) Teens Jumping on Steroids Thanks to Social Media(05:38) Social Media Comments From Trolls(08:35) Jeff Nippard's Expert Opinion on Fitness Progress(11:02) The First Year of Lifting is About Making Mistakes(12:55) Walking vs. Driving: Daily Movement in NYC and Houston(14:55) Weather and Climate: How They Affect Activity Levels(16:07) Food Choices: Healthy Options in NYC and Houston(18:49) Public Transport: Movement Opportunities in Urban Settings(20:52) Summary: Environment's Role in Shaping Health
This week Shawn & Kenny go on to wish the summer of 2024 a slow goodbye with a recent family vacation recap, why venues and establishments should allow certain attire when the weather permits, the Democratic National Convention stand outs and rumors that circled this past week, New Jersey transit looking out for passengers leading into Labor Day weekend, New York City Health and Hospitals making significant changes due to the increasing demand for appointments, the NFL season kicking off this week with ESPN informing fantasy players who not to draft, the WNBA heating up leading into the playoffs, why the NBA's media rights are hitting the Supreme Court and a ton of other news that caught their radar this week! As always don't forget to subscribe to the YouTube channel for all updates and visit The FCP Shop with new merchandise dropping every week. www.Freedomcagepodcast.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8vICXH0TXIvWXjHF8GRfjg FCP Shop - https://the-fcp-shop.myshopify.com/ YT - bit.ly/3njvShH Follow the handles below and give us your thoughts, feedback & any questions you may have; Freedom Cage Podcast @FreedomCagePod on Twitter & @FreedomCagePodcast on IG Kenny @KenKapnik on Twitter and IG Shawn @SenorLee_FCP on Twitter & @SenorLee on IG
Most people shudder at the idea of an infectious disease outbreak — patients stricken with a mysterious illness, hospitals overflowing, and cities going into lockdown. But for Syra Madad, DHSc, MSc , MCP, rushing into such a scenario, donned in a hazmat suit, to control the chaos has been a dream since childhood. Today, she is an epidemiologist, biosecurity advisor, and a pathogen preparedness expert who serves as Senior Director of the System-Wide Special Pathogens Program at New York City Health and Hospitals, which operates the municipal health care system of New York City. Over the course of our conversation, Dr. Madad shares what excites her about the work of infectious disease control, why she believes we have emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic worse prepared for the next pandemic, how scientists and doctors can better communicate with the public in the absence of clear data, the importance of utilizing trusted messengers in the community to fully deploy the power of public health, and more. In this episode, you'll hear about: 2:09 - How a movie led Dr. Madad to become an infectious disease preparedness expert6:54 - An overview of Biosafety levels (BSL) 9:30 - Moments in Dr. Madad's career when disease containment went well and moments when it did not. 12:27 - How Dr. Madad mentally and emotionally manages the heavy weight of often-lethal infectious diseases18:05 - Dr. Madad's opinion on how COVID-19 policies were handled 24:02 - Dr. Madad's personal thoughts on the potential origins of COVID-19 26:55 - What concerns Dr. Madad most about future pandemics and how we can make positive steps toward recovering trust in science35:40 - Dr. Madad's advice for those considering a career in public health or infectious diseases Dr. Syra Madad appears in the Netflix special Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak.Dr. Syra Madad can be found on Twitter/X at @syramadad.Visit our website www.TheDoctorsArt.com where you can find transcripts of all episodes.If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, and review our show, available for free on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you know of a doctor, patient, or anyone working in health care who would love to explore meaning in medicine with us on the show, feel free to leave a suggestion in the comments or send an email to info@thedoctorsart.com.Copyright The Doctor's Art Podcast 2024
Michael Wallace has the top stories from the WCBS newsroom.
This is the 2pm All Local for Tuesday, June 4, 2024.
Suzanne Colucci has this evening's top local stories from the WCBS Newsroom.
Michael Wallace has the top stories from the WCBS newsroom.
In this inspiring episode of The Digital Executive, host Brian Thomas welcomes Pam Saechow, the dynamic CEO of Elite Groups and a seasoned IT executive with a rich background in healthcare. With over two decades of experience, Pam shares her transformative journey from her early days in Laos, inspired by her grandmother's healthcare work, to leading major digital transformations in prestigious institutions like the Cleveland Clinic and New York City Health and Hospitals.Pam's story is one of overcoming challenges, including racism and gender bias, to emerge as a powerful leader in technology and healthcare. She discusses the importance of patient advocacy, the art and science of leadership, and her agile approach to navigating the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous landscape of today's healthcare and technology sectors.This episode dives into Pam's strategic thinking and planning, emphasizing her ability to balance short-term targets with long-term visions to propel organizational value forward. Listeners will be captivated by her philosophy of breaking barriers, empowering others, and ensuring technology enhances patient care and provider experiences.Pam also outlines her approach to digital transformation, highlighting her unique 90-to-120-day plan for understanding and actioning organizational needs. She stresses the significance of alignment between technology and healthcare, aiming to improve patient outcomes by focusing on intentional change and knowledge alongside people, process, and tools.Ending on a personal note, Pam shares her life and professional philosophy centered around the 5 L's: Lead, Live, Learn, Laugh, and Listen, showcasing how these principles guide her leadership and decision-making at Elite Groups. Join us for an episode that not only highlights a remarkable career journey but also provides profound insights into leading with integrity, passion, and a focus on impactful outcomes.
Suzanne Colucci has the morning's top headlines from the WCBS 880 newsroom
The Health Resources & Services Administration audits 200 covered entities each year for compliance with 340B rules. We speak with Mark Capuano, senior director of the corporate pharmacy 340B program at New York City Health and Hospitals, about what hospitals should expect when they find out they will be going through a 340B audit.How a hospital can prepare for a 340B auditAuditors typically will ask to schedule a pre-site visit call and will provide a data request list for the information the auditor is seeking. Mark says it is important to provide this information in a timely, accurate and concise way, and to make sure you inform key stakeholders at your organization so you can get the subject matter experts involved. He also recommends doing test runs of the audit ahead of time.What a hospital should expect on the day of an auditOn the day of an audit, the auditor will trace a sample to see how a 340B drug goes from drugmaker to pharmacy to patient. The auditor will assess whether the hospital is following its 340B policies and procedures to make sure the drug went to an eligible patient and does not involve a duplicate discount. Mark says the process can be very stressful but that it also provides an opportunity to reframe the audit to showcase the great work of your hospital.What hospitals should do if they receive audit findingsIf HRSA issues a finding, the hospital must draft and implement a corrective action plan. Mark recommends bringing in legal counsel and 340B consultants to review this document. After HRSA approves the CAP, the hospital will demonstrate to the agency that it is in place to ensure compliance going forward.Check out all of our episodes on the 340B Insight podcast website. You also can stay updated on all 340B Health news and information by visiting our homepage. If you have any questions you'd like us to cover in this podcast, email us at podcast@340bhealth.org.Resources:HRSA 340B Program Integrity Website
Michael Wallace has the top stories from the WCBS newsroom.
Wendy welcomes back guest Larissa Trinder, Assistant Vice-President of Arts in Medicine at New York City Health and Hospitals. She shares the innovative initiatives in arts' crucial role in healing and the movement of social prescribing in this meaningful discussion of the intersection of art and medicine.
Michael Wallace has the top stories from the WCBS newsroom.
Michael Wallace has the top stories from the WCBS newsroom.
Michael Wallace has the top stories from the WCBS newsroom.
Michael Wallace has the top stories from the WCBS newsroom.
Michael Wallace has the top stories from the WCBS newsroom.
Michael Wallace has the top stories from the WCBS newsroom.
Michael Wallace has the top stories from the WCBS newsroom.
New York City Mayor Adams will end the city's covid vaccine mandate for municipal workers this Friday.
New York City is firing off a new threat to smoke shops peddling illegal cannabis. STOP SELLING, or face eviction. WCBS'S Steve Burns has the story.
President Biden will end the nation's covid emergencies in May. Dr. Bernard Camins, the Medical Director for Infection Prevention at the Mount Sinai Health System, joined us on the Afternoon Roundup and explained what that will actually.
In this interview, Jarrod Jefferies and Deb Tauber interview Dr. Haru Okuda and Dr. Okuda discusses the strategic priorities for the Society of Simulation and Healthcare (SSH). In the show's second part, we highlight the accomplishments of New York City Health and Hospitals. We talk to Dr. Michael Merguerdician, Dana Trottier, and Kimberly Campbell-Taylor. They share their accreditation journey from SSH.
Subway stations near the river tend to have higher pollution levels. David Luglio, doctoral student at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the study's lead author, joined WCBS Anchor Mack Rosenberg to discuss some of the findings.
New York's first recreational pot dispensary opens tomorrow (Thursday, December 28th) in lower Manhattan, at 4:20 in the afternoon. Sasha Nutgent Store Manager of Housing Works Cannabis Co. spoke about it on WCBS 880.
Go to store shelves and you will see a shortage of children's fever reduction and over the counter cold and cough medicines. So what should a parent do? Sophia Hall has the story.
Amanda L. Goltz, MPA is the U.S. Lead for Worldwide Healthcare Venture Capital and Startups at Amazon Web Services (AWS), responsible for managing a portfolio of digital health companies and driving opportunities with AWS's enterprise healthcare and life sciences business. In a previous role at Amazon, Amanda led partnerships to power voice AI experiences at Alexa Health and Wellness. Before coming to Amazon, Amanda was Vice President of Digital Innovation at BTG (now Boston Scientific), a global medtech, managing the portfolio of digital initiatives combining clinical interventions, device technology, and digital services to incorporate the patient experience and improve measurable outcomes. As part of this role, Amanda founded Oncoverse, a software startup in cancer care, in a joint venture with CommonSpirit Health. Previously, Amanda was the Director of Product Strategy and Innovation at Aetna, sourcing emerging solutions from the digital health and innovative networks marketplace, pairing them with employer clients, and directing implementation of the solutions at scale. Amanda has led innovation and strategy initiatives at Pacific Business Group on Health, a large employer coalition; the State of California, MassGeneralBrigham, and New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. Amanda advises several start-up companies as a mentor for the Alexa Fund, 500Startups, Rock Health, and StartXMed, the health and life sciences incubator for Stanford University.
Adams administration could force New Yorkers with mental Illness into treatment, whether they want it or not.
Ed Marx, frmr CIO of Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, New York City Health and Hospitals, reveals his passion for leveraging tech in an empathetic way to improve the patient experience for everyone. He delves into importance of clean data and its financial impact on M&As, and gets personal as he shares examples from his own patient care experience of how he has overcome gaps in care.
The family of a 19 year old teaching assistant shot and killed outside a Brooklyn school last week has given the gift of life to others. WCBS Reporter Marla Diamond spoke with Leonard Achan, the President and CEO of LIVEONNY.ORG
Professor Arthur Matthews is chief operating officer of Matthews & Matthews Consulting, a boutique firm specializing in customized and divergent aspects of human resources, labor, and the workforce. His clients primarily are corporations, government agencies, unions, and 501(C)(3) organizations that include Johns Hopkins University, Con Edison, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and New York City Health and Hospitals. Additionally, he is a Teaching Professor of Labor and Employment Relations at Penn State University and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Arkansas. He began his teaching career in 1987 first at the Medgar Evers College/City University of New York and the Van Arsdale School of Labor Studies. Since 1989 he also has served on the faculty at NYU and Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. His law degree with a Concentration in Human Rights, Civil Rights, and Public Policy is from Howard University. In this interview, he discusses the following: principles of leadership, going from a leader to becoming an ambassador, interchangeable skills for different situations, dealing with conflict, adding leadership training to the curricula at health professions schools, and the notion of shared leadership.
There's been a sudden surge in the number of workers who've returned to their offices in New York City. Kastle Systems, which measures key card swipes, says office occupancy increased from 38% to more than 44% in the last week. Several large employers, including Goldman Sachs, ordered their workers back to the office after Labor Day.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams announced today that the vaccine mandate for private sector workers will be lifted, along with the mandate for student athletes. But he is keeping the mandate for city employees.
New York City's vaccine mandate is gone for the private sector. But still in place for public workers.
People who lived and worked downtown after 9/11 want transparency from the city. They believe documents spelling out the health risks have been hidden and they've written to NYC Mayor Adams asking him to do the right thing.
The FDA has authorized booster vaccines that are designed to target Omicron variants. Our Joe Avellar spoke with CBS News Medical Contributor Dr. David Agus about the new shots.
The FDA has authorized new covid boosters that target the current omicron variants, but the day will soon come when the government stops offering covid shots for free.
Dr. Bruce Hirsch, Attending Physician of Infectious Diseases at Northwell Health system strongly recommends getting vaccinated
WCBS reporter Steve Burns with more on Monkeypox as well as the latest on the city's school budget
Concert Health is aiming to rearchitect the nation's behavioral health system with a mission to give every American access to higher quality behavioral health services in collaborative care with their trusted primary care provider. In today's episode, Dr. Graham Taylor speaks with Virna Little. Virna is the Co-founder and Chief Clinical Officer for Concert Health, a national organization providing behavioral health services to primary care providers. Virna has a Doctoral degree in Psychology, a master's in social work. She has over 22 years of experience as Senior Vice President for a larger FQHC network in New York overseeing over 300 behavioral health and community staff and worked in New York City Health and Hospitals as a city-wide family violence coordinator. Together they discuss the challenges of primary care in addressing mental health needs, the successes and improved patients from collaborative care, and the integration process and measurements used to identify patients, review patient progress, and build key relapse prevention. Concert Health is taking the mental health component off the hands of primary care physicians, making it easier for them, and supporting primary care physicians to truly practice whole person care. For more information about Concert Health, please visit: https://www.concerthealth.io To contact Concert Health about Partnership, please visit: https://www.concerthealth.io/contact-us For career opportunities and joining the Concert Team, please visit: https://www.concerthealth.io/careers
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HealthIMPACT Live Presents: Keynote Case Study: Integrating Chronic Care Digital Health Platform into Large Safety-Net Hospital System Originally Published: Nov 15, 2021YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdpEyA_BdpQJoin this fireside chat with Keith Reynolds, Chief Operating Officer from Welldoc and Dr. Karyn Singer, MD MPH, AVP of Chronic Disease and Prevention from New York City Health and Hospital System (NYCHH), to discuss their journey integrating digital health into the care model and the direct impact this had for patients. NYCHH estimates that half of their patients with diabetes are unable to achieve their glycemic targets. NYCHHC integrated a digital health solution into their existing program in order to tackle this problem and improve self-management among a diverse population living with diabetes. In this session, the speakers will dig into the challenges and lessons learned from integrating digital health into their chronic care model. In this fireside chat, we will discuss: The value of integrating digital health into the care model What it takes to successfully implement a digital health solution into a large safety-net hospital system Meeting the needs of a diverse patient population Meaningful engagement to support better health Karyn Singer, MD MPH, New York City Health and Hospital System (NYCHH), AVP of Chronic Disease and PreventionKeith Reynolds, COO, WelldocShahid Shah, Publisher and Chief Editor, Medigy.com, Moderator
Haru Okuda, MD, FACEP, FSSHExecutive Director, Center of Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation Associate Vice President Interprofessional Education and PracticeChief Executive Officer, Health Professions Conferencing Corporation University of South Florida Health Dr. Okuda is the Executive Director and CEO of USF Health's Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (CAMLS), Health Professions Conferencing Corporation (HPCC). In this role, he has oversight of a 90,000 ft2 state of the art, advanced training facility, with the mission of creating and providing experiential learning that improves clinical skills and patient care in the community and around the globe. In addition to this role, Dr. Okuda also serves as USF Health's Associate Vice President of the Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice (https://health.usf.edu/ipep) focused on creating interprofessional learning opportunities from early healthcare training to clinical practice. He is Professor at the Morsani College of Medicine and practices clinically in the emergency department at Tampa General Hospital. Prior to coming to USF Health, Dr. Okuda was the national medical director for the Simulation Learning Education and Research Network (SimLEARN) where he established national strategy and business plans for simulation-based programs at more than 150 U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs' medical facilities. In addition to his role as national medical director of SimLEARN, Dr. Okuda served as the acting deputy chief of patient care services officer for the Veteran's Health Administration, where he was responsible for policy development and oversight of the national Office for Women's Health Care, Community and Preventative Health, Social Work and Pharmacy Benefits Management. Before joining the VA, he was assistant vice president and director of the Institute for Medical Simulation and Advanced Learning for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, the largest public health system in the United States. Dr. Okuda received his Bachelor of Science degree in neuroscience from Brown University, his medical degree from New York Medical College, and his certificate in Healthcare Modeling and Simulation from the Naval Postgraduate School in California. He completed a residency in emergency medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where he served as their chief resident, and then completed a clinical quality fellowship from the Greater New York Hospital Association. He is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and an inaugural fellow of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare Academy. He has also served as a chair or member of several medical and simulation committees; and most recently serves as President for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. He has co-authored numerous textbooks, peer-reviewed publications and textbook chapters. Known for his passion for teaching, innovation and business, Dr. Okuda received the 2017 Distinguished Educator Award by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Simulation Academy for the creation of the simulation-based training program SimWARSTM; was named one of the top 25 Healthcare Leaders Under 40 by Becker's Hospital Review in 2012; was selected as one of 40 Under 40 New York's Rising Stars in Business by Crain's NY Business Magazine in 2011; and was awarded the 2017 Healthcare and Medicine Leader of the Year by i4 Business Magazine.
Dr. Syra Madad, senior director of the system-wide pathogens program at New York City Health and Hospitals, considers the pandemic still in its “emergency” phase as cases of omicron outpace those of other variants. But, the game must go on--for the NFL, at least. While the NHL and college basketball teams have paused and postponed their games, the National Football League is taking a new approach to managing Covid-19 cases after over 100 players in the league tested positive. HGGC president and former 49ers quarterback Steve Young and Integrity Marketing Group CEO Bryan Adams discuss the NFL's new pandemic strategy and Integrity's $125 million payout to employees following an investment from Silver Lake. Plus, issues in the supply chain are causing issues for other chains…including McDonald's, where a french fry shortage is hitting locations in Japan. In this episode:Bryan Adams, @IntegrityMGSteve Young, @SteveYoungQBDr. Syra Madad, @syramadadJoe Kernen, @JoeSquawkBecky Quick, @BeckyQuickAndrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkinKatie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie
Happy Birthday to my little sister! news@CrossPolitic.com Join our Business network: www.FLFnetwork.com/business Join our club. Memorandum: Enforcing reproductive responsibility among men https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/csm/showmemopublic.cfm?chamber=h&spick=20210&cosponid=36286&mobile_choice=suppress To: All House members Subject: Enforcing reproductive responsibility among men “For far too long, the public debate around abortion, contraception and related reproductive matters has thrust government into the center of restrictions on the bodily autonomy of women and girls. Rarely is there a meaningful dialogue around public policy focusing on the personal responsibility of cisgender men in this sphere. The rights of cisgender men have always been paramount in our society with little focus on their responsibility as inseminators to change their behaviors for the good of their partners, families, and society at large. As we head toward climax on this heated discourse around this delicate matter, we should come together to address it with surgical precision. We must also commit to mending the social fabric being sliced up by bitter acrimony. In order to improve public health outcomes and release sweet justice into our households and bedrooms, we must wrap our love of individual liberty in the moral imperative of greater personal responsibility and acknowledge men's essential role in procreation. Therefore, I will be introducing legislation that will require all inseminators to undergo vasectomies within 6 weeks from having their third child or 40th birthday, whichever comes first. Further, this legislation will allow Pennsylvanians to take civil action for unwanted pregnancies against inseminators who wrongfully conceive a child with them. This legislation will also empower Pennsylvanians to enforce this new law by offering a $10,000 reward for reporting to the proper authorities those scofflaws who have not complied with this statute within the allotted timeframe. As long as state legislatures continue to restrict the reproductive rights of cis women, trans men and non-binary people, there should be laws that address the responsibility of men who impregnate them. Thus, my bill will also codify “wrongful conception” to include when a person has demonstrated negligence toward preventing conception during intercourse. What's good for the goose is good for the gander! In the spirit of this popular axiom, I encourage my colleagues to take a gander at this forthcoming bill that seeks to end this egregiously gendered double standard for the benefit of all individuals, our families and our great commonwealth.” Texas Supreme Court Denies Planned Parenthood Challenge to Heartbeat Law https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/04/texas-supreme-court-abortion-lawsuit/ “The Texas Supreme Court denied a request Monday from Planned Parenthood to resume its lawsuit, filed in a state district court, that challenges the state's near-total abortion ban. Planned Parenthood asked the all-Republican court last week to overturn the Texas Multidistrict Litigation Panel's decision to indefinitely pause its suit alongside 13 other lawsuits filed in Travis County district court. The panel of five judges stopped the cases from continuing at the request of Texas Right to Life, a prominent anti-abortion organization that helped draft Texas' abortion restrictions. “The Texas Supreme Court's decision to allow the stay to remain in effect is extremely disappointing and will likely deprive Planned Parenthood of its day in court, once again,” Helene Krasnoff, Planned Parenthood's vice president for public policy litigation and law, said in a statement. Elizabeth Myers, a Dallas-based attorney who represents plaintiffs for the other 13 lawsuits blocked, said Monday's ruling was disappointing, but she called the stay a temporary setback. “We'll present our arguments and the defendants will ultimately have to attempt to defend SB8 on the merits,” Myers said. “That is something the defendants are obviously scared and unwilling to do, so it's not surprising that they continue to try to delay it. At some point, their delay tactics will no longer work and our clients look forward to that day.” These lawsuits are not the only legal challenges to the state's abortion law, commonly known as Senate Bill 8. Abortion providers, doctors, women's rights groups and even the U.S. government are battling to overturn the law in federal courts. A federal appeals court is set to hold a hearing in December in one lawsuit aimed at overturning the restrictions. A federal judge is also expected to issue an order soon on whether to temporarily block enforcement of Texas' abortion law as part of a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit filed after the Biden administration vowed to challenge the statute. Also on Monday, the Biden administration reversed a 2018 decision by former President Donald Trump that disallows family planning clinics from receiving federal funding if they provide abortion referrals. Texas' near-total abortion ban has been in effect for more than a month, even as abortion providers, doctors, women's rights groups and the U.S. government have sought to block its enforcement. The statute bars abortions after approximately six weeks of pregnancy, before many know they're pregnant. Meanwhile, most abortions in the state — experts estimate more than 85% — have ceased, and some abortion clinics have stopped offering the procedure altogether.” Facebook Whistleblower wants more government regulation over Facebook: Facebook data scientist and now whistleblower, which she apparently leans far left, Frances Haugen told Congress on Wednesday that she thinks the government can fix Facebook. Roll clip: https://www.facebook.com/newsmax/videos/389524386113734 Government took action (public health): 4:15-5:20 Appreciate the government: 8:20 Now according to the AP: https://apnews.com/article/facebook-frances-haugen-congress-testimony-af86188337d25b179153b973754b71a4?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow “Democrats and Republicans on the committee said Tuesday's hearing showed the need for new regulations that would change how Facebook targets users and amplifies content. Such efforts have long failed in Washington, but several senators said Haugen's testimony might be the catalyst for change. “Our differences are very minor, or they seem very minor in the face of the revelations that we've now seen, so I'm hoping we can move forward,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., the panel's chairman. Still, Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota acknowledged that Facebook and other tech companies wield a lot of power in the nation's capital, power that has blocked reforms in the past. “There are lobbyists around every single corner of this building that have been hired by the tech industry,” Klobuchar said. “Facebook and the other tech companies are throwing a bunch of money around this town and people are listening to them.”” See how much Covid-19 relief money health care providers in your state got “Congress set up a massive, $178 billion fund in 2020 meant to help mitigate the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on health care providers, known as the Provider Relief Fund. The Trump and Biden administrations haven't always been reliable about sending out the money — or sending it on time. But STAT's new analysis of a Health and Human Services database of the money reveals where it's flowing and who has received the most so far. By far, the largest payments were made to the nation's biggest hospital systems. Fully five of the top 10 recipients of cash were New York City-area hospitals or health systems; together, they received some $3.1 billion. The New York and Presbyterian Hospital (usually styled “NewYork-Presbyterian”) alone brought in $631 million, topped only by the $1.2 billion that went to the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, a group that operates New York City's sprawling system of public hospitals and clinics.” My hospital, in little old Moscow Idaho, has received just north of $5M of COVID relief. How is it possible that in the middle of a pandemic, where our country is flush with health insurance, government backed (socialistic healthcare) programs, why do our hospitals need more government money? With new clients flooding our hospitals, wouldn't our hospitals have more money? Closing This is Gabriel Rench with Crosspolitic News. 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Dr. Hayes interviews Dr. Breitbart on his research addressing psychiatric, psychological and existential adjustment as well as symptom control in advanced cancer. TRANSCRIPT SPEAKER: The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement. [MUSIC PLAYING] DANIEL HAYES: Welcome to JCO's Cancer Stories-- The Art of Oncology, brought to you by the ASCO Podcast Network, a collection of nine programs covering a range of educational and scientific content, and offering enriching insights into the world of cancer care. You can find all of their shows, including this one, at podcast.asco.org. We have a special treat today in our podcast series in that I have the opportunity to interview Dr. William Breitbart. Dr. Breitbart is the Jimmie Holland Chair of Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering and the Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College. And as far as I can see, Dr. Breitbart, you've never left New York City. But I will get the background. And you can tell us if you took a vacation or something one time outside the city. Dr. Breitbart grew up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He went to Brooklyn College, graduated in 1973, then medical school at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. And then he did his residency in internal medicine at the Bronx Hospital and trained basically at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Joined the faculty there, and has been on the faculty ever since. He has a number of accomplishments, too many for me to really review it carefully. But he's been president of the International Psycho-Oncology Society and received their Sutherland Lifetime Achievement Award. He's been president of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and received their Hackett Lifetime Achievement Award. And on a personal basis, my brother was also the president of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. So I'm very proud of my brother and equally proud of Dr. Breitbart. He really is responsible for a number of enormous steps forward in our field, including psychotherapeutic approaches for palliative care of patients with terminal illnesses, especially cancer. He has been involved with what I saw you call, Dr. Breitbart, "hastened to death." I had learned it as assisted suicide. I'm going to ask you a question about that. I'm interested in your comments. And more recently, meaning-centered psychotherapy for the terminally ill And we'll talk more about that, too. So in addition, I have asked Dr. Breitbart if he would also give us insights into Dr. Jimmie Holland's life and her career. Sadly, she passed away before we had an opportunity to chat with her. She was one of my favorite people in the whole world. And I think everybody that knew here said the same thing. So we'll get some insights for those of you who didn't know Dr. Holland from this call as well. Before we start, Dr. Breitbart wants to declare that he's received honoraria from Novartis and has a consulting or advisory role with Novartis. Dr. Breitbart, welcome to our program today. WILLIAM BREITBART: Thank you Dr. Hayes, pleasure to be here. Can I make just one slight correction? I actually trained in both internal medicine and psychiatry at the Bronx Municipal Hospital, which is the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation's Public Hospital. So I trained in both psychiatry and internal medicine, jumping back and forth between the two, out of a state of confusion. And then I landed in Dr. Holland's fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering for a variety of reasons. The main reason was though that I had developed a thyroid cancer when I was a medical resident in the middle of my training. And then I went back to finish up more of my psychiatry residency training, I became the liaison to the Oncology Clinic at Jacobi Hospital, the Bronx Municipal Hospital. I did consultations for cancer patients. I ran groups for cancer patients and also ran groups for the oncologists and oncology nurses. And I was trying to educate myself on the subject of psycho-oncology or psychiatric oncology. It actually hadn't been named yet in those days. And the only literature I could find were papers written in oncology journals by Dr. Julie Holland. And so that's where I knew where I needed to go to become more expert in this area. That's the most superficial version of how I ended up at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I could tell you the more interesting version if you're interested. DANIEL HAYES: Well, actually, what you just covered was my first question. I was going to say this is about you, not about me. But my brother also did training in internal medicine and decided to go in psychiatry, and ended up in psychiatry liaison. And I think that's what makes you two, and others like you, powerful, is that if you go to France and you don't speak French, you're not going to be listened to. And if you come to a bunch of oncologists, and you don't speak internal medicine or oncology, we're not going to listen to you. And I think clearly to me, Jimmie Holland always knew what I did. And I think you have the same strength. I'd love to hear how you actually got involved with her. Yes. Please begin. WILLIAM BREITBART: I agree with you actually about that comment. It's very helpful to have had the training in both medicine and psychiatry. And, in fact, we've trained a few fellows who've done oncology fellowships and then done our-- and a psychiatry residency and then done our psycho-oncology fellowship as well. But the real story of how I ended up in this field starts in childhood, where a lot of stories start. But my parents were both Holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe, from Poland in particular. When the war broke out, my mother was 14 years old and my father was 17 years old. And my father's family were all killed. But he ended up surviving, hiding in the woods. And he became-- Polish forest-- and he became part of a partisan fighter group, lived in the Polish forest. And one day he went looking for food and broke into this farmhouse. And as it turned out, my mother and her parents were being hidden by a Catholic woman, who hid them in a hole underneath the stove in her barn. And my father broke into this farmhouse and discovered my mother and my maternal grandparents. It turned out they were related. They were second cousins. My father said, you can't stay here. It's not safe. You should come into the woods with me and 150 other people. My grandparents were too afraid to go. But they let my mother go. So at the tender age of 14 and 17, my parents were hiding in the Polish forest, where they lived for about three years, hiding from the Nazis, and then Ukrainians, and all sorts of people who were interested in killing Jews. And they finally, after the war, crossed over to Germany. They actually found my grandparents alive. And they crossed over the border to Germany, went into this displaced persons' camp outside of Munich and got married there. And then came to the Lower East Side in late 1949, early 1950. And I was born several years later. And I grew up in this home on the Lower East Side, as you pointed out. And I grew up in a home where the Holocaust also lived. I lived in this home where the Holocaust was in every room-- didn't have a room of its own. It was in all the rooms, on all the walls-- and all the pictures that had been saved of my family, that had perished, on all the religious articles that might have been saved, et cetera. So I grew up in this environment where I understood at a very early age, maybe four or five years old, that death and suffering were very real. And that we all lived in this space between life and death. My mother would ask me every morning-- when she gave me breakfast, she would ask me the question, why am I here? And the full question really was, why am I here and everyone else is dead? Basically, what evolved out of this was the transmission of this responsibility or I guess a burden-- for me, it was an inspiration-- for me to accomplish something of such significance and impact-- in the world of suffering in particular-- in the arena of people who suffer in the face of death. And it's going to be up to me to achieve something of such significance that my parents would be able to-- my mother would be able to turn around and say, well you see we had to survive because if I hadn't survived, there wouldn't be Bill Breitbart in the world. [LAUGHTER] So that was the mission. That was the burden. That was the inspiration. And I wasn't fully cognizant of it. But I was traveling this journey-- this route that took me through college, and loving science and poetry, ending up in medical school, thinking I'd be a psychiatrist, but then falling in love with medicine. Loving both psychiatry and medicine. What I realized what fascinated-- what fascinated me was how a human being can live a mortal, finite life. How do you-- as a person who develops a life-threatening illness, how do you continue to live? How do you have the strength, the courage, to keep on living? And what gives you purpose and meaning? And so I got myself to Sloan Kettering by reading the work of Dr. Jimmie Holland and Dr. Massie. And I found myself at Memorial. I put myself in a place, with a mentor-- a group of mentors-- a place where I would breathe the same air of my patients, who were breathing the air of a human being confronting death, confronting the real prospect death being closer than-- closer than it was farther away. So that's how I ended up at Memorial. That's the real story. And I went to Sloan Kettering to do a fellowship, just to become a good clinician. I wanted to be a clinician. I never had the expectation of being a clinical researcher or an academician. I never had the ambition or aspiration to be an academic, a teacher, an advocate; never thought to be a professor of anything. I never thought I'd write books, or scientific articles, or become president of organizations, et cetera. All that happened because of my exposure to Jimmie. And my interest in research ended up being a result of one conversation that I had as a fellow. Dr. Holland, who was supposed to be my supervisor-- she's deceased now-- she was my inpatient supervisor-- my outpatient, inpatient supervisor. So we made rounds one day, which was very rare. But we made rounds one day. And I was the liaison. I was very fortunate enough to be the liaison to the Neuro-Oncology Unit and to the Pain Service at Memorial, which were both within the Department of Neurology. When Dr. Holland was recruited to Memorial Sloan Kettering in 1977, it was by the chair of the Department of Neurology, Dr. Jerome Posner-- Jerry Posner-- who recruited both Jimmie to be the Chief of the Psychiatry Service and he recruited Kathy Foley to be the Chief of the Pain Service. So I basically held on to these two meteoroids. Jimmie Holland and Kathy Foley, those are the two people who helped-- helped pull me along the road. So on the Neuro-Oncology Unit, I had done a consult on patient with brain tumors, on high-dose steroids. And he had a severe psychosis. And I asked Dr. Holland, why is it that these patients on steroids develop these neuropsychiatric syndromes? They develop depressions. And they can get delirious, and psychotic, and manic. And this was the advice that my mentor gave me-- Dr. Holland gave me-- which turned me into a scientist. And her response was, well, gee, Bill-- in her Texas twang-- well, gee, Bill, I really don't know. I really don't know. I guess you'll just have to go figure that one out yourself. [LAUGHTER] And that's what I ended up doing. I then pursued figuring it out myself. And that's what I did for the next 30 years, trying to figure out clinical problems-- when the AIDS epidemic exploded. My first research study was to study looking at patients with epidural spinal cord compression, those who had high grade versus lower grade compression. One group got high-dose steroids, the other didn't. And I did a comparison study of psychiatric syndromes in both populations. I was at Memorial when the AIDS epidemic exploded. And so I started to do studies of delirium. I did the first double-blind randomized controlled trial of neuroleptics for the treatment of delirium in the AIDS population because they all got demented and delirious. I did the first studies of pain in HIV. I did the first studies of desire for hastened death in patients with advanced AIDS and in patients with advanced cancer. And then I started to do a lot more work in inflammation and depression in pancreatic cancer patients. And eventually, everything kind of culminated. As I evolved from being a psychiatric oncologist to a psychiatric oncologist and palliative care clinician, that kind of bridged the two worlds of psychopharmacology and palliative care. And I started really looking at issues of desire for hastened death and the loss of meaning. And then developed interventions for meaning, which we call meaning-centered psychotherapy, which has been a real advance I think in our field. DANIEL HAYES: You must have been Dr. Holland's first trainee at Memorial. WILLIAM BREITBART: Well, her story-- basically, she was this young country girl in Nevada, Texas. She grew up on a farm, a cotton farm apparently. She was most influenced by the country doctor who would visit when people were ill. And when he passed away, he gave her a set of medical books, which inspired her. And she told her family, I think I want to be a doctor. And they said, well, gee, that sounds unreasonable, Jimmie. But whatever you feel like doing, go ahead. She ended up going to Baylor. And I think she was one of only three women in medical school class at Baylor. She started her residency I think at Baylor as well. And then eventually, she got married. Her first husband died tragically. I believe it was a suicide, which I think got interested in psychiatry. She ended up, I think, doing her residency at-- finishing her residency at MGH, along with Tom Hackett, people like that. And somewhere along that route, that's where she met James Holland. So James and Jimmie were, as you say, a power couple. James told me that Jimmie was his secret weapon, his secret power. But Jimmie told me the exact same thing about James. I think they fed off each other in terms of creativity and ideas. So when James moved to Roswell Park, I guess, Jimmie started a special clinic. And she called it "special" because nobody would come to a psychiatry clinic. But they would come to a place that was special because it made them feel special. And I guess it was around that time that James started collaborators-- CALGB. On the drive to work one day, Jimmie said, you ask patients every kind of question, like how many bowel movement does he have? You're very invasive in your questions. But you never ask them how they feel. And so she insisted that James do something about that. And so in order I guess to not get nagged on the car ride every day, he started a quality of life committee in CALGB. And Jimmie chaired that for quite a while. Eventually, I think James went to Mount Sinai. And Jimmie came along. And she worked at Albert Einstein-- College Hospital-- at Boston College of Medicine. And she was there with actually a bunch of pioneers of psychosomatic medicine. There was a guy named Herb Weiner, and Sig Ackerman, and Jim Strain, and Myron Hofer. These are very important names in our field of psychosomatic medicine. Jerry Posner at Memorial, Department of Neurology, was looking to bring psychiatry into-- consultative service to Sloan Kettering. And Jimmie often says they couldn't get Ned Cassem from MGH. So they picked her in second tier. And in 1977, she came there, along with a resident who graduated from Einstein, Mary Jane Massem. And the two of them had an office, with a card table-- as she described-- and a stack of index cards with the patients on them. And they set about starting a consult service. So in '77, she was the chief of the psychiatry service. And then about '78 or '9, a clinical fellowship was established. The NIMH had an initiative at that point to develop consultation liaisons, psychosomatic medicine fellowships around the country. And so she benefited from that initiative, and started a fellowship. That continued through '78 or so. And there are a couple of classes of fellows before me. I came to do the fellowship 1984 to '86. And it was during my fellowship, I think, that Jimmie and a woman named Julia Rowland, a psychologist, who's at the Smith Center now-- but was around the NCI's survivorship program for a long time. DANIEL HAYES: I actually worked with Julia at Georgetown for five years. WILLIAM BREITBART: At Georgetown, exactly. So she and Julia wrote the first-- edited the first textbook of psycho-oncology. It was called the Handbook of Psychooncology. And that's the first time I think the term "psychooncology" was used. I think it might have been 19-- late 1980s. It might have been 1989 or so that book came out. And the term psychooncology was not hyphenated at that point. There was no hyphen between the two O's. Jimmie asked me to write about six chapters. I knew a lot about delirium. I wrote that chapter. I knew a lot about suicide and cancer, which was an early interest of mine. And I knew a lot about neuropsychiatric issues and AIDS. But I didn't know very much about neuroendocrine phenomena that caused neuropsychiatric syndromes or the psychiatric aspects of head and neck cancer. I said to Jimmie, I don't know anything about these subjects, Jimmie. Do you think I'm the person to write this chapter? And she said to me, well, Bill, there are no experts in the world in this field. [LAUGHTER] So after you write the chapter, you will be the expert. So that was the philosophy. And so as a mentor, I would basically say the greatest thing about her as a mentor was that she gave you the confidence that you could achieve whatever you wanted-- whatever you were driven to achieve. She had that faith in you. The idea was that the only person who really had to believe in what you were doing was you. And if it was important to you to find the answer to that question, that you would be able to do it. She had a knack for finding people who were very driven, who joined this mission. It was really a mission. It was a calling to provide the human side of cancer care, to provide whole person care, to take care of the person who had cancer while they were going through all the cancer treatments. And the combination therapies that James Holland had come up with. DANIEL HAYES: Two stories about Jim, who I had more association than with Jimmie. Although Jimmie told me the thing she tell you, which is you got to figure out what you want to do. And then you'll be great at it, because I wasn't sure. But with Jim Holland, two things. I was the very young guy in a field to be. And I was named chair one of the committees. And he was sitting in the back. And I was talking about, well, we need a statistical plan, and that sort of thing. And in the back of the room, as only he could do without a microphone, "Well, Hayes, if you need a statistician, it's probably not worth doing." And other is, I once asked him, between you and Dr. Frye, who was my boss, Dr. Frye White-- the three guys, who actually came up with the idea of combinational therapy? And I might as well have let a fuse to a bomb because he was-- "Well, I did. I was there before they did. They came in. They were in the minority." And he sent me the protocol. That was David. So to be sure I understood that he had written it before those guys got there. He was quite a character. And I have to say, your comments about Jimmie, and being married to Jim, were like oil and water. It's unbelievable to me that they actually had a very loving, long-term relationship. She had five children with him, who are all accomplished in their own right. WILLIAM BREITBART: Yes, they are. DANIEL HAYES: And they just they just managed to make it work because he could be hard to deal with. But everybody loved him because of it. WILLIAM BREITBART: Yeah. I think the secret ingredient there is dedication. They were both people of great dedication and commitment. And they were committed to two things. They were committed to the work they did. And they were committed to each other and their family. And so I think that was the secret-- the secret ingredient. DANIEL HAYES: There are a number of things in your own career that struck me as I was going through it. That one of my own interests would be your work with hastened death. And again, I actually wrote a little sort of term paper kind of thing on this. And it was called assisted suicide. And I think we're talking about the same thing. Talk more about that, and what you've been involved with, and where you think that's going. WILLIAM BREITBART: Right. Well, my interest in that all started during the AIDS crisis, the AIDS epidemic, in the mid-'80s to mid-'90s or so. And I was right in the thick of it, in Manhattan, in New York City. And Sloan Kettering had a large population of AIDS patients, because of their interest in Kaposi's sarcoma and lymphomas. And they ended up taking care of a lot of patients. And I saw a lot of patients. And I was that age-- I was often the age of the patients-- many of the patients who I was treating. It was very difficult work, but very inspiring work. You really felt like you were doing important work, obviously. And because of many of the patients were younger men, men in their 30s, who I could relate to in many ways-- like you, I'm sure there are many patients that you treat. There are some that you feel closer to, you identify a lot more with, right. And these were-- that was the case here. And at the time, I was treating patients with AIDS. And there was no treat-- there was no therapy at all. And people were dying very difficult deaths. And I had many, many patients who asked me if I could help them die, if I could assist them in the suicide, could I prescribe their medicine, could I somehow hasten their death? And so for me, it was a clinical problem. What do I do? How do I understand this? What drives this desire to hasten your death? I knew it came out of a sense of despair. I knew it came out of a distress and a sense of despair. But at the time that this was happening, clinically there was also a big debate in our society about legalization of assisted suicide. And, in fact, I think that was the Supreme Court case of Vacco versus Quill, which was also being adjudicated at that time. And states, like Oregon, were starting to have a referendum about whether to legalize these things. So I thought, does one create policies based on popular opinion, or whatever, or a public opinion? Or do you create policies by understanding of the problem and that's informed by research? So I thought I needed to understand this. If I was going to be helpful as a psychiatrist, in this kind of a setting. And it came up occasionally with cancer patients, too. But it was just so dramatic. And it confronted me for the first time, mainly during the AIDS crisis. I felt I needed to understand it more, so that I could know how to be helpful or useful. Was I going to be able to eliminate the suffering? Or was my only option to eliminate the sufferer? And so we set about doing a set of studies, both in terminally ill AIDS patients and terminally ill cancer patients. And I actually developed and validated a scale that measured desire for hastened death. It's called the Schedule of Attitudes towards Hastened Death. Up until that point, people didn't really have a way of measuring it. They just asked the patient, yes or no, do you have-- or they might qualify it on a 0 to 4 scale or something. And so what was really interesting-- and one of my early fellows, my first fellow, the first surgeon attending from oncology, Chasnoff, who went back to Canada-- Winnipeg. And he starts to do a study. He did studies around the same time. But he didn't have a validated measure. But we ended up finding very similar things. As it turned out, about 40%-- 45% of folks who had high desire for hastened death, had a depression. About 17% of patients that had cancer-- we'll stick to the cancer data. About 17% of cancer patients have a high desire for phase. These are patients with advanced cancer, in a palliative care unit, or a hospice, whatever. And about 45% of those patients have a depression that was undiagnosed, untreated. The other factors that seem to contribute to desire for hastened death were things like lack of social support, uncontrolled pain, and severe physical debilitation. So I said, well, we can treat pain. We can increase social support. I gave a presentation one day at-- Kathy Foley had worked with George Soros and the Open Society Institute, to develop something called Project on Death in America. And I gave a talk to the board of the Project on Death in America. I was in the class of the first faculty scholars of Project on Death in America. It included a lot of people who are at the forefront of palliative care these days. But I gave a talk on this, on patient death. And one of the ethicists in the room, a famous ethicist, asked me, well, what happens to desire for hastened death if you treat the depression? And before answering that question, I said to myself, make a mental note. That's your next ROI grant, Bill. And so what I did after that, is I wrote several grants and did two studies looking at what treating depression in patients with high desire for hastened death. And I did both in AIDS and cancer patients, terminal cancer patients, two different studies. As it turns out, if you treat-- if someone who has high desire for hastened death and they have a depression, and you treat the depression, 90% of those patients, when their depression remits, the desire for hastened death remits. But there was still this segment of population of advanced cancer patients, were not depressed, did not have uncontrolled pain, or lack of social support. There were about a 40%-- 35%, 40% of the group, I didn't have the element, the factor that contributed to this desire for hastened death. So I figured there's something there that I haven't found. So we went back and did further studies. And we looked at other variables, like anxiety, hopelessness, loss of meaning. And what we discovered was that hope of hopelessness and loss of meaning were independent and synergistic factors that contributed to the desire for hastened death, and made up an additional 30% of the so-called variance. So between depression and hopelessness, independent of depression, and loss of meaning independent of depression, you could account for about 85%, 90% of the reasons why patients wanted to desire for hastened death. Based on my research and the research of others, there's still about a 10% group who are probably not in great despair. But the issue for them is, I live my life in a pretty authentic way. I've been able to control how I live my life. I should be able to. And I want to control the circumstances of my death. And they're not impaired by depression or anything like that. But when we had the findings of hopelessness and loss of meaning, I said to myself, OK, now I've got to find an intervention for loss of meaning and hopelessness. And I was looking for a drug. I went through every page of the PDR. And there was no drug for loss of meaning or loss of hope. So I had to turn to psychotherapy. Our CL psychiatrist-- you know, psychosomatic medicine psychiatrists, we like to give drugs. If there's a drug solution, we've got it. I'm your guy. So I had to force myself to turn towards psychotherapy rather later in my career, after doing all of these stimulant trials for fatigue and things like that, and other pharmacological trials for pain-- neuropathic pain, et cetera, delirium trials. There I was, starting to figure out what kind of psychotherapy can I develop to help enhance sense of meaning and hope? And that's when I turned to, ironically, a Holocaust survivor named Victor Frankl-- and turned to the work of Victor Frank, who wrote the book, Man's Search for Meaning. His big idea was that meaning is a primary motivating force for human behavior, similar to the idea of libido, and instinctual drive, and things like that. He thought meeting was another important drive. "Better" instinctual, he called it. And he thought that there were predictable sources of meaning that one could tap into. And so we basically developed-- just sat down in a room with a couple of my fellows. And we hacked out a seven-- or at the beginning, it was group intervention. So it was an eight-session intervention. And then we developed an individual format, seven sessions. And we basically developed this brief, structured psychotherapy that involved teaching patients the importance of meaning, both didactically and experientially; teaching them the various sources of meaning; and relating it to their cancer experience and living with cancer. And the whole purpose was to be able to get through cancer, and even facing death, by sustaining a sense of meaning for as long as you possibly could. And that's what we called meaning-centered psychotherapy. I ended up doing four randomized-- NIH-funded, randomized controlled trials of both individual and a group format. And now we have a-- we're in the seventh year of an R25 training grant. We're training a national and international cohort of clinicians to provide meaningful psychotherapy in the manuals and textbooks that are published. DANIEL HAYES: I'd like to segue this-- WILLIAM BREITBART: [INAUDIBLE], I designated it as a evidence-based intervention for palliative care. DANIEL HAYES: Well, I'd like to segue, that as you were talking, most of people listening to this are probably medical oncologists. And my impression is, we don't get a lot of this training that you're talking about. And the people you're training, they're probably a psychiatrist, not a medical oncologist. How have you translated that over to our world? WILLIAM BREITBART: Now, so actually the people we're training-- a few psychiatrists, not too many. We train psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, oncology nurse practitioners, oncology nurses, oncologists, chaplains, palliative care docs. We're expanding the training. And it's quite simple. And it's actually-- but we're working with a group to develop this into a digital app. It might be able to be prescribed by oncologists so that you don't even need a therapist. DANIEL HAYES: Are you in the weeds with the medical oncologists at Memorial, at Sloan. I mean, do you make rounds with them and help train them? WILLIAM BREITBART: Yeah. Jimmie started out with one psychiatrist. By the time the Psychiatry Service became a department in 1996, I think there were 12 psychiatrists and psychologists. And as of last count, I think we have 43 faculty, 25 psychiatrists and the rest psychologists, and around 200 staff, including research staff, and research faculty, and psychiatry services. So I took over as chief when Jimmie became the first chair in the Behavioral Sciences Service. And we had a cancer disparities in the Immigrant Health Service. So it's grown quite a bit. And all of us, we work in a sort of a disease management embedded model. So I originally was the psychiatrist for the Neuropsychology and Pain Service, and moved to the hepato-pancreato-biliary disease management team. But all of my psychiatrists and psychologists are embedded in the Breast Center, and in the GI group, hepato-pancreato-biliary groups, and hepato-neck, and thoracic, and all that. So we're all interacting there. DANIEL HAYES: How do you translate that outside of Memorial in New York? I mean, most oncologists don't have access to those kinds of resources. And you've got to have thought about that. WILLIAM BREITBART: About 1996, the National Cancer Center Network, the NCCN, got established and started developing guidelines. And so they asked Jimmie to head up of their guidelines for distress. And I was part of that group, and still am. And what came out of that was screening for distress, using a distress screening tool. DANIEL HAYES: The distress thermometer-- the distress thermometer. WILLIAM BREITBART: The distress thermometer, that's exactly right. And that came out of the pain work. The pain guys had the 0 to 10 scale. We didn't want to rip them off too badly. So we didn't want to do the 0 to 10 visual analog scale. So we had to come up with a different metaphor. So we called it "pain throughout." So the Distress Screening Commission on Cancer, I think, accredits cancer centers through either the Academy of Surgery-- Surgical Oncology or something like that. They mandated that for a cancer center to get accredited, you have to have a distress screening program. And if you have a distress screening program, then you have to have people who respond to these algorithms that get developed for people who they identify with high distress. So as a result of that one move, that one move of establishing distress stress as the sixth vital sign, which was Jimmie's idea, and developing distress screening, you now have-- every designated NCI-designated cancer center has to have a psychology program of some sort. Now, a lot of them aren't as big as ours. Some of them basically involve a half-time psychiatrist, a chaplain, a psych nurse practitioner, and a couple of social workers. But every cancer center has psycho-oncology present in it now as a result of that. DANIEL HAYES: I was having dinner one time with Jim and Jimmie. And she said, you two know the blood pressure, the temperature, the weight, pulse. But you have no idea, she said, how they feel. So it wasn't the last time she asked Jim on that question. And I went, what do you mean? She goes, you need a distress thermometer. She'd already published it. Of course, I didn't know that-- and pulled it out of her purse. And so she had to show the distress thermometer. WILLIAM BREITBART: That's correct. That's correct. That's correct. One of the big problems is when Jimmie started-- and you can attest to this-- that in the beginnings of oncology, it wasn't always the case that patients were told exactly what they had. Cancer was very stigmatized. The only thing that's more stigmatized than an illness like cancer is mental health, right. God forbid, you should have a problem with depression, or coping, or panic, or something. DANIEL HAYES: It's a sign of weakness. WILLIAM BREITBART: A weakness, moral weakness. Actually, we've come a long way in terms of truth telling and being transparent. And my patients now know exactly all the genetic mutations of about the tumor and stuff like that. They know everything. And they even know how their tumor is-- mutations are evolving and changing over time. But cancer was-- the idea of needing psychosocial counseling-- psychiatric help, psychological help, it was very stigmatized. So even the word "distress" was chosen out of a concern to not stigmatize patients. DANIEL HAYES: I will tell you that when-- I was at the Dana Farber. And there was a push for the Dana Farber to develop its own hospice program. And Dr. Frye, who was physician-in-chief, absolutely drew a line, and said no way because that means we've given up on those patients. We're not going to have a hospice program at Dana Farber because we don't want patients to think they're coming here to die. And I remember thinking that some of them do. And it would be very helpful if we had a way to help them figure it out. And I have to say, in preparing for this podcast, I've read several your papers. And thought, God, I wish you'd been at the Dana Farber when I was there. Or I wish I'd been at Memorial to get to work with you. But you can see I'm kind of tying things up here. Because I could listen to you for hours,but But we only have 20 or 30 minutes. And this has been terrific. WILLIAM BREITBART: I appreciate the opportunity. DANIEL HAYES: I'm sure our listeners will say, maybe-- I wonder how we can get him to come speak to our program. But I already wrote down here, we're going to invite you to Michigan. WILLIAM BREITBART: Well, in this era of Zoom-- in this era of Zoom, I'm a very cheap date because all you have to do is just connect me by Zoom. You don't have to pay for the air fare or anything. I go everywhere. DANIEL HAYES: I want to thank you for lots of reasons. One is for filling our listeners in-- many of them are young-- about who Dr. Holland was and what she did. Because we all owe her an enormous debt of gratitude for the contributions she made-- and you personally, as well. So thank you for taking your time to speak with us. And we really appreciate it. And I hope our paths cross again in the near future. Thanks a lot. WILLIAM BREITBART: Absolutely. Thank you so much. It was my pleasure. Appreciate it. [MUSIC PLAYING] DANIEL HAYES: Until next time, thank you for listening to this JCO's Cancer Stories-- The Art of Oncology podcast. If you enjoyed what you heard today, don't forget to give us a rating or a review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen. While you're there, be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. JCO's Cancer Stories-- The Art of Oncology podcast is just one of ASCO's many podcasts. You can find all the shows at podcast.asco.org. [MUSIC PLAYING]
Erik Cliette Citywide Administrator for The TaskForce on Racial Inclusion & Equity, New York City Health and Hospitals senior director for the Fund, and director of: "Guns Down, Life Up" (GDLU) joins Sahara in discussing the reasons why some communities face vaccine hesitancy in New York City.
The Delta variant of COVID-19 is providing cause for concern, as some projection models predict a steady increase in cases through the fall. Currently, the spread of the virus has continued in largely unvaccinated communities across the country and public officials including President Biden are pushing incentives and new solutions to reach out to the vaccine hesitant citizens of America. While vaccines are part of the solution, Americans have seen new pandemic rules pop up in various aspects of their lives. Dr. Syra Madad, Senior Director of the Pathogens Program at New York City Health and Hospitals, joins to discuss new pandemic rules in the NFL and Olympics in response to the Delta variant, the new hotspots for COVID-19 around the world, new questions surrounding vaccine efficacy and weighs in on the guidelines for schools reopening this fall. After serving more than two years of a three to ten-year sentence, Bill Cosby was freed from prison on June 30, after his sexual assault conviction was tossed out by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The state's high court dropped the disgraced “Cosby Show” star's sentence after learning about an agreement with a previous prosecutor that prevented him from being charged in the case. FOX Nation host Nancy Grace weighs in on the shocking decision to release Cosby, why she disagrees with it and her new FOX Nation special: “Released: A Bill Cosby Investigation with Nancy Grace.” Plus, commentary by commentary by former White House speechwriter and Fox News Contributor Marc Thiessen.
The Delta variant of COVID-19 is providing cause for concern, as some projection models predict a steady increase in cases through the fall. Currently, the spread of the virus has continued in largely unvaccinated communities across the country and public officials including President Biden are pushing incentives and new solutions to reach out to the vaccine hesitant citizens of America. While vaccines are part of the solution, Americans have seen new pandemic rules pop up in various aspects of their lives. Dr. Syra Madad, Senior Director of the Pathogens Program at New York City Health and Hospitals, joins to discuss new pandemic rules in the NFL and Olympics in response to the Delta variant, the new hotspots for COVID-19 around the world, new questions surrounding vaccine efficacy and weighs in on the guidelines for schools reopening this fall. After serving more than two years of a three to ten-year sentence, Bill Cosby was freed from prison on June 30, after his sexual assault conviction was tossed out by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The state's high court dropped the disgraced “Cosby Show” star's sentence after learning about an agreement with a previous prosecutor that prevented him from being charged in the case. FOX Nation host Nancy Grace weighs in on the shocking decision to release Cosby, why she disagrees with it and her new FOX Nation special: “Released: A Bill Cosby Investigation with Nancy Grace.” Plus, commentary by commentary by former White House speechwriter and Fox News Contributor Marc Thiessen.
Dr. Linelle Campbell is a Chief Resident in Emergency Medicine at Jacobi/ Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, New York. Dr. Campbell received her medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine. She is the former Chair for the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Emergency Medicine Residents Association and the Chair of the Resident Committee for the Academy of Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine. She is the Resident Lead of the Jacobi/ Montefiore Social Emergency Medicine Committee as well as its Medical Justice Alliance, which reviews medical cases and advocates for the early relief of prisoners during Covid-19. She is also currently a fellow for the New York City Health and Hospitals' Healthcare Administrative Scholars Program, where her focus has been achieving health equity through the lens of quality improvement, patient safety, and community engagement. This was a jam back episode with a lot of information. Trust me you will learn something from this great conversation. #hospitals #patientsafety #patient #doctor #physician #mentalhealth #society #society #quality #diversityandinclusion #research #covid #community #university #health #engagement #patients #medicine #radiology #covid19outbreak
Many thanks to Donnie Bell, MD, a neuro-interventional radiologist and Deputy Chief Medical Officer for New York City Health and Hospitals in New York City, NY, for chatting with me today. Dr. Bell is a co-author of a recent article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association along with Michael Katz, MD, that speaks to the necessity of modernizing the medical licensing and credentialing process due to time-wasting redundancies and inefficiencies. Dr. Bell has first-hand knowledge of these issues from personal experience and overseeing his institution's medical staff credentialing process.Dr. Bell confirmed that delayed and cumbersome credentialing experiences commonly occur across the country. This chronic problem disproportionately affects physicians who practice locum tenens and telemedicine, who often maintain more than one medical license and credentialing at multiple institutions. Locum tenens physicians often carry five or more state licenses, and I have heard of telemedicine physicians with thirty or more. In New York City, the bureaucratic obstacle to clinical care of licensing and credentialing became acutely apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic when additional providers were needed emergently. Even though regulatory bodies lifted some restrictions using “disaster” mode, many practitioners had to wait far too long before they could assist in desperately needed patient care. These barriers affected not only physicians but other health care providers as well.Dr. Bell discussed the pros and cons of a national medical license, which would facilitate physician movement throughout the country. A common physician database, which already exists in the form of the National Provider Identifier (NPI) identifier, could facilitate the process. As proof of concept, the Veterans Health Administration, the largest health care system in the United States, only requires its physicians to maintain a single state license. An international medical certificate would further increase physician mobility and access to care.Dr. Bell suggested that one hypothetical consequence of abandoning state medical board jurisdiction is that disciplinary action against physicians might be more difficult to enforce. According to Dr. Bell, it is too early to determine whether the relaxation of licensing and credentialing during the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in any patient harm. According to Dr. Bell, the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact (IMLC) is “the best of both worlds.” Unfortunately, the IMLC still requires physicians to obtain and pay for each state license. Physicians must also adhere to each state's continuing medical education (CME) requirements, which can vary significantly from state to state. Dr. Bell suggested that the Federal Government is “best positioned” to streamline the state-dominated system.“The Art of Medicine with Dr. Andrew Wilner” appears twice monthly. To receive notification of new programs, please subscribe.For more information, www.andrewwilner.com
In this episode of Inside EMS, Chris and Kelly are joined by Oren Barzilay, FDNY EMS Local 2507 president as the FDNY marks the 25th anniversary of its merger with the emergency medical service of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, to discuss wage discrepancies, educating the public about the work EMS does.
In his televised address last week President Biden pledged to make all adults eligible to get the COVID-19 vaccine by May 1st. While the Biden administration is moving up the vaccine rollout timeline, there is cause for concern as coronavirus variants spike in Europe and Brazil. Senior Director of the Pathogens Program at New York City Health and Hospitals, Dr. Syra Madad joins to discuss how the United States’ vaccination program is performing in comparison to other countries, the warning signs we are seeing from Europe’s surges in COVID-19 variants and her optimism surrounding America’s progress on vaccinations. The coronavirus has impacted everyone in some way in the past year. With nationwide lockdowns and strict social distancing rules, small business owners across the U.S. have struggled to keep their businesses open with many shutting their doors for good. Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy has helped raise millions of dollars for small businesses through the Barstool Fund. He joins today’s ‘Rundown’ to talk about the fund, how Barstool has adapted during the pandemic and more. Plus, commentary by Cal Thomas.
The race to vaccinate as many people as possible, as quickly as possible against Covid-19 is picking up speed. During a Friday visit to a Pfizer plant in Michigan, President Biden emphasized the U.S. would soon have 500,000 covid deaths. And the tragic toll of the pandemic can sometimes overshadow how far we've come in the nine months since President Trump launched Operation Warp Speed. Dr. Syra Madad, Senior Director of the pathogens program for New York City Health and Hospitals, discusses the scientific achievement of the COVID-19 vaccine and whether this vaccine will cover new variants. Jennifer Haller was the first person in the U.S. to get an experimental covid vaccine she explains her experience. Elisabeth Hasselbeck has been on some of television's most recognizable shows of the last few decades. She found fame as a contestant over 20 years ago on the second season of reality competition Survivor. In 2013, she joined Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy on the “curvy couch” as a co-host on Fox News's popular morning show, Fox and Friends. She joins today to discuss her new book "Point of View," the power of praying together as a family and what she has been up to recently. Plus, commentary by former New York Times reporter and author of "The Power Couple," Alex Berenson.
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This week: On Wednesday, Joseph R. Biden Jr. was inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States. As tens of thousands of National Guard troops stood by, President Biden made his first remarks from the west front of the United States Capitol, the same place where violence erupted just two weeks prior. FOX News Radio's Political Analyst Josh Kraushaar discusses the events of Inauguration Day, the themes from President Biden's first address and how the phrase "peaceful transfer of power" has garnered new meaning. After just two full days in office, President Biden has signed more than two dozen Executive Actions concerning the environment, foreign policy, immigration, the management of COVID-19, and more. FOX News White House Correspondent Kristin Fisher breaks down the details of these actions and what is ahead for the new administration. On Thursday, President Biden announced his administration's 198-page plan to address COVID-19. Dr. Syra Madad, Senior Director of the Special Pathogens Program at New York City Health and Hospitals, discusses the continued challenge the nation faces and how the Biden administration's policies will impact the progress of the pandemic. Can the United States Senate conduct impeachment proceedings, while also addressing the economic and health crises the country faces? That was the gist of one question posed to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki at a briefing on Friday. FOX News Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram explains what's on the congressional calendar
Interview with Samyukta Mullangi, MD, MBA, author of The COVID-19 Pandemic—An Opportune Time to Update Medical Licensing; also with Mitchell H. Katz, MD, chief executive officer of New York City Health and Hospitals and author of Modernize Medical Licensing, and Credentialing, Too—Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic
Interview with Samyukta Mullangi, MD, MBA, author of The COVID-19 Pandemic—An Opportune Time to Update Medical Licensing; also with Mitchell H. Katz, MD, chief executive officer of New York City Health and Hospitals and author of Modernize Medical Licensing, and Credentialing, Too—Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic
Interview with Samyukta Mullangi, MD, MBA, author of The COVID-19 Pandemic—An Opportune Time to Update Medical Licensing; also with Mitchell H. Katz, MD, chief executive officer of New York City Health and Hospitals and author of Modernize Medical Licensing, and Credentialing, Too—Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic
Abdul and Dr. Syra Madad, who leads the special pathogens unit at New York City Health & Hospitals, answer your questions about COVID-19. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Back in March 2020, Jaime Grecco’s office got a call from the New York City Mayor’s office - the city needed 3,000 healthcare workers to start immediately, as COVID-19 was hitting NYC. Jamie’s department worked tirelessly to onboard and train this previously inexperienced staff to lead the front-line charge in NYC’s fight against COVID-19. As a result of this unexpected opportunity and gained experience, these workers have been enabled to continue full careers in the healthcare space, and to uplift their communities for years to come. Tune into this very special episode episode to hear how the team at New York City Health and Hospitals took on a seemingly impossible ask, and created an entire workforce to contribute to the health of NYC.
Girl Be Heard is partnering with New York City Health and Hospitals on a public health initiative to fight COVID-19 in order to help New York City reopen safely and get back to school and work. Girl Be Heard's Company Members Jai Camacho and Menasha Thomas discuss the effects of the pandemic on the lives and well being of NYC youth and give advice on how to stay productive during these tumultuous times. Connect with Girl Be Heard: IG: Girlbeheard Facebook:Girl Be Heard Twitter: @girlbeheard Subscribe to our Youtube Channel Visit Us at: www.girlbeheard.org Support our work by texting: GBHDONATE to 44321 For questions and inquires about our programming Email us at: girlbeheard@girlbeheard.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode, Dr. Michael Bouton, Chief Medical Information Officer of New York City Health and Hospitals describes the significant changes that NYC H + H had to implement in their organization to deploy and integrate new technologies in response to the pandemic. NYC H + H installed hundreds of vital sign monitors linked to […]
In this episode, Dr. Michael Bouton, Chief Medical Information Officer of New York City Health and Hospitals describes the significant changes that NYC H + H had to implement in their organization to deploy and integrate new technologies in response to the pandemic. NYC H + H installed hundreds of vital sign monitors linked to […]
This week we are Kush Chatting with Danny Matos Who is a writer who has experience in spoken word, slam poetry, hip-hop, and the written word. He has a self-released poetry book, four hip hop albums, and is currently pitching his first round adult novel written in poetry verse to publishers. An artist born and raised in New York City, he is a self identified representer of the “late bloomers” of the world as he took a while to cultivate the passion and talent for being creative. He is also a New York City Health and Physical Education teacher and personal trainer. He enjoys writing about the entire human experience, and is set on one intention - “To make feeling real again.” --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/keon-torres7/support
Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which there is much argument about technology choices and: [00:02:00] New York City Health discourages orgies, instead advocating “sexy Zoom parties”, and also in NYC apparently driving into protesters does not violate use-of-force policy, and on the morning of Juneteenth, Tesla tells employees they […]
Today's special guest is one of the most sought after physicians for reference on Coronavirus as an infectious disease team member on the John Hopkins Health Emergency collaboration focusing on COVID-19. Dr. Adalja is a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security. His work is focused on emerging infectious disease, pandemic preparedness, and biosecurity. Dr. Adalja has served on US government panels tasked with developing guidelines for the treatment of plague, botulism, and anthrax in mass casualty settings and the system of care for infectious disease emergencies, and as an external advisor to the New York City Health and Hospital Emergency Management Highly Infectious Disease training program, as well as on a FEMA working group on nuclear disaster recovery. He is currently a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s (IDSA) Precision Medicine working group and is one of their media spokespersons; he previously served on their public health and diagnostics committees. Dr. Adalja is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians Pennsylvania Chapter’s EMS & Terrorism and Disaster Preparedness Committee as well as the Allegheny County Medical Reserve Corps. He was formerly a member of the National Quality Forum’s Infectious Disease Standing Committee and the US Department of Health and Human Services’ National Disaster Medical System, with which he was deployed to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake; he was also selected for their mobile acute care strike team. Dr. Adalja’s expertise is frequently sought by international and national media. Dr. Adalja is an Associate Editor of the journal Health Security. He was a coeditor of the volume Global Catastrophic Biological Risks, a contributing author for the Handbook of Bioterrorism and Disaster Medicine, the Emergency Medicine CorePendium, Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple, UpToDate’s section on biological terrorism, and a NATO volume on bioterrorism. He has also published in such journals as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases, and the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Adalja is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American College of Physicians, and the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is a member of various medical societies, including the American Medical Association, the HIV Medicine Association, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He is a board-certified physician in internal medicine, emergency medicine, infectious diseases, and critical care medicine. Dr. Adalja completed 2 fellowships at the University of Pittsburgh—one in infectious diseases, for which he served as chief fellow, and one in critical care medicine. He completed a combined residency in internal medicine and emergency medicine at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, where he served as chief resident and as a member of the infection control committee. He was a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine from 2010 through 2017 and is currently an adjunct assistant professor there. He is a graduate of the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, and he obtained a bachelor of science degree in industrial management from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Adalja is a native of Butler, Pennsylvania, and actively practices infectious disease, critical care, and emergency medicine in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, where he also serves on the City of Pittsburgh’s HIV Commission and on the advisory group of AIDS Free Pittsburgh.
Transcript“We want to make sure everybody's prepared because we know COVID 19 is just one epidemic that we're currently facing. There's going to be another one in the pipeline, and we need to make sure that we're investing today for tomorrow.” - Syra MadadIn today’s episode, co-hosts Dr. Celine Gounder and Ron Klain speak with Syra Madad, Senior Director of the Special Pathogens Program, New York City Health and Hospitals. Syra shares her experience preparing for a potential disease outbreak like SARS in New York City, and how this preparation helped to lay the foundation for healthcare professionals in New York during the COVID pandemic. They also talk about Syra’s personal experience being diagnosed with COVID while living in a home with small children and at-risk persons. Dr. Gounder and Ron Klain also talk to Dr. John Lynch, Medical Director for Infection Control at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. They discuss how Washington, the state with the first confirmed case of COVID in the US, took action through house assessments to test as many people as possible with COVID symptoms, and how this process changed once community spread began to widely take place. Finally, they speak with Reid Wilson, a reporter with The Hill. They talk about how the epicenter of the coronavirus is making its way from large cities, such as Seattle and New York City, to more rural areas of the US, including Native American reservations, and why this is worrisome. They also discuss how, even as some states begin reopening, many Americans do not feel like they are ready to return to normal life.This podcast was created by Just Human Productions. We're powered and distributed by Simplecast. We're supported, in part, by listeners like you.#SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #coronavirus
Because all of our asses are currently on locked down(or should be) due to #TheRona, we're back with Episode 25. On this episode: -Andrew Gilliam -#ClubQuarantine -Virtual lap dances and peep shows. -Sex tips during Corvid-19 according New York City Health.Our main features: Our weeks in review, #Asking4AFriend, and Shooting Our Shot. Make sure to subscribe, rate, comment, and share. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @PunksPod and be sure to use the #PodPunks. Need advice or any other questions, please don't hesitate to DM us or email us at PunksPod@gmail.com. And don't forget, to send us your #Asking4AFriend questions.Make sure to follow the hosts on their Twitters: B.A.(@Wisdom_Stature) & Jimmie(@GrabYaJimmie).Support the show (http://www.buzzsprout.com/282154)
Dr. Yair Saperstein, co-founder and CEO, avoMD is also chief resident in the department of medicine in the New York City Health and Hospital system. Yair talks about the innovative online tool avoMD is developing to provide relevant portions of guidelines so that doctors can get specific help with the clinical scenario at hand. Yair also explains they are creating an ecosystem that is editable by doctors and providing a way for best practices in hospitals to be more accessible with the goal of improving success at point of care. @avocadoDOC avoMD.io Listen to the podcast here.
Dr. Yair Saperstein, co-founder and CEO, avoMD is also chief resident in the department of medicine in the New York City Health and Hospital system. Yair talks about the innovative online tool avoMD is developing to provide relevant portions of guidelines so that doctors can get specific help with the clinical scenario at hand. Yair also explains they are creating an ecosystem that is editable by doctors and providing a way for best practices in hospitals to be more accessible with the goal of improving success at point of care. @avocadoDOC avoMD.io Download the transcript here.
In this full episode of "Exploring Minds", Amesh Adalja provides his professional insight on a range of topics from infectious diseases, pandemics, epidemics, endemics, vaccines, and the threat of bio-terrorism. - Dr. Adalja, a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, was named one of STAT's "13 Clinicians to Follow on Twitter and in 2015 named one of 5 "Pennsylvanians to Watch" by the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. Dr. Adalja is currently a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s (IDSA) Precision Medicine working group, as well as one of their media spokespersons; he previously served on their public health and diagnostics committees. He is also a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians Pennsylvania Chapter’s EMS & Terrorism and Disaster Preparedness Committee as well as the Allegheny County Medical Reserve Corps. He was formerly a member of the National Quality Forum’s Infectious Disease Standing Committee, where he currently is an expert reviewer, and the US Department of Health and Human Services’ National Disaster Medical System, with which he was deployed to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake; he was also selected for their mobile acute care strike team. He has served on US government panels tasked with developing guidelines for the treatment of botulism and anthrax in mass casualty settings, the system of care for infectious disease emergencies, and as an external advisor to New York City Health and Hospital Emergency Management Highly Infectious Disease training program, as well as on a FEMA working group on nuclear disaster recovery. Dr. Adalja is an Associate Editor of the journal Health Security. He was a contributing author for the Handbook of Bioterrorism and Disaster Medicine and is also a contributing author to the upcoming edition of Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple. He has published in such journals as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases, and the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Adalja is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American College of Physicians, and the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is a member of various medical societies, including the American Medical Association, the HIV Medicine Association, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.. Dr. Adalja completed 2 fellowships at the University of Pittsburgh—one in infectious diseases, for which he served as chief fellow, and one in critical care medicine. He completed a combined residency in internal medicine and emergency medicine at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, where he served as chief resident and as a member of the infection control committee. He was a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine from 2010 through 2017. He is a graduate of the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, and he obtained a bachelor of science degree in industrial management from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Adalja is a native of Butler, Pennsylvania, and actively practices infectious disease, critical care, and emergency medicine in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, where he also serves on the City of Pittsburgh’s HIV Commission and on the advisory group of AIDS Free Pittsburgh. - SUPPORT US ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/exploringmindsshow FOLLOW ALONG FOR UPDATES AND NEW EPISODES: Discord - https://discord.gg/YhaAcN3 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/exploringmindsshow Twitter - https://twitter.com/ExploreMinds_TV Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/exploreminds_tv/ Website - exploringminds.show — Exploring Minds with Michele Carroll is the online show committed to exploring the world beyond talking points. Thank you for listening! Support the show.
With extensive experience in medicine, international affairs, health policy, and public administration, Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford is an expert in urban health, healthy aging, disease prevention, and health promotion and health disparities. Since college, Dr. Boufford has integrated activism and social justice in her education and practice by advocating for patient-driven care and more engagement with the community and the underserved. In 1985, she became the first woman to be elected President of New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, the largest municipal system in the United States. She then entered federal government, serving as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for health in the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). While at HHS, she was the U.S. representative on the Executive Board of the World Health Organization. At NYU, Dr. Boufford has been a Professor of Public Administration and Dean of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, as well as a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the NYU Medical School. In this episode she will tell us more about Urban Health and Governance as well as advice to MPH students. To learn more about the NYU College of Global Public Health, and how our innovative programs are training the next generation of public health leaders, visit publichealth.nyu.edu.
First Healthcare Compliance hosts Nadia Sawaya-Gauckler from InterCultural Communications LLC, for an interactive discussion on “National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS).” Nadia has developed and implemented CLAS strategic interventions across organizations such as Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins Medicine, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and DaVita HealthcarePartners. This presentation offers participants The post National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) appeared first on First Healthcare Compliance.
First Healthcare Compliance hosts Nadia Sawaya-Gauckler from InterCultural Communications LLC, for an interactive discussion on “National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS).” Nadia has developed and implemented CLAS strategic interventions across organizations such as Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins Medicine, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and DaVita HealthcarePartners. This presentation offers participants... The post National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) appeared first on First Healthcare Compliance.
WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Date: October 20, 2011 Featuring: Bruce Siegel, MD, MPH, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (NAPH) Linda Cumming, PhD, Vice President for Research at the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (NAPH) and Director of the National Public Health and Hospital Institute (NPHHI), NAPH’s research affiliate Steven R. Counsell, MD, Chief of Geriatrics and Medical Director for Senior Care, Wishard Health Services, Indianapolis; Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine; Director, Indiana University Geriatrics Caroline M. Jacobs, MPH, MSEd, Chief Patient Safety Officer/Senior Vice President, Patient Safety, Accreditation and Regulatory Services, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation The usual way safety net hospitals wind up in the news in the US is when — faced with insufficient reimbursements and other reductions in funding — survival is questionable. The story angle becomes one of fiscal woes exacerbating and undermining the efforts of dedicated providers to deliver good care to mostly uninsured and underserved communities.This situation and the necessity to address it remain quite real. But it often obscures another picture that's emerging in this critical sector of US health care: the ways in which safety net and public hospitals are innovating their way to greater stability. Even with financial constraints, they are improving care for patients, becoming leaders in quality and safety, and acting as mentors to other health care organizations interested in population health. Denver Health, Contra Costa Health Services, Cambridge Health Alliance, and Stony Brook University Medical Center are just some of the names of places with visionary leaders and bold initiatives underway — so much so that they're gaining the attention of national policy leaders in search of new models of care to achieve health reform.WIHI host Madge Kaplan speaks with Bruce Siegel and Linda Cummings of the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, who describe a comprehensive agenda for change that’s underway to support the ambitions of their members. In addition, Caroline Jacobs of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and Steve Counsell of the Indiana University School of Medicine and Wishard Health Services provide some rich examples of what’s being achieved at their hospitals on the front lines of care.The focus of this WIHI is especially timely as all of health care gears up to engage with greater numbers of low-income patients gaining insurance under health care reform. Who better to turn to for decades of experience but public and safety net hospitals?
"Baruch College's School of Public Affairs hosts a daylong conference to discuss New York immigration services and policies. The conference is co-sponsored by the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and the City University of New York. Throughout the day, speakers take a look at local immigration policies and services in the context of a burgeoning national debate on immigration and immigrants. The event takes place on May 25, 2011, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-220. [Part I -- 58 min.] David Birdsell Dean of the School of Public Affairs Mitchel B. Wallerstein President, Baruch College Carol Robles-Roman Deputy Mayor, City of New York Survey Results: New Yorkers' Attitudes toward Immigrants 5/11 Mickey Blum Professor of Public Affairs & Director, Baruch Survey Research Douglas Muzzio, Professor, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College A keynote Presentation by Alan Aviles, President & CEO, New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., introduced by James McCarthy, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs [Part II -- 59 min.] ""Immigrants and Educational Opportunity"" Panel Jay Hershenson Senior Vice Chancellor for University Relations, CUNY Ken Guest Professor of Anthropology, Baruch College Ke Liang Assistant Professor of Sociology & Anthropology, Baruch College Laura Rodriguez Deputy Chancellor for Disabilities & ELL, NYCDOE Melanie Reyes Education Advocate, New York Immigration Coalition Robert Courtney Smith Professor of Public Affairs, Baruch College Edwin Melendez Professor of Urban Affairs & Planning, Hunter College, Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Vilna Bashi Treitler Professor of Black & Hispanic Studies, Baruch College [Part III -- 59 min.] ""Civic & Political Engagement in Immigrant Communities"" Panel: David Birdsell Dean, School of Public Affairs at Baruch College Sandra Dunn Director of Immigration Programming at the Hagedorn Foundation The Honorable Carlos Sada Consul General, Mexican Consulate John Mollenkopf Director of the Center for Urban Affairs at the CUNY Graduate Center Fatima Shama Commissioner, Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs. Presentation ""Immigration and Law Enforcement"" Monica Varsanyi Professor of Political Science, John Jay College Els de Graauw Professor of Political Science, Baruch College Sgt. Rafet Awad NYPD New Immigrant Outreach Unit"
"Baruch College's School of Public Affairs hosts a daylong conference to discuss New York immigration services and policies. The conference is co-sponsored by the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and the City University of New York. Throughout the day, speakers take a look at local immigration policies and services in the context of a burgeoning national debate on immigration and immigrants. The event takes place on May 25, 2011, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-220. [Part I -- 58 min.] David Birdsell Dean of the School of Public Affairs Mitchel B. Wallerstein President, Baruch College Carol Robles-Roman Deputy Mayor, City of New York Survey Results: New Yorkers' Attitudes toward Immigrants 5/11 Mickey Blum Professor of Public Affairs & Director, Baruch Survey Research Douglas Muzzio, Professor, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College A keynote Presentation by Alan Aviles, President & CEO, New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., introduced by James McCarthy, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs [Part II -- 59 min.] ""Immigrants and Educational Opportunity"" Panel Jay Hershenson Senior Vice Chancellor for University Relations, CUNY Ken Guest Professor of Anthropology, Baruch College Ke Liang Assistant Professor of Sociology & Anthropology, Baruch College Laura Rodriguez Deputy Chancellor for Disabilities & ELL, NYCDOE Melanie Reyes Education Advocate, New York Immigration Coalition Robert Courtney Smith Professor of Public Affairs, Baruch College Edwin Melendez Professor of Urban Affairs & Planning, Hunter College, Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Vilna Bashi Treitler Professor of Black & Hispanic Studies, Baruch College [Part III -- 59 min.] ""Civic & Political Engagement in Immigrant Communities"" Panel: David Birdsell Dean, School of Public Affairs at Baruch College Sandra Dunn Director of Immigration Programming at the Hagedorn Foundation The Honorable Carlos Sada Consul General, Mexican Consulate John Mollenkopf Director of the Center for Urban Affairs at the CUNY Graduate Center Fatima Shama Commissioner, Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs. Presentation ""Immigration and Law Enforcement"" Monica Varsanyi Professor of Political Science, John Jay College Els de Graauw Professor of Political Science, Baruch College Sgt. Rafet Awad NYPD New Immigrant Outreach Unit"
"Baruch College's School of Public Affairs hosts a daylong conference to discuss New York immigration services and policies. The conference is co-sponsored by the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and the City University of New York. Throughout the day, speakers take a look at local immigration policies and services in the context of a burgeoning national debate on immigration and immigrants. The event takes place on May 25, 2011, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-220. [Part I -- 58 min.] David Birdsell Dean of the School of Public Affairs Mitchel B. Wallerstein President, Baruch College Carol Robles-Roman Deputy Mayor, City of New York Survey Results: New Yorkers' Attitudes toward Immigrants 5/11 Mickey Blum Professor of Public Affairs & Director, Baruch Survey Research Douglas Muzzio, Professor, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College A keynote Presentation by Alan Aviles, President & CEO, New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., introduced by James McCarthy, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs [Part II -- 59 min.] ""Immigrants and Educational Opportunity"" Panel Jay Hershenson Senior Vice Chancellor for University Relations, CUNY Ken Guest Professor of Anthropology, Baruch College Ke Liang Assistant Professor of Sociology & Anthropology, Baruch College Laura Rodriguez Deputy Chancellor for Disabilities & ELL, NYCDOE Melanie Reyes Education Advocate, New York Immigration Coalition Robert Courtney Smith Professor of Public Affairs, Baruch College Edwin Melendez Professor of Urban Affairs & Planning, Hunter College, Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Vilna Bashi Treitler Professor of Black & Hispanic Studies, Baruch College [Part III -- 59 min.] ""Civic & Political Engagement in Immigrant Communities"" Panel: David Birdsell Dean, School of Public Affairs at Baruch College Sandra Dunn Director of Immigration Programming at the Hagedorn Foundation The Honorable Carlos Sada Consul General, Mexican Consulate John Mollenkopf Director of the Center for Urban Affairs at the CUNY Graduate Center Fatima Shama Commissioner, Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs. Presentation ""Immigration and Law Enforcement"" Monica Varsanyi Professor of Political Science, John Jay College Els de Graauw Professor of Political Science, Baruch College Sgt. Rafet Awad NYPD New Immigrant Outreach Unit"
"Baruch College's School of Public Affairs hosts a daylong conference to discuss New York immigration services and policies. The conference is co-sponsored by the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and the City University of New York. Throughout the day, speakers take a look at local immigration policies and services in the context of a burgeoning national debate on immigration and immigrants. The event takes place on May 25, 2011, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-220. [Part I -- 58 min.] David Birdsell Dean of the School of Public Affairs Mitchel B. Wallerstein President, Baruch College Carol Robles-Roman Deputy Mayor, City of New York Survey Results: New Yorkers' Attitudes toward Immigrants 5/11 Mickey Blum Professor of Public Affairs & Director, Baruch Survey Research Douglas Muzzio, Professor, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College A keynote Presentation by Alan Aviles, President & CEO, New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., introduced by James McCarthy, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs [Part II -- 59 min.] ""Immigrants and Educational Opportunity"" Panel Jay Hershenson Senior Vice Chancellor for University Relations, CUNY Ken Guest Professor of Anthropology, Baruch College Ke Liang Assistant Professor of Sociology & Anthropology, Baruch College Laura Rodriguez Deputy Chancellor for Disabilities & ELL, NYCDOE Melanie Reyes Education Advocate, New York Immigration Coalition Robert Courtney Smith Professor of Public Affairs, Baruch College Edwin Melendez Professor of Urban Affairs & Planning, Hunter College, Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Vilna Bashi Treitler Professor of Black & Hispanic Studies, Baruch College [Part III -- 59 min.] ""Civic & Political Engagement in Immigrant Communities"" Panel: David Birdsell Dean, School of Public Affairs at Baruch College Sandra Dunn Director of Immigration Programming at the Hagedorn Foundation The Honorable Carlos Sada Consul General, Mexican Consulate John Mollenkopf Director of the Center for Urban Affairs at the CUNY Graduate Center Fatima Shama Commissioner, Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs. Presentation ""Immigration and Law Enforcement"" Monica Varsanyi Professor of Political Science, John Jay College Els de Graauw Professor of Political Science, Baruch College Sgt. Rafet Awad NYPD New Immigrant Outreach Unit"
"Baruch College's School of Public Affairs hosts a daylong conference to discuss New York immigration services and policies. The conference is co-sponsored by the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and the City University of New York. Throughout the day, speakers take a look at local immigration policies and services in the context of a burgeoning national debate on immigration and immigrants. The event takes place on May 25, 2011, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-220. [Part I -- 58 min.] David Birdsell Dean of the School of Public Affairs Mitchel B. Wallerstein President, Baruch College Carol Robles-Roman Deputy Mayor, City of New York Survey Results: New Yorkers' Attitudes toward Immigrants 5/11 Mickey Blum Professor of Public Affairs & Director, Baruch Survey Research Douglas Muzzio, Professor, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College A keynote Presentation by Alan Aviles, President & CEO, New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., introduced by James McCarthy, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs [Part II -- 59 min.] ""Immigrants and Educational Opportunity"" Panel Jay Hershenson Senior Vice Chancellor for University Relations, CUNY Ken Guest Professor of Anthropology, Baruch College Ke Liang Assistant Professor of Sociology & Anthropology, Baruch College Laura Rodriguez Deputy Chancellor for Disabilities & ELL, NYCDOE Melanie Reyes Education Advocate, New York Immigration Coalition Robert Courtney Smith Professor of Public Affairs, Baruch College Edwin Melendez Professor of Urban Affairs & Planning, Hunter College, Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Vilna Bashi Treitler Professor of Black & Hispanic Studies, Baruch College [Part III -- 59 min.] ""Civic & Political Engagement in Immigrant Communities"" Panel: David Birdsell Dean, School of Public Affairs at Baruch College Sandra Dunn Director of Immigration Programming at the Hagedorn Foundation The Honorable Carlos Sada Consul General, Mexican Consulate John Mollenkopf Director of the Center for Urban Affairs at the CUNY Graduate Center Fatima Shama Commissioner, Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs. Presentation ""Immigration and Law Enforcement"" Monica Varsanyi Professor of Political Science, John Jay College Els de Graauw Professor of Political Science, Baruch College Sgt. Rafet Awad NYPD New Immigrant Outreach Unit"
"Baruch College's School of Public Affairs hosts a daylong conference to discuss New York immigration services and policies. The conference is co-sponsored by the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and the City University of New York. Throughout the day, speakers take a look at local immigration policies and services in the context of a burgeoning national debate on immigration and immigrants. The event takes place on May 25, 2011, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-220. [Part I -- 58 min.] David Birdsell Dean of the School of Public Affairs Mitchel B. Wallerstein President, Baruch College Carol Robles-Roman Deputy Mayor, City of New York Survey Results: New Yorkers' Attitudes toward Immigrants 5/11 Mickey Blum Professor of Public Affairs & Director, Baruch Survey Research Douglas Muzzio, Professor, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College A keynote Presentation by Alan Aviles, President & CEO, New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., introduced by James McCarthy, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs [Part II -- 59 min.] ""Immigrants and Educational Opportunity"" Panel Jay Hershenson Senior Vice Chancellor for University Relations, CUNY Ken Guest Professor of Anthropology, Baruch College Ke Liang Assistant Professor of Sociology & Anthropology, Baruch College Laura Rodriguez Deputy Chancellor for Disabilities & ELL, NYCDOE Melanie Reyes Education Advocate, New York Immigration Coalition Robert Courtney Smith Professor of Public Affairs, Baruch College Edwin Melendez Professor of Urban Affairs & Planning, Hunter College, Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Vilna Bashi Treitler Professor of Black & Hispanic Studies, Baruch College [Part III -- 59 min.] ""Civic & Political Engagement in Immigrant Communities"" Panel: David Birdsell Dean, School of Public Affairs at Baruch College Sandra Dunn Director of Immigration Programming at the Hagedorn Foundation The Honorable Carlos Sada Consul General, Mexican Consulate John Mollenkopf Director of the Center for Urban Affairs at the CUNY Graduate Center Fatima Shama Commissioner, Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs. Presentation ""Immigration and Law Enforcement"" Monica Varsanyi Professor of Political Science, John Jay College Els de Graauw Professor of Political Science, Baruch College Sgt. Rafet Awad NYPD New Immigrant Outreach Unit"
"Baruch College’s School of Public Affairs hosts a daylong conference to discuss New York immigration services and policies. The conference is co-sponsored by the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs and the City University of New York. Throughout the day, speakers take a look at local immigration policies and services in the context of a burgeoning national debate on immigration and immigrants. The event takes place on May 25, 2011, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-220. [Part I -- 58 min.] David Birdsell Dean of the School of Public Affairs Mitchel B. Wallerstein President, Baruch College Carol Robles-Roman Deputy Mayor, City of New York Survey Results: New Yorkers' Attitudes toward Immigrants 5/11 Mickey Blum Professor of Public Affairs & Director, Baruch Survey Research Douglas Muzzio, Professor, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College A keynote Presentation by Alan Aviles, President & CEO, New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., introduced by James McCarthy, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs [Part II -- 59 min.] ""Immigrants and Educational Opportunity"" Panel Jay Hershenson Senior Vice Chancellor for University Relations, CUNY Ken Guest Professor of Anthropology, Baruch College Ke Liang Assistant Professor of Sociology & Anthropology, Baruch College Laura Rodriguez Deputy Chancellor for Disabilities & ELL, NYCDOE Melanie Reyes Education Advocate, New York Immigration Coalition Robert Courtney Smith Professor of Public Affairs, Baruch College Edwin Melendez Professor of Urban Affairs & Planning, Hunter College, Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Vilna Bashi Treitler Professor of Black & Hispanic Studies, Baruch College [Part III -- 59 min.] ""Civic & Political Engagement in Immigrant Communities"" Panel: David Birdsell Dean, School of Public Affairs at Baruch College Sandra Dunn Director of Immigration Programming at the Hagedorn Foundation The Honorable Carlos Sada Consul General, Mexican Consulate John Mollenkopf Director of the Center for Urban Affairs at the CUNY Graduate Center Fatima Shama Commissioner, Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs. Presentation ""Immigration and Law Enforcement"" Monica Varsanyi Professor of Political Science, John Jay College Els de Graauw Professor of Political Science, Baruch College Sgt. Rafet Awad NYPD New Immigrant Outreach Unit"
"Baruch College’s School of Public Affairs hosts a daylong conference to discuss New York immigration services and policies. The conference is co-sponsored by the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs and the City University of New York. Throughout the day, speakers take a look at local immigration policies and services in the context of a burgeoning national debate on immigration and immigrants. The event takes place on May 25, 2011, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-220. [Part I -- 58 min.] David Birdsell Dean of the School of Public Affairs Mitchel B. Wallerstein President, Baruch College Carol Robles-Roman Deputy Mayor, City of New York Survey Results: New Yorkers' Attitudes toward Immigrants 5/11 Mickey Blum Professor of Public Affairs & Director, Baruch Survey Research Douglas Muzzio, Professor, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College A keynote Presentation by Alan Aviles, President & CEO, New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., introduced by James McCarthy, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs [Part II -- 59 min.] ""Immigrants and Educational Opportunity"" Panel Jay Hershenson Senior Vice Chancellor for University Relations, CUNY Ken Guest Professor of Anthropology, Baruch College Ke Liang Assistant Professor of Sociology & Anthropology, Baruch College Laura Rodriguez Deputy Chancellor for Disabilities & ELL, NYCDOE Melanie Reyes Education Advocate, New York Immigration Coalition Robert Courtney Smith Professor of Public Affairs, Baruch College Edwin Melendez Professor of Urban Affairs & Planning, Hunter College, Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Vilna Bashi Treitler Professor of Black & Hispanic Studies, Baruch College [Part III -- 59 min.] ""Civic & Political Engagement in Immigrant Communities"" Panel: David Birdsell Dean, School of Public Affairs at Baruch College Sandra Dunn Director of Immigration Programming at the Hagedorn Foundation The Honorable Carlos Sada Consul General, Mexican Consulate John Mollenkopf Director of the Center for Urban Affairs at the CUNY Graduate Center Fatima Shama Commissioner, Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs. Presentation ""Immigration and Law Enforcement"" Monica Varsanyi Professor of Political Science, John Jay College Els de Graauw Professor of Political Science, Baruch College Sgt. Rafet Awad NYPD New Immigrant Outreach Unit"
"Baruch College’s School of Public Affairs hosts a daylong conference to discuss New York immigration services and policies. The conference is co-sponsored by the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs and the City University of New York. Throughout the day, speakers take a look at local immigration policies and services in the context of a burgeoning national debate on immigration and immigrants. The event takes place on May 25, 2011, at the Baruch College Vertical Campus, Room 14-220. [Part I -- 58 min.] David Birdsell Dean of the School of Public Affairs Mitchel B. Wallerstein President, Baruch College Carol Robles-Roman Deputy Mayor, City of New York Survey Results: New Yorkers' Attitudes toward Immigrants 5/11 Mickey Blum Professor of Public Affairs & Director, Baruch Survey Research Douglas Muzzio, Professor, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College A keynote Presentation by Alan Aviles, President & CEO, New York City Health and Hospitals Corp., introduced by James McCarthy, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs [Part II -- 59 min.] ""Immigrants and Educational Opportunity"" Panel Jay Hershenson Senior Vice Chancellor for University Relations, CUNY Ken Guest Professor of Anthropology, Baruch College Ke Liang Assistant Professor of Sociology & Anthropology, Baruch College Laura Rodriguez Deputy Chancellor for Disabilities & ELL, NYCDOE Melanie Reyes Education Advocate, New York Immigration Coalition Robert Courtney Smith Professor of Public Affairs, Baruch College Edwin Melendez Professor of Urban Affairs & Planning, Hunter College, Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies Vilna Bashi Treitler Professor of Black & Hispanic Studies, Baruch College [Part III -- 59 min.] ""Civic & Political Engagement in Immigrant Communities"" Panel: David Birdsell Dean, School of Public Affairs at Baruch College Sandra Dunn Director of Immigration Programming at the Hagedorn Foundation The Honorable Carlos Sada Consul General, Mexican Consulate John Mollenkopf Director of the Center for Urban Affairs at the CUNY Graduate Center Fatima Shama Commissioner, Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs. Presentation ""Immigration and Law Enforcement"" Monica Varsanyi Professor of Political Science, John Jay College Els de Graauw Professor of Political Science, Baruch College Sgt. Rafet Awad NYPD New Immigrant Outreach Unit"
New York City Undergraduate Commencement 2011 with honorary degree recipient Jo Ivey Boufford, MD. Dr. Ivey Boufford is President of The New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Boufford is Professor of Public Service, Health Policy, and Management at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at New York University School of Medicine. She served as Dean of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University from June 1997 to November 2002. Prior to that, she served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health in the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from November 1993 to January 1997, and as Acting Assistant Secretary from January 1997 to May 1997. While at HHS, she served as the US representative on the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1994 to 1997. From May 1991 to September 1993, Dr. Boufford served as Director of the King’s Fund College, London England. The King’s Fund is a royal charity dedicated to the support of health and social services in London and the United Kingdom. She served as President of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), the largest municipal system in the United States, from December 1985 until October 1989. Dr. Boufford was awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship at the Institute of Medicine in Washington, DC, for 1979-1980. She served as a member of the National Council on Graduate Medical Education and the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality from 1997 to 2002. She is currently Chair of the Board of Directors for the Center for Health Care Strategies and serves on the boards of the United Hospital Fund, the Primary Care Development Corporation and Public Health Solutions formerly MHRA. She was President of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (2002 -2003). She was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 1992 and is a member of its Executive Council, Board on Global Health and Board on African Science Academy Development. She was elected to serve for a four-year term as the Foreign Secretary of the IOM beginning July 1, 2006. She received an Honorary Doctorate of Science degree from the State University of New York, Brooklyn, in May 1992 and the New York Medical College in May 2007. She was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration in 2005. She has been a Fellow of The New York Academy of Medicine since 1988 and a Trustee since 2004. Dr. Boufford attended Wellesley College for two years and received her BA (Psychology) magna cum laude from the University of Michigan, and her MD, with distinction, from the University of Michigan Medical School. She is Board Certified in pediatrics. Dr. Boufford has served on the AIHA Board since 2008. Degree: Doctor of Science (Sc.D.)
Please join the Unstoppable Frankie Picasso on Tuesday, April 6th at 8:00 pm est when she is joined by educator, consultant and author Dr.K. Candis Best. Dr.Best is the author of Leaving Legacies: Reflections from the Prickly Path to Leadership, an entertaining and oft moving account of her eleven year odyssey as a public health executive. Her book was recognized by USA Book News as one of the best books of 2008, and I can attest is it a worthy read!!! A former attorney, Candis joined the Health Care field as a Manager of Human Resources and her book chronicles her meteoric rise through her 11 years in Health Care. Dr. Best shares with us stories and lession in leadership she learned while managing, visioning and leading folks culminating with the highlight of that portion of her professional career where she served as the Sr. Vice-President and Executive Director (A) of the North Brooklyn Health Network, a member network of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. In that capacity she served as the Chief Executive Officer for a $300 million dollar healthcare network comprised of Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, Cumberland Diagnostic and Treatment Center and a host of clinics and school health programs. If you are interested in leaving your own Legacy and would like to do so through inspired leadership, then tonight is the show for you. You WILL want to listen to the lessons that Candis has learned through her career, so you can change, avoid or adopt those nuggests she came to understand as best practice.
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