Podcasts about uc davis health system

On today's episode, meet Dr. David Tom Cooke. Dr. Cooke is the Section Head of General Thoracic Surgery at UC Davis Health System, Task-Force Chair Comprehensive Lung Cancer Screening Program, Vice Chair for Faculty Development & Wellness, and Associate Director Cardiothoracic Robotics Program. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard Medical School, he did his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Fellowships at Stanford University and University of Michigan. He trained with the some of the best, and now he's one of the best!.

In this episode, we’re talking about how to keep our mental health and our sanity intact during Pandemic Time. Dr. Peter Yellowlees, Chief Wellness Officer at UC Davis Health System, has been writing a newsletter called “Good Stuff” about how to keep one’s mental health in good shape. He started writing it when the pandemic began, specifically for essential workers on the frontlines at UC Davis Medical Centers. But because his advice is applicable to other people stressed out by the current situation, we got him to sit down and offer mental health tips and strategies for the rest of us. PODCAST PLAY BY PLAY * 0 to 4:45 min - Intro to California Groundbreakers, and why we're doing this episode right now * 4:45 min - How to think about what we can control, what we can't, and how do we accept that * 7:30 min - How to approach day-to-day living in "the bubble," and how to handle relationships * 10 min - How people, both living solo and living with kids and significant others, can maintain their sanity * 13 min - Advice for helping kids keep mentally upbeat * 15:55 min - Handling money and job stresses during this economic crisis * 20:25 min - How to make positive change, make good decisions, and making them stick * 25 min - What Dr. Yellowlees has learned about his mental health while sheltering in place * 30:10 min - The Crystal Ball question: What will we learn from sheltering in place, for better and for worse? * 34:20 min - Resources for those who want to reach out for help READ Dr. Yellowlees' Pandemic Time reading pick ("The Great Influenza" by John M. Barry) and his "Good Stuff" newsletters at https://health.ucdavis.edu/clinician-health-and-well-being/Program/Good-Stuff-Newsletters.html LISTEN to Dr. Yellowlees' podcast, "Joy of Medicine," talking with physicians about what they do and why they love it - http://joyofmedicine.org/joy-of-medicine-on-call-podcast/ WATCH the show -- all 23 seasons of it -- that Yellowlees and our parents have become addicted to during the shutdown (available on Amazon and Hulu) - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007y6k8 FIND HELP and resources at these websites: * Centers for Disease Control - www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/managing-stress-anxiety.html * UC Davis MIND Institute - https://health.ucdavis.edu/mindinstitute/resources/covid-19.html * Mental Health America - https://mhanational.org/covid19 * National Alliance on Mental Illness - https://www.nami.org/covid-19-guide

Often, palliative care specialists have to double as business specialists. In this episode, we share our conversation with Doctor Christopher Lillis of UC Davis Health System. Chris is one of so many in our industry that are part of successful inpatient programs that are now beginning to test the waters of a home-based palliative care model. In this chat, Chris discusses the challenges of defining the reach and scope of a new program, building partnerships with likeminded organizations, and starting small to make a big impact.

The first podcast of the series "Stewardship: Practical Approaches and Applications", produced by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). This episode focuses on demonstrating how to impact the rates of Clostridium Difficile infections using antimicrobial stewardship interventions targeting providers in various practice settings. Panelists: Libby S Dodds-Ashley, PharmD, MHS with the Duke Antimicrobial Stewardship Outreach Network, and Dr. Larissa May, MD, MSHS, MSPH, an Associate Professor and Director of Emergency Department Antibiotic Stewardship at UC Davis Health System.

In this panel discussion, moderator Joy Melnikow and panelists Ron Chapman, Neal Kohatsu, Robin Affrime and Kris Srinivasan consider how academic research might contribute to successful implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Melnikow is the Director of the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research. Robin Affrime is CEO of CommuniCare Health Centers. Ron Chapman is the Director of the California Department of Public Health. Neal Kohatsu is the Medical Director of the California Department of Health Care Services, and Kris Srinivasan is a practicing medical doctor for the UC Davis Health System and for CommuniCare Health Centers. This talk is from the November 2013 Center for Poverty Research conference The Affordable Care Act and Low Income Populations: Lessons from and Challenges for Research. This conference brought together a unique mix of researchers, policy professionals and industry leaders to discuss what the new law means for health care in this country, as well as its possible impacts on domestic poverty. Learn more at http://poverty.ucdavis.edu

Tonight our incredible special guest is: Suzanne Pontow, PhD, is a cell biologist focusing her research on neonatal stem cells at the Institute for Regenerative Cures within the UC Davis Health System in Sacramento.  Dr. Pontow received her BS in General Sciences from University of Iowa in 1985, and her PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from Washington University School of Medicine in 1995. After 11 years studying how HIV infects cells, Dr. Pontow joined the laboratory of Jan Nolta, PhD, Director of the Institute for Regenerative Cures. The move to UC Davis allowed Dr. Pontow to pursue an interest in the remarkable stem cells that are routinely discarded with the placenta and umbilical cord following birth. In 2010, Dr. Pontow and Jon Walker, CLS were named Co-directors of the Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program for the state of California, which is administered from the UC Davis Health System

Today it is my pleasure to be talking with branding expert and authority, Karen Kang. Karen Kang is a recognized brand strategist and the CEO and founder of BrandingPays LLC, a corporate and personal branding company (www.brandingpays.com). She is the author of BrandingPays: The Five-Step System to Reinvent Your Personal Brand. She has trained thousands of professionals on the unique BrandingPays™ System for personal branding. She was a principal and partner with Regis McKenna Inc., the legendary marketing firm that created and launched the Apple brand. She’s consulted to more than 150 organizations in the US, Europe and Asia from Fortune 100 companies to non-profits and startups. Her broad experience has included such diverse clients as Ariba, AT&T, Genentech, HP, iCharts, Lavante, Synopsys, Maxtor, NCR, Park Systems, SigmaQuest (Camstar), UC Davis Health System, Webroot and VoyagePrive. Karen’s marketing and communications background gives her a 360-degree view of branding. A former newspaper journalist on both the East and West Coasts, she has held executive positions in marketing consulting, advertising and public relations firms. Karen is a frequent speaker at leading business schools and professional organizations. She has served on the boards of The Friends of the Palo Alto Library and the Women’s Technology Cluster (Astia). She has also donated her time to such worthy non-profit organizations as Girls for a Change, CORO, Asian Business League of San Francisco and Ascend. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Mills College, where she holds her B.A. degree in English, and has earned her M.S. degree in Journalism from Boston University. In our conversation we discuss personal branding, Karen's five steps to brand positioning, qualities of a good brand, qualities of a bad brand, brand positioning, selling experiences, bad behaviour equals a bad brand, branding from the inside out, shifting the mind set from me to we, and a whole lot more! Aaron Bethune. Music Specialist. Creative Collaborator. http://www.playitloudmusic.com http://www.abovethenoise.ca http://www.twitter.com/playitloudmusic For more information on Karen please visit: http://www.brandingpays.com http://www.twitter.com/karenkang To purchase Karen's Book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0988437503/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

High school students are learning about stem-cell medicine from researchers in the UC Davis Institute for Regenerative Cures. The students are involved in a rigorous yearlong teen biotech challenge that has placed them in one of the state's most advanced stem cell labs, located at the UC Davis Health System in Sacramento.

At the UC Davis Health System campus, researchers struggle to find the best way to transfer stem cells to the injury site.

At the UC Davis Health System in Sacramento, a team of biomedical engineers is working to develop just the right hydrogel for stem cell implantation.

The UC Davis Health System is increasing health-care access for underserved populations living in rural areas by training their medical students for careers in primary care medicine in small communities.

The people who live in rural California suffer more chronic health conditions and have higher rates of hospitalization than those living in urban settings. UC Davis Health System is helping California's underserved communities by producing hundreds of new country doctors.