The Visible Voices

Seth Godin and Michelle Johnston Write, Create Art, and Ship It

Seth Godin grew up in Buffalo, New York. He graduated Williamsville East High School in 1978 before leaving to earn degrees in computer science and philosophy from Tufts University and an MBA in marketing from the Stanford Graduate school of Business. He returned to Buffalo often to see his family, owners of HARD Manufacturing, a maker of hospital cribs headquartered. The company is currently run by his sister Marjorie Bryen.  Seth is the author of 20 books that have been bestsellers around the world and have been translated into more than 35 languages. He’s also the founder of the altMBA and The Akimbo Workshops, online seminars that have transformed the work of thousands of people. He writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership and most of all, changing everything. Some of his books Linchpin, Tribes, The Dip  and Purple Cow. His book, This Is Marketing, was an instant bestseller around the world. His newest book, The Practice came out in 2020. Seth has founded several companies, including Yoyodyne and Squidoo. His blog (which you can find by typing “seth” into Google) is one of the most popular in the world. His podcast is in the top 1% of all podcasts worldwide. In 2018, he was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame. Michelle Johnston is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and novelist, and on good days it is difficult to tell the difference, She works as an Emergency Physician at an inner city trauma hospital, thus specialising in mess and chaos. Her first novel, Dustfall, was published in 2018; a book about medical error and the legacy of asbestos mining in Western Australia.  She writes extensively in the medical field, and believes creativity is at the beating heart of critical care.

Danielle Ofri on Writing and Storytelling

Resa speaks with Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, a clinical professor of medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. She has worked at Bellevue Hospital for decades. They discuss writing and finding one's voice through writing  Dr. Ofri recently released When We Do Harm. She is the author of many books and has regular contributions in Slate, New York Times, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Lancet.. They discuss her June 2019 New York Times OpEd piece The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses One resource seems infinite and free: the professionalism of caregivers. Listen to Dr. Ofri's TEDMED talk.  Twitter @danielleofri Website danielleofri.com

Vinny Arora and Subha Airan-Javia: Designing A Professional Life

Vineet Arora, MD is the Herbert T Abelson Professor of Medicine in General Internal Medicine. She is an an academic hospitalist and medical educator who specializes in improving the learning environment for medical trainees and the quality, safety and experience of care delivered to patients. She serves as Associate Chief Medical Officer for the Clinical Learning Environment at the University of Chicago Medicine and Assistant Dean for Scholarship and Discovery at the Pritzker School of Medicine.Dr. Arora is an internationally recognized expert on patient handoffs in health care and also has broad expertise in using technology, such as social media, to improve medical education. Dr. Arora is an elected member to the American Society of Clinical Investigation, which recognizes physician-scientists for an outstanding record of scholarly achievement in biomedical research, and serves on the American Board of Internal Medicine Board of Directors. As an advocate for gender equity across health care, she has leadership roles in several organizations dedicated to advancing women leaders and combating sexual harassment in health care, including Women of Impact, TIME’S UP Healthcare and the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s Action Collaborative on Sexual Harassment in Higher Education.  She blogs for the Society of Hospital Medicine : The Hospital Leader. You can follow Vinny on twitter @FutureDocs.Subha Airan-Javia is an Associate Professor in Clinical Medicine and practicing Hospitalist at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Airan-Javia formerly served in the Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer role. She co-founded TrekIT Health, to bring technology she developed and implemented at Penn to other health systems.TrekIT was formed to create a commercial software platform for both large institutional health systems and individual clinicians looking for a better way to manage their workflow based on the CareAlign technology platform developed by Subha Airan-Javia and colleagues at Penn Medicine. Product design was born out of a necessity to improve clinician experience, present data in a way that reduces cognitive overload, and to improve the handoff process, while simultaneously reducing medical errors and making the electronic health record more user friendly. You can follow Subha on twitter @subhaairan.

Tova Du Plessis and Abby Dahan: Award winning Bakers

Tova du Plessis was born and raised in a kosher Jewish household in Johannesburg South Africa, She came to the United States to attend college, planning to become a doctor.  She pivoted her professional plan and enrolled in the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in Napa Valley. She completed externships with Pastry Chef Matt Tinder and Boris Portnoy at The Restaurant at Meadowood in Yountville. During a free period, she traveled to Philadelphia, connected with Michael Solomonov, who hired her as a line cook at Zahav and a sous chef at kosher European restaurant Citron & Rose. After a brief stint as the pastry chef at Avance, she joined The Rittenhouse Hotel as executive pastry chef, overseeing dessert and pastry at Lacroix. Tova opened essenbakery.com in 2016. The bakery focuses on Jewish breads and sweets, including babkas, challah, and rugelach.  She is a four time James Beard award nominee as a semi-finalist for “Outstanding Baker”.  Follow Tova on twitter @ChefTova and @essenbakery and Instagram @tovadup Abigail Dahan is a Foodnetwork 2020 Chopped Sweets winner. She likes teaching regular folks how to bake like pros. She was born in Paris to a Moroccan Jewish father and French Jewish mother.. Her family moved to Cherry Hill, New Jersey, when she was young.  She returned to Paris for culinary school and eventually returned to the Philadelphia area.  In 2014, she was selected for Zagat’s “30 under 30” list for Philadelphia. Dahan was furloughed as the executive pastry chef at Parc at the beginning of the pandemic and returned part-time early in the summer.  She won “Chopped Sweets” in early March and the episode aired 01 September 2020.  Abby prepared for the competition by watching as many episodes as possible and by memorizing certain recipes. After baking challahs out of her home, Abby started a business. She now teaches virtual baking classes. Follow Abby on Twitter @sugarchefabs Instagram @abbydahan and contact her for classes through her website www.thebakeschool.com 

Provost JoAnne Epps and Judge Serena Murillo: Advocacy Through the Law

JOANNE A EPPS has been a member of the Temple law school faculty since 1985, JoAnne Epps served as Dean of Temple’s Beasley School of Law from 2008-2016.  Since 2016, she has served as Executive Vice President and Provost of Temple University.  Author and co-author of several books and articles on Evidence and Trial Advocacy, Epps has won numerous awards recognizing her commitment to diversity and advancing women within the legal profession and community. Epps is a former Deputy City Attorney for the City of Los Angeles and Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.  Her primary areas of expertise include criminal procedure, evidence and trial advocacy. She has shown a commitment to curricular innovation and experiential legal education inspired the creation of the Stephen and Sandra Sheller Center for Social Justice at Temple Law School, which introduces students to the many roles that lawyers can play in securing access to civil justice. She has trained Sudanese lawyers representing victims of the Darfur crisis, and taught prosecutors for the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Epps was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia and a Deputy City Attorney for the City of Los Angeles. Epps received a B.A. from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.SERENA MURILLO Serena Murillo is a Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court currently assigned to the civil division in the Spring Street Courthouse. Brown University and the University of California at San Diego where she played NCAA Basketball and earned a Bachelors Degree. She earned her law degree from Loyola Law School  Criminal prosecutor for 17 years . Murillo was a district attorney for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office

Maurice Cherry and Stesha Doku: Changemaking Designers

Maurice Cherry is principal and creative director at Lunch, an award-winning multidisciplinary creative studio he established in 2008 in Atlanta, GA. Currently, he works as the creative strategist for CodeSandbox.  Maurice is perhaps most well-known for his award-winning podcast Revision Path™, which showcases Black designers, developers, and digital creators from all over the world. It is the first podcast to be added to the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Other projects of Maurice’s include the Black Weblog Awards, 28 Days of the Web, The Year of Tea, and the design anthology RECOGNIZE.Maurice is the 2018 recipient of the Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary from AIGA, was named as one of GDUSA’s “People to Watch” in 2018, and was included in the 2018 edition of The Root 100 (#60), their annual list of the most influential African-Americans ages 25 to 45.  You can find Maurice on Twitter @mauricecherryMaurice's 2015 Lecture: Where Are the Black Designers?Stesha Doku, MD is a private practice anesthesiologist, web designer and developer based in Greensboro, NC. She focuses on designing interfaces for healthcare technology for software healthcare providers use to better take care of patients. She believes recognizing design's role in healthcare will help build a better future for growth and quality in the medical field. What we particularly need more of in medicine are designers who can be a bridge to create great interfaces that physicians and healthcare professionals can integrate into their practice. While I believe that anyone can program given a computer, patience and the right book, learning what works on the front-end for different industries is much harder. Only good design can be the connector to helping us meet our goal of making technology adoption worthwhile and cost effective in medicine!Stesha Doku MD on Revision Path 01 July 2013 Mastering the craft of great design is a surprisingly long and continuous process. You will find that having a good eye is very different than being able to think creatively, which is in turn very different from being able to technically manifest your ideas digitally. Great designers have all three, so pick one to start with and the others will build on that. You can find Stesha on Twitter at @dohkoo. 

Christine Laine and Yonathan Freund Leading as Editors in Chief

Christine Laine, MD, MPH is Editor-in-Chief , Annals of Internal Medicine and Senior Vice President, American College of Physicians. She is a general internist and Professor of Medicine at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University where she remains active in clinical medicine and teaching.Yonathan Freund is the editor in chief of the European Journal of Emergency Medicine  an emergency physician and professor at Sorbonne University, Paris France. His research focuses on pulmonary embolism, fragile populations,. suboptimal care, and Medical errors in the ED. Established in 1927 by the American College of Physicians (ACP), Annals of Internal Medicine is the premier internal medicine journal. The journal publishes a wide variety of original research, review articles, practice guidelines, and commentary relevant to clinical practice, health care delivery, public health, health care policy, medical education, ethics, and research methodology. In addition, the journal publishes personal narratives that convey the feeling and the art of medicine. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The European Journal of Emergency Medicine is the official journal of the European Society for Emergency Medicine. It is devoted to serving the European emergency medicine community and to promoting European standards of training, diagnosis and care in this rapidly growing field. The new Impact Factor for EJEM is at 2.17 This is the highest score the journal has reached. EJEM is now the 10th out of 31 journals in Emergency Medicine.

Better Allies: Book Club with Author Karen Catlin

Karen Catlin is a leadership coach and an acclaimed author and speaker on inclusive workplaces. After spending twenty-five years building software products and serving as a vice president of engineering at Macromedia and Adobe, she witnessed a sharp decline in the number of women working in tech. Frustrated but galvanized, she knew it was time to switch gears. She coaches women to be stronger leaders and men to be better allies for members of all underrepresented groups. Her client roster includes Airbnb, DoorDash, eBay, Envoy, Intel, Intuit, and Segment, as well as entrepreneurs and individuals. Karen’s coaching offerings include tactics for increasing visibility, being more strategic, managing stakeholders, negotiation, and cultivating ally skills.  To help more people cultivate ally skills, she wrote Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces. She also published a companion guidebook, The Better Allies™ Approach to Hiring, with best practices to recruit and hire people from underrepresented groups. In 2020, her unique approach to allyship was featured in the BBC’s Ally Track tool. Follow her on twitter @kecatlinDr. Peter Tomaselli  is an emergency physician and medical educator  in Philadelphia. He sees allyship and equity as crucial to providing a safe and effective learning environment and a healthy workplace. His other academic interests include professionalism and hospitality in medicine. Follow him on twitter @pjtomaselliIn this episode we discuss Better Allies: Everyday Actions to Create Inclusive, Engaging Workplaces The highly-acclaimed, practical guide for how to be an ally in the workplace, now in its 2nd edition. Subscribe to the weekly 5 Ally Actions Newsletter.

Paula Johnson and Joneigh Khaldun: Beyond the Hospital Walls

Paula Adina Johnson MD is a Cardiologist and academic leader. She is the 14th president- of Wellesley College and the first Black woman to serve in this role. President Johnson founded and served as the inaugural executive director of the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women's Health & Gender Biology, as well as Chief of the Division of Women's Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital.  She was one of the first researchers in her field to identify the need for consideration of sex differences in medical treatment, and has been a significant voice in raising awareness of the importance of sex differences in understanding women's health. In her 2013 TED talk, "His and Her Healthcare, she asks: Why leave women’s health to chance?  She was the Grace A. Young Family Professor of Medicine in the field of women's health, an endowed professorship named in honor of her mother, at Harvard Medical School. She was also Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. You can follow her on twitter: @DrPaulaJohnsonJoneigh S. Khaldun MD MPH is a practicing emergency medicine physician in Detroit Michigan. She is the Chief Medical Executive and Chief Deputy Director for Health for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.  She advises Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and is the top medical advisor guiding Michigan’s COVID-19 response, and oversees public health, Medicaid, behavioral health, public hospitals, and aging services for MDHHS. Prior to her roles at MDHHS, she was the director and health officer for the Detroit Health Department, where she oversaw a robust community-driven community health assessment, established a comprehensive reproductive health network and led Detroit’s response to the Hepatitis A outbreak. In 2018, Dr. Khaldun was selected for the 40 Under 40 Leaders in Minority Health Award by the National Minority Quality Forum; Prior to that, she was the Chief Medical Officer for Baltimore City. Dr. Khaldun practices part-time at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. In her FIX18 talk Work Like there is No Tomorrow, Dr. Khaldun  shares her own medical story and how from it she learned that we must all live life so we have no regrets and work like there is no tomorrow.  You can follow her on twitter @DrKhaldunIn this episode, we discuss the 2018 NASEM report : Sexual Harassment in Academic Science, Engineering, and Medicine . We cover leadership, storytelling, mentorship. President Johnson pays tribute 2 Black women Wellesley alums who became infected by COVID19 and died due to disparities in healthcare: Zoe Mungin and Julie Butler DVM

The Visible Voices 2020 Memorable Moments

Back for the new year. For this week's episode, I decided to create a collection of memorable moments from 2020. Honestly, there are too numerous to count. I wanted to capture pieces of conversations that really moved me: Stopped me in my tracks, made me laugh and smile, made me lose my breath.  1. EPISODE 1:  HOW IS COVID19? REPORTS OF GENEVA, LONDON, AND PHILADELPHIAThe stress and anxiety was palpable in this episode. I spoke with a doctor friends one in Eva Niyibizi Geneva, one in London Segun Olusanya, and one here in Philadelphia Jamie Garfield.2. EPISODE 3:  IS COVID19 INCITING NARRATIVE VIOLENCE?I spoke with two doctors who are also storytellers.  Dr. Emily Silverman founded and hosts the Nocturnists podcast. She has taken story telling and the audio to a whole new level. A highlight of healing for me and what is amazing here is we hear the seeds that were planted for something yet to sprout: After the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, they launched a new audio storytelling series called “Black Voices in Healthcare”, hosted by Ashley McMullen, MD and executive produced by Kimberly Manning, MD3. EPISODE 9: ASHISH JHA AND MIRIAM LAUFER ON THE CDC + #COVID19 CURRENT EVENTSI laughed with Ashish Jha and Miriam Laufer when we discussed COVID19, the CDC, vaccines were on the horizon and not yet available, and what to do with kids and summer camp. The laugh surrounds the use of the word kerfuffle4. EPISODE 11: STRUCTURAL RACISM AND THE #COVID19 PANDEMIC AS HEALTH CARE CRISESHat tip  to Yale school of medicine 4th year student Max Tiako founder and host of @FlipScriptPod podcast covering health disparities in the U.S. & globally.  5. EPISODE 16: SYNDROME KI viewed the film in Miami right before the pandemic shut down everything. Syndrome K is a documentary, which tells the story of three doctors  Adriano Ossicini. Prof Giovanni Borromeo, Vittorio Sacerdoti who saved members of Rome's Jewish community by convincing the Nazis that these Jews were infected with a deadly and contagious disease that the doctors called Syndrome K. In this segment, Dr. Ignazio Marino, a transplant surgeon and former mayor of Rome, shared that his father was deported to a concentration camp. 6. EPISODE 13: ELLEN LUPTON AND ANDREW IBRAHIM : HEALTHDESIGN 101Two well known #HealthDesigners. Andrew is the chief medical officer of HOK’s architecture Healthcare group and a general surgeon at the University of Michigan, Ellen is a senior curator at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in NYC and directs the graduate program in graphic design the Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art. Andrew is a general surgeon and They really highlighted the importance of Health Design now and going forward. Take a listen as they explain #HealthDesignNow7. EPISODE 19: A CULTURE OF SILENCE: PHYSICIAN SUICIDE AND THE DR. LORNA BREEN FOUNDATIONWe paid tribute to the Dr. Lorna Breen and discussed the Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation . If we prioritize the mental health of medical professionals who are caring for some of our most vulnerable patients, and encourage help-seeking behaviors for mental health concerns and substance use disorders by reducing stigma, increasing resources, and having open conversations about mental health- maybe we can change the culture. In this moment Dr. Dan Egan reflects on his memory of Dr. Lorna Breen a colleague and friend who died by suicide in 20208. EPISODE 10: PRESIDENT AND CEO #TIMES UP TINA TCHEN ON LEADERSHIP DURING A CRISISI spoke with Tina Tchen, American lawyer Christina M. "Tina" Tchen CEO and President of Time's Up. She was a constant voice of equity and advocacy. Here she speaks on leading during a crisis: What to do9. EPISODE 12: SENATOR MAGGIE HASSAN AND DR. HIRAL TIPIRNENI: WHY GO INTO POLITICSHere I am in conversation with Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire. Hassan is one of only two women in American history to be elected as both a Governor and a Senator. She was the 81st Governor of New Hampshire, from 2013 to 2017. She has been active and focused during the recent period advocating on topics, such as PPE, Nursing Homes, the Opioid epidemic, Unemployment insurance Paid sick leave, and Training the returning workforce. 10. EPISODE 18: GLORIA STEINEM: WHY WOULD YOU NOT USE YOUR VOICE?In February 2020,  I sat with Ms Gloria Steinem. I asked her what she did for her health her self care and gave me a look of … well listen to what she said.