The Visible Voices

Paula Scher: Master of Design

Paula Scher is one of the most acclaimed graphic designers in the world. She has been a principal in the New York office of the  international design consultancy Pentagram since 1991, where she has designed identity systems, environmental graphics, packaging and publications for a wide range of clients that includes and is not limited to, the Public Theater, the Museum of Modern Art, the High Line, the Metropolitan Opera, the United States Holocaust Museum, Tiffany & Co., Citibank and Microsoft. Scher has been the recipient of hundreds of industry honors including the National Design Award and the American Institute of Graphic Arts medal. She is an established artist exhibiting worldwide, and her designs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, the Library of Congress, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and other institutions. Scher is the author of many books including and not limited to Paula Scher: Twenty-Five Years at the Public: A Love Story (2020),  Paula Scher: MAPS (2011), and Make It Bigger: (illustrated monograph on the design process and work of Paula Scher) (2005). Her #HealthDesign projects have included Period Equity,  Planned Parenthood, and Square Peg Round Hole. A must watch documentary on Scher and her work can be seen in the Netflix series “Abstract: The Art of Design.”

A Culture of Silence: Physician Suicide and the Dr. Lorna Breen Foundation

According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the rate of suicide among male physicians is 1.41 times higher than among men in the general population. For women, the risk is 2.27 times greater. 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.Visit afsp.org/actioncenter to learn more about the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (H.R. 7255/S. 4349). Learn more about the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation.Why Do Female Physicians Keep Dying By Suicide At Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital?Unspoken: Doctor Depression and Suicide Jennifer Breen Feist  is an attorney in Charlottesville, VA specializing in finance, real estate and wealth management. She is the Co-Founder of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation.  J. Corey Feist,  is a health care executive with over 20 years of experience. Corey is the Co-Founder of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation. He serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the University of Virginia Physicians Group, the medical group practice of UVA Health. He holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the UVA Darden School of Business where he currently teaches a course entitled “Managing in a Pandemic: The Challenge of COVID-19″.  Jessica (“Jessi”) Gold, MD, MS, is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Wellness, Engagement, and Outreach in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University in Saint Louis. She works clinically as an outpatient psychiatrist and primarily sees college graduate students, as well as faculty, staff, and hospital employees. In her administrative role, Dr. Gold is helping her university and hospital's overall mental health response to covid for faculty and staff and finding acute and sustainable ways to take care of our own. Daniel J Egan MD is the program director of the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program in Boston. Prior to Boston, Dr. Egan worked at several sites in NYC where he was involved in residency leadership as APD and PD and most recently a Vice Chair of Education. If you or someone you know is suicidal, please, contact your physician, go to your local Emergency Department, or call the suicide prevention hotline in your country. For the United States, the numbers are as follows. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255), or message the Crisis Text Line at 741741. Both programs provide free, confidential support 24/7.Project Parachute   In cooperation with Eleos Health, the project provides pro-bono therapy for front line health care professionals.The Emotional PPE Project is a directory that provides contact information of volunteer mental health practitioners to healthcare workers whose mental health has been impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Frontline workers counseling project The Frontline Workers Counseling Project (FWCP), formerly called the COVID-19 Pro Bono Counseling Project, is an initiative that helps connect frontline workers with free, confidential psychotherapy and counseling. The project is now open to all frontline and essential workers in the following counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma, and Yolo.Change the culture: Reframing Health Licensure Questions

Gloria Steinem: Why Would You Not Use Your Voice?

I sat with Gloria Steinem in February 2020 just before the acute wave of the #COVID19 pandemic in New York City. Gloria Steinem is a writer, political activist, and feminist organizer. She was a founder of New York and Ms. magazines. We discuss one of her recent books  The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off. Gloria co-founded the National Women’s Political Caucus, the Ms. Foundation for Women, the Free to Be Foundation, and the Women’s Media Center in the United States. She helped found Equality Now, Donor Direct Action, and Direct Impact Africa. For her writing, Steinem has received the Penney-Missouri Journalism Award, the Front Page and Clarion awards, the National Magazine Award, the Lifetime Achievement in Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of Writers Award from the United Nations, and the University of Missouri School of Journalism Award for Distinguished Service in Journalism. In 1993, her concern with child abuse led her to co-produce an Emmy Award–winning TV documentary for HBO, Multiple Personalities: The Search for Deadly Memories. She and Amy Richards co-produced a series of eight documentaries on violence against women around the world for VICELAND in 2016. In 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. In 2019, she received the Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum. Gloria is the subject of Julie Taymor’s 2020 biopic, The Glorias. 

Viruses, Vaccines and the Eloquent Rage of Angie Rasmussen and Esther Choo

Resa speaks with Angela Rasmussen PhD and Esther Choo MD MPH. Esther is an emergency physician and professor of emergency medicine at the Oregon Health & Science University. She is a researcher, an educator, and a writer. She is a popular science communicator, who has used social media to talk about racism and sexism in healthcare. She was the president of the Academy of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine and is a member of the American Association of Women Emergency Physicians. She is a founding member of TIMES UP Healthcare. View some of her publications HERE. Angie is a PHD virologist who "uses systems biology techniques to interrogate the host response to viral infection. She has studied a huge range of viral pathogens, from the “common cold” (rhinovirus) to Ebola virus to highly pathogenic avian influenza virus to SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19. View some her publications HERE. The discussion ranges from COVID19 to viruses in general, to Vaccines, to the Eloquent Rage of equity, social media, and being women in STEMM.   

Documentary Discussion: Syndrome K

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. (It is thought that the K is mocking in nature and represents the K in Albert Kesselring- the General of the German army  and chief for Italy or the K in Herbert Kappler, the chief, colonel of the SS in Rome.) The occupying Nazis deported over 1,000 Jews to Auschwitz from the Jewish Ghetto in Rome in October 1943. During that period, some Jewish people sought refuge in Fatebenefratelli hospital where the doctors invented the disease to protect them. The hospital is located on Tiber Island in Rome and 200 meters from the Jewish ghetto and near to the great synogogue of Rome. At the time it was run by Catholic friars and controlled by the Vatican. Resa engages guest discussants Dr. Ignazio Roberto Maria Marino, a transplant surgeon, scientist, and former politician, who was Mayor of Rome from 2013 to 2015, Dr. Silvana Boccanfuso, a phD historian with extensive training and experience leading tours in Europe and specifically Italy, and an author of a 2019 biography of Ursula Hirschmann, and Stephen Edwards, the film director and producer, who is best known for his work as a film composer.  Further reading: 2016 article on Syndrome KThere are almost 30,000 Jewish people in Italy today. They are concentrated in Rome (13,000) and Milan (8,000), with smaller communities in Turin (900), Florence (1,000), Venice (600) and Livorno, was (600). Other communities number in the few hundred can be found in Bologna, Genoa, Triste, Ancona, Naples Padua, Pisa, Modena, Siena, Parma, Verona and other areas.  

On Mentorship with Drs. Adaira Landry, Gretchen Diemer, and Stephen Klasko

In this episode, Resa centers the conversation with an early career (Adaira Landry MD MEd) , mid career (Gretchen Diemer MD) and later career physician (Steve Klasko MD MBA) on the topic of Mentorship. At its highest level, Mentorship is about being “good people” and having the right “good people” around us - individuals committed to helping others become fuller versions of who they are. There is brief discussion on extroverts and introverts with a nod to the book Quiet by Susan Cain and Ted talk: The Power of Introverts. Articles to learn more about the topic: What The Best Mentors Do + Mentoring Millennials + Demystifying Mentoring + Social Distancing Doesn't Have to Disrupt Mentorship

Natural Experiments : A Discussion with Anupam Jena and Kali Cyrus

Physician economist Anupam B. Jena advances the understanding of what works and what does not work in health care by using “natural experiments” and big data. He studies phenomena such as the economics of physician behavior and the physician workforce, health care productivity, and the economics of medical innovation. Bapu is the Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, an internist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the 2007 recipient of the Eugene Garfield Award by Research America for his work demonstrating the economic value of medical innovation in HIV/AIDS. In 2013, he was the first social scientist to win the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award. His research and editorials have been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Freakonomics, and NPR. He is also co-host of the podcast, Tradeoffs, which aims to make sense of the complicated, costly, and often counterintuitive world of health care. He spoke at TEDMED 2020 in Boston. Kali D Cyrus holds a BA in Psychology from Stanford University, an MPH in health policy & management from Emory University and an MD from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She completed her adult psychiatry residency training and served as a public psychiatry fellow at the Yale School of Medicine. Kali is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She worked on Capital Hill from 2017- 2018 as a health policy fellow in the Office of Senator Chris Murphy and was a Jeanne Spurlock congressional fellow.  View her recent work: How Racism is Causing Black and Latinx Communities to Die of COVID-19 at Higher Rates on NowThis News  

Ellen Lupton and Andrew Ibrahim : HealthDesign 101

Special guest Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, educator, and designer, critic. She is the Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. She has authored numerous books on design processes: Thinking with Type, Graphic Design Thinking, Graphic Design: The New Basics, and Type on Screen, Design Is Storytelling, Health Design Thinking and Extra Bold, a feminist career guide for designers. In 2017, she delivered a TEDxMidAtlantic talk Museums should activate multiple senses, not just the eyeball. Ellen is the founding director of the Graphic Design MFA Program at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) in Baltimore, where she received the AIGA Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in 2007. She was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2019. Guest Andrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc, is the chief medical officer of HOK’s Healthcare group and a general surgeon at the University of Michigan, where he directs the Design & Health Fellowship with the Department of Surgery and the Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning. Andrew wrote a Fast Company 2020 article reflective of #HealthDesign and #COVID19 What comes next? A surgeon’s 3 predictions for the future of healthcare design. Create a #VisualAbstract from his primer here.  (Episode image with permission and courtesy of Ellen Lupton.) 

Senator Maggie Hassan and Dr. Hiral Tipirneni: Why Go Into Politics

Resa welcomes Senator Maggie Hassan and Dr. Hiral Tipirneni for a discussion on current events and politics. Why go into politics? Why does representation in politics matter? Senator 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. See Senator Hassan's Press Releases. Dr. Hiral Tipirneni is running for election to the U.S. House to represent Arizona's 6th Congressional District. She is on the ballot in the Democratic primary on August 4, 2020.  Hear more about Hiral and her path in a 2018 FemInEM podcast .In 2020, 127 (105D, 22R) women hold seats in the United States Congress, comprising 23.7% of the 535 members; 26 women (26%) serve in the U.S. Senate, and 101 women (23.2%) serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. Four women non-voting delegates (2D, 2R) also represent American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands in the United States House of Representatives. There are 54 African American Members of the House and3in the Senate. This House number includestwo Delegates. There are 51 Hispanic or Latino Members (a record number) serving: 46in the House, including 2 Delegates and the Resident Commissioner, and 5 in the Senate. There are 20 Members (14Representatives, 3Delegates, and 3Senators)who are Asian Americans, Indian Americans, or Pacific Islander Americans. This is also a record number. A record four American Indians (Native Americans) serve in the House.

Structural Racism and the #COVID19 Pandemic as Health Care Crises

Resa speaks with Max Tiako MS and Lauren Powell MPA PhD. They discuss #COVID19, protests, structural racism, and Black racism.  The launch point is Lauren's 02 June 2020 OpEd My nightmare: Covid-19 meets racism meets the killing of a Black person by police.  Lauren leads the health care industry for TIME’S UP. She is formerly the Director of the Virginia Department of Health’s Office of Health Equity. Max is an engineer completing his 4th year of medical school at Yale in New Haven CT. He is the founder and host of @FlipScriptPod podcast covering health disparities in the U.S. & globally.  Episode cover Donna M Parker MD, Associate Dean Office for Diversity and Health Equity University of Florida - COM. Photographer: Giuliano De Portu MD, FACEP.