The Visible Voices

Ashish Jha and Miriam Laufer on the CDC + #COVID19 current events

21 May 2020 The #COVID19 series continues.: Resa speaks with Ashish Jha MD MPH and Miriam Laufer MD MPH.  They discuss the Atlantic magazine article ‘How Could the CDC Make That Mistake?’, Hydroxychloroquine, Vaccines, Summer Camps, and opening institutions of higher learning (see NYTimes Op Ed by Christina Paxson) Dr. Ashish K. Jha is the K.T. Li Professor of Global Health at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI). He is a practicing General Internist and is also Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Jha received his MD from Harvard Medical School and trained in Internal Medicine at the University of California in San Francisco. He completed his General Medicine fellowship at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and received his MPH from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Jha is a member of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In September, Dr. Jha will begin work as the Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. Dr. Miriam Laufer is Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health, and Faculty of the graduate program in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She received her medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania and completed her residency in pediatrics at Babies and Children’s Hospital of New York (now New York Children’s Hospital) of Columbia University. She completed fellowships in pediatric infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins University and in malaria research at the Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Maryland. She received her MPH from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.

#COVID19 chat with Dr. Eric Topol and colleagues on #OpenSafely around the world

20 May 2020 In this #COVID19 episode, Resa speaks with physicians in Sweden, France, and the USA. A group of health experts published a USA Today OpEd in the USA: We stuck together to #StayHome, now we can start together to #OpenSafely  Subject matter expert Dr. Eric Topol offers his thoughts on how different countries are opening. Follow him on Twitter Dr. Josefin Elzen works at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm Sweden. She is an Anesthesiologist and Critical Care physician. Dr. Laurence Amar Hatchuel works in Paris at the HEGP Hypertension unit, Centre of Excellence, Hôpital européen Georges Pompidou. She is a Vascular Internal Medicine physician.  Episode image with permissions rob@flamingpencil.com

The Amazing Rise of #Telehealth in the Time of #COVID19

15 March 2020. The curve steepened. Telehealth has exploded during the #COVID19 pandemic, Resa speaks with two visionary physicians,, who are subject matter experts and leaders in Telemedicine. Jane van Dis, MD is an Obstetrician-Gynecologist, Co-Founder and CEO of Equity Quotient.  She is Medical Director for Ob Hospitalist Group, and Medical Director for MavenClinic. Emergency Medicine physician, Aditi U. Joshi MD is the Medical Director of JeffConnect, in Philadelphia. Jefferson’s tele-health platform running both on-demand tele-health program and tele-intake programs. She is the director of the digital health scholarly inquiry track at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, and director of the Telehealth fellowship. Prior to Jefferson, she worked at a telemedicine startup, learning barriers in uptake, marketing and business development. 

#COVID19 and Representation: Does it Matter?

This episode was recorded before the #COVID19 pandemic and is now timely. May 06 2020 NBC Chicago headline: The Latinx Community Testing Positive at Higher Rate Than Any Other Group in Illinois . Resa speaks with Drs Ivette Motola - an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Director of the Prehospital and Emergency Healthcare Division at the Gordon Center for Research in Medical Education, M Fernanda Bellolio - a Professor of emergency physician and health sciences researcher dedicated to research methodology, knowledge synthesis and comparative effectiveness, and Marina Del Rios - Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine Director of Social Emergency Medicine and Emergency Ultrasound Research Director. Does representation in medicine matter? 

Playing Tetris During #COVID19: Serious Games and Gamification

Resa speaks with Medical Educators and Emergency Medicine Drs. Teresa Chan and Megan Stobart-Gallagher.  What are Serious Games?  How do those differ from using Game Mechanics in your medical education teaching?  The literature supports that adults like to play and games are effective.  They discuss Jane McGonigal, the power of games and highlight examples, such as Gridlocked, a game that could allow future doctors to learn systems approaches to patient management in a safe, low stakes environment., and Empiric, the antimicrobial card game designed for education for medical professionals. 

Danielle Ofri MD Phd, Writing, and When We Do Harm

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. 

Emily Silverman Sayantani DasGupta Reasons COVID19 is Inciting Narrative Violence

Thursday 09 April 2020: COVID19 series Resa speaks with Dr. Emily Silverman creator and host for the Nocturnists. In March 2020, she and her team put out a call for people who are interested in keeping an “audio diary” about their experience working on the front lines of the COVID19 pandemic. Dr. Sayantani DasGupta is a Pediatrician by training, a subject matter expert in Narrative Medicine, and a NYTimes best selling author of a children's book series: Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond (photo credit Chris X. Carroll). Episode image with permissions quiles_artworks

Is Ultrasound Useful in COVID19? International Experts Discuss

Sunday 05 April 2020: COVID19 series Resa speaks with doctors in the USA, Europe, and Australia to understand the how Point-of-Care Ultrasound or ultrasound used at the patient bedside may play a role in triage, diagnosis, and/or ongoing management of patients. Dr. Daniel Lichtenstein is a Critical Care and Intensivist in Paris, France. He is credited as one of the first physicians to use ultrasound in the care of critical patients. Dr. Rachel Liu is an Emergency Physician at Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, USA. Dr. Kylie Baker is an Emergency physician in Brisbane, Australia. Dr. Cian McDermott is an Emergency physician in Dublin, Ireland. 

How is COVID19? Reports of Geneva, London, and Philadelphia

Monday 16 March 2020: Philadelphia has ordered all nonessential businesses and government operations to close by Monday afternoon as the city grapples with the coronavirus pandemic. Mayor Jim Kenney said the closures should happen by Monday at 5 p.m. The closures are expected to last through at least March 27, though that time may be extended. The city now has nine diagnosed cases of the new coronavirus, health officials said at a Monday afternoon news conference. COVID19 series Resa speaks with doctors in the USA and Europe to understand the preparation and current work environments in 3 hospitals each in a different major city. Dr. Eva Niyibizi is an Emergency physician and Internal Medicine specialist and Trauma specialist in Geneva Switzerland. *She diagnosed the first patient case of COVID19 in the city. Dr. Jamie Garfield is a Pulmonary and Critical Care physician at the Temple Lung Center in Philadelphia PA, USA. Dr. Segun Olusanya is an Intensive Care resident physician in a Cardiac Hospital in London.