An Unexpected Fight: A Pediatric Cancer podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

tiffany and kelly discuss different myths related to cancer 

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Dr. Trisha Larkin is the Director of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital. She is dual-board certified in pediatrics and pediatric hematology-oncology. Dr. Larkin earned her medical degree from Florida International University College of Medicine, followed by a Master of Business Administration in healthcare. She completed her postdoctoral training at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital and at the University of Florida Shands Children’s Hospital, where she completed a fellowship in pediatric hematology-oncology and bone marrow transplantation. She went on to complete a prestigious advanced fellowship in neuro-oncology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Tennessee. While at St. Jude, she worked on a team of world-renowned physicians to care for children diagnosed with complex brain and spinal tumors. 

Dr. Larkin is passionate about discovering innovative strategies to improve the care of children with brain tumors and serves as a lead investigator for the Sunshine Project consortium through the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation.  She has been awarded numerous grants for her research in early-phase clinical trials and has authored several peer-reviewed publications in leading oncology journals such as the Journal of Clinical Oncology and Neuro-Oncology. Dr. Larkin has been invited to present her research around the world, including in Germany and Japan.  She serves as associate editor for Neuro-Oncology on the MedNet, an interactive platform for physicians around the world to gather insight about treating complex oncologic diagnoses.  Dr. Larkin is deeply involved in the pediatric cancer community and enjoys volunteering her time to support childhood cancer.

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Dr Takijah Heard is a Chicago native, born on the south side of Chicago. Dr Heard received her doctorate of medicine from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She remained on the south side at UIC/Advocate Hope Children’s Hospital for her pediatric residency. Dr Heard’s pediatric neurology residency and epilepsy fellowship was completed at Harvard’s Boston Children Hospital. After completing her fellowship in epilepsy, she attended the Harvard School of Public Health to learn more about how to conduct epilepsy research in order to impact the world on a broader level. She has travelled to various countries in Central America and Africa including Zambia and Tanzania teaching and spreading awareness about epilepsy. In 2018, Dr Heard continued these educational efforts by travelling to Kenya with a mentoring program called I Am Abel Foundation.

Dr Heard’s teaching skills have been honored as she was the recipient of the Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award during her first position as the Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Houston. She has worked extensively with the Epilepsy Foundation of Texas and Greater Chicago and now functions as a board member and physician advisor. She currently serves on the Physician Advisory Board for the Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Chicago. Dr Heard’s passion for epilepsy has been shared on National Public Radio (NPR), FOX News in Chicago and WGN local news in Chicago. She has been named as one of 2013’s Top America Doctors. Dr Heard has authored chapters in books and articles focused on pediatric epilepsy. Additionally, she has been featured in an award winning book called Against All Odds Celebrating Black Women in Medicine that has recently turned into a documentary renamed Changing the Face of Medicine which was released in 2017.

Dr Takijah Heard is currently working as pediatric neurologist and epileptologist at NorthShore University Health System as the Director of Pediatric Neurophysiology. She also works at Neurabilities Healthcare treat a more broad range of neurologic disease, behaviors and epilepsy. She cares for kids with any and all neurologic issues but has a special passion for children with seizures. She has helped with the creation of the MediKidz comic book series highlight her personal patients ability to conquer their epilepsy. She continues to teach medical students and residents about pediatric neurology and epilepsy in hopes of broadening the field. In 2022, she was awarded the Chicagoland Mentor of the Year Award by a medical mentoring group called the I Am Abe Foundation. She currently in on Instagram as the Baby Brain Doctor in an effort to increase education through the media avenues. She has pushed her passion for epilepsy awareness to the Mrs. America platform. She was crowned Mrs. Illinois on 6/17/23 and will be competing for Mrs. America on 8/26/23 in Las Vegas, Nevada. If crowned Mrs America, she will have a national platform to influence change in epilepsy education, care and awareness. In the meantime, she will use her 1 year of reign as Mrs. Illinois to increase epilepsy awareness through various speaking and appearances throughout Illinois.

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Miranda Walker  with her mom, Amber. 
an 11 year old with an amazing story of perseverance and tenacity with an understanding well beyond her years

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Joel was born in El Paso Texas and raised in Sunland Park, New Mexico. Joel attended New Mexico State University and graduated in 2001 and started working in ophthalmology surgery. Joel also attended the University of Texas at El Paso and graduated in 2014. He currently works for Southwest Eye Institute and Vista Surgery Center. He created the nonprofit organization, “The Gold Corner”, and also started the YouTube channel under the same name. He uses this platform to speak with parents whose children have been affected by cancer. He created this channel to raise awareness where these little warriors are showcased as they are, heroes. Whether these children were already called home or are currently fighting.  

Joel is also a member of the worldwide brotherhood “Bearded Villains” where he serves as the Charity Head Officer. Bearded Villains is a charity-based worldwide brotherhood. 

He is also an ordained minister, author, motivational speaker but his passion is martial arts. 

Joel works as a referee and judge for professional and amateur mixed martial arts fights and is licensed with several sanctioning bodies. This is where he got his nickname “The Bearded Ref” 

He welcomed his daughter Mia into the world on July 17th, 2015, But his world turned upside down in Sept of 2017.  

See more about his organization at thegoldcorner.org

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Victoria Porter is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and owner of Garland County Grief Counseling in downtown Hot Springs. She worked for several years in hospice and bereavement care and is now a grief therapist specializing in grief and loss only. She is a Certified Compassionate Bereavement Care Provider and an Advanced Palliative and Hospice Social Work Certified Provider.

In this episode, we will discuss things to avoid saying to a grieving parent.

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Dr. Cannon's Bio: She graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor degree in Biological Sciences. She was then commissioned as an officer in the United States Navy. After her service in the military, and a brief stint in biomedical research, she completed my medical degree at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, with an internship at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and finished her residency at the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York.  She worked in rural South Carolina with the National Health Service Corps, and moved to Hot Springs AR in 2016, where she began working at Hot Springs Pediatric clinic.

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Discussion on "A Heart that Works" by Rob Delaney

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