This episode on how other industries handle burnout, workload, wellness, and much more is part of a series of conversations about physician wellness with Azara Singh, pediatric neurologist and Chair of Physician Wellness at the Charleston Area Medical Center in West Virginia. 

This episode on physician errors is part of a series of conversations about physician wellness with Azara Singh, pediatric neurologist and Chair of Physician Wellness at the Charleston Area Medical Center in West Virginia. 

Dr. Bhooma Aravamuthan, assistant professor, pediatric neurologist and researcher at Washington University in St. Louis, opens up about her personal experiences as a woman in medicine dealing with issues of infertility and abortion. 

Dr. Sonika Agarwal, neonatal neurologist from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, discusses why laws against abortion affect us in pediatric neurology.

Welcome to the Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology podcast. Our podcasts are intended to disseminate abridged versions of our most widely read peer-reviewed studies. This podcast is a reading of "Ketogenic Diet for the Treatment and Prevention of Dementia: A Review" by Joshua J. Davis, Nicole Fournakis, and James Ellison, published in Volume 34 Issue 1.

Dr. London is a professor of neurology, neuromuscular specialist, program director and game developer at the University of Michigan. His games can be found here: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/designers/zach-london-um-neurology. The online word game Neurdle is available at Neurdle.com.

More to come here: https://neurdgames.com/

Dr. Christy interviews Dr. Robert Sebunya, Pediatric Neurologist in Kampala, Uganda and 2022 recipient of the Child Neurology Society's Bernard D'Souza International Fellowship Award.

Dr. Ariel Lyons-Warren is a pediatric neurologist from Baylor College of Medicine and deputy editor of the Residents and Fellows Board of Neurology.

Welcome to the Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology podcast. Our podcasts are intended to disseminate abridged versions of our most widely read peer-reviewed studies. This is our first podcast, a reading of "The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Informal Caregivers of People With Parkinson's Disease Residing in the UK: A Qualitative Study" by Daniel Rippon, Annette Hand, Lorelle Dismore, and Roberta Caiazza, published in Volume 36 Issue 3.

Dr. Z Paige Lerario (they/them), vascular neurologist and transgender activist currently at the Fordham Graduate School of Social Services, and Gabriel Glissmeyer (he/him), Project Specialist at the National LGBT Cancer Network in Salt Lake City, Utah, talk about involving transgender and gender diverse patients in research, and supporting our gender diverse colleagues. 

Dr. Arpita Lakhotia, pediatric neurologist and Associate Professor at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, discusses neurology in movies, themes, and what we can learn. She mentions the following films:

• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• First Do No Harm
• Lorenzo's Oil
• Extraordinary
• Front of the Class
• Awakenings
• I am Sam
• My Left Foot
• Exorcism of Emily Rose

Also mentioned is Eelco Wijdicks, neurologist at Mayo Clinic, who wrote "Neurocinema" and "Neurocinema: the Sequel.

A conversation with Dr. Samuel Mackenzie (he/him), pediatric neuromuscular specialist, assistant professor and physician scientist at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

This episode on boundaries is part of a series of conversations with Azara Singh, pediatric neurologist and Chair of Physician Wellness at the Charleston Area Medical Center in West Virginia. 

Dr. Z Paige Lerario (they/them), vascular neurologist and MSW candidate at Fordham University and transgender activist, and Gabriel Glissmeyer (he/him), Project Specialist at the National LGBT Cancer Network in Salt Lake City, Utah, talk about involving transgender and gender diverse patients in research, and supporting our gender diverse colleagues.

Luca Bartolini, MD, pediatric epileptologist, assistant professor and director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Program at Hasbro Children's Hospital talks about his journey to becoming editor-in-chief of Neurology: Clinical Practice.

Dr. Christy talks with Dara Albert, DO, pediatric epileptologist, associate professor and medical director of the multi-disciplinary Psychogenic Non-epileptic Events Clinic at Nationwide Children's Hospital talks about the presentation, work-up, diagnosis and treatment of functional neurological disorders.

Dr. Christy talks to Dr. Jaclyn Martindale, assistant professor and director of the Pediatric Movement Disorders Clinic and Comprehensive Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorder Clinic at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist.

@Dr_JMartindale (Twitter)

Dr. Christy talks to Dr. Jaclyn Martindale, assistant professor and director of the Pediatric Movement Disorders Clinic and Comprehensive Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorder Clinic at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist.

Related podcast:

JCN: What Your Pediatric Neurologist Wants You to Know: Tics (and Tics related to social media)

Dr. Christy talks with Grace Gombolay, Pediatric Neuroimmunologist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Assistant Professor at Emory University School of Medicine.

@GraceGombolayMD

JCN: Post-COVID Neurological Disorders and Autoimmune Encephalitis

JCN: Neuroinflammation

Dr. Christy talks to Dr. Mary Rensel, a neuroimmunologist at Cleveland Clinic and creator of the time-management system Brain Fresh, talks about the reasons physicians – especially women – are leaving medicine right now, and what we can do about it.

Dr. Christy talks to Dr. Monica Lemmon, pediatric neurologist and associate professor in pediatrics and population health sciences at Duke Department of Pediatrics, and winner of the 2021 Philip R. Dodge Young Investigator Award from the Child Neurology Society, discusses her work understanding how we communicate with patients and families – and how we can improve that communication.

Dr. Sonika Agarwal of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia talks to Audrey Vernick about her experience with pediatric epilepsy from a parent's perspective. 

https://www.brainrecoveryproject.org/

Dr. Geetanjali Rathore, Associate Professor, Pediatric Neurology, UNMC, Omaha talks with parents of children diagnosed with congenital CMV to hear what they think all parents and healthcare providers should know about CMV.

https://www.nationalcmv.org/

This episode on cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is part of a series of conversations about physician wellness with Azara Singh, pediatric neurologist and Chair of Physician Wellness at the Charleston Area Medical Center in West Virginia. 

Dr. Laura Kirkpatrick, resident in pediatric neurology at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, talks about how to counsel adolescents and their families about epilepsy and reproductive health.

Pediatric Neurologists' Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health Care for Adolescent and Young Adult Women With Epilepsy and Intellectual Disability in the October 2021 issue of JCN.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08830738211041824

A physician and parent talks anonymously about her experience with her daughter's seizures.

An interview with Dr. Jennifer Bain, pediatric neurologist and assistant professor at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

An interview with Dr. Felicia Gliksman, pediatric neurologist and director of the Concussion Center at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey.

Dr. Hope O'Brien, headache specialist and Associate Editor for headache at JCN, talks about opening her own clinic for headache medicine – The Headache Center of Hope – in Cincinnati, Ohio.

https://www.hcohcincy.com/hope-obrien

Dr. Christy talks with Dr. Michael Msall, professor of pediatrics at the Pritzer School of Medicine at the University of Chicago and co-director of the Kennedy Research Center on Intellectual and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities. 

Dr. Amal Abu Libdeh, pediatric neurologist and movement disorders specialist at the University of Virginia, talks about the challenges that face international medical school graduates, what they bring to the table in pediatric neurology, and how we can help and support them.

Dr. Brenda Banwell, pediatric neurologist and neuroimmunologist and chief of neurology at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about how pediatric neurologists can get involved with the AAN to advocate for their patients, find phenomenal mentors and further their own careers.
https://www.aan.com/

Dr. Nina Schor, deputy director of the NINDS, talks about her career, her research, her poetry and her current work in equity and diversity. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0883073813483173

Michael Lopez, MD, PhD (he/him) is a pediatric neurologist, researcher and assistant professor at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, studying muscular dystrophy.

Dr. Grace Gombolay, Pediatric Neurologist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Assistant Professor at Emory University School of Medicine, talks about recent research from her lab and from the University of California-San Francisco.

Interview with Dr. Jennifer Vermilion, Pediatric Neurologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester.

In this podcast, Dr. Aliya Frederick interviews Dr. Bernard Chang and Dr. Steve Wu about transcranial magnetic stimulation, a non-invasive method of brain stimulation.

Dr. Chang is a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and division chief for Epilepsy and EEG at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Dr. Wu is an associate professor in pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati and a pediatric neurologist and director of the Dystonia Clinic at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

Dr. Aliya Frederick is a child neurologist at Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego and an assistant clinical professor of neurosciences and pediatrics at UC San Diego. She also an associate editor for epilepsy for Child Neurology Open.

Dr. Rachel Gottlieb-Smith, Pediatric Neurologist, Assistant Professor and Residency Program Director at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor discusses the residency application process in Pediatric Neurology. 

Dr. Geetanjali Rathore, Pediatric Neurologist, Associate Professor of Neurosciences and Clinical Director of the CMT clinic at the University of Nebraska discusses Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. 

Dr. Taryn Liu, Pediatric Neurology Resident at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital interviews Dr. Lisa Shulman of the Rose F. Kennedy Center Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore in Bronx, NY about her March 2019 article published in the Journal of Child Neurology: "When an Early Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder Resolves, What Remains?" This podcast was originally recorded in the summer of 2019.

Dr. Alison Christy interviews Dr. Bhooma Aravamuthan of Washington University in St. Louis about Cerebral Palsy, diagnosis, and her research. 

Papers discussed:

Smith, SE et al. (2021). Adults with cerebral palsy require ongoing neurologic care: A systematic review. Annals of Neurology. May;89(5)860-871.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ana.26040

Aravamuthan, BR et al. (2021). Variability in cerebral palsy diagnosis. Pediatrics. Feb; 147(2): e2020010066

https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/147/2/e2020010066.long

Aravamuthan, BR et al. (2020). Role of child neurologists and neurodevelopmentalists in the diagnosis of cerebral palsy: A survey study. Neurology. Nov 24;95(21)962-972

https://n.neurology.org/content/95/21/962.long

Dr. Alison Christy interviews Dr. William Flanary, the Ophthalmologist behind the popular tik tok and twitter account: Dr. Glaucomflecken. 
Dr. Glaucomflecken Twitter

Tik Tok

First Descents Fundraiser

Dr. Sonika Agarwal of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia talks about Cortical malformations: Polymicrogyria, pachygyria, lissencephaly, heterotopia.

Dr. Sonika Agarwal of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia talks about Dandy Walker malformations.

An interview with Young-Min Kim, pediatric neurologist, associate professor of pediatrics and neurology and director of developmental medicine at Loma Linda University about the importance of inclusion of physicians with disabilities.

Dr. Sonika Agarwal of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia talks about prenatal brain hemorrhage.

Dr. Sonika Agarwal of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia talks about absent septum pellucidum and septo-optic dysplasia.

Dr. Sonika Agarwal of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia talks about fetal cerebral ventriculomegaly.

Dr. Sonika Agarwal of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia talks about Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum.