"It just brings a sense of there are great things to come" Dr. Rupa Patel is an Infectious Disease specialist and an expert on HIV working with the CDC on HIV prevention and PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis).  She joins us to discuss remarkable evolutions in PrEP and HIV care, resources available for rapid, free clinician education and how we can integrate HIV education across generations of healthcare professionals. It's really great to release this during HIV Awareness Month and she is absolutely fantastic The website for Explore The Space Podcast and Dr. Shapiro's public speaking has been completely refreshed, please check it out here! The Explore The Space Merchandise Store is open! Please check it out Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Links The PrEP line 855-438-7737 CDC website resources on PrEP CDC resources for clinicians about PrEP

"It all comes back to figuring out how to connect with individuals" Dr. Kierstin Kennedy is a Hospitalist and Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Alabama-Birmingham. She is also Chief Medical Officer at UAB Hospital, the 8th largest hospital in the United States. She joins us to take what frequently sounds like a platitude, the idea of authentic leadership, and gives it real meaning and vitality. She is a remarkable leader, teacher and collaborator who also runs the superb Leadership Academy from the Society of Hospital Medicine. This episode is packed, enjoy! This episode is sponsored by the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), the only medical society solely dedicated to hospitalists and hospital-based clinicians. Looking for the latest CME, practice management resources, and leadership training? Learn how becoming a part of the SHM community can benefit you at hospitalmedicine.org. The website for Explore The Space Podcast and Dr. Shapiro's public speaking has been completely refreshed, please check it out here! The Explore The Space Merchandise Store is open! Please check it out Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Use this QR code to register to vote or change or change your address. Links Society of Hospital Medicine SHM Leadership Academy

"How do I learn to save myself in this world where I'm asked to save others?" Anthony Chin-Quee is an Ear, Nose and Throat specialist who wrote the stunning memoir "I Can't Save You". We covered the various writing styles and techniques he used this remarkable work and the challenge of finding yourself while learning how to be a doctor. We also dive deep into financial literacy, empty carbs and being on strike. This was outstanding! Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast The Explore The Space Merchandise Store is open! Please check it out Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Links Twitter: @CQ__MD Instagram: @wheyouat    

"Just existing in this part of the world means needing to know how to live with fire" Dr. Sasha Berleman is the Director of the Fire Forward Program at Audubon Canyon Ranch, a program that is leading change in the way we live with fire in Northern California. With her team, Dr. Berleman plans and organizes cooperative prescribed burns and trains and leads communities in fire management. As we approach yet another wildfire season, Dr. Berleman shares her incredible insight and expertise. This is an important listen. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Watch Explore The Space Podcast host Mark Shapiro deliver a TEDx address at TEDx SUNY Upstate. The topic is "Compliments As A Performance Lever During Covid-19" Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Sponsor: Have you been looking for a better way to manage your tasks and collaborate with colleagues? Check out CareAlign - a HIPAA Compliant, digital workspace built to make the EHR work better for clinicians. Manage your tasks, build dynamic care plans, view vitals and labs and generate your progress note in less than 3 clicks. CareAlign has everything you need for patient care, at your fingertips. Visit www.carealign.ai/explore to learn more. Sponsor: The Clinician Experience Project by Practicing Excellence uses coaching and development to help clinicians become their best and improve patient and organizational outcomes, while amplifying purpose and contentment. Learn more at https://practicingexcellence.com/. Key Learnings 1. Assessing wildfire anxiety and how it manifests as people wanting to learn more about wildfire 2. The evolution of the public's understanding of wildland fire science and prescribed fire 3. What does "living with fire" mean? 4. A realistic expectation for being able to keep wildfires out of developed areas and why it is so difficult 5. The role of land stewardship and individual engagement 6. The importance of legislative change to allow more controlled burns to reduce fuel loads 7. Key points that Dr. Berleman gives to those who show up wanting to level up 8. How we perceive our region now 9. What are Dr. Berleman's "asks"? 10. Understanding the analogy "dancing with fire" 11. Learning about Fire Forward Links Instagram Fire Forward Good Fire Alliance #wildfire, #climatechange, #fire, #fireforward, ##health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"It's the truth of the rollercoaster I've been on" Dr. Reza Manesh is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University and a co-founder of the extraordinary podcast and learning platform "Clinical Problem-Solvers". He joins us to discuss his wonderful new memoir entitled "Finding Joy In Medicine" and we had an absolute blast. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Watch Explore The Space Podcast host Mark Shapiro deliver a TEDx address at TEDx SUNY Upstate. The topic is "Compliments As A Performance Lever During Covid-19" Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Sponsor: Have you been looking for a better way to manage your tasks and collaborate with colleagues? Check out CareAlign - a HIPAA Compliant, digital workspace built to make the EHR work better for clinicians. Manage your tasks, build dynamic care plans, view vitals and labs and generate your progress note in less than 3 clicks. CareAlign has everything you need for patient care, at your fingertips. Visit www.carealign.ai/explore to learn more. Sponsor: The Clinician Experience Project by Practicing Excellence uses coaching and development to help clinicians become their best and improve patient and organizational outcomes, while amplifying purpose and contentment. Learn more at https://practicingexcellence.com/. Key Learnings 1. When I met Reza for the first time 2. The journey of "Finding Joy In Medicine" 3. Why sharing his path felt more impactful than writing a self-help book 4. Why "medicine is a calling" feels like a platitude 5. The incredible level of transparency Reza demonstrates 6. How Clinical Problem Solvers is a global movement 7. Wanting to get out and meet so many people from #MedTwitter Links Twitter: @DxRxEdu, @CPSolvers Trailer for "Finding Joy In Medicine" Reza's website Clinical Problem Solvers website #joy, #emotion, #teaching, #sharing, , #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"We put all our money in the wrong place and we don't think about the whole person" David Smith is an economist & the CEO and founder of Third Horizon Strategies (THS), a Chicago-based advisory firm focused on maximized human potential through a better health system. He is also the host of the new show from Lemonada Media called "The Cost of Care" which is a provocative podcast that tackles the question "what is your life worth" from a direction you might not expect. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Watch Explore The Space Podcast host Mark Shapiro deliver a TEDx address at TEDx SUNY Upstate. The topic is "Compliments As A Performance Lever During Covid-19" Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Sponsor: Have you been looking for a better way to manage your tasks and collaborate with colleagues? Check out CareAlign - a HIPAA Compliant, digital workspace built to make the EHR work better for clinicians. Manage your tasks, build dynamic care plans, view vitals and labs and generate your progress note in less than 3 clicks. CareAlign has everything you need for patient care, at your fingertips. Visit www.carealign.ai/explore to learn more. Sponsor: The Clinician Experience Project by Practicing Excellence uses coaching and development to help clinicians become their best and improve patient and organizational outcomes, while amplifying purpose and contentment. Learn more at https://practicingexcellence.com/. Key Learnings 1. A few minutes spent on the joys of home coffee roasting and being beautifully wired 2. The thrill of having a guest blow you away during an interview 3. Flipping the question "what is a life worth?" on it's head 4. The primacy of human health and the importance of social determinants 5. What is the most common emotion David experiences while producing "Costs of Care" 6. Addressing the idea of safety net hospitals 7. Why system complexity is a barrier by itself 8. What kind of feedback is David getting? 9. The road forward for the show Links Twitter: @CHIDavidSmith The Cost of Care #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"We have to be rigorous about our approach to purposefully taking on new things" Dr. Ali Raja is the Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, a Professor of Emergency Medicine and was recently named the inaugural Mooney-Reed Endowed Chair at Harvard Medical School. He is also a veteran of the United States Air Force and a highly sought-after expert on a variety of topics. Dr. Raja joins Explore The Space to discuss the wonderful topic of intellectual curiosity, how to harness it,  and how it can feed into leadership and mentorship. There are also some premium fashion tips from this sartorial genius. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Watch Explore The Space Podcast host Mark Shapiro deliver a TEDx address at TEDx SUNY Upstate. The topic is "Compliments As A Performance Lever During Covid-19" Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Sponsor: Have you been looking for a better way to manage your tasks and collaborate with colleagues? Check out CareAlign - a HIPAA Compliant, digital workspace built to make the EHR work better for clinicians. Manage your tasks, build dynamic care plans, view vitals and labs and generate your progress note in less than 3 clicks. CareAlign has everything you need for patient care, at your fingertips. Visit www.carealign.ai/explore to learn more. Sponsor: The Clinician Experience Project by Practicing Excellence uses coaching and development to help clinicians become their best and improve patient and organizational outcomes, while amplifying purpose and contentment. Learn more at https://practicingexcellence.com/. Key Learnings 1. A refresher on dressing to feel at the top of your game 2. Getting back to some of the activities we love 3. The power of new technology as a driver of intellectual curiosity 4. A new approach when you're not good at something new right away 5. Why it's important to share the whole journey 6. Being ok with doing nothing as well 7. How intellectual curiousity translates into more effective leadership and mentorship 8. Dr. Raja's go-to leadership book Links Twitter: @aliraja_md #curiosity, #intellectual, #challenge, #fashion, #learning, #intellectualcuriosity #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"You just have to figure out the value of your work & be ok to ask for it" Dr. Jen Gunter is back on Explore The Space Podcast to discuss her new book "The Menopause Manifesto", her new podcast "Body Stuff" and the motivation behind her building a media empire. Dr. Gunter's hard work and clear vision are truly inspirational and very exciting. We also update the Dr. Jen Gunter Twitter Response Pyramid. Check out Dr. Gunter's 1st appearance on Explore The Space Podcast here Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Watch Explore The Space Podcast host Mark Shapiro deliver a TEDx address at TEDx SUNY Upstate. The topic is "Compliments As A Performance Lever During Covid-19" Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Sponsor: Have you been looking for a better way to manage your tasks and collaborate with colleagues? Check out CareAlign - a HIPAA Compliant, digital workspace built to make the EHR work better for clinicians. Manage your tasks, build dynamic care plans, view vitals and labs and generate your progress note in less than 3 clicks. CareAlign has everything you need for patient care, at your fingertips. Visit www.carealign.ai/explore to learn more. Sponsor: The Clinician Experience Project by Practicing Excellence uses coaching and development to help clinicians become their best and improve patient and organizational outcomes, while amplifying purpose and contentment. Learn more at https://practicingexcellence.com/. Key Learnings 1. The intention around creating a media empire 2. Why Dr. Gunter does not view herself as a celebrity 3. Comparing news consumption now to pre-Internet days 4. Which media options are the most effective 5. How Dr. Gunter understands her fair market value and the importance of people being compensated in one way or another for their work 6. Tackling the prevalence of misinformation via her new book and new podcast 7.  What the horizon looks like for Dr. Gunter 8. Will there be a trilogy? 9. The update to the Dr. Jen Gunter Twitter Response Pyramid Links Twitter @drjengunter, Instagram @drjengunter The Menopause Manifesto Body Stuff Podcast The Vajenda #media, #bodytalk #menopause, #menopausemanifesto, #trilogy, #celebrity,  #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician Photo Credit: Jenny Brough

"You don't want to be asked a performance metric question, you want to be asked a performance question about those things that are actually your job" Seth Partnow covers the NBA and basketball analytics for The Athletic. He resides in Milwaukee and was formerly the Director of Basketball Research for the Milwaukee Bucks. He joins us to discuss how metrics can be leveraged to help us get better every day, why selecting the right metrics requires diversity, and the critical need for coaching to turn metrics into actual improvement. This was a unique and fantastic conversation filled with brilliant analogies to the analytics revolution in sports. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Watch Explore The Space Podcast host Mark Shapiro deliver a TEDx address at TEDx SUNY Upstate. The topic is "Compliments As A Performance Lever During Covid-19" Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Sponsor: The Clinician Experience Project by Practicing Excellence uses coaching and development to help clinicians become their best and improve patient and organizational outcomes, while amplifying purpose and contentment. Learn more at https://practicingexcellence.com/. Key Learnings 1. Wherein I start out with the wrong question 2. Framing analytics in a way that gets buy-in from a team and minimizing observer effect 3. Why agreement around objectives is the right place to start in selecting metrics 4. The importance of a diverse group selecting what we should be measuring 5. Reframing use of metrics as art instead of a binary entity 6. The critical impact of coaching the skills that are being measured 7. Pitch framing in baseball as an analogy for why we must look for more robust metrics 8. Why it's critical that training tracks towards the asks being made of a person Links Twitter: @sethpartnow Seth's page at The Athletic https://twitter.com/fullcourtprez/status/838505275665575939?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E838505275665575939%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.explorethespaceshow.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D2660action%3Dedit #metrics, #better, #analytics, #NBA, #sports, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"Trust the science, look after the people next to you, & work hard" In this special edition of Explore The Space, I sit down for a conversation with my dear friend and former babysitter Susie Rolander. Susie is a literacy specialist with a special skill set around on-line learning, and she is currently pursuing her doctorate in Leadership for Change. She is also a co-founder of Startover, which is a meeting place for experts and people seeking to make positive changes. I was fortunate to be Susie's guest on one of Startover's live shows. This was really fun. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Watch Explore The Space Podcast host Mark Shapiro deliver a TEDx address at TEDx SUNY Upstate. The topic is "Compliments As A Performance Lever During Covid-19" Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Sponsor: Have you been looking for a better way to manage your tasks and collaborate with colleagues? Check out CareAlign - a HIPAA Compliant, digital workspace built to make the EHR work better for clinicians. Manage your tasks, build dynamic care plans, view vitals and labs and generate your progress note in less than 3 clicks. CareAlign has everything you need for patient care, at your fingertips. Visit www.carealign.ai/explore to learn more. Sponsor: The Clinician Experience Project by Practicing Excellence uses coaching and development to help clinicians become their best and improve patient and organizational outcomes, while amplifying purpose and contentment. Learn more at https://practicingexcellence.com/. Key Learnings 1.  Being interviewed by my childhood babysitter 2. A bit about my background and path to medicine 3. Understanding the audience priorities via a few survey questions 4. Addressing the "Covid malaise" 5. The stress of the early days of Covid-19 in the hospital 6. Maturing around my response to people who don't want the Covid-19 & leveraging the term "help me to understand" 7. Patriotism and the reckoning to come 8. The epidemic of grief that we now face 9. The critical need for a new educational approach to better combat the impact of misinformation 10. Conversations around showing gratitude and dealing with grief 11. A shoutout to my parents Links Twitter: @suzrolander Startover #Covid19, #vaccine, #climatechange, #swingdancing, #misinformation, #gratitude, #patriotism, #grief, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"The more you say something out loud, the more you believe it & the more it is likely to happen" Kamali Thompson is a 4th year medical student who is simultaneously closing in on her Olympic goal of competing at the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics in fencing while preparing to start her Orthopedic Surgery residency. She joins us to discuss her incredible journey in chasing these two aspirations at the same time. In this conversation, Kamali presents the most inspiring and exciting discussion of goal-setting and positive self-talk as a process and a skill I can remember, so enjoy! Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Watch Explore The Space Podcast host Mark Shapiro deliver a TEDx address at TEDx SUNY Upstate. The topic is "Compliments As A Performance Lever During Covid-19" Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Sponsor: Have you been looking for a better way to manage your tasks and collaborate with colleagues? Check out CareAlign - a HIPAA Compliant, digital workspace built to make the EHR work better for clinicians. Manage your tasks, build dynamic care plans, view vitals and labs and generate your progress note in less than 3 clicks. CareAlign has everything you need for patient care, at your fingertips. Visit www.carealign.ai/explore to learn more. Sponsor: The Clinician Experience Project by Practicing Excellence uses coaching and development to help clinicians become their best and improve patient and organizational outcomes, while amplifying purpose and contentment. Learn more at https://practicingexcellence.com/. Key Learnings 1.  Is there any sport faster than sabre 2. The powerplant in fencing and how fencing informs her understanding of medicine and the human body 3. Reconciling the "interesting case" with the fact it is another person dealing with it 4. Goalsetting while taking on two all-consuming pursuits at the same time 5. Finding the hours to do all that she needs to get done 6. What parts of coaching and mentorship are exciting for Kamali 7. The upcoming road to the Olympics 8. Exercises around goal-setting and positive self-talk 9. How to track her journey Links Twitter: @kamali_thompson  Instagram: @kamalithompson.usa Kamali in action More Kamali in action Kamali's blog: "Sabre and a Stethoscope" The Peter Westbrook Foundation #Olympics, #fencing, #orthopedics, #orthopedicsurgery, #TokyoOlympics, #goals, #goalsetting, #sabre, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"Sometimes you've got to start over, we are bold on that front" Jessica Cordova Kramer is co-founder and CEO of Lemonada Media, an award-winning podcast network, which was created in a time of her grieving the loss of her brother to opioid use disorder.  Lemonada has exploded on the podcast scene with multiple hit shows including Last Day  & In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt.  Jess joins us on Explore The Space to discuss the origin and vision of Lemonada Media, the shared moment of national grief we are in during the Covid-19 pandemic, and how some parts of grief can be leveraged into something aspirational. This is a remarkable conversation with a real innovator. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Watch Explore The Space Podcast host Mark Shapiro deliver a TEDx address at TEDx SUNY Upstate. The topic is "Compliments As A Performance Lever During Covid-19" Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Sponsor: The Clinician Experience Project by Practicing Excellence uses coaching and development to help clinicians become their best and improve patient and organizational outcomes, while amplifying purpose and contentment. Learn more at https://practicingexcellence.com/. Key Learnings 1. The shared energy and common starting place we have currently 2. Lemonada's origin and why they create content "to help people get out of bed in the morning" 3. Using a zoom out-zoom in concept to allow for individual attention while also describing a national and global picture in different show formats 4. Can any of the components of grief be leveraged into something aspirational 5. The unique sadness surrounding someone dying from Covid-19 6. Seeking to understand what our lives look like now 7. How Jess takes care of herself and her teammates 8. Creating a new model for content creation where employees can also live their lives with a sense of value 9. Reshaping the world in the right moment Links Twitter @jjcordovak @LemonadaMedia Instagram @jessicacordovakramer, @LemonadaMedia Email Jess at Jess@LemonadaMedia.com Lemonada Media homepage Los Angeles Times article about Jess and Lemonada Explore The Space Podcast archive on the Opioid Epidemic Maureen Bisognano on Explore The Space Podcast discussing diseases of despair #grief, #Covid19, #opioid, #opioidepidemic, #aspiration, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"The future is limitless...I think we're going to take over the world" To celebrate National Hospitalist Day 2021, Explore The Space & Society of Hospital Medicine collaborated on a roundtable discussion concept. This episode is that roundtable: Dr. Ndidi Unaka, Dr. Anika Kumar, Dr. Gurpreet Dhaliwal, & Dr. Maylyn Martinez joined me for a discussion on "The Pluripotent Hospitalist." This is just extraordinary Representing the fastest growing specialty in modern healthcare, the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) is the leading medical society for hospitalists and their patients. SHM is dedicated to promoting the highest quality care for all hospitalized patients and overall excellence in the practice of hospital medicine through quality improvement, education, advocacy, and research. To learn more, visit hospitalmedicine.org. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Sponsor: Have you been looking for a better way to manage your tasks and collaborate with colleagues? Check out CareAlign - a HIPAA Compliant, digital workspace built to make the EHR work better for clinicians. Manage your tasks, build dynamic care plans, view vitals and labs and generate your progress note in less than 3 clicks. CareAlign has everything you need for patient care, at your fingertips. Visit www.carealign.ai/explore to learn more. Sponsor: The Clinician Experience Project by Practicing Excellence uses coaching and development to help clinicians become their best and improve patient and organizational outcomes, while amplifying purpose and contentment. Learn more at https://practicingexcellence.com/. Key Learnings 1. Welcome and the most wonderful introductions of our panelists for "The Pluripotent Hospitalist" 2. Pluripotency and diverse skill sets as a mindset for a Hospitalist and as a whole person 3. Orchestration as an aspirational skill and the value of being a Generalist 4. Thinking beyond the walls of the hospital 5. Seeking autonomy, mastery, and purpose so we can continue to enjoy our careers 6. How much do we share our whole selves with our teammates and with patients 7. What skill did each panelist have to develop to move through the Covid-19 pandemic? 8. Maintaining mental health and uplifting it within the profession 9. Unique challenges faced by medical students, residents, and fellows 10. Answering questions from the audience Links Twitter @Gurpreet2015, @freckledpedidoc, @MS_Martinez_MD, @NdidiUnaka, @SocietyHospMed #Hospitalist #NHD2021, #HowIHospitalist, #mentalhealth, #Covid19, #pluripotent, #roundtable #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

Dr. Nora Volkow is a Psychiatrist and the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health. She joins Explore The Space Podcast for a powerful discussion on the impact of synthetic opioids on the risk of overdose and unintentional death, the massive impact of Social Determinants of Health, and the importance of providing medication as part of the treatment of opioid use disorder. Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast The Explore The Space Merchandise Store is open! Please check it out Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Links NIDAMed: Clinical resources for health professionals and those in training about screening, addressing, and treating addiction NIDA’s website SAMHSA’s website

"We can't address structural racism & we can't achieve health equity in this country without acting on climate change" Dr. Renee Salas is an Emergency Medicine physician & the Yerby Fellow at the Center for Climate, Health, & the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also lead author on Lancet Countdown Health and Climate Change U.S. Brief as well as co-director for the first Climate Crisis and Clinical Practice Symposium. She joins Explore The Space Podcast to share her expertise around climate change, human health, and how we must make this issue personal. She is incredibly compelling. Click here for the full climate change archive of Explore The Space Podcast episodes Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Sponsor: The Clinician Experience Project by Practicing Excellence uses coaching and development to help clinicians become their best and improve patient and organizational outcomes, while amplifying purpose and contentment. Learn more at https://practicingexcellence.com/. Key Learnings 1. Recording in the wake of another extreme weather event 2. The resuscitation analogy & the critical window for climate action 3. Multiple parallels between the response to Covid19 and climate change 4. The connections between structural racism, health equity and climate change 5.  Activating others by making climate change personal and more visible through their health 6. The huge impact physicians and nurses can have in overcoming cognitive barriers with the population around climate change 7. Launcing the "Climate Crisis In Clinical Practice Initiative" 8. The profound mental health impacts of these converging crises 9. "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness":  Why climate action is aspirational Links Twitter @ReneeNSalas_MD Interactive Perspective on how climate change harms health (by system) and disrupts healthcare delivery 2020 Lancet Countdown Policy Brief and Appendix (HTML, PDF) 2020 Lancet Countdown Launch Climate Change & U.S. Health Policy Climate change and impacts on clinical practice and healthcare delivery How climate change threatens response to COVID-19 Course - https://www.edx.org/course/the-health-effects-of-climate-change Textbook - https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Global+Climate+Change+and+Human+Health%3A+From+Science+to+Practice-p-9781118505571 MSCCH - https://medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org #climatechange, #threatmultiplier, #Covid19, #climate, #globalwarming, #climateaction, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"I will do the detective work after the fact to try to figure out what happened" Dr. Judy Melinek is a forensic pathologist and TJ Mitchell is a professional writer & they are back to discuss their experiences after moving to New Zealand as well as the release of their new book "Aftershock" If you didn't hear them on Explore The Space last year discussing "First Cut" here's the link to that episode. It is so much fun getting back into the world they've created with their protagonist, Dr. Jessie Teska. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Sponsor: The Clinician Experience Project by Practicing Excellence uses coaching and development to help clinicians become their best and improve patient and organizational outcomes, while amplifying purpose and contentment. Learn more at https://practicingexcellence.com/. Key Learnings 1. When did they begin thinking about moving to New Zealand & how has the settling-in process gone? 2. The process of moving to New Zealand during Covid-19 3. Would they ever come back to the United States? 4. The return of Dr. Jessie Teska with "Aftershock" and what this collaborative process felt like 5. Why "Aftershock" is a dark story 6. How they want to shape the world for Jessie Teska in future books 7.  How their books are impacting career choices 8. Appreciating how New Zealand continues to respond to science 9. Deciding whether or not Covid19 will enter a subsequent book plot Links Twitter @DrJudyMelinek @TJMitchellWS Get your copy of "Aftershock" here #NewZealand, #Covid19, #Aftershock, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"Osteopathic medicine is an American treasure" Dr. Wolfgang Gilliar is an osteopathic physician who currents serves as Dean & Chief Academic Officer at the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Touro University Nevada. He is one of the great philosophers in the profession of medicine and he joins us to discuss open-systems thinking, the origins of anti-DO sentiment as well as the road forward, & why he thinks point of care ultrasounds (POCUS) is a critical element of medical education. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Sponsor: The Clinician Experience Project by Practicing Excellence uses coaching and development to help clinicians become their best and improve patient and organizational outcomes, while amplifying purpose and contentment. Learn more at https://practicingexcellence.com/. Key Learnings 1. Why rivers speak to Dr. Gilliar 2. What is an "Open Systems Thinker" and how does it translate into education 3. Reconciling complaints and criticism as a learned skill 4. Addressing anti-DO sentiment, the background behind it, and the road forward 5. Why osteopathic medicine is similar to jazz & what Dr. Gilliar's vision for the next-generation physician looks like 6. Focusing on point of care ultrasound as a tool to improve perinatal health outcomes in Nevada and getting portable ultrasounds to Touro medical students 7. A most wonderful definition of "resonant" Links Twitter @gilliar_do #osteopathicmedicine, #DO, #philosophy, #dean, #POCUS, #ultrasound#podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"I don't believe that work-life balance truly exists. What I think we can strive for is self-compassion" Dr. Resa Lewiss is Professor of Emergency Medicine & Radiology as well as Director of the Point-of-Care Ultrasound Division at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.  She is also the host of The Visible Voices Podcast. Dr. Adaira Landry is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School & Assistant Residency Director for the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Programs Dr. Landry and Dr. Lewiss join Explore The Space Podcast to discuss a superb paper they co-authored on what efficient mentorship looks like. This was a springboard into a discussion of how we can all work smarter, why work-life balance is a myth, & their shared love of point of care ultrasound. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Sponsor: The Clinician Experience Project by Practicing Excellence uses coaching and development to help clinicians become their best and improve patient and organizational outcomes, while amplifying purpose and contentment. Learn more at https://practicingexcellence.com/.  Sponsor: Vave Health believes that personal ultrasound is the future of medicine, with an aim to empower both clinicians and patients.  Check out their website for details on their free virtual ultrasound educational events and more, at www.vavehealth.com/live Key Learnings 1. Learning about "Work smarter, not harder" 2. Starting with the Self and thinking about how to move from where you are now to where you want to be in 5 years 3. Replacing the myth of work-life balance with the reality of self-compassion 4. Time, caring for Self, and getting a bagel and coffee 5. Assessing how you use your time and how their HBR paper fits into that assessment 6. Getting comfortable with saying No and the 3 criteria Dr. Landry uses 7. Dr. Lewiss' pathway to becoming a point of care ultrasound (POCUS) expert 8. How POCUS served as a springboard for Dr. Landry and seeing what speed & efficiency can look like 9. The ways POCUS changes the physician-patient dynamic 10. Having an impact on the question of "what's taking so long?" 11. The importance of words Links Twitter @AdairaLandryMD @ResaELewiss Visible Voices Podcast "What Efficient Mentorship Looks Like" #efficiency, #fuelefficiency, #HBR, POCUS, #collaboration, #worklifebalance #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"Women just feel like they're invisible. We are overlooked & we're not selected & we're not chosen" Dr. Nancy Spector is a Professor of Pediatrics & Vice Dean for Faculty at Drexel University College of Medicine, as well as Executive Director of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program. She joins us for an expansive look at her pluripotent efforts, why mid-career female physicians feel invisible, and the critical need for allyship, among many other topics. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Sponsor: Vave Health believes that personal ultrasound is the future of medicine, with an aim to empower both clinicians and patients.  Check out their website for details on their free virtual ultrasound educational events and more, at www.vavehealth.com/live Key Learnings 1. Dr. Spector's pluripotent journey into leadership and ELAM 2. Recurring points of friction and recognizing structural issues that exist in academia 3. The "invisibility" of mid-career female physicians & identifying the time of greatest vulnerability 4. How homogeneity remains a huge barrier at the top for women and particularly women of intersectionality 5. Why allyship is so critical as opposed to this being solely a women's issue 6. Calling out wage gaps and Equal Pay Day 7. How outdated information sharing platforms in academic publishing are a barrier to progress 8. Why Promotions and Tenure is ripe for an overhaul, with special attention paid to public influence and impact, particularly during Covid19 9. Making it clear that the Council of Deans must address the issue of Promotion and Tenure during Covid19 10. Examining "The Fauci Effect" and medical school applications Links Twitter @NancyDSpector, @ELAMprogram Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine HBR article #1 on allyship HBR article #2 on allyship Forbes article on allyship A Call for Term Limits in Academic Medicine COVID-19 and the Slide Backward for Women in Academic Medicine Journal of Hospital Medicine article on tracking academic productivity during Covid-19 Covid-19 CV Matrix Dr. Quinn Capers on Explore The Space Podcast #equity, #genderequity, #allyship, #Covid19, #wagegaps, #equalpay #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"You have to rely on your network to see through to what's real & what isn't" Christina Farr is a health-tech investor at OMERS Ventures and was formerly a superb health-tech reporter at CNBC. She is back for her 5th visit to Explore The Space Podcast to discuss why the finest health-tech reporter in the game pivoted to the venture capital world, the importance of collaboration and empathy in her new role, why she is honing in on behavioral health, and what she is experiencing around physicians seeking to exit the practice of medicine during the Covid19 pandemic Find all of Christina's previous appearances on Explore The Space Podcast here Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Sponsor: Vave Health believes that personal ultrasound is the future of medicine, with an aim to empower both clinicians and patients.  Check out their website for details on their free virtual ultrasound educational events and more, at www.vavehealth.com/live Key Learnings 1. The evolution of the digital health space and how it led Christina to make a career change 2. Leveraging a personal network to gather understanding & have a point of view 3. What does it mean to be in Venture Capital? 4. The failure of hubris & the need for fresh perspectives 5. Moving away from disruption toward collaboration 6. Why risk aversion is a problem when a tech company hires a physician 7. The importance of maintaining a sense of empathy 8. Why Christina hones in on behavioral health in the United States 9. Why Christina is getting more pings from doctors looking for an exit from the profession 10. The "DNA" of the successful physician who crosses over, and her superb article on the subject 11. Relationship building and reducing professional detachment Links Twitter @chrissyfarr Chrissy's newest article on "Second Opinions" about hiring physicians into health-tech #venturecapital, #VC, #relationships, #behavioralhealth, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"It's fresh eyes, it's a change of pace. It's a new team" Dr. Vineet Arora is a Hospitalist, a Professor of Medicine and a frequent guest on Explore The Space Podcast. She is back on Explore The Space to discuss something she has rare & tremendous expertise in: handoffs. As we approach the inauguration of President-Elect Biden and Vice President-Elect Harris, this subject is of critical importance. This is a totally unique discussion around a critical moment in American history Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Key Learnings 1. Handing off America, the struggling patient, from one administration to another 2. Absence of handoff versus a poor handoff 3. A central assumption in any handoff 4. How much does trust matter? 5. The mindset and resonance of Dr. Arora's Twitter thread on handoffs 6. What is Dr. Arora on the alert for with this handoff process 7. The value of institutional memory Links Twitter @futuredocs Dr. Arora's Twitter thread on handoffs The Fifth Risk #handoffs, #InaugurationDay, #Inauguration, #trust, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"When trainees are treated like they’re important, they’ll believe it" Tricia Pendergrast is a second-year medical student at Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University & co-founder of #GetMePPE Chicago. She joins us to discuss the experience of being a medical student during the Covid19 pandemic and the varied, extraordinary challenges that come with that. We also discuss her recent paper in JAMA "Prevalence of Personal Attacks & Sexual Harassment of Physicians on Social Media" as well as her ongoing work getting PPE where it is needed in Chicago. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Key Learnings 1. What it’s like to be a medical student during a pandemic 2. The burden of worrying whether a program or the medical system will properly support trainees 3. How social media has been essential to airing concerns & raising attention 4. The skill set and pattern recognition that allows someone to move forward in an academic setting 5. Valuation of trainees and recognizing everyone has something to contribute 6. The horrifying impetus for writing the JAMA paper & why it felt vindicating to publish 7. Why the article needs to be a call to action 8. The origins and founders of Get Us PPE Chicago 9. The cloak-and-dagger nature of collecting and distributing PPE 10. Why nursing homes and homeless shelters are a PPE priority Links Twitter The JAMA article The Free Guide to Med School Admission GetMePPEChi #Covid, #PPE, #socialmedia, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"We are stuck because we did not apply the basic issues of implementation in supply chain management, things that we have known for decades." Dr. Nada Sanders is Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University & the author of "Supply Chain Management: A Global Perspective." She joins us at a critical juncture in the Covid19 pandemic to help us better understand how supply chains work, how to look for and resolve bottlenecks, and the importance of a unified standard approach built around the concept of "Reverse Scheduling" Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Sponsor: Vave Health believes that personal ultrasound is the future of medicine, with an aim to empower both clinicians and patients.  Check out their website for details on their free virtual ultrasound educational events and more, at www.vavehealth.com/live Key Learnings 1. Understanding that ideas are everywhere, implementation is everything through "Shark Tank" 2. Laying out the frustrating part of what we've experienced 3. What is a supply chain an supply chain management 4. The essential need for the Federal government to drive the supply chain and vaccine process 5. Horizontal and vertical coordination within a supply chain 6. Why "Backwards Scheduling" is Dr. Sanders' top priority going forward 7. Identifying and  dealing with bottlenecks in the supply chain 8. Rebuilding public confidence in the vaccine supply chain and the vital need for messaging Links Twitter @nadasanders LinkedIn Email: n.sanders@northeastern.edu Dr. Sanders' book: Supply Chain Management, A Global Perspective #Covid19, #supplychain, #logistics, #vaccine, #marketing, #coordination, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"I'm walking into it with my eyes open, my dukes up. I'm looking around the corner, but I'm still walking forward into it" Dr. Kimberly Manning is a Professor of Medicine & Associate Vice-Chair of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion at Emory University School of Medicine. She is also a busy clinical physician, teacher, coach, and mentor, as well as an extraordinary writer, thinker, and social media voice. For the second year in a row, we are fortunate to have Dr. Manning join us for our final episode of the year. 2020 has been a year like no other, we reflect and focus on readiness for whatever is to come next. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Sponsor: Vave Health believes that personal ultrasound is the future of medicine, with an aim to empower both clinicians and patients.  Check out their website for details on their free virtual ultrasound educational events and more, at www.vavehealth.com/live Key Learnings 1. Finding a new empathy amidst the chaos of 2020 2. What still feels Exceptional 3. Carrying sadness (with a cameo from "Rapper's Delight") 4. The impact of code-switching & how it eats up cognitive & emotional space 5. The exceptional nature of diversity 6. Owning privilege and sharing that exercise 7. What are you doing well, what's something you want to work on? 8. Imposter Syndrome & doing stuff scared Links Twitter @gradydoctor #2021, #Covid19, #empathy, #privilege #exceptional, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"We can accelerate change in this country" Dr. Annie Andrews is a Pediatrician, a leading gun violence researcher and the founder of "Their Future, Our Vote", an organization focused on supporting lawmakers who put the needs of children first in policy decisions. She comes back to Explore The Space Podcast to discuss "Their Future", the importance of positive self-talk, and her upcoming appearance at "Rock The Ride" Link to register for Rock The Ride on 6/24/23 Archive of Explore The Space Podcast episodes related to gun violence If you would like to have Mark present his talk "Things I Didn't Learn In Training About Firearms" please email Mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast The Explore The Space Merchandise Store is open! Please check it out Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow  

"Healthcare & medicine have to be able to say & acknowledge "there are really bad things that have happened under our watch, but this is not one of them'" Dr, Jasmine Marcelin is an Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases at University of Nebraska Medical Center & Associate Program Director of UNMC Internal Medicine Residency Program. She comes back to Explore The Space Podcast for an essential discussion of the Covid19 vaccine on the day we both received our first injection. Dr. Marcelin describes how to both access and move through barriers people may have around it and critical insight into how to properly center and validate concerns held by BIPOC Americans related to the long history of systemic racism in medicine. Click here for Dr. Marcelin's 1st appearance on Explore The Space Podcast Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Key Learnings 1. Discussing the experience of getting vaccinated just before we recorded 2. Dr. Marcelin discusses her needle-associated anxiety and how it can be a barrier for people 3. The importance of transparency around actually getting the vaccine and the post-vaccine experience 4. Acknowledging the roots of structural racism in American health care and how they resonate around getting the Covid19 vaccine while also seeing how the vaccine will reduce the impact of Covid19 in communities hardest hit 5. Avoiding use of the word "Targeting" and what we need to say 6. The importance of centering voices and connecting with community leaders 7. Learning to navigate conversations with people about the vaccine & avoiding assumptions 8. Dr. Marcelin's conversation with parents 9. The need for time & skills to speak with every patient 10. Learning to customize each conversation based upon each person's unique needs 11. Why it's important to avoid use of "Mistrust" Links Twitter @DrJRMarcelin Dr. Marcelin's Twitter thread about getting the Covid19 vaccine today #vaccine, #Covid19, #conversation, #infectiousdisease, #pandemic, #assumptions, #community, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"This is the most important phase. This is the phase that requires the most passionate leadership, the most informed & rational leadership." Mark Hertling is a retired 3-Star General in the US Army who returns for his 4th visit to Explore The Space Podcast for more riveting leadership conversation. We focus on Inflection Point leadership as we deal with the surging Covid19 pandemic and the arrival of the vaccine. In addition, Mark's insights on the importance of "running through the tape" and preparing for After-Action reviews are absolutely brilliant. Click here for the archive of Mark's previous appearances on Explore The Space Podcast Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Key Learnings 1. The importance of "Living room language" 2. Introducing the idea of running through the tape 3. Why the Covid19 vaccine represents an inflection point and what are the implications of that 4. The essential mindset for leaders to carry right now 5. What's going well and what could be done better 6. The importance of applying lessons learned and not going back to business as usual 7. Reflecting on personal and organizational lessons in preparation for an After-Action Review Links Twitter @MarkHertling #Covid19, #vaccine, #inflectionpoint, #organization, #AAR, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"I want to effect change through the vehicle of empathy" Dr. Sayed Tabatabai is a Nephrologist in San Antonio and a simply brilliant writer. He shares most of his work as @TheRealDoctorT on Twitter where he continually amazes his large audience. He joins Explore The Space Podcast as we wrap up 2020 to discuss solitude, anger, and empathy in the midst of the Covid19 pandemic. This is a remarkable episode, enjoy. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Key Learnings 1. The nature of Dr. Tabatabai's writing & connecting to the past 2. Is looking forward an act of bravery 3. Where does medicine stand right now 4. The appetite for a grand reshaping of medicine 5. Why Sayed writes about connection and things we all recognize as human beings 6. The power of social media in building relationships, connections, and friendships & what comes next when we come out from behind the Zoom chats 7. How deeply we’ve all been immersed in solitude 8. What do we do with all of our stored-up anger 9. Leveraging empathy 10. How we can move through the dark part of the tunnel together Links Twitter @TheRealDoctorT #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician  

"The daily grind doesn't worry me, doesn't intimidate me, doesn't bother me so much" Dr. Amy Oxentenko is a Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Dept of Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. She is a truly superb leader and brilliant teacher and she joins us to talk about The Grind of the day-to-day work and the importance of adaptive leadership, especially during a crisis. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Sponsor: Vave Health believes that personal ultrasound is the future of medicine, with an aim to empower both clinicians and patients.  Check out their website for details on their free virtual ultrasound educational events and more, at www.vavehealth.com/live Key Learnings 1. What does the Grind look like 2. Does the Grind precipitate anxiety? 3. The importance of the book "Crucial Conversations" and how Dr. Oxentenko uses leadership books 4. Leadership books vs real-life experience 5. Reconciling tension between someone needing "more experience" and the value of on the job training 6. Term limits in medical leadership as a way to help elevate new leaders and prevent stagnation 7. Running as a restorative technique 8. Dealing with new challenges superimposed on the Grind and being able to pivot 9. Adaptive leadership during the pandemic and during a cross-country move 10. Speaking for voices that don't feel comfortable doing so 11. The power of data to improve inclusivity and drive change 12. Dr. Oxentenko's appetite for more Links Twitter @AmyOxentenkoMD #adaptiveleadership, #crucialconversations, #pandemic, #Covid19, #termlimits, #onthejobtraining, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"Sometimes the point of sharing is to get people to understand how human we are & what things are really like for us" Ashley Bartholomew is an ICU nurse in El Paso, Texas. She spent the past several weeks working in the Covid ICU at her El Paso hospital during a tremendous surge in hospitalized patients. After that she shared her experiences in a Twitter thread that has since gone viral. She joins us to discuss confronting misinformation at the point of care, redefining professionalism in how we show emotion, and why being told you're a hero can feel dehumanizing Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Key Learnings 1. What is El Paso, Texas like? 2. The sense of common purpose amongst those at the front lines of the pandemic 3. Seeing the surge firsthand the day before her scheduled last day and stepping forward to work for an additional three weeks in the Covid ICU 4. Writing a Twitter thread that went viral 5. Where Ashley felt a sense of empowerment sharing such vivid and candid experiences 6. The problems with stoicism and the moment where Ashley broke that barrier with her patient 7. The need to redefine "professionalism" when it comes to showing emotion as a whole person 8. Do nurses feel like they shouldn't be sharing work experience for fear of reprisal? 9. The disruptive effect of mixed messages 10. What the limelight feels like and dealing with the inevitable trolls 11. Why humanizing health care professionals is so important & calling them heroes can actually feel dehumanizing Links Twitter @theblondeRN Ashley's viral Twitter thread #Covid19, #ICU, #nursing, #nursetwitter, #thankyou#podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"This cannot happen in our country right now. We cannot have a civilian-service divide." Kevin Schmiegel is the CEO of Operation Gratitude, which is the largest non-profit in the country for hands-on volunteerism in support of the military, veterans and First Responders. Operation Gratitude has expanded their essential operations to support doctors, nurses and hospitals during the Covid19 pandemic. In this episode we discuss how service is critical to bridging divides in our society, why Operation Gratitude expanded its operations to support the medical community, and effective ways to respond to "Thank you for your service" Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Key Learnings 1. The current strategic picture for a conversation around giving, gratitude, and service 2. Reflecting on the word "Giving", how it's analogous to service which is a common feature across Americans 3. Overcoming inertia around service & the origin story of Operation Gratitude 4. Waning morale and widening gaps between doctors, nurses, HCWs and their communities during the pandemic and how to bridge that gap 5. The need for comfort, how Covid makes that more difficult, and the need for empathy in that space 6. Addressing "Thank you for your service" with a response that can start a conversation 7. How getting special treatment or recognition makes people serving feel even more distant 8. Building a sense of community at the local level that can be sustained whether times are hard or not Links Twitter @OpGratitude, Instagram @opgratitude Operation Gratitude Kevin's essay in The Hill about how service can help unite communities Giving page to support California firefighters Virtual Volunteering "A grateful nation that serves together is united" #service, #gratitude, #MarineCorps, #veteran, #firstresponder, #soldier, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"That's why I do the work that I do, to bring those voices into places where they need to be heard" Dr. Giselle Corbie-Smith is the Kenan Distinguished Professor at University of North Carolina Center for Health Equity Research & is an internationally recognized expert on leadership & health equity. Dr. Utibe Essien is an Assistant Professor of Medicine & a health equity researcher at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. They came together for an incredible discussion on Explore The Space wherein Dr. Essien interviews Dr. Corbie-Smith covering her career arc, insights into merging leadership and health equity, what brings her joy, and her superb podcast "A Different Kind of Leader." This is a very special episode, it's an honor to have these two incredible people on Explore The Space Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Sponsor: Vave Health believes that personal ultrasound is the future of medicine, with an aim to empower both clinicians and patients.  Check out their website for details on their free virtual ultrasound educational events and more, at www.vavehealth.com/live Key Learnings 1. How Dr. Essien felt meeting Dr. Corbie-Smith for the first time 2. Starting off with a Win 3. Dr. Corbie-Smith's origins and early career arc 4. Studying health disparities, starting a career in research, and being a Robert Wood Johnson fellow 5. Being a child of immigrants & some wonderful advice from her father 6. The process of integrating leadership development with health equity and launching "A Different Kind of Leader" 7. Deriving motivation from conversation 8. What does the next dream job look like 9. Covid19 through the eyes of a health disparities expert & the critical need to demonstrate trustworthiness for minority communities 10. What brings joy to Dr. Corbie-Smith during these trying days? Links Twitter @GCSMD, @DKLeadership @UREssien A Different Kind of Leader Podcast Transcript Mark Shapiro (00:01): Welcome back to Explore The Space Podcast. I'm your host Mark Shapiro. Let's start off with a quick, thank you to Laurie Baedke and Creighton University for sponsoring this episode. Creighton University believes in equipping physicians for success in the exam room, the operating room and the boardroom. If you want to increase your business acumen, deepen your leadership knowledge and earn your seat at the table. Creighton's health care executive education is for you. Specifically tailored to busy physicians our hybrid programs blend the richness of on-campus residencies with the flexibility of online learning. Earn a Creighton University executive MBA degree in 18 months or complete the non-degree executive fellowship in six months, visit www.creighton.edu/CHEE to learn more. Thank you also to Vave Health for sponsoring this episode. Vave believes that personal ultrasound is the future of medicine with an aim to empower both clinicians and patients. From an affordable wireless device to the industry's first, all inclusive upgrade plan two built in support with Vave Assist. Mark Shapiro (01:07): Their mission is to move the needle on ultrasound use in every clinical setting. Find more information online at www.vavehealth.com. That's V a V E health.com. This is a remarkable episode. I am delighted that it is actually airing when it is airing. This is one that has been in the works for months and through trial and error and wildfires and an election season.

"The goal is to help patients who are unexpectedly hospitalized on Election Day vote from their hospital bed" Dr. Kelly Wong is an Emergency Medicine doctor in her 4th year of residency at Brown University and she is the Founder of Patient Voting. Her incredible, nonpartisan project is helping us all better understand how to help hospitalized patients cast their vote, which is more important than ever as Covid surges across the country. Click here to find information on patient voting for your state! Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Key Learnings 1. What is Patient Voting? 2. Where Dr. Wong first learned of the concept of patient voting from the hospital 3. How Covid19 has driven increased interest in Patient Voting 4. The ways it is not too late to engage prior to the 2020 elections 5. Common questions about patient voting from healthcare providers and patients 6.  Where has there been resistance to Patient Voting? 7. How the new generations in medicine are driving this work 8. The future of Patient Voting Links Twitter @kellywongmd, @patientvoting Patient Voting website State guidelines for patient voting Transcript Mark Shapiro (00:00): Welcome back to Explore The Space Podcast. I'm your host Mark Shapiro. Let's start off with a quick, thank you to Laurie Baedke and Creighton University for sponsoring this episode. Creighton University believes in equipping physicians for success in the exam room, the operating room and the boardroom. If you want to increase your business acumen, deepen your leadership knowledge and earn your seat at the table. Creighton's health care executive education is for you. Specifically tailored to busy physicians our hybrid programs blend the richness of on-campus residencies with the flexibility of online learning. Earn a Creighton University executive MBA degree in 18 months or complete the non-degree executive fellowship in six months, visit www.creighton.edu/CHEE to learn more. My guest in this episode of Explore The Space Podcast is Dr. Kelly Wong. Dr. Wong is an emergency medicine physician she's in her fourth year of her residency at Brown University, and she is the founder of Patient Voting. Mark Shapiro (00:59): This is part of our run-up to the 2020 general election. And this project that Dr. Wong has created is really remarkable. It is designed to facilitate people who are hospitalized on election day being able to vote. Every state has guidelines for this. Every state has rules for this and a process by which it can happen. This is something I never knew about. I've been a practicing physician for awhile. I have never heard of this. And I'm delighted that Dr. Wong has, first of all, created this program, which you can find at www.patientvoting.com. We've got all the links in the show notes, and that she's mobilized this incredible team of pre-meds and medical students and residents and people who are doing all sorts of other education and training to be part of this project. It is really exciting. It's really remarkable that I'm delighted that she came on. Mark Shapiro (01:54): It's more important than ever as we watch. COVID 19 surge across the United States in the run up to election day as well. Before we get to this really wonderful conversation with Dr. Wong, please do check out the archive of Explore The Space pPodcast at www.explorethespaceshow.com. Email me anytime you want Mark@explorethespaceshow.

"We are affirming to a complete stranger that their voice matters" Dr. Alice Chen is an Internal Medicine physician, the former executive director of Doctors For America, and one of the leaders of Doctors For Biden. She joins us in the stretch run of the 2020 election to discuss the shift in mindset among American doctors around politics. We also discuss the critical impact and sense of satisfaction to be had with phonebanking to help drive change. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Key Learnings 1. How Dr. Chen became politically engaged as a physician 2. Signing a letter 3. Differences between physician engagement with politics between 2008 and 2020 4. What is phonebanking? 5. The impact a doctor can have when they share their profession when making calls 6. Orienting and getting started 7. The current state of voter activation and the rise of medical students and early career physicians in this work Links @DoctorsForBiden on Twitter and IG Phonebanking with Doctors For Biden Transcript Mark Shapiro (00:01): Welcome back to Explore The Space Podcast. I'm your host Mark Shapiro. Before we get to today's episode, a thank you to Laurie Baedke and Creighton University for sponsoring this episode, Creighton University believes in equipping physicians for success in the exam room, the operating room and the boardroom. If you want to increase your business acumen, deepen your leadership knowledge and earn your seat at the table. Creighton's healthcare executive education is for you. Specifically tailored to busy physicians our hybrid programs blend the richness of on-campus residencies with the flexibility of online learning. Earn a Creighton university executive MBA degree in 18 months, or complete the non-degree executive fellowship in six months, visit www.creighton.edu/CHEE to learn more. My guest in this episode is Dr. Alice Chen. Dr. Chen is an internal medicine physician. Mark Shapiro (00:53): She is former executive director of Doctors for America, and she is now one of the leaders of Doctors for Biden. She joins us in the stretch run of the 2020 election to discuss a really important shift that's occurring in the mindset of American medical students, doctors, healthcare professionals, all around the country, around this idea of engaging in the political process. And we also discussed the critical impact and the sense of satisfaction to be had with a whole variety of tangible things that you can do to drive towards change the biggest one at this point in the election being phone banking, which is a really interesting topic. It's a really interesting subject, and she really helps step through some of the barriers that people can come up with to not participate in phone banking, as well as all the great reasons to jump in. If you have some free time leading up to the presidential election, definitely take the opportunity to check out the events page on the Doctors for Biden website. Mark Shapiro (01:47): There are phone banking opportunities every single day. So definitely take advantage of that before we get to our conversation. We'll want to just invite everyone to please subscribe to and rate and review, explore the space podcast on Apple podcasts or wherever you'd like to download your shows. That really helps us out. You can email me any time mark@explorethespaceshow.com. Definitely check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast at www.explorethespaceshow.

"It's so hard to not want to have every single step planned" Dr. Anne Peled is a breast cancer & plastic surgeon in the Bay Area and is also a breast cancer survivor. She joins us during Breast Cancer Awareness Month to discuss moving from awareness to action from both the doctor and patient perspectives. She is simply remarkable, I am truly touched by our conversation. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Key Learnings 1. Emotions triggered by the words "breast cancer awareness month 2. Converting awareness to action around the calendar 3. Acknowledging racial and ethnic disparaties in care and screening as critical items requiring action 4. Action items from the patient perspective 5. How the spouse of a person with breast cancer can think about ways to be supportive 6. Wishing that back pain could just be back pain 7. Reinventing "one step at a time" & the importance of context 8. The value of getting out of your head 9. Acknowledging the experience of men with breast cancer Links Twitter @annepeledmd  Instagram @drannepeled Dr. Peled's website Breast cancer resources from The American Cancer Society About Breast Cancer from The Komen Foundation Facing Our Risk The Breasties Transcript for this episode Mark Shapiro (00:01): Welcome back to Explore The Space podcast. I'm your host Mark Shapiro. Before we get to today's episode, a word of thanks to our sponsor, Laurie Baedke and Creighton University. Creighton university believes in equipping physicians for success in the exam room, the operating room, and in the boardroom. If you want to increase your business acumen, deepen your leadership knowledge and earn your seat at the table. Creighton's health care executive education is for you. Specifically tailored to busy physicians, our hybrid programs blend the richness of on-campus residencies with the flexibility of online learning. Earn a Creighton university executive MBA degree in 18 months, or complete the non-degree executive fellowship in six months, visit www.creighton.edu/CHEE to learn more. My guest in this episode of Explore The Space Podcast is Dr. Anne Peled. Dr. Peled is a breast cancer and plastic surgeon in the Bay Area, and she is also a breast cancer survivor. Mark Shapiro (00:57): This being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, she joins us to discuss a really interesting perspective of how we move this idea of awareness of breast cancer, to action, to actionable things, to tangible steps we can take to make progress around reducing morbidity, mortality, and disparities in breast cancer, diagnosis and treatment. And she brings some really brilliant insights from the perspective of both a surgeon who treats people with breast cancer and a patient who has survived breast cancer. It's a really wonderful way to approach a difficult and charged and sad and sometimes inspiring topic. And it's obviously one that has been a focal point of my life and certainly on Explore The Space Podcast we've shared on this show in the past, the episode that I did with my wife, Jessica, who is the voice of Explore The Space, she was also a breast cancer survivor. Mark Shapiro (01:51): And so we really try to make a point of focusing on this topic each October. And I'm delighted that Dr. Peled was able to join me to help us in that process. Before we get to our conversation, just want to invite everyone to please check out Explore The Space’s full archive is at www.exploretheshow.com.

The Ted Lasso finale has aired, and what a finale it was! Mark and Sayed are joined by Dr. Jaime Coleman once again to break it all down. We also take time to say farewell to MedLasso, and what a ride it's been! Thank You to everyone who has listened, shared, amplified, and participated in this incredible #MedLasso community! Check out the archive of "MedLasso" here and get caught up! The Explore The Space Merchandise Store is open! Please check it out Please join in the MedLasso conversation on Twitter, and tag your tweets with #MedLasso Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our Position Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow

"We need to become aware of the spectrum of disabilities that's all around us so that the people who are disabled themselves don't have to do as much teaching" Harry Paul is an MD/PhD student who speaks, writes, & researches about disabilities in medicine. He joins us to discuss disability & his superb STATNews piece as well as the impact of stigma & Covid19. He also provides critical insight and understanding around "Ableism." Please check out the bottom of the shownotes for full transcript of our conversation with Harry. We will be doing transcripts of episodes going forward, and if there is a particular episode in the Explore The Space Podcast archive you'd like transcribed, please email mark@explorethespaceshow.com Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Key Learnings 1. The value of wrecking hierarchies and building on bidirectional learning 2. Where Harry has decided to place his advocacy energy around his own disability and entering the profession of medicine 3. The opportunity for improvement around understanding what disability is and what it means 4. How the terms "disability" & being "on disability" are reductive and loaded words 5. Identifying as disabled & dealing with the concomitant stigma 6. What are hidden disabilities and the problems that arise when they aren't acknowledged and accommodated 7. Harry's description of his own hidden disability & the particular challenges Covid19 brings 8. Ways we can improve our acknowledgment of hidden disabilities in the hospital 9. What does leadership in this work look like 10. Defining and understanding the term "Ableism" 11. The 3 components of Ableism 12. A counterpoint to "don't let your disability define you" Links Twitter: @_HarryPaul_ Thread on Alt-Text use on Twitter Link to Harry's article in STATNews Harry's archive of Twitter threads related to disability & medicine Episode Transcript Mark Shapiro (00:00): Welcome back to Explore The Space Podcast. I'm your host Mark Shapiro. Before we get to today's episode a thank you to our sponsors of this episode, Laurie Baedke and Creighton University. Creighton university believes in equipping physicians for success in the exam room, the operating room and the board room. If you want to increase your business acumen, deepen your leadership knowledge and earn your seat at the table. Creighton's health care executive education is for you. Specifically tailored to busy physicians, our hybrid programs blend the richness of on-campus residencies with the flexibility of online learning. Earn a Creighton university executive MBA degree in 18 months or complete the non-degree executive fellowship in six months, visit www.creighton.edu/CHEE to learn more. My guest in this episode is Harry Paul and Harry is an MD PhD student who speaks, writes and researches about disabilities in medicine. Mark Shapiro (00:56): I found Harry on Twitter actually several months ago and have found him to be extraordinarily transparent and informative and honest. And he recently wrote a superb piece in STATNews which is linked in the show notes, which discusses the topic of hidden disabilities. So he came on the show to talk about this concept of hidden disabilities and disabilities in general, the opportunity that's in front of us to deal with this topic better, to understand it better, to find some shared understanding around what these terms mean, as well as the stigma associated with them and the imp...

"We are making sure voters really understand how important leadership is" Dr. Joe Sakran is a Trauma Surgeon and a co-founder of Doctors For Biden. He joins us amidst the most bizarre and unsettling election season in our memory to discuss why more doctors and healthcare professionals are engaging in the political process, the growth of Doctors For Biden, and the sense of energy & community that comes from being a grassroots organization Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Sponsor: Vave Health believes that personal ultrasound is the future of medicine, with an aim to empower both clinicians and patients.  Check out their website for details on their free virtual ultrasound educational events and more, at www.vavehealth.com/live Key Learnings 1. Some situational awareness of when we recorded this episode 2. The mindset of a physician who is openly engaging in political discourse and endorsement because of issues that make it impossible to stay silent 3. Acknowledging that physicians are whole people and having a political voice is part of that 4. Who makes up Doctors For Biden and why they're there 5. Creating a runway for people who might feel hesitant about sharing their voice and opinion 6. How a community has formed in this space 7. The stories of people joining the movement who have not done something similar before 8. The growth of Doctors For Biden 9. Why Doctors For Biden stays independent from the Biden/Harris campaign 10. Making non-physicians feel welcome in joining Doctors For Biden Links Twitter: @DoctorsForBiden, @JosephSakran Doctors For Biden website Virtual Conversation with Doctors #election, #President, #Biden, #Harris, #ElectionDay, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"When I'm looking for change I try not to wait for an unnecessary landmark. I just start now." Dr. Dara Kass is an Emergency Medicine physician, the founder of FemInEM and a nationally-sought after expert for all topics related to COVID19. She joins us the break down the calendar fallacy and her extraordinary mindset around creating change amidst chaos. We also get into how & why the media space is becoming more representative and the vital need to those doing the work to be compensated and supported. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Key Learnings 1. The calendar fallacy and the need to feel like things will be better when the year changes 2. Celebrating the Jewish New Year (Shana Tova everyone) while acknowledging the calendar change isn't going to drive change 3. The origins of the advanced mindset Dr. Kass carries around maintaining a sense of control amidst chaos 4. Dealing with exhaustion and input fatigue 5. The impact of not having to travel for work anymore 6. The childcare crisis, gender bias, and the Covid19 pandemic 7. Why Dr. Kass is prioritizing the need for people to verbalize their own voting plan this election season 8. The critical need to make a voting plan 9. The confluence of Vogue Magazine and being Covid19 positive 10. How the ability to film from home has been critical to elevating so many diverse voices during the Covid19 pandemic & is it sustainable? 11. The critical need for proper compensation and support for physicians who are doing work in media while publicizing the organization they work for Links Twitter: @darakass #Covid19, #NewYear, #RoshHashanah, #ShanaTova, #control, #chaos, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"Our policies are the way we deliver healthcare. If we don't have a say in that, then what are we doing?" Dr. Stella Safo is an HIV Primary Care physician & Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mt. Sinai Health System as well as a founding member of VoteHealth 2020. She joins us on National Voter Registration Day to discuss the barriers physicians & healthcare professionals face around talking about & activating around voting. We also jump into the remarkable work being done by VoteHealth 2020 and The Morning Report Initiative. If you would like a VoteHealth 2020 physician to virtually join any meeting you've got for a <5 minute, nonpartisan, free presentation on voter activation with 1 slide you can share, please email info@votehealth2020.com Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Key Learnings 1. Stella's journey seeing colleagues and teammates struggling during early days of the Covid19 pandemic 2. Understanding the tool of voting in advocacy work 3. The barriers that physicians feel around voting and talking about voting 4. Advanced techniques for talking to patients about voting 5. The art of nonpartisan voter activation 6. The genesis of VoteHealth 2020 & the critical need for tempo in building a movement 7. Honing the VoteHealth 2020 value proposition to an audience that is already incredibly busy 8. The Morning Report Initiative 9. Would Dr. Safo ever run for office? Links Twitter :@AmmahStarr, @votehealth2020 https://www.votehealth2020.com #voting, #NationalVoterRegistrationDay, #election, #physician, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"A lot of this work we expect women to do, it's uncompensated & often unappreciated" Dr. Shikha Jain is an Oncologist, Assistant Professor of Medicine at U of Illinois & co-founder/Chair of the Women in Medicine Summit. We discuss what empowerment for women in medicine looks like now, the absurd barriers to progress & impact of Covid19, as well as the virtual structure of the upcoming summit Oct 9-10. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsors Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Vave Health believes that personal ultrasound is the future of medicine, with an aim to empower both clinicians and patients.  Check out their website for details on their free virtual ultrasound educational events and more, at www.vavehealth.com/live Key Learnings 1. The evolution of empowerment for women in medicine 2. The barriers presented by being in a hierarchical system 3. Explaining the Third Shift 4. Does the public understand the impact that diversity has on health outcomes? 5. Curating diverse speakers for Women In Medicine Summit 6. How much is Covid-19 impacting the goals of the conference 7. The focus of the #HeForShe allyship track 8. Pivoting to the virtual platform Links Twitter: @ShikhaJainMD, @WIMSummit Register here: Women In Medicine Summit homepage Position Paper: Covid19 Contributions on a Professional CV https://www.womeninmedicinesummit.org #equity, #gender, #WomenInMedicine, #leadership, #CME, #Covid19, #HeForShe, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"It's there for us to enjoy, & the people who are playing it, they're doing their jobs" Rod Brooks leads the "Tolbert, Krueger, & Brooks Show" on KNBR, the Bay Area's leading sports radio station, &  is one of the finest sports talk-radio hosts in America. He joins us to discuss the power of money when it comes to Covid testing, are people enjoying professional sports this year, "The Last Dance", & why it's ok to engage with sports while acknowledging this is all very bizarre. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Key Learnings 1. The challenge of making & keeping new friends as an adult 2. Feeling disinterested and disconnected from professional sports 3. How a new priority set has changed the way we engage with sports 4. The anger that comes with the excess Covid-19 testing that sports leagues have access to 5. Are professional sports providing a service to its fans or is that narrative nonsense? 6. Rod and I talked about "The Last Dance" ,  Jordan's famous dunk and my goodness this segment is the best 7. Will leagues need to do some service recovery with their fans 8. What will happen with the return of the NFL? 9. The persisting and wildly frustrating issues with college sports 10. Do these seasons count? 11. How a friend can help change perspective #sports, #NBA, #Jordan, #LastDance, #NFL, #football, #basketball, #MLB, #baseball, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"One of the things that's been lost is that complexity & the nuance that's necessary to understand" Dr. Angela Rasmussen is a virologist at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health who studies host response to viral infection. She is also a brilliant writer and communicator, particularly around Covid-19. We discuss communicating uncertainty with the public, dealing with failure as a scientist, specialization as a barrier, and false dichotomies. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Key Learnings 1. Starting off with complexity and uncertainty juxtaposed with the binary choices that frame Covid-19 2. The fear response to complexity and the demand for an answer 3. Defining a fundamental misunderstanding between the science community and the public at large with respect to communicating uncertainty 4. The challenge of misinformation and the terrible conflicts of interests that exist with those who are promoting it 5. Trust, transparency, and inspiration 6. Why the idea of "virus hunter" is steeped in exclusion and colonialism 7. Dealing with different types of failure when the stakes are high 8. How misinformation and lack of understanding may impact the Covid-19 vaccine process 9. Why specialization is a communication barrier & how we can make scientific discussions more inclusive 10. The origins of her superb article on false dichotomies and Covid-19 Links Twitter: @angie_rasmussen Dr. Rasmussen's website Covid-19 & False Dichotomies: Time to Change The Black-Or-White Messaging About Health, Economy, SARS-CoV-2 Transmission & Masks #complexity, #failure, #virology, #virus, #Covid19, #vaccine, #science, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"When we start to tell our stories, there's a way that we change" Margaret Shapiro is a writing coach, psychotherapist, and my Mom! She joins us for a very special 200th episode of Explore The Space Podcast. We discuss her immigration journey, maintaining a sense of optimism, and how the word "practice" informs her love of writing and her teaching style. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Key Learnings 1.  Margaret's experience leaving her family and emigrating to the United States from South Africa 2. How Margaret maintains a sense of optimism over the course of her life 3. Experiencing a "dark night of the soul" 4. What being married to a physician has been like 5. The importance of the word "practice" and why it's in the name of her business "Sonoma County Writing Practice" 6. Teaching what you need to learn 7. What keeps Margaret fulfilled on a day to day basis, and how she's sustained it during the Covid pandemic Links Sonoma County Writing Practice #immigration, #writing, #therapy, #optimism#podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"The is probably the most precious 2 minutes you can spend on completing  your Hippocratic Oath" Dr. Ankita Sagar is Assistant Professor and Director of Ambulatory Quality at Hofstra-Northwell who has had a profound impact on my mindset around physicians registering to vote. We discuss her advocacy in encouraging physicians and medical students to register, the barriers that have previously existed, and how and where to go to get registered. Really inspirational and motivating stuff! This episode is stocked with great references, please check out all the links below in the shownotes Click here to register to vote or to check if you're eligible to register Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Key Learnings 1. Dr. Sagar's superb and profoundly influential presentation slide encouraging physicians to vote 2. The unspoken threat that has kept physicians from talking about voter registration or politics 3. How others can follow Dr. Sagar's road to being vocal 4. The critical need for physicians to be civic-minded and engaged & how we can propel one another 5. The evidence of just how disconnected physicians are around their own voting practices 6. Places where physicians can make a change around their own engagement 7. Imagining how a medical school or medical school could support student, resident, and faculty registration to vote 8. Where Dr. Sagar has met resistance around physicians registering to vote 9. Would Dr. Sagar run for office? 10. The deadline of September 3rd to be sure if you register to vote and request an absentee ballot it will come in time Links Twitter: @Sagar_Ankita Dr. Sagar's wonderful infographic on physicians & voting Annals article: https://doi.org/10.7326/M16-2470 SGIM article: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-007-0105-8 Vot-ER: https://vot-er.org #Vote2020, #voting, #register, #election, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #absentee, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"Our healthcare systems are totally built in most places to rely on trainees as a cheap labor force" Dr. Ben Kinnear is an Associate Professor & Pediatric Hospitalist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital who joins us to discuss "Developing Trust With Early Medical School Graduates During The Covid-19 Pandemic", published open-source in the Journal of Hospital Medicine. We cover measuring the impact of the intervention, readying for the next time, closing the gap between medical school & residency, & the potential value of time-variable training.  Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Key Learnings 1. Where this focus on medical students in the essay came from 2. Was the early graduation of medical students a helpful intervention in dealing with Covid19 and what are the markers of success? 3. The need for qualitative study of what the experience was like for the early graduates 4. What happens when the next surge doesn't line up so neatly with the academic calendar and the idea of promoting based on competence, not on time 5. The "confidence = competence" heuristic and the complexity of how to assess learners 6. Where things stand with research around time-variable training 7. How are we taking care of residents and fellows during the Covid19 pandemic? 8. The response to the article 9. What are the next steps forward to create a better continuity between medical school and residency Links Twitter @midwest_medpeds The Journal of Hospital Medicine article #Covid19, #graduation, #training, #pandemic, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"The more you do it, the easier it gets" June is Gun Violence Awareness Month, and in that spirit we welcome Dr. Katrina Green to Explore The Space Podcast. Dr. Green is an emergency physician in Tennessee who has emerged as a powerful and committed advocate on a variety of issues. She has recently received much attention for her work and presence during recent sessions of the Tennessee State Legislature. We dive into this historical moment, as well as her journey building skills and confidence as a physician advocate and much more. Enjoy! Archive of Explore The Space Podcast episodes related to gun violence If you would like to have Mark present his talk "Things I Didn't Learn In Training About Firearms" please email Mark@explorethespaceshow.com Link to register for Rock The Ride on 6/24/23 Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast The Explore The Space Merchandise Store is open! Please check it out Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Links Twitter  @KGreenMD Protect My Care American Medical Women's Association

"This is it, I'm going to have a contribution here, I'm going to do it" Dr. Renee Dversdal is a national expert in point of care ultrasound (POCUS), the new Chief Medical Officer at Vave Health, & Associate Professor of Medicine at OHSU. She joins us to discuss the potential role for POCUS when treating patients with Covid19, as well as her fascinating journey to becoming a CMO. Here is Dr. Dversdal's first visit to Explore The Podcast Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Key Learnings 1. Imagine yourself in a Covid-19 isolation room trying to listen to your patient's lungs 2. The opportunity point of care ultrasound (POCUS) provides at the bedside, particularly for patients with Covid-19, to provide better, care, reduce possible exposures, preserve PPE, and more 3. Thinking of POCUS as additive, supportive, and a powerful accelerant of collaboration instead of something that "replaces" anything else 4. Renee's new leadership role as CMO of Vave Health 5. Breaking through inertia & imposter syndrome 6. Acknowledging & moving past the "selling out" concept 7. Determining purpose using "what am I good at, what does the world need, what can I get paid for, what am I passionate about" 8. Being your authentic self when stepping forward for a new role 9. Potential impact not just in the role, but in allows others to observe and learn from her journey Links Twitter @DrSonosRD Vave Health website #POCUS, #Covid19, #CMO, #leadership, #authentic, #ImposterSyndrome, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"That one person you thought was an "addict," well, that's me" Dr. Adam Hill is a Pediatric Oncologist & Palliative Care specialist. He is also the author of the stunning book "Long Walk Out Of The Woods" which chronicles his downward spiral & ongoing recovery from alcohol use disorder. We discuss Attrition Mindset, the frightening ways Covid19 has exposed everyone's mental health vulnerabilities, & the importance of being able to process grief. Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Key Learnings 1. The intersection of Adam's book and the Covid19 pandemic, especially how our profession has failed to create effective structures around wellness and inclusion. 2. Attrition Mindset and how it has been normalized in medicine 3. The "Pained Look" and a personal story of mine 4. How medicine has normalized suffering in silence 5. Why "wellness" lacks any meaning without intention 6. Where is the low hanging fruit for an institution to being changing culture around mental health and substance use disorders 7. The critical need to normalize mental health for physicians and healthcare professionals during a pandemic 8. Being on the anxiety rollercoaster of Covid19 9. Creating space for someone to tell you they are not ok 10. The gap in physician training around processing death and grief and how it can impact us downstream 11. Dissecting the cover of "Long Walk Out Of The Woods" 12. Staying in a Recovery Mindset while still helping others 13. How Adam has leveraged social media as a platform for sharing his journey Links Twitter @AdamHill1212 Adam's website Link to "Long Walk Out Of The Woods" #Covid19, #mindset, #addiction, #depression, #alcohol, #grief, #anxiety, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician

"This gives people a structure to say that you did something & to validate it" Dr. Avi O'Glasser is Associate Professor of Medicine & Assistant Program Director for Scholarship & Social Media at Oregon Health Sciences University. She is also an amazing collaborator and she is back on Explore The Space Podcast to discuss our newest White Paper "COVID-19 Contributions on a Residency/Fellowship ERAS Application" Please subscribe to and rate Explore The Space on Apple Podcasts or wherever you download podcasts. Email feedback or ideas to mark@explorethespaceshow.com Check out the archive of Explore The Space Podcast as well as our White Papers and much more! Follow on Twitter @ETSshow, Instagram @explorethespaceshow Sponsor: Elevate your expertise with Creighton University’s Healthcare Executive Educational programming. Learn more about Creighton’s Executive MBA and Executive Fellowship programs at www.creighton.edu/CHEE. Key Learnings 1. What was the spark for this topic 2. Just because there isn't a category for it doesn't mean interviewers don't want to see your Covid-19 contributions 3. Acknowledging the hardships that medical students and residents have dealt with and why the inclusion is a form of self-validation 4. Demonstrating respect and admiration for medical students and residents by encouraging them to share what they've done 5. The importance of a narrative of contribution and investment in an application 6. The holistic review & shaking up the evaluation process 7. Anticipating response to this White Paper Links Twitter @AOGlasser Explore The Space White Paper on Social Media, Podcasts & Blogs On A Residency/Fellowship ERAS Application Dr. Vinny Arora on Explore The Space Podcast discussing Covid19 Contribution Matrix for your CV #Covid19, #applications, #ERAS, #podcast, #podcasting, #healthcare, #digitalhealth, #health, #leadership, #mentorship, #coaching, #FOAmed, #doctor, #nurse, #meded, #education, #hospital, #hospitalist, #innovation, #innovate, #medicalstudent, #medicalschool, #resident, #physician