Interdisciplinary

Send us Fan Mail This week we have a guest -- and a guest co-host. Kate DeBartolo and Justin Magnuson help with the very large conversation around how to talk about our plans and wishes for ourselves in the event of chronic illness. Go gently into this conversation and emerge with a deeper connection to your full humanity About Our Guest: Ms. DeBartolo oversees The Conversation Project, IHI’s publ...

Send us Fan Mail It's a new season, and a new format for the podcast! This season, we're bringing in more of the Healwell folks to talk compassion, equity, caring for humans, and more. This week, we talk about what it's *really* like to try to live Healwell's core values in our daily lives. Infographic of 50 Cognitive Biases & so much more A bi-monthly podcast where we share th...

Send us Fan Mail Cal talks with Teresa Nguyen about the very human experience of living with a disability, advocating for oneself in a world that is not often aware of your needs, and what every human can do to become more aware of the needs of other humans. Teresa also appeared on this episode of "Terrible, Thanks for Asking" And here is an article about navigating a relationship with a...

Send us Fan Mail This week's conversation goes deep -- into compassion, humanity, and our fundamental connection to each other. This conversation with Ladybird Morgan and Marvin Mutch of the Humane Prison Hospice Project will invite you to deep reflection and consideration of the ways in which we separate ourselves from each other. The Human Prison Hospice Project "Prison Terminal: The L...

Send us Fan Mail How do the words we use affect the people we serve? What could be problematic about some of the common things we say as care providers? What happens when we listen to our words from a different perspective? Cal and Cathy welcome Anne Kelemen to the podcast to consider the question of language. (This episode originally aired in February, 2021.) Check out Anne Keleman's CE cour...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Cal talks with Dr. Rachel Beda, a physician practicing in a concierge setting in Seattle. The conversations touches on equity, gender affirming care, the challenges of building relationship in a primary care practice, and the thorny question of "obesity medicine."  About Our Guest: Dr. Rachel Beda is an internal medicine physician in Seattle, where she h...

Send us Fan Mail Cal joins Kerry Jordan and Rebecca Sturgeon for a behind-the-scenes review of Healwell's Just Care: Social Justice in Health Care conference. & so much more A bi-monthly podcast where we share the stories of our Caregivers, patients and... Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show Check out our new podcast! The Rub: a podcast about massage therapy Giving Tuesd...

Send us Fan Mail Cal and Cathy are on their own this week, talking about all the things that have been on their minds -- like misinformation, disinformation, and the state of the world in the US and Canada. It's a free-for-all of evidence-based fun! Resources: NIH- SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies Can Protect from Reinfection, NCI Study Suggests Nebraska Med- Were the COVID-19 vaccines rushed? Here&apos...

Send us Fan Mail This week's guest is Debbie LaFond, interdisciplinary team legend. Debbie talks the difference between pediatric and adult care, and what palliative care has to bring for every human.  About Our Guest: Deborah “Debbie” LaFond, DNP, PPCNP-BC, CPON, CHPPN, FPCN, FAAN In the first 21 years of her career, Debbie worked as a nurse practitioner in pediatric palliative care Children...

Send us Fan Mail Cal and Cathy welcome Dr. Gayle Dine'Chacon, founder of the Center for Native American Health (CNAH) and former Surgeon General for the Navajo Nation. It's about sovereignty, relationships, and awareness of our connection to each other. About Our Guest: Gayle Dine’Chacon, M. D. is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. She is a Professor in the Department of Family and...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Cal and Cathy get intersectional. Sirius Bonner joins the podcast to talk about adding fatness to our intersectional lens, being a Black woman in Portland Oregon, and the definition of "Blerd." About Our Guest: Sirius Bonner is Vice President of Equity and Inclusion at Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette. She is an Experienced Equity Practioner, Consultant,...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Season 4 of Interdisciplinary, where we are diving right into the deep end. Cal and Cathy kick it off with Emily Clore, DVM and a hilarious, honest, and raw conversation about what it's like to be a human whose job is to care for animals. This episode includes discussions of suicide and suicide prevention. About Our Guest: Emily Clore is a former massage therapist...

Send us Fan Mail Located in Chicago, Ujimaa Medics is a community-based organization that provides critical health care training to the community, in support of the people who live there. Part 2 of this conversation includes one of UMedics' supporters and volunteers and to share her personal experience and continue the discussion of caring for one another and mobilizing a community to take ca...

Send us Fan Mail Ujimaa is a Swahili word that refers to collective work and responsibility. Located in Chicago, Ujimaa Medics is a community-based organization that provides critical health care training to the community, in support of the people who live there. Part 1 of this conversation dives deep into questions of health justice, access to care, and the need for open-eyed awareness of structu...

Send us Fan Mail Cal and Cathy welcome back Dr. Jennifer Hutton, aka Dr. Jpop, to talk about all things allyship, solidarity, and staying in the work because the work isn't even close to done. Find out more about Dr. Jpop's Building Allyship program About Our Guest: Dr. Jennifer Hutton, aka Dr. Jpop, is a pediatric physical therapist from Nashville, TN. She graduated from Loma Linda Univ...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Cal and our guest, Anna Valdez, consider the question: what if care providers just believed people? What if we just believed that people were telling the truth about their pain or discomfort? This week is a deep dive into assumptions, biases, and cultural habits that increase suffering for all humans. About Our Guest: Anna Valdez, Ph. D., RN, PHN, CEN, CNE, CFRN, FAEN,...

Send us Fan Mail Cal and Cathy talk with Ian Watlington about respect for bodies as they are, awareness of the whole human life cycle, and what we should all thank disability advocates for. (Hint: curb cuts are just the start.) If you enjoyed this episode, Ian also recommends Disability After Dark Podcast with Andrew Gurza Twitter: @ianwsays Instagram: @ianwsaw About Our Guest: Ian Watlington is a...

Send us Fan Mail Gene Dockery knows bad research when they see it, and in this episode, they are talking with Cal and Cathy about one of the most famous (and insidiously pervasive) bad research studies out there. It's the one that gave us the ideas about "latent homosexuality." In a deep, wide-ranging, and unflinching look at this study, and bad research in general, this episode cha...

Send us Fan Mail It's a book review, it's a conversation, it's a podcast! This week, Cal and Cathy welcomes Janet Penny and Rebecca Sturgeon, co-authors of Oncology Massage: An integrative approach to cancer care. This conversation touches on the heart and soul of what we do when caring for other humans. Buy "Oncology Massage: An Integrative Approach to Cancer Care" About...

Send us Fan Mail This episode originally aired in November 2020 on the "Massage Therapy Without Borders" podcast Cal and Cathy talk with Ann Blair Kennedy and Kemi Balogun, where they discuss the lack of diversity and inclusion in the health care professions and possibilities for moving to a more inclusive place. About Our Guests: University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenvill...

Send us Fan Mail In this rebroadcast of an episode from December 2020, Cal and Cathy talk with the inimitable Gil Hedley about anatomy, bodies, wholeness, acceptance, and the ultimate wisdom inherent in the human body. Check out Gil Hedley's Website About Our Guest: Gil Hedley, Ph. D., has been teaching anatomy with an integral approach in the dissection lab for the past 26 years. He is the p...

Send us Fan Mail This is a re-broadcast of an episode of our earlier podcast, Massage Therapy Without Borders. In this episode, Cal and Cathy dive deep with Jennifer Hutton, DPH, pediatric physical therapist and antiracism educator. About Our Guest: Website: www.drjpop.com Social media:  IG @dr.jpop Twitter @drjpop Facebook Dr. Jpop Dr. Jennifer Hutton, aka Dr. Jpop, is a pediatric physical therap...

Send us Fan Mail As our podcasts guests said a few weeks ago, housing is health care. This week, Cal and Cathy talk with Dan Berger and Tara Wenger, Service Coordinators and hosts of The Service Coordinator Podcast , about their work with the residents of affordable housing. Service Coordinators are like a multiplex knife -- able to adapt to multiple situations and address a variety of problems. ...

Send us Fan Mail This week's guest are here to talk to us about supporting trans folks, and what it means to be an ally in general. Kalyn and Ro of Get Your Joey are here to encourage us to move beyond "tolerance" or "acceptance" to truly celebrating and affirming the people in our lives for who they are, right now. ("What's a Joey?", you ask. Listen in to f...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talk about health care for the homeless. How can this organization deliver person-centered, interdisciplinary care to some of Baltimore's most vulnerable people, and what can we learn from them? Health Care for the Homeless - Maryland About Our Guests: Amelia Jackson, MSN, CRNP, FNP-BC is a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) with over 7 years of experience, w...