Lit Health

Today, Raj Ratwani, Vice President of Scientific Affairs at the MedStar Health Research Institute, Director of the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors Engineering in Healthcare, and an associate professor at the Georgetown University School of Medicine,  joins Tracy Granzyk to explore the intersection of patient safety and data in our U.S. Healthcare System. They explore the vuln...

Joining Tracy for today’s episode is the truly remarkable Armando Nahum, a former patient advocate who has transitioned into an tremendously influential healthcare activist. Armando's inspirational story and educational presentations born out of his own family’s tragedy have left a profound mark on hospital administrations and frontline caregivers across the nation. Among his many achievements, he...

Tracy welcomes esteemed patient safety advocate and President/CEO of Project Patient Care, Marty Hatlie, to the podcast today for a conversation that delves deeply into the core of patient safety and the integral roles patients and families play in elevating healthcare outcomes. Together, they engage in a timely dialogue which underscores the urgent call for a healthcare landscape that treasures t...

Steve Burrows is a writer, director, performer, and producer who began his career in Chicago, joining Second City director Dell Close as a member of the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking improvisational comedy group ‘Baron's Barracudas’. After relocating to Los Angeles, Burrows began his film and TV career with an award-winning short film, "The Soldier of Fortune." Since then, he has gone on...

Tracy’s guest on this episode is Clarinda Ross, mom of three and accomplished actress, writer, and special needs advocate. Clarinda began her journey as a patient advocate thirty-three years ago when her daughter Clara was found to have developmental delays, the experience of which she channeled into her one-woman show Spit Like A Big Girl. Clarinda begins the episode discussing her experience par...

Tracy’s guest on this episode of Lit Health is Dr. David Mayer, Executive Director of the MedStar Institute for Quality and Safety, where he leads quality and safety programs in support of discovery and learning and the application of innovative methods to operational clinical challenges. A cardiac anesthesiologist by training and a medical educator by passion, Dave has spent the last three decade...

Author Deanne Stillman, a widely published, critically acclaimed writer of literary nonfiction joins Tracy on the podcast today. Her latest book, Blood Brothers, won the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for nonfiction, received a starred review in Kirkus, and was excerpted in Newsweek . The book they’ll be discussing today is Deanne’s 2001 work Twentynine Palms , an LA Times bestseller and Best Book of the...

In today’s episode, Tracy is joined by Dr. Ronald Wyatt, a global healthcare patient safety and quality improvement expert, and well known health and healthcare disparity and equity champion. Dr. Wyatt is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, former co-chair of the IHI equity advisory board, and currently serves as faculty for the IHI Pursuing Equity Initiative and faci...

On this inaugural episode of Lit Health, host Tracy Granzyk is joined by Rosemary Gibson, author and Senior Advisor at the Hastings Center. Rosemary’s most recent book, China Rx, highlights the centralization of globally supplied medicines in a single country and the implications of this in the event of a global pandemic, natural disaster, or geopolitical event. Published in 2018, China Rx has bee...

Welcome to Lit Health – lighting a fire underneath the status quo of healthcare through interviews with authors, healthcare leaders, and policymakers who are working to create a healthcare environment that is equitable, transparent, and that welcomes the needs of every patient – especially our vulnerable populations including the mentally ill, people of color and women who feel they are at risk in...