Coaching Healthcare Leaders

The power of NMF is its ability to empower and uplift the next generation of healthcare leaders. Listen to how Carmen Villar, Vice President of Social Business Innovation at Merck & Co is #reimagininghealthcar by elevating the intersection of social and business impact while striving to create sustainable health systems to support improved health and well-being globally.  Prior to joining Merck, C...

We continue our podcast series with Dr. Efrain Talamantes, a Board Member of National Medical Fellowships. He is dedicated to serving historically underinvested communities and advancing health equity and leads initiatives throughout the country to enhance leadership and diversity in the healthcare workforce. As the Chief Operating Officer of Health Services at AltaMed Health Services, Dr. Talaman...

𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁? The power of NMF is its ability to empower and uplift the next generation of healthcare leaders. My next #podcastinterview is with Joel Bervell, a Ghanaian-American medical student at Washington State University, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, and an NMF scholarship recipient. Better known as the '‘𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳”, he is committed to fighting health dispari...

In this new 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟰, I am interviewing women physicians who made a difficult time in their lives, a bad outcome, or a challenging situation and turned it into a movement that they are passionate about.  𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗿. 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗮 𝗚𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗻𝗲𝘆 is a moving, informational and inspiring interview that highlights the increasingly clear evidence that Black women are disproportionately aff...

My next 🎙️ podcast guest, Dr. Felecia Froe, s the owner of Money With Mission, an investment company focused on empowering professional women to build wealth and achieve financial freedom through social impact investing. As a real estate syndicator, Felecia has partnered with like-minded investors. She has raised money for several social impact projects, including a residential assisted living hom...

Building The Next Generation of Healthcare Leaders with Michellene Davis. My next podcast guest, Michellene Davis, Esq assumed the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of National Medical Fellowships, Inc., (NMF) in May of 2021. Founded in 1946, NMF was one of America’s first diversity organizations and remains the only national organization advancing health equity at the intersection of...

My next podcast guest, Dr. Geralda Xavier is a highly skilled physician executive with more than 15 years of experience in clinical care and medical staff leadership. She is a board-certified emergency medicine physician and maintains national certifications in clinical practice. She has a strong reputation for being a change management champion using robust process improvement, fostering team eng...

My next guest, Dr. Amanda K. Johnson, MD, MBA is Assistant Vice President of Care Models in the Office of Ambulatory Care and Population Health for NYC Health + Hospitals. In this role, she leads a team to deliver enhanced primary care, outreach, and engagement models for people experiencing structural barriers to accessing health care, such as homelessness or involvement in the criminal legal sys...

My guest, Dr. Airica Steed serves as the “first minority appointed” System Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer for Sinai Chicago Health System and flagship President of Mount Sinai & Sinai Children’s Hospital. There she is charged with leading strategy and operations for 4 acute, post-acute, and specialty care hospitals, a multi-specialty medical group/physician enterprise comprised o...

My guest Dr. Noha Polack, MD, FAAP received her bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University in Biological Sciences and her medical degree from UMDNJ (now Rutgers Medical School) in Newark, NJ. She completed her pediatric residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY. She has been practicing pediatrics in Union City and Bayonne, New Jersey since 1996, most of those years at Progressiv...

In this episode, I challenge women physicians to consider their seats at the table, and in the words of Shirley Chisholm, "If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. Fifty years ago, Shirley Chisholm became the first African American woman elected to Congress. In 1972, she became the first African American candidate for the presidential nominee of a major party, and the fir...

My guest Dr. Britney Scott is a physician turned process improvement expert turned entrepreneur. Born in Huntsville, AL to two phenomenal Jamaican parents. Dr. Scott is a double HBCU grad. She received her BS in Biology from Oakwood University and then matriculated to Howard University where she received her MD. However, early in her medical career, Dr. Scott, realized that her ultimate passion wa...

My guest,  Dr. Nakeisha is a dual board Internist and Geriatrician, best-selling author, and national speaker from the beautiful island of the Bahamas. She is the daughter of two retired educators whose love for the classroom shaped her own passion for teaching. She has over a decade of experience caring for hundreds of complex geriatric patients with multiple medical needs. Through her books, dyn...

My guest, Dr. Stephanie Byerly, is an Academic Anesthesiologist, Certified Life Coach for Women Physicians, and a mother of two amazing daughters.  After experiencing trauma during her childhood and teenage years, and then having her marriage end in divorce, she suffered a major episode of burnout from the personal and professional challenges.  She found a way out of burnout and understood she had...

My guest, Dr. Sarah Ann R. Anderson-Burnett, MD, Ph. D. is an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Associate Program Director for the Adolescent Medicine Fellowship and Inaugural Diversity, Health Equity, Inclusion and Justice Quality Lead for the Department of Pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She is a graduate of the Xavier University of Louisiana and attended the Icahn Scho...

My guest Dr. Joelle Simpson, MD, MPH, is the Division Chief of the Emergency Medicine Department at Children’s National Hospital in Washington D.C. She is also the Medical Director for Emergency Preparedness at Children's National Health System. In this role, Joelle provides strategic leadership for Children's National's disaster preparedness, response, and community outreach efforts. She is the P...

In this episode, I sat down and talked with Dr. Amber Robins and Dr. Archana Shrestha, about taking care of ourselves as women physicians during our leadership journey. They are the CoFounders of Women in White Coats, where their mission is to not only voice the stories and perspectives of more women doctors but also to uplift and empower female doctors throughout their careers and lives. Amber Ro...

In this episode, I sat down and talked with Dr. LaKeischa Webb McMillan, Integrative OB-GYN, hormone specialist, and Amazon Best-Selling Author about achieving balance and mental sharpness during times of stress and adversity.  Dr. LaKeischa Webb McMillan earned her undergraduate degree in Biology (cum laude) from Oakwood College, now Oakwood University, and continued her studies at Loma Linda Uni...

In this episode, I sat down and talked with Dr. Monique May, the Physician In The Kitchen ®, who is a Board-Certified licensed Family Physician with over twenty years of clinical experience.  We talked about the challenges women physicians are facing especially when it comes to taking care of our bodies and eating healthy.  Are you taking time for yourself? How much or little are you prioritizing...

In this episode, I sat down and talked with Dr. Diane Shannon, who made the hard decision to leave practice and pursue a career in medical writing, after experiencing paralyzing burnout as a newly minted primary care physician. For 20 years, Dr. Shannon worked with non-profit foundations that seek to improve the health care system, focusing attention on clinician burnout, lack of reliability, and...

My guest, Dr. Carol A. Penn, DO, MA, ABOM, FACOFP doubly Board Certified in Family Medicine and Obesity Medicine and being a Master movement, meditation, and mindset coach bring more than 40 years of experience and expertise in Mind-Body Medicine and the movement sciences. Gifted with the ability to inspire and educate about self-care, Dr. Penn brings a unique set of skills to her work as a physic...

In this episode, I sat down and talked with Dr. Kelly King, OB-GYN and multi-passionate entrepreneur on the importance of securing your legacy. She has worked as an OB/GYN for over 20 years and is currently an OB/GYN hospitalist in the greater Atlanta, Georgia area. While being a physician has and always will be her first career passion along the way she learned some new ideas about wealth and leg...

This episode on the 5 Ps of Leadership was inspired by my time spent as a young medical student with Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston. I worked under her as a student summer intern at the NIH when she was the Assistant Surgeon General and Rear Admiral of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Her career started as a pediatrician taking care of the underserved. She later became a medical expert...

In this series, Laying The Foundation, we are talking about what we need to do to be ready for the call to lead. We have to do the prep work, reflect, plan and then execute.  First, we’ll talk about The 5 Ps of Leadership inspired by my time spent as a young medical student with my mentor Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston.  Next, we’re going to discuss - Developing a leadership mindset. In order to be an...

My guests Dr. Ken Richmond and Dr. Jarret Patton will discuss the topic of closing the gender gap in the workplace, utilizing men as allies.  Dr. Ken Richmond is a board-certified psychiatrist, leadership and organizational consultant, author, and speaker. He helps corporate leaders pinpoint leadership issues so they can develop thriving workplaces with less turnover, improved workplace morale, an...