Patients Come First

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Kimberly Green, Director of Acute Care Services at Chesapeake Regional Healthcare. Earlier this year, she joined the podcast to discuss Chesapeake Regional’s innovative Nurse Draft Day workforce recruitment program. On this episode, we highlight an upcoming workforce event at Chesapeake for neurology nurses called Brunch and Brainwaves. S...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Amanda Feaster, a nurse with Valley Health’s Shenandoah Memorial Hospital who is a former paramedic with Valley Medical Transport. She joins us for a conversation about her work, her career journey from EMS to bedside care, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.com or contact on X (Twitter)...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Kris Robey, Violence Intervention Specialist at Carilion Clinic, who joins us for a conversation about how her personal journey has impacted her work, the work of hospital-based violence intervention programs in supporting survivors, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.com or contact on X...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Kris Robey, Violence Intervention Specialist at Carilion Clinic, who joins us for a conversation about how her personal journey has impacted her work, the work of hospital-based violence intervention programs in supporting survivors, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.com or contact on X...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Michael Lewis, Vice President of Policy for the American Association of People with Disabilities, for a conversation about his work and personal experience with cerebral palsy, the history of the Americans With Disabilities Act, Disability Pride Month, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.c...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Muhammad “Irfan” Saeed, Kidney Transplant Surgical Director at the VCU Health Hume-Lee Transplant Center, for a conversation about his work, National Minority Donor Awareness Month, the critical need for more living kidney donors, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.com or contact on X...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Arun Sanyal, Director of the Stravitz-Sanyal Institute for Liver Disease and Metabolic Health at VCU Health. Dr. Sanyal is a return guest who joins us to share insight about an exciting new clinical study showing that a medicine approved for use in treating diabetes and obesity has benefits for patients with a particular type of liver...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Jay Mitchell, a Norfolk man and Sentara Health patient who suffered a heart attack that resulted in quadruple bypass surgery. He joins us to share his story of diagnosis, surgery, and recovery and to discuss the importance of listening to your body. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.com or contact...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Saul Karpen, Chief Scientific Officer of the Virginia Commonwealth University Stravitz-Sanyal Institute for Liver Disease and Metabolic Health and President-Elect of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease. He joins us for a conversation about his work, new pediatric guidelines developed to detect a life-threatening li...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features features Dr. Vipul Patel, Medical Director of the VCU Health Hume-Lee Transplant Center and a faculty member in the Division of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Management in the Department of Internal Medicine. During the conversation, Dr. Patel share insights about the work of the transplant center as well as a major milestone — the...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Kristen Danley, a nurse at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, who joins us to share her personal story of going from caregiver to patient after experiencing a stroke in her 30s. The conversation also covers her path to health care, stroke recovery, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.com or...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Kareem Zaki, a urologist with Twin County Regional Healthcare, a Lifepoint Health facility in Galax, VA. During Men's Health Month, Dr. Zaki joins us for a conversation about urology care and an advanced robotic therapy for the treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) due to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Send questions,...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Joshua D. Adams, Medical Director of the Carilion Clinic Aortic Center. Our conversation focuses on cardiovascular health, minimally invasive surgical procedures performed at the Carilion Clinic Aortic Center, the importance of bedside manner, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.com or...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Jonathan Hemler, a pediatric allergist with UVA Health Children's, who joins us to discuss his work, the topic of allergies, new advancements in UVA’s pediatric food allergy treatment program, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.com or contact on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #Pat...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Evan Silverstein, a pediatric ophthalmologist with Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU, for a conversation about how a personal medical experience in his youth inspired his career, a case study about the potential for early detection of eye-related issues in smartphone photos, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Jay Taylor, Chief Growth Officer at Backpack Healthcare, who joins us to discuss his career journey, behavioral health access amid rising service demand, a new partnership between VHHA Solutions and Backpack Healthcare, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.com or contact on X (Twitter) or I...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Nicole Stauffer, a therapeutic recreation therapist with Sheltering Arms Community Programs. Our conversation covers her work, path to rehabilitation therapy work, the Club Rec program that supports patients with disabilities, a new hydroponic vertical micro-farm at the Sheltering Arms Midtown location, and more. Send questions, comments,...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Dani Bowie, DNP, Senior Vice President of Solutions Design and Workforce AI at Aya Healthcare. This conversation highlights Dr. Bowie's career in health care, workforce development efforts, the impact of AI in health care, her upcoming participation in the 2025 Virginia Healthcare Workforce Development Summit on May 13, and more. Send que...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Mark Nantz, the President and CEO of Valley Health, a Winchester, VA-based health system, and the newly elected Chair of the VHHA Board of Directors. This conversation covers his career journey, thoughts on health care leadership and public health, how his personal story of adoption and early financial challenges shapes his approach to th...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Juan Pablo Arab, a transplant hepatologist and director of alcohol science with the Stravitz-Sanyal Institute for Liver Disease at VCU Health. This conversation covers liver health, insights gleaned from recent research into U.S. liver disease prevalence, the impact of early screening and targeted intervention, and more. Send question...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Katisha Vertrees, a young woman from Norfolk, VA woman whose story of being diagnosed with lupus and renal failure, through finding a kidney donor, and transplant at Sentara Health, has captured media and public attention. She joins us to talk about her life, journey through illness and recovery, and a new project of hers to support peopl...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Christopher Sulmonte Jr., Administrative Director of Biocontainment at Johns Hopkins Special Pathogen Center, who join us to discuss his work, the biocontainment process, his participation as a featured speaker during the upcoming 2025 Virginia Healthcare Emergency Preparedness Summit on April 16, and more. Send questions, comments, feedb...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Anita Vincent-Johnson, a nephrologist with UVA Health, who join us during National Kidney Month for a conversation about her work, the UVA Kidney Disease Screening and Awareness Program, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.com or contact on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsC...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Rebecca Segal, the President and CEO of Fauquier Health, a Lifepoint Health facility located in Warrenton, Virginia. She joins us for a conversation about her career in health care, the work of Fauquier Health, which recently celebrated its centennial anniversary, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpo...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Jie Sun, PhD, a professor and researcher at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, whose work focuses on immunology and infectious diseases. Among other things, our conversation explores Dr. Sun’s career, recent research his team published on the long-term impacts of COVID-19, and what that could mean for patient care. Send questi...