Patients Come First

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Julia Siegel Breton, a VCU Health physician who leads the innovative Hospital at Home program. Our conversation delves into her professional journey and what inspired her to pursue geriatric medicine, an overview of how the VCU Health Hospital at Home program works, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features features Dr. Rachel Moon, a UVA Health Children’s Hospital pediatrician and safe-sleep expert, who joins us for a conversation about her career, and to share information about safe sleeping practices to safeguard the health of infants. 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 Dr. Arturo "Art" Saavedra, a physician leader and scientist who serves as Dean of the VCU School of Medicine. He joins us for a fascinating conversation about his path to medicine after dreaming of an aerospace career as a youngster in Puerto Rico, his professional stops and days competing as a triathlete, the work of training future clin...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Keyur Shah, Chief of Advanced Heart Failure at the VCU Health Pauley Heart Center. Dr. Shah joins us for a conversation about his career, working with heart failure patients, the VCU Health experience with life-saving left ventricular assist devices, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Paula Ferrada, a board-certified surgeon, mentor, and educator who serves as the Division Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at Inova. She joins us for a conversation about how family influence attracted her to medicine, her early days as a beauty pageant winner and television host in her native Columbia, her path to the U.S. to p...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features a conversation with Jessica Williams, a nurse and lactation consultant on the mother-baby unit at Chesapeake Regional Healthcare, about her work, the hospital's recent recognition for excellence in lactation care, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.com or contact on X (Twitter) or Instagr...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Michael O'Malley, an orthopaedic surgeon at Carilion Clinic, who has served as a team physician for professional athletes in the world of baseball, basketball, and hockey. Dr. O'Malley joins us for a conversation about his work, his time as team physician with USA Hockey, his past as a college hockey player, and more. Send questions,...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Joe Bamisile, a graduate student at the VCU College of Health Professions and a guard on the VCU men's basketball team, who joins us for a conversation about life, hoops, mental wellness, his work to develop the Maunda mental health mobile app, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.com or co...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Pam Smith, a recently retired radiology technician who earned the nickname “X-ray Pam” during her 38-year career at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. She joins us for a conversation about her career, bone density scans, workforce development, her retirement plans, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpo...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Mark Witcher, a functional neurosurgeon with Carilion Clinic, who joins us for a conversation about his work with patients experiencing movement disorders, chronic pain, epilepsy, and to discuss a recent trip he and neurosurgery residents took to a far away nation at the top of the world to help patients and share their expertise. Sen...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Clifford Meyers, a board-certified neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist with Twin County Regional Healthcare, a Lifepoint Health facility in Galax, VA. He joins us for a conversation about his career, health care delivery in rural Virginia, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.com...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Bob Trestman, Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at Carilion Clinic for a conversation about his work, mental health, collaboration with the Virginia Coordinated Clinical Research Network, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.com or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Aamir Khan, the medical director of VCU Health Hume-Lee Transplant Center’s Islet Cell Transplant Program. He joins us for a conversation about his work, the Hume-Lee Transplant Center, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.com or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #Patient...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Fouzia Siddiqui, a physician and neurologist who is Director of the Sleep Center at Sentara RMH Medical Center. She joins us for a conversation about her career, her journey from Pakistan to the United States to pursue her passion, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.com or contact us...

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Jasmohan Bajaj, a physician based at the VCU Stravitz-Sanyal Institute for Liver Disease and Metabolic Health, and a professor with the VCU School of Medicine. He joins us for a conversation about his work, research findings indicating a connection between cognitive decline and liver health, and more. Send questions, comments, feedbac...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Henna Qureshi, a physician with Inova Health, and Leigh Guarinello, Director of Community Health programs with Inova Health, for a conversation about their careers, Inova’s community health efforts, how the Unite Us Platform is leveraged to support patient needs, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pc...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Donna Wilmoth, Chief Nursing Officer at Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center. She joins us for a conversation about her nursing career, how Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center became the first certified sensory-inclusive hospital in Virginia, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. James Daniero, a laryngologist at the UVA Health Voice and Swallowing Clinic who specializes in caring for people who use their voice extensively. The conversation covers his specialized training, the kinds of patients Dr. Daniero works with, vocal cord health, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfp...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Melissa Herd, Acting Director and Executive Officer for Region III of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Director Herd join us for a conversation about her career, the work of HHS across Region III (which includes Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Delaware, and Pennsylvania), National Minority Health Mont...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Stephanie Lareau, an emergency medicine physician who is certified in wilderness medicine and Director of the Carilion Clinic Wilderness Medicine Fellowship program. Dr. Lareau join us for a conversation about her career, wilderness medicine, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.com or...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Patrick Watson and Taylor Tereskerz, pre-hospital clinicians who work within Population Health and Community Paramedicine at UVA Health. They join us for a conversation about their professional backgrounds, UVA Health’s Community Paramedicine Program, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.co...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Theresa Dix, Chief Nursing Officer at Wythe County Community Hospital, a Lifepoint Health facility. She joins us for a conversation about her career, Wythe County Community Hospital's National Quality Leader Designation, workforce development, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.com or con...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Delante Monroe, a sous chef at Mary Washington Healthcare. He joins us for a conversation about the role of culinary professionals in hospital settings, his award-winning painting skills, his interest in information technology, the power of positivity, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.c...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features UVA Health CEO Dr. Craig Kent, who also serves as Executive Vice President for health affairs at the University of Virginia and is a past member of the VHHA Board of Directors. Dr. Kent joins us for a conversation about his career and work, a discussion about some exciting clinical research being conducted at UVA Health, and more. Send qu...

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features an interview with Caitlyn Berry, an occupational therapist with Sportable, a Richmond-based adaptive sports organization. The conversation covers the mission and history of Sportable, the work of occupational therapists, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.com or contact us on X (Twitter)...