The Health Design Podcast

Anu was born in New Zealand and earned her medical degree at the University of Auckland School of Medicine. She worked with international non-governmental organization programs for child health and disaster relief before coming to New York City in 2002, where she trained in Pediatrics, Global Health and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Anu went on to train in Tropical...

Marie DeLuca is an emergency medicine doctor and research fellow in New York, NY. They are an organizer for Doctors for Camp Closure, a network of over 2,500 healthcare workers advocating for human rights and healthcare for asylum seekers and the undocumented community in the US.

Kimberly Richardson - seven year cancer survivor of ovarian cancer, Granulosa Cell Tumor, Stage 3A. Prior to diagnosis, Ms. Richardson has 25 years of urban planning and community economic development experience. Accomplishments included creating a TIF district for the development of a major hotel and restaurants; rehabilitation and new construction of single family and multi-family housing units;...

Dr. Charles Camarda retired from NASA in May 2019, after 45 years of continuous service as a research engineer and technical manager at Langley Research Center (LaRC), an Astronaut and Senior Executive (Director of Engineering) at Johnson Space Center (JSC), and as the Senior Advisor for Innovation and Engineering Development at LaRC.

Baktash Ahadi is the founder of Taleem, a strategic communications company. He is also the creator and host of the Stories of Transformation podcast. The tragic events of 9/11 set him on a path of examining why people do what they do. Upon graduation from college, he decided to serve in the Peace Corps as an educator in a rural village in Mozambique. His father learned English from a Peace Corps V...

Marina Ness, MPH is a public health professional with experience in pharmaceutical market research, healthcare data management, and health policy analysis. As the Director of Research at Inspire, Marina leverages research expertise in a wide range of health domains, including oncology, rare disease, mental health, women’s health, sustainability and environmental health, public health emergency man...

Andrew completed medical school at Mount Sinai, residency in internal medicine at Columbia, and a master of public health degree from Harvard as part of the Reynolds Fellowship in social entrepreneurship with the Center for Public Leadership. He previously worked developing non-profit programs on civic engagement and for community health workers. Now Andrew is an assistant professor of medicine at...

Dr. Karen L. Smith, native of rural Maryland, is a Family Physician with private solo practice in the rural community of Raeford, North Carolina. Recognizing the needs of her patient population reached beyond the exam room, Dr. Smith became involved with the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians as well as the North Carolina Medical Society where she served in all levels of the NCAFP with su...

Deborah Heiser, PhD holds a degree in Applied Developmental Psychology with a specialty in redefining what being older looks and feels like. She has a 20 year track record of award winning research, presentations and consulting and is Founder of The Mentor Project.

Dr. Celine Gounder is an HIV/infectious diseases specialist, internist, epidemiologist, journalist, and filmmaker. In this podcast she discusses the Covid pandemic.

Moyez brings experience from multiple roles- clinician, researcher, publisher, innovator and leader. What this experience has taught him is that healthcare professionals can achieve great results by focusing on what is in their immediate sphere of influence. In some of his roles, the only thing he gets to choose is the colour of his tie. Conventional medicine is all about science, proof, tests, re...

Haddox, Chris Assistant Professor of Interior Design & Design Studies. Chris Haddox, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Design at West Virginia University where his teaching efforts revolve around the minor in sustainable design—a robust program he created while a visiting assistant professor at WVU.

Annie Brewster is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and a practicing Internist at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. She is also a patient, diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2001. She has been collecting and sharing patient stories since 2010. In 2013, she founded Health Story Collaborative, a nonprofit organization committed to empowering patients and their loved ones, buil...

Neil Baker M.D. helps healthcare leaders identify and remove barriers to improvement and innovation by linking results, relationships, and culture in their actions moment-to-moment in the midst of daily work.

Michael Bungay Stanier is the founder of Box of Crayon, a learning and development company that helps organizations transform from advice-driven to curiosity led. Michael has written a number of books. His last, the Wall Street Journal bestseller The Coaching Habit, has sold over half a million copies and been praised as one of the few business books that makes people laugh. His new book, The Advi...

Chief Evangelist at BombBomb, host of The Customer Experience Podcast, and coauthor of Rehumanize Your Business, Ethan’s collected and told personal video success stories in hundreds of blog posts, in dozens of webinars, podcasts, and stage presentations, and in countless conversations. He spent a dozen years leading marketing inside local television stations in Chicago, Grand Rapids, and Colorado...

Mark Glover joined Medidata in December 2018 and is the Country Manager Australia and New Zealand, based in Sydney. Mark brings a broad and deep based experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical, medical devices and SaaS industries across Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Asia. He has held executive roles with a diverse range of companies, including Managing Director for iNova Pharmaceuticals, Manag...

Lee Davy is someone that doesn't drink alcohol. He is not an alcoholic, he refuses to be anonymous and spends every waking moment helping other people be the same through his podcasts, coaching, online courses, and Strive community.

Eric LoMonaco is the director of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at Community Hospital, a position he has held since 2006. Prior to that, Eric served for 4½ years as assistant director of Radiation Oncology.

The author or editor of twelve books, including Zarathustra in Paris: The Nietzsche Vogue in France, 1891-1918 (2001), The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood (2004) and Masculinity in the Modern West (2008), his most recent book is Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life (London: Reaktion, 2019). His current book project is tentatively entitled Life is Elsewhere: Feeling Alive in...

Randi Redmond Oster is the multi - award winning author of Questioning Protocol, which helps patients navigate the healthcare system and medical professionals understand the patient perspective. She is a nationally acclaimed speaker on healthcare reform, shared decision making and patient engagement.

Jerald Winakur, MD, MACP graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, practiced internal and geriatric medicine for 36 years and taught at the The Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics for 18 years at UTHealth—San Antonio. His book, “Memory Lessons—A Doctor’s Story“ (Hyperion, 2009), relates the journey through Alzheimer’s Disease he took with his father. He has also writte...

Sakib is a design researcher with expertise in persuasive design and business innovation strategies. He is a thinker, writer, consultant, analyst and strategist with more than 16 peer-reviewed scientific articles. Scholarships obliged him to live and research in Thailand, Singapore, Spain, Australia and the USA. At each place, he started with a blank mind and immersed himself in the culture and la...

As the National Director of the HAMES SHARLEY Health Portfolio, Warren has used his qualifications in architecture and health administration to specialise in hospital design.

A serial social entrepreneur, Shannon Weber MSW has launched sexual health initiatives impacting thousands. She believes we thrive at the intersection of empathy and resilience.