The Health Design Podcast

Anne H. Charity Hudley, PhD is Professor of Education and Linguistics at Stanford University. Her research and publications address the relationship between language variation and educational practices and policies. She has a particular emphasis on creating high-impact practices for underrepresented students in higher education. Charity Hudley is the co-author of three books: The Indispensable Gui...

Ann’s interest in Pediatric Oncology began when, at age 43 she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a primary bone cancer that affects kids aged 10-25, and was treated in the Pediatric Cancer Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Like most adults, she was unaware of how little funding pediatric cancers receive, how great the suffering is, and how too often the youngest patients lose limbs, organ functio...

Katherine Leon is co-founder and Board Chair of SCAD Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to research of spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD), a non-atherosclerotic cause of heart attack and sudden cardiac arrest. In 2003, Katherine survived a 90% blockage of her left main artery caused by SCAD, which required emergency double bypass surgery. Finding no clinical studies of SCAD had been conduc...

Timothy McMahan King is the author of Addiction Nation: What the Opioid Crisis Reveals About Us. After a near-fatal illness led to his doctor's prescribing him opioids for the pain, King ended up where millions of others have: addicted. But his story didn't end in tragedy like so many others. He had a doctor who understood the nature of addiction and a healthy support system that allowed him to st...

Tina Aswani Omprakash is a Crohn’s patient and award-winning patient expert and health advocate based out of New York City. She has had Crohn’s Disease for 15 years and has had numerous surgeries. Tina maintains a blog and advocacy platform called Own Your Crohn’s (http://ownyourcrohns.com) and recently co-founded IBDesis, a community for South Asians living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)....

Chris Bright is an international Futsal player who’s represented Wales on multiple occasions across Europe and a patient advocate for those with type 1 diabetes after living with the condition since 1999. Chris now focuses on empowering people with Diabetes through the tool of Football (Soccer). He pushes for greater educational support for people with the condition whilst also trying to create op...

Dr. Danny Sands is passionate about healthcare transformation. A practicing physician with training and experience in clinical informatics, Dr. Sands has worked in a variety of capacities in the healthcare IT industry for over 25 years. He spent almost 14 years doing clinical informatics at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he developed and implemented innovative systems to improve clini...

Dave Bjork is a patient advocate and research evangelist with more than 20 years of progressive experience in nonprofit advocacy, community-building and fundraising leadership roles. He is currently a consultant on the Patient Driven Design team at Medidata Solutions advising on bringing the patient voice to the clinical trial experience. Dave is also host of the Research Evangelist podcast and bl...

Pamela Katz Ressler, RN, MS, HNB-BC is the founder of Stress Resources and an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA. She has served as the only nurse on the Executive Board for Medicine X at Stanford University and as a member of the Consumer Health Council of the Massachusetts Health Quality Partners. Ms....

Kimberly Warner is a film director and producer based in Portland, Oregon. After receiving her degree in Pre-Med and Biology at Colorado College and pursuing her Masters degree at National University of Naturopathic Medicine, Kimberly abruptly changed paths and has never looked back. Her work, still founded in a passion for the psychological and social patterns that influence healing, has traded h...

Esther (Soo Hyun) Kim, MD, MPH immigrated to the United States with her family from Seoul, South Korea, at the tender age of 5 years. She grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and attended Duke University for her undergraduate studies. She went on to receive her medical degree from Duke University Medical Center and her Master of Public Health degree at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She...

Luke Escombe is an award-winning singer-songwriter, musician, and comedian who has turned his 25 years of living with chronic illness into inspiration for his art. Growing up in London, with a Rock and Roll Dad who worked in the music business, Luke’s dreams of rock stardom suffered a serious blow at the age of 14 when he was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease. After spending long stretches of his 20’...

Craig Lipset is the founder of Clinical Innovation Partners, providing advisory and board leadership with pharma, tech and venture capital to bring vision and driving action at the intersection of research, digital solutions, and patient engagement. He is co-chair for the Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance, serves on the Board of Directors for the Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research and the...

Rod was diagnosed with Stage IIIB IBC and treated with FEC x 3, Taxol x 3, a mastectomy and axillary clearance, with 2/23 nodes positive, and had 33 doses of radiation. He has been on tamoxifen for six years. Rod soon realised that he needed to get up to speed on treatments to ensure that the was receiving best-practice protocols. Two years later, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and had a pr...

At 50 years old James Gagli committed to medical training. In this podcast he explores the reasons for starting on the most demanding course of education in the hope of serving as a doctor in years to come.

Bárbara Segarra-Vázquez, D.H.Sc., has been a faculty member at the University of Puerto Rico for more than 30 years, is the Dean of the School of Health Professions, and the Principal Investigators of a R25 training program for young investigators funded by NIMHD. Dr. Segarra-Vázquez is a two time breast cancer survivor and became an advocate after her first diagnosis. She became a volunteer for K...

David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, FCPP, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in Translational Medicine & Human Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania, Director of the Penn Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment & Laboratory (CSTL), Executive Director of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN), and Associate Director, Patient Impact for the Penn Orphan Disease Center. David Fajgenbaum is...

Christophe Jauquet is an international keynote speaker and author of the book “Healthusiasm”. As a health marketing expert, he inspires consumer businesses and healthcare organisations around the world. With his experience at the intersection of health, marketing and technology, Christophe guides companies and brands in creating business strategies to remain relevant in this Healthusiasm World.

Geri is a patient, family caregiver, and clinician advocate. She works to improve care communication through asynchronous technology, health literacy, and co-design. She currently works with Docola - a social good organization that's created a free care communication platform to help hospitals, clinics and care providers find and e-prescribe education and resources to patients and care partners. S...

Daniel G Garza has been an HIV/AIDS Patient Leader, Advocate, and Educator since 2001 starting in The Rio Grande area of Texas, Houston, and now in Southern California. With a foundation based on teaching prevention to high schools, colleges, and universities. A member of the Board of Directors for Radiant Health Centers and Chair of the Client Advisory Committee. A member of Positively Fearless c...

Amit Goyal is a cardiology fellow at the Cleveland Clinic. He is co-founder and host of the CardioNerds Podcast and co-host of the Talking Tall Rounds Podcast. He completed his medical school at the University of California, San Diego and went on to enjoy residency training in the Osler Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he served as the Assistant Chief of Service of the Barker Firm. As ACS...

Grace B. Charrier is a debut Author, Speaker, Host and Content Creator of Cancer Convos with Grace B. She is also a proud survivor and thriver of Stage 3 Breast Cancer (DCIS). After completing her treatment in 2017, she felt a strong calling to amplify her voice and reach out to and support cancer patients, survivors, and their families by inviting healthcare professionals to share their valid ins...

Denise McCuaig is a Métis elder residing in British Columbia, Canada. She is the past Director, Aboriginal Health for the Interior Health Authority. Over the past two years she has been supporting the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement as an Indigenous Coach and Mentor. Denise is a board member of the Mood Disorder Society of Canada, First People’s Wellness Circle and Lii Michif Otipem...

Don Dizon, MD, FACP, is Professor of Medicine at Brown University and a medical oncologist with research interestes in novel therapies of breast and pelvic cancers (e.g. ovarian, uterine, cervical cancers), survivorship particularly as it pertains to sexual health for men and women with cancer, and social media. He is the Director of the Breast and Pelvic Malignancies Program at Lifespan Cancer In...

Soojin (or “Soo”) is a board certified geriatric pharmacist in Illinois and Wisconsin. She is also a certified professional in patient safety and certified professional in healthcare quality, evidently very passionate about patient safety and quality improvement. After losing her dad to many gaps in healthcare as a minority caregiver, possibly from medication adverse events, she changed her career...