The Health Design Podcast

Dr. BJ Miller is a longtime hospice and palliative medicine physician and educator. He currently sees patients and families via telehealth through Mettle Health, a company he co-founded with the aim to provide personalized, holistic consultations for any patient or caregiver who needs help navigating the practical, emotional and existential issues that come with serious illness and disability. BJ’...

James Mold is a revered family physician, geriatrician, researcher, and leader who has helped to reshape our thinking about health and health care. Throughout his career, Mold has contributed to undergraduate and graduate medical education. He has inspired many young family physicians to get involved in research while continuing to provide outstanding care to patients. In 2014, the year he retired...

Dr. Ahmed is a Lecturer in Digital Business with a specialism in social media research in the Department of Marketing, Operations and Systems at Newcastle University. He completed his PhD at the University of Sheffield and his thesis examined the role of social media during infectious disease outbreaks. More recently, he has been working on examining social media data related to the COVID-19 Pande...

Dr. Tetteh is a Thoracic Surgeon and dedicated Physician Executive. Tetteh serves as the Mission Chief of Warfighter Health for the United States Department of Defense and leads a Specialized Thoracic Adapted Recovery (STAR) Team to expand heart and lung transplantation and save lives. A servant leader and humanitarian, Dr. Tetteh solves problems creatively with global perspective in administratio...

Rab Razzak, is clinical director of palliative care at an academic institution in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. After obtaining his medical degree from Bangladesh Medical College, he completed his internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai School of Medicine Program at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey. He worked as a hospitalist in the early years of his practice and then trans...

'm a primary care internist in full time outpatient practice. I'm a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, and participate in the Initial Clinical Experience Program mentoring first and second year medical students. I'm particularly interested in medical humanities, and narrative medicine. I've published several essays about the exper...

Yoko K. Sen is an ambient electronic musician and the founder of Sen Sound, with a vision to transform the sound environment in hospitals. As a classically trained musician, sensitive to sound, she was disturbed by noise she had experienced in hospitals as a patient. Since then, she has embarked on a mission to humanize hospital experience by improving its sound. Yoko is a former citizen artist fe...

Passion, motivation and personal experience of living with metastatic breast cancer for the past 8 years, drives Lesley’s desire to partner with communities, researchers and organizations, in aiding the funding of research for a cure, bringing awareness to this overlooked stage of breast cancer and support to those who live daily with Metastatic Breast Cancer. She has been actively involved in met...

Michael W. Rabow, MD, FAAHPM, the Helen Diller Family Chair in Palliative Care, is a Professor of Clinical Medicine and Urology at UCSF. He is the Associate Chief of Education & Mentoring in the Division of Palliative Medicine in the Department of Medicine, and the Medical Director of Palliative Care at UCSF’s Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (https://cancer.ucsf.edu/people/profiles...

Professor Gary D. Rogers is a health professions educational leader, public health researcher and GP with a focus on HIV medicine. He commenced as Professor and Dean of the School of Medicine at Deakin University in June 2020. Immediately prior to joining Deakin, he was Professor of Medical Education and Deputy Head of School (Learning & Teaching) at the Griffith University School of Medicine, as...

Rick Davis is a serial social entrepreneur with a background in finance and real estate and educated at Universities of Manchester (UK) and Chicago. He was diagnosed with locally advanced prostate cancer in 2007. It was readily apparent there was inadequate support for men placed on hormone therapy, and Rick started to advocate to remedy that. He also participated in prostate cancer support groups...

Hala Durrah, MTA, is an independent patient family engagement consultant and nationally recognized advocate. Her passion for patient family engagement work stems from her experience as a mother of a chronically ill child who has undergone two liver transplants and a bone marrow transplant. As an expert in patient partnership and engagement, she serves as a consultant on a number of projects focuse...

Kent Annan is author of You Welcomed Me: Loving Refugees and Immigrants Because God First Loved Us (forthcoming, November 2018), Slow Kingdom Coming (2016), After Shock (2011), and Following Jesus through the Eye of the Needle (2009). He is director of humanitarian and disaster leadership at Wheaton College, where he leads an M.A. program as part of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute. He’s on the...

As CEO and Founder of Reveles Clinical Services, R’Kes has over 18 years providing high-touch pharmacy services, clinical reach operations, specialty drug distribution, and clinical management to patients with rare and complex diseases such as Chronic Kidney disease, Cancer, Hemophilia and Cystic Fibrosis. Prior to founding Reveles, R'Kes headed up the Specialty Pharmacy and Clinical Research Serv...

Dr. Bassin is part of a team that has concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic has created many stressors and challenges across all levels of low to highly resourced health systems. However, it has also shown the incredible number of opportunities for innovation, ingenuity and system re-engineering. We think it is time to support a paradigm change and advocate for healthcare’s next big investment: int...

Amy Ma has been a part of the Montreal Children’s Hospital’s Family Advisory Forum since 2013, and currently serves as its co-chair. Her experience as a parent of a child with a health issue motivates her to harness patient and family voices as a force for positive change in the healthcare system. Ms Ma actively collaborates with the hospital ombudsman, administrators and clinicians to bring about...

Approaching life and the practice of medicine with love and respect, Michael D. Fratkin,MD is a builder, an innovator and a dreamer. (Not necessarily in that order.) Standing on a foundation of inspiration and burnout, Dr. Fratkin began creating ResolutionCare Network to build capacity for capable and compassionate palliative care in the rural Northern California community in which he made his hom...

Dana serves as an Executive Board Member of ECAN, is a Patient Representative on the Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer Guideline Panel for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), a member of NCI Patient Advocate Steering Committee and NCI Esophago-Gastric Task Force and serves on the Esophageal and Stomach Cancer Project Patient Advisory Committee, a project led by the Broad Institute o...

Lillian Leigh, lawyer and a lung cancer patient by Moyez Jiwa

Vanessa is an e-Patient Scholar at Stanford University Medicine X as well as antibiotic resistance and one health activist. She established Healthcare Communications and Social Media South Africa in 2013 which started as a Twitter chat to discuss sustainable health development. Vanessa also created the first CPD course in South Africa about e-Patients accredited by the South African Medical Associ...

ntermountain Healthcare in Utah. He received his medical degree, completed his internal medicine residency, and served as chief resident at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. After completing a hematology/oncology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, he returned to Houston to work at the MD Anderson Cancer Center for four years, with a dual appointment in general & gas...

Barbara Karnes, RN, is an internationally recognized author, speaker, thought leader and expert on end of life care and the dynamics of dying. Barbara was recognized in 2018 as a Hospice Innovator by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and was named the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year by the World Humanitarian Awards.

Carly Flumer was diagnosed with stage I papillary thyroid cancer at the age of 27 while earning her Master’s degree. While being diagnosed with cancer at a young age was terrifying, she found strength and support in sharing her cancer journey on social media through both the written word and visual imagery. As a result of her diagnosis, she looks to advocate for other cancer patients, especially a...

Bo Bigelow is the chairman of the Foundation for USP7 Related Diseases (usp7.org). He and his wife are the parents of two children, one of whom, Tess, has an ultra-rare genetic disorder. Bo has blazed new trails in advocating for people with undiagnosed diseases. Upon learning that Tess had a mutation in her USP7 gene, Bo and his wife believed that she was the only one of her kind in the world. Bu...

Dr. Sunita Puri is the Medical Director of the Palliative Medicine Service at Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center of the University of Southern California, where she also serves as Chair of the Ethics Committee. Sunita is the author of That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour, a critically acclaimed literary memoir examining her journey to the practice of palliative medicine, and...