The PennHealthX Podcast

This episode was done in collaboration with the American Cancer Society or ACS. May is National Cancer Research Month, and we wanted to help promote a great program they have launched called ResearcHERS. We'll share some links in the show notes, but in short, to share some words from the team, ResearcHERS empowers women to fundraise in support of women-led cancer research, but it's more than just...

This episode is a continuation of our COVIDCast series. In it, Jonathan Wakim and I speak with Maguire Herriman and Elana Meer about a COVID Chatbot project they worked on at Penn along with Google to better address questions posed by those who visit the Penn Medicine website to learn about the coronavirus and current policies. To give you some more perspective on the project, I’ll read off from a...

This episode is a recording of a virtual talk hosted by Penn HealthX with Professor Mauro Guillen. In the talk, Professor Guillen discussed the economic impacts of the pandemic and makes the case for opening the economy as soon as we can do so safely. Though the presentation included slides, the audio is easy to follow along with. The intended audience for the talk was medical students without a b...

In this episode, I spoke with Dr. Umang Jain, who is a 3rd-year emergency medicine resident at Penn. We start off the episode discussing his interdisciplinary background and interests and what drew him to emergency medicine. We then speak about how COVID-19 has impacted his experience working in the emergency room, and how it has impacted residency training and the types of patients that he has be...

his episode was created for The Perelman School of Medicine’s online Health Systems curriculum for second-year clerkship students. In it, third-year medical student Casey Kim (who was previously featured on the Podcast for her work with POHPS and creating COVIDigests) and finished our interview with Dr. Kirstin Knox and Dr. Anna Morgan. In part 2 we discuss the COVIDWatch program which uses SMS to...

This episode was created for The Perelman School of Medicine’s online Health Systems curriculum for second-year clerkship students. In it, third-year medical student Casey Kim (who was previously featured on the Podcast for her work with POHPS and creating COVIDigests) and I interviewed Caryn Douma and Cynthia Line. Caryn is Corporate Director of Patient Safety for Penn Medicine, and Cynthia is th...

This episode was created for The Perelman School of Medicine’s online Health Systems curriculum for second-year clerkship students. In it, third-year medical student Casey Kim (who was previously featured on the Podcast for her work with POHPS and creating COVIDigests) and I interviewed Dr. Kirstin Knox, Dr. Anna Morgan, Amber Kuestner who is an RN, and Catherine Stieglitz who is a social worker a...

This episode was created for The Perelman School of Medicine’s online Health Systems curriculum for second-year clerkship students. In it, third-year medical student Casey Kim (who was previously featured on the Podcast for her work with POHPS and creating COVIDigests) and I interview Dr. Julie Uspal, who is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, and is the Co-Director for Quality...

This episode was created for The Perelman School of Medicine’s online Health Systems curriculum for second-year clerkship students. In it, third-year medical student Casey Kim (who was previously featured on the Podcast for her work with POHPS and creating COVIDigests) and I interview Dr. Anna Graseck and Dr. Kirstin Leitner, who are both Ob/Gyn physicians. They tell us more about the THEA program...

Today’s episode is a continuation of our COVIDCast series. In it, Jonathan Wakim and I interview Charlotte Tisch, who is a first-year medical student at Penn who was able to help secure PPE for hospital systems in the early days of the COVID pandemic by digging it out from the basements of various museums in New York and Philadelphia. We talk about her experience studying Egyptian Archeology, work...

In this episode, Jonathan Wakim and I spoke with Olivia Best, who is currently a post-bac student at Temple and is leading the wellness initiatives for the POHPS group. It is another short episode and is a continuation of our COVIDCast series highlighting the work of students, residents, and faculty to address the COVID pandemic. We discuss Olivia’s background, how she got involved with POHPS to o...

Today’s episode is a quick one Jonathan Wakim and I recorded with Alexandra Myers and Elizabeth Volpicelli, who are both 3rd-year medical students at Temple Medical School. They tell us about their involvement with the POHPS organization helping to centralize all of the volunteer opportunities for students to help out during the COVID pandemic. We’ve included links to the spreadsheets the two have...

Today’s episode is a conversation I co-hosted with Maryam, one of the VP’s of Curriculum for Penn HealthX, and our guest, Dr. Danish Nagda. Dr. Nagda is the founder and CEO of Rezilient, an exciting telemedicine company. From their website: After speaking to countless physicians, they’ve heard the same rationale for the lack of adoption of current virtual care solutions for outpatient care: Doctor...

For this episode, Jonathan Wakim and my fellow Co-President Logan Brock joined me to welcome back our very first guest on this podcast all the way back in 2017, Dr. David Fajgenbaum. In the episode we hear about some of the major milestones and highlights of the last 3 years since we last spoke with Dr. Fajgenbaum. These include memories of successfully treating other Castleman patients with the d...

This episode is a continuation of our series of COVID-related content. Jonathan Wakim and I speak with the SaniPack team, consisting of Omar Abdoun, Khaled Abdoun, Lina Ibrahim, Ahmed Aly, Zonia Moore, and Doreen Lam. Each of the team members is a student at the Perelman School of Medicine, and Doreen Lam is currently one of the VPs of Curriculum for Penn HealthX. Together, their group developed t...

Today’s episode is a conversation I had with David Lindsay, who is an MD/PhD student at Penn. He is also the Co-Founder and CEO of Oncora Medical, which is a Philadelphia based company developing of a digital health platform intended to improve the way oncologists access, organize and learn from past radiation treatment data. The company's platform uses predictive analytics to unify data on radiat...

Today’s episode is a quick one we recorded with Nicole Jochym to highlight the work she has done as the co-creator of Sew Face Masks Philadelphia (SFMP). Nicole is currently a 3rd-year medical student at Cooper Medical School just across the river from us in Camden, New Jersey. She holds a Masters of Bioethics from UPenn. Be on the lookout for a lot more COVID content to be released soon, highligh...

For this episode, we are continuing our series featuring healthcare students and workers who are helping in the response to COVID-19. I spoke with Casey Kim, who is a 3rd-year medical student. She is on the leadership board for POHPS, the Philadelphia Organization of Health Professions Students and has taken the lead on creating guidelines for both medical professionals and the public regarding CO...

POHPS Website www.pohps.org Today, we are finally getting some COVID-related material. Over the next few weeks, we are going to continue highlighting some of the amazing work healthcare students and staff are doing in the Philadelphia area to help address the coronavirus pandemic. First, we are sharing a conversation Wakim, a 1st year Penn Medical student and VP of Strategy for HealthX, and I had...

Todays episode is a conversation I had with Dr. Ravi Parikh who is a Heme/Onc fellow at Penn. He received his MD from Harvard and his MPP from the Kennedy School. He completed an internal medicine residency at the Brigham. Dr. Parikh gave our first (and unfortunately probably only) in-person seminar series talk this semester. He spoke about Machine Learning in healthcare, some of the projects he i...

In this episode, I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. James Buxton – all the way from across the pond in London. James is an MBA colleague of mine and a physician from the U.K who was training to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. In the episode we discuss how the coronavirus has impacted him these last few weeks and how he may soon be called to the frontlines in the U.K. We also discuss how we becam...

In this episode, I had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Richard Baron. Dr. Baron is currently the president and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine, or ABIM. He received his MD from Yale and completed his internal medicine residency at NYU-Bellevue Medical Center. He served a 3-year obligation in the National Health Service Corps in rural Tennessee, practiced general internal medicine...

In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. David Nash. Dr. Nash is the Founding Dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health in Philadelphia. He completed his MD at the University of Rochester, and his internal medicine residency at Graduate Hospital of University of Pennsylvania. He was a RWJ Clinical scholar, and through this program completed an WBA with the Wharton School....

Welcome to the Penn HealthX Podcast. For those who are new listeners, we seek to interview students, faculty, and leaders working at the intersection of business and medicine at Penn and beyond. Penn HealthX is a student run organization at the Perelman School of Medicine that organizes a speaker series, funds internships and startup companies, and hosts an annual conference, among other things. Y...

Today’s episode is a conversation I had with Elliot Stein while he was still a student here at Penn. Elliot had previously been involved with the leadership of HealthX, and, as you will see, interacted with just about every branch of HealthX during his time as a student. Since then, he began a prelim year at Pennsylvania Hospital and will be completing a residency in Interventional Radiology at UC...