The Wound-Dresser

Season 4, Episode 10: Dr. Ali Houshmand is the president of Rowan University and the thought leader behind the  Rowan Wellness Village. Listen to Ali discuss the vision for the Rowan Wellness Village, the components of a healthy community and strategies for cultivating purpose for young adults and senior citizens.

Season 4, Episode 9: Gianna Calligy is a fourth-year medical student at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and a youth mentor for children affected by addiction. Listen to Gianna discuss the effects of substance use on families, the work of Camp Mariposa and her own reflections on addiction medicine. Camp Mariposa is a free year-round addiction prevention and youth mentoring program for age...

(REWIND) Season 2, Episode 6: Professor John Kaag is the Chair of Philosophy at University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Listen to John talk about mental illness, the golden mean and how transcendence is related to healing.

Season 4, Episode 8: Dr. Donald Friedman is a retired rheumatologist and mindful self-compassion advocate based in Philadelphia. Listen to Don discuss the three components of mindful self-compassion, the prevailing myths about this practice and how mindful self-compassion can help physicians cope with clinical errors.

Season 4, Episode 7: Dr. Anna Wexler is a medical ethicist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies emerging technologies and do-it-yourself (DIY) medicine. Listen to Anna discuss common DIY medicine applications, the conditions under which DIY medicine movements emerge, and approaches for physicians to discuss DIY medicine with patients. 

(REWIND) Season 1, Episode 7: Dr. Ethan Tarasov is a retired radiologist from central New Jersey. Listen to Ethan talk about the evolution of imaging during his career and the musical compositions that have been his focus since retiring from medicine. See soundingseamusic.com to check out his work!

(REWIND) Season 3, Episode 3: Dr. Gregg Furie is an internal medicine physician and medical director for climate and sustainability at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. Listen to Gregg discuss the effects of climate change on our health, ongoing policy initiatives to reduce healthcare emissions and his approach to addressing climate change with patients.

Season 4, Episode 6: Dr. Ju-Lin Wang is a trauma surgeon at Cooper University Healthcare in Camden, New Jersey. Listen to Ju-Lin discuss the clinical decision trees used to stabilize trauma patients, partnerships between trauma surgery and the military and the importance of trauma awareness campaigns in our communities. 

Season 4, Episode 5: Dr. Meggie Crnic is a Philadelphia-based medical historian and author of The Beach Cure: A History of Healing on Northeastern Shores . Listen to Meggie discuss the elements that make beach environments therapeutic, a history of floating hospitals on the eastern seaboard and the interplay of science and lived experience when studying healing landscapes.

Season 4, Episode 4: Dr. Jocelyn Mitchell-Williams is the senior associate dean for medical education at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. She also has extensive experience designing service-learning programs for medical students. Listen to Jocelyn discuss the recent evolution of Camden, New Jersey, pipeline to medical profession programs and the importance of advocacy in medicine.

Season 4, Episode 3: Dr. Jason Han is a cardiothoracic surgeon at Cooper University Healthcare and a writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Listen to Jason discuss the importance of creativity in surgery, the state of surgical education and the stereotypes that have traditionally defined the surgical profession.

Season 4, Episode 2: Kathleen Noonan is president and CEO of Camden Coalition which seeks to improve the health and well-being of people with complex needs. Listen to Kathleen discuss ecosystems of care, regional health hubs and Camden Coalition's Housing First program.

Season 4, Episode 1: Dr. Marschall Runge is the former dean of University of Michigan Medical School and CEO of Michigan Medicine. He is also the author of the The Great Healthcare Disruption: Big Tech, Bold Policy, and the Future of American Medicine . Listen to Marschall discuss realistic expectations for our healthcare system, the potential uses of artificial intelligence in medicine and the im...

(REWIND) Season 2, Episode 18: Sarah DiGregorio is a freelance healthcare journalist from Brooklyn, New York. She is also the author of Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World . Listen to Sarah talk about the nurse-patient relationship, healthcare billing and the political nature of nursing.

(REWIND) Season 2, Episode 10: Dr. Aly Cohen is an integrative rheumatologist and environmental health expert in Princeton, NJ. Listen to Aly discuss the regulation of chemicals in consumer products, the effects of these chemicals on our health, and her experiences navigating the healthcare payment structure. Check out Dr. Cohen's environmental health initiative, The Smart Human, here .

(REWIND) Season 1, Episode 14: Dr. Chiti Parikh is an author and integrative medicine physician at New York Presbyterian – Weill Cornell Medical Center. Listen to Chiti talk about the definition of integrative medicine, the types of patients who seek out integrative care and the importance of addressing spirituality during patient visits. Check out Dr. Parikh's book Intentional Health here .

Season 3, Episode 20: Dr. Colin West is an internal medicine physician and Medical Director for Employee Well-Being at Mayo Clinic. Listen to Colin discuss individual and system-based strategies for addressing burnout, the MVPs of wellbeing (meaning, value and purpose) and research tools for measuring burnout and wellbeing.

Season 3, Episode 19: Dr. Kimya Imani Jackson is a standardized patient actor and trainer based in Philadelphia. Listen to Kimya discuss how she got into standardized patient acting, guidelines for physical touch during a clinical encounter and advice for delivering bad news to patients.

Season 3, Episode 18: Dr. Jonathan Reisman is a pediatric emergency medicine physician and writer based in Philadelphia. Listen to Jonathan discuss the use of scripts when delivering bad news, the future of A.I. in medicine and the replaceability of physicians. Check out Dr. Jonathan Reisman's New York Times op-ed on A.I. here and his book The Unseen Body here

Season 3, Episode 17: Dr. Mara Gordon is a writer and primary care physician for Cooper University Healthcare in Camden, NJ. Listen to Mara discuss her motivations for writing about healthcare, ways to create change in our healthcare system and the rationale for size-inclusive medicine. Check out Dr. Gordon's work here: https://sites.google.com/view/mara-gordon/

Season 3, Episode 16: Dr. Chad Horne is a political philosopher of health at Northwestern University. Listen to Chad discuss the purpose of health insurance, the Affordable Care Act and the egalitarian and market failures approaches to justice in health.

Season 3, Episode 15: Dr. Farr Curlin is a palliative medicine physician and Josiah Trent Professor of Medical Humanities in the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, & History of Medicine at Duke University. Listen to Farr discuss health in the context of palliative medicine, medical aid in dying and the interaction of patient and physician values.

Season 3, Episode 14: Dr. David Swope is a teaching professor of embryology at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. Listen to David discuss the concept of active learning, recent trends in medical education and best practices for staying up to date on medical advances.

Season 3, Episode 11: Dr. Amjol Shrestha is the vice president of Philadelphia Stoa and a philosophy professor at Rowan University. Listen to Amjol discuss the guiding principles of stoicism and how these principles can be helpful in improving the wellbeing of both patients and healthcare professionals.

Season 3, Episode 12: Dr. Richard Schaefer is an orthopedic specialist at Johns Hopkins Medicine and an editor at CLOSLER. Listen to Richard discuss the pillars of CLOSLER, his past writing pieces, and helpful strategies for connecting with patients.