Well Beyond Medicine: The Nemours Children's Health Podcast

The Champions for Children podcast is now the Well Beyond Medicine podcast. Learn the whys, hows, and wherefores in this episode, featuring Nemours Children's associates Drew Landmeier , Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer; Che Parker, Communications Program Manager; and Cheryl Munn , Enterprise Communications Director. Visit NemoursWellBeyond.org to access current episodes of...

 Teenagers across the nation are learning to navigate the often complex healthcare system thanks to a Nemours Children's-developed, no-cost, evidence-based health education curriculum called "Navigating the Health Care System." Today, we are joined by the Nemours associates who created and have made available this curriculum along with teachers from Delaware, Illinois, and Alabama t...

Our topic is predictive analytics for research. Collecting it, preparing it, analyzing it, and protecting it are the Nemours Biomedical Research Informatics Center (BRIC) realm. BRIC provides consultation, training, and computational resources to biomedical research investigators across the enterprise and beyond. Our guests are BRIC Director Dr. Timothy Bunnell and Daniel Eckrich, BRIC’s Superviso...

Karen Wilding, Nemours' new Chief Value Officer, explains her role with the enterprise. She’ll also share her experience on 9/11, when she was a student in Washington, DC, where she watched the tragedy unfold. It was an event that shaped her life and put her on the path to becoming a Nemours associate.  Carol Vassar, producer Views expressed by guests do not necessarily reflect the views of t...

Dr. Roger Harrison joins us on this episode of the podcast. Together we delve into his work as a pediatric psychologist in the greater Wilmington, Delaware area, a role he's held at Nemours Children's Health for 20 years, and his longstanding passion for health equity and inclusion.  Carol Vassar, producer Guest:  Roger Harrison, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Nemours Children's Hospit...

Biobanking is the process by which bodily fluid or tissue samples are collected for research to improve our understanding of health and disease. In this episode, we explore the past, present, and future of biobanking at Nemours Children's Health.  Carol Vassar, producer Guests: Diana Corao-Uribe, MD, Director, Biobank and Molecular Analysis Program (BMAP) at Nemours Children's Hospital,...

According to the American Society of Human Genetics, medical genetics is any application of genetic principles to medical practice. This includes studies of inheritance, mapping disease genes, diagnosis and treatment, and genetic counseling, all offered by Nemours Children's Health. Carol Vassar, producer Guests: Karen Gripp, MD, Pediatrician, and Genetic Researcher, Nemours Children's H...

Project HOPE stands for Harnessing Opportunity for Positive, Equitable Early Childhood Development. Nemours Children's Health is part of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded consortium promoting both equity and child well-being on a national level. How? By building the capacity of local communities, state leaders, cross-sector state teams, and local coalitions to prevent social adversities...

Precision medicine, personalized medicine, genetic medicine - these are all terms bandied about in the press, but what exactly do they mean? Who better to ask than two Nemours Children's Health geneticists with 73 years of combined experience in genetics: Dr. Pamela Arn, Division Chief for Genetics, Nemours Children's Health, Jacksonville, and Dr. Vicky Funanage, Operational Vice Preside...

Nemours Children's Health Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs & Enterprise Chief Communications Officer Gina Altieri shares her insights regarding the philosophy behind the enterprise tagline, Well Beyond Medicine , and how these three words represent Nemours Children's vision and strategy ingeniously.  Carol Vassar, producer Guest: Gina Altieri, Executive Vice President, Cor...