Best Shah Family Foundation Podcasts (2023)

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Last Night At School Committee

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Ep. 92, Last Night @ School Committee: 9/27 Meeting Recap 14:50

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Last night’s School Committee meeting began with remarks from Chair Jeri Robinson in which she addressed her comments at the last School Committee meeting on the troubled state of Boston Public Schools. In her remarks last night, Chair Robinson claimed that her unscripted comments were used to promote a negative image of the district and that publi…

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Raise the Line

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How Empathy Improves the Patient and Provider Experience - Dr. Helen Riess, CEO of Empathetics, Inc. 34:07

3h ago34:07

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If you were to name one thing that could simultaneously increase patient satisfaction and reduce provider burnout, would empathy come to mind? Well, based on research published in peer-reviewed journals, it should, as we’ll learn from our Raise the Line guest Dr. Helen Riess, a clinical professor at Harvard Medical School and author of the book, Th…

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Capturing Cancer Signals to Aid Early Detection - Dr. Josh Ofman, President of GRAIL 33:43

16h ago33:43

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The value of early detection is perhaps greater for cancer than many other diseases because it remains the second leading cause of death worldwide. On this episode of Raise the Line we're going to learn about a new testing approach that leverages genomic technology and machine learning to detect signals circulating in the blood across more than 50 …

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Raise the Line

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Science in the Service of Furthering Mental Health - Dr. Joshua Gordon, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health 37:28

7d ago37:28

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On this episode of Raise the Line, we have the privilege of hearing from one of the nation's top healthcare leaders, Dr. Joshua Gordon, who is the director of the National Institute of Mental Health. In that role, he oversees an extensive portfolio of basic and clinical research that seeks to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illn…

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Raise the Line

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The Crucial Role of Psychedelic Therapy Guides - Mary Cosimano, Director of Guide and Facilitator Services at The Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research 31:32

8d ago31:32

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The Crucial Role of Psychedelic Therapy Guides - Mary Cosimano, Former Director of Guide and Facilitator Services at The Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research All of the promising research into the potential benefits of psychedelics in mental health treatment depends on having skilled professionals who can create a therape…

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Catalysts for Change

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What Drives Us? Michael Horn and Jeff Selingo on Incentives in Education 1:04:35

9d ago1:04:35

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Every decision we make is guided by incentives. From financial incentives to social and political incentives – how we are rewarded shapes how we behave and the choices we make. Have you ever thought about why you do what you do, or why decisions get made a certain way? We're digging into these questions in this special three-part podcast series tha…

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Last Night At School Committee

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Ep. 91, Last Night @ School Committee: 9/13 Meeting Recap 27:11

19d ago27:11

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Last night was the first School Committee meeting held in-person since the start of the pandemic, and it was conducted in a hybrid format with both in-person and remote public testimony. The meeting began with the Superintendent’s Report, which featured a number of positive back-to-school updates, including a low number of teacher vacancies, a high…

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Raise the Line

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Partnerships Are Key to Building the Future Healthcare Workforce - Geoffrey Roche, Director of Workforce Development in North America for Siemens Healthineers 25:30

19d ago25:30

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“We're really heading to a cliff when it comes to those expressing interest in healthcare careers,” cautions today’s Raise the Line guest Geoffrey Roche, director of Workforce Development in North America for Siemens Healthineers. Unfortunately, this drop-off in interest is happening as statistics on the current and future shortage of healthcare wo…

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Raise the Line

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The Power of Active Learning and Engaged Learners - Dr. Amin Azzam, Faculty Engagement Coordinator at Osmosis 28:56

15d ago28:56

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Active and fun are rarely the first words associated with medical education, but today’s Raise the Line guest, Dr. Amin Azzam, contends learners get the most value when they can engage with their education rather than passively receive knowledge. As Azzam relates to host Hillary Acer, the vice president of Strategic Operations at Osmosis, he rememb…

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Raise the Line

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Forging a New Approach to Menopause Care - Dr. Anna Barbieri, Founding Physician of Elektra Health and Assistant Clinical Professor, Mount Sinai Health System 30:53

26d ago30:53

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“When we say ‘treatment for menopause,’ it implies that menopause is a disease, when really it’s a normal and expected time of life,” says Dr. Anna Barbieri, an integrative medicine physician and specialist in menopause certified by the North American Menopause Society. That attentiveness to word choice is reflective of a new perspective that’s dri…

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Raise the Line

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Understanding the Therapy Part of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy - Dr. Mary "Bit" Yaden, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University 52:28

27d ago52:28

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We've been careful on Raise the Line to use the term psychedelic-assisted therapy because, as we've heard from previous guests, these compounds are best administered in the context of a therapeutic relationship in a safe, controlled setting. Today, we're going to focus on the therapy part of the equation with Dr. Mary “Bit” Yaden, an assistant prof…

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Catalysts for Change

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Catalysts Presents: “Cash Is King” from the “Say More” Podcast 21:17

24d ago21:17

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In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic began, the city of Chelsea, Massachusetts faced record economic and food insecurity, with thousands of residents lining up at city-run food distribution centers. To meet the need, the Shah Family Foundation joined city leaders in a simple idea: give people cash and let them spend it however they want. The initiativ…

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Last Night At School Committee

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Ep. 90, Last Night @ School Committee: 8/31 Meeting Recap 29:44

1M ago29:44

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Last night was the first School Committee meeting of the new school year, and it began by introducing the Committee’s newest member, Chantal Lima Barbosa. The first report of the evening was on the results of an external investigation into allegations that BPS leaders discriminated against administrators of color, which concluded that there were no…

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Raise the Line

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Innovating to Prepare Future Clinicians for New Roles - Dr. Mary Klotman, Dean of Duke University School of Medicine 30:21

1M ago30:21

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“I really have challenged the students that have graduated from Duke the last couple of years to consider being ambassadors for science and for communication of what is good science,” says Dr. Mary Klotman, executive vice president for Health Affairs and dean of the School of Medicine at Duke University. She notes that the stakes of disinformation …

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Raise the Line

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Don’t Fear the Power of AI, Leverage It - Dr. Nigam Shah, Chief Data Scientist at Stanford University 32:37

1M ago32:37

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Instead of fretting about AI replacing jobs humans currently do, Dr. Nigam Shah is urging people to adopt a perspective about the technology that echoes President John Kennedy’s famous charge in his inaugural address: ‘ask not what this technology can do to you, ask what you can do with this technology.’ “If medicine simply automated everything we …

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Raise the Line

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How AI is Shaping the Work of Medical Educators - Dr. Adam Rodman, Co-Director of iMED at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 43:01

1M ago43:01

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“What's really exciting and scary in medical education right now is we're seeing large language models enter the scene,” says today’s Raise the Line guest Dr. Adam Rodman, who is well-placed to make such an assessment. As co-director of the Innovations in Media and Education Delivery Initiative (iMED) at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Ro…

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Raise the Line

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Is Artificial Intelligence the Answer to Health Equity? - Munjal Shah, CEO of Hippocratic AI 29:39

1M ago29:39

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When Munjal Shah and his colleagues chose to use Hippocratic in the name of their new AI-based company, it wasn’t just about signaling their product was involved with healthcare, it was also intended to leverage the ‘do no harm’ philosophy associated with the term. After all, formerly fanciful fears of ‘robots’ replacing doctors have become more re…

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Raise the Line

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What AI’s Rapid Progress Means for Healthcare and Health Information - Dr. Michael Howell, Chief Clinical Officer at Google 41:02

1M ago41:02

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“When my dad gets sick, he has a Harvard-trained physician looking over his shoulder, helping him know what to type in and what queries to ask. I just want that for the world,” says Dr. Michael Howell, who is in a position to advance that vision as chief clinical officer at Google. In that role, Howell leads the team of experts who provide guidance…

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Raise the Line

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A Strengths-Based Approach to Medical Education & Patient Care - Dr. Rachel Salas, Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University 31:40

1M ago31:40

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“I have coaching involved in all of my programs. It's just done wonders not only for the work I do, but for me personally,” says Dr. Rachel Salas, a professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University and certified strength and life coach. It wasn’t always this way. Salas was well into her career as a sleep specialist and clerkship director before b…

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Catalysts for Change

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What Drives Us? Professor Uri Gneezy on Understanding Incentives 34:52

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Every decision we make is guided by incentives. From financial incentives to social and political incentives – how we are rewarded shapes how we behave and the choices we make. Have you ever thought about why you do what you do, or why decisions get made a certain way? We're digging into these questions in this special three-part podcast series tha…

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Raise the Line

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Using Music Based on DNA to Drive Rare Disease Awareness - Dr. Aditi Kantipuly, Professor Stephen Taylor and Casey McPherson 25:41

2M ago25:41

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You’re going to hear something in this episode of Raise the Line that you most likely have never heard before: what DNA sounds like. Our guests today all had an interest in musically representing DNA for different reasons, and have come together to pursue this theme as a way to raise awareness for rare diseases. Dr. Aditi Kantipuly had used the art…

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Raise the Line

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A Clicks & Mortar Future for Healthcare - Dr. Marc Harrison, Healthcare Executive and Author of Possibility Unleashed 28:16

2M ago28:16

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“I see health systems being systematically disintermediated by certain payers and some tech companies who are eager to take the easy stuff and leave health systems with really complex, sick and often very poor patients,” says veteran healthcare executive Dr. Marc Harrison. “I need a speedboat to change that.” He’s building that speedboat in partner…

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Raise the Line

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Creating Moments of Cultural Connection and Joy with Patients - Dr. Raj Sundar, Family Medicine Physician and Host of the Healthcare for Humans Podcast 30:23

2M ago30:23

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While it’s encouraging that efforts to provide culturally competent care have gained a foothold in the wake of COVID, today’s Raise the Line guest says it is time to expand the conversation to encompass the concepts of cultural safety - which involves awareness of historical power dynamics -- and cultural humility -- which requires an inward look. …

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Raise the Line

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Using Psychedelics to Learn How the Brain Works - Dr. Michael Silver, Director of the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics 34:12

2M ago34:12

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Our focus on the renaissance in research into psychedelics continues on this episode of Raise the Line, but instead of looking at their potential therapeutic applications, we're going to hear about using them as a tool for learning how the brain works. “We don't have a great idea about the neural basis of self-conception, and psychedelics make us q…

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Raise the Line

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The Promise and Peril of the New Psychedelic Era - Dr. Matthew Johnson, Professor in Psychedelics and Consciousness at Johns Hopkins University 53:27

2M ago53:27

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“I'm betting it's going to be more good than bad, but I have some big concerns about where things are headed,” warns Dr. Matthew Johnson of Johns Hopkins University when prognosticating about what impact the use of psychedelics in mental health treatment will have on society at large. As he tells host Shiv Gaglani, once these compounds are more wid…

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Raise the Line

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Empowering Better Health with Wearables and Other Digital Tools - Dr. Kapil Parakh, Senior Medical Lead at Google 41:50

2M ago41:50

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For our 400th episode we’re happy to be diving into one of our favorite topics -- direct-to-consumer healthcare -- with a leading force in the space, Dr. Kapil Parakh. In his role as senior medical lead at Google, Dr. Parakh has led projects to expand access to health information and help people achieve their fitness goals using Fitbit and other me…

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Last Night At School Committee

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Ep. 89, Last Night @ School Committee: 7/26 Meeting Recap 26:52

2M ago26:52

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Last night’s School Committee meeting was a special meeting with only one agenda item: Superintendent Skipper’s self-evaluation of her performance over the past school year. Superintendent Skipper framed her evaluation in four standards: instructional leadership, management and operations, family and community engagement, and professional culture. …

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Raise the Line

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Helping Nurses Find Their Voice - Rebecca Love, IntelyCare 29:40

2M ago29:40

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“We don't have a shortage of nurses in this country. We have a shortage of nurses willing to practice in the healthcare environments as they are today,” says Rebecca Love, an educator, innovator and leader who has devoted her career to improving the profession of nursing from multiple angles. She’s currently pursuing one of those efforts as chief c…

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Raise the Line

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Creating a Model for Healthcare in Rural America - Dr. Mike Waldrum, Dean of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and CEO of ECU Health 35:52

3M ago35:52

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Twenty years ago, health outcomes in Eastern North Carolina lagged behind state averages but those deficits have largely been erased, and Dr. Mike Waldrum, Dean of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, thinks he knows why. “We’ve done it primarily with a community-based focus and taking students only from North Carolina that we …

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Raise the Line

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Deep Community Ties Enhance Medical Education – Dr. Allison Brashear, Dean and Vice President for Health Sciences at the University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine 26:46

3M ago26:46

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If you were to make a word cloud based on this episode of Raise the Line, community would be the most prominent term. For starters, Dr. Allison Brashear was attracted to Buffalo for its reputation as a welcoming community -- a city of good neighbors, as she puts it -- which reminded her of her roots in the Midwest. She was also encouraged that the …

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Raise the Line

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A Father-Son Team Helps Shape Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy - Dr. Bill Richards and Dr. Brian Richards, Sunstone Therapies 58:26

3M ago58:26

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“We thought it was the end of psychedelic research, and the great dreams we had were for some future generation,” says Dr. Bill Richards, referring to the 1970s when the Nixon administration criminalized psychedelic compounds. At that point, he could not have imagined there would once again be the thriving interest in psychedelics for both therapeu…

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Raise the Line

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Shifting Healthcare to a Preventive Model - Andrew Lacy, Founder & CEO of Prenuvo 30:13

3M ago30:13

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“After an hour in this machine, I learned more about my health than the health system had told me my entire life.” That’s our Raise the Line guest Andrew Lacy describing a full body MRI scan he underwent several years ago in Canada that sparked the idea for the company he subsequently founded, Prenuvo, which uses advanced MRI technology for prevent…

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Raise the Line

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Challenging Medical Dogma to Save Her Child - Dr. Tracy Dixon-Salazar, Executive Director of the LGS Foundation 33:02

3M ago33:02

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When Tracy Dixon-Salazar was a young mother of two she described herself as a mediocre high school student with no real academic or career ambitions. Today, she has a PhD in Neurobiology and Neurosciences, is credited with uncovering the genetic driver of a rare form of childhood-onset epilepsy, and she also identified the first precision therapy f…

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Raise the Line

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The “Four Cs” of Innovation - Dr. Lloyd Minor, Dean of Stanford University School of Medicine 31:37

3M ago31:37

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“There's never been a better time to do what we do in our fields and the future of life sciences is so incredibly bright,” says Dr. Lloyd Minor. From his perch as dean of Stanford University School of Medicine, Minor sees the convergence of biomedicine, information science and technology dramatically increasing the pace of discovery-driven science …

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Raise the Line

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Visualizing Health Sciences Education - Andrew Dos-Santos, Founder, President & CEO of Fenix Alma Solutions 31:01

3M ago31:01

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Educating someone to be a nurse, physician or allied health professional is obviously a complex process for learners, faculty and administrators. Today, our new Raise the Line co-host (and Osmosis COO) Derek Apanovitch takes a look at tools that help all of those stakeholders visualize the overall curriculum, where a student is on their learning pa…

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Catalysts for Change

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Can Teens Survive the Digital World? Richard Louv on Reconnecting with Nature 25:46

3M ago25:46

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This year, the CDC’s annual Youth Risk Behavior Survey offered a grim outlook for the wellbeing of young people. Over the last two months, we’ve brought together experts, advocates, and school leaders to better understand the impact of social media on teen mental health in this special five-part podcast series that we’re calling, “Can Teens Survive…

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Last Night At School Committee

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Ep. 88, Last Night @ School Committee: 6/21 Meeting Recap 28:55

3M ago28:55

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Last night was the last School Committee meeting of this academic year, and it was an unusual one. There were no reports on the agenda (other than the Superintendent’s Report), and the meeting came in the wake of multiple controversies in the BPS community. The meeting began with an update from Chair Jeri Robinson on the new admissions policy for M…

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Raise the Line

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Increasing Medication Adherence with Video Technology - Sebastian Seiguer, CEO of Scene Health 23:36

3M ago23:36

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The failure of patients to take their medications as prescribed costs the U.S. healthcare system more than $500 billion a year, not to mention the adverse health outcomes it causes. Today’s Raise the Line guest, Sebastian Seiguer, co-founded and leads a company called Scene Health that is tackling this problem with a system that combines video tech…

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Raise the Line

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The Challenge of Providing the Right Data at the Right Time - Jake Engle, Senior Director at Oracle Cerner and Dr. Sam Engle, Pediatric Endocrinologist at Children’s Wisconsin 28:49

3M ago28:49

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To the uninitiated, interoperability may sound like a surgical term, but it actually refers to how IT systems and other technologies communicate with each other. The goal, of course, is seamless communication to improve efficiency and quality of care, but that's obviously a big challenge. Today on Raise the Line, we dive into this important issue w…

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Raise the Line

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Using Psychedelics to Understand Spiritual Experiences - Dr. David Yaden, Roland R. Griffiths Professor in Psychedelic Research on Secular Spirituality and Well-Being at Johns Hopkins University School ... 31:25

4M ago31:25

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Dr. David Yaden’s interest in studying spiritual experiences started with one of his own. As he describes it, it was a totally spontaneous experience involving an intensely altered state of consciousness that left him with an enhanced, positive perspective on life. “This became an obsession, really, to understand this. I learned that these experien…

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Raise the Line

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“The Time for Innovation is Upon Us” - Dr. Julie Pilitsis, Dean of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine and Vice President of Medical Affairs at Florida Atlantic University 25:42

4M ago25:42

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“I think we're doing something really special here to change the way healthcare is delivered in South Florida, so keep an eye on us,” says Dr. Julie Pilitsis, dean of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine and Vice President of Medical Affairs at Florida Atlantic University. For one thing, class sizes in the medical and nursing programs are bot…

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Catalysts for Change

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Can Teens Survive the Digital World? Boston Public Schools Superintendent Mary Skipper on Student Mental Health 46:34

4M ago46:34

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This year, the CDC’s annual Youth Risk Behavior Survey offered a grim outlook for the wellbeing of young people. Over the next few weeks, we’re bringing together experts, advocates, and school leaders to better understand the impact of social media on teen mental health in this special five-part podcast series that we’re calling, “Can Teens Survive…

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Ep. 87, Last Night @ School Committee: 6/7 Meeting Recap 32:38

4M ago32:38

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Last night’s meeting began with a discussion of a big announcement made the previous day by Mayor Wu and Superintendent Skipper regarding changes to several BPS high schools. On Tuesday, these leaders announced a vision that included relocating the O’Bryant School to the vacant West Roxbury Education Complex in a new, state-of-the-art facility and …

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Raise the Line

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Injecting Ancient Philosophy Into Modern Medical Education - Dr. Charles Lockwood, Executive Vice President of USF Health in Tampa 31:33

4M ago31:33

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Shortly after starting his job as Dean of the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine in 2014, Dr. Charles Lockwood was presented with the exciting opportunity to help design a new medical education building. In contemplating requirements for the new space, he raised the challenge to colleagues that when the facility was completed in 2020, medical k…

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“We Want to Be the Most Inclusive University in the Country” - Dr. Janelle Sokolowich, Academic Vice President and Dean of the Leavitt School of Health at Western Governors University 32:09

4M ago32:09

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After battling chronic illness as a child, Dr. Janelle Sokolowich swore she’d never step foot in a hospital again and started pursuing a different path in college. But life had a way of bringing her back to the world of medicine. “I started thinking back to all the nurses that made such an impact on me as a child and helped me to grow up to be a fu…

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Raise the Line

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“A Fascinating Time to Be Involved in This Work”- Dr. Al Garcia-Romeu, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University 45:49

4M ago45:49

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Major depression, smoking, anorexia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Alzheimer’s disease...is it possible for psychedelics to play a positive role in all of these conditions? There are indications the answer may be yes, which is why Dr. Al Garcia-Romeu and his colleagues at The Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research …

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Raise the Line

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Bringing Efficiency to the Prescription Process for Providers and Patients - Deepak Thomas, Co-Founder of Phil, Inc. 24:59

4M ago24:59

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When Deepak Thomas contracted Lyme disease in his twenties, he quickly discovered how difficult it can be for a person to navigate the healthcare system, particularly when filling prescriptions. “When it came to accessing medications that could keep me healthy and eventually kick this condition, I found myself making three to four trips to the phar…

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Catalysts for Change

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Can Teens Survive the Digital World? Dr. Jacqueline Nesi on Parenting in the Social Media Age 37:39

4M ago37:39

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This year, the CDC’s annual Youth Risk Behavior Survey offered a grim outlook for the wellbeing of young people. Over the next few weeks, we’re bringing together experts, advocates, and school leaders to better understand the impact of social media on mental health, discuss how best to support young people in the social media age, and explore the r…

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Last Night At School Committee

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Ep. 86, Last Night @ School Committee: 5/24 Meeting Recap 34:24

4M ago34:24

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Last night’s meeting began with the Superintendent’s Report, which started with a moment of silence for the recent loss of two students. The Superintendent then discussed a recent Boston Globe article on chronic absenteeism, noting that BPS has seen a 7% improvement in its chronic absenteeism rate but still has a long way to go (chronic absenteeism…

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Raise the Line

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“A Pull From Below On the Whole Central Nervous System”- Dr. Miguel Bautista Royo-Salvador, Director of the Institut Chiari & Syringomyelia Escoliosis de Barcelona 14:38

4M ago14:38

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As our Year of the Zebra focus on rare diseases continues, we’re putting several neurological conditions in the spotlight whose symptoms include neck pain, vertigo, swallowing issues, memory trouble and many more: idiopathic syringomyelia; idiopathic scoliosis; and the Arnold-Chiari Syndrome type 1 caused variously by cavities in the spinal cord an…

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