112: Positives & Trade-offs of Academic Medicine with Dr. Amanda Kallen

In this week’s episode of Inside Reproductive Health, Griffin Jones and Dr. Amanda Kallen debate the future of academic REI practices. They talk about the trade-offs as well as the positive future of academic practices. Being a Yale alumnus, Dr. Kallen is the perfect guest to share her view on the operation systems, marketing systems, and scope of practice an academic practice has versus private practice. Dr. Kallen, MD, FACOG, is currently a reproductive endocrinologist at the Yale Fertility Center and an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Yale School of Medicine.  Dr. Kallen runs an NIH-funded laboratory and has received multiple awards for research, including the Society for Reproductive Investigation “Early Career Investigator” Award for her work on mechanisms of reproductive aging.  Her clinical interests include fertility preservation, access to fertility services for her LGBTQ patients, and primary ovarian insufficiency. In this episode we cover: Academic medicine practices’ shortcomings How marketing blends into the standard of care Distribution of funding for research Operational differences of academic medicine practices (vs. private practice) Dr. Amanda Kallen’s Information: LinkedIn Handle https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-kallen-58b80959 Twitter Handle @AmandaKallen Website URL https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/amanda_kallen/ To learn more about our Goal and Competitive Diagnostic, visit us at FertilityBridge.com