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Hope for Healthcare

by Dr. Katie Cole

Join me for potent, solutions-based conversations positively advancing the culture of medicine.It’s time to broaden our network, expand our community, and become actively involved in our national movement for healthcare well-being. By educating and collaborating with key healthcare leaders and stakeholders, we can positively shift our healthcare landscape to foster engagement and bring back the care in healthcare. With each initiative, we are moving towards healing on extraordinary levels. This future we are creating has empowered patients and leaders with resources and tools for thriving organizations, physicians, and healthcare workers who discover a new passion for their work. Each Hope for Healthcare conversation stands in the commitment to this vision – it is a worthy future.

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Episodes

  1. Why Leadership is Worthless While Leading is Priceless: with Dr. Thom Mayer Medical Director for the NFL Players Association

    I was privileged to interview our repeat distinguished guest Dr. Thom Mayer, who is the Medical Director for the NFL Players Association. Dr. Mayer is one of the most widely-sought speakers on healthcare patient experience, leadership and management, hardwiring flow, trauma and emergency care,...

  2. Building Resilience for our Future Healthcare Professionals with Dr. Andrew McLean

    I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Andrew McLean recently on Hope for Healthcare! Dr. McLean is Clinical Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, and Associate Dean for Wellness at UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He has lectured internationally…

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  3. How to Identify and Overcome Common Leadership Derailing Behaviors with Dr. Sue Padernacht

    I had the honor of interviewing my great friend and colleague Dr. Sue Padernacht! Dr. Padernacht is the CEO of Ncline Leadership Strategies, bringing over 35 years of experience and expertise in organizational, leadership, team, and negotiations coaching, training, consulting, public speaking…

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  4. How The Quadruple Aim Advocates for Physician and Healthcare Well-Being

    I had the absolute honor of interviewing my friend and colleague Dr. Todd Otten on my podcast recently! Dr. Otten, MD, is a Powerful Change Agent and Co-Founder of Our Quadruple Aim, a movement that challenges the status quo in healthcare and promotes patient experience, quality care, lower…

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  5. How to Keep Physicians in Clinical Medicine by Creating Autonomy Through Local and State Legislative Action

    I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Marcelo Hochman this past week: he is President of Independent Doctors of South Carolina, a double Board-certified head, neck, and facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon, founder of Charleston’s Facial Surgery Center, and Past President of the Charleston...

  6. How to Successfully Retain Women Physicians- with Burnout Expert Dr. Diane Shannon

    I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Diane Shannon, MD, MPH. Dr. Shannon is a former primary care physician with more than 20 years of experience as a professional health care writer and author. As an award-winning health care writer she has crafted expert reports, focused white papers, and…

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  7. Servant Leadership: Lessons Learned from the Medical Director for the NFL Players Association

    I was deeply honored to interview Dr. Thom Mayer, who is the Medical Director for the NFL Players Association, Executive Vice President of Leadership for LogixHealth, Founder of BestPractices, Inc., Speaker for Executive Speakers Bureau, Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at George…

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  8. How a Nurse Executive is Implementing Key Strategies for Nursing and Clinician Retention while Building Leadership Resilience!

    I had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Robin Geiger on Hope for Healthcare! She is the Senior Vice President, Clinician Advocacy at Ingenovis Health and a board-certified nurse executive with over 20 years of hands-on clinical leadership experience. Dr. Geiger and I discuss the current…

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  9. How a Chief Wellbeing Economist is Helping Healthcare Systems Identify Current and Future Financial States with Targeted Action Plans

    I had the absolute pleasure in interviewing Dr. Sisi Hu on Hope for Healthcare today! She and her business partner Tiffany Chan have created an AI model to support our healthcare workers, specifically to support our health systems to measure, benchmark, and mitigate clinician burnout and turnover...

  10. Evidenced-Based Tools to Reverse Healthcare System Burnout and Build Your Bottom Line

    Hello everyone, we have a special edition of Hope for Healthcare Podcast today spotlighting both Paul DeChant, MD, MBA, and Bruce D. Cummings, MPH, LFACHE! They are both nationally recognized experts in clinician burnout, and are the healthcare innovators behind Organizational Wellbeing…

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  11. How a Neurosurgeon’s Own Journey From Grief to Emotional Agility Helped to Buffer Burnout and Return Joy Back Into Medicine

    I had the absolute honor of interviewing Dr. Jody Stern on Hope for Healthcare Podcast! Dr. Stern is Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Author of “Grief Connects Us: A Neurosurgeon’s Lessons on Love, Loss, and Compassion”. In our...

  12. Empathy Skills Training can Reduce Burnout and Improve Leadership, Clinician and Patient Well-Being

    I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Dr. Helen Riess on Hope for Healthcare recently! Dr. Riess is the CEO and Founder of Empathetics- a company that provides evidence-based empathy and communication skills training for healthcare and allied health professionals and front line staff. In…

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  13. How Leading with Vulnerability, Transparency and Integrity Can Rebuild Trust with Healthcare Leadership and Employees

    I was honored to interview Dr. Tammie Chang, a good friend and colleague of mine- who is afierce national advocate for cultural change in healthcare and fellow Well-Being Change Agent! We had such a great conversation around our own journeys with healing burnout and depression, and how Dr. Chang...

  14. How Culture Performance Management Can Transcend Healthcare from Burnout to Engagement

    I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Dr. Donte Vaughn, who is an expert in Organizational Leadership, Workforce Management, and Company Culture. Dr. Vaughn, is the CEO and Managing Partner of CultureWorx, a company dedicated to providing Culture Performance Management™ (CPM) solutions to...

  15. We Must Address Both Moral Injury and Burnout as We Renovate our Culture of Medicine

    I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Dr. Wendy Dean on Hope for Healthcare Podcast. Dr. Dean really helped me better understand the concept of Moral Injury in Healthcare, and how this concept is really a distinct entity from Burnout, and yet they may occur separately, they may co-exist and...

  16. How Knowing Your Top 5 Strengths Can Beat Burnout

    I had so much fun interviewing Ryan Wolf, who a key leader for Gallup’s Health and Well-Being Strategies! Did you know that only 1 out of 33 million people have the same top 5 strengths? Please tune in to learn more about how understanding and embracing your strengths can improve your life in all...

  17. How The Clinician Burnout Foundation Offers Free Services to Healthcare Workers to Beat Burnout

    I want to introduce you all to my friend/colleague Jodie Green- CEO of the Clinician Burnout Foundation (CBF)! We had a very heartwarming conversation about what needs to change on the frontlines, and how CBF is giving out free solutions ranging from technology support, tools and services to the...

  18. Addiction and Recovery for Executives and Healthcare Professionals: Confidential and Root Cause Treatment Approach

    I am privileged and proud to introduce you all to Steven Wolt! He is the CEO and Founder of Veritus Solutions, a virtual outpatient, confidential recovery treatment program for executives and healthcare professionals. We had the most authentic discussion on addiction, the recovery process, and…

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  19. How the Schwartz Center Globally Impacts Healthcare through Compassion Education and Advocacy

    I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Dr. Beth Lown, Chief Medical Officer of The Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare! We dove deeply into the importance of bringing compassion to healthcare, and how organizations around the country are enrolling in The Schwartz Center Rounds to...

  20. How The Veterans Health Administration is Spearheading Culture Transformation through Designing a Model of Well-Being

    I had the privilege of interviewing my friend and colleague, Dr. Kavitha Reddy on how she, along with her team at the Veterans Health Administration are re-designing their healthcare culture over the next several years by focusing on creating a healthier work environment for all employees, and...

  21. How to Successfully Promote Healthcare Engagement

    I had the absolute honor and privilege to interview Dr. Christina Maslach on Hope for Healthcare Podcast! Dr. Maslach is a true legend when it comes to researching and understanding burnout from a global perspective, especially in healthcare today. She has been teaching how to resolve burnout for...

  22. How to Apply the Four Quadrants of Well-Being Concepts to Your Personal and Professional Life

    I had the absolute honor and pleasure of interviewing my good friend and colleague Dr. Michelle Robin, who is CEO and Founder of Small Changes Big Shifts. She is an influential author, teacher, mentor, holistic healer, and individual and organizational well-being expert. What I love about our...

  23. Approaching Healthcare Leadership Through Empowerment

    Dr. Paul DeChant and I reconnected and had the most uplifting conversation around approaching healthcare leadership through empowerment. Empowering leaders to to make decisions that benefit the well-being of our workforce and patient quality and experience. Dr. DeChant updated us on successful...

  24. How to lead by example with integrity, humility and inspiration

    I had the absolute honor and privilege of interviewing Dr. Richard Carmona, our 17th U.S. Surgeon General. I was very humbled to hear about his own childhood experiences impacting his journey to becoming the U.S. Surgeon General. Dr. Carmona shares so much wisdom with us including his “hard knock...

  25. How to Make the Business Case for Healthcare Organizational Well-Being

    Christopher Lehrach, MD, MBA - Chief Physician Executive Officer at Nuvance Health I had an enlightening and Hope-Full conversation with Dr. Christopher Lehrach, Chief Physician Executive Officer at Nuvance Health. What I love most about our discussion is the step-by-step approach to evaluating...

  26. How a Chief Wellness Officer and Eternal Optimist is Impacting Healthcare Well-Being Nationally

    My latest guest on Hope for Healthcare podcast was the very distinguished and well-known Dr. Jonathan Ripp, MPH, Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Dr. Ripp overseas efforts to assess and provide direction for system and individual level...

  27. How to Retain Women Physicians By Investing in Community, Support and Leadership Development

    We are honored to have Dr. Duran with us to discuss the topic: “How to Retain Women Physicians By Investing in Community, Support and Leadership Development” Key takeaways: How did burnout manifest for you, and how were you able to transform your own burnout into a joyful and successful life and...

  28. How to Successfully Invest in Organizational Culture Change with Flawless Integration

    Today’s guest, Dr. Mohamed Saleh shared his concepts on How to Successfully Invest in Organizational Culture Change with Flawless Integration. Shifting Cultural Mindsets Dr. Saleh is a thought leader in shifting cultural mindsets by redesigning business systems. Dr. Saleh has a successful track...

  29. Healthcare Well-Being: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging

    I had the Honor and Pleasure of interviewing Dr.Terri Malcolm on the Hope for Healthcare Podcast! We had the most meaningful, authentic and impact-full conversation about how we can better understand the concepts Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging, and how we can blend this into...

  30. Trauma-Informed Care as a Framework to Expand Human Connection and Re-Program Safety and Trust

    Introducing Dr. Sadie Ellisseou, our next guest on the Hope for Healthcare Podcast. Dr. Elisseou is a physician in the VA healthcare system, an instructor at Harvard Medical School and Boston University School of Medicine, and a nationally recognized expert in trauma-informed care (TIC), a...

  31. Re-Wiring Humanism, Equity, Health Justice and Love into the Healthcare System

    Another episode of Hope for Healthcare podcast introducing Liz Boehm, Executive Strategist, Human-Centered Research, Vocera Presenting: "Re-Wiring Humanism, Equity, Health Justice and Love intoThe Foundation of our National Healthcare System!" Questions: Your career has embraced the Intersection…

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  32. A Courageous Champion Paving the Way for Health Workforce Well-Being

    Introducing J. Corey Feist, JD, MBA presenting "A Courageous Champion Paving the Way for Health Workforce Well-Being" - our next guest on Hope For Healthcare Podcast Topic: Advising the health care industry on evidence-based best practice well-being initiatives; eradicating mental health stigma…

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  33. Can Leadership Training Improve our Culture of Medicine and ROI?

    Introducing Elsie Koh, MD, MHL. Dr. Koh is the Chief Medical Officer of American Endovascular & Amputation Prevention whose mission is to save patients from amputation by offering cutting edge, minimally invasive, image-guided techniques to salvage limbs in patients with critical limb ischemia.…

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  34. Innovative Strategies and Empowering Advocacy to Revitalize National Healthcare

    Introducing Tina Shah, MD, MPH. Fmr. Senior Advisor, Office of the Surgeon General. Dr. Shah is a practicing physician with over 10 years of healthcare experience across digital transformation, healthcare delivery and policy. She is the Principal of TNT Health Enterprises, a consulting company…

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  35. Human Factor Ergonomics Applied to Healthcare Leadership

    Introducing Michael R. Privitera, MD, MS. Dr. Privitera is Professor of Psychiatry at University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), and Medical Director, Medical Faculty and Clinician Wellness Program, which works on individual and organizational interventions to reduce clinician burnout. Our...

  36. Key Burnout Drivers & Simple Strategies to Dramatically Improve Healthcare

    Introducing Dr. Paul DeChant, CEO, Keynote Speaker, Author, Executive Coach Topic: "Key Burnout Drivers & Simple Strategies to Dramatically Improve Healthcare” How did you become interested in Healing our National Healthcare System? What are a few key lessons you have learned throughout your...

  37. Healthcare Media Platform & Partnership for Organizational Wellbeing

    Bill Doherty, President, Founder of ICD Events and ICD Healthcare Network, along with Frank Cutitta, Senior Advisor to International Conference Development and IDC Healthcare Network Topic: “Healthcare Media Platform & Partnership for Organizational Wellbeing” Tell us how you both became…

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  38. Partnering to Create a Unique Healthcare Media Platform for Organizational Wellbeing

    CEO, Bill Doherty, President of ICD Healthcare Network Partnering to Create a Unique Healthcare Media Platform for Organizational Wellbeing If there are already many solutions for burnout present in our country, what are the barriers to implementing them? How does your organization bring…

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About this show

Join me for potent, solutions-based conversations positively advancing the culture of medicine.It’s time to broaden our network, expand our community, and become actively involved in our national movement for healthcare well-being. By educating and collaborating with key healthcare leaders and stakeholders, we can positively shift our healthcare landscape to foster engagement and bring back the care in healthcare. With each initiative, we are moving towards healing on extraordinary levels. This future we are creating has empowered patients and leaders with resources and tools for thriving organizations, physicians, and healthcare workers who discover a new passion for their work. Each Hope for Healthcare conversation stands in the commitment to this vision – it is a worthy future.

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Dr. Katie Cole

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Frequently asked questions

How many episodes does Hope for Healthcare have?

Hope for Healthcare has 38 episodes on PodParley. The most recent episode was published on May 2, 2024.

What is Hope for Healthcare about?

Join me for potent, solutions-based conversations positively advancing the culture of medicine.It’s time to broaden our network, expand our community, and become actively involved in our national movement for healthcare well-being. By educating and collaborating with key healthcare leaders and...

How often does Hope for Healthcare release new episodes?

Hope for Healthcare publishes every two weeks, based on its 38 episodes since August 2022.

Who hosts Hope for Healthcare?

Hope for Healthcare is created and hosted by Dr. Katie Cole.
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