Episodes
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Episode 18 – Head Injuries in Children: When It’s Time to See the Doctor
Head injuries are common in children and teens. They can be mild, like a bump on the head, or more serious, like a concussion. It can be hard to tell the difference between a mild head injury and one that is more severe. Head injuries are more common in the spring and summer months, when children...
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Episode 17 – Crisis Leadership: Innovating Treatment Protocols to Battle COVID-19
Physicians are trained to deal with medical emergencies, but COVID-19 thrust hospitals in Phoenix — and around the world — into crisis mode for nearly a year. Phoenix was a COVID hotspot, as were other cities like New York. There have been 30 million cases and more than 540,000 deaths in the US,...
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Episode 16 – Heart Disease: It Can Happen at Any Age
February is American Heart Month, and this year the theme is, Heart Disease: It Can Happen at Any Age. Heart disease doesn’t happen just to older adults. It is happening to younger people more often, partly because the conditions that lead to heart disease are happening at younger ages. It is...
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Episode 15 – Doctors Motivated by Commitment to Serve
What drives people to pursue careers in medicine? Physicians are definitely Type A personalities who want to be the ones in charge, finding solutions to complex issues. But they are motivated by a commitment to serve. Haig Aintablian, MD, is committed to serving patients in urgent need, whether...
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Episode 14 – Building Age Friendly Health Care Systems
For older adults, a hospital stay can create challenges beyond the medical condition that caused them to be hospitalized. As Baby Boomers age, it is estimated that twenty percent of the U.S. population will be retirement age by 2030. Building age-friendly health care systems is crucial to serving...
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Episode 13 – Asking Algorithms (and Ourselves) the Right Questions
Algorithms are moving out of the lab and into society, where they are asked to answer tough questions: Which inmates to release? Which job applicants to hire? Which patients to treat? These types of questions cause algorithms to stumble — not so much because they are hard to answer, but because...
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Episode 12 – Back-to-School During a Pandemic
Students are going back to school in virtual and in-person learning modalities adapted for a pandemic. We will discuss the risk/reward of sending children to school while keeping them healthy. Episode guest: Gary E. Kirkilas, DO Hosted by: Jonathan Lifshitz, PhD and Katie Brite, MD
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Episode 11 – MedTech: The Role that Big Data, AI and Machine Learning Play in Precision Medicine
Precision medicine takes a big-data approach to disease prediction, prevention, detection and treatment designed to benefit both individual health and public health. The promise of precision medicine is to enhance our knowledge of disease and identify treatment as well as medication that is...
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Episode 10 – reimagine Health: Is My Fate in My Genes?
Each of us inherit genetic material that forms who we are and that guides our way through life. Experiences throughout life can modify the genome and the genetic transcripts that constitute us. In one way, genetics are a determinant of health. However, social determinants of health can…
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Episode 9 – Preparing Future Health Professionals to Battle America’s Opioid Epidemic
In 2017, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey declared a public health state of emergency as more than two Arizonans were dying each day from opioid overdoses. The Arizona Opioid Epidemic Act was introduced in response to the opioid epidemic. It is the most comprehensive package any state has passed to...
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Episode 8 – America’s Doctor Shortage: Approaching Crisis Level
A recent report published by the Association of American Medical Colleges confirms the United States will experience a shortage of over 121,000 physicians by 2032. Our nation’s population is growing older and living longer. The demand for physicians continues to grow faster than medical schools…
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Episode 7 – Rural Health: Delivering Care in Rural and Native American Communities
Rural communities in Arizona (and across the U.S.) continue to experience a chronic shortage of physicians and health care professionals, as well as limited access to medical facilities. Economic factors, cultural and social differences, limited facilities and geographic isolation are among the...
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Episode 6 – Well Kids: Examining Behavioral and Developmental Health in Children
Behavioral and developmental issues are tremendous stressors for children and families. Students who have struggled in school will likely be under additional stress in the next school year. Families want to know what they can do to prepare for the next academic year. We will explore best…
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Episode 5 – Beating the Odds: What it Takes to Have a Healthy Heart
Heart disease is the #1 killer of both women and men in the United States. The latest statistics indicate 1-in-2 Americans will develop some form of cardiovascular disease. What is being done to change this trend? We have brought together leading experts who are taking on heart disease. Episode...
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Episode 4 – Intersections of Disability and Medicine
What are the barriers for those with disabilities to access health care? We focus on the intersection of disability and medicine to identify how to teach, deliver and advance health care for patients with access challenges. We have brought together experts who are championing exciting initiatives...
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Episode 3 – CyberMed Summit: Fighting Hackers, Health Care's Newest Threat
What if: Your insulin pump suddenly overdosed? A patient’s bedside medication pump malfunctioned? A children’s hospital lost internet access from a cyber attack? These aren't just examples; they've actually happened. Medical devices and hospitals have been the targets of cyber attacks from…
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Episode 2 – Not So Happy Holidays
Jonathan Lifshitz, PhD, and Katie Brite, MD – The holiday season is not a time of joy and celebration for everyone. For many, preparing for the holidays brings elevated levels of stress, anxiety, loneliness and depression. This discussion centers on the philosophy that we teach our students, “If...
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Episode 1 – Advancing Veterans’ Health
Jonathan Lifshitz, PhD and Katie Brite, MD - Through evidence-based medicine approaches and process improvement, our partners at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care System are striving to improve the timeliness of health care delivery, early diagnosis and intervention, as well as disease...