In this episode, our guest is Dr. John Whyte, MD, MPH, and CMO of WebMD. Dr. Whyte brings years of experience from working for the FDA, CMS, and Discovery Channel to WebMD and helps create high level strategy. Focusing on healthcare mis/information, we discussed the role of AI, drug advertising, challenges during the pandemic, and consumerism in he…

In this episode, our guest is Dr. Reid Waldman, M.D., Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2024, dermatologist, and founder and CEO of Veradermics. With over $40 million raised, Veradermics is looking to change the fact that there has been little to no innovation in dermatology in recent years. Dr. Waldman took a huge risk by jumping from medicine to the st…

In this episode, our guest is Dr. David L. Nathan, M.D., psychiatrist, founder of Doctors for Drug Policy Reform (D4DPR), and co-designer of the universal cannabis symbol. We talk about his motivation behind founding a non-profit and the challenges that came with it. We also explore what it’s like working with politicians to make physician voices h…

In this episode, join Dr. Lucy McBride as we unravel the intricate tapestry of what true health entails. She is the host of the podcast “Beyond the Prescription,” where she brings on guests ranging from musicians to politicians, discussing how their life challenges allowed them to view holistic health differently. She shares her personal motivation…

In this episode, Dr. Shilpa Darivemula shares about how her experiences as both a dancer and a doctor led her to create the Aseemkala Initiative. This group is dedicated to harnessing the power of traditional dance to perform modern stories about healthcare inequities. Dr. Darivemula is trained in a form of Indian classical dance known as Kuchipudi…

In this episode, learn more how to harness the power of technology to improve mental health, from digital psychiatrist and creative extraordinaire Dr. Nina Vasan. She shares about her experiences as the founder and executive director of Brainstorm: The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation, designing new tools for Pinterest and TikTok, as the c…

In this episode, learn more about the Reimagining Medicine Festival, a traveling, virtual festival exploring the intersection of arts with justice in medicine. The theme of this year's festival, hosted by Weill Cornell and sponsored by the American Medical Women's Association Dance and Theater Task Force, is "Metamorphosis." We hear from members of…

In this episode, Elaine Ma interviews Dr. Mimi Winsberg, a Harvard and Stanford trained psychiatrist. While serving as the resident psychiatrist at Facebook, she co-founded the behavioral health startup, Brightside Health. Most recently, Dr. Winsberg released her first book, titled “Speaking in Thumbs” a psychiatrist decodes your relationship texts…

Dr. Evan Ashkin is the director and founder of the North Carolina Formerly Incarcerated Transition (NC FIT) program, which helps connect chronically ill formerly incarcerated individuals to primary care medical services. He currently serves as a professor of family medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, teaching in the underserved track of the res…

Dr. Yuan He is currently an attending primary care doctor with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Karabots Pediatric Care Center, a pediatric clinic serving patients in West Philadelphia. Dr. He is also a postdoctoral research fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania and an affiliate trainee at…

In this episode, learn more about how one general surgeon created balance in his life and moved his family and work to New Zealand! Dr. Charles Black is a prolific writer and photographer. In his most recent Doximity Op-Med he writes about how "Good Enough is Good Enough, in the OR and in Life." You can read more about Dr. Black's creative pursuits…

Listen to Dr. Jaclyn Perreault’s original "Vaccine" song parody, sung to the tune of Dolly Parton's "Jolene" in this episode of Doctors Who Create. As an IM resident, Dr. Perreault has managed to inject creativity into her work inside and outside the hospital. Aside from songwriting and singing, she explores her talents through Indonesian gamelan m…

In this episode, Margaret Wang interviews Dr. Subha Airan-Javia, CEO and founder of CareAlign, a digital tool used by healthcare systems in conjunction with the electronic medical record to facilitate efficient clinical workflow, provider communication, and patient safety in the hospital. Dr. Airan-Javia is also a distinguished hospitalist and prev…

This episode was brought to you by some of the newest members of the Doctors Who Create podcast team! In this episode, Elaine Ma interviews Dr. Roberta Kung, anesthesiologist and founder of GiftedTaste. This experiential platform focuses on promoting wellness and empowering women through retreats and other innovative programming. Dr. Kung shares ca…

Now that we're a few months into our intern year, I sat down with my class to discuss how we've managed to create a community amongst ourselves and how we've been able to keep up our creative hobbies in residency. In this episode, we cover so many topics from Dungeons & Dragons to boy bands. Come join us as we talk about how we bring fun, play, and…

We are back (after a brief hiatus as we both started intern year)! In this episode, we sat down with Dr. Adam Stern, psychiatrist and author of Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training. His memoir was featured on People Magazine's Book of the Week and Amazon Editor's Pick for Best Biographies and Memoirs. He shares about the creative p…

Dr. Eleanor Love created The Simple Sunflower in medical school, inspired to combine her passions for floristry and medicine. Her organization collects flower donations from wedding parties and rearranges them into bouquets for patients in hospitals in her local community of Richmond, VA. The Simple Sunflower has grown and grown since its inception…

Meet Dr. Syed Hoda! A person, photographer, poet, bone and soft tissue pathologist, and so much more... In this episode of Doctors Who Create, Dr. Hoda talks about his path to medicine and beyond. He speaks candidly about creativity and its role in our personal and professional lives. For all the new interns out there this July, you won't want to m…

In this episode of Doctors Who Create, Drs. Mekala Neelakantan and Karan Pandher reflect back on their experiences creating and maintaining a relationship throughout college, medical school, and into residency. They speak candidly about both the joys and challenges of dating another person in medicine. Listen to this episode to hear their advice on…

For Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we interview Dr. James Lee, a psychiatry resident at the University of Washington and author of the recent NEJM perspective piece entitled, "Combating Anti-Asian Sentiment - A Practical Guide for Clinicians." Learn more about how you can better support AAPI patients and colleagues, amidst surg…

A big congratulations to all those future doctors out there! In this special episode, we are shaking things up... join co-producers Darlina Liu and Mekala Neelakantan as they share their stories from the one-of-a-kind residency application season this year, from applying to interviewing to Match Day itself. With the rapid transition from in-person …

In this episode of Doctors Who Create, co-producer Mekala Neelakantan interviews Dr. Shikha Jain (@ShikhaJainMD), a hematology and oncology physician who has found creative ways to advocate for her patients and colleagues. She founded IMPACT, a COVID-19 action and advocacy group, the Women in Medicine Summit and Symposium, and the Rush Center for t…

Welcome to the last episode in our Re-imagine Healthcare mini-series! This time, we’ll be talking all about consults. Whether you're the primary team or the consulting service, you can learn something new in this episode, where we chat with Dr. Michelle Brooks (@michellebr00ks) and Dr. Jose Barreau (@HaloHealthInc) about their ideas on how to impro…

Welcome to episode 2 of 3 in our Re-imagine Healthcare mini-series! This time, we’ll be talking all about medical documentation. In this episode, learn how Dr. Danielle Ofri, Dr. Prashant Patel, and Dr. Ken Braslow write their clinical notes and hear their ideas on how to improve the documentation process. You can check out more of Dr. Ofri’s work …

Welcome to our Re-imagine Healthcare mini-series, where we will put our creativity into action to rethink elements of our clinical practice... starting with medical rounds. In this episode, we interview Dr. David Hill, Dr. Mark Loehrke, Dr. Anika Kumar, and Dr. Oliver Hulland about how they round, why they round, and what ways we can make rounding …

Four years ago, Dr. Kelly Wong was inspired to help patients stuck in the hospital exercise their right to vote. This became PatientVoting. In this episode, learn about how to broach the conversation of voting with your patients and more. Check out PatientVoting.com for details on how to request emergency absentee ballots in your state. VOTE! VOTE!…

We are collecting audio submissions for our special series on "Re-imagining Healthcare"! This is your opportunity think creatively by sharing how you practice medicine and brainstorming new approaches to rounding, medical documentation, and consults. Here are some questions to think about:[Rounds]1) What is the purpose of rounding?2) How do you rou…

There is so much creativity within our community and we wanted to dedicate part of our platform to showcase those voices. In this long awaited episode, we hear from talented artists, board game creators, cartoonists, singers, writers and more! We would like to thank the following contributors for sharing their stories:Dr. Akshata HopkinsDr. Lakshma…

We are collecting audio submissions for our September episode! If you would like a chance to be featured, send a 1-3 minutes audio clip (.mp3) to dwcfilesubmission@gmail.com by Friday, August 14th, 2020. Some questions to answer: Who are you? What is your creative outlet? What are the challenges to being creative in medicine? If you have any questi…

In this episode, Doctors Who Create founder Dr. Vidya Viswanathan sits down with Dr. Diana Montoya-Williams and Dr. Joanna Parga-Belinkie to discuss the making of their podcast on medicine and motherhood, Baby Doctor Mamas (https://babydoctormamas.com/). The episode was edited by Darlina Liu. At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you b…

Breonna Taylor would be turning 27 today if she hadn't been killed by police in a no-knock raid on March 13.Racism is a public health crisis. We as healthcare providers have a moral imperative to address it. Doctors Who Create stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.Here are some ways you can help:Educate yourselves. Learn more ab…

In this episode, Dr. David Hindin shares his experience as a Biodesign Innovation Fellow at Stanford and teaches us how to apply the principles of design thinking to solve problems in the time of COVID-19. You can find more from Dr. Hindin on Twitter (@DavidHindin), Instagram (@thesurgeonlife), or his YouTube channel! At Doctors Who Create, our pod…

In this episode, we talk to Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako, an MS-4 at Yale, who writes and speaks about health disparities, social determinants of health, and issues of race and diversity within the medical curriculum. If you like what you hear, be sure to follow Max on Twitter @MaxJordan_N or listen to his podcast, Flip the Script, at https://podcasts…

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"The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person." -Czeslaw MiloszHello from London! This month, we sit down with Dr. Sam Guglani, poet, writer, and oncologist here in the UK. Sam is also the director and founder of Medicine Unboxed, which is a conference for health professionals and the public to use the arts an…

In this episode, we spoke with Dr. Mini Tandon, a child psychiatrist who wrote a children's picture book series about the adventures of Dr. Mini Mental Health and the young Willie Wannaknow. Wanna know more? Read about her book series here: http://www.drminimentalhealth.com At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu and S…

At Doctors Who Create, our podcasts are brought to you by Darlina Liu (@darlinaliu) and Shiv Nadkarni (@_shivn). But who are they really?!In this special episode, we're taking you behind the scenes to meet the producers, hear about their own creative passions, and get a heads up about their plans for this podcast. Music for this episode is credited…

As people from all walks of life enter the medical field, how do they grapple with having their lives taken over by the arduous but rewarding monster that is medicine? How do they build upon their previous identities without erasing them? Listen as we discuss these questions and more with musician-ENT Tiffany Peng-Hwa, who entered the field as a tr…

This week, we hear from a doc who is and has been doing some really interesting research in neurotheology, a field that studies the neuroscience of religious and spiritual beliefs. This director of integrative health at Jefferson University Hospital will tell us how he came to these interests, what they mean for his life and medical practice, and w…

In the last episode of this month’s Spotlight Series, we don’t dance around the subject… we’re talking about how knowledge about movement can influence our practice of medicine. In this episode, we interviewed Nina Shevzov-Zebrun and Dr. Elizabeth Barchi about their plan to teach others about movement and medicine and we interviewed Marleigh Stern …

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Welcome to Episode 2 of our Spotlight Series, where we will be discussing the many ways that doctors and doctors-in-training can hone their writing skills, outside of clinical notes. In Part One, Dr. Colleen Farrell speaks candidly about her journey through writing and medicine, including her experience with writing about mental health, the confide…

Welcome to Episode 2 of our Spotlight Series, where we will be discussing the many ways that doctors and doctors-in-training can hone their writing skills, outside of clinical notes. In Part One, we share some six word stories from fourth year medical students, a project coordinated by Max Wang and others from the NYU Gold Humanism Society. Eli Cah…

We're kicking off our Spotlight Series on the NYU School of Medicine with a spotlight on improv and medicine! In this episode, we interviewed Nick Kanellis who taught a "Medical Improv" seminar and his students who shared about their experiences. Listen to learn more about improv games you can play to improv-e your skills with patients. Thanks to D…

At the inaugural Creativity in Medicine Conference held in Philadelphia on April 20, 2019, we hosted a live podcast taping of the #MedHumChat. Listen to the discussion between Dr. Colleen Farrell, Dr. Margot Hedlin, Grace Oliver, and the med twitterverse as they discuss Rafael Campo's poem "Why Doctors Write" and the role of social media in medicin…

Presenting the first episode of a collaboration between Doctors Who Create and Equal Treatment, a medical educational platform that brings awareness to health care issues involving race, immigration, and underserved populations. In this episode, we interview Dr. Oanh Nguyen at UCSF about the implications of adverse health outcomes and costs in undo…

In this DWC podcast, we hear from psychopharmacologist, psychiatrist, musician, and drug legalization advocate Dr. Julie Holland. She takes us through the whirlwind that is writing her fourth book, talks about her experience being a physician in the media, and tells us the whole truth about cannabis and other drugs. Thanks to Shiv Nadkarni for cond…

Have you ever wondered what a musical about medical school would be like? In today's episode, we give you a peek into Medicine the Musical and a behind the scenes discussion with Dr. Michael Ehrenreich, the creative extraordinaire who wrote and directed this musical. In addition to his work as a dermatologist, he has invented board games, designed …