Healthcare Insights
Northwest Area Health Education Center
Timely and relevant discussions about professional and public healthcare in our 17-county region of northwest North Carolina. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views, policies, or positions of the institution or its affiliates.
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Oct 15, 2019 • 1h 3min
H.I. Ep. 20 - Amy Greeson
Amy is a pharmacist and the Executive Director of Healing Seekers and the CEO of Natural Discoveries. She travels the world visiting remote tribes in search of natural remedies and compounds to treat and cure diseases. She is the author of "And the Silent Spoke" winner of the 2019 Gold Award from the Nonfiction Authors Association. The book is available now on Amazon.
Oct 4, 2019 • 43min
H.I. Ep. 19 - Anthony Atala, MD
Dr. Atala is the Chair of Urology and the Director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine. We talk about personalized medicine as it relates to regenerating organs and tissues for transplantation.
Oct 1, 2019 • 1h 5min
H.I. Ep. 18 - Gail S. Marion PA-C, PhD
Gail Marion is a professor in Family and Community Medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine. She is also a Physician Assistant and a researcher in the primary care setting. We talk about case management, social determinants, and resilience.
Sep 17, 2019 • 46min
H.I. Ep. 17 - Stephen Powell, MD
Stephen is an emergency department physician at Wake forest Baptist Health and adjunct faculty at wake Forest School of Medicine. He serves on the front lines of healthcare in the emergency room and teaches wilderness emergency first aid.
Sep 13, 2019 • 1h 15min
H.I. Ep. 16 - Thomas Reid, LCSW
The Full Toomy returns to the podcast and revisits the TASK tools from his book "TASK: Performance Based Communication" as it applies to healthcare and everyday communication. You can purchase task on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/TASK-Performance-Communication-Thomas-Reid/dp/1792161018/
Sep 12, 2019 • 1h 13min
H.I. Ep. 15 - Jamy Ard, MD
Dr. Ard is a weight management specialist at Wake Forest Baptist Health. We discuss the myriad of issues involved in treating obesity in a clinical setting. More about Dr. Ard can be found here: https://www.wakehealth.edu/Providers/A/Jamy-Ard
Sep 12, 2019 • 53min
H.I. Ep. 14 - Julie Kirk. PharmD
Julie is a Pharmacist and Professor of Family Medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine. We discuss approaches to treatments for diabetes, hypertension, and opioid use disorder.
Sep 10, 2019 • 1h 6min
H.I. Ep. 13 - Nigel Alston
Nigel is a motivational speaker, trainer and columnist. He serves as the Executive Director, North Carolina Black Repertory (produces the bi-annual National Black Theatre Festival), is a Dale Carnegie Trainer, and served as interim Director of Forsyth County Department of Social Services. He is active in the community and an all around great human!
Aug 23, 2019 • 1h 10min
H.I. Ep. 12 - Jenifer Houlihan, MSP, MA
Jenifer is the Vice President, Value-Based Care and Population Health at Wake Forest Baptist Health. In this episode we talk about the transition from fee for service to the value-based model and how that translates into the community and population health.
Jul 16, 2019 • 1h 5min
H.I. Ep. 11 - Jeff Smith
Jeff "Smitty" Smith is a community connector, social influencer, builder of social capital, and founder of the original social network "Smitty's Notes" highlighting events and happenings in the Triad area way before the rise of Facebook, twitter, etc. He has served on many non-profit boards, voluteers much of his time and energy working with community organizations, and is just an all around great human! He is the recent recipient of Trellis Supportive Care's "Living Your Best Life" Award.
