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.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Sep 4, 2023 • 40min
H.I. Ep. 80 - Peter C. Yesawich, PhD, Healthcare Hospitality
Peter C. Yesawich, PhD is Chairman of Hospitable Healthcare Partners, LLC, and Vice Chairman, Emeritus of MMGY Global. Hospitable Healthcare introduces healthcare providers to an original service model based on principles the hospitality industry has used to create great guest experiences. Read more at https://hospitablehealthcare.com

Jul 3, 2023 • 41min
H.I. Ep. 79 - Thomas Reid
Thomas Reid is the co-founder of several for profit and nonprofit companies providing services for at-risk children and their families. He sits on several boards, including the board of directors of Lifeskills Foundation. He also works as a business development consultant, providing executive coaching, leadership development and helping owners to identify and achieve targets and goals. His book "TASK: Performance Based Communication" can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/TASK-Performance-Communication-Thomas-Reid/dp/1792161018

May 26, 2023 • 1h 6min
H.I. Ep. 78 - Chris Simon - Bioethics
Chris is an associate professor of bioethics at Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC. We discuss issues related to research and ethical concerns and approaches with artificial intelligence.

May 25, 2023 • 56min
H.I. Ep. 77 - Michael Soo - ECS
Michael Soo joins once again to talk about the Endocannabinoid system and it's role in the human body.

May 22, 2023 • 29min
H.I. Ep. 76 - Stacy Wentworth, MD - Oncology
Stacy Wentworth, MD is an Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist with a research interest in cancer survivorship. Read more about Stacy athttps://school.wakehealth.edu/faculty/w/stacy-wentworth

May 12, 2023 • 54min
H.I. Ep. 75 - Aimee Lischke, MD - Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating
Aimee Lischke, MD of the Gaudiani Clinic, talks about trends and issues around disordered eating and eating disorders. the Guadiani Clinic features medical providers committed to providing informed, inclusive, and compassionate care to patients/clients with eating disorders. See more at https://www.gaudianiclinic.com/team

Apr 14, 2023 • 1h 3min
H.I. Ep. 74 - Whole Health Partners, values-led lifestyle medicine and behavior change practice
Whole Health Partners focuses on metabolic health, chronic disease, and weight management through the lens of lifestyle medicine. Whole Health Partners is a women-owned, values-led lifestyle medicine and behavior change practice.
Joining us this episode is Dr. Kate Queen, MD, Jenni Groves, MS, RD, LDN, and Kait Atkinson, MS, RD, LDN to talk about their approach to delivering health care to their patients.

Mar 28, 2023 • 55min
H.I. Ep. 73 - Jayvein Greene
Jayvein is a student leader at Fayetteville State University where he is the founder of their NAMI campus affiliate. He is active in the community, his church, and shares his survivor story of resilience and mental health treatment for trauma and substance use. He is eager to support others in their recovery journey to whole person centered wellness. Jayvein has been educating agencies and community-based organizations who are willing to support youth/young adults receiving mental health, substance use and/or trauma-related services.
Jayvein has promoted recovery-oriented systems of care by advocating for meaningful youth/young adult participation as full partners in service planning and systems level decision-making and advocating for a system-wide oriented change through youth-led/guided approaches that is trauma-informed, promotes positive youth development and person centered pathways to mental wellness and substance use recovery.

Mar 17, 2023 • 59min
H.I. Ep. 72 - Sam Cykert, MD
Dr. Cykert is a Professor of Medicine at UNC-CH in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology. He was the founding director of the UNC School of Medicine Program on Health and Clinical Informatics. See more at https://sph.unc.edu/adv_profile/samuel-cykert-md/

Feb 17, 2023 • 60min
H.I. Ep. 71 - Stephen B. Kritchevsky, PhD
Dr. Kritchevsky is an internationally known expert on nutritional influences that affect trajectories of health and disability in older adults, including vitamins, protein, energy balance, exercise and obesity, and has more than 450 peer-reviewed publications, Read more at https://school.wakehealth.edu/faculty/k/stephen-kritchevsky


