"If you give care, you receive care."

In the season 1 finale of Doctor+, we are sharing a recording of a conversation from the 2023 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Minnesota Chapter of ACP. Doctor+ host Tseganesh Seleameab spoke with Dr. Meghan Rothenberger about her passion for storytelling. Dr. Rothenberger also shares a personal story about a special woman she cared for early in her career.

About the guest:

Dr. Meghan Rothenberger is an infectious disease physician and medical educator. She attended medical school at Johns Hopkins and completed her Internal Medicine residency and Infectious Diseases fellowship at the University of Minnesota. She currently works at the Minneapolis VA. She has always loved creating stories, especially about the magical things that hide in normal days. For most of her adult life she only shared these stories with her very nonjudgemental pets. However, after experiencing significant burnout several years ago, she radically changed her relationship to work and with this came the courage to start sharing her stories. She had no idea that people would actually want to listen! Things she loves other stories and her family are laughing, doing anything outside (but especially cross-country skiing), picnics, animals, and coffee (a lot of coffee).

To view a video of this conversation, click here.

Support for Doctor+ has been provided by the American College of Physicians. Doctor+ is hosted by Dr. David Hilden and Dr. Tseganesh Selameab and is produced by Julie Censullo.

For more information, visit doctorpluspodcast.com.

"It opened up my mind in terms of realizing how much joy one can find if you have the opportunity to learn something new."

Hosts Tseganesh and David speak with Dr. Anne Pereira about sailing.

About the guest:

Dr. Anne Pereira is a palliative medicine physician and leadership coach at Hennepin Healthcare. She received her undergraduate degree in English Literature at Vassar College and her medical degree at the University of Minnesota Medical School. After completing her internal medicine residency and chief residency at Hennepin, she pursued a fellowship in academic internal medicine at Harvard, where she completed her MPH degree in clinical effectiveness. Over her 25-year career, she has held numerous leadership positions in medical education at the local and national level. Throughout her career, she has maintained a clinical practice, first in general internal medicine and now in palliative medicine, since completing her fellowship in 2021.

In 2017, Anne took her first sailing course and hasn’t looked back. In the summer of 2023, she and her husband, Jim, sailed their Sun Odyssey 440 from Bayfield, WI, through Lakes Superior, Huron, Erie and Ontario, down the St. Lawrence Seaway, around the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec, to Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia and ultimately to Newport, RI. Most recently, she sailed offshore from Lagos, Portugal to Horta, Faial, in the Azores – about 1250 nautical miles. She and Jim plan to live on their sailboat in the coming years.

For images and stories from Dr. Pereira's recent sailing journeys, click here.

Support for Doctor+ has been provided by the American College of Physicians. Doctor+ is hosted by Dr. David Hilden and Dr. Tseganesh Selameab and is produced by Julie Censullo.

For more information, visit doctorpluspodcast.com.

"You give and you get so much from your job in medicine, but I think it's important to remember those other passions and give them equal time."

Hosts Tseganesh and David speak with Dr. Ann Isaksen about showing and riding horses.

About the guest:

Dr. Ann Isaksen serves as a hospitalist member at Hennepin County Medical Center, caring exclusively for patients admitted to the hospital and working with primary physicians to ensure a smooth transition from hospital to home. Outside of her medical practice, Dr. Isaksen loves to ride and show horses.

To see images of Dr. Isaksen riding her beloved horses Tommy (I Rock Tom Ford), Frankie (Surprised by Blue), and Sis (CF She's Rarely A Fool), click here.

For more information about horse riding and showing, check out these resources:

The American Saddlebred Horse and Breeders Association

Www.saddlebred.com

Chestnut Lane Stables

www.chestnutlane.com

Willow Falls Farms

www.willowfallsfarm.com

Support for Doctor+ has been provided by the American College of Physicians. Doctor+ is hosted by Dr. David Hilden and Dr. Tseganesh Selameab and is produced by Julie Censullo.

For more information, visit doctorpluspodcast.com.

"It gives your the flexibility so that when go to do things outside of medicine, you have the ability to do that."

Hosts Tseganesh and David speak with Dr. Chris Aakre about cryptocurrency.

About the guest:

Dr. Chris Aakre graduated from University of Minnesota Medical School in 2011. Afterwards, he completed residency, chief residency, and clinical informatics fellowship at Mayo Clinic Rochester before joining the division of General Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic. He discovered bitcoin and related digital assets in 2011 from another technologically inclined radiology co-resident. Over the next few years, he built a specialized computer to mine transaction verification rewards (unsuccessfully), explored alternative blockchains, and even contributed code towards specific blockchain projects. There is no better way to gain an in-depth understanding of the blockchain technology and its potential applications than diving into the code!

Resources for learning more about cryptocurrency:

Coinbase: Crypto Questions, Answered: https://www.coinbase.com/learn

Kraken: Learn about blockchain, crypto, and NFTs: https://www.kraken.com/learn

Crypto.com: Guides for Beginners and Veterans: https://crypto.com/university

Support for Doctor+ has been provided by the American College of Physicians. Doctor+ is hosted by Dr. David Hilden and Dr. Tseganesh Selameab and is produced by Julie Censullo.

For more information, visit doctorpluspodcast.com.

"Being in nature and being more connected to the environment has made me more whole as a person."

Hosts Tseganesh and David speak with Dr. Karoline Lange about foraging.

About the guest:

Karoline Lange is an internist and primary care physician at Allina. Dr. Lange grew up in Germany and completed medical school in Goettingen, Germany. Being a dual citizen, she decided to move to Minneapolis for internal medicine residency at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in 2014 and completed residency in 2017. She enjoys spending time in local parks hiking, mountain biking, and cross country skiing. She loves being in nature with her husband, and she has a particular enthusiasm for getting to know the local flora, fauna and, of course, fungi!

More resources on foraging:

North American Mycological Association https://namyco.org/

Alan Bergo - Foragerchef https://foragerchef.com/

Alan Bergo‘s Book - https://foragerchef.com/the-forager-chefs-book-of-flora/

Sam Thayer - https://www.foragersharvest.com/

Mushrooms of Upper Midwest handbook -

https://namyco.org/mushrooms_of_the_upper_midwest.php

Braiding Sweetgrass - book by Robin Wall Kimmerer https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass

To see images of Dr. Lange's recent foraging finds, click here.

Support for Doctor+ has been provided by the American College of Physicians. Doctor+ is hosted by Dr. David Hilden and Dr. Tseganesh Selameab and is produced by Julie Censullo.

For more information, visit doctorpluspodcast.com.

"Similar to the way I practice and understand medicine...I feel like sometimes the less I do to [the bees], the better off they are."

Hosts David and Tseganesh speak with Dr. Aaron Rutzick about beekeeping.

About the guest:

Aaron Rutzick is board-certified in internal medicine. Dr. Rutzick is a teaching physician, mentoring medical students and residents from the University of Minnesota Medical School. His interests are in the management of chronic diseases such as diabetes, chronic kidney disease, hypertension, congestive heart failure and coronary disease. Outside of his medical practice, he is a beekeeper and cares for beehives in his backyard . He once won runner up in the novice division at the Minnesota State Fair Honey Competition, one of his proudest achievements.

Support for Doctor+ has been provided by the American College of Physicians. Doctor+ is hosted by Dr. David Hilden and Dr. Tseganesh Selameab and is produced by Julie Censullo.

For more information, visit doctorpluspodcast.com.

"Medical improv teaches you to do unscripted, collaborative storytelling to the best of your capacity."

On the series premiere of Doctor+, hosts Tseganesh and David speak with Dr. Ankit Mehta about medical improv, narrative medicine, and graphic medicine.

About the guest:

Ankit Mehta is a hospitalist with HealthPartners and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota (UMN). He is certified in CHEST/Society of Hospital Medicine POCUS (Point of Care Ultrasound). He has a keen interest in the intersection of arts, humanities, and medicine. He co-created a one-day communication and empathy course, “CRAVE” (Communication, Resilience, Authenticity, Vulnerability, and Empathy) at HealthPartners for practicing clinicians. He also directs a “medical improv” course, an adaptation of improvisation principles in healthcare context to improve communication, empathy, teamwork and resiliency. He currently chairs the research committee for the National Medical Improv Collaborative (MIC) group. He is a member of the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Patient Experience. He has been a part of the planning committee as creative arts/narrative medicine chair for the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (ICCH) in 2021 and 2023. He has served on the Medical Executive Committee at Regions Hospital (St. Paul, MN) and the Patient Experience Council.

Dr. Mehta is passionate about graphic medicine as a powerful tool in medical education to teach self-reflection and empathy with easy accessibility and poignancy. His graphic works have been published in various journals (including JAMA and Annals of Internal Medicine), book illustrations/cover designs and magazines. His graphic story (in collaboration with Twin Cities PBS and UMN Medical School) was part of an Emmy® winning documentary “Speaking About Race”. He is also actively engaged in global health initiatives, and has worked with International Organization for Migration (IOM) to support trainings of panel physicians.

For more examples of Dr. Mehta's work, click here.

Support for Doctor+ has been provided by the American College of Physicians. Doctor+ is hosted by Dr. David Hilden and Dr. Tseganesh Selameab and is produced by Julie Censullo.

For more information, visit doctorpluspodcast.com.

"It is so incredibly therapeutic for me to claim a different part of my identity."

Hosts David and Tseganesh speak with Dr. Amy Greminger about sewing, knitting, and other crafts.

About the guest:

Amy Greminger is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus. Her clinical work is with hospice in the Duluth area. Amy enjoys teaching just about anything at the medical school, and is particularly enthusiastic about teaching about the many gifts that holistic end of life care provides for patients, families, and health care providers. Outside of work, Amy enjosy reading, hiking, biking, cooking, and crafting. She has tried many kinds of crafts, and she really enjoys sewing and knitting. She enjoys trying all sorts of projects - from bags to hats to wall hangings to clothing. The hardest thing she ever made was a tailored suit jacket. She just learned to knit last summer, and she loves that there are always new things to try (and new audiobooks to listen to while she is trying!).

To see images of Dr. Greminger's sewing work, click here.

Support for Doctor+ has been provided by the American College of Physicians. Doctor+ is hosted by Dr. David Hilden and Dr. Tseganesh Selameab and is produced by Julie Censullo.

For more information, visit doctorpluspodcast.com.

"We really all are wounded healers. And as we seek out our own healing, we become better physicians."

On this episode of Doctor+, hosts Tseganesh and David interview each other about their pluses of storytelling, podcasting, and radio hosting.

About the guests:

Dr. Tseganesh Selameab (pronouns she/her) is a wife and mother of three amazing girls who practices primary care in St. Paul. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School and completed her Internal Medicine residency in Boston at Boston Medical Center. Her career has focused on serving refugee and immigrant populations, as well as the urban underserved through clinical practice and community-based advocacy. Storytelling and narrative medicine have been a part of Dr. Selameab’s medical journey for many years and she has been invited to share her written work at the University of Minnesota Medical School White Coat ceremony and at other Regional medical conferences. She has participated in several local story slams. Dr. Selameab serves as the current Governor for the Minnesota Chapter of the American College of Physicians.

David R. Hilden MD, MPH, FACP is an internal medicine physician in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the Scott F. Davies Endowed Chair of the Department of Medicine at Hennepin Healthcare, where he sees patients both in the hospital and in primary care clinic and leads a department of 300 doctors, resident physicians, and advanced practice providers in 15 divisions. He is Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Dr. Hilden earned his medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School and later completed his residency at Hennepin County Medical Center. He also has a Master of Public Health degree in Public Health Practice and Leadership from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. From 2019 – 2023, he was the Governor of the Minnesota Chapter of ACP. Dr. Hilden was the host of a popular live radio show on WCCO radio in Minneapolis from 2009-2021. He is currently the host of the Healthy Matters podcast now in its second season. He has received the “Top Doctor” designations from local publications “Mpls.-St. Paul Magazine” consecutively from 2017-2023 as well as “Minnesota Monthly” from 2014-2023. Dr. Hilden has been a visiting faculty member in Boston, Qatar, Israel, Palestine, Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and Hawaii, and Thailand. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and dog and has two adult children.

Support for Doctor+ has been provided by the American College of Physicians. Doctor+ is hosted by Dr. David Hilden and Dr. Tseganesh Selameab and is produced by Julie Censullo.

For more information, visit doctorpluspodcast.com.

Welcome to Doctor+, where we explore the adventures, hobbies, and activities of Internal Medicine doctors.

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We often recognize doctors for their clinical work, research ,and academic achievements. But we don't always get to hear about the other sides of their lives: their “pluses." On the Doctor + podcast, Dr. David Hilden and Dr. Tseganesh Selameab spend a few minutes getting to know their colleagues in a new way. We hope these conversations allow us to build community and start seeing the many ways all our pulses connect.

Doctor+ premieres on Wednesday November 15, 2023. For more information, visit www.doctorpluspodcast.com

Doctor+ is supported by generous funding from the American College of Physicians.