Summary episode! Some themes...CONNECT! HAVE GOOD RELATIONSHIPS! USE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE TO CREATE THEM! SELF-CARE IS IMPORTANT! To save you time, if you missed any of these, each name is hyperlinked back to the relevant episodes. Thank you to Drs. Dirk Elston, Philip LeBoit, David Caruso, Henry Yang, Marie Angele Theard, Kevin Pho, Itiel Dror, Casey Schukow, Will Bynum, Gabriel Robles, Susan Ko, Ade Adamson, Robert Smith, Ian Katz, Eunice Yuen, Allison Osmond, and Thomas Helm!

If you care about work culture, having different perspectives, and the relationships in your life, listen in to Dr. Thomas Helm as he shares a bit about how he has managed to prioritize in his own life. Dr. Thomas Helm, MD has been Chair of the Department of Dermatology since 2017 and Director of Dermatopathology at Buffalo Medical Group since 1994. He received his MD from Albany Medical College and his BS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is the author or co-author of more than 20 textbook chapters and 160-plus peer-reviewed scientific publications. He has received numerous awards for teaching excellence and is dedicated to service, including in medical missions as well as for the American Society of Dermatopathology, of which he was a past president.

I know...dialectical behavior therapy sounds complicated - but it is DBT for short, and Dr. Osmond does a great job of summarizing a key concept - wise mind being a combo of rational mind and emotion mind. This is an important concept for us all, relevant to home life and any decision-making task, including diagnostic work for physicians. DBT (first brought up to me by David Caruso in a prior episode) can also give insights into burnout (consider listening in to Michi Shinohara, if you haven't yet!). Dr. Allison Osmond is an Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Osmond completed residency in Anatomic Pathology at Western University in London, Ontario Canada in 2015, followed by a Surgical Pathology Fellowship at Western, with a focus in gastrointestinal pathology. She then worked in a general Anatomical Pathology practice for one year and then completed Dermatopathology fellowship at the University of Toronto in 2018. Dr. Osmond has a keen interests include digital pathology and teaching dermatopathology to residents and medical students at the microscope and in particular via the global #dermpath Twitter community. You can find her on Twitter @redsnapperpath. Her colleague. Dr. Katelynn Campbell is on Twitter @KCampbellMD. 

Emotional intelligence allows for self-compassion, which we can then extend to others. Giving ourselves permission to feel allows others around us to have permission to feel. Join me and Dr. Eunice Yuen in Part 2 of our conversation, where she talks about Yale CHATogether, which has links to the growth mindset and deliberate practice. The concept of CHATogether could apply to any relationship, not just parent-child, but also doctor-patient. Dr. Eunice Yuen, MD PhD is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry from the Yale School of Medicine and Child Study Center. She integrates clinical and research work in a bio-psycho-social cultural framework. She is interested in mental health, from genetic and neurobiological underpinnings to practical interventions and education within communities. She looks at acculturative stress, a stress common to many immigrants, affecting children and families in a cross-generational manner. Dr. Yuen is the Founder and Director of Yale Compassionate Home, Action Together (CHATogether), which is a program that uses interactive theater as an educational tool to increase wellness in Asian American families across generations.

We all have multiple identities, even if we did not move from Hong Kong to Florida at age 16 as a parachute kid, like Dr. Eunice Yuen. Dr. Yuen shares her story and how that has influenced her in her work as an adolescent psychiatrist and founder of Yale CHATogether. Navigating work and home culture can also produce acculturative stress, and this is an episode for us all. Dr. Eunice Yuen, MD PhD is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry from the Yale School of Medicine and Child Study Center. She integrates clinical and research work in a bio-psycho-social cultural framework. She is interested in mental health, from genetic and neurobiological underpinnings to practical interventions and education within communities. She looks at acculturative stress, a stress common to many immigrants, affecting children and families in a cross-generational manner. Dr. Yuen is the Founder and Director of Yale Compassionate Home, Action Together (CHATogether), which is a program that uses interactive theater as an educational tool to increase wellness in Asian American families across generations.

Dr. Ian Katz, MD is a pathologist and leading expert in skin cancer at Southern Sun Pathology, Australia’s largest dedicated skin cancer dermatopathology laboratory. Dr. Katz received his MBChB from the University of Cape Town in 1986, his BSc (Med) (Hons) from the same university in 1988, and has been a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia since 1996. Dr. Katz has many interests, including mentoring healthcare entrepreneurs, building medical practices, and teaching about skin cancer and UV exposure. You can learn more at driankatz.com and you can find him on Twitter @skincancerguru.

Have you heard of the NURS mnemonic? Dr. Robert Smith shares how to name, understand, respect, and support emotions in an empathic way. He also gives 3 other tips (silence/pausing, using open-ended questions, asking about emotion) that can help us all in our daily conversations as well as between doctor and patient. Dr. Robert C. Smith, MD, MACP is University Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry Emeritus at Michigan State University. He is an innovator in teaching and researching patient-centered communication as well as primary care mental health since 1985. Dr. Smith has 2 major textbooks being used in medical and nursing schools in the US and internationally, Smith’s Patient-Centered Interviewing: An Evidence-Based Method (4th edition, McGraw Hill, 2018) and Essentials of Psychiatry in Primary Care:  Behavioral Health in the Medical Setting from McGraw-Hill in 2019. He has been interviewed and quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Ladies Home Journal, New York Times, Time, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Today Show, and Elle. Dr. Smith has a blog in Psychology Today. He is also writing a trade book for general audiences, provisionally titled, Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? Dr. Smith also mentions a book by Dr. Robert Pearl, Uncaring. I also am grateful to Dr. Smith for having read my book, which he mentions at the end of this episode and in one of his blog posts.

There is an epidemic of overdiagnosis of malignant melanoma, a potentially deadly skin cancer. Dr. Ade Adamson speaks to why he has dedicated his career to studying this phenomenon, some of his initial feelings before the article was published, and what motivates him to continue to shed light on this problem. Dr. Adewole Adamson is a dermatologist, researcher, and advocate. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine (Division of Dermatology) and Director of the Pigmented Lesion Clinic at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. He attended Morehouse College and then earned his MD with honors at Harvard Medical School, where he also participated in the Health Sciences and Technology Program with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He actively studies skin cancer, evidence-based medicine, and health policy. He is passionate about how effectively and efficiently care is delivered to patients with skin cancer. You can learn more at adeadamson.com and follow him on Twitter @AdeAdamson. Here is a link to his New England Journal of Medicine article on overdiagnosis. 

I love the Alexander Hamilton song, Satisfied, particularly because of the phrase, "From your sister, who is always by your side...". Here is a conversation with my sister on two concepts in psychology, emotional intelligence and the growth mindset, that have really changed the way that I see the world. Dr. Susan J. Ko, PhD earned her Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Arts degrees in Clinical Psychology from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Brown University. Over the past 20 years, a constant has been her direct work with patients, including couples, in her role as a clinical psychologist. While that was always ongoing, she has worn many hats: VP of People, executive coach, managing director; subject matter expert in areas including organizational development and culture, leadership development, performance management, training and education, recruitment and onboarding, assessment, product development, marketing, implementation, and dissemination. The consistent thread that ties all this together is her desire to hear peoples’ stories and find a way to help them address their questions, challenges, and pain by listening, hearing, and identifying tools and resources.

What is motivational interviewing? As with any skill, motivational interviewing can take time to learn (with formal evaluations including transcripts used to parse every word spoken). For this podcast episode, Dr. Robles breaks down a few of the techniques in motivational interviewing into simple things that we can all do in our relationships, including within the healthcare system. Build rapport! Self-reflect! These are basics, but if you have found them missing when you go see the doctor, Dr. Robles gives tips on how you can redirect conversations. Dr. Gabriel Robles, PhD (he/él) is Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work and the Chancellor's Scholar for Inclusive Excellence in Sexual and Gender Minority Health at Rutgers University. Dr. Robles is a clinical social worker, an experienced motivational interviewing clinician, and a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. He conducts research on substance use prevention and sexual health among sexual and gender minorities (SGM). He has a strong interest in addressing health inequities among Latinx SGM populations. Dr. Robles received his PhD in social work at New York University, and his MSW and undergraduate degree in linguistics from California State University in Long Beach. Follow him on Twitter @GRoblesPhD.