Many of us can be too hard on ourselves. We judge ourselves negatively and incorrectly. We overwork, and accept stress as much as we can to keep up with our daily tasks and responsibilities. But being mindful of our wellbeing is unquestionably a fair and beneficial approach to self-love. A genuine act of kindness to ourselves allows us to be more confident and happy.

We are humans - we all make mistakes, big and small. We succeed at things and fail at things. Each individual loses something, experiences pain, and struggles. We are all on the same path but it’s up to us either to push ourselves or to recharge our mind, soul, and body first before facing the challenges of life.

This episode talks about self-compassion, its importance, and significance in the present time. We are joined by Suzanne Flecker and Victoria Brattini as they remind us to practice self-compassion, understand the three universal triggers of compassion, and a quick one-minute exercise to help us to bring our hearts and our minds into the present moment.

Even in the world of medicine, medical practitioners sometimes forget the importance of giving time to themselves. We should remember that our body needs maintenance as well. Just like gadgets, plants, or animals, we have to remind ourselves, our hearts, minds, and souls that we need nurturing, kindness, and rest. 

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Memorable Quotes:

• Suffering is a part of life. - Victoria Brattini 
• I remind myself that everyone is on his or her life journey and it allows me to give myself compassion for that pain, and also send compassion to that other person without losing myself in it. - Victoria Brattini 
• We should remind ourselves that we’re not alone, and we're part of common humanity that other people are having these experiences too. - Suzanne Flecker
• What I like about mindful self-compassion is it's teaching us practices that we can use.  - Suzanne Flecker

About the Guest:

Suzanne Flecker, Ph.D. is a retired Somatic-Psychologist and educator. Her background has included organizing teams of diverse bodyworkers that provided pro-bono services to nurses for Nurse's Week as well as a special weekly program for Medical Professionals at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in South San Francisco for 18 months. Suzanne continues to lead workshops and create visual and auditory practice aids such as Self-Sanity, a cognitive behavior card set.  Reach Suzanne here.

Victoria Brattini is the founder of Laguna Meditation in Laguna Beach, CA, and a senior teacher for the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. She has studied with Kristin Neff, Ph.D., and Christopher Germer, Ph.D. pioneers, and leaders in the field of self-compassion research and training. Victoria is passionate about teaching, inspiring, and mentoring people in self-compassion. For more information about Victoria visit her website.  here.

About the Host:

Dr. Jette is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and the President & CEO of ABCs for Global Health. Click here for her full profile or read her full interview here.

About ABC's for Global Health:

ABCs for Global Health is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding practical​ solutions to health problems of disadvantaged and underserved communities. Their programs include telemedicine, research on nutrition and healthcare, and disaster response.

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The primary goal of health care is to improve the quality of life by improving the health of any individual. It aims to preserve or restore physical, mental, or emotional well-being but now, we, as a nation, are being deprived of one of our most basic needs which are being healthy.

Access to healthcare should be free and available to everyone because the government must ensure that everybody has access to healthcare. May it be under communism, capitalism, or any other system, every person, regardless of age, economic status, or race, has the right to quality healthcare.

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Jeffrey Fraser who’s a retired neurologist and is a big advocate for health care reform. He’ll share with us his insights and vision for a nice blueprint for healthcare, his book that’s all about the flaws he found in our healthcare system, and we’ll also touch on the importance of prevention education, mental health services, and innovation of electronic medical recording.

We need compassionate healthcare, collaboration from all people, from the public and the private sectors institutions, health policymakers, economists, clinicians, and nurses to come together and work on a viable solution to provide care most cost-effectively and reward our medical practitioners and compensate them fairly for the hard work they do. 

Memorable Quotes:

• Our system takes from the poor and the working class to generate wealth for the already wealthy.
• We are believers in free-market capitalism, but healthcare is not something that can be delivered in a socially tolerable way.
• Healthcare reform is about medicine for good, it's about good medicine for everyone, not just for the privileged.
• The problem is that our medical-industrial complex feeds into that desire for the quick fix and they create unrealistic expectations.
• Electronic medical records could be a wonderful way for doctors to communicate better with each other.
• Telemedicine is not just a way for a patient to connect with a doctor. It's another way for doctors to connect sometimes in real-time when the patient is in there.
• The change will ultimately be for the good and to give people the courage and incentive to advocate for reform in our healthcare system.

  - Dr. Jeffrey Fraser

About the Guest:

Dr. Jeffrey Fraser is a retired neurologist who practiced for almost 30 years in a large public hospital in the heart of Silicon Valley.  His passion for equity and diversity drew him to serve a population of immigrants, uninsured, undocumented and underserved in the Bay Area.  He recently wrote a book” BluePrint for a Gold Medal Health Care System.

Check out Dr. Jeff’s book here.

About the Host:

Dr. Jette is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and the President & CEO of ABCs for Global Health. Click here for her full profile or read her full interview here.

About ABC's for Global Health:

ABCs for Global Health is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding practical​ solutions to health problems of disadvantaged and underserved communities. Their programs include telemedicine, research on nutrition and healthcare, and disaster response.

Visit these links if you'd like to support either by volunteering or sharing your resources:

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“Show me your mentor, and I’ll show you your future.” 

- John Shin -

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a never-ending increase of infected individuals, widespread lockdowns, economic downturn, and rising poverty levels. Because of this, individuals across the globe are having a financial crisis due to unemployment.

Wealthy people have gotten wealthier and the poor have gotten poorer during this pandemic. COVID-19 has changed the global landscape - be it health finances, education, economics, professional or social environments.

This episode discusses a significant issue today which is the economic landscape during COVID-19 and how it affects us financially. We have John Shin, a financial guru who’s going to discuss the importance of managing your money, investments, debt, understanding the purpose of an emergency fund, different types of financial vehicles, and all about investing your money the right way to prevent from bleeding financially.

John will also share the book “Think and Grow Rich” where it all started, and discuss further the four areas of life, six pillars of financial security, and alternative ways to generate income. Learn his advice for everyone at any age on how to handle their savings during this pandemic. 

Memorable Quotes:

• You’ve got to find a good financial advisor that can tell you where to put that money, where the return is fairly stable and consistent without a lot of risks, and build access to that. 
• When it comes to business, go and seek out the people who have expertise.
• When we hear the word “rich”, most people equate that with money. Enrich means not just money, but rich in all areas of your life, rich in your faith, relationships, health, and marriage.
• It’s never too late to think and grow rich.
• Whatever your dreams are, dream big and be the best at what you're going to do. Be the best version of yourself because it's never too late for you to dream big and go after it. 
• Most people don't plan to fail, they just fail to plan. 

About the Guest:

John Shin is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, movie producer, author, motivational speaker, and renowned business coach. He has started 26 different companies from scratch which later became multimillion-dollar enterprises. He is the co-founder of ALL for One Foundation and sits on the board of six different nonprofit organizations. He also is the Executive Producer of the featured film, “Think and Grow Rich: The Legacy,” which is sweeping the world in multiple countries.  John is the modern-day author of the bestselling book, “Think and Grow Rich”, written by Napoleon Hill in 1937. His book, A Think and Grow Rich Publication, was released on January 6th, 2020 called “How Rich Asians Think and Grow Rich,” published by the Napoleon Hill Foundation. He has an MBA and Doctorate in Law, and his passion is mentoring people in the world of business. 

About the Host:

Dr. Jette is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and the President & CEO of ABCs for Global Health. Click here for her full profile or read her full interview here.

About ABC's for Global Health:

ABCs for Global Health is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding practical​ solutions to health problems of disadvantaged and underserved communities. Their programs include telemedicine, research on nutrition and healthcare, and disaster response.

Visit these links if you'd like to support either by volunteering or sharing your resources:

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“The meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

 - Nelson Henderson

A hero is someone who possesses a great deal of bravery, courage, intellect, and willpower. Anyone can be a hero as long as he or she aspires for better things in life. Each one of us may have different definitions of a hero but we have one thing in common - our heroes greatly affect our lives and teach us valuable lessons we bring forward.

This episode is dedicated to our heroes. We have Pam Kawaguchi, Walter Lee, and Kathy Perez who will be talking about the heroes in their lives, how they influenced them to become the person they are today, the real meaning of a hero, and the theory of ripple effect. 

Your hero might be your parents, teacher, coach, friend, or even your pet. So whoever or whatever it is, make time to appreciate and value them because they play a big part in your life and the impact they bring makes you a better person. The influence of heroes in our lives is not just all the good stuff. Sometimes, we get inspired by the challenges and adversities that they overcome.

The acts of bravery, kindness, and unselfish love make our world a better place. Pause, reflect and rewind to recognize those heroes because being a hero doesn’t require wealth or fame. It’s all about the significant difference we make, and remember that we’re all on a hero’s journey.

Memorable Quotes:

• When I think of a hero, not only is it an ordinary person that does extraordinary things, but it's a person that just is kind and is just reaching out to do something better for people. - Kathy Perez
• A hero is someone who can seek the greater good, even sacrificing personal welfare or financial or creature comforts because of what they're able to pass on. - Walter Lee
• You cannot compromise yourself and your integrity.  We always pay the right price that we are, and we always do the right thing.  - Pam Kawaguchi

About the Guest:

Pam Kawaguchi is a loving wife, a mother, and a grandmother, and a certified public accountant and certified fraud examiner. Having 40 years of experience in business finance and auditing, she's now a longevity and lifestyle coach. Her passion includes travel, supporting nonprofit organizations like ABCs for global health, and lifestyle mentoring.

Walter Lee started as a pre-medical student at Stanford then switched to economics. He frequently guests lectured at Stanford graduate school of business. He used his skills in science and economics to help high-tech startups for over 30 years now. After battling cancer, he's now involved with his first love - medicine by teaching health, and wellness.

Kathy Perez is a director of training for PSI, which stands for Personal Success Institute, which has been around for about 47 years. She leads life success and leadership seminars. She's a humanitarian, a true stand for people to be their extraordinary selves.

About the Host:

Dr. Jette is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and the President & CEO of ABCs for Global Health. Click here for her full profile or read her full interview here.

About ABC's for Global Health:

ABCs for Global Health is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding practical​ solutions to health problems of disadvantaged and underserved communities. Their programs include telemedicine, research on nutrition and healthcare, and disaster response.

Visit these links if you'd like to support either by volunteering or sharing your resources:

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Racism is defined as the assumption that some races have distinct cultural characteristics that are determined by genetic influences, making certain races inherently superior to others. The belief that one race is naturally superior to others led to discrimination against members of other races.

Sadly, racism still exists to this day - if not even more prevalent although seemingly discreet. Even in the world of medicine, racism and discrimination are inevitable. It’s astounding - in a negative way - how people basically formulate their own judgment against their fellowmen.

Our episode today features three special guests: Chloe Sales, Walter Lee, and Monica Barajas, who will be sharing with us their personal experiences, lessons learned, and how immigrants, their sons, and daughters helped shape American culture, and conversely, how the American culture has shaped them.

Skin color will be discussed in the context of race, culture, and country of origin and we will discuss more the push and pull factors that affect the movement of people to, and from their countries of origin, how different cultures, different settings affect the development of a person, significance of social history, and many more. Together, let us work on professionalism, ethics, and an honest, respectful attitude to continue the quest for humanity.

Memorable Quotes:

• Being able to capture a patient's story is not only about seeing them on a chart but also understanding the context of their culture within their health. - Chloe Sales
• The thing that hit me so hard along the way is to make the effort to really understand the backstories because so much of that backstory implicates how our response is going to be. - Walter Lee
• Know that we are all different and we need to be understanding and patient towards each other especially with everything that's been going on.- Monica Barajas

About the Guests:

Walter Lee immigrated with his parents from Taiwan when he was 12 years old. He has been in the US for over 50 years. He started as a premed at Stanford and due to lack of financial support then switched to Economics. He frequently guests lectures at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and he used his skills in science and economics to help high-tech start-ups for over 30 years now. Now he is involved with his first love, not his wife but his love for medicine. 

Monica Barajas, a first-generation Mexican American, raised in Northern California. She was born at Stanford, the youngest of 4 children whose entire family migrated from Jalisco Mexico. She is an animal lover, an adventurer who loves to travel and she works at Stanford University Health care systems and in school for her RN.

Chloe Sales was born and raised in the SF Bay Area to a Spanish -Filipino father and a Chinese Filipina mother. Growing up at the intersection of multiple cultures, Chloe hopes to enter the world of medicine to help bridge the gap between Western physicians and immigrant patients. Her interest includes narrative medicine, documentary making, and writing. She hopes to combine her love for the humanities and medicine to help advance culturally tailored health care.

About the Host:

Dr. Jette is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and the President & CEO of ABCs for Global Health. Click here for her full profile or read her full interview here.

About ABC's for Global Health:

ABCs for Global Health is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding practical​ solutions to health problems of disadvantaged and underserved communities. Their programs include telemedicine, research on nutrition and healthcare, and disaster response.

Visit these links if you'd like to support either by volunteering or sharing your resources:

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Each of us has the right to live, to have a good healthcare system to assist us whenever we are ill, and affordable medicines to buy for the sake of our health. Unfortunately, most countries nowadays, including the United States, have a healthcare system that isn’t inclusive enough despite having a sound government and stable economy.

Medicare plays an important part in maintaining the health and financial stability of many individuals. It encompasses a wide range of essential health care, such as hospital stays, medical visits, and prescription medications. Therefore, Medicare is relevant for all citizens.

In this episode, we will be joined by a powerful mother-daughter duo who are advocates of encompassing the healthcare system, Dr. Yusra Hussain and Meriam Ahmad. During our talk, we discussed what’s happening in our current healthcare system, why it is deemed fractured, the inequality and inefficiencies in our healthcare system, and why we should start advocacy for our health. 

Learn more about how the Single-Payer System or Medicare For All can impact each one of us, even people at a young age, and why we should champion this most important healthcare change in our system. Join us as we share knowledge on the advocacy of healthcare for all.

Dr. Gabiola and her guests discussed:

• How many people have insurance but are unable due to the cost to go to the doctor or to get other essential medications.
• Why despite the highest spending on healthcare, Americans experience worse health outcomes than their international peers.
• That it is a problem that the United States is an employer-based healthcare system, which only allows people who are gainfully employed to access healthcare, and those who have disabilities may be able to access healthcare under some government-sponsored programs.
• How a lot of uninsured individuals, Americans, and residents, simply just don't have access to healthcare or decent healthcare due to lack of employment.
• Why we should all stand behind AB 1400 since it will provide universal healthcare coverage, primarily to cover all points of care access. It will also provide mental health and access to, essentially, home services and home care.
• How we are falling behind in terms of every marker of health and how it's hurting us, not only as people but as an economy.

Memorable Quotes:

• Essentially what we have in America is not a healthcare system, it's a patchwork of private insurance coverage and public different options. - Meriam Ahmad
• Any system that profits, when people are not accessing healthcare, is a broken system. - Meriam Ahmad
• Most businesses have adopted this model where they contract outside workers and essentially don't provide them with any benefits or health coverage and these people are on their search for healthcare. - Yusra Hussain
• We need to educate everybody who's around us essentially, and it’s word of mouth so everyone does their part essentially and teaches the people who are around them. - Yusra Hussain

About the Guests:

Meriam Ahmad is a high school junior in San Jose. She chairs the South Bay chapter of Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP), and she is the Youth Organizer for the Santa Clara County Single-Payer Health Care Coalition.

Dr. Yusra Hussain is an adjunct clinical assistant professor at Stanford School of Medicine and the chair for Physicians for a National Healthcare Program- South Bay chapter. She is a practicing internist and a geriatrician in Palo Alto, California.   

About the Host:

Dr. Jette is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and the President & CEO of ABCs for Global Health. Click here for her full profile or read her full interview here.

About ABC's for Global Health:

ABCs for Global Health is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding practical​ solutions to health problems of disadvantaged and underserved communities. Their programs include telemedicine, research on nutrition and healthcare, and disaster response.

Visit these links if you'd like to support either by volunteering or sharing your resources:

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COVID-19 has worsened the tension, putting physicians' well-being and mental health in jeopardy. Just like any individual, medical practitioners feel the pressure, stress, and fear because they’re also human beings.

Isolation, the added stress of working long hours as front liners, the pressure, lack of support, and not having enough time to seek help or therapy all lead to depression and burnout. As physicians, we are under pressure from all kinds of sources from expectations of patients, organizations where we work, from our managers, our loved ones, and even from ourselves. 

In today’s episode, we will be joined by three amazing guests: Dr. Rebecca Smith-Coggins, Dr. Barr Taylor, and Dr. Mira Zein, and discussed a hugely important topic in this generation. We’ll be tackling pressure, burnout, depersonalization, the importance and effects of lack of sleep, campaign for self-compassion, and de-stigmatizing mental health in general.

As medical students and doctors, we always believe that there’s no room for failure but we should also think about our physical and mental well-being to be able to take care of our patients as well. Reflect on this episode and together let’s create a supportive environment to stop the stigma on mental health.

Memorable Quotes:

• US physicians have one of the highest rates of suicide of any profession. It is estimated that 300 to 400 doctors kill themselves each year. -Dr. Julieta Gabiola
• Physicians are trained to feel a little bit invulnerable and sleep is seen as a usable commodity. - Dr. Barr Taylor
• Stress will cause sleep dysregulation, which will then lead to more stress. Dr. Mira Zein
• Burnout is a triad of symptoms. It's emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, distancing yourself from things, and a sense of low personal accomplishment. - Dr. Rebecca Smith-Coggins
• Depersonalization is the replacement of empathy with cynicism and the result is emotional numbness. You get numb to what the patient is experiencing. -Dr. Julieta Gabiola 
• There are higher rates of burnout for nurses compared to other healthcare workers in particular because they're oftentimes at the first line in COVID wards. - Dr. Mira Zein
• A person looking after themselves is a sign of health, not stigma. - Dr. Barr Taylor
• Fear contributes to the stigma in seeking help.  -Dr. Julieta Gabiola 
• Suicide can be very impulsive. It can be done in the context of an acute stressor that happens when someone doesn't have the coping skills to deal with it. - Dr. Mira Zein
• The meditation of love and kindness is very strong for self-compassion. - Dr. Rebecca Smith-Coggins
• Acceptance and commitment therapy is accepting without judgment where you are at this time because this is just where you are and it doesn't have to be permanent.  -Dr. Mira Zein

About the Guests:

Dr. Rebecca Smith-Coggins is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Associate Dean for Medical Student Advising at Stanford University.  She started the Office of Medical Student Wellness in 2013 at Stanford as well as the Stanford Emergency Medicine Residency program in 1990.  Her research focuses on physician/med student wellbeing and has done several studies looking at the power of naps on night shifts.

Dr. Barr Taylor is a Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, at Stanford Medical Center, and Research Professor and Director of the Center for m2Health at Palo Alto University.  He was an adult psychiatry training director in the Stanford Department of Psychiatry for many years and recently has been developing and evaluating digital mental health approaches to populations.

Dr. Mira Zein is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University.  She specializes as a consult-liaison psychiatrist, working in the Emergency department, medical and surgical floors in the hospital, as well as in primary care, where she has been developing an Integrated Behavioral Health model to provide improved access to mental health care.  She also leads the e-consult program for the Department of Psychiatry. 

About the Host:

Dr. Jette is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and the President & CEO of ABCs for Global Health. Click here for her full profile or read her full interview here.

About ABC's for Global Health:

ABCs for Global Health is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding practical​ solutions to health problems of disadvantaged and underserved communities. Their programs include telemedicine, research on nutrition and healthcare, and disaster response.

Visit these links if you'd like to support either by volunteering or sharing your resources:

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Filipinos are known to be a proud and resilient race. We are highly regarded as hospitable, hardworking, compassionate, and caring. And we are deeply faithful and have strong family ties. 

Today, the Philippines continues to be the primary source of professional nurses to the US and other countries. Due to the pandemic, the healthcare industry is the most vulnerable when it comes to the virus since they care for and are in direct contact with COVID-19 patients. 

In September 2020, the largest nursing union in the US found that 67 out of 213 registered nurses who died of COVID-19 are Filipinos. And that is an astounding rate that shows how Filipino nurses are disproportionately affected by the pandemic.

Despite the heightened risk and all the hardships, everyone in the front line continues to fight COVID-19. So for today’s episode, we will be listening to four esteemed guests fo who are in the frontlines to share their experiences and realizations during this pandemic.

We will be discussing the three factors why Filipino nurses are disproportionately affected by COVID-19, the approaches of the Kabalikat Program, and why self-care should be highlighted during this pandemic.

Our deep connections and culture make this pandemic more personal and significant for the Filipino community. We should remember that not all heroes wear capes - some wear PPE, scrubs, and masks.

Memorable Quotes:

• Collaboration is key nowadays, especially as we battle the pandemic. - Julieta Gabiola
• We are not just heroes. We are also human beings who have limitations, who have vulnerabilities. - Igor Mocorro
• You cannot give yourself if you have nothing to give. You have to protect yourself first. - Igor Mocorro
• It's not the lack of self-care, but by culture, we Filipinos are selfless and we like to help. - Julieta Gabiola
• One of the purposes of the COVID-19 task force is to develop programs to cater to the psychological, physical, mental, including educational and spiritual needs of our members. - Jennifer Aying
• We should teach people resilience but we have to also take care of our mental health. - Julieta Gabiola
• The survey “Emotions Behind the Masks”, we want to understand how are the emotional state of our nurses, and the result of that survey. - Mary Joy Dia
• We nurses are in direct care to COVID patients and exposure, and the long hours that we work, just put that as high your risk for contracting the virus.  Emily Danuco
• Nurses are our unsung heroes. We are nurses. We are not invincible and we have to take care of ourselves, too. - Jennifer Aying
• Self-care is something that is broad. - Igor Mocorro
• Filipino Americans are three times more likely to have comorbidities like hypertension, diabetes, both risk factors of the COVID-19 illness. -  Jennifer Aying
• Self-care extends beyond our own capability. - Julieta Gabiola
• Continue to stay vigilant. Don't be complacent.  - Mary Joy Dia
• Self-care is being well-informed, being careful, and staying safe. - Jennifer Aying
• Filipino nurses, we came here to the United States because not only to earn, we want to help, not only ourselves but also our family.  - Igor Mocorro

About the Guests:

Dr. Jennifer Aying is a nurse practitioner at the VA Boston Healthcare and holds a doctorate in Nursing Practice. She is Chair of the Philippine Nurses Association of America COVID-19 Task Force which assesses the impact of the pandemic and develops programs for the physical, psychological, emotional, educational, as well as healthcare to heal the nurses. 

Emily Danuco is the current president of the PNAA Western Region COPRR and president of the  Philippine Nurses Association of Northern California. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Far Eastern University. She is a Liver Transplant Coordinator at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. She is a single mother of one who is following her footsteps in nursing. 

Dr. Mary Joy Garcia- Dia also has a doctorate in Nursing Practice, Master’s Degree in Nursing Informatics. She is the current President-elect of the Philippine Nurses Association of America. She was a member of the National Advisory Committee for Research on Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Health funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Dr. Garcia Dia has a clinical background in Critical Care Nursing and Nursing Informatics. She recently published a book, Project Management in Nursing Informatics.  

Dr. Igor Mocorro, who also has a doctorate in Nursing Practice and practices as an Advanced Practice Nurse, a family nurse practitioner in California. He is the President-elect of the  Philippine Nurses Association of Northern California. He currently works as a nurse manager at the City and County of San Francisco.

About the Host:

Dr. Jette is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and the President & CEO of ABCs for Global Health. Click here for her full profile or read her full interview here.

About ABC's for Global Health:

ABCs for Global Health is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding practical​ solutions to health problems of disadvantaged and underserved communities. Their programs include telemedicine, research on nutrition and healthcare, and disaster response.

Visit these links if you'd like to support either by volunteering or sharing your resources:

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Mental health is just as important as physical health. It’s not just a concept of being weak but rather, it is a concept of psychological and emotional well-being that needs to be in the spotlight more for people to better understand it. The stigma surrounding mental illness keeps people from getting the help they need to get better and causes them to hide their pain.  

Today many individuals including students face mental health crises because of academic pressure, peer or family problems, and even because of the pandemic. That is why in this episode, Dr. Gabiola and her co-host, Ms. Alyssa, were joined by eight students - brilliant minds who shared their insights and thoughts about mental health awareness and their personal experiences about this matter.

Learn from these amazing students about the importance of mental health awareness, different coping mechanisms, and strategies that you can apply, do’s and don’t whenever you are experiencing anxiety and depression, ways on how to break the stigma of mental health, and what you can do as an individual.

Jump right in to listen to this episode and remember that mental illness should not be something to be ashamed about or thought of differently. YOU are important, YOU are loved, and YOU got this!

Memorable Quotes:

• Since May 2020, on average, more than one in three adults in the United States has reported symptoms of anxiety and or a depressive disorder, compared to only one in ten adults reporting the same symptoms from before the pandemic in January to June of 2019. - Alyssa Sales
• One of the most important tools with mental health is having a support system. - Evan
• The mental health of resident physicians is really important because future doctors are just constantly stressed by this pandemic. - John Soy
• Leaders want to see change, but you also can take it within yourself to see what you can do and how you can be that change. - Jamie Albertson
• There's a cultural barrier to addressing mental health. - John Soy
• Self-isolation really impacts relationships with your friends and family. It's not combating issues, not combating anxiety, it's not combating depression because it's only enhancing it and feeding it. - John Soy
• Having a diary is really helpful because you can rant and let all of the thoughts that are in your head and write them out on paper. While is more of you take these thoughts and then you can categorize them into different thoughts and bring more awareness to it and being more mindful with it. - John Soy
• Being able to realize where you are with your own mental health and then finding something to be an outlet to help you grow and to help you come out of your own thought. - John Soy
•  Emotions are normal. Sadness is normal. Anxiety is normal. - John Soy
• One of the main stigmas of mental health is that it is a weakness. - Kate Williams
• Every person wants someone to speak out, remind them that they can see themselves in. - Kate Williams
• Continuing on this cycle of creating this pressure and creating a very unhealthy environment where mental health, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation can just grow because of the way the students see themselves to make academic success. - Kate Williams

About the Guests:

Alyssa Sales, the co-host for today’s episode, is a sophomore at  Columbia University whose multiracial background drives her to improve resources for the underserved and marginalized people through a dialogue on culture and tradition, and mental health.

Kate is a senior in high school and the president of ROCN, Reach Out Care Now, a mental health organization. She’s also the wellness commissioner for the student executive council. Danette Navalo or “Kata” is currently a sophomore attending Columbia University, majoring in Political Science and Ethnicity and Race studies. She creates social content that focuses on indigenous identity with a special emphasis on lifting other indigenous creators. Evan is a junior high school leader of the KUTO club, or Kids Under Twenty One, which deals with mental health awareness. John Soy is a resident physician at Stanford Hospital. He got his master's degree in Molecular Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins, and currently, he is studying Psychiatry. Jamie Albertson is a student educator and activist in the Bay area. And Sophia is a junior at Lynbrook High School and she’s part of Lynbrook Alafia, a student outreach publication that serves as a safe place for students to anonymously share their stories with the community.

About the Host:

Dr. Jette is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and the President & CEO of ABCs for Global Health. Click here for her full profile or read her full interview here.

About ABC's for Global Health:

ABCs for Global Health is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding practical​ solutions to health problems of disadvantaged and underserved communities. Their programs include telemedicine, research on nutrition and healthcare, and disaster response.

Visit these links if you'd like to support either by volunteering or sharing your resources:

• Get Involved
• Donate

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We are back at it again for the second part of our COVID-19 Q&A and Updates series. And we’re bringing you more information and updates on the COVID-19 virus that has been our foe for more than a year now. Some of you may still have questions like what are the vaccines available for COVID-19? How vaccines are useful to prevent illnesses? Are these vaccines really safe and effective? And in what way can it protect our body from the virus? 

In the last episode, we talked about the questions about the vaccine COVID-19, some concerns and overall risks and benefits of the vaccine as well as some tips to prevent yourself from having COVID-19. 

To continue our wonderful and informative discussion, we will be answering these questions and as well as discuss herd immunity, comorbidity, more information about the mRNA vaccine, its effectiveness, and its possible side effects. 

Learn more about the kinds of vaccines, how they can protect our body from the virus, tips for those experiencing COVID symptoms, and what they can do. Stay aware, be informed, and listen to this episode today!

Memorable Quotes:

• Vaccines have been useful in the prevention of infection and transmission of diseases. - Dr. Jette Gabiola
• It's not just vaccinations, it's also the infection that contributes to that herd immunity. - Dr. Jette Gabiola
• Prevention is key to COVID-19. - Dr. Jette Gabiola
• Vaccines had gone through the usual safety and efficacy trials, but just at a warp speed. So it does not mean that safety issues were skipped or bypassed,  and looking back at the data, it looks like it's as good as it gets. - Dr. Jette Gabiola
• Viruses mutate, they replicate and mutate for survival. Mutation emerges and disappears, or may persist. Mutations can make them more virulent. - Dr. Jette Gabiola
• Vaccinate as fast and as many people as we can to prevent viral replication. So if we prevent replication, we also prevent mutation. - Dr. Jette Gabiola
• I think communication is key in really getting control of this pandemic. - Dr. Jette Gabiola
• We should engage the community and ask what they are concerned about, and address those specific concerns because the complications of severe disease from this COVID-19 are vast. - Dr. Jette Gabiola



About the Guest:

Nicole Zamignani is the secretary for ABCs for Global Health. She is an aspiring medical student and graduate of San Francisco State University receiving a Bachelor of Science in Biology. Most recently, she is a Fellow of Stanford’s Clinical Observation and Medical Transcription (COMET) post-baccalaureate program at Stanford Express Care Clinic.

About the Host:

Dr. Jette is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and the President & CEO of ABCs for Global Health. Click here for her full profile or read her full interview here.

About ABC's for Global Health:

ABCs for Global Health is a non-profit organization dedicated to finding practical​ solutions to health problems of disadvantaged and underserved communities. Their programs include telemedicine, research on nutrition and healthcare, and disaster response.

Visit these links if you'd like to support either by volunteering or sharing your resources:

• Get Involved
• Donate

Click here for the FULL TRANSCRIPT.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.