Without a doubt, 2020 was indeed a challenging year, and it still is for 2021. It’s been more than a year since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, and it has posed tremendous challenges to our physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing due to the sudden changes that have occurred. Until now, we still have concerns and questions about the virus as well as the vaccine that is now being distributed and administered worldwide.

For today’s episode, Dr. Gabiola and Nicole Zamignani tackle a list of questions that might also be your same thoughts and concerns. They’ll be explaining the importance of double-masking, expound on some inquiries about the do’s and don'ts during these trying times, and the overall risks and benefits of the vaccine.

There is so much to learn, know and experience with COVID-19 so let HOPE be the contagion and not this virus we are currently facing. We should not be hindered by the fear of this virus and together we will RISE to continue fighting for life with caution and optimism until we find a cure or effective treatment. Listen to the conversation to be well-informed on updates about COVID-19!

Memorable Quotes:

• This is the time for renewed hope, for respect to science and data, and for commitment to community, unity, compassion, and humanity. - Dr. Jette Gabiola
• Public health measures like hand washing, masking, and physical distancing have been shown to be very, very effective in preventing the spread of the infection. - Dr. Jette Gabiola
• Stopping the pandemic will require a multifaceted approach, assessing public health measures, vaccines, exploration for more effective treatment and humanity, like for example, helping each other and helping other nations. - Dr. Jette Gabiola
• This novel virus requires not only novel scientific solutions for its main menu, but a community effort with compassion and humanity as major ingredients. - Dr. Jette Gabiola
• During COVID-19, appropriate messaging and listening are key. - Dr. Jette Gabiola
• There's so much to look forward to when it's so important that we maintain hope and keep a positive outlook. - Nicole Zamignani
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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.

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Suicide is the third leading cause of death among 15-19-year-olds all over the world and close to 800,000 people die due to suicide every year. During this pandemic, everyone's psychological and emotional state have been adversely affected. And every day, even for physicians and medical students, we try to cope with it despite the triggered wave of mental health issues from depression, isolation or just the general stress resulting from COVID-19. 

Losing someone very close to our heart is so difficult for us. It causes us so much stress, pain and sorrow that we can’t explain. And losing that valuable person because of suicide hits harder than other kinds of death. Not just because it has no warning but it has a lot of conflicting emotions and it is a battle between that person’s own thoughts, leaving you a lot of questions and what-ifs.

In this heartfelt episode, Kathy Bettman and Francis Tongpalad will talk about their experiences with suicide, the cadre of emotions initially and the lingering anger and guilt, and how one can cope up with the sudden change or bad experience they’ve been through.  We will explore emotions, the stigma associated with suicide as well as the coping strategies for us to be able to cope in a much healthier way.

We’ll also discuss the simple rituals and techniques we could try and learn about different organizations that offer support like suicide prevention programs. May it be death from an accident, illness or suicide. Either way, losses are losses and each one of us responds to it differently. You have to remember that your feelings don’t go away but getting support, finding hope and dealing with your feelings will help you slowly accept and heal through time.

Memorable Quotes:

• “One thing about suicide is that I think you do have to have your own resolve and resilience around it because of the nature of it, the people around you, they're ready to move on much earlier than you are because it stays with you, I think much longer in a stronger way than other kinds of deaths.” - Kathy Bettman
• “Getting support is really important or survivors of suicide loss, because they can talk in a free and open setting with other people who have gone through the same things that they're going through, and it really is just a continual validation of your feelings.” - Kathy Bettman
• “Your voice is incredibly important and so powerful and if any of you express that need and make that known, then the system has to change because you are that system.” - Francis Tongpalad
• “Take care of yourself and do the things that are often recommended for people who are going through any kind of stress or crisis, just something to ground yourself because  your feelings don't go away but they are blunted by time. Time is a healer.”  - Kathy Bettman

About the Guests:

Kathy Bettman currently holds a Master's Degree in Public Health. She is also an advocate for grief and peer counseling. She was also previously part of the Marketing Department at Stanford University.  

Francis Tongpalad is a Thai Puerto Rican American third-year medical student at Medical College of Wisconsin and a member of the Council of Young Filipino  Americans in Medicine.

Related Links and Resources:

• KARA - Grief Support
• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention 
• National Asylum Alliance on Mental Illness
• National Suicide Prevention hotline +1 800-273-8255 
• Crisis text line 741741 

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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It’s been months since COVID-19 has affected not just schools, jobs, opportunities but our lives in general. The world still continues to adapt to the sudden change and continues to explore how people can cope with the new shift in our society.

In the field of education, teachers are adjusting to the new normal of teaching students virtually with the use of different tools available online. Equally, it has also been a roller-coaster ride in the healthcare industry. Our doctors, nurses, therapists and even medical practitioners have been on the frontline to help and heal those with sickness or who have been affected by the virus despite the struggles of the new guidelines like wearing masks and social distancing.

So, how can we deliver care and train the students in a different and unique way where they still learn effectively? What can telemedicine offer in this industry and by what method can we keep our students engaged and still get the same type of clinical training as they did before?

In this episode, Dr. Drew Nevins, a clinical associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, will discuss the pedagogical shift in medical education and how the faculty and students have collectively and quickly developed programs to cope with the times, from the traditional face to face learning environment to all remote two-dimensional space milieu. How is that working and how could faculty continue to innovate and adapt? How are the students doing?

Dr. Nevins gives his take on how the pandemic affected the learning process of medical practitioners and the challenges they faced in order to integrate active learning into a two-dimensional space. You surely don’t wanna miss this episode!

Memorable Quotes: 

• Where there's a crisis, there's opportunity. Opportunity for us to think creatively and to make sure that we can still get our objectives across and in a way that might be different. - Dr. Drew Nevins
• As we emerge on the other side of the pandemic, we will be stronger, more flexible, more resilient, and hopefully more compassionate because everyone is going through the same thing, not just in education, in health, families, in workplaces. - Dr. Julieta Gabiola
• There are ways to approach things that will enable you to still do what you need to do and think creatively to come out with a different perspective on what you're doing. -  Dr. Drew Nevins

About the Guest:

Dr. Drew Nevins is the Medical Director of the Masters in Science for Physician AssIstants (MSPA) at Stanford University. Dr. Nevins specializes in the treatment of infections and has practiced infectious disease medicine for more than 10 years. He has a special interest in medical education. In 2018, he was given the Outstanding Lecture/Presentation Award.

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About the Host:

Dr. Julieta Gabiola 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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I hope my experience as a physician would help you realize how important life is, how important service to others is, and how important is taking care of yourself. Please continue the public health measures, have the vaccine, and continue, continue servicing others. 

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This episode hits too close to home. A doctor finding herself at death’s door. 

COVID-19 has exposed us to the most profound losses, may it be jobs, opportunities, dreams, and most painfully, losing loved ones: family members and friends. The pandemic has taught us a lot of things in the past months. And every day, we continue to adapt and adjust to the new normal, finding meaning in our own lives as we move forward. 

This virus is an attack on all of us which affects every corner of our being, every facet of our society and we are in survival mode.

Doctors, nurses and all medical frontliners are extremely precious during these times. And as physicians, we are expected to be prepared at all times, be able to make difficult decisions and act or feel differently from other humans. 

But are we really prepared? Until now, there are those that still claim that this pandemic is not a big deal. How do we continue to rise when the healthcare system and resources are stretched to their limits?

In this episode, Dr. Jette gets real and candid about her own fight against COVID-19. It is her hope that her experience teaches us why it is important to have hope, resilience and love for one another at times like this. 

Dive in and be inspired as she shares the things she has learned and acquired in her experience and most importantly, why it is important to stay connected with the people we love and the community around us. 

Lastly, Dr. Jette shares how we can live on and RISE (Resilience, Innovation, Service/Share, Empathy) against this virus and unite as a nation. 

Memorable Quotes: 

• Pursue what you want to pursue and that will bring you joy. - Dr. Jette Gabiola
• Let the patient be your book. Listen to what they say.  Look at them and not just the numbers and do not just rely on the numbers. Give everything you can give to the patient within reason as the other alternative is Death. - Dr. Jette Gabiola
• We need to also start evolving to learn to co-exist with all these by being better people. - Dr. Jette Gabiola
• We can shape that way of thinking and see how we can emerge on the other side with less anxiety and be able to set our vision into a more positive version as better people, more resilience,  caring, empathy, sense of helping and service and working in self-care. - Dr. Jette Gabiola
• Life is short and it can be taken anywhere at any time if we won’t be cautious. - Dr. Jette Gabiola

About the Host:

Dr. Julieta Gabiola 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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As Covid-19 continues to impact our daily lives, education is one of the areas that are heavily affected by this rapid transformation. Fortunately, the children of today have been surrounded by digital technology since birth.

However, despite the presence of widespread technology around us, children do not have equal opportunities or availability of these resources. There is a huge digital divide prevalent in many communities, schools, and institutions. The pandemic has suddenly and abruptly forced schools and education to pivot into this much-needed transformation to a digitalized world. 

Now, more than ever, Covid-19 has accentuated and revealed the already known inequity.

This episode tackles how our students, though surrounded by a plethora of technology, are impacted by all these uncertainties, inequities, and expected competencies.  But how about the parents who are ill-prepared to support their children at home? 

I am joined by Betsy Nikolchev and Fatai Heimuli, who expounded on the digital divide and inequity of resources and what measures are taken to help the marginalized population cope with the challenges during the pandemic. 

Memorable Quotes:

• This is about authentic conversations and about not pretending that any of us have all the answers. We’re each going to bring our funds of knowledge. As educators, we're going to bring our materials. Families and students bring their knowledge of experiences. And that is how you build trust. - Betsy Nikolchev
• It's really interesting to see the sparks of hope come alive in their eyes as they get excited about being a college student. And I'm watching that stigma disappear. The stigma surrounding community college, I'm watching it disappear as parents are really engaging in that kind of dialogue with their children, and also with our health as well. So it's just been a very rewarding opportunity. - Fatai Heimuli

About the Guests:

Betsy Nikolchev is the founder and Executive Director of the Family Engagement Institute (FEI) at Foothill College. She is committed to educational equity that promotes multigenerational pathways to college, for first-generation students and marginalized communities. Betsy has been in education for 30 plus years and began her teaching journey in Los Angeles as part of her goal to make a difference in the lives of children.  She then realized that children come with families and the well-being of children is integral to the well-being of families and their respective communities, hence her involvement in FEI.

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Fatai Heimuli is a Tongan-American student intern with FEI. She is passionate about serving marginalized communities as well as upholding equity in all her work.  

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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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Medical Education has been impacted by Covid-19.  Hands-on medicine has been largely switched to online where physical examination has been severely restricted. 

Doctors had to be innovative in eliciting physical findings with the help of the patients when doing telemedicine.  Decisions are made with very limited data. Conveying compassion, empathy and nonverbal cues when clinicians’ faces are covered by masks and face shields is a major challenge to the doctor-patient encounter. 

Students have been so patient and flexible as they struggle to learn the art and science of clinical assessment. Isolation and inability to socialize with peers continue to impact their mental health as well.  

This episode highlights the changes in medical education and shares students’ experiences. Listen as Dr. Neil Gesundheit discusses the rapid shift in medical education during the pandemic, as well as the new ways to teach, learn and practice medicine.

Memorable Quotes: 

• How long this pandemic will last is uncertain. An even more important question is its impact on our lives. - Dr. Jette Gabiola
• Each of these pivots requires emotional and physical energy. Flexibility but not laxity is our goal.  You can’t meet in person with students without an academic purpose… not even their experiences in med school. And it’s creating this climate of isolation because of the need to keep everyone safe. And I think that’s been the biggest challenge. - Dr. Neil Gesundheit

About the Guest:

Dr. Neil Gesundheit is the Senior Associate Dean of Medical Education at Stanford Medical School. He is a professor of Medicine, an internist, a practicing endocrinologist, and an educator.

He oversees the educational programs for medical students, PA Masters Programs, residents, and fellows as well as the Stanford continuing medical education.

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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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mRNA vaccine technology has been studied for the last decade but this is the first time that we are fortunate to have the technology developed in record time mainly due to preexisting platform and knowledge plus an unprecedented mobilization of money and human scientific resources to develop this vaccine, a much-needed innovation to prevent or halt COVID 19 infection.

This will help us get to the 70 % threshold of people either infected with the virus or vaccinated for " herd immunity”. This will help us get back to a semi-normal life. Meanwhile, while the vaccine is necessary, we should NOT abandon the many ways we can prevent the spread of the virus by masking, physical distancing, avoiding crowds and hand washing, PLUS OF COURSE SELF CARE. 

About the Guest:

Dr. Kathleen Kenny will discuss vaccines in general and mRNA vaccine against COVID 19 in particular.

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 next two episodes will explore what we hear from our students and parents.

What are they saying? What are we learning about ourselves, our resilience, and our coping mechanisms?

Learning is truly a lifelong process.

Covid 19 has changed the landscape of education in so many ways. This podcast will showcase our children's resilience and how  parents stepped up to the plate to help support their children and keep them engaged while recalibrating and restructuring their own schedules. It highlights how parents keep their children engaged and focused and how they function effectively as teachers' aides at home. It also explains how schools and teachers keep their students safe as they slowly return to in-person schooling. 

Students will share what they miss from in-person schooling and will outline what they feel are the pros and cons of virtual schooling, what milestones they miss like graduation, how postponement of exams like MCAT, LSAT, SAT affects their momentum, drive and motivations. They will suggest innovations for our school leaders like supporting equity of resources, more asynchronous platforms, perhaps pass /fail grading system, more small groups of doing research and collaborative work that tests, providing support, empathy, listening and asking how students are doing, checking in with students like a simple, ”how are you doing? 

So leaders, educators, parents, and communities -----let us listen to our students! 

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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In this podcast, Dr. Yusra Hussain will differentiate various terms like nursing homes, long-term care facilities, and skilled nursing facilities. She will explain why nursing homes are hot spots for COVID 19 and what interventions we need to mobilize to help reduce the infection rate in those facilities and in the elderly population.

Yusra will highlight how providers, communities, and the government stepped up their support and resources 3-4 weeks into the pandemic. And finally, she will also share her passion and advocacy for health as a human right as the President of the National Health Care Program in the SV.

Memorable Quote:

• Never a boring day as a geriatrician. -Dr.Yusra Hussain

About the Guest:

Dr. Yusra Hussain, a passionate geriatrician and previous director of the Senior Care Center at Stanford University will discuss COVID 19 in the elderly population in the San Francisco Bay area and Silicon Valley.

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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This podcast underscores the importance of epidemiology of COVID 19 and the importance of public measures to help mitigate the spread and transmission of the disease until we have effective treatments and vaccines available.

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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