Denise Billen-Mejia MD www.healandberadiant.com

Tanya Wansom MD/PhD/MMP on YouTube Catalyzing Clarity on YouTube and LinkedIn

in this bonus episode I am joined by Dr Tanya Wansom, an American-born, American-trained physician and infectious disease specialist, who shares her career journey and the positive impact she has had by working in Thailand. She discussed the brain drain of physicians from low-income countries and emphasized the importance of contributing to her family's medical legacy.

Tanya highlighted her involvement in infectious disease research and her current project on testing and treating hepatitis C in the community, particularly among marginalized populations. She also discussed her role in a multinational trial testing a new drug for gonorrhea and how she bridged the cultural gap between different stakeholders.

Tanya encourages doctors to explore non-traditional career paths and embrace opportunities beyond clinical medicine.

If you are a healthcare professional yourself and find this episode relevant to your own work, you will be able to apply for free CME credit (reciprocal CPD for non-US clinicians ) here

Not a medical professional? Of course, you are also welcome to subscribe and listen, but please remember, while we are physicians, we are not YOUR physicians. Please consult with your own medical professional before acting on anything you hear on this or any other podcast.

Please contact me at: [email protected] with any comments or suggestions

Denise Billen-Mejia, MD CH  www.healandberadiant.com

Srikanth Mahankali, MD   [email protected]  LinkedIn 

Dr. Srikanth Mahankali,  shared his journey coming from India to the US for additional training in neuroradiology and how his plans changed when his wife and son joined him. He discussed the challenges of the immigration process and his career progression from San Antonio to MD Anderson. His initial  work in neurosciences and oncology, specifically using functional MRI techniques, was interrupted by a break from career to care for his son and led to an exploration of non-clinical roles, including completing a program from Harvard Business School.

This episode emphasizes the need of developing a mindset towards taking risks and being open to opportunities due to globalization and exposure to different cultures. The importance of embracing new technologies and collaboration in the healthcare industry was highlighted, along with the need for a holistic approach that incorporates digital technologies and home healthcare. 

If you are a healthcare professional yourself and find this episode relevant to your own work, you will be able to apply for free CME credit (reciprocal CPD for non-US clinicians ) here 

Not a medical professional? Of course, you are also welcome to subscribe and listen, but please remember, while we are physicians, we are not YOUR physicians. Please consult with your own medical professional before acting on anything you hear on this or any other podcast. 

Please contact me at: [email protected] with any comments or suggestions

Hosted by Denise Billen-Mejia: www.healandberadiant.com

Guest Tatyana Resnik:   www.joyfulsuccessliving.com

In this penultimate episode of "Myth, Magic, Medicine 2 (immigrant) doctors talking" I chat with Tatyana Resnick, who was a cardiologist in her homeland of Uzbekistan, and then came to the USA to start over.

Fueled by her childhood experience with her grandmother's illness, Tatyana's passion for medicine ignited at the tender age of 12 reading old medical texts.

Tatyana's journey took a turn as she prioritized raising her young daughter.  She now enjoys her "day job" as a hospitalist and has added life-coaching,  authorship and podcast host to her many occupations.  Don't miss out on this compelling story of a determined doctor who wears a lot of hats!

If you are a healthcare professional yourself and find this episode relevant to your own work, you will be able to apply for free CME credit (reciprocal CPD for non-US clinicians ) here 

Not a medical professional? Of course, you are also welcome to subscribe and listen, but please remember, while we are physicians, we are not YOUR physicians. Please consult with your own medical professional before acting on anything you hear on this or any other podcast. 

Please contact me at: [email protected] with any comments or suggestions

#Uzbekistan #California #Informed Consent #availability v affordability #cardiology #nocternist

Hosted by Denise BIllen-Mejia www.healandberadiant.com

Guest Harry Nima Zagarra 

Meet Harry Nima Zegarra, a seasoned Pulmonary & Critical Care physician, shrewd real estate investor, and entrepreneur who loves to help fellow doctors recognize the value of real estate investment,  as he tells the story of his medical school, residency and group practice journey so far.  Along with Mitsi, his wife,  whom he met at Medical School in Peru, Harry has moved from Lima, Peru, through Pennsylvania and Virginia, and now, with the addition of two young sons, lives and works in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

The whole family loves exploring the outdoors, basketball, and soccer plus Harry has taken up long-distance running.

You can reach Harry through his website https://www.nimaequity.com

or email:  [email protected]

If you are a healthcare professional yourself and find this episode relevant to your own work you will be able to apply for free CME credit (reciprocal CPD for non-US clinicians ) here 

Not a medical professional? Of course, you are also welcome to subscribe and listen but please remember, while we are physicians, we are not YOUR physicians. Please consult with your own medical professional before acting on anything you hear on this or any other podcast. 

Please contact me at: [email protected] with any comments or suggestions

host Denise BIllen-Mejia  www.healandberadiant.com

Guest Heba Ismail MBBCh/PhD www.medicine.iu.edu/faculty/43095/ismail-heba

 Dr. Heba Ismail is here again to chat about her slightly convoluted journey to the USA.  She earned her MBBCh with honors from the Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University, in 1999 and completed her residency and pediatric endocrine training at Cairo University Children’s Hospital. With a strong interest in research, she took a postdoctoral position In Washington State, which led to her resolve to practice in the US after she fulfilled her obligation in Eygpt

After completing her US residency training at T.C. Thompson Children’s Hospital in Chattanooga, TN, and her pediatric endocrine fellowship training at Seattle Children’s Hospital, Heba became the Clinical Director of the Weight Management Program at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in 2014 and Clinical Director of the Diabetes Program there in 2016. 

 In 2018, she joined the faculty at IU School of Medicine where she enjoys interacting with her patients, medical students and residents and continues her research into Type I diabetes

 She lives with her young son and daughter in Indianapolis

 Contact her through her blog EatYourGreenBananas.com or through LinkedIn

 If you are a healthcare professional yourself and find an episode relevant to your own work you will be able to apply for free CME credit (reciprocal CPD for non- US clinicians)here

Not a medical professional? Of course, you are also welcome to subscribe and listen but please remember, while we are physicians, we are not YOUR physicians. Please consult with your own medical professional before acting on anything you hear on this, or any other, podcast.

Please contact me at: [email protected] with any comments or suggestions

#endocrine #Indiana #Washington #Tennessee #USMLE # Post-doctoral #Giza #Cairo #pediatrics

Denise Billen-Mejia www.healandberadiant.com
Manisha Ghimire "Progress with Manisha & Ananta"

https://empoweredarthritis.com/

In this episode, Manisha Ghirimre MD,from Kathmandu,  explains a little of her journey to practice in USA and what else she is learning about now.

If you are a healthcare professional yourself and find an episode relevant to your own work you will be able to apply for free CME credit (reciprocal CPD for non- US clinicians)here

Not a medical professional? Of course, you are also welcome to subscribe and listen but please remember, while we are physicians, we are not YOUR physicians. Please consult with your own medical professional before acting on anything you hear on this, or any other, podcast.

Please contact me at: [email protected] with any comments or suggestions

#nepal,#medicine #patient #progress, #electronic medical record #EHR #infectious disease, #ID #nepalese #healthcaresystem, #pediatrics #country #rural doctor,

Denise Billen-Mejia  www.healandberadiant.com

Special Notice  I had a lot of trouble with the transcription software this week, so it will be corrected and replaced asap.

In this episode, I talk to Joanna Kingsley and Emill Levasseur from the Dominican Republic 

Born and raised in the Dominican Republic, Emill and Joanna pursued their dreams of becoming physicians, but they didn't meet until 2013, on the day they started as Internal Medicine residents at Lincoln Medical Center in the Bronx, NY

After completing their training in New York, they married in 2016 and relocated to Florida to work as hospitalists. Emill became the Chief of Medicine and Medical Director of the Hospital Medicine Program, while Joanna became a core faculty member of the new Family Medicine and Internal Medicine Residency Programs.

This year they founded Impact+Capital, a syndication company to assist other physicians in investing in real estate with a social purpose.

Joanna and Emill are in the process of relocating to be near family in Dallas,TX with their 3 young girls (youngest is in the interview if you watch on YouTube). Their goal for 2024 is to strengthen the connection with physician real estate investors in their high-performance coaching program.

  Contact them here 

If you are a healthcare professional yourself and find an episode relevant to your own work you will be able to apply for free CME credit (reciprocal CPD for non-US clinicians) here  

Not a medical professional? Of course, you are also welcome to subscribe and listen but please remember, while we are physicians, we are not YOUR physicians. Please consult with your own medical professional before acting on anything you hear on this, or any other, podcast.  

Please contact me at: [email protected] with any comments or suggestions      

#dominicanrepublic #usmle, #medical school,#studying, #residency #dominican, #newyork #Bronx, #Florida#Dallas #Texas #pasantia

In this episode, I chat with  Dr. Swapna Vaidya, a psychiatrist with a diverse and impressive background.  She currently serves as the lead psychiatrist for Options MD, a digital platform specializing in personalized solutions for patients with treatment-resistant depression and has also launched her own online private practice.

Among other things you might  learn:- She trained as a psychiatrist at the then named St Lukes-Roosevelt where I trained in Pediatrics a decade before.

Koro is a culture bound delusional disorder, ( don't confuse it with Kuru which is a prion disease)

Jinn  a magical spirit who may appear in the form of a human or an animal and can take control.so don't miss the opportunity to add CME credi t

If you are a healthcare professional yourself and find an episode relevant to your own work you will be able to apply for free CME credit (reciprocal CPD for non- US clinicians) here  

Not a medical professional? Of course, you are also welcome to subscribe and listen but please remember, while we are physicians, we are not YOUR physicians. Please consult with your own medical professional before acting on anything you hear on this, or any other, podcast.  

Please contact me at: [email protected] with any comments or suggestions      

Dr. Denise Billen-Mejia www.healandberadiant.com

Dr Anca Sisu https://restorebalance.net/

Doctor Anca Sisu was determined to come to the US and persue post-graduate training.  So much so that she spent her clinical training years in medical school also training as a nurse and, in fact worked for several years as a registered nurse before starting her family medicine/integrative medicine residency.  One determined lady!

Somewhere in this conversation we werechatting about the salt-mines (popular with tourists!) so if you'd like to take a look at that https://www.salinaturda.eu/en/

If you are a healthcare professional yourself and find an episode relevant to your own work you will be able to apply for free CME credit (reciprocal CPD for non- US clinicians) here  

Not a medical professional? Of course, you are also welcome to subscribe and listen but please remember, while we are physicians, we are not YOUR physicians. Please consult with your own medical professional before acting on anything you hear on this, or any other, podcast.  

Please contact me at: [email protected] with any comments or suggestions      

Dr. Denise Billen-Mejia www.healandberadiant.com

Dr. Nawras Abuhamidah FACP Internal Medicine/Primary care  

Dr Nawras Abuhamidah [email protected]

CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center Bergan Mercy · Omaha, NE

This is an unusual episode.  Dr Abuhamidah was in the line-up of 12 immigrant physicians scheduled for this season but it seemed better to make this short piece on the disaster in Libya and she will tell us her personal story next season.

Please consider donating to disaster relief

These are organizations known to be helping in Libya at this time but there are many, many others. 

Islamic Relief USA 

Zakat

International Red Cross Red Crescent 

MSF/DoctorsWithoutBorders

If you are a healthcare professional yourself and find an episode relevant to your own work you will be able to apply for free CME credit (reciprocal CPD for non- US clinicians) here  

Not a medical professional? Of course, you are also welcome to subscribe and listen but please remember, while we are physicians, we are not YOUR physicians. Please consult with your own medical professional before acting on anything you hear on this, or any other, podcast.  

Please contact me at: [email protected] with any comments or suggestions      

disaster, Libya, dams,organizations, physicians, sanitation,  relief efforts,