Street Side: The Street Medicine Institute Podcast

Join us this week to listen to guests Dr. Sarah Doorley, Addiction Medicine and Internal Medicine Physician at University New Mexico, and Lindsay Fox, a Physician Associate and founding partner and Director for the Center for Inclusive Health at University of New Mexico.

The Center for Inclusive Health website is HERE

or https://hsc.unm.edu/medicine/departments/internal-medicine/academic-divisions/general-internal-medicine/center-for-inclusive-health/

Join us this week to listen to guest Dr. Patrick Perri speak about the world of Street Medicine. Dr. Perri serves as Medical Director for the Center for Inclusion Health at Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh, PA and is active as a clinician-educator on the faculty of the Allegheny General Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program. His Street Medicine career includes more than 15 combined years working as a clinician on the Street Team of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program and a volunteer with Operation Safety Net in Pittsburgh.

The Center for Inclusion Health website is HERE

or https://www.ahn.org/services/medicine/center-for-inclusion-health

Listen to how some street medicine providers navigate using antibiotics to provide care on the streets with guest Kate Pocock, a physician associate and Clinical Instructor of Family Medicine working with the Keck School of Medicine USC Street Medicine team in California.

USC Street Medicine website is HERE

or https://keck.usc.edu/street-medicine/

Listen to how housing and social work efforts are playing out in Rochester, New York, with social worker Andy Carey. Andy has been at the center of promoting Housing First initiatives for decades, and has some novel perspectives on how to solve the housing crisis.

These conversations were recorded during the 20th International Street Medicine Symposium thanks to Co-Host Michael Brennan. Symposium participants were invited to reflect on what they like and what they learned from the gathering

Michael Brennan is joined by Kara Cohen and Lydia Williams from Project HOME's Epstein Street Medicine program in Philadelphia, PA. Michael had a great opportunity at ISMS 2024 to talk to Kara and Lydia, nurse practitioners with years of wound care experience about Xylazine and it's impacts in Philadelphia.

Project HOME website is HERE

or https://www.projecthome.org/

Michael interviews founder of RISE and board member of the Street Medicine Institute, Melissa Moore, while at the International Street Medicine Symposium in Kansas City, Missouri. Melissa shares her story of lived experience with homelessness and how she has transformed that experience into advocacy to help others.

Follow Melissa on Facebook HERE

or https://www.facebook.com/melissa.moore.9461/

We get to hear from Dr. Jim O'Connell and Dr. Jim Withers about their hopes and dreams for Street Medicine during some reflection at the International Street Medicine Symposium in Kansas City, Missouri.

Jim Withers HERE

or https://www.streetmedicine.org/letters-from-the-founder

Jim O'Connell HERE

or https://www.bhchp.org/institute-team/jim-oconnell/

We get to hear from the passionate voices of attendees and speakers at the Rally for Housing Not Handcuffs hosted by the National Homelessness Law Center and the National Coalition for the Homeless on the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

We sit down with Dr. Jim Withers to discuss humanism in healthcare, communal advocacy, and the future directions of the street medicine movement. Jim is the founder of both the Street Medicine Symposium and the Street Medicine Institute. He is a guiding light for this movement.

Watch his TED talk HERE

or https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=0yZ-IHWLm20&themeRefresh=1