Talk2MeDoc with Andrew Tisser

Join your host Andrew Tisser with his guest, Norm Chapin, as they talk about how an MBA is essential for hospital leadership. Before becoming a full-time hospital administrator, Norm had been into family medicine and emergency medicine. He coaches and mentors physicians on how to transition to non-clinical leadership roles.

In this episode you will learn:

·        How to get involved with leadership positions right off the gate

·        Other leadership roles aside from hospital administration

·        Certain skills beneficial to be acquired for a CMO role

·        The wrong reasons to go into a leadership position

·        Does one need to have an MBA in hospital administration?

About Norm Chapin:

Norm Chapin, MD, MBA, is an experienced physician executive and coach. He helps physicians interested in transitioning to full-time or part-time non-clinical leadership roles either within the healthcare industry or external to healthcare so they can have a clear strategy for a successful transition to achieve personal satisfaction and professional goals.

Norm is also an experienced physician executive with over 30 years of clinical and administrative experience in various healthcare settings. He is passionate about coaching and mentoring physicians interested in transitioning to full-time or part-time non-clinical roles either within the healthcare industry or external to healthcare. He has served as a COO for an emergency medicine management company, CMO for several hospitals, vice-president of ambulatory quality for a large multispecialty medical group, and vice-president of system quality and safety for a multi-hospital system, along with numerous medical staff positions and other administrative roles.

Connect with Norm Chapin on:

Podcast:              https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/physicians-beyond-the-bedside/id1445805198

Website:             https://physiciansbeyondthebedside.com/

Facebook:           https://www.facebook.com/NormMD.BTB

Twitter:               https://twitter.com/beyondbedside

LinkedIn:             https://www.linkedin.com/in/nchapinmd/

Instagram:          https://www.instagram.com/ubeyondthebedside/

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Website:              https://www.andrewtisserdo.com/

LinkedIn:              https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewtisserdo/

Facebook:           https://www.facebook.com/andrew.tisser

Instagram:          https://www.instagram.com/talk2medoc_llc/

Twitter:                https://twitter.com/Talk2MeDoc

YouTube:             https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0O_Sf3aYLavYaJ_hg7bM8g

Join your host Andrew Tisser with his guest, Dr. Erika Aragona, as they talk about how the turnout of the Roe v. Wade affects women. Dr. Erika is a board-certified family medicine physician focusing on women’s health. She shares her advocacy for women empowerment through medicine and health.

In this episode you will learn:

·        The other side of Dr. Erika

·        Reaction to the Roe v. Wade decision

·        Women’s health resources made accessible

·        How to support patients emotionally

·        Challenges and speed bumps along the way

About Dr. Erika Aragona:

Dr. Erika is a board-certified family medicine physician focusing on women’s health. In addition to having a full-time practice, she serves as adjunct faculty at Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine, teaching women’s health and clinical skills courses. She holds an additional degree of a Bachelor of Arts in English, has published a book, and has written several pieces featured in national journals. She serves as an expert physician consultant with appearances on national television as well as produces written and video social media content for several health and wellness companies. Her passion is making medicine relatable, engaging, and accessible, and with her website, dr-erika.com, she highlights female entrepreneurs as well as discusses positive aspects of medicine. Her goal is to create a social media presence as an engaging physician who makes medicine fun and relatable to everyone.

Connect with Dr. Erika Aragona on:

Instagram:          https://www.instagram.com/doctor_erika_

Twitter:               https://twitter.com/doctor_erika_

LinkedIn:             https://www.linkedin.com/in/doctor-erika-do-383ba1208/

Facebook:           https://www.facebook.com/erika.aragona.9

TikTok:                 https://www.tiktok.com/@dr_erika_

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Website:              https://www.andrewtisserdo.com/

LinkedIn:              https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewtisserdo/

Facebook:           https://www.facebook.com/andrew.tisser

Instagram:          https://www.instagram.com/talk2medoc_llc/

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Join your host Andrew Tisser with his guest, Rebekah Apple, as they talk about the Master of Medical Management program and how it differs from an MBA. The MMM program is exclusive to physicians and is offered at Carnegie Mellon University. Rebekah, the program director, explains what comprises the program and its special focus on a variety of disciplines outside healthcare.

In this episode you will learn:

·        What is the MMM program, and what makes it different

·        How the program is structured

·        Notable examples of MMM graduates

·        Who should pursue the MMM degree

·        Traditional MBA versus physician-exclusive MMM

About Rebekah Apple:

Rebekah Apple is the director of the Master of Medical Management program at Carnegie Mellon University and a medical ethicist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Apple has worked in bioethics for fifteen years, within both hospital and hospice settings, with a special interest in organizational ethics. She teaches medical ethics to first and third year medical students, applied ethical analysis to graduate students, and organizational ethics to physicians. Apple consults with hospitals and health systems around the country and has designed and delivered education to the American College of Cardiology and the American Medical Women’s Association, among others. She earned her Master’s degree in Bioethics from the University of South Florida and a doctorate in Health Science from AT Still University.

MMM program:

Physicians are needed to step into leadership and management positions more than ever before. Get out in front of the change with a blend of quantitative management, business strategy, and technology skills from the Master of Medical Management for Physicians (MMM) program at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College.

Each MMM cohort is made up entirely of physicians with at least five years of post-residency experience, creating an environment for expert collaboration unlike any other. Together, you will learn the management and informatics skills needed to succeed as health care executives and steer the industry forward.

Our faculty comprises award-winning thought leaders in the health care domain, as well as in information systems, policy, economics, IT, cybersecurity, operations research, and more. Through our MMM program, created in the CMU tradition of interdisciplinary innovation, you will gain the tools you need to build, manage, and grow the health care organizations of the 21st century.

MMM is an 18-month cohort-based program taught in a hybrid online/on-campus format. During the program, MMM students come to our main campus in Pittsburgh four times for learning sessions that last four-and-a-half days each. See cohort schedules for more details on calendar and time commitment.

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Email:                   [email protected]

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Join your host Andrew Tisser with his guest, Dr. Jordan Frey, as they talk about what physicians and other healthcare professionals must know when it comes to financial matters. At the end of Dr. Jordan’s training, he was financially clueless, and on top of that, he had a half-million-dollar debt on student loans. So he set out learning to handle finances to become debt-free and now teaches others so they do not fall down the rabbit hole of bad financial management.

In this episode you will learn:

·        Read a book about finance!

·        Save 20% of your gross income

·        Invest – let your money do the work

·        There is no need to hire financial advisors

·        The big impacts of intentional spending

About Dr. Jordan Frey:

Dr. Jordan Frey is a plastic surgeon specializing in microsurgery and breast reconstruction. His hope is to spread the principles of personal and financial well-being to other physicians, trainees, and people of all walks of life by sharing his journey on this pathway of fulfillment, purpose, and happiness.

Connect with Dr. Jordan Frey on:

Website:             https://prudentplasticsurgeon.com/

Linkedin:              https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-frey-3a395b205/

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Website:              https://www.andrewtisserdo.com/

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Facebook:           https://www.facebook.com/andrew.tisser

Instagram:          https://www.instagram.com/talk2medoc_llc/

Twitter:                https://twitter.com/Talk2MeDoc

YouTube:             https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0O_Sf3aYLavYaJ_hg7bM8g

Join your host Andrew Tisser with his guest Sam Kessel as they talk about why physicians should obtain an MBA and what doors does an MBA open for them. Influences can be anything, and for Sam, what sparked his interest in entrepreneurship was due to the marketing class he took. Combining his MD and MBA gave him a wide array of expertise in both medicine and business.

In this episode you will learn:

·        Marketing class to MBA

·        Perks that an MBA gives

·        Who should get an MBA?

·        Factors of business school notoriety

·        A look into what Sam does

About Sam Kessel:

Sam Kessel is passionate about the intersection of medicine, technology, and business. He is a life science consultant at LEK, advising companies on a variety of strategic decisions from research and development, mergers and acquisitions, and international strategy. Sam completed his intern year in internal medicine. In addition, he has served as an associate for multiple angel networks performing due diligence on medical startups part-time during medical training.

Connect with Sam Kessel on:

Linkedin:              https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-m-kessel/

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Website:              https://www.andrewtisserdo.com/

LinkedIn:              https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewtisserdo/

Facebook:           https://www.facebook.com/andrew.tisser

Instagram:          https://www.instagram.com/talk2medoc_llc/

Twitter:                https://twitter.com/Talk2MeDoc

YouTube:             https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0O_Sf3aYLavYaJ_hg7bM8g

Join your host Andrew Tisser with his guest Omar Medrano as they talk about why doctors should consider entrepreneurship as an additional skill and how they can get started. Fear has always been the thing that keeps most people from their potential, and that is what Omar tries to break as a highly-successful entrepreneur and business coach. He harnesses personal experiences and channels them into how he coaches his clients, so they unhinge their hidden potential and become successful entrepreneurs like him.

In this episode you will learn:

·        Degrees don’t matter; entrepreneurship is for everyone

·        Why doctors should consider entrepreneurship

·        First steps on how to get started – doctors aren’t trained for this!

·        Skills can be learned over time

·        Focus on asking better questions in a positive light

About Omar Medrano:

Omar Medrano is a highly-successful entrepreneur and business coach for people ready to crush the fear keeping them from their potential. Medrano became a serial franchise owner over the past two decades, and after putting in the time, he’s become what his fans call “The Vacation CEO.” Known as the expert in outsourcing and taking your time back, Medrano has become an example and mentor to many.

And when he’s not teaching business owners how to find clarity, conviction, and faith in themselves, you can find him playing the stock market, working out, and indulging in the occasional smoothie while parenting his incredible daughters.

Connect with Omar Medrano on:

Website:              https://omarmedrano.com/

Podcast:              https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-if-it-did-work/id1578613999

Facebook:           https://www.facebook.com/theomarmedrano

Instagram:          https://www.instagram.com/omarmedrano73

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Facebook:           https://www.facebook.com/andrew.tisser

Instagram:          https://www.instagram.com/talk2medoc_llc/

Twitter:                https://twitter.com/Talk2MeDoc

YouTube:             https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0O_Sf3aYLavYaJ_hg7bM8g

Grab the free guide to marketable skills for physicians at https://andrewtisserdo.com/skills

Join your host Andrew Tisser in the fourth episode of Career Strategy Sessions as he talks about what marketable skills are, why it matters to have them, and where to find those. It is often heard from clients, friends, colleagues, and others how all they know is what their current profession is, nothing more, nothing less. Saying you do not have other skills besides what you already know is complete utter nonsense. Today, Dr. Andrew explains that physicians and other healthcare professionals have more skills to offer that are not only desirable but also marketable and valuable.

In this episode you will learn:

·        What is a marketable or transferable skill?

·        How to discover personal marketable skills

·        Why it helps to be creative in showing innate skills

·        Examples of marketable skills

·        Create a skills inventory and use elimination to pinpoint commonalities

Connect with Talk2Medoc on:

Website:              https://www.andrewtisserdo.com/

LinkedIn:              https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewtisserdo/

Facebook:           https://www.facebook.com/andrew.tisser

Instagram:          https://www.instagram.com/talk2medoc_llc/

Twitter:                https://twitter.com/Talk2MeDoc

YouTube:             https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0O_Sf3aYLavYaJ_hg7bM8g

Download the free guide to marketable skills: https://andrewtisserdo.com/skills

Join your host Andrew Tisser with his guest Travis Hornsby as they talk about solving student loans. Being a chartered financial analyst and a former bond trader, Travis launched Student Loan Planner to help his wife, a physician, navigate through the repayment schemes of the student loan system. Now, he does the same for graduate degree professionals, so they do not spend most of their hard-earned money paying off debt brought by student loans.

In this episode you will learn:

·        What is the limited PSLF waiver about?

·        Repayment strategies for those unqualified for the PSLF waiver

·        Complexities of student loans

·        No need to hire a professional – resources are available!

·        Thoughts on global forgiveness

About Travis Hornsby:

Travis Hornsby is a speaker and the founder of Student Loan Planner, which he launched after helping his physician wife navigate ridiculously complex student loan repayment decisions. To date, Student Loan Planner has consulted on over $1 billion in student debt. Travis is a Chartered Financial Analyst and brings his background as a former bond trader trading billions of dollars. Trying to solve the student loan crisis brought him out of his first retirement at the age of 25.

He brings that same intensity to analyzing the best repayment paths for graduate degree professionals with six figures of student debt. Travis and his team have helped over 5,486+ clients save over $272 million on their student loans, and he’s been featured in U.S. News, Business Insider, Forbes, Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, ChooseFi, Bigger Pockets, Afford Anything, Money, and more.

Connect with Travis Hornsby on:

Website:              https://www.studentloanplanner.com/

Podcast:              https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/student-loan-planner/id1446453497

Facebook:           https://www.facebook.com/StudentLoanPlan/

Instagram:          https://www.instagram.com/studentloanplanner/

Twitter:               https://twitter.com/StudentLoanTrav

LinkedIn:             https://www.linkedin.com/in/studentloanplanner/

                              https://www.linkedin.com/company/student-loan-planner/

Pinterest:            https://www.pinterest.com/studentloanplanner/

YouTube:            https://www.youtube.com/c/studentloanplanner

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Website:              https://www.andrewtisserdo.com/

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Join your host Andrew Tisser with guest Dr. Laura Purdy as she talks about the behind-the-curtains of telemedicine. Telemedicine has been around for years now. But, with advanced technology kicking in, where is the evolution of telehealth leading to? In this exchange, Dr. Laura Purdy explains what asynchronous telemedicine is all about, the “proper” and “lucrative” approach to telemedicine, and the areas of telehealth that need a lot of improvement.

In this episode you will learn:

·        Dr. Laura Purdy – on doing telemedicine before it was cool

·        What is asynchronous telemedicine?

·        Are you a good fit for telehealth?

·        There is legal protection for doctors in telemedicine

·        Telehealth’s referral system needs to improve

About Dr. Laura Purdy:

Laura Purdy is a board-certified family medicine physician who is wrapping up 14 years as an officer in the US Army. Laura started working in telemedicine in 2016 as a full-time physician and became medical director of MDLIVE.

After MDLIVE, Laura became one of the Regional Medical Directors of his and hers and entered the telehealth industry gig-economy style. Laura has now worked for dozens of virtual health companies across the industry and consults for early-stage telehealth startups in the US and UK. She has 49 (soon to be 51!) state medical licenses and believes in empowering young businesses to meet and exceed their business vision.

Laura has co-founded two telehealth companies and is now lobbying at the federal level to influence change that increases access to care and reduces disparities in telehealth.

Connect with Dr. Laura Purdy on:

Website:              https://kitcaster.com/laura-purdy/

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Website:              https://www.andrewtisserdo.com/

LinkedIn:              https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewtisserdo/

Facebook:           https://www.facebook.com/andrew.tisser

Instagram:          https://www.instagram.com/talk2medoc_llc/

Twitter:                https://twitter.com/Talk2MeDoc

YouTube:             https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0O_Sf3aYLavYaJ_hg7bM8g

Join your host Andrew Tisser with guests Dr. Jeep and Vanessa Naum as they discuss how physicians can achieve a higher level of connection in marriage and family. In their coaching business, Jeep and Vanessa put together their experiences in coaching and relationships that didn’t work. Today, Dr. Jeep and Vanessa talk about the significant challenges for physicians in relationships, navigating stress during residency as a couple, why communication is fundamental to marriage as physicians, and more.

In this episode you will learn:

·       Vanessa and Jeep – on alone times and connections

·       Marriage is a team effort that needs commitment—no matter what!

·       Personal joys in relationships need to be acknowledged 

·       Patience is also a form of action

·       Sometimes, systems are required to make communication work.

About Dr. Jeep and Vanessa Naum:

Dr. Jeep and Vanessa Naum are the owners of Best Friends Again. Best Friends Again is a Physician Marriage Coaching company. Their specialty is in helping physicians and healthcare professionals reignite their marriage through a customized approach based on the unique needs of physicians and healthcare professional families.

Dr. Jeep has been a physician for 31 years and a couples coach for 27. Since 2019, he and his wife Vanessa have been specializing in physician marriage coaching. As a married physician and coach, Dr. Jeep has mixed his passion for coaching doctors and helping them find love and a deeper connection in their marriage and career life.

Vanessa is a sex and relationship coach trained in a philosophy that is a holistic and loving approach to sex and relationship coaching that invites people to move beyond shame, clarify their needs and boundaries, live emotionally connected and erotically embodied lives, and experience the joy and satisfaction of great sex and authentic relationships.

Connect with Dr. Jeep and Vanessa Naum on:

Website:             https://vanessanaum.com/

LinkedIn:            https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-george-p-naum-0a850842/

Facebook:          https://www.facebook.com/drjeepandvanessa

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Website:             https://www.andrewtisserdo.com/

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YouTube:              https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0O_Sf3aYLavYaJ_hg7bM8g