The Visible Voices

Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic cancer in the U.S. — more common than cervical or ovarian — and both its incidence and its death rate have been climbing for decades. For years, the guideline meant to catch it in postmenopausal women missed it in Black women. Dr. Kemi Doll worked to change this.

Kemi is a Gynecologic Oncologist and Professor at the University of Washington. She directs the GRACE Center in the Dept of Ob-Gyn a multidisciplinary research center focused on eliminating systemic racial and gender inequities in gynecologic care, with a specific emphasis on combating preventable deaths from endometrial cancer in Black women. She co-founded ECANA, the Endometrial Cancer Action Network for African Americans, and her research on missed diagnoses helped drive ACOG's April 2026 update to national screening guidance.

Kemi is the author of A Terrible Strength: The Hidden Crisis of the Black Womb, which includes a discussion of heavy bleeding, endometriosis, fibroids, and endometrial cancer.

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Most physicians have never heard of PACE — Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly — and that is a problem. PACE is a Medicare and Medicaid model that wraps all-inclusive care around older adults: primary care, social work, nutrition, transportation, dementia support, and more, with most participants paying zero out of pocket.

Evan Jackson is the co-founder and President, Growth for IntusCare. He and Robbie Felton founded the start up while attending  Brown University. They spent time inside a PACE program before building IntusCare, the technology platform now serving 70+ PACE organizations and 50,000 participants nationwide.

In this conversation, we get into how AI is reshaping care documentation and risk prediction, what wearables and remote monitoring mean for rural PACE programs, and why physicians who don't know about PACE are leaving one of the best tools  for older adult patient care on the table. We also talk sleep, coffee, crossword puzzles, and what working with the elderly every day does to how you think about your own health.

Website: https://intuscare.com/

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Dr. Darien Sutton MD MBA — is an emergency physician and ABC News medical correspondent. He joins me for a conversation about sleep, stress, and why doctors need to be fighting health misinformation online. Darien is candid about the healthy sleep habits that residency made difficult, about the orthopedic surgeon who taught him more about stress than medical school ever did, and why he believes physicians can't sit out the misinformation epidemic. We get into food noise, GLP-1 medications, and why obesity is a chronic condition — not a moral failure. 

Read more in Men's Health. Follow Darien on Instagram. Check out his Tik Tok vids.

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In this episode of the Visible Voices Podcast, I am in conversation with Dr. Shanda McManus — family medicine physician, narrative medicine educator, and author of Brother Epistles (2026 by Split/Lip Press).

In 1992, Shanda's brother Monir was killed in a drive-by shooting in North Philadelphia. He was 20 years old. Thirty years later, she began writing him letters — and what emerged is a memoir that is part grief, part social commentary, and entirely healing. We discuss what it means to carry compounding grief, how medical training can become a place to hide from loss, the systems that failed Monir long before that night in 1992, and what narrative medicine offers both patients and clinicians who have no place to take their pain. 

Website: https://www.shandamcmanus.com/

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In this episode of The Visible Voices Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Scott Weiner, emergency physician, associate professor at Harvard Medical School, and founder of system-wide substance use disorder programming. 

Dr. Weiner shares the patient cases that set his life's work in motion, including a fatal overdose on Boston Common that changed how he understood both medicine and advocacy.  Scott addresses the troubling gap in opioid education in American schools, the promise of wearable technology for monitoring patients in recovery, and the real reasons overdose deaths are finally starting to decline. Opioid use disorder is not a moral failure — it is a public health crisis.

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In this episode of the Visible Voices Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Rana Awdish — pulmonary and critical care physician at Henry Ford Health and bestselling author of In Shock and her new book After Shock: Learning to Re-inhabit My Body After Illness. Rana takes us from a keynote stage in Houston where she realized she had been telling a cleaned-up version of her own story, through a decade of chronic illness, stroke, autoimmune disease, and pain — and into the embodiment practices, art, yin yoga, and hard-won self-awareness that brought her back to herself. We talk about what medicine gets wrong about sick bodies, how self-sacrifice gets weaponized against clinicians, and why doubt might just be the way forward.

Find Rana https://www.ranaawdishmd.com/

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In this episode of The Visible Voices Podcast, Dr. Columbus Batiste — interventional cardiologist, lifestyle medicine physician, Regional Chief of Cardiology for Southern California Permanente Medical Group, founder of Healthy Heart Nation, and author of Selfish: A Cardiologist's Guide to Healing a Broken Heart — makes the case that prescriptions and procedures alone are not enough. Dr. Batiste draws on the preventable losses of his father and father-in-law to explore why moderation is not a health strategy, what inflammation and silent chronic disease are doing beneath the surface, and how food, breath, love, sleep, and laughter are evidence-based medicine. He shares the science behind hibiscus tea, dark leafy greens, garlic, blueberries, and beets as blood pressure and heart health tools, and offers practical guidance for patients at every income level.

Find Columbus https://drbatiste.com/

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In this episode of The Visible Voices Podcast, I speak with Dr. Michelle Finkel, emergency medicine physician turned entrepreneur and founder of Insider Medical Admissions — a specialized consulting business helping applicants navigate medical school, residency, fellowship, post-bac, and dental school admissions.

Drawing on her experience as faculty at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant residency director, Michelle shares her high-touch, human-centered approach to helping applicants find their voice, avoid the humility trap, and write with persuasion and originality. We also talk about what it means to embrace a nonlinear career — and why that shift in perspective can reduce stress and open unexpected doors.

Find Michelle at insidermedicaladmissions.com

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In this episode of the Visible Voices Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Annahieta Kalantari  aka Dr. AK emergency and lifestyle medicine physician and founder of the Whole Human Health and Wellbeing Platform. The 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans were released in January 2026, and we dig into what changed, what the science actually says, and where industry influence shows up. We discuss the daily protein recommendation changes. We also get into the confusion caused by the new food pyramid graphic and how the Uncompromised Dietary Guidelines — a nonprofit effort with recommendations outside of industry is something to read.

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In lifestyle medicine, food is not a side conversation. It's the conversation. This week I speak with Desiree Nielsen— registered dietitian and plant-based recipe developer. Desiree Nielsen and I discuss what doctors miss when they skip the nutrition conversation, how gut microbiome health connects to long COVID and chronic disease, and why dietary fiber — not protein — is the most important nutrient right now. We break down the science of anti-inflammatory eating, plant diversity, omega-3s, and the Mediterranean diet, with a rapid-fire review of coffee, avocado, salmon, oat milk, soy milk, walnuts, and cinnamon.  Desiree shares a gut-friendly, plant-forward eating  that is never about deprivation — it's about flavor, function, and long-term wellbeing.

Website: https://desireerd.com/

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