Physician economist Anupam B. Jena advances the understanding of what works and what does not work in health care by using “natural experiments” and big data. He studies phenomena such as the economics of physician behavior and the physician workforce, health care productivity, and the economics of medical innovation. Bapu is the Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, an internist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the 2007 recipient of the Eugene Garfield Award by Research America for his work demonstrating the economic value of medical innovation in HIV/AIDS. In 2013, he was the first social scientist to win the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award. His research and editorials have been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Freakonomics, and NPR. He is also co-host of the podcast, Tradeoffs, which aims to make sense of the complicated, costly, and often counterintuitive world of health care. He spoke at TEDMED 2020 in Boston. Kali D Cyrus holds a BA in Psychology from Stanford University, an MPH in health policy & management from Emory University and an MD from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She completed her adult psychiatry residency training and served as a public psychiatry fellow at the Yale School of Medicine. Kali is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She worked on Capital Hill from 2017- 2018 as a health policy fellow in the Office of Senator Chris Murphy and was a Jeanne Spurlock congressional fellow.  View her recent work: How Racism is Causing Black and Latinx Communities to Die of COVID-19 at Higher Rates on NowThis News

Special guest Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, educator, and designer, critic. She is the Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. She has authored numerous books on design processes: Thinking with Type, Graphic Design Thinking, Graphic Design: The New Basics, and Type on Screen, Design Is Storytelling, Health Design Thinking and Extra Bold, a feminist career guide for designers. In 2017, she delivered a TEDxMidAtlantic talk Museums should activate multiple senses, not just the eyeball. Ellen is the founding director of the Graphic Design MFA Program at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) in Baltimore, where she received the AIGA Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in 2007. She was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2019. Guest Andrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc, is the chief medical officer of HOK’s Healthcare group and a general surgeon at the University of Michigan, where he directs the Design & Health Fellowship with the Department of Surgery and the Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning. Andrew wrote a Fast Company 2020 article reflective of #HealthDesign and #COVID19 What comes next? A surgeon’s 3 predictions for the future of healthcare design. Create a #VisualAbstract from his primer here.  (Episode image with permission and courtesy of Ellen Lupton.)

Resa welcomes Senator Maggie Hassan and Dr. Hiral Tipirneni for a discussion on current events and politics. Why go into politics? Why does representation in politics matter? Senator Hassan is one of only two women in American history to be elected as both a Governor and a Senator. She was the 81st Governor of New Hampshire, from 2013 to 2017. She has been active and focused during the recent period advocating on topics, such as PPE, Nursing Homes, the Opioid epidemic, Unemployment insurance Paid sick leave, and Training the returning workforce. See Senator Hassan's Press Releases. Dr. Hiral Tipirneni is running for election to the U.S. House to represent Arizona's 6th Congressional District. She is on the ballot in the Democratic primary on August 4, 2020.  Hear more about Hiral and her path in a 2018 FemInEM podcast .In 2020, 127 (105D, 22R) women hold seats in the United States Congress, comprising 23.7% of the 535 members; 26 women (26%) serve in the U.S. Senate, and 101 women (23.2%) serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. Four women non-voting delegates (2D, 2R) also represent American Samoa, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands in the United States House of Representatives. There are 54 African American Members of the House and3in the Senate. This House number includestwo Delegates. There are 51 Hispanic or Latino Members (a record number) serving: 46in the House, including 2 Delegates and the Resident Commissioner, and 5 in the Senate. There are 20 Members (14Representatives, 3Delegates, and 3Senators)who are Asian Americans, Indian Americans, or Pacific Islander Americans. This is also a record number. A record four American Indians (Native Americans) serve in the House.

Resa speaks with Max Tiako MS and Lauren Powell MPA PhD. They discuss #COVID19, protests, structural racism, and Black racism.  The launch point is Lauren's 02 June 2020 OpEd My nightmare: Covid-19 meets racism meets the killing of a Black person by police.  Lauren leads the health care industry for TIME’S UP. She is formerly the Director of the Virginia Department of Health’s Office of Health Equity. Max is an engineer completing his 4th year of medical school at Yale in New Haven CT. He is the founder and host of @FlipScriptPod podcast covering health disparities in the U.S. & globally.  Episode cover Donna M Parker MD, Associate Dean Office for Diversity and Health Equity University of Florida - COM. Photographer: Giuliano De Portu MD, FACEP.

21 May 2020 The #COVID19 series continues.: Resa speaks with Ashish Jha MD MPH and Miriam Laufer MD MPH.  They discuss the Atlantic magazine article ‘How Could the CDC Make That Mistake?’, Hydroxychloroquine, Vaccines, Summer Camps, and opening institutions of higher learning (see NYTimes Op Ed by Christina Paxson) Dr. Ashish K. Jha is the K.T. Li Professor of Global Health at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI). He is a practicing General Internist and is also Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Jha received his MD from Harvard Medical School and trained in Internal Medicine at the University of California in San Francisco. He completed his General Medicine fellowship at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and received his MPH from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Jha is a member of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In September, Dr. Jha will begin work as the Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. Dr. Miriam Laufer is Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, Epidemiology and Public Health, and Faculty of the graduate program in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She received her medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania and completed her residency in pediatrics at Babies and Children’s Hospital of New York (now New York Children’s Hospital) of Columbia University. She completed fellowships in pediatric infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins University and in malaria research at the Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Maryland. She received her MPH from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.

20 May 2020 In this #COVID19 episode, Resa speaks with physicians in Sweden, France, and the USA. A group of health experts published a USA Today OpEd in the USA: We stuck together to #StayHome, now we can start together to #OpenSafely  Subject matter expert Dr. Eric Topol offers his thoughts on how different countries are opening. Follow him on Twitter Dr. Josefin Elzen works at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm Sweden. She is an Anesthesiologist and Critical Care physician. Dr. Laurence Amar Hatchuel works in Paris at the HEGP Hypertension unit, Centre of Excellence, Hôpital européen Georges Pompidou. She is a Vascular Internal Medicine physician.  Episode image with permissions [email protected]

15 March 2020. The curve steepened. Telehealth has exploded during the #COVID19 pandemic, Resa speaks with two visionary physicians,, who are subject matter experts and leaders in Telemedicine. Jane van Dis, MD is an Obstetrician-Gynecologist, Co-Founder and CEO of Equity Quotient.  She is Medical Director for Ob Hospitalist Group, and Medical Director for MavenClinic. Emergency Medicine physician, Aditi U. Joshi MD is the Medical Director of JeffConnect, in Philadelphia. Jefferson’s tele-health platform running both on-demand tele-health program and tele-intake programs. She is the director of the digital health scholarly inquiry track at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, and director of the Telehealth fellowship. Prior to Jefferson, she worked at a telemedicine startup, learning barriers in uptake, marketing and business development.

This episode was recorded before the #COVID19 pandemic and is now timely. May 06 2020 NBC Chicago headline: The Latinx Community Testing Positive at Higher Rate Than Any Other Group in Illinois . Resa speaks with Drs Ivette Motola - an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Director of the Prehospital and Emergency Healthcare Division at the Gordon Center for Research in Medical Education, M Fernanda Bellolio - a Professor of emergency physician and health sciences researcher dedicated to research methodology, knowledge synthesis and comparative effectiveness, and Marina Del Rios - Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine Director of Social Emergency Medicine and Emergency Ultrasound Research Director. Does representation in medicine matter?

Resa speaks with Medical Educators and Emergency Medicine Drs. Teresa Chan and Megan Stobart-Gallagher.  What are Serious Games?  How do those differ from using Game Mechanics in your medical education teaching?  The literature supports that adults like to play and games are effective.  They discuss Jane McGonigal, the power of games and highlight examples, such as Gridlocked, a game that could allow future doctors to learn systems approaches to patient management in a safe, low stakes environment., and Empiric, the antimicrobial card game designed for education for medical professionals.

Resa speaks with Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, a clinical professor of medicine at the New York University School of Medicine. She has worked at Bellevue Hospital for decades. They discuss writing and finding one's voice through writing  Dr. Ofri recently released When We Do Harm. She is the author of many books and has regular contributions in Slate, New York Times, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Lancet.. They discuss her June 2019 New York Times OpEd piece The Business of Health Care Depends on Exploiting Doctors and Nurses One resource seems infinite and free: the professionalism of caregivers. Listen to Dr. Ofri's TEDMED talk.