Well Beyond Medicine: The Nemours Children's Health Podcast

Nemours has fully implemented a new “Social determinants of health screening” tool at primary care locations across the enterprise. It’s an annual survey designed to provide a snapshot of a family’s social health: housing, food, transportation, economic situation, etc. This tool provides Nemours with information to better target resources to those in need, and help shape future policy and planning initiatives. 

Carol Vassar, producer

Clubfoot occurs in one of every 1,000 live births in the U.S. Left untreated, a clubfoot doesn't flex and point, causing a person to walk using the side of the foot. With proper treatment and patience, individuals with clubfoot should be able to have the issue corrected major problems. So what is proper treatment? Pediatric orthopedic surgeon Dr. Reid Nichols is a practitioner of the Ponseti method, which is aimed at AVOIDING surgery by making use of casting and bracing to correct the issue. 

Carol Vassar, producer

We’re taking on the topic of childhood cancer - specifically the research being done by Nemours and its many partners in academia, public health, and the private sector. Dr. Andy Kolb is our guest. He is the Director of Blood & Bone Marrow Transplantation in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the Nemours Children’s Hospital in Delaware, and his interest in medicine - like that of many of his peers - began in his own childhood.

Carol Vassar, producer

It really is okay to NOT be okay, especially when working in the field of healthcare during a sustained pandemic. If you are stuggling and want to talk to someone who understands, the Nemours Peer Support program may be for you. Pediatric surgeon Dr. Loren Berman is one of the founders of this program at Nemours - and has a profoundly personal story to explain why she sees peer support as a value-add for all Nemours associates.

Carol Vassar, producer

Lavisha Pelaez is a Health Equity Research Associate in the Nemours Office of Health Equity and Inclusion. In her spare time, she and fellow associate Kia Gaines, co-lead the enterprise-wide African Heritage Associate resource group, or ARG, which is currently expanding to the Nemours Florida region to become a truly enterprise-wide associate asset.

Carol Vassar, producer

Meet Drs. William MacKenzie and Stuart MacKenzie, the Delaware-based father-son orthopedic surgeons whose close personal and professional relationship enhances patient outcomes, and whose long involvement with Nemours goes back several decades and some 3000 miles away in Vancouver, British Columbia. 

Carol Vassar, producer

Do you find yourself as a caregiver outside of Nemours, caring for children, older parents or other family members?

You are not alone. In fact, the new Caregiver ARG wants your input and stands ready to help address the needs of the caregivers among us.

Carol Vassar, producer

Adolescent medicine specialist Dr. Lonna Gordon talks about her lived experience as a young, Black, female physician, and how those experiences - negative and positive - motivated her to become part of Nemours' Diversity, anti-Racism, Inclusion, Value and Equity (DRIVE) initiative.

Carol Vassar, producer

If you had the chance to relive your adolescence, would you? 

Adolescence is a time of change physically, emotionally, socially, and developmentally - and those changes can be overwhelming. Adolescent medicine specialist Dr. Lonna Gordon joins us to talk about defining adolescent medicine and the importance of welcoming children into this new phase of their lives and of their relationship with their healthcare provider. 

Carol Vassar, producer

It's episode 100 of the Nemours Champions for Children podcast, and we are talking all things patient experience with Dr. Peggy Greco. Peggy is Nemours’ Enterprise Patient Experience Medical Director. 

Carol Vassar, producer