Wellbeing Checkup: Prioritizing Mental Health
April 19th 2022
Infectious diseases and vaccine safety expert Dr. Jan Bonhoeffer discusses strategies health care professionals can use to ensure they are tending to their own mental health.
After Hours: Trail Running, Rowing, and Cycling
April 18th 2022
Amber Orman, MD, DipABLM, highlights the role physical activity plays in maintaining her mental health, especially concerning all of the joy and grief that comes with being a radiation oncologist. In particular, she loves outdoor activities such as trail running, rowing, and cycling. She also speaks to the role a plant-based diet plays in her and her family’s life and how she supports this lifestyle through her love of gardening.
Wellbeing Checkup: Following Your Passion
April 15th 2022
Dr. Yehuda Handelsman discusses how he has maintained his mental wellbeing throughout his career as a practicing endocrinologist who has served as president of the AACE and currently serves the medical director and principal investigator of The Metabolic Institute of America.
After Hours: Vet on Ice
April 14th 2022
This episode of After Hours features Dr Heather Kvitko-White, DVM, DACVIM, as she shares her love for ice skating and her path to playing recreational hockey.
After Hours: Animal Rescue
April 13th 2022
On this episode of After Hours, Theresa Craig, RN, an infusion nurse at Saint Vincent Hospital, joins us to discuss her work with a local animal rescue shelter.
Wellbeing Checkup: Reading & Language
April 12th 2022
Managed Healthcare Executive speaks with Inovalon Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Paige Killian about how expanding her reading further than it typically goes and even her language has created a sense of mental wellbeing and a better understanding of our world. A subject of literature Dr. Killian has been reading more of has been focused on history, more specifically of different countries. She also shared that she is learning Italian.
After Hours: Professional Accordion Player
Mike Middleton, MD, leads a busy life. As well as serving as the Director of Nuclear Medicine and Professor of Radiology at the Scott & White Clinic/Texas A&M Health Science Center, he is also an award-winning accordion player. When he’s not with his patients, you can find him on the cover of accordion magazines and playing at local festivals.
Wellbeing Checkup: Practicing Work-Life Balance With Hobbies
April 11th 2022
Two esteemed maternal-fetal medicine specialists, Joshua Copel, MD, and Sarah J. Kilpatrick, MD, PHD, share their hobbies, including tennis and reading.
Wellbeing Checkup: Health and Wellness Expert
March 24th 2022
Sonia Jhas, a Health and Wellness Expert for busy health care professionals, talks about layering in self-care so that you can recharge and regroup. To do this, she recommends strategies such as journaling, brief meditation, and breathwork exercises that can be done anywhere.
After Hours: Deer Hunting
Dr. Michael Birrer explains how deer hunting entered his life while growing up in New Jersey and how he still makes time for it today.
Wellbeing Checkup: Companionship of Dogs
March 22nd 2022
Peter Durlach, chief strategy officer of Nuance, shares with Managed Healthcare Executive how he cares for his wellbeing during tough times, like coping with the after effects of the COVID-19 pandemic or just a long, hard day’s work. Durlach shared he looks to the companionship and excitement of his golden retriever when he comes home and enjoys its company by playing and walking the dog along with his wife and kids. He shared his dog has been his saving grace because its full of positive energy, radiates purity and is always happy to see you.
After Hours: Playing Guitar, Music, Podcasting About Rheumatology
Sebastián Herrera, MD, of Clínica Las Américas Auna and ARTMEDICA joins After Hours to discuss his passions of playing guitar, music, podcasting about rheumatology.
After Hours: 77-Year-Old Basketball Star
March 21st 2022
On this episode of After Hours, we are featuring Dr. Marc Rosenberg, who can be seen at the clinic as the director of Voorhees Veterinary Center in New Jersey, or on the court sinking shots as a basketball star.
Wellbeing Checkup: Beating Burnout
March 17th 2022
Burnout is uniquely pervasive in medicine, regardless of specialty, making physicians more susceptible than the average person. Matthew T. Siedhoff, MD, MSCR, discusses warning signs to watch for and shares his habit-hacking tips to refocus your routines and bring wellness back into your life.
After Hours: Wordle
In this episode of After Hours, Gretchen A. McNally, PhD, ANP-BC, AOCNP, a nurse practitioner scientist with The James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute of Ohio State University, joins Oncology Nursing News® to discuss and compete in the daily word puzzle, Wordle, that has taken the internet by storm.
Wellbeing Checkup: Avoiding Burnout as a Rheumatologist
March 16th 2022
Daniel J. Lovell joins Wellbeing Checkup to discuss how he has maintained his wellbeing and avoided burnout?
After Hours: An Oncologist With a Curing Voice
March 15th 2022
Steven Eisenberg, DO, a San Diego-based oncologists at California Care Associates for Research & Excellence, has a passion for singing and songwriting, which he shares with patients and with the world.
Wellbeing Checkup: Maintaining Mental Health
March 14th 2022
This Wellbeing Checkup features Dr. Shelgikar sharing her tips and tricks for how she maintains her mental health, as well as her hobbies outside of the clinic, which include prioritizing her sleep health, reading, and playing tennis.
After Hours: Dice, Dragons, and Dental Labs
Jessica Vanhouten started her own Dungeons & Dragons dice business because she wanted more and more custom dice for role playing games, but the skills she learned there led her to a job finishing dentures in a Wisconsin dental lab.
Wellbeing Checkup: Burnout Management for Nurses
March 11th 2022
April Kapu, a Vanderbilt professor, acute care nurse practitioner (NP) based in Nashville, TN, and president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), who is here to discuss the future of the nurse practitioner workforce amid healthcare staffing burnout and the extreme fatigue and stress of the pandemic.
Wellbeing Checkup: Practice Wellness
March 9th 2022
Is it true that taking 10 minutes every day to practice self-care can reduce the risk of burnout? Urologist and life coach Diana Londoño, MD, believes so. In a recent interview, she discusses how urologists can practice wellness on a daily basis. Londoño is a urologic oncology surgeon and assistant clinical professor in the department of surgery at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California.
After Hours: Playing Polo
Biotricity CEO Dr. Waqaas Al-Siddiq discusses his unique hobby of playing polo and how it not only helps him to relax, but that it forces him to focus on just one thing and not multitask. He offers some insights on playing the game as well as the care of the horses and some insights into the game for those who are not familiar with it.
After Hours: Vet Tech by Day, Comedian by Night
March 8th 2022
Veterinary technician Walter Brown explains how he began his comedy career and how he uses his sense of humor to make clients feel at ease about their pet’s care.
Wellbeing Checkup: Fitness, Faith, and Family
March 7th 2022
As health care providers, we are often so busy helping and healing others that we forget to help and heal ourselves. In this episode of Wellbeing Checkup, Frank A. Clark, MD, discusses the importance of mindfulness and the things that keep him healthy in mind, body, and spirit.
After Hours: Drums
In this episode, we’ll hear one of our associates at Medical Economics interview Dr. Michael DeGeorgia, a neurologist at University Hospitals of Cleveland and founding director of the Center for Music and Medicine. Dr. DeGeorgia became interested in the drums as a child, but stopped playing while getting his medical education. His passion reignited while organizing medical conferences in the early 2000s, and in 2006 decided to form his own rock and roll band, The Codes, made up entirely of fellow physicians. Dr. DeGeorgia is also intrigued by music’s use as a therapeutic tool for people who have experienced brain injury.
Wellbeing Checkup: Managing Chronic Stress
February 17th 2022
Stress is the root cause of so many of our chronic conditions, and chronic stress can wreak havoc on the body. In this episode of Wellbeing Checkup, Jennifer Bourgeois, PharmD, a clinical pharmacist and founder of Well and Free, LLC, shares her tips for managing chronic stress, prioritizing rest, and practicing self-care.
Wellbeing Checkup: Emphasizing Community
February 16th 2022
Burnout isn’t just a personal issue – combating burnout should be a top priority of companies and organizations as a whole, with a community-first approach. Christopher Mattern, MD, joins Wellbeing Checkup to discuss.
After Hours: Writing for General Readers
Writing for general readers can be a very rewarding experience. William H. Reid, MD, MPH, walks us through the process of writing and publishing fiction and nonfiction books, plus how you can get started.
After Hours: Triathlons
February 15th 2022
This interview discusses William “Bill” Loeffler and his outside hobby of competing in triathlons and climbing the Adirondacks.
Wellbeing Checkup: Beekeeping
February 14th 2022
Cedric Steiner is a licensed nursing home administrator in Lancaster County in Pennsylvania. He’s also a consultant who specializes in building ventilation and how properly ventilated buildings are crucial in the battle against infection. Outside of work, he details his interest and hobby in beekeeping.