Empowered Patient Podcast

Carey Kauffman, CEO, Well Self 360 talks about the value of volunteers and the different roles they can play in the healthcare system, finding support groups for a wide range of disease states, and extending the care team to include family, friends, co-workers, and care givers. Well Self 360

Andrew Su PhD is Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine at the Scripps Research Institute and leader of the Su Lab looking at ways to apply bioinformatics approaches to biological discovery.  Andrew talks about the tools the lab is developing to engage citizen scientists in discrete tasks that can be handled uniquely by humans and not computers. @AndrewSu @ScrippsResearch @ScrippsSTSI Scripps Research Institute Su Lab Mark2Cure.org GeneGames.org

Dr. Glenn Wollman, medical guide and host of the Magical Medical Tour reveals there is no code for a death related to human error, on the public safety need to track and understand the cause of medical errors that result in death, and how patients need to educate themselves as the best defense against preventable errors. Magical Medical Tour  

Paddy Barrett, MD is a clinical scholar at the Scripps Translational Science Institute, host of the podcast The Doctor Paradox, and co-author of an article in The Lancet on the 200th anniversary of the invention of the stethoscope.  Paddy talks about the early resistance to the use of the stethoscope, advancements in mobile ultrasound devices, and benefits for doctors and patients to see real-time pictures and not just depend on faint sounds heard only by the highly trained. @Paddy_Barrett @paradox_doctor The Doctor Paradox To Truly Look Inside published in The Lancet Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI)  

Ray Kingman, CEO and Founder, Semcasting talks about how healthcare and insurance companies are using a more data driven approach to create and place ads in order to find patients, caregivers and doctors across all devices at the best time and place.  Ray also explains how privacy of patients is assured while for example, using public information to identify and target consumers who are close to a specific hospital or doctor's office. @semcasting Semcasting

Amy Blatt, biologist and international expert in geography, GIS and public health and author of Health, Science and Place: A New Model talks about the need to include where a person lives, works, and plays to understand their health, how geo-spatial medicine experts look at mass gatherings and the Rio 2016 Olympics, and that volunteered geographic health information is a big part of the citizen science movement. @esri_health #HealthGIS Health, Science and Place: A New Model

Paul Coates PhD, Director of the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) talks about why dietary supplements are considered food by the FDA and what that means for consumers, changing attitudes about the effectiveness of supplements including botanicals, and opportunities for nutrigenomics where research is focusing on identifying interaction between nutrients and the genome. @NIH_ODS Dietary Supplements: What You Need to Know Full List of Dietary Supplement Fact Sheets Dietary Supplement Label Database Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health    

Dr. Thomas Cowan, holistic physician and author and founder of Dr. Cowan's Garden Powders on the need for eating roots, leaves and flowers from vegetables, why diversity in our diets matters, and lessons learned from traditional eaters who ate a wide range of seasonal vegetables.  Dr. Cowan has created these vegetable powders to help people get more of the health benefits that plants have to offer in a convenient and potentially sneaky way. Dr Cowans Garden

Stuart Tomc, Vice President Human Nutrition, CV Sciences on the consumer market for hemp-derived CBD oil as well as possibilities for pharmaceutical-grade cannabidiol extracts. With the relatively recent discovery of the central regulatory system called the Endocannabinoid System in the human body, Stuart talks about the promise of CBD to address a wide range of conditions. @CV_Sciences CV Sciences  

Dr. Este Geraghty, Chief Medical Officer and Health Solutions Director, Esri on working with international health organizations to apply spatial analysis to address emergencies, the spread of epidemics, and preventable diseases.  Este also previews topics that will be included in the Esri International Users Conference June 27-July 1, 2016 in San Diego. @esri_health #healthGIS Esri

Nick Macchione, Director, Health and Human Services Agency, San Diego County, CA on the diversity of the population in San Diego with it's 4 distinct weather zones and threats of fires, extreme heat and earthquakes. Nick reveals how gathering data from a wide range of sources and using GIS data and predictive analytics is allowing them to see data-driven improvements in the health and safety of the citizens most at need. @SDCountyHHSA @Esri_health #HealthGIS SanDiegoCounty.gov

Chris Fulcher PhD Director of the Center for Applied Research and Environmental Systems, Division of Applied Social Sciences, University of Missouri talks about the development of the Community Commons online tool using open data from federal and local sources to address Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNA). Applying GIS and data visualization provides the kind of granularity needed to understand the complexity of the health of a community. @communitycommon @esri_health #healthGIS Community Commons  

Dr. Lidia Schapira, Editor-in-Chief Cancer.net and Fergal McGovern CEO Visible Thread on the challenge of getting patients and caregivers accurate health information that is accessible and understandable.  Lidia and Fergal provide thoughtful observations about the challenges of providing accurate cancer related information to an international online audience on Cancer.net which was created by the American Society of Clinical Oncology. @cancerdotnet @visiblethread Cancer.net Visible Thread

Andrew Schroeder PhD, Director of Research and Analysis, Direct Relief discusses the global spread of Zika and other mosquito borne viral diseases, impact of climate change on insects, and using real-time maps to prevent and mitigate epidemics by getting medicine to the right place at the right time. @DirectRelief @esri_health DirectRelief.org esri.com

Dr. Nancy Hardt drew on her experience as an OB/GYN and pathologist to map at risk neighborhoods in Gainesville, FL in coordination with the Sheriff to identify the correlation between domestic violence and health of the population with reflections on how location visualization can reveal surprises and promote cooperation.  A Sheriff and a Doctor Team Up To Map Childhood Trauma @Esri_health  

Bill Roth, Founder and President, Blue Fin Group, consultants to the healthcare industry, talks about the impact of expiring blockbuster drugs, appealing to specialty populations, getting to value based outcomes for expensive drugs, and how patients need to be more accountable for their own health. @bluefingroup Blue Fin Group

Summer Collins, VP of Population Health Data Strategies, Dr. Angela Moemeka, VP and Medical Director of Community Health, and Aijaz Syed, Visualization Specialist, Children's Health on using visualization and GIS to better understand health neighborhoods and identify social determinants of health with insights about their Wellness at WIC program for under-served children under 5 years of age.   @ChildrensTheOne @esri_health #HealthGIS Childrens.com  

Todd Schuble, Manager of GIS Research for the University of Chicago's Division of Social Sciences and senior lecturer in the University of Chicago's Committee on Geographical Studies talks about how time and transportation options are key when measuring health service accessibility, what drives choices about care providers, and value of taking an asset census of community resources to promote healthier life-styles as demonstrated by the HealthERX project in Chicago. @UChicago_GiS GIS.uchicago.edu HealthERX      

Dave Chase, Managing Partner Healthfundr and widely published author on healthcare transformation emphasizes the need for changes in the process of delivery of healthcare in order to take full advantage of technology innovations with examples of proactive care models that can put out a spark before it turns into a full "fire". @ChaseDave HealthFundr.com 95 Theses for a New Health Ecosystem

Dora Barilla, President and Co-Founder, HC2 Strategies on how location impacts the health of a community, how mapping technology can integrate vast amounts of relevant environmental, social and patient data, the right to health not just healthcare, and seeing patient care in a more holistic way. @esri_health HC2 Strategies