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The Visible Voices

Resa E Lewiss

The Visible Voices Podcast is a podcast dedicated to the voices of change makers in healthcare. We amplify the people and stories in the healthcare, equity, and innovation spaces. This weekly podcast is hosted by Dr. Resa E Lewiss—emergency physician, lifestyle medicine physician, healthcare designer, and social scientist—amplifying the voices shaping the future of healthcare.

Through conversations with innovators, researchers, and leaders, the show explores healthcare equity, medical innovation, leadership, and the trends redefining health. Expect smart, human-centered dialogue and unexpected insights from the front lines of healthcare. New episodes weekly.

Website: https://www.thevisiblevoicespodcast.com/

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#262
Yesterday · 33 min
Who’s Leaving Medicine? Cameron Gettel on the Data Behind the Exit
Cameron Gettel MD MHS grew up in a small Pennsylvania town where his grandparents worked a 100-acre farm from early morning to late at night. That work ethic followed him to Brown Emergency Medicine, where he was chief resident, and then to Yale through the National Clinician Scholars Program. Cameron Gettel, MD, MHS, is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and a clinical investigator at Yale's Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, where he works on how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services measures quality of care. Cameron received the American College of Emergency Physicians' 2023 Policy Pioneer Award and Elizabethtown College's O. F. Stambaugh Outstanding Alumni Award. His health services research tracks physicians through Medicare billing data to describe patterns including attrition in the healthcare workforce. ResearchGate: Cameron Gettel ▶ Subscribe @resaelewissmd — new episodes Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
#261
September 30 · 36 min
Nurse to CEO: Madeline Bell on Children’s Health, Vaccines, and Legacy
Madeline Bell started as a nurse at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 1983. Forty years later, she's retiring as its CEO — having overseen the world's first personalized CRISPR gene editing therapy, built food is medicine programs inside a children's hospital, and navigated the return of vaccine hesitancy into pediatric exam rooms. In this July 15, 2026 conversation, Madeline talks with Resa about what empathy taught her about leadership, why children need advocates who will speak for them in rooms where policy gets made. She also shares the list she wrote to herself before her first day as CEO: what she wanted to be true when she left. ▶ Subscribe @resaelewissmd — new episodes Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
#260
September 23 · 33 min
Adam Brown on Healthcare Strategy, Lifestyle Medicine, and Why Physicians Belong at the Business Table
Adam Brown MD MBA is a board-certified emergency physician, lifestyle medicine physician, and professor of practice at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School and ESCP in London. He is the founder and principal of ABIGHealth, a strategic commercialization advisory for healthcare companies entering, navigating, or scaling in the U.S. market. Adam writes the MedPage Today column Prescriptions for a Broken System and co-authored a white paper on why lifestyle medicine should be taught in business school — because business leaders make healthcare decisions every time they set a benefits package. Adam and Resa talk emergency medicine, misinformaton, physician credibility, and why the six pillars of lifestyle medicine aren't just clinical — they're corporate. ▶ Subscribe @resaelewissmd— new episodes Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
#259
September 16 · 22 min
David Wilkes: What Happens When the Physician Scientist Pipeline Runs Dry
National Academy of Medicine member David Wilkes has spent his career on the parts of medicine that happen before a diagnosis, before a cure, before a headline: training the physician-scientists who make discoveries possible in the first place. As dean emeritus of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and CEO of the Amos Institute for Medical Faculty Development, he's carrying forward a program the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ran for over four decades. David is a pulmonary critical care physician and renowned for his own physician scientist work in the lab. In the early 1990s, his research uncovered an autoimmune trigger behind lung transplant rejection, a finding colleagues at first dismissed as heresy — he was right, and it earned him the American Thoracic Society's highest honor: The Trudeau Medal. We talk about the difference between a mentor and a sponsor, what actually happens when a research pipeline dries up, and why training the next generation of physician-scientists might matter more than any single discovery. ▶ Subscribe @resaelewissmd on YouTube — new episodes Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. 🔗 AIMFD website: https://aimfd.org/
#258
September 9 · 10 min
Gloria Steinem 2020: The Parts I Keep Coming Back To
Gloria Steinem never had a workout routine. She grew up on candy bars and ice cream and called running through airports her only exercise. So when The Visible Voices Podcast host Dr. Resa Lewiss asked the feminist icon, weeks before COVID shut down New York, what actually kept her healthy, the answer surprised her: "I have friends." Gloria Steinem died September 2, 2026, at 92, in the same Upper East Side brownstone where she once sat for this conversation — the same home where Ms. magazine was founded decades earlier. Lewiss shares parts of their 2020 conversation which she keeps coming back to: A Visible Voice: How Steinem didn't feel she had a voice until her late thirties, Positive Social Connection: What she said actually kept her healthy, Storytelling: Why she believed physicians are uniquely positioned to speak up, and The Truth Will Set You Free: the clear answer she gave when asked what to tell someone afraid to use their voice. ▶ Subscribe @resaelewissmd new episodes Wednesdays on YouTube. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
#257
August 5 · 35 min
Why ”Normal” Labs Don’t Mean You’re Healthy — Lucy McBride Goes Beyond the Prescription
Primary care physician Lucy McBride has spent decades in a Washington, D.C. examination room doing something radical: listening. A Princeton and Harvard Med graduate who trained at Johns Hopkins, she built her career on the belief that health lives in the relationship between doctor and patient — not in the lab report. Her first book, Beyond the Prescription, lays out a four-quadrant framework for understanding the body as an ecosystem. In this conversation, we dig into why "normal" labs can be misleading, how AI and wearables are changing the game (and sometimes making things worse), the promise and pitfalls of GLP-1s, and what brain health prevention actually looks like. Lucy shares the appendicitis-bagel story that proves even doctors are imperfect patients. ▶ Subscribe YouTube @resaelewissmd 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. New episodes on Wednesdays
#256
July 29 · 28 min
The Healthcare Heist: Jordan Grumet on Who’s Really Profiting from Your Care
Jordan Grumet, MD a hospice physician and award-winning podcaster exposes the uncomfortable truth: America's healthcare crisis isn't caused by doctors or patients — it's engineered by the third parties who profit from keeping them divided. Jordan hosts the Earn & Invest Podcast, and wrote The Healthcare Heist: How Physicians and Patients Can Unite to Transform Healthcare. We talk about the forces that have quietly taken over American medicine — private equity, insurance gatekeeping, pharma influence — and why the people delivering care and the people receiving it keep getting played against each other. Jordan makes a compelling case that storytelling is the tool that brings us back together. ▶ Subscribe YouTube @resaelewissmd 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. New episodes on Wednesdays
#255
July 22 · 26 min
Why Trauma Surgeons Don’t Sleep : Jamie Coleman on Lifestyle and Measuring Burnout in Surgeons
Trauma surgeons report the lowest quality of life among 13 surgical specialties and work the greatest number of hours. Jamie Coleman MD, Professor of Surgery at the University of Louisville and Deputy & Web Editor of JAMA Surgery, set out to quantify what that can cost. She and co-authors tracked sleep, stress, and recovery in 224 acute care surgeons using wearable devices and daily surveys. The data revealed that sleep loss correlates directly with burnout. Interestingly, doing the work you trained for, even at 2 a.m., offsets burnout in ways that sitting on call at home does not. Jamie and I discuss what system-level changes are needed so surgeons can actually recover. ▶ Subscribe YouTube @resaelewissmd 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. New episodes on Wednesdays
#254
July 15 · 24 min
Geeta Nayyar on Medical Misinformation, AI, and Why Your Doctor Needs to Speak Up
What's one small action doctors can take to speak up against medical misinformation? Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA — rheumatologist, former chief medical officer at Salesforce and AT&T, and bestselling author of Dead Wrong: Diagnosing and Treating Healthcare's Misinformation Illness — joins Dr. Resa Lewiss for a conversation about the misinformation crisis reshaping healthcare. Geeta shares the personal story of her mother's decades-long misdiagnosis that led her to rheumatology, her pivot from clinical medicine to health tech, and why physicians and people — not algorithms — remain the most trusted voices in medicine. ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. New episodes on Wednesdays
#253
July 8 · 41 min
A Terrible Strength: Kemi Doll on Black Women the Uterus and Women’s Health
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. ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd — new Visible Voices episodes on Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
#252
July 1 · 27 min
The Care Gap in Aging America: Evan Jackson on PACE Programs, Older Adults, and Closing the AI Gap
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/ ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd — new Visible Voices episodes on Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
#251
June 24 · 31 min
Physician + Medical Correspondent Darien Sutton: Sleep, Stress & the Fight Against Medical Misinformation
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. ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd New Visible Voices episodes on Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts
#250
June 17 · 33 min
Claiming Your Story: Shanda McManus on Gun Violence, Compounding Grief, Narrative Medicine, and Why Writing Heals
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/ ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd New Visible Voices episodes on Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts
#249
June 10 · 37 min
Narcan, Opioid Use Disorder, and the Emergency Department: A Candid Conversation with Dr. Scott Weiner
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. ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd — new Visible Voices episodes Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. This episode includes real stories from the emergency department, including a fatal overdose. We share these stories because they matter and because they drive change. Please take care of you. Pause and step away at any time and know that you can always come back to the episode.
#248
June 3 · 28 min
After Shock: Rana Awdish on Re-Inhabiting Your Body After Illness
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/ ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd — new Visible Voices episodes on Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
#247
May 27 · 40 min
Moderation Kills: Columbus Batiste and the Cardiologist’s Prescription
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/ ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd — new Visible Voices episodes on Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
#246
May 20 · 22 min
Dr. Michelle Finkel on Medical Admissions, Career Pivots, and Why Physicians Make Great Entrepreneurs
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 ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd — new Visible Voices episodes on Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
#245
May 13 · 22 min
Dietary Guidelines: Annahieta Kalantari on Protein, Industry Influence, and What the Science Says
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. Correction: In the original recording of this episode, we inadvertently misspoke the protein intake recommendation in milligrams per kilogram — the correct unit is grams per kilogram of body weight (g/kg). The audio and transcript have been updated to reflect this correction. We apologize for the error! ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd — new Visible Voices episodes on Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
#244
May 6 · 26 min
Eat for Your Microbiome | Desiree Nielsen on Fiber, Gut Health & Fighting Chronic Disease
First released as audio only. Re-edited and now available in video and audio. 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/ Podcast: Allsorts Podcast ▶ Subscribe to @ResaELewissMD — new episodes of The Visible Voices Podcast episode every Wednesday. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
#243
April 29 · 28 min
The AI Stethoscope That Scribes Itself: Lapsi Health’s Jhonatan Bringas Dimitriades on Reinventing Clinical AI
Dr. Jhonatan Bringas Dimitriades is the CEO and co-founder of Lapsi Health and the co-creator of Keikku — the world's first FDA-cleared digital stethoscope with an integrated AI scribe. The healthtech company and device were built alongside his co-founder and wife Dr. Diana van Stijn. Keikku listens to cardiac and pulmonary sounds, detects heart murmurs with 90% accuracy, and scribes physician-patient encounters real time at the bedside. In this episode, we talk about the pediatric asthma patient that sparked Lapsi Health, why lung sounds are where the clinical misdiagnosis can happen, how MEMS microphone technology powers AI-assisted auscultation, and what multilingual AI scribing means for the future of point-of-care medicine. MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems devices are miniature sensors and actuators—combining electrical and mechanical components—found in smartphones, cars, and medical tools. Jhonatan and I discuss the deskilling debate. He makes the case for why physicians need to be reskilling right now. ▶ Subscribe to @ResaELewissMD — new episodes The Visible Voices Podcast episode every Wednesday. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

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