Healthcare

Ladies, it's your time to be in the spotlight! Dive into a heartwarming discussion with Jessica Gandara on ways to encourage women to take up space and prioritize themselves for self-improvement. Help create a space where women can be confident in achieving personal fulfillment when you tune in now.

Key takeaways to listen for:

• How Jessica’s cancer diagnosis inspired her to become a healthcare provider
• The motivation behind ‘It’s My Turn’ and steps to seize your turn for self-empowerment
• Powerful ways to involve your partner in your personal growth journey
• Challenges women encounter in prioritizing themselves
• Why you should find a tribe that propels you forward

Resources 

• EP141: Overcome Life's Challenges and Discover True Fulfillment with Joel Gandara | Apple Podcasts and Spotify
• It's My Turn by Jessica Gandara | Paperback and Hardcover

Do you want to create a legendary family life like Jim and Jamie? Go to www.JJPlaybook.com to schedule a call with a sales counselor and download your own copy of their book, Passive Income Playbook, so you never have to choose between work and family ever again!

It’s time to rediscover and deepen your connection with your loved ones! Spend time with Jim and Jamie’s family while strengthening the connection with yours in the Blue Zone paradise of Nosara, Costa Rica, on June 20-22, 2024. Reserve your retreat spot at 18summers.com/retreat to join us in enjoying good food, sun-kissed beaches, and precious family moments that will last for a lifetime!

About Jessica Gandara, RN

Jessica is a resilient individual who faced a life-threatening battle with cancer at 16, inspiring her nursing journey. She earned her licensed practical nursing degree from Mercy Hospital's School of Practical Nursing, then pursued further education at Miami Dade College to become a registered nurse. Her dedication earned her nominations for the Florence Nightingale Award and scholarships. 

Jessica also initiated the Family Fun Night series, earning the Broward County District Family and Community Engagement Outstanding Person of the Year Award. Passionate about fitness, Jessica advocates for mental and physical well-being, empowering others with her journey of resilience and dedication.

Connect with Jessica

• Website: Joel Gandara 
• Instagram: @jessicagandara

Connect with Us

To learn more about us, visit our website at www.18summers.com or email us at info@18summers.com. To get a copy of our book “The Family Board Meeting”, click here.

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Social Media Channels

• Facebook Group: 18 Summers
• LinkedIn: Jimmy Sheils
• Instagram: @18summerstribe

Joahne Carter, commercial leader of oral care at Kenvue, marketer of Listerine, talks about why the brand addressed the lack of Black professionals in dentistry.

In this episode of Antitrust Matters, James Kovacs and Jean Kim are joined by Professor Thomas Greaney from UC Law San Francisco to discuss the impact of the 2023 Draft Merger Guidelines on healthcare mergers with a focus on cross-market and vertical acquisitions.

In part two of our 3-part series on AI + You, we offer an actionable playbook on how AI can help us scale ourselves personally. Personal scale is all about broadening your skill set and strengthening your human relationships. To guide you, host Reid Hoffman speaks to Stanford HAI’s Fei-Fei Li, Inflection’s Mustafa Suleyman, tech-centric artist Holly Herndon and more AI pioneers. You’ll discover how AI can amplify your ability as a leader, coworker, collaborator and friend.

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Ozempic is being hailed as “the end of the Obesity Epidemic.” This week, Mike and Aubrey dig through the sensational claims. But will they make it past the caveats?

Links: 

• How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic 
• The Discovery and Development of Liraglutide and Semaglutide 
• Ozempic and Wegovy maker courts prominent Black leaders to get Medicare's favor 
• Insurers clamping down on doctors who prescribe Ozempic for weight loss
• Ozempic prescriptions can be easy to get online. Its popularity for weight loss is hurting those who need it most    
• Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in patients with type 2 diabetes: real-world evidence from a Mediterranean area
• Semaglutide in Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Obesity
• Real-world weight change, adherence, and discontinuation among patients with type 2 diabetes initiating glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in the UK
• Safety of Semaglutide
• Semaglutide for the treatment of overweight and obesity: A review
• Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adolescents with Obesity
• Semaglutide 2.4 mg for the Treatment of Obesity: Key Elements of the STEP Trials 1 to 5
• Association of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist Use With Risk of Gallbladder and Biliary Diseases
• Real-World Adherence and Discontinuation of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients in the United States
• Medications and conditions associated with weight loss in patients prescribed semaglutide based on real-world data

Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

What a difference 10 years makes! In this episode, host Kate Deiters talks with Eliza Hoffman, VP of Regional Payers at Quest Analytics, about the last decade in healthcare provider network management. From what’s changed to aha moments to the current hot topics, Eliza shares her perspective on the evolution of provider network management and what she’s most excited about for the future. Sit back, relax and enjoy this episode!

Welcome to the podcast Behind The Scenes with Sonda Kunzi!

In this introduction episode, Sonda breaks down a more detailed look at what is to come in future episodes and the topics that will be discussed surrounding the healthcare billing world. From bigger matters that come to light from large insurance carriers, to sharing in-depth on the overall business of healthcare, to running a remote team and so much more!

You can expect monthly (bi-weekly) episodes on Wednesday’s, where community will be established and awareness brought!  
Together we can make an impact!

Sonda's Links For You:
• Website
• Instagram
• Facebook
• LinkedIn

Host Dr Eva Rocha Ramos interviews Dr Sheila Martins, president of the World Stroke Organization, professor of Neurology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, head of Neurology and Neurosurgery at Moinhos de Vento Hospital and founder and president of the Brazilian Stroke Network. Dr Martins discusses her work to improve the lives of patients with stroke both regionally and globally, and her journey to becoming the first female, Brazilian, and Latin American president of the World Stroke Organization.

In this week’s episode, we’ve invited Dr. Irene Blanco, MD, MS, to the show for a discussion regarding healthcare disparities. What are healthcare disparities? What causes them? Are there any disparities specific to rheumatology? We examine the consequences, explore the impact of patient outcomes, and the challenges faced by communities and some solutions you and your practice can engage in.   

With twenty-six years experience as a nurse and nurse practitioner, Crystal Yokley received her BSN at Cumberland University in Lebanon, TN and her MSN at Western Kentucky University. She worked in hospitals and clinics with a wide range from Med-Surg Cardiology, Pediatrics, women's health, family health occupational med and acute care. She has recently announced the opening of Pinnacle Family Practice, 650 Nashville Pike, Gallatin, TN.

The conversation between host, Mary Anne Oglesby-Sutherly, producer, Sue Duffield, and Crystal, is a caring exchange of cumulative knowledge and experience. It also shows the desire Crystal has to know and understand dementia care along with healthful habits and its benefits within her practice. A timely friendship, both professional and personal, has evolved between Mary Anne and Crystal at just the right time.

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Tune into the third episode in our video series focused on Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) prevention. In this segment, Avalere experts discuss the future of RSV among older adults.

Join our hosts Jessie Swain and Nicki Shorr as they talk with Dr. Janet Glowicz, a Senior Infection Preventionist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion on pragmatic suggestions to improve safe handling of laundered healthcare textiles. This practice forum is based on multiple outbreak reports over the last decade and observations of practices CDC has made during responses.

With special guests:

Janet Glowicz, Senior Infection Preventionist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion

Tune into the first episode in our video series focused on Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) prevention. In this segment, Avalere experts discuss how innovative offerings in the pediatric RSV immunization market will fit within the continuum of care and how the RSV preventive market will grow in the upcoming years.

Hunter Gatewood teaches individuals and teams how to build their dream team through tactical moves and healthy work relationships. His course “The Six Culture Builders for Team Leaders” is the shortest and most encouraging leadership program out there for people who lead from the middle of their organization. His experience includes work as a social worker and coaching change management and process improvement for 200+ work teams.

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

• Hunter’s unique approach to coaching mid-level leaders in organizations to build strong and resilient teams
• Why trust is a vital component of any high functioning team
• The freedom that comes within a team to constructively disagree and push for better results when the team is operating in a high-trust environment
• What to look for to determine if your team lacks trust & how that relates to crabs in a bucket
• Specific how-tos that you can put in place with your team to start building trust now

Additional resources: 

• Hunter Gatewood on LinkedIn
• Signal Key
• A Brave New’s Website

Tune into the second episode in the Avalere Health Essential Voice podcast series focused on the how CMS and Medicare coverage decisions define patient access. In this segment, our experts continue the conversation around national coverage determinations (NCDs)that have coverage with evidence development (CED) requirements, how FDA and CMS’s evidence questions can be complimentary, and the ways in which manufacturer evidence generation plans can address those goals, using the NCD on monoclonal antibodies for Alzheimer's disease as an example.

Alison Tyrrell is the Head of Marketing at SilverCloud Health. She is a multi-award-winning marketer, with over 17 years of global marketing & communications experience. She has worked in multiple countries, with some of the world's largest brands. Alison has a keen interest in psychology, behavioral economics and anthropology and brings these learnings and insights to her work where possible. She is motivated and passionate about using marketing for positive impact and has spent the last 7 years within ESG and Healthtech.

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

• How marketing in healthtech differs from other industries
• Methods for controlling complexity when marketing to numerous complex audiences
• Alison’s passion for understanding people and how they make decisions, and how that influences her decisions in marketing
• How Alison has harnessed an incredible curiosity and drive to ask questions to continuously learn new things and grow her expertise over the course of her career
• The importance of never giving up in marketing, but rather embracing pivots so that you can move in a different direction
• Why you should hire a goat to join your next Zoom meeting using Goat-2-Meeting
• The influence neuroscience, behavioral science, and anthropology can have on marketing
• How to ensure innovation is possible even if failing fast isn’t an option for your organization

Additional resources: 

• Alison Tyrrell on LinkedIn
• Alison Tyrrell on Twitter
• Goat-2-Meeting from Sweet Farm
• A Brave New’s Website

In the third and final episode of the Avalere Health Essential Voice miniseries focused on kidney care, our experts share insights on disparities in kidney care.

Listen to previous episodes in this series: 

• Exploring the Kidney Care Environment: Key Players, Treatment, and Payment Systems
• Exploring the Kidney Care Environment, Part II, Policy and Payment Trends

In this episode of Avalere Health Essential Voice, we kick off our miniseries focused on the evolving kidney care landscape.

Dr. Rosie Spooner is a British Pediatrician who is currently an Education Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, an NGO working on mainstreaming sustainability practices into planning and delivery of health services. Rosie is a practicing clinician who works alongside medical schools and postgraduate education programs to support the integration of sustainable healthcare into mainstream healthcare teaching. She became more concerned about the connection between the climate emergency and health after a year sailing with her husband on a 12-meter boat for 12,000 miles, crossing the Atlantic twice. On this journey she saw how climate change is already destabilizing the world's natural systems and witnessed the catastrophic effects this can have on human health. She is a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and has campaigned for them to divest from fossil fuel investments and declare a climate emergency.

Today’s Sponsors: 

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In this episode Marjorie and Dr. Rosie discuss:

• How delivering healthcare impacts the environment and what some health professionals are doing to reduce the impacts
• What role patients and clients play in the sustainability of the healthcare
• How hygiene and infection control practices impact both sustainability and patient comfortability
• The complexities of transitioning to more earth-conscious healthcare strategies when product availability and contracts dictate much of the reusable and disposable supplies

Resources mentioned in today's episode:

• SustainableHealthcare.org (https://sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/)
• Health Care Without Harm
• ChoosingWisely.org
• The Planetary Health Report Card
• Outrage + Optimism with Christiana Figueres

Connect with Dr. Rosie Spooner and the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare:

• Website: http://sustainablehealthcare.org/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CentreforSustainableHealthcare/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/SusHealthcare
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/spooner_rosie
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosie-spooner-37581218a/

Connect with Marjorie Alexander:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asustainablemind/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/SustainableMind
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/asustainablemind/
• Website: http://www.asustainablemind.com
   

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In this episode of Avalere Health Essential Voice, our experts continue their discussion on channel strategy development for bringing a drug to market.

Tune into Part 1 here: https://avalere.com/podcasts/navigating-distribution-and-third-party-logistics-part-i

Tune into Part 2 here: https://avalere.com/podcasts/navigating-distribution-and-third-party-logistics-part-ii