Episodes

  • What PCPs Want from a Trump Presidency - Episode #93

    What PCPs Want from a Trump Presidency - Episode #93
    Feb 1 2025

    Welcome to Season 2 of Urban Health Weekly!


    Tamara Thomas, editor-in-chief of Urban Health Today, is joined by new guest host, Hospitalist, speaker, and author Dr. Monique Nugent, to discuss:


    -The Primary Care Physician shortage and what the AAFP wants from the incoming Trump Administration.

    -Whether a 3-year medical school program is as rigorous as the traditional 4-year program

    -What makes health care so expensive?

    -What will America's health landscape look like under RFK Jr. as US Secretary of Health?


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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #92

    Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #92
    Jan 17 2025
    Von Nguyen, MD, MPH, Chief Clinical Officer at Evolent, discusses AI's use in medicine and population health.

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    35 mins
  • Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #91

    Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #91
    Jan 10 2025
    Julie Schulz, MD, MPH, Physician Executive, Product leader, and VP of Product, and Michael Dovidio, PharmD, Product Manager at Avalon Healthcare Solutions, discuss why leveraging cardiometabolic lab values instead of BMI to determine coverage for GLP-1 drugs would improve prescription availability for diabetic and obese patients.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #90

    Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #90
    Jan 3 2025
    Kamal Golla, MD, MPH, a Board-Certified Urologist, Senior Medical Director for Value Transformation at Evolent, and the lead architect of the new Navigation Support program, offers recommendations to improve specialist engagement with primary care physicians, which will lead to seamless, high-quality, whole-person care for patients.

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    41 mins
  • Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #89

    Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #89
    Dec 21 2024
    Patient Advocate and influencer Alisha Bridges talks about her experience living with scalp and plaque psoriasis as a person of color and how patients can advocate for themselves to receive the care they deserve.

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    22 mins
  • Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #88

    Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #88
    Dec 14 2024
    Dr. Luke Twelves, General Practitioner, Vice President of Medical for Lindus Health, and expert in diabetes research, discusses the lack of diversity in type 2 diabetes clinical trials and current initiatives to improve trial access.

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    44 mins
  • Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #87

    Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #87
    Dec 8 2024
    Amy McMichael, MD, FAAD, Professor of Dermatology and VISIBLE Steering Committee member, talks about the new findings from Johnson & Johnson’s first-of-its-kind VISIBLE study, which was dedicated 100% to diverse patients, and how Plaque Psoriasis presents on skin of color.

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    24 mins
  • Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #86

    Interviews with Key Healthcare Opinion Leaders - Episode #86
    Nov 1 2024
    Daniel D. Von Hoff, M.D., F.A.C.P., professor in the Department of Medicine at City of Hope and a Distinguished Professor at Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), discusses receiving the $150 Million Stephenson Prize and how it will advance pancreatic cancer research.

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    38 mins