Help! Make it Make Sense with Dr. Toni and Dr. Aimee
Do you get overwhelmed by science? Does it mystify or scare you? Have you ever wondered if scientists are normal people and why they use so much freakin’ jargon when they talk? You’re not alone! In this podcast, you’ll enter the world of science through conversations between two friends who happen to be a med peds doctor (internist and pediatrician) and an immunology professor. They will talk through the most recent and crazy headlines and help you separate the nuggets of truth from the B. S.!Relax, pop in your ear buds, and listen to conversations about science that will surprise, delight, and inform you.Dr. Aimee Bernard is a PhD in immunology with expertise in science communication, community science outreach, and medical education. Dr. Toni Eyssallenne is an MD, PhD double boarded in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics with expertise in global and public health, health equity, and medical education. Both have been actively working in their fields for over 15 years and are dedicated to improving access and understanding to population level questions about science and medicine.
Episodes
Great conversation with the one and only Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, AKA Your Local Epidemiologist, about the power of showing up, the experience with members of the Make America Healthy Again movement on the Why Should I Trust You podcast, the work of distinguishing public health from the industrial complexes of food and pharma and insurance and also acknowledging that the status quo of public health needs to change and ta...
Today we chat with Edward Nirenberg, an immunology science communicator who found his calling working with vaccine hesitant parents on facebook and expanding his reach through a blog on substack called Deplatform Disease, and had a fun convo about what inspired him to get into science communication, the times we are currently in, figuring out new ways to reach those groups of folks who are genuinely lost in the confus...
Today we sit down with Dr. James Alwine who is a virologist, a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy for Microbiology and a member of the coordinating committee of the public health movement Defend Public Health. We discuss his oped ed Trump is Killing Life Saving Health Research where he highlights the need f...
Today we have a very special guest, Taryn Chapman also known as "The Vaccine Mom" on instagram, to talk about the power of social media as an advocacy tool. She has a master’s in molecular medicine from the University of South Florida. Before becoming a mother, she worked in vaccines and virology for USF’s College of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering. Currently, she’s a science and vaccine communicator fo...
We sit down today with Dr. Torian Easterling to talk about the challenges of working in health equity and care delivery for the most vulnerable in these uncertain times, the importance of checking in, being steady and steadfast in our goals, understanding that while it is important to promote justice and preserve the progress, the status quo wasn't completely working for those that are the most vulnerable and tha...
We are here today with Dr. Gregg Gonsalves to discuss ways forward to defend public health.
Dr. Gonsalves is an epidemiologist focused on substance use and infectious diseases. He is also an expert in policy modeling on infectious disease and substance use, as well as the intersection of public policy and health equity. In the past he worked in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for 25+ years, in HIV/AIDS, global...
We are back to wrap up the year after an accidental hiatus!! We wanted to stop by before the end of the year to discuss what our work looks like in the near future under leadership changes in the US, our worries about the increase in misinformation and confusion as we all just try and survive this life and do what is right for ourselves and our families, and valuing science education and science communication so we c...
Dr. Toni and Dr. Aimee yuck it up about allergies after getting tons of questions that were really great! We discuss why allergies exist, how annoying they are, why antibiotics dont work, why immunotherapy might or might now work, why pollen won't kill you but shellfish could, the peanut allergy saga, how to be careful with that benadryl and so much more!
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Yay we get a chance to talk to Dr. Aimee about her career journey!
She hilariously explains why she decided not to be a doctor, Dr. Toni is still laughing.
She takes us through how she evolved into the amazing scientist-teacher that she is despite her high school biology teacher giving her some discouraging advice and how she fell in love, like literally fell in love with immunology.
Shout...
Due to some requests, we are dedicating the next two podcasts to our career journeys and Dr. Toni goes first.
Shout out to Dr. Toni's mom who got her a subscription to some animal cards as a child to influence her learning.
Shout out to Dr. Toni's dad who believed she could do more than take care of animals, may he Rest in Peace.
Shout out to the Minority Access to Research Careers...
Prompted by an advisory from a person in power in the south, Dr. Aimee and Dr. Toni chat about how that is literally not possible while we catch up since we hadn't talked in awhile.
We review some pearls on how to decipher scary information and again review your risk tolerance which is personal for everyone.
To review risk tolerance check out our podcast episode on the topic here
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Spurred by an outbreak in Philadelphia December 2023 and continuing into 2024 with some pockets of infection in Colorado we wanted to re-release our previous podcast on measles for those of you who are concerned!
Breaking news! Measles outbreak in Ohio has prompted us to talk a little bit about this. (November 2022)
Measles is highly contagious and requires 95% of eligible human beings in the communi...
Today we have two amazing leaders in mental health discussing the issues of holiday anxiety after experiencing the collective trauma of Covid and other global and local tragedies. Do we gather? Do we stay in solitude? How can we be authentic and still preserve the relationships that matter the most to us? How can we hold two things to be true at the same time? And how can we center our choices and ensure they are n...
We have the distinct pleasure of sitting down and chatting with the esteemed Dr. Pooja Mehta.
Pooja K. Mehta, MD, MSHP, is a board-certified practicing obstetrician gynecologist, and head of women’s health at Cityblock Health, the first Medicaid-focused, value-based, tech-enabled provider for communities with complex health and social needs.
In this episode we dive all the way in on Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and talk ...
Kicking off season 3 with updates on covid vaccinations (we only need one now yay!!) and what to do with masks.
What is your risk tolerance? What is the timing of this new shot? Why did Dr. Aimee walk though a freshly coughed pocket of air????
There is no cookie cutter answer y'all. We have tools now that we didn't have to keep us all safe and we discuss how to use them as responsibly as ...
We bring back these episodes originally released in April 2022 about extra doses and the confusion of using the word booster. We talk about getting certain terms in the graveyard of tearing down terminology and making sure folks understand what these extra vaccine doses are all about. How many do we need?? And why are scientists and medical doctors not agreeing?? How do we manage the vaccine fatigue, the inequity ...
Prompted by a question Dr. Aimee received this podcast tries to explain why we have so many colds and what the difference is between the mild symptoms of a cold and something more serious and why antibiotics don't work.
We got profiled in Futurum Careers Magazine! Check out our three page spread pages 34-37 https://futurumcareers.com/Issue-21.pdf
Wash your hands!! Wear your mask in crowded are...
Meet Evan "the bioethicist" Thornburg, an expert on misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories, who has found notoriety on Tik Tok, sits down with us to talk about health literacy, scientism, the exclusionary elitism of the medical and scientific realms which gate-keeps information and contributes to the public's mistrust, and the difficulty of science to compete with the sheer volume, crea...
Trigger warning: Discussion includes suicide and substance use
Late mother's day edition!
How can you tell if your child is depressed? Anxious? How do we manage our fears about getting "it" wrong or sitting with silence? How do we deal with how covid exacerbated and continues to exacerbate how young people are unable to manage their emotions, attention and the unlimited access to info...
Today we get the awesome opportunity to interview Dr. Ingrid Walker-Descartes, Pediatrician and Child Abuse expert, who works in almost all the spaces, clinical and direct patient care, medical education, administrative and leadership who talks to us today about how we define burnout and resiliency, how covid changed how we see ourselves and our work, discuss the importance of the social determinants of equity, how re...
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