Well Beyond Medicine: The Nemours Children's Health Podcast

According to Larry Moss, MD, FACS, FAAP, President and CEO of Nemours Children's Health, delivering on Whole Child Health is the next step toward creating the healthiest generations of children. This approach emphasizes accountability for every child's health — not just for those in geographic areas served by Nemours Children’s and not just for kids in need of medical care — for all children and to ensure care and partner...

The Family Resource Center at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida, offers a fresh approach to the traditional family resource center. For starters, it’s run entirely by volunteers who will be future health care providers. These student volunteers work closely with community partners and the hospital’s social work team to share up-to-date resources with families. The goal is to meet both immediate and long-term social needs – like ...

Peggy Greco, PhD, Vice President and Chief Patient Experience Officer at Nemours Children's Health, joins us to discuss patient experience, including the Speak Up program, which empowers families to share feedback that improves children's health and safety. She also explores how AI enhances patient care.

Guest:
Peggy Greco, PhD, Vice President, Chief Patient Experience Officer, Nemours Children's Health

Host/Produ...

For many residents of Wilmington, Delaware’s Jessup Street neighborhood, Nemours Children’s Health, Jessup Street is more than a primary care office – it’s a trusted source of support in both joyful and challenging times. That trust and loyalty stem from the dedicated people who work there — we meet two of them in this episode.

Guests:
Hal C. Byck, MD, primary care physician, Nemours Children’s Health, Jessup Street
Shamiya ...

It is essential to support children with developmental differences at an early age, but they often miss the opportunity for early intervention services provided under federal law. Pediatricians Toni Whitaker, MD, and Jennifer Poon, MD, join us to increase awareness of early intervention services for children ages 3-5 years. They provide insights on the work they're doing with pediatric peer providers to equip them with skills ...

Can health IT be leveraged to promote equity and reduce bias? Dr. Alison Curfman believes it can, with humans playing a crucial role. In this exploration, we discuss the importance of clean data for building AI language models and how health IT can help reduce bias while advancing health equity.

Guest:
Alison Curfman, MD, pediatric emergency physician and co-founder, Imagine Pediatrics

Host/Producer: Carol Vassar

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According to the American Psychological Association, trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event: experiencing or witnessing violence, neglect, or abuse, just to name a few. Trauma comes in varied sizes and shapes and affects just about everyone. But what happens when our children experience traumas? 

We discuss childhood trauma and trauma-informed care with two experts in the field. 

GUESTS:

Khadijia Tribi...

Neonatologists Benjamin Courchia, MD, and Daphna Barbeau, MD, co-hosts of The Incubator podcast, recorded a special series on-site at the latest Hot Topics in Neonatology conference. 

Tune in for highlights from top neonatology experts!

The Incubator podcast featuring Dr. Nathalie Maître, Director of Early Development and Cerebral Palsy Research at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

The Incubator podcast featuring Dr. Dieter W...

In the five years since COVID-19 shook the world, the use of telemedicine and virtual platforms to deliver health care has become commonplace, helping to break down barriers of distance, transportation, and time. Those challenges still exist today, and the evolution of virtual health care delivery continues, led by innovators like Nikole Benders-Hadi, MD, Chief Medical Officer, of Talkspace. 

Dr. Benders-Hadi joined us to talk about...

Project ECHO is a virtual training and mentorship model that connects health care specialists across disciplines to share knowledge and recommendations. Originally created to expand access to specialty care in underserved areas, it connects a hub of experts with community-based providers, empowering them with the knowledge and support needed to serve their communities. This model is being used to help early childhood educators addr...

Nurses are the backbone of health care. Yet as artificial intelligence gains a foothold in the day-to-day work of nurses, the way they practice is changing. What does the influx of AI technology mean for the future of nursing? Nurse innovator and futurist Dr. Bonnie Clipper shares her insights.

Watch the video of this podcast episode on the Nemours YouTube channel.

Guest:
Bonnie Clipper, DNP, MA, MBA, RN, CENP, FACHE, FAAN, Foun...

Dr. Jason Langheier, founder and CEO of Foodsmart, is a leading advocate for the "food as medicine" movement across the United States. Driven by his passion for health equity and sustainable obesity prevention, he’s dedicated to making nutritious food accessible and affordable for all. In this insightful conversation, he shares how his childhood in rural New York shaped his mission and discusses the broader impact of food...

In 2023, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued new guidelines on addressing childhood obesity, including the use of anti-obesity medications such as Wegovy and Ozempic – both approved for use in children ages 12 and older. We'll examine the guidance as two childhood obesity medicine specialists weigh their opinions on medication-assisted obesity control.

Guests:
Claudia Fox, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediat...

Texting during a crisis has become a modern lifeline for millions, providing immediate support when it's needed most, especially for young people. Crisis Text Line provides a free, confidential, and discreet service, offering assistance to anyone experiencing a mental health crisis. Whether through text, SMS, web chat or WhatsApp, trained counselors are on-hand 24/7, year-round, transforming mental health care support. Shairi ...

Each year, the Women's Sports Foundation (WSF) marks the first Wednesday in February as National Girls and Women in Sports Day. For nearly 40 years, this day has raised awareness about the physical, educational, and psychological benefits of sports for women and girls throughout their lives. WSF was founded in 1974 by tennis champion and lifelong equality advocate Billie Jean King, who turned a $5,000 Athlete of the Year award...

The role of the nurse practitioner (NP) in the health care landscape was developed in the mid-1960s to fill a need for additional primary care pediatrics services for the Baby Boom generation. Today, there are more than 385,000 licensed NPs across the U.S., and their number is expected to grow by 45% between now and 2032. 

Joining us on this episode to discuss the role of the nurse practitioner in the current and future health care ...

There’s a bold idea bubbling to the surface in health care: if we want to address the numerous problems regarding health and wellness in the U.S., as a nation, we must understand what health is, pay for health, and start with children. Woven into this philosophy is the concept of whole child health, which is about addressing 100% of the things that impact a child’s health 100% of the time. In 2021, Nemours Children’s Health founded...

Children’s health and well-being are affected by their surroundings – the schools they attend, the places they play, the food they eat, and their relationships with the adults around them. In 2021, Nemours Children’s Health founded the Whole Child Health Alliance to help advance the concept of “whole child health." Learn how this group of children’s hospitals, health insurance companies, think tanks, advocacy organizations, an...

From the day she was born, Kate Laver's medical conditions were such that she required tube feeding to thrive and grow. But there was one problem: Kate failed to thrive and grow on the formulas she was given. What followed was a tale of parental determination, desperation, and triumph that gave rise to the company Kate Farms, which has revolutionized tube feeding for millions of people in hospitals and homes across the U.S.

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