The Visible Voices

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/

Episodes

Narcan, Opioid Use Disorder, and the Emergency Department: A Candid Conversation with Dr. Scott Weiner

June 10, 2026 • 37 mins

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 ...

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After Shock: Rana Awdish on Re-Inhabiting Your Body After Illness

June 3, 2026 • 28 mins

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, autoimmu...

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Moderation Kills: Columbus Batiste and the Cardiologist’s Prescription

May 27, 2026 • 40 mins

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 ...

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Dr. Michelle Finkel on Medical Admissions, Career Pivots, and Why Physicians Make Great Entrepreneurs

May 20, 2026 • 22 mins

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, Michell...

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Dietary Guidelines: Annahieta Kalantari on Protein, Industry Influence, and What the Science Says

May 13, 2026 • 22 mins

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 chang...

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Eat for Your Microbiome | Desiree Nielsen on Fiber, Gut Health & Fighting Chronic Disease

May 6, 2026 • 26 mins

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 ...

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The AI Stethoscope That Scribes Itself: Lapsi Health’s Jhonatan Bringas Dimitriades on Reinventing Clinical AI

April 29, 2026 • 28 mins

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 tim...

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Physicians Should Run for Office: Amanda Litman on 2026

April 22, 2026 • 21 mins

First released as audio only. Re-edited and now available in video and audio. In this episode of the Visible Voices Podcast, I speak with Amanda Litman, co-founder and president of Run for Something. Co-founded in 2017 with Ross Morales Roquetteau, Run for Something is a multimillion-dollar political organization that recruits and supports millennials and Gen Z leaders running for local and state office. To date, the organization ...

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Centering Women’s Voices: Francesca Donner On Media Bias, Storytelling & The Persistent

April 15, 2026 • 27 mins

In this episode of the Visible Voices Podcast, Francesca Donner joins. She is the founder and editor of The Persistent — a women-run media company that’s covering women for a change. The Persistent is a digital journalism platform centering women's voices and stories. Francesca's two-decade career spans GQ, Forbes, Quartz, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, where she founded the gender vertical In He...

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Reversing MS With Diet & Lifestyle: Terry Wahls on Mitochondria & Chronic Disease Recovery

April 8, 2026 • 34 mins

First released as audio only. Re-edited and now available in video and audio. Watch The Visible Voices Podcast conversation Resa has with Dr. Terry Wahls. Terry is a clinical professor of medicine, researcher, and author of The Wahls Protocol. In 2007, facing secondary progressive MS and dependent on a tilt recline wheelchair, Dr. Wahls redesigned her diet using functional medicine and the medical literature — and with...

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Will AI Make Things Better? Roy Perlis Seeks Better Outcomes for Patients

April 1, 2026 • 31 mins

Dr. Roy Perlis, editor-in-chief of JAMA AI and psychiatrist-researcher at Mass General Brigham, joins to explore the evolving intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare. Drawing on his deep experience and expertise working in neural networks, genetics, and electronic health records, Roy outlines where AI is genuinely delivering — like ambient scribes and clinical decision support — while urging clinicians to...

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What When & How to Eat: Sharon Bergquist on Food as Medicine

March 25, 2026 • 28 mins

First released as audio only. Re-edited and now available in video and audio. In this episode of The Visible Voices Podcast, Dr. Sharon Bergquist — physician, author of the Plantology cookbook, host of The Whole Health Cure podcast, and lifestyle medicine expert at Emory University School of Medicine — joins for an episode on food as medicine and chronobiology. Dr. Bergquist unpacks the science of when we eat, not just...

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Food Is Medicine Michael Greger on Eating Plants, and Living Longer

March 18, 2026 • 23 mins

First released as audio only. Re-edited and now available in video and audio. Dr. Michael Greger, physician, bestselling author of How Not to Die and How Not to Age, and founder of NutritionFacts.org, joins the Visible Voices Podcast to share why what we eat is the single most important decision we make for our health. Drawing on decades of research and over 13,000 scientific citations, Dr. Greger breaks down how a whole food, pla...

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Food as Medicine Dr. William Li Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?

March 11, 2026 • 26 mins

First released as audio only. Re-edited and now available in video and audio. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. William Li — internal medicine physician, vascular biologist, and founder of the Angiogenesis Foundation — to talk about something we were never really taught in medical school: how specific foods work at a molecular level to prevent and even fight disease. We get into the science behind everyday foods l...

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Sleep Medicine and Circadian Rhythm Expert Katie Sharkey on Making Your Sleep Visible

March 4, 2026 • 31 mins

In this episode of Visible Voices, host Dr. Resa E. Lewiss sits down with sleep medicine physician and circadian rhythm expert Dr. Katie Sharkey — inaugural director of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Rhythms at Wake Forest University School of Medicine — to break down the science of sleep health, insomnia treatment, and women's sleep across the lifespan. They cover why alcohol disrupts sleep quality and worsens slee...

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The Physician Who Builds What Medicine Needs: Graham Walker on AI and Keeping Doctors Bedside

February 25, 2026 • 43 mins

In this episode of the Visible Voices Podcast, I'm in conversation with Graham Walker MD — emergency physician, healthcare AI thought leader and co-founder of Off Call. Originally released as an audio episode in 2024, we are re-releasing the conversationas an audio and video episode as OffCall is on a mission is to dramatically reverse burnout by improving the wealth and wellbeing of physicians. We talk about why 71,000 phy...

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A Physician Cellist Prescribes Music: Melanie Ambler on Creating Musical Rounds

February 18, 2026 • 27 mins

Prescribing Music: Why Melodies Work When Medicine Fails. Dr. Melanie Ambler is a physician and cellist who founded "Musical Rounds," a program dedicated to integrating music into patient care. In this episode, Melanie reveals her journey into playing cello on hospital rounds during her medical student rotations at Stanford School of Medicine. We explore the science into how music accesses the brain's "backdoor" to treat neur...

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Open Access Medical Learning: Anand ’Swami’ Swaminathan is Smart and He Says Not That Smart

February 11, 2026 • 29 mins

In this episode I speak with emergency medicine physician and medical educator Anand 'Swami' Swaminathan MD MPH. We explore how humility, vulnerability, and effective communication drive better medical education, knowledge translation, and professional growth. Swami shares his journey from singing acapella to shaping emergency medicine education, emphasizing the importance of reaching broader audiences and embracing uncertain...

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Don’t Be Chicken: Prosecutor and Legal Analyst Joyce Vance on Democracy and Public Health

February 4, 2026 • 32 mins

Former US Attorney Joyce Vance joins Dr Resa Lewiss to discuss her New York Times bestseller Giving Up is Unforgivable A Manual for Keeping a Democracy and why civic health matters now more than ever. As the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 2009 to 2017, nominated by President Barack Obama and unanimously confirmed by the Senate, Joyce brought together communities to solve problems. In 2017, she receive...

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Running for Congress: Tina Shah on How To Save Ourselves and Our Country

January 28, 2026 • 25 mins

In this episode I meet up with Tina Shah MD MPH, a triple board-certified physician in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, and critical care who is running for Congress in New Jersey's seventh district. We dive deep into Tina's journey from White House Fellow, to working with Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to ICU doctor to congressional candidate, exploring how physician burnout, healthcare affordability, and insurance company b...

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Episodes

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Moderation Kills: Columbus Batiste and the Cardiologist’s Prescription

Dr. Michelle Finkel on Medical Admissions, Career Pivots, and Why Physicians Make Great Entrepreneurs

Dietary Guidelines: Annahieta Kalantari on Protein, Industry Influence, and What the Science Says

Eat for Your Microbiome | Desiree Nielsen on Fiber, Gut Health & Fighting Chronic Disease

The AI Stethoscope That Scribes Itself: Lapsi Health’s Jhonatan Bringas Dimitriades on Reinventing Clinical AI

Physicians Should Run for Office: Amanda Litman on 2026

Centering Women’s Voices: Francesca Donner On Media Bias, Storytelling & The Persistent

Reversing MS With Diet & Lifestyle: Terry Wahls on Mitochondria & Chronic Disease Recovery

Will AI Make Things Better? Roy Perlis Seeks Better Outcomes for Patients

What When & How to Eat: Sharon Bergquist on Food as Medicine

Food Is Medicine Michael Greger on Eating Plants, and Living Longer

Food as Medicine Dr. William Li Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?

Sleep Medicine and Circadian Rhythm Expert Katie Sharkey on Making Your Sleep Visible

The Physician Who Builds What Medicine Needs: Graham Walker on AI and Keeping Doctors Bedside

A Physician Cellist Prescribes Music: Melanie Ambler on Creating Musical Rounds

Open Access Medical Learning: Anand ’Swami’ Swaminathan is Smart and He Says Not That Smart

Don’t Be Chicken: Prosecutor and Legal Analyst Joyce Vance on Democracy and Public Health

Running for Congress: Tina Shah on How To Save Ourselves and Our Country

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