February 12, 2025 • 13 mins
Host: Kathleen Spinazzola
Guest: Dr. Marvin Hendon, Ph.D., MSCP, Director of Behavioral Health for the LECOM Bradenton Campus
Dr. Marvin Hendon discusses his career journey, emphasizing his 30 years of experience in treating patients with physical disorders and their mental and emotional impacts. He highlights the importance of addressing mental health without stigma and his mission to integrate mental health into medical education. He also underscores the significance of Black History Month in recognizing African American contributions to medicine and society, praising LECOM's commitment to diversity and inclusion.
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Guest: Dr. Marvin Hendon, Ph.D., MSCP, Director of Behavioral Health for the LECOM Bradenton Campus
Dr. Marvin Hendon discusses his career journey, emphasizing his 30 years of experience in treating patients with physical disorders and their mental and emotional impacts. He highlights the importance of addressing mental health without stigma and his mission to integrate mental health into medical education. He also underscores the significance of Black History Month in recognizing African American contributions to medicine and society, praising LECOM's commitment to diversity and inclusion.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
You're listening to lee KOM presents Heroes in Training. The
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, also known as lee KOM,
has been providing training to heroes all across the globe
since nineteen ninety three. This podcast gives you an insider
look at the stories of triumph and hope from both
(00:22):
former students and faculty, helping you decide if LEEKOM is
the right choice for your higher education. Let's start the show.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Welcome, doctor Marvin Hendon. Thanks so much for speaking with
me today.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
We're celebrating Black History Months and it's a pleasure to
be able to have a few moments with you to
speak to you just a bit about your career and
achievements and what the significance of this important month is
for all of us and what our students can learn
from it. Okay, great, thank you. Tell us what your
role is here at Lee Calm and when you joined us.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Okay, I'm relatively new here at Lee Common Joint just
past July.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I am the.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Director of Behavioral Health and I'm also assistant professor in
the College of Medicine.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Fantastic, and you joined us last summer. Correct, correct, correct,
and you're at the lovely, warm Bradenton, Florida campus.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yes, and enjoying every minute of it.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
That's terrific. I wonder if you could share with us
a little bit about the journey of your career and
maybe some achievements that you're particularly proud of, or even
just moments that you know resonate with you and stick
with you as the years go by.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Let's see, I'm a graduate of University of Florida. Undergrad
degree was in clinical psychology. That I went on to
graduate school. I got a PhD in clinical psychology, did
my internship and residency there at Shan's on the campus
at the University of Florida, and since that time, I
(02:10):
have been working in private practice for roughly thirty years.
My specialty has been helping and training patients with physical disorders,
helping them to understand the mental and emotional impact that
the physical disorders will have on their ability to function. So,
as such, I've worked for years, and I think I've
been here in the Bradington area roughly thirty five years.
(02:34):
Of those thirty five years, thirty of them have been
spent in and out of the area hospitals. One of
which has been at level two trauma center and two
where rehab hospitals, and the other two are community hospitals.
One of the things that I've always enjoyed doing was
helping people understand the relationship between what happens to us
(02:58):
physically and what happens to us mentally and emotionally, because
so often, and what I love about is that fits
so well with the whole osteopathic philosophy of feeding the
whole person is we have to understand the mental and
emotional counterpart that have companies and illness. For example, the
(03:21):
most basic example I tell people is it's rough to
be in a good mood when you're having a headache.
It's hard to be happy or cheerful when you're in
pain or suffering. So conversely, we may see things like
individuals who suffer with a stroke may have post stroke
depression or respiratory illnesses. Any of the respiratory illnesses tend
(03:43):
to carry strong anxiety components, and if we're just focused
on treating the medical portion of this, we will overlook
how it's in fact impacting their overall ability to function.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
So that's sort of been my niche.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
So landing here at lee Coom has been a perfect
landing where I get to work with young practitioners, teaching
them the importance of paying attention to those mental and
emotional impact of what's happening to the person physically.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I'm sure in private practice many of your clients are
so happy to have somebody take the approach that you are.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Or that you can yeah, because that's how we are.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
So often that is overlooked what happens to us physically.
We think just treating that particular physical illness, and we
overlook how it's impacting their overall quality of life. And
that's just one of the biggest areas. My next biggest
mission is to get rid of this stigma that something
(04:52):
is wrong if you need to seek out mental health
health and so often we treat that as a negative
or there's a weakness in a person. And what my
number one goal with this next generation of learners is
to show them that there's nothing wrong with getting help
(05:13):
to become the best version of who you are.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And it's it can't be overstated how important that is
right for all of us to overcome for all society.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I'd love to bring mental health out of the closet
where it doesn't have to be that thing that people
are ashamed of over the street at less than and it's.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Okay now more than ever, America needs trained professionals to
orchestrate critical operational and logistical functions essential to protect the
health and wellness of our communities. To answer this need,
Leacom and industry leader and whole person Wellness offers an
innovative and fully accredited Masters in Public Health degree through
(05:58):
its School of Health Services administer Experiential learning focuses on
emergency preparedness, immanizations, addiction prevention, disease management, mental health services,
and nutrition. Students are prepared to solve complex problems through
a dynamic online learning platform available twenty four to seven.
Email SHSA at lecom dot edu and begin your journey
(06:20):
of discovery again. That's s h s A at Lecom
dot edu. Classes are now forming at lecom. We know
Wellness and we are teaching the business of healthcare. This
message is brought to you by Lecom, a nonprofit organization.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Where do you take your inspiration from or any any
person in particular throughout history or events or things that
sort of feed your own passion?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Now that's a real interesting question.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I tell people I started out really young, because I
tell people I knew in seventh grade I was going
to become a psychologist. Never veered from that. From seventh
grade through completing high school, all through college. This said
never changed my major wants. So I've always had this
as a passion, and innately, I think I've always enjoyed
(07:17):
answering and asking that question why and helping people to
understand why they're doing what they're doing, or understanding the
significance of how their behavior is impacting those in the
environment around them. So I think, just as a salmon
swim up stain, I think it was innate in my
(07:39):
DNA to want to do this. But I do have
strong appreciation for my parents. They were both educators in
the public school system, as my father being a minister
as well, so that taught me the importance of just human.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Awareness and being kind and respect. I'm the little man.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So that's a great story, Thank you. Not many seventh
graders know what they want to do for their whole life.
That's terrific. Well, as we look through the lens of
Black History months, I wonder if you can share with
us a little bit about how you see Black History Month,
(08:23):
contributing to our understanding Black History culture and then also
to how it will impact us our students aspire because.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
It is so important that we shine the light on
the accomplishments of African Americans blacks in general. So often
that's not what society does, and we and if we
don't know our history, we'll forget that there were significant
(08:55):
contributions in medicine made.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
By African Americas.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Charles Drew with blood all of his work being the
father of the Blood Day, the contributions that Blacks have
made time and time year after year. If we don't
recognize them, they will be forgotten. And I think it
is important and I honor and respect Lee Comm's commitment
(09:22):
to diversity and reaching out to make the medical community
reflect the makeup of our society as a whole, because
people need to see that they are doctors that look
like them, or pharmacists or dentists that look like them.
My wife is a pharmacist, and I did not know
(09:44):
until we were I introduced her to my mother that
my mother said she'd always wanted to be a pharmacist,
but back in her era, that was not a profession
that was open to African American since she said others
stocks they stated, if you go to college, you will
(10:04):
have to become a teacher or a nurse, because that's
those are the roles that were open to African Americans
back at that time.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
So it's important.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Now that society has opened and we've embraced this, that
African Americans see people that look like them in all
sorts of roles so that they can understand that all
things are possible. And Black History Month gives us the
opportunity to shine that light on some of the great
contributions that have been made by African Americans, not just
(10:41):
in the area of medicine, but in all.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
All the different endeavors.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
So it's another one of these things that I guess
in our generation today we sort of take for granted
that even just one generation removed, like mother, pharmacy would
not have been an option for her.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Yeah, and it's and it's said so now that we're
embracing the ability for all cultures, all people to take
whatever role that they would like to in pursuing their
goals and dreams. I'm glad that lee Kom is committed
to keeping its doors open and advancing that for all races.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
One of the things that we're very proud of here
at Lee Come is that issues in diversity did rankly
com number one and graduating underrepresented minority and so it's
it is a commitment that Lee Coom shares across the
board and it's something to be proud of.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Yeah, And I think that's one of the things we
need to really celebrate, and especially in this climate that
we're in right now where everything isn't well respected and
they need that understanding that no, we do need diversity,
we do need equity, we do need inclusion, and those
(12:09):
terms do not mean inferior, less qualified, or not equipped.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
And somehow another we've changed the meaning of those words.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
And we need to get back to letting know we're
embracing our differences.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
And sort of unifying. It's the message of unifying all
of us, correct, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
And we need to get back to that message.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
And I hope this one month that we celebrate or
that we shine a light on the accomplishments of African
Americans helps to push that need a little further in
that direction.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Doctor Hendon, thank you so much for taking a few
minutes of your time. Thank you appreciate it and it
was lovely to speak with you.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Thank you and enjoyed this.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Come on down here to Florida sometimes so we can
n from the hospitality, enjoy the.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Sun, and thank you. I would love to. All right,
take care, all right, take care,
You're listening to lee KOM presents Heroes in Training. The
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, also known as lee KOM,
has been providing training to heroes all across the globe
since nineteen ninety three. This podcast gives you an insider
look at the stories of triumph and hope from both
(00:22):
former students and faculty, helping you decide if LEEKOM is
the right choice for your higher education. Let's start the show.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Welcome, doctor Marvin Hendon. Thanks so much for speaking with
me today.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
We're celebrating Black History Months and it's a pleasure to
be able to have a few moments with you to
speak to you just a bit about your career and
achievements and what the significance of this important month is
for all of us and what our students can learn
from it. Okay, great, thank you. Tell us what your
role is here at Lee Calm and when you joined us.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Okay, I'm relatively new here at Lee Common Joint just
past July.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I am the.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Director of Behavioral Health and I'm also assistant professor in
the College of Medicine.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Fantastic, and you joined us last summer. Correct, correct, correct,
and you're at the lovely, warm Bradenton, Florida campus.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yes, and enjoying every minute of it.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
That's terrific. I wonder if you could share with us
a little bit about the journey of your career and
maybe some achievements that you're particularly proud of, or even
just moments that you know resonate with you and stick
with you as the years go by.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Let's see, I'm a graduate of University of Florida. Undergrad
degree was in clinical psychology. That I went on to
graduate school. I got a PhD in clinical psychology, did
my internship and residency there at Shan's on the campus
at the University of Florida, and since that time, I
(02:10):
have been working in private practice for roughly thirty years.
My specialty has been helping and training patients with physical disorders,
helping them to understand the mental and emotional impact that
the physical disorders will have on their ability to function. So,
as such, I've worked for years, and I think I've
been here in the Bradington area roughly thirty five years.
(02:34):
Of those thirty five years, thirty of them have been
spent in and out of the area hospitals. One of
which has been at level two trauma center and two
where rehab hospitals, and the other two are community hospitals.
One of the things that I've always enjoyed doing was
helping people understand the relationship between what happens to us
(02:58):
physically and what happens to us mentally and emotionally, because
so often, and what I love about is that fits
so well with the whole osteopathic philosophy of feeding the
whole person is we have to understand the mental and
emotional counterpart that have companies and illness. For example, the
(03:21):
most basic example I tell people is it's rough to
be in a good mood when you're having a headache.
It's hard to be happy or cheerful when you're in
pain or suffering. So conversely, we may see things like
individuals who suffer with a stroke may have post stroke
depression or respiratory illnesses. Any of the respiratory illnesses tend
(03:43):
to carry strong anxiety components, and if we're just focused
on treating the medical portion of this, we will overlook
how it's in fact impacting their overall ability to function.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
So that's sort of been my niche.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
So landing here at lee Coom has been a perfect
landing where I get to work with young practitioners, teaching
them the importance of paying attention to those mental and
emotional impact of what's happening to the person physically.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I'm sure in private practice many of your clients are
so happy to have somebody take the approach that you are.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Or that you can yeah, because that's how we are.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
So often that is overlooked what happens to us physically.
We think just treating that particular physical illness, and we
overlook how it's impacting their overall quality of life. And
that's just one of the biggest areas. My next biggest
mission is to get rid of this stigma that something
(04:52):
is wrong if you need to seek out mental health
health and so often we treat that as a negative
or there's a weakness in a person. And what my
number one goal with this next generation of learners is
to show them that there's nothing wrong with getting help
(05:13):
to become the best version of who you are.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And it's it can't be overstated how important that is
right for all of us to overcome for all society.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
I'd love to bring mental health out of the closet
where it doesn't have to be that thing that people
are ashamed of over the street at less than and it's.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Okay now more than ever, America needs trained professionals to
orchestrate critical operational and logistical functions essential to protect the
health and wellness of our communities. To answer this need,
Leacom and industry leader and whole person Wellness offers an
innovative and fully accredited Masters in Public Health degree through
(05:58):
its School of Health Services administer Experiential learning focuses on
emergency preparedness, immanizations, addiction prevention, disease management, mental health services,
and nutrition. Students are prepared to solve complex problems through
a dynamic online learning platform available twenty four to seven.
Email SHSA at lecom dot edu and begin your journey
(06:20):
of discovery again. That's s h s A at Lecom
dot edu. Classes are now forming at lecom. We know
Wellness and we are teaching the business of healthcare. This
message is brought to you by Lecom, a nonprofit organization.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Where do you take your inspiration from or any any
person in particular throughout history or events or things that
sort of feed your own passion?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Now that's a real interesting question.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I tell people I started out really young, because I
tell people I knew in seventh grade I was going
to become a psychologist. Never veered from that. From seventh
grade through completing high school, all through college. This said
never changed my major wants. So I've always had this
as a passion, and innately, I think I've always enjoyed
(07:17):
answering and asking that question why and helping people to
understand why they're doing what they're doing, or understanding the
significance of how their behavior is impacting those in the
environment around them. So I think, just as a salmon
swim up stain, I think it was innate in my
(07:39):
DNA to want to do this. But I do have
strong appreciation for my parents. They were both educators in
the public school system, as my father being a minister
as well, so that taught me the importance of just human.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Awareness and being kind and respect. I'm the little man.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So that's a great story, Thank you. Not many seventh
graders know what they want to do for their whole life.
That's terrific. Well, as we look through the lens of
Black History months, I wonder if you can share with
us a little bit about how you see Black History Month,
(08:23):
contributing to our understanding Black History culture and then also
to how it will impact us our students aspire because.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
It is so important that we shine the light on
the accomplishments of African Americans blacks in general. So often
that's not what society does, and we and if we
don't know our history, we'll forget that there were significant
(08:55):
contributions in medicine made.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
By African Americas.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Charles Drew with blood all of his work being the
father of the Blood Day, the contributions that Blacks have
made time and time year after year. If we don't
recognize them, they will be forgotten. And I think it
is important and I honor and respect Lee Comm's commitment
(09:22):
to diversity and reaching out to make the medical community
reflect the makeup of our society as a whole, because
people need to see that they are doctors that look
like them, or pharmacists or dentists that look like them.
My wife is a pharmacist, and I did not know
(09:44):
until we were I introduced her to my mother that
my mother said she'd always wanted to be a pharmacist,
but back in her era, that was not a profession
that was open to African American since she said others
stocks they stated, if you go to college, you will
(10:04):
have to become a teacher or a nurse, because that's
those are the roles that were open to African Americans
back at that time.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
So it's important.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Now that society has opened and we've embraced this, that
African Americans see people that look like them in all
sorts of roles so that they can understand that all
things are possible. And Black History Month gives us the
opportunity to shine that light on some of the great
contributions that have been made by African Americans, not just
(10:41):
in the area of medicine, but in all.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
All the different endeavors.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
So it's another one of these things that I guess
in our generation today we sort of take for granted
that even just one generation removed, like mother, pharmacy would
not have been an option for her.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Yeah, and it's and it's said so now that we're
embracing the ability for all cultures, all people to take
whatever role that they would like to in pursuing their
goals and dreams. I'm glad that lee Kom is committed
to keeping its doors open and advancing that for all races.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
One of the things that we're very proud of here
at Lee Come is that issues in diversity did rankly
com number one and graduating underrepresented minority and so it's
it is a commitment that Lee Coom shares across the
board and it's something to be proud of.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Yeah, And I think that's one of the things we
need to really celebrate, and especially in this climate that
we're in right now where everything isn't well respected and
they need that understanding that no, we do need diversity,
we do need equity, we do need inclusion, and those
(12:09):
terms do not mean inferior, less qualified, or not equipped.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
And somehow another we've changed the meaning of those words.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
And we need to get back to letting know we're
embracing our differences.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
And sort of unifying. It's the message of unifying all
of us, correct, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
And we need to get back to that message.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
And I hope this one month that we celebrate or
that we shine a light on the accomplishments of African
Americans helps to push that need a little further in
that direction.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Doctor Hendon, thank you so much for taking a few
minutes of your time. Thank you appreciate it and it
was lovely to speak with you.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Thank you and enjoyed this.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Come on down here to Florida sometimes so we can
n from the hospitality, enjoy the.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Sun, and thank you. I would love to. All right,
take care, all right, take care,
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