Maintaining Wellness During a Pandemic & Racial Unrest with Carla Ellis, MD
In response to the coronavirus outbreak, medical clinics and labs ramped up capacity to treat patients and develop tests, increasing already high rat...
Feinberg Perspectives
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Every member of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine community has a voice and a perspective uniquely their own. In this essay-style podcast, faculty, trainees and students read pieces they’ve written themselves, using their voices to share messages, stories and insights into their lives and the field of healthcare.
Battling a Pandemic in a Large Urban Jail with Connie Mennella, MD
At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, Cook County Jail in Chicago reported the highest rate of virus infection in a congreg...
A Response to two Pandemics: COVID-19 & Systemic Racism with Quentin Youmans, MD
As COVID-19 cases started to spike across the U.S., rates of infection, hospitalization and death disproportionately afflicted Black Americans. In Ma...
A Lesson on COVID-19 from the 1918 Spanish Flu with Kara Goldman, MD
In 1918, the Spanish Flu infected one-third of the world's population, killing an estimated 20 to 50 million people. Dr. Kara Goldman's grandmother w...
Stroke Recovery as a Doctor with Todd Kuiken, MD, PhD
For over two decades, Todd Kuiken, MD, had been helping others regain mobility through his practice and research as a physiatrist. When he had a strok...
Laughter in Oncology with Suneel Kamath, MD
During his final year of his oncology fellowship at Northwestern, Suneel Kamath, MD, was finally getting used to telling people that he treats cancer ...
Stopping Gunshot Deaths from the Trauma Bay and Beyond with Mamta Swaroop, MD
Teaching teens and adults across Chicago how to tie a tourniquet with a piece of clothing was not part of Mamta Swaroop’s job description as a trauma...
The Political Landscape as a Leader in LGBTQ Health with Brian Mustanski, PhD
In 2015, the same year the Supreme Court struck down state bans on same-sex marriage, the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbein...
A Day in a Wheelchair at Medical School with Samantha Schroth, MD PhD Student
Samantha Schroth, a MD/PhD student at Feinberg, didn’t always plan on becoming a physician. After graduating from college in 2013, her sights were set...