The Visible Voices

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

Ritu Thamman on AI, Heart Health, and the Bias Hiding in the Data

October 14, 2026 • 30 mins
Cardiologist and AI and medical devices expert Dr. Ritu Thamman is a clinical associate professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and core faculty in Pitt's Institute for Bioethics. She served as co-chair of the American College of Cardiology and Consumer Technology Association effort that set best practices for consumer heart devices. We cover why smartwatch data can help or haunt you, and how AI in cardiology ca...
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Who’s Leaving Medicine? Cameron Gettel on the Data Behind the Exit

October 7, 2026 • 33 mins
Cameron Gettel MD MHS grew up in a small Pennsylvania town where his grandparents worked a 100-acre farm from early morning to late at night. That work ethic followed him to Brown Emergency Medicine, where he was chief resident, and then to Yale through the National Clinician Scholars Program. Cameron Gettel, MD, MHS, is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and a clinical investigator at Yale's ...
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Nurse to CEO: Madeline Bell on Children’s Health, Vaccines, and Legacy

September 30, 2026 • 36 mins
Madeline Bell started as a nurse at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 1983. Forty years later, she's retiring as its CEO — having overseen the world's first personalized CRISPR gene editing therapy, built food is medicine programs inside a children's hospital, and navigated the return of vaccine hesitancy into pediatric exam rooms.  In this July 15, 2026 conversation, Madeline talks with Resa about what empathy tau...
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Adam Brown on Healthcare Strategy, Lifestyle Medicine, and Why Physicians Belong at the Business Table

September 23, 2026 • 33 mins
Adam Brown MD MBA is a board-certified emergency physician, lifestyle medicine physician, and professor of practice at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School and ESCP in London. He is the founder and principal of ABIGHealth, a strategic commercialization advisory for healthcare companies entering, navigating, or scaling in the U.S. market. Adam writes the MedPage Today column Prescriptions for a Broken System and co-authored a white p...
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David Wilkes: What Happens When the Physician Scientist Pipeline Runs Dry

September 16, 2026 • 22 mins
National Academy of Medicine member David Wilkes has spent his career on the parts of medicine that happen before a diagnosis, before a cure, before a headline: training the physician-scientists who make discoveries possible in the first place. As dean emeritus of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and CEO of the Amos Institute for Medical Faculty Development, he's carrying forward a program the Robert Wood Johnson ...
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Gloria Steinem 2020: The Parts I Keep Coming Back To

September 9, 2026 • 10 mins
Gloria Steinem never had a workout routine. She grew up on candy bars and ice cream and called running through airports her only exercise. So when The Visible Voices Podcast host Dr. Resa Lewiss asked the feminist icon, weeks before COVID shut down New York, what actually kept her healthy, the answer surprised her: "I have friends." Gloria Steinem died September 2, 2026, at 92, in the same Upper East Side brownstone where she onc...
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Why ”Normal” Labs Don’t Mean You’re Healthy — Lucy McBride Goes Beyond the Prescription

August 5, 2026 • 35 mins
Primary care physician Lucy McBride has spent decades in a Washington, D.C. examination room doing something radical: listening. A Princeton and Harvard Med graduate who trained at Johns Hopkins, she built her career on the belief that health lives in the relationship between doctor and patient — not in the lab report. Her first book, Beyond the Prescription, lays out a four-quadrant framework for understanding the body as ...
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The Healthcare Heist: Jordan Grumet on Who’s Really Profiting from Your Care

July 29, 2026 • 28 mins
Jordan Grumet, MD a hospice physician and award-winning podcaster exposes the uncomfortable truth: America's healthcare crisis isn't caused by doctors or patients — it's engineered by the third parties who profit from keeping them divided. Jordan hosts the Earn & Invest Podcast, and wrote The Healthcare Heist: How Physicians and Patients Can Unite to Transform Healthcare. We talk about the forces that have quietly taken...
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Why Trauma Surgeons Don’t Sleep : Jamie Coleman on Lifestyle and Measuring Burnout in Surgeons

July 22, 2026 • 26 mins
Trauma surgeons report the lowest quality of life among 13 surgical specialties and work the greatest number of hours. Jamie Coleman MD, Professor of Surgery at the University of Louisville and Deputy & Web Editor of JAMA Surgery, set out to quantify what that can cost. She and co-authors tracked sleep, stress, and recovery in 224 acute care surgeons using wearable devices and daily surveys. The data revealed that sleep loss ...
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Geeta Nayyar on Medical Misinformation, AI, and Why Your Doctor Needs to Speak Up

July 15, 2026 • 24 mins
What's one small action doctors can take to speak up against medical misinformation?  Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA — rheumatologist, former chief medical officer at Salesforce and AT&T, and bestselling author of Dead Wrong: Diagnosing and Treating Healthcare's Misinformation Illness — joins Dr. Resa Lewiss for a conversation about the misinformation crisis reshaping healthcare. Geeta shares the personal story of her...
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A Terrible Strength: Kemi Doll on Black Women the Uterus and Women’s Health

July 8, 2026 • 41 mins
Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic cancer in the U.S. — more common than cervical or ovarian — and both its incidence and its death rate have been climbing for decades. For years, the guideline meant to catch it in postmenopausal women missed it in Black women. Dr. Kemi Doll worked to change this. Kemi is a Gynecologic Oncologist and Professor at the University of Washington. She directs the GRACE Center...
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The Care Gap in Aging America: Evan Jackson on PACE Programs, Older Adults, and Closing the AI Gap

July 1, 2026 • 27 mins
Most physicians have never heard of PACE — Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly — and that is a problem. PACE is a Medicare and Medicaid model that wraps all-inclusive care around older adults: primary care, social work, nutrition, transportation, dementia support, and more, with most participants paying zero out of pocket. Evan Jackson is the co-founder and President, Growth for IntusCare. He and Robbie Fel...
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Physician + Medical Correspondent Darien Sutton: Sleep, Stress & the Fight Against Medical Misinformation

June 24, 2026 • 31 mins
Dr. Darien Sutton MD MBA — is an emergency physician and ABC News medical correspondent. He joins me for a conversation about sleep, stress, and why doctors need to be fighting health misinformation online. Darien is candid about the healthy sleep habits that residency made difficult, about the orthopedic surgeon who taught him more about stress than medical school ever did, and why he believes physicians can't sit out the mi...
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Claiming Your Story: Shanda McManus on Gun Violence, Compounding Grief, Narrative Medicine, and Why Writing Heals

June 17, 2026 • 33 mins
In this episode of the Visible Voices Podcast, I am in conversation with Dr. Shanda McManus — family medicine physician, narrative medicine educator, and author of Brother Epistles (2026 by Split/Lip Press). In 1992, Shanda's brother Monir was killed in a drive-by shooting in North Philadelphia. He was 20 years old. Thirty years later, she began writing him letters — and what emerged is a memoir that is part grief, pa...
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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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