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

March 18, 2026 23 mins
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, plant-based diet can prevent, arrest, and even reverse chronic disease, slow the v...
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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 like black coffee, soy, eggs, and oats — cutting through the myths and the fear-based messag...
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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 sleep apnea, how...
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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 physician...
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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 neurodege...
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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 uncertainty. ...
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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 received the...
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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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In this episode of the Visible Voices podcast, I speak with the former mayor of Stockton, California, and 2026 candidate for the Lt. Governor of California Michael Tubbs. Michael currently serves as a special adviser for economic mobility and opportunity for Governor Gavin Newsom. He shares his journey as a first-generation college student at Stanford to a leader across the state and in Stockton Ca. He emphasizes the importance of...
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In this episode I speak with Dr. Thomas Fisher, an emergency medicine physician and Chicago Illinois congressional candidate. We discuss the profound impact of the pandemic on healthcare, the intimate relationships formed in emergency medicine, and the motivations behind Dr. Fisher's run for Congress. The conversation delves into the importance of moral leadership, social determinants of health, and the role of physicians in civic ...
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    January 8, 2026 1 min
    Dr. Resa E. Lewiss has spent over 25 years educating, speaking, and writing about healthcare, equity, and innovation. She is an emergency medicine and lifestyle medicine physician, a TEDMED speaker, healthcare designer, and award-winning author. In The Visible Voices Podcast, Resa shares smart, sharp, and insightful conversations with subject matter experts and interesting people—people who are really making a difference, have some...
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    Dr. Lillian Liang Emlet is a Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, dually trained in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care. She's also a certified energy leadership coach and the CEO founder of Transforming Healthcare Coaching.  She also hosts a podcast by the same name. We talk about a common phenomenon in healthcare: clinicians who are exceptional at their work getting promoted into leadership roles...
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    In this episode, Dr. Resa E. Lewiss speaks with Jillian Johnsrud, author of Retire Often and mini-retirement coach, about taking intentional career breaks to combat burnout and realign with what matters most. Jillian defines mini-retirements as breaks of a month or longer where professionals step away from their primary career to focus on recovery, adventure, or family time. She works primarily with high-achieving professionals wh...
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    In this episode of Visible Voices, Dr. Resa E. Lewiss is in conversation with Dr. Claire Wardle, a leading expert on misinformation, media literacy, and public trust in science. Claire is an associate professor at Cornell and co-founder of the Information Futures Lab at Brown University's School of Public Health. She shares her decades of experience working across academia, international news organizations like the BBC, and the Uni...
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    In today's conversation Bremond Berry MacDougall and Lisa Endo Cooper, the duo behind Quite Literally Books talk about their heritage press republishing forgotten works by women authors. Lisa and Bremond share their journey of starting a heritage press without prior business experience. They describe the steep learning curve of navigating production, marketing, and sales.  The physical design of their books reflects meticulous at...
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    What happens when an emergency medicine physician knows that the N95 mask she's wearing every day during the COVID-19 pandemic was invented by her great-grandfather over a century ago? Dr. Shan Liu joins me for a conversation that weaves together family legacy, innovation from the margins, and the power of storytelling to fight racism. Shan is an emergency medicine physician at Mass General Hospital, an associate professor at Harv...
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    Andy Little DO, co-founder and host of EM Over Easy podcast, shares how the show was born in a Columbus OH diner during post-night shift breakfasts—mental health check-ins that evolved into conversations about leadership skills they weren't learning in residency. As a first-generation physician from small-town Montana, Andy never had "the playbook" for navigating medicine, relying on college counselors and ED mentors who gave him o...
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    In this episode of the Visible Voices Podcast, Dr. Resa E. Lewiss sits down with Dr. Kevin Pho, the founder of KevinMD.com and host of The Podcast by KevinMD. Since 2004, Dr. Pho has built one of healthcare's most influential platforms, receiving over 3 million monthly page views and amplifying the voices of thousands of clinicians. Dr. Pho shares his journey from primary care physician to media entrepreneur, discussing why every ...
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    In this episode we speak with Dr. Christian Rose. Christian is an emergency physician and clinical informaticist at Stanford University specializing in the intersection of clinical medicine, information systems and innovation - specifically in machine learning, decision support, user-centered design and global health. We discuss the transformative potential of AI, particularly generative AI, in patient care and emergency medicine....
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    Todays's guest is Dr. Amy Faith Ho -an Emergency Medicine Physician, Chief Systems and Informatics Officer, and TEDx Speaker Dr. Amy Faith Ho discusses her journey from high school debater to emergency medicine physician and informatics leader. Born to Taiwanese immigrants and motivated by concerns about the insurance industry, Amy shares insights on AI in healthcare—from scribing platforms to billing—and confesses to being a "ghos...
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