Redefining the Rhythm: Recent Episodes
Janet & Jason
A solution-oriented podcast redefining how the next generation thinks about cardiovascular health through an equity lens.
To wrap up this season, we create space for some introspection as we delve into our own identities and how it drives us to "redefine the rhythm" in cardiovascular health. We hope you've enjoyed our podcast!
We have a special guest in our penultimate episode for season 1, fellow podcaster and cardiology fellow Dr. Maria Pabon! We learn about her personal journey in cardiology from her home country of Colombia all the way to Boston, as well as how she and her colleagues started the MIO-CARDIO Podcast, a popular Spanish-language cardiology podcast with an international audience in Latin America and beyond.
Check out the MIO-CARDIO Podcast here!
https://miocardiopod.com/
In this episode, we sit down and chat with cardiology fellow Dr. Njambi Mathenge about her longstanding passion for global academic cardiology. Rooted in her experiences growing up in Kenya, she shares the challenges and rewards in forging a novel career pathway to promote global cardiovascular health equity. She was awarded a Fogarty Global Health Fellowship, and also shares her experience in the ACC FIT article titled "A Fellow's Journey Into Global Cardiology".
In this episode, we talk with cardiology fellow and 2020 COVID-19 Innovation Award winner Dr. Kemar Brown about how he injects his passion for health equity in everything he does throughout fellowship. From his bench work as a basic scientist researching cardiac myocytes to elucidating disparities arising with the growth of telemedicine in the COVID-19 era, Kemar shares how equity has been at the core of everything he does.
Underrepresentation in cardiology means that among current practicing cardiologists, only 3% are black, 4% are Latinx/Hispanic, and 0.2% are Native American/Indigenous (compared with 13.4%, 18.5%, and 1.2% of the general population, respectively). In this episode, we talk with cardiology fellow Dr. Quentin Youmans about his personal experience with the consequences of underrepresentation and what he's doing to promote diversity & inclusion in cardiology, both at his institution and in social media.
Learn more about his trainee-led, near-peer mentorship program for underrepresented medical students. Read his article (written with fellows Dr. Joyce Njoroge and Dr. Sarah Chuzi) about how fellows can promote diversity & inclusion in cardiology. Check out his twitter @QuentinYoumans.
Citation: Johnson AE, et al. Racial Diversity Among American Cardiologists: Implications for the Past, Present, and Future. Circulation. 2021 Jun 15;143(24):2395-2405.
Women and people of color have long been underrepresented in clinical trials, and it's a problem. So what are we going to do about it? In this episode, we talk with cardiology fellow and 2021 Forbes 30 under 30 leader Dr. Prakriti Gaba about how working on the front lines in NYC during the initial surge of the COVID-19 pandemic inspired her to rethink how to improve the clinical trial design and increase diversity in representation.
Learn more about Prakriti's work here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41569-020-00439-7
Black and low-income communities not only have higher rates of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, but are also less likely to survive. Interventional cardiology fellow Dr. Anezi Uzendu aims to change this paradigm. On this episode, we learn about his community outreach initiative, Make BLS Basic, as well as his compelling story as a cardiac arrest survivor himself.
Learn more about Make BLS Basic here: http://www.makeblsbasic.org/
A short trailer to introduce Redefining the Rhythm, a solution-oriented podcast that aims to redefine how the next generation thinks about cardiovascular health through an equity lens.