The Visible Voices

Resa E Lewiss
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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/

  1. 34m ago

    A Terrible Strength: Kemi Doll on Black Women the Uterus and Women’s Health

    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 was quietly missing it in Black women. Dr. Kemi Doll is the reason that's finally changing. Kemi is a gynecologic oncologist and Professor at the University of Washington, where she directs the GRACE Center. She co-founded ECANA, the Endometrial Cancer Action Network for African Americans, and her research on missed diagnoses helped drive ACOG's April 2026 update to national screening guidance — replacing a decades-old ultrasound-only threshold with combined ultrasound and biopsy. She's also the author of A Terrible Strength: The Hidden Crisis of the Black Womb, which widens the lens to heavy bleeding, endometriosis, and fibroids — and the training that teaches doctors not to see any of it. In this conversation: how a single ultrasound number became a national guideline built on data that excluded Black women, why "it's probably a UTI" causes real harm, and the one question Kemi says can change your next gynecology visit. We also get into what the research says about diet, fibroids, and exercise, and why physicians carry the same chronic disease burden as their patients — if not worse. Book: A Terrible Strength GRACE Center: thedolllabgroup.com ECANA: ecanawomen.org ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd — new Visible Voices episodes on Wednesdays.  🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

    42 min

  2. Jul 1

    The Care Gap in Aging America: Evan Jackson on PACE Programs, Older Adults, and Closing the AI Gap

    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 Felton founded the start up while attending  Brown University. They spent time inside a PACE program before building IntusCare, the technology platform now serving 70+ PACE organizations and 50,000 participants nationwide. In this conversation, we get into how AI is reshaping care documentation and risk prediction, what wearables and remote monitoring mean for rural PACE programs, and why physicians who don't know about PACE are leaving one of the best tools  for older adult patient care on the table. We also talk sleep, coffee, crossword puzzles, and what working with the elderly every day does to how you think about your own health. Website: https://intuscare.com/ ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd — new Visible Voices episodes on Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

    27 min

  3. Jun 24

    Physician + Medical Correspondent Darien Sutton: Sleep, Stress & the Fight Against Medical Misinformation

    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 misinformation epidemic. We get into food noise, GLP-1 medications, and why obesity is a chronic condition — not a moral failure.  Read more in Men's Health. Follow Darien on Instagram. Check out his Tik Tok vids. ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd  New Visible Voices episodes on Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts

    31 min

  4. Jun 17

    Claiming Your Story: Shanda McManus on Gun Violence, Compounding Grief, Narrative Medicine, and Why Writing Heals

    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, part social commentary, and entirely healing. We discuss what it means to carry compounding grief, how medical training can become a place to hide from loss, the systems that failed Monir long before that night in 1992, and what narrative medicine offers both patients and clinicians who have no place to take their pain.  Website: https://www.shandamcmanus.com/ ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd  New Visible Voices episodes on Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts

    33 min

  5. Jun 10

    Narcan, Opioid Use Disorder, and the Emergency Department: A Candid Conversation with Dr. Scott Weiner

    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 in opioid education in American schools, the promise of wearable technology for monitoring patients in recovery, and the real reasons overdose deaths are finally starting to decline. Opioid use disorder is not a moral failure — it is a public health crisis. ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd — new Visible Voices episodes Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. This episode includes real stories from the emergency department, including a fatal overdose. We share these stories because they matter and because they drive change. Please take care of you. Pause and step away at any time and know that you can always come back to the episode.

    37 min

  6. Jun 3

    After Shock: Rana Awdish on Re-Inhabiting Your Body After Illness

    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, autoimmune disease, and pain — and into the embodiment practices, art, yin yoga, and hard-won self-awareness that brought her back to herself. We talk about what medicine gets wrong about sick bodies, how self-sacrifice gets weaponized against clinicians, and why doubt might just be the way forward. Find Rana https://www.ranaawdishmd.com/ ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd — new Visible Voices episodes on Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

    29 min

  7. May 27

    Moderation Kills: Columbus Batiste and the Cardiologist’s Prescription

    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 losses of his father and father-in-law to explore why moderation is not a health strategy, what inflammation and silent chronic disease are doing beneath the surface, and how food, breath, love, sleep, and laughter are evidence-based medicine. He shares the science behind hibiscus tea, dark leafy greens, garlic, blueberries, and beets as blood pressure and heart health tools, and offers practical guidance for patients at every income level. Find Columbus https://drbatiste.com/ ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd — new Visible Voices episodes on Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

    41 min

  8. May 20

    Dr. Michelle Finkel on Medical Admissions, Career Pivots, and Why Physicians Make Great Entrepreneurs

    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, Michelle shares her high-touch, human-centered approach to helping applicants find their voice, avoid the humility trap, and write with persuasion and originality. We also talk about what it means to embrace a nonlinear career — and why that shift in perspective can reduce stress and open unexpected doors. Find Michelle at insidermedicaladmissions.com ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd — new Visible Voices episodes on Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

    23 min
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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/

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  • Creator
    Resa E Lewiss
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    100
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026 All Rights Reserved
  • Show Website
    The Visible Voices

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