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Improving Health Equity with Mind-Body Medicine
Integrative Practitioner Podcast
English - September 19, 2023 16:59 - 25 minutes - 21.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHealth & Fitness brain practitioner body health healthcare integrative medicine microbiome mind nursing Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this special edition of the Integrative Practitioner Podcast, Scarlet Soriano, MD, joins Integrative Practitioner Content Specialist, Avery St. Onge, to discuss how mind-body medicine can contribute to health equity.
About the Speaker: As Executive Director of Duke Health and Well-Being, Scarlet Soriano, MD, leads a multidisciplinary team in systemwide innovation aimed at effectively addressing gaps in our healthcare delivery structures through health and well-being interventions that are grounded on health equity. Soriano is a member of the Board of Directors of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (AIHM) and a founding member of its Black, Indigenous and People of Color Committee. She was Co-Chair of the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health (ACIMH) 2023 Integrative Medicine Symposium and serves as Duke Health and & Well-Being’s Institutional Representative within ACIMH. Soriano's work has centered on designing healthcare delivery structures that create conditions for deep personal transformation, grounded on self-efficacy and positive change-making, as the foundation for both individual healing and community transformation. Soriano is passionate about planetary health and weaving our personal and collective healing with the healing of our planet. She has a special interest in wellness-based group medical visits as critical aspects of healthcare redesign. Soriano is the former Director for Group Visits and Wellness-Based Healthcare Transformation at Boston Medical Center’s Program for Integrative Medicine and Healthcare Disparities, and former Medical Director for the Tanya I Edwards Center for Integrative and Lifestyle Medicine at Cleveland Clinic. In her consulting work, Soriano supports organizations to rethink healthcare strategies through the lens of equity and whole person-whole community health.