Know Stroke Podcast
81 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWelcome to the Know Stroke Podcast with your co-hosts Mike Garrow (stroke caregiver) & David Dansereau (stroke survivor). Listen back to Episode 1 of the podcast to hear our personal stories of how stroke impacted our lives and sparked a mission to amplify the voices, contributions, and achievements of change makers in stroke care.
Show music by Jake Dansereau (JAKEEZo on Soundcloud @user-257386777)
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Episodes
It's Hot! Tips to Know and Avoid Heat Stroke and Announcement : We Need Your Help on Our Latest Stroke Education Project
July 20, 2022 23:59 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! Know Stroke Podcast S4E4In the news: It’s Hot- Tips to Know Avoid Heat StrokeAnnouncements: Health Podcast Network move is completeWhat’s Next? In this brief episode the co-hosts connect on a podcast catch-up to explain more about their recent move to expand the reach of the podcast via the Health Podcast NetworkAbout the Health Podcast Network:Health Podcast Network features authoritative shows, hosts and guests who take on the tough topics in health and ca...
Interview with Henry Hoffman,MS,OTR/L Co-Inventor and Co-Founder of Saebo
July 08, 2022 23:38 - 57 minutesKnow Stroke Podcast -S4E3-Henry Hoffman On this episode we were joined by Henry Hoffman,MS,OTR/L co-inventor and co-founder of Saebo, Inc. We were introduced to Henry through Dr. Carolyn Brown, a previous guest of the podcast in season one. Saebo, Inc. is a medical device company primarily engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of affordable and novel clinical solutions designed to improve mobility and function in individuals suffering from neurological and orthopedic co...
Interview with Dan Kendall - Founder of Mission Based Media
June 21, 2022 00:00 - 56 minutes - 38.8 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! Know Stroke Podcast S4E2 Dan KendallIn today's episode we are joined by Dan Kendall. Dan is the founder and Managing Director at Mission Based Media. Dan has 20+ years experience in growing profitable and sustainable businesses in health technology, mobile and cloud computing, and telecommunications in domestic and international markets. In a change of pace, this discussion does not focus solely on stroke. Instead we talk about the impact that podcasts can m...
Interview with Dan Kendall - Founder of Mission Based Media
June 21, 2022 00:00 - 55 minutesKnow Stroke Podcast S4E2 Dan KendallIn today's episode we are joined by Dan Kendall. Dan is the founder and Managing Director at Mission Based Media. Dan has 20+ years experience in growing profitable and sustainable businesses in health technology, mobile and cloud computing, and telecommunications in domestic and international markets. In a change of pace, this discussion does not focus solely on stroke. Instead we talk about the impact that podcasts can make in the transition of care for p...
Interview with Jordyn Sims Pierce MS, CCC-SLP, ATP- Vice President, Clinical Operations & Development- Constant Therapy
May 28, 2022 19:00 - 54 minutesKnow Stroke Podcast S4E1 Jordyn Sims Pierce MS, CCC-SLP, ATP Vice President, Clinical Operations & Development Constant Therapy In this kickoff episode to Season 4 (not 3 like I mentioned at the start of the show!*) we were fortunate to bring on Jordyn Sims Pierce, who is a Speech-Language Pathologist & Assistive Technology Specialist. She serves as the Vice President, Clinical Operations and Development at Constant Therapy Health. In addition to her role on the Constant Therapy team, Jor...
Tackling Digital Transformation in Rehabilitation: A Health Coaching Approach
May 01, 2022 16:00 - 56 minutes - 39.2 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! Today is the start of World Stroke Month, celebrated throughout the month of May. In this episode we are going to share a discussion we had with Carolyn Brown, Founder of Stroke OT and Marina Borukhovich of YourCoach at the Rehab Tech Summit on March 3rd. Watch full episode on our YouTube ChannelThis past week there was news that Noom inc, a weight loss app will be laying off a quarter of their health coaches. While this is devastating for those coaching lo...
Stroke In the News: AFib, Health Equity and Stroke Outcomes, 7000 Steps and Finally Where in the World is Mike?
April 08, 2022 00:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! Know Stroke Podcast Season3 Episode7Welcome to the Know Stroke Podcast. I’m your co-host David Dansereau flying solo in this episode! If you like the show leave a review on the Apple podcast app and subscribe on your favorite podcast platform. And if you’d like sponsor a show contact us through links below in our show notes. In this episode and on this #WorldHealthDay recording we are talking all things health as it relates to Stroke “In the News” includ...
Ukraine and our first asynchronous Stroke News Update "On the Road" Episode
March 04, 2022 00:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! Season 3 Episode 6 -On The Road!Before we get to our "Stroke in the News" this week we would be remiss not to pause and reflect that this episode is being recorded asynchronously amidst the backdrop of war in Ukraine. As we all finally sense an end to the COVID-19 crisis, we find ourselves in the midst of another one, and the extent of which is still unclear. It is hard to put into words what it means to watch the invasion of a sovereign nation, and honestly...
Interview with Lauren Sheehan : OT in Tech | Co-Founder Rehab Tech Summit
February 12, 2022 19:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! Lauren Sheehan S3E5 : OT in Tech, Co-Founder Rehab Tech SummitAs you’ll learn on this episode, my co-host first met Lauren while doing stroke research as part of his Masters degree in Dublin. Lauren is a Product Manager with Neurolutions, Inc. and has been in the medical device industry for the last five plus years. Her clinical background is primarily in outpatient neurorehabilitation. She has held administrative roles in clinic management and as a departme...
Interview with Kyle Mengelkamp: Share Your Stroke of Genius
January 29, 2022 01:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! Know Stroke Podcast Season 3 Episode 4Mike and I sat down earlier this week to share in some great conversation with our guest Kyle Mengelkamp. We were drawn into his story involving basketball, his stroke recovery , his why and creative producing vision in the upcoming premiere of his mini-documentary examining stroke recovery from three personal perspectives, sharing their stroke of genius.About the Event: Reborn Decades ApartThree basketball players - Ky...
Interview with Kyle Mengelkamp
January 29, 2022 01:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBKnow Stroke Podcast Season 3 Episode 4 Mike and I sat down earlier this week to share in some great conversation with our guest Kyle Mengelkamp. We were drawn into his story involving basketball, his stroke recovery , his why and creative producing vision in the upcoming premiere of his mini-documentary examining stroke recovery from three personal perspectives, sharing their stroke of genius. About the Event: Reborn Decades Apart Three basketball players - Kyle Mengelkamp, Cory Weissman,...
Interview with Caroline Goggin and Travis Eldridge-Running to Raise Stroke Awareness:Boston Marathon 2022
January 23, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 48.4 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! Welcome to Season 3 Episode 3 of the Know Stroke Podcast!We were delighted to bring back an old friend, intro voice of the podcast, and stroke thriver, Caroline Goggin. Caroline shared her story with us as our inaugural guest on Season 1 Episode 2, if you haven't listened to that interview you can go back and listen here. In that episode Caroline gave credit to her husband, Travis, for saving her life. He recognized the symptoms and acted FAST! It has been ...
Interview with Sandra Saldana CEO and Co-Founder Alva Health
January 15, 2022 14:00 - 1 hourWelcome to Season 3 episode 2 of the KnowStroke Podcast. In this episode we sat down for a stimulating conversation with Sandra Saldana, CEO and co-founder at Alva Health. Sandra launched Alva Health as a spin out from Yale University entrepreneur fellowship program in 2017. Alva Health's mission is to develop, commercialize, and make accessible a first-in-class medical device that accurately detects strokes using patient-worn wearables. 2021 was a milestone year for Alva Health as they were...
Interview with Marina Borukhovich, CEO of YourCoach Health
January 08, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 45.8 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! Welcome back to Season 3 of the Know Stroke Podcast!We hope everyone had a relaxing holiday season and had time to catch up with family and friends. If you didn't catch our bonus episode released before the new year you should go back and check it out - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1751132/9804997 In that bonus episode David and I spoke to some of our personal goals this year and tee'd up a theme that we'll be speaking to a lot during Season 3 - Goal setting a...
Bonus Episode: Know Stroke Podcast Year in Review 2021
December 30, 2021 01:00 - 20 minutesBefore we take the Next Step Forward into 2022 we wanted to get together one last time to reflect and give thanks to our community for the past year and the growth of the podcast. We share how we both have grown as well as podcast co-hosts over the past year and that would not have been possible without our listeners and the feedback that was shared with us.Spoiler Alert- we also show off our new KnowStrokePodcast swag so if you want a look- watch the YT Videocast here : https://youtu.be/0rP...
Interview with Katelyn Skeels Stroke Advanced Practice Nurse Tufts Medical Center
December 11, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 45 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! In our last episode of Season 2 we welcome Kate Skeels, Stroke Advance Practice Nurse at Tufts Medical Center to the show. We picked the great discussion right up where we left off with her Tufts colleague Dr. Lester Leung from our previous episode. We learned what brought Kate from her western New York roots with her family to Boston and where she fell in love with the stroke patient population, met “baby” Lester and began growing the program at Tufts toget...
Interview with Lester Leung,MD,MSc Director Comprehensive Stroke Center Tufts Medical Center
November 26, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 46.2 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! Season 2 Episode 7 -Lester Y. Leung, MD, MSc Tufts MCQuick Bio:Board certified vascular & general neurologistAssistant Professor of NeurologyDirector, Comprehensive Stroke Center at Tufts Medical CenterDirector and Founder, Stroke and Young Adults (SAYA) ProgramPrincipal Investigator, Tufts Vascular Neurology Research GroupDirector, Stroke Service at MetroWest Medical CenterCo-Chair, American Heart Association-American Stroke Association Massachusetts Stroke...
Interview with Kaitlyn Jones OT Program Manager with XBOX Gaming Accessibility Team
November 21, 2021 01:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! Know Stroke Podcast Season 2 Episode 6Welcome back to the Know Stroke Podcast! Our guest today is Kaitlyn Jones. Kaitlyn is an occupational therapist and currently a Program Manager working with the XBOX Gaming Accessibility Team where she is able to use her clinical background and perspectives to help guide inclusive product design. She is very passionate about the ways in which technology that is accessible can enhance the quality of life of all people. Sh...
Interview with Brooke Medel, Stroke Nurse Navigator at UConn Health
November 13, 2021 21:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! Know Stroke Podcast Season 2 Episode 5Navigator: one that navigates or is qualified to navigate.Who are some people that come to mind when you think of navigators? Most navigators have personality traits of wanting to help others achieve their goals. Brooke Medel is a Stroke Nurse Navigator at UConn Health in Farmington, Connecticut. Joining the team at UConn in June Brooke has come into a crucial role supporting stroke survivors in the transition of care fr...
#WorldStrokeDay Patient Empowerment Edition
October 25, 2021 22:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! Know Stroke Podcast S2E4 Our brains are incredible organs that center our thoughts, record our experiences and emotions, control our behaviors and provide the processing power that enable us to move our bodies. With the upcoming #WorldStrokeDay (October 29th) this brief episode focused on patient focused events and resources that help our incredible brains stay healthy and repair by sharing lived experiences and knowledge to empower our brains and our souls ...
Interview with Dr. Carolyn Brown, Founder of StrokeOT
October 18, 2021 22:00 - 50 minutesOn Episode 3 of Season 2 of the Know Stroke Podcast we were joined by an old friend, Dr. Carolyn Brown. Before Dr Brown joined, per usual, David and Mike covered this past weeks "In The News" section. The headline that popped for us this week was Mindmaze scores big with $125M for gamified neurotherapeutics platform This is a company Mike has had his eye on since researching the use of Virtual Reality for stroke rehabilitation as part of his Masters Thesis. MindMaze is making a push to repai...
A Season for Change, More on Music Therapy for Stroke in the News and Next Step Forward Updates
October 09, 2021 13:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! About this Episode (S2E2): Co-Founders of EnableUs and Co-Hosts of the Know Stroke Podcast Michael Garrow and David Dansereau recap In the News this past week and discuss more great media coverage on music therapy and how things continue rocking and rolling for MedRhythms. A few days after we released this episode, Brian Harris (Co-Founder and CEO) and the team announced a partnership with Universal Music Group. The partnership gives MedRhythms access to UMG...
Interview with Brian Harris Co-Founder and CEO of MedRhythms
September 26, 2021 03:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! Know Stroke Podcast S2E1-Brian Harris Interview-MedRhythmsAbout Our Guest: Brian Harris is the Co-Founder and CEO of MedRhythms; a digital therapeutics company focused on the intersection music, neuroscience and technology. Brian is a board-certified music therapist and one of 350 Neurologic Music Therapist Fellows in the world. Brian’s clinical work is focused at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, USA where he created and implemented their first ...
Interview with Seamus Small Co-Founder and CEO of Kinesis Health Technologies
August 05, 2021 22:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! In Episode 8 it was our pleasure to welcome Seamus Small, the Co-Founder and CEO of Kinesis Health Technologies an innovative health technology company based in Dublin, Ireland. His company is focused on falls prevention in older adults as well as gait and mobility assessment. QTUG, is their proprietary technology for clinicians and researchers which uses body worn sensors combined with a standard clinical test (the Timed Up and Go - TUG) to better assess r...
Call to Action: Why a connected digital health marketplace is needed in stroke recovery
July 10, 2021 17:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! In this episode David and Mike discuss recent real life experiences of one of the many friction points stroke survivors and caregivers experience - getting access to a reliable marketplace to purchase equipment for adaptive home management. After all, feeling safe in your own home is an important goal in your daily life, especially after surviving a stroke. Cooking, cleaning, laundry, paying your bills, and yard work are some occupations that can become ch...
Interview with Benga Adeeko CEO | Co-Founder of New Gait
June 26, 2021 18:00 - 49 minutes - 34.4 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! In Episode 6 it was our pleasure to welcome Benga Adeeko from New Gait to the Know Stroke Podcast.Benga’s quick bio: Benga originally co-founded his company as a sports performance equipment company. As a former Division 1 college sprinter, USA Track & Field Level 1 certified coach, and professionally licensed mechanical engineer, he had the passion and know-how to develop The SpeedMaker, which is a training device used by athletes to increase strength and...
Bonus Episode to Recap Launch Month of May for the Know Stroke Podcast and David's announcement about his new book project
May 31, 2021 17:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! In this bonus episode David recaps the busy launch month of May for the Know Stroke Podcast. He is without his co-host for this episode as Michael was in route back to the US from Ireland. David also dives a bit deeper into his why in this episode and what has moved him to continue his mission along with TEAM EnableUs to improve outcomes for stroke survivors and caregivers. David discusses why recently he’s been moved to reshare his story and reads his 2...
Interview with Peter Kaplan Managing Partner and Head of Marketing at Theracycle
May 26, 2021 01:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! In episode 4 we go on location to Franklin, MA to speak with Peter Kaplan, Head of Marketing at Theracycle | XThera Corporation. Peter is responsible for managing the overall Theracycle business in addition to all Marketing and Product Management activities. Peter has over 27 years of marketing and product management experience in retail, manufacturing and distribution operations. Peter has spent the past 16 years in the health care segment in various execu...
Interview with Lauren Souders Clinical Manager at Neurolutions
May 11, 2021 01:00 - 33 minutesEpisode 3: In this episode we interview Lauren Souders, the current Clinical Manager for Neurolutions, Inc. Lauren has been working with Neurolutions since 2012 assisting in the development and clinical evolution applying brain-computer interface in the stroke rehabilitation space. Lauren was an integral clinical lead at the infancy of Neurolutions first product, the IpsiHand. Lauren is also one of the first pioneering occupational therapists to assist in using brain-computer interface techn...
Interview with Stroke Survivor Caroline Goggin
May 05, 2021 00:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! In Episode 2 David and Mike were joined by their first guest, stroke survivor Caroline Goggin. Caroline grew up outside Philadelphia and is a proud graduate of Penn State University.Caroline is familiar with New England, having lived and worked in Providence as a weekday anchor and reporter for four years. David and Caroline first crossed paths when she shared a post on social media explaining a terrifying experience of surviving a stroke.The opening line of...
Let's Know Stroke- The Co-Hosts introduce the Know Stroke Podcast
May 02, 2021 19:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBChime In, Send Us a Text Message! In Episode 1 of the Know Stroke podcast your co-hosts David Dansereau and Mike Garrow touch on their personal stories related to stroke and explain their ‘why’ for launching this podcast as well as co-founding EnableUs. The importance of having a ‘why’ on your journey of life after strokeReflections on a difficult year for the stroke community and the one year anniversary from launching the Next Step Forward Program, a FREE 5 part webinar series on managing...