Latest Child health Podcast Episodes

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Episode 168: Biobanking at Nemours

Champions for Children - November 07, 2022 04:01 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Biobanking is the process by which samples of bodily fluid or tissue are collected for research use to improve our understanding of health and disease. As part of our occasional series on precision medicine, we explore the past, present, and future of biobanking at Nemours.  Featuring Nemours ...

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Episode 167: Driving Mental Wellness and Health Equity

Champions for Children - October 31, 2022 04:01 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Dr. Roger Harrison joins us on this episode of the podcast, and together we'll delve into his work as a pediatric psychologist in the greater Wilmington Delaware area, a role he's had at Nemore for 19 years, and his longstanding passion for health equity and inclusion, which has led to his more ...

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Applying Innovations From COVID-19 to the Future

MOMENTUM Presents - October 26, 2022 04:00 - 30 minutes
COVID-19 disrupted health systems around the world and threatened access to essential health services, particularly for women and children. The well-being of mothers and infants depends on their continued access to these services. With COVID-19 remaining an ongoing dynamic, what are learned stra...

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Episode 3, Applying Innovations From COVID-19 to the Future

MOMENTUM Presents - October 26, 2022 04:00 - 30 minutes
COVID-19 disrupted health systems around the world and threatened access to essential health services, particularly for women and children. The well-being of mothers and infants depends on their continued access to these services. With COVID-19 remaining an ongoing dynamic, what are learned stra...

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Episode 166: Live, Love, Woof

Champions for Children - October 24, 2022 04:01 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Animals are healers. They've been proven to reduce pain, anxiety, and blood pressure, and release endorphins, and even bring joy to what can be a scary place: a hospital. So it's not a surprise for hospitals, health care systems, and long-term care facilities to have pet therapy teams who bring ...

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Flip the Script with Dr. Franchesca Fraire

Flip the Script: Conversations with the Doctor Nurse - October 20, 2022 18:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Did you ever wonder who was there when after a school tragedy, there are "counselors available for the students"?  How do those professional cope with their won grief surrounding traumatic events?  Join Dr. Flippo as she talks with Dr. Franchesca Fraire, a professional counselor and professor, ...

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Episode 165: Celebrating Research

Champions for Children - October 17, 2022 04:01 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Throughout the history of Nemours Children's Health, research has been a crucial part of our mission. As a natural companion effort with clinical work, it has been central to serving patients and families in Delaware, Florida, and beyond.  Nemours' Executive Director of Research, Dr. Vicky Fun...

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Episode 164: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month (part 2 of 2)

Champions for Children - October 10, 2022 04:01 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
We continue to honor Hispanic Heritage Month by talking with associates of Hispanic background about their personal experiences with being Hispanic in America and at Nemours. In this episode, we talk with Allen Garcia, PhD., Pediatric Psychologist based at Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando....

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Episode 163: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month (part 1 of 2)

Champions for Children - October 03, 2022 04:01 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
We're honoring Hispanic Heritage Month by talking with associates of Hispanic background about their personal experiences with being Hispanic in America and at Nemours. In this episode, we'll talk with first-year pediatric residents Dr. Natalia Cordona and Dr. Gabriela Guadalupe-Rios from NCH-Fl...

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Episode 162: Saving Lives Worldwide

Champions for Children - September 26, 2022 04:01 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Dr. Stephen Dunn is the Chair of the Department of Surgery and Division Chief for the Nemours Solid Organ Transplant Program at Nemours Children's Hospital in Delaware. We're talking with him about his international work, his background as a surgeon, as a public health service veteran, and his ...

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Episode 161: Pharmacogenomics in Practice

Champions for Children - September 19, 2022 04:01 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Under the broad umbrella of precision medicine falls pharmacogenomics, and within the field of pharamocogenomics, Nemours is involved with both researching and clinically applying pharacogenomics. In the second of two episodes on pharmacogenomics, we'll check in with pharmacists Dr. Benjamin Duo...

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Episode 160: Changing Medicine through Pharmacogenomics Research

Champions for Children - September 12, 2022 04:01 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Pharmacogenomics is a field of research that studies how a person's genes affect how an individual responds to medications. Its long-term goal is to help doctors select the drugs and doses best suited for each person. It's research that is happening within the walls of Nemours. We'll hear more...

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Episode 159: Advanced Delivery Program

Champions for Children - September 05, 2022 04:01 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
It's Labor Day, and we're talking labor and delivery within the Advanced Delivery Program (ADP) at the Nemours Children's Hospital (NCH) in Delaware. It's a two-and-a-half-year-old program that started as a partnership between ChristianaCare and Nemours Children's Health aimed at having mom's de...

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Episode 158: Breastfeeding Beyond Barriers

Champions for Children - August 29, 2022 04:01 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Breastfeeding is not easy. It's a learning experience for moms and babies, especially the first time around. Nemours associate Lindsey Killian faced more barriers than most when it came to her first-time breastfeeding experience: her son was diagnosed with the metabolic disorder PKU when he was ...

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Episode 157: Supporting Breastfeeding

Champions for Children - August 22, 2022 04:01 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
It is breastfeeding awareness month. And in previous podcast episodes this month, we've talked to the clinical experts on the benefits of breastfeeding to moms and their babies and breastfeeding across cultures. In part three of our Breastfeeding Awareness Month podcast, we'll talk with a brea...

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Episode 156: Breastfeeding Across Cultures

Champions for Children - August 15, 2022 04:01 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
August is Breastfeeding Awareness Month, and in this episode, we'll explore some of the cultural aspects of breastfeeding with Dr. Tara Williams, Nemours General Academic Pediatrician and Breastfeeding Medicine Specialist based in Orlando, and Karina Charra, site coordinator in the Emergency Dep...

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Episode 155: Breastfeeding - An Overview

Champions for Children - August 08, 2022 04:01 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
August is National Breastfeeding Month. According to the March of Dimes, though natural in many ways, breastfeeding is also a skill learned through practice. The benefits of breastfeeding are numerous and long-lasting. Nemours associates and breastfeeding counselors Ainger Walker and Shamiya Gou...

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Episode 155: Six Degrees of Separation - Nemours Edition

Champions for Children - August 01, 2022 04:01 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Since 2021, retired healthcare executive Elliot Joseph has been a member of the Nemours Foundation Board of Directors. Prior to his retirement in 2019, he was the CEO of Hartford HealthCare, a fully integrated, multi-specialty healthcare network serving the state of Connecticut. Mr. Joseph bring...

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Episode 154: Six Degrees of Separation - Nemours Edition

Champions for Children - August 01, 2022 04:01 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Since 2021, retired healthcare executive Elliot Joseph has been a member of the Nemours Foundation Board of Directors. Prior to his retirement in 2019, he was the CEO of Hartford HealthCare, a fully integrated, multi-specialty healthcare network serving the state of Connecticut. Mr. Joseph bring...

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Episode 154: What is Precision Medicine?

Champions for Children - July 25, 2022 04:01 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Today we begin an occasional series within the podcast to highlight precision medicine and the associates here at Nemours who are researching and implementing these innovative approaches to medicine, specifically pediatric medicine.  Answering the basic question of "What is precision medicine"...

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Episode 153: What is Precision Medicine?

Champions for Children - July 25, 2022 04:01 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Today we begin an occasional series within the podcast to highlight precision medicine and the associates here at Nemours who are researching and implementing these innovative approaches to medicine, specifically pediatric medicine.  Answering the basic question of "What is precision medicine"...

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Episode 153: Dr. Wade Shrader

Champions for Children - July 18, 2022 04:01 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Dr. Wade Shrader has seen Cerebral Palsy (CP) from two important perspectives: that of a physician, a surgeon, and the Chief of the Division of Cerebral Palsy inside the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the Nemours Children's Hospital in Delaware, and as the father of four children, two of wh...

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Episode 152: Dr. Wade Shrader

Champions for Children - July 18, 2022 04:01 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Dr. Wade Shrader has seen Cerebral Palsy (CP) from two important perspectives: that of a physician, a surgeon, and the Chief of the Division of Cerebral Palsy inside the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the Nemours Children's Hospital in Delaware, and as the father of four children, two of wh...

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Episode 152: Opera, Optimism, and Elton John

Champions for Children - July 11, 2022 04:01 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
We catch up with performer, singer, Nemours respiratory therapist, and optimist Mary Ann Douglas, who we first met on Episode 4 of the podcast from 2019. In a new interview recorded in July 2022, she provides an update on enduring the COVID-19 pandemic with her PICU team at NCH Orlando, providin...

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Episode 151: Opera, Optimism, and Elton John

Champions for Children - July 11, 2022 04:01 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
We catch up with performer, singer, Nemours respiratory therapist, and optimist Mary Ann Douglas, who we first met on Episode 4 of the podcast from 2019. In a new interview recorded in July 2022, she provides an update on enduring the COVID-19 pandemic with her PICU team at NCH Orlando, providin...

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Episode 151: HOPE for Oklahoma

Champions for Children - July 04, 2022 04:01 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
We're taking a deeper dive into Project HOPE by examining a partnership between Nemours and the State of Oklahoma that brings capacity-building skills and technical assistance to that state to help them in the work of preventing social adversities in early childhood. Featuring Nemours Associat...

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Episode 150: HOPE for Oklahoma

Champions for Children - July 04, 2022 04:01 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
We're taking a deeper dive into Project HOPE by examining a partnership between Nemours and the State of Oklahoma that brings capacity-building skills and technical assistance to that state to help them in the work of preventing social adversities in early childhood. Featuring Nemours Associat...

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Episode 149: Engage!

Champions for Children - June 27, 2022 04:01 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Nemours' Director of Talent Services Dr. Allison Craft is an ardent advocate for associate engagement across the enterprise. In this podcast, she'll share high-level results of the most recent employee engagement survey. She'll also reveal the very personal reason why she's so passionate about e...

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Episode 150: Engage!

Champions for Children - June 27, 2022 04:01 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Nemours' Director of Talent Services Dr. Allison Craft is an ardent advocate for associate engagement across the enterprise. In this podcast, she'll share high-level results of the most recent employee engagement survey. She'll also reveal the very personal reason why she's so passionate about e...

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Episode 148: Meet Dr. Rachel Thornton

Champions for Children - June 20, 2022 04:01 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
Joining us in conversation on this episode of the podcast is Dr. Rachel Thornton, who arrived at Nemours on March 1, 2022, as the inaugural holder of a new leadership position within the enterprise: Enterprise Chief Health Equity Officer. Together, let's get to know Dr. Thornton, her path to bec...

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