Episodes

  • Nurse to CEO: Madeline Bell on Children’s Health, Vaccines, and Legacy

    Nurse to CEO: Madeline Bell on Children’s Health, Vaccines, and Legacy
    Sep 30 2026
    Madeline Bell started as a nurse at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 1983. Forty years later, she's retiring as its CEO — having overseen the world's first personalized CRISPR gene editing therapy, built food is medicine programs inside a children's hospital, and navigated the return of vaccine hesitancy into pediatric exam rooms. In this July 15, 2026 conversation, Madeline talks with Resa about what empathy taught her about leadership, why children need advocates who will speak for them in rooms where policy gets made. She also shares the list she wrote to herself before her first day as CEO: what she wanted to be true when she left. ▶ Subscribe @resaelewissmd — new episodes Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
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    37 mins
  • Who’s Leaving Medicine? Cameron Gettel on the Data Behind the Exit

    Who’s Leaving Medicine? Cameron Gettel on the Data Behind the Exit
    Oct 7 2026
    Cameron Gettel MD MHS grew up in a small Pennsylvania town where his grandparents worked a 100-acre farm from early morning to late at night. That work ethic followed him to Brown Emergency Medicine, where he was chief resident, and then to Yale through the National Clinician Scholars Program. Cameron Gettel, MD, MHS, is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and a clinical investigator at Yale's Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, where he works on how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services measures quality of care. Cameron received the American College of Emergency Physicians' 2023 Policy Pioneer Award and Elizabethtown College's O. F. Stambaugh Outstanding Alumni Award. His health services research tracks physicians through Medicare billing data to describe patterns including attrition in the healthcare workforce. ResearchGate: Cameron Gettel ▶ Subscribe @resaelewissmd — new episodes Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
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    34 mins
  • Adam Brown on Healthcare Strategy, Lifestyle Medicine, and Why Physicians Belong at the Business Table

    Adam Brown on Healthcare Strategy, Lifestyle Medicine, and Why Physicians Belong at the Business Table
    Sep 23 2026
    Adam Brown MD MBA is a board-certified emergency physician, lifestyle medicine physician, and professor of practice at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School and ESCP in London. He is the founder and principal of ABIGHealth, a strategic commercialization advisory for healthcare companies entering, navigating, or scaling in the U.S. market. Adam writes the MedPage Today column Prescriptions for a Broken System and co-authored a white paper on why lifestyle medicine should be taught in business school — because business leaders make healthcare decisions every time they set a benefits package. Adam and Resa talk emergency medicine, misinformaton, physician credibility, and why the six pillars of lifestyle medicine aren't just clinical — they're corporate. ▶ Subscribe @resaelewissmd— new episodes Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
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    33 mins
  • David Wilkes: What Happens When the Physician Scientist Pipeline Runs Dry

    David Wilkes: What Happens When the Physician Scientist Pipeline Runs Dry
    Sep 16 2026
    National Academy of Medicine member David Wilkes has spent his career on the parts of medicine that happen before a diagnosis, before a cure, before a headline: training the physician-scientists who make discoveries possible in the first place. As dean emeritus of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and CEO of the Amos Institute for Medical Faculty Development, he's carrying forward a program the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ran for over four decades. David is a pulmonary critical care physician and renowned for his own physician scientist work in the lab. In the early 1990s, his research uncovered an autoimmune trigger behind lung transplant rejection, a finding colleagues at first dismissed as heresy — he was right, and it earned him the American Thoracic Society's highest honor: The Trudeau Medal. We talk about the difference between a mentor and a sponsor, what actually happens when a research pipeline dries up, and why training the next generation of physician-scientists might matter more than any single discovery. ▶ Subscribe @resaelewissmd on YouTube — new episodes Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. 🔗 AIMFD website: https://aimfd.org/
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    23 mins
  • Gloria Steinem 2020: The Parts I Keep Coming Back To

    Gloria Steinem 2020: The Parts I Keep Coming Back To
    Sep 9 2026
    Gloria Steinem never had a workout routine. She grew up on candy bars and ice cream and called running through airports her only exercise. So when The Visible Voices Podcast host Dr. Resa Lewiss asked the feminist icon, weeks before COVID shut down New York, what actually kept her healthy, the answer surprised her: "I have friends." Gloria Steinem died September 2, 2026, at 92, in the same Upper East Side brownstone where she once sat for this conversation — the same home where Ms. magazine was founded decades earlier. Lewiss shares parts of their 2020 conversation which she keeps coming back to: A Visible Voice: How Steinem didn't feel she had a voice until her late thirties, Positive Social Connection: What she said actually kept her healthy, Storytelling: Why she believed physicians are uniquely positioned to speak up, and The Truth Will Set You Free: the clear answer she gave when asked what to tell someone afraid to use their voice. ▶ Subscribe @resaelewissmd new episodes Wednesdays on YouTube. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
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    11 mins
  • Why ”Normal” Labs Don’t Mean You’re Healthy — Lucy McBride Goes Beyond the Prescription

    Why ”Normal” Labs Don’t Mean You’re Healthy — Lucy McBride Goes Beyond the Prescription
    Aug 5 2026
    Primary care physician Lucy McBride has spent decades in a Washington, D.C. examination room doing something radical: listening. A Princeton and Harvard Med graduate who trained at Johns Hopkins, she built her career on the belief that health lives in the relationship between doctor and patient — not in the lab report. Her first book, Beyond the Prescription, lays out a four-quadrant framework for understanding the body as an ecosystem. In this conversation, we dig into why "normal" labs can be misleading, how AI and wearables are changing the game (and sometimes making things worse), the promise and pitfalls of GLP-1s, and what brain health prevention actually looks like. Lucy shares the appendicitis-bagel story that proves even doctors are imperfect patients. ▶ Subscribe YouTube @resaelewissmd 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. New episodes on Wednesdays
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    36 mins
  • The Healthcare Heist: Jordan Grumet on Who’s Really Profiting from Your Care

    The Healthcare Heist: Jordan Grumet on Who’s Really Profiting from Your Care
    Jul 29 2026
    Jordan Grumet, MD a hospice physician and award-winning podcaster exposes the uncomfortable truth: America's healthcare crisis isn't caused by doctors or patients — it's engineered by the third parties who profit from keeping them divided. Jordan hosts the Earn & Invest Podcast, and wrote The Healthcare Heist: How Physicians and Patients Can Unite to Transform Healthcare. We talk about the forces that have quietly taken over American medicine — private equity, insurance gatekeeping, pharma influence — and why the people delivering care and the people receiving it keep getting played against each other. Jordan makes a compelling case that storytelling is the tool that brings us back together. ▶ Subscribe YouTube @resaelewissmd 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. New episodes on Wednesdays
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    29 mins
  • Why Trauma Surgeons Don’t Sleep : Jamie Coleman on Lifestyle and Measuring Burnout in Surgeons

    Why Trauma Surgeons Don’t Sleep : Jamie Coleman on Lifestyle and Measuring Burnout in Surgeons
    Jul 22 2026
    Trauma surgeons report the lowest quality of life among 13 surgical specialties and work the greatest number of hours. Jamie Coleman MD, Professor of Surgery at the University of Louisville and Deputy & Web Editor of JAMA Surgery, set out to quantify what that can cost. She and co-authors tracked sleep, stress, and recovery in 224 acute care surgeons using wearable devices and daily surveys. The data revealed that sleep loss correlates directly with burnout. Interestingly, doing the work you trained for, even at 2 a.m., offsets burnout in ways that sitting on call at home does not. Jamie and I discuss what system-level changes are needed so surgeons can actually recover. ▶ Subscribe YouTube @resaelewissmd 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. New episodes on Wednesdays
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    26 mins