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Vanderbilt Health DNA: Discoveries in Action

Health & Wellness Podcasts

On Season 4, leaders from around the VUMC enterprise explore issues facing businesses across industries, and how the enterprise is experimenting with and designing solutions for problems – old and new – by supporting smart people with visionary ideas. You’ll track how a few ideas fused and matured over decades into the engine of a global collaboration, and why progress requires bold confidence in people, taking calculated risks, and transformative optimism about what could be next. Structured as a four-part case study, whose endings are yet unwritten, season listeners get a peek into how a storied institution thinks about change, disruption from within and around, and rallies around initiatives designed to improve complex medical, research, community and workplace challenges.

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United States

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On Season 4, leaders from around the VUMC enterprise explore issues facing businesses across industries, and how the enterprise is experimenting with and designing solutions for problems – old and new – by supporting smart people with visionary ideas. You’ll track how a few ideas fused and matured over decades into the engine of a global collaboration, and why progress requires bold confidence in people, taking calculated risks, and transformative optimism about what could be next. Structured as a four-part case study, whose endings are yet unwritten, season listeners get a peek into how a storied institution thinks about change, disruption from within and around, and rallies around initiatives designed to improve complex medical, research, community and workplace challenges.

Language:

English


Episodes

Equity Blooms Through Hard Work: Shifting Systems Toward Inclusion

10/23/2023
Muscles that don’t get used, lose strength. Building a culture of belonging to foster inventive forward-looking research and robust retention requires the consistency and tenacity of a training program. Meet a nurse educator, a geriatrician, and a neurologist who are putting in the hours.

Duration:00:37:47

Blazing a New Pathway: A Bold Blueprint to Foster Upskilling, Reskilling and Future Colleagues

10/16/2023
Companies around the U.S. and world are navigating a re-think about work and learning as shifting expectations and technological leaps upend the status quo. In this episode, discover how trailblazing initiatives at one of Tennessee’s largest employers are reshaping the healthcare landscape while addressing societal and economic pressures.

Duration:00:40:14

Unveiling the Future: Tech, Trust, and Healthcare Transformation in Nashville

10/9/2023
Explore the dynamic intersection of consumer expectations, employer cost challenges, and scalability in healthcare. Discover how the future of healthcare could shape your world. Join us on a journey of transformative possibilities in this episode.

Duration:00:30:57

From an inkling to Iceland: The inventive path toward a genetic ‘Rosetta Stone’

10/2/2023
Transformative change takes intergenerational vision, discipline and commitment. Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s CEO and leaders in genetic research explain how ideas stemming from the 1990s sparked a new global alliance that will help write the future of medicine.

Duration:00:36:15

Vanderbilt Health DNA: Discoveries in Action Season 4

9/25/2023
Flashes of ideas can turn into guiding lights. Visionaries and trailblazers shape innovations of the future through passion projects. Season 4 explores how yesterday’s passion projects are changing the world for us today–and spotlights the people and ideas poised to make seismic shifts in the future.

Duration:00:03:08

GenAI, You, and Medicine: A long history with new opportunities and risks

8/14/2023
A panel of nationally recognized experts in AI, machine learning, ethics and clinical applications talk about the long history of AI in medicine, and how ChatGPT and similars are changing how they think about trust, the public, and research.

Duration:01:07:02

Equity, Energy, Action: The climate opportunity

1/16/2023
In this excerpt from a Climate x Health Twitter Spaces live chat experts from Vanderbilt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Philips take an expansive look at the disparities of climate change and its impact on health and well-being now and in the future. Listen in to hear how health and climate are fused and get ideas on how to find sustainability opportunities in medicine, research and business. This conversation was hosted live from the AAMC conference in Nashville.

Duration:00:38:48

Producer's Cut: Nashville's Opportunity: Eco-Action or Anxiety

1/9/2023
In this excerpt from a Climate x Health Twitter Spaces live chat, experts from Vanderbilt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and others discuss hope and want listeners to be energetic and reject “doomerism” while embracing reality and emphasizing teamwork without ego to accomplish individual and systemic goals. This conversation was hosted live from the AAMC conference in Nashville.

Duration:00:39:58

How To… DIY Climate Action

11/14/2022
So you want to start infusing climate best practices into your workflow and ensure climate becomes a part of your protocol or criteria – but how?! Listen in as these Vanderbilt Health non-climate scientist leaders give hands-on, real world ideas that stem from how they pivoted their focus to take on climate change.

Duration:00:30:17

How To… Fill In The Knowledge Gap

11/7/2022
The roots of climate change–human-made emissions–and effects of the shifting environment range from microscopic impacts to mega-storms. Physician scientists are assessing how transitions, such as fossil fuel-powered vehicles to EVs, impact health care costs and our health – and whether invisible particles around us have long-term links to cancer. Listen to a Vanderbilt Health pediatric trauma surgeon on how he preps for inevitable forces of nature – be it Mother Nature or human nature.

Duration:00:27:45

How To… Be A Climate Changemaker

10/31/2022
Get inspired to forge creative ways to influence people around you, and get some ideas on how to increase your own climate literacy. Vanderbilt Health physicians at various stages of their career explain how they are leading the charge to fuse climate literacy and awareness into their specialties, their clinics and their patients’ lives.

Duration:00:26:58

What’s Next? New Pathways For Suicide Prevention

9/26/2022
We don’t live our lives in healthcare systems. Listen to how three inspiring researchers are building new systems, leveraging technology and influencing policy to alleviate the toll of suicide.

Duration:00:46:34

Surviving vs. Thriving: Social Determinants of Wellness

9/19/2022
Does your environment affect your health and wellbeing? Explore what prevents you from bringing your whole self to work, school and your personal relationships. Experts weigh in on the question: Can you thrive if your mental and physical health aren’t in sync?

Duration:00:47:39

Reading, Writing and Anxiety

9/12/2022
Psychiatrists break down what children are experiencing, how they might be processing it, and what’s happening in a system unequipped to triage, treat, or prevent the ever-increasing prevalence of mental health diagnosis in children and adolescents.

Duration:00:41:34

Shapeshifters: Changing the Mental Health Story

9/5/2022
Communities and culture affect everyone’s mental health. Experts from Vanderbilt Health explain why the mental health system needs a new shape – and why we’re all shapeshifters of sorts when it comes to our mental wellbeing.

Duration:00:39:38

Producer’s Cut: Mental Health x Teens

8/22/2022
First step toward better collective mental wellbeing? Talking about mental health. So that’s what DNA did. This episode is a snippet of a ListenDNA live conversation on Twitter featuring experts from Vanderbilt Health and teens from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee discussing how to break through the stigma.

Duration:00:22:33

Vanderbilt Health DNA: Discoveries in Action Season 3

8/8/2022
Season 3 is bursting with new elements to spark collaboration and conversation. Check out gold moments from the first four episodes that explore why mental wellness is a pursuit, not a destination, and how it’s influenced by the people and environment around us.

Duration:00:03:52

Where do broken hearts go?

10/25/2021
Modern medicine doesn't have a tonic for lovesick hearts, but an astounding number of people get heart transplantations in Nashville, TN. The path to transplantation is as much of an emotional rollercoaster as an exhibit of advances, courage and despair. Hear what it takes to make sure hearts keep beating well into the future.

Duration:00:36:37

‘Think Deeply:’ What Matters To You?

10/18/2021
The ultimate goal is to live confidently and enjoy life on our terms. Let’s make sure we’re leaving on the same note. It’s a script flip: this episode isn’t morbid; it’s a sign to prioritize your values and wishes. Get comfortable with the uncomfortable.

Duration:00:35:13

Mutant Ninjas: How Researchers Are Conquering Viruses

10/11/2021
While most of us hunkered down as COVID-19 swept the U.S., these experts stepped up to examine the latest chapter of the age-old human-pathogen relationship. Dive into what fuels them, what keeps them up at night and why it’s vital to keep up the chase to neutralize SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses, such as influenza.

Duration:00:33:22