Patients Come First

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Iaisha Penn, a Family Nurse Practitioner at Sovah Health in Martinsville, VA for a conversation about her personal and professional path, her approach to patient care, and the importance of breast cancer screening. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Denise Butler, a Geriatric Assessment Coordinator with Riverside Health, for a conversation about working with people experiencing cognitive challenges as they age, an innovative Memory Café she helped pioneer, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Sue Henneberry, a Richmond-area woman who volunteers at Sheltering Arms Institute, a provider she previously encountered as a rehabilitation patient following a limb amputation. During our conversation, we’ll learn more about Sue, the medical condition that led to amputation, her impressive athletic achievements since then, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Amy Rosa, DNP, Vice President and Chief Nursing Informatics Officer for Sentara Health, for a conversation about her work and professional journey, and some insight about how smartphone technology is being leveraged in Sentara hospitals to enhance patient care. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Seung Lee, a transplant surgeon who is associate surgical director of liver transplant and living liver donor at VCU Health Hume-Lee Transplant Center, for a conversation about his work, liver health and transplant, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Saad Haque, a physician with VHC Health who specializes in gastroenterology and hepatology. Our conversation covers how his pursuit of medical training brought him to the U.S., the importance of digestive and liver health, information about the VHC Health Digestive Center, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Sivabalaji Kaliamurthy, Director of the Addictions Program at Children’s National Hospital, for a conversation about his career, addiction prevention for teens, combatting fentanyl addiction, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Julia Siegel Breton, a VCU Health physician who leads the innovative Hospital at Home program. Our conversation delves into her professional journey and what inspired her to pursue geriatric medicine, an overview of how the VCU Health Hospital at Home program works, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features features Dr. Rachel Moon, a UVA Health Children’s Hospital pediatrician and safe-sleep expert, who joins us for a conversation about her career, and to share information about safe sleeping practices to safeguard the health of infants. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Arturo "Art" Saavedra, a physician leader and scientist who serves as Dean of the VCU School of Medicine. He joins us for a fascinating conversation about his path to medicine after dreaming of an aerospace career as a youngster in Puerto Rico, his professional stops and days competing as a triathlete, the work of training future clinicians amid ongoing health care workforce shortages, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Keyur Shah, Chief of Advanced Heart Failure at the VCU Health Pauley Heart Center. Dr. Shah joins us for a conversation about his career, working with heart failure patients, the VCU Health experience with life-saving left ventricular assist devices, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Paula Ferrada, a board-certified surgeon, mentor, and educator who serves as the Division Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at Inova. She joins us for a conversation about how family influence attracted her to medicine, her early days as a beauty pageant winner and television host in her native Columbia, her path to the U.S. to pursue her medical career, her views on the importance of mentorship, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features a conversation with Jessica Williams, a nurse and lactation consultant on the mother-baby unit at Chesapeake Regional Healthcare, about her work, the hospital's recent recognition for excellence in lactation care, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Michael O'Malley, an orthopaedic surgeon at Carilion Clinic, who has served as a team physician for professional athletes in the world of baseball, basketball, and hockey. Dr. O'Malley joins us for a conversation about his work, his time as team physician with USA Hockey, his past as a college hockey player, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Joe Bamisile, a graduate student at the VCU College of Health Professions and a guard on the VCU men's basketball team, who joins us for a conversation about life, hoops, mental wellness, his work to develop the Maunda mental health mobile app, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Pam Smith, a recently retired radiology technician who earned the nickname “X-ray Pam” during her 38-year career at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. She joins us for a conversation about her career, bone density scans, workforce development, her retirement plans, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Mark Witcher, a functional neurosurgeon with Carilion Clinic, who joins us for a conversation about his work with patients experiencing movement disorders, chronic pain, epilepsy, and to discuss a recent trip he and neurosurgery residents took to a far away nation at the top of the world to help patients and share their expertise. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Clifford Meyers, a board-certified neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist with Twin County Regional Healthcare, a Lifepoint Health facility in Galax, VA. He joins us for a conversation about his career, health care delivery in rural Virginia, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Bob Trestman, Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at Carilion Clinic for a conversation about his work, mental health, collaboration with the Virginia Coordinated Clinical Research Network, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Aamir Khan, the medical director of VCU Health Hume-Lee Transplant Center’s Islet Cell Transplant Program. He joins us for a conversation about his work, the Hume-Lee Transplant Center, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Fouzia Siddiqui, a physician and neurologist who is Director of the Sleep Center at Sentara RMH Medical Center. She joins us for a conversation about her career, her journey from Pakistan to the United States to pursue her passion, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Jasmohan Bajaj, a physician based at the VCU Stravitz-Sanyal Institute for Liver Disease and Metabolic Health, and a professor with the VCU School of Medicine. He joins us for a conversation about his work, research findings indicating a connection between cognitive decline and liver health, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Henna Qureshi, a physician with Inova Health, and Leigh Guarinello, Director of Community Health programs with Inova Health, for a conversation about their careers, Inova’s community health efforts, how the Unite Us Platform is leveraged to support patient needs, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Donna Wilmoth, Chief Nursing Officer at Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center. She joins us for a conversation about her nursing career, how Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center became the first certified sensory-inclusive hospital in Virginia, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. James Daniero, a laryngologist at the UVA Health Voice and Swallowing Clinic who specializes in caring for people who use their voice extensively. The conversation covers his specialized training, the kinds of patients Dr. Daniero works with, vocal cord health, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Melissa Herd, Acting Director and Executive Officer for Region III of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Director Herd join us for a conversation about her career, the work of HHS across Region III (which includes Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Delaware, and Pennsylvania), National Minority Health Month, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Stephanie Lareau, an emergency medicine physician who is certified in wilderness medicine and Director of the Carilion Clinic Wilderness Medicine Fellowship program. Dr. Lareau join us for a conversation about her career, wilderness medicine, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Patrick Watson and Taylor Tereskerz, pre-hospital clinicians who work within Population Health and Community Paramedicine at UVA Health. They join us for a conversation about their professional backgrounds, UVA Health’s Community Paramedicine Program, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Theresa Dix, Chief Nursing Officer at Wythe County Community Hospital, a Lifepoint Health facility. She joins us for a conversation about her career, Wythe County Community Hospital's National Quality Leader Designation, workforce development, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Delante Monroe, a sous chef at Mary Washington Healthcare. He joins us for a conversation about the role of culinary professionals in hospital settings, his award-winning painting skills, his interest in information technology, the power of positivity, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features UVA Health CEO Dr. Craig Kent, who also serves as Executive Vice President for health affairs at the University of Virginia and is a past member of the VHHA Board of Directors. Dr. Kent joins us for a conversation about his career and work, a discussion about some exciting clinical research being conducted at UVA Health, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features an interview with Caitlyn Berry, an occupational therapist with Sportable, a Richmond-based adaptive sports organization. The conversation covers the mission and history of Sportable, the work of occupational therapists, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features an interview with Dr. Jeremy Bock, an interventional cardiologist and endovascular specialist, who is Medical Director of the cardiology practice at VHC Health. The conversation covers his career, cardiovascular health, hypertension, a minimally invasive surgical technique to treat patients with high blood pressure resistant to other forms of management, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features an interview with Deborah Floyd, a nurse and Perinatal Bereavement Coordinator with Sentara Health. The conversation covers her career, how her current work is informed and inspired by personal experience with loss, wellness for health care professionals, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features an interview with Theresa Blankenship, Director of Women and Infant Services at Clinch Valley Health. She joins us for a conversation about her nursing career, rural health care, and the work of the Clinch Valley team during an emergency situation involving a mother giving birth during a medical crisis. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Greg Hundley, a cardiologist and Director of the Pauley Heart Center at VCU Health. He joins us for a conversation about his career and clinical work, medical imaging, heart health, training future generations of cardiac sonographers, his podcast, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Michael Feldman, Medical Director of the Evans-Haynes Burn Center at VCU Health. The conversation covers his career and clinical work in burn care, the importance of Burn Awareness Week and burn prevention initiatives, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Kristie Williams, Vice President of Carilion Giles Community Hospital and Carilion Tazewell Community Hospital. She joins us for a conversation about her career path in nursing, the recent implementation of Moxie Robots at Carilion Giles to support staff delivering patient care, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Frank Amico Jr., a heart failure, transplantation, interventional, and critical care cardiologist at Chesapeake Regional Healthcare. He joins us for a conversation about his career, shares his powerful personal story of recovery from serious brain and spinal cord injuries, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Martin Hehir, an anesthesiology resident at UVA Health, who joins us for a conversation about his medical and athletic career, participating in the U.S. Olympic trials as a long-distance runner, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Mollie Luck, a music therapist at VCU Health. She joins us for a conversation about the role of music therapy in clinical settings, working with patients, a program at VCU to record the heartbeats of patients nearing the end of life, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Holly Mortlock, Deputy Director of External Affairs and Policy with the Virginia Health Insurance Marketplace that is overseen by the State Corporation Commission (SCC). She joins us for a conversation about her professional background, the work of the SCC, Virginia's health insurance marketplace, the recently concluded open enrollment period, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Wally Smith, a physician at VCU Health who specializes in the treatment of Sickle Cell Disease. He joins us for a conversation about his path to medicine, his work, promising new gene therapy treatments for the disease, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Olga Mazur, a general surgeon at Fauquier Health who specializes in the surgical management of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). She joins us for a conversation about her background, treatment options for severe heartburn, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on X (Twitter) or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features Dr. Aaron Chevinksy, a surgical oncologist and Director of the oncology service line for the Riverside Cancer Care Network. He joins us for a conversation about cancer and cancer care, how artificial intelligence technology advances are supporting cancer detection, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on Twitter or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features an interview with Alan Lombardo, Chief Executive Officer of Sheltering Arms Institute, for a conversation about physical therapy, working with seriously wounded military veterans on rehabilitation, the expansion of Sheltering Arms Institute, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on Twitter or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features an interview Melody Dickerson, Senior Vice President of Hospital Operations and Chief Nursing Officer at VHC Health in Arlington, Virginia. She joins us for a conversation about her work, trauma care, workplace wellness, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on Twitter or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features an interview Frankie Stamps, a Fauquier Health patient, for a conversation about how physical and speech therapy, an active lifestyle that include pickleball and skydiving, and medication have helped him manage Parkinson's disease for a decade. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on Twitter or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features an interview Dr. Nassima Ait-Daoud Tiouririne, the director of UVA’s Center for Leading Edge Addiction Research, for a conversation about her work to support individuals with substance use disorder, research and clinical trials on addiction, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on Twitter or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.

This episode of VHHA's Patients Come First podcast features an interview Dr. Samuel Schiavone, a psychiatrist with Inova Fairfax Hospital, for a conversation about his work, military servicer, mental health care, the condition of seasonal affective disorder, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to [email protected] or contact us on Twitter or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.