Out of Africa
I just got back from the trip of a lifetime: an African safari. I had the good fortune to visit South Africa (both Cape Town/Cape of Good Hope and Krueger National Park) as well as the Zimbabwe side of Victoria Falls. Wow. If you have done it, you know what I mean. If you haven’t, it’s so worth it. No tigers or bears, but lions galore. And elephants and rhinos and hippos (my favorite) and monkeys and I could go on and on. Even ostriches and penguins! It’s something to behold. Of course it’s hard to go the entire trip without making Lion King references or Book of Mormon jokes. Penguins from near Cape of Good Hope T...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 27, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Publc Health Source Type: blogs

Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Parity Task Force Holds Listening Session with Key Stakeholders
This post by Kathryn Martin originally appeared in the HHS’s blog on June 22, 2016. On June 10th, Secretary Burwell and Office of National Drug Control Policy Director, Michael Botticelli, hosted a listening session to engage stakeholders in a discussion about mental health and substance use disorder parity implementation. Fifteen leaders of organizations representing consumer and provider groups from the mental health and addiction fields shared their perspective and offered recommendations for how to improve awareness of and compliance with the law. More than 170 million people have better insurance coverage f...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Publc Health Source Type: blogs

Johnie ’s Story
This post first appeared in The Odyssey Online on June 14, 2016.  Children in foster care often remain voiceless so I decided we need to start listening. Trigger Warning: Child and/or sexual abuse. The following story is from the point of view of a fictional five-year-old boy named Johnie. His voice represents the voice of thousands of children in foster care and thousands of children with no agency as they are victims of child abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect. My teacher Ms. Jackson is so pretty. She wears dresses every day when she teaches us. I like learning about math and counting. I think I’m pretty good at count...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Young Adults Source Type: blogs

Johnie’s Story
This post first appeared in The Odyssey Online in June 14, 2016.  Children in foster care often remain voiceless so I decided we need to start listening. Trigger Warning: Child and/or sexual abuse. The following story is from the point of view of a fictional five-year-old boy named Johnie. His voice represents the voice of thousands of children in foster care and thousands of children with no agency as they are victims of child abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect. My teacher Ms. Jackson is so pretty. She wears dresses every day when she teaches us. I like learning about math and counting. I think I’m pretty good at count...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Young Adults Source Type: blogs

The Perfect Father ’s Day Gift: A Prostate Screening
Men’s Health Month: Focus on Prostate Screening By Dr. Jon Elion, MD, FACC and Founder/President of ChartWise Medical Systems. This post first appeared in ChartWise2.0 on Jun 16, 2016 in honor of Men’s Health Month. June is Men’s Health Month, when we focus on prevention, detection, and treatment of disease in men and boys. As a cardiologist, it is tempting for me to use this platform to talk about heart disease. Instead I have decided to push myself beyond that, connecting to my cardiology roots while shooting for some extra bonus points by mentioning coding and Clinical Documentation Improvement. I...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Men's Health Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

The Perfect Father’s Day Gift: A Prostate Screening
Men’s Health Month: Focus on Prostate Screening By Dr. Jon Elion, MD, FACC and Founder/President of ChartWise Medical Systems. This post first appeared in ChartWise2.0 on Jun 16, 2016 in honor of Men’s Health Month. June is Men’s Health Month, when we focus on prevention, detection, and treatment of disease in men and boys. As a cardiologist, it is tempting for me to use this platform to talk about heart disease. Instead I have decided to push myself beyond that, connecting to my cardiology roots while shooting for some extra bonus points by mentioning coding and Clinical Documentation Improvement. I...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Men's Health Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

8 Notable Washington, D.C. Dads on Fatherhood 

This article was written by Jessica McFadden and originally appeared in Mommy Nearest on June 11, 2015.  Father’s Day in the Washington, D.C. area is always a great holiday—the weather is usually gorgeous (fingers crossed!), schools are out and work is paused as we honor the dads in our lives. We asked eight D.C. fathers to share with us their recommendations for celebrating their big day and their insights on parenting in the nation’s capital. These cool dads include a District Councilman, the key spokesperson for the MPAA, a rocking children’s musician, an education start-up founder, a kids’ party planner ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Parenting Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

“20 Minutes of Action”: A Father’s Response To Dan Turner’s Statement
This article was written by Kyle Suhan and originally appeared on Christine Suhan’s blog on June 6, 2016.   Sex is always intentional, and [my sons] are going to understand that even consensual sex needs to be cared for with the utmost delicacy.“That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life. The fact that he now has to register as a sexual offender for the rest of his life forever alters where he can live, visit, work and how he will be able to interact with people and organizations. What I know as his father is that incarceration is not the appropriate punishment for Broc...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Parenting Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Focusing on the Good Guys
Between the Stanford rapist, his father and judge; the awful murders in Orlando, we have all been rocked. In the midst of all the frustration and grief and absolute anger, Disruptive Women will use the next few days leading up to Father’s Day to highlight the good guys. There are many more of them. (Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care)
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Silicon Valley Joins the Drug and Device Discovery Party
Sean Parker Kobe Bryant Every year the Milken Global Conference pulls together an amazing cadre of people for discussions of a myriad of topics, from politics to energy to healthcare to technology and entertainment. There are few places where one can simultaneously sit in the green room with Vicente Fox, Sean Parker and Kobe Bryant, but this was the place to be if you like to be the least famous person in a room. FYI, of the four of us, I am the only one without my own Wikipedia page. And I was in that room because I was fortunate enough to be asked to participate in a panel at the program called: The Search for Cur...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 8, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Biotech Genetics Silicon Valley Source Type: blogs

America ’s Newest Pioneers: Elder Orphans
Elder Orphans. Have you heard the term?  Not many people have. Elder Orphans are people who age alone. How many elder orphans would you guess are in the US today? Can you imagine 14 million? There are. If they were U.S. State, they’d be the 5th largest, smaller only than California, Texas, New York and Florida and if they were a city, they’d be larger than the combined population of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. In some cases, people age solo because they never had children; no next generation is there to help them. In many cases people cared for family and others – their children, spouses, parents, grandparent...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Source Type: blogs

America’s Newest Pioneers: Elder Orphans
Elder Orphans. Have you heard the term?  Not many people have. Elder Orphans are people who age alone. How many elder orphans would you guess are in the US today? Can you imagine 14 million? There are. If they were U.S. State, they’d be the 5th largest, smaller only than California, Texas, New York and Florida and if they were a city, they’d be larger than the combined population of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. In some cases, people age solo because they never had children; no next generation is there to help them. In many cases people cared for family and others – their children, spouses, parents, grandparent...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Source Type: blogs

June Man of the Month: Marc Sommers, PhD
As a child, Marc loved looking at National Geographic magazines, especially at his Uncle’s home on New Year’s Day. That’s where young Marc went with his family to celebrate.  Not much for the adult conversation upstairs, Marc would slip away to the basement and lose himself in exotic photos of far-away places.  At 12, he decided he was going to go to the Serengeti. Not only did he get there, but he has dedicated much of his adult life to working with young people, primarily in Africa—19 countries and counting.  Marc Sommers, who is fluent in Swahili, is an internationally recognized youth, conflict, education, g...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Global Health Man of the Month Source Type: blogs

MusiCorps: Helping Wounded Warriors Play Music and Recover Their Lives
In 2007 Arthur Bloom was invited to visit a soldier recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The soldier, a drummer who had lost his leg to a roadside bomb, was concerned about whether he would ever be able to play the drums again. Bloom, a Juilliard- and Yale-trained composer and pianist, didn’t have any previous experience with wounded service members. However, during this initial visit to Walter Reed Bloom promised to do whatever it took to help the soldier play again. Stepping back from the situation, Bloom recognized that the need was great, with Walter Reed overflowing with injured service members. He also sa...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 25, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Man of the Month Source Type: blogs

Dear Provider – Your Image Matters!
It’s been almost eight years since my mastectomy – since then I’ve dealt with an array of side issues and preventative health procedures.  As someone who helped launch one of the nation’s first case management models 25 years ago – the “ROSE” program – my sensitivities to the communication, behavior and appearance of my physicians and allied healthcare professionals have become more acute – especially through my journey with cancer. ROSE taught us that in order for patients to comply and to flourish, they needed to trust whomever they worked with – and the keys were civility and self care.  It’s...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 24, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Women's Health Source Type: blogs