August 2016 Man of the Month: Dr. Rich Mahogany
Dr. Rich Mahogany
Congratulations to Dr. Rich Mahogany, the hardest working therapist in the world. Over the last four years, Dr. Mahogany has seen more than 650,000 patients, conducted 88,000 head inspections and connected men and their loved ones to a broad range of resources to help take charge of their mental health.
Across borders and spanning languages throughout the world, working-age men share an unfortunate commonality—they avoid seeking help for mental issues, and, as a result, they also share an unfortunate common fate, as four out of every five suicides come from this demographic.
Using a combination of manly...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Man of the Month Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Ground-breaking podcast series launched
This post first appeared on the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families site on August 14, 2016.
We’ve just launched a series of expert podcasts to help parents understand and manage child and family mental health problems.
The series, Child in Mind, is presented by BBC Radio 4 presenter Claudia Hammond. In each 20-minute episode, she discusses an important issue in child and family mental health with an expert and a young person or parent.
The first episode, which focuses on childhood anxiety, is now available on our iTunes podcast channel (click subscribe to listen) and our Soundcloud account. It feat...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Children DW UK Mental Health Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Be the inspiration
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Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: 2016 Rio Olympics Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
JAMA Forum: The Pain and Opioid Epidemics: Policy and Vital Signs
This post authored by Diana Mason first ran in the The Journal of the American Medical Association Forum on August 9, 2016.
Diana Mason, PhD, RN
Near the end of my tenure as editor-in-chief of AJN, theAmerican Journal of Nursing in 2009, I asked one of the coordinators of our pain column to write an article on opioid dependence and addiction. The diversion and misuse of drugs such as oxycodone, with a resultant spike in overdose deaths, had been widely reported in the news media. Her surprising response continues to resonate for me as we face the urgent public health problem of opioid abuse.
The column’s coordinators,...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Pain and Opiods Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Caregiving for Alzheimer ’s Patients Affects a Caregiver’s Health. And What You Can Do To Help.
I am proud to be serving on the National Alzheimer’s Scientific, Patient and Caregiver Advisory Council of the PCORI-funded Alzheimer’s & Dementia Patient/Caregiver-Powered Research Network (AD-PCPRN).
The AD-PCPRN is a collaborative project working to amplify the patient and caregiver voice in order to accelerate development of effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias. This network is bringing to PCORI’s PCORnet initiative, large numbers of participants who have, are at risk of having, or care for someone who has AD or dementia.
5.4 million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease1
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Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Mental Health Source Type: blogs
Reflections on Not-Moms and PANKs
Not-Mom and PANK. Do you know those terms?
As far as I know, I’m the one who coined not-Mom. It describes the role I play as one who is ‘not-the-Mom.’ Kids need someone like me. So do parents.
Do you remember those times – we all had them growing up – when we needed an adult to talk with who wasn’t our parent? Perhaps our parents were busy, overloaded and didn’t have the time or the patience to deeply listen. Between their jobs, commutes, household work and other kids, how could they? Or, perhaps we needed a sounding board to figure out how to talk with our parents. A not-Mom is a perfect person for times lik...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Parenting Source Type: blogs
New Tech Tonics Podcast: When Companies Go Awry
Geoff Clapp
The success of Silicon Valley is often attributed to the ability of the entrepreneurial community to embrace setbacks, rather than punishing those who experience them. Celebrating these setbacks has become an art form of it own; as a recent NYT op-ed suggested, “telling the story of what went wrong is a way to wring insight from failure, but it’s also a way of proclaiming membership in a community of innovators who are unafraid of taking risks.”
In contrast to pat narratives of failure and redemption, or of lessons learned from flying too close to the sun, today’s guest, Geoff Clapp, offers an unvar...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 25, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Women as Agents of Change in Global Development
Women are essential to global development. Gender equality leads to higher rates of education, better health outcomes, increased economic growth, and even improved agricultural production. Focusing on the empowerment of women doesn’t just benefit women; it benefits society as a whole.
None of this is new information. The importance of women’s empowerment has been a part of the global development conversation since the very beginning of international development efforts. In 1948, theUnited Nations established the Commission on the Status of Women just three years after the organization itself came into existence. The Co...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Global Health Policy Source Type: blogs
Olympic bronze for a “big girl”
Here is a great TBT post from July 2012. Olympian Elana Mayers contributed an excellent body confidence piece to our Body Image Series. Today, we honor our Disruptive Olympian! For more great resources on Body Image, please download our free e-book.
In 2010 when I was named to the U.S. Olympic bobsled team, I was one of the biggest, if not the biggest, female athlete on the team. I was definitely not the tallest, but I did have one of the highest weights – it was even reported in an article.
In my sport, the goal is to push a 400-pound bobsled as fast as you can for approximately 5 seconds and then hop in, so it r...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Body Image athlete bulimia Eating disorder Olympics Source Type: blogs
Want to Improve Patient Health? Stop Promoting Health!
This article quoted the late Noreen Clark, internationally renowned chronic disease management researcher, as saying that improving daily feeling and functioning is the real hook for motivating patients to manage their illnesses.
To Motivate the Consistent Decisions that Favor Health, Let’s Rebrand Health as Well-Being
I propose a simple strategy: Let’s rebrand “health” as “well-being.” In addition to the interdisciplinary science that supports this suggestion, I’ve been using this tactic in my private health coaching practice for twenty years and have seen how this simple change in framing revolutionizes peo...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Health Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Concetta Tomaino and the Healing Power of Music
Congratulations to Disruptive Women in Health Care Dr. Concetta Tomaino who continues to show us the power of music to heal. The following post by Deborah Harkins first appeared in Women’s Voices for Change on July 11, 2016.
Concetta Tomaino with her late colleague Dr. Oliver Sacks, to whom Dustin Hoffman presented the Music Has Power award in 2006.
Music! We know it can stimulate, excite, soothe, transport . . . . indeed, it sometimes sparks emotion so pleasurable that it actually sends chills down the spine. (Like sex, cocaine other abused drugs, and food, music triggers the area of the brain that releases dopamine, ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Disrupt or be Disrupted
Thanks to Dr. Hassan Tetteh, for his support and shout out to our April Man of the Month, Vice Adm. Dr. C. Forrest Faison III.
Cmdr. Hassan Tetteh, Lead, Futures and Innovation, Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Disruption is about experience. I went back to my undergrad as visiting alumni recently and recognized immediately much had changed from my own experience in the early 1990s. Many students talked with me and shared their views about the way campus life had changed and how much their experience was now shaped by technology in a way that was very different from my time on campus as a pre-med student.
Mobile apps...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Health Men's Health Military Source Type: blogs
July 2016 Man of the Month: Jack Whelan
Jack Whelan
Last November, minutes before the deadline to be considered for PVI’s first Patient Voice Impact Award with the Leapfrog Group, we received a nomination for “…an extraordinary patient advocate who is helping bridge the well-known communications gap between patients, physicians, policy makers, pharmaceutical companies and others in life sciences. He’s currently in twice-weekly chemo treatment for a rare incurable blood cancer while still active and often “on-the-road” as a Patient Advocate, Research Advocate and Legislative Advocate.”
Pat and Jack Whelan
That man was Jack Whelan, and th...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 1, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Man of the Month Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Cancer Moonshot: DW Makes VEEP Honorary Man of the Month
DW Sharon Terry and VEEP (Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care)
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 30, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Sexual harassment and public shaming in the academy
This post authored by Bill Gardner first ran on the The Incidental Economist on June 28, 2016.
Is it ever okay to publicly shame someone on the internet? There are many cases where people have been persecuted online, and suffered severe consequences, based on accusations that are either trivial or false. But there may also be cases where public humiliation is merited, indeed, it may be the only way to address a grievous wrong. A letter accusing a prominent professor of sexual harassment is an important test case.
Thomas Pogge is the Leitner Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Political Science at Yale. Pogge...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Sexual Harassment Source Type: blogs
