Culture, Vocation & Calling with Sho Baraka

Culture, Vocation & Calling with Sho Baraka

Join in for a deeply honest and candid conversation with recording artist, speaker, professor, and writer, Sho Baraka. We waste no time, diving quickly into personal discussions about emotional wellness and mental health. We consider ways to normalize mental health conversations to positively impact our lives and society. Intertwined with these topics, we consider the imprint of hip-hop culture, the impact of social media, and the powerful role of faith. On a practical level, Sho shares four key ways each of us can effectively pursue our calling. Refreshingly, he provides this guidance, even while acknowledging his own successes and challenges pursuing his vocational calling. As a man of many talents and interests, he goes even further to describe the ways he feels like a “vocational nomad” at times. We also reflect on what it means to engage and care for our local and global community. In the scope of community, we discuss neurodiversity and inclusivity, as Sho shares his perspective as the father of two sons living on the autism spectrum. A wide ranging, timely and important conversation!

For more helpful information on neurodiversity, accessibility, and inclusivity, please visit www.kulturecity.org

YJBM Science News Podcast: Episode 17

YJBM Science News Podcast: Episode 17

Welcome to this week’s episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past week.

Links:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccell.2024.03.002
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10826-024-02809-y

How Climate Change and Pollution Affect Human Health: An Interview with Dr. Kai Chen

How Climate Change and Pollution Affect Human Health: An Interview with Dr. Kai Chen

Climate change is not only measured in catastrophic events – it has a gradual impact on the individual health of people all around the world. In this episode of the YJBM podcast, Shivani interviews Dr. Kai Chen, an environmental epidemiologist, researcher, and Professor at the Yale School of Public Health. In this interview, Dr. Chen discusses his work, the links between heat exposure and cardiovascular health, air quality and students’ academic scores, and wildfire smoke and mental health outcomes.
Links:
Disparities in US Heat Vulnerability: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/887792e05ea744d3b085856ca061ef53
Dr. Chen’s CHEN Lab at the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health: https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/kaichen/
February 2024 Article from Dr. Chen: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45901-z

Aphasia & Linguistic Neuro-diversity: A personal and theological journey with Dr. John Perry & Christopher Whyte

Aphasia & Linguistic Neuro-diversity: A personal and theological journey with Dr. John Perry & Christopher Whyte

Dr. Perry is Senior Lecturer in Theological Ethics at St. Andrews University. Mr. Whyte is completing his Phd on Dietrich Bonhoeffer at the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology at St. Andrews University. This presentation describes Dr. Perry’s personal experience in suffering a stroke after a car accident, his road to recovery, and theological reflections on neuro-diversity.

Congenital HIV Infection and Challenges to Care Engagement with Dr. Merceditas Villanueva, MD

Congenital HIV Infection and Challenges to Care Engagement with Dr. Merceditas Villanueva, MD

Dr. Villanueva is the Director of the HIV Program at Yale, the Firm Chief of the Donaldson Service, and Course Director of Attacks and Defenses at the Yale School of Medicine, and the Director of Yale’s Ryan White funding. In this noon conference, she presents a case study of a patient with congenital HIV, incorporating updates for the latest HIV regimens.

YJBM Science News Podcast: Episode 16

YJBM Science News Podcast: Episode 16

Welcome to this week’s episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past week.

Links:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-024-02216-7
https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(24)00079-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07255-w
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2024.01.031

Giving Voice to Douceline of Digne

Giving Voice to Douceline of Digne

In this episode of the ISM Fellows Podcast, Dr. Samantha Slaubaugh offers insights into her work on Douceline of Digne as a rare paradigm of liturgical practice among the Beguines of Marseilles. Dr. Slaubaugh also discusses the way in which Douceline of Digne, through her unique practice of liturgy, is situated in her medieval community that reveals the unexpected fragility of her sociopolitical circumstances.

Consensus Guidelines: Postdural Puncture Headache

Consensus Guidelines: Postdural Puncture Headache

In this episode, Dr. Vishal Uppal, whose primary research interests are improving the safety and efficacy of regional anesthesia techniques in high-risk patient populations, discussed his article Consensus Practice Guidelines on Postdural Puncture Headache From a Multisociety, International Working Group: A Summary Report.

Consensus guidelines
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37581893/
Atypical headache following dural puncture in obstetric
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24934311/
A prospective controlled study of continuous spinal analgesia versus repeat epidural analgesia after accidental dural puncture in labour
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22153280/
One patch or more? Defining success in treatment of post-dural puncture headache
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28089183/
Sphenopalatine ganglion block for postdural puncture headache
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19413836/
Major Neurologic Complications Associated With Postdural Puncture Headache in Obstetrics: A Retrospective Cohort Study
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31335402/
The volume of blood for epidural blood patch in obstetrics: a randomized, blinded clinical trial
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21596867/