In this episode Hansa Bhargava, MD, FAAP, senior medical director at WebMD and Chief Medical Officer at Medscape, offers ways to reduce stress for children and their families. Hosts David Hill, MD, FAAP, and Joanna Parga-Belinkie, MD, FAAP, also talk with Sonia Taneja, MD, MSc, and Thomas Kuriakose, MD, MA, authors of a Pediatrics Perspective on bias in medical communication.
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Hansa Bhargava, MD, FAAP
Guest
Hansa Bhargava, MD, FAAP, is a board-certified pediatrician, senior medical director at WebMD, and a staff physician at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. She has appeared as an expert on national media including CNN, HLN, and NPR and has regular appearances on CBS, Local Now, and Fox. She is a mom of two teens and lives in Atlanta.
Sonia Taneja, MD, MSc
Guest
Sonia Taneja, MD, MSc, is a PGY-2 pediatrics resident in the Boston Combined Residency Program (Urban Health and Advocacy Track) at Boston Children's Hospital and Boston Medical Center. She holds a master’s degree in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and an M.D. from the Yale School of Medicine, where she also completed additional training in community-based participatory research. Her interests lie at the intersection of poverty, mental health and reproductive health policy as well as in advancing racial justice through changes in healthcare delivery.
Thomas Kuriakose, MD, MA
Guest
Tom Kuriakose, MD, MA, is a PGY3 pediatrics resident in the Boston Combined Residency Program (Urban Health and Advocacy Track) at Boston Children's Hospital and Boston Medical Center. After spending three years as a high school teacher and coach with the Mississippi Teacher Corps, he attended medical school at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson in New Jersey. His professional interests lie in health disparities & equity, communication, and community-focused interventions to accomplish better health and education for children. He plans to continue his training as a pediatrician and advocate in PICU fellowship at Columbia University next year.
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*The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and not necessarily those of the American Academy of Pediatrics.