The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast

Episode 56: Discussing pathways to surgical specialties in the US with Dr. Pascal Jabbour

Tune in to our newest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast with Dr. Pascal Jabbour discussing his pathway to a neurosurgical residency in the United States and his tips for success. We also discuss the research fellowships he is offering to help international medical graduates, specifically Lebanese graduates, succeed in neurosurgical research and in securing residency spots in the United States. We conclude discussing his wine making experience. We can't wait to taste his new product from Bordeaux in the next several years.

#lebanon #neurosurgery #medicalresearch #wine

You can also watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yKkQol1LG6Q

and listen to it on Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and Anghami

Episode 55: Medical Students Successfully Delivering Tons of Medications to Lebanon

Our latest episode of the Lebanese Physicians Podcast with William Azar and Nadia Samaha discussing their recent success story navigating the NGO world and raising money to deliver tons of needed medications to Lebanon. They saw the need in the middle of the crisis in Lebanon and they acted quickly and efficiently to successfully fulfill that need.

#Lebanon #NGOs #Medications

Episode 54: Discussing Healthcare Startups with CardioDiagnostics Founder Ziad Sankari

Please listen to and watch our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast with CardioDiagnostics Founder Ziad Sankari. In this episode, we discuss the advent of telemonitoring technologies in healthcare. We delve into the initiation of startups in the space in the US and the MENA region with focus on CardioDiagnostics, and we discuss the role of these technologies in the healthcare of the future.

#healthcare #healthcareleaders #telemedicine #telehealth #lebanon #mena

You can also listen to this episode on Apple, Spotify, Anghami, iHeartRadio, and watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Aj-QLlMu1og

Episode 53: The Medical Campaign -Medical Students Spreading Medical Knowledge to Pay Their Tuition

Medical school tuition is always hard to afford even in the best of times. It becomes much harder to afford in a country hit by one of the worst financial crises this century. Instead of falling into despair, Jad Boustani, Amal Masrii, Jessica Badawi, and multiple other medical students from most medical schools in Lebanon came together and started the Medical Campaign.

These students devised several age-appropriate medical curricula and started teaching Zoom classes to Lebanese expat kids of all ages collecting tuition from these kids, which helped them pay medical tuition in dollars for medical students in Lebanon who could not afford their tuition. In one year, this campaign has spread to 26 countries across the world and has been able to cover the tuition in dollars of around 20 medical students in Lebanon. These students are teaching all of us a lesson in fighting despair and spreading positivity and knowledge.

You can listen to the audio version of this podcast on Apple, Spotify, Anghami, and iHeartRadio, and you can watch the video on youtube: https://youtu.be/wGCLPDEY9ek

#lebanon #medicaleducation #financialcrisis #medicaltuition #medicalknowledgeonline

Episode 52: Toothpick App: A Story of Innovation in the Lebanese Dental World With Dr. Wael Bizri

If you want to learn about app development and transforming ideas into success stories and actions, you need to listen to and watch the latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast discussing the app toothpick with its creator Dr. Wael Bizri, a dentist in Lebanon. Wael has used his entrepreneurial spirit and skills at team building and team work to develop the app toothpick, which is revolutionizing the way dentists order equipment in Lebanon and a number of other MENA countries. He has also produced other successful apps in the medical and non-medical world.

You can listen to the audio version of the podcast on the website: thelebanesephysicianspodcast.podbean.com, on Apple, Spotify, Anghami, and iHeartRadio.

 

You can also watch the episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/1wA8WZtSU6w

#lebanon #toothpick #dentistry #appdevelopment #entrepreneur

Episode 51: Reshaping Mental Health in Lebanon: The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Telehealth

If you are interested in learning about the future of delivering mental health services in Lebanon and the MENA region, please listen and watch our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast with Dr. MohammadAli Jardali and Dr. Sara Catherine Mourani. A large portion of the Lebanese population has difficulty accessing mental health services due to financial, geographic, and cultural reasons. There is a lack of AI and telehealth based platforms in Lebanon, and in a lot of cases, platforms developed in the west are being used in the region (which does not take into account the cultural diversity of the different countries). Dr. Mourani is developing Artificial Intelligence based platforms to deliver mental health care services in Lebanon and beyond trying to reach all segments of the Lebanese population.

You can listen to the audio version of the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Anghami, and iHeartRadio.

You can watch the Youtube video on: https://youtu.be/HkiX7B0ccXk

 

#Mentalhealth #artificialintelligence #Lebanon #MENA

Episode 50: The Role of Women Leaders in Healthcare in the Middle East with Dr. Rola Hammoud

Our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast with Dr. Rola Hammoud, current Chief Medical Officer, of CMC Dubai. In this episode, we discuss Dr. Hammoud's journey from an anesthesiology resident at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon to becoming the CMO of an up and coming hospital in Dubai. We discuss her role and the role of women in medicine in advancing the healthcare sector in Lebanon and beyond, and their role in promoting quality initiatives to provide safe healthcare to the Lebanese population independent of their socioeconomic status. We hope you will enjoy listening to and watching this episode. You can listen to the audio version of this episode on  Spotify, Apple, iHeartRadio, and Anghami

You can watch the video on YouTube on https://youtu.be/g3UilRqrONE

#Womenleadership #healthcare #middleeast #lebanon #dubai @cmcdubai

 

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Episode 49: Domestic Workers in Lebanon - Human Rights and the Right to Health

Listen to our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians Podcast with Lawyer Mohanna Ishak representing the NGO Kafa. In this episode, we discuss the conditions of domestic workers in Lebanon, the laws regulating their work, their rights, and their access to healthcare. We also discuss the role of Kafa and other active NGOs in the country in promoting these rights and lobbying for better conditions for them. 

The episode can be found on Apple, Spotify, Anghami, and iHeartRadio

You can donate to Kafa on: 

https://kafa.org.lb

Episode 48: Discussing Palliative Care Services in the MENA region with the R4HC Team

Please listen to our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians Podcast with the Research for Health in Conflict (R4HC-MENA) team of researchers: 

- Dr. Sabah Boufkhed at the University of Manchester and Kings College London

- Ms. Ghadeer Alarjeh, senior palliative care researcher at King Hussein Cancer Center in Amman, Jordan

- Dr. Sema Yurdusen at Ankara Bilim University, Turkey

- Dr. Fahad Ahmed at Ankara Yilrim Beyazit University, Turkey

In this episode, we discuss the R4HC-MENA research on palliative care services in the various countries in the MENA region with a focus on Jordan and Turkey. We discuss the evolution of this specialty in these countries, the gaps in the provision of palliative care, and future directions and goals. 

This episode of the podcast is available on Apple, Spotify, Anghami, and iHeartRadio. 

#palliativecare #MENA 

Episode 47: How the Healthcare System in Lebanon is Succumbing to the Political Situation

Please listen to Episode 47 of The Lebanese Physicians Podcast. Our guests for this episode are:

- Dr. Adam Coutts, an academic at the University of Cambridge, UK and a Global Challenges Research Fund Scholar and co-investigator.

- Dr. Cherine Bazzane, a Family Medicine physician and lecturer at Saint Joseph University in Beirut, who has a cancer survivor clinic at Clemenceau Medical Center, affiliated with Johns Hopkins International, and an anti-aging specialist. 

- Dr. Alexandra Chen, a trauma psychologist (A.B., A.M., Ed.M., Ph.D., Harvard University) specialized in mental health of refugees. 

In this episode, we discuss the "Research for Health in Conflict (R4HC)" study led by King's College London and partners at the University of Cambridge and the American University of Beirut. This study focuses on the effects of the political situation on healthcare in Lebanon, including the supply of medications, electricity, and healthcare worker exodus. We also discuss their documentary "Lebanon: How Politics Made a Nation Sick", a short film which summarizes the study and is a must-watch. 

The link for the documentary is: https://youtu.be/Uak_Wl0zpRY

The link for the study is: https://r4hc-mena.org

The podcast is available on Spotify, Apple, Anghami, iHeartRadio