Interdisciplinary

Welcome to Season 9! This season, Corey Rivera will take us on a journey through the wild world of information and research literacy. What do we know? How do we know it? What do we do with information? How does all of this relate to how we are with other humans? We have a whole season to talk about it, starting with the Healwell Brain Trust taking on left-handed cats, prisms, state songs, and alligators. ********** You can get CEs for listening! Follow this link for this episode's CE purchase link and quiz: https://online.healwell.org/courses/interdisciplinary-s9-e1-healwell-staff ********** Within Reach: The Quest for Information and Research, a two-day virtual symposium for massage therapists, happens in February 2023. Find out more here: https://www.healwell.org/literacy2023 ********** The Oatmeal cartoon about The Backfire Effect: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe ********** Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education: https://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework

The Healwell Brain Trust is assembled to look back on the Season of the Switch. What have we learned? What have we unlearned? Put on your "It Depends" and grab a seat as we talk through this season, consider the question of honesty, and speculate on which Goonies character we would be. ********** Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask": https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44203/we-wear-the-mask ********** 80s sitcom Kate & Allie, that episode: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0618709/ ********** Which Goonies character are you? https://www.buzzfeed.com/shylawatson/goonies-character-personality-quiz ********** Continue this conversation with us in the Healwell Community: community.healwell.org

Part 2 of our conversation with Frances Reed digs into questions around generations and growth edges, being seen and the possible benefits of needing to fight for your identity. Plus, baby otters and Frances' Nana. ********** Check out Frances' website for their classes and to pre-order their book on binding health and pain management: https://francesreed.com/ Or: HealthyBinding.com Frances is also on social media! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frances.reed.33 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frances-reed-07468170 ********** Continue the conversation in the Healwell Community: community.healwell.org ********** We want to hear from you! Send us an email: [email protected] ********** About Our Guest: Frances Reed, LMT (they/them) is passionate about making holistic therapies safe for transgender clients by teaching therapists the interpersonal and technical skills to meet the unique needs of transgender clients. They’ve been a licensed massage therapist since 2011, using a structural integration framework to support people at all stages of gender transition. Based on over a decade of work with transmasculine clients, Frances has developed a set of techniques for assessing and treating chronic pain and discomfort in people who bind their chest as well as protocols for pre- and post- top-surgery care. They are the author of a forthcoming book on binding health and pain management, which is the first of its kind. Frances teaches practitioners cultural competency skills that they need to provide affirming care to transgender clients. Since the January 2022 closing of their trans- and queer-centered wellness center, Frances is in private practice doing transition-related bodywork in Washington, DC. Frances is a graduate of Smith College and the Potomac Massage Training Institute and founder of Freed Bodyworks Wellness Center and HealthyBinding.com.

We had such a great conversation with Frances Reed that we made it into 2 episodes! In this first part of our conversation with Frances, we talk about code switching as a queer, trans, bodyworker, and educator. We delve into what happens in your body when you are actively unseen, and the process of tailoring your presentation for folks who might not be ready to witness your full identity. ********** Check out Frances' website for their classes and to pre-order their book on binding health and pain management: https://francesreed.com/ ********** Continue the conversation in the Healwell Community: community.healwell.org ********** We want to hear from you! Send us an email: [email protected] ********** About Our Guest: Frances Reed is an awesome human.

Jamil Rivers returns to the podcast to talk about code switching in health care, ongoing disparities that are causing actual harm, and her work in connecting people to the standard of care in cancer care. ********** Find Jamil's organization here: www.thechrysalisinitiative.org www.bcnavi.com ********** Continue the conversation with us in the Healwell Community: community.healwell.org ********** Let us know what you think! Email us at [email protected] ********** About Our Guest: Jamil is Board President of METAvivor Research and Support, Inc. She is a Young Advocate Alum, Board Member of Living Beyond Breast Cancer and Advisory Chair of the Knowledge is Power: Understanding Black Breast Cancer series. She is a policy science and health equity advocate and metastatic advisory committee member with Susan G. Komen. In addition, she is a member and patient advisor of the Metastatic Breast Cancer Alliance. Jamil is also a Project LEAD graduate and proposal reviewer for the Breast Cancer Research program with the Department of Defense. Jamil also testified to the FDA in order to connect many women with resources for screenings, treatment, and support. She has been featured in People Magazine, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Tribune, national campaigns for Anthropologie, Novartis, Pfizer and Cancer and Careers, as well as on CBS News and Good Morning America.

Matthew F. Hudson, Ph.D., M.P.H., joins us on the podcast to talk about code switching in a professional setting, the challenge of moving from the West Coast to the East Coast to the Southeast, and how all of this can affect personal and community health. ********** Let us know what you think! Send us an email at [email protected] ********** Continue the conversation with us in the Healwell Community: community.healwell.org ********** About Our Guest: Dr. Matthew F. Hudson is the Director of Cancer Care Delivery Research (CCDR) at Prisma Health (Greenville, South Carolina). Dr. Hudson conducts and oversees research on interventions mediating patient, clinician, and organizational factors influencing cancer care outcomes and patient well-being. Hudson is the Vice Chair of a national community oncology research base’s CCDR Committee (NRG Oncology). He also serves Prisma Health as a Health Sciences Center Research Director facilitating embedded researchers’ induction and production within the health care environment. Hudson holds a faculty appointment at the University of South Carolina’s Arnold School of Public Health, where he previously taught an introductory course in comparative effectiveness research. He also holds faculty appointments at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, Clemson University School of Nursing, Clemson University School of Health Research, and Clemson University’s Department of Public Health Sciences. Hudson is also a member of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute’s (PCORI) Patient Engagement Advisory Panel.

Chase Anderson's keynote was one of the highlights of our Just Care conference. We are delighted to welcome Chase back to talk about finding your safe place, being yourself, and making it possible for everyone around us to be themselves too. ********** Continue the conversation in the Healwell Community: community.healwell.org ********** For early access, bonus materials, and shenanigans, join our Patreon: patreon.com/interdisciplinary ********** About Our Guest: Dr. Chase T. M. Anderson (but just call him Chase!) is currently a child and adolescent psychiatrist at University of California at San Francisco and graduated from adult psychiatry residency at The Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at UCSF. He completed his undergraduate education in Chemistry at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his master's in Biological Engineering at MIT as well, and is a graduate of The Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. His writing has appeared in Newsweek, WBUR/NPR, Scientific American, STAT News, The New England Journal of Medicine, and other news and journal outlets. In his free time, he enjoys going for long walks, listening to K-pop, reading fantasy books, playing soccer, writing, planning dinners with friends, and dreaming of how we can better the world together. Website: ChaseTMAnderson.com Twitter: @ChaseTMAnderson Instagram: @AresTMusesDreamCooper

We are pleased to welcome Harry Pickens to today's episode. Harry shares his story of code switching in medical care, the links between trauma and code switching, and a clear vision of what our future could be like -- if we choose it. ********** We want to hear from you! Email us: [email protected] ********** Continue the conversation in the Healwell Community: community.healwell.org ********** Get early access to episodes, bonus content, and more at our Patreon: patreon.com/interdisciplinary ********** About Our Guest: Harry Pickens is an award-winning musician, educator, author, composer, contemplative performing artist and meditation guide who helps people awaken to their true nature as Love. He is a recipient of the Kentucky Governor's Award in The Arts and is featured in an Emmy-nominated Kentucky Educational Television documentary, Harry Pickens And The Garden Of Music. Harry is currently engaged in research exploring applications of music and sound to support emotional healing and spiritual transformation.

In this episode, the Healwell Brain Trust opens up their hearts for an uncomfortable, loving, and honest conversation about code switching, in-groups and out-groups, and the question of lying versus adaptation. Featuring (in order of appearance:) Cal Cates Corey Rivera Kerry Jordan Rebecca Sturgeon Laura Bryant-Earner ********** Continue this conversation with us in the Healwell Community: community.healwell.org ********** Quiet by Susan Cain: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8520610-quiet ********** "Gender is Complicated for All of Us," Ezra Klein Show: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-kathryn-bond-stockton.html

We are pleased to welcome Gabriela DeAnda, Healwell Community member and all around awesome human. Gabriela talks to us about intersectionality, and her personal experiences adapting and relating. ********** Thank you to ABMP for sponsoring this season of Interdisciplinary! abmp.com ********** Continue this conversation with us in the Healwell Community: community.healwell.org ********** For early episode access and lots of bonus material, join our Patreon: patreon.com/interdisciplinary ********** About Our Guest: Gabriela DeAnda is a hospice nurse in the DC/MD/VA area. She is the youngest of seven children born to Mexican immigrant parents in Southern California during the 1960s. She learned of her intersectionality while assimilating to East coast culture in the 1990s.