Dr. Mama Podcast
By Dr. Mama Podcast
Presented by Alice Kaufman, MD and produced by Alex Cumming
Dr. Mama PodcastMay 27, 2021
Ep 24: Dr. Alice Kaufman (Season Finale)
Hello once again lovely people and welcome to our season finale!
This week we have flipped things around and invited friend of the podcast Rebeca Ortiz Worthington to interview us, Dr. Alice Kaufman and Alex Cumming. We delve into our story into parenthood, the struggles, the joys and also delve a little into the origins of the podcast.
If you would like to be part of season 2, or know someone who may be interested, do not hesitate to get in contact with us. We cannot wait to share more inspirational stories. Our email is drmamapodcast@gmail.com
As always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram).. Please rate and review us on apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
We feel building this community of mothers in medicine is so important towards helping us build the types of medical communities in which we want to practice and raise our families. We firmly believe that sharing stories, and supporting one another is a vital component of building those communities.
Much love to you all, see you soon
Alice & Alex
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Ep. 23: Dr. Krista Birnie
Hello one and all and a warm welcome to our penultimate episode of season one. This week we are joined by Dr. Krista Birnie. She is a pediatric hospitalist and educator who trained at Stanford. We cover a myriad of subjects including the battle of creating new connections, friendships and community when moving to a new city during a worldwide pandemic.
As always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram).. Please rate and review us on apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. We feel building this community of mothers in medicine is so important towards helping us build the types of medical communities in which we want to practice and raise our families.
We firmly believe that sharing stories, and supporting one another is a vital component of building those communities. As always, please feel free to contact us with any stories you'd like to share or just to say hi via our email drmamapodcast@gmail.com.
Ep. 22: Dr. Suhani Bora
Welcome to the Dr. Mama Podcast. This week we are joined by the inspirational Suhani Bora.
Suhani Bora is a Family Medicine and Integrative Medicine physician working a combination of inpatient, general outpatient, and specialty clinics. She discusses how she has balanced her many passions within family medicine with her desire to create a consistent home life for her family. She also discusses the intricacies of potty training a toddler who takes hide and seek very seriously.
As always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram).. Please rate and review us on apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
We feel building this community of mothers in medicine is so important towards helping us build the types of medical communities in which we want to practice and raise our families. We firmly believe that sharing stories, and supporting one another is a vital component of building those communities.
As always, please feel free to contact us with any stories you'd like to share or just to say hi via our email drmamapodcast@gmail.com.
Ep. 21: Dr. Laura Gould
Welcome once again to the Dr. Mama Podcast. This week we are joined by the wonderful Laura Gould.
Laura Gould is an Emergency Medicine physician with working on the front lines in a community hospital emergency department, as well as working in administration and teaching. She discusses how her journey brought her from being overwhelmed at the thought of parenting to now juggling a child and family with her medical career every day and even enjoying her many new roles in life.
As always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram).. Please rate and review us on apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
We feel building this community of mothers in medicine is so important towards helping us build the types of medical communities in which we want to practice and raise our families. We firmly believe that sharing stories, and supporting one another is a vital component of building those communities.
As always, please feel free to contact us with any stories you'd like to share or just to say hi via our email drmamapodcast@gmail.com.
Ep. 20: Dr. Mia Sorcinelli
Hello one and all and welcome to episode twenty!
This week we talk with the wonderful Mia Sorcinelli. Mia Sorcinelli is a duel board doctor Family Medicine and Addiction Medicine. She is passionate about serving the underserved and helping those most in need in our communities. She is also the mother of three who has balanced a full schedule of inpatient and outpatient medicine together with remote schooling two elementary schoolers and a preschooler foe the past year.
As always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram).. Please rate and review us on apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
We feel building this community of mothers in medicine is so important towards helping us build the types of medical communities in which we want to practice and raise our families. We firmly believe that sharing stories, and supporting one another is a vital component of building those communities.
As always, please feel free to contact us with any stories you'd like to share or just to say hi via our email drmamapodcast@gmail.com.
Ep. 19: Dr. Cathy McDermott
Hello friends, and welcome to our 19th episode.
This week we talk to the wonderful Cathy McDermott, her twitter bio introduces her the best: 'UNC Cardiothoracic Surgery resident / global citizen / Colorado native / mom / partner / dog person / grateful human'. A truly inspirational interview, we hope you enjoy.
As always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram).. Please rate and review us on apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
We feel building this community of mothers in medicine is so important towards helping us build the types of medical communities in which we want to practice and raise our families. We firmly believe that sharing stories, and supporting one another is a vital component of building those communities.
As always, please feel free to contact us with any stories you'd like to share or just to say hi via our email drmamapodcast@gmail.com.
You can also send us a voice message via our Anchor profile: anchor.fm/drmamapodcast. (Alex really wants a voice message for some reason!)
Ep. 18: Dr. Amy Lee
Hello again friends and welcome to episode 18.
This week we talk with Dr. Amy Lee, a family medicine doctor in Lawrence, MA. Amy bring her always calming and level-headed perspective to the ins and outs of managing a medical career and a family. She discusses how becoming a mom affected how she views her career, how she allocates her time, and her long term career goals.
As always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram).. Please rate and review us on apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.
We feel building this community of mothers in medicine is so important towards helping us build the types of medical communities in which we want to practice and raise our families. We firmly believe that sharing stories, and supporting one another is a vital component of building those communities.
As always, please feel free to contact us with any stories you'd like to share or just to say hi via our email drmamapodcast@gmail.com.
You can also send us a voice message via our Anchor profile: anchor.fm/drmamapodcast. (Alex really wants a voice message for some reason!)
Ep. 17: Dr. Charlie Rose
Hello again friends and welcome to episode 17.
This week we are excited to talk to the wonderful Dr. Charlie Rose, an OB/GYN Resident at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. We talk about what it was like to have a child before undergrad and the journey through to Medical School and Residency whilst having a child.
s always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram).. Please rate and review us on apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. We feel building this community of mothers in medicine is so important towards helping us build the types of medical communities in which we want to practice and raise our families. We firmly believe that sharing stories, and supporting one another is a vital component of building those communities.
As always, please feel free to contact us with any stories you'd like to share or just to say hi via our email drmamapodcast@gmail.com.
***You can also send us a voice message via our Anchor profile: anchor.fm/drmamapodcast*** (Alex really wants a voice message for some reason!)
Ep 16: Dr. Jessica Reader
Hello friends, we are thrilled that you’re here listening to episode 16.
This week we talk with Dr. Jessica Reader, a family medicine obstetrician practicing in Lawrence Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Tufts University school of medicine. She did family medicine residency at Northwestern, and family medicine is such a fellowship at the University of Utah. In this episode we discuss a wide variety of topics, ranging from the importance of open communication with friends, family, and our communities at large regarding all types of pregnancies, too difficulties in getting pets to interact well with babies.
As always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram). Please do Rate and Review if you enjoy the podcast too if you enjoy it. We feel building this community of Dr. Mama's sharing stories and supporting one another is really important, and one of the ways to bring about change is by sharing these stories.
As always, please feel free to contact us with any stories you'd like to share or just to say hi via our email drmamapodcast@gmail.com.
You can also send us a voice message via our Anchor profile: anchor.fm/drmamapodcast
Ep. 15: Dr. Maria Diaz
Oh hello there, fancy seeing you here. Welcome to episode fifteen.
This week we are excited to talk to Dr. Maria Diaz, an internal medicine attending physician and super mum of 2. She graduated from Universidad De Panama, Facultad De Medicina medical school in 1999 and did her residency at then Caritas Carney Residency Hospital, now Carney Hospital.
In this interview we talk about juggling childcare, sleep deprivation, napping, patient relationships and more.
As always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram). Please do Rate and Review if you enjoy the podcast too if you enjoy it. We feel building this community of Dr. Mama's sharing stories and supporting one another is really important, and one of the ways to bring about change is by sharing these stories.
As always, please feel free to contact us with any stories you'd like to share or just to say hi via our email drmamapodcast@gmail.com.
You can also send us a voice message via our Anchor profile: anchor.fm/drmamapodcast
Ep. 14: Parental Leave During Training & Its Consequences
Hello one and all to episode 14.
In a slight deviation from our usual format we take a deep dive into parental leave practices during medical training with Dr. Rebeca Ortiz Worthington. We use Rebeca's article in Academic Medicine as a launching pad from which to explore how childbearing during training affects the medical trainees choosing to parent and the wider medical community.
You can read the article co-authored by Rebeca, Lauren D Feld & Anna Volerman here:
"Supporting New Physicians and New Parents: A Call to Create a Standard Parental Leave Policy for Residents"
As always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram).
Please do Rate and Review if you enjoy the podcast too if you enjoy it. We feel building this community of Dr. Mama's sharing stories and supporting one another is really important, and one of the ways to bring about change is by sharing these stories.
As always, please feel free to contact us with any stories you'd like to share or just to say hi via our email drmamapodcast@gmail.com.
You can also send us a voice message via our Anchor profile: anchor.fm/drmamapodcast
Presented by Alice Kaufman, MD and produced and co-hosted by Alex Cumming.
Ep. 13: Dr. Rebeca Ortiz Worthington
Sorry for our 2 week absence, it has been quite the couple of weeks but we are very excited to bring you episode 13.
This week we are joined by the incredible Rebeca Ortiz Worthington, an Internal Medicine and Women's Health specialist currently based in Pittsburgh doing an Academic Clinician-Educator Scholars Fellowship, Women’s Health Track at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
This is the first of two episodes with Rebeca, in this episode we talk about her story of becoming a Dr. Mama, and in episode 14 we will have a discussion based on her academic paper entitled 'Supporting New Physicians and New Parents: A Call to Create a Standard Parental Leave Policy for Residents'.
As always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram). Please do Rate and Review if you enjoy the podcast too if you enjoy it. We feel building this community of Dr. Mama's sharing stories and supporting one another is really important, and one of the ways to bring about change is by sharing these stories.
Feel free to contact us with any stories you'd like to share or just to say hi via our email drmamapodcast@gmail.com.
You can also send us a voice message via our Anchor profile: anchor.fm/drmamapodcast
Ep. 12: Dr. Elise Carpenter
Hello one and all, and a warm welcome to episode twelve.
On today's episode we talk with mother and Family Medicine specialist, Elise Carpenter. We were particularly excited to speak to Elise as she has been a mentor and advocate to Alice through residency and is a truly wonderful person.
As always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram). Please do Rate and Review if you enjoy the podcast too if you enjoy it. We feel building this community of Dr. Mama's sharing stories and supporting one another is really important, and one of the ways to bring about change is by sharing these stories.
As always, please feel free to contact us with any stories you'd like to share or just to say hi via our email drmamapodcast@gmail.com.
You can also send us a voice message via our Anchor profile: anchor.fm/drmamapodcast
Ep. 11: Dr. Jasmin Darling
Hello one and all, welcome to our 11th episode.
This week we are thrilled to be talking to the amazing Pediatrician and mother, Jasmin Darling. This was a really wonderful interview where we touch on having kids during residency, struggles with nursing and pumping, fur babies and much more. The interview also wrapped up with a really beautiful perspective on working as a doctor.
As always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram). Please do Rate and Review if you enjoy the podcast too if you enjoy it. We feel building this community of Dr. Mama's sharing stories and supporting one another is really important, and one of the ways to bring about change is by sharing these stories.
As always, please feel free to contact us with any stories you'd like to share or just to say hi via our email drmamapodcast@gmail.com.
You can also send us a voice message via our Anchor profile: anchor.fm/drmamapodcast
Ep. 10: Dr. Tanya Campus
We did it, we are officially into double figures! Welcome to episode 10.
Today we chat with wonderful Geriatric doctor, Tanya Campus. A fascinating and inspirational episode where we touch on balancing family life and work life and the path to motherhood for Tanya and her wife, who is also a doctor.
Romantic pigs, riding horses and clumsy cats also get a mention too, listen on to find out why.
As always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram).
As always, please feel free to contact us with any stories you'd like to share or just to say hi via our email drmamapodcast@gmail.com.
You can also send us a voice message via our Anchor profile: anchor.fm/drmamapodcast
Ep. 9: Dr. Bethany Harvey
Welcome one and all to our 9th episode.
Today we talk to Bethany Harvey, a General Surgeon, Hospice & Palliative Medicine Fellow and wonderful mother of three. This interview was packed full of topics and lots of laughter, we hope you enjoy.
As always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram).
As always, please feel free to contact us with any stories you'd like to share or just to say hi via our email drmamapodcast@gmail.com.
You can also send us a voice message via our Anchor profile: anchor.fm/drmamapodcast
Ep 8: Dr. Erin Bassett
Well hello again lovely listeners, hope you are all well.
Apologies for the lateness of this weeks episode, we were scuppered by an arthritis flare and unfunctional podcast editing fingers!
This week we are joined by a wonderful Family Medicine specialist Erin Bassett, with special appearances from her very cute daughter.
As always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram).
As always, please feel free to contact us with any stories you'd like to share or just to say hi via our email drmamapodcast@gmail.com.
You can also send us a voice message via our Anchor profile: anchor.fm/drmamapodcast
Ep. 7: Dr. Nicole Gendron
This week we talk to a wonderful Dr. Mama, pediatrician Nicole Gendron. We touch on many subjects including the different experiences being pregnant as a resident and as an attending, the stigma with pumping vs. formula and the joys of the pandemic effecting the amount of baths the kids have!
As always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram).
As always, please feel free to contact us with any stories you'd like to share or just to say hi via our email drmamapodcast@gmail.com.
You can also send us a voice message via our Anchor profile: anchor.fm/drmamapodcast
Ep. 6: Dr. Claire Burton & Dr. Kelly Fero
Hello again lovely listeners, hope you are all safe and well.
Today we have our first duo interview with two incredible UCLA Urology Residents, Dr. Claire Burton (PGY-6) and Dr. Kelly Fero (PGY4). It was really fun to have both Claire and Kelly together and to share their stories of becoming Dr. Mama's during such a demanding residency. We also talk about the difficulties of childcare, parenting and working in medicine during the pandemic.
As always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram).
As always, please feel free to contact us with any stories you'd like to share or just to say hi via our email drmamapodcast@gmail.com.
You can also send us a voice message via our Anchor profile: anchor.fm/drmamapodcast
Ep. 5: Dr. Liz Baltaro
Hello, and welcome to our 5th episode and the last one of 2020! (bring it on 2021!)
This week we talk with the wonderful Liz Baltaro, MD who is a Family Medicine Doctor in North Carolina and the mother of a 1 year old and 6 year old twins.
As always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram).
As always, please feel free to contact us with any stories you'd like to share or just to say hi via our email drmamapodcast@gmail.com.
You can also send us a voice message via our Anchor profile: anchor.fm/drmamapodcast
Much love and happy New Year,
Alice & Alex.
Ep. 4: Dr Pat Moyer
Hello one and all and welcome to Episode Four!
Today we talk to the inspirational Dr. Pat Moyer, an Internal medicine doctor practicing in the Boston area for over 40 years. We hope you find this as interesting and as inspiring as we did.
As always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram).
As always, please feel free to contact us with any stories you'd like to share or just to say hi via our email drmamapodcast@gmail.com.
You can also send us a voice message via our Anchor profile: anchor.fm/drmamapodcast
Much love, Alice & Alex.
Ep. 3: Dr. Sarah Cassel
Greetings, and welcome to episode three.
The intro and outro sound a little different this week as we had to record remotely due to, well, work!
(we won't tell you how many attempts it took us to make any sense, turns out we work much better together in the same room)
This week we talk with the wonderful Sarah Cassel, MD who is a Family doctor with special interest in osteopathic manipulation and integrative medicine. She is also a Yoga instructor.
Some beautiful advice, stories and experiences shared this week, we hope you enjoy and find it helpful, interesting and entertaining too.
As always, please help spread the word about this podcast with friends you feel may be interested. Feel free to share on Social media and tag us @DrMamaPodcast (FB, Twitter, Instagram).
As always, please feel free to contact us with any stories you'd like to share or just to say hi via our email drmamapodcast@gmail.com.
You can also send us a voice message via our Anchor profile: anchor.fm/drmamapodcast
Much love, Alice & Alex.
Ep. 2: Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung
Welcome to episode two.
Today we talk to the wonderful Leilah Zahedi-Spung, a Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis.
We touch on various topics this week including Postpartum and Peripartum depression, Pumping and childcare.
This was a really fun interview, with quite a few laughs along the way, plus there maybe even an a surprise Accordion appearance.
Please do get in contact if you have a story to share or would just like to say hi:
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Ep. 1: Dr. Elise LaFlamme
We then dive into an utterly wonderful interview with Elise LaFlamme, a full spectrum Family Medicine doctor and mother to a wonderful toddler. Dr LaFlamme shares her own experiences of juggling motherhood and doctorhood. We discuss everything from heartburn to pumping in St. Peters Square. (If you listen to the end you will find out how we got onto talking about babies in space!)
If you have a story to share, recommendations of people to talk to or just want to say hi, you can contact us on:
Email: DrMamaPodcast@gmail.com
Facebook: facebook.com/DrMamaPodcast
Intagram: @DrMamaPodcast
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'Dr. Mama is a podcast dedicated to sharing the stories of the many women who balance motherhood and the practice of medicine'
Presented by Alice Kaufman, MD
Produced by Alex Cumming
The Trailer
Well hello there lovely people and thank you for joining us!
We hope you enjoy this little introduction of what is in store once the podcast is released into the world!
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