PIHPS: The Professionals In Health Podcast Series

Emergency Medicine Physician with Interests in Social Justice and Health Equity – Alister Martin, M.D., M.P.P.

Alister Martin is a practicing emergency physician and former Chief Resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He served as a former Health Policy Aide to Governor Peter Shumlin of Vermont and Congressman Raul Ruiz of California and blends state and federal policy knowledge with hands-on patient experience. He now serves as faculty at Harvard Medical School in the Center for Social Justice and Health Equity working at the intersection of public policy and medicine. He leverages his background in politics, healthcare policy, and the field of behavioral economics to use the ER as a place to build programs that serve the needs of vulnerable patients. He is the founder and Executive Director of Vot-ER (https://vot-er.org/) and the founder and National Organizing Director of Get Waivered (https://getwaivered.com/).

Emergency Medicine Physician interested in Social Determinants of Health – Aaron R. Quarles, MD. MPP

Dr. Aaron R. Quarles is an Emergency Medicine Physician at Northwestern Medicine and an Instructor of Emergency Medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. His primary focus is addressing the social determinants of health. He is particularly interested in aligning community resources with the healthcare system to enhance the care of patients from marginalized populations. Dr. Quarles serves as the Director of Recruitment for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program and has been recognized for mentorship of underrepresented students and trainees. Dr. Quarles teaches in healthcare quality and health equity courses at the medical school.  He  completed his residency at Northwestern, where he also served as Chief Resident. Before relocating to Chicago, Dr. Quarles was awarded the Zuckerman Fellowship by the Center for Public Leadership to pursue a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He earned his Medical Doctorate from Harvard Medical School.

Psychiatrist, Epidemiologist, and Anxiety Disorder Expert – Joe Bienvenu, III, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Bienvenu is a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins.  He specializes in anxiety disorders, and his research employs methods of epidemiology and clinical investigation.  He is currently working on ways to reduce post-traumatic stress phenomena in survivors of critical illness and intensive care.

Nurse Practitioner in Family Primary Care - Lourdes Celius

Lourdes Celius is a first-year Doctor of Nursing candidate at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine specializing in family primary care. Lourdes has engaged in several community and research-oriented projects that focus on health disparities in minority women birth outcomes and medical delivery of Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for patients at higher risk of acquiring HIV. Please join us as we learn more about her journey into nursing school.

Physician-Scientist and Biomedical Informatician – Colin G. Walsh, MD, MA

Colin G. Walsh, MD, MA, is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Medicine, and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is a practicing internist. He received a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University and his medical degree at the University of Chicago. He completed residency and chief residency in internal medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. He received a degree in Biomedical informatics in postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University. He joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University in 2015. His research includes: 1) applied predictive modeling to enable behavioral health and prevention; 2) scalable phenotyping for precision medicine; and 3) population health informatics to combat the overdose crisis.