HUGS: a Podcast by EMBRACE

Baby’s Weight

Welcome back to HUGS! In this episode, Dr. Lawren Wooten will talk about baby’s weight. Dr. Wooten (she/hers) is a national leader, pediatrician in training, cellist, and award winning activist committed to health equity and service. She got her BS from Cornell University College of Human Ecology and went on to graduate from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, receiving her MS in Integrative Medicine. She then received her MD from the Georgetown University School of Medicine and subsequently began her pediatric residency training.

Bronchiolitis

Welcome back to HUGS! In this episode, we are joined by Dr. April Edwell. Dr. April is a PICU physician, working in the ICU with sick kids. She also works closely with physicians in training to be pediatricians.

Pees and Poops

Welcome back to HUGS! In this episode, Dr. Lawren Wooten will talk about the most important things to know about baby’s pooping and peeing. Dr. Wooten (she/hers) is a national leader, pediatrician in training, cellist, and award winning activist committed to health equity and service. She got her BS from Cornell University College of Human Ecology and went on to graduate from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, receiving her MS in Integrative Medicine. She then received her MD from the Georgetown University School of Medicine and subsequently began her pediatric residency training.

An Introduction to the NICU

Welcome back to HUGS! In this episode, Dr. Kayla Karvonen will share an overview of the neonatal intensive care unit. Dr. Karvonen is a neonatal-perinatal fellow physician at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) where she also completed her pediatric residency. She grew up in Plymouth, Minnesota, majored in Biochemistry & Cell Biology and Psychology at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and attended medical school at the University of Virginia. Her research to date has focused on investigating structural racism and its contribution to local and population level racial inequities in adverse outcomes among infants who were born preterm. Her current research centers Black preterm infants and their caregivers, investigating strategies to promote the opportunity for families to thrive from the NICU to home. Outside of medicine she enjoys biking, snowboarding, hiking, and reading science fiction.

Co-Sleeping

Welcome back to HUGS! In this episode, Dr. Dannielle McBride discusses co-sleeping and safe sleep! Dr. McBride was born and raised in Sacramento, CA. She attended college at Sacramento City College and the University of California, Berkeley where she graduated with a B.S. in Molecular Environmental Biology and a minor in African American Studies. She went to medical school at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD and completed residency at the University of California, San Francisco Pediatric PLUS Program. She completed a Chief Year at the UCSF Pediatric Program and now works as a pediatrician in the Bay Area. Her areas of interest include adverse childhood experiences, trauma informed care, dismantling the school to prison pipeline, resilience building practices, and issues around health equity and justice.