With such great feedback on our new podcast series, we are thrilled to welcome back Dr. Aviva Romm, who was a speaker on our first Evolution of Medicine Summit in 2014. Unlike previous "Leaders of the kNEW School" like Dr. Kelly Brogan and Dr. Mimi Guarneri, Dr Romm started not as a doctor, but as a midwife and herbalist, eventually doing her medical training at Yale.

 

In this podcast we talk about this transition, what she has learned along the way and talk about two massive topics in the shift from patriarchal medicine to a more feminine medicine: intuition and community. Dr Romm's unique perspective is a breath of fresh air for all health professionals.

 

In this episode you will learn.

 

- What Dr. Romm learned in her journey from herbalism to medicine

- The important role of intuition in her clinical practice

- The role of community and matriarchy in the new medical paradigm

Leaders of the kNEW School: Female Leadership

 

After the incredible response from our community to our first episode of this new podcast series with Kelly Brogan, MD we are thrilled to welcome, for the second episode, a giant of the Integrative Medicine space.

 

Dr. Mimi Guarneri is an internationally recognized leader of the movement, acting as President of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine and is quadruple board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, nuclear medicine and holistic medicine.

 

In this podcast we track Dr. Guarneri's journey from interventional cardiologist to leading integrative physician and what she has learned along the way in the context of the conversation of kNEW medicine.

 

In this podcast you will learn

 

- What lead to Dr Guarneri's change of practice almost 25 years ago

- The prominent role of female educators in the integrative space

- The role of intuition in medicine and it's relevance to complexity

 

Evolution of Medicine is thrilled to announce a new series of podcasts for February and March 2016 called "Leaders of the kNEW School". Over the last two years, through our Functional Forum, our two Summits and our podcast we have featured a heroic tribe of (mostly) young, passionate doctors leading medicine towards the new paradigm.

 

When we took a step back to examine what the common features of this new paradigm were, two things became very clear. 

 

Firstly, through our second Summit "Healthcare from Scratch", it became clear that the current system and this new paradigm look remarkably different. Whilst the Western medical model is primarily patriarchal in nature (use of force, domination of disease, deterministic and mechanical) the common characteristics of this new paradigm (empowerment, community, nurture, intuition) are decidedly more feminine in nature. 

 

Secondly, there is much value in the new paradigm in knowledge and understanding. How much more effective would medicine be if you..

• kNEW you were capable of reversing your chronic disease?
• kNEW your genetic weaknesses and strengths?
• kNEW the predictive antibodies in your system and what that meant?
• kNEW other people in your community with the same disease?
• kNEW yourself so well you didn't need a doctor?

These two understandings underpin this new podcast series. We have chosen an exciting group of female physicians leading the charge towards a new paradigm in medicine. Over the coming weeks you will hear from industry leaders like Dr. Mimi Guarnieri, Dr. Aviva Romm and many more. For our first episode we speak to holistic psychiatrist Dr. Kelly Brogan, author of upcoming book "A Mind of Your Own" and fan favorite on our Summits and Forums.

 

On this podcast you will learn

• Why the paradigm shift in medicine is towards feminine medicine
• How we predict and reverse disease before they manifest
• The powerful role of intuition in cases of complexity

What you will learn in this podcast:

• Why empathy is having a comeback in medicine
• Andrea's 8 Part Framework for delivering empathy in a clinical setting
• The role of intuition in medicine and how to develop it

Andrea made one of her video trainings available free for all listeners and you can access the video training here: www.goevomed.com/empathy

Last August, our Functional Forum came from the Institute for Functional Medicine’s Annual International Conference in Austin TX. Of all the amazing speakers, we chose to highlight the talk of George Slavich, PhD, a researcher from UCLA’s Stress Lab.

Check out the highlights from his talk here.

His field: Social Genomics: A new area of science that looks at the correlative and causative factors behind social stress, and their effects on gene expression. The answers they are uncovering are fascinating, as are the questions those answers lead us to.

This is a must listen for any health professional passionate about ‘root cause resolution’ and opens up a new paradigm in diagnosis and treatment of chronic disease. UCLA has also developed "STRAIN", an "X-Ray for Stress" that allows you to compare patients stress objectively. Check it out here.

 

 What you will learn in this podcast:

• What is social genomics and what are they measuring?
• Why the brain and the immune system are so intimately linked?
• Social isolation vs. diet, exercise and smoking.. what’s worst?