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Maintaining Your Mental Health Voices

By being mindful, you are becoming more keenly aware of your thoughts, emotions and experiences. In this way, you can recognize the signs of when you’re about to tip over into the stress zone. Here are some thought-starters: Feeling burnt out? Here are some signs … See more

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From Human Resources to Health Advocacy Voices

WebProgram graduate Donna Smith is a health-advocacy natural. Donna Smith was only four years old when she had a life-saving surgery to repair a complex congenital heart defect—and her parents’ health insurance saved them from any resulting financial hardships. She adds, “The health care system provided more answers than questions …

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Mental Health Care for All Voices

WebMental health is an everyday, every minute human experience. This conversation is about more than just advocacy. It also provides an opportunity to empower people to look after their own mental health and provide support to others. Check in on your loved ones—even if they seem to be doing “just fine.”.

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Achieving Academic Goals for a Career in Health Care Voices

WebThe health professions program offers: Priority enrollment in high-demand courses. Pay-as-you-go format, where you only pay course fees for the classes that you enroll in. Individualized academic and career advising, with increased sessions closer to applying to a health professional school. Access to leads for volunteer, internship and …

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Focus on the Positive Voices

WebGabi Galvin’s career push came from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. She was working for Twentyeight Health, “a mission-driven womxn’s health organization with the goal of increasing access to reproductive and sexual healthcare for all through convenient, affordable and high-quality care” in Florida, Maryland, New York, New …

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A Health Professions Career Requires Lifelong Learning Voices

Web“I was lucky to have excellent teachers very early in life who opened my eyes to many different subjects and fields,” reminisces Charlotte Young, a 2021 Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program alumna. “My interest in the life sciences began in middle school and steadily grew as I took even more science classes in high school. …

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A Rising Interest in Health Care Voices

WebThe MLS program at Vanderbilt was structured as a combination of classroom learning, lab practicals and clinical rotations. Most were taught by scientists and specialists directly working in the various clinical laboratory departments. Classes were taught in our cohort of 12 students and rotations either individually or in small groups.

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Providing the Humanity in Health Care Voices

WebDespite his mother being a long-time nurse at Stanford and telling stories from the cardiac ICU while he was growing up, Alexander had never seriously considered a career in medicine. This summer opportunity “back home” allowed him to explore the field and broaden his horizons. But even after his first summer internship, Alexander wasn’t

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Empathy is Key to Understanding Mental Health Voices

WebIn recent years, there is greater awareness and willingness to advocate for an individual’s mental health. This only bodes well for the field of psychology. There are continued advances in our knowledge and understanding of various mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder. The field of psychology has advanced

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The Gender Spectrum Voices

WebSexual identity, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression are all fluid. The first Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM) identified homosexuality as a sexual “aberration.”. Today, the evidence is clear that the previous thinking was wrong and there is no necessary relationship between being gay and

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How Life Experiences Can Shape a Career Shift Voices

WebFor many, just the thought of changing their career path can be both scary—no matter which stage in their career they might be. “Even though I was relatively early in my career, the thought of changing my path to become a mental health professional seemed incredibly daunting,” admits Megan. “After being so focused on a career in the

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How Technology Can Improve Patient Care Voices

WebSince 2005, Melanie’s professional mission is to guide health care organizations on better utilizing technology and data to deliver higher-quality care at a lower cost. She’s done this through a variety of health informatics roles.

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Career-Changing From Software Engineering to Medicine Voices

WebBusiness consultant at Bain & Company in Dubai. Various roles in technology in the Bay Area—his last as a software engineer at Welkin Health, a health-coaching startup. Despite traveling and working around the globe and working at lucrative tech startups, Bradley Heinz kept feeling the draw to medicine. “I have always felt called …

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A Community Working Together for Substance Use Recovery

WebFiguring out ways to help people with substance use disorders regain their standing in society is a main concern outlined in the Surgeon General’s report on addiction. Substance addictions and the treatment of these disorders cost U.S. communities “more than $442 billion annually in crime, health care and lost productivity,” according to

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The Ripple Effect of Healing Through Resilience Voices

WebThe Difficult Task of Tearing Down the Walls. “ Gratitude Alliance works to democratize healing and resilience resources for communities around the world who are disproportionately impacted by trauma,” Amy explains. “We do this by equipping local leaders with the knowledge and skills to heal themselves and others, disrupt cycles of …

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Tying Research to Health Care Improvements Voices

WebFor Amanda Allen, health care is all about connecting the dots. For many years—both during her undergraduate studies at University of Colorado Boulder and then at Stanford University and now working at Kaiser Permanente—Amanda focused on research, primarily in cardiology for elderly patients.. While digging through AI and text-mining to …

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Making Personal Goals Into Health Care Aspirations Voices

WebBy Lori Gray - September 10, 2021. According to Ferheen Abbasi’s LinkedIn profile, she is “passionate about making strong social change in the world” and her “greatest goal in life is to find a non-hormonal contraception method that could function as a way to control monthly menstruation.”. Ferheen’s ambition to meet this goal led

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The Future of Work Transcript: Mental Health Matters Voices

WebBy Sarah Benzuly - April 1, 2024. [MUSIC PLAYING] Sylvia Doss: 70% of the employers rank mental health and substance use disorder services as their number two emerging area of concern. Their focus is actually turning to virtual mental health providers. There is a really deep connection between work, our mental health, our overall health.

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Exploring Career Options in Advanced Biosciences Voices

WebFor example, I wrote a paper on the effect of spaceflight on immune system function, and I gave a presentation on research regarding stem cell growth in space. Since finishing the Advanced Biosciences program, I've explored my career options more thoroughly. I've worked in primary care and urgent care, I've volunteered as a crisis …

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