David Wilkes: What Happens When the Physician Scientist Pipeline Runs Dry

National Academy of Medicine member David Wilkes has spent his career on the parts of medicine that happen before a diagnosis, before a cure, before a headline: training the physician-scientists who make discoveries possible in the first place. As dean emeritus of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and CEO of the Amos Institute for Medical Faculty Development, he's carrying forward a program the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ran for over four decades. David is a pulmonary critical care physician and renowned for his own physician scientist work in the lab. In the early 1990s, his research uncovered an autoimmune trigger behind lung transplant rejection, a finding colleagues at first dismissed as heresy — he was right, and it earned him the American Thoracic Society's highest honor: The Trudeau Medal. We talk about the difference between a mentor and a sponsor, what actually happens when a research pipeline dries up, and why training the next generation of physician-scientists might matter more than any single discovery. ▶ Subscribe @resaelewissmd on YouTube — new episodes Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. 🔗 AIMFD website: https://aimfd.org/

Gloria Steinem never had a workout routine. She grew up on candy bars and ice cream and called running through airports her only exercise. So when The Visible Voices Podcast host Dr. Resa Lewiss asked the feminist icon, weeks before COVID shut down New York, what actually kept her healthy, the answer surprised her: "I have friends." Gloria Steinem died September 2, 2026, at 92, in the same Upper East Side brownstone where she once sat for this conversation — the same home where Ms. magazine was founded decades earlier. Lewiss shares parts of their 2020 conversation which she keeps coming back to: A Visible Voice: How Steinem didn't feel she had a voice until her late thirties, Positive Social Connection: What she said actually kept her healthy, Storytelling: Why she believed physicians are uniquely positioned to speak up, and The Truth Will Set You Free: the clear answer she gave when asked what to tell someone afraid to use their voice.   ▶ Subscribe @resaelewissmd new episodes Wednesdays on YouTube.  🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

Primary care physician Lucy McBride has spent decades in a Washington, D.C. examination room doing something radical: listening. A Princeton and Harvard Med graduate who trained at Johns Hopkins, she built her career on the belief that health lives in the relationship between doctor and patient — not in the lab report. Her first book, Beyond the Prescription, lays out a four-quadrant framework for understanding the body as an ecosystem. In this conversation, we dig into why "normal" labs can be misleading, how AI and wearables are changing the game (and sometimes making things worse), the promise and pitfalls of GLP-1s, and what brain health prevention actually looks like. Lucy shares the appendicitis-bagel story that proves even doctors are imperfect patients. ▶ Subscribe YouTube @resaelewissmd  🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. New episodes on Wednesdays

Jordan Grumet, MD a hospice physician and award-winning podcaster exposes the uncomfortable truth: America's healthcare crisis isn't caused by doctors or patients — it's engineered by the third parties who profit from keeping them divided. Jordan hosts the Earn & Invest Podcast, and wrote The Healthcare Heist: How Physicians and Patients Can Unite to Transform Healthcare. We talk about the forces that have quietly taken over American medicine — private equity, insurance gatekeeping, pharma influence — and why the people delivering care and the people receiving it keep getting played against each other. Jordan makes a compelling case that storytelling is the tool that brings us back together. ▶ Subscribe YouTube @resaelewissmd  🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. New episodes on Wednesdays

Trauma surgeons report the lowest quality of life among 13 surgical specialties and work the greatest number of hours. Jamie Coleman MD, Professor of Surgery at the University of Louisville and Deputy & Web Editor of JAMA Surgery, set out to quantify what that can cost. She and co-authors tracked sleep, stress, and recovery in 224 acute care surgeons using wearable devices and daily surveys. The data revealed that sleep loss correlates directly with burnout. Interestingly, doing the work you trained for, even at 2 a.m., offsets burnout in ways that sitting on call at home does not. Jamie and I discuss what system-level changes are needed so surgeons can actually recover.  ▶ Subscribe YouTube @resaelewissmd  🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. New episodes on Wednesdays

What's one small action doctors can take to speak up against medical misinformation?  Geeta Nayyar, MD, MBA — rheumatologist, former chief medical officer at Salesforce and AT&T, and bestselling author of Dead Wrong: Diagnosing and Treating Healthcare's Misinformation Illness — joins Dr. Resa Lewiss for a conversation about the misinformation crisis reshaping healthcare. Geeta shares the personal story of her mother's decades-long misdiagnosis that led her to rheumatology, her pivot from clinical medicine to health tech, and why physicians and people — not algorithms — remain the most trusted voices in medicine.  ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd  🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. New episodes on Wednesdays

Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic cancer in the U.S. — more common than cervical or ovarian — and both its incidence and its death rate have been climbing for decades. For years, the guideline meant to catch it in postmenopausal women missed it in Black women. Dr. Kemi Doll worked to change this. Kemi is a Gynecologic Oncologist and Professor at the University of Washington. She directs the GRACE Center in the Dept of Ob-Gyn a multidisciplinary research center focused on eliminating systemic racial and gender inequities in gynecologic care, with a specific emphasis on combating preventable deaths from endometrial cancer in Black women. She co-founded ECANA, the Endometrial Cancer Action Network for African Americans, and her research on missed diagnoses helped drive ACOG's April 2026 update to national screening guidance. Kemi is the author of A Terrible Strength: The Hidden Crisis of the Black Womb, which includes a discussion of heavy bleeding, endometriosis, fibroids, and endometrial cancer. ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd — new Visible Voices episodes on Wednesdays.  🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

Most physicians have never heard of PACE — Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly — and that is a problem. PACE is a Medicare and Medicaid model that wraps all-inclusive care around older adults: primary care, social work, nutrition, transportation, dementia support, and more, with most participants paying zero out of pocket. Evan Jackson is the co-founder and President, Growth for IntusCare. He and Robbie Felton founded the start up while attending  Brown University. They spent time inside a PACE program before building IntusCare, the technology platform now serving 70+ PACE organizations and 50,000 participants nationwide. In this conversation, we get into how AI is reshaping care documentation and risk prediction, what wearables and remote monitoring mean for rural PACE programs, and why physicians who don't know about PACE are leaving one of the best tools  for older adult patient care on the table. We also talk sleep, coffee, crossword puzzles, and what working with the elderly every day does to how you think about your own health. Website: https://intuscare.com/ ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd — new Visible Voices episodes on Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

Dr. Darien Sutton MD MBA — is an emergency physician and ABC News medical correspondent. He joins me for a conversation about sleep, stress, and why doctors need to be fighting health misinformation online. Darien is candid about the healthy sleep habits that residency made difficult, about the orthopedic surgeon who taught him more about stress than medical school ever did, and why he believes physicians can't sit out the misinformation epidemic. We get into food noise, GLP-1 medications, and why obesity is a chronic condition — not a moral failure.  Read more in Men's Health. Follow Darien on Instagram. Check out his Tik Tok vids. ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd  New Visible Voices episodes on Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts

In this episode of the Visible Voices Podcast, I am in conversation with Dr. Shanda McManus — family medicine physician, narrative medicine educator, and author of Brother Epistles (2026 by Split/Lip Press). In 1992, Shanda's brother Monir was killed in a drive-by shooting in North Philadelphia. He was 20 years old. Thirty years later, she began writing him letters — and what emerged is a memoir that is part grief, part social commentary, and entirely healing. We discuss what it means to carry compounding grief, how medical training can become a place to hide from loss, the systems that failed Monir long before that night in 1992, and what narrative medicine offers both patients and clinicians who have no place to take their pain.  Website: https://www.shandamcmanus.com/ ▶ Subscribe on YouTube @resaelewissmd  New Visible Voices episodes on Wednesdays. 🎙️ Search "The Visible Voices Podcast" on Spotify or Apple Podcasts