TarHeal Wellness: A Podcast for Residents

In Part 2 of our conversation with Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody, she and Robert Rowe talk more about the UNC Women’s Center for Mood Disorders, which Dr. Meltzer-Brody helped found, and trainee opportunities at the Center. They also discuss her new role of Executive Dean. She’ll offer sage advice for current doctors in training and shares an impactful story from her own residency days, involving a murder on the wards. Catch up on Part 1 to hear about Dr. Meltzer-Brody’s medical career journey and how she became a mental health pioneer with support from UNCNew Webpage! https://www.uncmedicalcenter.org/uncmc/professional-education-and-services/office-of-graduate-medical-education/tarheal-wellness-podcast/

In this episode, Robert Rowe speaks with Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody—psychiatrist, internationally recognized perinatal mental health expert and the new Executive Dean of the UNC School of Medicine. The two discuss how an interest in community and personal stories led Dr. Meltzer-Brody down a path leading to medicine, psychiatry, and women’s mental health, building something from the ground up in medicine to benefit patients and how UNC supported her dreams. Dr. Meltzer Brody then explains postpartum depression and why trainees may be at increased risk, as well as how to identify, treat, and possibly prevent it. Lastly, the two explore the growing presence of physician mental health care that led to her creation of the Taking Care of Our Own Program here at UNC. Don’t miss Part 2, where Dr. Meltzer-Brody discusses the UNC Women’s Center for Mood Disorders, her new role of Executive Dean, advice for success in residency, and a personal story from her own training.New Webpage! https://www.uncmedicalcenter.org/uncmc/professional-education-and-services/office-of-graduate-medical-education/tarheal-wellness-podcast/

In part 2 of our conversation with Dr. Ntiense Inyang, Preventive Medicine Co-Chief Resident and future CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer, she and host Robert Rowe discuss careers transitions. The two then explore Ntiense’s global health work and open up about the seldom discussed topic of the challenges of personal relationships as a busy medical trainee, something that can greatly add to the stress of an already stressful work-life balancing act. Check out part 1, where we Ntiense discusses how disappointment in her career turned out to be a wonderful gift that led to her medical calling, and learning on the job as a resident.New Webpage! https://www.uncmedicalcenter.org/uncmc/professional-education-and-services/office-of-graduate-medical-education/tarheal-wellness-podcast/

In this episode, Robert Rowe speaks with Dr. Ntiense Inyang, Preventive Medicine Co-Chief Resident and future CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer, about how her pursuit to follow a generations-long family tradition of practicing medicine wasn’t without unique challenges, finding her medical calling, learning on the job as a resident, and how rejection, redirection, and disappointment in her career became the gift she didn’t know she needed.  Don’t miss Part 2, where we further dive into transitions in one’s medical career, her global health work, and touch on the seldom discussed topic of the challenges of personal relationships as a busy medical trainee. New Webpage! https://www.uncmedicalcenter.org/uncmc/professional-education-and-services/office-of-graduate-medical-education/tarheal-wellness-podcast/

In this episode, Dr. Rui Ariyapala sits down with Dr. Amit Algotar — a physician, educator, and researcher working at the forefront of lifestyle and preventive medicine. Dr. Algotar is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Arizona’s Department of Family and Community Medicine and a practicing physician at Banner University Medical Center in Tucson.He is board certified in Preventive Medicine, Obesity Medicine, and Lifestyle Medicine — and is recognized as a Fellow of both the American College of Preventive Medicine and the Obesity Medicine Association. Through both his clinical practice and research, Dr. Algotar is helping to redefine how we approach chronic disease, cancer survivorship, and provider wellness.In Part 2 of our conversation with Dr. Amit Algotar, we take a deeper look at how preventive and lifestyle medicine set themselves apart from traditional internal or family medicine. Dr. Algotar walks us through the unique frameworks of these specialties and why they matter more than ever in today’s healthcare landscape.We also discuss the future of lifestyle medicine — not just as a clinical tool, but as a foundational shift in how we train the next generation of physicians. From early implementation in medical school curricula to the urgent need to move from a disease-based to a prevention-based model, this episode challenges the way we think about the role of healthcare in long-term wellness.New Webpage! https://www.uncmedicalcenter.org/uncmc/professional-education-and-services/office-of-graduate-medical-education/tarheal-wellness-podcast/