Creative Careers in Medicine and building community through connection with Dr Amandeep Hansra

06/02/21 • 59 min

Welcome back to Season 2 Episode 7. In this episode I am delighted to introduce Dr Amandeep Hansra to the podcast.
Dr Hansra is a practicing GP in Sydney and a leader in digital health and telehealth in Australia. She is a director of Caligo Health. She was the first CEO & Medical Director of Telstra’s telemedicine business, ReadyCare and also served as the Chief Medical Officer for Telstra Health. Amandeep works as an advisor to many digital health companies and sits on a number of committees and boards with organisations such as the Australian Medical Association, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, NPS Medicinewise and the Australian Institute of Digital Health as well as being a Clinical Reference Lead for the Australian Digital Health Agency. She holds a Master’s in Public Health and Tropical Medicine, is a Graduate of the AICD and was awarded the “Women Leading in Business Scholarship” for the Global Executive MBA at the University of Sydney.
In addition to this impressive bio Amandeep is also the founder of Creative Careers in Medicine. CCIM is growing community of now over 11 k doctors, nurses and allied health professionals who think outside the square. The platform provides information, education, opportunities and discussion of alternative career paths, side hustles and niche areas both within and outside medicine. The successful inaugural CCIM conference was held online in 2020.
In this episode we discuss her own fascinating and diverse career and the trajectory which led to her finding niche and expertise in digital health. Amandeep tells me about her experience as an expert through the past 12 months of the current pandemic when telemedicine has been thrust into the spotlight and has emerged as a future essential healthcare technology.
Amandeep talks about the inspiration and impetus behind Creative Careers in Medicine, why she thinks there is such an appetite for the platform and the powerful impact this growing community of health professionals has had to date as a supportive and safe space to connect and share stories and information.
CCIM are again hosting the Crazy Socks 4 Docs webinar June 4 2021 ( link to register below) and she tells me why it was so important for them to get involved.
We discuss the upcoming CCIM conference planned for November 5-7th in Sydney and the success of last year's inaugural virtual event.
As a passionate, engaging and undoubtedly "busy" doctor and mother Amandeep shares her personal strategies, values and goals for work-life integration and is really testament to the adage "Do what you love and you will never work a day in your life" Thank you Amandeep.
Links discussed in this episode:
CCIM
https://creativecareersinmedicine.com
https://www.instagram.com/creativecareersinmed/
https://www.facebook.com/CreativeCareersInMed/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/creative-careers-in-medicine/people/
https://twitter.com/CCIM_official/
CRS4Docs webinar 7.45am to 9am Friday June 4 2021
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Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations.

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Applied artificial intelligence in human performance and professional wellbeing with Tal Brown CEO and Co-Founder at Zone7 : from sport to healthcare and beyond.

In this episode I am delighted to introduce Tal Brown CEO and Co-founder at Zone7. Tal has a background in computer science and systems engineering and began his career as a big data engineer in the Israel Defense Force. He subsequently became a senior director of product management at Salesforce where he founded the organisation's first AI product team responsible for data science applications used by millions of sales professionals.
Since 2017 at Zone 7 he has been developing and and applying proprietary artificial intelligence to assist athletes, coaches and medical teams forecast injury risk and attain peak performance. More recently the focus has expanded to include other disciplines outside sport, including healthcare and the military, where machine learning tools could be used to assist in optimising performance and protecting the wellbeing of the workforce.
In this conversation Tal breaksdown what artificial intelligence actually is and discusses its use to date in the elite and amateur sporting environment. We then discuss what this might look like when applied to other elite workers and professional environments with a particular emphasis on healthcare where early adopters are starting to use and apply this technology.
Themes of workforce performance , wellbeing and increasing rates of exhaustion and burnout are revisited through a technical lens. Ironically I left this conversation feeling that a role for objectivity might actually be a constructive solution to increasing pressure and demand in the workplace where subjective and intuitive basic needs of workers are often overridden by virtue of environment and system.
We discuss data privacy and application for individuals, teams and organisations. Tal gives us an articulate account of his vision for the future of this agile and adaptable technology, which is informative not prescriptive, as a predictive tool to assist athletes and elite workers protecting health, performance and longevity of practice.
More about Tal Brown and Zone 7 :
ttps://www.linkedin.com/in/talbrown/
https://zone7.ai
https://twitter.com/Zone7ai
https://www.linkedin.com/company/zone7ai/
Other related links discussed here:
https://www.emergencymind.com/book
https://www.emergencymind.com/podcast/episode-37
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Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations. The podcast host declares that there are no conflicts of interest.

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The Emergency Mind : applying knowledge under pressure with Dr Dan Dworkis

In S 2 E 8 I am delighted to speak to Dr Dan Dworkis MD PhD FACEP. Dan is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at LAC and USC and is based in Santa Monica, California. He is notably the founder, creator and inspiration behind the Emergency Mind Podcast http://bit.ly/emindpod and most recently the Emergency Mind book http://bit.ly/emindbook.
In this episode I have the opportunity to delve into his emergency mind.
We discuss the evolution of his own journey as an Emergency physician and his passion for the subject of application of knowledge under pressure and how we might seek to improve this as any learned skill.
In the Emergency Mind podcast Dan explores this, taking experience and examples from experts in the ER and other fields and disciplines. This has allowed him overtime to develop mental models and cognitive frameworks that we might use and apply ourselves. In this conversation Dan explores some of the concepts, as relayed in the book in more detail. ( Sangfroid, Wabi-Sabi, Train your Tired Moves, Humans not Robots) He uses his own pursuit of mastery and love of martial arts as an example to demonstrate the application and art of practice in performance science and psychology.
This is the book he wishes he had had as a trainee emergency physician but I feel it has continued applicability across the professional journey and indeed in general as we seek to improve our ability to respond to the challenges of our lives.
"Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own"
Bruce Lee

Links to the Emergency Mind:
https://twitter.com/TheEmergMind
https://www.emergencymind.com
Book: http://bit.ly/emindbook
Podcast: http://bit.ly/emindpod
The Mind Full Medic Podcast website :
https://www.themindfullmedicpodcast.com
Subscribe, rate and review the podcast on iTunes here : https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-mind-full-medic-podcast/id1513559414
Disclaimer: The content in this podcast is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care professional. Moreover views expressed here are our own and do not necessarily reflect those of our employers or other official organisations. The podcast host declares that there are no conflicts of interest.