Episodes

"I'm walking into it with my eyes open, my dukes up. I'm looking around the corner, but I'm still walking forward into it" - Dr. Kimberly Manning is a Professor of Medicine & Associate Vice-Chair of Diversity, Equity,

"Healthcare & medicine have to be able to say & acknowledge "there are really bad things that have happened under our watch, but this is not one of them'" - Dr, Jasmine Marcelin is an Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases at University of Nebrask...

"This is the most important phase. This is the phase that requires the most passionate leadership, the most informed & rational leadership." - Mark Hertling is a retired 3-Star General in the US Army who returns for his 4th visit to Explore The Space ...

"I want to effect change through the vehicle of empathy" Dr. Sayed Tabatabai is a Nephrologist in San Antonio and a simply brilliant writer. He shares most of his work as @TheRealDoctorT on Twitter where he continually amazes his large audience. -

"The daily grind doesn't worry me, doesn't intimidate me, doesn't bother me so much" - Dr. Amy Oxentenko is a Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Dept of Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. She is a truly superb leader and brilliant teacher and she...

"Sometimes the point of sharing is to get people to understand how human we are & what things are really like for us" - Ashley Bartholomew is an ICU nurse in El Paso, Texas. She spent the past several weeks working in the Covid ICU at her El Paso hosp...

"This cannot happen in our country right now. We cannot have a civilian-service divide." - Kevin Schmiegel is the CEO of Operation Gratitude, which is the largest non-profit in the country for hands-on volunteerism in support of the military,

"That's why I do the work that I do, to bring those voices into places where they need to be heard" - Dr. Giselle Corbie-Smith is the Kenan Distinguished Professor at University of North Carolina Center for Health Equity Research & is an international...

"The goal is to help patients who are unexpectedly hospitalized on Election Day vote from their hospital bed" - Dr. Kelly Wong is an Emergency Medicine doctor in her 4th year of residency at Brown University and she is the Founder of Patient Voting.

"We are affirming to a complete stranger that their voice matters" - Dr. Alice Chen is an Internal Medicine physician, the former executive director of Doctors For America, and one of the leaders of Doctors For Biden.

"It's so hard to not want to have every single step planned" - Dr. Anne Peled is a breast cancer & plastic surgeon in the Bay Area and is also a breast cancer survivor. She joins us during Breast Cancer Awareness Month to discuss moving from awareness...

"We need to become aware of the spectrum of disabilities that's all around us so that the people who are disabled themselves don't have to do as much teaching" - Harry Paul is an MD/PhD student who speaks, writes,

"We are making sure voters really understand how important leadership is" - Dr. Joe Sakran is a Trauma Surgeon and a co-founder of Doctors For Biden. He joins us amidst the most bizarre and unsettling election season in our memory to discuss why more ...

"When I'm looking for change I try not to wait for an unnecessary landmark. I just start now." - Dr. Dara Kass is an Emergency Medicine physician, the founder of FemInEM and a nationally-sought after expert for all topics related to COVID19.

"Our policies are the way we deliver healthcare. If we don't have a say in that, then what are we doing?" - Dr. Stella Safo is an HIV Primary Care physician & Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mt. Sinai Health System as well as a founding member of V...

"A lot of this work we expect women to do, it's uncompensated & often unappreciated" - Dr. Shikha Jain is an Oncologist, Assistant Professor of Medicine at U of Illinois & co-founder/Chair of the Women in Medicine Summit.

"It's there for us to enjoy, & the people who are playing it, they're doing their jobs" - Rod Brooks leads the "Tolbert, Krueger, & Brooks Show" on KNBR, the Bay Area's leading sports radio station, & is one of the finest sports talk-radio hosts in A...

"One of the things that's been lost is that complexity & the nuance that's necessary to understand" - Dr. Angela Rasmussen is a virologist at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health who studies host response to viral infection.

"When we start to tell our stories, there's a way that we change" - Margaret Shapiro is a writing coach, psychotherapist, and my Mom! She joins us for a very special 200th episode of Explore The Space Podcast. We discuss her immigration journey,

"The is probably the most precious 2 minutes you can spend on completing your Hippocratic Oath" - Dr. Ankita Sagar is Assistant Professor and Director of Ambulatory Quality at Hofstra-Northwell who has had a profound impact on my mindset around physi...

"Our healthcare systems are totally built in most places to rely on trainees as a cheap labor force" - Dr. Ben Kinnear is an Associate Professor & Pediatric Hospitalist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital who joins us to discuss "Developing Trust With E...

"This is it, I'm going to have a contribution here, I'm going to do it" - Dr. Renee Dversdal is a national expert in point of care ultrasound (POCUS), the new Chief Medical Officer at Vave Health, & Associate Professor of Medicine at OHSU.

"That one person you thought was an "addict," well, that's me" - Dr. Adam Hill is a Pediatric Oncologist & Palliative Care specialist. He is also the author of the stunning book "Long Walk Out Of The Woods" which chronicles his downward spiral & ongoi...

"This gives people a structure to say that you did something & to validate it" - Dr. Avi O'Glasser is Associate Professor of Medicine & Assistant Program Director for Scholarship & Social Media at Oregon Health Sciences University.