Saturday Night Stories

The Resolute – Refusing to Take "No" for an Answer

Episode Summary

In this episode, we hear from a psychiatrist, an immunologist, and an engineer with three very different stories about refusing to take “no” for an answer.

Episode Notes

What do you do when you can’t get the health care you need? When a science experiment literally almost explodes in your face? When you’re told, time and again, that you don’t have what it takes? In this episode, we hear from a psychiatrist, an immunologist, and an engineer with three very different stories about refusing to take “no” for an answer.

 

[01:13] Story by Christina Mangurian, MD, MAS. Dr. Mangurian is the director and co-founder of the UCSF Public Psychiatry Fellowship program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and a professor and vice-chair of diversity and health equity at the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences.

[09:00] Story by Max Krummel, PhD. Dr. Krummel is a professor of pathology and the co-founder and inaugural chair of the UCSF Bakar ImmunoX Initiative.

[15:52] Story by Tejal Desai, PhD. Dr. Desai is a professor and chair of the UCSF Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences and the director of the Health Innovation Via Engineering (HIVE) initiative.
 

Thank you to host Liz Neeley and to Matt Logan for providing his original song for the credits music. Mr. Logan helps hospitalized children manage pain, build resilience, and find joy as a board-certified music therapist for the Music Therapy Program at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco.


 

Mentioned in This Episode:

UCSF Public Psychiatry Fellowship

UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences

UCSF Bakar ImmunoX Initiative

2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for cancer immunotherapy research

UCSF Health Innovation Via Engineering (HIVE)

Music Therapy Program at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco

 

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