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Applying Plain Language Principles to Translated Health Materials (HLOL #242) from 2023-12-01T06:00:16
Katie Leath MPH, MA, is Director of the Center for Health Literacy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Leath is a passionate health communicator who brings years of experi...
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Creating a Documentary Film about Caregiving and Mental Health (HLOL #241) from 2023-11-01T06:00:58
Richard Lui is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years in media, technology, and business. He has served as a television news anchor at MSNBC, NBC News, and CNN Worldwide. Among his ...
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Health Literacy from a Systems Perspective (HLOL #240) from 2023-10-01T06:00:12
Greg O’Neill, MSN, APRN, AGCNS-BC, is Director of Patient & Family Health Education at ChristianaCare in Delaware. Building on his experience in patient care as a trauma/surgical ICU nurse, ...
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Health Literacy: Helping Patients Feel Cared For, and Cared About (HLOL #239) from 2023-09-01T06:01:53
Dr. Mark V. Williams serves as Professor & Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine and BJC HealthCare in Saint Louis, Missouri. Dr. William...
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Artificial Intelligence&Health Communication (HLOL #238) from 2023-08-01T06:00:19
Claire Wardle, PhD, is co-founder and co-director of the Information Futures Lab and Professor of the Practice at Brown University’s School of Public Health. Wardle is considered a leader ...
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The Language of Civility (HLOL #237) from 2023-07-01T06:00:10
LouAnn Bala MSN, RN, brings a background as clinical nurse educator and health coach to her work at Get Well. Her publications and research aim to improve quality and safety for patients, furthe...
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Television Ads for Medications (HLOL #236) from 2023-06-01T06:00:15
Diana Zuckerman, Ph.D. is President of the National Center for Health Research, a nonprofit think tank that conducts and analyzes research on a wide range of healthcare and health policy issues....
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The Value of Knowing Why Health Literacy Matters (HLOL #235) from 2023-05-01T06:00:43
Karen Komondor RN, BSN, CCRN is passionate about health literacy. This comes from knowing why understandable health communication matters so much to her, both personally and professionally. Kare...
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Time Toxicity: Time that Patients Can Lose to Treatment (HLOL #234) from 2023-04-01T06:01:37
Christopher Booth MD, FRCPC, is a Medical Oncologist and Health Services Researcher at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. In his clinical practice, Dr. Booth provides care to patients with ...
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Using Art to Communicate About Surgery (HLOL #233) from 2023-03-01T06:01:43
Maria Baimas-George, MD, MPH, not only is a transplant surgeon but also the author and illustrator of The Strength of My Scars, a series of children’s books about a wide range of medical and sur...
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Communicating About Potential Healthcare Fraud and Abuse (HLOL #232) from 2023-02-01T06:00:08
Nicole Liebau, BSW, is Director of the Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) National Resource Center at the Northeast Iowa Area Agency on Aging, Inc. There are over 50 SMP projects across the United Sta...
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Words Matter: What We Say and Write Can Affect Health Understanding (HLOL #231) from 2023-01-01T06:00:28
Elena T. Carbone, DrPH, RD/LDN, FAND is Professor of Nutrition and Associate Dean for Curriculum & Academic Oversight in the Honors College at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Carbon...
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Wellness and Health Literacy (HLOL #230) from 2022-12-01T06:00:12
Teresa Wagner DrPH, RD/LD, CHWI, has expertise in both wellness and health literacy. She is Assistant Professor in the School of Health Professions and in the School of Public Health at the Univ...
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Oral Health Literacy: How Diseases of the Mouth Affect Overall Health (HLOL #229) from 2022-11-01T06:00:58
Alice Horowitz, RDH, MA, PhD, is a Research Professor in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health at University of Maryland’s School of Public Health in College Park. She was instrument...
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Bullet Points and Other Types of Lists (HLOL #228) from 2022-10-01T06:00:50
Genevieve Walker, PhD, is a medical writer and editor who creates plain-language educational and marketing content for patients and other health care consumers. Through her business, Bridge Heal...
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A Standardized Patient’s Perspective of Health Communication (HLOL #227) from 2022-09-01T06:00:46
Kip Clark describes himself as being passionate about better and more meaningful communication. This belief guides his work as a standardized patient with medical students and as a podcast host ...
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Building Trust with Each Audience (HLOL #226) from 2022-08-01T06:00:57
Lenora Johnson, DrPH, MPH directs the science policy, engagement, health education, and public-facing communication initiatives of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at the Na...
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Live Virtual Group Patient Education: Creating Content, Delivering Sessions, and Meeting Needs (HLOL #225) from 2022-07-01T06:00:18
Tedi Brash and Melissa Yan are based in Toronto, Canada. They, along with Rashmi Bhide, are authors of the terrific how-to resource, “A Guide to Developing Live Virtual Group Patient Education: ...
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Health Communication in Context of Each Person’s Life (HLOL #224) from 2022-06-01T06:01:32
Christine Wilson has focused on health communication throughout her career. Her experience includes being Vice President for Marketing and Communications at Fox Chase Cancer, Vice President for ...
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Blood Testing: What Is Learned in the Lab (HLOL #223) from 2022-05-01T06:00:09
Parul Bhargava, MD is Professor & Vice-Chair of Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is a pathologist with subspecialty training in hematology. Dr. ...
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Survivors? Choosing Words about People Who Have, or Have Had, a Serious Illness (HLOL #222) from 2022-04-01T06:00:19
Dr. Emily Tonorezos is Director of the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Office of Cancer Survivorship which is part of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences. Dr. Tonorezos lead...
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Communicating When Vision is a Concern (HLOL #221) from 2022-03-01T06:00:20
Joe Weisse is co-coordinator for the Low Vision Support Group of Natick for the Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Now retired, for 33 years Weisse was Public Informa...
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Motivational Interviewing (HLOL #220) from 2022-02-01T06:00:12
Laura A. Saunders, MSSW is a social worker with expertise in Motivational interviewing (MI). She works with University of Wisconsin-Madison at the Great Lakes Addictions, Mental Health, and Prev...
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Making Materials Relatable and Readable (HLOL #219) from 2022-01-01T06:00:52
Paula Worby (pictured on the right) and Miriam Lara-Mejia both work at Hesperian Health Guides, a non-profit publisher best known for the book Where There Is No Doctor that is used throughout th...
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Patients as partners in medical education, practice, and governance (HLOL #218) from 2021-12-01T06:00:21
Professor Jason Last, MD, is University Dean of Students at University College Dublin in Ireland. Building on his experience as a practicing physician, Last has led and participated in many grad...
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Publishing and Sharing Health Literacy Research and Experiences (HLOL #217) from 2021-11-01T06:00:42
Aisha Langford, PhD, MPH is an assistant professor of population health at NYU Langone Health. Her research interests include health communication and medical decision-making in certain chronic ...
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Plain Language Summaries of Research Studies (HLOL #216) from 2021-10-01T06:00:41
Maureen Maurer brings a strong background in health behavior and health education. Her work focuses on engaging patients, families, and community members in health research, health care delivery...
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New Clinicians&Health Literacy: Putting Classroom Learning into Everyday Practice (HLOL #215) from 2021-09-01T06:00:29
Joi R. Canton MSN, RN, NPD-BC is a nurse and Manager of Community Outreach in Boca Raton, Florida. In addition to many years in clinical practice, Canton brings experience as a clinical educator...
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Biologic Sex, Gender Identity and Expression, and Other Issues to Consider When Communicating About Health (HLOL #214) from 2021-08-01T06:00:18
Jaime Collins describes herself as a passionately curious woman with a deep love of humanity. Collins says that it was through a life-long journey of self-discovery that she learned and unlearne...
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Uncertainty: What It Is and Ways to Help (HLOL #213) from 2021-07-01T06:00
Paul Han, MD, MA, MPH is Senior Scientist in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences and Adjunct Investigator in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National C...
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Making Health Information Accessible to People with Disabilities (HLOL #212) from 2021-06-01T06:00:33
Liz Persaud is the Program and Outreach Manager for Tools for Life, Georgia’s Assistive Technology Act Program at the Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation (CIDI) within the College of Desi...
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Tech Update and New Website Design from 2021-05-17T18:38:07
This is a simple notice for podcast subscribers to let them know that there is a small chance that there could be issues with the feed as we make a transition to a new web server (and a spiffy n...
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Patient Authors of Research Studies (HLOL #211) from 2021-05-01T06:00:06
Professor Karen L. Woolley BHMS Ed Hons PhD CMPP has conducted and published more than 100 research studies on patient involvement and ethical practices in medical communications. She brings to ...
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Talking about Patient Education Practice Guidelines for Health Professionals (HLOL #210) from 2021-04-01T06:00:44
Carolyn Cutilli, PhD, RN is past president of the Health Care Education Association (HCEA) and co-chair of HCEA’s Patient Education Guidelines work group. She also is a patient education special...
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Telemedicine: Communicating About Health by Phone or 2-Way Video (HLOL #209) from 2021-03-01T06:00:28
Cliff Coleman M.D., M.P.H. is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Coleman practices as a family medicine physician at a Federally Qualified H...
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Health Literacy Model with Multiple Variables and Actions (HLOL #208) from 2021-02-01T06:00:40
Dr. Rima Rudd has been a member of the faculty at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for over 30 years. Her work focuses on community health, inequities, and literacy related barriers...
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Pictograms: Images that Represent Ideas in Simple and Literal Ways (HLOL #207) from 2021-01-01T06:00:40
Mareika Phillips is an experienced graphic designer. Now at Communicate Health, she leads the team that develops creative design solutions to make health information engaging and accessible. Phi...
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Designing Online Instructional Programs (HLOL #206) from 2020-12-01T06:00:04
Mark Hagerty is an instructional designer, learning specialist, and medical editor. He has built online training programs that teach thousands of students. Many of these focus on scientific and ...
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Online Games and Health Teaching: For People of All Ages, Abilities, and Savvy (HLOL #205) from 2020-11-01T06:00:21
Nick Bowman Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed manuscripts on the uses and effects of vide...
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Writing Legal Notices to Help Readers Act in Their Best Interest (HLOL #204) from 2020-10-15T06:00:06
Barbra Kingsley, PhD is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the Kingsley-Kleimann Group and Chair of the Center for Plain Language. Barbra Kingsley is an expert in information design and plain la...
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Health Literacy and Health Equity (HLOL #203) from 2020-10-01T06:00:57
Janet Ohene-Frempong MS, is a plain language and cross-cultural communications consultant with decades of experience in patient/provider communications. Her accomplishments are many. They includ...
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Communicating Complex Health Messages in a Complex World (HLOL #202) from 2020-09-01T06:00:53
Glen Nowak Ph.D. is Professor of Advertising and Public Relations at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and Director of the Grady College Center for H...
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Creating Materials to Meet Urgent Health Needs (HLOL #201) from 2020-08-01T06:00:54
Iris Feinberg, PhD is the Associate Director of the Adult Literacy Research Center at Georgia State University. She is a health literacy researcher and research assistant professor in the Depart...
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Health Literacy Out Loud: 200 Episodes of Listening&Learning (HLOL #200) from 2020-07-01T06:00:45
Adam Weiss brings years of experience in podcasting, online video, and live broadcasting with a specific focus on scientific and medical content. He has hosted, launched, or produced podcasts fo...
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Integrating Health Literacy into Clinical Research (HLOL #199) from 2020-06-01T06:00:34
Sylvia Baedorf Kassis MPH, CYT focuses on many aspects of clinical research. Her work includes understanding the experience of research participants and incorporating their insights into study p...
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Patient-Oriented Discharge Summaries: Helping Patients Easily Understand Their Transition from Hospital to Home (HLOL #198) from 2020-05-01T06:00:15
Shoshana Hahn-Goldberg, PhD is a scientist and project lead at the University Health Network’s OpenLab in Canada. She works with a multi-disciplinary team to discover and create solutions to iss...
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Promoting Early Childhood Literacy through Local Laundromats (HLOL #197) from 2020-04-01T06:00:37
Brian Wallace is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Coin Laundry Association and Executive Director of the LaundryCares Foundation. The Foundation’s mission is to provide laundry services...
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My Life, My Story: An Initiative to Help Tell Each Patient’s Story (HLOL #196) from 2020-03-01T06:00:16
Susan Nathan, MD is a Geriatrician and Hospice and Palliative Medicine physician at VA Boston Healthcare System. She is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and adjunct Instructor in...
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Encouraging Healthy Food Choices with Traffic-Light Labels and Choice Architecture (HLOL #195) from 2020-02-01T06:00:33
Anne Thorndike MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an internist at Massachusetts General Hospital. Much of her work focuses on individual and population-leve...
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How Chaplains Help Patients Make Meaning of Illness (HLOL #194) from 2020-01-01T06:00:55
Reverend Christiaan Beukman, a native of the Netherlands, moved to the Boston area decades ago. He attended Harvard Divinity School and Andover-Newton Theological School and was the Protestant Chap...
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Communicating About Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias (HLOL #193) from 2019-12-01T06:00:04
Katrien Goethals is Partner at the Institute for the Advancement of Health and Wellbeing: Dementia/Alzheimer’s. She lectures on dementia, facilitates groups for caregivers, and moderates a podcast ...
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PREPARE For Your Care: An Online Tool to Make Medical Decision Making Easier for Patients and Caregivers (HLOL #192) from 2019-11-01T06:00:52
Rebecca Sudore MD is a geriatrician, palliative medicine physician, and health services researcher. She also is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics at UCSF (University of California...
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Health Literacy Month: 20th Anniversary Edition (HLOL #191) from 2019-10-01T06:00:33
This podcast is unlike most others, for it is a conversation about Health Literacy Month with Helen Osborne and Michael Villaire. Helen Osborne is president of Health Literacy Consulting, author of...
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When Patient’s Create Their Own Medical Binders: A Powerful Way to Get Organized and Feel More in Control (HLOL #190) from 2019-09-01T08:00:34
Bridget Gaglio PhD, MPH is a Senior Program Officer for the Clinical Effectiveness and Decision Science program at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). She works to improve com...
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Vaccine Literacy (HLOL #189) from 2019-08-01T06:00:03
Scott Ratzan M.D., M.P.A., M.A., has three decades of pioneering accomplishments in the U.S. and globally in health literacy, health communication, and strategic diplomacy. He is the founding Edito...
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Health Literacy Listening Tour (HLOL#188) from 2019-07-01T06:00:43
Audrey Riffenburgh Ph.D. has over 20 years of experience in health literacy and plain language. Dr. Riffenburgh is President of Health Literacy Connections (formerly Plain Language Works). Her firm...
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Archie Willard Talks About Struggling to Read (HLOL #187) from 2019-06-01T06:00:13
In this podcast first broadcast in 2008, Archie Willard shares a message that is as important today as it was then. I hope you enjoy and learn from this HLOL Classic. Archie Willard was an ardent a...
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The Family’s Voice in Practice, Research, and Foundations (HLOL #186) from 2019-05-01T08:00:31
Sharon Cray earned a degree in accountancy and worked in business for several years. She entered the world of healthcare as a parent, caregiver, and active volunteer when two of her three children ...
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Communicating When There Is a Wide Range of Worry (HLOL #185) from 2019-04-01T08:00:14
Emilie Johnson, MD, MPH, is a pediatric urologist and health services researcher in Chicago, IL. She cares for pediatric urology patients (and their families) at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Ho...
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