Faces of Medicine
Faces of Medicine is an inspiring podcast series that illuminates the remarkable journeys of Black female physicians in America. Hosted by Dr. Khama Ennis, each episode features candid, in-depth conversations with doctors from the acclaimed documentary film, plus additional physicians whose stories deserve to be heard. With Black women representing only 2.8% of all US doctors, these voices have been historically underrepresented. Through intimate interviews, listeners gain unprecedented access to the challenges, victories, and humanity behind the white coat.
Episodes
Dr. Amen Sergew
On this episode, Dr. Amen Sergew is an integrative pulmonologist in Denver, Colorado, who moved to the U.S. from Ethiopia as a teenager. Though she grew up speaking English, she says that one of the hardest parts of adapting to life in the U.S. was navigating culture shock, especially since her life in Ethiopia was nothing like what was portrayed in the media here during the 1990s. Dr. Sergew had
Dr. Petal Elder
On this episode, we heard from Dr. Petal Elder. She’s an internist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston who grew up in Trinidad and Tobago. Like about one-in-four doctors currently practicing in the U.S., she went to medical school outside of the country. Dr. Elder attended medical school in Ireland from which she had the opportunity to pursue clinical rotations all around the world,
Dr. Monica Taylor-Desir
On this episode, Dr. Monica Taylor-Desir is a Mayo Clinic psychiatrist with a commitment to bringing mental health treatment into communities where patients live. Dr. Taylor-Desir grew up between Houston and Ohio. She has always been a spiritual person, which sometimes created a tension with the hard science-based traditions of Western medicine. She discovered, however, that holding on to her spir
Dr. Danielle Olveczky
On this episode, we hear from Dr. Daniele Olveczky, a Geriatric Hospitalist physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Her early life was in Trinidad and Tobago, but when her family lost nearly everything, she found herself living with an aunt in London before another move took her family to Louisiana. Olveczky graduated from Dillard University before heading to medical school at
Dr. Adrienne Phillips
On this episode, we hear from Dr. Adrienne Phllips. She’s a doctor and researcher at RWJ Barnabas Health in New Jersey who specializes in the treatment of blood cancer. Unlike most of the women profiled on Faces of Medicine, she came from a family of doctors. Phillips, who attended Brown University, Columbia and Harvard, says she was drawn to her specialty in part as a way to help Caribbean people
Dr. Shani Muhammad
On this episode, we hear from Dr. Shani Muhammad, a family medicine doctor in the Los Angeles area. She calls planning a “guiding principal” and has felt throughout her life that she must follow a plan in order to succeed. But the demands of medical training - not to mention marriage and parenthood - have shaped her life and career in ways she never imagined. Mumammad talks about having a successf
Dr. Terry Moy-Brown
On this episode, we hear from Dr. Terry Moy-Brown. She’s a board certified emergency physician working in urgent care at Vancouver Clinic in Washington state. Moy-Brown grew up in Honduras and experienced more than a little culture shock when she & her family immigrated to Miami after her high school graduation. Her studies and work have taken her from Oklahoma and Florida to upstate New York
Dr. Chasity Jennings-Nunez
On this episode, we hear from Dr. Chasity Jennings-Nunez, an OB-GYN who lives and works in the Los Angeles area. Jennings-Nunez grew up in a supportive all-Black neighborhood in Houston, and she went on to college at Tulane in New Orleans and then medical school at Harvard. When she accepted a residency at a community hospital in Los Angeles, she had some concerns about not going to a more well-kn
Dr. Karla Williams
On this episode, we hear from Dr. Karla Williams. She’s an internal medicine doctor and an associate professor at the University of Alabama Birmingham. She grew up in South Carolina, and was fascinated by medicine from an early age. She surrounded herself with like-minding high achievers and excelled in school. But some unfair treatment she endured during her training shook her confidence, and it
Dr. Kierstin Kennedy
In this episode of Faces of Medicine, we hear the story of Dr. Kierstin Kennedy, the Chief Medical and Quality Officer of UAB Medicine in Birmingham, Alabama. She was drawn to a career in medicine after a family reunion brought her face-to-face with an uncle who was a surgeon. At that point, no one in her immediate family had graduated from college, so meeting him opened up a whole new world of po
Dr. Rose Cesar
In this episode of Faces of Medicine, we hear the story of Dr. Rose Cesar, a community gastroenterologist (GI doctor) in rural Western Massachusetts. Born in Haiti, she was inspired to enter medicine while helping her mother, whose work as a nurse sometimes brought her to underserved parts of the nation. Dr. Cesar’s family migrated to the Boston area when she was a teenager and she set about findi
Dr. Valerie Stone
In this episode of Faces of Medicine, we hear the story of Dr. Valerie Stone, an infectious disease specialist and pioneer in the care of people with HIV/AIDS. She is a nationally recognized expert in the field and is the Cynthia and John F. Fish Endowed Chair in Medical Education at Brigham and Women's Hospital.The accolades are wonderful, but they don't tell the whole story. She came from a lovi
Dr. Ellana Stinson
In this episode of Faces of Medicine, we hear the story of Dr. Ellana Stinson, an Emergency Physician, leader and entrepreneur who grew up in the deep south. Watching her father pursue his career as a military nurse and her mother work as a respiratory therapist, the idea of a career in healthcare came to her early in life. She thrived at Spelman College, but stumbled in the face of the MCAT, an e
Dr. Lynnette Watkins
In this episode of Faces of Medicine, we hear the story of Dr. Lynnette Watkins, a second generation physician with roots in the Midwest. Her clinical practice as an Ophthalmologist and Oculofacial Plastic Surgeon gave way to her passion for leadership in health care. She has shared her visionary approach to systems and quality in hospitals from Texas to Massachusetts. Most recently, she has been
Dr. Thea James
Welcome to the Faces of Medicine podcast, hosted by Dr. Khama Ennis. In this episode, we hear the story of Dr. Thea James, an emergency physician, Vice President of Mission, and Associate Chief Medical Officer at Boston Medical Center. From living through school integration to her work as the executive director of the system’s Health Equity Accelerator, Dr. James has been navigating spaces where b
Introducing Faces of Medicine
What does it take to become a Black female physician in America? In this trailer, Dr. Khama Ennis introduces Faces of Medicine—a podcast series that goes beyond the white coat to share the real, unfiltered stories of Black women doctors.With Black women representing only 2.8% of all US physicians, these voices have been historically underrepresented. Through in-depth conversations with doctors fro
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