University at Buffalo (UB)
UB Medicine Podcast
Listen to the podcast where transformation meets innovation in health care. Broadcasting from the heart of downtown Buffalo, NY, this exciting series dives deep into the evolving landscape of health and wellness in Western New York.
Episode 19 – Community Partnerships in Action
How can medical schools build stronger, more meaningful partnerships with the communities they serve? In this episode of the UB Medicine Podcast, host Allison Brashear, MD, MBA, explores how the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is working alongside community organizations, advocates, patients, and neighbors to advance health, opportunity, and better outcomes across Western New York.
Joining the conversation are Anyango Kamina, PhD, assistant dean for trainee and faculty development, and Michael Lamb, PhD, psychologist, educator, and trauma-informed care advocate. Together, they discuss the importance of listening to community voices, supporting learners and faculty in community-engaged work, and creating educational experiences that connect students with real-world health challenges and lived experiences.
The episode highlights initiatives such as Community Connect within the Well Beyond Curriculum, community-partnered learning opportunities, and trauma-informed approaches to patient care. Guests also share how these experiences help future physicians better understand social drivers of health, build trust with patients and communities, and become more compassionate and effective health care leaders.
Tune in for an inspiring conversation about the power of collaboration, the value of community wisdom, and how sustained partnerships are helping shape the future of medical education and health care.
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Each episode of UB Medicine features candid, insightful conversations with the region’s most respected doctors, medical pioneers and wellness advocates who are redefining what it means to be healthy in today’s world.
Covering a range of themes, episodes of the UB Medicine podcast bring you stories that inspire, inform and empower. Whether you’re a health care professional or someone just looking to live better, this podcast offers real talk, expert opinions, a few surprises, and a local lens on the national health conversation.
Visionary leader Allison Brashear, MD, MBA, hosts the UB Medicine podcast. She is an internationally recognized neurologist, accomplished researcher and health science administrator. Brashear was appointed vice president for health sciences at the University at Buffalo and dean of the Jacobs School in December 2021.
She also leads the strategic integration of interprofessional education and practice, health sciences collaborative research, and clinical programs across the university’s health science schools — the Jacobs school, dental medicine, nursing, pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, public health and health professions — as well as programs among our hospital and clinical affiliates.
Brashear is an internationally renowned researcher in movement disorders and an expert in ATP1A3-related diseases, a spectrum of rare neurologic disorders. Additionally, she is a powerful advocate for promoting diverse leaders in medicine and a lifelong champion of advancing women’s leadership in medicine.
She is committed to educating the next generation of medical doctors and research scientists, exploring areas of clinically impactful and cutting-edge discovery science, conducting impactful research, and cultivating relationships through community involvement.