Epidemic Response Part 1: Stories about past epidemics
b'This week we present two stories from our back catalog of people having to handle previous epidemics.\\nPart 1: As a pediatrician in the 1980s, Ken Haller comes across a disturbing X-ray.\\nPart 2: On her first day working in the White House under President Obama, microbiologist Jo Handelsman receives some bad news.\\nKen is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine and Cardinal Glennon Children\\u2019s Hospital. He serves on the boards of the Arts & Education Council of Greater St. Louis, the Saint Louis University Library Associates, and the Gateway Media Literacy Project. He has also served\\xa0on the board of the Missouri Foundation for Health and as President of the St. Louis Pediatric Society;\\xa0the Missouri Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics; PROMO, Missouri\\u2019s statewide LGBTQ civil rights organization; the Gateway Men\\u2019s Chorus, St. Louis\\u2019s gay men\\u2019s chorus: and GLMA, the national organization of LGBT health care professionals. He is a frequent spokesperson in local and national media on the health care needs of children and adolescents. Ken is also an accomplished actor, produced playwright, and acclaimed cabaret performer. In 2015 he was named Best St. Louis Cabaret Performer by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and he has taken his one-person shows to New York, Chicago, Denver, and San Francisco. His special interests include cultural competency, health literacy, the relationship of medicine to the arts, the effects of media on children, and the special health needs of LGBT youth. His personal mission is Healing.\\nDr. Jo Handelsman\\xa0is currently the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery\\xa0at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as a Vilas Research Professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. Previously, she served President Obama for three years as the Associate Director for Science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). She received her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Molecular Biology and has served on the faculties of UW-Madison and Yale University. Dr. Handelsman has authored over 200 papers, 30 editorials and 5 books. She is responsible for groundbreaking studies in microbiology and gender in science.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'