Chris Nowinski is a former football player at Harvard University and professional wrestler with WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment. After enduring a career-ending head injury, Chris has dedicated his professional life to serving patients and families affected by brain trauma, particularly Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that develops after repeated head injuries. Jay and Chris discuss the state of head injuries in American athletics, the difference between advocating for head safety at youth and professional levels, Chris’ newest research, and much more. Episode Chapters (00:00) Intro (00:50) changes in the culture around concussions in the past two decades (02:39) padded helmet technology (03:55) concussion reporting in the NFL (10:35) Chris’ career path and concussion history (14:52) connecting with activists who haven’t themselves suffered a traumatic brain injury (17:42) SHAAKE - a new sign to identify concussions (20:53) Unions can help players advocate for safety policies (23:10) final thoughts and goodbye For video episodes, watch on www.youtube.com/@therudermanfamilyfoundation Stay in touch: X: @JayRuderman | @RudermanFdn LinkedIn: Jay Ruderman | Ruderman Family Foundation Instagram: All About Change Podcast | Ruderman Family Foundation To learn more about the podcast, visit https://allaboutchangepodcast.com/…

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SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All
Center for Health Equity Transformation at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All – is a podcast from the Simon Research Lab at the Center for Health Equity Transformation at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine hearing voices from the research and community world with a focus on health equity. Conversations and interviews will discuss the importance of achieving health equity, highlighting health disparities, and exploring innovative ways to improve health for all.
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Celebrating Black History Month: Delores King of Livin' Through the Lenz
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13:02Join us as we celebrate Black History Month 2025 with our special guest Delores King, Founder/CEO of Livin' Through the Lenz -- a nonprofit that combines photo-based therapy and visual storytelling to aid healing.https://www.livinthruthelenz.org/Von Center for Health Equity Transformation at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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Special Guest Hosts with Dr. Joe Feinglass on the U.S. Healthcare System
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59:05In this special episode, our guest co-hosts are Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative (ChicagoCHEC) Fellows Program Alumni David Bastos (Northwestern University) and Vanessa Pineda (University of Illinois at Chicago) sit down with Dr. Joe Feinglass, Research Professor at Northwestern University on health services with over 30 years of experien…
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2024 ChicagoCHEC Fellows: Reflections on Experience
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57:45Join us in this special episode featuring the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative (CHEC) Fellows Program 2024 cohort. This program brings undergrad and postbac students together in preparation for careers in social, behavioral, and biomedical research and in health care.They share with us their experiences with the CHEC Fellows program inclu…
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2023 ChicagoCHEC Fellows: Reflections on Experience
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52:27Join us in this special episode featuring the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative (CHEC) Fellows Program 2023 cohort. This program brings undergrad and postbac students together in preparation for careers in social, behavioral, and biomedical research and in health care.They share with us their experiences with the CHEC Fellows program inclu…
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"Well Mama" Maternal Health Limited Series | Dr. Melissa Simon
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25:14In this limited series of episodes, we have conversations with a variety of experts and community leaders in the field of maternal and child health to discuss how to advance maternal health equity.In this episode we spoke with CHET Director/Founder -- Dr. Melissa Simon. Melissa A. Simon, MD, MPH is the George H. Gardner Professor of Clinical Gyneco…
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"Well Mama" Maternal Health Limited Series | Birth Equity with Kelly Davis, MPA
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32:46In this limited series of episodes, we have conversations with a variety of experts and community leaders in the field of maternal and child health to discuss how to advance maternal health equity.In this episode we spoke with Kelly Davis, MPA who is co-founder and Chief Equity Officer at KINSHIFT. KINSHIFT supports healthcare and public health tra…
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"Well Mama" Maternal Health Limited Series | Binary Gender Dynamics with Dr. Kathryn Schubert
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22:26In this limited series of episodes, we have conversations with a variety of experts and community leaders in the field of maternal and child health to discuss how to advance maternal health equity.In this episode we spoke with Dr. Kathryn (Katie) Schubert who is President and CEO of the Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR), where she leads th…
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"Well Mama" Maternal Health Limited Series | Pregnancy & Incarceration with Dr. Carolyn Sufrin
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42:39In this limited series of episodes, we have conversations with a variety of experts and community leaders in the field of maternal and child health to discuss how to advance maternal health equity.In this episode we spoke with Dr. Carolyn Sufrin who is a medical anthropologist and obstetrician/gynecologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She w…
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"Well Mama" Maternal Health Limited Series | Breastfeeding Support with Janel Hughes-Jones, PC
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58:00In this limited series of episodes, we have conversations with a variety of experts and community leaders in the field of maternal and child health to discuss how to advance maternal health equity.In this episode we spoke with Janel Hughes-Jones, a bilingual breastfeeding Peer Counselor (PC), with more than 18 years of experience working with many …
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"Well Mama" Maternal Health Limited Series | ACEs & PTSD in pregnancy with Dr. Ashish Premkumar
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27:56In this limited series of episodes, we have conversations with a variety of experts and community leaders in the field of maternal and child health to discuss how to advance maternal health equity.In this episode we spoke with Dr. Ashish Premkumar, a maternal-fetal medicine clinician/researcher at the John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County in…
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"Well Mama" Maternal Health Limited Series | Poor Medicaid Policies with Dr. Rishi Agrawal
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29:51In this limited series of episodes, we have conversations with a variety of experts and community leaders in the field of maternal and child health to discuss how to advance maternal health equity.In this episode we spoke with Dr. Rishi Agrawal, a pediatric hospitalist at La Rabida children's hospital - a partner of Lurie Children's Hospital. His r…
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S2E11: Maxson Joseph talks with students from UIC Champions COVID-19 Vaccination Cohort
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40:16In this special episode, a ChicagoCHEC Fellows Alumnus -- Maxson Joseph -- talks with two high school students part of the UIC Champions Vaccination Cohort.UIC Champions is a summer program with its goal of empowering Chicago youth to become community leaders, create pathways to health professions careers and advance health equity. More info at htt…
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S2E10: Reflections on CHEC Fellows Program 2020
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37:13Join us in this special episode featuring the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative (CHEC) Fellows Program 2020 cohort. This program brings undergrad and postbac students together in preparation for careers in social, behavioral, and biomedical research and in health care. They share with us their experiences with the CHEC Fellows during a pan…
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Mini-Ep08: COVID-19 in Chicago Communities | Greg Trotter from the Greater Chicago Food Depository
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19:50This episode was recorded on May 11, 2020.Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing physical distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.This episode features our co-host Araceli Estrada interview…
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S2E09: José López on Humboldt Park, Puerto Rican Culture & Identity in Chicago
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47:48NOTE: This episode was recorded on January 9th, 2020.Our guest for this special episode during Hispanic Heritage Month is José López – a prominent community leader and Executive Director of The Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Chicago, which he co-founded in 1973. He has written extensively on the political and social reality of Puerto Ricans in the…
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S2E08: Urban Growers Collective | Food Access & Justice in Chicago
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26:46NOTE: This episode was recorded in October 2019.The SkinnyTrees podcast team took a field trip to an urban farm on Chicago’s south side. Founded in 2017, the Urban Growers Collective (UGC) aims to address the inequities and structural racism that exist in the food system and in underserved communities. Their vision is to use urban agriculture to cu…
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Mini-Ep07: COVID-19 in Chicago Communities | Garth Walker, MD, MPH
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24:51This episode was recorded on May 4, 2020.Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing social distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.This episode features our co-host, Rabih Dahdouh, interviewing…
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S2E07: “SOME PEOPLE” (Every)Body. Art, Health & Language with Kimberly J. Soenen
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54:34Note: This episode was recorded on March 12, 2020, just days before the Governor of Illinois instituted a stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus outbreak.In this episode we connected with Kimberly Soenen (short bio below) to discuss the importance of language in health and her ongoing art exhibit "SOME PEOPLE" (Every)Body. The ongoing project ex…
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Mini-Ep06: COVID-19 in Chicago Communities | Grace Chan
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20:15This episode was recorded on April 20th, 2020.Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing social distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.This episode features our co-host, Ivy Leung, interviewin…
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Mini-Ep05: COVID-19 in Chicago Communities | Fred Raz, RN
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20:15This episode was recorded on April 9th, 2020. Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing social distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.This episode features our co-host, Rabih Dahdouh, intervi…
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Mini-Ep04: COVID-19 in Chicago Communities | Marcus Wong, MD
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20:12Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing social distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.Each mini episode will focus on a different community in Chicago to find out how they are coping with t…
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Mini-Ep03: COVID-19 in Chicago Communities | Renee Flores, RN, BSN Dept of Veterans Affairs
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16:59Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing social distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.Each mini episode will focus on a different community in Chicago to find out how they are coping with t…
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Mini-Ep02: COVID-19 in Chicago Communities | Dolores Castaneda, Little Village
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25:09Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing social distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.Each mini episode will focus on a different community in Chicago to find out how they are coping with t…
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Mini-Ep01: COVID-19 in Chicago Communities | Esther Sciammarella, Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition
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17:47Thank you for joining us on SkinnyTrees: Lift Health for All. We like many of our fellow Chicagoans, are staying home and practicing social distancing to flatten the curve. We are here to present a mini-series: COVID-19 in our Chicago communities.Each mini episode will focus on a different community in Chicago to find out how they are coping with t…
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S2E6: “Community Health Equity: A Chicago Reader” with Raj Shah, MD & Fernando De Maio, PhD
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34:56In this episode we sit with Dr. Fernando De Maio and Dr. Raj Shah. Together they are co-directors of the Center for Community Health Equity -- a collaboration between DePaul and Rush University -- founded in 2015. They are also co-editors of “Community Health Equity: A Chicago Reader” -- released in April 2019. We discuss the book as a framework to…
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S2E5: Preventing Gun Violence in Chicago ft. Noam Ostrander, Terry Williams & Valerie Burgest
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1:03:45Join us as we talk about the inequities surrounding gun violence with our Strategic Operations Director Samantha Alonis as she leads the discussion with Noam Ostrander (DePaul University) and Terry Williams (UIC) from the Chicago Gun Violence Research Collaborative, with special guest Valerie Burgest from the Illinois Chapter of Moms Demand Action.…
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S2E4: Straight Talk about Biases in Healthcare with Dr. Clyde Yancy
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33:21In this episode, we sat down with Dr. Clyde Yancy -- Vice Dean for Diversity & Inclusion and Chief of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (NUFSM).In our discussion we covered the dangers of implicit bias in healthcare, addressing inequities in academic medical institutions, and how Dr. Yan…
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S2E3: Reflecting on the ChicagoCHEC Research Fellows Program Summer 2019
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31:25Join us in this special episode featuring the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative Research Fellows Program 2019 cohort. This program brings undergrad and postbac students together in preparation for careers in social, behavioral, and biomedical research and in health care. They share with us their experiences, highlights and “aha” moments fr…
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S2E2: Dr. Julie Morita fmr. Commissioner of Chicago Dept. of Public Health & Current EVP at RWJF
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37:29In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Julie Morita, former Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health and currently the Executive Vice President at the RWJF (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)"overseeing all programming, policy, research, and communications activities in support of its vision of building a Culture of Health in America in …
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S2E1 Dr. Melissa Simon Re-Introduction & the new CHET (Center for Health Equity Transformation)
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18:11Welcome back! SkinnyTrees is happy to return with its second season. In this first episode of season two we bring back Dr. Melissa Simon to discuss what we have been up to since you last heard from us. Dr. Simon introduces an exciting new center launched this year -- the Center for Health Equity Transformation (CHET). She explains the work this cen…
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Mini-Episode 1: Conversations with a Health Services Researcher, Dr. Joe Feinglass
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26:26Join Skinny Trees on their first Mini-Episode led by Anika Jagasia, a rising high school Senior. Anika speaks with Dr. Joe Feinglass on his long-time career as a historian, social activist, former factory machinist, community college professor, and now a full professor and health services researcher at Northwestern University.…
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SkinnyTrees Interviews Howard Brown COO
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46:02SkinnyTrees Interviews Howard Brown COO by Center for Health Equity Transformation at Northwestern University Feinberg School of MedicineVon Center for Health Equity Transformation at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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Nothing About Us WITHOUT Us: A conversation with Access Living
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52:56When you think of health inequities our visions are not automatically brought to a person in a wheelchair, but people with disabilities experience many barriers to care, are often living on public aid, and have - as you might imagine - general issues maneuvering - at times - an inaccessible world. Being one of the first ten centers for independent …
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EPISODE 2: Breaking the Rules’ with One of Chicago’s Dr. Linda Rae Murray
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1:03:48EPISODE 2 | On ‘Breaking the Rules’ with one of Chicago’s most prominent Social Activists, Dr. Linda Rae Murray.www.skinnytreespodcast.comCHARGED. HAPPY. HOSTILE. ENRAGED. HOPEFUL. DISAPPOINTED.How do you feel about the last month?We have a new {future} President. We have a changing America.On Episode 2, we dive a little deeper into this…Dr. Murray…
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42:12Episode 1 was created to set the scene for the content of Skinny Trees and the reoccurring themes we will discuss over the next 6 months of season 1. We interview Dr. Melissa Simon to better understand the landscape of health equity and to learn more about the varying terms of health disparities/inequality/inequities.Intro Music:Artist: Elizabeth B…
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