About this episode

Dr. Daphne Bascom discusses her transition from traditional medicine to lifestyle medicine and her role at The Vegan Gym.

Dr. Daphne Bascom earned a DPhil/PhD in physiological sciences at the University of Oxford, a medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh, and completed fellowship training in microvascular and reconstructive surgery of the head and neck at Oregon Health Sciences University. She has more than two decades of executive leadership across health systems, health technology, and community health. Most recently, she served as Vice President of Population Health at Saint Luke’s Health System in Kansas City. So, how and why did she leave all of that to pursue lifestyle medicine, a “vegetable-forward” way of life, and a completely different kind of care? As we’ve heard from many of our guests, for Dr. Bascom, it was personal. Between witnessing her mother’s long and arduous struggle with COPD and helping her father navigate the healthcare system, she recognized that despite her many years of training, her work as a surgeon, and her leadership, she still wasn’t doing the work that got her into medicine in the first place. She wanted to help people be healthy. Period. That deep calling led her to become the Chief Operating Officer of The Vegan Gym , a global digital health platform…

People in this episode

Host: Zeev Neuwirth

Guest: Daphne Bascom

Topics covered

• lifestyle medicine
• plant-based health
• executive leadership
• healthcare equity
• digital health

Keywords

• lifestyle medicine
• plant-based
• healthcare
• executive leadership
• COPD
• health technology
• longevity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Vegan Gym, Saint Luke’s Health System, University of Oxford, University of Pittsburgh, Oregon Health Sciences University

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