Varon Cantrell, MD - Health & Wellness In Focus | “Chronic Disease Prevention: Reclaiming Health in the Black Faith Community." - Audio

About this episode

The episode discusses chronic disease prevention and health transformation in the Black faith community.

In this episode, Pastor Bryan Hudson, DMin, will host a conversation with Varon Cantrell, MD. He is a Board Certified Internist and Pediatrician who works for a Federally Qualified Health Center whose home base is in Indianapolis, Indiana. After Medical School, he completed his Combined Residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He then completed one year as a Chief Resident in Internal Medicine while staffing/precepting the Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Clinic. ​ In July of 2010, Dr. Cantrell, joined a Federally Qualified Health Center in Indianapolis where he continues to work. He was the Lead Physician for the opening of a new Health Center on the Westside of Indianapolis that has grown from 1 Provider up to 7 and from 3,000 visits to over 14,000 visits in 7 years. ​ The timely topic of this episode is: “Chronic Disease Prevention: Reclaiming Health in the Black Faith Community." Join us for an empowering and solution-focused discussion on how faith, knowledge, and action can work together to transform health outcomes in our community. We’ll address the chronic diseases that…

People in this episode

Host: Pastor Bryan Hudson, DMin

Guest: Varon Cantrell, MD

Topics covered

• Chronic Disease Prevention
• Health in the Black Faith Community
• Holistic Wellness
• Faith and Health
• Community Health Education

Keywords

• chronic disease
• health
• Black community
• faith
• prevention
• education
• wellness
• diabetes
• hypertension
• heart disease

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Federally Qualified Health Center

Places: Indianapolis, Indiana, Westside of Indianapolis

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