Dear Future Health Care Leaders

June 21, 2024
Guests: Maddy Pearson, Lauren Underwood & Christina Keny and More
Students at Commencement 2024

If you had one minute to address your future health care leaders, what advice would you give them?

In honor of commencement season, we invite you to listen to messages shared with UCSF School of Nursing graduates that serve as important reminders for all of us engaged in the essential work of improving health and health care for our communities.

Our guests are:

  • Maddy Pearson, Chief Nursing Executive and Vice President of Patient Care Services at UCSF Health and Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at the UCSF School of Nursing
  • Lauren Underwood, U.S. Representative and a nurse
  • Christina Keny, PhD Nursing graduate and 2024 class speaker
  • KT Waxman, Director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice program, UCSF School of Nursing
  • Robert Wachter, Professor and Chair, UCSF Department of Medicine
  • Adrienne McIntyre, Doctor of Nursing Practice graduate and 2024 class speaker
  • Mark Tungol, Master of Science graduate and 2024 class speaker
  • Stacy Torres, Assistant Professor, UCSF School of Nursing
  • Melissa Im-Giuffrida, class of 2023 alumna 
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About This Podcast

Illuminating Health is the official UCSF School of Nursing podcast that sheds light on health and health care issues that affect our daily lives. Listen in to short conversations with today’s leading experts. This episode is produced by Lisa Klope and Katherine Tam in the UCSF School of Nursing's Office of Communications and Marketing.