Monday Morning Mojo

Former ANA CEO Marla Weston, PhD, RN, FAAN, discusses Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™ (HNHN) on my Grand Challenge podcast. Marla led the HNHN Grand Challenge to measurably improve the health of America’s nurses. This initiative engages diverse stakeholders and has overcome significant challenges. In this episode of my podcast, she emphasizes defining the problem, allowing

You wouldn’t think these two would fight, but occasionally, they get into it with each other. In this picture, they are playing in our front yard. They are best buddies! Divya is the little black one on the left, and Kaya is the German Shepherd on the right. Isn’t it interesting how we save our

Last Friday, I went to my first hockey game. I would not have been there without an invitation from my sister-in-law, Ivy. This photo shows me rinkside behind the goalie. Before the game started, Ivy took me to the rink to watch the players warm up. We were directly behind the goal and saw all

  The first major conversation on my new podcast, Seth Kahan on Grand Challenges, is Patrick Kennedy. Kennedy is a former U.S. Congressman and leading mental health advocate. Known for his commitment to mental health and addiction issues, he founded The Kennedy Forum, which promotes equitable mental health care. Kennedy played a pivotal role in

Grand Challenges represent society’s wicked problems—complex, persistent, and difficult to solve due to incomplete, contradictory, and ever-changing demands. Yet, addressing them is essential for humanity and life on Earth to survive and thrive. That’s why I have started my new podcast, Seth Kahan on Grand Challenges. My work is dedicated to confronting these monumental issues.

I am proud to share that I will work with the American Association of Physicists in Medicine to identify the biggest, boldest challenges to create breakthroughs in medical physics. What is medical physics? Today, its applications can be seen in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), lasers and ultrasound, computation-driven medicine, artificial intelligence, and nuclear medicine, to

This photo crossed my desk yesterday, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and John Lewis. Lewis was born poor, but a free African American in Maryland the same year as Clemens, 1835. As the Civil War approached Lewis moved north to Elmira, New York. Clemens was also in Elmira to be near Olivia Langdon, whom he would

I often walk along the Potomac, enjoying one of the land’s great rivers so close to my home. Yesterday afternoon, on a beautiful fall day, Laura and I went down a path along the C&O Canal and made our way to the shore of the Potomac via one of the many side trails. The picture

If you follow me you know that for a couple of years I have been studying the Bhagavad Gita, a popular (for 1,000s of years) poem that has provided spiritual inspiration to many. Recently, I began to read the version translated my Gandhi, which included some of his commentary. In parallel I am reading the

It’s fall here in DC, and the weather is getting cooler. That means I’ll be looking for an overnight camping trip soon! Kaya and I get out every morning and evening for a long walk. That’s us in the park above, early morning. Things are heating up on multiple fronts, with Stop Stigma Together moving