Hosted by The UC San Diego REIMAGINE Center · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 12 episodes
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The REIMAGINE Podcast creates a space to explore the complexities of organ donation and transplantation—not from certainty, but from inquiry. Through conversations with clinicians, donor families, living donors, researchers, policy leaders, and scholars of compassion, the series examines what it means to care, give, and be transformed by our connections. These human stories open the door to deeper questions of meaning and healing. Welcome to The REIMAGINE Podcast. Let's get started.
The UC San Diego REIMAGINE Center hosts The REIMAGINE Podcast, a health show with 12 episodes published.
In this episode, Gabriel Schnickel, MD, MPH, sits down with Shaochen Chen, PhD, to discuss using 3D bioprinting to develop functional, patient-specific livers. Chen is a professor in the Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department
Show notesIn this moving episode of the REIMAGINE Podcast, Gabe Schnickel, MD, MPH, speaks with Karen Tipler, MD, an emergency physician, donor mother and volunteer advocate with Life Sharing. Karen shares the story of her daughte
Show notesIn this deeply moving episode, Gabe Schnickel, MD, MPH, sits down with Amy Purdy and her father, Stef Purdy, to explore a story that goes far beyond survival. At 19 years old, Amy developed meningococcal meningitis and w
Show notesIn this deeply personal and thought-provoking conversation, Faiyaz Elahi recounts his unexpected descent into heart failure, prolonged hospitalization, and eventual heart transplantation. He describes the emotional and p
Show notesIn this episode, Gabe Schnickel, MD, MPH, sits down with heart transplant recipient Micah Clayborne and his mother, Brittany Clayborne, PsyD, to explore the deeply personal story behind Transplant Teenz—a peer support co
Show notes*This episode launches a new series within the REIMAGINE Podcast exploring the ethical questions that shape organ donation and transplantation.* Ethics in transplantation is rarely abstract. It lives in real decisions—wh
Show notesIn this episode of the REIMAGINE Podcast, Gabe Schnickel, MD, MPH, sits down with German Lopez — writer for The New York Times editorial board and non-directed living kidney donor — for a conversation about one of the mo
Show notesCaregiving is medicine’s invisible labor, and Erin Copelan knows it firsthand. Copelan joins Gabe Schnickel, MD, MPH, to reflect on her husband's liver transplant journey, including a terrifying rare complication, and ca
Show notesPatrick Masters donated two-thirds of his liver to his brother-in-law, a father living with liver disease. In this warm, funny and deeply human conversation, Masters shares what made him say yes, what recovery looked lik
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Dr. Gary Buckholz, Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego, Director of the Sanford Compassionate Communication Faculty Fellowship, and pioneer in academic palliative care Dr. Kimberly Bower, Pediatric Palliative Care Phys
Show notesAnh Nguyen shares her story of becoming a living kidney donor. After her friend developed kidney failure, Anh stepped forward to donate a kidney, and years later she returned to UC San Diego to give again, this time dona
Show notesIn this opening episode, Dr. Gabe Schnickel, Executive Director of the UC San Diego REIMAGINE Center, invites listeners into the story behind the podcast. He shares his journey as a transplant surgeon and the moments tha
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The REIMAGINE Podcast is hosted by The UC San Diego REIMAGINE Center. The show is categorised under health (fitness) and has published 12 episodes.
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