The Invisible Epidemic of COPD | Jean Wright | TEDxCharlotte
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
- Description: 15 Million people are diagnosed with COPD. But another 15 million have it and have never been diagnosed. Why haven’t we tried to find the missing millions?
What do you want people to learn from your talk? We haven’t built our healthcare around the conditions that matter the most to people.
What action items do you want people to take away from your talk? Become aware of the epidemic of COPD and help identify the missing 15 million. Jean Wright is the Chief Innovation Officer for Atrium Health. Jean has been named a Top 30 Chief Innovation Officer and one of the 25 most powerful women in Health IT. Previous roles at Atrium Health include the Chief Medical Officer for CMC-Northeast and CMC-University, two of the system’s hospitals.
Before coming to North Carolina, Jean was the Executive Director for the Backus Children’s Hospital and The Women’s Institute at Memorial Health in Savannah, GA. She served as the Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics.
After graduating from the University of Michigan Jean attended Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. She joined the faculty at Emory as a pediatric anesthesiologist and intensivist. She is board certified in Pediatrics, Anesthesia, and Critical Care. She received her MBA from Emory’s Goizuetta School of Business. She has post-graduate training from MIT in Entrepreneurship and Harvard Business School in Disruptive Innovation.
She has served on the CDC’s Task Force on Fetal Alcohol Effects and Fogarty International Center of the NIH. She is a current board member for the COPD Foundation and a frequent speaker on the topic of COPD.
She is frequently grant-funded, the largest being Principal Investigator for the Beacon Community Grant from HHS in 2010 - 2013. Awarded nearly 16 million dollars she ran 29 projects in Cabarrus, Rowan and Stanly county to deploy health care informatics.
Dr. Wright has given testimony before the U.S. House and Senate, and has appeared on 20/20, the O’Reilly Factor, CNN, and published over 50 articles. In 2000 she won the American College of Physician Executive’s Physician of Excellence Award and awarded the Athena Award for Women in Leadership.
Her greatest claim to fame is her 4 children adopted from China. She and her children travel to China each year to volunteer. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
As someone with COPD and 3 other lung diseases, this was a powerful message and one everyone needs to hear right across the world .Otherwise we battle on every day and no-one really understands how chronic disease affects your life continuously. How many other people need help and they are undiagnosedand need help
. The message of how devastating COPD is needs to reach every doctor because I Never smoked ! Thank you for your dedicated work 🙏
Very good lecture thank you,
I have been diagnosed with emphysema
After listening to this I figure there is no possible way I could have avoided emphysema being a painter a lot of my working life,
My father was a painter his station wagon was our family car and work vehicle which smelt of paint fumes and no doubt the drop sheets were contaminated with lead based paint dust and asbestos
I've worked in the cotton industry exposed to all sorts of chemicals insecticide, herbicides, defoliant and fertilisers and Dust
I've worked in the car detailing industry exposed to solvents and acid fumes
I now understand we are not safe in our own homes
Smoke from cooking, airborne chemicals from aerosols such as air freshener, deodorant, perfume, fumes from cleaning products such as bleach and polishes.
I can't see how a cigarette would hurt after being exposed to all that
Thanks. I have jst joined a club of COPD. and gathering information on the subject to help myself
Thanks for this talk ! Better information and more people knowing about copd is sooo important, it kills and now it’s killing much younger people , so get informed everyone.
Extremely informative speech that offers real-life guidance and direction. Thank you!
Awesome! Thanks for this excellent video!
I like this lady. Thank you!
Dr. Wright - you are so right. I've heard for years that COPD is the third leading cause of death and it seems there is no research. I was diagnosed 20 years ago and have been plugging along, living a fairly active life until I had my 2nd Covid vaccine which caused my quality of life to drop off dramatically. I will contact my congressman and share you talk with my COPD group. Thank you for your research and laying out the facts.
Lol, it wasn't the vaccine
Fantastic info. Thank you
Our son is 19, dx’d at 14. Was nearly impossible to get meds for him until 18. Not FDA approved until 18!
omg I never realized that
They only want to TREAT the disease. Not CURE it. My meds are $475.00 a month and I cannot afford it. I need help and cannot get it. It's horrible.
Hope you are doing well..
Look up Verbascum thapsus, "Mullein Weed"
Your in the wrong country
Free in Australia
I was always told that if you give up smoking your lungs repair, it seems they dont, you're still in trouble years after giving up.
Enjoy a cigarette?
It isn’t curable stopping smoking slows its down
Stellar !
Brilliant - thank you
Thank you for this talk. I may be one of those new sufferers of emphysema or COPD. Last week , I went to the ER with a gallbladder attack. A chest scan report said this -
Lungs - mild subpleural bilateral lower lobe dependent changes. Mild cystic changes of the upper lobes which may represent centrobular emphysema. No consolidation. No masses.
Do I have emphysema? I've never smoked in my life. How do I begin taking care of this and addressing this with my doctor? Going to my primary care doctor next week and hope I ask the right questions.
What did the doctor say?
Excellent and thank you so very much indeed for helping all of us who have the disease and all those who have it passively! We all count.
I had a mother and relatives who all smoked INDOORS and older workmates who were always saying "Go on, have one , they're not harmful!" I knew no better so took one! I gave it up in 1998, but too late as I was diagnosed as having mild COPD. How I wish I'd never listened to those who implored me to smoke, and how I wish my Dr had sent me for a Spyrometry test.
I just wish my (different) Dr had helped me have the follow up test, but nobody bothers at the surgery here in the UK and it's almost unable to see a Dr. The first time I had an exasperation the Dr phoned me as a result and confirmed it - on the phone? "Keep away from us!" is their message 4 yrs later!
Bless you Jean, I just hope our Drs listen to you!😮
Great ideas! Thank you !
Do you get a weak feeling in your chest. I had Lyme disease for 5 years and i have have heart tests and have been told it's not my heart. So, lungs?... COPD? I get a weak feeling and tired, specifically in my chest. No pain or pressure, just an artificial feeling weakness.
Thank you for this amazing presentation about a medical condition close to my heart and that destroyed my life indirectly. I recently lost my mother from COPD and she was the 5th family member with it (3 of those also had lung cancer). COPD is horrific and misunderstood by medical professionls. The 3rd leading cause of death!!!! It needs more funding. Many in the future will get COPD given the environmental changes and problems in the world. It needs more research. After taking care of my precious mum during her later stage (severe emphysema) I am an advocate for the disease and will do everything in my power. Thank you doctor, you are incrfedible and my mum would have adored you...
My grandmother is in the hospital with copd right now, shes in an ofev trial at uc Davis
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I hope she has a good result. It's such a tough disease.
I have asthma and bronchitis and COPD and emphysema and I keep getting pneumonia. I've used up all my 401k. I'll be 60 December. Can't get any assistance.
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I came here because of the thumbnail
Based on my knowledge it is about to smoking and how to enjoying your leisure pastimes. You see, I meant when we were content; then we must ought to try to live our best healthy moments ever. These are my opinions.
First!!!🤗
I really want to listen but can't stand the crackling paper or plastic!