Listen for an important announcement about the future of the podcast. Hosted by Neeta Goli, MD, and Kelly Mazzarella, DO, Assistant Professors of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at UT Southwestern.
Dr. Neeta Goli:
Welcome to Newborn News, a podcast where we discuss educational topics for medical professionals who care for newborns. I'm your host, Dr. Neeta Goli, a pediatrician in the UT Southwestern newborn nursery.
Dr. Neeta Goli:
Welcome back to the podcast. Today's episode will be a little bit different format compared to usual. I would like to announce that this will be my last episode hosting this podcast due to an upcoming out-of-state relocation. When I started the podcast, I really wanted to create a repository of mini-lectures in an easily digestible format. I really hope that listening to the podcast has helped you care for your patients more confidently and capably. But since we know there's always more to learn, I am thrilled to be leaving the podcast in the hands of my excellent colleagues, Drs. Kelly Mazzarella and Stephanie Nguyen, who you may remember from previous episodes. Dr. Mazzarella will be the new host of the podcast and we'll hear from her in a couple of minutes.
Dr. Neeta Goli:
Over the past 45 episodes here, we have gotten here from an assortment of our experts at UT Southwestern who have graciously shared their time and expertise. I would like to once again, thank all of them, my medical director Dr. Jessica Morse, and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Division Chief Dr. Rashman Savani, for supporting me in this project. I would also like to recognize my co-producer Tripp Stroud, who is the UT Southwestern AV engineer, who has done all the behind-the-scenes work in transforming this audio into something you'll actually want to listen to.
Dr. Neeta Goli:
I usually end my episodes by asking my guests for their advice, for those of us caring for newborns. Since it's my turn now to give parting advice, I would say to keep your eyes and ears open and be open to learning new things from unexpected places. So for example, if you have a patient or parent with a rare condition, ask them about their experience with it. Like we know, patients don't necessarily read the textbook about what their signs or symptoms should be, so that can really help you refine your understanding and care for future patients.
Dr. Neeta Goli:
For the residents listening, as always, I encourage you to focus your learning on a topic related to a patient you saw recently, because this will really help you retain the information longer than if you were just to open up a textbook and start reading from a random page.
Dr. Neeta Goli:
Finally, thank you to all of my listeners for your engagement and all of your feedback. Please continue to listen as Drs. Mazzerella and Nguyen have some really great topics in store for you. With that, I will sign off and pass the mic or proverbial torch over to Dr. Kelly Mazzarella.
Dr. Kelly Mazzarella:
Hi everybody. Dr. Goli, thank you so much. This has been an amazing project to take on. We have some big shoes to fill for sure. Every episode that I've listened to, been involved in, I think that I've just gotten so much from it. I really do think that our listeners are going to educate themselves like you mentioned. Your energy, your time, and effort that you've put into this, we're so thankful. And like I said, I'm excited to take on the project and help others learn more, too.
Dr. Kelly Mazzarella:
So yeah, I'm Kelly Mazzarella. I'm one of the pediatricians at UT Southwestern and my experience, I've been working with newborns for the past, almost two years now, solely working in the newborn nursery. Before that I was a general pediatrician working with all age groups. So now that I've gotten to work with newborns over the past couple of years, more so than before, I've learned so much just by doing that. But I think having supplementary tools in my arsenal has helped me just be a better newborn hospitalist, newborn pediatrician. It's always helped my patients when I had something to review. This was one of the best tools that I've had so far. And I hope that you guys appreciate that too.
Dr. Kelly Mazzarella:
I think as a pediatrician, just working as an attending and now working outside of residency and medical school, I think one of the most important things for us has been to stay up to date and then to keep learning, to keep striving to learn. And that's always a difficult thing. Most importantly for our patients, but again, for our knowledge base. So we have books, we have online tools, but hearing things can sometimes help solidify that. And so I think that this podcast is so valuable to us, and that will be one of our goals going forward. Just making sure that we're staying up to date and getting the best information out to you guys as well - the listeners.
Dr. Kelly Mazzarella:
I know you're excited to hear more episodes. They will be coming, I promise you that, but we will be taking a bit of a hiatus for a couple of months before we get new projects or new episodes out to you. Thank you so much for listening to us, and I'm excited to move forward.
Dr. Neeta Goli:
So thanks again to Dr. Mazzarella for taking on this project and I look forward to everything that's in store.
Dr. Kelly Mazzarella:
Bye guys. We'll see you later.
Dr. Neeta Goli:
Thanks for listening to Newborn News. We hope you join us next time. If you like what you hear, make sure to subscribe and leave us a review. If you have questions, comments, feedback, or suggestions for future episodes, please email me at NewbornNews@utsouthwestern.edu. As a reminder, this content is educational and is not meant to be used as medical advice. Views or opinions expressed in this podcast are those of myself and my guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of the university.