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Faces of Medicine is a donor-funded documentary & a podcast series that goes beyond the white coat to share the real, unfiltered & inspiring stories of Black women who represent only 2.8% of doctors in the US.

09/06/2026

Dr. Amen Sergew shares her story on the Faces of Medicine podcast!!!

Dr. Sergew is an integrative pulmonologist in Denver, Colorado, who moved to the U.S. from Ethiopia as a teenager. Though she grew up speaking English, she says that one of the hardest parts of adapting to life in the U.S. was navigating culture shock, especially since her life in Ethiopia was nothing like what was portrayed in the media here during the 1990s. Dr. Sergew had the added challenge of being undocumented during much of her teen and early adult years - right up until her last year of medical school. That experience has continued to shape how she cares for patients. Sergew also discusses stepping away from academic medicine in order to treat patients with a more integrative approach.

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02/06/2026

Dr. Petal Elder-Odame shares her story on the Faces of Medicine podcast!!!

Dr. Elder-Odame is an internist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston who grew up in Trinidad and Tobago. Like about one-in-four doctors currently practicing in the U.S., she went to medical school outside of the country. Dr. Elder attended medical school in Ireland from which she had the opportunity to pursue clinical rotations all around the world, eventually landing in Massachusetts for residency. She is the youngest doctor featured on Faces of Medicine and experienced first hand some of the life-threatening challenges of pregnancy experienced by many Black women while she was still a resident. Her story illustrates the importance of listening to your instincts and following your own path, even if it’s different from the one you told everyone you’d be following.

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26/05/2026

Dr. Monica Taylor-Desir shares her story on the Faces of Medicine podcast!!!

Dr. Taylor-Desir is a Mayo Clinic psychiatrist with a commitment to bringing mental health treatment into communities where patients live. Dr. Taylor-Desir grew up between Houston and Ohio. She has always been a spiritual person, which sometimes created a tension with the hard science-based traditions of Western medicine. She discovered, however, that holding on to her spiritual side served her well during her years working in Native American communities. She has woven together all of these aspects of her identity as she cares for patients, flips skepticism about the importance of mental health within her own community and addresses the impact of racism on patients and physicians alike.

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24/02/2026

Dr. Danielle Olveczky shares her story on the Faces of Medicine podcast!!!

Dr. Olveczky is a Geriatric Hospitalist physician in Boston. Her early life was in Trinidad and Tobago, but when her family lost nearly everything, she found herself living with an aunt in London before another move took her family to Louisiana. Olveczky graduated from Dillard University before heading to medical school at John Hopkins University and completing her residency in Boston. Some hostile interactions along the way left her plagued with self-doubt. Olveczky also talks about how she grew to love taking care of older people and about her specialty, which involves caring for patients at night.

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17/02/2026

Dr. Adrienne Phillips shares her story on the latest episode of the Faces of Medicine podcast!!!

Dr. Phillips is a hematologist and researcher at RWJ Barnabas Health in New Jersey who specializes in the treatment of blood cancer. Unlike most of the women profiled on Faces of Medicine, she came from a family of doctors. Phillips, who attended Brown University, Columbia and Harvard, says she was drawn to her specialty in part as a way to help Caribbean people who are disproportionately affected by the illnesses she treats. Phillips talks about how her family’s legacy has shaped her and about finding her own path as a third generation physician.

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16/02/2026

Dr. Shani Muhammad shares her story on episode 9 of the Faces of Medicine podcast!!!

Dr. Muhammad is a family medicine doctor in the Los Angeles area. She calls planning a “guiding principal” and has felt throughout her life that she must follow a plan in order to succeed. But the demands of medical training - not to mention marriage and parenthood - have shaped her life and career in ways she never imagined. Mumammad talks about having a successful career in medicine, even when things don’t go as planned.

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05/02/2026

Dr. Terry Moy-Brown shares her story on episode 9 of the Faces of Medicine podcast!!!

Dr. Moy-Brown is a board certified emergency physician working in urgent care at Vancouver Clinic in Washington state. Moy-Brown grew up in Honduras and experienced more than a little culture shock when she & her family immigrated to Miami after her high school graduation. Her studies and work have taken her from Oklahoma and Florida to upstate New York and Washington state. As an emergency physician, she knows first hand that working in healthcare can lead some people to feel jaded, but she held on tight to the spirit of caring and empathy that brought her to the field in the first place. Moy-Brown believes in the importance of staying true to yourself.

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28/01/2026

Dr. Chasity Jennings-Nunez shares her story on episode #8 of the Faces of Medicine podcast!!!

Dr. Jennings-Nunez is an OB-GYN who lives and works in the Los Angeles area. Jennings-Nunez grew up in a supportive all-Black neighborhood in Houston, and she went on to college at Tulane in New Orleans and then medical school at Harvard. Her next stop was residency at a community hospital in Los Angeles where she loved working in the community and embraced the opportunity to help address health care disparities. Jennings-Nunez’s story provides a case study in embracing the unknown.

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20/01/2026

Faces of Medicine Season 2 kicks off with the amazing Dr. Karla Williams!

Dr. Williams is an internal medicine doctor and an associate professor at the University of Alabama Birmingham. She grew up in South Carolina, and was fascinated by medicine from an early age. She surrounded herself with like-minding high achievers and excelled in school. But some unfair treatment she endured during her training shook her confidence, and it took years for her to fully recover. Today, as an instructor herself, she helps students learn to recognize and fend off the crippling self-doubt known as imposter syndrome.

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02/12/2025

Dr. Rose Cesar shared her story on episode #5 of the Faces of Medicine podcast!!!

Born in Haiti, she was inspired to enter medicine while helping her mother, whose work as a nurse sometimes brought her to underserved parts of the nation. Though some tried to steer her in a different direction, she persisted in her pursuit of becoming a doctor and succeeded, even when life threw a curveball her way during her first year of medical school.

Listen to hear about all of that and so much more.

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Mark your calendars: December 2nd is Giving Tuesday, and we have exciting news! Venture Way Collaborative will match every donation up to $10,000, doubling your support to share these stories so the next generation of Black female physicians can know they are not alone.

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