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Today’s Faculty Factory Podcast episode is an uplifting interview with Panagis Galiatsatos, MD, MHS. Dr. Galiatsatos joins us to share some important habits and hacks when it comes to the role that individual faculty and medical institutions play within the community.
Dr. Galiatsatos serves as Assistant Professor with Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore where he is a pulmonary and critical care medicine physician. He is also the Director of the Tobacco Treatment Clinic at Johns Hopkins.
He is Co-Chair for Health Equity in the Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity. And he is a Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Medicine for the Greater Good initiative. This initiative is meant to promote community engagement in order to disseminate health and prevent disease in the community.
You can learn more by visiting their website: https://www.medicineforthegreatergood.org/
Dr. Galiatsatos is a native of the city of Baltimore. He is the child of parents who immigrated to the United States from Greece. His passion for his community is contagious and his approach to community engagement is both practical and persistent.
“I want Baltimore to be the world’s healthiest city and we have the potential to do that,” he said.
As part of this interview, Dr. Galiatsatos reminds us that the community is not a charity. If you truly want to serve your community in the best possible way, you must take the time to do a lot of listening and getting to know the needs from the community’s perspective.
“It takes time. If someone is eager and wants to do this, the first thing you have to do is make sure the community is behind you,” he told us. “The worst thing you can do is put together an economic plan for the hospital and not have the community’s buy-in.”
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