Community Engagement Habits and Hacks with Panagis Galiatsatos, MD, MHS

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/

“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.”

You can also read more about today's podcast here: https://facultyfactory.org/community-engagement/