Dr. David Lenihan

04/21/2023

Providing individuals in smaller communities with free healthcare programs like this one presented by The Archway MO Chapter of The Links, Incorporated. gives them accessible, affordable, trustworthy care. What a great initiative for our city! https://loom.ly/-Qohat0

The Archway (MO) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated hosted a “Links to Healthy Living” health equity and empowerment symposium for women on Saturday.

04/19/2023

What a great project for both North St. Louis and our entire city: creating affordable housing AND new job opportunities in North STL will allow this community to grow and thrive! https://loom.ly/iliayWE

New and rehabbed developments are coming soon to a north St. Louis neighborhood.

04/15/2023

Increasing opportunities, increasing diversity and guiding non-traditional students toward careers in healthcare will create more job applicants, improve the current nursing shortage and create nurses with a wide worldview:

Hospitals are trying to add staff but their goal also includes diversifying their employees.

04/13/2023

Prioritizing diversity in medicine does not negate or replace merit. Nurturing students who did not take a "traditional" path to medical school doesn't compromise anything; in fact, this creates a subset of doctors who truly understand their patients' everyday lives, their struggles and their mistrust of our current healthcare system.. https://loom.ly/jGcV08I

Some Missouri legislators are making an effort to ban required diversity trainings in medical schools, saying they cause schools to lower their standards. David Lenihan, president of Ponce Health Sciences University, disagrees. He tells us why.

04/11/2023

As technology advances, I think we should all test to see how it can help us in our everyday lives, in our jobs, our industries. Being able to detect illnesses like cancer with greater accuracy is a huge asset and an important reason to introduce AI into serious medical concerns. businessinsider.com/ai-can-detect-breast-cancer-better-than-doctors-study-says-2023-3

04/07/2023

When students start college, it is understood that this is a space to share and learn about both current and previous events from multiple, often contradictory viewpoints. But now, faculty members at many universities are scared to share their real thoughts and opinions for fear of losing their jobs.

How do we teach students, for their futures, to be tolerant of other people and other points of view if we are unable to share our real views? https://loom.ly/ij4u8us

A new report, “The Academic Mind in 2022,” by Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) reveals college professors fear that saying the wrong thing could cost them their reputati…

03/31/2023

Universities like Penn encourage a "get rich quick" mentality amongst students, while completely ignoring actual rates of social mobility for their students that come from poor backgrounds. Promises of wealth for graduates - simply because they attended a prestigious university - is damaging for students, generational poverty and, ultimately, the universities themselves. https://loom.ly/yDPitIw

Columnist Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford critiques recent reporting that the worth of an Ivy League degree can be summed up in simple monetary metrics. 

03/29/2023

Higher education is important for our students and for society, but many Gen Zs are considering not attending university. How can universities adapt to students' changing needs and provide the type of education they want? https://loom.ly/X-bwYLU

Today’s high school graduates are increasingly questioning whether higher education is worth it, and that’s pushing colleges to rethink the value they ...

03/28/2023

Getting rid of the MCAT gives students from lower-income backgrounds a better chance even if they don’t have the same access to resources as their wealthier counterparts. Promoting diversity in healthcare should be encouraged, not fought against. https://loom.ly/jGcV08I

Some Missouri legislators are making an effort to ban required diversity trainings in medical schools, saying they cause schools to lower their standards. David Lenihan, president of Ponce Health Sciences University, disagrees. He tells us why.

03/13/2023

Grant money funding efforts for improved childcare, broadband access, healthcare and manufacturing, amongst other things, will be a great program for our state! Excited to see where this goes. https://loom.ly/aI-FV58

Missouri looks to expand workforce training, especially in healthcare, through $30 million in funding from the American Rescue Plan Act.

03/11/2023

Something that is often overlooked in our society is actually really simple. Second chances. Overlooking cancel culture and giving someone a second chance instead can promote a culture of forgiveness, empathy, and understanding, ultimately leading to a more inclusive and tolerant society.

03/09/2023

Medicaid expansion, or lack of, has affected many rural hospitals across our state and our country. How can we continue to support our rural communities and hospitals now that they are not receiving the same kind of support they did in the beginning of the pandemic? https://loom.ly/_1d3N84

This data note examines rural hospitals’ operating margins in recent years. After seeing higher margins early in the pandemic, likely due to government relief funds, rural hospitals now face renewe…

03/07/2023

A congressional amendment to HIPAA to prevent data brokers, digital health companies, mobile apps and social media from selling all forms of protected health information would be a win for all Americans.

The main reason data brokers, digital health companies, mobile apps and social media networks can circumvent HIPAA rules is because the law doesn’t cover them.

03/04/2023

March is Women's History Month! I am proud to work with so many talented, intelligent women at Tiber and PHSU.

02/28/2023

The nursing shortages we've seen since the start of the pandemic are improving, but not quickly enough to keep up with demand. Some organizations are incentivizing potential hires by offering scholarship programs for advanced degrees. How do you think the healthcare industry can fix this problem? https://loom.ly/H9r-4Y4

Missouri’s nursing workforce has grown over the past two years, but despite those gains, experts and hospital leaders say, the numbers aren’t growing fast enough.

02/24/2023

Many school systems have banned the use of AI chatbots, but there are just as many educators that think the use of technologies like ChatGPT could be beneficial to students' education & ability to contribute to discussion, as well as improvements for educators (aiding in lesson planning, etc.). How do you think this will affect education? https://loom.ly/ikMajh4

The advancement of artificial intelligence has made substantial progress in recent years and impacted various fields and industries, including education. One of the latest breakthroughs in this field is ChatGPT, an AI language model launched by OpenAI on Nov. 30. AI models like ChatGPT have the a

02/22/2023

“As a region, the more we think about our investments holistically and consider both the social and economic impact they can achieve, the sooner we will unlock billions of dollars to invest in creating a much more vibrant, equitable, and sustainable future for St. Louis and the world more broadly." A great read and a great investment! https://loom.ly/p8pB9t4

BJC Healthcare announces investment in Wepower Capital.

02/20/2023

Happy Presidents' Day! Today we celebrate all of our presidents, past, present and future.