Month: February 2019

With more than 35 years of experience leading and serving in healthcare, Thomas Dahlborg also volunteers for a wide range of non-profits and loves his time coaching young men’s basketball.

In 2019 he expects to publish his healthcare book, From Heart to Head and Back Again … a journey through the healthcare system,about his experiences as both a patient who was told he would never work again and get in line for a heart transplant … and as a health leader with a mission to fix the brokenness of healthcare system.

Tom cares deeply about positioning individuals, teams, and communities to achieve their mission while living their values and cherishes the opportunity to engage in meaningful and impactful ways.

He is the author of the new book, The Big Kid and Basketball … and the lessons he taught his Father & Coach — based primarily on his days coaching recreational basketball. See: thebigkidandbasketball.wordpress.com

Tom co-authored the paper, Partnering with Parents and Families to Provide Safer Care: Seeing and Achieving Safer Care through the Lens of Patients and Families with Dale Ann Micalizzi and Hannah Zhu, MD.

Meg Busing knows that everything can change in an instant. After emerging from a coma with a traumatic brain injury that would lead to a decade long battle with intractable epilepsy, she discovered that the world does not always understand invisible challenges. However, nothing has stopped her from boldly pursuing her dreams. As founder and Executive Director of the Midwest YouCan Foundation, Meg has created Camp YouCan-a unique opportunity for kids and young adults with Epilepsy to come together to see all that they CAN do. See: midwestyoucan.org for more information, and Meg’s TedX Talk.

Gordon Brown is founder of nonprofit Team Veteran Foundation, Inc. and Team Veteran LLC. He served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War 1972-1980. He served aboard the aircraft carriers USS Oriskany CVA/CV-34 and USS Ranger CV- 61. He served in Guam in the mid 1970’s and worked with several government agencies to investigate and stop a major drug smuggling operation, moving heroin from Thailand through Guam bound for the U.S. Transferred to the Naval Drug Rehabilitation Center (NDRC) at NAS Miramar, he was promoted to Petty Officer 1st Class. MM1 Brown was a Senior Counselor, Suicide Prevention Officer, Military Liaison Officer for Narcotics Anonymous, initiating the therapy program that eventually became the standard core-therapy for the entire Naval Drug Rehabilitation programs worldwide. He proudly served in the U.S. Merchant Marines as an Engineering Officer from 1981-1993 and left the USNR as a LCDR. He’s a service-connected disabled veteran and also experienced a near fatal TBI affording him a unique perspective on the challenges that face our Veterans and their families associated with this injury. See: tvfaz.org

Dr Maria Romanas returns to expand on our series pertaining to Relational Skills. We have discussed self love, intimacy and this time, how to create and spread the love around! Of course all relational skills are pivotal, and something we should be reviewing, expanding and revisiting with frequency. Relationships of all kinds are challenging enough, especially in this time of conflict and the notable spread of hate.

Dr Maria is a staff pathologist, who suffered a severe TBI in 1984 that changed the course of both her professional and personal life. Eventually she attended an intensive holistic cognitive rehabilitation program (HCR) that improved her relational skills and the quality of her relationships. Listen how ..