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On the Edge of Health and Design

Nita Lakhani and Sylvia Szkudlarek

The podcast where Healthcare meets Design. We feature conversations around healthcare innovation with patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals and designers. Your cohosts are Nita Lakhani (healthcare professional) and Sylvia Szkudlarek (designer). We are based in Toronto, Canada. Follow us on Instagram @ontheedgeofhd

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00:37:59

Living a Bipolar Life with Kiki Kamdar (Episode 34)

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2026/02/01

To kick of 2026, we spoke with Kiki (Kajal) Kamdar, a health and wellness advocate who shared her past experience as a caregiver for a partner experiencing mental illness. Kiki turned to hiking as a way to combat stress, connect with nature and develop her community. Through hiking, Kiki learned to "live a bipolar life" on her own terms, with self compassion. If this episode resonates with you or someone you know struggling with mental illness, please pass it along! ResourcesKiki's

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00:37:11

The Evolution of Mental Health Nursing with Aideen...

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2025/10/27

This month, we highlight Aideen Carroll, Advanced Practice Nurse Educator and champion of mental health nursing!Of note, Aideen shared her love of the history of mental health/health care and provided examples of the design and evolution of products and processes towards improving experiences for both patients and providers. Aideen’s key takeaway was challenging future generations with normalizing mental health as a part of our overall health. We hope you loved this episode as much as we

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00:14:05

From Kenya to Canada in search of Community (Episode 32)

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2025/09/03

In this summer recap episode, your cohost, Nita shares her personal reflections following her recent Heritage Journey to Kenya, Africa. Nita revisits the concept of Designing your Life and shares how her own Indian, African and Canadian heritage shapes her current quest to find communities of belonging. Are you looking for your community? Feel free to reach out to us with comments, questions and reflections of your own. ResourcesEpisode 30: Design your Life with Demi YooEpisode 31: Breathe into

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00:34:40

Breathe into Balance with Manjit Hansra (episode 31)

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2025/07/13

This month, we spoke with Manjit Hansra, a pharmacist, breathwork facilitator and entrepreneur. Manjit shared his personal story of burnout working as a pharmacist and pharmacy owner. After attending wellness retreats in different countries, Manjit became certified as a breathwork facilitator and founded Rx for Renewal, a company focused on helping healthcare leaders live a life of joy through balancing their work and wellbeing. We invited Manjit to demonstrate a breathwork technique for us - watch

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00:33:14

Design your Life with Demi Yoo (episode 30)

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2025/06/29

This month, we chatted with Demi Yoo, a marketing professional who is also a self-described health and wellness junkie. Demi discovered meditation during a dark period in her life and found that this helped her mental health. Demi shared her most challenging meditation experience to-date, a 10 day Vipassana meditation retreat that had her meditating for a total of 100 hours! In Demi’s words, this experience changed her life! She’s happy to share the details of how to register for this in Ontario,

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00:11:48

Night Shift Work and Your Health (episode 29)

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2025/05/31

In our May episode, your cohost Nita shares her recent experience with working night shifts in a healthcare setting. According to the Institute for Health and Work (non-profit organization based in Toronto, Canada), there are several adverse health effects associated with shift work, particularly with long-term exposure to working night shifts. Mitigation strategies are recommended at both organizational and personal levels to optimize the health and wellbeing of shift workers. Do you have

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00:30:59

S3, E7: Are you Ageist? With Ju Eun Lee

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2025/04/30

This month, we spoke with Ju Eun Lee, a geriatric psychiatrist based in Toronto, Canada. Ju Eun is a passionate advocate against ageism.She highlighted the World Health Organization’s (WHO) definition of ageism, which refers to stereotypes around how we think, feel and act towards older adults. Globally, one in two of us are ageist! Ageism is associated with poor health, social and economic impacts. The WHO identified three types of ageism - self-directed, interpersonal and institutional. These

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00:18:10

S3, E6: Communication meets Healthcare Design

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2025/03/23

In celebration of pharmacist awareness month, your cohost Nita (pharmacist/designer/podcaster) is interviewed by Sajid, a colleague from their Toronto Go-Getters Toastmasters club. Sajid and Nita discuss Nita's communication journey with Toastmasters and how that intersects with her roles as a pharmacist and podcaster. We hope you take something of value from this episode to apply to your professional and/or personal journey!

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00:33:13

S3, E5: Longevity Medicine with Cory Goldberg

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2025/02/18

In our first video format episode, we welcome Dr. Cory Goldberg a Canadian plastic surgeon with experience in reconstructive and cosmetic surgery. Cory highlighted several challenges facing the Canadian healthcare system using the analogy of the Titanic ship sinking. Key opportunities for health system change include providing wellness services outside of our public healthcare system. Towards this end, Cory cofounded HealthSpan Digital, a B2B longevity technology company. Digital tools curated by

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00:30:16

S3, E4: Constructing Health with Tye Farrow

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2025/01/15

In our January 2025 kick off episode, we interview Tye Farrow, a Canadian architect and author of the book Constructing Health: How the Built Environment Enhances Your Mind’s Health. Tye has initiated a global “Cause Health” movement aimed at raising expectations for design as the basis for total health, which extends beyond environmental, sustainability and physical health to encompass our mind health. In our conversation, Tye explains how mind health differs from mental health and how the built

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00:31:42

S3, E3: Compassionate Healthcare with Anita Simon

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2024/12/18

For our final episode of 2024, we interviewed Anita Simon, a Canadian healthcare designer with diverse experiences ranging from academia, industry, non-profit and patient advocacy. Anita emphasized the need to shift our healthcare systems from industrial practices focused on improving cost and efficiency outcome measures towards measuring outcomes that truly matter to patients and families. Anita described her family’s challenges with seeking compassionate care for their daughter when she was

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00:31:50

S3, E2: The Duality of Healthcare with Faizal Kassam

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2024/11/17

In this month's episode, we welcome Faizal Kassam, a Canadian family physician, who completed medical school/training in Australia. Faizal is currently working as a family physician in Australia, making him the most remotely located guest we have interviewed to date!Based on his dual perspectives as a physician and a patient/caregiver, Faizal identified several challenges facing the Canadian healthcare system, including public mistrust, inadequate funding to address complex problems, and healthcare

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S3, E1: Digital Health Innovation with Jean-Francois...

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2024/10/15

In season 3 of our podcast, we’re getting back into interviewing people working and playing On the Edge of healthcare and design! In this month's episode, we welcome Jean-Francois Couture from Applications MD. Applications MD is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving care in medical resuscitation. As the Director of Operations for Applications MD, Jean-Francois oversees the strategic planning, marketing, and implementation of their flagship product, EZResus, an application that guides

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00:26:28

S2, E7: A Forest in Colour with Viviana

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2024/09/09

In this much anticipated follow-up episode with Viviana (arQ RunicoS), an interdisciplinary artist based in Montreal, your cohosts discover that her Forest in Colour has germinated and grown into an exhibition!To celebrate Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, Viviana's exhibition will be showcased at La Galerie Atelier Lucie Michel in Montreal from September 12 through 29, 2024. Viviana shares her inspiration and artistic process for a Forest in Colour and highlights how art and design fuel

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00:12:49

S2, E6: Beaches Wisdom

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2024/07/21

Your host, Nita, decided to try another solo episode based on her thoughts during her latest run along the Beaches area in Toronto. Nita shares her practice of acknowledging other runners and how that might translate into acknowledgement in healthcare settings. Notably, the #hellomynameis campaign launched by Dr. Kate Granger in 2013, shows us how designing patient focused healthcare experiences starts with introductions. Acknowledgements Sandra-Viviana's website: https://arqrunicos.ca/ Hello

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00:13:58

S2, E5: The Power of Your Voice

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2024/06/24

In this month’s episode, your co-host, Nita, flies solo and shares personal updates on: SIC Health, our Mental Health Project, and the future of this podcast. This episode was inspired by Season 3 of the Netflix series, Bridgerton, and the brilliant monologue delivered by character Penelope Featherington!We're looking for your input on our Mental Health Project. Vote on LinkedIn for what you see as the most pressing pain points when searching for a therapist. Listen to this episode for details

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00:19:23

S2, E4: How Might We Create Impact?

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2024/05/30

In this month's episode, we continue with our Learning On the Edge series, this time experimenting with an audio/video format!We introduce a Design for Social Innovation Tool - the Impact Gaps Canvas. This tool allows users to take a systems leadership approach to innovation in their careers and/or initiatives/projects. Our video includes an image of the tool (see Resources below for link) and a brief interview-style discussion around how we used the tool to explore a problem in mental health

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00:14:53

S2, E3: What's the real problem?

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2024/04/28

In this podcast episode, your cohosts demystify how to define the real problem and why it's a crucial step in the Design for Health process. We briefly review the Double Diamond Method from our last episode and explain how insights revealed through our Discovery Interviews were used to draft a Problem Statement. We'll review two tools that could help you - Empathy Mapping and the 5 Ws. Finally, we end with a practical example of how defining the problem could help in a healthcare setting

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00:22:11

S2, E2: Let's Discover Discovery Interviews!

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2024/03/31

In Season 2, we return to Learning On the Edge (with SIC), where we'll explain the key elements of the Design Process using the Double Diamond method. In this month's episode, we focus on the first diamond - Discovery, and specifically, the tool - Discovery Interviews. We define Discovery Interviews, share some tips for conducting your own interviews, and provide examples of interviews we’ve conducted around a problem in the mental health context. Resources 1. Double Diamond method, Design

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00:18:24

S2, E1: What does On the Edge mean to you?

On the Edge of Health and Design ·

2024/02/25

Welcome to Season 2 of our podcast, On the Edge with SIC! This season, we'll experiment with some shorter length, learning oriented episodes.In this episode, we review responses to our most important question from Season 1 - What does On the Edge mean to you? We've compiled 6 responses to this question from our Season 1 interviewees around the theme of knowledge and learning. As well, we share our personal insights and professional experiences on this theme. We hope you learn something

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