John Rich on Radio Rounds

On Sunday, Feb. 28th, Radio Rounds (www.radiorounds.org) recognized Black History Month with a special one-hour event, including John Rich as a featured guest. The program is available for free download on iTunes (episode 309: Black History Month). John Rich is the author of Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men.

Radio Rounds ™ is a weekly medical radio talk show produced by medical students at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. The first and only radio show in the United States that is produced entirely by medical students, Radio Rounds explores the qualities of humanism in medicine through different perspectives — those of world-renowned physicians, authors, students, and health care leaders. 

John A. Rich, M.D., M.P.H., is the chair of and a professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the Drexel University School of Public Health, where he is also the director of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice. A 2006 MacArthur Fellow, Rich founded the Young Men's Health Clinic in Boston and is the former medical director of the Boston Public Health Commission. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2009.