Self-care is Healthcare with Dr. Marjorie Dejoie Brewer

Vitamin SC3

The Vitamin SC3 podcast was developed by the Sickle Cell Community Consortium. This new broadcast features different themes each week for the sickle cell community, their families, supporters, healthcare workers, and allies. Each week episodes of the Vitamin SC3 Podcast will air in the following order:

1. The Creative Elixir with Mia Robinson

2. Caring is Giving, hosted by Elle Cole

3. Essential RX hosted by Dr. Lametra Scott

4. Self-care is Healthcare hosted by Dr. Marjorie Brewer

During this introductory episode, we spoke to our new mental health segment host, Dr. Marjorie Dejoie Brewer. You'll get an opportunity to meet Dr. Brewer, hear what fuels her passions, and learn what to expect from her new segment "Self-care is Healthcare" which focuses on mental health awareness for sickle cell patients and their families.

About Dr. Marjorie Dejoie Brewer our Self-care is Healthcare segment host
Marjorie DeJoie-Brewer, MD, is a medical director of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Philadelphia/Delaware Valley Chapter. She is also a research liaison for hydroxyurea education at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. DeJoie-Brewer found out that she had SCD as a second-year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania. In service to the SCD cause, Dr. DeJoie-Brewer is the medical director for her local SCD association, research clinician at Children’s Hospital, and owner of her own private wellness practice.

Please tune in next week for Episode 3. Mia Robinson will host our Creative Elixir segment.

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