『An Emergency Physician and a Children’s Book: Shan Liu Honors Her Great-Grandfather and his Innovation』のカバーアート

An Emergency Physician and a Children’s Book: Shan Liu Honors Her Great-Grandfather and his Innovation

An Emergency Physician and a Children’s Book: Shan Liu Honors Her Great-Grandfather and his Innovation

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 What happens when an emergency medicine physician discovers that the N95 mask she's wearing every day during the COVID-19 pandemic was invented by her own great-great-grandfather over a century ago? Dr. Shan Liu joins me for a conversation that weaves together family legacy, innovation from the margins, and the power of storytelling to fight racism. Shan is an emergency medicine physician at Mass General Hospital, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, and a children's book author. Her award-winning book, Masked Hero: How Wu Lien-Teh Invented the Mask That Ended an Epidemic, tells the remarkable story of her great-great-great-grandfather who created the first respiratory mask during the 1910 Manchurian plague outbreak. Wu Lien-Teh was the first Chinese Malaysian to study medicine at Cambridge, faced relentless racism throughout his career, and became the first Chinese person nominated for a Nobel Prize in medicine. We talk about how the pandemic brought this family story full circle. Shan shares what it was like working on the frontlines while her great-grandfather's innovation was suddenly everywhere, the frustration of watching public health lessons from Asia being ignored, and the anti-Asian sentiment that was rising around her. Out of that stress and passion came a book project with her then-first-grade daughter, born from a simple desire to show her children Asian heroes and give hope that masks could end the pandemic. Website: shanwuliu.com If you enjoy the show, please leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ rating on Apple or a 👍🏻 on YouTube. Subscribe via the Website. Forward to a friend today!
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