Skip to main content
Danny van Leeuwen - Learn with people on the journey toward best health
Hit enter to search or ESC to close
Close Search
Danny van Leeuwen    Health Hats
search
Menu
  • Podcast
  • Topics
    • Patient Engagement
    • CDS: Choices About Your Health
    • Caregiving
    • Adaptive Travel
    • Covid-19
    • Chronic Pain Management
    • Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Medical Care
    • Interviews of Danny
    • Family Caregivers: Hospital to Home
  • YouTube Channel
  • Support
  • Explore
  • Contact
  • search
Aug 15 2026
Love0
Smiling man in a blue helmet sits on a blue recumbent tricycle with side pannier bags on a city sidewalk.

2-Minute Bitch Session in 14 Minutes

By Danny van Leeuwen Family man, Musician, Podcasts, Video No Comments

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:31 — 12.4MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | RSS | More

Pathological optimism meets its cathartic downside. Listen to a 2-minute burst about what sucks in life as I ride my recumbent trike. It’s lame & heartfelt. Read More

Aug 05 2026
Love0
First-person view along a tree-lined park path, with legs and sneakers in the foreground on a bike ride.

I Love This So Much I Have to Do Less of It

By Danny van Leeuwen Family man, Podcasts No Comments

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:01 — 4.6MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | RSS | More

Less, more frequently. Keeping my glorious subscribers up to date on some changes.
Read More

Jul 19 2026
Love0
Logo for 'Practical AI in Healthcare' featuring an orange brain and circuit chip inside a rounded square on a blue background.

296 Pages of Data, Zero Bites of Information

By Danny van Leeuwen Advocate, ePatient, Informaticist, Podcasts, Researcher

Podcast: Play in new window | Download () | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | RSS | More

As a nurse with MS, I’m interviewed about AI’s real role in care: pattern recognition, human-in-the-loop skepticism, and the Three T’s and Two C’s framework. Read More

Jun 14 2026
Love0

Alone in a Dark Hospital Room, She Asked Claude

By Danny van Leeuwen Advocate, ePatient, Podcasts, Video

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 33:06 — 26.5MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | RSS | More

Using AI to track symptoms, weigh medication options, and advocate. Not a cure, a toolkit. An honest, careful path without handing over the wheel. Read More

May 11 2026
Love0

Nurses’ Week, Handel’s Messiah, Oldest Maternity Hospital!

By Danny van Leeuwen Clinician, Leader, Podcasts, Traveler, Video

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:58 — 12.0MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | RSS | More

From a 10-bed lying-in hospital to Handel’s Messiah, the Rotunda Maternity Hospital has operated continuously for 281 years. A Nurses’ Week story. Read More

Apr 18 2026
Love0

Participatory Governance: Right People Right Question

By Danny van Leeuwen Advocate, ePatient, Leader, Podcasts

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:49 — 15.9MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | RSS | More

Participatory governance in healthcare means asking the right people the right questions. Three stories where listening as leadership changed everything.
Read More

Mar 10 2026
Love0

Transparency in AI: How the Sausage Gets Made

By Danny van Leeuwen Caregiver, ePatient, Informaticist, Podcasts, Researcher

Transparency sounds simple until you’re standing in a meatpacking plant. Health Hats digs into what we want to know—and why it matters.

Read More

Mar 01 2026
Love0

Crutches, Caves, and Currents: Tubing in Belize

By Danny van Leeuwen Podcasts, Traveler, Video

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:44 — 18.2MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | RSS | More

Health Hats walks & floats through ancient Maya caves in Belize with forearm crutches, teamwork, trust, and shared decision-making every step of the way.

Read More

Feb 08 2026
Love0

If You Have a Body, You’re an Athlete: Training for MS

By Danny van Leeuwen Podcasts, Traveler

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 34:26 — 27.6MB) | Embed

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Email | RSS | More

Former Nike exec Mark Hochgesang interviews Danny on Heavy Hitter Sports Podcast about MS & being an adaptive athlete. Just back from Belize! Training works.

Read More

Jan 17 2026
Love0

Trust Me, I’m Deciding. When Data Meets Doubt.

By Danny van Leeuwen Advocate, Podcasts, Video

Trust: 120 episodes and still learning. This time: how we decide to act on health data. It’s messy. Let’s wade in together.

Read More

Get New Posts via Email

Your support is appreciated

Donate

Subscribe to my podcast:

Apple PodcastsAndroidby EmailRSSMore Subscribe Options

Subscribe to my YouTube channel:

Categories

  • Advocate
  • Caregiver
  • Clinician
  • Consumer
  • ePatient
  • Family man
  • Informaticist
  • Leader
  • Musician
  • Podcasts
  • Researcher
  • Traveler
  • Uncategorized
  • Video
  • Written Only

Search This Site

Tags:

inclusion retirement podcasting adherence transitions choices interoperability safe living Recovery chronic illness lived experience Patient Expert person-first Care Partner learning research disability Social Determinants of Health primary care implementation science community action music Young Adult diversity empowerment questions Adaptive Travel measurement MS habits ePatient decision-making self-care community research innovation continual learning clinical decision support partnerships Failure mental illness leadership goals consent parenting engagement CEO of Your Health health partners end-of-life technology access coaching evidence caregiving saxophone grief Pain Citizen participation superpower multiple sclerosis stress management patient engagement Holocaust podcast magic lever health team improv EHR health literacy mindfulness Data trust cancer young adults pain management Covid-19 wheelchair People at the Center of Care emerging adults Community Health PCORI Impact Learning care planning Best health Society for Participatory Medicine Health equity Rest storytelling resilience Exercise community Behavioral Health advocacy Medical Record PHR artificial intelligence Mentoring travelogue threshold Camino de Santiago relationships

Health Hats

  • Podcast
  • Topics
    • Patient Engagement
    • CDS: Choices About Your Health
    • Caregiving
    • Adaptive Travel
    • Covid-19
    • Chronic Pain Management
    • Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Medical Care
    • Interviews of Danny
    • Family Caregivers: Hospital to Home
  • YouTube Channel
  • Support
  • Explore
  • Contact

Follow Me:

Receive Health Hats Posts by Email:

© 2026 Danny van Leeuwen Health Hats.

Close Menu
Danny van Leeuwen - Learn with people on the journey toward best health
  • Podcast
  • Topics
    • Patient Engagement
    • CDS: Choices About Your Health
    • Caregiving
    • Adaptive Travel
    • Covid-19
    • Chronic Pain Management
    • Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Medical Care
    • Interviews of Danny
    • Family Caregivers: Hospital to Home
  • YouTube Channel
  • Support
  • Explore
  • Contact