I am Ileana Torres, the producer of this podcast, and I hope you enjoy listening.

Hello, and thank you for listening.

My name is Erica Wehrwein, and I am a professor of physiology at Michigan State University.

Today, I am joined by my co-authors, Steve Elmer, professor in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program at St. Catherine's University, and Samantha Musso, PhD candidate in pharmacology and toxicology at Michigan State University.

And together, we're excited to discuss our recent publication in Advances in Physiology Education titled "Health in Translation: A Workshop Model for Health Literacy and Lay Science Communication." Our students become very skilled at learning scientific concepts and communicating with other scientists, but they often have fewer opportunities to practice explaining health and science concepts to people without a science background.

As physiology educators, we recognize that health information is increasingly shared through social media, news outlets, healthcare settings, and community conversations.

Whether our students become healthcare professionals, researchers, educators, or other science professionals, they need the ability to communicate clearly with diverse audiences.

We're currently writing up the results from this project, and we hope to have the, them published soon.

Hello,

and thank you for listening.

My name is Erica Wehrwein, and I am a professor of physiology at Michigan State University.

I am excited to discuss my recent editorial in Advances in Physiology Education.

The editorial asks one simple question, who will teach physiology? And it also invites a call to action for improving the pipeline for broadly trained health science educators with expertise across organ systems.

Whether students are preparing for careers in biomedical research, medicine, or other health professions, physiology remains central to their training.

At the same time, many institutions are struggling to recruit broadly trained physiology educators to teach these students.