How can clinicians better meet the needs of patients and their families struggling with long COVID?
Learn about the physical and non-physical impacts of COVID in today's podcast.

Today’s episode, Long COVID: Supporting Patients and Families’, reviews new research on long COVID, and the devastating impact long COVID can have. Guest, MCN’s Kaethe Weingarten, Ph.D. (she/her), Director of the Witness to Witness (W2W) Program and episode host, MCN’s Pamela Secada-Sayles, MPH Senior Program Manager of Witness to Witness, discuss the impacts of long COVID which have been shown to affect patients, their families, and caregivers psychologically and relationally.


Clinicians serving patients from immigrant, migrant, and other under-resourced communities, will learn to better understand the challenges patients and their families may face before, during, and after a long COVID diagnosis, and ways to assist them through the process of coping with illness.


This is one of several episodes exploring the long-term impacts of COVID in ‘COVID’s Lasting Impact: Caring for Immigrant, Migrant and Asylee Patients,’ MCN’s podcast miniseries. Find this series, a part of our podcast, ‘On the Move with MCN’, wherever you listen to podcasts, or click one of these links. Be sure to subscribe to get notified of future episodes!

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Guest

Kaethe Weingarten, PhD
Director of the Witness to Witness Program

Migrant Clinicians Network

Kaethe Weingarten, Ph.D. (she/her) is the founder the Witness to Witness (W2W) Program. The goal of W2W is to help the helpers, primarily serving health care workers, attorneys and journalists working with vulnerable populations. She received her doctorate from Harvard University in 1974. She has taught at Wellesley College (1975-1979), Harvard Medical School (1981-2017), where she was an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital Boston and then Cambridge Health Alliance, and at the Family Institute of Cambridge (1982-2009). She founded and directed the Program in Families, Trauma and Resilience at the Family Institute of Cambridge. Internationally, she has taught in Africa, Australia, Canada, Europe and New Zealand, where she was a Fullbright Specialist. She has given over 300 presentations and been a keynote speaker at numerous local, national and international conferences. She serves on the editorial boards of five journals. In 2002 she was awarded the highest honor of the American Family Therapy Academy, the award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Theory and Practice. She has written about her work in six books (which she has authored or edited) and over 100 articles, chapters and essays. Her most recent book, Common Shock: Witnessing Violence Every Day- How We Are Harmed, How We Can Heal won the 2004 Nautilus Award for Social Change. Dr. Weingarten’s work focuses on the development and dissemination of a witnessing model. One prong of the work is about the effects of witnessing violence and trauma in the context of domestic, inter-ethnic, racial, political and other forms of conflict. The other prong of the witnessing work is in the context of healthcare, illness and disability. Her work on reasonable hope has been widely cited. In 2013, Dr. Weingarten and her husband moved to Berkeley, CA to be near their children and five grandchildren. There she resumed a dance and choreography practice she had let lapse for forty-five years. Since moving to Berkeley, she and her dance collaborator have been awarded five grants for their choreography with elder dancers applying a witnessing model in public spaces. In 2018 they performed at the Oakland Museum of California. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, baking and crocheting afghans.

Episode Host

Pamela Secada-Sayles, MPH
Senior Program Manager, Witness to Witness

Migrant Clinicians Network

Pamela Secada-Sayles is the program manager for the Witness to Witness program at Migrant Clinicians Network. She received her doctoral degree in education at USC. Her dissertation focus is on examining organizational and leadership practices that have impacted employee wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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