Dr. Ethan Fried opens the APDIM Chief Residents Meeting every year and has done so for the past 11 years. His Plenary Session introduces the “Life Cycle of a Chief Resident” and he is faced with the responsibility of exciting over 800 Chief Residents from the medical field about their upcoming milestone in their career. Dr. Ethan Fried currently serves as the Program Director for the Chief’s Residents program at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine at Lennox Hill Hospital. Beyond teaching and presenting lectures to large audiences, his creativity comes into play amongst every student - or learner - along with all patients that he or his learners must treat. We discuss communication, sensitivity, and establishing trust… meanwhile I break that trust embarrassing him during “Name That Sample”.

Madeline Weinstein exploded out of Northwestern University finding herself acting on Broadway in The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard alongside Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ewan McGregor, and Cynthia Nixon. Following Broadway, she worked at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago on a play written by and starring Tracy Letts. At the time of our conversation, Madeline just came back from the Sundance Film Festival where the film she was in entitled Beach Rats was shown and picked up. We talk differences in approach between stage and film as well as what it means to “listen”. She’s an expert at setting records… even in categories she doesn’t want.