Dr. Joseph Ladapo
Transcend Fear: A Blueprint for Mindful Leadership in Public Health
A fascinating look into the life of a state surgeon general and how his public health decisions provide a blueprint for fearless leadership and better national health policy.
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo shares the inspiring story of how he came to be who he is. After experiencing abuse as a child, Dr. Ladapo was incapable of connecting emotionally with other people. He was dissociated from virtually everything in his life and numbly powered through college, medical school, and residency to become a doctor and university professor. It wasn’t until he fell in love with his wife that he was forced to come face-to-face with the enormous emotional and spiritual disruption caused by his deeply buried trauma. Just before the pandemic, Dr. Ladapo worked with a former Navy Seal who used a mix of ancient disciplines and modern techniques to help free him from this trauma—and subsequently, his fear.
When the pandemic hit Los Angeles, Dr. Ladapo found himself well-equipped to observe the panic and fear that overtook the hospital where he was working—and the country—without becoming part of it. From this state of emotional clarity, he recognized that it was too late to take any public health measures that would significantly change the deadliness of the pandemic, and that it was more important to face the challenge squarely and focus on building capacity to treat patients without destroying society in the process. His message that panic, fear, and politics were fueling harmful decisions—like disavowing the possibility that hydroxychloroquine could effectively treat COVID-19—made him the target of fierce criticism.
In Transcend Fear: A Blueprint for Mindful Leadership in Public Health, Dr. Ladapo describes his views on public health restrictions, early home treatment, and COVID-19 vaccines, along with how Florida officials made public health decisions that set it apart from other states—and nations. Based on this experience, Dr. Ladapo explains how states can make better public health decisions in the future, recommending that health officials obtain training in decision analysis and expand their consciousness of how fear can shape perspectives and create dangerous outcomes—particularly during a crisis.
Dr. Zywiec attended The Ohio State University and graduated magna cum laude in biology with a minor in chemistry while conducting and publishing research in both lipidomics and protein biochemistry. His studies ranged from inflammatory cascades in phospholipase D, thermodynamics of MARTX toxin in V. cholera, and actin plastin dynamics as related to cancer metastasis. He would graduate a member of Sigma Xi, Sigma Alpha Lambda, Golden Key, IDLS, a 2x Chic Harley Scholarship recipient, and a Denman winner. He would then go on to accept The Chancellor’s Circle Legacy of Excellence Scholarship to a dual MD/MS Program at St. George’s University School of Medicine, being duly trained in neuroalgorithmic assessment of neuroimaging at The University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. He graduated medical school cum laude in 2019 with Distinction in Research and the Research Commendation Award. Dr. Zywiec specialized in pediatric medicine with a focus on emergency care, and recently opened a clinic dedicated to natural and holistic treatment of chronic illness and vaccine injury.
Founder and Medical Director of Villa Health.
Dr. Villa has been serving the area of The Villages(R) for more than 20 years.
Dr. Villa completed her internship at Albert Einstein BL Medical Center (New York), residency training at Saint Joseph Medical Center Seton Hall University (New Jersey) and her Pulmonary Sleep and Critical Care Fellowship at Tulane Medical Center Tulane University (Louisiana). Her undergraduate studies were completed at Southampton University (UK). She took another fellowship in Functional and Anti-Aging Medicine under A4M (American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine). She is also a certified Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement and Nutrition Therapy provider.
She is currently affiliated with University of Florida Health, The Villages Hospital and Leesburg Hospital. Dr. Villa is Board Certified Pulmonologist & Internist from NBPAS.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Villa aka “The Covid Slayer” has treated thousands of acute cases successfully, long hauler, and now Covid Vaccine Injuries both with her own treatment protocols and others.