- We operate wherever health and creativity intersect
- We specialize in helping physicians and other professionals make, market, and monetize their creativity
- We reach highly-targeted audiences each month including over 25k physicians, 25k medical students, 1.5M mental health content consumers and music fans
- We partner with change agents who share our commitment to the common good and changing society for the better
- We operate wherever health and creativity intersect
- Ars Longa Media exists to inject a dose of creativity in unexpected places. We’re physician-led and our team specializes in working with physician-creators to develop impactful media and educational channels. But, there’s a lot more to ALM…
- Ars Longa, Vita Brevis - Hippocrates “Life is short; art is forever”
- Place logos of groups we’ve worked with: Panacea, MiCARES, Elsevier, InsideTheBoards, Evergreen, Tragic Hero Music Group, U.S. Army, etc.
Our Mission
Ars Longa Media exists to inject a dose of creativity in unexpected places. We operate wherever health and creativity intersect. Where it makes sense, we aim to add a scientifically-informed perspective to media and entertainment and a bit of poetry and art to health care and commerce. In today’s world, this involves a bit of “intellectual anarchy” (hence our logo). We strive to improve lives by strategically partnering with those who share our goals to address social ills like the stigmatization of mental illness and the rising epidemic of substance use disorders.
What's with the name?
From Ars Longa Media Founder, Dr. Patrick Beeman
I’m a medical doctor with a background in philosophy and classics, and I love naming things. That’s the simple explanation. Plus, I once heard it said that Latin is not a dead language, but rather an immortal one. So calling the project something Latinate made sense to me.
In any case, we get our name from the Latin phrase, “Ars Longa, Vita Brevis” which is attributed to Hippocrates. It’s often translated “art is long, life is short.” But more broadly, the idea is that creativity perdures despite the brevity of life. Given its Hippocratic provenance, the term art here, then, refers specifically to the art of medicine, and doctoring is my jam, so why not?
I believe the concept of “health” is the proper subject of the discipline of medicine, much like “life” orients biology or mythology is the study of myth. Medicine has become, in the minds of many, merely applied biology. But it isn’t.
Medicine is not a science, but rather an art that uses science. My specific contribution to the Ars Longa Initiative then, I hope, is to get people, especially medical students and doctors, to rethink their fundamental assumptions about the nature of our profession. To recover a more traditional concept of medicine as a “moral community”, as it were, and restore a sense of leadership and responsibility in physicians. We’re supposed to be healers and we’re supposed to be experts in health who steer the course of health care. I’m hoping that having my fellow doctors engaged in creative work amongst non-medical creative types will help reinvigorate our profession, in some small way.
Network Partners
For Creators
ALM operates a lot like a healthcare team. Physicians may lead that team, but couldn’t effectively treat patients without knowing the limits of their own expertise, deferring to team members, and allowing them the autonomy to do what they do best. Administrative personnel, nursing staff, physical therapists,phlebotomists, and mid-level practitioners are all needed for effective patient care. ALM leads a select group of organizations in the creative, sales, merchandise, production and entertainment industries to provide effective care for your project.
As a physician-led organization, we know the unique challenges health professionals face when trying to build a content platform and get their message out. We have a an entire team of creatives who know the ins and outs of working with medical professionals and producing health media content. Joining ALM’s network means getting an experienced group of people behind your project to handle all aspects of your project. We’re sort of like a record label for podcasters. In fact, many of the people who contribute our work also work for actual record label. And just like a record label, we provide our creators with comprehensive support that includes all aspects of production, management, direction, representation, monetization, and creative design required to make a media endeavor successful.
Two particularly unique capabilities of our network are the ability for creators to offer CME to their audience and merchandise/physical products with little to no upfront cost. Interested in applying to join our network or saving yourself some headaches by letting us handle your production needs? Fill out the contact form below.
- End-to-End Production
- Podcast
- Social Media Management
- YouTube Channel development
- Talent Representation
- Platform Management
- Content Development
- Web Design
- Monetization
- Merchandise
- Marketing
- Content Licensing
- Music Production and Distribution
For Sponsoring Partners
We’re especially looking for long-term, collaborative partners who share our goals. What are those goals? Who is an ideal fit for our network?
You support our efforts to be change agents working to improve health care and positively impact the wider culture. Check out our Addiction // Recovery project to see what we mean.
You want to create effective campaigns that target our principal audiences: practicing physicians, medical students, other health professionals, people who consume mental health content, and music fans.
You like the idea of “shaking up” the way “ads” are done in the podcasting and content world. Yes we can place traditional 30-60 second promo spots on our podcasts or YouTube channels. But if you really want engagement and to help us convince our audiences that your product or service is worth supporting, let our “Code Periwinkle” writing team including Docschmidt make a creative promo sketch for you that people will watch and listen to. We want to make “ads” that are worth watching or listening to in and of themselves. You know, like Super Bowl commercials.
You have a product, message, or service that will benefit or inspire our audiences
Our sponsorship packages are tailored for maximum reach and vary by target audience, specific channel, production, long-term relationship potential of a prospective partner, and the creative input required of the team. Channels with primarily physician audiences tend to command higher rates. But we can work with almost any budget and only build campaigns that the sponsor, audience, and creators can all get excited about. ALM is growing fast so if you’re interested in working together, fill out the form below and we’ll send you an updated media kit.
2023 Network Highlights
Across all content media and social channels we reach at least 50k physicians monthly, 50k health professionals or students, and over 1.5M people interested in mental health
Our Creators
Ted O'Connell
MD
Raj Dasgupt
MD
Tracey Marks
MD
Todd Grande
PHD
Travis McVay,
MD
Mike Friedman
PHD
Ben Schmidt
MD
About Company
Our principal audiences are comprised of physicians, medical students, and mental health content consumers. to inject a dose of creativity in unexpected places. We operate wherever health and creativity intersect
ADDRESS
86 Road Broklyn Street 600. New York M68036. United States of America
Meet Our Team
Patrick C. Beeman, MD
CO-FOUNDER AND CHIEF EMAIL OFFICER
Patrick is a father of five kids, Air Force veteran, physician, writer, medical educator, quondam philosophy professor and obviously still trying to figure it out. He is a proud Ohioan, and admits to being a shitty Catholic. Learn more about Dr. Beeman at linktr.ee/DrBeeman.
Homeschooled for most of his life (which explains a lot), he started his undergraduate education close to home at Lorain County Community College, where he proudly graduated with an Associate of Arts in music and saved a bunch of money on college tuition. He took his B.A. in philosophy and theology from the Franciscan University of Steubenville. Prior to medical school he picked up a master’s degree in philosophy from Cleveland State University then continued his commitment to being educated in Ohio and received his M.D. at the University of Toledo College of Medicine. He completed his residency at the Wright State University-Wright Patterson Air Force Base Combined Program in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
After residency, the Air Force sent him to Scott Air Force Base where he served on activity duty, achieved the rank of Major, and spent a few years missing Ohio (not unlike Odysseus longing for Ithaca) before he received an honorable discharge and returned home. He hopes to find time someday to complete his nearly-finished doctorate in bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum.
After serving as the director of content for a leading osteopathic question bank, he founded InsideTheBoards, a leading podcast network for medical students. He formerly served as the director of undergraduate medical education for OnlineMedEd. He is board certified in both obstetrics and gynecology and addiction medicine. He sees patients at and serves as the medical director at both Veranova Health in Middleburg Heights and Medmark Treatment Centers–Amherst.
He regrets not having become a rock star and used to be a really decent guitarist until…med school, kids, and life. He is trying to fill this gaping hole in his life by taking executive producer roles on projects from various early to mid-career artists/bands.
He has a vital role in the ideation and development of Ars Longa Media’s content, and as a host has contributed episodes to many of our shows including Healthy // Toxic, Thank You Notes, Code Periwinkle, and InsideTheBoards.
Ted O'Connell, MD
CO-FOUNDER
Dr. Ted O’Connell is a family physician, educator, author, innovator, and speaker. He served as the founding director of Kaiser Permanente’s Napa-Solano family medicine residency program and serves as a clinical professor for UC San Francisco, UC Davis, and Drexel University’s schools of medicine. He also founded Kaiser’s community medicine and global health fellowship, the first of its kind to combine the two disciplines, which has now expanded to eight programs across various medical centers. Dr. O’Connell attended the University of Notre Dame as an undergraduate, and completed his medical degree at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. He completed his graduate medical education at Santa-Monica–UCLA Medical Center. He further completed the Emerging Leaders Program through the Permanente Medical Group as well as the Leading Innovations in Health Care and Education course at Harvard University.
Dr. O’Connell has authored or edited over a dozen textbooks, written numerous textbook chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles. Among his most notable are USMLE Step 2 Secrets, USMLE Step 3 Secrets, Crush Step 1, and the Instant Workups series of books. He is the Editor-In-Chief for Elsevier’s Clinical Key Meded education platform. He co-founded and is the COO of ExamCircle, a disruptive innovation dedicated to providing free online question banks in an effort to reduce the cost of education and help eliminate the access gap to high quality exam preparation materials.
Madison Linden
ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR
Madison is an undergrad student studying Psychology and Philosophy at Cleveland State University. She enjoys working in helping professions and aspires to be a physician as well as a professor one day. Currently, she works for ALM filling in where needed. She considers herself to be a jack of all trades, but master of none. Madison is known to love dogs, cheese, classic rock, and (of course) Star Wars.
Erin McCue
Production Supervisor
Erin received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Syracuse University, while also hosting shows at her college radio station WERW and NPR-affiliated station WAER – where her interest in audio production began. She continues to practice the use of her sociological imagination in through storytelling, music, and creative arts as a whole.
Christopher Breitigan
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Christopher has over 8 years of experience designing and developing digital products across different mediums and industries. He has worked with start-ups and established businesses as well as the Ohio Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation. Outside of work he is an avid photographer and musician.