Additional Info
- Segment Number 4
- Audio File health_radio/1626ml3d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Joey Thurman, Health Expert
- Guest Website The Lifestyle Renovation
- Guest Twitter Account @JoeyThurmanFit
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Guest Bio
Joey Thurman is a health, fitness, and nutrition expert and the creator of The Lifestyle Renovation, a website dedicated to helping people achieve their health and fitness goals. He has appeared on CBS, FOX, ABC, and WCIU sharing his insights as a celebrity fitness trainer and published author.
Joey's work has been featured in publications such as BodyBuilding.com, Racked, TimeOut Chicago, RedEye, and American Global Traveler. Joey is a fashion model represented by Chosen Model Management where he works with brands including Neiman Marcus, Abercrombie, Jockey, and Carson Pirie Scott.
He has also appeared on the covers of Healthy for Men and TimeOut Chicago. Joey is a Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) with the American Council on Exercise, a Fitness Nutrition Specialist (FNS) and a FITchef. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
Additional Info
- Segment Number 3
- Audio File health_radio/1626ml3c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Eli Pollard, Executive Director, World Parkinson Coalition
- Guest Website World Parkinson Congress
- Guest Twitter Account @WorldPDCongress
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Guest Bio
Elizabeth "Eli" Pollard has been with the World Parkinson Coalition from its inception in 2004 and helped steer the organization, alongside world renowned Parkinsonologist and WPC founder, Dr. Stanley Fahn. Together they worked to grow WPC Inc. from it's sole purpose, of hosting a triennial global Congress on Parkinson's disease, to it's more meaningful place in the community today, as a hub for many of the global PD organizations to connect and intersect online, on teleconferences, or in person at the Congresses. Eli is thrilled with the opportunity to meet the members of the community, to help build the WPC Legacy, and to watch as leading researchers, clinicians, people with Parkinson's and others work together to bring us closer to finding the cause(s) of Parkinson's and a cure for the disease.
Eli graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor's degree, and the School for International Training with a Master's degree in International & Intercultural Management. She spent most of her 20s living outside the US in Zimbabwe, Switzerland, and Japan with lengthy stays for research or travel in India, China, and Thailand. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and two rambunctious children who keep her on her toes when she's not knee deep in WPC work. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
Additional Info
- Segment Number 4
- Audio File health_radio/1625ml4d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Lisa Lowery, MD
- Guest Website Helen DeVos Children's Hospital
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Guest Bio
Dr. Lisa Lowery is Division Chief of Adolescent Medicine at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids Michigan.
Her team specializes in providing a variety of medical services for teens.
Additionally, they work with medical residents to help train tomorrow's adolescent medicine specialists. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Internal Notes no show, trying to reschedule
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
Additional Info
- Segment Number 3
- Audio File health_radio/1625ml4c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Denna Babul, RN
- Organization https://www.amazon.com/Fatherless-Daughter-Project-Understanding-Reclaiming/dp/159463369X
- Book Title The Fatherless Daughter Project: Understanding Our Losses and Reclaiming Our Lives
- Guest Website Fatherless Daughter Project
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Guest Bio
Denna D. Babul is a R.N., successful life coach, motivational speaker, author, medical expert and founder of the Fatherless Daughter Project. Born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, Denna’s parents separated when she was only three years old and life, as she knew it, changed. After tragically losing her father when she was 13, she decided depression was not all that it was cracked up to be and decided to go after life with “all guns ‘a blazing.” After overcoming her biggest hurdle, Denna’s purpose in life is to now be the voice for all fatherless daughters.
A graduate of University of South Carolina, Denna started off her career as a Registered Nurse, climbed the corporate ladder of a Fortune 500 medical company, and started and sold her own successful greeting card company, Dear Jon Cards. With the distinct ability to read people on the spot: mentally, physically and spiritually, Denna has been nicknamed “the reader” and has the gift of figuring out where and why a person is stuck in order to help them reclaim their lives. With this, Denna recently launched her own podcast, Keeping it Real with Denna.
Denna has spent years involved in a variety of charity efforts. As a sponsor of the 2003 Rock and Roll Marathon, she raised thousands of dollars for the Leukemia Foundation. She has also volunteered and raised money for Habitat for Humanity, The Atlanta Mission, The Atlanta Ronald McDonald House, Wellspring Living, The ALS foundation, and many more. Denna resides in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and two children. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
Additional Info
- Segment Number 2
- Audio File health_radio/1625ml4b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Vladimir Gashinsky, DDS
- Guest Website Holistic Dental Center
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/drvladimirgashinsky www.facebook.com/holisticdentalcenternj
- Guest Twitter Account @DrG_DDS
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Guest Bio
Dr. Vladimir Gashinsky has been in private practice at his Millburn, NJ, office for over a decade, providing exceptional holistic and biological dentistry and surgical expertise in a friendly, home-like environment.
Dr. Gashinsky earned his doctorate degree from NYU College of Dentistry, after which he became their clinical faculty leader and in a four-year period trained graduate students to become proficient in dentistry. He is also proud to be an Accredited Member of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT) and Certified in Ozone Dentistry through the ACIMD and is now pursuing his ND degree.
With extensive training in homeopathy and nutrition, Dr. Gashinsky spends countless hours doing continuing education with like-minded practitioners to keep up with new medical and technical developments in his field which he is bringing to his practice to help his patients achieve a best holistic dental care possible. Dr. Gashinsky has the distinction of having won the Eugene Rothchild Memorial Award from the New York Academy of Oral Rehabilitation. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
Additional Info
- Segment Number 4
- Audio File health_radio/1625ml3d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Glen Pietrandoni, Senior Director of Virology, Walgreens
- Guest Website Walgreens
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Guest Bio
Glen Pietrandoni, RPh, AAHIVP, is Walgreens senior director, virology. Glen is a life-long resident of the Chicago area, where he been an active member of the HIV/AIDS community. After graduating from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, Glen co-owned multiple independent pharmacies in Chicago and its suburbs for 10 years. He began his career with Walgreens in 1990, around the time of the approval of the first HIV/AIDS drugs.
From 1996 to 2003, he managed a Walgreens pharmacy at the Howard Brown Health Center (HBHC) which specializes in HIV/AIDS—the first Walgreens pharmacy of its kind, located in an LGBT community center. Today, Walgreens has more than 200 locations within health centers; over 100 of them focus on HIV/AIDS and over 700 HIV specialized pharmacies in highly impacted communities across the country. Now a 25-year veteran with Walgreens, Glen is responsible for HIV/AIDS and hepatitis programs and services.
As part of his ongoing commitment to supporting patients with HIV/AIDS, Glen earned his American Academy of HIV Medicine credentials in 2008. He plays an active role in community initiatives, co-chairing gala committees for HBHC and the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, as well as currently serving on the boards of directors for two national AIDS organizations based in Washington, D.C. (AIDS United and ADAP Advocacy Association). Glen has also co-chaired WPRIDE, the Walgreens LGBT affinity group.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
Additional Info
- Segment Number 3
- Audio File health_radio/1625ml3c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Andrew Ordon, MD
- Book Title Better in 7: The Ultimate 7 Day Guide to a Brand New You
- Guest Website The Doctors
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/DrAndrewOrdon www.facebook.com/TheDoctors
- Guest Twitter Account @DrAndrewOrdon @TheDoctors
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Guest Bio
Dr. Andrew Ordon is an Emmy®-nominated co-host of the syndicated daytime series, The Doctors, an acclaimed aesthetic, plastic and reconstructive surgeon, and founding member of Surgical Friends Foundation that offers free reconstructive surgery to patients worldwide suffering from birth defects, physical abuse and burns, among other adverse conditions.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
Additional Info
- Segment Number 3
- Audio File health_radio/1624ml5c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Phil Rice, Author
- Book Title Winter Sun: A Memoir of Love and Hospice
- Guest Website Phil Rice
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/philrice9
- Guest Twitter Account @philrice88
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Guest Bio
Phil Rice is a native Tennessean whose career as a writer, editor, and teacher has also included extended residencies in Florida and Pennsylvania. His writing has appeared in a variety of magazines, journals, and books. He and P.A. Merrill founded Canopic Jar: An Arts Journal in 1986, a venture for which he continues to serve as editor. In 2003 Phil edited The View from My Ridge by Charles E. Rice, which became the first book to bear the Canopic Publishing imprint.
Currently he shares a home with the poet Virginia Smith Rice in Woodstock, Illinois. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
Additional Info
- Segment Number 2
- Audio File health_radio/1624ml5b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Karen Tedesco, MD & Allison Boyanovski
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Guest Bio
Karen Tedesco, MD, is a medical oncologist at New York Oncology Hematology. She leads the Hereditary Cancer Risk Assessment Program and serves as vice president of the NYOH Board of Directors. Dr. Tedesco is a member of the U.S. Oncology Breast Cancer Research Committee and the U.S. Oncology Genetic Risk Evaluation and Testing Steering Committee. She completed her medical degree at the SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse and completed her internship and residency at the University of Michigan and her fellowship with Vanderbilt University. Dr. Tedesco is married to a gastroenterologist and has three children.
At age 34 and a new mother, Allison Boyanovski was shocked when she discovered a lump on her right breast. As a healthcare professional herself (Allison works at Jersey City Medical Center), she knew to monitor the lump and made plans to visit her doctor as soon as she could. After receiving a diagnosis with HER2-positive* early breast cancer, Allison says her professional experience helped her to understand and chart a path forward. Allison started a regimen of HER2-targeted therapies prior to undergoing a surgery to remove the tumor and continued treatment through January of 2015. She is proud of her optimism and of “not wasting any time or giving up,” but at the same time, she says tells others facing the same situation that it’s okay “to be sad, mad and disappointed when you get the diagnosis.”
Today, she enjoys spending time cooking and catching up with family and is excited to participate in the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides for Breast Cancer walk for a second time. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Internal Notes no website, no social media
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File health_radio/1624ml5a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Robert Cohen, MD
- Guest Website Dr. Robert Cohen
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/Robert-Cohen-MD-Plastic-Surgery
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Guest Bio
Robert Cohen, MD, FACS, is a diplomat of the American Board of Plastic Surgery, and is the medical director for the Scottsdale Center for Plastic Surgery in Paradise Valley, AZ, one of the premier aesthetic surgery practices in the Southwest United States. Dr. Cohen reconstructs his patients’ bodies, and also helps to educate them on the latest available techniques and technology, and the best ways to avoid complications after surgery.
He recently expanded his practice to include an office location in Santa Monica, CA. Dr. Cohen specializes in cosmetic procedures for men and women, with a focus on aesthetic surgery of the breast and body. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
