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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File health_radio/1623ml4c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Carol Dickman
- Guest Website Carol Dickman's Stretch.Com
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Guest Bio
Carol Dickman has been doing yoga for over 45 years and is certified in both the Kripalu and the Bikram methods. She also holds "Yoga of the Heart" certification, specializing in yoga for those with heart disease, cancer and other life threatening conditions. Carol was a pioneer in adapting yoga for people with special needs. These include the blind and visually impaired, those with arthritis, cancer, diabetes, MS, back and heart concerns and seniors. She has taught at Canyon Ranch, for Princess Cruise Lines, AARP and for NBC where she was also a producer for the TODAY show and NBC Nightly News.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File health_radio/1623ml4a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Brandon Greenberg & Yao Wang, PhD
- Guest Website Mately
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/mately
- Guest Twitter Account @mately
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Guest Bio
Brandon Greenberg began his career at the U.S. Treasury Department and went on to work on Wall Street for over 13 years. During this time, he provided some of the largest financial institutions with advice on how to comply with a variety of new and challenging regulations. Brandon is recognized as an expert in the Dodd-Frank Act, and specifically, the Volcker Rule. In 2015, he left his career on Wall Street to dedicate his efforts full-time to Mately.
Dr. Yao Wang is an expert on human infectious diseases. She holds a doctoral degree in Microbiology and Immunology from UCLA and has been doing research on various microbes for the past 13 years. Her research has been published in numerous high-profile scientific journals. Moreover, she is familiar with clinical diagnostic test and has played a key role in developing a diagnostic kit for fibromyalgia while working at EpicGenetics, a Los Angeles based start-up. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
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- Segment Number 4
- Audio File health_radio/1623ml3d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Diana Bitner, MD
- Guest Website Spectrum Health
- Guest Twitter Account @bitnerMD
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Guest Bio
Diana Bitner, MD, is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and a certified menopause practitioner. She received her medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit and completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is a member of the Spectrum Health Medical Group.
Dr. Bitner has special interests in women's wellness and prevention of heart disease, menopause, perimenopause, laparoscopic and robotic pelvic surgery, and pelvic pain. She enjoys helping women through times of health concerns and life phase transitions with an integrated and evidence-based approach. Her professional goal is to help women be as healthy as they want to be. She is also fluent in Portuguese.
Dr. Bitner has a weekly media engagement with WXMI Fox 17 Morning Mix discussing health topics of importance to women. She regularly engages in media and online chats and authors a blog, titled Midlife & Menopause Moments, which can be found on Health Beat, Spectrum Health's e-news website. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Internal Notes rescheduled for 06/08/16
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File health_radio/1623ml3c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Robert Kowal, MD
- Guest Website Micra Transcatheter Pacing System
- Guest Twitter Account @bswhealth @MDT_Cardiac
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Guest Bio
Dr. Robert Kowal is a co-medical director of electrophysiology at Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital. His areas of clinical expertise include catheter ablation for complex arrhythmias; pacemaker and defibrillator therapy including bi-ventricular resynchronization therapy for the treatment of heart failure; diagnosis and treatment of syncope; atrial fibrillation and genetic arrhythmia syndromes; clinical cardiac electrophysiology. For medical school, he attended UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. He also completed his residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and his fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
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- Segment Number 4
- Audio File health_radio/1622ml5d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Jean Louis Selam, MD
- Guest Website Diabetes Research Center
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/Afrezza
- Guest Twitter Account @Afrezza
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Guest Bio
Dr. Jean Louis Selam received his undergraduate education and medical doctorate in France, University of Montpellier. He is a specialist in internal medicine and endocrinology in France since 1979 and is licensed in California since 1987. He has worked as an associate professor at University of California Irvine Diabetes Research Program 1986-90 then as an associate professor at University Medical School of Paris, department of Diabetology 1990-2003. He has been appointed in 2005 as Visiting Professor by the USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles.
Dr. Selam joined the Diabetes Research Center in Tustin, California (dba University Clinical Investigators Inc.) in 2003 which he became CEO in 2006. The Diabetes Research Center has performed over 200 phase 1-4 diabetic studies, the majority in the fields of insulin, oral medications, neuropathy and obesity. Dr Selam is the author of 116 peer-reviewed publications, 128 invited articles or chapters in books, and 354 conference presentations, the majority in the field of new techniques of insulin therapy including intensive insulin and implantable insulin pumps, which he is considered as a world leader. He also has performed pioneer work on intraperitoneal insulin and insulin-induced remissions. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journals Infusystems, which he founded in 1983, a world leading journal in the field of insulin delivery systems. Dr Selam has maintained direct clinical responsibility of diabetic patients in France as well as in his current position in the U.S. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File health_radio/1622ml5c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Dave Beal
- Guest Website Power Brain Education
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/powerbraineducation
- Guest Twitter Account @PowerBrainEdu
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Guest Bio
Dave Beal is the Program Director and Head National Trainer for Power Brain Education (PBE) and the author of the upcoming book The Power Brain Classroom.
After several successful years of teaching Brain Education (BE) as a classroom teacher in Freeport and Brooklyn, NY, Dave has spent the last eight years training thousands of administrators, parents and students how to utilize their fullest brain potential through BE.
Dave’s vision is to help every school in the U.S. become a “Power Brain School” which promotes health, happiness, peace and optimal achievement for each member of the school community. Power Brain Education has worked with 400 schools, training 15,000 teachers and 40,000 students in mindfulness and neuroplasticity techniques over the past eight years. NYC Department of Education (DOE) Chancellor Farina recently endorsed PBE for their success in promoting social-emotional wellness and PBE is working with the NYC DOE to bring Brain Education to all 1800 schools in NYC over the next three years.
Dave has led experiential BE sessions and lectures at the United Nations Headquarters, Nike Corporate Headquarters, the University of Brain Education in South Korea and presented BE to the Congress of New Mexico. Dave holds his BA from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and his Masters in Education from PACE University (both with honors). He is the main trainer for all Power Brain Education instructor programs. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File health_radio/1622ml5b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Joy Burkhard, Founder of 2020 Mom
- Organization National Coalition for Maternal Mental Health
- Guest Website 2020 Mom
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/MayCampaign
- Guest Twitter Account @MayCampaign
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Guest Bio
Joy Burkhard is Founder, Executive Director and Board Chair of 2020 Mom, a non-profit formed in 2011, formerly known as the California Maternal Mental Health Collaborative. She is also a leader of the California Task Force on Maternal Mental Health, which was formed by a resolution passed by the California State Legislature and funded in 2015 by The California Endowment and the California Health Care Foundation.
In 2013, Burkhard founded the National Coalition for Maternal Mental Health (NCMMH), which brings together the country’s leading voices addressing maternal mental health issues, also referred to as perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, and currently serves as Chair of the alliance, which has 10 member organizations across the country.
Los Angeles-based 2020 Mom has become well known for its work convening, collaborating and inspiring change in the maternal mental health field. Recognizing doctors alone can’t fix the problem, 2020 Mom looked at the common denominators in a woman’s life during this time – 99% of women deliver at hospitals and 83% have health insurance – and identified the best practices in its framework for change, calling it the 2020 Mom Project.
Aware of a far-reaching shortage of trained providers addressing maternal mental health issues (or programs to school them), 2020 Mom partnered with a sister non-profit in 2013, Postpartum Support International, to launch a web-based training program.
Burkhard frequently travels to speak about maternal mental health and has appeared before such influential, policy-setting groups as the National Institute of Health Fellows. Recently, she was invited to join Stanford Medical School’s California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative Executive Committee, which works to end preventable morbidity, mortality and racial disparities in California maternity care.
In addition to her non-profit work, Burkhard is a compliance project manager for Cigna health insurance, where she has worked for 20 years and is responsible for leading a variety of complex, national projects. Her experience includes serving as the California compliance officer; engaging with regulators and others on complex topics like access to care; and has spanned from managing call center staff, to running large quality-improvement programs and accreditation.
Burhard’s first-hand knowledge of the complexities of health care-delivery systems, as well as her passion for large-scale, sustainable improvement projects, has fueled her work in maternal mental health.
Prior to founding 2020 Mom, Burkhard enjoyed a rich volunteer life with the Junior League, most recently as the Junior Leagues of California State Public Affairs Committee Co-Chair. She was recognized by the Junior League of Los Angeles in 2013 with its prestigious Founder’s Cup, presented to just four women in the past 85 years.
Burkhard is a wife and the mother of two children Alex, seven, and Emelia, six. She resides in Valencia, Calif. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File health_radio/1622ml5a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Marianne Eterno, President of Government Relations for GTL
- Guest Website GTL
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Guest Bio
Marianne Eterno began her insurance career in 1987 at the former Golden Rule Insurance Company in Indianapolis, Indiana, and moved to Chicago in 1992, when she accepted a position with Celtic Insurance Company.
Marianne came to Guarantee Trust Life Insurance Company (GTL) in 1996, as a compliance and government relations consultant, and formally joined the company in 1997. As Assistant Vice President of Government Relations, she represents GTL in both the state and federal arenas, drives coalition development for the company, and serves as the company's media and public relations spokesperson.
In addition to sitting on committees for every major insurance trade association, Marianne serves on the Board of Directors of RetireSafe, a 400,000 member grassroots advocacy organization for senior citizens and as the Executive Director for the Council for Affordable Health Insurance. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
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- Segment Number 4
- Audio File health_radio/1622ml4d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Tom Nealon, American Liver Foundation CEO
- Guest Website American Liver Foundation
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/liverinfo
- Guest Twitter Account @liverUSA
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Guest Bio
Thomas F. Nealon, III is CEO of the American Liver Foundation (ALF), the country’s leading advocacy organization and resource for patients and families living with liver disease, a position he has held since 2015. He has served on the ALF Board since 2009 and was elected Chair of the National Board of Directors and Executive Committee in 2012. He is also Vice Chairman and Director of Legal Affairs for LNR Partners, LLC, the largest special servicer in the commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) industry. Tom is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Georgetown University Law Center and an Adjunct Professor at the University Of Miami School Of Law. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File health_radio/1622ml4c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Lee P. Shulman, MD
- Guest Website Violet Daily
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/VioletDailyPill
- Guest Twitter Account @VioletDailyPill
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Guest Bio
Lee P. Shulman, MD, is the Anna Ross Lapham Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Chief of the Division of Clinical Genetics in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Shulman is a diplomat of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American Board of Medical Genetics, a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and a Founding Fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy at the College of Pharmacy of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Shulman received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his Doctor of Medicine from Cornell University Medical College.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
