Alison Astill-Smith shares her own personal relationship between gluten, autoimmunity, and a "leaky gut."
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File wizard_of_eyes/1607we1b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Alison Astill-Smith, Director of Metabolics
- Guest Website Metabolics
- Guest Facebook Account https://www.facebook.com/MetabolicsLtd
- Guest Twitter Account @MetabolicsLtd
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Guest Bio
Alison Astill-Smith is a practicing Osteopath and Nutritionist qualifying from the British School of Osteopathy in 1981. In 1992, unable to find a satisfactory quality of dietary supplement, Alison started Metabolics in order to be able to produce supplements of the highest standards.
Alison has a passion for helping people that extends beyond her patients to enabling other practitioners to understand not only what role vitamins, minerals and other nutritional supplements play in the human body and optimizing health but also to understand the importance of bio-available forms of supplements, without fillers, binders and excipients.
Alison ensures that she is abreast of current research, aiming to supply cutting edge information in her practice and the formulations behind Metabolics products. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Robert Abel, Jr., MD
Dr. Abel welcomes the well-traveled family doctor, Dr. Omar Khan, to share his interests in global health.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File wizard_of_eyes/1607we1a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Omar A. Khan, MD, MHS, FAAFP
- Guest Website Christiana Care Health System
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Guest Bio
Omar A. Khan, M.D., MHS, FAAFP, is Service Line Leader, Primary Care & Community Medicine, and Medical Director for Community Health & the Eugene duPont Preventive Medicine & Rehabilitation Institute. He also serves as Associate Vice Chair of the Department of Family & Community Medicine.
Dr. Khan is a practicing family physician with particular interests in general primary care, health systems improvement, medical education, and global health. He also serves as Director of the Global Health Residency Track in Family Medicine, and Co-Director for the Community Engagement & Outreach component of the multi-site Clinical & Translational Research (CTR) program (ACCEL).
He is on the clinical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and Jefferson Medical College and on the medical staff of Christiana Care and AI DuPont Hospital for Children. He is Associate Director of the Delaware Health Sciences Alliance, a collaboration between the four major medical institutions in our area. Omar has previously served on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the University of Vermont College of Medicine, where he directed the Global Health electives in the Dept. of Family Medicine.
Omar is a graduate of Wilmington Friends School, received his BA and MA from the University of Pennsylvania, MD and residency from the University of Vermont, and public health degree from the Johns Hopkins University. He also completed a mini-fellowship in Geriatrics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Omar has authored over 65 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and is part of the referee panel for a variety of academic journals, including JAMA, the American Journal of Public Health, the Lancet, AIDS, American Family Physician, the British Medical Journal and others. He is on the editorial boards of several journals, including serving as Section Editor for Global Health for BMC Public Health. He has authored or co-authored four books in the area of global health, including Readings in Global Health co-edited with Sir Michael Marmot; The End of Polio? with Tim Brookes; and Megacities & Global Health co-edited with Dr. Gregory Pappas.
He serves on the annual Holloway Infectious Disease Symposium planning committee, the American Public Health Association annual conference program, and chairs the annual DHSA Global Health Symposium. He is appointed to the State's Youth Tobacco Prevention Committee, and the Healthy Neighborhoods committee of the Delaware Center for Health Innovation (a CMMI-funded state innovation model).
Omar has been named a ‘Top Doc’ by Philadelphia magazine and has received the Recent Alumnus of the Year award from Wilmington Friends School; Alumnus of the Year award and the Resident Teacher of the Year award from the University of Vermont; the AAFP/Pfizer Teaching Development Award; the Executive Director’s Citation from the APHA; and the Leonard F. Tow Humanism in Medicine Award from the Arnold F. Gold Foundation. He is a Past President of the Delaware Academy of Family Physicians and is currently Secretary of the Delaware Academy of Medicine, Board member of the Christiana Care VNA and a Trustee of Christiana Care Health System.
When not engaged in the above, Omar attempt to prune his growing stack of unread periodicals and tends to assorted automobiles in various states of disrepair. He attempts to eat healthy and exercise and is occasionally successful at doing so.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Robert Abel, Jr., MD
Allan Tilloston discusses the benefits of using roots as herbal medicine.
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- Segment Number 5
- Audio File wizard_of_eyes/1606we1e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Alan Keith Tillotson, LAc, RH, PhD
- Book Title The One Earth Herbal Sourcebook, Ayurveda in Nepal
- Guest Website The Tilloston Institute of Natural Health
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Guest Bio
Alan Tillotson is a Registered Herbalist who has been practicing herbal medicine for over 30 years, and is a professional member (R.H.) of the peer reviewed American Herbalists Guild. He holds an accredited Master's degree in Asian Medical Systems (Goddard College), a non-accredited Ph.D. in Integrative Health Sciences (IUPS), and is licensed to Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Delaware (L.AC.). Alan is well known in America for his apprenticeship study of Ayurvedic herbology beginning in 1976 in Nepal under Vaidya Mana Bajra Bajracharya. He has studied and practiced Chinese medicine in detail working side by side with his wife Naixin Hu Tillotson since 1991.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Robert Abel, Jr., MD
What kind of visual skill does it take to be a illustrator?
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- Segment Number 4
- Audio File wizard_of_eyes/1606we1d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Nancy C. Willis, Author
- Guest Website Birdsong Books
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Guest Bio
Nancy Carol Willis fully integrates the disciplines of fine art, illustration, writing, book publishing, environmental education, and University-level art instruction into a holistic approach to creativity. In 1998 she founded Birdsong Books, an award-winning publisher of children’s nature books. In 2009 her colored pencil illustrations won a Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship. In 2003, Willis began teaching fine art courses at Wilmington University and in 2011 she formed a Christian Writers group that meets monthly in her home. In 2015 Willis worked with the Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover, Delaware to write a biography of Delaware artist, illustrator, and muralist William D. White (1896-1971) and to curate a retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work from March through June 2015.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Robert Abel, Jr., MD
The Wizard of Eyes shares answers to his most frequently asked questions.
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File wizard_of_eyes/1606we1c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Robert Abel Jr., MD
- Guest Bio
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Robert Abel, Jr., MD
Why do your eyes play tricks on your mind?
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File wizard_of_eyes/1606we1b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Robert Abel Jr., MD
- Guest Bio
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Robert Abel, Jr., MD
Learn about the impact of visual impairments and how they affect learning and basic cognitive functions.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File wizard_of_eyes/1606we1a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Natalie Lutz, MS, CCC-SLP
- Guest Website AccSense Accent Modification
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Guest Bio
Natalie Lutz, M.S. CCC-SLP, is a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist who is certified by the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) and is certified to utilize the nationally acclaimed Compton P-ESL Program through the Institute of Language and Phonology. What makes Natalie different from other speech language pathologists is that she received her bachelor degree in psychology with a concentration in linguistics before receiving her master of science degree in speech pathology. This strong background in linguistics along with the master in speech pathology is a unique educational foundation that is beneficial in accent reduction services.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Robert Abel, Jr., MD
Dr. Robert Abel shares his story and how he became "The Wizard of Eyes."
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- Segment Number 4
- Audio File wizard_of_eyes/1605we1d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Robert Abel Jr., MD
- Guest Bio
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Robert Abel, Jr., MD
Dr. Loh shares his experience using drops and herbs to manage his glaucoma.
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File wizard_of_eyes/1605we1c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Dr. Loh
- Guest Bio Dr. Loh is a practicing dentist for 35 years who was a glaucoma suspect from June 2009 to March 2013. He has since found natural methods, including herbal medicine, to help heal his developing glaucoma.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Robert Abel, Jr., MD
Dr. Robert Abel welcomes special guest, Linda Heller, to help bring awareness to duel sensory loss.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 2
- Audio File wizard_of_eyes/1605we1b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Linda S. Heller, President of Access Health, Aging and Disability Consulting, LLC
- Guest Website Hearing Loss Association of America Delaware Chapter
- Guest Facebook Account https://www.facebook.com/linda.heller.568
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Guest Bio
Linda Heller has over 20 years of proven clinical, managerial and operational experience for profit and non-profit leadership. She has led and managed international and state health, aging and disability businesses. Ms. Heller currently owns Access Health, Aging and Disability Consulting, LLC, and does consulting for individuals, families, profit and non-profit companies, and organizations in the Delmarva region and currently globally in the British West Indies, South America, Switzerland, and Asia. She has had past consulting projects for the governments of the Phillipines, Thailand, and England and did consulting in Paraguay and Brazil. She has national certifications in the Americans with Disabilities Act, Conflict Resolution and Mediation, Aging in Place Specialist, Assistive Technology and other related areas. She serves on a several state boards and councils and has received numerous awards from state and national organizations and companies for her service and contributions to the field including the “First State Award,” the highest civilian award given to a citizen. She also received awards from the Veterans Administration for innovation and as an “Outstanding Employee of the Year.” She is President of the Hearing Loss Association of Delaware. In addition Linda is a rehabilitation audiologist, has hearing loss and has a passion for serving people with disabilities.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Robert Abel, Jr., MD
