INTERVIEWS

Guests: Dr. Johanna Contreras & Akil Patterson

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio:

Dr. Johanna Contreras is a cardiologist originally from Colombia. She is the director of Heart Failure as well as the medical director of the Hispanic Heart Center at Mount Sinai hospital in NYC. She is a member of several Hispanic groups and is an active volunteer with the American Heart Association. Dr. Contreras is a member and chair for the Health Equity and Multicultural group and Northeast Health Equity consortium as well as the organizer of the AHA Latino Summit, a yearly program that focuses on education regarding Cardiovascular/Heart failure prevention and treatment of Latino patients. In these roles, she works to eliminate health disparities and improve access to advanced heart failure therapies.

Akil Patterson is the deputy director of Sugar Free Kids Maryland, where he has helped build a coalition of nearly 300 community organizations advocating for policy change to ensure the children of the state can live long, healthy lives, free of chronic disease. Just last year, this statewide coalition successfully supported multiple jurisdictions in passing healthy vending legislation. Throughout his career, he has devoted himself to community organizing for causes that benefit community health and wellbeing.

Segment Overview: Dr. Johanna Contreras, Board Member, American Heart Association and Akil Patterson, Deputy Director, Sugar Free Kids Maryland, a partner organization, discuss the problem around unhealthy eating practices, offer some innovative solutions and reveal the results of a new study surrounding sugar in our diets.   

Guest: Angel Male    

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Angel is a caregiver to her family, many of whom have been living for generations with hereditary ATTR (hATTR) amyloidosis, a life-threatening condition that impacts 50,000 worldwide. Although Angel tested negative for the gene mutation that causes hATTR amyloidosis, she remains an advocate for the members of her family living with the condition, including her mother. Angel and her family have partnered with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals to share their personal account, “Living a Rare Life,” to raise awareness of this complex condition and encourage those who may be affected to get a diagnosis and learn more about it.

Segment Overview: Angel, a caregiver and family member featured in a new book “Living a Rare Life” shares about how her family was plagued for years by fatigue, nerve pain and cardiomyopathy, but unable to figure out why – She lost her grandfather and great uncles to the condition – what the diagnosis of hereditary ATTR Amyloidosis meant for her family, and why she wants to raise awareness and educate about the new “Bridge the Gap” initiative and the resources for patients and their families. (www.hATTRbridge.com)

Segment Overview: Dr. Barry Jacobson, a board-certified Crozer-Keystone gynecologist, discusses the crisis in the treatment of osteoporosis, gaps in treatment, and the new FDA approved treatment – Radius Health‘s TYMLOS ™ (abaloparatide) for postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture. For more information and full ISI, 

Guest: Dr. Barry Jacobson  

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Barry Jacobson, M.D., a board-certified Crozer-Keystone gynecologist, the Osteoporosis Center of Delaware County is dedicated to the detection and comprehensive treatment of osteoporosis. Jacobson has been treating patients with osteoporosis and sharing his knowledge on this topic with the national medical community since 1998. For more information and full ISI, visit www.Tymlos.com

Guest: Dr. Jerry Tan  

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Jerry Tan, M.D., fellowship certified specialist in dermatology and adjunct professor, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario and principal investigator of the OSCAR trial. His academic focus is on research in acne, rosacea and hidradenitis suppurativa. His research interests are also in clinical trial outcome measures, clinical practice guidelines development and quality of life research. He is a co-recipient of grants from the NIH/NIAMS for acne core outcomes development and Pfizer Grants for Learning & Change and American Academy of Dermatology Collaboration for the development of patient decision aids. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and serves on the editorial board of the British Journal of Dermatology and the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Segment Overview: Dr. Jerry Tan, M.D., board-certified dermatologist and adjunct professor at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario and principal investigator of the OSCAR trial, discusses new results from the Galderma Phase 4 OSCAR study, revealing that Epiduo Forte (adapalene and benzoyl peroxide) Gel, 0.3%/2.5% not only decreased acne lesions, as measured over a period of 24 weeks, but by rapidly and effectively treating acne, it also reduced the risk of atrophic acne scars in patients with moderate-to-severe acne. www.EpiduoForte.com

Guest: Dr. Catherine Crock

Presenter: Henry Acosta

Guest Bio: Dr. Catherine Crock is a physician at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne. She is the founder and is a chair member at the Hush Foundation. Her passion for caring and sharing kindness to everyone has lead her to pursuing practices not just in the medical world. She’s worked as a producer of music and theatrics to help spread a simple message which is “be kind to one another”. She looks to change the culture in the medical industry and hospital environment with music and theatrics, one day at a time.

Segment Overview: In this interview, Dr. Crock talks about how she founded the Hush Foundation. She discusses the concerning culture growing in the medical industry the past few years where the patients and health professionals don’t communicate properly and never see eye to eye. She looks to change that by spreading a positive message through her work with Australia’s finest musical talent and playwrights.

Guest: Dr. Hendra Gunosewoyo

Presenter: Tabetha Moreto

Guest Bio: Dr. Hendra Gunosewoyo is a Senior Lecturer and Australian Research Council (ARC) early career research fellow within the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences at Curtin University. Hendra is a medicinal chemist with research interests in the fields of infectious diseases and central nervous system agents. He received his PhD from the University of Sydney and had four years of postdoctoral experience in Chicago, USA. He is a Chartered Member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI), currently focusing on better understanding of the cell wall biosynthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis(M.tb), the causative organism of tuberculosis.  

Segment Overview: In this segment, Dr. Hendra Gunosewoyo joins the program to discuss about new treatments for tuberculosis as part of an ARC-funded research project. He also highlights the issue that despite the fact TB is a curable disease but it’s still one of the leading causes of death in the world.

Guest: Ryan Pinto

Presenter: Tabetha Moreto

Guest Bio: Ryan Pinto is an Accredited Sports Dietitian and is the Head of Nutrition at the South Sydney Rabbitohs. He has a passion for helping athletes to improve their intake to maximise their performance. To achieve this, Ryan performs an in-depth analysis of an athlete’s current intake to help create an individualised plan to help them succeed. He also focuses on analysing their body composition through performing a skinfold analysis, as he is an ISAK accredited anthropometrist. Ryan has experience in working at the NSW Institute of Sport and was previously the sports dietitian at the Parramatta Eels. He works within many sports including triathlon, rugby, football, endurance and combat sports to assist teams and individuals to perform at their peak.

Segment Overview: In this segment, Sports Dietitian Ryan Pinto joins the program in order to promote an amazing new partnership between Eagle Natural Health and two leading NSW football clubs – the NSW Waratahs and South Sydney Rabbitohs as their official nutritional supplier in supporting both teams’ everyday performance. Ryan also offers advice on how people especially athletes can boost their everyday performance.

Guest: Andrew Ritter

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Mr. Ritter co-founded Ritter Pharmaceuticals, Inc., upon his own personal affliction with lactose intolerance. He spearheaded the development of the company’s lead compound, RP-G28, which has the potential to become the first FDA-approved treatment for lactose intolerance. The therapeutic is currently in Phase 3 clinical trials. The company was originally launched out of Ritter Naturals Sciences, a direct-to-consumer healthcare marketing company, founded by Mr. Ritter in 2004, which developed and commercialized digestive healthcare products: Lactagen®, Health Essentials™ and Better Digestion™. Mr. Ritter holds over a dozen patents with over twenty additional patents pending in the United States and other key international markets. In addition, Mr. Ritter has co-published articles in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nutrition Journal, Food Technology, among others.

Segment Overview: Andrew Ritter, co-founder and president of Ritter Pharmaceuticals discusses the company history and the recent report on the RP-G28 phase 2b study that shows data that promotes beneficial adaptation of the gut microbiome. He also talks about the difficulties of living with moderate to severe lactose intolerance, and the significance of a potential FDA-approved treatment.

Guest: Dr. Kris Alden

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Dr. Kris Alden is a fellowship-trained, board-certified orthopaedic surgeon. He specializes in hip, knee, and shoulder reconstruction. Dr. Alden is a leader in the field of joint replacement. He practices with a multi-disciplinary orthopaedic group, Hinsdale Orthopaedics, and draws patients from all over the Midwest and across the United States. He was awarded the Kate and Michael Barany Award for research and scholarship and also a recipient of the Outstanding PhD Thesis award for his Biophysics research on calcium channel function in skeletal and cardiac muscle and neuron functioning. His graduate work was published in multiple scientific journals. As a practicing surgeon, Dr. Kris Alden has lectured on and trained other surgeons in novel primary and complex joint reconstruction techniques across North America and Europe.

Segment Overview: Dr. Kris Alden discusses how more orthopedic and rehabilitation specialists are utilizing innovative regenerative therapies and therapeutic biologics to restore functionality in the body and improve quality of life for athletes and patients. Dr. Alden will also discuss details surrounding why more physicians are choosing one specific top-line treatment which is a non-surgical and non-opioid option for patients. (www.Mimedx.com)

Guests: Dr. Angela Diaz and Dr. Joanna Rubinstein

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: 

Angela Diaz, MD, Ph.D., MPH is the Director of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center, a unique program that provides high quality, comprehensive, integrated, interdisciplinary primary care, sexual and reproductive health, mental health, dental and health education services to teens-all for free to those without insurance. The Center has an emphasis on wellness and prevention. Under her leadership, the Center has become the largest adolescent specific health center in the U.S., serving each year more than 11,000 vulnerable and disadvantaged youth, including those who are uninsured and lack access to health services. This program addresses health disparity and aims for health equity.

Dr. Joanna Rubinstein is the President & CEO of Childhood USA. In 2015, Rubinstein was appointed as President & CEO of World Childhood Foundation (WCF) USA. Founded in 1999 by Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden, WCF invests in innovative programs to end violence and child sexual abuse and exploitation. An expert on global health and sustainable development, Rubinstein brings to WCF over a decade of experience in leadership roles at Columbia University (CU) and at the United Nations (UN). As Chief of Staff to Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, Rubinstein helped develop and lead several global initiatives in health, education and sustainable development. Notably, she supported artist Shakira and ALAS’ work on Early Childhood Development (ECD) in Latin America and the Carribean, the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission, the Ministerial Working Group on Health, and the Millennium Development Goals Advocates. As a Senior Research Scientist and an Assistant Director of the Earth Institute of CU, she was instrumental in the development of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Currently, Rubinstein supports the Sustainable Development Goals Advocacy Group of the UN Secretary General.

Segment Overview: Dr. Angela Diaz, MD, Ph.D., MPH, Director of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center, and Joanna Rubinstein, DDS, Ph.D., President and CEO, World Childhood Foundation USA, discuss a conference that are brings together leading clinicians, policymakers, and advocates from around the world to highlight the issue of violence and exploitation against minors and raise awareness, prevention and education to end violence against young people.