INTERVIEWS

Guest: Dr. Ginni Mansberg

Presenter: Tabetha Moreto

Guest Bio: Dr. Ginni Mansberg is a GP, medical & parenting expert with a special interest in women’s and family health, and six children of her own in a blended family. She is an authority on everything from sleep to beating stress, wellness, life balance and a range of general health and medical related topics; always packaged with a dose of reality, practical and helpful tips and delivered with her customary sense of humour. Aside from her practice in Sans Souci, Ginni is also an accomplished writer, having written 3 books and having worked extensively as a medical journalist and columnist. She is an experienced TV presenter working with Channel 7 as their resident GP for many years and as one of the hosts of Embarrassing Bodies Down Under.

Segment Overview: In today’s interview, Dr. Ginni Mansberg joins the program to share some advice on the most important parts of a skincare routine and also busts the common myths and misconceptions regarding skin care we should not believe in. Anti aging is one of the main skin care issues that she highlights.

Guest: Dr. Bhaskar Srivastava

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Dr. Srivastava is the Director of Medical Affairs in Dermatology at Janssen Pharmaceuticals. He was the US medical lead for Janssen’s recent launch of TREMFYA® (guselkumab). Prior to his role at Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Dr. Srivastava was the Dermatology Director of Clinical Innovation at Reliant Medical Group,  and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Srivastava received his MD and PhD in Immunology from University of Pennsylvania of School of Medicine.

Segment Overview: Dr. Bhaskar Srivastava, Director of Medical Affairs in Dermatology at Janssen Pharmaceuticals discusses abstracts being presented at the American Acadamy of Dermatology (AAD) Feb 2018 on the long term efficacy of TREMFYA that resulted in clear or almost clear skin (at least a 90 percent improvement in the Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI 90)) through 72 weeks. These results were not achieved with any other competitor treatments.    Also, a presentation that showed efficacy of TREMFYA demonstrated across all predefined weight quartiles and high efficacy responses were observed in psoriasis patients without regard to weight. This is especially important since obesity is one of the main comorbidities of psoriasis. Read more.

Guest: Cynthia Wade  

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Director Cynthia Wade won an Academy Award® in 2008 and was nominated for her second Academy Award® in 2013. She’s won festival awards all over the world, include two awards at Sundance, three awards at Palm Springs, and prizes in Aspen and the Hamptons film festivals, as well as film awards in Spain, Italy, Argentina and Belgium. She directs films for clients such as HBO, Cinemax, Sundance Channel, IFC Channel, and PBS. Her commercial clients include Dove, Hershey, Proctor & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark, Sesame Street, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Sanofi, Salix, Shire, the National Guard and Phoenix Children’s Hospital.

Segment Overview: Award winning director Cynthia Wade talks about her new documentary, featuring patient Barbara Abernathy, on the challenges people face living with rare, chronic, progressive blood cancers known as Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (or MPNs) and why she is focused on bringing this story to light.  Voices of MPN

Guests: Dr. Denise Yardley & Allison Fields

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio:

Dr. Denise Yardley joined Sarah Cannon in 2000 as a senior investigator of the breast cancer research program. In this role, she serves as principal investigator on numerous breast cancer clinical trials. Dr. Yardley received her undergraduate degree from Columbus State University in 1983 and her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia in 1988. She completed her residency and fellowship training at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. A diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology and Hematology, she is also a recipient of the American Cancer Society Clinical Oncology Career Development Award.

Allison Fields – With both her mother and grandmother having breast cancer, 47-year-old Allison knew she wanted to do everything she could to fight her disease. When diagnosed with an aggressive form of early breast cancer, Allison decided to participate in a clinical study that was investigating how women with HER2-positive breast cancer responded to receiving treatment after surgery. While clinical studies remain a mystery to many people, as a medical professional Allison knew that she may personally benefit and saw it as an opportunity to potentially help others. Now, four years later, she remains a passionate veterinarian and enjoys traveling with her husband. In fact, they traveled to Iceland most recently to view the Northern Lights.

Segment Overview: Dr. Denise Yardley and Allison fields talk about how each year in the US, 255-thousand women will learn that they have breast cancer and may not realize that breast cancer is not just one single disease, but that there are many different types. As many as 20% of women have the more aggressive form of the disease, called HER2-Positive breast cancer.

Guest: Sharon Stone

Presenter: Tabetha Moreto

Guest Bio: Sharon Stone has over 25  years of business experience encompassing HR and coaching across a wide range of industries and organisations. Her qualifications include a Masters of Career Development & Coaching and a Diploma of Positive Psychology & Wellbeing. She is a professional member of the Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA) and has accreditations in Strengths Profile and MBTI. She is passionate about philanthropy and has volunteered for many not-for-profit organisations and created pro-bono programs and coaching for new migrants. Sharon created Colour Me Well in 2017 as a personal tool to manage her own cancer treatment. After much encouragement from friends and medical professionals she has released colour me well kits for all patients to use.

Segment Overview: In today’s interview, Sharon Stone joins the program in order to promote Colour Me Well, a personal tool and wellness calendar kit that she created in 2017 to journal her own cancer treatment. Now it has been release so other cancer patients can they can journal their treatment in a creative manner for both adult and child patients.

Presenter: Wayne Bucklar

Guest Bio:  Brian Hinselwood is the Media, Arts and Lifestyle Editor of Business Radio Talkers.FM. He was born and raised in the United Kingdom. He left school at age 15 and joined the army to serve the country for a few years. After leaving the army, Brian moved back and forth in many different places around Germany, England, Europe and Asia, exploring his potentials while trying to earn money for a living. His career took a 360 degree turn and found his true passion when he arrived in Australia, where he became a successful actor and a renowned director in community theaters. He is talented and versatile; a veteran of theatre, film and television since the early 70’s, having appeared in some of Australia’s premier television and theatre productions. He has directed numerous plays, both for children and adults, both in Sydney and in Brisbane. He is a skilled character actor, who is proficient in most British, European and American accents.

Segment Overview:  Actor Brian Hinselwood, Business Radio Talkers.FM’s Media, Arts and Lifestyle Editor joins the program to give his review on the black comedy crime film “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” starring Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell and Abbie Cornish. It’s loosely based on a real event. The real event was a young girl went missing and as far as the public was concerned, the police had apparently not done very much in trying to apprehend the killer. Frances McDormand portrays a mother who rents three billboards to call attention to her daughter’s unsolved murder. Brian praises the acting in the film especially McDormand’s performance as the mother who wants justice for her murdered daughter. Brian states: “The lady who’s the lead actor in it is wonderful, she hardly smiles throughout the whole movie until right at the end.” The film is nominated for seven Oscars including Best Actress for Frances McDormand and Best Supporting Actor for both Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell. According to Brian, the film is well worth a few dollars to go and see. It’s definitely a worthy contender in the forthcoming Oscars.

Guest: Brian Hinselwood

Presenter: Wayne Bucklar

Guest Bio:  Brian Hinselwood is the Media, Arts and Lifestyle Editor of Business Radio Talkers.FM. He was born and raised in the United Kingdom. He left school at age 15 and joined the army to serve the country for a few years. After leaving the army, Brian moved back and forth in many different places around Germany, England, Europe and Asia, exploring his potentials while trying to earn money for a living. His career took a 360 degree turn and found his true passion when he arrived in Australia, where he became a successful actor and a renowned director in community theaters. Brian is also passionate about politics and in giving back to the community.

Segment Overview:  In this segment, Brian Hinselwood talks about the romantic fantasy film “The Shape of Water” starring Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins and Michael Stuhlbarg. This is a film that normally doesn’t attract Brian’s attention but due to the fact this film picked up many Oscar nominations including Best Actress for Sally Hawkins, Brian decided to see it. The film’s plot is focused on a mute cleaning lady at a high-security government laboratory who surprisingly falls in love with a captured humanoid-amphibian creature – a creature that looks very similar to the one from the classic 1950’s monster film “Creature from the Black Lagoon”. Brian praises the movie’s outstanding cinematography and predicts that it will win the Best Cinematography Oscar. He says this is a film with some violence but has a whimsical element to it.

Guest: Brian Hinselwood

Presenter: Wayne Bucklar

Guest Bio: Brian Hinselwood is the Media, Arts and Lifestyle Editor of Business Radio Talkers.FM. He was born and raised in the United Kingdom. He left school at age 15 and joined the army to serve the country for a few years. After leaving the army, Brian moved back and forth in many different places around Germany, England, Europe and Asia, exploring his potentials while trying to earn money for a living. His career took a 360 degree turn and found his true passion when he arrived in Australia, where he became a successful actor and a renowned director in community theaters.

Segment Overview:  In this segment, Brian Hinselwood shares this thoughts on the war drama film “The Darkest Hour” starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James. The movie is focused on Winston Churchill’s early days as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II when Nazi Germany under Fuhrer Adolf Hitler invaded and occupied many parts of Western Europe. Churchill became faced with the hard choice to either negotiate with Hitler or fight against the odds. Brian states that this is a film that no one should miss. Gary Oldman gave a wonderful performance as Churchill who is nominated for an Oscar as best actor for this year’s Academy Awards. Brian said: “I’ll be absolutely stunned if he doesn’t win an Oscar for it.”

Guest: Dr. Mike Milburn, PhD

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Dr. Milburn has served as Chief Scientific Officer since 2005 and is responsible for the global metabolomics technology development, laboratory operations, informatics, and data science. Before joining Metabolon, he was Senior Vice President of Research and Corporate Development at Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, where he led the preclinical/clinical development of drugs in metabolic disease and neurodegeneration. Prior to Sirtris, Dr. Milburn was Senior Vice President of Research at Plexxikon and was responsible for the development of its proprietary high-throughput, scaffold-based chemical technology platform. He also held various research positions at Glaxo and GlaxoWellcome from 1991 to 2001. Dr. Milburn received his PhD in biophysical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and was a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School.  

Segment Overview: Dr. Mike Milburn, PhD, CSO at Metabolon, discusses how studying metabolites can lead to biomarker discoveries, pharmaceutical R&D advancements, and the development of new diagnostic tests.

Guest: Barbara Abernathy

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: When Barbara earned her PhD and began counseling families of young patients with serious illnesses, she never anticipated that she’d face her own serious diagnosis: polycythemia vera (PV). Today, Barbara draws on her own 20+-year journey with cancer to offer a uniquely compassionate perspective to both the families she counsels as executive director of the nonprofit Pediatric Oncology Support Team in West Palm Beach, Florida, as well as the MPN patients who reach out to her for support. Despite the considerable challenges over the years, including diagnoses of myelofibrosis and leukemia and a bone marrow transplant in 2013, Barbara forges on in being a much-admired advocate for the MPN community.

Segment Overview: Barbara lives with a specific type of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN) called polycythemia vera (PV). She’s here to talk about her 20-year journey with this condition and also tells why she works with Director Cynthia Wade on a documentary about the challenges of living with MPN – Voices of MPN