INTERVIEWS

Guest:  Pam Stone

Presenter: Tabetha Moreto

Guest Bio: Pam Stone is the Director of Education at Blackmores. Blackmores Institute is the academic and professional arm of Blackmores Limited. A naturopath for over 30 years, she sees that education is key to enabling healthcare professionals to effectively integrate complementary medicine into patient care. Pam joined Blackmores in 1987, having found a company that shared her naturopathic values and vision, and that was driven by integrity and purpose to make people healthier. Her career with the company has spanned the Advisory, Public Relations and Education areas and she has lectured extensively to health professionals in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Her role now includes managing educational partnerships as part of the Blackmores Institute vision to facilitate delivery of quality and accessible Complementary Medicine education to healthcare professionals.

Segment Overview: In today’s interview, Pam Stone of Blackmores comes on the program to discuss about enabling healthcare professionals to effective complementary medicine. She elboartes on its importance and also talks about mindfulness.

Guest: Dr. Richard Wolf  

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Dr. Richard Wolf received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Pennsylvania College of Chiropractic and has been in practice since 1985. He has completed extensive post-graduate training in radiology (including MRI and CT scan), nutrition, exercise physiology, stretching and strengthening, warm laser therapy, acoustic pulse waive therapy, spinal disc decompression, all-natural weight loss, mind-body healing, and stress reduction/meditation. Additionally, Dr. Wolf has extensive post-graduate training in radiology (including MRI and CT scan), nutrition, weight-loss, cellular detoxification, anti-aging, mind-body healing, exercise physiology, and many musculoskeletal/neurological healing techniques from Storz Medical, Switzerland. He is a member of The Association of New Jersey Chiropractors (ANJC), and holds certifications in UltraSlim Fat Loss System, Warm Laser technology and Acoustic Pulse Wave System.

Segment Overview: In this segment, Dr. Richard Wolf, DC, Founder, Holistic Pain Relief and Weight Loss Center, and author of the book “Please Don’t Read This Book… Unless You’re Ready to Get Out of Pain Without Medication, Lose Weight and Look and Feel Great.” discusses trends and issues involving holistic, all natural weight loss utilizing the UltraSlim Fat Loss System.

Guest: Dr. Kurt Newman

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Kurt Newman, MD, is president and CEO of Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C. A native of North Carolina and a graduate of Duke medical school, Dr. Newman has been a practicing surgeon and chief of surgery at Children’s National for over thirty years and is a professor of surgery and pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School. He helped create the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, dedicated to making children’s surgery less invasive and pain free, and is a strong advocate for the expansion of mental health treatment for kids. He and his wife Alison (a neonatal nurse practitioner) are the parents of two sons and live in Bethesda, Maryland.

Segment Overview: In this segment, Dr. Kurt Newman, President and CEO of Children’s National Health System and author of “Healing Children: A Surgeon’s Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine”, gives tips to help parents on how to get the best care for their children, critical questions parents need to ask their child’s doctors, and lifesaving strategies to use in an emergency.

Guest: Sarina Prabasi  

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Sarina Prabasi joined WaterAid in May 2014 as CEO of the nonprofit. She is a seasoned leader with 20 years’ experience in international development. She most recently served as Deputy Chief of Programs at Orbis International, and as Country Representative at WaterAid Ethiopia. Prior to that, she spent nearly ten years at Pact Inc., serving both in Washington, DC and overseas. A tribute to her vision and leadership, Sarina was  named by both Fortune and Food & Wine magazines as one of the Most Innovative Women in Food & Drink, and honored by the New York Business Journal as a 2016 ‘Woman of Influence’.

Segment Overview: In this health supplier segment Sarina Prabasi, CEO of WaterAid America, a nonprofit with the goal of bringing clean water, sanitation and hygiene to over 37 countries across the globe, discusses WASH (Water and Sanitation for Health) across the world and its health impact.

Guest: Dr. Steve Sudell

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Dr. Steve Sudell holds his Clinical Doctorate in Physical Therapy and specializes in working with high intensity athletes on mobility, strength and post-injury physical therapy. He is the inventor of the Neck Hammock.  As a physical therapist, he saw a gradual up-tick in patients complaining of neck pain. While he was able to treat them at the gym, there was nothing he could give them to use at home. After he tweaked his neck working out, he wanted to give himself cervical traction. He grabbed a band, wrapped it around a pole and around the back of his head. Ten minutes later the neck pain was gone.

Segment Overview: In this Health Supplier Segment, Dr. Steve Sudell discusses the Neck Hammock, a portable device he invented for cervical traction to relieve neck pain. More information about the device: www.theneckhammock.com

Guest: Dr. Neelima Denduluri

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio:  Dr. Neelima Denduluri earned her medical degree from the Louisiana State University Medical Center, where she served as President of the American Medical Student Association. Upon graduation, she received the “Exemplar of Desirable Attitudes of the Physician Towards His Patients” award, which is bestowed upon one graduating senior. Dr. Denduluri is highly involved in the local community by participating in community outreach, speaking to support groups, and volunteering at the Arlington Free Clinic since 1999. She has consistently been named as a Top Doctor in Northern Virginia Magazine and Washingtonian magazine, and she has been featured in both local and national media for her expertise in breast cancer. In addition to her passion for patient care, Dr. Denduluri’s dedication to the advancement of medicine has led her to take on multiple leadership roles, including: Associate Chair of the US Oncology Breast Cancer Research Committee; Chair of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee; and Cancer Committee Chairman at Virginia Hospital Center. Dr. Denduluri also currently serves as an associate and principal investigator on many clinical trials and is a steering committee member for NAPBC accreditation for the Reinsch Pierce Family Center for Breast Health.

Segment Overview: Dr. Neelima Denduluri, MD, talks about the latest news from the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) Dec 2017, her perspective on recent developments and what she sees as potential game changers for the future of breast cancer treatment.

Guest: Dr. Pritesh Gandhi

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Dr. Pritesh Gandhi, PharmD, is Vice President-Medical Affairs at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, where he leads the execution of key clinical imperatives. Dr. Gandhi joined Alnylam in 2014, coming from Sanofi, where he most recently served as Associate Vice President of Global Medical Affairs. Prior to Sanofi, Dr. Gandhi held leadership positions at Alexion Pharmaceuticals and Millennium Pharmaceuticals (now Takeda Oncology). He received his Doctor of Pharmacy at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and completed a Pharmacy Practice residency at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Segment Overview: In this health supplier segment Dr. Pritesh Gandhi discusses Alnylam Act, what it is and what it has to offer to those at risk for Acute Hepatic Porphyrias (AHPs). The program was originally for those with hereditary ATTR amyloidoses and has been expanded to include AHPs.

Guest: Dr. N. Lawrence Edwards, MD

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Dr. N. Lawrence Edwards is a specialist in internal medicine and Rheumatology, and serves as professor of medicine in the Division of Clinical Immunology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. He is also program director of the Medicine Residency Training Program and vice chairman for the Department of Medicine at the University. In addition, he is the chairman and chief executive officer for the Gout & Uric Acid Education Society.

Segment Overview: Dr. N. Lawrence Edwards, MD, rheumatologist, and chairman of the Gout and Uric Acid Education Society (GUAES) returns to talk about the Gout Specialists Network, a new initiative by the GUAES. It is an online physician and medical professional locator and educational resource, that physicians can register to join for two years, that helps patients find faster and better treatment.

Guest: David Fusari  

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: David Fusari has held multiple technology leadership positions in healthcare IT companies, including ABILITY Network, Microsoft and Sentillion. He is an inventor on 19 patents and a member of nationally recognized clinical informatics organizations. David earned his BSC in computer information systems from Bryant College.

Segment Overview: In this health supplier segment, David Fusari, CTO and Co-founder of TriNetX returns to talk about their new service that combines Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) data to deliver the industry’s most comprehensive data set for analysis and making clinical trial design more efficient and thus, much more time and cost-effective.

Guest: Dr. Marie Collier

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Marie Collier, M.D., is a board-certified epileptologist and neurologist. As medical director of the epilepsy program at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Colorado, Dr. Collier often takes an integrative approach to managing epilepsy. As part of patients’ treatment plans, Dr. Collier commonly incorporates one or more non-medication options, such as dietary changes, stress reduction, sleep management and – when appropriate – VNS Therapy. Dr. Collier was one of the first physicians to prescribe the latest VNS Therapy System, which includes the new SenTiva™ device and next-generation programming system.

Segment Overview: Dr. Marie Collier discusses the latest VNS (Vagus Nerve Stimulation) Therapy System, which includes the new SenTiva™ device and next-generation programming system. She also talks about her integrative approach to treating epilepsy.