INTERVIEWS

Guest: Dr. Jennifer Lucas

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Jennifer Lucas, MD, FAAD, is a board-certified dermatologist on staff at the Cleveland Clinic, where she previously completed her residency in dermatology and a fellowship in Mohs surgery. She received her medical degree from Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine in Rootstown, Ohio. Dr. Lucas is a member of the American Academy of Dermatology and the American College of Mohs Surgery, and she serves on the Women’s Dermatologic Society Board of Directors. She has authored numerous publications.  

Segment overview: Dr. Jennifer Lucas discusses how unprotected sun exposure can increase your risk of skin cancer all year round.

Guest: Jon Michaeli  

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: As EVP Marketing and Business Development for Medisafe, Jon is responsible for consumer growth and adoption, strategic partnerships, and commercialization through industry stakeholders such as biopharma, life sciences, and consumer hardware and medication packaging companies. Jon unites 20 years of experience in digital consumer behaviors and psychologies and a keen understanding of market dynamics to develop and evolve innovative new healthcare products. Jon holds a B.A. in Economics from Tufts University and an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School.

Segment overview: Medisafe, the leading medication management platform used by almost 4 million people worldwide, just announced that their feature to alert users of possible dangerous or malfunctioning drug-to-drug interactions is now available on Android in addition to the existing iOS platform. Jon Michaeli of Medisafe is here to discuss the topic of drug to drug interactions in the health world as well as Medisafe’s new launch of their DDI feature on Android.

Guest: Dr. Gerard Marek

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Gerard Marek earned his MD and PhD (Psychopharmacology) at the University of Chicago in 1989 and 1988.  After completing residency training in Psychiatry at the Yale University in the School of Medicine, he spent another 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow studying single cell electrophysiological recordings in rat brain slices. He then obtained independent RO1 funding after securing a junior faculty position in the Yale Department of Psychiatry in 1997 combining slice Electrophysiology with independent neurochemical and behavioral studies. In January 2002, Gerard joined the Pfizer early clinical development group in Groton working on antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs. He moved to Eli Lilly in October 2003 and spent the majority of 5 years at Lilly leading a Discovery group in Psychiatric Disorders targeting novel antidepressants, antipsychotics, novel treatments for substance abuse and sleep disorders. Gerard then spent 6 years in Neuroscience Clinical Development at AbbVie mostly directed toward developing medications for the symptomatic treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and disease progression of multiple sclerosis with respect to remyelination and neurite sprouting.  He moved to Astellas a little over 3 years ago where he has been leading programs studying cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia and chronic pain syndromes.

Segment overview: Dr. Gerard Marek discusses the future of neurologic treatments and what is to come from Astellas’ new global hub of innovation in San Diego dubbed ARIA.

Guest: Michelle P. Maidenberg

 Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Michelle P. Maidenberg, PhD, MPH, LCSW-R, is the president and clinical director of Westchester Group Works and cofounder and clinical director of Thru My Eyes Foundation. She also maintains a private psychotherapy practice and teaches at New York University.

Segment overview: Dr. Michelle Maidenberg, Ph.D., MPH, LCSW-R, CGP talks about anxiety in youth and offers strategies to identify and address teenage stress. Her book “Free Your Child From Overeating” 53 Mind-body Strategies For Lifelong Health, is mindfulness based and focuses on psychological barriers.

Guest: Joelle Compton  

Presenter: Wayne Bucklar

Guest Bio: Joelle Compton is a professional counsellor, life coach and educator. She has worked as a nationally accredited mediator for several years and has people resolve issues in their personal lives and work lives to find a pathway toward fulfilment. She also worked as a coach and trainer for the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA), Australia’s lead institution in Arts training excellence. Joelle is now the director of her own business, Transformational Coach and Counselling, where she trains people in various skills, including confidence, self-expression, self-awareness, vocal skills, voice and body connection, and emotional strength.

Segment overview: Transformational Coach and Counselling uses a holistic approach and uses evidence based techniques to help people to make changes and reach their desired goals. Based in Brisbane, Australia, owner and director Joelle Compton offers one-on-one appointments for life coaching and counselling, various training sessions and workshops. Joelle also covers areas of addiction counselling, relationship coaching & couples counselling.

Guest: Dr. Kristine Guleserian

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Dr. Kristine Guleserian turned a cum laude degree in Greek classics from Harvard into one of the most important surgical careers in the country.

From medical school at Boston University, to internship and residency at Brown University Hospital, to fellowships at Boston Children’s, to her work as Surgical Director of Pediatric Cardiac Transplantation at Children’s Medical Center, Dallas. Dr. Guleserian stands only five feet tall, but as they say in the sports world, “She plays six-two.”  (Incidentally, she once wrote on an OR marker board after an 8-hour surgery, “If you can’t operate in heels, you can’t operate.”) Dr. Guleserian is currently practicing pediatric Cardiothoracic surgery with the Heart Program at the Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, Florida.

Segment overview: Dr. Kristine Guleserian, MD,  is here to talk about the book “A Surgeon’s Story” written by Mark Oristano and herself. In this book, Dr. Guleserian has opened up her career as a pediatric heart surgeon to give readers an inside peek into the story of everyday life and death suspense on the operating table.

Guest: Jay Deady

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Jay Deady is Recondo Technology’s Chief Executive Officer. Jay has been a leader, product visionary, and innovator in healthcare information technology for more than 25 years. He most recently served as CEO of Awarepoint, where he grew the company into the leading technology provider in the caregiver and patient asset-flow and capacity-management market. Previously, Jay was Executive Vice President of client solutions for Eclipsys (now Allscripts) where he drove the company’s global go-to-market and solution delivery strategies. He also served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of revenue cycle at McKesson Provider Technologies and held management positions with Cerner Corporation and ADAC Healthcare. Jay holds a BA from Tufts University and is a graduate of the Global Executive Management program of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Segment overview: In this Health Supplier Segment, Jay Deady talks about automated revenue cycle solutions with the use of ‘web bots’ or ‘web crawlers, that his company, Recondo Technology offers as their patented ReconBot® technology.

Guest: Dr. Luis Diaz

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Dr. Luis Diaz is a leading authority in oncology who has pioneered several genomic diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for cancer. He is head of the Division of Solid Tumor Oncology at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where he specializes in the treatment of advanced pancreatic and colorectal cancers. Prior to his role at MSKCC he was a member of the Ludwig Center for Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics at Johns Hopkins and also directed the Swim Across America Lab. He is also founder of several entities that focus on genomic analyses of cancers, including Inostics, PapGene and Personal Genome Diagnostics (PGDx). Dr. Diaz has undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Michigan, and completed residency training at the Osler Medical Service at Johns Hopkins and medical oncology training at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins.

Segment overview: In this segment, Dr. Luis Diaz talks about the science of biomarkers, the clinical utility of MSI-H/dMMR, and how this development may provide new hope to some of the millions of people impacted by cancer.

Guest: Natasha Trenev

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: A true pioneer in the industry, Natasha Trenev’s endeavors have contributed to the evolution of the probiotics industry. Prior to her work in the field, consumers had very limited knowledge of the supplement and its many benefits.

After graduating from UCLA in 1970, a decade of research led to Natasha’s development of the first revolutionary method of producing an effective and scientifically validated single strain probiotic bacteria product. Her efforts helped to establish the entire probiotics category in North America, Australia, England, the Netherlands, and Belgium.

She was also the first to introduce liquid Kefir via a contract with Alta-Dena Dairy, the first to introduce freeze dried Kefir grains that people took in powdered form as a supplement in the 1970s, and the first to sell a single strain, freeze dried, concentrated L. acidophilus under the trade name Superdophilus to professional health practitioners in the United States in 1982.

As a developmental scientist, Natasha has spent years studying the effects of beneficial bacteria and has written several books on the subject. Today, Natasha’s reference library is the world’s largest private repository on probiotics, referenced and recommended by prominent research scientists and medical schools.

Segment overview: Natasha Trenev, Founder and President of Natren, leading manufacturer of pharmaceutical grade quality probiotics, is here to discuss Bifidobacterium infantis, the most beneficial bacteria predominant in healthy infants, common issues for infants born without it, and possible solutions.

Guest: Dr. Carole Lieberman

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Carole Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H., internationally renowned as ‘The Terrorist Therapist’, is a Board Certified Beverly Hills psychiatrist. Since 9/11, Dr. Carole has helped families overcome their fears of the ultimate monster under the bed… terrorism. Her book, Coping with Terrorism: Dreams Interrupted, was published in London as the anniversary edition of 7/7, their most notable attack. Dr. Carole is a three-time Emmy-honored TV personality on top shows, radio talk show host, and best-selling author.  Dr. Carole was Chief Resident in psychiatry at NYU-Bellevue and has served for decades on the Clinical Faculty of UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute.

Segment overview: Dr. Carole Lieberman, MD, MPH, discusses her new book “Lions and Tigers and Terrorists, Oh My! How to Protect Your Child in a Time of Terror” and how parents and teachers can have the talk about terrorism with kids.