INTERVIEWS

Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest: Dr. Louise Achey
Guest Bio:
Dr. Louise Achey has been a practicing pharmacist for 34 years. She is also a medical school professor, award-winning teacher, newspaper columnist, speaker and author of WHY DOGS CAN’T EAT CHOCOLATE: How Medicines Work and How YOU Can Take Them Safely.

Segment Overview:
Dr. Louise Achey discusses some of the common mistake that people make when dealing with prescription medications and supplements. Federal regulations are also briefly touched on.

Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest: Dr. Louise Achey
Guest Bio:
Dr. Louise Achey has been a practicing pharmacist for 34 years. She is also a medical school professor, award-winning teacher, newspaper columnist, speaker and author of WHY DOGS CAN’T EAT CHOCOLATE: How Medicines Work and How YOU Can Take Them Safely.

Segment Overview:
Dr. Louise Achey discusses the impact that The Affordable Care Act will have on how drugs are prescribed and some of the dangers that will result as a result of the new law.

Presenter: Katherine Lodge
Guest: Dr. Andy Hsu
Guest Bio:
Dr. Andy Hsu’s area of research is exploring how tumour cells interact with cells in the immune system that protects our body. His interests lie in identifying how cancer cells are able to hide from the immune system and grow without being detected.

Dr. Hsu recently completed a research project into promoting the body’s own natural immune cells to fight cancer as an alternative to chemotherapeutic agents. He is the recent winner of the Bupa Health Foundation Emerging Health Researcher Award.

Segment Overview:
Dr Andy Hsu tells us about his research project into promoting the body’s own natural immune cells to fight cancer.

Presenter: Katherine Lodge
Guest: Jorge Mejia
Guest Bio: Jorge Mejia is a part of the HEARing Cooperative Research (CRC) research team which incorporates scientists and engineers from the National Acoustic Laboratories (NAL), The University of Melbourne’s Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology, and the Bionics Institute.

He was recently a finalist at the Bupa Health Foundation Emerging Health Researcher Awards

Segment Overview:
Jorge Mejia discusses what the beamformer can do for people with hearing impairments and to be able to allow them to communicate in noisy environments.

Presenter: Katherine Lodge
Guest: Dana Westphal
Guest Bio: Dr. Dana Westphal is working on a cellular program, called apoptosis, which is used by all multicellular organisms to eliminate unwanted and potentially dangerous cells. Her research is based on understanding the molecular details of how this program is regulated by members of the Bcl-2 family of proteins. Of particular interest to her are the family members Bak and Bax, which convert from benign single molecules into lethal complexes to induce cell death.

This cell death program is often switched off in cancer cells. Thus, targeting Bak and Bax to specifically eliminate cancer cells shows great promise for improving cancer therapy.

Segment Overview:
Dr Dana Westphal talks about her research on apoptosis that made her a finalist for the Bupa Health Foundation Emerging Health Researcher Awards.

Presenter: Katherine Lodge
Guest: Jordana McLoone
Guest Bio:
Jordana McLoone is developing a model of care for the long-term follow-up of childhood cancer survivors. Dr. McLoone is dedicated to improving patient care and health outcomes for Australian childhood cancer survivors. She is head of research and any childhood survivors can take part in the study by visiting their website, www.isurvived.org.au
She got the Bupa Health Foundation Emerging Health Researcher Award.

Segment Overview
Jordana McLoone shares her research on developing a model of care for the long term follow-up of childhood cancer survivors.

Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest: Dr. Sandeep Grewal
Guest Bio:
Sandeep Grewal, M.D., is a board-certified internist who was given the 2013 Innovation in Health Care Award by the Charlotte Business Journal. He is the founder of Ace Medical Group and was named one of Charlotte’s Top Forty Under 40. He is the author of DEMENTIA EXPRESS: Lose Your Memory in 100 Ways.

Segment Overview:
Dr. Sandeep Grewal discusses some different types of Dementia, their causes, and syptoms.

Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest: Dr. Sandeep Grewal
Guest Bio:
Sandeep Grewal, M.D., is a board-certified internist who was given the 2013 Innovation in Health Care Award by the Charlotte Business Journal. He is the founder of Ace Medical Group and was named one of Charlotte’s Top Forty Under 40. He is the author of DEMENTIA EXPRESS: Lose Your Memory in 100 Ways.

Segment Overview:
Dr. Sandeep Grewal discusses ways to minimize the effects of Dementia once diagnosed and how to significantly delay the onset of Dementia.

Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest: Dr. Sandeep Grewal
Guest Bio:
Sandeep Grewal, M.D., is a board-certified internist who was given the 2013 Innovation in Health Care Award by the Charlotte Business Journal. He is the founder of Ace Medical Group and was named one of Charlotte’s Top Forty Under 40. He is the author of DEMENTIA EXPRESS: Lose Your Memory in 100 Ways.

Segment Overview:
Dr. Sandeep Grewal discusses why he wrote his book entitled “DEMENTIA EXPRESS: Lose Your Memory in 100 Ways”.

Presenter: Neal Howard
Guest: James Marcum
Guest Bio:
James Marcum, M.D., is a board-certified behavioral cardiologist with a thriving practice at the prestigious Chattanooga Heart Institute. He can be heard every week on his radio show, Heartwise, which is broadcast on 400 stations around the world. He is a sought-after public speaker and the author of The Ultimate Prescription: What the Medical Industry Isn’t Telling You.

Segment Overview:
Dr. James Marcum Discusses why the improper prescription and use of prescription medications is possibly the number 1 cause of death in the United States.