Show 1: James Burdick professor of transplantation surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Transplantation (1:00) discussing his upcoming book on a doctor's plan for health care reform.
Show 2: Help for Mental Illness (33:52) Christine Merola, Community Outreach and Projects Coordinator of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).
Link: National Alliance on Mental Illness
Show 3: Gastrointestinal and complex abdominal surgery (22:04) with a particular focus on pancreatic and hepatobiliary surgery. Guest, Dr. Kurtis Campbell, surgical oncologist with the Institute for Cancer Care at Mercy Medical Center.
Link: Surgical Oncology at Mercy Medical Center
Show 4: James A. McGowan, M.D., a pain management specialist at Mercy (25:30) Medical Center’s Center for Interventional Pain Medicine talks about its history and his work with interventional therapies for neck and back pain
Link: The Center for Interventional Pain Medicine at Mercy
Show 5: Anterior hip, shoulder and knee replacement surgery (25:58) Guest: Joseph J. Ciotola, M.D orthopedic surgeon at Orthopedics and Joint Replacement at Mercy Medical Center.
Link: Dr. Joseph J. Ciotola
Show 6: Family Medicine practice at Mercy Medical Center (17:00) Guest: Samyra C. Sealy MD
Link: Samyra C. Sealy, M.D
Show 7: Kevin J. Cullen, M.D. the director of the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center (46:55) talks about his career, the cancer center’s accomplishments in his 10 year tenure, working with the American Cancer Society and the 50th anniversary of the first Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health.
Links: University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center • American Cancer Society
Show 8: Shantelle Mobley, Medical Surgical Nurse Manager at Mercy Medical Center (24:07) talks about her career and the hospital’s coveted “Magnet®” recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center®, the highest recognition for nursing excellence.
Link: Mercy Medical Center
Show 9: Providing health care to people in remote areas of the world through the use of mobile phones (45:49) Guest Alain Labrique, Ph.D. the founding director of the Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative talks about his career and his work .
Link: John Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative
Show 10: The Diabetes Program at Mercy Medical (29:37) Guest Kelly O’Connor, RD, LDN, CDE, Director of Diabetes Education at The Center for Endocrinology at Mercy Medical Center talks about her career and the diabetes program
Link: Kelly O'Connor
Show 11: The National Multiple Sclerosis Society (27:53) Guest, Mark Roeder, Maryland Chapter President of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society talks about his career and 10 years at the NMSS featuring current research, treatment and events.
Links: Maryland National Multiple Sclerosis Society • Baltimore Walk Apr 27, 2014
Show 12: Elissa Bantug, Program Manager of Breast Cancer Communication, Education & Survivorship at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center (45:38) talks about her breast cancer diagnosis at age 23 and the center’s programs
Link: Breast Cancer Programs at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center
Show 13: Jen Burdette, Mission Delivery Specialist, American Cancer Society Road to Recovery (19:17) talks about the need for volunteer drivers to take cancer patients to treatments.
410-781-4316 #3; Email Jen
Links: American Cancer Society
Show 14: Within Reach, A privately operated non-profit foundation dedicated to providing peer support, education, and assistance to cancer patients and survivors (18:55) Guest Cathy Brice Hirsch, President of the privately operated non-profit, the Frank and Clara Hirsch Foundation, Inc. d/b/a Within Reach, which develops and operates support programs for cancer patients and survivors talks about her cancer diagnosis the foundation and seeking cancer survivors to volunteer mentoring new patients.
Link: Within Reach
Show 15: Dr. William B. Isaacs, Interim Director of the newly-launched $45M Johns Hopkins Greenberg Bladder Cancer Institute (31:36) talks about the facility, the world’s first Institute dedicated solely to bladder cancer.
Contact: Email • Phone
443-287-0147
Show 16: Edel Blumberg talks about his life and the 'Semi-Colon Club' (38:20) he formed to encourage people to get checked for colon cancer. Edel calls himself a "2-and-a-half-time colon cancer survivor."
Link: Semi-Colon Club