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"The Nature of Human Movement" Peter Sprague, PT, DPT Jun 12, 2020

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Peter Sprague, PhD, holds the positions of Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics in Emory University’s School of Medicine. His primary teaching appointment is within the Physical Therapy Division in the Emory School of Medicine where he is the co-course coordinator for the Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation course, the course coordinator for the Introduction to Interventions course, and course coordinator for a course he developed entitled “Movement System in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Practice.” He is a Board Certified Clinical Specialist in Orthopaedic Physical Therapy and currently sits on the Orthopaedic Specialty Council for the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties, serving a four year appointment beginning in January 2018. Dr. Sprague has extensive clinical experience working with collegiate athletes in an interprofessional team setting and has assisted in the development and implementation of screening procedures assessing for musculoskeletal injury risk for collegiate and professional sports organizations. He has an active research agenda exploring musculoskeletal injury risk reduction in active populations and is interested in exploring the effects of movement-based interventions on population health. Dr. Sprague lives in the Atlanta area and enjoys outdoor activities with his wife and 3 dogs.

In this conversation Dr. Sprague talks about the nature and importance of human movement. Not just the fact that we move, but how we do it. What does the science say about the various benefits of multifaceted versatile movement through the day and how it can inherence our overall physical state? Tune in to learn more!

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"Factory Farming and Turning Adversaries Into Allies" with Leah Garces May 28, 2020

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Leah Garcés is the president of Mercy For Animals and author of Grilled: Turning Adversaries into Allies to Change the Chicken Industry. She has nearly 20 years of leadership experience in the animal protection movement and has partnered with some of the world’s largest food companies on her mission to build a better food system.

Leah oversaw international campaigns in 14 countries at the World Society for the Protection of Animals and launched Compassion in World Farming in the United States. Her work has been featured in many national and international media outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, BuzzFeed, VICE, and the Chicago Tribune. Leah has an M.S. in Environment and Development from King’s College London and has presented at global forums including RIO+10 and the World Health Organization conference on the detrimental impact of industrial animal agriculture on health, food sovereignty, and sustainability.

Half Colombian and half American, Leah has lived in Spain, the United States, and the United Kingdom. She is fluent in English and Spanish.

GRILLED BOOK

Released in 2019, Leah’s first book, Grilled, is part memoir, part activist tell-all. Leah illustrates how her fight to end factory farming and construct a compassionate food system led her to collaborate with unlikely allies in the food industry. The book is a must-read for new and veteran animal advocates, as well as those looking to learn more about the food industry—and how to change it.

Please contact Diane May (dianem@mercyforanimals.org) to request a copy of Grilled.

SELECT MEDIA

Interviews and Articles

The Ezra Klein Show: Political Animals (with Leah Garcés)

Vox: Battle-tested lessons from the animal rights struggle

Vox: Replacing beef with chicken isn’t as good for the planet as you think

New York Times: Abusing Chickens We Eat

Civil Eats: Americans Eat More Chicken Than Ever. Leah Garcés Is Working to Change the Industry.

New York Times: Animal Cruelty or the Price of Dinner?

Ozy: The Vegan Activist Working Across Grocery Aisles for Change

Tenderly: Mercy For Animals President Leah Garcés Has a Plan

WIRED: Why We Can’t See Inside Poultry Production, and What Might Change If We Could

VICE: Why a Chicken Farmer in North Carolina Exposed the Depressing Conditions on His Own Farm

Women You Should Know: Food’s Bright Future: Leah Garcés and the Long Struggle to Replace Factory Farming

Food Safety News: African Swine Fever’s Lesson: Big Animal Ag Is Fragile and Biohazard Suits Are Not Unusual

New York Daily News: Iowa’s New Ag-Gag Bill Assaults Free Speech Again

Videos and Speeches

TEDxSeattle

Harvard Grilled talk: Turning Adversaries into Allies

Harvard Animal Law Week

NowThis: Former Factory Farmer Tries an Impossible Burger

NowThis: KFC Is Introducing Chicken-less Nuggets

WEBSITE

www.leahgarces.com

SOCIAL MEDIA

Twitter: @leah_garces

Instagram

: @leahgarces

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"The Heart of Cardiovascular Prevention" with Laurence S. Sperling, M.D., FACC, FAHA, FACP, FASPC May 15, 2020

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This is a very special episode - Episode # 100! THANK YOU to everyone for your continued support!

In this episode Laurence S. Sperling, M.D., FACC, FAHA, FACP, FASPC talks about prevention of heart disease. Dr. Sperling covers a range of topics related to cardiovascular disease and its prevention. What is preventive cardiology? How can we prevent heart disease in individuals and populations? What are the risk factors for heart disease? Dr. Sperling discusses the opportunities in healthcare as it relates to cardiovascular health, and why this topic is especially relevant in the time of the pandemic. Dr. Sperling talks about local and national projects he is leading to restore cardiovascular health and closes with tips on what each of us can do to make an impact. Tune in to learn more!

Laurence S. Sperling, M.D., FACC, FAHA, FACP, FASPC is the current Executive Director of the Million Hearts Initiative for the Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He is the Founder and was the Director of The Heart Disease Prevention Center at Emory since 1997. He is currently the Katz Professor in Preventive Cardiology at the Emory University School of Medicine, and Professor of Global Health in the Rollins School of Public Health. He served as the President of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology from 2014-2016, served on the writing committee of 2018 the ACC/ AHA Guideline on the Management on Blood Cholesterol, and served as Chair of the World Heart Federation writing group on the Roadmap for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention among People Living with Diabetes. Dr. Sperling was the recipient of the 2017 Award of Honor from the Alumni Association of Emory University School of Medicine. He has received awards for excellence in teaching (including 4 Golden Apple Awards and The Dean’s Teaching Award), mentorship (Emory SOM 2018 Mentorship Award), and the R. Wayne Alexander Research mentor award. He has authored over 350 manuscripts/ abstracts/ books, and has been an invited speaker on every continent except Antarctica.

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"Ethics Around Eating Animals" with Jonathan Crane, PhD May 08, 2020

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Jonathan K. Crane is the Raymond F. Schinazi Scholar of Bioethics and Jewish Thought at Emory University’s Center for Ethics. He is also an Associate Professor of Medicine, Emory School of Medicine, and an Associate Professor of Religion, Emory College.

He earned a B.A. (summa cum laude) from Wheaton College in Massachusetts, a M.A. in international peace studies from the University of Notre Dame, a M.Phil. in Gandhian thought from Gujarat Vidyapith in India, a M.A. in Hebrew Literature and rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, and a Ph.D. in religion from the University of Toronto. The co-author of Ahimsa: The Way to Peace, co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality, author of Narratives and Jewish Bioethics, editor of Beastly Morality: Animals as Ethical Agents, author of Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet, and editor of Shades: Race with Jewish Ethics (forthcoming), he is the founder and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Jewish Ethics. A past president of the The Society of Jewish Ethics, he frequently speaks and publishes broadly on Judaism, ethics and bioethics, comparative religious ethics, narrative ethics, eating, environmental and animal ethics, among other topics. He was awarded an honorary degree from Wheaton College.

In this episode Dr. Crane and Dr. Bergquist discuss the ethical side of eating animals. What is the impact of eating animals on our health? And health of others? Animals? Environment? How does poverty and racial disparity come into the picture? If those are just facts that can be easily settled on, what part does the ethics play? Where do our believes come from? What does religion have to say about "diet"? All these questions are also answered in the new Ethics Around Eating Animals course offered at Emory University. Tune in to learn more!

Food Studies & Ethics Program (FS&E)

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"Navigating News During Coronavirus Pandemic" with Arefa Cassoobhoy, MD Apr 28, 2020

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Arefa Cassoobhoy is a board certified internal medicine doctor who is passionate about health literacy and committed to raising awareness of health topics that are currently under the radar and affect vulnerable communities. Her projects focus on empowering individuals and communities to improve their health through collaborations including advocacy, research, and education.
As Senior Medical Director at WebMD, Cassoobhoy and the medical team ensure all content across WebMD is not only correct and current, but also easy to understand and useful. She oversees a national network of doctors that reviews content across the site and works with editorial teams on strategy and content development covering articles, videos, mobile applications and tools.
Cassoobhoy sees patients and serves on the Board of Directors at the Clarkston Community Health Center. This rapidly growing, non-profit clinic provides healthcare to underinsured and uninsured individuals many of whom are recent immigrants.
Involved with medical education and alumni engagement, Cassoobhoy serves on the Emory School of Medicine Alumni Board and the Rollins School of Public Health Community Advisory Board.
Always learning, Cassoobhoy is pursuing board certification in lifestyle medicine. This is an evidence-based approach to prevent and treat disease with changes in diet, exercise and other lifestyle modifications.
As a spokesperson for WebMD and Medscape, she is active on social media platforms including Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, as well as media interviews and speaking engagements.

In this episode Dr. Cassoobhoy talks about strategies you can use to vet and filter the health-related information you see in news and media. This is especially helpful in the times like today. Tune in to learn more!

To learn more or connect with Dr. Cassoobhoy, please visit

https://www.linkedin.com/in/arefacassoobhoy/

https://www.instagram.com/arefacassoobhoymd/

https://twitter.com/ArefaMD

Recent blog posts:

https://blogs.webmd.com/arefa-cassoobhoy-md

https://www.webmd.com/coronavirus

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"How We Regulate Stress with Our Behaviors" with Chance Nicholson, PhD Apr 21, 2020

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Dr. William “Chance” Nicholson joined the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing as an assistant professor in August 2019. He received his PhD from the University of Alabama at Birmingham with a focus on neurophysiological correlations between the vagus nerves’ cholinergic pathways, psychiatric comorbidities (e.g., perceived stress, depression, and post-traumatic stress) and HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders. Dr. Nicholson's research interests and publications center on neurophysiological substrates that form the basis of cognitive-behavioral symptoms (e.g., anger, impulsivity, depression, suicidality) often observed in trauma-based disorders, in particular post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder.

In this episode Dr. Nicholson and Dr. Bergquist talk about self-regulatory behaviors in the context of stress. How do things like fidgeting and gesticulation work on physiological level to moderate our stress response? What are other behaviors that are or are not conscious that help our body to "make sense" of the world? Are all of those behavior beneficial? Understanding and being mindful of these tools can help us make choices more consciously, be less reactive and be more in touch with ourselves and those around us.

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"What is Heart Rate Variability" with Chance Nicholson, PhD Apr 13, 2020

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In this episode Dr. Nicholson and Dr. Bergquist talk about heart rate variability, or HRV. With the wearable devices becoming more and more popular, HRV is often thrown around as one of the metrics being measured, but do we understand what it means? What does it reflect? How is it descriptive of our health and wellness, if at all? Should our HRV be low or high? What are the factors that influence it and what we can do to improve our HRV? We answer all of those questions and more in this episode. Tune in to learn more!

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"Acupuncture and Integrative Care" with Wei Huang, MD, PhD Mar 30, 2020

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Dr. Wei Huang is an Associate Professor in Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. She received her medical degree in Shanghai, PhD in Neuroscience/Psychology at Vanderbilt University, and residency training at UNC Chapel Hill. Besides being a Board-certified physiatrist, Dr. Huang is also certified in Integrative Holistic Medicine and is a certified acupuncturist in Georgia. She is the founding physician of the first acupuncture clinic and the first integrative medicine clinic at the Atlanta VA Medical Center, and often acts as a consultant to regional medical centers to set up acupuncture clinics. She is currently a Medical co-Director of Acupuncture Service which opened in December last year as a Specialty Service under the Emory Clinics. Dr. Huang is on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and also acts as an ad hoc reviewer for multiple journals, including BMJ, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, European Journal of Integrative Medicine, and Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, all publishing research articles in complementary alternative medicine. Her own research and publications have been in acupuncture, Tai Chi, sleep, and traumatic brain injury. To commemorate her services, the Women’s Veterans for Social Justice awarded her withLifetime Award for Research and Practice in Integrative Medicine in 2017.

Acupuncture is one of the oldest ways of treatment that has been gaining popularity in the past 20 years. In this conversation Dr. Huang discuses the basics of acupuncture treatment. How does it work? What is the history of it? What conditions is it effective for? How long does it take to see the effects? How to find a good acupuncture specialist? What are the cases when acupuncture is covered by insurance? Dr. Huang covers all of those questions and shares some of the easy ways we can use acupuncture principles even at home. Tune in to learn more!

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"Finding Connection in Times of Isolation" with Jenny Mascaro, PhD Mar 23, 2020

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Jennifer Mascaro, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Division of Preventive Medicine of the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine.

Dr. Mascaro is a member of the Cancer Prevention and Control research program at Winship Cancer Institute.

Dr. Mascaro holds a PhD in biological anthropology from Emory University. Her doctoral work examined the impact of compassion meditation on social cognition and brain function, and post-doctoral work investigated the biological bases of paternal caregiving behavior.

Dr. Mascaro's current research program examines interventions that enhance social connectivity, and in so doing, impact health. Ongoing projects include longitudinal investigations of compassion and mindfulness meditation training for diverse populations including Emory Healthcare employees, medical and physician’s assistant students, and veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.

We talk about social distancing, its meaning and effects. There is existing and emerging research about loneliness and isolation - the differences between the two, how each affects our health and wellbeing in different ways. Is physical isolation a determinant for feeling lonely? Can technology and connectedness through online communing be effective to overcome it or mitigate its effects? What are the things we can do to still continue to participate in and build communities in spite of isolation and social distancing? Dr. Mascaro also talks about other triggers that may be influencing mental health of people today - uncertainty, lack of control, lack of predictability, hightened stress - and how those can effect us in short and long term. We discuss the tools we can use to deal with all of this, the silver lining we can focus on, the good to look forward to.

Tune in to learn more!

There is a number of resources that are available for free for various groups especially affected by current events.

Headspace is offering free Headspace Plus access for Healthcare professionals: https://www.headspace.com/health-covid-19

The yoga app Down Dog is offering free subscriptions to anyone through April 1 and to anyone with a .edu email address until July 1: https://www.downdogapp.com/

Calm is offering free meditation resources, including their widely acclaimed Sleep Stories as well as meditation sessions for kids:

https://www.calm.com/blog/take-a-deep-breath?utm_source=lifecycle&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=difficult_times_subs_031720

The VA has free apps developed for those wanting help interacting with difficult emotions:

- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Coach APP: https://mobile.va.gov/app/act-coach

- Mindfulness: https://mobile.va.gov/app/mindfulness-coach

This podcast is brought to you by Emory Lifestyle Medicine & Wellness. To learn more about our work, please visit

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"Understanding Food Allergies" with Erin Malawer Mar 15, 2020

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Erin Malawer is a digital health entrepreneur and food allergy advocate. She is the founder of Allergy|Health which brings expert guidance and up-to-date information to patients and caregivers. Erin serves on the Food Allergy Task Force at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington D.C. In addition to advising pharmaceutical companies, tech start-ups, food manufacturers, media outlets, restaurants, and others on food allergies, Erin consults and contributes to a variety of media sources including Bloomberg, Politico, CBS Radio, CBS News, Healthline, WebMD, and Fox 5. Erin was featured on the Discovery Chanel documentary, “Emerging Epidemic: Food Allergies in America” (2013) and is the food allergy columnist and medical editor for the publication,Allergy & Asthma Today.

Through her organization,AllergyStrong, Erin is focused on helping the at-risk and underserved community living with food allergies. Erin especially enjoys working with children and recently produced a public service announcement aimed at dispelling myths and promoting basic guidance about food allergies for underserved youth and those that support them.

In this conversation Erin shares how she started down the path of food allergy research after her son got diagnosed with food allergies as a toddler. Erin explains in detail what happens when a person eats the food they are allergic to, discusses potential consequences and talks about different tests available on the market. Erin also explains how food allergy is different from food intolerance and addresses common myths about both. Tune in to learn more!

For more information please refer to the following resources:

Social media: @allergystrong or @shmallergy
Website: allergystrong.com or follow Allergy Shmallergy (our blog) on twitter/Facebook

This podcast is brought to you by Emory Lifestyle Medicine & Wellness. To learn more about our work, please visit

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