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"Native American Cuisine and Traditional Ecological Knowledge" with Lois Ellen Frank, PhD Jan 10, 2019

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Lois Ellen Frank, Ph.D. (Kiowa) is a Santa Fe, New Mexico based Native American Chef, a Native foods historian, culinary anthropologist, educator, James Beard Award winning cookbook author, photographer and organic gardener. She is the chef/owner of Red Mesa Cuisine, LLC a Native American catering company specializing in ancestral Native American cuisine with a modern twist. Dr. Frank has spent over 25 years documenting and working with the foods and lifeways of Native Americans in the Southwest and other regions throughout the Americas. This lengthy immersion in Native American communities culminated in her book, Foods of the Southwest Indian Nations, featuring traditional and contemporary recipes, which won her the James Beard Award in the Americana category.

Dr. Frank is a Culinary Ambassador Diplomat with the U.S. State Department and Office of Cultural Affairs, where with Chef Walter Whitewater (Diné), she has traveled to Ukraine (2013), the United Kingdom (2015), and Russia (2016) to teach about the history of Native American foodways, work with food as a form of diplomacy, and educate how the Native American food contribution with foods that we eat every day has changed the Old World.

Dr. Frank works with the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) on a program entitled The Power to Heal Diabetes:Food For Life in Indian Country using the Ancestral Native American diet for health and wellness in Native Communities throughout the Southwest. She is a consultant with the Cultural Conservancy (TCC) on their Native Foodways program in the San Francisco Bay Area and is also a featured cooking instructor at the Santa Fe School of Cooking where she teaches classes on Native American cuisine. Dr. Frank is an adjunct professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), where she teaches one semester a year about the Indigenous Concepts of Native American Foods.

To learn more about Red Mesa Cuisine, visit http://redmesacuisine.com

"Plant Proteins and Their Impact on Health" with Milton Mills, MD Jan 03, 2019

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Milton Mills, MD practices urgent care medicine in the Washington DC area, and has served previously as Associate Director of Preventive Medicine and as a member of the National Advisory Board, for Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). He has been a major contributor to position papers presented by PCRM to the United States Department of Agriculture regarding Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and has been the lead plaintiff in PCRM’s class action lawsuit that asks for warning labels on milk.

Dr. Mills earned his medical degree at Stanford University School of Medicine, and completed an Internal Medicine residency at Georgetown University Hospital. He has published several research journal articles dealing with racial bias in federal nutrition policy. He frequently donates his time via practicing at free medical clinics, and travels widely, speaking at hospitals, churches and community centers throughout the country. He was featured in the recent attention-getting film “What the Health,” and will also appear in the upcoming film “The Silent Vegan.”

"Habit and Lifestyle Change" with Howard Jacobson, PhD Dec 27, 2018

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Howard Jacobson, PhD is co-founder and Chief of Behavioral Science at WellStart Health. He is the host of the Plant Yourself Podcast, and contributing author to Whole, by T. Colin Campbell, PhD, and Proteinaholic, by Garth Davis, MD.

At WellStart Health, Howard guides clients to adopt and maintain lifestyle and dietary habits in alignment with their health goals and life values.

Howard has been coaching high performers since 2001. He sits on the advisory board of the International Coach Certification Alliance, and is a certified in Peter Bregman’s QUICC Coaching methodology, BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits, and Glenn Livingston’s Never Binge Again system. He is a visiting scholar at Duke University’s Institute for Advanced Hindsight.

Howard is also a digital marketing strategist. The author of Google AdWords For Dummies, he has consulted and taught marketing strategy in the US, Europe, and South Africa. He is a columnist for Fast Company and The Huffington Post, and has contributed to Harvard Business Review.

Howard earned his MPH and PhD in Health Studies from Temple University, and his BA from Princeton University.

Howard lives on an ecological farm in rural North Carolina, where he writes, gardens, plays Ultimate Frisbee, runs ultra marathons, and practices Russian Martial Arts.

Howard’s goals include shaking up healthcare, sharing how delicious and joyful a healthy life can be, save the planet, and reintroducing people to their most authentic, bipedal, plant-eating, antifragile, best selves.

And maybe someday not finish last at the Leadville Marathon.

In this conversation Howard shares his own journey of finding plant-based nutrition, weight-loss, and what helped him make it "stick". He reframes motivation, talks about building identity, developing skill and creating habit. Howard touches on new approach to healthcare and talks about WellStart Health. Finally, he shares his experience with practicing Russian Martial Arts and the benefits of getting used to being uncomfortable.

Links:

http://plantyourself.com/

http://WellStartHealth.com

Social Media:

@askhowie on Twitter and Instagram

@Go_WellStart on Twitter

@go_wellstart on Instagram

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

http://facebook.com/plantyourself

https://www.facebook.com/WellStartHealth/

"Brain Health, Alzheimers and Early Detection" with James J. Lah, MD, PhD Dec 20, 2018

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Dr. James Lah graduated with honors from Duke University in 1984, and subsequently enrolled as a Medical Scientist Program Fellow at Ohio State University, where he earned his MD/PhD in 1992. After an internship in Medicine, Dr. Lah completed his Neurology Residency at Emory from 1992 to 1996. At the end of his clinical training, he was awarded a Clinical Investigator Development Award from the National Institutes of Health and joined the Emory Neurology faculty.

During his career, Dr. Lah has led basic laboratory research efforts, as well as the development of a multidisciplinary team devoted to the care of patients with Alzheimer’s and other degenerative brain diseases. He is currently the Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Neurology at Emory University, where he also serves as Director of Emory’s Cognitive Neurology Program and Clinical Core Leader of the NIH funded Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. In addition, he serves as a member of several key committees for the Emory School of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, and the American Federation for Aging Research. Dr. Lah has received national and international recognition for his leadership in Alzheimer’s research, and in 2009, Emory University appointed Dr. Lah to the Alice and Roy Richards Endowed Chair for Alzheimer’s Disease.

Alzheimers is currently ranked as the 6th leading cause of death in USA and the most common cause of dimentia. What is the difference between Alzheimers and Dementia? What are the causes of these conditions? This is a conversation about the research findings related to Alzheimers, brain health and healthy aging. How much is determined by our genes and how much can we control with the lifestyle? What preventative measures are most effective and what does the science say about treatment potential? Tune in to learn the answers to these questions.

To learn more or participate in Emory Healthy Aging Study, please visit:
https://healthyaging.emory.edu/

"Scratch Cooking for Health Care" with Mike Bacha, Executive Chef at Emory University Hospital Dec 13, 2018

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Mike Bacha has been the Executive Chef for Emory University Hospital for close to nine years. Prior to Emory, Mike was the opening Chef de Cuisine of Repast restaurant in midtown. The restaurant was named best new restaurant in America by Esquire magazine, top five best new restaurant in Atlanta by Jezebel and best wine driven menu by Wine Enthusiast. Other notable positions include saucier at The Ritz Carlton Buckhead and Chef de Cuisine at Chateau Elan Winery.
Mike have spent the past nine years reforming an institutional kitchen into a kitchen that prides itself on producing in house food from scratch, sourcing local sustainable ingredients, and providing healthier options for patients, guests and staff. His mission as the Executive Chef is to continue to develop Emory's menus to focus even more on the sustainability of food and educate his staff, visitors and patients about the importance of food sourcing and good cooking techniques.

Mike takes us behind the scenes on what cooking for a large hospital looks like. He shares his journey and provides simple tips on adding flavor, local sourcing, and sustainability.

"Value on Investment (VOI) of Employee Wellness Programs" with Michael Staufacker Dec 06, 2018

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Michael Staufacker is a Director of Health Management in Central HR Administration at Emory University in Atlanta and has served in this role since 2012. He develops, implements, and evaluates health management programs and services for 30,000 university and healthcare employees. He partners with Emory’s benefits department to ensure health plan (48,000 members) and other vendor partners are accountable for health improvement (pharmacy benefit management, case management, disease management, maternity management, behavioral mental health, lifestyle management).
From 1994 until 2012, Michael worked for StayWell Health Management in a variety of roles including Account Management, Call Center Management, and Product Development & Management.
Prior to that, he was the Health Education Director for the American Lung Association of Kentucky from where he was responsible for programs related to the prevention and control of lung disease.

In this conversation Michael and Dr. Bergquist discuss the history and trends of employee wellness programs, the lessons learned and the direction forward. Michael talks about implications and benefits of work-site wellness programs to employees and employers, ways to measure the success, new areas of focus, effective tools, strategy behind incentives, the role of technology, the role of leadership, and much more.

Helpful resources:

https://hero-health.org/

https://www.cdc.gov/workplacehealthpromotion/index.html

"COACH Approach to Wellness" with Elizabeth Frates, MD Nov 29, 2018

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Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Pegg Frates, is a physician and certified health and wellness coach. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, as a double major in psychology and biology.

Then, she attended Stanford University Medical School where she chose the specialty of Physiatry. Dr. Frates came back to Boston for her internship in internal medicine at MGH and residency at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in the Harvard Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. There, she served as chief resident and President of the National Resident Physician Committee for the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. During her residency, she performed research on patient and caregiver knowledge and expectations for functional recovery after stroke and published those results in the American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Finding there was a lack of understanding of stroke basics in both patients and caregivers post stroke, she co-authored a book to help fill this gap. The book is titled "Life After Stroke: The Guide to Recovering Your Health and Preventing Another Stroke" (2006) Johns Hopkins University Press.

Dr. Frates has trained in many different programs addressing behavior change in order to learn how to empower people to adopt healthy habits, those that prevent stroke and other lifestyle related diseases. This training includes a certification in Motivational Interviewing from UMass, certification in health and wellness coaching, Mind Body Medicine training with Dr. Herb Benson’s group, and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction training with Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s group. She has been actively involved with teaching evidence based wellness, healthy habits, stroke prevention as well as lifestyle medicine at the Harvard Medical School, Continuing Medical Education Conferences both nationally and internationally for years.

Dr. Frates founded her own wellness coaching company, Wellness Synergy in order to empower individuals and groups to attain their optimal level of wellness. She has developed 12 Steps to Wellness, which has helped people move from sitting on the couch eating potato chips to walking, tracking their steps with pedometers and enjoying fruits and vegetables. She is currently the Director of Wellness Programming at the Spaulding Stroke Research and Recovery Institute at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate. Dr. Frates is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Frates has worked in the area of lifestyle medicine for almost ten years. She is the Director of Medical Student Education at the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine, the faculty advisor for the Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group at Harvard Medical School and has directed wellness programs at Harvard College. In the fall of 2014, Dr. Frates created a college level course in lifestyle medicine from scratch. Using all her experience in medicine and coaching along with the latest evidence from the medical literature, Dr. Frates crafted the curriculum, wrote weekly case studies, quizzes, and discussion questions and lectured in two hour classes for 14 weeks in the course Psych E 1037 Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine at Harvard Extension School. Teaching is a passion for Dr. Frates.

Dr. Frates talks about shifting the perspective from "expert" approach to what she calls "COACH approach" to wellness and healing - an approach rooted in compassion, openness, appreciation, curiosity and honesty.

To learn more please visit:

Website:
http://wellness-synergy.com

Twitter:
@BethFratesMD

Course Website:
https://www.extension.harvard.edu/academics/courses/introduction-lifestyle-medicine/14505

"The Power of Lifestyle Medicine" with Mladen Golubić, MD, PhD Nov 21, 2018

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Mladen Golubić, MD, PhD, joined the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute in 2009 after completing residency training in internal medicine at Huron Hospital in East Cleveland, Ohio. He is currently the Medical Director of the Center for Lifestyle Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute.

Dr. Golubić is a graduate of the University of Zagreb School of Medicine in Croatia. He earned his doctorate at the same university after five years of post-doctoral fellowship at the Max-Planck Institute for Biology (Germany) in the field of immunogenetics. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine. His specialty interests include lifestyle therapies for cardiovascular disease and lifestyle-related types of cancer.

Dr. Golubić was a project scientist at Cleveland Clinic in the Department of Molecular Biology (1992-1995), and the Neurosurgery and Brain Tumor Institute (1995-2006). He also directed education within the Center for Integrative Medicine (2003-2006).

Dr. Golubić is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed articles, five book chapters, and numerous articles on Complementary and Alternative Medicine therapies for WebMD, and was a reviewer for several scientific journals. Dr. Golubić modeled yoga exercises in a 1993 video and in a 1995 book for yoga trainers by the American Yoga Association.

As a principal investigator, Dr. Golubić has received grant support from various national organizations, including the National Institutes of Health, for basic science and clinical research for his group’s work on therapeutic modulation of inflammation in patients with malignant brain tumors by dietary and herbal medicine approaches.

This is a conversation about the nature of Lifestyle Medicine, its goals, methods and benefits. We discuss the differences between lifestyle medicine, integrative medicine, functional medicine, explain the meaning of "lifestyle intervention", a concept of "teaching kitchen" and many other methods and technics that has been shown to be powerful and effective vehicles of lifestyle change benefiting long-term health and wellness.

For more information please visit:

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/departments/wellness

"Reducing Stress through Mindfulness Training" with Joe Burton Nov 15, 2018

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Joe Burton is the founder and CEO of Whil, the leading mindfulness training platform helping employees to reduce stress, increase resilience and improve their sleep and performance. He is an entrepreneur in scientific wellbeing, former President of Headspace and spent fifteen years as a global COO in public companies. Joe is an alumnus of Harvard Business School, authorof Creating Mindful Leaders and regular contributor to Forbes, Business Insider and HuPost. He's worked in over 50 countries and travels the world speaking on disruption, resilience, culture, emotional intelligence and mindfulness as a competitive advantage.

Joe shares his personal story and the shift in perspective that motivated him to found Whil. It is a conversation about modern stress levels, the pressing need for emotional resilience and mindfulness training, understanding how our brains works, as well as the resources and simple practices available to manage stress on both individual and corporate level.

Learn more and connect at:

https://www.whil.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joeburton1/

"Training for Peace" with Shaun Lewis Nov 08, 2018

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Why is it that when service members are preparing for combat we call it "training", but we call efforts to transition back to living in peaceful environment "seeking help"? What if we reframed this approach... What if it was NOT "seeking help", but "training for peace"?

This week our host Dr. Sharon Bergquist sits down with Shaun Lewis, the Lead Veteran Outreach Coordinator for the Emory Healthcare Veterans program. Shaun is a 17-year Army Veteran, with three years Active Duty and 14, and counting, in the Army Reserve, including two overseas tours, one a combat tour in Iraq planning and conducting route clearance missions.Since 2014 Shaun has worked in Veteran services for education, career development, and healthcare.

Shaun and Dr. Bergquist talk about PTSD, its root cause, some of the surprising facts related to it, and the stigma that is still very present in the day. Shaun shares his personal experience, as well as the stories of some of the veterans he has worked with through Emory Healthcare Veterans Program.

“Healing Invisible Wounds” is the motto an the mission for The Emory Healthcare Veterans Program (EHVP), which is designed to treat conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), military sexual trauma (MST), anxiety, and depression related to past military service. Their highly skilled team of professionals is led by world-renowned Emory clinical psychologist Barbara Rothbaum, PhD, who has been working in the PTSD field since 1986 and pioneered virtual reality exposure (VRE) therapy to help Veterans and service members face their worst memories and move on with their lives. The team consists of specialists in several fields including psychiatry, neurology, neuropsychology and social work.

The Three Cores of EHVP are:

Psychological and psychiatric care
Traumatic brain injury and neurological care
Holistic integrative medicine for wellness

Clinical Service Offered:

Trauma-focused therapy
Medication
Virtual reality exposure
Cognitive rehabilitation therapy
Family/relationship management skills
Wellness Services Offered
Sleep training
Stress management skills
Yoga
Personal Training and Gym membership
Nutrition education
Acupuncture
Massage

Other Services Offered

Financial and career counseling
Recreational activities e.g. Falcon Games, Festivals, Atlanta Botanical Garden, etc.
GA Aquarium Immersion Program
Veterans Affairs Liaison
Veteran Resource guidance
Opportunities to collaborate with other Veteran service organizations, including Team RWB, The Mission Continues, The Wounded Warrior Project, and others.

To learn more please visit:

Webpage: www.emoryhealthcare.org/veterans

The Emory Difference with Monica Pearson : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63f95_82xdk&index=3&list=PLwu47d4ufBLf-bs0ICRgYgHpci32UdAoG&t=0s

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EmoryVeteransProgram/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmoryVeterans

AJC article on one of our patients: https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/troubled-vet-reclaims-her-life-with-emory-help/yz1xtqk1WjWiZzXyLztf6M/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pukREJIDGQ

Spot we got on local news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=actSO5mX5g8&list=PLUgtVJuOxfqnBAkElYgm0VFAQ5N775yCg&t=0s&index=26