The Zach Highley Show

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SERGE A. JABBOUR, MD, FACP, FACE is a Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolic Diseases at Jefferson. He is also the Director of the Jefferson Diabetes Center. Dr Jabbour completed his training in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolic Diseases at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Dr Jabbour has been recognized with many honors and...

Amy Mackenzie, MD, grew up in Los Angeles but fled the scene in 1994 after college in rural New York to live and work in Japan for 3 years. She decided to pursue medicine at that time and headed back to the states to finish up pre-med work while working for the Japanese Consulate in Los Angeles. She then moved to Philadelphia in 2000 to work and apply to med school, ultimately enrolling at MCP-Hah...

Here are 42 things I learned from my 20s (that I wish I learned earlier). ___ 0:19 - Schedule Everything 0:57 - Call Customer Service 1:35 - Your Parents Are People Too 2:06 - Friends and Family Are Important 2:31 - Aim for People to Respect You, Not to Like You 3:28 - Free Time Is Great 3:55 - Write Emails Like a Human 4:33 - Meditate 5:07 - Journaling 5:32 - Cold Exposure 6:14 - Heat Exposure 6:...

Dr. Goldberg is from Wilmington, Delaware. She went to UPenn where she majored in the Biological Basis of Behavior, graduated Magna Cum Laude, was judged to have the best honor's thesis in her major and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She went to Albert Einstein College of Medicine for her MD degree and was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. She was a surgery resident here at Jefferson for many years, b...

Dr. Rohin Saroya is a family medicine doctor currently practicing family medicine and sleep medicine. He completed his residency at Drexel University and Moved to Jefferson and completed a one-year fellowship in sleep medicine. He is Board certified in both and practicing 80/20% in family medicine and sleep medicine, respectively. He still lives in Philly but is working in central Delaware at Bayh...

Gillian is from the larger Philadelphia area and initially studied Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Scranton and worked in social services as a Case Manager after college. She then transitioned to Vaccine Development NIH-funded research as a clinical coordinator at the University of Vermont while taking pre-med classes. She attended medical school at Penn State College of Medicine, w...

Dr. Isenberg is a professor of surgery at SKMC and the vice chair of surgical education here at Jefferson as well. He is specialized in colorectal surgery. He went to medical school at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, trained in surgery at Lenox hill hospital, and completed is colorectal surgery fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University. He is the editor-in-chief for ACS case reviews in surgery, th...

Alex Valiga is the current chief resident physician in the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology here at Thomas Jefferson University. He grew up outside of Philadelphia in North Wales, Pennsylvania and attended nearby Drexel University where he earned a bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering. It was during this time that Dr. Valiga developed his passion for cutaneous oncology by spe...

Dr. David Oxman is a Critical Care Doctor and associate professor of medicine here at Jefferson and the program director for the critical care medicine fellowship. He went to medical school at Temple, where he also completed his residency in IM. HE completed four fellowships in Infectious Diseases at Tufts, Surgical Critical Care at Harvard, Medical critical care at Hahnemann, and Medical ethics a...

Dr. Steven Herrine is the chair of medical education and professor of medicine here at SKMC at Jefferson and a practicing hepatologist and gastroenterologist. He grew up in NYC and studied math and history at Oberlin College, after which he spent a few years as a chef, and then went to Jefferson medical school, Penn, for IM residency and Jefferson for GI/hepatology, where he has stayed since. He h...

Dr. Lalitha Trivikram is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician who graduated from Penn State College of  Medicine and completed her post-graduate training at the University of Michigan and New York Hospital - Cornell. She has over 20 years of experience in outpatient, inpatient, and congregate care settings, including skilled nursing, acute rehabilitation, and corr...

Here are 101 pieces of advice to myself for a better life. ___ 00:24 - #1. Create don’t consume 00:53 - #2. Ask for help 1:02 - #3. Surround yourself with people who excite you 1:22 - #4. Remove people from your life that drain you 1:25 - #5. Avoid lukewarm romantic relationships 1:36 - #6. Be in nature 1:49 - #7. Meditate 2:09 - #8. Have long dinners with your family 2:31 - #9. The squeaky wheel...

Jason Han was Born and raised in South Korea until age 10. Came here with his family and attended Columbia University and Perelman School of Medicine, where he was the student body president. I'm currently a cardiac surgery resident at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the vice president of the TSRA, which is our national governing body. I'm broadly interested in communication, ed...

Dr. Harkness is a Pediatrician at Nemours in Paoli. Originally from Philadelphia, and has been a hospital pediatrician in the past. He went to medical school at University of Pittsburgh and trained in Pediatric at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has been with my his practice for the last 31 years treating pediatric patients in the outpatient setting. Dr. Harkness was actually my pediat...

Halle grew up in Minneapolis, MN and went to undergrad at St. Olaf College, a small liberal arts school about an hour south of the Twin Cities. She went to Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, WI and ultimately matched out in Philadelphia at TJUH for my urology residency. She graduated summa cum laude from St. Olaf and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. In medical school she was in AOA. She s...

Today I have the privilege of sitting down with my Dad, Ivan Gergel, again. My dad was born and raised in London where he went to medical school and became a psychiatrist. He then joined the pharmaceutical company GSK in developing new antidepressant drugs, famously some of the SSRIs we all are of course aware of today. This job took him to the US where he started our family with my Mom. Dad was r...

Charles J. Yeo is a hepatopancreaticobiliary surgeon here at Jefferson. He was born in East Orange, New Jersey, and attended Spring Valley Senior High School in Spring Valley, New York. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1975, summa cum laude with an A.B. in Biochemistry. Dr. Yeo graduated in 1979 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, being awarded th...

Brian Till, MD is a PGY-4 in surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Born in San Francisco and went to Haverford College where he studied political science, then University of Vermont college of medicine. Brian has been awarded multiple grants for his outstanding research and innovations. Amazingly, Brian is also an accomplished writer, still writing articles for such places at The New Re...

Dr. Chiang is a triple board-certified (gastroenterology, internal medicine, obesity medicine), got his BS from Duke, MPH from Harvard, and MD from Columbia. IM trained from NY Presbyterian Hospital, GI from Harvard at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Bariatric endoscopy fellowship from there as well, with a final advanced endoscopy fellowship here from Jefferson. He is currently the Chief Medica...

How to improve your cognitive performance through evidence based strategies. ___ 0:00 - Intro 2:45 - Studies and Research on Stress 4:53 - Effects of Alcohol and Caffeine 5:47 - Eliminating Negative Thinking 7:42 - Focus on the Positives 10:35 - Be Open to Humor 10:57 - Build Self-Esteem 12:06 - Meditation 17:14 - Mindfulness 18:27 - Journaling 19:19 - Taking Breaks 21:07 - Go Outside 23:34 - Summ...

Dr. Xiao Chi Zhang is the assistant professor and assistant clerkship director of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. He is a triple graduate from Tufts University and he completed his residency at Brown University. Dr. Zhang is a teacher, a loving father, a devoted husband, and a vocal advocate for Asian American and Pacific Islander, AAPI, communities. He has won multiple teaching...

Dr. Ellina Hattar was born in Amman, Jordan and grew up in the Middle East, as well as Odessa, Ukraine and Montreal, Canada. Her family immigrated to Ramsey, New Jersey when she was 13 years of age. She attended Johns Hopkins University where she earned a dual degree in Neuroscience and Public Health. She returned to New Jersey after college to attend NJMS at Rutgers University for medical sc...

Dr. Katherine DeOreo Lackritz, MD, Clinical Assosciate Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology here at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Lackritz received a BA at Carleton college, completed here medical degree at University of Vermont, and completed here residency at Long Island Jewish Hospital (now referred to as Northwell). She has received multiple awards as a pr...

I have the special honor of being with Betty McGowan, the best babysitter in the world. That’s how I first met Betty, however, she is much more than that. A teacher, a mother, and really, a living saint. She grew up in Manayunk, PA, She had a tough upbringing, an alcoholic father, and little money. She loved playing sports, especially baseball/softball, and held many records for her high school. S...