Medicine in the News

Dr. Hardik Doshi is a dual ivy-league and fellowship trained facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon specializing in all aspects of surgical and non-surgical face and neck rejuvenation. Dr. Doshi developed a deep foundation in the intricacies of the face and neck through five years of intensive surgical training culminating as Chief Resident in Head & Neck Surgery at Columbia / New York Pres...

Dr. Hardik Doshi is a dual ivy-league and fellowship trained facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon specializing in all aspects of surgical and non-surgical face and neck rejuvenation. Dr. Doshi developed a deep foundation in the intricacies of the face and neck through five years of intensive surgical training culminating as Chief Resident in Head & Neck Surgery at Columbia / New York Pres...

Dr. Paul Christo is one of the world’s leading pain specialists and author of Aches and Gains, A Comprehensive Guide to Overcoming Your Pain . He’s an Associate Professor in the Division of Pain Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He served as Director of the Multidisciplinary Pain Fellowship Program for 8 years, and the Blaustein Pain Treatment Center for 5 years at the J...

Adetoun A. Musa, MD Board-Certified in Epilepsy & Neurology Dr. Adetoun Abisogun Musa is a double board-certified Neurologist and Epileptologist. She is passionate about teaching and holds an adjunct faculty position at a local medical school. Dr. Musa is also active in the advancement of medicine through research. Dr. Adetoun Musa’s has specialized training and extensive experience in the dia...

Dr. Sidhu is a leading endocrinologist in Fresno California. You can find him at https://theendocrinegrp.com .

Colleen Daley Ndoye is the Executive Director of Project Weber/RENEW , a peer-driven organization providing street outreach, HIV prevention and testing, harm reduction, case management, and social support for sex workers and people who use drugs, with specialized services for LGBTQ individuals. PWR operates two drop in centers and provides tens of thousands of person-hours annually of street outre...

Adetoun A. Musa, MD Board-Certified in Epilepsy & Neurology Dr. Adetoun Abisogun Musa is a double board-certified Neurologist and Epileptologist. She is passionate about teaching and holds an adjunct faculty position at a local medical school. Dr. Musa is also active in the advancement of medicine through research. Dr. Adetoun Musa’s has specialized training and extensive experience in the dia...

Avez Rizvi is a practicing radiologist, technophile, and start-up junkie. He's held executive leadership positions in different hospitals and start-ups around the world, most recently as the Chief Medical Officer for a virtual reality company, and has been working with AI and AI solutions throughout his career. Most recently, he has founded his latest venture – a forward-thinking startup, where he...

Dr. Rasheed Abiola is a board certified orthopaedic surgeon with a focus in complex and minimally invasive spine surgery. He is a member of J. Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society, North American Spine Society and Lumbar Spine Research Society. He practices in the southeast Michigan area as part of Mendelson Kornblum Orthopedics. For more information on Dr. Abiola please visit his website .

Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, PhD is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Neurological Surgery and Neurology at University of California, San Francisco. As a neurologist and pain management specialist, he studies basic brain and spinal mechanisms of pain using invasive neurophysiology and electrical stimulation. The primary goal of his laboratory is to clarify how distributed circuits across the brain...

Dr. Taiwo Ngwa is a gastroenterologist at Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He practices general gastroenterology and hepatology with special interests in functional gastrointestinal disorders, inflammatory bowel disease and chronic liver diseases. For more information on Dr. Ngwa, please visit here .

Dr. Justin Ernat specializes in orthopaedic sports medicine with a surgical focus on the knee and shoulder. He is a member of the Arthroscopy Association of North America, the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery, and the Society of Military Orthopaedic Surgeons. He serves as the head team physician for the University of Utah Men's Basketbal...

Sandy is a person in long-term recovery who is passionate about bringing recovery tools and practice to those seeking and in recovery from substance use disorders, and their families. Prior to joining RICARES, Sandy led the collegiate recovery program at the University of Connecticut and was awarded the Association of Recovery in Higher Education’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022 for her effort...

Dr. Dhaval Thakkar an Interventional Pulmonologist who focuses on treating a variety of benign and malignant lung diseases using minimally invasive procedures. He completed his post-graduate training at the Lahey Hospital and Medical Center and earned board certifications in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Interventional Pulmonology. He then worked at the Souther...

We welcome back to the show Dr. Avinash Mantha. Dr. Mantha is an attending physician at the Edwards Hines VA medical center. He is associate program director of the Loyola Hines geriatric fellowship and assistant professor of medicine at Loyola University medical center.

Dr. Avinash Mantha is an attending physician at the Edwards Hines VA medical center. He is associate program director of the Loyola Hines geriatric fellowship and assistant professor of medicine at Loyola University medical center.

Dr. Lauren Schaff is a neurology-trained neuro-oncologist who specializes in treating primary brain tumors . She completed medical school at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, then residency training at Columbia University, followed by neuro-oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where she stayed on as faculty. Dr. Schaff divides her time between clinical...

Dr. Randy S. D’Amico is an assistant professor of neurosurgery in the Department of Neurosurgery at Lenox Hill Hospital. The Brooklyn native completed his undergraduate studies at New York University and his medical degree at Robert Wood Johnson Rutgers Medical School, where he was nominated into the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honors Society. His graduate and postdoctoral work was done...

Dr. Razzak is a palliative care physician and internist at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH CMC). He serves as Clinical Director for the Section of Palliative Care and Program Director of the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at UH CMC and is also a Clinical Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University. He is also an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins Univer...

Dr. Karina Gobin is an expert in the treatment of allergic disease in both children and adults serving the Chicagoland area. She practices at the Allergy, Sinus and Asthma Professionals. For more information, visit http://asapillinois.com . Dr. Gobin would like to highlight that even a sesame seed can cause an allergic reaction and should be taken seriously. She wanted to point out that the trace...

Suboxone (Buprenorphine) is a prescription medicine used to treat opioid use disorder. Until recently, very few physicians could legally prescribe the medication because prescribing Suboxone required a special DEA-X waiver. In this episode, we discuss how a recent FDA ruling eliminating the DEA-X waiver program expands who can prescribe Suboxone and what that means in the treatment of opioid addic...

Dr. Antje Barreveld is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Tufts University School of Medicine. She is Medical Director of Pain Management Services and co-Founder and Director of Education and Outreach for the Substance Use Services at Newton-Wellesley Hospital. Dr. Barreveld is also a Clinical Researcher at Harvard Medical School and is one of the Directors-At-Large for the American Academy...

In this episode we talk to Yankees Minor League Team Physician Dr. Shazad Shaikh about when a person should consider surgery versus they should get surgery. Dr. Shaikh is an orthopedic surgeon at Atlantic Health in Bridgewater, NJ who specializes in Sports Medicine. For more information on Dr. Shaikh, please visit https://findmyamgdoctor.atlantichealth.org/provider/Shazad+Shaikh/2441049?practice_l...

Why are Americans dying at a younger age when other comparable countries are living longer? In this episode we talk to Dr. Sudharshan Parthasarathy makes America is unique to other countries and why Americans are dying younger.

In this episode I talk to Dr. Nitika Pant about the effects of social media on children. Dr. Pant is an experienced adult, child and adolescent psychologist in the Chicago area. She is an Assistant Professor at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science and practices at Contentus Psychiatry. For more information, visit https://www.contentuspsychiatry.com .