Stan, Clarence, and Dr. Barry Baines (Health Chatter's new medical advisor) chat with Dr. Joseph Gaugler about long-term care, longevity, loneliness, and aging.

Dr. Gaugler is a distinguished University McKnight Professor and Robert L. Kane Endowed Chair in Long-Term Care and Aging at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Dr. Gaugler’s research examines the sources and effectiveness of long-term care for persons with Alzheimer's disease and other chronic conditions. As an applied gerontologist, Dr. Gaugler's interests include Alzheimer's disease and long-term care, the longitudinal ramifications of family care for persons with dementia and other chronic conditions, and the effectiveness of community-based and psychosocial services for older adults with dementia and their caregiving families. Underpinning these substantive areas, Dr. Gaugler also has interests in mixed methods and implementation science.

Listen along as Dr. Gaugler shares his expertise on long-term care, longevity, loneliness, and aging.

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Stan, Clarence, and the team chat about the illusion of immortality.

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Stan and Clarence chat with Dave Hokanson, Sandeep Burman, Alycia Overbo, and Chad Kolstad from the Minnesota Department of Health about water in relation to public health.

Listen along as the the MDH team shares their wealth of knowledge on water.

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Dr. Barry Baines is back! Stan, Clarance, and Dr. Baines chat about Hospice care. 

Dr. Baines is a recently retired family physician and hospice & palliative medicine specialist with more than 25 years of experience as a hospice medical director. Dr. Baines is also the leading authority on the use of ethical wills in palliative care and other settings. Be sure to check out his book Ethical Wills: Putting Your Values on Paper. 

Listen along as Dr. Baines shares his wisdom and emphasizes the importance of hospice care.

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Stan and Clarence chat with Dr. Lenora Newsome and Dr. Ronda Chakolis about the pharmaceuticalization of medicine and Pharmageddon - three days of nationwide walkouts at CVS and Walgreens.

Listen along as the group discusses growing concerns of the pharmaceutical industry.

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Stan and Clarence chat with Dr. Tom Kottke and Anthony Butler about unintentional firearm injuries and gun violence prevention.

Dr. Kottke first joined Health Partners in 2004 and is now the Medical Director for Well-Being for the health plan, Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota, and a health services researcher at the HealthPartners Institute. Additionally, Dr. Kottke is a strong advocate for gun violence prevention.

Anthony serves on the Protect Minnesota board - a coalition of 16 statewide groups committed to working together to prevent gun violence. Find out more about Anthony and Protect Minnesota at https://protectmn.org

Listen along as Dr. Tom Kottke and Anthony Butler share their thoughts on unintentional firearm injuries and gun violence prevention efforts.

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Stan and Clarence chat with Patty Wetterling.

Patty Wetterling was a stay-at-home mother of four children when her world was rocked by the abduction of her 11 year old son Jacob, on October 22, 1989. With a shattered heart, Patty began studying child abduction and sexual exploitation. Who abducts children, how are they located, what can we do to prevent these horrible crimes? Her advocacy led her to passing Federal legislation requiring sex offenders to register their addresses with law enforcement. She served on the Board of Directors for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for 22 years and was Chair of the board from 2012-2015. As a consultant with the US Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Director of Sexual Violence Prevention for 7 1/2 years at MDH. Associate with the National Criminal Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical College, Patty has presented countless victim impact sessions to law enforcement about AMBER Alert and long-term missing programs across the country. She has been a keynote speaker at conferences addressing crimes against children and child sexual abuse and continues to fight for a world where children have the right to grow up safe and follow their dreams.

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Stan and Clarence chat with Dr. Robert Turesky about prostate cancer.

Dr. Turesky currently serves as a Professor in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Minnesota. Before this professorship, he served as the Director of the Masonic Cancer Center’s Analytical Biochemistry shared resource - a mass spectrometry facility devoted to cancer and chemo-prevention programs at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Turesky's research investigates the biochemical toxicology mechanisms of potential cancer-causing agents in the environment, tobacco, foods, cosmetic dyes, and traditional herbal medicines.

Listen along as Dr. Turesky shares his wealth of knowledge on prostate cancer.

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Stan, Clarence, and the Health Chatter team - Diondra Howard, Sheridan Nygard, Erin Collins, Maddy Levine-Wolf, and Matthew Campbell - reflect on the past year and chat about exciting things to come.

Stan and Clarence chat with Dr. Randal J. Thomas about the history and importance of cardiac rehab.

Dr. Thomas is a board-certified internal medicine specialist with fellowship training in preventive cardiology. He attended the George Washington University School of Medicine and obtained internal medicine training at the Georgia Baptist Medical Center in Atlanta, Georgia, where he also served as a chief resident for one year. He underwent fellowship training in preventive cardiology as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford University. Before joining Mayo Clinic in 1999, Dr. Thomas was a faculty member of the Department of Preventive Medicine and the Department of Medicine (Cardiology) at the Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois from 1992-1996, and was a faculty member of the Department of Medicine at the Greenville Hospital System in Greenville, South Carolina from 1996-1999. Dr. Thomas has previously served as director of the Cardiovascular Health Clinic at Mayo Clinic and continues to serve as the medical director for the Mayo Clinic Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. He has served on the Mayo Clinic Healthy Living Committee and as Project Director for Healthy Living Rochester, a community-based project aimed at helping to improve the health of people living in the Rochester area. He has served as president of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation and is currently chair of the American Heart Association's Council on Clinical Cardiology.

Listen along as Dr. Thomas shares his wealth of knowledge.

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