JOWMA (Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association) Podcast

Naamit Kurshan Gerber, MD is an associate professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Perlmutter Cancer Center of the NYU Langone Medical Center. Dr. Gerber received her AB in the history of science from Harvard College and her M.D. from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She completed her training in radiation oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Dr. Gerber specializes in the treatment of breast cancer and lymphoma. In addition to her clinical practice, she is actively engaged in research that focuses on improving outcomes for women with early stage breast cancer. She has authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Gerber is a member of the NRG Breast local regional committee and serves on the breast scientific program committee for ASCO and the breast education committee for ASTRO. She is a senior editor for breast cancer at PRO where she also serves as the editor of the Morbidity and Mortality Column.

Dr. Gerber serves as the program director of the NYU Radiation Oncology Residency Program residency program. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a two-time winner of the ARRO Educator of the Year Award and the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics Outstanding Reviewer Award.

Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University, in the department she chaired from 1988-2003 and from which she retired in September 2017. She is also Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. She holds honorary degrees from Transylvania University in Kentucky and the Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York. 

She earned a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition from the University of California, Berkeley. Previous faculty positions were at Brandeis University and the UCSF School of Medicine. From 1986-88, she was senior nutrition policy advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services and editor of the 1988 Surgeon General’s Report on Nutrition and Health. Her research and writing examine scientific and socioeconomic influences on food choice and its consequences, emphasizing the role of food industry marketing. 

She is the author, co-author, or co-editor of fifteen books, several of them prize-winning, most notably Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2002); Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety (2003); What to Eat (2006); Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics, with Dr. Malden Nesheim (2012); Eat, Drink Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics (2013); and Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning) in 2015. She also has written two books about pet food, Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine (2008) and Feed Your Pet Right in 2010 (also with Dr. Nesheim). She published Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat, in 2018 and a book of short essays with Kerry Trueman, Let's Ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health in 2020. Her most recent book is a memoir, Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics (2022).

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Dr. Judith Fridovich-Keil joined the faculty at Emory in 1991. She is currently a professor in the department of Human Genetics, School of Medicine at Emory. Her research focus: inborn errors of metabolism (galactosemia). Dr. Fridovich-Keil received her AB in Biochemistry, Princeton University (1983), and her PhD in Biology from MIT (1988). She completed her postdoctoral training at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School (1988-91) and is board certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics in Clinical Medical Genetics (1996 - present). Dr. Fridovich-Keil grew up in Durham, NC. My husband, Mark, and has been married for 38 year. She and her husband  are the proud parents of two adult children.  

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Nechama Nerenburg is a wife and mother of 4 children. She has worked as a doula for over 20 year. In her training, Nechama has completed courses in Breast Feeding, Emergency Birth, EMT, Neonatal Resuscitation, Techniques on More Efficient Pushing, BRM Body Balancing, to alleviate pain during pregnancy and for easier birth.  

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Dr. Rachel Berman is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Academic General Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After earning her BA in Social Anthropology at Harvard University in 2004, Dr. Berman attended Boston University's School of Medicine and School of Public Health, earning her MD and Masters of Public Health degrees in 2010. She completed her pediatric residency at the Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics in 2013, followed by a residency in Preventive Medicine at Boston Medical Center in 2015. Dr. Berman practices general pediatrics, and she serves as her clinic’s clinician champion for social needs screening and referrals. In this role, she has also had the opportunity to be involved in a multisite research study of biomarkers of stress and resilience in children through the Harvard Center for the Developing Child. Dr. Berman teaches residents and medical students, and through a grant from the American Medical Association’s Reimagining Residency Initiative, she has been working to develop a curriculum on social and structural determinants of health for residents in Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Family Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology. Most recently, she is participating in the 2022-2023 United Hospital Fund’s PEDS Network Fellowship Program, which provides early career pediatricians with mentorship and support for projects that aim to improve health equity for young children and families. Her project specifically focuses on sharing opportunities for civic engagement with her patients and their families. Outside of work, Dr. Berman serves as a founding board member of the Interfaith Public Health Network, a non-profit organization that aims to engage and mobilize faith communities to improve the health of our communities through addressing social, commercial, environmental, and political determinants of health. She lives in Riverdale with her husband, Rabbi Yonah Berman, and their 3 very energetic boys.

Rahel Bayar is a sought after keynote speaker, trainer, workshop facilitator and consultant. Rahel is trusted by companies, K-12 schools, camps and organizations across the country to deliver inspiring abuse and harassment prevention training, and inspire those she meets to work collaboratively to create safe spaces. She uses her expertise as a former sex crimes and child abuse prosecutor, and a former managing director of the sexual misconduct consulting and investigations division of a global investigative company to effectively help each organization work to create a safe space for all.  Rahel can be reached at the bayargroup.com and is on instagram @rahel.bayar   

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Dr. Maureen Nemetski is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Attending Physician at Hackensack University Medical Center - Joseph M Sanzari Children’s Hospital, and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. She obtained her MD/PhD from New York University School of Medicine, and completed a Pediatrics Residency at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, and a Fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore. In 2019, she joined JOWMA as the first chair of the Preventative Health Committee and launched our vaccination hotline and preventative health podcast. She stepped down from her role as the JOWMA Preventative Health Committee Chair in May 2020, in order to devote her energies to the medical advisory committees of Yeshivat Frisch and Ben Porat Yosef, and the New Jersey Yeshiva Joint Medical Committee as they worked with Jewish day and high schools in and around Bergen County to re-open - and stay open - safely during the Covid pandemic.

Leah Vitale MOT, OTR/L, CLC received her Masters of Occupational Therapy from James Madison University in 2010. She is a certified lactation counselor and maintains a NY state license as well as a national certification and membership with the American Occupational Therapy Association and National Association for Neonatal Therapist.

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Barry M. Prizant, PhD, CCC-SLP is recognized as among the world’s leading authorities on autism, and as an innovator of respectful, person- and family-centered approaches for autistic individuals and those with other neurodevelopmental conditions. He currently is the Director of Childhood Communication Services, a private practice, and has fifty years of experience as a scholar, researcher, and international consultant. He has served as an Adjunct Professor at Brown University for more than 25 years, as an Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Brown University Medical School and has held tenured Professor appointments at Emerson College, Boston, and Southern Illinois University. He has published five books, more than 140 articles and chapters, and is senior author of The SCERTS Model: A Comprehensive Educational Approach, now being implemented in more than a dozen countries.

Barry has been a two-time featured presenter (2013, 2017) at the United Nations World Autism Awareness Day in New York City, and has given close to 1000 presentations in major universities across the US and in more than 25 countries. Over the past 25 years, Barry also has co-developed and co-facilitates a retreat weekend for parents of autistic family members with his wife, Dr. Elaine Meyer of Harvard University. He also has a specific interest on the positive impact of the musical, theatrical and visual arts for autistic and disabled children and adults.

Barry’s recent book, Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism (Simon & Schuster, 2015; 2022 expanded edition) has been the best-selling book on autism since 2015, along with an audiobook version narrated by Barry. It is now published in 24 languages, and was ranked by Book Authority as #1 of the “100 best books on autism of all time”. Barry also co-produces and hosts a podcast, Uniquely Human: The Podcast (www.uniquelyhuman.com) with his friend, Dave Finch, an autistic audio engineer and New York Times best-selling author.

Dr. Devorah Segal was born in Baltimore and grew up in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated from Prospect Park Yeshiva and went to BJJ seminary, followed by Brooklyn College. She attended Mount Sinai Medical School, where she earned her medical degree and a PhD in neuroscience.  She then completed a residency in child neurology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and a fellowship in pediatric neuro-oncology at NYU.

Dr. Segal practiced general child neurology and neurogenetics at Weill Cornell for several years, where she was also the director of the Child Neurology residency training program. She then returned to NYU, where she practices pediatric neuro-oncology and is the Associate Director of the Comprehensive Neurofibromatosis Center at NYU and the director of the pediatric neuro-oncology fellowship. Dr. Segal is the principal investigator or co-investigator of several clinical trials looking for new treatments for nervous system tumors. She is also the site principal investigator of a clinical trial studying a treatment for metachromatic leukodystrophy.

Dr. Segal lives in Passaic, NJ with her husband and 5 children, all of whom were born while she was in medical school.