JOWMA (Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association) Podcast

Dr. Karkare is the director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Center at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, designated as a level 4 center by the NAEC (National Association of Epilepsy Centers). She is board certified in Epilepsy, Child Neurology and Pediatrics. She completed her training from Children’s Hospital of Michigan, University of Michigan and New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. Before joining Northwell, Dr. Karkare was the director of pediatric epilepsy surgery program at Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville, KY where she successfully established a pediatric surgical program and streamlined complex diagnostic testing that was previously not available in the region. She served on the professional advisory committee of Epilepsy Foundation of Kentuckiana and continues to serve on the advisory board of EPICLI (exceptional partners in care Long Island). Dr. Karkare is the principal co-investigator on HEP-3 ( Human Epilepsy Project-3) trial. She has authored book chapters and has multiple publications and presentations pertaining to pediatric epilepsy. As an assistant professor at Hofstra University Medical School and the program director for Child Neurology residency, Dr. Karkare takes avid interest in teaching and training future child neurologists.
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Dr. Karkare is the director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Center at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, designated as a level 4 center by the NAEC (National Association of Epilepsy Centers). She is board certified in Epilepsy, Child Neurology and Pediatrics. She completed her training from Children’s Hospital of Michigan, University of Michigan and New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. Before joining Northwell, Dr. Karkare was the director of pediatric epilepsy surgery program at Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville, KY where she successfully established a pediatric surgical program and streamlined complex diagnostic testing that was previously not available in the region. She served on the professional advisory committee of Epilepsy Foundation of Kentuckiana and continues to serve on the advisory board of EPICLI (exceptional partners in care Long Island). Dr. Karkare is the principal co-investigator on HEP-3 ( Human Epilepsy Project-3) trial. She has authored book chapters and has multiple publications and presentations pertaining to pediatric epilepsy. As an assistant professor at Hofstra University Medical School and the program director for Child Neurology residency, Dr. Karkare takes avid interest in teaching and training future child neurologists.

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Avigail Gimpel is a mom and educator who is the author of Hyper Healing: The Empowered Parent’s Complete Guide to raising a healthy child with ADHD symptoms. Avigail received her BA from Touro college and completed her graduate studies at Touro college graduate school for Special Education in Manhattan, New York. She taught in Yeshiva Darchei Torah in Far Rockaway from 1995 to 1998, where she developed an intervention program for student struggling with ADHD symptoms, after which she married and made aliyah.
In Israel she earned advanced degrees in teaching reading to children with Dyslexia and cognitive education for children with ADHD symptoms.
After returning  to Israel, she immersed herself in studying and developing treatment options for ADHD for her own kids and many struggling students. She collaborated with her father-in-law, Dr. Amnon Gimpel (psychiatrist and neurologist), and developed a parent training program. She then developed a teachers training program and now teaches in Hertzog college as well as lectures in Israeli schools and to parent groups all over Israel. She works in private practice, training parents to become ADHD coaches to their children and spouses to learn a new love language to communicate with respect.
She has recently published her first book “Hyper Healing,” based on many years of research and practice both as a mother of a good number of kids diagnosed with ADHD, as well as a classroom teacher of children struggling with ADHD symptoms.
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Dr. Meira Abramowitz is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Attending Physician at the Jill Roberts Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Weill Cornell. Dr. Abramowitz received her undergraduate degree from Barnard College in 2005 where she graduated summa cum laude, and was awarded her medical degree from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine in 2009, where she graduated as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha society. She completed internship and residency training at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in 2012. She subsequently completed her fellowship in Gastroenteroogy at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in 2015. Dr. Abramowitz is a physician educator and has lectured on both regional and national levels. Dr. Abramowitz sees patients at Weill Cornell Medicine/New York Presbyterian both at the Upper East Side location and at the Lower Manhattan location.
For appointments, consultations, or to schedule your colonoscopy, Dr. Abramowitz can be reached at Weill Cornell/New York Presbyterian at 212-746-5077
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Gregory A. Poland, M.D., is a physician-scientist and the founding and current director of Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Research Group — a state-of-the-art research group and laboratory that seeks to understand genetic drivers of viral vaccine response and application of systems biology approaches to the generation of immunity, as well as the development of novel vaccines against emerging pathogens important to public health. The Poland lab developed the field of viral vaccine immunogenetics, the immune response network theory, and the field of vaccinomics and adversomics. Dr. Poland holds the academic rank of professor of medicine and infectious diseases and molecular pharmacology and experimental therapeutics. He is the Distiguished Investigator of the Mayo Clinic, and is the Editor-in-Chief for the journal Vaccine. Dr. Poland received his medical degree from the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, Illinois, and completed his residency and advanced post-graduate work at the University of Minnesota. He has published over 650 professional papers and book chapters.

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Gregory A. Poland, M.D., is a physician-scientist and the founding and current director of Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Research Group — a state-of-the-art research group and laboratory that seeks to understand genetic drivers of viral vaccine response and application of systems biology approaches to the generation of immunity, as well as the development of novel vaccines against emerging pathogens important to public health. The Poland lab developed the field of viral vaccine immunogenetics, the immune response network theory, and the field of vaccinomics and adversomics. Dr. Poland holds the academic rank of professor of medicine and infectious diseases and molecular pharmacology and experimental therapeutics. He is the Distiguished Investigator of the Mayo Clinic, and is the Editor-in-Chief for the journal Vaccine. Dr. Poland received his medical degree from the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, Illinois, and completed his residency and advanced post-graduate work at the University of Minnesota. He has published over 650 professional papers and book chapters. 

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Jennifer Bain, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor of neurology at CUIMC, in the Division of Child Neurology. Dr. Bain completed her MD and PhD at Rutgers—New Jersey Medical School and child neurology residency at Columbia University. She sees both inpatient and outpatient pediatric neurology patients, with special interest in behavioral neurology caring for children with developmental delay, autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, genetic disorders. She works closely with families to provide reasonable, scientifically sound and ethically safe treatments for children with these concerns. 

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