JOWMA (Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association) Podcast

By JEWISH ORTHODOX WOMEN’S MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONHealth & Fitness

JOWMA (Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association) Podcast episodes

June 17, 2021 Time 2 Talk Addiction with Lianne Forman of Communities Countering Substance Abuse
Lianne Forman, a corporate and employment lawyer by training, is the Executive Director of Communities Confronting Substance Abuse (CCSA), the organization she and her husband, Etiel, founded in 2018. Through their own family’s struggles, they founded CCSA to create greater community awareness and education about substance misuse and addiction in the Jewish community. CCSA’s mission is to eliminate stigma around addiction in Jewish communities through awareness events and facilitating evidence-based educational programming in schools for students and parents about substance use. Visit www.JewishCCSA.org for more information.
Join us Thursday nights at 8 PM EST on Instagram live @jowma_org for our latest podcast discussions!!
1 hr 1 min
June 17, 2021 Time 2 Talk Addiction with Lianne Forman of Communities Countering Substance Abuse
Lianne Forman, a corporate and employment lawyer by training, is the Executive Director of Communities Confronting Substance Abuse (CCSA), the organization she and her husband, Etiel, founded in 2018. Through their own family’s struggles, they founded CCSA to create greater community awareness and education about substance misuse and addiction in the Jewish community. CCSA’s mission is to eliminate stigma around addiction in Jewish communities through awareness events and facilitating evidence-based educational programming in schools for students and parents about substance use. Visit www.JewishCCSA.org for more information.

Join us Thursday nights at 8 PM EST on Instagram live @jowma_org for our latest podcast discussions!!
1 hr 1 min
June 10, 2021 Migraine: Not Just a Headache
Dr. Sara Crystal MD is a board certified neurologist and (UCNS certified) headache specialist. She completed her neurology residency at NYU, where she served as a chief resident, followed by a fellowship in Headache and Facial Pain at the Montefiore Headache Center of Albert Einstein. Dr. Crystal is a neurologist at the New York Headache Center and a member of the American Headache Society and International Headache Society.
Join us Thursday nights at 8 PM EST on Instagram live @jowma_org for our latest podcast discussions!!
39 min
June 10, 2021 Migraine: Not Just a Headache with Sara Crystal, MD
Dr. Sara Crystal MD is a board certified neurologist and (UCNS certified) headache specialist. She completed her neurology residency at NYU, where she served as a chief resident, followed by a fellowship in Headache and Facial Pain at the Montefiore Headache Center of Albert Einstein. Dr. Crystal is a neurologist at the New York Headache Center and a member of the American Headache Society and International Headache Society.
Join us Thursday nights at 8 PM EST on Instagram live @jowma_org for our latest podcast discussions!!
39 min
June 03, 2021 Infodemic: Dr. David Gorski Discusses Anti-Vaccine Tactics and Tropes
Dr. David Gorski is a surgical oncologist at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, specializing in breast cancer surgery and a professor of surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine. Dr. Gorski attended the University of Michigan, where he received an MD in 1988. In 1989, he entered a residency in general surgery at the University Hospitals of Cleveland. Gorski left residency for a PhD in cellular physiology at Case Western Reserve University, completed in 1994. Dr. Gorski continued his residency (1993–96) and completed a surgical oncology research fellowship (1996–99) at The University of Chicago. He is the author of a blog, Respectful Insolence, and the managing editor of the website Science-Based Medicine, which are both “ science skeptic “ sites. Dr. Gorski has been writing about vaccine misinformation and other pseudoscience topics since 2004- prior to that, he fought Holocaust denialism.
56 min
June 03, 2021 Infodemic: Dr. David Gorski Discusses Anti-vaccine Tactics and Tropes
Dr. David Gorski is a surgical oncologist at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, specializing in breast cancer surgery and a professor of surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine. Dr. Gorski attended the University of Michigan, where he received an MD in 1988. In 1989, he entered a residency in general surgery at the University Hospitals of Cleveland. Gorski left residency for a PhD in cellular physiology at Case Western Reserve University, completed in 1994. Dr. Gorski continued his residency (1993–96) and completed a surgical oncology research fellowship (1996–99) at The University of Chicago. He is the author of a blog, Respectful Insolence, and the managing editor of the website Science-Based Medicine, which are both “ science skeptic “ sites. Dr. Gorski has been writing about vaccine misinformation and other pseudoscience topics since 2004- prior to that, he fought Holocaust denialism.
56 min
May 27, 2021 Aging in Place: Aging in Covid Times
Dr. Hindi Mermelstein is an adult psychiatrist with added specialties in geriatric psychiatry and consultation-liaison psychiatry/psychosomatic medicine. She completed her undergraduate degree at Touro College and was the first female graduate to go to medical school. She obtained her MD degree at SUNY:Upstate College of Medicine, followed by an Internal Medicine internship at Beth Israel Medical Center, a psychiatry residency at NYU-Bellevue and a fellowship in the Dept of Neurology at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She has served in a variety of clinical, administrative and academic positions and has been involved in a number of community and professional organizations including JOWMA and is currently the Chair of the Standards and Ethics Committee for the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry as well as the Community Practice SIG. She currently splits her professional time between her positions at NYU, Northwell and her private practice. Join us Thursday nights at 8 PM EST on Instagram live @jowma_org for our latest podcast discussions!!
40 min
May 27, 2021 Aging in Place: Aging in Covid Times
Dr. Hindi Mermelstein is an adult psychiatrist with added specialties in geriatric psychiatry and consultation-liaison psychiatry/psychosomatic medicine. She completed her undergraduate degree at Touro College and was the first female graduate to go to medical school. She obtained her MD degree at SUNY:Upstate College of Medicine, followed by an Internal Medicine internship at Beth Israel Medical Center, a psychiatry residency at NYU-Bellevue and a fellowship in the Dept of Neurology at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She has served in a variety of clinical, administrative and academic positions and has been involved in a number of community and professional organizations including JOWMA and is currently the Chair of the Standards and Ethics Committee for the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry as well as the Community Practice SIG. She currently splits her professional time between her positions at NYU, Northwell and her private practice. Join us Thursday nights at 8 PM EST on Instagram live @jowma_org for our latest podcast discussions!!
40 min
May 21, 2021 Covid Vaccine and Children: You Have Questions, We Have Answers
Dr. Rebecca Pellett Madan is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and is an attending physician at the Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone, where she serves as Director of Pediatric Transplant Infectious Diseases. Dr. Pellett Madan’s interest in transplantation began at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where she received her MD in 2001. She completed her pediatric residency and pediatric infectious diseases fellowship training at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She developed and led the Pediatric Immunocompromised Host Program at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine for 10 years before joining NYU in 2017. She serves as a voluntary consultant for LiveOnNY, the organ procurement organization for the New York City metropolitan area, and is a contributor to infectious diseases guidelines for the American Society for Transplantation and The Transplantation Society.
Join us Thursday nights at 8 PM EST on Instagram live @jowma_org for our latest podcast discussions!!
48 min
May 21, 2021 Covid Vaccine and Children: You Have Questions, We Have Answers
Dr. Rebecca Pellett Madan is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and is an attending physician at the Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone, where she serves as Director of Pediatric Transplant Infectious Diseases. Dr. Pellett Madan’s interest in transplantation began at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where she received her MD in 2001. She completed her pediatric residency and pediatric infectious diseases fellowship training at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She developed and led the Pediatric Immunocompromised Host Program at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine for 10 years before joining NYU in 2017. She serves as a voluntary consultant for LiveOnNY, the organ procurement organization for the New York City metropolitan area, and is a contributor to infectious diseases guidelines for the American Society for Transplantation and The Transplantation Society.

Join us Thursday nights at 8 PM EST on Instagram live @jowma_org for our latest podcast discussions!!
48 min

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Jennie Berkovich, DO and Alisa Minkin, MD host JOWMA's podcast and share preventative health information geared to members of the Orthodox Jewish community.