Eilís O’Connell-Sussman is a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), New York State Licensed Behavior Analyst (LBA-NY), and certified special educator. She earned her master’s degree in autism and intellectual disabilities at Teachers College, Columbia University, and continued her education in applied behavior analysis (ABA) at the Florida Institute of Technology. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Endicott College’s ABA program under the advisement of Dr. Mary Jane Weiss. She is the Lead Behavior Specialist for Long Island University (LIU)- Center for Community Inclusion (CCI), Regional Partnership Center and has adjunct faculty positions at LIU-Post and Endicott College. Her research interests focus on applying the science of ABA to individuals with intellectual disabilities, specifically Down syndrome. She is interested in researching programs that address the Down syndrome phenotype and can shape early intervention protocols to support child development. Recently, she was awarded the Sidney W & Janet R. Bijou grant to study caregivers and infants with Down syndrome interactions to increase canonical babbling. Additional interests include culturally sensitive interventions and treatment outcomes related to the family as a whole and compassionate care skills for behavior analysts.

Center for Community Inclusion | Long Island University

https://www.liu.edu/Post/Academics/College-of-Education-Information-and-Technology/Centers-Resources/Center-for-Community-Inclusion

The Controversy Around ABA - Child Mind Institute

https://childmind.org/article/controversy-around-applied-behavior-analysis/#:~:text=Studies%20have%20shown%20that%20ABA,because%20it%20is%20so%20repetitive.

RBT and Autistic Advocate with Michelle Vinokurov

https://open.spotify.com/episode/45xI6S3xRtGCg0PfP5EcNp

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Strauss Allergy & Asthma Therapy opened its Westbury office in 2007, but Dr. Raphael (Ralph) Strauss has been a practicing allergist for over 30 years.

Dr. Strauss is certified by the American Board of Allergy & Immunology.

After graduating cum laude from Brandeis University, he began his medical career at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where he received his medical degree in 1986. He did his internship and residency in pediatrics at Schneider Children’s Hospital/ Long Island Jewish Medical Center. There, he was recognized with the Best Resident Teaching Award in 1989. He followed up his residency with a two-year fellowship in allergy and immunology at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

Dr. Strauss has multiple professional affiliations, including Winthrop University Hospital, North Shore University Hospital, South Nassau Communities Hospital, Long Island Jewish Hospital, and Stony Brook University Hospital, where he is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Nassau County Medical Society, and the American College and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. He has authored and co-authored a number of publications for professional journals. Dr. Strauss has made several TV appearances as an expert in allergy and has been quoted in media publications such as the New York Times.

The Empathy Project

https://www.empathyproject.com/our-team-05262021

Amazon: If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating

https://www.amazon.com/Understood-Would-Have-This-Look/dp/1524781924

JOWMA Podcast: What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear/What Doctors Say, What Patients Hear with Dr. Danielle Ofri

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/FM10beLUnBb

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Content Warning: This episode contains more explicit and sensitive content. It is geared towards a mature audience only. Audience discretion is advised.

Suri Halpern, JD, LMFT, CST is a licensed marriage and family therapist and certified sex therapist. She runs a private practice in Bala Cynwyd, PA, where she sees individuals and couples. She has lectured extensively on a variety of topics involving sexuality. She is passionate about giving women support and information about sexuality at all life stages. She has run training programs for mikveh attendants, kallah teachers, Rebbetzins and Yoatzot.

Psychology Today | Sarah Halpern, Bala Cynwyd, PA

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/sarah-halpern-bala-cynwyd-pa/167914

JOWMA Podcast | After The Chuppah: The Confident Kallah part 2 with Dr. Elissa Hellman

https://anchor.fm/jowma/episodes/After-The-Chuppah-The-Confident-Kallah-part-2-with-Dr--Elissa-Hellman-e1jqute

JOWMA Podcast | Ladies, We Need to Talk! 

⁠https://anchor.fm/jowma/episodes/After-The-Chuppah-The-Confident-Kallah-part-2-with-Dr--Elissa-Hellman-e1jqute⁠

JOWMA Podcast | Talking to Our Kids About Sex and Sexuality: Rachel Tuchman, LMHC 

https://anchor.fm/jowma/episodes/Talking-to-Our-Kids-About-Sex-and-Sexuality-Rachel-Tuchman--LMHC-e1eqv7h

JOWMA Podcast | How To Talk About Sex So Kids Will Listen and Listen So They Will Talk with Elisheva Liss, LMFT 

https://anchor.fm/jowma/episodes/How-To-Talk-About-Sex-So-Kids-Will-Listen-and-Listen-So-They-Will-Talk-with-Elisheva-Liss--LMFT-e1er3fu

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Dr. Staci Leisman is a board certified internist and nephrologist who practices nephrology at Mount Sinai Hospital. She is also an accomplished educator in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.


Dr. Leisman received her B.A. in English Language and Literature from Yale University, where she graduated magna cum laude and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. She received her M.D. from Washington University in St Louis, where she was one of 8 recipients of the Distinguished Scholar Award. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Nephrology at Mount Sinai Medical Center. As a fellow, she completed research in transplant immunology in the laboratory of Dr. Peter Heeger, which resulted in a Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Transplantation and two oral presentations at the American Transplant Congress. During her fellowship, she co-first authored and was a contributing author on numerous papers.


Dr. Leisman’s clinical duties include caring for patients on dialysis at an outpatient dialysis facility, as well as attending on the inpatient renal service at Mount Sinai Hospital.


Dr. Leisman has been extensively involved in teaching throughout her career. She currently teaches students at all levels of medical education, including medical students, residents and fellows.  She is the course director for the Human Physiology course in the medical school, and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Medical Education, where she is a co-director for the medical school curriculum. In her capacity as an educator, she has won numerous awards including Teacher of the Year at North General Hospital, the Edward Ronan Student Council Award at the Icahn School of Medicine, the Institute for Medical Education's Excellence in Teaching Award, the Student Council Lifetime Achievement Award, the JOWMA Outstanding Achievement Award, and the Gold Humanism in Medicine Award. She has been selected for membership in the Institute for Medical Education as a Master Educator.


Dr. Leisman also serves on the International Association of Medical Science Educators’ educational scholarship committee, and serves on the editorial board of Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease, the Journal of the National Kidney Foundation. She is the Deputy Education Director for the Kidney Self Assessment Program (KSAP), the preeminent board preparation tool published by the American Society of Nephrology.

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Dr. Elana Dumont trained to work with young children though adulthood treating issues such as anxiety and depression. In addition she provides parent coaching to support parents in their developing strong relationships with their children. She is also trained to treat women struggling with pre and post natal challenges.She utilizes an integrated approach using evidence based treatments that include CBT (cognitive-behavioral therapy), mindfulness, exposure treatment, and parent management training. She also believes in the validity of psychodynamic therapy and building a strong therapeutic alliance with my clients.

Nora Berger, Occupational Therapy Student is a Yonkers native looking specialize in Pediatrics. She is a dancer, aviation enthusiast, automotive/ rail fan, unashamed Pokémon player. Nora earned a bachelor's degree Pediatric OT through dance from NYU Gallatin. She completed supplemental classes at LaGuardia for secure her entry into Touro. Nora has worked with non-verbal autistic toddlers in Woodhaven and later transferred to ACDS Westchester, working with the same population of children. Nora uses her Asperger's for good, not evil, and has made certain connections with students that might not have otherwise been made. She professes she still have so much to learn before she is a professional anything.

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Dr. Walsh received an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Manhattan College and an MD degree from SUNY-Downstate Medical Center in 1974. He completed his residency at the URMC Strong Memorial Hospital in 1977 and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases in 1982. Since then he has been faculty in the Department of Medicine and a member Infectious Diseases

Dr. Gutman is a board-certified pediatrician, and currently a second year fellow in adolescent medicine at Cohen Children’s Medical Center. Her clinical interests include eating disorders, pediatric gynecology and promoting healthy habits in teenagers. Her research currently focuses on the change in the quality and outcome of eating disorders on patients that presented during the Covid-19 pandemic.  Dr. Gutman served for 2 years as the co-chair of JOWMA’s Teen Health Committee, and continues to stay active on the committee.

Dr. Gutman originally earned her Bachelors of Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she majored in English literature. She completed post baccalaureate premedical program and went to medical school at Tel Aviv University. She then went to Jacobi Medical Center for a residency in pediatrics, where her research focused on sickle cell disease—back in those days, she believed she would specialize in pediatric hematology/oncology. In the middle of residency, Dr. Gutman realized that adolescent medicine was more enjoyable and rewarding than anything she’d experienced in residency so far. She quickly knew it was the field for her.

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Dr. Joseph "Joey" Skelton is a board-certified pediatrician and obesity medicine specialist. He has a particular interest in working with entire families to change behavior, as well as working with community organizations who have the same goals. He is the founder and director of Brenner FIT® (Families In Training), a family-based pediatric obesity program; we are active in clinical care, research, education, and community outreach.

He conducts research focused on attrition from and adherence to treatment, and how to incorporate the entire family system into health care. He also teaches medical students in a field called Culinary Medicine, which is a way to improve nutrition and health through cooking. He spends most of his free time with his wife, a surgical pharmacist at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, and his two teenage sons. They like to cook and eat with his extended family and friends, who live all over North Carolina, from the beach (Wilmington) to the mountains (Asheville).  

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JOWMA Podcast | OMG! You Think I'm Fat!?! How To Talk (or Not Talk) about Your Child's Weight with Madeleine Berg, MS, RD, CDN https://anchor.fm/jowma/episodes/OMG--You-Think-Im-Fat----How-To-Talk-or-Not-Talk-about-Your-Childs-Weight-with-Madeleine-Berg--MS--RD--CDN-e1un9na

JOWMA Podcast | We Have a Weight Problem with Miriam Pascal https://anchor.fm/jowma/episodes/We-Have-a-Weight-Problem-with-Miriam-Pascal-e1v4i16

JOWMA Podcast | Special Episode: We Have a Weight Problem with Yaffi Lvova, RDN, Alisa Minkin, MD, FAAP, Tobi Ash, RN, BSN, MBA and Dr. Marcy Forta, EdD, MBA https://anchor.fm/jowma/episodes/Special-Episode-We-Have-a-Weight-Problem-with-Yaffi-Lvova--RDN--Alisa-Minkin--MD--FAAP--Tobi-Ash--RN--BSN--MBA-and-Dr--Marcy-Forta--EdD--MBA-e1ucb7o

JOWMA Podcast | Health At All Sizes with Malka Katzenstein https://anchor.fm/jowma/episodes/Health-At-All-Sizes-with-Malka-Katzenstein-e1eqv64

JOWMA Podcast | Atzmi: My Body Is Not My "Self" https://anchor.fm/jowma/episodes/Atzmi-My-Body-Is-Not-My-Self-e1ipcsc

JOWMA Podcast | Hunger Games: Raising Healthy Eaters https://anchor.fm/jowma/episodes/Hunger-Games-Raising-Healthy-Eaters-e1eqv66

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Howard L. Forman, MD, is Director of Addiction Consultation Service at Montefiore and Assistant Professor at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. His clinical interests focus on the intersection of addiction, mental health and physical illness. Dr. Forman is also a leading forensic expert who has been retained by state prosecutors, federal prosecutors, leading law firms across the country.

Dr. Forman earned his Bachelor of Arts in chemistry and environmental science at Columbia University in 2001, followed by his Doctor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2008. After interning in psychiatry at Beth Israel Medical Center from 2008 to 2009, Dr. Forman returned to Albert Einstein College of Medicine, completing a residency in psychiatry in 2012, and a fellowship in forensic psychiatry in 2013.

In addition to his areas of clinical focus, he is a nationally sought-after lecturer, and his research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and abstracts. He is also co-author of Prescription Drug Abuse, a book exploring the risks and controversies surrounding the issue of prescription drug abuse and misuse.  He is the book review editor for the Psychiatric Times and his opinions have been featured in outlets as varied as the Rolling Stone Magazine and the New York Times.  For several years, he was a columnist for US News and World Report.   

Dr. Forman has been honored by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine with the Samuel Rosen Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching and is a member of the Leo Davidoff Society for excellence in medical student education. He has served as co-Chair for the American Medical Association Action Team on Alcohol and Health, and as President of the Bronx District Branch of the American Psychiatric Association. He is board certified in psychiatry, forensic psychiatry and addiction medicine. Dr. Forman is a member of the American Psychiatric Association and serves on their Council for Medical Education and Lifelong Learning.

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Relief Resources

https://www.reliefhelp.org/

Amudim

https://amudim.org/

(646) 517-0222

JOWMA Podcast | "Ad d'lo Yada": Keeping our kids safe on Purim and the rest of the year

https://anchor.fm/jowma/episodes/Ad-dlo-Yada-Keeping-our-kids-safe-on-Purim-and-the-rest-of-the-year-e1eqv7l

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