JOWMA (Jewish Orthodox Women's Medical Association) Podcast

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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Tzivy Reiter, is the Director, of Children and National Trauma Services, OhelShe currently directs Outpatient Mental Health Services for adults and children, School Based Services for youth, Early Childhood Mental Health and Trauma services. In that capacity, Tzivy has overseen the implementation of evidence-based practice models across programs, utilizing current research, and data driven processes to produce meaningful outcomes. Tzivy is a specialist in trauma and disaster mental health, having run Crisis Counseling Programs after 9/11 and Hurricane Sandy. She has intervened in local and national traumas including the Houston Floods, the Pittsburgh shootings and the Woolsey, CA Fires. She has led the Ohel mental health response to Covid, including the pivot to telemental health treatment, and virtual psychoeducational sessions that attracted tens of thousands of participants throughout the pandemic. She co-created a resilience workbook that was used by 10,000 children during the pandemic and was named a mental health hero during Covid by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health. Ms. Reiter facilitated the development of trauma-informed school based resources including Return to School Covid Toolkit and a trauma sensitive schools model, Resilient Schools. Most recently, Ms. Reiter co-authored a book for preschool children, I Feel That Way and That's Okay!, and an accompanying Teacher’s Guide.

Raizel Keilson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She has been working with young children for 15 years; first as a therapist and now as both a therapist and the clinical supervisor of all treatment at the Early Childhood Mental Health program at Ohel. Raizel treats early childhood PTSD, postpartum reactions, childhood anxiety, parent-child relationship challenges and divorce reactions. Raizel is trained in multiple modalities including Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), SPACE, Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) Triple P. Raizel collaborated on the development of the book “I Feel that Way and That’s OK’ and other resilience workbooks developed by Ohel. Raizel is a proud mother of 5 children and loves to read-especially good children’s books! She can often be found combining her love of reading with mothering.

I Feel That Way and That’s Okay Free Coloring Pages:

https://www.ohelfamily.org/resources

I Feel That Way and That's Okay Book

https://www.amazon.com/Feel-That-Way-Thats-Okay/dp/B0B5NFDVJ3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2XCD40C60D4T4&keywords=i+feel+that+way+and+that%27s+okay+book&qid=1683901966&sprefix=i+feel+that+way+%2Caps%2C76&sr=8-1

The Resilient Parent | Psychology Today

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-resilient-parent

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Dr. Shoshannah Frydman, PhD, LCSW is the executive director of Shalom Task Force. Dr. Frydman is a trauma-informed therapist and advocate who has worked in the field of domestic abuse and family violence in the Jewish community for close to 20 years. Dr. Frydman co-chairs the UJA Taskforce on Family Violence, and was recently appointed to the New York City Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence COVID-19 Response Group. Dr. Frydman previously served as the managing director of Family Violence and Social Services at the Met Council. Dr. Frydman received her MSW from the University of Maryland School of Social Work and her PhD at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York/Hunter College Silberman School of Social Work.

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Shalom Task Force

https://shalomtaskforce.org/

Call, Text, Chat- 888-882-2323

Thehotline.org 800.799.SAFE (7233)

The Community has Power, and the Power of Community | Shoshannah D. Frydman | The Blogs (timesofisrael.com)

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-community-has-power-and-the-power-of-community/

JOWMA Podcast: Love Shouldn't Hurt with Anna Sherman, RP MFT

https://anchor.fm/jowma/episodes/Love-Shouldnt-Hurt-with-Anna-Sherman--RP-MFT-e1eqv73

Mishpacha Article: Shattered

https://mishpacha.com/shattered/

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This podcast episode is sponsored by the Lev Initiative:

Everyone deserves to be safe. The Lev Initiative provides mental health support to those impacted by intimate partner violence, also known as domestic violence.

We take a holistic approach to help survivors of any age find ways to heal and thrive. Our virtual and in-person services include crisis and individual counseling sessions, support groups, psychotherapy, community-sensitive emergency housing, and linkages to a variety of community resources.

The Lev Initiative is brought to the community by The Jewish Board in partnership with UJA-Federation. For more information, contact us confidentially at [email protected] or 646-273-1800.

Are you interested in sponsoring the JOWMA Podcast? Email [email protected] for more information.

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Dr. Shoshana Kaufman was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she attended a large urban public high school and graduated as valedictorian. She went on to earn her BA in psychobiology from Yale University. During her junior year, her father passed away in an accident, which led her to take a spiritual journey to Israel. Over the next few years, she became frum and started a family, raising five children in the process. Dr. Kaufman hosted up to 20 guests each week for Shabbos and Yontif meals in her home, and eventually decided to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a physician.
Upon completing her undergraduate degree, Dr. Kaufman took the MCATs and was encouraged by a friend to attend medical school. She will graduate in May and will begin a residency in Family Medicine at Metrohealth hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. The program is known for its intensity, as it serves primarily the poor and uninsured population in the area, including medical care for inmates in the local jails. Dr. Kaufman is enthusiastic about this opportunity and looks forward to serving her patients with compassion and care.

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Gila’s vibrant, positive and relatable style make her a well-sought after and much loved coach and educator with over 20 years experience. She has a passion for sharing the joy and relevance of Judaism and for positive parenting. Her Power Up! podcast was named the Top Jewish Podcasts Worldwide. It allows listeners to access her wit, wisdom and inspiration in their own time. You can find her on Instagram @itsgilaross where she shares daily inspiration. She runs parenting courses, offers individual strategy sessions and also specifically works with parents and schools to help kids develop a healthy relationship with technology.

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Living Beautifully by Gila Ross

www.subscribepage.com/livingb

Social Media And Kids’ Mental Health: How To Navigate And Protect

https://www.5tjt.com/social-media-and-kids-mental-health-how-to-navigate-and-protect/

We Have to Talk To, Not Scare Our Kids About Online Safety with Rahel Bayar

https://anchor.fm/jowma/episodes/We-Have-to-Talk-To--Not-Scare-Our-Kids-About-Online-Safety-with-Rahel-Bayar-e1phrir

Screen Time: Digital Citizenship with Eli Shapiro, EdD, LCSW 

https://anchor.fm/jowma/episodes/Screen-Time-Digital-Citizenship-with-Eli-Shapiro--EdD--LCSW-e1kd7i5

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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. She earned her her BA in Social Anthropology at Harvard University in 2004 and her MD and MPH at Boston University's School of Medicine and School of Public Health in 2010. Dr. Berman then 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. 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.

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What Matters to You

Amazon: The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

https://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Catches-You-Fall-Down/dp/0374533407

JOWMA Speciality Spotlight: Dr. Rachel Berman, MD, Pediatrics

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jowma/episodes/Speciality-Spotlight-Rachel-Berman--MD--Pediatrics-e1re3ov/a-a1hvuta

What Matters to You?

https://wmty.world/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWhat%20Matters%20to%20You%20(WMTY,Barry%20and%20Susan%20Edgman%2DLevitan

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