This Medical Minute is brought to you by Mercy Health. Sotirios Koros, DO is a Mercy Health Physicians specializing in family medicine. He is located at Mercy Health – Eastgate Family Medicine. February is Heart Month and today, Dr. Koros will be discussing why it is important to keep your children and teenagers heart healthy.

This Medical Minute is brought to you by Mercy Health. Les Suna, MD is a Mercy Health cardiologist specializing in Cardiovascular Disease. He is here today to talk about heart disease and share a little bit about “a day in the life” of a cardiologist.

This Medical Minute is brought to you by Mercy Health. Suzanne Lekson, MD is a Mercy Health Physician at West Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. She is here today to talk about the common cold.

Natalie Cain is a Certified Nurse Practitioner who practices from Mercy Health – Pleasant Hill Academy Health Center. She is here to talk about school-based health programs and back-to-school health for parents and kids.

Kelly Jo Trimble is the head athletic trainer at the Cincinnati Ballet and Mercy Health Performing Arts Medicine. She is here to talk about sudden cardiac arrest in student athletes and a new Ohio state legislation that is helping to raise awareness.

Additional tag for daily broadcast: Learn more about cardiac and orthopaedic health for dancers at Mercy Health’s Performing Arts Medicine Wellness Symposium on August 12

Dr. Nikki Instone is a psychologist and behavioral health consultant at Mercy Health. She is here today to talk about Mercy Health’s integrated program offering patients access to mental health services in their primary care doctor’s office.

Sonia Hissett is a Certified Nurse Practitioner with Mercy Health, specializing in Family Medicine. She sees patients of all ages and practices in the Cleves area. She is here today to talk about causes, effects and treatment of childhood obesity.

Dee Nesius is a Certified Nurse Practitioner specializing in Family Medicine. She practices from a new Mercy Health office in Cold Spring, Kentucky. She is here today to talk to us about common summer ailments and staying healthy this summer.

Rocky Tekulve is a Certified Athletic Trainer with Mercy Health Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine. He is here to talk about a program that offers lower extremity baseline testing for young athletes in our community, modeled after the NFL Combine.