People And Perspectives Podcast

Today's guests include Yolonda Richardson, President and CEO of Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Dr. Jonathan Foulds, a professor of public health sciences and psychiatry at Penn State College of Medicine, Dr. Mercedes Carnethon, Vice Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Lung Health Cohort Principal Investigator, and Carly Roszkowski, VP of Financial Resilience Programming at AARP.

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Joining the program first this morning is Kaeli Thomas, Co-Founder and Player with Harrisburg Havoc and Leah Crump, Player with Harrisburg Havoc.  Harrisburg Havoc is a women's tackle football team under the Women's football Alliance, and this year Kaeli and Leah were chosen to compete with Team United, formed with other female players from across the U.S., in this year's Coffee Bowl February 18th. Then Dr Autumn Caviness, Director, RealTalk, BigFuture, College Board joins the program to discuss how to prepare for the next step after high school and the key to applying for FAFSA and other available scholarships. And finally, in recognition of American Heart Month, Dr. Annabelle Volgman, Women's Heart Alliance Scientific Advisory Board Member joins the program to discuss what women need to know about the signs and speaking up if believe they are having a heart attack.

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Joining the program this morning to discuss Human Trafficking Awareness month,   what's being done in our area to help victims, and how you can help is Amy Thurston, Co-founder, President & CEO of Hope Inspire Love.  Then Dr. Eric Gehrie, Executive Physician Director at the American Red Cross joins the program to discuss the current need for blood donations and the incentives being offered for those who can contribute to the shortage.

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 Camp Dragonfly is a summer camp program to help kids coping with the grief of losing a loved one.  Joining the program to discuss this and more are Susan Resavy, Dir. of Family Services with Hospice of Central PA, and Evelyn Lewis, Volunteer Coordinator.  Then Michael Strautmanis , Executive Vice President for External Affairs with the Obama Foundation discusses ways they are working with people from all over the country, including here in PA to help all in need in different fields, through democracy.

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Joining the program today to talk about affordable health coverage options through PENNIE, is Devon Trolley, Executive Director of Pennie.  Then Dr. William Hoffman, Transplant Specialist and Nephrologist with UPMC joins the program to discuss living donors and why it's such a vital option for those in need of an organ transplant.  Then finally, Mark  Compton, Chief Executive Officer with the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission joins the program to discuss the latest on the Turnpike toll increase and what you need to know.

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It's a new year, and often that means many of us made a resolution or two to start it off.  Joining me to discuss some of the popular ones and with tips on how to continue your resolutions into 2025 is Ann Fields, Founder of Peaceful Poses Kids Yoga and Jenelle Dito, Senior Director of Scores Client Services at FICO.  Then James Schenck, CEO of PenFed Foundation and Andrea McCarren, President, PenFed Foundation join the program to discuss the importance of service dog training and how they help veterans and people with disabilities.

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The 108th annual Pennsylvania Farm Show is returning to Harrisburg this coming weekend and joining the program to discuss all the things that it brings to our area and state is Russell Redding, Secretary of Agriculture for the Commonwealth and 
Dave Smith, Executive Director with the PA Dairymen’s Association.  Then, Kamilah Bunn, CEO of the National Adoption Association and Stacy Barr, adoptive parent join the program to discuss the benefits of adopting, in particular a teenager looking for their forever home.

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Today's guests include Jennifer Pipa, Vice President of the American Red Cross Disaster Programs,  Sherman Gillums, Office of Disability Integration and Coordination Director with FEMA,  Jennifer Williams Senior Research Amplification Specialist for the Fire Safety Research Institute (FSRI), Aaron Frazier, Chief Operating Officer with VCA Animal Hospitals, and Dr. Timbrala Marshall, Urgent Care Medical Operations Leader with VCA Animal Hospitals, along with Matt Gromada, head of Family Banking at Chase

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The Christmas Holiday is quickly approaching, and joining the program to discuss what we can do to help make it a healthy holiday for us and our families is Katrina Thoma, Nurse Practitioner and Director of Medical Services with Sadler Health Center & Laurel Spagnolo, Director of Development and Community Engagement with Sadler Health Center.  Our mental health can also be taken for a spin this time of the year, what we can do to ease the anxiety, Elizabeth Johnson, Registered Nurse and Mental health expert joins the program to discuss this.  Then finally, Raevti Bole, Urologist in the Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute at Cleveland Clinic joins the program to discuss recent findings in its MENtion Survey on Men's Health needs.

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Joining the program first to discuss PA’s health insurance marketplace, and how it can benefit you and your family is Devon Trolley, Executive Director of Pennie.  Then  Dr. Erin Furr Stimming, Principal Investigator with Huntington Study Group and Professor of Neurology at McGovern Medical School and Katie Jackson, a Huntington's Disease advocate joins the program to talk about this rare, inherited disease.  And finally, Dr. Phil Adamson, Chief Medical Officer of Abbott’s Heart Failure Division and Lakeisha Brown, Heart Failure Patient/Advocate join the program to discuss the staggering statistics surrounding heart failure and how you can protect yourself. 

 

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