Southwestern Vermont Health Care's Medical Matters Weekly

Season 2 | Episode 44 | November 2, 2022Ivette Guttmann, MD, is a sports medicine specialist and a former professional athlete with hopes of serving as a physician at the Olympic Games. Dr. Guttmann practices sports medicine and non-surgical orthopedic care with SVMC Orthopedics, part of Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) and Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) in Bennington. She earned her medical degree at Universidad Autonoma de Centro America in Costa Rica and completed the pe...

Season 2 | Episode 43 | October 26, 2022Rheumatologist Matthew Stanishewski, DO, practices with SVMC Rheumatology, part of Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, in Bennington. Stanishewski earned his medical degree from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and most recently served as a fellow in Rheumatology at Roger Williams Medical Center, Rhode Island Hospital, and the VA Medical Center in Providence. He is the chair of Internal Medicine at SVMC and the vice president of the medical...

Season 2 | Episode 42 | October 19, 2022Dr. Filbin is the co-director for Research for the Pediatric-Neurooncology Program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children’s Hospital. She earned her doctoral degrees in biochemistry and molecular biology from the Medical University of Graz, Austria. After a pediatric residency at Boston Children’s Hospital, she completed a fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology at the Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center. She...

Season 2 | Episode 41 | October 12, 2022Kara Richardson Whitely wrote the memoir Gorge: My Journey Up Kilimanjaro at 300 Pounds, which is being made into a movie produced by and starring ‘This Is Us’ actress, Chrissy Metz. She also wrote, Fat Woman on the Mountain and The Weight of Being. She has partnered with brands like L.L. Bean, Columbia, Keen and Discover Puerto Rico to showcase diversity and inclusion and build positive brand sentiment in the plus-sized community. She contributes to Ba...

Season 2 | Episode 40 | October 5, 2022Dr. Vahdat is the section chief of Medical Oncology and the interim section chief of Hematology at Dartmouth Cancer Center and a professor of medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. She earned her medical degree at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed an internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Hospital, both in New York City. She completed a fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York...

Season 2 | Episode 39 | September 28, 2022Stephen T. Higgins, PhD, a national leader in addiction research and the director of the Vermont Center on Behavior & Health (VCBH) at the University of Vermont (UVM) is the guest on Medical Matters Weekly with Dr. Trey Dobson on September 28.Dr. Higgins is principle investigator on multiple National Institutes of Health grants on the general topic of behavior and health, including a National Institute of General Medical Sciences’ Center for Biome...

Medical Matters Weekly | Season 2 | Episode 38 | Sept. 21, 2022Marc David, MA, is the bestselling author of the books, Nourishing Wisdom: A Mind Body Approach to Nutrition and Well-Being and The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss, a frequent speaker and consultant, and host of the celebrated Psychology of Eating Podcast. David is also the Founder of The Institute for the Psychology of Eating, the world’s only health coaching program devoted to teaching the principles...

Season 2 | Episode 37 | September 7, 2022Rachel Desautels, the executive director of Girls on the Run Vermont, is the guest on Medical Matters Weekly with Dr. Trey Dobson on September 14.Desautels has been the executive director of Girls on the Run Vermont since 2019, before which she served as a statewide program manager, program coordinator for Northern Vermont, and a volunteer coach. She moved to Vermont after more than a dozen years working as a national television and radio media buyer i...

Season 2 | Episode 36 | September 7, 2022Athena Robinson, PhD, chief clinical officer for Woebot Health, a pioneer in the development of relational technologies and tools to support mental health is the guest on Medical Matters Weekly with Dr. Trey Dobson on September 7.Dr. Robinson holds a PhD with a specialty in behavioral medicine from the Joint Doctoral Program at the University of California, San Diego/San Diego State University; a master's in clinical psychology from San Diego State Uni...

Season 2 | Episode 34 | August 24, 2022Kathleen Martin Ginis, PhD, a leading exercise behavioral scientist who has been the principal investigator on more than $11 million in exercise psychology research and a source for countless national publications, including The New York Times, “O” The Oprah Magazine, Men’s Health & Fitness, and Shape Magazine, is the guest on Medical Matters Weekly on Wednesday, August 24. Dr. Martin Ginis is the Reichwald Family University of British Columbia ...