The Heart Guy presents The Heart of The Matter

In this episode, Dr. Gary Sherman has an informative and impactful conversation with Dr. Jyoti Enkoor Brar.

Dr. Brar is a Transplant Nephrologist and has been a Consultant at Amaltas Medical. She is a clinician, former medical director of a dialysis clinic in the rural Midwest, a tech entrepreneur and a mother. Dr. Brar specializes in Nephrology, Hypertension and Transplant Nephrology and her mission is to improve equity and access to healthcare globally, especially for the underserved. Dr. Brar has volunteered on the American Society of Transplantation's Trainee and Young Faculty Community of Practice as well as the Women’s Health Community of Practice.
 Dr. Brar is also a Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology.

Dr. Jyoti Brar Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jyotiebrar?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_contact_details%3BN2aZPeoYS5uFrV%2Fi06XBCg%3D%3D

Inthis episode, Dr. Gary Sherman has an enlightening conversation with Fay Hosseini, Pharm D.

Fay was born in Iran and raised in Canada. Fay completed her Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy at the University of Toronto and spent about 2.5 years working at Princess Margaret Hospital, which is cancer institution affiliated with the University of Toronto. Fay then moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, to complete her Clinical Pharmacy Residency Program which was followed by a Doctor of Pharmacy Degree program at the University of British Columbia. She then moved to Seattle, Washington in the latter part of 2010, where she introduced clinical pharmacy services in the emergency department at the University of Washington Medical Center. 

In August of 2012, Fay took a position in the emergency department at Harborview Medical Center (a level 1 trauma center) where she successfully introduced clinical pharmacy services in the emergency department at that site as well. 

Fay has received the Staff Recognition Award in 2012-2017 and 2019 – 2021, highlighting outstanding dedication and commitment to the service of emergency medicine at Harborview Medical Center. 

Most recently Fay has formally trained at the Life Coach School and we will explore what she has discovered as a life coach today both in her own life and in playing a profoundly important role in the lives of her coaching clients. 

In this episode, Gary has a conversation with kidney donor-recipient and advocate, Michael R. Gaudet. Michael is an artist and entrepreneur, who gained much notoriety with his first important mural commission, at St. Mary's Basilica in Halifax at the age of 21. Following in the footsteps of his Renaissance heroes, he made a decision to carry on with mural painting as well as paintings on canvas.  60-odd- large-scale murals later, he is continuing to grow and expand his horizons.
Growing disillusioned with commercial galleries, in 2009, Michael and his wife Sharon decided to open their OWN gallery, at their home in the Resort Village of Manitou Beach, Saskatchewan, where they have both enjoyed high-quality exposure, on their own terms. 
Michael has written and published his first two books of memoirs called "Dancing with Rejection: A Beginner's Guide to Immortality" AND "A Work in Progress: The Life my Brother Saved". These books feature a backdrop of struggle with Chronic Kidney Disease and Michael’s recovery after a kidney transplant in 1979. The writing spirals out from there to explore his rise to prominence as a mural painter in Canada.
Michael’s paintings, murals, and books can be viewed at  mrgaudet.com. 

In this episode, Dr. Gary Sherman has a most informative discussion about heart failure with one of the foremost experts on heart failure in the country, Dr. Nandini Nair. Dr. Nair earned her Ph.D. in biochemistry at the Indian Institute of Science, in Bangalore, India.  She earned her medical degree in 2000, at George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada, WI.  Dr. Nair then came to the United States to Drexel University College of Medicine, in Philadelphia, PA,  for her Residency in Internal Medicine during the years 2000-2003.  In 2007-2008, she completed a fellowship in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology at Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, in California. It was then, that Dr. Nair went onto Brown University School of Medicine, in Providence, RI, and earned her EMHL (Exec. Masters in Healthcare Leadership) during the years 2019-21. Now- has completed 14 years post-fellowship experience as Medical Director of Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support, and Cardiac Transplantation.
Wow!! We are so privileged to be able to learn from Dr. Nair's vast education and experience. 
Do not miss this intriguing episode! 

In this episode, Dr. Gary Sherman has a compelling conversation with Dr. Juan Ortega-Legaspi. Dr. Ortega-Legaspi received his Medical Degree and his Ph.D. in the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), He then came to the United States for his residency in internal medicine at Emory University in Atlanta in 2013 where he earned the resident’s teachers award., followed by a fellowship in cardiovascular diseases in the University of Washington where he was recognized with the 3T Teaching Tomorrow’s Teachers award. Dr. Ortega-Legaspi then went on for a second fellowship in advanced heart failure and cardiac transplant at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is currently an assistant professor in clinical medicine. Join us for a cutting-edge discussion on developments in regenerative cardiac medicine, the selection process in heart transplantation, the treatment of congenital cardiac disease and the role of palliative care in patients with advanced heart disease from the perspective of an outstandingly talented and concerned heart transplant doctor.  

In this episode, Dr. Gary Sherman is host to Interventional cardiologist and Critical Care Specialist,  Dr. Sanjog Kalra. Dr. Kalra was born and raised in Canada, to parents of India origin. Following graduate studies at the University of Toronto in Clinical Pharmacology, Dr. Kalra completed his (MD) training at the University of Calgary. He returned to the University of Toronto in 2008 for Internal Medicine training before moving to Halifax for his Adult Cardiology Fellowship at Dalhousie University and finally, back to Toronto for Advanced Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention at St. Michael’s Hospital. In 2015, Dr. Kalra moved to New York, to train under worldwide leaders in the field, as the first Complex, High-Risk (and Indicated) Patient (CHIP) fellow at Columbia University Medical Center. During his CHIP fellowship, Dr. Kalra gained expertise in complex and high-risk coronary interventions, chronic total occlusion percutaneous Cardiac Intervention, contemporary hemodynamic support implantation and management, and cardiac critical care.

Dr. Kalra recently completed his tenure as the Director of Complex Coronary Therapeutics and the Associate Director, of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has now returned to Canada to take up a position at the world-recognized Toronto General Hospital, where he is focused on helping to build a gold-standard complex Percutaneous Cardiac Intervention program. He is recognized nationally and internationally as an expert in the area of complex coronary revascularization, modern hemodynamic support therapies, and in the management of shock and critically ill heart patients.

 Dr. Kalra is married with 2 young children. He and his family remain closely connected to their roots in India and return frequently. 

This episode features an intriguing conversation with Tenaya Wallace.

Tenaya is the founder and director of Donate Life Hollywood,  a project of the OneLegacy Foundation that serves as a liaison between the organ donation community and the entertainment industry with the goal of seeing more authentic and empowering stories about donation and transplantation.

Tenaya grew up on Hollywood sets with parents who worked behind the scenes on some of television’s most beloved shows including Gimme-A-Break, Alice, Wheel of Fortune, Days of our Lives, In Living Color, United States of Tara, Breaking Bad and so many more. Tenaya began working in the field of organ donation in 2002 when she joined OneLegacy, the largest organ procurement organization in the United States, training thousands of volunteers and managing regional public education initiatives.

Tenaya served on the organizing committee of Donate Life California, which launched the state’s donor registry; was a founding committee member of the Donate Life Rose Parade Float and co-created the float’s Rose Dedication Program. She served on the board of Donate Life America,  where Tenaya developed National Donate Life Blue and Green Day, now celebrated each April as part of Donate Life Month.

 Tenaya holds a Bachelor of Arts from Tulane University in New Orleans and a Masters of Public Policy from the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. Tenaya is a native Los Angeleno and her children attended the same elementary school she did!

YOU can download the DLH Activate App from the App store on your iPhone or Computer and join in to help send the message to Hollywood writers and producers about inaccurate or negative messages about Organ donation!! 

In this extraordinary episode, Gary has a very personal conversation with Retired Detective, Michael Lollo. Michael started his police career, in July of 1999. Soon after graduating from the Police Academy, Michael was recruited to work as an instructor and then with the Academy Research and Development Unit. In 2006, Detective Lollo went to work for the Real-Time-Crime Center located at One Police Plaza., in New York City. From there, in 2008, Detective Lollo began his work with the Intelligence Bureau, initially in the Sensitive Data Unit and then to the Threat Assessment and Protection Unit, from where he retired on August 28, 2020.

Michael was a Versatile Law Enforcement Professional – a second-grade detective - with over 20 years of experience and leadership. Detective Lallo was Successful in initializing change with proven results, cultivating Law Enforcement relationships, and partnering with governmental and private organizations to successfully coordinate large-scale events, such as The United Nations General Assembly, Fleet Week, New Year’s Eve Times Square Celebration, Parades, and other special operations. 

But, his accomplishments only begin there. Now, we have come to know Michael as an Altruistic Living Kidney Donor which we will talk about today-  and as a result, has been a recipient of the Retired Detectives Association of New York’s “ARDY” Award, and Michael was Recognized at the 2019 State of the City Address by the Honorable Bill De Blasio, Mayor of the City of New York.

He has received the NYPD  Columbia Association’s “Patrolman Philip Cardillo Humanitarian Award” in (2019), and he is a Living Kidney Donor Mentor, a Board Member of the Brotherhood of the Fallen, and a board member of the New York Chapter of the National Kidney Donation Organization. Michael is currently the President of the National Kidney Donation Organization, based in Connecticut. Michael has been married to his wife Maeghan for fifteen years and they share three children-Jack, Harper, and Claire. Michael notes that both his wife and children were extremely supportive of his decision to donate his own kidney -and without such support, as well as the support of his entire NYPD family, this would not have been possible.

You may find more information about the National Kidney Donor Organization, at: https://www.nkdo.org/support-our-mission

If you would like to speak to someone at NKDO- go to [email protected]

This episode features an extraordinary discussion with Dr. Puneet Garcha. 

 Dr. Garcha specializes in the clinical evaluation & management of patients with end-stage lung diseases, AND lung transplantation. Dr. Garcha is the Medical Director of Lung Transplantation at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center and Associate Professor of Medicine AT Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, Texas. He earned his medical degree at Kasturba Medical College in Manipal, India, and completed internal medicine training, at Drexel University College of Medicine. – He then earned fellowships in pulmonology, critical care, and sleep medicine, at the Cleveland Clinic. In May of this year, Dr. Garcha earned his Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. His research is focused on the identification of therapeutic pathways, for chronic -lung -allograft- dysfunction and systematic optimization of post-transplant survival. Dr. Garcha is committed to positive leadership, transplant program development, innovative healthcare delivery, and the education of physicians-in-training in transplant medicine. 
Let's take a deep breath and learn from this extremely informative discussion!!