Coming up
on
January 29th's Show
- Alicia Taylor, RN and Elizabeth Urban, RN: Strong Women, Strong Hearts event on Feb. 4th
- Bruce Searles, BS, CCP: Training cardiovascular perfusionists
- Dr. Richard O'Neill's Check-Up From The Neck-Up
1/29/12 Strong Women, Strong Hearts
Cardiovascular nurses Alicia Taylor and Elizabeth Urban talk about a new health event in Syracuse called Strong Women, Strong Hearts. The day will feature special presentations by Upstate Cardiologist Luna Bhatta and Upstate’s Heart Failure Coordinator Lorri Langdon, among others. The event will also provide free health screenings, nutritional information with heart-healthy tastings, exercise information and classes, and stress-management presentations that will incorporate therapeutic massage, yoga, and meditation classes, as well as Reiki therapy.
Read more about:
The Upstate Heart and Vascular Center at Upstate University Hospital
Strong Women, Strong Hearts, a free day of education, entertainment and indulgence.
1/29/12 Training cardiovascular perfusionists
Bruce Searles, director of the Cardiovascular Perfusion program in Upstate’s College of Health Professions, will speak about the job of a perfusionist (they operate the heart-lung machine in the operating room) and how his program goes about training them, what sorts of background they have coming into the program and how long the training lasts and whats involved.
Learn more about the Cardiovascular Perfusion Program at Upstate’s College of Health Professions.
1/29/12 Current trends in physical therapy
Dale Avers, DPT, PhD, director of Upstate’s post-professional doctoral program for physical therapists, discusses the current trends in physical therapy education. All physical therapy training programs have converted to doctoral programs, and as more physical therapists increase their education, more patients address their PTs as doctor.
Learn more about the two physical therapy doctoral programs offered at Upstate’s College of Health Professions:
PROFESSIONAL (DPT) for those entering the field.
POST PROFESSIONAL (T-DPT) for licensed PTs.
1/29/12 Dr. Richard O’Neill’s Check-Up From The Neck-Up
Dr. Richard O’Neill Check-Up From The Neck-Up: Know-it-all, or, making a difference, systematically. Read more about Systems-Centered Training.
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Check-up from the Neck Up Podcast Archives
1/22/12 Environmental toxicants and children’s health
Brooks Gump, associate professor in Syracuse University’s Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition, speaks about what toxins from our environment are doing to our children’s health.
1/22/12 Medical Mission in Nepal
Dr. Timothy Damron is one of a team of orthopedic surgeons who recently returned from a medical mission in Nepal. He will speak about his role in Nepal, the surgeries they conducted and the patients whom they helped through ‘Operation Walk Syracuse’.
Read more about:
Operation Walk Syracuse
Syracuse doctors to give free care in Nepal, the Post-Standard, August 1, 2011
1/22/12 Dr. Richard O’Neill’s Check-Up From The Neck-Up
Dr. Richard O’Neill confirms the benefits of a lifetime of physical activity.
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Check-up from the Neck Up Podcast Archives
1/15/12 Human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines
Onondaga County Health Commissioner Cynthia Morrow and Upstate’s Dr. Donna Bacchi discuss the two vaccines that are available to prevent the human papilloma virus (HPV) that cause most cervical cancers.
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