Nov 25, 2019
Dr. Dara Kass is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Columbia University School of Medicine, the director of Equity and Inclusion of Columbia’s Emergency Department, and the founder of FemInEM, an advocacy & resource site for women in emergency medicine. Previously, she was the director Undergraduate Medical Education...
Nov 18, 2019
Dr. Mary Lake Polan is a rock star amongst American physicians. Dr. Polan has had a distinguished medical and business career. After earning her Ph.D. in molecular biochemistry and biophysics at Yale University, Dr. Polan continued there as a postdoctoral fellow and then became the first woman to complete a residency...
Nov 11, 2019
Pediatrician Jen Trachtenberg, MD – known to her patients and their parents as Dr. Jen – is a nationally renowned parenting expert. A board-certified pediatrician, she been in private pediatric practice in New York City for over 20 years. She is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at The Icahn...
Nov 7, 2019
Secretary David Shulkin MD, a national thought leader on veterans’ health and patient-centered care, was appointed by President Trump as the 9th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs. He was the only Trump-appointed Cabinet Secretary who was confirmed unanimously by the US Senate; he was the first non-veteran to...
Oct 14, 2019
We’ve heard a lot in the news about the Opioid Epidemic and various half-hearted political efforts to “combat” it. And well we should: The National Center for Health Statistics estimates there were 68,557 drug overdose deaths in 2018, 47,590 involved opioids, and 31,897 involved synthetic opioids, such as...