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Episode #44- Five Valuable Spirometry Tips for COPD Diagnosis and Management

Featured Guest: Bill Pruitt, RRT, CPFT, AE-C

Senior Instructor emeritus and former Director of Clinical Education in the department of Cardiorespiratory Sciences, College of Allied Health Science, University of South Alabama in Mobile AL (retired). Credentials include Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT), Certified Pulmonary Function Technologist (CPFT), and Certified Asthma Educator (AE-C). Fellow in the American Association for Respiratory Care (FAARC) 2012. Employed in respiratory care since 1980 and has experience in many aspects of the profession including staff therapist, home care therapist, clinical specialist, department manager, and department director, researcher, and educator. Has had numerous articles published in healthcare magazines/journals for respiratory therapy, nursing, sleep medicine, and physical therapy. Serves on the editorial advisory boards for two national allied health publications (Nursing Journal and RT for Decision Makers in Respiratory Care) and has been invited to speak at many state, regional and national conferences. Service includes member of the AARC House of Delegates; BOD member - Alabama Society for Respiratory Care (ASRC), Association of Asthma Educators (AAE), National Asthma Educator Certification Board. State and national offices held include: Treasurer - AAE, President - ASRC (2003), AAE (2016).

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Episode # 43 PACT Act- New law that expands VA healthcare and benefits for Veterans

Featured Guest: Karla R. Enderle- Registered Respiratory Specialist at U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs

Highly ambitious and self-motivated healthcare professional with 16 years of experience in Respiratory Therapy & Cardiopulmonary Care.

Skilled in Adult Critical Care, Emergency/Trauma, Adult Acute Care, Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Telehealth/VVC Care, & Outpatient Cardiopulmonary Diagnostics.

Her interests include pulmonary disease management, process improvement, systems redesign, change management, healthcare innovation, quality improvement, patient education, and healthcare leadership.

Passionate about improving the care being provided to our nation’s Veterans, employee experience & engagement.

Episode # 42 Occupational Health In Nigeria, West Africa

Featured Guest: Israel Iroezindu

We had a great opportunity to speak with Israel Iroezindo, Medical Director Occupational Health Corporate and Industrial Medical Services-CIMS in Nigeria, West Africa. Nigeria's economy is the largest in Africa, the 31st-largest in the world by nominal GDP. He provides insight into how they deal with occupational medicine relating to respiratory care in a different part of the world.

Episode # 41 Where do we stand on FLU/RSV updates and Post-Acute COVID Syndrome (PACS)?

Featured Guest: Dr. Christian Sandrock

A Physician and Professor at UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, C.A. Specialties: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Outbreak Management, Sepsis, Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine. Christian believes in a patient-driven and centered approach that focuses on holistic care, including family support, alternative therapies, religion, lifestyle practices, cultural practices and other modalities in conjunction with conventional therapies. His clinical interests are in respiratory infections, community-acquired and viral pneumonia, and ICU-acquired infections. Dr. Sandrock’s research interests include emerging infectious diseases at the animal and human interface, particularly respiratory infections such as avian influenza, SARS, and other diseases acquired by humans.

Episode # 40 Empowering Families to Gain Asthma Control!

Featured Guest: Linda Nozart , MPH, RRT, AE-C

She is the Administrative Director for the Asthma Program at the NYC H + H /Woodhull Hospital and for a little over 11 years has lead asthma steering communities, interdisciplinary workgroups and allied coalition as a Registered Respiratory Therapist and certified Asthma Educator. She served 4 years as the Chairperson to the North Brooklyn Asthma Action Alliance (NBAAA), an award-winning asthma coalition that caters to reduce disparities in health care by serving medically under-served communities and providing access to quality care. Linda also has a podcast-

Rt Share Tea- Thee Asthma Lady Podcast- https://anchor.fm/linda-nozart-frierson

 

 

Episode # 39 Discussion of SNF post-acute respiratory care and pulmonary rehab ventilator program

Featured Guest: Gary Y.G. Wong, RRT, MBA, Director of Respiratory Services at Islands Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation- Hawaii

We met Gary Wong an RT from Hawaii at AARC in November and we invited him to our show to discuss his post-acute respiratory care and pulmonary rehab ventilator program at the Islands.

 A Healthcare Administration, Respiratory Therapist, dedicated to post acute care and pulmonary rehabilitation of ventilator and tracheostomy patients and Home based Remote Patient Monitoring of COPD patients.

Episode # 38 Author of: How AI Can Democratize Healthcare

Featured Guest: Robin Farmanfarmaian

Robin Farmanfarmaian is a Silicon Valley based professional speaker and entrepreneur working in cutting edge tech poised to impact 100M people or more. Robin has been involved with over 20 early-stage biotech and healthcare startups from curing cancer to medical devices and digital health. She is an advisor to multiple companies, including: Luxsonic Technologies, working on a portable and modular radiology reading room in VR; Alacrity Care, remote patient monitoring and data analytics for oncology; and ConceptVines, a VC fund and product engineering focused on disruptive tech. With over 180 speaking engagements in 15 countries, she educates audiences on many aspects of technology intersecting healthcare, including artificial intelligence and the shift in healthcare delivery to the patient’s home. She has written 4 books, including “The Patient as CEO: How Technology Empowers the Healthcare Consumer" (2015) and “How AI Can Democratize Healthcare: The Rise in Digital Care” (2022, with Healthcare Tech Entrepreneur Michael Ferro).

 

Where to find her book:

https://smile.amazon.com/How-AI-Can-Democratize-Healthcare/dp/B0BF2HQQ4V/ref=sr_1_1?crid=21H5Y0ODQYAXD&keywords=How+AI+Can+Democratize+Healthcare&qid=1669757957&sprefix=how+ai+can+democratize+healthcare%2Caps%2C189&sr=8-1

Episode # 37 Rare Look in a Rare Disease- Hermansky Pudlak Syndrome

Featured Guest: Donna Appell and Carman Camacho 

This podcast we meet Donna Appell Executive Director and Carman Camacho MA, LSW works as a clinical counselor for the Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Network. We learn about this rare disease and how these two women are fighting for a cure.

 

Link to Their Website: https://www.hpsnetwork.org/

Episode # 36 Courtney Turcotte Bond- Author of Breathtaking

Featured Guest: Courtney Turcotte Bond

A High School teacher has penned a new novel called "Breathtaking" that was inspired by one of her former students who died at the age of 18 from cystic fibrosis, a disease that affects the lungs and other organs.

Link to her book- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CY82643?ref=KC_GS_GB_US 

Episode # 35 Dr. Christine Sapienza- Expert on Respiratory Muscle Strength Testing

Featured Guest: Christine Sapienza

Today we interviewed Dr. Christine Sapienza, Provost, Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs at Jacksonville University. She specialized in voice, respiratory muscle strength training, swallow function, neurodegenerative diseases. We discuss her book, Respiratory Muscle Strength Training, a clinical guide, intended to provide clinicians with the background information they need to understand respiratory muscle strength training (RMST).

Link to her book- https://www.amazon.com/Respiratory-Strength-Training-Christine-Sapienza/dp/1635502578