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Ken Cook, president and co-founder of Environmental Working Group, is widely recognized as one of the
On November 2, food policy authority Michael Pollan named Cook one of “the world’s 7 most powerful
environmental community’s most prominent and effective critics of establishment agriculture and U.S. farm
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foodies”, along with First Lady Michelle Obama, nutritionist Marion Nestle and The New York Times’
columnist Mark Bittman. On November 19, The Times' Bittman listed EWG among 25 people and organizations for whom he was
thankful as Thanksgiving approached. In its 2011 roster of Washington’s top lobbyists, The Hill, the newspaper of Capitol Hill, said Cook “is at
the forefront of challenges to corn ethanol and subsidies for Big Agriculture, upcoming hot-button issues as
Congress tackles energy matters and starts work on a new farm bill.” Cook was voted the “Ultimate Green Game Changer” in 2009 by the readers of The Huffington Post. As
Arianna Huffington put it, “The EWG is an environmental superhero with a full set of digital tools in its
arsenal.”Cook is a principal architect of the landmark conservation provisions of the 1985 farm bill, which for the first
time attempted to shift U.S. farm policy from a narrow focus on maximum crop production to conservation of
land, water, wetlands and wildlife. The legislation was the most important environmental farm policy reform of
recent years, affecting more than 400 million acres of privately owned - and publicly subsidized - farmland.EWG’s online database listing every farm subsidy recipient in the nation and the amount of money each
receives has generated thousands of stories about America’s broken farm policy. A New York Times profile of
Cook said the website helped “transform the [2002] farm bill into a question about equity and whether the
country's wealthiest farmers should be paid to grow commodity crops while many smaller family farms receive
nothing and are going out of business.” Cook and EWG played a similarly prominent role during the crafting of
the 2008 farm bill.In the 1990s, EWG’s research on pesticides was a major factor in the passage of the landmark pesticide reform
law, the Food Quality Protection Act. EWG was among the first organizations to draw attention to the health
threat posed by the weed-killer atrazine, conducting the first extensive tests for the chemical in tap water in 29
Midwestern cities.Cook has addressed food and agriculture policy in numerous interviews, including 60 Minutes, the CBS
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David Kriebel, Sc.D., Director, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production
https://www.uml.edu/research/lowell-center/
Professor Emeritus, Department of Public Health
https://www.uml.edu/Health-Sciences/Public-Health/faculty/kriebel-david.aspx
David Kriebel is a professor emeritus of epidemiology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Trained at Harvard in occupational/environmental epidemiology, his research has helped to identify many important environmental and occupational causes of cancer, lung diseases, injuries and other health hazards. For over 30 years he taught in the Department of Work Environment at UMass Lowell, an interdisciplinary graduate program that trained hundreds of occupational health researchers, practitioners and activists. Dr. Kriebel has co-authored two textbooks and published more than 150 peer reviewed papers. As a member of a committee of the U.S. National Research Council, Dr. Kriebel helped establish the link between exposure to Agent Orange among Vietnam veterans and cancer, leading to compensation for many disabled veterans. He advised the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences on its long term study of the health effects of the Deep Water Horizon oil spill and clean-up operations and conducted research to identify cancers and other diseases among the first responders to the World Trade Center Disaster. Dr. Kriebel is also the Director of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, which collaborates with industries, government agencies, unions, and community organizations on the redesign of systems of production to make them healthier and more environmentally sound. He continues to teach epidemiology and also frequently speaks to community groups and government agencies on the role of science in democratic decision making, particularly in cancer prevention.
A few articles that you may find useful:
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Other podcasts with David Kriebel:
https://www.whatmamawants.org/archived-episodes/david-kriebel
Colleagues,I thought you would like to know that Dr. Christel Nielsen and colleagues at Lund University, Sweden, have published the first study to specifically target the tattoo-lymphoma hypothesis. The results are suggestive of an effect, and I hope will help convince funders and skeptical reviewers to support additional studies to explore the hypothesis.
Take care,
David
Tattoos as a risk factor for malignant lymphoma: a population-based case–control study
Christel Nielsen, Mats Jerkeman, Anna Saxne Jöud
e-Clinical Medicine
is now available online: Tattoos as a risk factor for malignant lymphoma: a population-based case–control study - ScienceDirect
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Dr. Goodson grew up in Missouri and graduated from the University of Missouri Columbia and Harvard Medical School. He trained as a general surgeon and specialized in breast surgery before it was a recognized field. He was a member of the research group that established breast conservation, i.e., lumpectomy, as the preferred treatment for early breast cancer. Recognizing that he was treating more young women with breast cancer, he joined with Dr. Shanaz Dairkee in 2005 to investigate how common environmental chemicals such as BPA, methylparaben, PFOA, etc. disrupt the normal biology of non-cancerous, human breasts. He has been a professor at the University of California San Francisco and a Senior Scientist at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American Society for Clinical Oncology, and a spokesperson for The Halifax Project. In addition to research, he enjoys photography, writing, and creating hand-drawn animation as on his website, www.drwilliamgoodson.com
A Ternary Mixture of Common Chemicals Perturbs Benign Human Breast Epithelial Cells More Than the Same Chemicals Do Individually. Dairkee SH, Luciani-Torres G, Moore DH, Jaffee IM, Goodson WH 3rd. Toxicol Sci. 2018 Sep 1;165(1):131-144. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfy126. PMID: 29846718 Free PMC article. Assessing the carcinogenic potential of low-dose exposures to chemical mixtures in the environment: the challenge ahead. Goodson WH 3rd, Lowe L, Carpenter DO, Gilbertson M, Manaf Ali A, Lopez de Cerain Salsamendi A, Lasfar A, Carnero A, Azqueta A, Amedei A, Charles AK, Collins AR, Ward A, Salzberg AC, Colacci A, Olsen AK, Berg A, Barclay BJ, Zhou BP, Blanco-Aparicio C... See abstract for full author list ➔ Carcinogenesis. 2015 Jun;36 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S254-96. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgv039. PMID: 26106142 Free PMC article. Consensus on the key characteristics of endocrine-disrupting chemicals as a basis for hazard identification. La Merrill MA, Vandenberg LN, Smith MT, Goodson W, Browne P, Patisaul HB, Guyton KZ, Kortenkamp A, Cogliano VJ, Woodruff TJ, Rieswijk L, Sone H, Korach KS, Gore AC, Zeise L, Zoeller RT. Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2020 Jan;16(1):45-57. doi: 10.1038/s41574-019-0273-8. Epub 2019 Nov 12. PMID: 31719706 Free PMC article. Exposure to the polyester PET precursor--terephthalic acid induces and perpetuates DNA damage-harboring non-malignant human breast cells. Luciani-Torres MG, Moore DH, Goodson WH 3rd, Dairkee SH. Carcinogenesis. 2015 Jan;36(1):168-76. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgu234. Epub 2014 Nov 19. PMID: 25411358 Free PMC article. The Key Characteristics of Carcinogens: Relationship to the Hallmarks of Cancer, Relevant Biomarkers, and Assays to Measure Them. Smith MT, Guyton KZ, Kleinstreuer N, Borrel A, Cardenas A, Chiu WA, Felsher DW, Gibbons CF, Goodson WH 3rd, Houck KA, Kane AB, La Merrill MA, Lebrec H, Lowe L, McHale CM, Minocherhomji S, Rieswijk L, Sandy MS, Sone H, Wang A, Zhang L, Zeise L, Fielden M. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2020 Oct;29(10):1887-1903. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-19-1346. Epub 2020 Mar 9. PMID: 32152214 Free PMC article. Testing the low dose mixtures hypothesis from the Halifax project. Goodson WH, Lowe L, Gilbertson M, Carpenter DO. Rev Environ Health. 2020 Aug 24;35(4):333-357. doi: 10.1515/reveh-2020-0033. Print 2020 Nov 18. PMID: 32833669 Review. Using the Key Characteristics of Carcinogens to Develop Research on Chemical Mixtures and Cancer. Rider CV, McHale CM, Webster TF, Lowe L, Goodson WH 3rd, La Merrill MA, Rice G, Zeise L, Zhang L, Smith MT. Environ Health Perspect. 2021 Mar;129(3):35003. doi: 10.1289/EHP8525. Epub 2021 Mar 30. PMID: 33784186 Free PMC article. Bisphenol-A-induced inactivation of the p53 axis underlying deregulation of proliferation kinetics, and cell death in non-malignant human breast epithelial cells. Dairkee SH, Luciani-Torres MG, Moore DH, Goodson WH 3rd. Carcinogenesis. 2013 Mar;34(3):703-12. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgs379. Epub 2012 Dec 7. PMID: 23222814 Free PMC article. Activation of the mTOR pathway by low levels of xenoestrogens in breast epithelial cells from high-risk women. Goodson WH 3rd, Luciani MG, Sayeed SA, Jaffee IM, Moore DH 2nd, Dairkee SH. Carcinogenesis. 2011 Nov;32(11):1724-33. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgr196. Epub 2011 Sep 1. PMID: 21890461 Free PMC article. -
ATTRIBUTION/INTRO LINE: Dr. William Li, physician, scientist and bestselling author of “Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself” and “Eat to Beat Your Diet: Burn Fat, Heal Your Metabolism, and Live Longer” SHORT BIO: William W. Li, MD, is an internationally renowned physician, scientist and author of the New York Times bestseller “Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself.” His groundbreaking research has led to the development of more than 30 new medical treatments that impact care for more than 70 diseases including diabetes, blindness, heart disease and obesity. His TED Talk, “Can We Eat to Starve Cancer?” has garnered more than 11 million views. Dr. Li has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN, CNBC, Rachael Ray and Live with Kelly & Ryan, and he has been featured in USA Today, Time Magazine, The Atlantic and O Magazine. He is President and Medical Director of the Angiogenesis Foundation, and he is leading global initiatives on food as medicine. His newest book New York Times bestseller, “Eat to Beat Your Diet: Burn Fat, Heal Your Metabolism, and Live Longer” was released March 21, 2023. HEADSHOT: BOOK COVERS: BOOK LINKS: https://drwilliamli.com/etb-diet-book/ https://drwilliamli.com/book-li/ A report on cancer statistics just published in, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, states that: The number of new cancer cases had ticked up to more than two million in 2023, from 1.9 million in 2022. According to the report, cancer rates are increasing for six of the 10 most common cancers: breast, prostate, melanoma, kidney, pancreas and uterine, while lung, colorectal and pancreas cancers cause the most deaths. Among adults younger than 50, colorectal cancer has become the leading cause of cancer death in men and the second-leading cause in women, behind breast cancer. In the late 1990s, it ranked fourth in both men and women younger than 50. So, it seems that there's no more appropriate time than now to listen to this important discussion I had with Dr. William Li about his research applying both biology and biotechnology to understand cancer preventing compounds in food and how the body responds to what it's fed!
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Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of the Smart Human Podcast. Today, I have the pleasure of talking with Dr. Rachel Massey, who is Senior Science and Policy Advisor at the Collaborative for Health and Environment and a Senior Research Associate at the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts. Today, we are talking about a very important topic to me, artificial sports turf. We talk about materials, health effects, alternatives, and ways to stay safe. So stay tuned.
Rachel Massey is Senior Science and Policy Advisory at the Collaborative for Health and Environment, and a Senior Research Associate at the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She has over two decades of experience working at the intersection of public interest science and policy making in state, national and international arenas. Until recently she served as Senior Associate Director at the Toxics Use Reduction Institute at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where her projects included state, federal and international chemicals policy initiatives, analyzing toxics use reduction opportunities for businesses and communities, and working in partnership with small businesses and grassroots organizations addressing toxics at the community level.
In 2022 she received the Ken Zarker Memorial Pollution Prevention Champion Award from the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable. She has authored numerous reports and articles on chemicals policy and safer alternatives, including reports for European government agencies and the United Nations on chemicals and development, chemicals in consumer products, and other topics. Rachel received a Master of Science in Environmental Change and Management from Oxford University, a Master of Public Affairs from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and a Doctor of Science in Work Environment from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Here are some suggested links/resources:
Blog posts through the Collaborative for Health and Environment:
https://www.healthandenvironment.org/join-us/blog/playing-on-plastic-artificial-turf-hazards-and-safer-alternatives
https://www.healthandenvironment.org/join-us/blog/6ppd-in-tires-a-concern-for-playgrounds-artificial-turf-and-more
https://www.healthandenvironment.org/join-us/blog/playground-surfacing-fall-protection-and-fun-without-toxic-chemicals
Resources from the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production and the Toxics Use Reduction Institute at UMass Lowell:
https://www.uml.edu/research/lowell-center/athletic-playing-fields/
One-page overview of artificial turf concerns:
https://www.turi.org/content/download/13559/206802/file/ArtificialTurfConcerns_flyer_April2021.pdf
Extended fact sheet on athletic fields (2020):https://www.turi.org/content/download/13271/203906/file/Factsheet.Artificial_Turf.September2020.pdf.pdf
Report on athletic fields (2018-2019):https://www.turi.org/content/download/11980/188623/file/TURI+Report+2018-002+June+2019.+Athletic+Playing+Fields.pdf
PFAS in artificial turf carpet: https://www.turi.org/content/download/12963/201149/file/TURI+fact+sheet+-+PFAS+in+artificial+turf.pdfNatural grass field case studies: turi.org/organicgrasscasestudies
Short videos on natural grass fields in MA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmjv1qteLho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nws-ZpeaQJcResources from Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai:
https://mountsinaiexposomics.org/artificial-turf/
https://icahn.mssm.edu/files/ISMMS/Assets/Departments/Environmental%20Medicine%20and%20Public%20Health/CEHC/CEHC%20Artificial%20Turf%20Consumer%20Guide%205.2017.pdf
https://icahn.mssm.edu/files/ISMMS/Assets/Departments/Environmental%20Medicine%20and%20Public%20Health/CEHC/CEHC%20Artificial%20Turf%20Position%20Statement%205.2017.pdf
Healthy Playing Surfaces website, housed at Mt. Sinai: https://www.healthyplayingsurfaces.org/Other:
CHE webinar: https://www.healthandenvironment.org/webinars/96595
Webinar Q&A: https://www.healthandenvironment.org/assets/images/webinarimages/Artificial%20Turf%20Q&A_FINAL.pdf
Healthy Building Network: https://healthybuilding.net/products/11-turf
Webinar by CCE and PEER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCi6-8JI8zE
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Theodora Scarato MSW is Executive Director of Environmental Health Trust (EHT). Scarato has published several research papers include a paper on reducing EMF exposures in buildings.
Davis and Scarato co-authored a major state of the science review paper with numerous experts entitled “Wireless technologies, non-ionizing electromagnetic fields and children: Identifying and reducing health risks” published in Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care.
EHT filed a historic lawsuit- EHT et al., v the FCC- against the FCC regarding their wireless radiation safety limits and received a favorable decision whereby the FCC has been mandated to re-examine the record evidence on wireless radiation.
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Barry H Cohen, M.D., F.A.C.P. Dr. Cohen is one of the founders and medical directors of Mercer Kidney Institute, in New Jersey, specializing in the treatment of kidney disease and hypertension for over 51 years. He is board certified in Nephrology and is a Fellow of American College of Physicians. He was Director of Dialysis Services at Capital Health Regional Center and St. Francis hospital and Chairman of the Nephrology section at Capital Health System in New Jersey for over 45 years. He has been past president of the Capital Health medical staff and is currently the Medical Director at FMC Princeton Dialysis Unit.
Dr. Cohen was instrumental in bringing dialysis to New Jersey over 50 years ago, when he started the first chronic outpatient dialysis program in Trenton in 1977, soon after its introduction into mainstream medical care. He has trained hundreds of young physicians as a founder and chairperson of continuing medical education for over 40 years has held countless conferences for continuing medical education (CME), and remains ones of the most highly respected clinicians in the east coast for his profound knowledge of medicine, his humility, warmth, gentle demeaner.
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Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of The Smart Human Podcast. Today I had the pleasure of chatting with Professor Heather Stapleton, an environmental chemist and exposure scientist in the Nicholas School of Environment at Duke University. And also Dr. Stapleton serves as director of the Duke environmental analysis laboratory. Today we're talking nonstick, waterproof and greaseproof chemicals, flame retardant chemicals, drinking water quality and different types of water filters and so much more!
Here are a few links that might be helpful
Heather's research website:
https://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/stapletonlab/?_ga=2.18850623.768299926.1674595325-2095479730.1672774084Heather's foam testing website:
http://foam.pratt.duke.eduCompany website for under the sink RO water filter Heather had installed back in 2019:
https://www.theperfectwater.com/reverse-osmosiswater filter study:
article on flame retardants: https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/success/2021/stapleton/index.cfm
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00004
Heather Stapleton Bio: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es2007462Heather M. Stapleton, Ronie-Richelle Garcia-Johnson Distinguished Professor, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC USA.
Professor Heather Stapleton is an environmental chemist and exposure scientist in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. Her research interests focus on identification of halogenated and organophosphate chemicals in building materials, furnishings and consumer products, and estimation of human exposure, particularly in vulnerable populations such as pregnant women and children. Her laboratory specializes in analysis of environmental and biological tissues for organic contaminants to support environmental health research. Currently she serves as the Director for the Duke Superfund Research Center, and Director of the Duke Environmental Analysis Laboratory, which is part of NIH’s Human Health Environmental Analysis Resource.
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Rob is a partner in the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky offices of the law firm, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, where he has practiced in the Environmental and Litigation Practice Groups for over 31 years. During that time, Rob has handled and led some of the most novel and complex cases in the country involving damage from exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”), including the first individual, class action, mass tort, and multi-district litigation proceedings involving PFAS, recovering over $1 billion for clients impacted by the chemicals. In 2017, Rob received the Right Livelihood Award, known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” for his decades of work on behalf of those injured by PFAS chemical contamination. Rob is the author of the book, “Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont,” and his story is the inspiration for the 2019 motion picture, “Dark Waters,” starring Mark Ruffalo as Rob. Rob’s story and work is also featured in the documentary, “The Devil We Know.” Rob is a 1987 graduate of New College in Sarasota, Florida, and a 1990 graduate of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Rob also serves on the Boards of Less Cancer and Green Umbrella and is frequently invited to provide keynote lectures and talks at law schools, universities, colleges, communities and other organizations all over the world. Rob is a fellow in the Right Livelihood College, a Lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, and an Honorary Professor at the National University of Cordoba in Argentina. Rob also has received Honorary Doctorate Degrees from both Ohio State University and New College.
https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/pfc/index.cfm https://www.epa.gov/pfas/pfas-explained https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/01/pfas-forever-chemicals-rob-bilott-lawyer-interview https://time.com/5737451/dark-waters-true-story-rob-bilott/ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-became-duponts-worst-nightmare.html https://www.taftlaw.com/people/robert-a-bilott -
Dr. Terry Wahls is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical trials in the setting of Multiple Sclerosis. In 2018 she was awarded the Institute for Functional Medicine’s Linus Pauling Award for her contributions in research, clinical care and patient advocacy. She is the author of The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles, (http://terrywahls.com/about-the-wahls-protocol/) and the cookbook, The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life. (https://terrywahls.com/wahls-protocol-cooking-for-life/) Learn more about the current study Efficacy of Diet on Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis at https://wahls.lab.uiowa.edu/. Pick up a one-page handout for the Wahls™ Diet at https://terrywahls.com/diet/
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Robert H. Lustig, M.D., M.S.L. is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, and Member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist, with expertise in metabolism, obesity, and nutrition. He is one of the leaders of the current “anti-sugar” movement that is changing the food industry. Dr. Lustig graduated from MIT in 1976, and received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1980. He also received his Masters of Studies in Law (MSL) degree at University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2013. He is the author of the popular books Fat Chance (2012), The Hacking of the American Mind (2017), and Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine (2021). He is the Chief Science Officer of the non-profit Eat REAL, he is on the Advisory Boards of the UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health, the Center for Humane Technology, Simplex Health, Levels Health, and ReadOut Health, and he is the Chief Medical Officer of BioLumen Technologies, Foogal, Perfact, and Kalin Health.
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Welcome to The Smart Human Podcast, today I have the pleasure of chatting with actor Fran Drescher! Yes, you may know her as the star of the TV show The Nanny, but she's also an author, an activist and an educator. Today we're talking about her work in health education, her history as a cancer survivor, her plans as new president of The Screen Actors Guild and much much more.
Fran Drescher was elected president of SAG-AFTRA in September 2021.
A 20-year cancer survivor, Drescher has a reputation for passion and commitment.
She is Founder and Visionary of the Cancer Schmancer Movement; dedicated to educating, motivating, and activating patients into medical consumers by connecting lifestyle to disease with her Master Class Health Summit and teen-targeted education video, Be The Change, starring Jamie Foxx.
Fran received two Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations for her portrayal as the lovable “Miss Fine'' on CBS’s hit series, The Nanny, which she both created and executive produced. She also created, executive produced and starred in the groundbreaking TV Land sitcom, Happily Divorced, which was inspired by her real-life relationship with her gay ex-husband, Peter Marc Jacobson. Fran recently starred in the new NBC sitcom, Indebted, about a Baby Boomer couple who go broke and have to move in with their adult son and his young family. She has worked with many great directors in films such as Rob Reiner’s This is Spinal Tap, to which Fran won Esquire Magazine’s One Minute Oscar, Milos Forman’s Rag Time, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Jack. She also starred in Beautician and the Beast opposite Timothy Dalton. Her famous voice is currently featured in the top-grossing SONY animated feature franchise film, Hotel Transylvania: In her role as Eunice, the wife of Frank Stein. In 2019, Fran starred in two indie films, The Creatress and After Class.
An accomplished author, Fran received the prestigious NCCS writer’s award for Cancer Schmancer, which, along with Enter Whining, were New York Times Best Sellers. She also penned the celebrated children's book, Being Wendy. Furthermore, Fran made her Broadway debut as “Madame” in Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Tony-Award winning, Cinderella.
Fran has won countless awards for her leadership in the health space, including the John Wayne Institute Woman of Achievement Award, the Gilda Award, City of Hope Woman of the Year Award, The Albert Einstein Medical School Lifetime Achievement Award, Queens College Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Citizen Artist Award.
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Dr. Caplan is currently the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City.
Prior to coming to NYU, Dr. Caplan was the Sidney D. Caplan Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, where he created the Center for Bioethics and the Department of Medical Ethics. He has also taught at the University of Minnesota, where he founded the Center for Biomedical Ethics; the University of Pittsburgh; and Columbia University. He received his PhD from Columbia University.
Dr. Caplan is the author or editor of 35 books and more than 800 papers in peer reviewed journals. His most recent books are Vaccination Ethics and Policy (MIT Press, 2017, with Jason Schwartz) and Getting to Good: Research Integrity in Biomedicine (Springer, 2018, with Barbara Redman).
He has served on a number of national and international committees including as chair of the National Cancer Institute Biobanking Ethics Working Group; chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning; and chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability. He has also served on the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illnesses; the Special Advisory Committee to the International Olympic Committee on Genetics and Gene Therapy; the Special Advisory Panel to the National Institutes of Mental Health on Human Experimentation on Vulnerable Subjects; the Wellcome Trust Advisory Panel on Research in Humanitarian Crises; and as the co-director of the Joint Council of Europe/United Nations Study on Trafficking in Organs and Body Parts.
Dr. Caplan has served since 2015 as a chair of the Compassionate Use Advisory Committees (CompAC), independent groups of internationally recognized medical experts, bioethicists, and patient representatives that advise Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Pharmaceuticals on requests for compassionate use of its investigational medicines.
Dr. Caplan is a regular commentator on bioethics and health care issues for WebMD/Medscape, WGBH radio in Boston, WOR radio in New York City, and CNN. He appears frequently as a guest and commentator on various other national and international media outlets.
Dr. Caplan is the recipient of many awards and honors including the McGovern Medal of the American Medical Writers Association and the Franklin Award from the City of Philadelphia. He was a USA Today 2001 “Person of the Year” and was described as one of the ten most influential people in science by Discover magazine in 2008. He has also been honored as one of the fifty most influential people in American health care by Modern Health Care magazine, one of the ten most influential people in America in biotechnology by the National Journal, one of the ten most influential people in the ethics of biotechnology by the editors of Nature Biotechnology, and one of the 100 most influential people in biotechnology by Scientific American magazine.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, he is co-directing an advisory group on sports and recreation for the U.S. Conference of Mayors, created a working group on coronavirus vaccine challenge studies, developed an ethical framework for distributing drugs and vaccines for J&J, and helped develop rationing policies for NYU Langone Health and many other health systems. He is a member of the WHO advisory committee on COVID-19, ethics, and experimental drugs/vaccines, and he helped set policy for WIRB/WCG for research studies. He was an adviser to Moderna, Inc., and he serves on the NCAA COVID-19 Medical Advisory Group.
Dr. Caplan received the Patricia Price Browne Prize in Biomedical Ethics for 2011. In 2014, he was selected to receive the Public Service Award from the National Science Foundation/National Science Board, which honors individuals and groups that have made substantial contributions to increasing public understanding of science and engineering in the United States. In 2016, the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) honored him with its Rare Impact Award; that year he also received the Food and Drug Law Institute’s Distinguished Service Leadership Award and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities’ Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019, he was honored by the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA with its Innovation Award.
Dr. Caplan's faculty page:
https://med.nyu.edu/faculty/arthur-l-caplanDr. Caplan holds seven honorary degrees from colleges and medical schools.
Dr. Caplan's electronic long-form (ELF) disclosure statement can be found here: https://bit.ly/3ilyprJ
Dr. Caplan's twitter address: https://twitter.com/arthurcaplan?s=21&t=RLCoVC9ZUsFtn5g_mllyxw
COI disclosures. https://bit.ly/3eixl7l
Working Group on Compassionate Use and Preapproval Access (CUPA) https://med.nyu.edu/departments-institutes/population-health/divisions-sections-centers/medical-ethics/research/working-group-compassionate-use-preapproval-access
Vaccine Working Group on Ethics and Policy
http://vaccineworkinggroupethics.org/
Working Group on Pediatric Gene Therapy & Medical Ethics https://med.nyu.edu/departments-institutes/population-health/divisions-sections-centers/medical-ethics/research/working-group-pediatric-gene-therapy-medical-ethics
Transplant Ethics and Policy https://med.nyu.edu/departments-institutes/population-health/divisions-sections-centers/medical-ethics/research/transplant-ethics-policy
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Dr. Low Dog is an internationally recognized expert in dietary supplements, herbal medicine, women's health, and integrative medicine. In addition to her continued work as a clinician and educator, Dr. Low Dog has engaged in national health policy and regulatory issues for more than two decades. In 2000, she was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve on the White House Commission of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, followed by a 3-year appointment to the Advisory Council
for the National Institutes of Health National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). Dr. Low Dog has been the elected Chair of four United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Dietary Supplements and botanical expert panels from 2000 until the present.
A prolific scholar, Dr. Low Dog has published 50 research articles in medical/science journals, written 25 chapters for medical textbooks, authored four books with National Geographic, and is the co-editor for Integrative Women’s Health by Oxford University Press. She was a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Fellowship Director for the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine from 2008-2014, served as the Founding Fellowship Director for the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine from 2015-2017, and was a Founding Board Member for the American Board of Physician Specialties Board of Integrative Medicine.
Dr. Low Dog’s many honors of distinction include Time magazine’s “Innovator in Complementary and Alternative Medicine” (2001), Bioneer’s Outstanding Contribution to Medicine Award (2001), NPR’s People’s Pharmacy award (2010), New York Zen Center’s "Contemplative Care Award" (2013), "Herbal Insight Award" from American Herbal Products Association (2015), Scripps Lifetime Achievement Award (2017), Nutrition Business Journal’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2017), and the American Botanical Council’s Fredi Kronenberg Award for Excellence in Research in Botanicals for Women’s Health (2018).
Founding Director of Medicine Lodge Ranch: A Natural Medicine Academy in Pecos, New Mexico, Dr. Low Dog also currently serves as Chief Medical Officer for Healthy Lifestyle Brands, LLC, and is a consultant with MegaFood supplement company. -
Eileen Laird is a writer, podcast host, and autoimmune warrior, living a vital life with rheumatoid arthritis. She’s reached millions of people through her popular website and podcast, Phoenix Helix, where she shares information and inspiration for autoimmune health. She recently published a new book, called Healing Mindset: A Guide to the Mind-Body Connection for People with Autoimmune Disease. That's the topic of our conversation today.
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Website: https://www.phoenixhelix.com/
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Heather White is a changemaker. She’s the founder and CEO of the nonprofit OneGreenThing.org, an author, environmental lawyer, consultant, motivational speaker, nonprofit executive, and a former Senate staffer. She has more than 20 years experience in nonprofit management and environmental advocacy. She's the former President of the nonprofit partner to Yellowstone National Park, Executive Director of EWG, and Director of Education Advocacy at the National Wildlife Federation. Heather also served as Counsel on Energy and Environment to United States Senator Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) and an associate at Bass, Berry & Sims law firm. She was a recount attorney and presidential campaign staffer for Vice President Al Gore in 2000. Learn more at heatherwhite.com.
Heather has also been named "One of the Top 100 Women in Wellness" by MindBodyGreen and recipient of the Women in Sustainability Leadership Awards by Green Building & Design Magazine. She serves on the board of several national nonprofit organizations. Heather has testified before Congress, appeared on PBS, NBC News, CBS News, Fox News, MSNBC, and has been cited in national outlets such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Guardian on a wide range of climate and environmental policy issues. Heather is optimistic about the future and determined to create intergenerational partnerships to create a healthier, greener, more equitable world. Her favorite #onegreenthing is hiking with her family and friends near her home in Bozeman, Montana.
Please check out my new book, One Green Thing: Discover Your Hidden Power to Help Save the Planet! LinkedIn Instagram Twitter -
Madiha Saeed, MD, also known as HolisticMom, MD on social media, is a practicing board certified family physician in the USA, international speaker and a best-selling author. Her best-selling book The Holistic Rx: Your Guide to Healing Chronic Inflammation and Disease, a functional medicine children’s book series, Adam’s Healing Adventures (one of Dr Mark Hyman’s favorite pics), The Pandemic Prescription: Restoring Hope from the Quran, Sunnah and Science, The Quranic Prescription: Unlocking the Secrets of Optimal Health, and The Holistic Rx for Kids: Parenting Healthy Brains and Bodies in a Changing World empowering the world towards healthier living.
She is the director of education for Documenting Hope and KnoWEwell. She sits on multiple medical advisory boards including Wellness Mama and is the president of The International Institute of Islamic Medicine. Dr. Saeed and her children speak internationally at the most prestigious holistic conferences, TV (including ABC, NBC and CBS), summits, radio, podcasts (including mindbodygreen), newspapers and the United Nations recently published her paper on religion and the food system. Dr Saeed's children host "The Holistic Kids' Show" podcast, interviewing the biggest names in the functional, holistic and integrative medicine world, and helping kids empower and educate other kids.
Important Links
Link to Amazon (hardcover):
The Holistic Rx for Kids: Parenting Healthy Brains and Bodies in a Changing Worldhttps://www.amazon.com/Holistic-Rx-Kids-Parenting-Changing/dp/1538152150Adam’s Healing Adventure: The Power of Rainbow Foods
https://www.amazon.com/Adams-Healing-Adventures-Power-Rainbow/dp/1684338182/
Note: You can generate your own Amazon affiliate link to Dr Saeed’s book.
Madiha’s Book Page (where people can claim bonuses after book purchase):
https://theholisticrx.com/kids-book-bonuses/
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John McBurney MD is the chief of in patient neurology and medical Director of the Bon Secours St Francis Stroke center in Greenville SC. He is a graduate of Auburn University and Emory University School Of Medicine. Dr McBurney completed a residency in neurology and fellowship in EEG and Epilepsy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In 2014 he completed the fellowship in Integrative medicine at University of Arizona. In 2020 Dr McBurney co edited Integrative Neurology (OUP) along with Ilene Ruhoy MD PhD. He is board certified in neurology, EEG and Sleep Medicine.
Dr McBurney is passionate about the environment and Heath Disparities. He is a life long cyclist and strives to live a car free life as a bike commuter. In his free time he can often be found deep in Pisgah National Forest on a bikepacking expedition. https://bikewalkgreenville.org https://momentummag.com/momentum-bike-clubs-empowering-underserved-youth/ https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/what-is-epigenetics-and-how-does-it-relate-to-child-development/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4846126/pdf/kepi-11-01-1135286.pdf https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Underground_Railroad_(novel) -
Jessica Ware is an Associate curator in invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History. Dr. Ware’s research focuses on the evolution of behavioral and physiological adaptations in insects, with an emphasis on how these occur in Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) and Dictyoptera (termites, cockroaches and mantises). Her research group focuses on phylogenetics/phylogenomics and uses these tools to inform their work on reproductive, social and flight behaviors in insects. Jessica holds a BSc from the University of British Columbia in Canada, and a PhD from Rutgers, New Brunswick. She was an NSF postdoctoral fellow at the AMNH 2008-2010, before being hired at Rutgers Newark where she was an associate professor of evolutionary biology. She is the current president of the Worldwide Dragonfly Association, and VP of the Entomological Society of America. She was recently awarded a PECASE medal from the US government for her work on insect evolution. website: www.jessicalwarelab.com Other website: https://www.amnh.org/research/invertebrate-zoology/staff/curators/jessica-ware Jessica Ware | AMNH American Museum of Natural History 200 Central Park West New York, NY 10024-5102 Phone: 212-769-5100. Open Wednesday–Sunday, 10 am–5:30 pm. Also Open: Monday, March 29 and Tuesday, March 30 www.amnh.org Twitter: @jessicalwarelab Kids Book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781684492114 Systematic Biology: https://www.systbio.org/dei-committee.html DEI Committee - Society of Systematic Biologists DEI Director: Dr. Jessica Ware Bio: Jessica Ware is an associate curator in invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History. Her research focuses on the evolution of behavioral and physiological adaptations in insects, with an emphasis on how these occur in Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) and Dictyoptera (termites, cockroaches and mantises). www.systbio.org
Entomological Society of America: https://www.entsoc.org/jessica-ware-elected-vice-president-elect-entomological-society-america World Dragonfly Association: https://worlddragonfly.org/about/board-of-trustees/ Board of Trustees | Worldwide Dragonfly Association 2019–2021 Board President Jessica WareDepartment of Biological SciencesRutgers University, Newark, NJ, USAwebsite President-elect Yoshitaka TsubakiKyoto UniversityJapan Immediate Past President Frank SuhlingInstitute of GeoecologyLandscape Ecology and Environmental Systems AnalysisTechnische Universität BraunschweigBraunschweig, Germanywebsite Secretary/Treasurer Peter Brownemail: wda ... worlddragonfly.org
Entomologists of Color: www.entopoc.org #ENTOPOC Diversifying Entomology. Help us support People of Color (POC) members in Entomological ( ento ) Societies. www.entopoc.org
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Pete Myers is founder and Chief Scientist of Environmental Health Sciences, a not-for-profit organization that promotes public understanding of advances in scientific research on environmental and human health, especially on how chemical exposure even at low doses can cause serious adverse effects. He is also a founder and board member of Sudoc LLC, a chemical company that makes catalysts that clean up bad stuff and also replace dangerous chemicals used as disinfectants and cleaners. Sudoc.com.
For a dozen years beginning in 1990, Pete served as Director of the W. Alton Jones Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia. Along with co-authors Dr. Theo Colborn and Dianne Dumanoski, Myers wrote “Our Stolen Future,” a best-selling book (1996) that explores the scientific basis of concern for how contamination threatens fetal development. Vice-President Al Gore wrote the foreword.
Pete is actively involved in research on the impacts of endocrine disruption on human health. He is an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University. He is on the boards of the Science Communication Network, the Food Packaging Forum of Zurich, and the Jenifer Altman Foundation. He has also served as board chair of the National Environmental Trust and the H. John Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment.
Over the last few years he has received 2 major national and international scientific awards: the first “Champion of Environmental Health Research” award from the U.S. National Institutes of Health; and the Laureate Award for Outstanding Public Service from The Endocrine Society.Myers lives just outside White Hall, Virginia. As he was growing up he lived near Baltimore and in Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia, Uruguay and Paraguay. Dr. Myers holds a doctorate in the biological sciences from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA from Reed College.
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