Who is Dr. Udaya Thomas?

Dr. Udaya Thomas is an Integrative Nurse Practitioner at Memorial Primary Care in Hollywood, Florida. She  completed her PhD in Nursing, Interdisciplinary Health with a focus on Health Psychology. Her dissertation was specifically focused on the effect of mindfulness meditation in groups of patients with anxiety compared to usual integrated behavioral health in primary care.

Dr. Thomas is past President of IM4US Board of Directors. 

CONTACT:  email    info@im4us.org

Udaya Thomas, PhD, MPH, APRN

Integrative Primary Care Nurse Practitioner

Public Health Specialist

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You may also be interested in listening to Holistic and Integrative Women’s Health with Dr. Kourtney Sims M.D. or Integrative Health, Covid-19, and Beyond with Dr. Stephen Sinatra MD

In his new book, THE SLIPPERY SLOPE OF HEALTHCARE: Why Bad Things Happen to Healthy Patients and How to Avoid Them,  Dr. Kussin discusses what happens to perfectly healthy people who are the unwitting victims of medical care’s three-ring circus: over-selling, over-diagnosis, and over-treatment that results in unintended consequences. The slippery slope of healthcare is “a cascade of escalating misfortunes produced by more tests with incrementally greater risk, expense, and fewer benefits.”

About Dr. Kussin

Dr. Steven Z. Kussin grew up in the New York public school system. He attended college at Columbia University and medical school at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Subsequently, he completed his post-graduate training at Einstein. His hospital experience includes Jacobi Hospital in the Bronx.

His certifications include: Certified in Internal Medicine and attended Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for fellowship in Gastroenterology. Following certification in Gastroenterology, Dr. Kussin served in Manhattan as an assistant professor of clinical medicine at Columbia.

Throughout his teaching career, his articles were published in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, American Journal of Gastroenterology, Journal of Surgical Oncology, and Digestive Diseases and Sciences.

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If you enjoy this podcast, you may also be interested in my interview with Dr. Victoria Sweet MD about Slow Medicine.

Danielle Kunkle Roberts is a Medicare expert and co-founder of the award-winning Medicare insurance agency, Boomer Benefits. She and her team help our nation’s baby boomers navigate their entry into Medicare and assist beneficiaries with their policies after enrollment.

Contact: https://boomerbenefits.com/danielle-kunkle-medicare-supplement-accredited-advisor/

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You may also be interested in the following show:

• Slow Medicine with Dr. Victoria Sweet MD

Host Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, interviews Thomas Leo Ogren.

Who is Thomas Leo Ogren?

Mr Ogren holds a Master of Science in Agriculture, with an emphasis on horticulture, urban forests, and plant flowering systems and the connections between landscape plant materials and allergy. Tom started researching allergy-free gardening twenty-five years ago, because his wife, his mother and his sisters all suffered from hay fever and asthma. He is the creator of the Ogren Plant Allergy Scale (OPALS^TM), the first and only numerical plant-allergy ranking system in existence, which is being used by the USDA to develop allergy rankings for all major U.S. urban areas.

Tom worked with the University of California Cooperative Extension, to establish community gardens in the Los Angeles inner city, and hosted the popular radio call-in gardening show, “Tom Ogren’s Wild World of Plants.” He writes for Garden Design, California Landscaping, The New Scientist, Organic Gardening, and a host of other publications.  He has been interviewed on NPR, CBS, NBC, Fox News, BBC, CNBC, and on many other radio and TV media stations.

Topic:

On today’s show, we will be discussing, Tom’s new book, The Allergy-Fighting Garden

Visit his website for more information: allergyfree-gardening.com

To listen to the interview, click the player below. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestion, please use the  comment section under this post or contact Ellen Kamhi here.

Host Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, interviews Mr. Tony Martinez Esq.

Who is Tony Martinez?

Antonio (Tony) Martinez II Esq is a Food & Drug and International Trade Attorney.   He was directly involved with the passage of the landmark Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 and other FDA related measures.  He is a patient advocate.  In international trade, Tony has been involved in improving trade relations with Latin American countries including Cuba.

On his health, Tony is a Type 2 Diabetic that has successfully put his condition in reverse and remission through the use of a Ketogenic diet, a High Fat Low Carbohydrate Diet and improved his cardiovascular profile.

Topic:

On today’s show, Tony will focus on the latest information about the high cholesterol mythology/low fat fallacy, Low Carb High Fat lifestyle and diet, and The Kraft Diabetes Paradigm/Testing –  why testing insulin is just as important as Glucose tolerance.

Visit his website for more information: www.acmartinez2.com

To listen to the interview, click the player below. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestion, please use the  comment section under this post or contact Ellen Kamhi here.

Host Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, www.naturalnurse.com, interviews Mr. Tony Martinez Esq.

Who is Tony Martinez?

Antonio (Tony) Martinez II Esq is a Food & Drug and International Trade Attorney.   He was directly involved with the passage of the landmark Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 and other FDA related measures.  He is a patient advocate.  In international trade, Tony has been involved in improving trade relations with Latin American countries including Cuba.

On his health, Tony is a Type 2 Diabetic that has successfully put his condition in reverse and remission through the use of a Ketogenic diet, a High Fat Low Carbohydrate Diet and improved his cardiovascular profile.

Topic:

He joins us today to discuss what is happening in the world of health care and share his own experiences with us.

Visit his website for more information: www.acmartinez2.com

To listen to the interview, click the player below. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestion, please use the  comment section under this post or contact Ellen Kamhi here.

Dr.  Sweet is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine and History at the University of  California, San Francisco, and a prize-winning historian with a Ph.D. in medical history. She practised medicine for twenty years at Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco.

In her prize-winning book, God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine (Riverhead, 2012), she lays out her evidence ”in stories of her patients and her hospital. ” , for some radically new ideas about medicine and health care.

In our attempts to get control of health care costs by privileging “efficiency,” she suggests, we’ve been headed down the wrong path. Medicine works best—that is, arrives at the right diagnosis and the right treatment for the least amount of money—when it is personal and face-to-face; when the doctor has enough time to do a good job, and pays attention not only to the patient but to what’s around the patient.  Dr. Sweet calls this approach Slow Medicine, and she believes that, put into wider practice, it would be not only more satisfying and beneficial for patient and doctor, but also less expensive for everyone.

Her Ecomedicine Project is designed to prove this. The New York Times calls her ideas “hard-core subversion”; Vanity Fair judges the book to be a “radical and compassionate alternative to modern health care,” and Health Affairs describes Dr. Sweet as a “visionary” and “subversive in all the best ways.” She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2014) for her next project, tentatively entitled, Slow Medicine, Fast Medicine: Healing in an Age of Technology.

Her website: www.victoriasweet.com

Click the player below to listen to Ellen Kamhi’s interview with Dr. Sweet: