Well Said

The Good Listening Project

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Do poems have the power to heal?  Listen to the latest Well Said podcast as we explore the Good Listening Project and how the simple act of listening...

Coaching Caregivers

24 Nov 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Phyllis Quinlan, the Internal Coach for Cohen Children’s Medical Center. A registered nurse with over 40 years of exp...

Grit-flowness

05 Nov 2025

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How do some people manage to move with focus, calm, and purpose, even during extremely high-pressure moments? Joining us on Well Said is neurosurgeon ...

Exercise in Pregnancy

29 Oct 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Caroline Pessel, a Board-Certified OB-GYN specializing in Maternal Fetal Medicine, Associate Professor at the Zucker Sc...

Pulmonary Hypertension

06 Oct 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Erica Leigh Altschul, who will discuss pulmonary hypertension — high blood pressure in the lungs, a condition that ma...

Pelvic Pain and Varicose Veins

23 Sep 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Antonios Gasparis, who will share insights on how pelvic pain can be connected to varicose veins. Dr. Gasparis, a vascu...

Proton Therapy

02 Sep 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Charles B. Simone II, a Research Professor and the Chief Medical Officer of the New York Proton Center, to discuss the ...

Aging Population

18 Aug 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Maria Torroella Carney, Northwell Aging Institute, System Chief of the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, ...

Hemophilia

05 Aug 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Suchitra Acharya, a Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist, Director of the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Center at LIJMC, Head ...

Hair Loss

29 Jul 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Pooja Shah, Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, who will...

Premature Infants

22 Jul 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Olena Predtechenska, Attending Neonatologist at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, Northwell Health and Assistant Profe...

Lead Exposure and Cardiovascular Disease

09 Jul 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Michael J. Kosnett, an Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine at...

Medical Aid in Dying

02 Jul 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Jeremy Boal, founder of the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program to provide holistic high-quality care to home-bound ad...

Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS)

23 Jun 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Adam Cole, board certified urologist, Assistant Professor of Urology, and the Associate Residency Program Director at t...

Living with Disabilities

16 Jun 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Michael Kalberer, licensed social worker and motivational speaker, Dr. Adam Stein, Chairman and Professor of the Department...

Laryngeal-pharyngeal reflux (LPR)

09 Jun 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Seth Kaplan, Director of the Center for Voice and Swallowing Disorders and Lenox Hill & Manhattan Eye, Ear and Thro...

Microplastics

03 Jun 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr Kenneth Richard Spaeth, Medical Director for Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Northwell Health and Assistant P...

Bunions

12 May 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Adam David Bitterman, Chair of Orthopedic Surgery at Huntington Hospital and Assistant Professor in Orthopedic Surgery ...

Celiac Disease in Pediatric Patients

05 May 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Ying Lu, Director of the Celiac Program at Cohen Children’s Medical Center/Northwell Health and Associate Professor i...

Ablative Therapy for Prostate Cancer

28 Apr 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Michael Schwartz, Chief of Urology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, an Associate Professor of Urology at the Zucke...

CRISPR Gene Editing

21 Apr 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is licensed social worker and motivational speaker, Michael Kalberer and director at the Inherited Retinal Disorders Service a...

Measles

15 Apr 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr Mundeep Kainth, is a board-certified pediatrician & pediatric infectious disease physician and Associate Professor a...

Colon Cancer

07 Apr 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. John Procaccino, Director of North Shore University Hospital’s Center for Colon and Rectal Diseases, and Vice Chairma...

Spinal Stenosis

31 Mar 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Jon Oren and Dr. Beth Nash. Dr. Oren is an orthopedic spine surgeon at Lenox Hill Hospital and an expert in emerging tr...

Depression

25 Mar 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Anna Costakis, Director of Psychiatry Residency Training at Northwell Staten Island University Hospital and Assistant P...

PFAS

17 Mar 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Ms. Kate Donovan and Dr. Chase Moon. Kate Donovan is the Director of Northeast Environmental Health and Senior Attorney for...

AFYA (Unused Medical Supplies)

03 Mar 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Danielle Butin, the founder and CEO of the AFYA Foundation. She will be discussing how healthcare systems around the world,...

Interventional Pain Management

24 Feb 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Michael Erdek, Founding Director of Pain Management at the Zuckerberg Cancer Center and Associate Professor of Anesthes...

Endometrial Cancer

18 Feb 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Jill Whyte, a gynecologic oncologist at Northwell Health and Assistant Professor at the Donald and Barbara Zucker Schoo...

Provider Wellness

13 Jan 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Jennifer Goebel, Director of Wellness for the Emergency Medicine Service Line at Northwell Health and Medical Staff Vic...

Police Health

06 Jan 2025

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Franklin Zimmerman and Shelley Zimmerman. Dr. Franklin Zimmerman is a cardiologist at Northwell Health, and he serves a...

Cancer Genetics

09 Dec 2024

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Jeff Boyd, Director and Professor of the Institute of Cancer Research at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research ...

Sudden Hearing Loss

02 Dec 2024

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Andrea Vambutas, Senior Vice President and Executive Director of Head and Neck Services at Northwell Health and Chair o...

Five Years of Changing Lives

18 Nov 2024

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  Listen in on a very special show celebrating 5 years of bringing you Well Said. We will be discussing how Well Said was created with the idea t...

Hemorrhoids

11 Nov 2024

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Andrea Zimmern, a board-certified colorectal surgeon at Northwell Health, faculty member for the Colorectal Fellowship ...

Polypharmacy

22 Oct 2024

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Philip Solomon, Geriatrics Fellowship Program Director at Northwell Health, Director of Geriatric Education and Clinica...

Cost Effectiveness in Diagnostic Testing

15 Oct 2024

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Pina Sanelli, Vice Chair of Radiology Research for Northwell Health and Director of the Imaging Clinical Effectiveness ...

IBD/IBS

07 Oct 2024

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Arun Swaminath and Dr. Keith Sultan. Dr. Swaminath is the Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology at Lenox Hill Hospi...

Tinnitus

16 Sep 2024

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Maja Svarkic, Associate Program Director for the Residency in Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery at Hofstra/Nor...

Substance Abuse in Kids

09 Sep 2024

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Vera Feuer, the co-chair of the Emergency Child Psychiatry Committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Ps...

Cataracts

12 Aug 2024

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Jules Winokur, Vice Chair of Ophthalmology at Northwell Health, Director of the Ophthalmology Residency Program at Long...

Healthcare Workforce

05 Aug 2024

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Andrew Yacht, Senior Vice President and Chief Academic Officer for Northwell Health, an ACGME Designated Institutional ...

Innovations in Psychiatry Training

29 Jul 2024

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. John Q. Young, Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine ...

Breast Cancer Screening

22 Jul 2024

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Nina Vincoff, Division Chief of Breast Imaging at Northwell Health, and Medical Director and Vice President for Clinica...

Lung Transplantation

15 Jul 2024

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Aldo Iacono, Medical Director of the Northwell Health Lung Transplantation Program, to talk about how lung transplantat...

Advanced Directives

17 Jun 2024

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Maria Carney, Chief of the Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine in the Department of Medicine for Long Island ...

Hospital Ratings

10 Jun 2024

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Well Said has invited Dr. Peter Silver, Senior Vice President, Chief Quality Officer, and Associate Chief Medical Officer for Northwell Health to talk...

WTC Follow Up

03 Jun 2024

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Jacqueline Moline and Chris Ciuffo. Dr. Moline is the founding Chair of the Department of Occupational Medicine, Epidem...

Patient Experience Surveys

13 May 2024

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Well Said has invited Sven Gierlinger, Senior Vice President and Chief Experience Officer for Northwell Health to shine some light on how patient expe...

Women and Heart Failure

06 May 2024

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Well Said has invited Dr. Nisha Parikh, System Director of the Women’s Heart Program for Northwell Health’s Cardiovascular Institute and the Katz ...

Climate Change

22 Apr 2024

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Well Said has invited Dr. Tochi Iroku-Malize, Senior Vice-President of Family Medicine for Northwell Health and the Inaugural Professor and Chair of F...

CT Cardiac Imaging

15 Apr 2024

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Well Said has invited Dr. Amar Shah, Chief of the division of Cardiac Imaging in the department of Radiology at Northwell Health, and an Associate Pro...

Access to Care

01 Apr 2024

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Well Said has invited Dr. David Podwall, a board-certified neurologist, President of the Nassau County Medical Society and an Assistant Professor here...

Animal Bites

25 Mar 2024

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Well Said has invited Dr. Teresa Amato, Director of Emergency Medicine and Vice President of Resource Management at Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Ho...

Weight Loss Drugs

16 Mar 2024

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Well Said has invited Dr. Jamie Kane, Chief of Obesity Medicine and Director of the Center for Weight Management at Northwell Health and Associate Pro...

Autism Spectrum Disorder

12 Mar 2024

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Well Said has invited Dr. Sanjeev Kothare, Director of the Division of Pediatric Neurology at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, where he also serves ...

Sickle Cell Disease

05 Mar 2024

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Speaking with us on Well Said is Dr. Banu Aygun, a Pediatric Hematologist, Oncologist and Professor of Pediatrics at the Donald and Barbara Zucker Sch...

Life Expectancy and Other Health Statistics

26 Feb 2024

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Well Said has invited Dr. Karina Davidson, Senior Vice President of Research for Northwell Health and Director of the Institute of Health System Scien...

Patient Self Tracking

12 Feb 2024

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Well Said has invited Dr. Avy Ronay, a Pediatric Neurologist who leads Northwell Health’s pediatric concussion program and Lead Clinical Strategist ...

Strength/Resistance Training and Cardiovascular Fitness

05 Feb 2024

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Well Said has invited Dr. Jamie Ghigiarelli, a Professor in the Department of Allied Health and Kinesiology at Hofstra University, a Certified Strengt...

Seasonal Affect Disorder

29 Jan 2024

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Paul Desan, Director of the Psychiatric Consultation Service for Yale New Haven Hospital, Associate Professor at the Ya...

Kidney Disease

22 Jan 2024

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Steven Fishbane, Vice President of Northwell Health’s Network Dialysis Services, Chief of Kidney Disease and Hyperten...

Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease

08 Jan 2024

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Well Said has invited Dr. Amgad Makaryus, Chairman of Cardiology at Nassau University Medical Center and Professor at the Zucker School of Medicine at...

Natural Orifice Surgery

19 Dec 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Mark Talamini, Senior Vice President and Executive Director of Northwell Health Physician Partners, Professor at the Zu...

Family Centered Care

15 Dec 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Lyndonna Marrast, an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Science Education at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of M...

Cholesterol Management

28 Nov 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Eugenia Gianos, Professor of Cardiology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Syste...

Alternatives to dialysis in end-stage renal disease (ESRD)

20 Nov 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Ms. Candice Halinski, a nurse practitioner who specializes in the care of patients with chronic and end-stage kidney diseas...

Assisted Fertility

06 Nov 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Randi Goldman, a gynecologist specializing in reproductive endocrinology and infertility or REI, program director for t...

Parkinson’s Disease

24 Oct 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Alessandro Di Rocco, System Director for Neurology, Parkinson’s, and Movement Disorders at Northwell Health and Profe...

Psychedelics in Medicine

17 Oct 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Kimia Pourrezaei and Mr. Greg Mendoza. Dr. Pourrezaei is the Medical Director for the Psychedelic Program and the Early...

Climate Change and Health

16 Oct 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Marcalee Alexander and Dr. Marc Futernick. Dr. Marcalee Alexander is the Founder and President of Sustain Our Abilities...

Adult Congenital Heart Disease

13 Oct 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Catherine Weinberg. Dr. Director of Adult Congenital Heart Disease at Northwell Health, Director of High-Risk Cardiovas...

Loneliness at Work

04 Oct 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Jeremy Nobel and Ms. Maxine Carrington. Dr. Nobel is an internist and President of The Foundation for Art & Healing...

Peripheral Artery Disease

19 Sep 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Mitchell Weinberg, Chair of Cardiology at Staten Island University Hospital and an Associate Professor of Medicine at t...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

12 Sep 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Bushra Mina, Program Director of Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship with Northwell Health and Associate Professor at th...

Sleep Apnea

29 Aug 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Harly Greenberg, Division Chief for Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Associate Director at the Northwell Lu...

Global Health Perspective

14 Aug 2023

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Joining us on Well Said Dr. Eric Cioe-Peña, Vice President of Global Health for Northwell Health and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at ...

Point of Care Ultrasound

07 Aug 2023

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Well Said has invited Dr. John Pellerito, Vice Chair of Education and Residency Program Director for Northwell Health’s Department of Radiology and ...

Social Media and Mental Health

07 Aug 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Victor Fornari, Chief of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and a professor of Psyc...

AI Healthcare

17 Jul 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Jamie Hirsch, Assistant Vice President of AI, Machine Learning, and Data Insights for Northwell Health and Associate Pr...

Gun Violence

03 Jul 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Jose Prince and Dr. Chethan Sathya. Dr. Prince is the Vice Chair of Surgery and the System Chief of Pediatric Surgery a...

Water Safety

29 Jun 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Teresa Amato, Assistant Professor at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and formerly...

Strep Throat

21 Jun 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Henry Donaghy, Program Director of the Infectious Disease Fellowship at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northw...

Robotic Surgery

06 Jun 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Gainosuke Sugiyama, Vice President of Ambulatory Surgery for Northwell Health’s Central Region, System Chief of Gener...

Cardiac Resuscitation: Community and the Future

05 Jun 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Lance Becker and Mr. Laurence Salzmann. Dr. Becker is the Chair of the Northwell Health System Department of Emergency ...

Loneliness and CVD

23 May 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Jeremy Nobel and Dr. Mitchell Elkind. Dr. Nobel is an internist and President of The Foundation for Art & Healing a...

Prenatal Testing

15 May 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Michael Nimaroff and Dr. Sarah Pachtman. Dr. Nimaroff is the Senior Vice President and Executive Director of Obstetrics...

Pediatric Obesity

08 May 2023

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Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Taranjeet Ahuja and Dr. Sunita Cheruvu. Dr. Ahuja is an Assistant Professor of Science Education & Pediatrics and t...

“How Good is Your Doctor?”

01 May 2023

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Well Said has invited Dr. Jeffrey Kuvin, Senior Vice President of Cardiology for Northwell Health and Chair of Cardiology at NSUH and LIJ Medical Cent...

Macular Degeneration

23 Apr 2023

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Well Said has invited Dr. Talia Kaden, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and Director of Reti...

Mohs Surgery

04 Apr 2023

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Well Said has invited Dr. Victoria Sharon, Associate Professor of Dermatology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell...

Lower Back Pain

27 Mar 2023

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Well Said has invited Dr. Frank Schwab, Chair of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital, Vice President of Western Region Orthope...

Percutaneous Coronary Interventions

27 Mar 2023

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Well Said has invited Dr. Varinder Singh, Chairman of the Department of Cardiology at Lenox Hill Hospital, the SVP for Cardiology for the Western regi...

Childhood Asthma

03 Mar 2023

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Well Said has invited Dr. Maria Santiago, Chief of Pediatric Pulmonology at Cohen Children’s Medical Center of Northwell Health, and an Assistant Pr...

Menopause

21 Feb 2023

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Well Said has invited Dr. Wendy Fried, Attending Physician OBGYN at North Shore University Hospital/Northwell. Northwell Physician Partners in OBGYN a...

Patient Blood Management

06 Feb 2023

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Well Said has brought on Dr. Linda Shore-Lesserson, Professor of Anesthesiology at the Zucker SOM and the Director of Cardiovascular Anesthesiology at...

Drug Pricing Policy

06 Feb 2023

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Well Said has invited Andrew McKechnie, health care policy advisor and government lobbyist for Northwell Health to take a more specific look at how go...

Alzheimer’s Drugs

23 Jan 2023

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Well Said has invited Dr. Luca Giliberto, an Attending Neurologist at the Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Northwell Health and an Assistan...

Spark of Creativity – An Exploration of Visual Art and Epilepsy

18 Jan 2023

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Well Said has invited Dr. Simona Proteasa, and academic neurologist specialized in epilepsy; Daniel Hopper, a photographer and person with epilep...

What’s new in Heart Surgery?

10 Jan 2023

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Well Said has invited Dr. William Shi, a Cardiovascular Surgeon and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Zucker School of Medicine to help us dive de...