Listen as host Danny Scalise talks with a prominent staff member of a local public health agency about her experience with breast cancer.  Lori Kersey is the Public Information Officer for the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department and former reporter for the Charleston Gazette-Mail.  She was well known as a journalist covering health and has helped the health department navigate the issues of the COVID-19 pandemic while going through treatment for cancer.  Lori has chronicled her experiences in her column at the Charleston Gazette-Mail and on her website: notesforthememoir.com. You can follow her on Twitter @LoriKerseyWV. 

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Beating Breast Cancer

Listen as host Danny Scalise talks about physical therapy and yoga with Deb Mattingly, a physical therapist and yoga instructor at Advanced PT in Charleston, WV.

What is Physical Therapy?

Listen now as AHP host Danny Scalise talks to West Virginia's Senior Senator Joe Manchin about the pandemic as they discuss the Senator's work to expand telemedicine, increase broadband, as well as their discussion on coronavirus testing, rural healthcare, and the opioid crisis.

Talking Healthcare with Senator Joe Manchin

Listen as host Danny Scalise & Dr. Elise Anderson discuss challenges for women in the field of medicine.

Diversity in Medicine.

Listen as host Danny Scalise has a conversation with Reggie Jones as they discuss the racial unrest in America today and what society can do to solve some of these problems.

Race and Why it Matters

Listen as Dr. Lisa Costello, a frequent guest of the AHP gives an update to West Virginia's COVID-19 response.

COVID-19 in West Virginia Update

Listen as host Danny Scalise discusses the COVID-19 pandemic with West Virginia Bureau for Public Health Commissioner and State Health Officer Dr. Cathy Slemp.Dr. Cathy Slemp has spent a career working in public health at community, state and national levels.  At present, she is excited to be back with staff at the WVDHHR, Bureau for Public Health, serving as Commissioner and State Health Officer.  From 2002 to 2011, Dr. Slemp served as both the Bureau’s Acting State Health Officer and the founding director of the state’s public health emergency preparedness and response programs.  Prior to these roles, she worked with local health departments and other partners to build epidemiology capacity and was the founding director of the state’s Division of Infectious Disease Epidemiology.  In recent years, prior to returning to the Bureau for Public Health, Dr. Slemp had an active public health consulting practice.  She served as an action-learning coach for the Public Health Institute’s National Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health working with multi-sector teams to advance health equity in communities, provided executive level support to the Department of Health in the US Virgin Islands, and worked locally as Relief and Development Coordinator for the Episcopal Diocese of WV, coordinating disaster recovery efforts and engaging faith-based organizations with community partners using a gifts / asset-based approach. Dr. Slemp also has a long history working on efforts to model, measure, and advance our nation’s health security and resilience, including COPEWELL (Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University) and previously, the National Health Security Preparedness Index.  She is particularly interested in exploring the intersection between disaster recovery and community development.  At the national level, Dr. Slemp serves on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Preparedness and Response and on the National Biodefense Science Board for the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, co-chairing workgroups for each.  Locally, she volunteers with non-profits working on issues of safe housing and food security. Dr. Slemp has authored or co-authored publications on a wide variety of public health and medical topics.Dr. Slemp is board certified in both Public Health / Preventive Medicine and in Family Practice.  She undertook her medical training at Duke University, her Preventive Medicine Residency and MPH at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, and her Family Practice Residency at St. Margaret Memorial Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA. She received her bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and has undertaken leadership training through both the Southeast and National Public Health Leadership Institutes.

COVID-19 in West Virginia

Listen the lates in a series of AHP episodes as host Danny Scalise talks about the effects of COVID-19 on the City of Charleston with Mayor Amy Goodwin.

COVID-19 and the City of Charleston

Listen to the latest episode as host Danny Scalise talks with WVU pediatrician Dr. Lisa Costello. Dr. Costello is temporarily working with the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health on the state's response to the COVID-19 outbreak.  Their discussion, recorded while social distancing, centers around the virus and children and has some great tips for parents on where to find information and how to talk to children about the virus.  

COVID-19 and Children

The novel coronavirus has made its way across the globe and has dominated the news.  Listen as host Danny Scalise discusses COVID-19 with Kanawha Charleston Health Department Executive Director Dr. Sherri Young.

COVID-19

Listen as host Danny Scalise and guest John Law discuss the bills that affect health during day 60 of the West Virignia Legislative Session.

2020 West Virginia Legislative Session

In this episode of the Appalachian Health Podcast, host Danny Scalise discusses medical education with West Virginia University 4th year medical students Rachel Heist, Clara Novotny, and Lindsay Weatherly. Listen as they discuss the foundational education for a medical student, the MCAT, Match Day and more.

Medical Education

Pediatricians, Residents, and Medical Students from all over the Mountain State took part in the WV Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics annual Tiny Hearts Day at the Capitol in Charleston, WV. Dr. Lisa Costello and Dr. Neil Copeland are co-directors of Tiny Hearts Day and had a discussion with AHP host Danny Scalise about the day, the Blueprint for Children, and why advocacy is important.The Blueprint for Children emphasizes advocacy priorities of the West Virginia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics for 2020 and includes: improving access to care, including care for vulnerable populations such as those in foster care and kinship care; addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress; maintaining strong immunization laws; obesity prevention and treatment; promoting tobacco cessation; addressing the opioid epidemic and its impact on children; and firearm injury prevention.

Tiny Hearts Day

Host Danny Scalise interviews Dr. Brooke Buckley, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Meritus Health as they discuss artificial intelligence in healthcare and the effects of burnout. Follow Dr. Buckley here: https://twitter.com/BuckleyFACS

AI & Burnout

Listen to the first episode of Season 2 of the AHP as host Danny Scalise and WVSMA Communications Director John Law discuss upcoming health policy issues in front of the second session of the 84th West Virginia Legislature.  

This podcast is a look into the world of public health, healthcare, and health policy of central Appalachia. My home, West Virginia, is entirely located within the Appalachian region and we have our own quirks, vocabulary, and lifestyle. We like twangy music, fishing, and football. We eat biscuits & gravy and occasionally sip on corn likker. With that comes our own health issues. My goal is to address the issues and talk about solutions to any problems. I will interview an expert to discuss a 30,000 foot view of these issues facing the area. Each episode, that expert will be someone that can give some insight into these issues and how patients can help themselves or work with their healthcare provider. Public health literature says only 20% of health outcomes can be solved by anything that is clinical in nature. I hope the listeners to this will learn how they can work to solve problems with the other 80% and learn about the people who are working in the field. This podcast doesn’t supplant a regular visit to your physician, dentist, or other provider. I am not a physician and do not give medical advice. Though some of my guests will be physicians, they won’t be giving medical advice either. However, I hope it brings to light different things you or I can do to help everyone in these here mountains to improve their health and the health of others. If you have further questions, I always give the advice that you should talk with your physician.

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