5/13-Mindful Living

Dr. Cheung's research and work focus on the translation of scientific knowledge of nutrition and physical activity to promote healthy eating and active living for chronic disease prevention.

She is a Co-Investigator at the Harvard Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity. She was the Principal Investigator of the Qualitative Study on CDC's School Health Index, which assessed its receptivity and impact with schools, funded by the CDC and American Schools of Public Health. She was the co-Principal Investigator of Eat Well & Keep Moving, a study funded by the Walton Family Foundation to evaluate the impact of an interdisciplinary school-based program to promote nutrition and physical activity in upper elementary students. She was the co-Principal Investigator of Treatwell 5 A Day, a study funded by the National Cancer Institute to promote fruits and vegetable consumption in worksites. She was also Director of Nutrition and Fitness at the Center for Health Communication.

To further advance scientific knowledge translation to the public, Dr. Cheung has worked closely with the mass media as a resource to help improve the quality of media content. She is currently the Editorial Director of the Department's nutrition website, The Nutrition Source and the Co-Editorial Director of a new website focused on obesity. She also co-edited Child Health, Nutrition and Physical Activity (1995) with the late former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Julius Richmond, and she coauthoredEat Well & Keep Moving (2001, 2007), a nationally and internationally disseminated school-based nutrition and physical activity program for upper elementary school children. To engage a wider lay audience, she coauthored Be Healthy! It's A Girl Thing: Food, Fitness and Feeling Great! (2003), a book written for adolescent girls to help them maintain a healthy lifestyle. Her book, Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life, coauthored with Zen Buddhist master, Thich Nhat Hanh (Harper Collins, 2010), teaches readers how to easily adopt the practice of mindfulness and integrate it into eating, exercise, and all facets of daily life.

5/06-Mindful Living

Dr. Lilian Cheung - Director of Health Promotion & Communication at the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Nutrition

Dr. LilianCheung is Lecturer and Director of Health Promotion & Communication at theHarvard School of Public Health’s Department of Nutrition. She is the EditorialDirector of The Nutrition Source website (www.thenutritionsource.org),Harvard School of Public Health’s nutrition website for health professionals,media and consumers. She is also theco-editorial director of a new Harvard School of Public Health website, Obesity Prevention Source (www.obesitypreventionsource.org),a website providing science based information for policy changes at thecommunity, agencies and corporate levels. Her work focuses on the translation of science-basedrecommendations into public health communications and programs, to promotehealthy lifestyles for chronic disease prevention and control.

Sheis the co-Principal Investigator and co-author of Eat Well & Keep Moving (2001, 2^nd edition 2007), awidely disseminated school-based nutrition and physical activity program forupper elementary school children that is currently used across the U.S. andinternationally. She is a Co-Investigatorat the CDC Harvard Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and PhysicalActivity.

Sheco-edited Child Health, Nutrition andPhysical Activity (1995) with the late Surgeon General Dr. Julius Richmond,and co-authored Be Healthy! It’s A Girl Thing: Food, Fitness and FeelingGreat! (2003, 2^nd edition 2010), a book written for adolescentgirls.

Herlatest book Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life isco-authored with Zen master, Thich Nhat Hanh which has already been acquiredfor translation in 15 countries.

4/29-Dr. Linnda Durré and Surviving the Toxic Workplace

SURVIVING THE TOXIC WORKPLACE

Linnda Durré, Ph.D. - Psychotherapist, Writer, Author,

Linnda Durré, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist, writer, author, business consultant, international speaker, corporate trainer, TV and radio talk show host, media guest, and a magazine, Internet, and newspaper columnist. She has appeared on Oprah, 60 Minutes, The Today Show, The O'Reilly Factor (twice), Daytime, Canada AM, Good Morning America, and the local and/or national news programs on CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, NPR, CW, and PBS. She hosted and co-produced "Ask The Family Therapist" on America's Health Network, which was associated with the Mayo Clinic and aired from Universal Studios Orlando. She was the weekly psychotherapist on CW's syndicated morning show, "The Daily Buzz". She hosted and produced, "Personal Success Hotline with Dr. Durré", on a PBS affiliate. She hosted and produced, "The Dr. Linnda Durre Show", on an NPR affiliate. She hosted and produced "The Linnda Durre Show", a celebrity interview radio show in Orlando. She has written for Forbes, AOL, Monster, Orlando Business Journal, A & U Magazine, Orlando Leisure Magazine, In Focus Magazine, and American City Business Journals www.bizjournals.com. She currently writes a bi-monthly column on toxic and difficult bosses foreBossWatch.com. 

4/22-Dr. Barbara Fredrickson and POSITIVITY

THE POWER OF POSITIVITY
How positive are u?  take the test.

Dr. Barbara Fredrickson - Positivity 
Barbara Fredrickson is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology and principal investigator of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Laboratory (a.k.a. PEP Lab) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research reveals how positive emotions, fleeting as they are, can tip the scales toward a life of flourishing.

Winner of several awards for her research and teaching – including the American Psychological Association’s inaugural Templeton Prize in Positive Psychology and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology’s Career Trajectory Award – Barb created her broaden-and-build theory to describe how positive emotions evolved for our human ancestors and how, today, they vitally shape people’s health and well-being.

Barb’s scientific contributions have influenced scholars and practitioners worldwide, in disciplines ranging from education to business and beyond. Her research has been featured in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, CNN, PBS, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today, Oprah Magazine, and elsewhere. In May 2010, she was invited to brief His Holiness the Dalai Lama on her research.

Barb lives with her husband and two sons in Carrboro, North Carolina, where she continually seeks out new ways to raise her positivity ratio.

4/15-Dr. Barbara Fredrickson and POSITIVITY

THE POWER OF POSITIVITY
How positive are u?  take the test.

Dr. Barbara Fredrickson - Positivity 
Barbara Fredrickson is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology and principal investigator of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Laboratory (a.k.a. PEP Lab) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research reveals how positive emotions, fleeting as they are, can tip the scales toward a life of flourishing.

Winner of several awards for her research and teaching – including the American Psychological Association’s inaugural Templeton Prize in Positive Psychology and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology’s Career Trajectory Award – Barb created her broaden-and-build theory to describe how positive emotions evolved for our human ancestors and how, today, they vitally shape people’s health and well-being.

Barb’s scientific contributions have influenced scholars and practitioners worldwide, in disciplines ranging from education to business and beyond. Her research has been featured in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, CNN, PBS, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today, Oprah Magazine, and elsewhere. In May 2010, she was invited to brief His Holiness the Dalai Lama on her research.

Barb lives with her husband and two sons in Carrboro, North Carolina, where she continually seeks out new ways to raise her positivity ratio.

4/08-Parenting Without Stress

Marvin Marshall is a lecturer, educator, and a writer. He gives healthy tips from his book, Parenting Without Stress: How to Raise Responsible Kids While, on how to reduce stress and improve relationships with your children.

4/01-Dr. Linnda Durré and Surviving the Toxic Workplace

Listen to Dr. Linnda Durre talk about her book, Surviving the Toxic Workplace and find successful strategies that can help you deal with problems and issues you could possibly face in the workplace.

3/25-Stress and Law Enforcement

Did you know that police officers have the highest suicide rate among professions? Ed Donovan discusses the amount of stress that occurs to professional police officers on a day-to-day basis and the responsibility that they must withstand.

3/18-Dr Carol Scott talks to Dr. Michael Heitt

Dr. Michael Heitt - Licensed Psychologist

Dr. Michael Heitt is a licensed psychologist in private practice.  The primary focus of his clinical and consultative activities center around working with physicians, executives and other professionals who are dealing with personal and occupational challenges. He frequently consults to small and mid-size companies on a variety of workplace and organizational issues, and is recognized by local Courts as being an expert witness in Clinical Psychology.

Dr. Heitt has presented internationally on topics ranging from workplace violence and professional impairment to human resources and personnel development, as well as topics such as psychological ethics, disaster psychiatry and clinical assessment.  He is a former Chair and Member of the Maryland Psychological Association’s (MPA) Ethics Committee and is current the Chair of their Colleague Assistance Program.

Dr. Heitt earned his Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) degree in clinical psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in Chicago in 1996.  He is on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins University School of Education and Loyola University Maryland.  Additionally, he is the instructor for the Maryland State Jurisprudence Licensure Exam preparatory course offered by MPA.

Dealing with (or Being) the Disruptive Professional

It seems like we’re hearing about violence in the workplace, bullying and general incivility more and more lately.  And almost everyone has had a “toxic boss” at one time or another.  What can be done about the disruptive professional?  How can you learn to manage your stress when you are working with someone who is particularly disruptive?  Our next show will feature Dr. Michael Heitt, a clinical and consulting psychologist, and we will address the issue of disruptive behavior in the workplace and how to cope with this very stressful situation.

For more information about Dr. Heitt’s work with disruptive professionals and with the organizations in which they work, you can visit his websites, HeittC3.com and PikesvillePsychologist.com.

 

3/11-Dr. Linnda Durré and Surviving the Toxic Workplace

SURVIVING THE TOXIC WORKPLACE

Linnda Durré, Ph.D. - Psychotherapist, Writer, Author,

Linnda Durré, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist, writer, author, business consultant, international speaker, corporate trainer, TV and radio talk show host, media guest, and a magazine, Internet, and newspaper columnist. She has appeared on Oprah, 60 Minutes, The Today Show, The O'Reilly Factor (twice), Daytime, Canada AM, Good Morning America, and the local and/or national news programs on CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, NPR, CW, and PBS. She hosted and co-produced "Ask The Family Therapist" on America's Health Network, which was associated with the Mayo Clinic and aired from Universal Studios Orlando. She was the weekly psychotherapist on CW's syndicated morning show, "The Daily Buzz". She hosted and produced, "Personal Success Hotline with Dr. Durré", on a PBS affiliate. She hosted and produced, "The Dr. Linnda Durre Show", on an NPR affiliate. She hosted and produced "The Linnda Durre Show", a celebrity interview radio show in Orlando. She has written for Forbes, AOL, Monster, Orlando Business Journal, A & U Magazine, Orlando Leisure Magazine, In Focus Magazine, and American City Business Journals www.bizjournals.com. She currently writes a bi-monthly column on toxic and difficult bosses foreBossWatch.com.

3/04-Broken Heart Syndrome

Dr. Wittstein is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the division of cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He received his B.A in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. in 1985 and his medical degree in 1990 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and then served as Assistant Chief of Service on the Osler Medical Service. After completing fellowship training in cardiology at Johns Hopkins where he concentrated in heart failure and cardiac transplantation, Dr. Wittstein joined the division of cardiology as full-time faculty in 1998. His clinical focus has been in the areas of critical care and heart failure/transplant. His research has included work in basic cell signaling as well as the effect of nitric oxide on cardiac function. More recently, Dr. Wittstein’s research has focused on the effects of emotional and physical stress on cardiac contractile function as well as the effects of neurologic injury on myocardial contractility. In February 2005, his manuscript in the New England Journal of Medicine brought international attention to the poorly recognized syndrome of Stress Cardiomyopathy (Broken Heart Syndrome), a syndrome of acute myocardial stunning that is believed to be catecholamine mediated. He is currently involved in both clinical and basic projects that are attempting to define the precise pathogenesis of this syndrome. He is nationally recognized for his work on Stress Cardiomyopathy and is an expert in the field of stress related cardiac disease.

2/26-Dr. Carol Scott talks with Jeff Stein

Carol J. Scott, MD, MSEd, FACEP, is a practicing Board Certified Emergency Physician and health educator trained at Johns Hopkins University. She is a stress management strategist and expert on the connections between stress and health. She is an award-winning speaker and One-on-One StressRelief Coach. Her medical experience and background combined with her knowledge skills and passion in the subject of stress management enables her to formulate effective, practical stressrelief solutions for teams, individuals and audiences of all sizes. www.StressRelie

2/19-Shifting and Black Women

Name it and Heal It

Charisse Jones - "Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America''
Charisse is an author and winner of the 2004 American Book Award.  A veteran reporter who is currently a national correspondent for USA Today, she was previously a staff writer for The New York Times, and part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team at The Los Angeles Times. She has been a guest on Good Morning America, the Today show, C-Span's "Washington Journal,''  and other national programs, as well as a contributor to National Public Radio.

2/12-Broken Heart Syndrome

Ilan Wittstein, M.D.- Johns Hopkins Cardiologist

Dr. Wittstein is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the division of cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He received his B.A in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. in 1985 and his medical degree in 1990 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and then served as Assistant Chief of Service on the Osler Medical Service. After completing fellowship training in cardiology at Johns Hopkins where he concentrated in heart failure and cardiac transplantation, Dr. Wittstein joined the division of cardiology as full-time faculty in 1998. His clinical focus has been in the areas of critical care and heart failure/transplant. His research has included work in basic cell signaling as well as the effect of nitric oxide on cardiac function.  More recently, Dr. Wittstein’s research has focused on the effects of emotional and physical stress on cardiac contractile function as well as the effects of neurologic injury on myocardial contractility. In February 2005, his manuscript in the New England Journal of Medicine brought international attention to the poorly recognized syndrome of Stress Cardiomyopathy (Broken Heart Syndrome), a syndrome of acute myocardial stunning that is believed to be catecholamine mediated. He is currently involved in both clinical and basic projects that are attempting to define the precise pathogenesis of this syndrome. He is nationally recognized for his work on Stress Cardiomyopathy and is an expert in the field of stress related cardiac disease. 

2/05- Dr Carol talks with Laurie Keefer

MANAGING YOUR GUT FEELINGS: HOW STRESS AFFECTS YOUR GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT

Laurie Keefer, PhD - Associate Professor of Medicine Director, Center for Psychosocial Research in GI Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology

Laurie Keefer, PhD is an Associate Professor of Medicine and aclinical health psychologist specializing in behavioral interventions forgastrointestinal disorders. She is thefounder and director of the Center forPsychosocial Research in GI, housed within the Division of Gastroenterologyat Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Funded through grants through the NationalInstitutes of Health (NIH), the primary goal of the Center is to promote healthyself-management skills for individuals who have gastrointestinal conditions forwhich there is no cure. Currently, thecenter is recruiting research participants with Irritable Bowel Syndrome,Crohn’s Disease, Esophageal Eosiniphilia and Heartburn for participation inbehavioral clinical trials.

Dr. Keefer received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and women’sstudies from Pennsylvania State University and went on to receive her master’sdegree and doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Albany,State University of New York. Dr. Keefercompleted her residency and fellowship in health psychology at Rush UniversityMedical Center in Chicago. Originallyfrom Rochester, NY, Dr. Keefer now lives in Chicago, IL with her husband, twochildren and dog.

www.cprgi.org

Recent Publications:

Keefer L, Kiebles JL, Kwiatek MA, Palsson O,Taft TH, Martinovich Z, et al. The potential role of a self-managementintervention for ulcerative colitis: a brief report from the ulcerative colitishypnotherapy trial. Biol Res Nurs. 2012;14(1):71-7. http://brn.sagepub.com/content/14/1/71

Keefer L, Doerfler B, Artz C. Optimizingmanagement of Crohn's disease within a project management framework: Results ofa pilot study. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2012;18(2):254-60. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21351218.

Keefer L, Kiebles JL, Martinovich Z, Cohen E,Van Denburg A, Barrett TA. Behavioral interventions may prolong remission inpatients with inflammatory bowel disease. Behav Res Ther. 2011;49(3):145-50. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21256475.