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Are we focusing too much on body structures and functions?   Should participation and the F-words—Fun, Family, Friends, Fitness, Function, and Future—be leading the way?  Dr. Ginny Paleg is a pediatric physiotherapist specializing in children with severe motor impairments, particularly those at GMFCS Levels IV and V. She holds a Master's in Physical Therapy from Emory University and a Doctorate from the University of Maryland Baltimore.   Certified in the Prechtl GMA and HINE, Dr. Paleg integrates evidence-based tools with coaching and routines-based interventions. With over 60 peer-reviewed publications, her research spans standers, supported stepping, and power mobility for children with complex needs. She is the lead author of the AACPDM Hypotonia Care Pathway and serves on the AACPDM Care Pathway Council, having held key roles in both AACPDM and the EACD.  If you've ever found yourself in a heated Facebook thread or a passionate discussion with colleagues about what really matters in pediatric therapy, you're not alone. Dr. Ginny Paleg moderates some of these spaces, and what's always clear is that therapists deeply care—they want children to thrive. But the differences in approach can be striking.   Today, we're diving into the heart of this tension through the lens of the ICF-CY framework. It's a big conversation, and one we think is absolutely worth having.

This Earth Day, we're celebrating a triumph of human endeavor: the healing of the ozone layer! Many listeners will remember the hole that formed in the ozone layer, due in large part to human-made chemicals like chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs. My guest this week is Dr. Paul Newman, a Senior Scientist at the University of Maryland Baltimore and retired NASA Chief of Atmospheric Sciences. We'll dive into what these chemicals are, how they damaged our vital ozone layer, and how countries around the planet came together to repair the damage we caused.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Claire L. Carter, Ph.D., is an Assistant Member of the Center for Discovery and Innovation; Assistant Professor of Pathology at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine; and Co-Director of the Mass Spectrometry and Analytical Pharmacology Shared Resource at the NCI-designated Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.Dr. Carter completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Birmingham, UK, under the supervision of Professor Josephine Bunch. She then moved to the US for a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Maryland Baltimore, where she worked on normal tissue radiation injury. At the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation, Dr. Carter has built a translational pediatric neuro-oncology research program in partnership with Dr. Derek Hanson, Director of Pediatric Neuro-oncology, Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital, Hackensack University Medical Center.Dr. Carter possesses a rare translational background that combines expertise in bioanalytical chemistry, clinical histopathology and biomedical science. Her group are using next generation imaging techniques to develop a deep understanding of the biological and transitional states of tumor cells as shaped by their spatiotemporal location within patient tumors and preclinical models. Their focus is on targeting lipid signaling and metabolism for less toxic and more efficacious treatments in highly aggressive pediatric brain tumors. In addition to using mass spectrometry imaging for intratumoral pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) studies to identify more efficacious treatment regimens that can be rapidly translated into clinic gain.You can also get involved with the Gold Ribbon Kids Cancer Foundation or the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation through fundraising, volunteering, promoting awareness, or contributing to pediatric cancer research. Visit goldribbon-kids.org or nationalpcf.org for more informationTo contact Tiffany, please email info@goldribbon-kids.orgTo contact Kelly, please email kgoddard@nationalpcf.orgSupport the show

On Episode 40 of Betting The Limit, Drew is joined by Mike McGee. Mike was a former swimmer at the University of Maryland Baltimore who is now Mugsy's director of customer experience. This episode discusses the early days of Under Armour, the challenges of being a dad and an entrepreneur, and why former athletes make great employees. 

Send us a textWho knew there was such thing as Financial Social Work? It makes sense because people have an emotional tie to money. As Queen A says in this episode: "90% of all spending is emotional and 10% is logical". In this episode we chat with Ashlin Price who is  a sought-after speaker and financial literacy consultant who specializes in providing financial literacy, addressing behaviors related to finances, and professional development. Ashlin possesses a master's degree in social work from the University of Maryland Baltimore and a bachelor's degree in Rehabilitation Services from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.Check out the episode to learn more about Queen A, Financial Social Work and so much more. Thank you for listening!!→ DON'T MISS THE NEXT EPISODE OF THE QUEENS OF SOCIAL WORK PODCAST! Follow us on your preferred podcast platform (Apple, Spotify, etc.) and share your thoughts in a review.→ WE VALUE YOUR INPUT. Take our 1-question survey and shape future episodes.→ DONATE TODAY and be a part of positive change for social workers of color.→ LOOKING FOR MORE INSPIRATION? Follow us on Instagram @queensofsocialwork→ UNLOCK EXCLUSIVE RESOURCES. Visit our website and join our email list to receive your FREE Travel Social Work Guide.

Shruti Mitkus is the Director of Genetic Education and Navigation at Global Genes, a leading rare disease patient advocacy organization. Shruti is a human molecular genetics scientist and genetics educator. She earned her doctorate in Human Genetics from University of Maryland Baltimore and completed her post-doctoral training at the National Institute of Mental Health, researching the genetic mechanisms of neuropsychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. After working in many different areas related to genetics, such as basic research, pharmacogenomics, genetic diagnostics, and variant interpretation, Shruti felt driven to engage more closely with patients and communities. She transitioned to patient advocacy and now directs programs that inform families about the molecular genetic causes of their illness, guide them through the diagnostic process and educate them about gene-based treatments, work that she describes as “genetic advocacy”. While Shruti loves the science of genetics, she is most passionate about translating her knowledge of genetics in an approachable manner and addressing barriers to access genetic testing and cutting-edge treatments. She is an ardent believer in the power of education to empower and ultimately improve the lives of patients and families. Shruti can be reached at https://www.linkedin.com/in/shruti-mitkus-rarediseasegenetics/

DR. JOSH FUNK, DPTFounder / CEOA lifelong athlete, Dr. Josh Funk became interested in becoming a physical therapist when going through PT as a D1 lacrosse player at Ohio State. After avoiding shoulder surgery for a torn labrum and rotator cuff, Josh has been entrenched in the world of physical therapy and sports performance. Over the years, he has continually developed his knowledge base and expertise as a physical therapist, and as a business owner. A Montgomery County resident, Josh is heavily involved in all areas of the community throughout the DMV.Dr. Josh Funk was born and raised in Montgomery County, MD and attended Poolesville High School. Josh went on to play Division 1 lacrosse and earn a B.S. degree from The Ohio State University before earning his Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree from the University of Maryland-Baltimore. It was a little over 3 years after graduating from Maryland, that Rehab 2 Perform was founded in late 2014.Dr. Funk is committed to ensuring that Rehab 2 Perform is one of the most well-run and well-known health care companies in the country. Dr. Funk has immersed himself in business programs and community initiatives over the past few years in his efforts to ensure that the team and clients of Rehab 2 Perform are receiving everything they need to be at their best. Of note, he completed two business accelerator programs with the Small Business Development Center (SBDC), is a Goldman Sach's 10,000 Small Businesses Graduate, and a Fellow of the Birthing of Giants program. It is his goal to push Rehab 2 Perform to the forefront of the community through innovation, progressive business operations, strategic growth and clinical excellence.

Breaking Math WebsiteBreaking Math Email:  BreakingMathPodcast@gmail.comEmail us for copies of the transcript! Resources on the LEAN theorem prover and programming language can be found at the bottom of the show notes (scroll to the bottom). SummaryThis episode is inspired by a correspondence the Breaking Math Podcast had with the editors of Digital Discovery, a journal by the Royal Society of Chemistry.  In this episode the hosts review a paper about how the Lean Interactive Theorem Prover, which is usually used as a tool in creating mathemtics proofs, can be used to create rigorous and robust models in physics and chemistry.  The paper is titled Formalizing chemical physics using the Lean Theorem prover and can be found in Digital Discovery, a journal with the Royal Society of Chemistry.  Also -  we have a brand new member of the Brekaing Math Team!  This episode is the debut episode for Autumn, CEO of Cosmo Labs, occasional co-host / host of the Breaking Math Podcast, and overall contributor who has been working behind the scenes on the podcast on branding and content for the last several months. Welcome Autumn!  Autumn and Gabe discuss how the paper explores the use of interactive theorem provers to ensure the accuracy of scientific theories and make them machine-readable. The episode discusses the limitations and potential of interactive theorem provers and highlights the themes of precision and formal verification in scientific knowledge.  This episode also provide resources (listed below) for listeners intersted in learning more about working with the LEAN interactive theorem prover.  TakeawaysInteractive theorem provers can revolutionize the way scientific theories are formulated and verified, ensuring mathematical certainty and minimizing errors.Interactive theorem provers require a high level of mathematical knowledge and may not be accessible to all scientists and engineers.Formal verification using interactive theorem provers can eliminate human error and hidden assumptions, leading to more confident and reliable scientific findings.Interactive theorem provers promote clear communication and collaboration across disciplines by forcing explicit definitions and minimizing ambiguities in scientific language. Lean Theorem Provers enable scientists to construct modular and reusable proofs, accelerating the pace of knowledge acquisition.Formal verification presents challenges in terms of transforming informal proofs into a formal language and bridging the reality gap.Integration of theorem provers and machine learning has the potential to enhance creativity, verification, and usefulness of machine learning models.The limitations and variables in formal verification require rigorous validation against experimental data to ensure real-world accuracy.Lean Theorem Provers have the potential to provide unwavering trust, accelerate innovation, and increase accessibility in scientific research.AI as a scientific partner can automate the formalization of informal theories and suggest new conjectures, revolutionizing scientific exploration.The impact of Lean Theorem Provers on humanity includes a shift in scientific validity, rapid scientific breakthroughs, and democratization of science.Continuous expansion of mathematical libraries in Lean Theorem Provers contributes to the codification of human knowledge.Resources are available for learning Lean Theorem Proving, including textbooks, articles, videos, and summer programs.Resrouces / Links:  Email Professor Tyler Josephson about summer REU undergraduate opportunities at the University of Maryland Baltimore (or online!) at tjo@umbc.edu.  See below Professor Tyler Josephson's links on learnnig more about LEANThe Natural Number Game:  Start in a world without math, unlock tactics and collect theorems until you can beat a 'boss' level and prove that 2+2=4, and go further.  Free LEAN Texbook and CourseProfessor Josephson's most-recommended resource for beginners learning Lean - a free online course and textbook from Prof. Heather Macbeth at Fordham University. Quanta Magazine articles on LeanProf. Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London's lecture on LEAN interactive theorem prover and the future of mathematics. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/breaking-math-podcast--5545277/support.

To learn more about clinical trials in diabetes, I invited Dr. Stayce Beck, Global Vice President of Clinical Affairs at Dexcom Inc. on the podcast.  Dr. Beck currently oversees clinical operations, clinical strategy and science, biometrics and human factors at Dexcom Inc, a leading manufacturer of continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) Prior to joining Dexcom, Dr. Beck worked at Food and Drug Administration for over ten years, spending time as a scientific and regulatory reviewer, a chief of the Diabetes Diagnostic Devices Branch, and Deputy Office Director of Personalized Medicine and Molecular Genetics. Dr. Beck received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Science from the University of California San Diego, and her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.  She also received her Master of Public Health (MPH) in Epidemiology from University of Maryland Baltimore.  Sponsor(s): This podcast is brought to you by Calyx. Calyx is a trusted name in medical imaging, having delivered imaging services to meet the needs of global biopharmaceutical sponsors and clinical research organizations for over 25 years. To learn more, visit https://www.calyx.ai/ This podcast is brought to you by Veeva SiteVault. Veeva connects patients, sites, and sponsors, on a single technology ecosystem to make clinical trials easier and faster. SiteVault gives research sites one place to work with sponsors – to reduce the number of systems and logins used to run clinical trials. To learn more, visit ​https://sites.veeva.com/​.

A lifelong athlete, Josh became interested in becoming a physical therapist when going through PT as a D1 lacrosse player at Ohio State. After avoiding shoulder surgery for a torn labrum and rotator cuff, Josh has been entrenched in the world of physical therapy and sports performance. Over the years, he has continually developed his knowledge base and expertise as a physical therapist, and as a business owner. A Montgomery County resident, Josh is heavily involved in all areas of the community throughout the DMV. Dr. Josh Funk was born and raised in Montgomery County, MD and attended Poolesville High School. Josh went on to play Division 1 lacrosse and earn a B.S. degree from The Ohio State University before earning his Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree from the University of Maryland-Baltimore. It was a little over 3 years after graduating from Maryland, that Rehab 2 Perform was founded in late 2014. Dr. Funk is committed to ensuring that Rehab 2 Perform is one of the most well-run and well-known health care companies in the country. Dr. Funk has immersed himself in business programs and community initiatives over the past few years in his efforts to ensure that the team and clients of Rehab 2 Perform are receiving everything they need to be at their best. Of note, he completed two business accelerator programs with the Small Business Development Center (SBDC), is a Goldman Sach's 10,000 Small Businesses Graduate, and a Fellow of the Birthing of Giants program. It is his goal to push Rehab 2 Perform to the forefront of the community through innovation, progressive business operations, strategic growth and clinical excellence. Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/5353468462366720

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On the dawn of our fourth season, your hosts recap their favorite ‘casts of 2023, a live dramatic reading of Unfrozen's 2023 Spotify Wrapped stats, and get on and off the soapbox as we stare down the barrel of 2024. -- Intro/Outro: “Trying Not to Think About Time,” by The Futureheads -- Discussed: -       Unfrozen's 2023 Spotify Wrapped Stats: o  Most Popular Episode: “Show Me the Bodies” with Peter Apps o  Most Shared Episode: “Untimely Meditations, Virtual Repatriations,” with Era Merkuri and Martin Gjoleka + Chidi Nwaubani -       After School Newsletter by Casey Lewis -       Unfrozen's Favorites of 2023: o  Attending the Venice Biennale during previews, including Sir Peter Cook's assertion that, while at their event and on their payroll, NEOM would be less than half-built and eventually devolve into shantytowns o  “Moving the Monolith, Speed-Running the Follies,” with Andreea Ion Cojocaru and Nick Kauffman o  “The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites,” with Brian Harvey and Gurbir Singh. Greg was channeling Geoff Manaugh's BLDGBLOG o  “Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World,” with Alan Mallach o  “Renewing the Dream” with James Sanders   ---     2024 Doomscroll: o  NEOM meets the Metaverse at Aquellum + Zaha Hadid's Minas Morgul tower, Discovery at Trojena o  You won't have Charlie Munger to kick around anymore o  CES is underway, and so is the metaverse rebranding o  Apple Vision Pro o  Meta Wayfarer Ray-Bans o  Want work? You need to kneel before the PIF o  Are architects and engineers really building the future for Saudi's young? Or are they just taking the money and running? ---       Half the world's population will vote in 2024 -       No election scheduled in Canada, but in 2025, things are looking topsy-turvy: o  Canada is “three NIMBYs in a trenchcoat” right now o  Households now owe more in mortgage debt than Canada's entire GDP o  Pierre Poilievre and the Canadian Conservatives seem to be the only ones taking the housing crisis seriously, and the kids are listening o  CHMC can't just straight-up build affordable housing – why? ---      But it's good real estate vibes in the US once rates get cut... Freedom Cities      California Forever -       You can build it – but who will insure it? -       Will San Francisco exit its doom loop in 2024? What cities will pull ahead? o  Gensler doubles down in its hometown + Shvo to the rescue at the Transamerica Pyramid -       Greg draws a picture of the work-from-home, AI-driven, obesity-drug-taking hellscape called America -       People are competing for walkable urbanism everywhere because we can't seem to build any new housing -       Could consumer branding of residential real estate boost housing construction? o  Welcome to the Neighborhood! Wall Street Designed It o  Culdesac– build-to-rent walkable urbanism in Tempe, AZ o  WeWork's Adam Neumann starts Flow -       Dead mall resurrections -       Easton Town Center, Columbus -       Retrofitting Suburbia, Ellen Dunham Jones and June Williamson   -- Engagements Preview 2024:    “Don't Believe the Hype: Cities are Alive and Well,” University of Maryland Baltimore, 22 February     “Using Augmented Reality to Drive Inclusive City Development,” SXSW, Austin, 10 March     Smart City Expo USA, New York, 22-23 May       CTBUH International Conference, London and Paris, 23-27 September

There once was a time when “artificial intelligence” existed only in the pages of science fiction. Now, you hear about AI everywhere; AI-generated images, art and video, AI writing cover letters and college essays. But how would you feel about artificial intelligence making decisions about your health? This emerging technology is being used more and more in healthcare, from analyzing test results to shaping decisions about patient care. We talk with Mark Gladwin about the implications of artificial intelligence technology in healthcare. Gladwin is the Dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Vice President for Medical Affairs at the University of Maryland-Baltimore. We also speak to Lauren Rhue, an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland-College Park where she researches the use of emerging digital technology, including AI, in the commercial sector.Do you have a question or comment about a show or a story idea to pitch? Contact On the Record at: Senior Supervising Producer, Maureen Harvie she/her/hers mharvie@wypr.org 410-235-1903 Senior Producer, Melissa Gerr she/her/hers mgerr@wypr.org 410-235-1157 Producer Sam Bermas-Dawes he/him/his sbdawes@wypr.org 410-235-1472

Ever wondered how the art of making strategic decisions can transform your business? Ready to leverage AI to turbocharge your organization's efficiency and innovation?  In this thrilling episode of Healthcare Hacks and Connections, our dynamic host Nate engages in a riveting conversation with Josh Funk, the visionary CEO of Rehab 2 Perform. Dr. Josh Funk was born and raised in Montgomery County, MD and attended Poolesville High School. Josh went on to play Division 1 lacrosse and earn a B.S. degree from The Ohio State University before earning his Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree from the University of Maryland-Baltimore. It was a little over 3 years after graduating from Maryland, that Rehab 2 Perform was founded in late 2014. Nate and Josh unravel the art of making strategic decisions and setting the compass for organizational success. Josh unveils the secret sauce to effective leadership, underscoring the critical role of tapping into the collective wisdom of the team. He dives deep into the treasure trove of insights hidden within both internal and external feedback, offering a roadmap to identify and rectify areas ripe for improvement. But here's the real gem of wisdom: Josh urges CEOs to focus on the low-hanging fruit, those easily attainable yet impactful changes that can propel a company to new heights. By surgically addressing deficiencies, he reveals how a CEO can orchestrate a symphony of actions, each playing its part in achieving the coveted results. Tune in as we uncover the strategic alchemy behind Josh's leadership philosophy, and get ready to embark on a transformative journey toward success! They will also touch on such topics as:Prioritizing Employee Well-being: Emphasizing employee well-being, engagement, and satisfaction in your organization.Organic Growth and Marketing: Strategies for company growth through word-of-mouth marketing and customer feedback.AI's Role and Consequences: AI's role in industries, ethical considerations, automation, and workforce impact.Leveraging AI for Efficiency: How organizations leverage AI for productivity, process optimization, and innovation.Leadership Challenges in Crisis: Leadership challenges during crises, including remote team management and company culture.Financial Resilience in Tough Times: Discuss strategies for navigating financially challenging periods, building resilience, and adapting to downturns in the market. Hack: “Always tote a fine line of pushing into pain points. If everything is perfect, I would argue that we're not challenging ourselves enough.” - Josh Funk Reach out to Josh:Business Coaching: https://rehab2perform.com/business-coaching/ Reach out to Me:Instagram: @thepodcast_docFacebook: www.facebook.com/nate.navasTake your podcast to the next level and book a call with me here: https://calendly.com/podcast-strategist/60min

I got the opportunity to speak with Dr. Shiladitya DasSarma, a professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore. We talked about his hypothesis, Purple Earth Hypothesis, potential life on Mars, halophilic microbes living in Antarctica, and more. ----------------------------------------- Thanks to the sponsors: Audible: Use my link for a 30-day free trial: http://audibletrial.com/diamondgoat Newsly: https://newsly.mepromo code to receive a 1-month free premium subscription: EARLYMORNING Libysn https://libsyn.compromo code: DG Dubby Energy https://www.dubby.ggpromo code for 10% off: DIAMONDGOAT spikeview https://www.spikeview.comhttps://www.instagram.com/spikeview ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Listen on: Podcast website: https://anchor.fm/diamondgoat Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0EuhA6WyuerHtVAqcFrFeO Google Podcast: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy80NzE4MzM5MC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== RadioPublic: https://radiopublic.com/dg-earlymorning-show-WoML4r Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/dg-early-morning-show Podcast YT channel clips: https://www.youtube.com/@dgearlymorningshow Reason: https://reason.fm/podcast/dg-earlymorning-show Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dg-early-morning-show/id1575451533 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/f050b86c-1dad-4bc3-b12f-6aa5fa62438c Tiktok: @dgearlymorningshow -------------------------------------- Check out my other stuff: Instagram: @itzdiamondgoat Twitter: @lildiamondgoat Main YT channel: youtube.com/diamondgoat Tiktok: @lildiamondgoat Soundcloud: @Lil Diamondgoat Spotify: @Lil Diamondgoat Merch store: https://diamondgoat.creator-spring.com Episode segmentsEdit audio --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/diamondgoat/support

In this episode of the Brawn Body Health and Fitness Podcast - Dan is joined by Dr. Lucas Chang and Dr. Rachel Knobel to discuss the importance of of creating a positive clinic environment for rehab, how to create a positive environment using a patient-centered approach, and the origin of pineapple Thursday! Dr. Lucas Chang is a sports physical therapist, graduating from the University of Maryland Baltimore. He has been practicing for 4 years and graduated In 2021, he joined True Sports Physical Therapy and has been the clinic director of the True Sports Physical Therapy Glen Burnie location since February 2022. Lucas's specialties include post-operative sports injuries, dry needling, and concussion management.  Rachel is a Board Certified Sports Physical Therapist who works at True Sports Physical Therapy in Glen Burnie. She received her doctorate in physical therapy from the University of Delaware and then completed a year-long sports residency program at UD. She enjoys treating athletes of all ages with a special interest in post-operative recovery after knee and shoulder surgery as well as management of tendon pathologies. Rachel also serves as co-director of clinical education with True Sports. For more on Lucas, you can find him @dr.chang_dpt ... For more on Rachel, you can find her @rachelknobel.dpt ... For more on True Sports Physical Therapy, you can find them @truesportspt or at https://www.truesportsphysicaltherapy.com/ Episode Sponsors: AliRx: DBraunRx = 20% off at checkout! https://alirx.health/ MedBridge: https://www.medbridgeeducation.com/brawn-body-training or Coupon Code "BRAWN" for 40% off your annual subscription! CTM Band: https://ctm.band/collections/ctm-band coupon code "BRAWN10" = 10% off! PurMotion: "brawn" = 10% off!! TRX: trxtraining.com coupon code "TRX20BRAWN" = 20% off GOT ROM: https://www.gotrom.com/a/3083/5X9xTi8k Red Light Therapy through Hooga Health: hoogahealth.com coupon code "brawn" = 12% off Ice shaker affiliate link: https://www.iceshaker.com?sca_ref=1520881.zOJLysQzKe Training Mask: "BRAWN" = 20% off at checkout https://www.trainingmask.com?sca_ref=2486863.iestbx9x1n Make sure you SHARE this episode with a friend who could benefit from the information we shared! Check out everything Dan is up to, including blog posts, fitness programs, and more by clicking here: https://linktr.ee/brawnbodytraining Liked this episode? Leave a 5-star review on your favorite podcast platform! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daniel-braun/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/daniel-braun/support

Welcome to part 2 of episode 29 on the “Love at First Science'' Podcast where Jenna Leser speaks to slowing the aging process through her research on bone density. Do you know the importance of bone density for your overall health? Jenna Leser is a Pd.D. student in molecular medicine and she shares her findings related to bone density on the podcast. She explains the various functions the bones serve, how they adapt to the daily challenges and how to improve bone density. She points out what effects exercise and diet have on bone mass, what changes occur when becoming older and what it takes to grow bone mass when aging. She depicts how important gravity and using force within exercises is and details how important the homeostatic set point is. In addition she shares how to preserve bone density, the importance of progressively increasing the strength and load you are putting the body through, and how critical variety is. In sharing her journey and connecting her research to yoga and movement she stresses the importance of increasing bone density in a simple manner. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Learn More About Jenna Leser: Originally from New York, I moved to Maryland to attend Johns Hopkins University where I graduated with a Bachelor's in Biology and a minor in Bioethics. My interest in biological sciences and how the body functions led me to become a research technician in neuro-gastroenterology at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institute upon graduation in 2015. In 2017 I enrolled in (and am now wrapping up soon!), a Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine, with a focus on Cellular and Molecular Physiology, at the University of Maryland Baltimore. I train in the Department of Orthopaedics under the mentorship of Dr. Joseph Stains, Ph.D. and my studies investigate the function of osteocytes, cells that reside inside the hard, calcified bone itself. We are continuing to expand our understanding of osteocytes as regulators of bone formation/resorption in response to hormonal, biochemical, and mechanical cues, with a special interest in the context of aging. As a former gymnast, dancer, pole vaulter, and field hockey player - I have had my fair share of exposure to orthopedics as a patient, so finding a research home in this department feels full circle. In an attempt to mitigate the stress of doctoral studies and get back to my roots as an athlete, I began my relationship with yoga. I completed my 200hr RYT in 2019 after 2 years of committed practice and started my yoga teaching journey. It brings me so much joy to weave my passion for physiology into each class I teach. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Check out & learn more with Jenna Leser  ⁠⁠⁠⁠Jenna Leser's Instagram⁠ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------  My Socials:   ⁠⁠⁠⁠Celest's Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Celest's Website ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Too Flexible To Feel Good Book

Welcome to part 1 of episode 29 on the “Love at First Science'' Podcast where Jenna Leser speaks to slowing the aging process through her research on bone density. Do you know the importance of bone density for your overall health? Jenna Leser is a Pd.D. student in molecular medicine and she shares her findings related to bone density on the podcast. She explains the various functions the bones serve, how they adapt to the daily challenges and how to improve bone density. She points out what effects exercise and diet have on bone mass, what changes occur when becoming older and what it takes to grow bone mass when aging. She depicts how important gravity and using force within exercises is and details how important the homeostatic set point is. In addition she shares how to preserve bone density, the importance of progressively increasing the strength and load you are putting the body through, and how critical variety is. In sharing her journey and connecting her research to yoga and movement she stresses the importance of increasing bone density in a simple manner. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Learn More About Jenna Leser: Originally from New York, I moved to Maryland to attend Johns Hopkins University where I graduated with a Bachelor's in Biology and a minor in Bioethics. My interest in biological sciences and how the body functions led me to become a research technician in neuro-gastroenterology at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institute upon graduation in 2015. In 2017 I enrolled in (and am now wrapping up soon!), a Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine, with a focus on Cellular and Molecular Physiology, at the University of Maryland Baltimore. I train in the Department of Orthopaedics under the mentorship of Dr. Joseph Stains, Ph.D. and my studies investigate the function of osteocytes, cells that reside inside the hard, calcified bone itself. We are continuing to expand our understanding of osteocytes as regulators of bone formation/resorption in response to hormonal, biochemical, and mechanical cues, with a special interest in the context of aging. As a former gymnast, dancer, pole vaulter, and field hockey player - I have had my fair share of exposure to orthopedics as a patient, so finding a research home in this department feels full circle. In an attempt to mitigate the stress of doctoral studies and get back to my roots as an athlete, I began my relationship with yoga. I completed my 200hr RYT in 2019 after 2 years of committed practice and started my yoga teaching journey. It brings me so much joy to weave my passion for physiology into each class I teach. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Check out & learn more with Jenna Leser  ⁠⁠⁠Jenna Leser's Instagram --------------------------------------------------------------------------------  My Socials:   ⁠⁠⁠Celest's Instagram⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Celest's Website ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Too Flexible To Feel Good Book

Jenna Lesser is originally from NY, but she's been a Baltimore resident since she began her undergrad at Johns Hopkins in 2011. She earned her Bachelor's degree with a major in biology and a minor in bioethics. After working as a laboratory technician in neurogastroenterology for two years, she began graduate school at the University of Maryland Baltimore.She studied the impact of aging on osteocyte biology, mechanisms by which bones respond to mechanical load, and the contribution of a protein called Calcium/calmodulin-dependent Kinase 2 on the homeostasis of bone mass. She just completed her PhD! She hopes to take her expertise into a career in science policy. When she's not in the lab, teaches and practices yoga, staying connected to her roots as a dancer and gymnast, and plays field hockey. To learn more about Dr. Lesser, check out:Instagram: @jleser

Tonya Bailey Jones: Godly Obedience Leads to Unexpected Calls“There are people even now who struggle with the reality of, I'm not moving because I don't feel like I deserve to be given that.” ~Tonya BaileyIf you have ever felt this way, then you will enjoy today's guest, Tonya Bailey, as she shares how her leap after retiring from the military allowed her to be a beacon of hope for her family and other women in ways she could have never imagined.Tonya's Bio:Tonya Bailey Jones is a wife, mother, grand-mother, coach and transformational speaker. She is a retired Naval Officer with numerous awards and commendations. She graduated from University of Maryland-Baltimore with her bachelor's degree in Nursing and from Liberty University with her master's degree in Nursing education. With all these accolades and a successful career, you would think life was bliss for Tonya. However, it was anything but.Tonya's professional success was birthed through decades of darkness, depression and despair and shrouded in shame and regret. When God gave Tonya the vision of speaking on stages, shewas excited and ready with thoughts of motivating women to rise to success from meager beginnings. However, that was not the assignment God had for her.Through years of trepidation, apprehension and lots of self-discovery, Tonya is elated to now say she took the leap and is walking in God's calling for her life and moving at the pace of grace with God by her side.As the creator and host of "Beauty Beyond the Ashes Podcast with Tonya B. Jones", she is reaching women throughout the world with the love of God. Known as "the lady with the soothing, compassionate voice who makes you want to lean in and chat," Tonya encourages women of faith to live beyond the guilt, shame and regret of their past choices and live in the fullness of who God created them to be. Stay Connected:Tonya Bailey Jones4 Pillars of Successful Self-Forgiveness Free E-book | https://www.tonyabjones.com/4pillarsPersonal Website | https://www.tonyabjones.com/Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/blessed1_t2w/Podcast | https://www.tonyabjones.com/podcastRachel ScottWebsite| https://rachelgscott.com/Website| http://the5leaps.com/Instagram| https://www.instagram.com/iamrachelgscott/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamrachelgscottSponsored Resources Mentioned:5 Week Leap Mentoring: Sign Up HereRGS Group: Learn More HereThe 5 Leaps Quick Guide: Grab it Here

Leslie is the Director of Operations and Co-founder of XSITE Capital Investment LLC. He manages the company operations, market/data analysis, cash flow and budget analysis. Leslie is an entrepreneur and real estate investor. Leslie started investing in single family real estate in 2017 and transitioned to multifamily investing in 2019. Leslie and his partners at XSITE Capital Investment LLC, currently own and manage $164 million worth of Multifamily real estate. In 2021, Leslie also founded an E-commerce company and Co-founded a Wellness Clinic, in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a trained nurse anesthetist and obtained his MSc in Nurse Anesthesia from the University of Maryland Baltimore. Leslie has a passion for building business and enjoys adding value to individuals interested in growing their wealth and changing their financial future. Leslie is a husband, father of two beautiful girls, a son and loves to spend his spare time reading, volunteering and flying drones. *DISCLAIMER - We are not giving any financial advice. Please DYOR* (00:00 - 02:01) Opening Segment - Leslie is introduced as the guest Host - Leslie shares something interesting about himself (02:01 - 18:20) Navigating the Current Multifamily Market - Current lending options - current trends, and changes to underwriting to protect yourself (18:20 - 23:11) Fire Round - Leslie shared if he would change his investment strategy - Leslie also shares his favorite Finance, real estate book, or any related book - Also Leslie shared about the website and tools that he can recommend - Leslie's advice to beginner investors - Also shared how he gives back (23:11 - 24:11) Closing Segment -If you want to learn more about the discussion, you can watch the podcast on⁠⁠⁠⁠ Wealth Matter's YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠and you can reach out to Alpesh using this ⁠⁠⁠⁠link⁠⁠⁠⁠. Check us out at: Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@wealthmatrs⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠IG: @wealthmatrs.ig⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Tiktok: @wealthmatrs⁠

This episode features Jason Carter, Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer at University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center. Here, he discusses his background, the evolution of the COO role, what issues he's currently focusing on, and more.

On a cold night in December of 1996, a night of hanging out and getting high turned into the darkest nightmare for Rita Kemper. A man named Joe Metheny, whom she had known for a few months, invited her over to his desolate trailer in South Baltimore. Rita trusted Joe but little did she know she would barely get out of his trailer alive, and that many other women had suffered a much worse fate than Rita having been murdered, dismembered, and scattered throughout Joe's yard. This is the story of Baltimore's Cannibal Serial Killer, Joe Metheny and you're listening to Murder in America.  - Learn more about microdosing THC by going to microdose.com and using code MIA to get free shipping and 30% off your first order! - Stay Connected:  Join the Murder in America fam in our free Facebook Community for a behind-the-scenes look, more insights and current events in the true crime world: https://www.facebook.com/groups/4365229996855701 If you want even more Murder in America bonus content, including ad-free episodes, come join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/murderinamerica Instagram: http://instagram.com/murderinamerica/ Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/people/Murder-in-America-Podcast/100086268848682/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MurderInAmerica TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theparanormalfiles and https://www.tiktok.com/@courtneybrowen Feeling spooky? Follow Colin as he travels state to state (and even country to country!) investigating claims of extreme paranormal activity and visiting famous haunted locations on The Paranormal Files Official Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheParanormalFilesOfficialChannel

Aileen Van Wie is a  licensed psychologist in the state of Florida and is currently employed at an inpatient psychiatric hospital. Aileen graduated with a doctorate in clinical psychology (PsyD) in May 2021 and, after completing a year-long postdoctoral residency, she also became licensed in August 2022. She has worked at a community mental health center, addiction recovery center (inpatient, IOP, and recovery house program), and multiple psychiatric hospitals during her training. 8/2016             PsyD, Clinical Psychology9/2021             Loyola University of Maryland: Baltimore, MD 8/2016             MS, Clinical Psychology1/2018           Loyola University of Maryland: Baltimore, MDAmerican Psychological Association accredited programRESEARCH EXPERIENCE9/2016 –          Loyola University of Maryland: Baltimore, MD4/2021            Principal Investigator, Doctoral DissertationDissertation Chair: Emalee Quickel, Ph.D.Finalizing a quantitative study assessing the efficacy of mindfulness-based stress reduction practices on adults receiving outpatient treatment for one or more substance use disorders. Successfully defended 9/11/20209/2015 –          Temple University: Philadelphia, PA5/2016              Principal Investigator, Undergraduate Thesis      Advisor: Phillip Kendall, Ph.D.Researched the impact of family discord on treatment efficacy for anxious youth. 5/2015 –          Temple University: Philadelphia, PA5/2016              Research Assistant, Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic (CAADC)Clinic Director: Phillip Kendall, Ph.D.Aided assessment, exposure therapy, data entry, transcriptions, and client care.PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONSAmerican Psychological Association (APA) American Psychological Association (APA) Div. 12: AssessmentAWARDS AND HONORSDistinction in Oral/Written Comprehensive Examinations, Loyola University Maryland 2019Kolvenbach Research Grant Recipient, 2018Awarded Sigma Delta Pi Prize, Temple University, 2016Member of Dean's List, The College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, 2013-2016Phi Beta Kappa, Temple University Chapter, 2015Awarded “Resident Assistant Program of the Year”, Temple University, 2015Psi Chi: National Honor Society in Psychology, Temple University Chapter, 2014Accepted into Psychology Honors Research Track, Temple University, 2014LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATIONSLicensure as Professional Psychologist, State of Florida, PY #11553, 2022Support the show Stop by our Apple Podcast and drop a Review! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/allbetter/id1592297425?see-all=reviewsSupport The Showhttps://www.patreon.com/allbetter

Constant persistence in real estate drives wealth growth and changes in the financial future. In this episode, Leslie Awasom talks about the three keys to becoming successful in the field of multifamily. He shares how Xsite Capital has grown its partners and has acquired over $160M in real estate assets. Listen in as Leslie provides valuable insights into the practical steps Xsite has taken to achieve favorable outcomes and as she emphasizes the importance of giving. Tune in now to learn more about Leslie's story and Xsite Capital's success. Listen now!Key Points From This Episode: Leslie talks about his hobby of flying drones.Leslie shares what has changed in Xsite Capital in the past two years.Leslie details how Xsite Capital grew from two partners to three and acquired $160 million of real estate assets.The one thing that Leslie is very proud of in the past three years is they provided education on real estate to over a thousand people.What are the specific practical steps that Xsite has taken that have led to its favorable outcomes?Leslie talks about the importance of giving.Tweetables:“Number one is persistence. And we've been very persistent in going after this asset class or building this platform.”“I will say the three keys to success are to give, give and give more.”Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:Leslie Awasom on LinkedInXsite Capital Investment websiteWS498: Creating the American Dream Through Syndication with Leslie Awasom and Tenny TolofariAbout Leslie AwasomLeslie is the Director of Operations and Co-founder of Xsite Capital Investment LLC. He manages the company operations, market/data analysis, cash flow, and budget analysis. Leslie is an entrepreneur and real estate investor. Leslie started investing in single-family real estate in 2017 and transitioned to multifamily investing in 2019. Leslie and his partners at XSITE Capital Investment LLC, currently own and manage $ 164 million worth of Multifamily real estate. In 2021, Leslie also founded an E-commerce company and Co-founded a Wellness Clinic, in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a trained nurse anesthetist and obtained his MSc in Nurse Anesthesia from the University of Maryland Baltimore. Leslie has a passion for building businesses and enjoys adding value to individuals interested in growing their wealth and changing their financial futures.Leslie is a husband, and father of two beautiful girls and a son, and loves to spend his spare time reading, volunteering, and flying drones. 

In this episode we will be talking to Jago Lott a midfielder who plays for university of Maryland Baltimore soccer team. From getting Cut at Southampton Academy at a really young age to UMBC. How did he come this far join and listen to gems that where left in between. What did you take away from this episode? We would love to hear your feedback and what you took away from this podcast, and truly appreciate it if you can leave us a five star review! Make sure to join the family, and follow us on Instagram and TikTok @FuturElitezSoccer See you next week

This week we talked to Brook Kearley, a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore in the School of Social Work. Brook talks to us about experimental designs in criminology. We also discuss a paper in which she evaluated a drug court. 

This weeks guest is truly changing the industry for the better! Dr. Josh Funk has created a company that has leveled up what "traditional" Physical Therapy looks like for both the patient and the practitioner. Josh shares a ton of info on how they treat at R2P and also how hes created such an amazing culture! We are also hosting them in May of 2023 for one of their continuing education courses! Sign up here More about Josh: A lifelong athlete, Josh became interested in becoming a physical therapist when going through PT as a D1 lacrosse player at Ohio State. After avoiding shoulder surgery for a torn labrum and rotator cuff, Josh has been entrenched in the world of physical therapy and sports performance. Over the years, he has continually developed his knowledge base and expertise as a physical therapist, and as a business owner. A Montgomery County resident, Josh is heavily involved in all areas of the community throughout the DMV. Dr. Josh Funk was born and raised in Montgomery County, MD and attended Poolesville High School. Josh went on to play Division 1 lacrosse and earn a B.S. degree from The Ohio State University before earning his Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree from the University of Maryland-Baltimore. It was a little over 3 years after graduating from Maryland, that Rehab 2 Perform was founded in late 2014. Dr. Funk is committed to ensuring that Rehab 2 Perform is one of the most well-run and well-known health care companies in the country. Dr. Funk has immersed himself in business programs and community initiatives over the past few years in his efforts to ensure that the team and clients of Rehab 2 Perform are receiving everything they need to be at their best. Of note, he completed two business accelerator programs with the Small Business Development Center (SBDC), is a Goldman Sach's 10,000 Small Businesses Graduate, and a Fellow of the Birthing of Giants program. It is his goal to push Rehab 2 Perform to the forefront of the community through innovation, progressive business operations, strategic growth and clinical excellence. Visit their site- https://rehab2perform.com/ @rehab2perform @drjoshfunk More from HIDEF https://www.hidefpt.com/

If you are looking for a new way to look at Physical Therapy education, you will not want to miss this episode On this episode of the Healthcare Education Transformation Podcast, we talk with Mary Blackington and the work she's doing with enTandemDPT, powered by Rehab Essentials in order to change Physical Therapy schooling for the future. In this episode, we discuss the collaborative DPT program curriculum they have developed, how this helps professors save time to do what they want to do, how students will become more effective and competent future physical therapists. This is Part 2 of a 2 part episode.  Mary Blackinton PT, EdD is the Director of enTandem DPT Program, a component of Rehab Essentials Inc. Previously, she was the Director of the DPT Program at Nova Southeastern University-Tampa, the first completely hybrid (blended) Doctor of Physical Therapy program from 2011-2020. She worked as a full-time faculty at NSU from 1994-2010, and Director of NSU's T-DPT program from 2001-2010. Her areas of teaching and practice include motor control/motor learning, geriatric and neurological physical therapy, and frameworks for PT practice. She received her BS in Physical Therapy from University of Maryland-Baltimore, MS from Nova University in Gerontology, and her Doctor of Education (EdD) from Nova Southeastern University. She was board certified as a Geriatric Clinical Specialist (GCS) from 2009-2019 (now Emeritus) and is an Educational Leadership Institute (ELI) fellow since July 2013. If you would like to reach out to Mary, please feel free to do so: Email | Website | 813-682-7445 Dr F Scott Feil is a husband, a father, a physical therapist, a professor, and most recently an Amazon best-selling author. F Scott is also a business coach and mentor despite starting his journey as an English major before landing as a Physical Therapist. He is one of the creators and co-hosts of the Healthcare Education Transformation Podcast which aims to break down the silos between healthcare professions in an attempt to find best practices in teaching and learning throughout healthcare academia. He also hosts the Professors of Profit Podcast where he interviews healthcare professionals about their side gigs and side hustles. His goal is to help at least 222 professors (one from every PT School at the time of publication of his book) and clinicians pay off their student loans quicker and/or more efficiently by using multiple revenue streams. If he helps some others with terminal degrees or other healthcare clinicians along the way, then it's a bonus! He is also the owner of PTEducator.com , FGI Consulting, and Epic Therapy and Wellness. His areas of interest are in the realms of Geriatrics, Service Based Learning, and Business. Special thanks to our sponsor, The NPTE Final Frontier, www.NPTEFF.com, and if you are taking the NPTE or are teaching those about to take the NPTE, use code "HET" for 10% off all purchases at the website...and BREAKING NEWS!!!! They now have an OCS review option as well... You're welcome! You can also reach out to them on Instagram Feel free to reach out to us at:  Website  |  Facebook | Twitter |  Youtube Instagram: HET Podcast  | Dawn Brown | F Scott Feil | Dawn Magnusson | Farley Schweighart | Mahlon Stewart | Lisa Vanhoose For more information on how we can optimize and standardize healthcare education and delivery, subscribe to the Healthcare Education Transformation Podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.

If you are looking for a new way to look at Physical Therapy education, you will not want to miss this episode On this episode of the Healthcare Education Transformation Podcast, we talk with Mary Blackington and the work she's doing with enTandemDPT, powered by Rehab Essentials in order to change Physical Therapy schooling for the future. In this episode, we discuss the collaborative DPT program curriculum they have developed, how this helps professors save time to do what they want to do, how students will become more effective and competent future physical therapists. This is Part 1 of a 2 part episode.  Mary Blackinton PT, EdD is the Director of enTandem DPT Program, a component of Rehab Essentials Inc. Previously, she was the Director of the DPT Program at Nova Southeastern University-Tampa, the first completely hybrid (blended) Doctor of Physical Therapy program from 2011-2020. She worked as a full-time faculty at NSU from 1994-2010, and Director of NSU's T-DPT program from 2001-2010. Her areas of teaching and practice include motor control/motor learning, geriatric and neurological physical therapy, and frameworks for PT practice. She received her BS in Physical Therapy from University of Maryland-Baltimore, MS from Nova University in Gerontology, and her Doctor of Education (EdD) from Nova Southeastern University. She was board certified as a Geriatric Clinical Specialist (GCS) from 2009-2019 (now Emeritus) and is an Educational Leadership Institute (ELI) fellow since July 2013. If you would like to reach out to Mary, please feel free to do so: Email | Website | 813-682-7445 Dr F Scott Feil is a husband, a father, a physical therapist, a professor, and most recently an Amazon best-selling author. F Scott is also a business coach and mentor despite starting his journey as an English major before landing as a Physical Therapist. He is one of the creators and co-hosts of the Healthcare Education Transformation Podcast which aims to break down the silos between healthcare professions in an attempt to find best practices in teaching and learning throughout healthcare academia. He also hosts the Professors of Profit Podcast where he interviews healthcare professionals about their side gigs and side hustles. His goal is to help at least 222 professors (one from every PT School at the time of publication of his book) and clinicians pay off their student loans quicker and/or more efficiently by using multiple revenue streams. If he helps some others with terminal degrees or other healthcare clinicians along the way, then it's a bonus! He is also the owner of PTEducator.com , FGI Consulting, and Epic Therapy and Wellness. His areas of interest are in the realms of Geriatrics, Service Based Learning, and Business. Special thanks to our sponsor, The NPTE Final Frontier, www.NPTEFF.com, and if you are taking the NPTE or are teaching those about to take the NPTE, use code "HET" for 10% off all purchases at the website...and BREAKING NEWS!!!! They now have an OCS review option as well... You're welcome! You can also reach out to them on Instagram Feel free to reach out to us at:  Website  |  Facebook | Twitter |  Youtube Instagram: HET Podcast  | Dawn Brown | F Scott Feil | Dawn Magnusson | Farley Schweighart | Mahlon Stewart | Lisa Vanhoose For more information on how we can optimize and standardize healthcare education and delivery, subscribe to the Healthcare Education Transformation Podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Nubia Kai (a.k.a. Nubia Kai Al-Nura Salaam) received a B.A. degree from Wayne State University in Anthropology and Black Studies, an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin in African Languages and Literature, and a Ph.D. in African Literature and Film at Howard University. A poet, playwright, storyteller, and novelist, Ms. Kai has won numerous awards for her writing, She has taught in the History Department at George Washington University, was an assistant professor at Howard University's Department of Theatre Arts and an adjunct professor at University of Maryland-Baltimore's Africana Studies Department.

DR. JOSH FUNK, DPT   //   IG: @rehab2perform   //   TW: @Rehab2PerformFounder / CEO - Rehab2PerformA lifelong athlete, Josh became interested in becoming a physical therapist when going through PT as a D1 lacrosse player at Ohio State. After avoiding shoulder surgery for a torn labrum and rotator cuff, Josh has been entrenched in the world of physical therapy and sports performance. Over the years, he has continually developed his knowledge base and expertise as a physical therapist through continuing education courses and working with athletes of all ages. A Montgomery County resident, Josh is heavily involved in all areas of the community throughout the region.Dr. Josh Funk was born and raised in Montgomery County, MD and attended Poolesville High School. Josh went on to play Division 1 lacrosse and earn a B.S. degree from The Ohio State University before earning his Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree from the University of Maryland-Baltimore. It was a little over 3 years after graduating from Maryland, that Rehab 2 Perform was founded in late 2014.In addition to his physical therapy expertise, Dr. Funk has been equally, if not more committed to the growth of his role as CEO of Rehab 2 Perform. He has made sure that his personal development is not just reserved for the clinical side of things, but also to ensuring that Rehab 2 Perform is one of the most well-run and well-known health care companies in the area. Dr. Funk has immersed himself in business programs and community initiatives over the past few years in his efforts to ensure that the team and clients of Rehab 2 Perform are receiving everything they need to be at their best. It is his goal to push Rehab 2 Perform to the forefront of the community through innovation, progressive business operations, strategic growth and clinical excellence.

Dr. Jordan Shettle PT, DPT, OCS, COMT, Cert. DN, CSCS, AOLCJordan is the founder and CEO of Resilient Physiotherapy and Sports Performance. He received his Bachelor of Science degrees in Biology and Philosophy from Lycoming College and his Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Widener University with an emphasis in sports rehabilitation and manual therapy.During his time as a clinician, Jordan has had the opportunity to treat and aid in the recovery of countless athletes at the high school, collegiate, professional, and olympic levels. He also specializes in working with tactical athletes to include police, fire fighter, EMT, and military personnel with the unique fitness requirements needed to perform their duties at a high level.Jordan is recognized as a board-certified Specialist in Orthopedics (OCS) as well as a Certified Orthopedic Manual Therapist. He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Jordan also holds specialties in Dry Needling (Cert. DN) through the Dry Needling Institute and has specialized training through the American Academy of Manipulative Therapy's Spinal Manipulation Institute. Additionally, Jordan is a certified provider of Functional Movement Systems Selective Functional Movement Assessment, Functional Movement Screen, Y-Balance Test, and Fundamental Capacity Screen. He is also certified in cupping, taping, and instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM) through Functional Movement Training.Dr. Madelyn Keese is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Resilient Physiotherapy and Sports Performance.  She earned her B.S. in Health Science from the University of Miami where she also played lacrosse and later went on to obtain her Doctorate in Physical therapy from the University of Maryland Baltimore. At UMB, Dr. Keese was awarded the Robert P. Gordes Award, given to the individual showing excellence in outpatient orthopedics and sports medicine in their graduating class. She was also awarded the Dr. Mary Rodgers Research Award which recognizes a graduating student who has excelled in research activity. Upon graduating from PT school, Dr. Keese went on to achieve some of the most noteworthy certifications in the field. She is a board certified clinical specialist in orthopedic physical therapy (OCS) and has undergone extensive coursework and training through the Maitland-Australian Physiotherapy Seminars to become a Certified Orthopedic Manual Therapist. Dr. Keese has completed coursework at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine which focuses on techniques designed to treat structural and functional issues, and to promote self-healing by ensuring a balance between the diagnosis and care of the patient. Her post graduate training and scope of knowledge make Dr. Keese one of the top manual therapists in the country. Trained through Myopain Seminars, Dr. Keese also utilizes trigger point needling extensively in her practice to facilitate normal muscle function and tone. As a certified Pose Method Running Coach and Strength and Conditioning Specialist, Dr. Keese integrates a wide range of evidence-based techniques to help return athletes back to sport and maximize function. Most recently, Dr. Keese has progressed her concussion management training by successfully completing a series of courses through the Complete Concussion Management program. She is extremely passionate about proper concussion rehabilitation, especially as the research continues to evolve. Dr. Keese uses a variety of strategies to address visual, vestibular, and physiological deficits that often occur following a cMasada Tactical The premier self protection training company, combining Israeli tactics and American disciplines.Combat Iron Apparel

Sarah Christa Butts, LMSW Is the Director of Public Policy with the National Association of Social Workers, in Washington, DC. Ms. Butts is responsible for leading the association's public policy, political and legislative affairs agenda, overseeing field organizing, working at both the national level and with NASW chapters, political candidates' fundraising and endorsement efforts, as well as developing and advancing the association's strategic goals and objectives related to influencing the legislative and executive branches of government. Prior to joining NASW, Sarah served as executive director of the Grand Challenges for Social Work at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. She was also a Senior Administrator within the Dean's office at University of Maryland, School of Social Work. Ms. Butts is the founding administrator of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW) and played a significant role in the organization's development as a 501c3 and launching of Grand Challenges from 2013-2017. She is a co-author on the AASWSW working paper to End Homelessness and contributing author on a new book, Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society, published by Oxford University Press. Prior experience includes roles at the Family League of Baltimore, Maryland Department of Human Services, Social Services Administration and Baltimore County Department of Social Services. Ms. Butts holds an MSW from University of Maryland Baltimore and a BSW from University of Maryland Baltimore County, where she is currently pursuing a PhD in Public Policy. Ms. Butts also played a major role in developing The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) 2021 Blueprint of Federal Social Policy Priorities articulates meaningful actions the Biden-Harris Administration and Congress should take to address the COVID-19 crisis, promote mental and behavioral health, eliminate systemic racism and ensure civil and human rights for all. The Blueprint's 21 issue areas are organized according to the Grand Challenges for Social Work, a research-informed social policy agenda, developed by the social work profession, to address our society's most pressing social problems. NASW's Blueprint is a roadmap for social progress and reflects social work's best thinking on the pathway to a more just and equitable society. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kelsunn-on-the-air/support

Sarah Christa Butts, MSW, is currently the Director of Public Policy for the National Association of Social Workers. Previously she was the Executive Director of the Grand Challenges for Social Work and Senior Administrator within the Dean's office at University of Maryland, School of Social Work. Ms. Butts is the founding administrator of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW) and played a significant role in the organization's development as a 501c3 and launching of Grand Challenges from 2013-2017. She is a co-author on the AASWSW working paper to End Homelessness and contributing author on a new book, Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society, published by Oxford University Press. Prior experience include roles at the Family League of Baltimore, Maryland Department of Human Services, Social Services Administration and Baltimore County Department of Social Services. Ms. Butts holds an MSW from University of Maryland Baltimore and a BSW from University of Maryland Baltimore County, where she is currently pursuing a PhD in Public Policy. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kelsunn-on-the-air/support

Join the conversation, as Dr. Wendy Shaia motivates us all to become the "They" that leads the way to change! Wendy Shaia is a British-born Jamaican living in Maryland, United States. She spent her formative years in Kingston, Jamaica, and emigrated with her family to Queens, New York at age 14. Wendy obtained her Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Hampshire College, her Master of Social Work from the University of Maryland Baltimore, and her Doctor of Education from the George Washington University. For the past 30 years, Wendy has worked in social service and government organizations. She is currently a faculty member at the University of Maryland School of Social Work, and the Executive Director of the Social Work Community Outreach Service, a community-facing agency working across Baltimore and Maryland to reduce the effects of poverty and structural oppression in communities. Recognizing the incredible trauma Black children experience in K-12 education, in 2015 Wendy founded the Positive Schools Center at the University of Maryland. This Center focuses on creating positive school climate and reducing the disproportionate suspensions and expulsions of children of color and children with disabilities from Maryland schools. Wendy writes and teaches extensively on the topic of racism and developed the SHARP framework for providing services to people who have experienced poverty and oppression. This framework is now being adopted by several service providers around the nation. She has entered the world of fiction in order to access a broader community of readers, particularly those who are impacted by oppression. Her first short story was recently published by the Dillydown Review and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her first novel, THE BLACK CELL, will be published by Publerati in September of 2022. Connect with Wendy @ wendywrites@wendyshaia.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/daretopivot/message

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In this episode, Founder and CEO of Rehab 2 Perform, Dr. Josh Funk, talks about his experience with the business side of physical therapy. Today, Josh talks about how he created his business culture for employees and patients, his community outreach, and how he assembles his teams. How has Josh grown his business so quickly? Hear about the importance of a balanced dashboard and being mindful, and get Josh's advice to his younger self, all on today's episode of The Healthy, Wealthy & Smart Podcast.   Key Takeaways “If I think of somebody who has more autonomy, I think of somebody who's automatically going to be more engaged.” “The first thing that you need to start with is admitting that you don't have all the answers.” “We move fast, we break sh*t, we fix it, we move on.” “A lot of it [growth] starts with continual self-analysis.” “Me working in my business was the single biggest blockade for us moving forward.” “We've put equal investment on people, we've put equal investment into our local communities, and we've put equal investment into the company as a whole, and as long as we continue to feed those three different areas, and maintain lines of communication, I think we're going to continue to be successful.” “A conscious capitalist is somebody that's mindful of all stakeholders.” “I view the 35-50 year old female in the community as being probably the single most influential person in your local community.” “When I think of marketing, I always think of market relationships.” “When you start your company based on core values, you have people that are culture champions.” “Your balanced dashboard is most likely going to lead you to better decision-making and getting a better gage for what is actually going on behind-the-scenes in your business.” “Much of healthcare practices from a business standpoint are extremely dated, and you are better off spending time studying businesses in other industries for inspiration.” “Continue being open for inspiration in a wide variety of places. You'd be surprised, if you had an open mind, what you might be able to see in something that, maybe at one point in your life, you completely ignored.”   More about Josh Funk Dr. Josh Funk was born and raised in Montgomery County, MD and attended Poolesville High School. Josh went on to play Division 1 lacrosse and earn a B.S. degree from The Ohio State University before earning his Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree from the University of Maryland-Baltimore. It was a little over 3 years after graduating from Maryland, that Rehab 2 Perform was founded in late 2014. In addition to his physical therapy expertise, Dr. Funk has been equally, if not more committed to the growth of his role as CEO of Rehab 2 Perform. He has made sure that his personal development is not just reserved for the clinical side of things, but also to ensuring that Rehab 2 Perform is one of the most well-run and well-known health care companies in the area. Dr. Funk has immersed himself in business programs and community initiatives over the past few years in his efforts to ensure that the team and clients of Rehab 2 Perform are receiving everything they need to be at their best. It is his goal to push Rehab 2 Perform to the forefront of the community through innovation, progressive business operations, strategic growth and clinical excellence. A lifelong athlete, Josh became interested in becoming a physical therapist when going through PT as a D1 lacrosse player at Ohio State. After avoiding shoulder surgery for a torn labrum and rotator cuff, Josh has been entrenched in the world of physical therapy and sports performance. Over the years, he has continually developed his knowledge base and expertise as a physical therapist through continuing education courses and working with athletes of all ages. A Montgomery County resident, Josh is heavily involved in all areas of the community throughout the region.   Suggested Keywords Rehab, Physical Therapy, Physiotherapy, Autonomy, Community, Business, Metrics, Performance, Processes, Teams, Decision-Making, Healthy, Wealthy, Smart,   Round Table Talks: Round Table Talks   To learn more, follow Josh at: Website:          https://rehab2perform.com Email:              drfunk@rehab2perform.com Facebook:       Dr Josh Funk                         Rehab 2 Perform Instagram:       @drjoshfunk                         @Rehab2Perform                         @R2Pacademy Twitter:            @drjoshfunk                         @Rehab2Perform LinkedIn:         https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshfunk YouTube:        Rehab 2 Perform Round Table Talk: BizPT    Subscribe to Healthy, Wealthy & Smart: Website:                      https://podcast.healthywealthysmart.com Apple Podcasts:          https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/healthy-wealthy-smart/id532717264 Spotify:                        https://open.spotify.com/show/6ELmKwE4mSZXBB8TiQvp73 SoundCloud:               https://soundcloud.com/healthywealthysmart Stitcher:                       https://www.stitcher.com/show/healthy-wealthy-smart iHeart Radio:                https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-healthy-wealthy-smart-27628927   Read the Transcript Here:  00:02 Hey, Josh, welcome to the podcast. I'm so excited to have you on today. Karen, thanks for having me. I'm just a big fan of everything you have going on and just everything you're doing for people in the profession.   00:13 Ah, thanks. That's nice to hear. And today, well, actually, this whole month, we are talking about the business side of physical therapy. And so I wanted to have you on because from what I can tell, not that I'm knee deep into your business, but from what I can tell on social media and your website is man, you are really growing, you have a budding business, it's an interesting business, it looks like your customer service is top notch. And people genuinely like your business. And they like you. So let's talk about the growth of your business and how you're able to do this in I would say a relatively short amount of time. So I'll just throw it over to you to just talk about your your business, why do you talk about your business first, so the listeners know who you are, what you do where you are, and then we'll get into how you've grown so quickly. Absolutely. So   01:09 for the listeners out there, I am the owner of rehab to perform. It's a fitness focused physical therapy company, offering, obviously physical therapy, sports rehabilitation services, concussion rehab. And then we have a couple different wellness offerings, including a golf program, golf fitness program, and our two p plus, which is kind of a discharge program, that people utilize an app receive home workouts and are able to communicate with their PT after more formalized discharge. But you know, you alluded a little bit to the growth that we've had, over the years been very fortunate past couple of years, including even during a challenging year, last year, just to continue to be able to move forward, I would if I had to break up, the time that the business has been in existence, I would say you have the first three years, and then you have the last kind of three and a half, almost four years, first three years, really just trying to figure things out, put the pieces together, do everything you can honestly to get out of debt have that minimum viable product. And when I was thinking about that minimum viable product, viable product, a lot of it surrounded creating an environment where PT was not a grudge purchase. So how do you create healthcare and physical therapy that is not a grudge purchase, it's something that has very, very minimal friction, people easily interact with it from a from a, you know, front desk customer service standpoint. And then when they actually experienced the clinical side, it is something that speaks to them, it is something that is enjoyable. And that goes for everything from just the processes and the kind of people that you have, as well as the deliverables. So, you know, these past three and a half years, we've been fortunate to, you know, heading honestly into opening our sixth location this fall. And we're very, very close to opening our seventh location. In early q1, we are based out of the DMV, and for anybody's unfamiliar with that, that is DC, Maryland and Virginia.   03:16 Awesome. I mean, it's just, it's pretty amazing. And you you hit on something that I want to talk about really quick before we go into the how you grew. But that's creating a culture that's not a grudge purchase. So let's talk about how you created your business culture, because I think this is something that is often overlooked, especially in in a lot of businesses. But how did you create that culture for your employees and for your patients?   03:52 I think if I start with the employees, I think a big part of what at least has influenced me was being in situations in which I perceived there to be too much rigidity, in terms of the how, and there was not enough autonomy given to people to just execute. Everybody executes things slightly different. And much like I would say, a good clinical framework. But if you have a very, very good cultural framework for your company, people kind of bounce back and forth between the guardrails so to speak, but you don't have this rigid playbook. Were rigid rules that are in place. There's a little bit of flexibility, adaptability, and at the end of the day, it is a shared way of doing things. It's a collective and it is not a top down style of leadership. It is more of this, what I'll call like circular leadership. So people are more familiar with, you know, an organizational chart. That's more formal, obviously, if somebody's at the top and it kind of trickles down and always whether or not it was you know, Anything from a student internship program to a specific program that I mentioned earlier, or somebody who's taking a role just on a project, or somebody who's in charge of a specific location, there is a certain a certain amount of autonomy that they are able to have. And I think that that ownership that is created really allows people to, I think, engage more when I think of somebody who has more autonomy, I think of somebody who's automatically going to be more engaged. And then if I think that I take it to the consumer, the customer, and I always like to call them clients, because at the end of the day, especially in a place like Maryland, you know, they have a choice. Direct Access is something that we have almost, you know, a, I would say, the most liberal version of it. In the United States, we have more than probably 75% to 80%, I can say definitively on a regular basis of people who come to us without having a physician tell them to come to us. So that being said, the only way that that happened was creating an environment that was enjoyable, I wanted to create chairs, a barber shop in your local bar, and deliver PT, so the more that you can make it, something that resonated with them. And for me, I always thought of a gym environment, it was very, very enjoyable, people liked being at the gym, you rarely wanted to, you know, potentially leave as well. So when you walk in, you know, it's it's open, it's friendly, there's quotes, there's gym equipment, there's a certain way of greeting people, people are going to greet you that aren't even necessarily your PT, the manner in which you're communicated to is going to be, you know, there's there's a certain amount of intent and thoughtfulness behind it. What you're going to be provided during that session is going to be something that ideally you leave with, and you go, this is personalized, individualized, and it resonated with me. So I was thought about trying to create an environment where somebody went, Oh, man, I got something small going on, I'm just going to go right into rehab to perform because I love going there, I get to go there, instead of I have to go there and that small change. And we can go down to all of the many pitfalls of your local pops, physician place that's sterile, right? It's boring, you have something that looks cookie cutter, you are doing the same thing, almost every single session, there's a lack of connectivity, right? There's not even music at some of the places in there. Everybody's wearing the same exact thing every single day, right. And we can go down that rabbit hole that people went down recently on Twitter surrounding professionalism. But I think overall just you create an environment that if I take it back to the top, you create an environment that has been shaped by so many people that have been a part of our company, too. I might be the CEO at this point. But I'm just a really good listener, just listen to people. And we make changes based on what the group wants. I'm not sitting here. And just telling everybody that I have all the answers, there was no different than advice that I gave to a young clinician the other day where he was like, Where's the first place I need to start, I was like, the first thing that you need to start with is admitting that you don't have all the answers. And the sooner you get somebody that's a cultural fit that comes in your place. And they show you a new way of doing things, the better off you'll be. But too often I think people get in a situation where they can't let go. And they can't allow other people or they think they found the special sauce. And I sit here today with a team of about 35 people. And I will tell you that I will listen to the new new front desk person that we just hired because she has new perspective and a new way of viewing things. And she can add value. And we never get to a point where ideally we're that we're that fixed project, fixed product. And then it has been that collaboration over the years that led us to both have an environment that people enjoy working in an environment that people enjoy interacting with the professional physical therapy.   09:08 Excellent. And this is gonna sound really familiar to you. But it sounds to me like your operations and processes. So if I say that to Josh, Josh and I both took while I'm still in it, he has taken the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business program, we were talking about operations and processes, which is one of the modules before we came on. And the thing that resonated with me with what you just said is you you give people the process or the sub process, let's say and the details are up to them. So you're giving them autonomy. And to me that leads to innovation, it leads to better care leads to better efficiency, because you're allowing people to make the process there. own while still getting the work done, right?   10:04 Yes. And I would say that that makes me think of the number one question that we ask when something gets done wrong is not a people person, it is a proper process problem first and foremost. And we go to that person and say, hey, how can we make sure that this does not get done wrong? Again, okay, we did not provide you with enough support, we did not provide you enough clarity, we did not provide you enough, whatever. But I am asking that person who may have automatically get on the defensive because they got something wrong, quote, unquote. And instead, they're becoming a part of making sure that process is easier, it takes less steps, there's more clarity, whatever. And then there's ownership. And then they automatically feel like oh, my God, okay, now, instead of me getting yelled at, I'm in an environment where when screw ups happen, we just, we just work on it make it better, like, then they show up to work every day, you never really worried about screwing up. Because what do I tell people all the time, we move fast, we break shit, we fix it, we move on, okay. And at the end of the day, we are we're trying to move relatively quickly. We're trying to be agile, we're trying to make sure that we're doing everything we can to kind of get out in front of, you know, really the, you know, the profession in healthcare as a whole and ideally, continue to show other people that, you know, there's a different way of doing things, a different way of doing things.   11:30 Yeah, I love it. And, and that is something that I didn't really think of before until literally today. Just before we went on the air is all these like operations and processes, which I always thought were so rigid, right. But if you give people the autonomy and innovation, I can only imagine that helps you grow faster and smarter. So let's talk about your growth. How did this happen? I think we can confidently say operations and processes are a big part, what else helped you to grow your practice, because I think there are some listeners out there who might be at the stage, like I'm going to grow my practice, but I have no idea what I'm doing.   12:16 I think, you know, a lot of it starts with just continual self analysis. And I think that I finally got to a point where I recognized that me working in my business was the single biggest blockade to us moving forward. And I think part of that also was me recognizing that I, I have a little bit of a unique skill set. And that's not to say that my skill set is more important. But then from a collective standpoint, my brain works a lot more in branding, sales, and marketing. And I needed to be spending more time in that area. So let's say about three years ago, I finally stepped back. And I put myself in a position where I was spending more time than ever, on the ins and outs of the brand of our company, the brand of the profession within our company, our sales and marketing strategies, and then to be quite honest, doing a better job of making sure that we had more of a predictable rollout when opening up a new office. So at this point, you know, we have, I hate to go back to processes again, but we have a very clearly defined rollout. And it starts about six months out. And every 30 days, you're doing X, Y and Z. And there are you know, at this point it I hate to say it, but you're almost following a playbook. And much like I referenced earlier, it's not necessarily rigid. But we know that at least if we're doing these things here, and at least 90% of that we're going to put ourselves in a good place to be successful. But I think you know, the biggest thing was recognizing that I had what it took. And it was after the Goldman Sachs 10,000 small businesses program to actually operate a business because before that program, I was solely a PT, who had hired myself to deliver good PT, I wasn't necessarily doing everything that I needed to to support the team. And to put us in a position where growth was naturally happening. Now if I get back to why we're growing now, I think we've put equal investment on people, we put equal investment into our local communities, and we put equal investment into the company as a whole. And as long as we continue to feed those three different areas, maintain lines of communication. I think we're going to continue to be successful when we go in and we just opened up a new location last Monday. And I think we're going to just put ourselves in a good spot and that kind of goes to just some found Thanks for me, I know that a lot of people hear the word capitalism. And I think they there's enough stories out there and examples of, of what I would consider more of the poor version of capitalism, that crony capitalism, one that maybe is a little bit more focused on, you know, your, your, your money, right, you're just focused on bottom line. And that's pretty much it. But I think of a cop of capitalism, I always want to think about being a conscious capitalist. And a conscious capitalist is somebody that is mindful of all stakeholders, all stakeholders, being the people on your team, they all matter, the small people, the big people, whatever you want to, you know, do people that people have been with you forever, that people that are new, right, you have to make sure that you're placing value in those people. And then for us, we have five different community hubs, so to speak, that we have initiatives under just to make sure that we're making connections, we're involved or engaged, we have a pulse on the community. And then we're finding ways to meet people where they're at outside of our four walls, ideally, deliver value even without asking for anything in return. So that that conscious capitalism piece, that's one of my favorite books, I think that's always been something that's kind of been near and dear to my heart. And in putting something out there from a business product standpoint that people could look at and say, you know, what, that's a that's a big, it's a business of the future, just in terms of how it's run.   16:18 So let's talk about that foray into the community. Because that is important. So if you are setting up shop in a community, what advice do you have for budding entrepreneurs and therapists who maybe have been in practice for 10 or 15 years, but maybe they sort of stalled? You know, because that can happen? Right? So what are some examples of your community outreach or outreach? Excuse me, or how you insert rehab to perform in the community?   16:52 Yeah, I mean, I think a big part of it centers around our avatars and our avatars being like our ideal consumer, right? Who is your target audience who interacts with your business the most at the location in which you have right now or locations, and you build out the community touchpoints that that person has. So I'll be quite candid, I don't think anybody will be surprised. But I view the 35 to 50 year old female in the community as probably being the single most influential person in your local community, probably you can stretch at 35 to 55. She is in a family where she is literally dictating the decisions for the head of household, the kids, the grandparents, the in laws, etc, there is nobody who is more influential in terms of what people are doing in the family, and where they're going. So if you just appreciate that as a whole, then you start to look at a little bit more of trends. And some of the metrics surrounding where that type of demographic is interacting. And for us, we also build this into our five hubs. So, you know, from a medical standpoint, fitness standpoint, business, youth, sports, and schools, what is that particular target demographic doing? Where are they interacting? Where are they going, and then you start to have a little bit better idea of where you potentially need to develop your connectivity, but initiatives under those five umbrellas after first and foremost, creating that lead avatar is something I recommend to everybody. We do have other avatars, I would say for us, it's a competitive athlete, college athlete, high school athlete, you know, your your clubs, use sport athlete. So, you know, who are the influencers in that community, who are the influencers, providing guidance to that individual is everything from skills coaches, to strengthen conditioning coaches, to the actual sport coach, to the club director to the athletic director, and you start to build out these chains of almost influence that that these people are connected to, and you have a better idea of who you need to have that market relationship with. And when I think of marketing, I was thinking of market relationships, right? It's not necessarily creating a piece of content to put in front of somebody, it's not necessarily you know, sending somebody something and give him a hard sell. Sometimes it's just the Hey, I saw your work I'm connected with so and so they just came into the office, you know, I keep hearing more and more and I'm at least curious at this point. Can we go grab coffee or if we got on a phone call? I'd love to learn more. And the more that you're genuinely curious about people, and you're invested in learning about them, and and actually taking the time to show that you're, you're genuinely interested in in that particular relationship. I think the easier that these relationships come about their authentic people can feel them and it becomes a lot easier for you to get into what the most important is part is who you are, what you do, and, and how you solve people's problems. So once you have those three things communicated, and I should say, once you have that authentic relationship, it's much easier to clearly communicate that those three things you bring to the table once again, name, what it is that you do, and how you solve people's problems. So that's kind of a little bit of the behind the scenes just in terms of, you know, my thought process. When we go to new location, you know, we have our initiatives, you have a pretty good idea of what works, obviously, there's some uniqueness to each area. But we're starting to develop those relationships, probably a relatively early time period. I mentioned before, we have a six month clock that we function off of. And really, you're just trying to find a way to almost solve their problems before they even necessarily need to send somebody into your office.   20:55 Yeah, amazing. I love everything about what you just said. And I really hope it gives people listening who are maybe thinking of starting their own practice or expanding like this is work. Yes, right. It's not like I'm gonna open up a practice, just because I feel like it is like you have to do this is done before you open your doors, you need to know who your avatars are your ideal clients, your ideal customers, whatever you want to call them, and you have to build them out. And there's more than one. And for every single one of those, there is a separate marketing plan. There is a separate communication plan for each and every one of those avatars, you do not use the same marketing plan for Well, the 35 to 50 year old woman who Yes, the women are the users and the decision makers. We all know that they run the show. There's no secret anybody out there says no, you're sorry, sorry, wrong. But you know, you're going to market and communicate with them differently than maybe the local college athlete.   22:06 Yes, right. 100%. They have different needs, different interests, different places that they're frequently interacting in the community. 100%   22:15 I love I love everything you just said. I think that is just a wealth of advice for anyone listening to this podcast, who I can't wait to we do our roundtable next week. Awesome. Or I shouldn't say next week. We're recording this a little earlier. Tomorrow, tomorrow. All right. So now everybody, the jig is up. It's not live. But yeah, no, I love that. All right. And then last thing about growth and movement within a business is really assembling a good team. Yes. So talk to me about how you assemble your team or teams within your business.   22:56 Here's the part that I'll be at least honest about the early part of the business and say some of it was just damn good luck. The first person that I had a part of my team probably could not have been more of a culture fit than if maybe he was a part of my own family. So we went to PT school together. We didn't grow up very far at all. From a high school standpoint. family values were all very, very similar. We had very similar outlooks on the world similar ideas when it comes to came to leadership. And when you asked us in general, what your principles and values were, that governs your life, they were very, very similar. So I was fortunate to actually and I'll probably get a couple chuckles here, I convinced him to quit his job. Right after his wife had delivered their first child, I think that their first child was four at the time. And I gave him three months of paper checks. And I said, hey, there's enough money here for you to quit your job and give it a go. But nonetheless, he helped me kind of shaped the culture of the company. Our next hire was a female was more compliance oriented, somebody that we definitely, definitely needed. And then the fourth person, some people might be familiar with Dr. Jared Boyd. He's now an NBA PT for the Memphis Grizzlies. And his commitment to I'd say, research, and the clinical side of things was kind of what Zack and I needed. And what we needed was contrast. So we overlapped on a lot. And we were able to find contrast in terms of areas in which we didn't have a natural affinity to we're really have that much interest in diving into and then moving forward. We hired people predominantly off of, once again, a collective decision making process. It was, Hey, is everybody comfortable with hiring this person? There was no one person in charge of the hiring process. And a lot of what we did was make sure that there are multiple touch points for that person to interact with our business. So whether it was an early exploratory phone interview, that then would follow into a formal phone interview, obviously, that things like a background check references, etc. And then you would actually have them come into the office and spend some time Hey, Shadow, people spend time with the front desk. And you start to get multiple touch points where every single person at the office had at least interacted with them enough to go Yes, or we've had more than our fair share of knows where somebody's got a wrong vibe, or something was said or something was picked up on. But making sure that you know, hires especially at this stage of the game, where we do have five locations, me hiring for a location, and me being the sole decision maker is silly, I do not work at an office with these, right, these people for 30 to 40 hours, I'm spending a much smaller block of time. So at the end of the day, the people that need to have the most influence are the people that actually are the leaders at that office that are at that office every single day that to be quite honest, probably have more control over what's going on in the culture and in the environment at that particular office than I do. So I once again, I think it goes a little bit more to like your decentralized leadership style. And your you have more of this flattened approach to leadership where a lot of people are involved. But if we talk about just central pieces to team, what are your values? What are your principles, those have to be the early conversational points, that that drive the conversation about whether or not this person is a fit, we have our core values literally on the wall, every single office is transparent, so much even that the clients can see them. You know, so when when you start your company based on core values and principles, everything from I mean, a couple like just basic things, obviously, you know, education, empowerment community, for us to be talking about principles on offense at all times, right? solutions instead of problems. Or we say thumb first, instead of pointing a finger, right? What can you do to potentially change something than then pointing a finger in another direction. So I think when the foundation of the company is just so grounded in in those core principles and values, you have people that are culture champions, and at the end of the day, people understand that, that the sole reason why we've been able to do that we've been what we've been able to do is attracting people for the right reasons. It's not people that necessarily are championing solely their GPA or their clinical knowledge and expertise and kind of beating their chests about how smart they are. It's first and foremost, foremost, like, how does this person align with us on a foundational level, we know that at the end of the day, that person will become the best version of themselves within the company, because they value with the rest of the collective value. So I know when a bunch of different directions there, but I think, yeah, I mean, we've been very just purposeful. And there's been a lot of evolution, I'd say there over the years and knock on wood. And I never like to honestly say this without just just being aware that it's not just me, it's our whole team. But we have only had three pts in almost seven years decide to leave the company, one was for the MBA, one was for home health, because she wanted to spend more time with their kids and another one would took a military job. So we've not had a single person yet that's had a parallel move to somewhere else in the local community. They've either completely moved in are on a base somewhere or in a professional sports organization, or in home health, spending more time, you know, raising their family things that we can't compete with as a company.   28:55 Right, amazing. And, and I really like that your approach to hiring, I guess it's the hiring funnel. You know, we talk about sales funnels and marketing funnels, you have a hiring funnel, where it starts with some exploratory calls to more formal, and then you keep going down. So you may have 100 exploratory calls. But as you funnel down into how many ideal candidates are for the job, maybe it's two. Yep. Right. 100%. So I think it's a nice visual for people to see that.   29:27 I am involved in exploratory. And that's literally about it. At this point, I will get resumes and stuff will catch my eye or somebody will connect with me on social media. And there'll be something that I'm at least like, hey, let's explore this. And I'm often handling an exploratory call on looping in people, most likely the site directors at potential offices that could hire this person. And then they actually start to incorporate the other members of their team for calls as well. So it really becomes a point where this person goes, Oh my gosh, I could be a part of this team. I bet make an impression, or different times or five different times because all of these people are important. And if any one single person says no, then we move in a different direction. And that has happened before.   30:10 Hmm. Amazing. I love it. Okay, so we touched upon your company culture, we touched upon your avatars, your team, how you've been growing? I mean, we can go on and on and on? Or is there any other major point that you wanted to hit about the growth of your company that we didn't touch upon that you're like, Man, this is super important. I really want people to know this. I think a balanced   30:39 dashboard is very, very important. And I think that in a world where people do focus a lot on productivity and utilization, right units, or how many slots you have filled, and I'm not here to say that that's not important, because at the end of the day, you need to have a business that is delivering a service for a certain amount of time, and having an individual which you're providing a salary benefits, etc, PTO, whatever, some some benefit, that certain things are also, you know, reciprocated. So it's not to d value those but to paint a better picture of business health and metrics that would support at least for us, when I think of smart growth, it's like, Alright, how do I know that we're just not adding locations, and the quality is rapidly diminishing? Okay, that stuff over there good. We get people in the doors, okay, yes, in terms of just keeping the lights on, we need to be able to have a certain amount of billable units. And if we hire somebody, they need to have a certain amount of slots allocated. Beyond that, what else is meaningful for us to continually be looking at. So net promoter score and churn rate are two big metrics that I'd say we've looked at more and more, especially over the past two years, for people are unfamiliar with Net Promoter Score, it's considered a gold standard with regards to brand loyalty, and the creating the kind of word of mouth referral generating, I think all of us are looking for. So I say this, once again, just to provide perspective, but we add locations, we have to make sure that the company stays above 90, which is considered world class. And when we don't, or something pops up, or somebody is saved below 90 for a given quarter. You know, there's certain just conversations that are had, in addition to the fact that when we have a seven or eight, or a six or below, there are certain things that are happening internally to make sure that we're being mindful that somebody is either potentially a little bit passive on what we have to offer. And they've communicated that or they potentially might be somebody who's going to drop off. And then when you think about churn rate, just think about somebody interacting with your business and having a negative experience and not even really giving it a chance for you to work with them. To get towards ideal outcomes. At the end of the day, we're trying to drive outcomes. So when you get somebody in, and you've put time and energy behind communicating what it is, who you are, what you do, and how you solve their problems, and they get so turned off after a visit two visits or three visits, that they've gone somewhere else, or they just altogether potentially left the profession. That's not necessarily a positive thing. There is metrics out there to support that, say, if they get to four visits, they are X amount more likely to actually go through a plan of care and be able to see some of those ideal outcomes that I think all business owners would think that their business can, can provide. And then, you know, outside of that, I mean, obviously online reputation, being mindful of Facebook reviews, Google reviews, those are some some big ones for us. And then not to completely discredit your functional outcome measures, right. And then there are certain things in web PT we have afforded where you're able to track pain from IE to DC are able to track satisfaction goals met, in addition to some of your outcomes measures that are a little bit more formal. And yeah, the insurance companies telling you to do them, but doesn't mean you should automatically dismiss them. Right? There's, there's often some tangible and objective data out there that a lot of other people are valuing. So take it with a grain of salt, you're not putting much like your evaluation, right and your return to sport testing, because that's the world we live in where everybody likes to argue about that all the time. You're not putting any more value on any one given thing, the more that you have this aggregation of data, the better off you're able to look at that and maybe potentially come up with certain trends or or certain things that in terms of painting this more broad picture better define your your business health So figure out your balance dashboard, your balance dashboard can be applied to a lot of different things obviously could go behind the scenes with regards to finances and stuff like that, but all other conversation 100% but you know, your your balanced dashboard is most likely going to lead you to better decision making. And giving you a better gauge for what actually is going on behind the scenes in your business. And it really, it's, it's, and I always look at that, and I go, Well, this is telling us whether or not a process actually works. And if I'm not getting what I want to hear, we need to go back to process,   35:14 I was just you took it took the words out of my mouth, I was gonna say having that balanced dashboard allows you to make better shared decision making 100 better, better shared, better shared decisions. Yes, just like just like we would do with a return to sport after an ACL. It's a shared decision making between the therapists, the coach, the parent, the the patient, whoever it is, everybody's got some input. So when you look at a good balanced dashboard, and just for people who aren't familiar when we're talking about what a dashboard is, it's where you have, what metrics you're using to evaluate your business. And those metrics can be your net promoter score, it could be your net profit, it can be patient satisfaction, it can be whatever it is for your business you want to have on that dashboard. And it's different for everyone and should be, right, yes.   36:13 and dare I say after 10k, SD, my dashboard looks a lot more like an Excel spreadsheet at this point. And I know you can relate.   36:20 I can't go into Excel spreadsheets right now. But yeah, so just so people know, like your dashboard is anything that you're using to measure something, a process in your business. So it can be a whole boatload of different things. But just like we do with patients to look at that dashboard, and be able to to look at it with your team employees, whomever, and be able to make informed shared decisions on how you're going to move that business forward. how you're going to make changes in your process, like you said earlier. So perfect. Perfect. All right. Now, last question are actually no, where can people find you? Let's talk about that first.   37:03 For sure. Instagram and Twitter is probably where I interact with the most I try to keep Facebook honestly just a community connection. So if you friend me on Facebook, don't take it the wrong way. I just try to keep the PT side of things off of Facebook. But from a professional connectivity standpoint, at Dr. Josh funk on Twitter, and Instagram, my email is also Dr. Funk at rehab to perform calm. If you really want to get a hold of me, DM me on social media, get my phone number, text me your availability, that's the best way to get things done. Email right now is very chaotic. We just opened up a new location. I'm also getting married in about three weeks. So my life is not necessarily all that organized. And just because there's a lot of moving parts right now. So email, not the best place. But I'm very happy to interact, always happy to make time for a call, especially when I'm driving sometimes I like to just honestly plan out a call for when I'm driving between locations or something like that.   38:00 Excellent. Well, thank you so much for giving people all that info. And last question, knowing where you are now in your life and in your career. What advice would you give to your younger self, let's say a young grad out of PT school,   38:13 I think I would have focused more on expanding my horizons outside of healthcare and physical therapy sooner. I think the more that I started to look at what was going on in other industries, other professions. It made me better at PT and especially made me better at running a business, I can safely say that much of healthcare practices from a business standpoint are extremely dated, and that you are better off spending time studying businesses and other industries for inspiration. It's not to say that there's not some people that are doing amazing work in our profession and healthcare as a as a whole. But I would say the collective is still I almost at this point. I wonder if it's decades behind, just with regards to just how they're operating. So continuing being open for inspiration in a wide variety of from places, you'd be surprised if you just had an open mind. What you might be able to see in something that maybe at one point your life you may be just glanced past or completely ignored.   39:16 Love it. Excellent advice. Josh, thank you so much for coming on. And again for the listeners tomorrow at 730. Yeah, right. No eight. Oh my gosh, where's my head tomorrow? The 27th at 8pm we're going to have our roundtable with Josh, Eric mellow Michelle Callie and shantay Cofield. So if you haven't signed up yet, definitely sign up because we're gonna be talking like this but probably more in depth and we need your questions. This is a this is your chance to ask people like Josh and Shantae and Erica and, Michelle, any question you want to have these four people together on one sort Stage, it's not going to happen anywhere else. So now's your chance, ask those questions. You ask those burning questions to four amazingly successful entrepreneurs in the physical therapy space. So I encourage you all to sign up. You could do that at podcast at healthy, wealthy, smart, calm, click on the tab that says round table talks. So Josh, thanks so much. And again, looking forward to tomorrow. So thanks.

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In June 2019, Carin Morrell joined the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) as the first Public Information Officer (PIO) for the Police Department and Office of Emergency Management. As PIO, she's a social media manager, photographer, videographer, graphic designer, speechwriter, website developer, and crisis communicator. She manages media inquiries, community complaints, and all public-facing messaging for a police department of 200+ men and women (plus one dog), as well as UMB's newest department, the Office of Emergency Management.  Prior to joining UMB, Morrell spent three years as PIO for the Maryland Department of Health Office of Preparedness and Response, where she managed all public-facing communications related to public health emergencies for the State of Maryland. In 2019, she was selected to present a social media accessibility poster at the National Preparedness Summit. She was recognized by Governor Hogan's Office of Communications for social media management and routinely ran the Maryland Emergency Management Agency Joint Information Center during graded statewide and national exercises. Morrell has also served as communications coordinator for the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University and spent years producing newscasts at WBAL-TV and WISC-TV. Morrell taught news reporting at Loyola University Maryland, led nationwide social media campaigns, spearheaded departmental website redesigns, and developed branding and marketing strategies for state political campaigns. She earned a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2012 and is currently earning a second master's degree in strategic communications from the University of Maryland Global Campus.Carin's Linked in link Support the show (https://t.co/GOmAg9X6e8?amp=1)

For months now, people have been asking: when will it end? When can I see my colleagues, family and friends? When can I go on vacation? Now those activities are in sight--yet., many of us feel hesitant. Why? Clinical psychologist Dr. Michelle Pearce, a University of Maryland-Baltimore professor, tells how behaviors learned during the pandemic become survival skills. They don't just flip off like a switch: “We just need to be patient with ourselves. Our brains are really quick to learn threats but we're slow to unlearn them. So we've got to give ourselves a break as we go through this process.” And we talk about her recent book: ‘Night Bloomers, 12 Principles for Thriving in Adversity.” Links: Baltimore Sun Commentary, Night Bloomers Original airdate: 4.14.21 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Margaret “Meg” H. Whittaker, Managing Director and Chief Toxicologist of ToxServices LLC, outlines the similarities and differences between risk assessment, alternative assessments, and green chemistry. Co-hosts Anne Chappelle and David Faulkner also discover how alternative assessments can lead to safer and more sustainable products that protect animal, human, and environmental health and the importance of diversifying your portfolio when you're a student or early career researcher. About the GuestMargaret H. Whittaker, PhD, MPH, CBiol, FRSB, ERT, DABT, has over 20 years of experience in both the performance and management of toxicology and human health hazard and risk assessment–related projects. She is currently the Managing Director and Chief Toxicologist of ToxServices LLC, where she serves as the project manager and technical lead of ToxServices projects for the US Environmental Protection Agency's Safer Choice Program, Clean Production Action's GreenScreen, international certification organizations, testing laboratories, and consumer products companies that manufacture and test products such as food additives, food contact materials, cleaning chemicals, fragrance agents, electronics, cosmetics, dietary supplements, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and drinking water additives. As project manager and technical lead for contracts with these organizations, Dr. Whittaker has contributed to and/or managed the development of hundreds of human health risk assessments, chemical hazard assessments, and exposure assessments, as well as hundreds of product-specific toxicology evaluations.Dr. Whittaker is a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology and earned a PhD in toxicology from the University of Maryland Baltimore and an MPH in environmental health from the University of Michigan. Dr. Whittaker is a UK/EUROTOX Registered Toxicologist, as well as a Chartered Biologist and Fellow of the UK Royal Society of Biology. Dr. Whittaker has built her career on a foundation grounded in leadership and adherence to details and timelines. One of her first career awards (1992) was a United States Coast Guard Commandant's Award for Outstanding Civilian Service, through which her “alacrity and tenacity” displayed while working on projects associated with the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 were officially recognized.In addition to her extensive program management experience, Dr. Whittaker has extensive technical experience in hazard identification and non-cancer and cancer dose-response assessment, including quantitative risk assessment (e.g., benchmark dose modeling for both carcinogens and noncarcinogens). She specializes in conducting chemical hazard assessments and chemical alternatives assessments. Before creating ToxServices in 2003, she worked at two of the country's leading toxicology and risk assessment consulting firms (the ENVIRON Corporation and the Weinberg Group). DisclaimerThe viewpoints and information presented in Adverse Reactions represent those of the participating individuals. Although the Society of Toxicology holds the copyright to the production, it does not vet or review the information presented, nor does presenting and distributing the Adverse Reactions podcast represent any proposal or endorsement of any position by the Society.

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Study strengthens links between red meat and heart disease Queen Mary University (UK), 15 April 2021 An observational study in nearly 20,000 individuals has found that greater intake of red and processed meat is associated with worse heart function. The research is presented at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2021, an online scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).1 "Previous studies have shown links between greater red meat consumption and increased risk of heart attacks or dying from heart disease," said study author Dr. Zahra Raisi-Estabragh of Queen Mary University of London, UK.2,3 "For the first time, we examined the relationships between meat consumption and imaging measures of heart health. This may help us to understand the mechanisms underlying the previously observed connections with cardiovascular disease." The study included 19,408 participants of the UK Biobank.4 The researchers examined associations of self-reported intake of red and processed meat with heart anatomy and function. Three types of heart measures were analysed. First, cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) assessments of heart function used in clinical practice such as volume of the ventricles and measures of the pumping function of the ventricles. Second, novel CMR radiomics used in research to extract detailed information from heart images such as shape and texture (which indicates health of the heart muscle). Third, elasticity of the blood vessels (stretchy arteries are healthier). The analysis was adjusted for other factors that might influence the relationship including age, sex, deprivation, education, smoking, alcohol, exercise, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and body mass index (BMI) as a measure of obesity. The researchers found that greater intake of red and processed meat was associated with worse imaging measures of heart health, across all measures studied. Specifically, individuals with higher meat intake had smaller ventricles, poorer heart function, and stiffer arteries - all markers of worse cardiovascular health. As a comparison, the researchers also tested the relationships between heart imaging measures and intake of oily fish, which has previously been linked with better heart health. They found that as the amount of oily fish consumption rose, heart function improved, and arteries were stretchier. Dr. Raisi-Estabragh said: "The findings support prior observations linking red and processed meat consumption with heart disease and provide unique insights into links with heart and vascular structure and function." The associations between imaging measures of heart health and meat intake were only partially explained by high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and obesity. "It has been suggested that these factors could be the reason for the observed relationship between meat and heart disease," said Dr. Raisi-Estabragh. "For example, it is possible that greater red meat intake leads to raised blood cholesterol and this in turn causes heart disease. Our study suggests that these four factors do play a role in the links between meat intake and heart health, but they are not the full story." She noted that the study did not look into alternative mechanisms. But she said: "There is some evidence that red meat alters the gut microbiome, leading to higher levels of certain metabolites in the blood, which have in turn been linked to greater risk of heart disease." Dr. Raisi-Estabragh said: "This was an observational study and causation cannot be assumed. But in general, it seems sensible to limit intake of red and processed meat for heart health reasons."     More Fruits and Veggies Improves Sleep for Young Adults University of Michigan, April 15, 2021 Eating more fruits and vegetables can help young adults, especially young women, sleep better, a new study shows Young adults who reported eating less than five servings of fruits and vegetables per day reported a high prevalence of chronic insomnia symptoms, with over one-third reporting difficulties with falling asleep or maintaining sleep at least three times per week for three months or longer. Women who increased their fruit and vegetable intake by three or more servings over a three-month period were more than twice as likely to experience an improvement in these insomnia symptoms, according to the study in the Sleep Health Journal. “We were very excited to see that a fairly simple dietary intervention, such as encouraging an increase in fruit and vegetable consumption, could make such an impact on sleep,” says lead author Erica Jansen, research assistant professor of nutritional sciences at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health. “We know from other literature that improving sleep improves overall quality of life and many other health outcomes, so the benefits likely extend beyond the sleep changes.” Jansen and senior author Gwen Alexander, a researcher in the public health sciences department at Henry Ford Health System, and colleagues analyzed data of more than 1,400 participants compiled by Detroit-based Henry Ford and the more rural Geisinger Health System headquartered in Danville, Pennsylvania. “From my health educator perspective, our study shows a link between dietary choices and improved sleep for young people who wish to improve their overall health and well-being,” Alexander says. “Our study was unique in that it investigated an understudied population of generally healthy young adults. Future research designed for this population has great potential to lead to better health habits.” Eligible young adults included those ages 21-30, who received any medical care at the centers and who reported eating less than five servings of fruits and vegetables per day. Researchers randomized the participants into one of three groups: one had an untailored web-based program to encourage higher fruits and vegetables consumption; the second had an age-targeted tailored web-based program; and the third group also included personalized e-coaching support. Young adults who increased their fruit and vegetable consumption by at least three servings experienced modest improvements in sleep latency (time to fall asleep) and insomnia over a three-month period, compared to participants with no change or smaller increases in fruits and vegetable intake, although there were no differences in sleep duration. Women who increased their fruit and vegetable intake by three or more servings reported a four-minute shorter time, on average, to fall asleep at follow-up, and twofold higher odds of improvement in insomnia symptoms. “What is unique about our study is that we were able to see that as fruit and vegetable intake changed, insomnia-related sleep characteristics also changed,” Jansen says. “We still cannot rule out that sleep characteristics changed first, which in turn caused a change in fruit and vegetable intake, but since the participants were part of a trial to increase fruit and vegetable intake, it is more likely the other way around. The participants were not told to change anything about their sleep habits.” The researchers hope the findings will be incorporated into other sleep hygiene principles, which include things like maintaining a consistent bedtime and rise time, eliminating screens prior to going to bed, sleeping in a dark, cool environment, and not drinking caffeine or alcohol before bed. Additional coauthors are from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and the Henry Ford Health System.     Multivits, omega-3, probiotics, vitamin D may lessen risk of positive COVID-19 test British Medical Journal, April 20, 2021 Taking multivitamins, omega-3, probiotics or vitamin D supplements may lessen the risk of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19 infection—at least among women—indicates a large population study, published online in the journal BMJ Nutrition Prevention & Health. But taking any of vitamin C, zinc, or garlic supplements wasn't associated with a lower risk of testing positive for the virus, the findings show. There has been plenty of celebrity endorsement of the use of dietary supplements to both ward off and treat COVID-19 infection since the start of the pandemic, note the researchers. In the UK alone, market share rose by 19.5% in the period leading up to the first national 'lockdown' on March 23 last year, with sales of vitamin C rising by 110% and those of multivits by 93%. Similarly, zinc supplement sales rose by 415% in the first week of March, at the height of COVID-19 fears in the U.S.. Dietary supplements can help to support a healthy immune system, but whether specific supplements might be associated with a lower risk of catching SARS-CoV-2 isn't known. In a bid to plug this knowledge gap, the researchers drew on adult users of the COVID-19 Symptom Study app to see if regular supplement users were less likely to test positive for SARS-CoV-2. The app was launched in the UK, the US, and Sweden in March 2020 to capture self-reported information on the evolution of the pandemic. Initially, it recorded the location, age and core health risk factors of its users. But as time went on, subscribers were asked to provide daily updates on a range of issues, including symptoms, coronavirus test results, and healthcare. People without obvious symptoms were also encouraged to use it. For the purposes of this study, the researchers analysed information supplied by 372,720 UK subscribers to the app about their regular use of dietary supplements throughout May, June, and July 2020 during the first wave of the pandemic as well as any coronavirus swab test results. Between May and July,175,652 UK subscribers regularly took dietary supplements;197,068 didn't. Around two thirds (67%) were women and over half were overweight (BMI of 27). In all, 23,521 people tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and 349,199 tested negative between May and July. Taking probiotics, omega-3 fatty acids, multivits or vitamin D was associated with a lower risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection: by 14%, 12%, 13% and 9%, respectively, after accounting for potentially influential factors, including underlying conditions and usual diet. No such effects were observed among those taking vitamin C, zinc, or garlic supplements. And when the researchers looked specifically at sex, age and weight (BMI), the protective associations for probiotics, omega-3 fatty acids, multivits and vitamin D were observed only in women of all ages and weights. No such clear associations were seen in men. Despite some differences, the same overall patterns were mirrored in both the US (45,757) and Swedish (27,373) subscribers. The equivalent figures for the US and Sweden were a reduced risk of:18% and 37%, respectively for probiotics; 21% and 16%, respectively, for omega-3 fatty acids; 12% and 22%, respectively for multivits; and 24% and 19%, respectively, for vitamin D supplements. This is an observational study, and as such, can't establish cause. The researchers also acknowledge several limitations, including that the study relied on self reported data and a self selected group. No information was collected on supplement doses or ingredients either. But although the observed effects were modest, they were significant, note the researchers, who call for large clinical trials to inform evidence-based therapeutic recommendations. "We know that a range of micronutrients, including vitamin D, are essential for a healthy functioning immune system. This, in turn, is key to prevention of, and recovery from, infections. "But to date, there is little convincing evidence that taking nutritional supplements has any therapeutic value beyond maintaining the body's normal immune response," comments Professor Sumantra Ray, Executive Director, NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health, which co-owns the journal. "What's more, this study wasn't primarily designed to answer questions about the role of nutritional supplements in COVID-19. This is still an emerging area of research that warrants further rigorous study before firm conclusions can be drawn about whether specific nutritional supplements might lessen the risk of COVID-19 infection," he cautions.   Vitamin D deficiency may impair muscle function Garvan Institute of Medical Research (Australia), April 16, 2021 Vitamin D deficiency may impair muscle function due to a reduction in energy production in the muscles, according to a mouse study published in the Journal of Endocrinology. Vitamin D deficient mice were found to have impaired muscle mitochondrial function, which may have implications for muscle function, performance and recovery. This may suggest that preventing vitamin D deficiency in older adults could help maintain better muscle strength and function and reduce age related muscle deterioration, but further studies are needed to confirm this.  Vitamin D is a hormone well known to be important for maintaining bone health and preventing rickets and osteoporosis. In recent years, vitamin D deficiency has been reported to be as prevalent as 40% in European populations and linked to increased risk for several conditions, including COVID-19, cancer and diabetes. Although these studies report association rather than causation, the benefits of vitamin D supplementation are now a major subject of health debate. Multiple studies have also linked low vitamin D levels to poor muscle strength, particularly in older people. Skeletal muscle enables us to move voluntarily and perform everyday activities. It is essential that they have enough energy to power these movements. Specialised organs in cells, called mitochondria, convert nutrients in to energy to meet this demand. Previous studies indicate that impaired muscle strength in people with vitamin D deficiency may be linked to impaired muscle mitochondrial function. Determining the role of vitamin D in muscle performance of older people is also difficult, as they may suffer from a number of pre-existing health conditions that can also affect their vitamin D status. Therefore, previous studies have been unable to determine how vitamin D may directly affect muscle performance. Dr Andrew Philp and his team at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Australia, and collaborating universities, used a mouse model to determine the effects of diet-induced vitamin D deficiency on skeletal muscle mitochondrial function in young, male mice. Mice were either fed a diet with normal quantities of vitamin D, or with no vitamin D to induce deficiency, for a period of 3 months. A typical vitamin D level for humans is 40-50 nmol.L-1, and acute vitamin D deficiency is diagnosed when levels drop below 12 nmol.L-1. On average, the mice in this study had vitamin D levels of 30 nmol.L1, with diet-induced vitamin D deficiency leading to levels of just 3 nmol.L-1. Although this level was more extreme than typically observed in people, it is still within the clinically-recognised range. Tissue and blood samples were collected monthly to quantify vitamin D and calcium concentrations and to assess markers of muscle mitochondrial function and number. After 3 months of diet-induced vitamin D deficiency skeletal muscle mitochondrial function was found to be impaired by up to 37%. This was not due to a reduced number of mitochondria or a reduction in muscle mass. "Our results show there is a clear link between vitamin D deficiency and oxidative capacity in skeletal muscle. They suggest that vitamin D deficiency decreases mitochondrial function, as opposed to reducing the number of mitochondria in skeletal muscle." Dr Philp comments. "We are particularly interested to examine whether this reduction in mitochondrial function may be a cause of age related loss in skeletal muscle mass and function." These findings suggest that vitamin D deficiency may impair mitochondrial function and reduce the amount of energy produced in the muscles, which may lead to poor muscle function. Therefore, preventing vitamin D deficiency in older people may help maintain muscle performance and reduce the risk of muscle related diseases, such as sarcopenia. However, further studies that investigate the direct effect of vitamin D deficiency on muscle function and strength are necessary to confirm this. Whilst this study indicates that vitamin D deficiency can alter mitochondrial function in skeletal muscle, Dr Philp and his team were unable to determine precisely how this process occurred. Therefore, their future work aims to establish how vitamin D deficiency alters mitochondrial control and function in skeletal muscle.     Psychedelic experience may not be required for psilocybin's antidepressant-like benefits So-called 'magic mushroom' drug seems to work through multiple brain mechanisms for its different effects University of Maryland School of Medicine, April 16, 2021 University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers have shown that psilocybin--the active chemical in "magic mushrooms"-- still works its antidepressant-like actions, at least in mice, even when the psychedelic experience is blocked. The new findings suggest that psychedelic drugs work in multiple ways in the brain and it may be possible to deliver the fast-acting antidepressant therapeutic benefit without requiring daylong guided therapy sessions. A version of the drug without, or with less of, the psychedelic effects could loosen restrictions on who could receive the therapy, and lower costs, making the benefits of psilocybin more available to more people in need. In all clinical trials performed to date, the person treated with psilocybin remains under the care of a guide, who keeps the person calm and reassures them during their daylong experience. This can include hallucinations, altered perception of time and space, and intense emotional and spiritual encounters.  Researchers in the field have long attributed psilocybin's effectiveness to the intense psychedelic experience.  "We do not understand the mechanisms that underlie the antidepressant actions of psilocybin and the role that the profound psychedelic experience during these sessions plays in the therapeutic benefits," says Scott Thompson, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology at UMSOM and senior author of the study. "The psychedelic experience is incredibly powerful and can be life-changing, but that could be too much for some people or not appropriate."  Several barriers prevent the wide-spread use of psychedelic compounds. For example, there is fear that the psychedelic experience may promote psychosis in people who are predisposed to severe mental disorders, like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, so the clinical therapy sessions performed to-date have been limited to a highly selected screened group without a family history of these disorders.  Dr. Thompson adds that there may also be an equity issue because not everyone can take several days off work to prepare and engage in the experience. The costs of staffing a facility with at least one trained guide per treated person per day and a private space may also be prohibitive to all but a few. He says it is conceivable that a depression treatment derived from psilocybin could be developed without the psychedelic effects so people can take it safely at home without requiring a full day in a care facility. For their study, led by UMSOM MD/PhD student Natalie Hesselgrave, the team used a mouse model of depression in which mice were stressed for several hours a day over 2-3 weeks. Because researchers cannot measure mouse moods, they measure their ability to work for rewards, such as choosing to drink sugar water over plain water. People suffering from depression lose the feeling of pleasure for rewarding events. Similarly, stressed mice no longer preferred sugar water over plain water. However, 24 hours after a dose of psilocybin, the stressed mice regained their preference for the sugar water, demonstrating that the drug restored the mice's pleasure response.  Psilocybin exerts its effects in people by binding to and turning on receptors for the chemical messenger serotonin. One of these receptors, the serotonin 2A receptor, is known to be responsible for the psychedelic response. To see if the psychedelic effects of psilocybin were needed for the anti-depressive benefits, the researchers treated the stressed mice with psilocybin together with a drug, ketanserin, which binds to the serotonin 2A receptor and keeps it from being turned on. The researchers found that the stressed mice regained their preference for the sugar water in response to psilocybin, even without the activation of the psychedelic receptor. "These findings show that activation of the receptor causing the psychedelic effect isn't absolutely required for the antidepressant benefits, at least in mice," says Dr. Thompson, "but the same experiment needs to be performed in depressed human subjects." He says his team plans to investigate which of the 13 other serotonin receptors are the ones responsible for the antidepressant actions. "This new study has interesting implications, and shows that more basic research is needed in animals to reveal the mechanisms for how these drugs work, so that treatments for these devastating disorders can be developed" says Albert E. Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs, University of Maryland Baltimore, and the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine.   Tea compound promotes formation of osteoblasts under inflammatory environment and increases bone mass First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University (China), April 7, 2021   According to news originating from Suzhou, People’s Republic of China, the research stated, “Postmenopausal osteoporosis is a disease of bone mass reduction and structural changes due to estrogen deficiency, which can eventually lead to increased pain and fracture risk.” Our news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University: “Chronic inflammatory microenvironment leading to the decreased activation of osteoblasts and inhibition of bone formation is an important pathological factor that leads to osteoporosis. Theaflavin-3,3’-digallate (TFDG) is an extract of black tea, which has potential anti-inflammatory and antiviral effects. In our study, we found that TFDG significantly increased the bone mass of ovariectomized (OVX) mice by micro-CT analysis. Compared with OVX mice, TFDG reduced the release of proinflammatory cytokines and increased the expression of osteogenic markers in vivo. In vitro experiments demonstrated that TFDG could promote the formation of osteoblasts in inflammatory environment and enhance their mineralization ability. In this process, TFDG activated MAPK, Wnt/b-Catenin and BMP/Smad signaling pathways inhibited by TNF-a, and then promoted the transcription of osteogenic related factors including Runx2 and Osterix, promoting the differentiation and maturation of osteoblasts eventually.” According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “In general, our study confirmed that TFDG was able to promote osteoblast differentiation under inflammatory environment, enhance its mineralization ability, and ultimately increase bone mass in ovariectomized mice. These results suggested that TFDG might have the potential to be a more effective treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis.”     Patients who are overweight or obese at risk of more severe COVID-19   Murdoch Children's Research Institute and University of Queensland, April 16, 2021   Patients who are overweight or obese have more severe COVID-19 and are highly likely to require invasive respiratory support, according to a new international study.  The research, led by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Queensland and published in Diabetes Care, found obese or overweight patients are at high risk for having worse COVID-19 outcomes. They are also more likely to require oxygen and invasive mechanical ventilation compared to those with a healthy weight.  MCRI researcher Dr Danielle Longmore said the findings, which highlighted the relationship between obesity and increased COVID-19 disease burden, showed the need to urgently introduce strategies to address the complex socio-economic drivers of obesity, and public policy measures such as restrictions on junk food advertising.  "Although taking steps to address obesity in the short-term is unlikely to have an immediate impact in the COVID-19 pandemic, it will likely reduce the disease burden in future viral pandemics and reduce risks of complications like heart disease and stroke," she said. The study looked at hospitalised SARS-CoV-2 patients from 18 hospitals in 11 countries including China, America, Italy, South Africa and The Netherlands.  Among the 7244 patients aged 18 years and over, 34.8 per cent were overweight and 30.8 per cent were obese.  COVID-19 patients with obesity were more likely to require oxygen and had a 73 per cent greater chance of needing invasive mechanical ventilation. Similar but more modest results were seen in overweight patients. No link was found between being overweight or obese and dying in hospital from COVID-19.  Cardiovascular and pre-existing respiratory diseases were associated with increased odds of in-hospital deaths but not a greater risk for needing oxygen and mechanical ventilation. For patients with pre-existing diabetes, there was increased odds of needing invasive respiratory support, but no additionally increase in risk in those with obesity and diabetes.  Men were at an increased risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes and needing invasive mechanical ventilation. In those aged over 65 years, there was an increased chance of requiring oxygen and higher rates of in-hospital deaths. The University of Queensland's Dr Kirsty Short, who co-led the research, said almost 40 per cent of the global population was overweight or obese.  "Obesity is associated with numerous poor health outcomes, including increased risk of cardiometabolic and respiratory disease and more severe viral disease including influenza, dengue and SARS-CoV-1," she said.  Dr Short said while previous reports indicated that obesity was an important risk factor in the severity of COVID-19, almost all this data had been collected from single sites and many regions were not represented. Moreover, there was a limited amount of evidence available about the effects of being overweight or obese on COVID-19 severity.  "Given the large scale of this study we have conclusively shown that being overweight or obese are independent risk factors for worse outcomes in adults hospitalised with COVID-19," she said. MCRI Professor David Burgner, who co-led the research, said the data would help inform immunisation prioritisation for higher-risk groups. "At the moment, the World Health Organization has not had enough high-quality data to include being overweight or obese as a risk factor for severe COVID-19 disease. Our study should help inform decisions about which higher-risk groups should be vaccinated as a priority," he said.   Neuroprotective Herbs for the Management of Alzheimer’s Disease University of Central Florida and University of California, Los Angeles   Background—Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a multifactorial, progressive, neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by memory loss, personality changes, and a decline in cognitive function. While the exact cause of AD is still unclear, recent studies point to lifestyle, diet, environmental, and genetic factors as contributors to disease progression. The pharmaceutical approaches developed to date do not alter disease progression. More than two hundred promising drug candidates have failed clinical trials in the past decade, suggesting that the disease and its causes may be highly complex. Medicinal plants and herbal remedies are now gaining more interest as complementary and alternative interventions and are a valuable source for developing drug candidates for AD. Indeed, several scientific studies have described the use of various medicinal plants and their principal phytochemicals for the treatment of AD. This article reviews a subset of herbs for their anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and cognitive-enhancing effects. Methods—This article systematically reviews recent studies that have investigated the role of neuroprotective herbs and their bioactive compounds for dementia associated with Alzheimer’s disease and pre-Alzheimer’s disease. PubMed Central, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases of articles were collected, and abstracts were reviewed for relevance to the subject matter. Conclusions—Medicinal plants have great potential as part of an overall program in the prevention and treatment of cognitive decline associated with AD. It is hoped that these medicinal plants can be used in drug discovery programs for identifying safe and efficacious small molecules for AD.   1.1. Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) Ashwagandha, commonly called Indian ginseng or winter cherry, is one of the most prominent herbs prescribed as a brain rejuvenator for AD. It is prescribed to increase energy, improve overall health and longevity, and as a nerve tonic [86]. Ashwagandha has been shown to possess antioxidant activity, free radical scavenging activity, as well as an ability to support a healthy immune system [87]. Ashwagandha contains several bioactive compounds of great interest, such as ergostane-type steroidal lactones, including withanolides A-Y, dehydrowithanolide-R, withasomniferin-A, withasomidienone, withasomniferols A-C, withaferin A, withanone, and others. Other constituents include the phytosterols sitoindosides VII-X and beta-sitosterol and alkaloids [86,88]. A subset of these components has been shown to scavenge free radicals generated during the initiation and progression of AD. Molecular modeling studies showed that withanamides A and C uniquely bind to the active motif of Aβ25-35 and prevent fibril formation. Furthermore, these compounds protected PC-12 cells and rat neuronal cells from β-amyloid-induced cell death [89,90,91]. Treatment with the methanol extract of ashwagandha triggered neurite outgrowth in a dose- and time-dependent manner in human neuroblastoma cells [29], and, in another study involving cultured rat cortical neurons, treatment with Aβ peptide induced axonal and dendritic atrophy and loss of pre-and postsynaptic stimuli [92]. Subsequent treatment with withanolide A induced significant regeneration of both axons and dendrites and restored the pre- and post-synapses in the cultured cortical neurons. In vivo, withanolide A inhibited Aβ(25–35)-induced degeneration of axons, dendrites, and synapses in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus and also restored Aβ-peptide-induced memory deficits in mice [93]. The in vivo ameliorative effects were maintained even after the discontinuation of the drug administration. Aqueous extracts of ashwagandha increased acetylcholine (ACh) content and choline acetyl transferase activity in rats, which might partly explain the cognition-enhancing and memory-improving effects [29,94,95]. Treatment with the root extract caused the upregulation of the low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein, which enhanced the Aβ clearance and reversed the AD pathology in middle-aged and old APP/PS1 mice [96]. Oral administration of a semi-purified extract of ashwagandha reversed behavioral deficits and blocked the accumulation of Aβ peptides in an APP/PS1 mouse model of AD. This therapeutic effect of ashwagandha was mediated by the liver low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein [96]. Using an AD model of Drosophila melanogaster, researchers noted that treatment with ashwagandha mitigated Aβ toxicity and also promoted longevity [97]. Despite the extensive literature on the therapeutic effects of ashwagandha, there are limited data on its clinical use for cognitive impairment [98]. In a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study involving 50 subjects with mild cognitive impairment, subjects were treated with either ashwagandha root extract (300 mg twice daily) or placebo for eight weeks. After eight weeks of study, the ashwagandha treatment group demonstrated significant improvements in both immediate and general memory tests compared to the placebo group. Furthermore, the treatment group showed significant improvement in executive function, sustained attention, and information-processing speed [99]. These studies lend credence to ashwagandha’s role in enhancing memory and improving executive function in people with SCI or MCI. 1.2. Brahmi (Bacopa monnieri) Brahmi, or Bacopa monnieri (Bm), is a perennial creeper medicinal plant found in the damp and marshy wetlands of Southern and Eastern India, Australia, Europe, Africa, Asia, and North and South America. In the Ayurvedic system of medicine, Bm is recommended for mental stress, memory loss, epilepsy, insomnia, and asthma [34,36]. The bioactive phytochemicals present in this plant include saponins, bacopasides III, IV, V, bacosides A and B, bacosaponins A, B, C, D, E, and F, alkaloids, sterols, betulic acid, polyphenols, and sulfhydryl compounds, which may be responsible for the neuroprotective roles of the plant. Both in vitro and in vivo studies show that these phytochemicals have an antioxidant and free radical scavenging action by blocking lipid peroxidation in several areas of the brain [36,100,101,102]. Bm acts by reducing divalent metals, scavenging reactive oxygen species, decreasing the formation of lipid peroxides, and inhibiting lipoxygenase activity [103]. Numerous studies have also shown Bm’s role in memory and intellect [33,56,100,104,105,106]. To determine the neuroprotective effect of Bm in a rat model of AD, researchers tested an alcoholic extract of Bm at doses of 20, 40, and 80 mg/kg for a period of 2 weeks before and 1 week after the intracerebroventricular (icv) administration of ethylcholine aziridinium ion (AF64A). Spatial memory was tested using the Morris water maze (MWM), and the cholinergic neuron density was determined using histological techniques. The researchers showed that Bm extract improved the escape latency time in the MWM test and blocked the reduction of cholinergic neuron densities [35]. Another group reported the reversal of colchicine-induced cognitive deficits by a standardized extract of Bm. In addition to reversing colchicine-triggered cognitive impairment, the Bm extract also attenuated colchicine-induced oxidative damage by decreasing the protein carbonyl levels and restoring the activities of the antioxidant enzymes [107]. Most of the studies exploring the cognitive-enhancing effects of Bm in humans focused on normal, aged individuals. In a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial on 35 individuals aged above 55 years, subjects received either 125 mg of Bm extract or a placebo twice a day for a period of 12 weeks, followed by a placebo period of another four weeks. Subjects underwent a battery of memory tests, including general information, orientation, mental control, logical memory, digit forward, digit backward, visual reproduction, and paired association learning. Subjects were scored on each sub-test, and total memory score was calculated by adding the score of all subtests. A significant improvement was observed in mental control, logical memory, and paired association learning in Bm-treated patients compared to the placebo group at 8 and 12 weeks after initiation of the trial [37]. The results suggested the use of Bm in the treatment of age-associated memory impairment. Ten subjects were given 500 mg of Sideritis extract, 320 mg Bm extract, or a combination using a crossover design. Sideritis extract is rich in a variety of flavonoids and has been shown to improve cognition in animal models of AD [108]. The Attention d2 Test is a neuropsychological measure of selective and sustained attention and visual scanning speed. Assessment tests revealed that Sideritis extract combined with a low-dose Bm extract resulted in improvement in the d2 concentration test score [109]. A similar effect of Bm alone was observed only after repetitive dosing, suggesting that the long-term memory effects seen with repetitive dosing of Bm may be a promising therapeutic option for subjects suffering from MCI [109]. In another prospective, non-comparative, multicenter trial involving 104 subjects who suffered from MCI, Bm extract in combination with astaxanthin, phosphatidylserine, and vitamin E was given for 60 days. The tested combination formula was well tolerated. Cognitive and mnemonic performance was assessed with validated instruments including Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale (ADAS-cog) and Clock-Drawing Test (CDT) that can assess the risk of MCI progression to AD. Researchers noted significant improvements in ADAS-cog and CDT scores [110]. The observed sixty-day improvements in ADAS-cog and CDT were statistically significant as compared with baseline values. Memory is affected by several factors, including focus and attention, neurotransmitters, hormones, trophic factors, cyclic AMP, ion channels, protein transcription, synapse formation, and nutrients. Some of these processes can be modulated by Bm extract alone or in combination with other compounds. The abovementioned study design is similar to our therapeutic program for people with SCI and MCI, where Bm is administered in combination with other nutraceuticals and cogniceuticals [15,111]. 1.3. Cat’s Claw (Uncaria tomentosa) Cat’s claw (CC) is a tropical vine with hooked thorns that resemble the claws of a cat and is mainly recommended for its potential role in the treatment of AD and pre-AD. It is found mainly in the Amazon rainforest and other areas of South and Central America. This medicinal plant contains oxindole alkaloids, polyphenols (flavonoids, proanthocyanidins, and tannins), glycosides, pentacyclic alkaloids, and sterols [38,39]. CC is known for its immune-modulating and anti-inflammatory effects and for its role as a free radical scavenger. Based on in vitro studies, the anti-inflammatory effect of CC is attributed to its ability to inhibit iNOS gene expression, nitrate formation, cell death, PGE2 production, and the activation of NF-κB and TNF-α [45]. Using a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, a significant reduction in the Aβ load (by 59%) and plaque number (by 78%) in the hippocampus and cortex was observed after treating 8-month-old mice with the CC extract for 14 days [44]. CC extract also caused a significant reduction in astrocytosis and microgliosis, and it improved hippocampus-dependent memory. Some of the components in the CC extract crossed the blood–brain barrier (BBB) and entered the brain parenchyma following intravenous injection [44]. Pre-clinical studies suggest that CC extract inhibits the formation of plaques and tangles, reduces astrocytosis and microgliosis and improves memory in mouse models of AD [43,44]. CC extract not only prevented the formation and aggregation of Aβ fibrils and tau protein paired helical filaments, but it also facilitated the disaggregation of preformed fibrils and tau protein tangles [43,44]. While proanthocyanidin B2 was identified as the primary phytochemical with plaque-and tangle-dissolving activity, other polyphenols present in the CC extract also possess plaque-reducing activity [44]. Based on pre-clinical studies, Cat’s claw may be effective for memory loss and cognitive decline associated with AD, although no studies have been carried out in humans. 1.4. Ginkgo Biloba Ginkgo biloba (Gb) has been in the spotlight primarily for its potential role in treating AD. Gb also appears promising as a therapeutic agent for several other chronic and acute forms of diseases. The main pharmacologically active groups of compounds are flavonoids and terpenoids. Almost all clinical studies use Gb extract that contains a combination of flavonoid glycosides, terpene lactones, and ginkgolic acids [50]. Gb extract has shown beneficial effects in treating Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, tinnitus, and other age-associated conditions [49,50]. The suggested mechanisms of the Gb extract are its antioxidant effect, anti-platelet activating factor activity for vascular diseases, inhibition of β-amyloid peptide aggregation in AD, and decreased expression of peripheral benzodiazepine receptor for stress alleviation [48,49,50]. Gb is popular as a treatment for early-stage AD and vascular dementia. Gb extract reverses β-amyloid and NO-induced toxicity in vitro and reduces apoptosis both in vitro and in vivo [112,113,114]. Treatment with Gb extract enhanced memory retention in young and old rats and improved short-term memory in mice [49,115]. Several studies indicate that ginkgo delays the progression of AD and is as effective as the cholinesterase inhibitors for treating AD. A modest improvement in cognitive function was observed in AD subjects in various randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials [116,117,118]. Gb extract also improves ADLs among AD individuals and is preferred over other AD medications because of its negligible adverse effects [119,120]. 1.5. Gotu Kola (Centella asiatica) Considered both a nutraceutical and cogniceutical, Gotu kola (Gk) is a staple in Chinese, Indonesian, and Ayurvedic medicine [57]. This medicinal plant is used to strengthen the brain, heal skin issues, and promote liver and kidney health. Gk is considered a rejuvenating herb for nerve and brain cells as it is believed to promote intelligence and improve memory [54,55,56,57]. In vitro studies using various Gk plant derivatives (asiaticosides, asiatic acid, madecassoside, and madasiatic acid) showed that these compounds were capable of blocking H2O

 For months now, people have been asking: when will it end? When can I see my colleagues, family and friends? When can I go on vacation? Now those activities are in sight--yet., many of us feel hesitant. Why?  Clinical psychologist Dr. Michelle Pearce, a University of Maryland-Baltimore professor, tells how behaviors learned during the pandemic become survival skills. They don’t just flip off like a switch: “We just need to be patient with ourselves. Our brains are really quick to learn threats but we’re slow to unlearn them. So we’ve got to give ourselves a break as we go through this process.”  And we talk about her recent book:  ‘Night Bloomers, 12 Principles for Thriving in Adversity.” Links: Baltimore Sun Commentary, Night Bloomers See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What's it like to start at a new school in the midst of COVID-19? We asked today's guests about their own experience: Steve Park, a Nursing student at the University of Maryland Baltimore, and Jon Croft, a Communication student at the University of Maryland. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nine-tea-usg/message

Our Guest this week on the Steel City Nation podcast is Dr. Josh Funk. A lifelong athlete, Funk became interested in becoming a physical therapist when going through PT as a D1 lacrosse player at Ohio State. After avoiding shoulder surgery for a torn labrum and rotator cuff, Josh has been entrenched in the world of physical therapy and sports performance. Dr. Josh Funk was born and raised in Montgomery County, MD and attended Poolesville High School. Josh went on to play Division 1 lacrosse and earn a B.S. degree from The Ohio State University before earning his Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree from the University of Maryland-Baltimore. It was a little over 3 years after graduating from Maryland, that Rehab 2 Perform was founded in late 2014.Dr. Funk has been additionally committed to the growth of his role as CEO of Rehab 2 Perform. Dr. Funk has immersed himself in business programs and community initiatives over the past few years with a goal of pushing Rehab 2 Perform to the forefront of the DMV area through innovation, progressive business operations, strategic growth and clinical excellence. We will talk with Josh about his career as an athlete and what his aspirations were as a Division 1 athlete. Why he swayed from the athlete’s side of sports into the medical side and how he was motivated to take his career as a physical therapist to a new level. He will share with us just what his vision is for Rehab 2 Perform and what it means for the community he serves. For our Decade Definers segment Josh with us 3 of the most prolific injuries he has helped athletes to overcome and where each of those athlete’s progressed to following their return to health. You can find Josh on Instagram and Twitter @drjoshfunk Related Social Media Instagram and Twitter @rehab2perform =========================== CONNECT WITH US =========================== Check out our websites which includes our store and much more: https://www.steelcitynation2020.com/Like our Facebook pagehttps://www.facebook.com/steelcitynationpodcastJoin the conversation on Twitter https://twitter.com/SCNpodcastFollow us on Instagram pics https://www.instagram.com/steelcitynationpodcast/Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVZuudj681oIAbnscyHBa0g?view_as=subscriber=========================== Feel free to let us know if you have any comments or questionsBy emailing us at: steelcitynation2020@gmail.comAudio Engineer: Shawn AntkowiakVideo Engineer: Angela AntkowiakVoice intro: Matt NobleIntro and outro music provided by Ryan BentonArtwork for SCN: Joelle Miller and Nick StewartWeb page/Store Manager: Terri MaradeiJoin us next time where we are Iron City built on the Steel City Nation podcast….

Today's episode is put on in collaboration with the USG Student Council as a continuation of the "Moving Forward Together" series, with Tiffany Flowers, the Student Council President, co-hosting this conversation with Henri Maindidze about systemic racism. We spoke to Dr. Edelstein, the former Executive Director of USG and former Associate Vice-Chancellor of the University System of Maryland; Iris Schauerman, the Coordinator of USG's Center for Student Engagement and Financial Resources; Steve Park, a first-semester nursing student at the University of Maryland Baltimore; and Govina Etwaroo, a senior education student at Towson University and the Student Council Chair of Events and Initiatives. You can reach out to the Student Council via: Email: studentcouncilusg@umd.edu IG & Twitter: @USG_SC Facebook: USGSC --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nine-tea-usg/message

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So we are all living through a global pandemic. We may not all be scientists, but most if not all of us have heard about how key a vaccine for the Coronavirus is for all us. Our knowledge beyond knowing a vaccine is important may be fuzzy and many of us do not realize that we have opportunities to help progress vaccine development by volunteering in vaccine trials. David Rach was one of the first to volunteer at the University of Maryland Baltimore vaccine trials and shares the experience with GradGamut hosts Q and Annie. He helps us, and all our listeners understand how vaccines work using the metaphor of the wild west.

Brinda Dass was born and raised in India and currently works as a science and policy expert in Maryland. They moved to the US to pursue a Ph D in cell and molecular biology and have since worked as a researcher, University professor, and scientist in Texas, California, and Maryland over the past 25 years. They are a graduate of Texas Tech University and University of Maryland-Baltimore in the US having first completed degrees at Madras Christian college and University of Poona in India. Obviously they are a glutton for academic rigor

My guest today, Jennifer Stephenson Prioleau, is all too familiar with the million mile an hour lifestyle. But like most of us, life taught her to slow down and just what can happen when/if you don't! Join us as we dismiss the notion that self care is selfish, relieve ourselves of self-imposed expectations and UNWIND.  It's too much pressure to try to get it all done in a day. Tune is as we discuss asking for help, enlisting our children to pitch in and prioritizing what matters most to you. Identify your non-negotiables and slide the rest to the side. It'll still be there tomorrow! You do not run on batteries and you need rest. So take the time. #Issalot but you're worth it!  Bio: Jennifer Stephenson Prioleau lives in Maryland with her husband and three children.  Her husband is a PCOM graduate and Family Medicine Resident Physician.  She graduated from Tuskegee University and University of Maryland Baltimore.  Jennifer is a social worker and mental health therapist at an outpatient mental health clinic in West Baltimore. She also a health and wellness coach for Steps Coaching and is interested in coaching physician families.  She enjoys bird watching, walks with her family, photography, painting, playing the flute, and reading. Her favorite colors are navy blue and yellow.   LINKS MENTIONED Steps Coaching Facebook Page www.facebook.com/stepscoaching2019/

On today's episode, I have special guest Zach Baker who is a physical therapist at Rehab 2 Perform in Frederick, MD. He graduated with his Doctor of Physical Therapy from the University of Maryland-Baltimore. Zach has suffered multiple ACL tears which has ultimately lead him to pursuing the field and specializing in ACL rehab. On today's episode, Bobby and I discuss:Zach's PT backgroundHardest ACL case Zach has ever treatedWhat are some tests he uses to determine whether an athlete is ready to return to sport?What Zach recommends to people who want to work with athletesDid PT school prepare him to treat ACLs?Why does Zach think re-tear rates are so high?What he believes has to change to improve on these high re-tear rates?My IG: @WesleyWang.DPTMy website: www.WesleyWangDPT.comACL Mastermind FAQ: https://wesleywangdpt.mykajabi.com/faqACL Mastermind sign-up: https://wesleywangdpt.mykajabi.com/offers/4yryvWYZ/checkoutACL Post-Op Program (my favorite exercises): https://wesleywangdpt.mykajabi.com/offers/SAnh7QMYOnline personal training: https://www.wesleywangdpt.com/online-personal-trainingBobby's IG: @zdbaker30If you enjoyed today's episode, don't forget to subscribe and I'd greatly appreciate you taking the time to write me a review. Please feel free to share this episode on social media and tag me!

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Dr. Kevin Smith leads the staff of the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware. He has experience as a pastor, chaplain, church planter, conference speaker, and short-term missionary. He has studied at Hampton University, the Church of God Theological Seminary, and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, subsequently serving on Southern’s faculty for over a decade. In 2015, while serving the Highview Baptist Church in Louisville (KY), he was elected president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention. Kevin and his wife, Patricia, have three adult children and two great-nephews. His hobbies include whatever sports his kids were playing and riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. His ministry is animated by Jesus’ prayer for the unity of His followers in John 17.Clint’s Church Planting Book: Church Planting ThresholdsTranscriptAlbert Miller: This is the church planning podcast. Thank you for tuning in every week We sit down with leaders who are shaping church planning efforts. Here's your host Josh Turansky and Clint Clifton.Josh Turansky: Hey, welcome to the church planting podcast. My name is Josh Turansky and I'm joined here by Clint Clifton back in the studio Clint Clifton: back in the old Studio. Hey, Josh, how you doing today? I'm doing well. Yeah, how are you doing? I am good really good. Yeah a little bit little bit sick of traffic and Washington and Baltimore where we live.They there's a lot of traffic in this Zone Josh Turansky: there is there's four million people between. DC and Baltimore, I think Clint Clifton: between the two cities? I think seven million in DC and two million in Baltimore. Josh Turansky: yeah two million in Baltimore. Clint Clifton: Yeah. There's a lot of people. We're talking 10 million in the region. Yeah, something like that. Josh Turansky: Wow. It's yeah, it's a lot. So you have written a book on church planting. This is something you've been deeply invested in for most of your life. Yeah, your vocation is church planting. Clint Clifton: So yeah the book really flowed out of the fact that in the church I planted had been planting churches and the guys that were being raised out of the congregation were receiving call the church planting inside my church, were looking to their Pastor to tell them how to do it. And so I would set up a meeting with them. I’d say hey man, let's meet up. I'll teach you how to plant a church. Of course, I didn't know how to tell them how to plant a church. But before that meeting I would have to prepare and so I would just write write stuff up. So I ended up, over the course of the few years with different Church Planters writing specific lessons for that individual person in mind, you know, and that ended up with a little bit more than 40 articles about various subjects the related to church planting. I remember one of the articles was called was called “Johnny the Church Planting Pirate” I just had like these funny for them and they were all on just lessons I learned in church planting - things that I wish I didn't know when I got started. And and they were more practical than they were biblical. I don't mean that to say that they weren't biblical but It was really “just in time” kind of practical training. So anyway, those articles developed into what now is Church Planting Thresholds.So we condensed those articles into ten stages of the church planning process. It starts with calling trying to figure out if you're really called to plant a church in it. Finishes up with multiplication. The the intended purpose. Is that a pastor who wanted to disciple someone in his congregation to plant a church would have a guide to do that with. Throughout the book there are these rectangular boxes in the book and it says, “do this thing now” I was just try to be as practical as possible. You need to overcome this barrier right now. Josh Turansky: Yeah. Now it's a good resource for guys that are out there and that's problem kind of with church planting resources they're not practical and so… Church Planting Thresholds. We’ll share a link to it in the show notes this week. Clint Clifton: There's an audio version of it. There is a Spanish version and a Russian and Amharic version on their way. We're trying to make it available as much as possible and nobody's making any money off the book. We're using all the proceeds to help start churches. And so I just use it liberally will give it away liberally. So just any way we can be helpful to you. Let us know. Josh Turansky: great. Okay, let's talk a little bit about this episode. In this episode you interview Kevin Smith. What's his title? He's like the president of the BCM/D.Clint Clifton: He's the executive director of the BCM/D which is the Baptist Convention of Maryland and Delaware and I feel like this is the time where all the podcast listeners tune out like, “oh a denominational guy” we don't want to hear this. Josh Turansky: Hmm. I hope not. I'm about to this guy Kevin Smith is awesome. Clint Clifton: He is awesome.Josh Turansky: Yeah, and he marches to the beat of his own drum. Clint Clifton: Yes. It does. Josh Turansky: If you follow him on Instagram, you see he drives his Harley around. Clint Clifton: He's a middle-aged African-American man who preaches like nobody's business and he's a fantastic preacher and he drives a Harley. Josh Turansky: But there is there is that push back out there about denominations. I have people that come to my church and then and they say well I was looking for a church that was non-denominational. Denominations have kind of have been seen in a bad light more recently. So so make a pitch for it.Clint Clifton: Yeah. Well, I mean forget the word denomination, just go back to Christianity. Is their biblical precedent for Christians working together you to plant churches and to spread the gospel? President for having compassion on the poor and the vulnerable and the orphan and the Widow? Should Christians do that only in their local church, or should they do that with other Christians? Who share their convictions? Well, obviously almost all of us would say, yes! for sure. You should do that with other Christians. Well, that is what our denomination is. I mean and yeah, granted, denominations have, at times gone off the rails they've done crazy things but the age of denominations is not dead.It's manifesting itself in a new ways with networks and other things but it's definitely not dead. I would argue that it's thriving. Josh Turansky: The denomination that Kevin Smith is a part of. And where he's got a leadership role is not so much about control as much as it's about collaboration.Clint Clifton: It's about collaboration specifically for a mission. A collaboration around the Great Commission. In fact, to be accurate, the Southern Baptist convention as an organization only exists for that one purpose, to collaborate around the Great Commission.Josh Turansky: Yeah, well good.Hopefully the listener gets a lot out of this episode this conversation and I would recommend follow Kevin Smith on Instagram. Clint Clifton: He's a great Twitter follow too. I don’t know if Twitter still thing people use today. He’s super funny and he goes off on rant sometimes about various things. He's real socially aware, but he's also gospel minded.Josh Turansky: He’s definitely got some good input. Especially on races race issues that's not what he's harping on but he's a good voice and if you're a white guy living in the suburbs, planting in the suburbs, pastoring in the suburbs, and maybe your friends are all white you need to follow Kevin's on Twitter.Commercial: Hey Church Planters. Your calling is to plant a church, but churches are also a business auxiliary partners with you to provide one time and ongoing Business Services. Enabling you to stay focused on Mission visit auxilio Partners to learn more about the finances HR and legal compliance services offered and schedule a free consultation. That's auxilio.partners. Mention the church planting podcast to receive a 20% discount.Clint Clifton: Dr. Kevin Smith. Thank you for being with me on the podcast. Dr. Kevin Smith: My pleasure brother. Appreciate you very much. Clint Clifton: Yes, so you have an interesting background and you're just an interesting character in The SBC altogether. There's so many interesting things about you. So I just want to talk about some of those things.So can you can you tell us a little bit about how you got to this situation and that you're in right now? Dr. Kevin Smith: Yes, probably. Almost 28 years ago. Now I desired to plant a church in a public housing development area in Chattanooga, Tennessee and other local pastors that I knew a particular Southern Baptist pastor was the main one who kind of responded with some interest in church planting.Clint Clifton: So we're you telling baps before that. Dr. Kevin Smith: I'll Church a church. I was ordained in was duly aligned with the Southern Baptist convention and the National Baptist convention. Kind of more culturally National Baptist. But in that particular moment now remember talk about 28 years ago church planting is like a buzzword now, it wasn't 28 years ago.And so this Southern Baptist pastor was the only person I knew was talking about church planting and the Tennessee baps convention in North American Mission board had a wonderful partnership. And we planted there in Chattanooga Tennessee Okay, Morris Hill Baptist Church was I'll send the horses sponsor church at that time was the terminology and we were in partnership with the Tennessee baps convention and just went back recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of that church plant.Yes, sir. Clint Clifton: And what was the church plant called Dr. Kevin Smith: love? Baptist church, and we were over in the southeast part of Chattanooga Tennessee, which is my wife's home went from there and doctoral studies at Southern Seminary and then teaching at Southern for well over a decade Clint Clifton: you planted before you went and did your doctor.Dr. Kevin Smith: Yes. Okay. Yes. I was doing my m.div at the Church of God Theological Seminary. So I've got a little Pentecostal spicing me. I have better pneumatology than most Baptist. Then we went to pasture while I was in Louisville past it Watson Memorial Baptist Church about a then probably about a 60 year old historically black congregation brought them in the southern Baptists life out of.Conviction theological conviction and also belief that kind of miss the illogical methodology to reach the nation's with the gospel. Then with the High View Baptist Church as teaching Pastor large mostly white church and African-American in the pulpit and we just had a good time there then had the opportunity to come to Maryland Delaware believe it or not as a pastor.I've always appreciated and always participated at committees and things and state commission life. Life Wayne am everything, but I said, you know, I would never be one of those denominational Geeks and three years ago. I became one of those denominational Geeks the executive director of the Baptist Convention of Maryland, Delaware.We're about 500 plus churches different languages every Sunday probably little bit under 40 different languages are spoken in the Baptist convention, Maryland, Delaware. We had we are a Sin City is within our midst which is Baltimore. If you're not familiar or send cities are our church planting emphasis as Southern Baptist in the 32 largest metro areas in the US population wise we need to add Orlando in.And then I was also we're also bumping up right next door to another Sin City, which is Washington DC our nation's capital. We love the work. I became a denominational nerd because I really. Thrive in like every Kendrick tribe tongue and nation and so how can you take 500 churches different languages different ethnic makeup within the congregation Merlin has some of the wealthiest counties in the country and Maryland has some areas of sharp Parvati.So how do you take all that in Maryland Delaware to States and have a unified Cooperative effort of sharing the gospel in Maryland, Delaware and Beyond to the nation. And so that's why we're here and that's what we're seeking to do. Yeah. Clint Clifton: Why did you why did you start your career out in church planting are your ministry out in church planting?What was it about church planting than originally attracted Dr. Kevin Smith: you.Some of the churches I've been in and then church today. I served briefly had a very insular kind of mindset that fact. I served the church where people use of criticized the congregation for having the attitude of us for no more. And then also there's kind of a sometimes as a success kind of element within American Christianity, which means I want more people but also, A larger budget more money and so it's the gospel is good news to everyone including the poor.I was just real burden for like a congregational life this not just driven by giving units and economic models, but believing that the gospel is for anyone those kind of Errors work are characterized by welfare. Unwed mothers irresponsible guys kind of hanging around the perimeter. And before then I had before I was a pastor.I was a chaplain in the jail. So I've always had a heart for like individuals that I think. Wanting to be successful congregations don't necessarily see how them and so I think the gospel is for everyone. And so we can't have a class element to American Christianity and that was my burden regarding church planting Clint Clifton: but thinking about your context the African-American church context the idea of a young aspiring Pastor going out and planting a church.That Dr. Kevin Smith: was that was foreign Clint Clifton: it well in my mind. You probably received a lot of pushback. Dr. Kevin Smith: Yes. Oh, yeah, I think sometimes churches that have not engaged. I mean there were other churches on the in the areas of this public housing development, but that development wasn't necessarily on their mind all the time or giving priority in their Outreach and then sometimes like.Charges just weren't willing to do whatever it took to reach those people that were in that area particularly people that don't have a church background. Yeah, and so we can't be as traditional as we are used to being and we just had a tremendous burden in a core group of people who desire to reach that area with the gospel some who have grown up in that area and moved out and moved on and some who were from that area and just desired to see a gospel witness in that area.Yeah. Clint Clifton: Well you are. Known for being a pretty clear and outspoken voice on all sorts of matters racial matters. Basically, you just speak your mind on a variety of matters yet. You keep getting elevated and denominational. I for two positions will why is that? What is it? What is it? You know, why can so many other guys that would speak as candidly as you do get.Kind of criticized sharply and shut down and Dr. Kevin Smith: I think one thing is I try as best. I can when we're engaging tough issues. If we're going to convict the consciences of fellow Christians. I think we need biblical language and use biblical categories. And so I tried to address heart issues. In biblical category.So the culture our culture talks about race outer culture talks about racial wreck. I'll culture has a lot of ways of addressing tensions between people of different colors. Where as I've come into those conversations and Ephesians 4. Verse 3 when Paul says Endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.And so I want to challenge God's people to do whatever it takes to push forward towards Christian Unity that thing that Jesus prayed for in John chapter 17, so I want to be overly an extremely and rudely biblical and making hard arguments to God's people because I think the word of God and the spirit of God Christ are the only things that will convict our conscience for example.In the areas of class. I want to talk about the way people work together in Acts chapter 2 whether they had a lot or whether they had a little like right now people are barking about what categories you use to understand. Justice in a society or some people. What do you mean by social justice, so I don't like the term social justice of screw all that.Jesus said in the great command love your neighbor. So in your particular Ministry contacts, how are you following that and obeying that one as a follower of Jesus Christ? And if your pastor to how are you leading your congregation to corporately do that. I mean, I don't want to like spend all day whining about categories and languages.Let's use the scripture. And use biblical categories. So however, you term it Jesus said love your neighbor. However, you term it God said in the Old Testament sometimes Israel was acting righteously, sometimes they were acting unrighteously, sometimes they were acting justly sometimes they were acting unjustly.Tickly as regards how they were dealing with the poor. And so I think the best way to have hard conversations as root yourself. In biblical language biblical categories. I'm thankful for the insights of what we would call a common Grace sources scholarship sociology research all those kind of things but we're trying to convict the conscience of a brother or sister.We need to use Clear biblical categories and biblical language Clint Clifton: that's helpful using biblical categories. But when I think about you, I mean I can think of other examples of people who use biblical language biblical categories when they talk yet somehow they're there. Incredibly offencive showing its there's something about you that you can you found that place where you can say the river very hard thing and you can say a very directly usable categories and somehow your received with warmth.Dr. Kevin Smith: I think that's from just being a pastor. Yeah as a pastor of a congregation you're trying to build up God's disciples. You are not trying to win an argument. I think sadly too many brothers. When I say Brothers, I'm still gonna like pastel leaders and just influence by like cable news and the broken dysfunctional bipartisan mess in Washington DC rather than Shepherd like Tendencies of the Lord Jesus Christ or even the way Paul or John or Peter or James with a dress and exhort the.We come into these describe pray we come in these discussions as pastors as Christian leaders seeking to exhort brothers and sisters. And then if we engage in an unbeliever, we come as Witnesses of Christ hoping to gain the hearing of an unbeliever not just to win an argument or offend them. I mean, I'm in Ubers a lot.I'm on airplanes a lot. I mean coffee shops. I go to Harley rallies. I've never seen anyone like bow their knee. And repent to Christ because I won an argument, right? Oh, I show them how their argument was stupid or wrong. People are one to Christ when we highlight Christ Lift Up Christ and extend that offer to them.So I think I hope the pastel sensibilities really leave me in that way, I think about you know, Older sisters that I've passed it. Yeah. Older men that I've pastored young ladies young men. I think both those relationship dynamics of Paul with Timothy treat the older men as father's older women as mothers and younger women with younger women as sisters with all Purity.And so I just try to be mindful of those things. Clint Clifton: Yeah, so there are 42 if I remember right State conventions. Yes in the Southern Baptist convention are. The only African-American leader, I am of those Dr. Kevin Smith: I am a while back the. State exec and California was from Central America and he has resigned but I'm probably I think I'm the first you know.United States of America black afro negro type leader in that setting so, you know, I love of a fully and truly. Southern Baptist convention there was the African-American leader of the District of Columbia Baptist convention, but that's more of a conglomerate of a lot of soup rather than like a Southern Baptist convention.Clint Clifton: Well what has kept you engaged in southern Baptists life as an African American whose convictional clear on racial issues. Certainly, you see some of the problems in the SBC what has kept you engaged Dr. Kevin Smith: just that burden for Jesus prayer in John 17 that his disciples would be one so that the world may know that you have sent me if American Christianity is always from colonial era till now characterized by racial divisions ethnic divisions.Sometimes class divisions. I think that just undercuts our witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That little purpose statement. They are really weighs heavy on me Father. May they be one as you and I are one so that the world may know that you have sent me. I mean we'll have thousands Southern Baptist over here.The annual meeting will be talking about missions and America we talk about missions to the ends of the Earth and a lack of Christian Unity that Grieves the spirit undercuts that mission. Yeah, and so that's why I'm here. I mean, I understand I'm thankful for the seven. Historic black denominations the United States methodists Baptists and Church of God in Christ Pentecostal and I understand how they exist because they came about in the 19th century and the end of the 18th century just because of the racial Strife in our country and I understand why they still exist because they're still racial strife and our country, but me as an individual follower of Jesus Christ.I'm really burdened by John 17 and Ephesians 4. And those are kind of the motivating passages for how I think about engaging the larger body of Christ. Clint Clifton: So talk to the young African-American church planter Pastor that is on The Fringe of association with the SBC and really doesn't think he wants to be involved.Dr. Kevin Smith: What I would say is number one in many scenarios you able to plan. That church because of the Cooperative efforts of Southern Baptist with guava program and I landed strong Antioch strong Easter offering number two.It is so she national level or stay conventional level. There are relationships that you could lean into that would be very edifying and encouraging to you. You know one thing I try to tell people think about the math is 46 thousand plus southern baptist churches. So I mean, it's got to be like crazy uncles and weird cousins, but there's so many other people that would be such an encouragement and.Encouragement to in building up for you. For example, I mean there are over 4,000 congregations in Southern Baptist convention there like mostly African-American or mostly Mexican or mostly Korean or agents. I mean, there's a lot of congregations lot of passes a lot of leaders where you can find great and wonderful fellowship and that's a last of all we all want to encourage each other to the ends of the Earth.I mean, I'm black and people use the terminology African American so I'm concerned about. The gospel on the continent of Africa, especially when corrupt things like the Prosperity Gospel from the pits of hell. I'll try to have influence in Africa. So through the international Mission board my baby, even I have a three-year partnership with the Baptist Convention of Kenya we're able to be in all kinds of countries on the African continent.So if you're concerned about the gospel, if you're concerned about church planting if you want partnership you want other people to be able to push you in those Endeavors. I'm very thankful for. I'll missions methodology and I've seen it bear fruit. Also, I have friends in every denomination.Yeah, and I will say this Paul said we've not yet apprehended. No denomination is heaven and I have friends that every denomination and they can tell you what irritates them in their particular denomination. That's just part of us working working out outside relation with fear and trembling and also.One of those one another's in the scripture says for bear with one another some of that is US putting up with one another. So I'm thankful for black brothers and sisters and the historic. African-American denominations of black church, I'm thankful for African-American brothers and sisters in the Southern Baptist convention.I'm thankful for African-American brothers and sisters and other denomination. I'm thankful for any person who is seeking to lift up the name of Jesus Christ and declare the gospel. And I think if you're about a certain type of missions methodology, the Southern Baptist convention is a wonderful group of brothers and sisters to partner with it's a large family.But it's I think the wonderful group of partner with Clint Clifton: well, we work together. We have had the chance to work together for the last couple years and Baltimore and then in Washington area. So let's just for a minute. Let's make a pitch for our for our cities. Dr. Kevin Smith: Yes, Clint Clifton: and tell people why they should come work with us Dr. Kevin Smith: a few years back.There was the Freddie gray incident in Baltimore that for a lot of people put Baltimore on the map. Since the 1830s Baptist's in Maryland and Delaware have been thinking about big population centers like Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore is a diverse City Baltimore as a transitional. And there's a lot of Brokenness at a lot of different levels of society.And so I would encourage you to pray for cities like Baltimore where we can share the Gospel of Jesus Christ where we can show people that there's dignity and being created in the image and the likeness of God regardless of their status or any of these American measurements of the value of your life, but you are valuable because you are created in God's image and God loved you so much that he sent his son.As the payment for sins that you might be forgiven and have eternal life in him and then down the road. We have Washington DC which is the nation's capital. So obviously there's a lot of trust and worldly power and political power and I would encourage you to pray for church Planters and existing congregations in the DC area because many times as people.Pursue Earthly power pursue political power even sometimes in a corporate world, they can achieve some of their goals and then get to a certain place in life where they where the reality becomes. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul between Washington and Baltimore.I mean, we have important and wealthy and quote successful people commit suicide have serious drug habits. Struggle with alcoholism are some will just functional alcoholics. And so that it's clear that the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The love of God. The Light of Christ is needed in our area and I would ask you to seriously pray about pray for our churches pray for our efforts.If you're not in that in the area of the country and you have people write raised up in your church, they want to be part of a core group. If you have people raised up in your church, perhaps would like to do an intern or residency and one of our colleagues. Relations and be a church planter. We would love to help you call out the called in the Washington DC Maryland Delaware area.We would love to partner with you and I ask you to consider that yeah, it all field is the field is wide open. Yeah Clint Clifton: all these Stars. Have to align sometimes to make church planting really take off in an area and sometimes those those stars are Financial leadership and all kinds of things but I don't know about you but I feel like in our region right now.There's more alignment than there's ever been. Yes, and I'm excited about the progress that we're seeing the churches that are being planted are being planted by faithful Godly humble joy-filled, you know, tenacious hard-working guys that. Just dedicating themselves and the churches are being a lot more successful in terms of we've seen in the past to so Dr. Kevin Smith: and I'm excited because of many of our Planters have a.Biblical attitude towards loving their neighbor and so they want to do well and they want to bring good. To the public school down the street. They want to bring good to the boys club on the YMCA up the street. They want to bring good to some challenging areas. And as we do that we're able to let our light so shine that people see our good works and glorify our father.So I'm very thankful that we are obeying the Jesus command love our neighbor and we're not fussing about terminology. We're trying to figure out the best way to obey Jesus command in my particular neighborhood. For example, we have churches that can. Go through their name, if you know more of a poor or undeveloped area, we can't we have abilities for congregations to go through neighborhoods and give out smoke detectors.Yeah, okay, we bringing good to the neighborhood because you certainly don't want someone in the unprotected home and we're also providing an Avenue to develop relationships and meet men and women boys and girls in that neighborhood. So I'm very thankful for where we're able to serve. Clint Clifton: So you have been in so many different Arenas you're an academic.You've been a proper Professor. You've done lots of pastoral work. You've started a church. You've let it denominational entity all those things, you know make you a really unique individual and Southern Baptist life and you're an African-American leader all the all those things make you unique, but talk to the church planter for just a minute, you know with the scope of all that you've seen and all those different things and just a couple, you know nuggets of advice if I come off top of your head to the guy who's just.And often church planting and pastoral Ministry. Dr. Kevin Smith: Nothing is more important than the relational emotional spiritual Fellowship that you have with your core team. I know many times. We are excited to launch and we're excited about those kind of things but for the emotional and the spiritual undergirding of a church plant, I think the core team development is so important.So I would encourage any planter as a pastor of a new Gathering of Believers lean into those relationships. Secondly, I would tell you don't despise the day of Small Beginnings because however 22 flush years later my wife and I are still. Of our most substantial relationships with Brothers and Sisters in Christ are people we set up with every Sunday and then broke down with every Sunday.So don't despise the season of setting up and breaking down because you are just like really digging into relationships and then thirdly you just have to find areas. To be engaging people who are not followers of Jesus Christ. I know some of our brothers have spent a lot of time studying at Seminary and they admire their professors and sometimes they really think well, you know how maybe ministry will be a life of study it's a life of study but it's also a life on the street.Yeah. Well you engaging men and women about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I think those three things are just tremendously valued the core group and. Chip and spiritual under pending matter the relationships you develop in those small days while y'all are setting up and breaking down and then just being a man on the street.I mean no the fire chief know the police chief know the local principal of the middle school elementary school and high school. If you have neighborhood associations know the neighborhood association president those kind of things are vital because the church is geographically somewhere for a reason I believe in the.Warranty of geography God has placed you there for a reason and so know that. Clint Clifton: Dr. Smith. Thank you so much. You're its variation. Dr. Kevin Smith: Thank you. My brother. Josh Turansky: Thank you for listening to the church planting podcast. Don't forget to subscribe and leave a review of your favorite podcast. Today's episode of the church planting podcast is sponsored by new city Network the church planting Ministry of MacLean Bible a special thanks to today's guest Dr. Smith for taking the time to join us. Josh Turansky produce Today Show Zukey Bastien was our showrunner and her husband, Nick, was our editor thanks to Hudson Turansky and Marvin Moore who provided administrative and web support for the program and last but not least thanks to you for listening through to the very end of the church planting podcast.If you'd like more information about the show, feel free to visit our brand new website at www.churchplantingpodcast.org there. You can find all of our past episodes as well as notes from today's show. Be sure to tune in next week. We will have on the famous Johnny Hunt.

We on that creepy sh*t this week as we take a look at Maryland/Baltimore's long turbulent history with the paranormal and serial killers. Demons got Eric shook. Sam is a little too excited by murder... I advise not eating while listening. InstaBae: Medianoche | @_medianoche_ Local Business: Field of Screams Maryland | screams.org Takeaway Question: - Have you ever witnessed paranormal activity? * Follow us: @altblackpod * Email us: altblackpodcast@gmail.com * Website & Subscribe: altblackpodcast.com

The all star-game is upon us once more, and in its wake Jess and Paul draft their own super star lineup. Also: Trump is not a proud son of Maryland Baltimore rules Philly shenanigans Milton…Continue ReadingEpisode 10

Denise Meyer, Associate Director, Environmental Services, University of Maryland, Baltimore denise.meyer@umaryland.edu Willard Moore, Environmental Services Technician, University of Maryland, Baltimore   Earlier this year in March, Denise and Willard along with over a dozen of their colleagues had the opportunity to choose which seminar they wanted to attend at the 1st Annual Clean Buildings Expo in Baltimore. Among the ones they choose, the Rock Star Custodian is the one which caught their attention.  Listen to Denise and Willard as they tell you about how engaging and fun the session was.  The University has seen benefits in the Rock Star program and will not be waiting till we come back in March 2020 for the expo.  Their 200 person staff is going to get to share in "the cake" as Willard puts it.   To engage the Rock Star program yourself, go to Rock Star Custodian Program Find out what more the Academy has to over: Academy of Cleaning Excellence Beyond Clean Videos Reach out to Dave Thompson here: dthompson@academyofcleaning.com  

Dr. Marco Chacón, Founder and Chairman, Paragon Bioservices, and University of Maryland Baltimore Assistant Vice President Industry Alliances, joins Rich Bendis on BioTalk to talk about his Founding of Paragon to its recent sale to Catalent, his current role with the University of Maryland Baltimore, and being a Leader in the BioHealh Capital Region  

Our guest today is Dr. Robert Epstein, a psychologist, professor and journalist who is the former editor of Psychology Today. Robert is currently a co-founder and the senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology in Vista, California. He has had a distinguished career as a scientist and journalist researching and writing about advances in mental health, the behavioral sciences, and, most recently, the invisible influence that technology companies have on consumer and political behavior. Robert is the author of 15 books and has written more than 300 scientific and popular articles. He is the founder of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies. He became well known early in his career for his work on creativity. Since then, he has conducted research on a diverse range of topics such as adolescent-and-adult competency, arranged marriages, sexual orientation, self-control and voter manipulation. He also has also developed a number of unique online competency tests which are annually taken by more than a million people. Show notes: [00:03:38] Dawn begins the interview asking Robert about growing up in Connecticut. [00:04:57] Dawn asks if Robert skipped a grade in school, given that he graduated from high school at 16. [00:06:16] Robert talks about his interest in computers in the 60’s, and how his high school was one of the first in the country to even have a computer. [00:07:27] Ken asks about what lead Robert to attend Trinity. [00:08:23] Dawn inquires as to whether Robert knew he was going to major in psychology when he first showed up at Trinity, or if he simply ended up gravitating toward the field. [00:10:14] Robert talks about collecting and analyzing the first ever campus-wide sex survey conducted at Trinity. [00:11:40] Robert explains what he did in the two years between obtaining his bachelor’s degree in 1976 and pursing graduate school. [00:13:07] Dawn asks about Robert’s experience at the University of Maryland Baltimore. [00:13:48] Robert tells the interesting story of how he ended up at Harvard, in part, thanks to the behaviorist B.F. Skinner. [00:15:40] Ken asks how Robert managed to be one of the few people who never had to write a dissertation while at Harvard to obtain his doctorate. [00:20:29] Dawn mentions how, at the time, Robert was becoming well known for his work with Skinner.  She points out that many behaviorists at the time were working with chimpanzees and asks why Robert and Skinner were working with pigeons instead. [00:23:49] Dawn mentions that after his work with pigeons, Robert began to study creativity. He explains why he concluded that creativity is an orderly and predictable process that can be learned, rather than something one is simply born with. [00:27:34] Robert talks about how he founded the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies after his time at Harvard, and how he took on the role of executive director despite Skinner’s warning to never go into administrative work. [00:29:56] Ken asks about Robert’s time at the Cambridge Center and if all the papers he wrote during that time had a theme, or if they were just in general social-science communication. [00:31:28] Robert discusses his book “Cognition, Creativity and Behavior” which is a book of selected essays that he published in 1996. He discusses the various topics in the collection, ranging from creativity to parenting to artificial intelligence. [00:33:09] Ken asks why, after ten years at the Cambridge Center, Robert moved to the west coast. [00:35:40] Dawn asks about Robert’s research into arranged marriages and his finding that couples in arranged marriages developed a greater affection for each other than those who married for love. She asks him about his view that people can deliberately learn to love each other. [00:40:02] Robert discusses his time at the University of California San Diego where he gave students extr...

Today, another in our occasional series, Midday on Higher Education. From time to time, Tom sits down with the presidents of Maryland colleges and universities to talk about the challenges that each of their institutions face, and how those institutions are connected to the fabric of the communities in which they are located. Today, Tom’s guest is Dr. Jay Perman, the president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Dr. Perman is a pediatric gastroenterologist. He was chair of the Department of Pediatrics at UMB’s School of Medicine for five years, before moving to Kentucky, where he was dean and vice president for clinical affairs at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. He returned to Baltimore in 2010 to become UMB’s sixth president.We livestreamed this conversation on the WYPR Facebook page. Click here to see the video.

William E. Bentley, Professor of Engineering and Founding Director of the Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices joins Rich Bendis for the first BioTalk of 2019. They discuss the Institute, Dr. Robert Fischell’s $20 million gifts to the University of Maryland College Park and the University of Maryland Baltimore, and his vision for the future of Medical Devices.

On this episode of the Healthy Wealthy and Smart Podcast, Jenna Kantor, DPT guest hosts and interviews Tameka Duncan on physical therapy for high school athletes. Dr. Tameka Duncan, DPT, Cert. MDT is a licensed physical therapist. It is one of her greatest passions to impact people's lives daily through preventative and rehabilitative services by helping restore quality of life and improve overall function through physical therapy services. In this episode, we discuss: -Why Tameka is passionate about working with high school athletes -The experience needed to treat high school athletes -How Tameka has established expertise and rapport with athletes in her community -And so much more!   Memorable Quotes from this episode:   “A knowledge of the sport and some continuing ed classes are needed.”   “They have a vision, they have a reason and they are motivated to get back to whatever that sport is.”   “I’ll just let my results and my reputation speak for themselves.”   For more information on Tameka: Dr. Tameka Duncan PT, DPT, Cert. MDT is a licensed physical therapist in Clarksville, TN. One of Dr. Duncan’s greatest passions is physical therapy. She loves fostering change through preventative and rehabilitative services. She takes great pride in helping restore patient’s quality of life and improving their overall function to return to the things they love doing most. Dr. Duncan attended Howard University in Washington, DC where she obtained her Bachelor of Science degree (2005) in Health Science with a concentration in pre-physical therapy. She later went on to attend the University of Maryland- Baltimore in Baltimore, MD where she obtained her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree (2010). Dr. Duncan has worked in a variety of settings throughout her practicing career. She spent 8 years in the outpatient orthopedic setting and recently transitioned to the home health setting, while starting her own mobile physical therapy practice, Vitality Sport & Rehab, LLC. Dr. Duncan’s area of specialty is treatment of the spine, to include both the neck and the back. Dr. Duncan obtained extensive training in the McKenzie Method of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT) obtaining her MDT Certification in January 2017. Dr. Duncan is also very experienced and enjoys treating various injuries sustained by the young athlete to the aging geriatric. In her spare time, Dr. Duncan enjoys spending time with her husband, her family/friends, working out, attending church, salsa dancing, mentoring youth, and spending quality time with herself. She loves fitness and has participated in several physique competitions. She is also a Beautycounter consultant, a skincare/makeup line that aims to get safer products into hands of everyone. Dr. Duncan best describes herself as a down to earth, outgoing, fun loving person that enjoys meeting and experiencing various people and cultures. For more information on Jenna: Jenna Kantor (co-founder) is a bubbly and energetic girl who was born and raised in Petaluma, California. Growing up, she trained and performed ballet throughout the United States. After earning a BA in Dance and Drama at the University of California, Irvine, she worked professionally in musical theatre for 15+ years with tours, regional theatres, & overseas (www.jennakantor.com) until she found herself ready to move onto a new chapter in her life – a career in Physical Therapy. Jenna is currently in her 3rd year at Columbia University’s Physical Therapy Program. She is also a co-founder of the podcast, “Physiotherapy Performance Perspectives,” has an evidence-based monthly youtube series titled “Injury Prevention for Dancers,” is a NY SSIG Co-Founder, NYPTA Student Conclave 2017 Development Team, works with the NYPTA Greater New York Legislative Task Force and is the NYPTA Public Policy Committee Student Liaison. Jenna aspires to be a physical therapist for amateur and professional performers to help ensure long, healthy careers. To learn more, please check out her website: www.jennafkantor.wixsite.com/jkpt Resources discussed on this show: SFMA Website Vitality Sport and Rehab Facebook   Thanks for listening and subscribing to the podcast! Make sure to connect with me on twitter, instagram and facebook to stay updated on all of the latest! Show your support for the show by leaving a rating and review on iTunes!   Have a great week and stay Healthy Wealthy and Smart!   Xo Karen    

Chief Manger responds to comments about his demeanor and personality ~ "I tell this to the community all the time, that when we hire cops, we're looking for people that are good communicators. And have a spirit for public service. I will tell you that any empathy or compassion that I have, I got from my parents. And I credit my mom for a lot of the way I am and the way I approach situations, and the way I approach people." Chief Manger, Chief of Police, Montgomery County MD, and host Andy Ockershausen in studio interview Andy Ockershausen: This is Our Town. This is Andy Ockershausen. And as I have the great, great honor to talk to a gentleman that I've admired from afar for many, many years. Chief J. Thomas Manger of Montgomery County. And the first question, Chief, is what does the J stand for? Family Legacy Chief Manger: It stands for John. I'm actually named after my dad, and I'm very proud of that. Andy Ockershausen: You're a junior? Chief Manger: Actually I'm the third. So, named after my father and grandfather, and I have even saddled my son with the same name. Andy Ockershausen: But you were born ... You went to the University of Maryland, were you born in Maryland? Growing Up in Maryland - Baltimore and Silver Spring Chief Manger: I was born in Baltimore. Andy Ockershausen: Oh, in the city? Chief Manger: Yes, I was. And grew up in Baltimore City until I was 14. And my dad got a job with the federal government, and then that landed us in Silver Spring. Andy Ockershausen: And then how did you ... Well, I don't wanna ask ... I'll get to that, but you eventually came back to Maryland, but you went across the river to Fairfax. Chief Manger: I did. Andy Ockershausen: Opportunity? From Maryland to Virginia - A Career Opportunity Chief Manger: It was. I ... When I graduated from the University of Maryland, I applied to every police department in the Baltimore and the Washington, DC region. And when ... I was actually going through the process for a number of different police departments. And Fairfax County just happened to hire me first. They called me and offered me a job, and I said okay. I actually had never been to Fairfax before I went there to take the test. But made a 27 year detour to northern Virginia. Andy Ockershausen: That's incredible, but I guess your Virginia experience was ... Did you a lot more good in Maryland than you realized at the time. But- Chief Manger: Well, I did okay. Andy Ockershausen: You were a cop then. Chief Manger: I was. Andy Ockershausen: On the beat. A Cop on the Beat in Fairfax, VA Chief Manger: I was. And spent a lot of time getting to know the folks in the community over in different areas in Fairfax. I worked almost every district station in the county. And then was able to come up through the ranks and in 1998 was appointed the police chief there. Andy Ockershausen: That's incredible. What a career. And that's in northern Virginia of course. And you then knew all the other jurisdictions and so forth, but what made you decide to go to Montgomery County? Back to Maryland - A New Opportunity in Montgomery County, MD Chief Manger: Yeah, I think it was again, it was just an opportunity. I mean, I was eligible to retire from Fairfax after I had 29 years service credit. And so, I loved the DC area, and I was working with Chuck Ramsey and a lot of folks that people would certainly recognize their names. And so, I had no desire to leave this area. It's where my family was, my parents were here. And- Andy Ockershausen: It's your home! Chief Manger: It was. And is. And so, I thought, gee I can go to another job that I would enjoy and only have to move 20 minutes away from where I was living. So, it worked out very nicely. Andy Ockershausen: Well,

Maryland is home to nearly 60,000 people of Native American heritage. The Baltimore American Indian Center is working hard to keep cultural traditions alive.Community artist and folklorist Ashley Minner describes celebrating young and old members of the Lumbee Tribe in her work. And Dr. Dennis Seymour, who leads the center’s museum, explains why it’s important to pass traditional skills on to future generations.This Saturday, from 11 am to 7 pm, the Baltimore American Indian Center will hold its 44th Annual Pow-Wow at the Maryland Fairgrounds in Timonium. On Tuesday, the University of Maryland Baltimore will host a traditional storytelling event.Click these links for more information about The Exquisite Lumbee Project and the Lumbee Oral Histories. And listen to the episode of Out of the Blocks - 100 S Broadway Part 1 and Part 2 - that Ashley helped produce.

Jay A. Perman, MD, became the sixth president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) in July 2010. A pediatric gastroenterologist, Perman continues to practice medicine through his weekly President’s Clinic, where he teaches team-based health care to students of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, law, and social work. Interprofessional, team-based care is a priority of Perman’s: In 2013, he established the Center for Interprofessional Education to train all UMB students to provide high-quality, affordable health care and human services within a team-based model. Dr. Perman is strengthening UMB’s role in improving the health and well-being of its closest neighbors. In 2014, he established the Office of Community Engagement to coordinate UMB’s varied outreach projects — with special emphasis on West Baltimore — and to leverage resources so that the University may respond quickly and effectively to identified community needs. In fall 2015, Perman opened the UMB Community Engagement Center in West Baltimore to provide direct health, employment, legal, financial, and social services to nearby residents and to engage with them in neighborhood-strengthening advocacy projects. Named one of Maryland’s Most Admired CEOs in 2013 by The Daily Record, Perman is focused on creating a dynamic University culture. 

Serena Williams recently sat down with People Magazine for a tell all interview about her experience with Post-partum after the birth of her daughter. It got me to thinking… Maternal Mental Health is not something we talk about much. We view the event of having a baby, a joyous event. But for many women, it is not. The process of having a baby can have a stressful effect on her life. So I sat down with my friend, Kristen Brooks for the details. Kristen Brooks is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Owner of Building Beyond Therapy LLC. She earned an MSW from the University of Maryland Baltimore and is clinically licensed in Maryland and the District of Columbia. For half a decade she’s provided social work services in many capacities, including child welfare, inpatient psychiatric services and schools but more importantly, she‘s certified in Maternal Mental Health through Postpartum Support International (PSI) and is a Board Certified Supervisor with the Board of Social Work Examiners in Maryland. A serious illness is nothing you should ever go through alone. If the people around you don’t understand or if they are not supportive, reach out to other circles of encouragement that have been through the same thing and always remember there is a therapist in your area that you can connect with to help you progress through your issues. Enjoy the interview! Host: Anita Washington, That Anita Live Topic: How To Manage Maternal Mental Health Guest: Kristen Brooks, LCSW Guest’s Website: https://www.BuildingBeyondTherapy.com

Live from the BioHealth Capital Region Forum – Part 1: In this first part of two episodes, Rich sits down with leaders from different parts of the BHCR to talk about what they are working on, and their thoughts on the event. His guests are Jim Jackson, SVP, CSO at Emergent BioSolutions and Jim Hughes, Vice President at University of Maryland, Baltimore

Shocker in March Madness as #16 Maryland (Baltimore) stuns #1 Virginia, first #16 seed ever to do so; Michigan

Jay A. Perman, MD, President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), joins Rich Bendis to discuss the Collaboration, Education, and Community in the State and Region.

Welcome to the PT Live series, October is National Physical Therapy Month. My uncle thinks that I am in school for personal training...so I am sure there are others that may have some misconceptions about the PT profession. We are going to educate you about the multifaceted dimensions of what Physical Therapy consist of.  Dr. Tameka Duncan, DPT, Cert. MDT is a licensed PT that graduated from Howard University with B.S. in 2005 and graduated University of Maryland - Baltimore in 2010 (DPT). She has been practicing for almost 8 years primarily in outpatient orthopedics and she is McKenzie (MDT) Certified (spine). She enjoys working with all patient populations particularly former military servicemen and women. She also does prn work in a skilled nursing facility and home health. She enjoys working out, salsa dancing, and quality time with family and friends. Dr. Tameka Duncan  DPT on the Gram: @Teeduncan1  PT Live Video Series w/Tameka Duncan, DPT Fe on FB Be well and blessed! ~Fe~ 

For Dawn Rhodes, shared governance made for a big transition as she moved from the private sector into higher education. “That first time you go through that process and try to get a decision made, you’re asking yourself, why is this taking so long?” But the value of the shared governance model, the balance and transparency offer key benefits in her role as chief business and finance officer and vice president for administration and finance for University of Maryland, Baltimore. As CBO, investing her time with mentors has given her the opportunity to see far beyond her role in finance. Community relations, academic development, they’re all fair game in her search for innovation that can be applied at UMB. This week on CBO Speaks, Rhodes joins Megan Strand to share all this, and her perspective on the biggest threat facing not only CBOs, but higher education as a whole. Join us and learn more from this seasoned expert in our field!

Nasir and Matt discuss the Baltimore law that makes it very difficult to operate food trucks in the city. They also discuss all the legal restrictions tohaving a food truck. Full Podcast Transcript NASIR: Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist. My name is Nasir Pasha. MATT: And I’m Matt Staub. NASIR: And so, in preparation of tonight’s podcast, I did some research and I went down the street to a food truck and I got myself a fish taco in Houston, Texas. You know, I don’t know how many times we’ve mentioned “fish tacos” but I had to try and see. It was pretty good. MATT: You actually did this? NASIR: No, I actually did it. MATT: Okay. NASIR: I’m trying to look around to see if I have the trash somewhere so I could figure out what the name of the food truck is so I can plug them but I can’t remember what it is. I feel bad now. MATT: Yeah, food trucks, they definitely have peaked. I think we’re on the downhill but there was definitely a time a few years ago when it just seemed like, it’s kind of like craft breweries where it just seemed like almost everyone had a craft brewery or some tie to one and that it was kind of like the same thing with food trucks. I kind of saw it that way. NASIR: It is kind of hard to understand the real appeal to it because, I mean, you’re right, people do go crazy over it and I feel like maybe it’s just the novelty of having something new, especially when they get all those food trucks together in one parking lot, it’s almost like going to a food court in a mall because you have all these choices. But, at the same time, if you end up going again, it’s always ended up being the same food trucks every week it seems like, right? MATT: Well, I think you hit the nail on the heads there. I think that’s the appeal if you have multiple food trucks and particularly if there’s some sort of rotation because, yeah, that’s a good comparison – it’s like a food court in a mall because you can go with a group of people and presumably there’s something there for everyone. But, yeah, there’s a couple close to where I live that are essentially just permanently – well, not permanently because they do drive away but they just set up in the same spot every day and that’s all it is. NASIR: They might as well be just like a restaurant that’s parked somewhere. MATT: Yeah, I think that’s one of the issues we had. We’ll talk about a specific issue in Maryland – Baltimore specifically but we talk about more broadly after that. The Baltimore city code, there’s a new law and, essentially, to summarize it, food trucks can’t be parked within 300 feet of a brick-and-mortar or an actual restaurant if it serves similar type of food which obviously leaves some room for ambiguities there but it’s an interesting law because I imagine what probably happened was these food trucks were parking outside of restaurants and I think the two that we’re going to talk about specifically is the pizza one, of course, and a barbeque. NASIR: Barbeque, yeah. MATT: Yeah, they just parked in front of a place that is going to have significantly more overhead and they probably just were upset about that. That’s I’m guessing what happened. NASIR: Yeah. And so, as you can imagine, this law is a little controversial and, obviously, that’s why these two particular food trucks are suing and basically saying that it’s unconstitutional. I think they actually mean they’re suing for this under the state constitution which I think there might be some wiggle room for under the US Constitution too as well. But this seems to be a local ordinance and we can get into some of the constitutional aspects of this. But, first, let’s just talk about overall fairness. Like you said, I understand the want to protect some of these retail brick-and-mortar restaurants but doesn’t it seem kind of contrary to our culture of free competition to restrict and to have such a specific law against food trucks?

You have heard me say before, we all have a story of hurt and brokenness. In this episode I am talking with Nichola Brown, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Nichola shares her story of abuse and pain and how she is using that to help others in their hurt and pain. Nichola Brown is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) in Washington, DC.   Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Nichola has lived in the DC metropolitan area for most of her life. She has been a Mental Health Professional for several years and enjoys working with individuals and families.   Nichola earned her Masters in Social Work from the University of Maryland-Baltimore, where she focused on Clinical Mental Health with a concentration in Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).   She has worked in the private and public sector, where she has developed a passion for helping people find their calling. Nichola believes in embracing the journey of life.   Nichola credits her faith in God and seeking professional help, with overcoming her own trauma. She believes in the power of God to heal and also believes in the gift of Godly counsel to help people overcome the challenges of life.   This is Nichola’s first book and she is currently working on her next book.   email:nichola@sabbathseason.com twitter:@sabbathseason instagram: #sabbathseason facebook/sabbathseason Website: www.sabbathseason.com   Book is available on Amazon Ebook will be available on Kindle.   Nichola's Upcoming Events:    Free Webinar - October 12th - Entrepreneur's Guide to Self-Care ( Sign Up on EventBrite) Paid Webinar - October 17th - Self-Publishing 101 (Sign Up on EventBrite)  $125 Webinar Only / $250 Webinar and 2 Coaching Sessions   For Anyone Listening You Can Go to SabbathSeason.com and complete the contact us form. Two people to receive the Sabbath Season book for free.    *** John want's to be your C.E.O. (Chief Encouragement Officer)   You can always contact John:   Website: www.johncordray.com Twitter: @JohnPCordray Email: john@johncordray.com   If you are a therapist and interested in starting a private practice sign up for John's www.FreePrivatePracticeCourse.com