Well Said Unknown

Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Maria Carney, Chief of the Division of Geriatric and Palliative Medicine in the Department of Medicine for Long Island Jewish Medical Center and North Shore University Hospital and Adam Kahn, Adjunct Professor with the Master’s in Health Law and Policy Program at University and a Senior Fellow for the Gitenstein Institute for Health Law and Policy at Hofstra University. They will be helping us unpack the complex topic of Advanced Directives; or written statements of a person’s wishes regarding medical treatment, often including a living will, made to ensure those wishes are carried out should the person be unable to communicate them to a doctor. 

Well Said has invited Dr. Peter Silver, Senior Vice President, Chief Quality Officer, and Associate Chief Medical Officer for Northwell Health to talk about where hospital ratings come from, are they meaningful, and are they reliable?

Joining us on Well Said is Dr. Jacqueline Moline and Chris Ciuffo. Dr. Moline is the founding Chair of the Department of Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology & Prevention at Northwell Health and at the Donald & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and serves as the director of the Queens World Trade Center Health Program operated by LIJ Medical Center. Chris Ciuffo is a retired NYPD officer who served at Ground Zero as a first responder and has been receiving support through the WTC Health Program. They will be talking about what made Ground Zero a toxic environment, the scope and consequence of exposure, and the efforts made to address these issues by the World Trade Center Health Program. 

Well Said has invited Sven Gierlinger, Senior Vice President and Chief Experience Officer for Northwell Health to shine some light on how patient experience surveys act as the voice of the patients; helping healthcare providers understand patients’ perceptions about what’s working and what needs improvement. 

Well Said has invited Dr. Nisha Parikh, System Director of the Women’s Heart Program for Northwell Health’s Cardiovascular Institute and the Katz Institute for Women’s Health to shine some light on the gender-specific differences in how women experience heart failure and what this means for improving outcomes and ensuring equitable care. 

Well Said has invited Dr. Tochi Iroku-Malize, Senior Vice-President of Family Medicine for Northwell Health and the Inaugural Professor and Chair of Family Medicine at the Donald & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell to talk about the record-setting winter temperatures, unprecedented increases in storms and hurricanes and hotter summer that all encompass Climate Change and what that means for our health.