The Original Guide To Men's Health The Washington State Urology Society

The Original Guide to Men's Health will be taking the month of May off and will be returning June 5th with brand new content for you. Until then be well, take care of yourselves and we will see you in June!

Another pandemic will happen. When it does, will we be prepared? What are we doing to make certain that we are?
Our guest is the Director of the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy. Hear about what is being done to facilitate and improve our ability to face another pandemic.




Guest:
 
"Major General (ret) Paul Friedrichs, MD, FACS, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy (OPPR)"
 
Major General (ret) Paul Friedrichs, Inaugural Director of OPPR and Principal Advisor on Pandemic Preparedness and Response
 
Major General Friedrichs is currently Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense at the National Security Council (NSC). Prior to joining the NSC, Dr. Friedrichs most recently served as the Joint Staff Surgeon and the medical advisor to the Department of Defense (DoD) COVID-19 Task Force. Throughout his career he has worked closely with Federal, State, Tribal, local, and territorial government partners, as well as industry and academic counterparts and has been active in multiple professional medical societies. Dr. Friedrichs has also overseen the DoD global patient evacuation system, supporting global medical care and numerous interagency domestic and global disaster responses. He led the DoD Task Force which developed plans to implement high reliability medical principles across DoD and stood up the Air Force’s first medical analytics capabilities. Over the course of his 37-year career, he has led military hospitals and regional and global health care systems, published multiple medical papers, and consistently sought opportunities to partner with colleagues to improve health care delivery and preparedness. As the United States’ representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Committee of Military Medical Chiefs, he worked closely with many of America’s closest allies and partners throughout the pandemic and in developing medical support to the Ukrainian military.
 
Dr. Friedrichs is a board-certified physician who has cared for hundreds of patients in combat and managed broad domestic and global public health threats. He has spent all of his career in public service, having first received his commission through Reserve Officer Training Corps in 1986 and rising to Major General in 2023.




During This Episode We Discuss:
 
Overview of the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy
What are the goals for the office
How will  the office function
How will the office coordinate with state health agencies, health delivery systems, medication manufacturers , support and personal protective device manufacturers, research and  testing facilities?
The importance of a robust Public Health System. How does a public health system integrate into the office's response policy?
What can the office do to facilitate a functioning national,regional and local deployment of response teams?
How can we speak to the public, ie messaging about the science of pandemic causation, diagnosis, containment and treatment strategies without the politicalization that occurred with the Covid pandemic?
What recommendations and routines does the Air Force use to keep it’s personnel healthy? 
 

Why do we find it challenging to take care of ourselves, follow up on health concerns or enter into preventive health maintenance? Men in particular seem to have more difficulty in this regard. Even when we have the knowledge to pursue evaluation we sometimes fail to follow through. 
Health Behavior is complex and has a multitude of factors influencing our decisions. Join in to listen to 2 experts review the theory of health behavior, as well as other health models.




Guest:
Grace Lasker, Ph.D, MCHES, CN, CHC (she/her)
Director of Health Studies; Teaching Professor, Nursing and Health Studies
Adjunct Teaching Professor, Dept. of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
University of Washington Bothell
 
Joseph Henrich,Ph.D
Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
 

We are pushing back the publication of our next episode of The Original Guide to Men's Health by one week due to a scheduling issue. We will be back with new content for you on March 13th with an excellent episode all about Health Behavior, what is it, what do we know about, and how do we change it?
 
Join us next week for a fantastic episode of  The Original Guide to Men's Health!

The final two presentations of the ‘Real Talk on Men’s Health’ event are presented in this episode. 
The first presentation provides the listener with important information regarding the early detection of Prostate and Testicular Cancers.
 
The second presentation reveals important information regarding the new ‘ Obesity Medications” as well as information on Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome.



Guests:
 
Men’s Cancers:
Early Detection for Prostate and Testicular Cancers
 

Yaw A. Nyame, MD, MS, MBA
Deputy Associate Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Assistant Professor, Department of Urology and Fred Hutch Cancer Center, University of Washington
 
Metabolic Syndrome, Diabetes & Obesity : Updates in Management & Medications
JOSHUA THALER, MD, PhD
Associate Professor Division of Endocrinology and Nutrition, University of Washington School of Medicine
UW Medicine Diabetes Institute
 

This episode represents 2 additional presentations from the October 25 live event titled’
Real Talk on Men’s Health.
 
In this Episode the following presentations are featured:
Heart Health: Keep Your Heart Beating and Benign Prostatic Enlargement


Guest:
 
Heart Health: Keep Your Heart Beating
Dr Eugene Yang, MD,MS, FACC, Clinical Professor Department of Cardiology University of Washington School of Medicine. He is the Carl and Renee Behnke Endowed Professor for Asian Health and the Medical Director, UW Physicians Eastside Specialty Center as well as the Co Director UW Medicine Cardiovascular Wellness and Prevention Program.
 
Benign Prostatic Enlargement:
 
Dr Will Fuller, MD. Dr Fuller is an Attending Urologist, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health Urology




During This Episode We Discuss:
 
Primary Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease
Behavioral and lifestyle optimization of risk factors
2019 American College of Cardiology(ACC)  and American Heart Association (AHA)Prevention Guidelines
The ACC ASCVD Risk Estimator
Cholesterol Goals
Blood Pressure Goals
Lifestyle Recommendations
Sodium and Blood Pressure
Heart Healthy Diets
Exercise and Heart Health
 
Prostate Anatomy
Prostate Enlargement Symptoms
Evaluation of Prostate Enlargement 
Treatment options for Prostate Enlargement