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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. 

Well Said has invited Dr. Amar Shah, Chief of the division of Cardiac Imaging in the department of Radiology at Northwell Health, and an Associate Professor of Radiology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell to discuss how doctors can look at the heart in new ways using CT scanners, making it possible to get a better idea of someone’s risk of having a heart attack or determining optimal treatment plans without the need for invasive tests. 

Well Said has invited Dr. David Podwall, a board-certified neurologist, President of the Nassau County Medical Society and an Assistant Professor here at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine to talk about how access to medical care and treatment has become a topic of importance as both patients and health systems encounter financial, logistical, and geographic barriers to receiving or delivering the high-quality medical care.

Well Said has invited Dr. Teresa Amato, Director of Emergency Medicine and Vice President of Resource Management at Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital to talk about the variety and severity animal bites and stings and how to avoid, identify and treat them.

Well Said has invited Dr. Jamie Kane, Chief of Obesity Medicine and Director of the Center for Weight Management at Northwell Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Donald & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell to talk about the recent rise in obesity and in our country and what weight loss drugs mean for people who may be struggling with this disease. 

Well Said has invited Dr. Sanjeev Kothare, Director of the Division of Pediatric Neurology at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, where he also serves as a Senior Epileptologist and Co-Director of the Pediatric Sleep Program. Dr. Kothare is also the Director of the Pediatric Neurology Service Line for Northwell Health and a Professor of Pediatrics & Neurology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Today, we will be talking about the history, causes, warning signs, symptoms and more of autism spectrum disorder.