The Community Calls with Dr. G
by Dr. G & Kimberly
Our Community Calls are for the Community and their respective health needs. Starting since the early days of the pandemic in an effort to provide trusted health information and resources, Community Calls has continued to tackle public health concerns and issues. Taped with a live virtual audience of community leaders and individuals, we cover what's going on locally in Baltimore City and provide guidance on health concerns, from cancer screenings to the latest on COVID to social needs that impact health. Join our hosts, Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos (Dr. G) and Ms. Kimberly Hailey-Fair and tune in to hear about current public health updates, community concerns and successes, and listen to residents' questions get answered.Because when the community calls, we are here to answer!The Community Calls is a podcast by Medicine for the Greater Good, sponsored by Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (Johns Hopkins ICTR), in collaboration with the Sidney Kimmel Compreh
Episodes
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Interview with Ken Terry, author of the book Beyond Medicare for All
Call from Friday October 23rd, 2026 featuring author Ken Terry. Ken Terry is a health care journalist with more than 30 years' experience and the author of three books on health care reform. His most recent book, available from the American Association for Physician Leadership, is entitled Beyond...
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Breast Cancer Imaging with Dr. Pouneh Razavi
Call from Friday October 16th, 2026 featuring Dr. Pouneh Razavi. Dr. Pouneh Razavi is the Director for Breast Imaging in the National Capital Region (NCR). She is a breast imaging radiologist at Sibley Memorial Hospital and interprets mammograms, ultrasounds and MRIs in addition to performing all...
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Updates on the Plague & Food-Borne Infections with Dr. Shmuel Shoham
Call from Friday October 9th, 2026 featuring Dr. Shmuel Shoham. Shmuel Shoham, M.D. is Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Shoham has over 20 years of experience in management of patients with invasive infections, and is the author or co-author of over 100...
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All Things Vaccines with Dr. Jon Zenilman
Call from Friday October 2nd, 2026 featuring Dr. Jon Zenilman. Dr. Jonathan M. Zenilman is a professor of medicine, at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He also has joint appointments in population family and reproductive health, international health, and epidemiology at the Johns...
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Women and Kidney Disease with Dr. Su Thavarajah
Call from Friday September 25th, 2026 featuring Dr. Su Thavarajah. Dr. Sumeska Thavarajah is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of expertise include nephrology. Dr. Thavarajah earned her M.D. at Wayne State University School of…
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MOTA - A Resource Hub for Hereditary Cancer Previvors and Survivors with Randi Eichenbaum
Call from Friday September 18th, 2026 featuring Randi Eichenbaum. "I'm BRCA2+, which means I'm high-risk for certain cancers. I lost my mom to ovarian cancer, and I later had breast cancer myself. So I didn't come to hereditary cancer risk as an entrepreneur looking for a market. I came to it as…
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Music, The Brain, and Exercise with Neurologists Drs. Khamishon and Devlin
Call from Friday September 11th, 2026 featuring Drs. Khamishon and Devlin Dr. Khamishon is a Movement Disorders Fellow (PGY-6) at Johns Hopkins with interests in medical education and community-engaged care. Her work centers on expanding access to programming for people with Parkinson's disease…
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BRCA and Beyond with Marisa Stachelski, Podcaster and Cancer Survivor
Call from Friday September 4th, 2026 featuring Marisa Stachelski, Podcaster and Cancer Survivor. In 2022, a colon cancer diagnosis led to genetic testing and the discovery that Marisa carries the BRCA2 gene mutation. What followed were multiple preventative surgeries, recovery, difficult…
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Putting the Trust Back into Medicine with Dr. Craig Spencer
Call from Friday August 28th, 2026 featuring Dr. Craig Spencer. Dr. Spencer is an emergency medicine physician and an Associate Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice at Brown University School of Public Health. As a physician he focuses on frontline preparedness, both…
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Updates on Medicaid & HR-1 with Richard Amador from HealthCare Access Maryland
Call from Friday July 31st, 2026 featuring Richard Amador from HealthCare Access Maryland. Richard Amador, who joined the HCAM team in July 2017, currently serves as HCAM's Outreach Manager in the Connector program. In this role, his educational background in language and pedagogy comes together...
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Ehlers Danlos Syndrome & Advocacy with Patient Advocate Keri Lipperini
Call from Friday July 24th, 2026 featuring Patient Advocate Keri Lipperini. Keri Lipperini is a U.S. Navy veteran, advocate, educator, and founder of Lipperini Community Outreach and Support, LLC. Her work is also shaped by lived experience. Keri lives with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), a complex...
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Screw-worms, with Veterinarian Dr. Jennifer Trout
Call from Friday July 17th, 2026 featuring Dr. Jennifer Trout. Dr. Trout earned her undergraduate degree from Penn State University and her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine. She practiced in several states across the country before...
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Bailey's Heart & Soul, with Founder Patrice Bullock, CRNP, FNP-C, PMHNP
Call from Friday June 26th, 2026 featuring Bailey's Heart & Soul Founder, Patrice Bullock. Bailey's Heart and Soul Foundation is dedicated to ensuring that no child dies while playing the sports they love. Their mission is to empower communities by teaching life-saving CPR and AED skills and...
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Liver Health & Cirrhosis with Dr. Sameer Khan
Call from Friday June 26th, 2026 featuring Dr. Sameer Khan. Johns Hopkins hepatologist Sameer Khan has expertise in liver disease and treats patients with fatty liver disease and obesity. Dr. Khan earned his medical degree at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He completed internal...
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Fatty Liver Disease with Patient Advocate Terri Milton and Dr. Naim Alkhouri
Call from Friday June 12th, 2026 featuring Patient Advocate Terri Milton and Dr. Naim Alkhouri. As a Patient Advocate and Student of Life, Terri is making an impact in the world around her by spotlighting MASH, a disease of the liver, Transplant Patients and their journeys, and the need for...
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Recurrent Pregnancy Loss with Dr. Vasiliki Moragianni
Call from Friday June 5th, 2026 featuring Dr. Vasiliki Moragianni. Dr. Moragianni specializes in obstetrics and gynecology as well as reproductive endocrinology and infertility. She is highly skilled in all aspects of fertility care. A native of Greece, she graduated from Cornell University with…
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Cervical Cancer with Dr. Kim Levinson
Call from Friday May 29th, 2026 featuring Dr. Kim Levinson. Kimberly Levinson, M.D., is an associate professor in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics. Her areas of clinical expertise include minimally invasive surgery with both robotic and single incision…
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Updates on Radon and Cancer with Dr. Cliff Mitchell
This week due to the holiday we have a throwback episode! This call is from January 23, 2026 featuring Dr. Clifford Mitchell. Dr. Mitchell's work has focused on several areas: indoor environments; public health practice particularly related to environmental and occupational health; development of...
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Social Isolation with Dr. Marcie Johnson
Call from Friday May 15th, 2026 featuring Dr. Marcie Johnson. Dr. Marcie Johnson, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist, received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Iowa and completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Iowa City VA. She specialized in neuropsychology and is…
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Am I at High Risk for Breast Cancer? with Dr. Sheryl Gabram-Mendola
Call from Friday May 8th, 2026 featuring Dr. Sheryl Gabram-Mendola. Dr. Gabram-Mendola is an expert in the surgical treatment of breast cancer and management of patients at high risk for breast cancer. She has also engaged in significant efforts to improve community awareness of the earlier...
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Chronic Kidney Disease with Dr. Sumeska Thavarajah
Call from Friday May 1st, featuring Dr. Sumeska Thavarajah. Dr. Sumeska Thavarajah is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of expertise include nephrology. Dr. Thavarajah earned her M.D. at Wayne State University School of Medicine. She...
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Psychedelics with Dr. David Yaden
Call from Friday April 24th, featuring Dr. David Yaden. David B. Yaden, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. A psychological scientist by training, Dr. Yaden studies how mental health and...
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Water and the Warm Seasons - From Pools to Gardening, How Water Will Impact Your Spring and Summer with Dr. Natalie Exum
Call from Friday April 17th, 2026 featuring Dr. Natalie Exum. Dr. Natalie Exum is a water scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering. Her work focuses on linking health with water and sanitation infrastructure. She is...
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Colorectal Cancer - Why are Younger Adults Getting it? with Dr. Otis Brawley
Call from Friday April 10th, 2026 featuring Dr. Otis Brawley. Otis Brawley is a globally-recognized expert in cancer prevention and control. He has worked to reduce overscreening of medical conditions, which has revolutionized patient treatment by increasing quality of life and reducing health...
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Weight Loss and GLP-1 Agonists with Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos
Call from Friday April 3rd, 2026 lead by our host Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos (Dr. G). Dr. Galiatsatos is a pulmonary and critical care medicine physician. He is an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of obstructive lung disease, tobacco cessation, and in the care of critically ill patients in the...
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Special Episode: Community Conversations with David M. Rubenstein
A special episode featuring Dr. G in conversation with David M. Rubenstein. David M. Rubenstein is an investor, philanthropist, interviewer, author, and historian. He is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world's largest and most successful private investment firms....
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Lung Transplantation with Dr. Errol Bush, MD
Call from Friday March 27th, 2026 featuring Dr. Errol Bush, MD. Errol L. Bush, M.D., FACS, is a thoracic surgeon and surgical director of the Advanced Lung Disease and Lung Transplant Program for the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center. He also serves as director of the Ex vivo Lung...
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Burn and Wound Injury Management with Carrie Cox, RN, Certified Burn Registered Nurse
Call from Friday March 20th, 2026 featuring Carrie Cox, RN, Certified Burn Registered Nurse. Carrie Cox is a master's prepared registered nurse with over 20 years of program development and management experience in complex medical education throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. She has over 10…
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Amyloidosis - What it is and Current Treatment with Ms. Velma Henderson, RN & Former NFL Player Art Still
Call from Friday March 13th, featuring Ms. Velma Henderson, RN & former NFL Pro-Bowl Linebacker Art Still! Velma Henderson, RN, MS, CNAA, BC, is an accomplished Administrator, Consultant, Trainer and Presenter. She retired as Chief Nursing Officer at Howard University Hospital Washington, D.C....
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Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension - A Patient's Story with Shavini Fernando
Call from Friday March 6th, 2026 featuring Shavini Fernando. Shavini is a former parient of Dr. G, & is sharing her story about her Pulmonary Hypertension diagnosis. Shavini is a VR /Video Game developer turned in to MedTech Developer; "to save lives of fellow PH patients and more to put a stop…
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Rare Disease Month - Cystic Fibrosis with Dr. Natalie West
Call from Friday February 27th, 2026 featuring Dr. Natalie West. Dr. Natalie West is a pulmonary specialist in the Greater Baltimore area who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of cystic fibrosis. Her focus also includes the treatment of interstitial lung disease, lung transplantation,...
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Rare Disease Management with Medicines for Rare Diseases with Pharmacist Dr. Sara Strout
Call from Friday February 20th, 2026 featuring Dr. Sara Strout. Dr. Strout is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, focused on Cardiothoracic Transplant and Advanced Heart Failure.
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Throwback: H5N1 and Farming with Maryland's Secretary of Agriculture Kevin Atticks
This week we have a throwback episode! This call is from May 2024 and features Maryland's Secretary of Agriculture, Kevin Atticks Kevin Atticks was appointed Acting Secretary of Agriculture on Jan. 18, 2023 and sworn in as Secretary on March 2, 2023. Prior to his appointment, Atticks was CEO (and...
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From Patient to Advocate - Hear from the Director of Cure HHT with Marianne Clancy
Call from Friday February 6th, 2026 featuring Marianne Clancy, CEO of Cure HHT. Ms. Clancy has been CEO of Cure HHT for 24 years. Under her leadership, she initiated the Cure HHT research grant funding program to established and young researchers. Under her tenure, through the investment of $3…
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Perspectives of Psychiatry with Dr. Martin Steinberg
Call from Friday January 30th, 2026 featuring Dr. Martin Steinberg. Dr. Martin Steinberg is an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include adult psychiatry. He earned his M.D. from Wake…
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Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease - What is COPD? with Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos (Dr. G)
Call from Friday January 9th, 2026 lead by our host Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos (Dr. G). Dr. Galiatsatos is a pulmonary and critical care medicine physician. He is an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of obstructive lung disease, tobacco cessation, and in the care of critically ill patients in…
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Water Health - Pipes and Water with Dr. Natalie Exum
Call from Friday January 9th, 2026 featuring Dr. Natalie Exum. Dr. Natalie Exum is a water scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering. Her work focuses on linking health with water and sanitation infrastructure. She…
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Throwback: Fluoride in Water with Dr. Natalie Exum
This week we have a throwback episode due to the Holidays! This call is from November 2024 and features Dr. Natalie Exum. Dr. Natalie Exum is a water scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering. Her work focuses on...
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Headaches and Aneurysms with Dr. Anne Yacoub
Call from Friday December 19th, featuring Dr. Anne Yacoub. Anne Damian Yacoub, M.D., is a neurologist who specializes in both multiple sclerosis and headache. Her areas of expertise include the diagnosis and treatment of multiple sclerosis and other neuroimmunological disorders that involve the...
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Blood Clots with Dr. Michael Streiff
Call from Friday December 12th, featuring Dr. Michael Streiff. Dr. Streiff's major clinical interest involves the prevention and treatment of venous thromboembolism. He has written several comprehensive reviews on vena caval filters and the management of venous thromboembolism in cancer patients....
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Updates on PSA and Prostate Cancer Screening with Dr. Otis Brawley
Call from Friday December 5th, 2025 featuring Dr. Otis Brawley. Otis Brawley is a globally-recognized expert in cancer prevention and control. He has worked to reduce overscreening of medical conditions, which has revolutionized patient treatment by increasing quality of life and reducing health...
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Throwback: How to Prepare for a Primary Care Visit with Dr. G
This week we have a throwback episode due to the Holiday. This call is from August 2024, lead by our host Dr. G. Dr. Galiatsatos is a pulmonary and critical care medicine physician. He is an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of obstructive lung disease, tobacco cessation, and in the care of...
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Patient Testimony with Former NFL Pro-Bowl Linebacker Art Still
Call from Friday November 21st, featuring a very special guest, former NFL Pro-Bowl Linebacker Art Still! Art Still is one of the greatest defensive ends in University of Kentucky history, and built a remarkable 12-year NFL career, including an amazing run with the Kansas City Chiefs. Yet today,...
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Pediatric Infections - From Hand Foot Mouth to Flu; What Parents Should Know with Dr. Katie Shaw
Call from Friday November 7th, featuring Dr. Katie Shaw. Katherine Shaw, M.D., practices internal medicine and pediatrics at East Baltimore Medical Center. She received her medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and completed her residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins...
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Public Good Projects - Medical Messaging and Advocacy with Dr. Todd Wolynn
Call from Friday November 7th, featuring Dr. Todd Wolynn. Dr, Wolynn received his Medical Degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania and earned his Master of Medical Management from Carnegie Mellon University. He is CEO of Kids Plus Pediatrics an independent...
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All Things Parkinson's with Dr. Kelly Mills
Call from Friday October 31st, featuring Dr. Kelly Mills. As the director of the Johns Hopkins Movement Disorders Division, Dr. Kelly Mills cares for patients who have movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, atypical parkinsonism, dystonia, ataxia, tremor and Huntington's disease. He also...
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Breast Surgery and You - What to Expect After Breast Surgery with Dr. Sheryl Gabram-Mendola
Call from Friday October 24th, 2025 featuring Dr. Sheryl Gabram-Mendola. Dr. Gabram-Mendola is an expert in the surgical treatment of breast cancer and management of patients at high risk for breast cancer. She has also engaged in significant efforts to improve community awareness of the earlier...
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Preparing for Anesthesia - What to Know and What to Expect with Dr. Chase Johnson
Call from Friday October 17th, 2025 featuring Dr. Chase Johnson. Dr. Johnson provides direct patient care and anesthesia consultation for a range of surgical cases. His goal is to work with each patient and their caregivers, ranging from pediatric to geriatric cases, to optimize their anesthesia...
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Risk Factors and Cancer - More to the Story with Dr. Otis Brawley
Call from Friday October 10th, 2025 featuring Dr. Otis Brawley. Otis Brawley is a globally-recognized expert in cancer prevention and control. He has worked to reduce overscreening of medical conditions, which has revolutionized patient treatment by increasing quality of life and reducing health...
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What is Neuropsychology with Dr. Marcie Johnson
Call from Friday October 3rd, 2025 featuring Dr. Marcie Johnson. Dr. Marcie Johnson, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist, received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Iowa and completed her pre-doctoral internship at the Iowa City VA. She specialized in neuropsychology and is...
About this show
Our Community Calls are for the Community and their respective health needs. Starting since the early days of the pandemic in an effort to provide trusted health information and resources, Community Calls has continued to tackle public health concerns and issues. Taped with a live virtual audience of community leaders and individuals, we cover what's going on locally in Baltimore City and provide guidance on health concerns, from cancer screenings to the latest on COVID to social needs that impact health. Join our hosts, Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos (Dr. G) and Ms. Kimberly Hailey-Fair and tune in to hear about current public health updates, community concerns and successes, and listen to residents' questions get answered.Because when the community calls, we are here to answer!The Community Calls is a podcast by Medicine for the Greater Good, sponsored by Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (Johns Hopkins ICTR), in collaboration with the Sidney Kimmel Compreh
Hosted by
Dr. G & Kimberly