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April 19, 2024

Loneliness

Stan, Clarence, and Barry chat with Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad about loneliness. Dr. Holt-Lunstad is a professor of psychology and neuroscience and director of the Social Connection & Health Lab at Brigham Young University. Sh...

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April 12, 2024

Organ Donation with LifeSource

The Health Chatter team chats with Susan Mau Larson and Nichole Salaam from LifeSource about organ donation. Susan Mau Larson, the Chief Administrative Officer at LifeSource, has an extensive career advancing organ donation a...

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April 5, 2024

Narcissism

Stand and Clarence chat with Brandon Jones about narcissism. Brandon is the Executive Director of the Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health (MACMH). His background is in Sociology, Community Psychology, and Marri...

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March 29, 2024

Weight Loss Meds

Stan and Clarence chat with Dr. Sarah Molasky - a local pharmacist - about weight loss medications. Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.com Brought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities t...

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March 22, 2024

Food Insecurity

Stan and Clarence chat with Sophia Lenarz-Coy about food insecurity. Sophia Lenarz-Coy serves as the Executive Director of The Food Group, where she thinks creatively, collaborates with community partners, and brings good, cu...

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March 8, 2024

Childhood Diabetes

Stan and Clarence chat with Teresa Ambroz and Julie Dalton about childhood diabetes. Teresa manages the Diabetes and Health Behavior Unit at the Minnesota Department of Health guiding efforts to prevent diabetes and improve t...

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March 1, 2024

Long-Term Care, Longevity, Loneliness, & Aging

Stan, Clarence, and Dr. Barry Baines (Health Chatter's new medical advisor) chat with Dr. Joseph Gaugler about long-term care, longevity, loneliness, and aging. Dr. Gaugler is a distinguished University McKnight Professor and...

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Feb. 17, 2024

Illusion of Immortality

Stan, Clarence, and the team chat about the illusion of immortality. Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.com Brought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships....

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Feb. 9, 2024

Water & Health

Stan and Clarence chat with Dave Hokanson, Sandeep Burman, Alycia Overbo, and Chad Kolstad from the Minnesota Department of Health about water in relation to public health. Listen along as the the MDH team shares their wealth...

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Feb. 2, 2024

Hospice Care

Dr. Barry Baines is back! Stan, Clarance, and Dr. Baines chat about Hospice care. Dr. Baines is a recently retired family physician and hospice & palliative medicine specialist with more than 25 years of experience as a hospi...

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Jan. 26, 2024

Pharmageddon

Stan and Clarence chat with Dr. Lenora Newsome and Dr. Rhonda Chakolis about the pharmaceuticalization of medicine and Pharmageddon - three days of nationwide walkouts at CVS and Walgreens. Listen along as the group discusses...

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Jan. 19, 2024

Unintentional Firearm Deaths

Stan and Clarence chat with Dr. Tom Kottke and Anthony Butler about unintentional firearm injuries and gun violence prevention. Dr. Kottke first joined Health Partners in 2004 and is now the Medical Director for Well-Being fo...

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Jan. 12, 2024

Sorrow, Hope and Health

Stan and Clarence chat with Patty Wetterling. Patty Wetterling was a stay-at-home mother of four children when her world was rocked by the abduction of her 11 year old son Jacob, on October 22, 1989. With a shattered heart, P...

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Jan. 5, 2024

Prostate Cancer

Stan and Clarence chat with Dr. Robert Turesky about prostate cancer. Dr. Turesky currently serves as a Professor in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Minnesota. Before this professorship, he served a...

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Dec. 31, 2023

New Year More Health Chatter

Stan, Clarence, and the Health Chatter team - Diondra Howard, Sheridan Nygard, Erin Collins, Maddy Levine-Wolf, and Matthew Campbell - reflect on the past year and chat about exciting things to come.

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Dec. 29, 2023

Cardiac Rehab

Stan and Clarence chat with Dr. Randal J. Thomas about the history and importance of cardiac rehab. Dr. Thomas is a board-certified internal medicine specialist with fellowship training in preventive cardiology. He attended t...

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Dec. 22, 2023

Spirituality

Stan chats with Rabbi Matt Goldberg about spirituality. Rabbi Goldberg graduated from Hebrew College and ordained in 2023. Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Matt received a B.A. in English with a Minor in A...

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Dec. 15, 2023

AI in Healthcare

Stan and Clarence chat with Dr. Jigar Patel about the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. Dr. Patel serves as the Senior Director in Product Management for Healthcare at Orcal. Throughout this time, the...

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Dec. 8, 2023

2023 Decriminalization of Paraphernalia and Residue

Stan and Clarence chat with Pearl Evans, Dr. Ronda Chakolis, and Eddie Krumpotich about harm reduction and the Steve Rummler Hope Legislation.

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Dec. 1, 2023

Grief and Health

Listen along as Stan and Clarence chat about the relationship between grief and health. Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.com Brought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innov...

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Nov. 17, 2023

Minnesota State Cancer Plan

Stan and Clarence chat with Dr. Sumedha Penheiter about Minnesota's State Cancer Plan. Dr. Penheiter - an experienced cancer expert - holds a doctoral degree in biochemistry and genetics from the University of Nebraska-Lincol...

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Nov. 10, 2023

Long Covid

Stan and Clarence chat with Dr. Jay Desai and Kate Murray about long covid. Dr. Desai - experienced epidemiologist - serves as the Section Manager of Chronic Disease and Environmental Epidemiology at the Minnesota Department ...

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Nov. 4, 2023

Motivation

Listen along as Stan and Clarence chat about motivation. Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.com Brought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships. More about ...

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Oct. 27, 2023

Stroke - A Patient Story

Stan and Clarence chat with Dr. Haithum Hussein and Tony Moore about the patient perspective of strokes. Listen along as Tony shares his patient story. Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.com Brought to you in suppo...

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