Tufts Medical Center

Dr. Jolie Straseski is a professor of pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine and the head of clinical operations for clinical chemistry, toxicology, and biochemical genetics.

Dr. Gary Horowitz is a professor of pathology at Tufts University School of Medicine and chief of clinical pathology at Tufts Medical Center.

Both have served on the College of American Pathologists Accuracy-Based Programs Committee.

And Dr. Straseski, let's start with you.

Our guest today is Dr. Paola Sebastiani.

Dr. Sebastiani is professor of medicine and the director of the Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design Center at Tufts Medical Center.

Dr. Sebastiani's research focuses on understanding interconnections between nutrition, metabolism, health, and longevity.

Amongst many other things, she and her group have made seminal findings in modeling and dissecting complex human traits by harnessing genetics and genomics.

So I'd love to hear yours.

How did you become initially interested in aging, exceptional longevity, and what made you first want to study people who live to 100?

I have to say, so the actual story, how I got involved is very strange because when I joined, before joining Tufts Medical Center, I was a faculty at Boston University for many years.

And I had a very good collaboration with, in the field of sequelae anemia.

And as such, we are joined by Dr. Carla Kuon, an internist and integrative medicine faculty member at the University of California San Francisco with over 20 years of experience.

She earned her medical degree from the University of Texas in San Antonio and went on to do internal medicine residency at Tufts Medical Center.

As both an integrative internist and integrative oncologist, she has experience in functional immunology and gut disorders, as well as long COVID.

She created and directed the inpatient hematology massage service at UCSF and has published extensively, including on C. difficile management in oncology patients.

Welcome to the Becker's Cardiology and Heart Surgery Podcast.

I'm Mariah Taylor, assistant editor, and I'm thrilled to be speaking with Sharon Klarman, assistant vice president of solid organ transplantation and VAD at Tufts Medical Center.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

I'm really excited to learn more about how you're reaching heart transplant excellence and increasing access.

[upbeat music] My guest on this episode of The Dose is Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian.

He's the director of the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University, where he's also a professor and practicing cardiologist at Tufts Medical Center.

Dr. Mozaffarian is a leading voice in the growing Food is Medicine movement.

His work focuses on building the evidence for a food system that doesn't just prevent disease, but helps improve health, and making sure that system is nutritious, equitable, and sustainable.