Patrick Basile, MD: Upstate medical graduate performs high profile double arm transplant
Dr. Richard O’Neill’s Check-Up From The Neck-Up: Who, What, Where, When, How, or… what I learned on my vacation to China
Richard Cantor, MD: PEDS to Parents – How to keep kids safe in summer
Harold Smulyan, MD: What killed Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum?
Deirdre Neilen, PhD: The Healing Muse – ‘Snow’ and ‘Things My Daughter Lost in Hospitals’
Retiring obstetrician Richard Aubry, MD, MPH reflects on his 50 year career in maternal and child health, where he estimates he has presided over 8,000 births, taught OB care to over 8,000 medical students, and published 50 scientific publications.
Read more about The Center for Maternal & Child Health and The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Upstate Medical University
Cynthia Morrow, MD, MPH, commissioner of health for Onondaga County, joins us to talk about infant mortality in the black community, and what Onondaga County is doing to address the needs of women and children. Onondaga County’s Syracuse Healthy Start Program offers services for infants, children, new moms and families. For more resources and information visit onhealthyfamilies.com.
Fourth year Upstate psychiatry resident Seetha Ramanathan is the co-author of a research study that analyzed data on U.S. teens born during the early 1980s. Her research found slightly higher rates of adolescent delinquent behaviors in this group, such as smoking, drinking, arrests and thefts, that might possibly be tied to macroeconomic conditions during the first year of life.
Dr. Frederick Sengstacke discusses a recent study suggesting that weight loss does not improve fertility in overweight women, which defies all previous teachings. Weight loss does not improve fertility
Upstate’s Dr. Donna Bacchi, and family and psychiatric nurse practitioner Ann Sweet, talk about maternal depression – prenatal and postpartum – and how it affects a baby’s development.
Read more about:
Syracuse Healthy Start program at Upstate
Onondaga County Healthy Families - 464-3100
Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic at Upstate
Certified nurse midwife 
Heather Shannon describes the role of the modern midwife and the full range of services available through Upstate University Hospital’s Midwifery Program. In addition to addressing the primary care needs of a woman, the Upstate team offers gynecological care, family planning, perimenopause and menopause management, among its services.
Dr. Frederick Sengstacke, director of Upstate’s in-vitro fertilization (IVF) program, talks about the diagnosis and treatment of infertility and reproductive endocrinology, including Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART and IVF).
University IVF Program, call 315 464-7249 to schedule an evaluation. Most insurances accepted.
Dr. Shawky Badawy talks about the evolution and success of in vitro fertilization, and a new technique now offered at Upstate called vitrification.
The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Upstate Medical University
Nature Medicine Study Demonstrates Eggs Can Mature From a Woman’s Own Egg Precursor Cells
Donna Bacchi, pediatrician and chair of Upstate’s Public Health and Preventive Medicine Dept, talks about breastfeeding – the benefits, challenges and helpful tips – in light of the fact that the prevalence of breastfeeding in our country and this community is very low.
