RWJBarnabas Healthy Together

Join us for a discussion with Colin O’Reilly, DO, FAAP, FACOP, FCCM, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Children’s Specialized Hospital (CSH) to learn more about their innovative Chronic Illness Management Program. Dr. O’Reilly will provide an overview of this comprehensive program which provides the patient and family with a structured, comprehensive care plan to address their medical, nutritional, psychological, and communication needs to enhance the child’s total well-being. He will also address what a typical four-week inpatient stay in the program consists of and how success is measured.

Hear from Su Wang, MD, Medical Director, Center for Asian Health, and internal medicine physician at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center (CBMC), an RWJBarnabas Health facility, and a member of RWJBarnabas Health Medical Group as she shares her breast cancer journey and the lessons she learned.  Su’s breast surgeon Sarah Schaefer, MD, at CBMC joins the conversation sharing her perspective as a breast surgeon for more than two decades in practice.  From the way screening, and treatment has changed to genetics and recovery, hear from one of our doctors on the best things that women can do to reduce their risk and protect themselves from breast cancer. RWJBarnabas Health together with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the state’s only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center provides patients with access to the most advanced treatment options close to home.

Last year, Margarita Camacho, MD, Surgical Director of Cardiac Transplantation, RWJBarnabas Health, completed her 650 th career heart transplant, hitting a milestone of more transplant surgeries than 80 percent of the transplant teams in the nation. Today, she is one of only 200 women in the United States to become a board-certified thoracic surgeon, with even fewer specializing in heart transplants. In this episode, Dr. Camacho discusses her unique journey to becoming a cardiothoracic surgeon and how hertrailblazing career has forged a new path for women in medicine.

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Amisha Malhotra, Infectious Disease Expert, from The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Hospital at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, part of the Children’s Health Network at RWJBarnabas Health, and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Dr. Malhotra is also the co-director of the RWJBarnabas Health Antimicrobial Stewardship Program.She will discuss how to navigate the germosphere this winter with your kids with an emphasis on the risks regarding Polio, influenza, RSV, Rhinovirus, Enterovirus, Monkey Pox and COVID-19.

Tune in on a discussion with Dr. Rybinnik, Vascular Neurologist at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Associate Professor, Clerkship Director, Department of Neurology Division of Stroke and Neurocritical Care, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, on how research and medical advancement has greatly improved the treatment of stroke in the past decade, offering new hope for a complete recovery for many more people. Dr. Rybinnik will discuss how the “Code Stroke Team” at the Advanced Comprehensive Stroke Center at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital can pinpoint the exact location of the clot that is blocking the blood flow to the brain through rapid deployment of our advanced imaging. In some cases advanced surgical procedures allow a neurosurgeon or neurointerventionalist to manually remove the blockage or stop the bleeding. Based on participation in international clinical trials, we are learning that giving the clot busting medication is now safer to administer in more cases than previously thought. Still, Dr. Rybinnik will discuss how the most important intervention starts with YOU. Recognizing the signs of stroke and calling 911 system immediately remains the best way to ensure a loved one can recover from a stroke. In addition to teaching us a simple acronym to remember the signs, Dr. Rybinnik will also discuss how rehabilitation, if appropriate, can provide many stroke patients with the opportunity of restoring as much prestroke functionality and quality of life as possible.