COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS

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COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS

Featuring community conversation television shows on topics including mental trauma and healing; authentic relationships and prejudice; health disparities; food access; affordable housing; creating an inclusive and just society; refugee health; reaching people in rural communities; food deserts; transportation; and more. All shows are on Wednesdays at 8 pm and Saturdays at noon. The half hour program is produced in studio with expert guests, community members, medical professionals, and more.

Watch the show at WBBZ-TV Channel 5 on Verizon FiOS, Spectrum, and DISH and Channel 67 on DirecTV.

COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS

Show 16. Highlighting Autism, and Understanding Equity and Neurodiversity. Featuring Mickey Rowe, a Broadway actor who is on the Autism spectrum, and Amy Pinder, a Neurodiversity-Affirming Speech Language Therapist.

Show 15. Cardiac arrest and why we need to learn CPR – Part 2. After the tragic scene on Monday Night Football with Buffalo Bill Damar Hamlin, heart health is in the forefront. Meet two of Buffalo’s leading medical experts Dr. Vijay Iyer & Dr. Kenneth Snyder. Cardiologist Dr. Demetri Yannopoulos from Minnesota who has developed a lifesaving ECMO truck. Annette Adamczak who lost her daughter in 2009 has turned tragedy into hope by teaching CPR.

Show 14. Cardiac arrest and why we need to learn CPR – Part 1. After the tragic scene on Monday Night Football with Buffalo Bill Damar Hamlin, heart health is in the forefront. Meet two of Buffalo’s leading medical experts Dr. Vijay Iyer & Dr. Kenneth Snyder. Also meet cardiologist Dr. Demetri Yannopoulos from Minnesota who has developed a lifesaving ECMO truck, and Annette Adamczak who lost her daughter in 2009 to cardiac arrest, and turned the tragedy into hope by teaching CPR.

Show 13. Who is helped by a Child Advocacy Center? Dr. Iram Ashraf, Dr. Stephen Turkovich, Rebecca Stevens and Lieutenant David Mann talk about how the Child Advocacy Center brings doctors, mental health experts and police together to help victims of child abuse.

Show 12: (Part 1 of a two part program). Who is helped by a Child Advocacy Center? Dr. Iram Ashraf, Dr. Stephen Turkovich, Rebecca Stevens, and Lieutenant David Mann talk about how the Child Advocacy Center brings doctors, mental health experts and police together to help victims of child abuse.

Show 11. Eric Weigel and Jenna Colern from Endeavor Health Services join Officer Jennifer Szymborski from the Cheektowaga Police Department to talk about how mental health clinicians are working with local law enforcement to help those struggling in our community.

Show 10. Aimana ElBahtity, Esq., Executive Director of the Medical Society of the County of Erie joins John Di Sciullo to talk about healthcare in WNY
Show 9. Community Conversations Part 9. Ann Bowback from Spectrum Health and Human Services, Emma Fabian from Evergreen Health, and Brandy Vandermark-Murray from Horizon Health talk about the dangers of opioids and other drugs that are entering WNY.