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COMBATING AMERICA’S OPIOID CRISIS ONE PILL AT A TIME: Keeping Unused Prescription Pain Medication Leaves Households Vulnerable 
Jonah Stulberg, MD, PhD, MPH, general surgeon and opioid stewardship lead at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and director of opioid reduction efforts for the Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaborative (ISQIC)
More information: 
DEA Drug Disposal Locator
Safe Medication Storage and Disposal
Understanding the Opioid Epidemic
What You Need to Know About Opioids
What are the Signs of Opioid Misuse?

WHY DO SENIORS REFUSE HELP? 
Lee Lindquist, MD, MPH, MBA
Chief of Geriatrics at Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Read More:
AARP: Helping Older Adults Accept Caregiving Support at Home
WTTW: Why Do Some Seniors Refuse Home-Based Help?



GET YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME WHEN IT COMES TO BACK TO SCHOOL SPORTS SAFETY
Brian Babka, MD
Sports Medicine Specialist, Northwestern Medicine Regional Medical Group

Orthopaedics and Spine Surgery
Alpesh Patel, MD
Director of Orthopaedic Spine Surgery and Co-Director of the Northwestern Spine Center at Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 

 

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FERTILITY AND REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE
Eve Feinberg, MD
Advancements in Fertility and Reproductive Medicine

 

Northwestern Medicine Lou and Jean Malnati Brain Tumor Institute

James P. Chandler, MD (Far Left) and Roger Stupp, MD (Far Right), co-directors of the Northwestern Medicine Malnati Brain Tumor Institute
New Hope for Innovative Treatment Options in Brain Cancer Care

 

ORGAN DONATION
John Friedewald, MD, Medical Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation at Northwestern Memorial Hospital
The importance of becoming an organ donor

 

BLUHM CARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE
Clyde Yancy, MD, Chief of Cardiology
New approaches and better outcomes to treating heart disease

 

WEIGHT MANAGEMENT AND BARIATRIC SURGERY
Matthew R. Pittman, MD, Medical Director
Weight Management and Bariatric Surgery Program at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital
Five Strategies for Healthy Eating During the Holidays

 

UROLOGY
Edward Schaeffer, MD, Chair of Urology
Prostate Cancer: Signs and Treatment Options

 
GERIATRICS
Lee A Lindquist, MD, MPH, MBA, Division Chief of Geriatrics


 NEUROLOGY
Babak Jahromi, MD, PhD, Chief of Cerebrovascular/Neurointerventional Surgery

Check back for more interviews with our experts in the upcoming months.

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