Call from Friday July 11th, 2025 featuring Dr. Alba Azola.

Alba Azola, M.D., is a rehabilitation physician helping patients restore function and movement after an injury or illness. Her expertise includes neurorehabilitation and rehabilitation for swallowing disorders.

Dr. Azola completed her residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, where in her final year she was awarded the Frank L. Coulson, Jr. Award for Clinical Excellence. Prior to the residency, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Swallowing Neurophysiology Laboratory at Johns Hopkins.

Due to the holiday, this episode was pulled from out backlogs, featuring Dr. Otis Brawley!

Dr. Otis Brawley is a globally-recognized expert in cancer prevention and control. He has worked to reduce overscreening of medical conditions, which has revolutionized patient treatment by increasing quality of life and reducing health disparities.

Call from Friday June 27th, 2025 featuring Karen Shelton, LMSW.

Call from Friday June 20th, 2025 featuring Dr. Natalie Exum.

Dr. Natalie Exum is a water scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering. Her work focuses on linking health with water and sanitation infrastructure. She is currently working on community-engaged approaches to understand how drinking water exposures in Baltimore City are affecting the health of residents.

Call from Friday May 30th, 2025 featuring Dr. Corinne Pettigrew.

Dr. Pettigrew is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Leader of the Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement (ORE) Core of the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (JHADRC). Her primary research interests are in individual differences in cognition and biomarkers in older adults at risk for age-related cognitive decline and development of clinical symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) (i.e., preclinical AD). This includes examining risk and protective factors that may influence vulnerability to aging and disease among individuals with normal cognition.

Call from Friday May 24th, 2025 featuring Dr. Jenell Coleman & Margaret Greer.

Dr. Jenell Coleman is an Associate Professor in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, with a joint appointment in the Department of Medicine. A recognized expert in adolescent and young adult gynecology, her clinical focus includes managing menstruation disorders, HPV-related conditions (such as abnormal pap tests, colposcopy, laser treatments for warts, LEEPs, vulvar skin conditions), and complex vaginitis.

Margaret Greerreceived her bachelor's in Gender and Health, with minors in Science, Technology, and Society, as well as Anthropology at University of Michigan. She then completed her Masters in Health Science, which focused on the Social Factors of Health, and an epidemiology certificate at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Margaret joined the Violet Project in November, 2023, and now runs the daily operations of the project - from running the social media to writing grants and coordinating partnerships. She is passionate about sexual and reproductive health and its intersections with health equity, and is excited to be working with the Violet Project to achieve its goals and support the youth in the Baltimore and greater Maryland area!

Call from Friday May 16th, 2025 featuring Dr. Rebecca "Becky" Stone.

Dr. Rebecca Stone is an associate professor in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics. Her area of clinical expertise is gynecologic cancers, including cervical, uterine, vulvar and ovarian cancer, as well as gestational trophoblastic disease. Dr. Stone is a highly skilled surgeon with expertise in laparoscopic and robotic surgery for gynecologic tumors. She also serves as director of the Gynecology Enhanced Recovery after Surgery initiative, an innovative, multidisciplinary program that improves recovery and healing time after major abdominal surgery, as well as minimizes health care costs for patients.

Special thanks to Dr. Marcie Johnson, who filled in for Dr. G this week!

Call from friday May 9th, 2025 featuring Dr. Sheryl Gabram-Mendola.

Dr. Gabram-Mendola is an expert in the surgical treatment of breast cancer and management of patients at high risk for breast cancer. She has also engaged in significant efforts to improve community awareness of the earlier detection of breast cancer in underserved minority women, to meet the rehabilitation needs of breast cancer patients, and to conduct analyses on the impact of various quality metrics and algorithms on patient care at Grady Memorial Hospital.