After Hours - Season 4

EP. 1: After Hours: Race Car Driving Ophthalmologist

December 9th 2021

In this episode of After Hours, we will take you to the racetrack, where Patrick Staropoli, an ophthalmologist at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, enjoys his weekends behind the wheel of the Jim McCoy Racing Chevrolet. He took first place at Auburndale Raceway in Winter Haven, Florida. Let’s find out what drives this Harvard graduate to chase the checkered flag.

EP. 2: After Hours: Creating Balance

December 8th 2021

It is important for mental health care providers to take care of their own mental health – and creativity can be a great way to do that. In this installment of After Hours, Frank A. Clark, MD, shares his creative background and love for writing poetry.

EP. 3: After Hours: Cookie Decorator

December 7th 2021

Kelly Pillinger, infectious diseases clinical pharmacy specialist and PGY2 infectious diseases residency program director at the University of Rochester Medical Center and Strong Memorial Hospital, discusses how her cookie decorating hobby helps her relieve job stress. She decorates cookies for different seasons, holidays, and events, and started decorating due to the pandemic because it was something she was always interested in.

EP. 4: After Hours: Handbell Choir

December 6th 2021

Alexandra Yonts, MD, joins After Hours to discuss her festive hobbies of playing in a handbell choir and making toffee for family, friends, and colleagues.

EP. 5: After Hours: Passion for Baking

November 18th 2021

Marc J. Braunstein, MD, PhD, discusses his passion for baking, how he got into the hobby, his advice for aspiring bakers, and his recipe for matcha madeleines!

EP. 6: After Hours: Fitness as Meditation

November 17th 2021

In this interview, we discuss Dr. Suneel Chilukuri’s fitness regimen and how he uses it as a way of meditation. He talks about how he had to adjust his schedule to the pandemic and how other physicians can schedule their own “me time.”

EP. 7: After Hours: Traveling Together to Capture the Perfect Shot

November 16th 2021

Friends and colleagues, Drs Alexander Shor and Jim Janakievski practice dentistry in the Seattle area, but whenever they can escape their respective practices, they are headed on a trek to capture landscape photographs of remote and beautiful areas. Traveling around the globe and throughout the US, the two friends continue to seek out grand and stunning moments that they can expertly capture in pictures.

EP. 8: After Hours: Passion for Movies

November 15th 2021

For many, getting lost in a movie serves a respite from the stressors of day-to-day life. This is certainly the case of urologist Justin Dubin, MD, whose lifelong love of cinema has resulted in the creation of a movie-related podcast and also inspired him to write a screenplay. Dubin is an andrology fellow at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois and co-host of the men’s health podcast Man Up.

EP. 9: After Hours: Passion for Fitness

November 11th 2021

Aparna Parikh’s passion for fitness started early on with a love for competitive tennis in high school and college. Throughout her time in pre-med, Parikh continued to stay active, but it was a move to the Bay area during her fellowship that gave her an appreciation of the great outdoors. She began biking to work and even swimming in the San Francisco Bay, leading into her first triathlon, which she completed while pregnant with her first child. In addition to discussing her passion for being physically active, she describes how she balances remaining active with saving lives at the Mass General Cancer Center and spending time with her family.

EP. 10: After Hours: Animating HIV Education

November 10th 2021

Dr. MarkAlain Dery is a multimedia infectious disease doctor based in New Orleans, who plays music and creates animation to education the public about HIV, COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. Dery is the founder of WHIV-LP, a local radio station aimed educating the public, not just about infectious diseases and the importance of getting vaccinated, but also other public health issues such as the impact of climate change.

EP. 11: After Hours: Veterinary Leadership Book Club

November 8th 2021

In this episode of After Hours, we are joined by Family Pet Health’s owner and chief empowerment officer Michael Shirley to hear about the Veterinary Leadership Book Club. Shirley explains the importance of the book club and how through reading and discussions, he hopes they can make the veterinary industry a better place for everyone.

EP. 12: After Hours: Radio Host, Art Collector, Advocate

November 4th 2021

Dázon Dixon Diallo, founder and president, SisterLove Inc, a 32-year-old sexual reproductive health rights and justice organization, is also the host of her own weekly radio show, “Sisters’ Time/WomenSpeak” on WRFG, 89.3 FM, and an avid art collector and creator. Here she opens up about her passion for storytelling, memorable guests, and her love for handcrafted art.

EP. 13: After Hours: In the Friendly Skies

November 3rd 2021

Major Michael Brisson, DO, is a third-year family medicine resident in Alabama. He came to our attention through the American Osteopathic Association, and we had spoken with him once before, briefly, but did not know at the time that he flies Black Hawk helicopters every week as part of the Alabama National Guard. More inquiry revealed that medicine and aviation have been in his family and his life since he was a child – his mother worked for airlines, his father was a general surgeon— and he learned to fly before he learned to drive. His wife is also a Black Hawk pilot; they met in the Army, courted and married in the Army, and she flew an attack chopper as the chase aircraft when he flew the lead medevac “bird” on rescue missions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other theaters. They have 2 beautiful children and lead an otherwise “normal” American family life.

EP. 14: After Hours: Passion for Sailing

November 2nd 2021

A leader in the field of ophthalmology, William Culbertson, MD, is a professor of ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami. Living on the coast, he has developed a passion for sailing. Come sail away with Dr. Culbertson aboard his boat, Aqueous Humor V.

EP. 15: After Hours: Passion for CrossFit

November 1st 2021

Allison Betof Warner, MD, PhD, a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses her passion for CrossFit and how she began her journey.

EP. 16: After Hours: Emergency Medicine Musician

October 28th 2021

It’s almost a cliché, that music can heal the soul, but a doctor in Michigan uses his own musicianship as a balm against the wear and tear of emergency department work in the time of COVID-19. Keith Reynolds from Medical Economics sat down with Dr. Jasper Yung to talk composers and how music can bring relief to all doctors.

EP. 17: After Hours: The Magic of Storytelling

October 27th 2021

Physicians of every kind have an immense privilege: they get to hear their patients’ stories. In this installment of After Hours, Fredrick J. Matzner, MD, tells the story of how he first realized that he wanted to do therapy and psychiatry and shares his love of storytelling through his act as an amateur magician.

EP. 18: After Hours: DJing at Sci-Fi Conventions

October 26th 2021

Marwan Bukhari, MBBS, PhD, joins After Hours to discuss his hobby of DJing at Sci-Fi conventions.

EP. 19: After Hours: Spooky and Supernatural

October 25th 2021

From movies to books about the supernatural, Bren Cole from Fenway Health discusses her love all of things related to horror and scary things. Everywhere she travels, Bren likes to see the local spooky places and haunted houses. She enjoys learning about the history behind many of the supernatural tales. She discusses her trips to different places including New Orleans and the voodoo culture as well as her wish to visit the hotel that is the inspiration for the book and movie The Shining.