Call from Friday November 7th, featuring Dr. Todd Wolynn.

Dr, Wolynn received his Medical Degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania and earned his Master of Medical Management from Carnegie Mellon University. He is CEO of Kids Plus Pediatrics an independent pediatric practice in Pittsburgh, PA with three locations and 20 providers. His areas of expertise include: practice management, breastfeeding medicine, sleep medicine, medical communication, vaccine advocacy and healthcare media engagement.

In the past few years Dr. Wolynn's focus has been on: healthcare quality, social determinants of health and mental health support in the primary care setting, and confronting vaccine disinformation and weaponized anti-vaccine social media attacks. He cofounded Shots Heard Round the World (www.ShotsHeard.org) which is now operated by the Public Good Projects a non-profit supporting 'the science and art of communication for change'. Dr. Wolynn is also Board President of Trying Together, a non-profit which supports 'the work of early childhood'.

Call from Friday October 31st, featuring Dr. Kelly Mills.

As the director of the Johns Hopkins Movement Disorders Division, Dr. Kelly Mills cares for patients who have movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, atypical parkinsonism, dystonia, ataxia, tremor and Huntington's disease. He also evaluates and manages patients needing deep brain stimulation to manage their movement symptoms and provides botulinum toxin treatment for various disorders.

In his research, Dr. Mills explores the cognitive dysfunction that can occur in movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease. He is particularly interested in describing the role of the basal ganglia in cognition, especially in the context of various diseases that can affect this structure.

His work focuses on clarifying how certain treatments might impact cognitive and psychiatric problems. For instance, Dr. Mills studies how deep brain stimulation, when used to treat movement symptoms, can impact cognitive function such as attention, memory or impulsivity.

Call from Friday October 24th, 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.

She was surgeon-in-chief for the Emory Department of Surgery at Grady Memorial Hospital from 2011-2020; director of the Avon Comprehensive Breast Center at Grady, a model program for providing breast health care services to underserved communities, from 2005-2020; and deputy director of the Georgia Cancer Center for Excellence at Grady (GCEE) from 2009-2020.