I am beyond thrilled to announce that the Heart of Northside is one of the recipients of the Northside Community Fund Annual Grant! This fund, which is professionally managed by the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, sponsors community projects and nonprofit organizations in the Northside area. Please click here to find out Read more
The Mediterranean Diet has been talked about a lot lately, and given all the confusion about different diets I think it’s important to understand what it is, and what it isn’t. The Mediterranean Diet isn’t really a “diet”, exactly. In the 1940’s, a physiologist and scientist named Ancel Keyes, PhD, Read more
“We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.”-Joseph Campbell “Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”-Henri Nouwen On May 27th of this year, 2023, our family grew through marriage. My son, Josh, Read more
On July 10th 2023, we had the first of what I hope to be many programs designed to bring medical information into the community, where it’s needed most. In collaboration with Pfizer and The Christ Hospital’s Women’s Heart Center, we hosted an in-person portion of the Voices for the Heart Read more
It’s now been a year since I started to create the Heart of Northside in what was once the old North Church. One of my first experiences in the neighborhood was the Fourth of July Parade last year, an iconic event that was the perfect introduction to the area. Northside Read more
I know the look of fear and frustration that appears on all of my clients faces when I suggest they quit smoking. Then I enjoy the look of surprise that replaces it when I tell them that I know how hard it is. Stopping smoking is one of the hardest Read more
Everyone should understand their blood pressure, what it is and how to control it. First, what IS blood pressure? When you fill up a balloon with water, the water inside pushes out on the skin of the balloon. Similar to water in a water balloon, blood puts pressure on the Read more
Many people wonder how physicians know when to treat certain medical problems. For example, how do we decide what high blood pressure is? How did we figure out how to treat high blood pressure? How long do we have to treat it? For so many of my patients, it seems Read more
When your doctor refers to “cardiovascular risk”, they usually mean how likely you are to have a heart attack, stroke, or significant blockage of another artery in the next 10 years. Cardiovascular risk is something your doctor can estimate with information from your medical visits. Why should you care about Read more
Heart disease has been the number one killer of American men and women at least since the 1920s. For the past few decades we were seeing improvements in life expectancy, mostly because of improvements in outcomes from heart disease. Sadly, life expectancy has gone down for the second year in Read more