Get Healthy Harlem

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We sat down with Dr. Mary T. Bassett, former Deputy Director of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention for New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to discuss high blood pressure in Harlem and the impact of salt on hypertension.

Emmanuel L. Durham, MHSA, Center Director of Community Healthcare Network Helen B. Atkinson Health Center discusses the work of the Helen B. Atkinson Center and the health issues affecting Harlem.

Rabia Tahir, Pharm.D is a pharmacist and professor at Touro College of Pharmacy located on 125th Street in the heart of Harlem. She comes from a family of doctors and pharmacists, and loves teaching. As a young adult she was a tutor and began her teaching career during her residency at Long Island University Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences. After that, she became a faculty member at St. John's University College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions in Queens. She also served as an adjunct faculty at College of Mount Saint Vincent Nursing School. Two years later, she joined the faculty at Touro College of Pharmacy. Here she talks about how Touro is different from other graduate pharmacy programs-and how Touro is trying to change the way that pharmacists serve patients.

Dr. McGregorDr. Carlton McGregor, an internist and pulmonary (lung diseases) specialist who has been living in Washington Heights and practicing medicine there since he finished Harvard Medical School years ago, tells us why he became a doctor and the challenges he faced along the way.

We sat down with Dr. Hutcherson to talk about how sex is an important part of overall health.

Vickie Powell, MS, RPh, a busy pharmacy director at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, received a wake-up call from her doctor and took charge of her health.