Call from Friday February 27th, 2026 featuring Dr. Natalie West.

Dr. Natalie West is a pulmonary specialist in the Greater Baltimore area who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of cystic fibrosis.

Her focus also includes the treatment of interstitial lung disease, lung transplantation, COPD, asthma, and pulmonary hypertension. She also manages patients in the medical intensive care unit with acute respiratory failure caused by asthma, pneumonia, COPD, and the acute respiratory distress syndrome, as well as other conditions such as gastrointestinal bleeding, pulmonary embolism, diabetic ketoacidosis, and shock from sepsis, hypovolemia, and heart disease.

Dr. West also serves as the associate program director of the Johns Hopkins Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program and plays an active role in recruitment of new fellows and mentoring fellows in the division.

Call from Friday February 20th, 2026 featuring Dr. Sara Strout.

Dr. Strout is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, focused on Cardiothoracic Transplant and Advanced Heart Failure.

This week we have a throwback episode!

This call is from May 2024 and features Maryland's Secretary of Agriculture, Kevin Atticks

Kevin Atticks was appointed Acting Secretary of Agriculture on Jan. 18, 2023 and sworn in as Secretary on March 2, 2023. Prior to his appointment, Atticks was CEO (and founder) of Grow & Fortify, a company supporting value-added agricultural organizations and the businesses they represent. Grow & Fortify published the first assessment of the state's value-added agricultural industry, illustrating the expansive impact generated by this sector, which includes wineries, creameries, meat processing, agritourism, equine and dozens of other industry segments.

Atticks was also the Executive Director of the Maryland Wineries Association, Brewers Association of Maryland and the Maryland Distillers Guild, and served as the President of the Maryland Agricultural Resource Council, and the Chair of the WineAmerica State & Regional Associations Advisory Council.​

Atticks formerly served on the University of Maryland College of Agriculture's Global Leadership Council, the board of Future Harvest and the board of the Maryland Tourism Coalition.​

Call from Friday February 6th, 2026 featuring Marianne Clancy, CEO of Cure HHT.

Ms. Clancy has been CEO of Cure HHT for 24 years. Under her leadership, she initiated the Cure HHT research grant funding program to established and young researchers. Under her tenure, through the investment of $3 Min seed grants since 2004, HHT research funding has been leveraged nearly $60M in private and public investment. She has been instrumental in providing the patient voice to the design of HHT clinical research trials.

Marianne has expanded access to expert HHT care through the establishment and management of 33 HHT Centers of Excellence in North America and 25 centers globally. Her work in obtaining release of the HHT gene patents led to the launch of genetic testing for HHT in North America. Her team has led collaborations to enable the robust growth of the International Scientific Conferences in HHT since 2001 as the sole sponsor of these convenings.

Call from Friday January 30th, 2026 featuring Dr. Martin Steinberg.

Dr. Martin Steinberg is an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include adult psychiatry. He earned his M.D. from Wake Forest University. He completed a residency and a fellowship in psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Dr. Steinberg's interests include depression, agitation and related behavioral symptoms in Alzheimer's; the relationship between physical exercise and dementia; and dementia in the assisted living and nursing home setting.

Call from Friday January 9th, 2026 lead by our host Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos (Dr. G).

Dr. Galiatsatos is a pulmonary and critical care medicine physician. He is an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of obstructive lung disease, tobacco cessation, and in the care of critically ill patients in the Medical ICU. He is a member of the Obstructive Lung Disease Group at Johns Hopkins, oversees the Tobacco Treatment Clinic and provides teaching to medical students and residents at Johns Hopkins.

Call from Friday January 9th, 2026 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.

This week we have a throwback episode due to the Holidays!

This call is from November 2024 and features 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.