the NUANCE // a community health podcast.

Today we get to have a conversation with Dr. Azza Gadir, PhD, an expert in immunology who completed her postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital. Her published research is focused on immunology and the role of the gut microbiome in protecting against diseases early in life. For this work, she holds issued and pending patents and has collaborated with industry partners to accelerate the discovery of microbiome-related immunotherapies for food allergies. Azza currently serves as the Director of Research and Development at Seed Health. She grew up in London and received her PhD at 26 in immunology from University College London.

Dr. Ellen Vora received her MD from Columbia University medical school and received her BA from Yale University in English. She is a board-certified psychiatrist, acupuncturist and yoga teacher. Dr. Vora takes a holistic, functional-medicine approach in addressing mental health through focusing on diet, sleep, stress and other lifestyle changes. She considers the whole person to identify the root cause of the problem. Dr. Vora has done corporate wellness presentations at companies such as Etsy, Refinery29, and Allen and Co! She also leads an online small group to teach participants holistic techniques to manage depression, anxiety, insomnia, ADHD, or bipolar and creating optimal mental health.

Our guest today is Dr. Aly Cohen, a triple board-certified doc in internal medicine, rheumatology, and integrative medicine, who also is a trained specialist in environmental health. She specializes in rheumatologist ailments as well as mental health issues, dementia prevention, obesity, and women’s health. Her practice founded in 2011, Integrative Rheumatology Associates P.C., focuses on both traditional western medical management of rheumatological ailments, as well as integrative options for total “wellness”, such as acupuncture, diet and exercise counseling, environmental toxin counseling, and much more! Dr. Cohen’s work in environmental chemical exposure has also led her to collaborate with the Environmental Working Group. She co-edited the "Integrative Environmental Health" textbook for the Weil/Oxford University Press academic series in 2017 and her new book, “Non-Toxic: Living Healthy in a Chemical World”, was just released in September, 2020, which is a book I HIGHLY recommend!