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Recent Guests:

Attorney Allison McCrary - Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph

Dr. Oscar Barbarin - Professor of Psychology - Tulane University


Dr. John Finley - Chairman - Department of Food Science - Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge


Stephanie Barksdale - Director -Tulane Center for Social Entrepreneurship - Assistant to President Cowen

Dr. Cheryl Taylor - Director - Southern University at Baton Rouge School of Nursing Research

Nyah, John, Esther and Nora - Occupy New Orleans

Dr. Charles Figley - Director - Tulane Traumatology Institute -Tulane University School of Social Work

Dr. Jose Juan Bautista - Director - Xavier Center for Economic Education - Xavier University

Dr. Nghana Lewis - Director - Tulane University African and African Diaspora Studies Program

Attorney Shakti Belway - Southern Poverty Law Center - Author: Access Denied

Dr. Clyde Robertson - Associate Professor of History  - Tuskegee University

Dr. David Berris - Chairman - Department of Anthropology  - University of New Orleans

Representative Jared Brossett - Louisiana House of Representatives - District 97

Dr. Stacy Drury - Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology - Tulane University School of Medicine

Dr. Clair Thoreson - Assistant Professor - Education - University of New Orleans

Dr. Andre Perry - Associate Director for Education Initiatives - Loyola University

Dr. Peter Scharf -Criminologist -  Research Professor - Tulane University School of Global Health

Dr. Tara O'Neill - Policy Manager - Cowen Institute - Tulane University

Dr. Victor Ukpolo - Chancellor - Southern University in New Orleans

Dr. Donisha Dunn - Clinical Instructor of Internal Medicine and Psychiatry - Tulane School of Medicine

Representative Patricia Haynes-Smith - Chairperson - Louisiana Legislative  Black Caucus

Councilmember Kristin Gisleson Palmer - New Orleans City Council - District C

Dr. Vimal Kishore - Chair - Division of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences - Xavier University

Councilmember Cynthia Hedge-Morrell - New Orleans City Council - District D

Bruce Greenstein - Secretary - Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals

Dr. Amy Bellone-Hite - Chair - Xavier University Department of Sociology

Councilman Jon Johnson  - New Orleans City Council - District E

Norris Henderson - Executive Director - Voice of the Ex-Offender

John Thompson - Director - Resurrection After Exoneration

Elder Carolyn Matthews - 1st Assistant Pastor - Faith FGBC

Dr. So'Nia Gilkey - Assistant Professor - Tulane School of Social Work

Carmen Weisner, LCSW, ACSW - Executive Director National Association of Social Workers/La

Dr. Vivian Chen - Professor - LSUHSC School of Public Health; Director - LA Tumor Registry

Dr. Elizabeth Fontham - Dean - LSU Health Sciences Center School of Public Health

Ron Gonzales - Executive Director - New Orleans Mission

Leah Berger, MPH - Tulane School of Medicine - Director of Community Affairs Programs

Dr. Edward Trapido, Professor; Associate Dean for Research - LSUHSC School of Public Health

Councilman at Large Arnie Fielkow - City of New Orleans Council President

Dr. LuAnn White - Director of the Tulane Center of Applied Environmental Health

Mike Andry - C.E.O. Excelth Corporation

Dr. Melinda Sothern - Professor of Research/Clinical Exercise Physiologist - LSU Health Sciences Center

Martha Kegel - Excecutive Director - Unity of Greater New Orleans

Calynn Bunol R.D. - Dietician

Alan Levine  - Secretary - Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals

Dr. Kathleen Kennedy - Dean - Xavier University College of Pharmacy

Adam Babich, JD - Professor of Law,  Director  - Tulane Environmental Law Clinic

Dr. Timothy Harlan - Asst. Clinical Professor of Medicine  - Tulane University School of Medicine

Representative Kirk Talbot - Louisiana House of Representatives

Congressman Anh "Joseph" Cao - United States House of Representatives

Benjamin Clapper - Executive Director - Louisiana Right to Life

Michael Schwam Baird M.S. - Research Manager - The Cowen Institute

Dr. Liwei Chen - Assistant Professor - Nutritional Epidemiology - LSU Health Sciences Center

Dr. Timothy Church - Professor - The Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Dr. Norman Francis - President - Xavier University

Dr. Patrick Quinlan - Chief Executive Officer - Ochsner Hospital

Dr. Lydia Bazzano - Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine - Tulane School of Public Health

Dr. Carl Lavie - Director of Exercise Laboratories - Ochsner Hospital

Dr. Benjamin Sachs - Vice President, Tulane University - Dean, Tulane Medical School

Dr. Catherine Taylor - Asst. Professor - Community Health Sciences - Tulane School of Public Health

Dr. Conchetta Fulton - Chair - Division of Clinical Sciences, Xavier University College of Pharmacy

Dr. Anthony Johnson - Psychiatrist - Substance Abuse Specialist

Sybil Richard, RPh, JD - Deputy Secretary - Louisiana Department of Health and Human Services

Dr. Romell Madison - Dentist - Louisiana Board of Dentistry

Dr. Joia Crear - OB/GYN - Clinical Director - City of N.O. Health Department

Dr. Fred Lopez - LSUHSC Infectious Disease Specialist - Professor of Medicine, HOP Clinic

Dr. Barbara Favre - Dean - Southern University School of Social Work

Dr. Cheryl Taylor - Professor of Nursing - Southern Univ. School of Nursing

Dr. Karen DeSalvo - Tulane Center for Health Equity Research, Tulane School of Medicine

Senator Cheryl Gray Evans  - Louisiana State Senate

Dr. Arthur Strauss - Psychiatrist

Dr. James Moises - ER Physician

Ms. Susan Stokes - Foundation for Historical Louisiana

Dr. Larry Hollier - Chancellor, LSU Health Sciences Center - Dean, LSU Medical School

Senator Diana Bajoie - LSU Health Sciences Center

Ms. Leah Chase - Dookie Chase Restaurant

Dr. Kevin Stephens - City of New Orleans Health Director

Mr. Ed Poindexter, MBA, R.Ph. - Healthcare Consultant

Dr. Maureen Shuh - Professor of Immunology - Xavier University

Dr. Wayne Harris - Dean,  Xavier University College of Pharmacy

Honorable Cynthia Willard-Lewis - New Orleans City Council

Dr. Keith C. Ferdinand - Cardiologist

Dr. Leonard Jack - Healthcare Researcher  - LSU Health Sciences Center

Dr. Martin Irwin - Psychiatrist  - LSU Health Systems

Ms. Molly Kimball, RD - Times Picayune Columnist, Dietician

Dr. Takeisha Davis - Louisiana State Health Department

Ms. Allene McCann, MSN - Hospice Nurse

Dr. Anthony Jase - Sports Medicine Physician

Dr. James Hightower - Pastoral Counselor - McFarland Institute

Dr. Calvin Williams - Surgeon

Dr. Charles Feucht - ASCP - Geriatric Pharmacotherapy

Ms. Claudia Schlosberg - ASCP

Ms. Denise Graves - The MICAH Project

Dr. Dwayne Steele - Director of Pharmacy - LSU Health Systems

Dr. Lanny Foss - Dean - Midway College of Pharmacy