Category: Common Health

Live & local call-in on Public Health Challenges in Maine. Happens on the 3rd Wednesday of every month from 10 – 11 AM. More information at http://www.commonhealth.org/

Common Health 9/16/15

Host: Jim Fisher
Engineer: John Greenman

Issue: Future of Public Health

Key Discussion Points:
A) What are some of the big challenges facing people in Maine in the future?
B) What new problems have emerged in recent years?
C) What is the impact of policy decisions at the state-level on access to and quality of health care?
D) What policies should we pursue to assure safe environments and access to health care services?

Guests:
A) Dr. Philip Caper M.D. Held professorships in Medicine and Community Medicine at Dartmouth and the University of Massachusetts and has been an Adjunct Lecturer in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health and a Research Associate at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. pcpcaper21@gmail.com
B) Dora Anne Mills, MD, MPH, FAAP Vice President for Clinical Affairs, University of New England (UNE)
207-221-4627 dmills2@une.edu

Common Health 7/15/15

Host: Jim Fisher
Engineer: John Greenman

Program Topic: Bicycles

Key Discussion Points:

A) How big is bicycling in Maine?
B) What are the health benefits and risks of bicycling?
C) How can we create or promote pro-bicycle culture?
D) How can listeners get started on bike driving again?

Guests:

Brian Allenby, Communications Director
Bicycle Coalition of Maine
P.O. Box 15272
34 Preble St.
Portland, ME 04112
(207) 623-4511

Jim Merkel www.radicalsimplicity.org/jim_merkel.html Jim Merkel is the author of Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth and directs the Global Living

Common Health 6/17/15

Host: Jim Fisher
Engineer: John Greenman

Program Topic: Brownfields: Cleaning up toxic sites

Key Discussion Points:
a) What is a brownfield?
b) When is the case so serious that it becomes a superfund site?
c) What kinds of health risks are caused by brownfields?
d) What are the steps for cleaning a toxic site?

Guests:
Robert Simons, PhD, MRP
Professor of Planning and Urban Studies
2121 Euclid Ave. UR 223, Cleveland, OH 44115
216-687-5258,  216 401 1700
R.SIMONS@csuohio.edu

Richard Campbell, President
CEG Environmental
Maine & New Hampshire 
(207) 253-1990
www.cegenvironmental.com

Common Health 5/20/15

Host: Jim Fisher
Engineer: John Greenman

Issue: Plant Your Gardens

Program Topic: Organic gardening

Key Discussion Points:
a) When should we be preparing the soil? Should we “till” or not?
b) What grows well in Maine?
c) What do we do about pests if we want to be organic?

Guests:
Marjorie Peronto, Extension Educator
University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Hancock and Washington Counties
63 Boggy Brook Road, Ellsworth, ME 04605-9540 
207-667-821
marjorie.peronto@maine.edu

Dan Huisjen
B.S. Agricultural Engineering Technology, Cornell University
B.S. Environmental Science from University of Washington, Tacoma.
Gardener/small farmer, (Oregon) Master Gardener, a Community Garden site manager.
huisjen@gmail.com

Common Health 4/15/15

Host: Jim Fisher
Engineer: John Greenman

Issue: Death and Taxes: Programs to assist elderly and dying in America

Key Discussion Points:
a) What is the current level of aging, disability and mortality in Maine?
b) What cultural barriers do we have to effectively help those who are aging, disabled or dying?
c) What additional problems will be confronting in the future? What are the impacts of technology, culture, economy, smaller households.
d) What programs do we have to assist families going through the aging and dying process?

Guests:
Jodi Wolford-Tucker, Director, Hospice of Hancock
14 McKenzie Avenue
Ellsworth, ME 04605
(888) 266-8035
jwtucker@hospiceofhancock.org

Ann Ossanna, Field Project Supervisor
Blue Hill, ME 04614 
(207) 374-5852
aossanna@whcacap.org
www.whcacap.org/friendship-cottage/

Common Health 3/18/15

Host: Jim Fisher
Engineer: John Greenman

Issue: A Call To Men: Ending Domestic Violence

Key Discussion Points:
a) What is the prevalence of domestic violence in Maine?
b) What are some of the root causes and long-term consequences of domestic violence?
c) What is A Call to Men and how does it work?
d) What other programs do we have in Maine to reduce domestic violence?

Guests:
Kelly Brown [kbrown@nextstepdvproject.org] Community Educator, The Next Step
Eric Whitmore – Advocate for Next Step since 2012. Training from Next Step learning to speak up against domestic violence and a member of A Call To Men.
Richard Otto, [mailto:Rick.Otto@mainepretrial.org] (Rick) Hancock County ADTC
Case Manager Maine Pretrial Services as the Hancock County Drug Court’s Case Manager since January 1, 2005.

Common Health 1/21/15

Host: Jim Fisher
Engineer: John Greenman

Program Topic: Dental Health

Key Discussion Points:
A) What types of dental healthy issues do you confront with your patients?
B) What preventative steps should we take for dental health? Environmental changes? Behavioral changes? What screening is necessary?
C) What options do we have to treating a problem?
D) What policy changes are coming in 2015?

Guests:
Timothy Oh, D.M.D. Director, Caring Hands of Maine Dental Center
70 Kingsland Crossing, Suite A Ellsworth, Maine 04605
Phone (207) 667 – 6789 Fax (207) 667 – 8875

Common Health 12/17/14

Host: Jim Fisher
Engineer: John Greenman

Issue: Free Health Care

Program Topic: Free Health Care

Key Discussion Points:

A) How many people have access to insurance for health care?

B) What services are provided by the Ellsworth Free Health Care Clinic?

C) What policy changes will be needed provide more access to health care?

D) What policy changes are coming in 2015?

Guests:

A) Dr. Rita Seger, M.D., Specialty internal medicine, and a Ph.D., in Ecology and

Environmental Science. She is an advocate for Ellsworth Free Medical Clinic.

Rita_Seger@umit.maine.edu

B) Dr. Philip Caper M.D.Held professorships in Medicine and Community Medicine at

Dartmouth and the University of Massachusetts and has been an Adjunct Lecturer in

Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health and a Research

Associate at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. pcpcaper21@gmail.com