PIHPS: The Professionals In Health Podcast Series

Dr. Yuri Agrawal, otologist, neruo-otologist, focuses on surgical and medical management of conditions of the ear, hearing loss, impairments in balance function, and inner ear tumors.

Dr. Agrawal's research is directed at studying age-related changes in vestibular function. She employs a combination of vestibular physiologic testing and epidemiologic methods. Dr. Agrawal's long-term research goals are: 1) to understand the changes in vestibular function that occur with aging, 2) to evaluate the association between changes in vestibular function and clinically significant outcomes in older individuals such as falls, frailty and disability and 3) to apply these insights towards the development of strategies to screen for, prevent and treat vestibular dysfunction and reduce associated adverse outcomes in older individuals.

Dr. Luis Garza MD-PhD is an Associate Professor of Dermatology with secondary appointments in Cell Biology and Oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He did his undergraduate work at Cornell University, followed by an MD-PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his dermatology residency at the University of Michigan, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in the lab of George Cotsarelis at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Garza’s current research focuses on wound healing and regenerative medicine. His lab is funded by the NIH/NIAMS, the DoD, and Maryland State Stem Cell Fund.

His lab explores regeneration using the skin as their model system. They are inspired by the limb regeneration of a salamander as a clue to therapeutic interventions for fibrosis, one of the larges sources of human morbidity. They focus on two areas. In the first, if mammals cannot regrow an entire appendage, can they regrow a hair follicle mini-appendage? On this they focus on the mechanisms of how dsRNA sensing is a damage-repair response and robustly stimulates regeneration. For the second, they ask-- if they cannot regrow an entire limb in mammals-- can they regrow the pressure-responsive type of skin found at the palms and soles at the stump site of an amputee? For this project they focus on how cell-cell interactions modify tissue identity, and the mechanisms of how cell therapy might modify skin identity in mouse models and FDA approved human trials.”

Max is a Staff Physical Therapist and Athletic Trainer at Mamba Sports Academy. He works in the Integrated Sports Medicine Department treating patients with a variety of orthopedic and sports related diagnoses.

Max graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in Athletic training from Northeastern University in Boston. He went on to attend the University of Southern California’s Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy program where he received his Doctorate in Physical Therapy. During his pursuit of his Doctorate of Physical Therapy degree, Max had the opportunity to work in various settings including Neurological rehabilitation, working with patients who had a traumatic brain injury or stroke, outpatient orthopedics and sports medicine. It was his last clinical internship that really sparked a passion to pursue orthopedics and sports medicine physical therapy, when he worked with the Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball team on their rehabilitation staff during spring training of the 2016 season. It was there he developed a passion for treating athletes, an evidence based approach to treatment and the understanding of what it takes to be great at the highest level of sport.

After graduation and prior to working at Mamba Sports Academy Max worked at Primary Care Sports Medicine in Tarzana for 3 years where he treated high school, college and USA track and field Athletes. Max’s background as a Certified Athletic Trainer includes working with high school and college athletes and was on the medical staff for Team USA which competed in the Maccabiah Games in Israel in 2013 and in the Pan American Maccabiah Games in Santiago, Chile in 2015-16. Max is continually attending physical therapy conferences and continuing education courses related to manual therapy techniques, blood flow restriction and the treatment of orthopedic and sports medicine diagnoses.

Max is from Saint Paul, MN where he played basketball, baseball and soccer through high school and went on to play club baseball at Northeastern University where he won a national championship. Max currently lives in West Los Angeles and enjoys spending time with family and friends, playing and watching sports, traveling and enjoying all that LA has to offer.

Dr. Haris Sair is an Associate Professor in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, and the Director of the Division of Neuroradiology. His areas of clinical expertise include functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) of the brain. He also has a faculty appointment in the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare at The Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, investigating the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in imaging.

Dr. Sair earned his M.D. from Duke University School of Medicine. He completed his residency at Temple University Medical Center and performed a fellowship in neuroradiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA.

Dr. Brian Holly is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology and Division of Interventional Radiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed his medical school and residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center and later completed a fellowship in Interventional Radiology at Johns Hopkins. He is the Director of the Johns Hopkins IVC Filter Clinic and the Program Director for the Residency in Vascular and Interventional Radiology. His current interests include vascular malformations, venous thromboembolic disease, complex IVC filter retrievals, adrenal vein sampling, prostate artery embolization and clinical education in Interventional Radiology.