MPT - Your Health
In this Your Health segment, Rebecca Brown, MD, and one of her patients, Stephanie Bugg, a colon cancer survivor, discuss the rise of cancer cases in young adults. Dr. Brown, director of colorectal surgery at the University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, details the importance of early screening for colon cancer. Dr. Brown is also an associate professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) partners with Maryland Public Television (MPT) for a series called "Your Health," featuring UMMS specialists every other week who share their medical expertise with viewers.
The "Your Health" segment appears on MPT's program "Direct Connection," airing live on Monday nights at 7 pm.
The show takes calls from viewers, so you have the opportunity to speak directly to our experts and get your questions answered.
Watch Past Segments
- Your Health: Covid Update 2024 with Greg Schrank, MD (Sep 17, 2024)
- Your Health: Young Athletes Return to School with Scott Jerome, DO (Sep 4, 2024)
- Your Health: Let's Get Serious About Sleep with Anayansi Lasso-Pirot, MD (Aug 22, 2024)
- Your Health: Hypertension & Men's Health with Dr. Wallace Johnson (June 19, 2024)
- Your Health: Preterm Birth with Irina Burd, MD, PhD (May 20, 2024)
- Living Kidney Donation with Dr. Silke Niederhaus (May 2, 2024)
- Adjusting to the Time Change with Dr. Emerson Wickwire (March 8, 2024)
- Holiday Sadness with Jill A. RachBeisel, MD (December 21, 2023)
- UMMC's 200th Birthday with Bert W. O'Malley, Jr (November 7, 2023)
- Latest on Covid-19 & Vaccines with Gregory Schrank, MD (October 5, 2023)
- Athletes & Brain Trauma with Gary T. Schwartzbauer, MD, PhD (September 29, 2023)
- Immunization Awareness with Deborah Jones-Shook, CRNP (September 7, 2023)
- Back-to-School Readiness with Ajoke Ajayi-Akintade, MD (September 5, 2023)
- New Alzheimer's Drug with Paul S. Fishman, MD, PhD (August 22, 2023)
- Psychological Injuries with Kay Connors (July 18, 2023)
- Men's Health Awareness with Joshua James Starr, MD (June 26, 2023)
- Skin Cancer Prevention with Zaineb H. Makhzoumi, MD (June 21, 2023)
- Stop the Bleed with Sharon M. Henry, MD (May 31, 2023)
- Shock Trauma with Thomas M. Scalea, MD (May 31, 2023)
- Women & Stroke Risk with Seemant Chaturvedi, MD (May 24, 2023)
- Lung Transplantation with Robert M. Reed, MD (May 2, 2023)
- Pregnancy-Related Death with Doee Kitessa, MD (April 25, 2023)
- Managing Diabetes with Rana Malek, MD (April 6, 2023)
- Preventing Cardiovascular Disease with Abid A. Fakhri, MD FACC (February 27, 2023)
- Congenital Heart Disease with Lisa Forbess, MD
- Recent Rise COVID cases with Niharika Khanna, MD (February 8, 2023)
- Saving A Life: The Importance of CPR & AEDs with Jeremy Pollock, MD (January 16, 2023)
- My Healthy Maryland with Alan Shuldiner, MD (January 9, 2023)
- Emergency vs Urgent Care with Scott Burger, DO, and Jonathan Wendell, MD (December 19, 2022)
- Fall and Winter Respiratory Viruses with Greg Schrank, MD, MPH (November 21, 2022)
- A Pediatrician's Advice to Protect Kids this Respiratory Virus Season with Steven Czinn, MD (November 14, 2022)
- Getting to the Next Million Organ Transplants with Daniel Maluf, MD (October 31, 2022)
- Barriers to Breast Cancer Screening with Shana O. Ntiri, MD, MPH (October 24, 2022)
- Latest Robotic Joint Replacement Surgery Technology Available with David Dalury, MD (September 19, 2022)
- Vascular Disease Awareness Month with Deidre Smith MS, AGNP-BC (September 12, 2022)
- New Mental Health Crisis Line with Stephanie Knight, MD (Aug. 15, 2022)
- Cancer Survivorship with Harvinder Singh, MD (June 27, 2022)
- Men's Health with Kyle Fletke, MD (June 13, 2022)
- Stroke Awareness Month with Carolyn Cronin, MD, PhD (May 23, 2022)
- Women's Health Month with Harry Johnson, MD, and Mokerrum Malik, MD (May 9, 2022)
- Donate Life Month/Transplants with Chandra Bhati, MD (April 25, 2022)
- Head and Neck Cancer with Rodney Taylor, MD, MPH (April 18, 2022)
- Cancer Updates with Kevin Cullen, MD (March 7, 2022)
- Heart Health with Mukta Srivastava, MD (Feb. 14, 2022)
- First FDA-Approved Drug for Alzheimer's Disease in 18 years (June 14, 2021)
- Teen Mental Health and COVID-19 with Sarah Edwards, DO (January 25, 2021)
- COVID-19 Long Haulers with Andrea Levine, MD (January 11, 2021)
- Adults with Autism with Peter Crino, MD, PhD (November 18, 2020)
- Breast Reconstruction: What are the Options with Erin M. Rada, MD (October 5, 2020)
- Pregnancy During COVID-19 with Sarah D. Crimmins, DO (July 30, 2020)
- Healthcare Heroes with Amit Chandra, MD, and Heather Brock, RN (May 20, 2020)
- Heart Attack & COVID-19 with Mark R. Vesely, MD, and Jeremy Stephen Pollock, MD (May 19, 2020)
- HIV and AIDS in our Community with Sarah Schmalzle, MD (December 27, 2019)