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John Russell, MD
John Russell, MD
  • Chair, Department of Family Medicine
  • Director, Family Medicine Residency
  • Abington Memorial Hospital
  • Abington, PA
Program NameLast Air DateHosts/Guests
Best Practices for Identifying, Diagnosing and Treating Transthyretin Amyloidosis (ATTR-PN and ATTR…04/16/2025
  • John Russell, MD
  • Noel Dasgupta, MD, FACC
  • Sami Khella, MD
Comprehensive Immunization: Co-Administering Flu, RSV, and COVID-19 Vaccines02/19/2025
  • Mary Katherine Cheeley, PharmD, BCPS, CLS, FNLA
  • Jill Foster, MD
  • John Russell, MD
Boosting Flu Vaccination Rates: A Guide for Primary Care Providers03/26/2025
  • Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP
  • John Russell, MD
Shifting Our Approach to Gun Violence: A Public Health Crisis
  • John Russell, MD
  • Stanton Miller, MD, MPH, FACS
Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery10/14/2024
  • John Russell, MD
  • Paul Craddock, PhD
Strategies for Stopping the Spread of Monkeypox
  • John Russell, MD
  • Randy Young, MD
Monkeypox: What Clinicians Need to Know
  • John Russell, MD
  • Amesh Adalja, MD
The Whole Body Reset
  • John Russell, MD
  • Heidi Skolnik, MS, CDN, FACSM
Lifelines: A Physician's Fight for Public Health
  • John Russell, MD
  • Leana S. Wen, MD, MSc
Post-COVID Care: How One Clinic Is Treating Long Haulers
  • John Russell, MD
  • Benjamin Abramoff, MD, MS
Strategies for Combating COVID-19 Conspiracies & Myths
  • John Russell, MD
  • Jessica Malaty Rivera, MS
The AMA’s Approach to Ending the Overdose Epidemic07/04/2022
  • John Russell, MD
  • Bobby Mukkamala, MD
Fevers, Feuds, & Diamonds: Exploring the Ebola Epidemic
  • John Russell, MD
  • Paul Farmer, MD, PhD
Facing Fears About the COVID-19 Vaccines: How to Counsel Patients
  • Jennifer Caudle, DO
  • John Russell, MD
Long Walk Out of the Woods: A Physician's Story of Addiction, Depression, & Recovery
  • John Russell, MD
  • Adam Hill, MD
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, & Mysteries of Blood
  • John Russell, MD
  • Rose George
Exploring the Ethics of Vaccines
  • John Russell, MD
COVID-19 Essays from the Front: The First Six Months
  • John Russell, MD
  • Christopher Haines, MD, MA
Staying Safe for the Winter04/12/2021
  • John Russell, MD
  • William G. Callahan, DO
Updates on the COVID-19 Vaccine
  • John Russell, MD
A Look at Immunizations Through Time
  • John Russell, MD
The History of Quarantine09/12/2020
  • John Russell, MD
Coronavirus: What's in a Name?09/20/2020
  • John Russell, MD
Off-Label Medicines in Fighting COVID-19 & Through the Years
  • John Russell, MD
Managing Mental Health in the Times of Pandemic09/13/2020
  • John Russell, MD
  • Diane E Custer, MD
A Tale of Two Cities: Social Distancing in the 1918 Influenza Pandemic09/13/2020
  • John Russell, MD
HIPEC: A Novel Treatment for Advanced Abdominal Cancers01/22/2021
  • John Russell, MD
  • Nabil Wasif, MD
Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing01/03/2020
  • John Russell, MD
  • Victoria Sweet, MD
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women12/31/2019
  • John Russell, MD
  • Kate Moore
The Bad Food Bible: How & Why to Eat Sinfully01/12/2020
  • John Russell, MD
  • Aaron Carroll, MD
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic01/07/2020
  • John Russell, MD
  • Sam Quinones
Higher Risk, Lowered Age: New Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidelines04/16/2025
  • John Russell, MD
  • Richard Wender, MD
Could a Daily Dose of Baking Soda Combat Autoimmune Disease?04/17/2025
  • John Russell, MD
  • Paul M. O'Connor
Is Telemedicine the New House Call?01/05/2020
  • John Russell, MD
  • Judd Hollander, MD
Heart of the Matter: Emerging Treatment Options for Congenital Heart Disease04/14/2025
  • John Russell, MD
  • Thomas Doyle, MD
In Shock: One Doctor's Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope01/01/2020
  • John Russell, MD
The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, & the Human Costs of Defeating Disease01/10/2020
  • John Russell, MD
  • Meredith Wadman, BM, BCh, M.S.
An Epidemic of Empathy in Healthcare: How to Deliver Compassionate, Connected Patient Care12/21/2019
  • John Russell, MD
Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Children's Developing Immune System12/23/2019
  • John Russell, MD
Pancreatic Cancer: The Hunt to Catch a Silent Killer04/16/2025
  • John Russell, MD
  • Harish Lavu, MD
Physician, Heal Thyself: How to Prevent Burnout12/16/2019
  • John Russell, MD
  • Timothy Brigham, MD
Less Medicine, More Health: 7 Assumptions That Drive Too Much Medical Care01/05/2020
  • John Russell, MD
  • H. Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH
Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs01/06/2020
  • John Russell, MD
Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker & Visionary Physician Who Helpe…12/14/2019
  • John Russell, MD
Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story12/30/2019
  • John Russell, MD
On the Front Lines of Medical Missions: Two Doctors' Perspectives12/26/2019
  • John Russell, MD
  • Amy Mackey, MD
Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop12/14/2019
  • John Russell, MD
Towards a Cure for Castleman Disease: One Doctor's Personal Journey12/04/2019
  • John Russell, MD
  • David Fajgenbaum, MD
We CAN Fix Healthcare: The Future is NOW11/19/2018
  • John Russell, MD
The Big Five: Five Simple Things You Can Do to Live a Longer, Healthier Life12/27/2019
  • John Russell, MD
  • Sanjiv Chopra, MD, FACP
Recognizing Alzheimer's Disease at the Earliest Stages: Key Signs and Symptoms12/29/2019
  • John Russell, MD
  • Howard Fillit, MD
1 Out of 10 Doctors Recommends: Weird Cures from the Annals of Medicine12/20/2019
  • John Russell, MD
The Malaria Project: The U.S. Government's Secret Mission to Find a Miracle Cure01/12/2020
  • John Russell, MD
10% Happier: How a Journalist Found Self-Help That Actually Works01/11/2020
  • John Russell, MD
Escape the Status Trap: Improve Your Finances12/27/2019
  • John Russell, MD
  • James S. Hemphill, CFP®, CPWA®, ChFC®, CIMA®
Applying the Evidence-Based Paradigm to Investing01/06/2020
  • John Russell, MD
  • James S. Hemphill, CFP®, CPWA®, ChFC®, CIMA®
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years01/04/2020
  • John Russell, MD
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola & Beyond12/24/2019
  • John Russell, MD
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year10/18/2019
  • John Russell, MD
The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery04/16/2025
  • John Russell, MD
Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine08/11/2019
  • John Russell, MD
Stoned: A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana01/11/2020
  • John Russell, MD
Shocked: Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead12/22/2016
  • John Russell, MD
Stealth Medicine in the White House: the Secret Heart Disease of President Franklin D. Roosevelt04/14/2025
  • John Russell, MD
Changing Outcomes: A Financial Recovery Strategy for Peak-Career Physicians06/25/2016
  • John Russell, MD
The Role of the Certified Diabetes Educator: A Team Effort01/08/2020
  • John Russell, MD
  • Candis Morello, PharmD, CDE
Toward a Healthier Journey for the Type 2 Diabetes Patient06/11/2018
  • John Russell, MD
  • Candis Morello, PharmD, CDE
Fostering a "Back to Basics" Model in Type 2 Diabetes Care07/29/2019
  • John Russell, MD
  • Neil Skolnik, MD
Young Doctors and The Perils of Instant Financial Gratification: Guiding Physicians Entering Practi…01/10/2020
  • John Russell, MD
Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk Was America's Favorite Spectator Sport03/15/2016
  • John Russell, MD
Caring for the Heart: Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization04/17/2025
  • John Russell, MD
The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults01/08/2020
  • John Russell, MD
Cured: How the Berlin Patients Defeated HIV and Forever Changed Medical Science08/29/2016
  • John Russell, MD
The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest02/19/2016
  • John Russell, MD
Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted01/07/2020
  • John Russell, MD
The Shortlist: Dr. Russell's "Must Read" Recommendations
  • John Russell, MD
Exercise Will Hurt You: Concussion, Traumatic Brain Injury, and How the Dangers of Sports and Exerc…01/06/2020
  • John Russell, MD
Managing Obesity in Primary Care: Updates from the Latest NIH Guidelines10/15/2018
  • John Russell, MD
ReachMD Panel on the CDC's Top 10 Public Health Threats: A Year in Review
  • Mary Leuchars, MD
  • Jennifer Caudle, DO
  • Brian P. McDonough, MD, FAAFP
  • John Russell, MD
The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York01/29/2018
  • John Russell, MD
Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness04/04/2025
  • John Russell, MD
Meet John Russell, MD
  • John Russell, MD
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, Part 202/19/2016
  • John Russell, MD
Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages03/18/2016
  • John Russell, MD
The Witch in the Waiting Room: A Physician Investigates Paranormal Phenomena in Medicine01/06/2016
  • John Russell, MD
<i>The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis</i>01/07/2016
  • John Russell, MD
Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine’s Greatest Mysteries09/13/2016
  • John Russell, MD
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History09/29/2016
  • John Russell, MD
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, Part 105/07/2015
  • John Russell, MD
League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth11/18/2015
  • John Russell, MD
Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of…12/18/2015
  • John Russell, MD
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-8203/06/2015
  • John Russell, MD
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic02/27/2015
  • John Russell, MD
Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection02/20/2015
  • John Russell, MD
Pox: An American History09/12/2014
  • John Russell, MD
Born To Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen07/10/2015
  • John Russell, MD
The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today01/09/2015
  • John Russell, MD
The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy01/15/2016
  • John Russell, MD
Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It08/31/2016
  • John Russell, MD
Health Insurance Exchanges in the Corporate Benefits World08/30/2013
  • John Russell, MD
The Power of Habit10/24/2014
  • John Russell, MD
God's Hotel: a Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine12/04/2014
  • John Russell, MD
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus06/09/2016
  • John Russell, MD
The Road Back: A Journey of Grace and Grit07/26/2013
  • John Russell, MD
The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Sur…09/01/2016
  • John Russell, MD

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