 | Moderator: Nurse Alice Benjamin “Nurse Alice” Benjamin, affectionately known as America's favorite nurse is a board-certified family nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, TV medical correspondent, nurse entrepreneur, host for The Ask Nurse Alice podcast, and founder of AskNurseAlice.com a trusted health, wellness, and medical outlet, and MediaRX, a multimedia training and production company thriving at the intersection of healthcare and media. Nurse Alice has extensive experience specializing in cardiovascular health, critical care, and emergency medicine and has worked at some of the most underserved community hospitals taking care of some of the sickest patients on the planet. Nurse Alice is a medical correspondent for NBC4 Los Angeles and was the nation's most-watched nurse on TV who kept millions of viewers up to date with her meticulous and insightful daily reporting during the COVID crisis. Spanning her career, Nurse Alice has appeared on numerous national shows, networks, and radio shows including GMA3, Dr. Oz, The Doctors, CNN, HLN, FOX News, News Nation, TVOne, BBC, KTLA Morning News, The D.L Hughley Show and Ricky Smiley Morning Radio Show. She also hosts the Ask Nurse Alice Podcast, a recent top 10 Apple Podcast in the medical category. The award-winning podcast combines no-nonsense advice with thought-provoking interviews featuring top health experts, celebrity guests, and frontline care workers. Nurse Alice is on a mission to help people live life well. When she talks, people listen. Her no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is approach wrapped with a touch of TLC is why she's been coined America's favorite nurse. Her health features have been published in Parent Magazine, Blavity, Huffington Post, EBONY, Black Enterprise, JET, Black America Web, Bustle, XO Necole, Heart & Soul, Nurse.org, The American Nurse, Minority Nurse, and many more. Her books Curve Your Cravings, 30 Foods to Curb Your Appetite and The 7-Day Juice Guide have helped thousands of people lose weight and make healthier food choices.
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 | Presenter: Thomas Calabro, MSN-HCSM, RN, NEA-BC, CCRN-K Tom Calabro is an experienced Director of Patient Care Services with over two decades of diverse nursing experience across multiple clinical settings, including pediatric critical care, adult critical care, cardiothoracic surgery, and emergency medicine. A graduate of Loyola University New Orleans, Tom is highly skilled in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), healthcare management, patient safety, medical-surgical care, and public speaking. In his leadership roles, Tom has served as Assistant Vice President for surgical trauma and cardiothoracic service lines at a quaternary, academic, Level 1 Trauma center. His current responsibilities include overseeing perioperative services. He has also contributed as a clinical nurse educator and instructor, maintaining his Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN) certification through the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. Tom’s dedication to patient care earned him the prestigious State of Georgia March of Dimes Critical Care Nurse of the Year Award in 2014. Known for his hands-on approach, Tom is frequently found working alongside his colleagues and patients rather than in his office. His philosophy: "You won't find nurses or patients in my office. I can't help if I am not with them." |
