Mechelle Taylor-Moragne, M.D. Shares Her Heart Health Journey on Living Your Best Life with Genma Holmes

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On Saturday, February 27, 2016, we will continue our series on Hearth Health with Mechelle Taylor-Moraane, M.D., a heart attack survivor.  Dr. Taylor-Moragne will share events prior to heart her attack and her lifestyle since that faithful day.

Dr. Taylor-Moragne, a graduate of Fisk and Meharry, will share how being a doctor prepared her to be a patient and how her medical training became an asset when requesting tests while in the hospital. As she is recovering and adjusting to the new norms in her life, we will hear how her attack has affected her emotional, physically, and spiritually. She will also share a few moments from the ER that will leave you  with a smile about the ironies in life.

This is a must hear interview!

 Living Your Best Life, a radio show that empowers, inspires, and motivates us to live our BEST life, is heard on 760AM The Gospel in the Middle-TN area, Tune In,  military bases and on Ustream.TV worldwide from 9:00-10:00am CST.


More about Mechelle Taylor-Moragne, M.D., Ph.D., FAAFP

Dr. Mechelle Taylor-Moragne is a family practice physician and Medical Director of the East Jackson Family Medical Center in Jackson, TN. She has been practicing at East Jackson Family Medical Center for 13 years.  She takes care of women, men, babies, children and elderly patients. She is particularly interested in women’s health because of the disparities that women especially African American women face in health care.

Dr. Taylor-Moragne was born in Memphis, TN and attended the historic Memphis Central High school.  After high school, she earned a BA at the historic Fisk University. During her time at Fisk, she participated in the Summer Research Program at Meharry Medical College sparking her interest in the field of Science and Medicine.  Dr. Taylor-Moragne later earned her Ph.D and M.D. at Meharry Medical College. Dr. Taylor-Moragne became the first female to earn both degrees of M.D. and Ph. D. from Meharry when she graduated from the School of Medicine in 1998.  

During her tenure at Meharry Medical College, Dr. Taylor had been active in several activities involving the underserved and underrepresented community of Nashville, TN.  She served as a lab coordinator and designed research activities for high school and college students participating in the NSF Summer Research Program and Science Motivation Program (a STEM Project).  She served several years in the Pre Alumni Association’s Community Day Activities which provided stimulating activities and physicals to the children from the local neighborhood and housing projects in Nashville, TN.  She organized Career Day Programs for high school students during her graduate school tenure at Meharry Medical College.

Dr. Taylor Moragne had many role models at Meharry Medical College, especially Dr. David Satcher who served as the President of Meharry Medical College from 1982 to 1993 while she was a student.  Dr. Stcher went on to hold post as Director of the CDC and appointed as 16^th Surgeon General of the United States and 10^th Assistant Secretary for Health.  Dr. Taylor-Moragne has admired Dr. Satcher’s stance for eliminating  health disparities for minorities, poor and disadvantage groups.   

Dr. Taylor-Moragne went on to complete a Family Practice Residency Program at Rush/ Illinois Masonic Family Medical Residency in Chicago, Illinois.  Her desire to serve an underrepresented population did not stop in Chicago.  She participated in a Community Health Program to provide medical care to a population of homeless patients at the Pilsen Homeless Center.  

After completion of her Residency Program, Dr. Taylor-Moragne came to Jackson, Tennessee to continue her mission of serving an underserved population in Jackson, Tennessee at the East Jackson Family Medical Center which is a designated Rural Health Center and safety net clinic for a population who would otherwise not have access to medical care.  Her work has been fulfilling to her.  

Dr. Taylor-Moragne has two sons, Reuben Moragne (17 years old) and Dallas Moragne (15 years old) who are great students at Madison High School. 

Lori Anne Parker-Danley Talks Heart Health on Living Your Best Life with Genma Holmes

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Lori Anne, a national spokesperson for Go Red.

On Saturday, February 13, 2016, Lori Anne Parker-Danley, Ph.D, will share how she survived a heart attack that is usually only diagnosed during autopsies. Hear Lori Anne's amazing story about not one heart attack but two in the span of a few days.

Lori Anne will discuss how she chalked up her early symptoms to a case of the flu but a few days later noticed that her heart was fluttering and decided to search the internet for heart disease symptoms in women. It was then she realized it was a heart attack she’d experienced. Yet, even with her newfound knowledge, Lori Anne didn’t see a doctor.

“When my symptoms started again a few days later, I knew immediately ‘I am having a heart attack.’ I knew something was desperately wrong.”

Lori Anne went to the hospital where she was diagnosed with coronary artery dissections, meaning two of the main arteries to her heart were actually splitting apart. Doctors performed an emergency triple bypass surgery. Afterward, Lori Anne learned how lucky she was to survive. “My condition is usually only diagnosed postmortem. Finding out that so many people don’t survive my condition was intense.”

At the age of 38, Lori Anne Parker-Danley had two heart attacks and an emergency bypass. They were caused by a rare condition called spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD). "Swamp Life" was created as a result of that time and the processing of her near-death event.

Tune in to hear why Lori Anne wants women to know that heart disease can happen to anyone. She’s living proof. “This was the last thing I would ever have expected to happen to me! As a woman, I had worried about breast cancer, but I never worried about my heart.”

"A Bowl of Red Blooms," sculpture by Lori Anne Parker-Danley.

Since her heart attack, Lori Anne has been determined to help women learn to get in tune with their bodies, recognize their symptoms and take immediate action. Lori Anne adamantly believes that her story should serve as a cautionary tale to others!

This is a must hear interview!

 Living Your Best Life, a radio show that empowers, inspires, and motivates us to live our BEST life, is heard on 760AM The Gospel in the Middle-TN area, Tune In,  military bases and on Ustream.TV worldwide from 9:00-10:00am CST.

More about Lori Anne Parker-Danely
 

Go Red Promotional Photo

Lori Anne Parker-Danley, Ph.D., is an artist and writer whose visual work includes painting, sculpture, and, most recently, multi-media installation art. She first began making art in 2003 while living in Binghamton, New York, where she had her first solo painting show in early 2004, which was well received. Later that year, Lori Anne moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where she currently lives. She has participated in many local group shows with Plowhaus Artists’ Cooperative, Chromatics Gallery, Ruby Green Studios, and other organizations. Since 2008, she has also organized solo exhibitions at the Nashville Ballet, Rumors Wine and Art Bar, Twist Gallery, Vanderbilt University, and other locations.  

She is the recipient of two Innovation Grants, which she received in 2012 and 2013, from Vanderbilt University’s Curb Creative Campus. The first grant was for her ambitious 2012–13 Identity Sculptures Project, a collaborative, public art project involving Vanderbilt faculty, staff, and students, which combined participants’ writing with her sculpture and culminated in on-campus exhibitions at both the Sarratt Student Center and the Stevenson Science and Engineering Library. 

The second Innovation Grant was awarded to Lori Anne for her 21st Century Memory and Longing Project, an environmental art installation and public collaboration, is on view on the Vanderbilt University campus beginning March 2015. Lori Anne’s images can be found on the CD covers, website, and professional marketing materials of acoustic fingerstyle guitarist John Danley. By day, she currently works as an editor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Prior to that, she served as editor at Nashville’s Frist Center for the Visual Arts for four years. At the Frist Center, she also participated in public programming and regularly gave exhibition lectures in the galleries. Lori Anne received her Ph.D. in philosophy, specializing in aesthetics and literary theory, from Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, in 2010. She has recently starting working on a book that explores the phenomenology and aesthetic expressions of embodiment, including the ways medical trauma may cause a person to experience her body as “stranger,” and how the practice of yoga can help a person “re-map” and live in her body again.

Felicia Figlarz Anchor on Living Your Best Life with Genma Holmes

Join Living Your Best Life with Genma Holmes as we profile leaders who lead by example. With extraordinary acts of kindness and charitable giving that help countless lives daily, these leaders embody "Be the change you want to see in the world".

Throughout 2013, listeners will hear from presidents of organizations who are global change agents. We will also hear from CEOs of social enterprise businesses who are changing communities and college educators who are taking their students out of the classroom and into surrounding neighborhoods to learn and serve others.

On Saturday, November 9, 2013,  tune in to hear Felicia Figlarz Anchor, daughter of Holocaust survivors and a longtime advocate for Holocaust remembrance and education. For 27 years, Anchor has served as a commissioner on the Tennessee Holocaust Commission, which was created by the state legislature in 1984.  In 2012, Anchor stepped down as the Commission's chair after serving in that role for 16 years but continues to serve as a commissioner.

Anchor is our Doing Good's volunteer of the month. Doing Good works with other non-profits to promote volunteers and increase volunteerism. Kim "Brownie" Vaughn shines the spotlight each month on volunteers who are making a difference in our community on Living Your Best Life.

Tune into 760AM in the Middle Tennessee Region, on Tune In, streaming live on line at UStream.TV, and on military bases on Saturdays from 9:00-10am CST. This show will also air on the HBCU Network.

More About Felicia Figlarz Anchor

The Commission’s primary role is Holocaust education.  During Anchor’s years as chair, the Commission participated in the publication of two books, “The Holocaust and Other Genocides: History, Representation, Ethics” and “Living On: Portraits of Tennessee Survivors and Liberators.” 

The Commission has supported annual Days of Remembrance at the state Capitol each year, has recognized teachers for Holocaust education through the annual Belz-Lipman Holocaust Educator Award, and has collaborated with the Cumberland County Playhouse and Nashville Ballet to bring the ballet “Anne Frank” to the rural county east of Nashville.

The Holocaust Commission’s “Living On” exhibit of survivors’ and liberators’ stories has been widely shown through the state.  Efforts also are under way, with the help of several foundations, to preserve filmed interviews of Tennessee residents who survived the Holocaust or helped liberate concentration camps during World War II.  The films will be converted to a digital format, making them more accessible to students, teachers and researchers. Educational programs for teachers have been held across the state, and the Commission has made it possible for teachers to attend educational programs at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Anchor helped make the Nashville Holocaust Memorial a reality.  The outdoor memorial on the grounds of the Gordon Jewish Community Center was dedicated in October 2006.  Its 12 memorial walls contain the names of relatives of Nashville families who either survived or perished in the Holocaust. (Excerpt from the Jewish Observer. For the complete article, click here.)

More About Doing Good 

Doing Good™ is dedicated to promoting volunteerism – for all non-profits and areas of public service in Nashville/Davidson County, Tennessee.

Our Mission:  To promote making a positive difference in one’s own community, particularly through volunteerism.

Our Vision:  Doing Good inspires, educates and connects people and non-profits throughout the community to do good.  To promote volunteerism, Doing Good shares the stories of local volunteers who already make a difference in the community.  This gives a face to their non-profits which inspires, educates and empowers friends, co-workers and neighbors to volunteer and impact the community.  Doing Good promotes volunteerism by creating spaces within radio, television, print and the internet to regularly share volunteers’ stories to educate and inspire.

Our Goal:  To increase the number of volunteers and the number of hours per volunteer.

We Serve:  Our efforts benefit all non-profits and government agencies serving Nashville/Davidson County, Tennessee.

More About Kim Vaughn 

 Kimberly “Brownie” Vaughn is a dynamic and energetic woman with magnetic compassion, delivering attractive, power-packed messages that target and hit the bull’s eye of the single woman’s heart. Actually living single in a world that often forgets to celebrate its single women, Brownie holds up the banner for her sisters in singlehood to love their God-given significance. Through speaking engagements and events, she adamantly shares how her journey to joy included pit stops such as bitterness over heartaches, settling for ungodly attraction, searching for validation, and understanding the reasons for rejection in single-hood. Those that are privileged to hear her speak continually rave about her captivating way to connect and empower women with solutions that alter negative thinking and boost self- esteem. To learn more about Kimberly, click here.

Dr. Sheron Patterson on Living Your Best Life with Genma Holmes

Join Living Your Best Life with Genma Holmes as we profile organizations and leaders who lead by example. With extraordinary acts of kindness and charitable giving that help countless lives daily, these organizations and leaders embody "Be the change you want to see in the world".

We will hear from individuals who are global change agents. We will also hear from CEOs of social enterprise businesses who are changing communities and college educators who are taking their students out of the classroom and into surrounding neighborhoods for real world life lessons and to serve others. Listen to young men and women who are energized to help make a differences in their communities and regions by challenging status quo and shattering glass ceilings.

Dr. Sheron C. Patterson

On Saturday, November 3, 2012 tune in to hear Dr. Sheron Patterson.  Dr.Patterson, a breast cancer survivor, will share from latest book, Blessings and Bling: How Faith and Fashion Helped Me Survive Breast Cancer. Blessings and Bling chronicles how Patterson used her deep faith and her love of fashion to help her survive breast cancer. Dr. Patterson will also share how she did not allow a cancer diagnoses discourage her from giving back to her community. She turned despair into determination to fight as she fought for survivor and helped others. She will share about mobilizing other breast cancer survivors to build two Habitat for Humanity houses. The money raised from the build was used to provide funds for mammograms for women in need.

The author of numerous books, Dr. Patterson has been featured in Ebony, JET, Essence magazines, and on CNN and BET. Locally, she is the relationship expert on Good Morning Texas, on Dallas’ ABC affiliate WFAA. Dr. Patterson is a veteran journalist who has hosted local and nationally syndicated radio and television programs.

Living Your Best Life, a radio show that empowers, inspires and motivates one to live their BEST life, can heard on 760 AM in the Middle-Tennessee Region, military bases, and streamed live on U-Stream.TV from 9-10AM CST.

Excerpt from Book:

“Faith and fashion will not keep you from the challenges of breast cancer. I am not writing naïve, fairy tales that will lull you into the false-hoods that your health journey will be trouble free because of your relationship with Jesus or the latest pair of jeans. Reading this book will not guarantee that you will outlive the cancer in your body Your hair may fall out due to the chemo-therapy. The radiation treatments may burn your skin. Your cancer surgery site may become infected and require additional work. The stress and strain of the cancer may chase away family and friends…. I will help you make lemonade from your lemons; make Kool-Aid out of your cancer, and popsicles out of your problems. I am not trying to minimize the severity of your situation” Faith and Fashion are an amazing combination--Blessings and Bling

More About Dr. Sheron Patterson

 Dr. Sheron C. Patterson is a survivor and philanthropist who helps others survive and even thrive on an international basis. In 2006, Dr. Patterson was diagnosed with breast cancer. She turned what could have been a tragedy into a triumph and took the public with her every step through a radio, print and television education/inspiration campaign that helped others face their health issues head on called The Patterson Pledge. She launched Breast Cancer Builds, a program that brings survivors of breast cancer together to build a Habitat for Humanity house. Once Dr. Patterson learned of the disparities in the health care system, she reached out to low income women through a partnership with two Dallas hospitals and provided not only mammograms, but breast health information as well. This project called was Mammograms for the Masses. Dr. Patterson hosted international delegations of breast cancer survivors for informational and inspirational visits in collaboration with the U.S. State Department.

To celebrate surviving breast cancer five years, Dr. Patterson launched two philanthropic projects. In connection with Methodist Health System, she launched A Year of Living and Giving, a fund raising campaign seeking $200,000 to help 1,000 low income women receive free mammograms. Dr. Patterson also penned her survivor testimony in her newest book, Blessings and Bling: How Faith and Fashion Helped Me Survive Breast Cancer. A portion of these proceeds also help low income women receive free mammograms.

Currently, Dr. Patterson is the Communications Officer for the North Texas Region of The United Methodist Church. In this role, she edits a newspaper, directs a website, hosts the video newscast, coordinates social media outreach, and handles all public relations, advertising and marketing. She is active in the Dallas community and serves on numerous boards such as the Board of Trustees of Southern Methodist University and the Board of Directors of Methodist Health System.

A sought after speaker, she has spoken nationally and internationally at events such as “Women Thou Art Loosed” conference with Bishop T. D. Jakes and in Liberia, West Africa. For the past twenty years, she has served as an itinerate elder in The United Methodist Church and has been appointed as senior pastor to four United Methodist churches in Dallas, Texas (Crest-Moore King, Jubilee, St. Paul, and Highland Hills.) She holds the distinction of being the first African-American woman to be ordained in the North Texas region of The United Methodist Church. These extraordinary accomplishments landed Dr. Patterson a place of honor in the National Women’s Museum.

Dr. Patterson holds an undergraduate degree from Spelman College in Atlanta, GA, two Masters Degrees, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Dr. Patterson is married to Robert Patterson, Sr. They have two sons, Robert Jr., and Christian.