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Hey listeners, it's Lindsay Smith-Roggers, and today we have a resident in residence at the podcast.

I sit down with Dr. Ari Goldstein,

a public health physician completing his preventive medicine residency program at the Johns Hopkins

Bloomberg School of Public Health, and he's also completing a rotation with public health on call.

We talk about his path to public health and medicine, his work with us, and how communication

and podcasts can be vital tools in preventive medicine. Just to note that this episode is also available

as a video on YouTube. Let's listen. Dr. Ari Goldstein, welcome to public health and call.

Thank you. It's great to be here. So we have the privilege of having you as our sort of intern,

our in-residence physician this month. But let's talk about that in a minute. First, we're going to talk about the fact that you have a medical degree. You work in medicine. Tell us a little bit about your background. Yeah. So I am from just outside the Baltimore, a city area to begin with. I went to University of Maryland

College Park for college and then stayed in the area kind of ever since then. I went to University

of Maryland in Baltimore for medical school. During that process, I was kind of deciding what

paths to go down and, you know, I was interested in primary care, was interested in public health.

So I ended up doing a family medicine residency, and that was also at University of Maryland.

But during that process, I knew that I still wanted to keep that public health aspect,

which is what brought me to preventive medicine where I am now.

So I applied to preventive medicine residencies and landed here at Johns Hopkins,

and it's been really exciting almost two years now.

And so tell us about this is the general preventive medicine residency program here at the Bloomberg

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