The brain is central to much of what we take for granted in our lives – our senses, our nervous system, our movements, our thinking and our feelings. It is a miraculous organ and is responsive and sensitive to many lifestyle behaviors including sleep, physical activity and stress.
Join our experts, Penny Maureen Stern, MD, MPH and Krista Michelle Lim-Hing, MD for an enlightening session on how to preserve brain health at every stage of life.
This webinar was recorded on June 28, 2022. For more information or additional questions please email womenshealth@northwell.edu.
Featured Speakers:
Penny Stern, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACOEM
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Penny Stern MD, MPH, FACPM, FACOEM is the Chief, Preventive & Lifestyle Medicine at the Katz Institute for Women’s Health and the Department of Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology, and Prevention at Northwell Health. Dr. Stern is physician oversight for the Northwell’s Center for Wellness and Integrative Medicine, where she maintains a Lifestyle Medicine practice, and is the Co-Chair of Northwell’s CME/IPCE Committee.
She is also a past president of the Faculty Council of the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Deeply involved in public health education, she routinely presents to dozens of community and workplace groups each year through the Katz Institute, as well as at various Northwell site under the auspices of the Employee Wellness Team. She is a facilitator and speaker throughout Northwell Health for Unconscious Bias training as part of the Center for Equity of Care and has presented numerous Unconscious Bias workshops.
Dr. Stern earned her MD with special distinction for research in neuropathology from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society. As part of her residency training in Preventive Medicine at Cornell, she earned her MPH at the Columbia (now Mailman) School of Public Health. She completed an additional residency in Occupational Medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Stern maintains appointments at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and at Weill-Cornell and taught medical students at Cornell for over two decades.
Dr. Stern is board-certified and is a fellow of both the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM). She is also New York State-certified in medical acupuncture. She is an experienced medical editor and journalist, having worked in television, on-line, and print. In those capacities, she published hundreds of medical news articles for both consumer and professional audiences. Dr. Stern is a Past President of the New York Occupational & Environmental Medicine Association (NYOEMA) and the Queens County Medical Society (QCMS) and holds a number of positions in ACPM, ACOEM, and QCMS.
Krista Lim-Hing, MD
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Krista Lim-Hing, MD grew up in Fayetteville, Georgia and is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology. She obtained her medical degree at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Georgia. Her residency was completed at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She continued to complete a fellowship in neurocritical care at the University of Maryland and the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Maryland.
Currently, she is Director of the neurosciences intensive care unit at South Shore University Hospital. She is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in both neurocritical care and neurology.