Tomorrow's Medicine Today will be airing on PBS/NJN every Sunday starting on
October 21, 2007 at noon. You can view pictures of the shoot HERE

Every day, medical science moves our society closer to a cure - a cure for cancer, for AIDS, for diabetes and for a host of other diseases. At the same time, related research is also discovering more effective ways to treat and manage these same diseases. Until now, however, only the colleagues of those individuals dedicated to the advancement of medicine and the most resourceful and inquisitive of people have been able to truly appreciate the magnitude of the scientific efforts at hand. Fortunately, this is all about to change

Tomorrow’s Medicine Today, an exciting new health series dedicated to finding the answers to questions that effect the way medical discoveries impact each of our lives, is bringing the most current information directly from the research labs of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to you the general viewing audience. Presenting groundbreaking medical news, the show introduces and discusses (in common terms) the latest scientific breakthroughs, and then focuses on how these findings are improving people’s health and saving lives. Drs. Elias Zerhouni and Naomi Weinshenker take the viewer inside the NIH, by featuring dynamic studio interviews with the top researchers and medical scientists in the Unites States, offering first-time access to the cutting edge medical information that is of direct benefit to people now faced with life-threatening afflictions.

Each show features the director of an NIH Institute and a guest researcher, so the viewing audience will hear breaking medical news directly from the source. With the ability to affect the lives of thousands of patients and families and to raise awareness about some of the most innovative and revolutionary medical procedures and discoveries taking place, Tomorrow’s Medicine Today promises to evoke an informative and exciting discussion.
On an annual basis, and over the course of the next five years, Tomorrow’s Medicine Today will provide an opportunity for the directors and researchers of the 27 institutes and centers of the NIH to highlight the fruits of their labor with both the medical community and the general public alike. Airing on MMC’s Medical Broadcasting Channel (MBC) as a bi-monthly series, and on the Public Broadcast System (PBS) as a weekly series, Tomorrow’s Medicine Today is able to reach audiences in over 90 million homes in the United States and more than 300,000 academic and medical institutions throughout the world.

About the Series Hosts:

Naomi Weinshenker, MD

Dr. Naomi Weinshenker serves as Co-host of Tomorrow’sMedicine Today, Take Care, and as lead Medical Correspondentfor the Medical Broadcasting Channel. Dr. Weinshenker brings awealth of television experience, often appearing as a medical expert on ABC News, Fox 5 News, WB 11 News and Court TV.In 2005, she produced, wrote, and anchored “Healthy Lifestyles”, a weekly health segment broadcast to students and faculty at Montclair State University. In addition to her work with the Medical Broadcasting Channel, Dr. Weinshenker also serves as a freelance medical reporter for News 12 Connecticut.

Dr. Weinshenker graduated summa cum laude from Yale University, where she was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She completed a one-year internship in general medicine at Overlook Hospital in Summit, New Jersey and went on to complete a residency in psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and a fellowship in child/adolescent psychiatry at Boston Children’s Hospital – both divisions of Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Weinshenker has published in the medical literature on anxiety disorders, aggression and body image and has made presentations at national and international meetings on sexual harassment and domestic violence. She is licensed to practice medicine in both New York and New Jersey.

Dr. Naomi Weinshenker served as a faculty member at the NYU Child Study Center in Manhattan from 2000-2006. Currently, she maintains a private practice of psychiatry in New Jersey.

Elias A. Zerhouni, MD

Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, is the 15th and current director of the National Institutes of Health, appointed by George W. Bush in May 2002. His accomplishments at the NIH have included the establishment of a research program into the problem of wide-spread obesity, and supporting the reduction of healthcare disparities. In April 2006, he told a Congressional subcommittee,"We can now clearly envision an era when the treatment paradigm of medicine will increasingly become more predictive, personalized and preemptive. We will strike disease before it strikes us with the hope of greatly reducing overall costs to society.”Prior to joining the NIH in 2002, Dr. Zerhouni served as executive vice-dean of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, chair of the Russell H. Morgan department of radiology and radiological science, and Martin Donner professor of radiology, and professor of biomedical engineering. Before that, he was vice dean for research at Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Zerhouni was born in Nedroma, Algeria and came to the United States at age 24, having earned his medical degree at the University of Algiers School of Medicine in 1975. After completing his residency in diagnostic radiology at Johns Hopkins in 1978 as chief resident, he served as assistant professor in 1979 and associate professor in 1985. Between 1981 and 1985 he was in the department of radiology at Eastern Virginia Medical School and its affiliated DePaul Hospital. In 1988, Dr. Zerhouni returned to Johns Hopkins where he was appointed director of the MRI division, and then was appointed full professor in 1992 becoming the chairman of the radiology department in January 1996.

Since 2000, he has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine. He served on the National Cancer Institute's Board of Scientific Advisors from 1998-2002. In 1988, he was a consultant to the World Health Organization, and in 1985 he was a consultant to the White House under President Ronald Reagan.

A resident of Baltimore, he has won several awards for his research including a Gold Medal from the American Roentgen Ray Society for CT research and two Paul Lauterbur Awards for MRI research. His research in imaging led to advances in Computerized Axial Tomography (CAT scanning) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) that resulted in 157 peer reviewed publications and 8 patents.

Dr. Zerhouni received the honorary title Doctor Emeritus of the University of Algiers in 2005.