Get ready for Valentine’s Day with the Dr. Lisa Radio Hour & Podcast “Heartfelt” show. Feel the love with cardiologist Dr. Lowell Gerber, Kate and Steve Shaffer from Black Dinah Chocolatiers on Isle au Haut, Maine and Francis Howell of Hiking to Build Hope.
Guests
Dr. Lowell Gerber
Dr. Gerber was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He received both his undergraduate and master’s degree in physiology of exercise from the University of Illinois. He received his medical degree from Loyola University, Stritch School of Medicine in Maywood, Illinois. After medical school he was a fellow in Pathology also at the Stritch School of Medicine. His residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Cardiology were at the University of South Florida College of Medicine in Tampa, FL. Dr. Gerber practiced clinical and interventional cardiology. He was a co-director of a preventive medicine center in Park City, Utah.
Dr. Gerber moved to Maine with Danielle Duval RN MS NP-C, where he has been developing a new medical practice concept. By combining the principles and practice of proactive preventive aging medicine with cardiology and bariatric medicine he provides his patients, and their families with the prescription and action plan for optimal health.
Dr. Gerber is a Diplomate in the American Board of Internal Medicine, Subspecialty Board of Cardiovascular Disease, Subspecialty Nuclear Cardiology and Subspecialty Interventional Cardiology, and Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. He also has certification in Age Management Medicine.
Kate and Steve Shaffer
Our second featured guests are, Kate and Steve Shaffer, founders and owners of Black Dinah Chocolatiers. With merely the desire to remain on the island and with the community they had grown to love, recently unemployed Kate Shaffer and her husband Steve began Black Dinah Chocolatiers in the summer of 2007. Since then, the small, artisanal chocolate company has garnered media attention, accolades and awards both regionally and nationally. Kate’s award winning book, Desserted: Recipes and Tales from an Island Chocolatier (DownEast Books, Oct. 2011), was chosen by Food & Wine as one of the best 25 of the year.
Francis Howell
Hello! I’m Francis G. Howell, Jr., President and Founder of Hiking to Build Hope. I was born in Ogunquit, Maine, an old Maine Coast artist and fishing village on the southern coast of Maine, still thriving with both activities. Please join us on our Facebook business page during 2013. We are a young energetic organization. Our mantra is what we believe — “Be involved in your community.”
Growing up in Maine teaches one the seasons. It helps a person grow. Adventure-seeking has been my long-term life goal. Careers have come and gone in high-tech corporate America. I was educated in Fine Arts and studied abroad in France. These are the tools which have made me thrive to be better and help my community at large. I may be told I am a dreamer. But, for me, I make my dreams into reality.
Hiking is my new venture. It can lead you around the world. Please check out my business page on Facebook . . . proof will make it told. America has 16 trails which have been designated as the National Millennium Trails. I plan to hike all of them. If you are trying to increase your brain power, then this is where you want to go.