Faculty Media Experts
We have deep expertise available to the media who can answer questions and serve as a resource on a wide variety of topics from health & medicine to ethics and education. Our expertise ranges from vaccines to special education, in addition to mental health, rehabilitation to business, medical ethics, Jewish community, politics, women’s health, AI, anxiety and depression, and much more. See our faculty profiles below or contact us at communications@touro.edu.
Business & Economics
Business Management, Entrepreneurial Process, Organizational Leadership: Corrado Amato
Personal Finance, Stock Market, World and U.S. Economy: Angelo DeCandia
Business Law: Meredith R. Miller
Business Strategy, Tax: Shulem Rosenbaum
Careers
Job Market Trends, Resume and Interview Preparation: Maksim Paliyev
Career Planning, Maximizing Use of LinkedIn: Chaim Shapiro
Career Counseling, College Career Services: Jodi Smolen
Dentistry
Pediatric Dentistry, Infection Prevention: Ronnie Myers
Periodontics, Dental Implantology, Gum Disease: Jay Rubin
Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Dental Treatment of Patients in Underserved Rural Communities: Aaron Yancoskie
Orofacial Pain, Sleep Apnea: Lauren Levi
Education
Art Education: Timothy Bellavia
Learning Disabilities: Susan Courey
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Higher Education: Shlomo Engelson Argamon
Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, First-Generation Students in Higher Education, Academic Self-Regulation: Pola Ham
Higher Education, Education Policy: Alan Kadish
Special Education: Jeff Lichtman, Susan Courey
Teacher Training, Jewish Education: Jeff Lichtman
Early Childhood and Elementary Level Teaching, Educational Program Design: Lena Richardson
Health and Medicine
Health Policy, Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Disease Control and Prevention: Robert W. Amler
Pharmaceutical, Biomedical Sciences: Paramita Basu
Nutrition: Nathalie Bergeron, Harold Sirota, Niket Sonpal
Vaccination: Mary Flanagan, Stephen Jones
Healthy Living/Disease Prevention: Harold Sirota, Niket Sonpal
Infectious Disease: Mary Flanagan, Allen Dozor, Kathleen DiCaprio, Niket Sonpal, Gary P. Wormser
Genetics, Stem Cell Biology: Mitchell Cairo
Biochemistry, Stem Cells, Science Education: Brian Chiswell
Public Health: Robert W. Amler, Kathleen DiCaprio
Pediatrics: Allen Dozor, Edward C. Halperin, Mitchell Cairo
Primary Care: Mary Flanagan, Kenneth Steier
Medical Ethics, Organ Transplantation: Edward C. Halperin
Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Diseases, Gerontology: Stephen Jones
DNA Testing, Medicine, Jewish Law: Zvi Loewy
Bioethics, Jewish Medical Ethics: John Loike
Vaccines and Preclinical Testing: Alison McCormick
Patient Safety/Medication Safety: Batoul Senhaji-Tomza
Depression: Harold Sirota
Osteopathic Medicine, Performance Enhancing Drugs: Kenneth Steier
Lyme Disease, Bio-Threats: Gary P. Wormser
Jewish Studies/Jewish Community
The Holocaust: Natalia Aleksiun, Karen Sutton, Anne Bayefsky
Eastern European Jews: Natalia Aleksiun
Modern Day Middle East, Human Rights: Anne Bayefsky
Jewish Law: Rabbi Moshe Krupka, Samuel Levine, Rabbi Yonason Sacks
Jewish Community: Rabbi Moshe Krupka
Bioethics, Jewish Medical Ethics: John Loike
Middle East, U.S. and Israeli Relations, Local and Israel Politics: David Luchins
Jewish History and Law, Universalism and Particularism in Judaism as Reflected in Classical Jewish Texts: Moshe Miller
Talmud and Bible Study: Rabbi Yonason Sacks
Contemporary Judaism: Israel Singer
Ethics, Jewish Studies: Rabbi Moshe Sokol
Sociology of Religion, Contemporary American and Israeli Jewry: Mervin Verbit
Ethics
Bioethics, Jewish Medical Ethics: John Loike
General Ethics: Rabbi Moshe Sokol
Legal Ethics: Samuel Levine
Government Ethics: Patricia E. Salkin
Medical Ethics: Edward C. Halperin
Law
Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, Human Rights: Richard Klein
Legal Ethics, Jewish Law, Law and Religion: Samuel Levine
Contract and Employment Law, Business Law: Meredith R. Miller
Constitutional Law, Public Administration, Political Theory: Tom Rozinski
Land Use, Government Ethics, Legal Education: Patricia E. Salkin
Mental Health
General Mental Health: Jeffrey Gardere, Naomi Klapper
Trauma, Clinical Mental Health Education: Kimberly Asner-Self
Geriatric Social Work: Susan Brot
Parenting: Nancy Gallina, Naomi Klapper, Faye Walkenfeld, Jeffrey Gardere
Anxiety: Jeffrey Gardere, Steven Pirutinsky
Relationships, Addiction: Naomi Klapper
Forensic Psychology: Alan Perry
Mental Health and Religion: Steven Pirutinsky
Depression, Suicidology, Cognitive Therapy, Veterans’ Mental Health: Yosef Sokol
Cognitive Development, Religious and Cultural Identity: Faye Walkenfeld
Politics
International Relations, Contemporary Issues in Global Politics, American History: Brooks Ishler
Middle East, U.S. and Israeli Relations, Local and Israel Politics: David Luchins
Presidential Power, Constitutional Law, Political Theory: Tom Rozinski
Government Ethics: Patricia E. Salkin
Political Theory: Israel Singer
Rehabilitation
Exercise for Aging Adults, Oncology Physical Therapy Rehabilitation and Inpatient Rehabilitation: Mark Apostol
Motor Learning, Children with Disabilities: Bhavini Surana
Pediatric Physical Therapy: Yocheved Bensinger-Brody, Bhavini Surana
Rehabilitation for Patients with Cardiac and Pulmonary Disease: Ted Marks
Hand Therapy: Eileen Meehan, Rob Troiano
Cognitive Rehabilitation, Adult Rehabilitation: Rivka Molinsky
Transition to Adulthood for Students with Developmental Disabilities, School-Based Occupational Therapy: Meira Orentlicher
Women’s Health, Pelvic Rehabilitation, Incontinence: Reema Thakkar
Prosthetics: Rob Troiano
Technology
Artificial Intelligence (AI): Shlomo Engelson Argamon, Jeremy Rambarran
Machine Learning, Forensic Linguistics, Technology in Higher Education: Shlomo Engelson Argamon
Network and Cybersecurity, Software-as-a-Service: Behrooz Khorsandi, Jeremy Rambarran
Cloud Computing: Behrooz Khorsandi, Jeremy Rambarran
Visual Storytelling, User Experience, Web Design: Valerie Taylor
Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Online Learning: Holly Owens
