Flu Season is upon us, and the public television series SECOND OPINION, distributed by APT, will provide a one-hour radio special offering direct education about the H1N1 virus. Hosted by Dr. Peter Salgo, the program will be a town hall meeting style format, with a panel of national experts who will address issues such as prevention, vaccinations, public health issues, resources, and local and national response.

A live studio audience as well as videotaped questions from around the country will provide viewer interaction with the panel.  The episode will be recorded at WXXI Public Broadcasting studios in front of a live studio audience on Saturday, October 3, 2009.

For joint licensees who carry SECOND OPINION, this is a great way to provide your community with timely, accurate and credible information on H1N1. If you are not currently carrying SECOND OPINION, the radio program will stand on its own.

Dr. Peter Salgo is one of the country's most respected health care professionals. As a practicing physician at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, he makes rounds five days a week. Specializing in the pre - and post-operative treatment of heart patients, heart transplant recipients, and artificial heart candidates, he maintains a full-time practice in Intensive Care Medicine in the Open Heart ICU at Columbia.

Panelists include Lisa Harris, MD, Primary Care Physician at Temple Medical Internal Medicine and Pediatrics; Rear Admiral Anne Schuchat, MD, Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; Barbara Ferrer, PhD, Executive Director of the Boston Public Health Commission; Mark Shelly, MD, Infectious Disease and Travel Medicine at Highland Hospital in Rochester, NY; and Richard Barbano, MD, Professor at the Department of Neurology of the University of Rochester Medical Center.

The one-hour program is newscast compatible, and will be available to all stations free of charge.

Flu Season is upon us, and the public television series SECOND OPINION, distributed by APT, will provide a one-hour radio special offering direct education about the H1N1 virus. Hosted by Dr. Peter Salgo, the program will be a town hall meeting style format, with a panel of national experts who will address issues such as prevention, vaccinations, public health issues, resources, and local and national response.

A live studio audience as well as videotaped questions from around the country will provide viewer interaction with the panel.  The episode will be recorded at WXXI Public Broadcasting studios in front of a live studio audience on Saturday, October 3, 2009.

For joint licensees who carry SECOND OPINION, this is a great way to provide your community with timely, accurate and credible information on H1N1. If you are not currently carrying SECOND OPINION, the radio program will stand on its own.

Dr. Peter Salgo is one of the country's most respected health care professionals. As a practicing physician at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, he makes rounds five days a week. Specializing in the pre - and post-operative treatment of heart patients, heart transplant recipients, and artificial heart candidates, he maintains a full-time practice in Intensive Care Medicine in the Open Heart ICU at Columbia.

Panelists include Lisa Harris, MD, Primary Care Physician at Temple Medical Internal Medicine and Pediatrics; Rear Admiral Anne Schuchat, MD, Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; Barbara Ferrer, PhD, Executive Director of the Boston Public Health Commission; Mark Shelly, MD, Infectious Disease and Travel Medicine at Highland Hospital in Rochester, NY; and Richard Barbano, MD, Professor at the Department of Neurology of the University of Rochester Medical Center.

The one-hour program is newscast compatible, and will be available to all stations free of charge.