TITA TALKS: THE WELLNESS CORNER

 Sonia Tita Puopolo is the Co-Founder and CEO of WELLNESS 🌎 WORLD USA®, INC., and the host and producer of TITA TALKS™, a lifestyle and wellness podcast exploring emotional intelligence, wellbeing, and selfcare through thoughtful dialogue and lived experience. She is a wellness educator and award-winning author.

Professor Puopolo has taught Advanced Topics in Communication Studies: Emotional Intelligence and Wellness, a global wellness and selfcare communication studies course at Emerson College in Boston. In 2010, she published Sonia’s Ring: 11 Ways to Heal Your Heart, as well as its Spanish edition, El Anillo de Sonia.

Professor Puopolo brings more than 25 years of experience as a yoga practitioner and is certified as a Yantra Yoga instructor through the Buddhist Chaplaincy at Harvard University. Over the past two decades, she has led innovative mindfulness and meditation programs. She holds a Master of Arts from Emerson College and a second Master’s degree from Harvard University.

Dr. Jennifer Joe is a Harvard-Affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) Nephrology Graduate, a practicing physician in emergency medicine at the VA Hospital, a world-renowned leader in healthcare innovation, and most recently listed as one of Medika’s 2021 top 50 most influential voices in healthcare. Moreover, Dr. Joe has more than 10 years of experience treating PTSD veterans at the Boston VA Hospital system, hearing their stories, understanding their trauma, and helping them through some of their most difficult times. Healthtech magazine recently named Jen one of the 30 Healthcare IT Influencers to Follow in 2021. Together, Dr. Joe and Dr. Bhatt host MEDTECH INSIGHTS, a live interactive show that airs bi-monthly. 

Dr. Ami Bhatt graduated from Harvard College and the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Bhatt is the Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) of the American College of Cardiology (ACC). She previously served as the Director of Outpatient and Telecardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Corrigan Mineham Heart Center, and is an associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bhatt is also the incoming President of the American Heart Association of Massachusetts. As a leader in telemedicine prior to COVID, and a founding member of the Center For Physician Wellbeing at the MGH, Wellbeing is a FUNDAMENTAL cornerstone of her practice - empowering patients as well as high performing physicians through the intense fatigue and emotional distress of the COVID-19 Pandemic.