Meet the Hosts

Dr. Ellie Campbell is a double board-certified physician, a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine and a diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine, practicing family medicine with a focus on root-cause cardiometabolic care.

Her clinical interest is the part of the inflammatory picture that stops at the referral boundary: periodontal disease, airway compromise, and the oral findings that rarely make it into a medical chart. She works these into standard risk assessment rather than treating them as a separate specialty concern.

On Vital Signs and Smile Lines she argues the medical side of the case: what the evidence supports, where it is thinner than the enthusiasm suggests, and what a physician can reasonably act on without overstepping.

Dr. Kathleen Carson is a dentist whose practice centers on airway function and the periodontal-systemic relationship, the findings that show up in the operatory months or years before they surface as a medical diagnosis.

She has spent years building the referral relationships that this work actually requires, and is candid about where that breaks down: the language mismatch between medicine and dentistry, the reimbursement gaps, and the cases where the right next step is not the one either profession is set up to take.

On Vital Signs and Smile Lines she brings the dental read on shared patients, including the parts colleagues in medicine are rarely shown.