Heather Schatz
Senior Producer, Talk ShowsHeather is the senior producer of WJCT 89.9 FM talk shows including First Coast Connect with Melissa Ross, the Florida Roundup and What's Health Got to Do with It?
Heather spent close to 10 years at CBS News in New York City, where she worked for CBS Network Radio, CBS This Morning and The Early Show, producing news and feature stories for television and radio. While there, she was nominated for a national Emmy Award for a feature series and received National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Certificates of Recognition for the reporting of the September 11 events and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
Since returning to Florida in 2007, Heather has worked as the communications director for Best Buddies International and the National YoungArts Foundation and as a communications consultant for a number of businesses.
She is also a long-standing member of the Writer’s Guild of America, East, and contributes to Edible Northeast Florida magazine. Heather has a master's degree in journalism and mass communications from New York University and a bachelor's degree in public policy from Cornell University.
Heather lives at the Beaches with her husband and two children.
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What's Health Got to Do with It?"Interventional psychiatry" is a cutting-edge field that bridges the gap between traditional therapy and medical interventions. -
What's Health Got to Do with It?Dr. Syed Asad, a Jacksonville-based neurologist, joins us for a detailed discussion of concussions. Also, we revisit the subject of health care misinformation.
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What's Health Got to Do with It?In honor of Father's Day, our panel discusses the pressures on men and how it affects their mental health.
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What's Health Got to Do with It?This week, we devoted the program to a conversation with Dr. Nancy Diazgranados, deputy clinical director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
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What's Health Got to Do with It?"What's Health Got to Do with It" discusses menopause with two experts at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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First Coast ConnectMayoral candidate Donna Deegan explains her platform; Sisisky-Kleppinger lecture for women’s health is May 10; Groundwork Jacksonville wins grants for Hogans and McCoys creeks; Mixed Fillings Pie Shop is back.
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What's Health Got to Do with It?"What's Health Got to Do with It" talks with medical experts and a cystic fibrosis patient.
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First Coast ConnectThe Blue Zones Projects helps Jax get healthy; Asian hate is rising; we pick a new book for book club; Taverna Oceana opens in San Marco Square.
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What's Health Got to Do with It?Our Medical Roundtable panelists joined us in front of a live studio audience.
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First Coast ConnectDuval Schools wrestles with controversy at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts; this is National Infertility Awareness Week; a new documentary looks at the toll of Lyme disease; the North Florida TPO completes a bike and pedestrian master plan.
