Joe Halio, M.D. was raised in a Sephardic family from Salonica and Turkey. He is the grandson of Albert J. Torres, publisher of the Spanish-Jewish newspaper La Vara, and the son of Hank Halio, author of Ladino Reveries. In addition to his practice of Geriatric Medicine, he serves as an officer of the North Shore Hospital Medical Staff Society, the North Shore Medical Staff Society IPA, and is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He is the Medical Director of the Atlantic Beach Rescue. Joe has always been active in the in the Sephardic community of New York, first with Sephardic House, and the Broome and Allen Boys Association. He is President of the Sephardic Foundation on Aging, the Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies & Culture, the Friendship & Truth Hesed V’Emet Society of Castorialis, and the Es AHaim Society. He is Secretary of the Sephardic Jewish Center of Forest Hills, and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Sephardi Federation, the Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America, and the American Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greece. Joe speaks and teaches Ladino. He has traveled to Salonica, Greece, Turkey and Israel many times.