Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Sergio Torloni, MD From the Mayo Clinic, join Dr Sergio Torloni as he is interviewed by Dr Shira Johnson to learn what you probably don't know about the breakthroughs in this exciting technology. What was once termed plasmapheresis has now evolved into a host of techniques utilizing stem cell harvesting, administration of medications, and much more. Apheresis is main...

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Edward Shorter, PhD Historian Doctor Edward Shorter of the University of Toronto and author of "Shock Therapy: The History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness" discusses the study of the history of psychiatry.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Edward Shorter, PhD Historian Doctor Edward Shorter of the University of Toronto and author of "Shock Therapy: The History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness" discusses the unique history and evolution of the psychiatric field, and some of the major paradigm changes in clinical practice for psychiatrists over the decades.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Edward Shorter, PhD Historian Doctor Edward Shorter of the University of Toronto and author of "Shock Therapy: The History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness" discusses the use of electroconvulsive therapy today.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Edward Shorter, PhD Historian Doctor Edward Shorter of the University of Toronto and author of "Shock Therapy: The History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness" discusses the history of the use of electroconvulsive therapy for mental illness.

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Jonathon Moreno, PhD Dr. Johnathan Moreno speaks with host Dr. Maurie Pickard about this year’s ground breaking research in the reprogramming of skin cells to act like stem cells. They also discuss the need for new embryonic cell lines that continue to be the gold standard. Continued progress in this area of research, however, is likely to be slowed due to the deni...

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Jonathon Moreno, PhD Dr. Johnathan Moreno discusses the implantation of DNA from two parents into an egg that has its nucleus removed to prevent diseases caused by genetic variants in the cytoplasmic mitochondria. Who is the mother? Join host, Dr. Maurie Pickard for an interesting discussion.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Sandeep Jauhar, MD How does the process of training to become a physician change us and our preconceptions of doctoring and medicine? And how has our understanding of that process shifted over time? Cardiologist and author Dr. Sandeep Jauhar joins host Dr. Leslie Lundt to discuss his career as a physician writer and his chronicle of a grueling time, Intern: A Docto...

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Taner Edis, PhD Why is the US more religious than Western Europe? Why does stem-cell research stir up so much controversy? ReachMD Book Club host Dr. Leslie Lundt welcomes author Taner Edis, PhD to discuss his book, Science and Nonbelief .

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Taner Edis, PhD Richard Dawkins is famous for saying science supports religious nonbelief, but many good scientists, such as Francis Collins, are religious and strongly oppose Dawkins's position. Where do you stand on this question? Physics professor and author Taner Edis, PhD discusses his book, Science and Nonbelief with host Dr. Leslie Lundt on the ReachMD Book...

Host: Bruce Japsen Guest: James King, MD Retailers like Wal-Mart, Walgreens and CVS/Caremark are moving into the businesss of providing health care, but doctors are worried. With this movement toward retail health care well under way as hundreds of clinics open nationally, Dr. James King of the American Academy of Family Physicians tells the Chicago Tribune's Bruce Japsen about the right model and...

Host: Bruce Japsen Guest: James King, MD From hotels to cars to their favorite college basketball team, the rating seems to be the measure of choice to tell the public who is good, bad, right or wrong. Dr. James King, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians tells the Chicago Tribune's Bruce Japsen how this rating system is coming at doctors, and the mixed views on its emergence.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: David Greer, MD Dr. David Greer, assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, directed a national survey of the leading neurology and neurosurgery programs to analyze policies for making brain death declarations. Though American medical institutions are not required to follow parameters for determining brain death, as published by the American Academ...

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: David Greer, MD Dr. David Greer, assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, directed a national survey of the leading neurology and neurosurgery programs to analyze policies for making brain death declarations. Though American medical institutions are not required to follow parameters for determining brain death, as published by the American Academ...

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: David Greer, MD Dr. David Greer, assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, directed a national survey of neurology and neurosurgery programs to analyze policies for making brain death declarations. Though American medical institutions are not required to follow parameters for determining brain death, as published by the American Academy of Neurolo...

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: David Greer, MD Practice guidelines for determining brain death have long been established by the American Academy of Neurology. Is there uniformity across the United States in adhering to these standard guidelines? How might the proper clinical exam for brain death declarations be adversely persuaded? Dr. David Greer, assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Me...

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Shelly Batra, MD Dr. Shelly Batra talks about the reasons she shifted her focus from her private practice as a gynecologist, and a career as a best-selling physician-author and television personality, to fighting tuberculosis in India's urban slums. In India, this disease carries a stigma and, for women, can mean the loss of a job, ostracism from their own family a...

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Shelly Batra, MD Dr. Shelly Batra, a gynecologist, author, and the medical director of the nonprofit Operation Asha, talks with host Dr. Maurice Pickard about her organization's fight against tuberculosis among New Delhi's impoverished and marginalized ragpickers in the urban slums of New Delhi, where adequate nutrition and sanitation are nonexistent. The clinic is...

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Brian Durie, MD Join noted Hematologist and researcher Dr. Brian Durie as he is interviewed by Dr Shira Johnson in discussing the work of the International Myeloma Foundation.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Brian Durie, MD Noted hematologist Dr. Brian Durie is interviewed by host Dr. Shira Johnson on the role of environmental toxins in the development of multiple myeloma (MM). Dr. Durie discusses the increased incidence of MM in firefighters who participated in rescue and cleanup efforts after the terrorist attacks on 9/11, as well as the changing demographics of the di...

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Brian Durie, MD Dr. Shira Johnson welcomes Dr. Brian Durie for a discussion about current diagnostic modalities and therapeutic approaches for multiple myeloma (MM), which have transformed its course into a chronic and often manageable illness.

Host: Gary Kohn, MD Guest: Victor Gura, MD Dr. Victor Gura, attending physician at Cedar Sinal Medical Center, and inventor of the wearable kidney, discusses this "holy grail of dialysis", the motivations behind its creation, and the benefits observed in trials thus far.

Host: Gary Kohn, MD Guest: Thomas Wang, MD Cardiologist Dr. Tom Wang of the Harvard Medical School talks about the broad distribution of Vitamin D receptors and the implications for cardiovascular and renal disease risk.

Host: Gary Kohn, MD Guest: Thomas Wang, MD Cardiologist and investigator Dr. Thomas Wang of the Massachusetts General Hospital talks about his recent work on Vitamin D deficiency and the increased risk of cardiovascular disease.

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Lisa D'Andrea talks with Steve Engelberg, an emergency medicine physician assistant, past president of the Nevada Academy of Physician Assistants, and Vice President and Founder of the National Association of Physician Assistants. They discuss how to utilize physician assistants in an ER setting.