Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Guest: Brian Moran, MD Dr. Michael Greenberg speaks with Dr. Brian Moran, Medical Director of the Chicago Prostate Cancer Center, about new biopsy and diagnostic techniques for men with prostate cancer.

Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Guest: Brian Moran, MD Dr. Michael Greenberg speaks with Dr. Brian Moran, Medical Director of the Chicago Prostate Cancer Treatment Center, about the various treatments available for treating prostate cancer with an emphasis on brachytherapy.

Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Guest: Brian Moran, MD Dr. Michael Greenberg speaks with Dr. Brian Moran, medical director of the Chicago Prostate Cancer Center, about brachytherapy and Dr. Moran's personal journey in creating his nationally recognized prostate cancer treatment facility.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Rick Stouffer, MD Dr. Rick Stouffer, Chief of Clinical Cardiology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Director of Interventional Cardiology gives his update on risk factors and invasive interventions in 2008.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Rick Stouffer, MD Dr Rick Stouffer, Chief of Clinical Cardiology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is interviewed by Dr. Shira Johnson. Dr Stouffer provides a state of the art update on drug eluting cardiac stents.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Betty Davies, RN, PhD Guest: Stacy Orloff, EdD Betty Davies, RN, PhD, FAAN, is Professor, Department of Family Health Care Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco and Principal Investigator on a NIH research project to examine the experiences of fathers with terminally ill children. Dr. Davies is joined by site coordinator Stacy Orloff, EdD, LCSW, to...

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Mary Whitmer, RN Hear Mary Whitmer, RN, FNP, BC-PC, a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, as she discusses the implementation of a Grieving Cart in the ICU.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Eugene Viscusi, MD Dr. Eugene Viscusi, director of acute pain management and associate professor of anesthesiology at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, discusses the latest advances in capsaicin research toward acute pain management.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Clifford Tribus, MD X-Stop, a ruuner up in the 2007 Wall Street Journal Technology Awards for best medical devices is an innovative implantable device to relieve pain in patients with spinal stenosis. In this segment Dr. Cliff Tribus shares his experience implanting the X-Stop. He discusses which patients benefit most from X-Stop and how it helps them. He also spea...

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Clifford Tribus, MD Back pain is often a complaint from patients. Spinal stenosis is often a cause of back pain, especially in the elderly. In this segment, Dr. Clifford Tribus talks with host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill about the process of identifying the source of back pain: spinal stenosis, degenerative disk disease, and beyond. He also discusses the difference between...

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Fernando Burstein, MD Dr. Fernando Burstein shares his experience in managing a large multi-disciplinary team to help correct a cleft lip and cleft palate. How does the team approach work in a complex series of multiple surgeries? What are the critical success factors in planning and executing surgeries with multiple medical diciplines involved? Join host Dr. Mark...

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Fernando Burstein, MD In combination with endoscopic surgery, botox is being used by Center for Craniofacial Disorders at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta as an innovative way to treat muscular torticollis. In this segment, Dr. Mark Nolan Hill interviews surgeon Fernando Burstein about treatment options for torticollis and how outcomes differ with our without t...

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Fernando Burstein, MD Muscular torticollis or ‘wry neck’ if untreated may result in permanent craniofacial deformities. Traditionally, torticollis has been treated with physicial therapy and/or surgery. Host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill interviews Dr. Fernando Burstein about the varying degrees of muscular torticollis and the preferred methods of treatment.

Host: Bruce Japsen Guest: Kurt Mosley Many doctors would not recommend medicine as a career, and older physicians see their younger colleagues as less dedicated and hard working, so staffing the right doctor to the right job is an increasingly more difficult challenge. Kurt Mosley, vice president of business development for physician recruiter Merritt Hawkins & Associates, tells the Chicago Tr...

Host: Michael Benson, MD Guest: Justin Barnes Those of us old enough to remember Stanley Kubrick’s blockbuster movie, 2001: A space odyssey, are likely to be at least a little concerned about the growth of the electronic medical record. In the movie, the spaceship’s computer ran amuck and started killing off the astronauts. Salvation could only be achieved through unplugging the machine. Is this c...

Host: Michael Benson, MD Guest: Justin Barnes Many doctors complain about their hospital's EMR. It is combersome and not intuitive. Yet the government wants doctors to introduce the electronic medical record to their offices. Are EMR's for doctor offices as difficult to use as their larger, more ambitious hospital brethren? Our guest today is Justin Barnes who is Vice President Marketing, Corporat...

Host: Michael Benson, MD Guest: Justin Barnes David Brailer, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in 2006, presented an anecdote at an industry meeting. “You live in Philadelphia but you are hit by a bus in San Diego while on vacation. With the EMR the emergency room doctor could access your records at the government’s regional health information organization and learn your past...

Host: Michael Benson, MD Guest: Thomas Green, Jr. Why Electronic Medical Records? The patient calls for her lab test. Your staff pulls the chart, calls the lab, gets the results, and puts it in the chart. Next, the chart is put on your desk. You call the patient but she is not in. The chart stays on your desk. After finally reaching her, the staff then puts the chart back in alphabetical file. Sou...

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, MPH Dr. Sandro Galea looks at our current model for treating patients with PTSD from natural and man-made disasters. The search for effective strategies in mental health programs becomes imperative when we look at the lingering psychological impacts of Hurricane Katrina, years after the disaster.

Host: Gary Kohn, MD Guest: Cary Kaufman, MD Dr. Kaufman, a breast surgeon and assistant clinical professor at the University of Washington, is the past president of the National Consortium of Breast Centers and vice-chairman of their National Accreditation Program. He joins host Dr. Gary Kohn to talk about how emerging tactile sensing technology can be used as pre-mammographic testing, screening,...

Host: Gary Kohn, MD Guest: Jae Son, PhD From the science of robotic engineering, Dr. Son shares his work in translating touch and pressure data into recordable and printable visual images. He is the CEO and Chief Technology Officer at Medical Tactile Inc. They were innovation winners in Medical Technology 2007, for the Sure Touch Visual Mapping System.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Ellen Stovall Guest: Kim Thiboldeaux A cancer diagnosis can paralyze both patients and their loved ones; what non-physician support is available to them through this experience? Join host Dr. Bruce Bloom as he speaks with guests Kim Thiboldeaux, President & CEO of The Wellness Community and Ellen Stovall, President & CEO of the National Coalition for Cance...

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: John A. Kessler, MD John A. Kessler MD, Davee Professor of Stem Cell Biology, Chairman, Davee Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Medical School, is one of the world’s leaders in stem cell research to repair central and peripheral nerve damage. He joins us to talk about how growth factors promote neuronal and glial survival and phenotypic expression.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: John A. Kessler, MD John A. Kessler MD, Davee Professor of Stem Cell Biology, Chairman, Davee Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. Dr. Kessler is one of the world’s leaders in stem cell research to repair central and peripheral nerve damage. He joins us to talk about the biology of embryonic stem cells and neural stem cells,...

Host: Bruce Japsen Guest: Karen Ignagni, MBA If America is going to cover more uninsured once and for all, the companies already providing coverage are likely to have a role in how Congress and the next President formulate an expansion of health benefits for all Americans. Karen Ignagni, President and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, the lobby and trade association for the health insurance...