Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Jayanta Debnath, MD Making a discovery is to a researcher what hitting a game winning home run is to a ball player. But does getting there first sometimes put the patients last? Today we are discussing issues surrounding researchers’ ability to share research information.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Katrina Firlik, MD Dr. Katrina Firlik, author of "Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: a Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside" discusses being female in the male dominated specialty, neurosurgery.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Katrina Firlik, MD Dr. Katrina Firlik, author of "Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: a Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside" discusses the practice of neurosurgery.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Katrina Firlik, MD Dr. Katrina Firlik, author of "Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: a Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside" discusses her experiences as a neurosurgery resident as documented in her book.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Katrina Firlik, MD Dr. Katrinia Firlik discusses the writing and publishing of her book, "Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside."

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Roberta Greenspan Dr. Larry Kaskel welcomes Roberta Greenspan and Tracy Zirin of Special Docs Consulting, a firm dedicated exclusively to converting traditional primary care medical practices to concierge models. Listen in to take the quiz to find out if you should be thinking about converting your practice.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Roberta Greenspan Dr. Larry Kaskel is joined by Roberta Greenspan and Tracy Zirin of Special Docs Consulting, a firm dedicated exclusively to converting traditional primary care medical practices to concierge models. Tune in to find out what this new trend is all about.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Luis Porrata, MD Tens of thousands of autologous stem cell transplants are performed each year to treat blood cancer. Is there a way to increase the long term success rates?

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Luis Porrata, MD Tens of thousands of autologous stem cell transplants are performed each year to treat blood cancer. Is there a way to increase the long term success rates?

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Luis Porrata, MD Tens of thousands of autologous stem cell transplants are performed each year to treat blood cancer. Is there a way to increase the long term success rates?

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Luis Porrata, MD Translating knowledge from bedside to bench and back again is the Holy Grail for all medical professionals. Physician Scientists are the transport vehicle.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: William V. Tamborlane, MD What causes type 1 diabetes? Are there predictors? Can the disease be delayed? What is currently being studied to prevent or cure diabetes and where are we at? In this segment Dr. Tamborlane addresses these issues and more.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: William V. Tamborlane, MD What are the best practices in supporting a patient and their family in treating type 1 diabetes? How do you educate the family, How do you monitor the child? What is the physicians role in the management of a 24/7 disease. In this segment Dr. William Tamborlane shares his vast experience of caring for children with type 1 diabetes.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: William V. Tamborlane, MD How has the management of diabetes changed for children in the last 20 years? Join Dr. William Tamborlane with an update on the state of the art treatments for type 1 diabetes.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: William V. Tamborlane, MD In this segment Dr. William Tamborlane discusses the management of type 1 diabetes using an artificial pancreas.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Carol Southard, RN Dr. Larry Kaskel is discusses each of the various smoking cessation options available with Carol Southard, RN, MSN, and an American Lung Association certified instructor with over 20 years experience and proven success. Carol serves as the Tobacco Cessation Consultant for Chicago area hospitals. You'll learn the pros and cons of the name brand drugs...

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Carol Southard, RN Dr. Larry Kaskel is joined by Carol Southard, RN, MSN, and an American Lung Association certified instructor with over 20 years experience and proven success and Tobacco Cessation Consultant for Chicago area hospitals. She will go over what works and what doesn't work and why.

Host: Paul Raeburn Guest: Charles Bennett, MD The FDA is supposed to monitor adverse drug reactions after drugs are approved and put on the market. It collects information in a huge database to try to spot problems. But a handful of researchers tucked away in a university are using a completely different approach--and spotting problems years before the FDA could. Find out how these medical detecti...

Host: Paul Raeburn Guest: Gordon Guyatt, MD Everyone has an opinion about the Canadian healthcare system--whether it's a good idea, a travesty, or something in between. But how good is it, really? A comprehensive study looks at healthcare outcomes in Canada and the U.S.--and the findings will surprise you.

Host: Paul Raeburn Guest: Trudy Lieberman The bill that created the Medicare drug plan had another clause that few people noticed. It sets up a demonstration to test privatizing all of Medicare. Is this the first step toward privatizing all of Medicare?

Physicians know all too well how the United States struggles control the costs and increase access of our Health Care System. Individual states are taking matters into their own hands and changing their health care systems. What are they doing, and how will it impact physicians and their patients? Gov. Lamm discusses the different health care systems in two states, and its impact on the physicians...

How will changes in US Healthcare Public Policy affect the clinical practice of medicine? Big changes are on the horizon-will physicians have a part in the dialogue?

Physicians ask, “What do I need to do right now for this specific patient today to maintain health.” Public Policy advocates ask, “What do we need to do in the future to ensure the health of our society.” How do we reconcile these different viewpoints to become a healthier nation?

In his book, The Brave New World of Health Care, former Colorado Gov. Richard D. Lamm discusses the good the bad and the future of the current US Health Care System: the brilliance of our doctors, the quality of our delivery systems and the promise of our technological advancements versus the disparity in treatment between the rich and poor, the lack of cost containment and other control mechanism...

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Jeff Feldman, MBA Dr. Larry Kaskel welcomes Jeff Feldman, founder and chairman of XShares Group, LLC, a financial services company based in New York. He discusses his firm's HealthShares series of exchange traded funds.