Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Hoover Adger, MD, MPH, MBA What is the faculty experience like at the Johns Hopkins Colleges Program, a new learning environment at the Johns Hopkins Medical School? Join Dr. Hoover Adger, Sabin College Leader and a committed faculty member who applied to be a part of this innovative medical school approach. Dr. Bill Rutenberg hosts.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Robert Shochet, MD The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is incorporating an innovative community learning initiative into their medical degree program. What is this program, and what inspired its development? How are students and faculty responding to the program, which recognizes the increasing impact of so-called ‘informal education,’ that goes beyond t...

Host: Matthew J. Sorrentino, MD, FACC, FASH Guest: JoAnne Foody, MD None

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: John A. Kessler, MD John A. Kessler MD is Davee Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Chairman of the Davee Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Medical School. He discusses applying molecular neurobiology to clinical problems of spinal cord injury and stroke. Dr. Bruce Bloom hosts.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: John A. Kessler, MD John A. Kessler MD, Davee Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Chairman of the Davee Department of Neurology at 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 the biology of embryonic stem cells and neural stem cells, including th...

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Loren Walensky, MD, PhD Loren D. Walensky MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatric Oncology at Harvard Medical School and Medical Director of the Program of Cancer Chemical Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, discusses life as a research scientist in cancer research.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Loren Walensky, MD, PhD Dr. Loren Walensky, Assistant Professor of Pediatric Oncology at Harvard Medical School and Medical Director of the Program of Cancer Chemical Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute discusses the biology of cell death and how a new chemical technology is yielding a host of new tools to study and treat diseases, like cancer, that are ch...

Host: Bruce Japsen Guest: Tim Dugan, MBA Almost every day, you hear or read about people working more for less, and doctors are no different with employers, insurers and government payers looking for ways to slow rising health costs. So how do doctors maximize revenue in this challenging environment? Tim Dugan, co-founder of private equity firm Water Street Healthcare Partners, one of the largest...

Host: Bruce Japsen Guest: Tim Dugan, MBA A new trend is emerging in medical diagnosis. It's called point-of-care diagnostics. Tim Dugan, managing partner and co-founder of Water Street Healthcare Partners, one of the nation's largest private equity funds focused solely on health care, tells the Chicago Tribune's Bruce Japsen about moving diagnostic tests to the patients' bedside and the point of c...

Host: Bruce Japsen Guest: Tim Dugan, MBA With the volatility of the stock market and still low interest rates, private equity continues to have a greater role in the health care industry. But can private equity improve patient safety outcomes with the entire industry under pressure to improve quality? Tim Dugan, co-founder of Water Street Healthcare Partners, a private equity fund focused solely o...

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Constance Dahlin, MSN, APRN Join Constance M. Dahlin, an advanced practice nurse and Co-Director of the Outpatient Palliative Care Service at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, as she discusses the uniform palliative care guidelines.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Ronald Myers, MD Collaboration is a theme that pop-up regularly in discussions about how to improve our healthcare system. The Pennsylvania Cancer Control Consortium, an example of just one collaborative healthcare effort has created a statewide blueprint for all sectors of Pennsylvania—public, academic, private, and volunteer, to work together to meet the growing cha...

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Ronald Myers, MD Its common knowledge that colon cancer screening is underutilized. Can primary care physicians and healthcare professionals impact their patients choice to get screened and to follow through with the screening? Join host Larry Kaskel discuss these issues with our guest Dr. Ron Myers who recently completed a study on how healthcare professionals can in...

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Timothy Henry, MD Not all hospitals are equipped with staff or equipment to perform percutaneous coronary intervention on an emergency basis. However, in an emergency situation, critical decisions must be made: Take a patient to the nearest medical center that can provide fibrinoloysis or take the extra time to get them to a medical center who can perform PCI. What ar...

Host: Bruce Japsen Guest: Richard Anderson, MD From employers and insurers to the federal Medicare program, the focus on medical errors by those paying for health care is unprecedented. But Dr. Richard Anderson, chairman and chief executive of Napa, Calif-based national malpractice carrier, The Doctors Company, tells the Chicago Tribune's Bruce Japsen that strides can be made in the move to patien...

Host: Bruce Japsen Guest: Richard Anderson, MD Potentially better rates in the wake of tort reform that have capped certain damages are more in the offering than in recent years, but is the momentum going to continue to spread across the country in states where tort reform has stalled? Dr. Richard Anderson, chairman and chief executive officer of Napa, Calif.-based national malpractice insurance c...

Host: Bruce Japsen Guest: Richard Anderson, MD System errors have a large impact on medical malpractice claims, but did you know they contributed to 30 percent of settled claims? They do, according to a study by one of the largest doctor-run medical malpractice carriers. Dr. Richard Anderson, chairman and chief executive officer of Napa, Calif.-based national malpractice carrier, The Doctors Compa...

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Dan Shapiro, PhD Dr. Dan Shapiro, Director of the Medical Humanities Program and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Arizona in Tuscon, Arizona, discusses his book, Delivering Amelia: The Story of a Young Gifted Obstetrician's Mistake and the Psychologist Who Helped Her .

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Dan Shapiro, PhD Dr. Dan Shapiro, Director of the Medical Humanities Program and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Arizona, discusses his book: Mom's Marijuana: Life, Love and Beating the Odds .

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: David Miller Right now, it’s illegal to use an electronic system to prescribe controlled substances. But as the adoption of electronic prescriptions progresses, the inclusion of controlled substances into e-prescribing becomes inevitable. David Miller, chief security officer for Covisint, a leading software and IT services firm, weighs the advantages and disadvanta...

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Mary Naylor, PhD, RN Mary D. Naylor, PhD, RN, is the Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology and Director of the New Courtland Center for Transitions and Health at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Hear Dr. Naylor as she discusses how to prevent patients from landing back in the hospital.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Daniel Palestrant, MD Social networking Web sites may provide isolated physicians a chance to network with other docs far beyond their geography. Those of us who practice clinical medicine know that often what we do in our offices is far ahead of what the published research tell us. How might we harness this power? Sermo’s founder and CEO, Dr. Daniel Palestrant, ex...

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Daniel Palestrant, MD Dr. Daniel Palestrant may not be a name that you are familiar with ….. yet. He joins host Dr. Leslie Lundt to discuss how he became a physician entrepeneur while still in training.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Godfrey Getz, MD The major cardiovascular diseases have at their core hypertension and atherosclerosis. Both of these are strongly impacted by diet. Dr. Godfrey Getz of the University of Chicago explains the latest research between diet and cardiovascular disease to host Dr. Leslie Lundt.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Daniel Carlat, MD Dr. Claudia Baldassano of University of Penn has said that today’s guest “is a master at making tedious concepts come to life”. For many of us, nothing in medicine is as tedious as drug metabolism. Dr. Daniel Carlat tells host Dr. Leslie Lundt about his latest book, “Drug Metabolism in Psychiatry – A Clinical guide”.