Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Norbert Weidner, MD Dr. Norbert Weidner, Associate professor of Clinical Anesthesia and Pediatrics and Medical Director of the Starshine Hospice at Cincinnati's Children's Hospital Medical Center, discusses the social and psychological concerns for boys with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

Host: Paul Raeburn Guest: Congressman Pete Stark, MBA Congressman Pete Stark of California discusses mental health parity legislation in Washington.

Host: Paul Raeburn Guest: Robert Park, PhD Bob Park, a physicist with the University of Maryland, discusses what science can tell us about when life begins. A critical piece of the puzzle concerns what to do about stem cell research.

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Mardge Cohen, MD Issues in the care of HIV positive women in the United states and similarities in genocide rape survivors of Rwanda

Host: Mark Chyna, MD None

Host: Mark Chyna, MD 1.who uses and why this valuable book that has sold 3 million copies 2.a book that has value in third world countries and possibly in the United States

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Gregory Berns, MD, PhD Dr. Gregory Berns discusses what brain studies can tell us about satisfaction and pain.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Gregory Berns, MD, PhD Dr. Gregory Berns will be discussing his book, Satisfaction - The Science of Finding True Fulfillment.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Gregory Berns, MD, PhD Dr. Gregory Berns discusses "Neuroeconomics" - the combination of neuroscience and economics used to better understand the brain reward system.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Gregory Berns, MD, PhD Dr. Gregory Berns discusses the use of functional MRI to better understand the teenage brain.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Corey Keyes, PhD Dr. Corey Keyes discusses "flourishing," a new and positive approach to mental health.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Corey Keyes, PhD Dr. Corey Keyes discusses the new focus in research and medicine on predictive health.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Corey Keyes, PhD Dr. Corey Keyes discusses issues in mental health for American adolescents.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Corey Keyes, PhD Dr. Corey Keyes will discuss the relationship between mental health and cardiovascular disease.

Host: Paul Raeburn Guest: Tim Westmoreland, PhD What's good about the Federal/State Medicaid program, and how could it be improved? Tim Westmoreland, a lawyer and health care expert at the Georgetown University Health Law Institute in DC, discusses the problem of getting more people covered.

Host: Paul Raeburn Guest: Judy Feder, PhD Judy Feder, dean of the Georgetown Public Policy Institute in Washington DC, discusses what the presidential candidates have to say about health care issues, especially that "one ton gorilla:" insurance.

Host: Paul Raeburn Guest: Tod Cooperman, MD Todd Cooperman, founder and president of Consumerlabs.com talks about some recent findings including traces of lead in multi-vitamins and a lack of regulatory control in in glucosamine-chondroitin compounds.

Host: Paul Raeburn Guest: Susan Dentzer, MA Host Paul Raeburn interviews Susan Dentzer, an on-air correspondent for The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, about the NCI budget. It's flat this year and that means less money for cancer research.

Host: Paul Raeburn Guest: Mary Agnes Carey Why are pharmaceutical drugs so expensive, and what can be done about it in Washington? Mary Agnes Carey, a reporter for the Congressional Quarterly in Washington, DC, talks to host Paul Raeburn.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Leslie Goldman, MPH Leslie Goldman discusses how the media impacts body image and how women judge themselves.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Leslie Goldman, MPH Leslie Goldman discusses how negative body image develops and results in eating disorders.

Host: Matthew J. Sorrentino, MD, FACC, FASH Guest: Bradley Knight, MD Dr. Bradley Knight will discuss approaches to controlling the heart rate and preventing thromboembolic complications in patients with atrial fibrillation.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Kaimana MacDonald, MD Dr. Kai MacDonald discusses how these two emotions are actually quite similar based on brain response.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Kaimana MacDonald, MD Dr. Kai MacDonald discusses the scientific understanding of relationships.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Michael Barrett, MD Dr. Michael Barrett explains why the failure to diagnose myocardial infarction is a common cause of negligence claims for general practitioners.