Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Michael Benson, MD Guest: Robert Silver, MD A low platelet count during pregnancy can be the result of a disease of pregnancy or an unrelated condition. Your patient’s life depends on you knowing the difference. Learn the answers with Dr. Robert Silver, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Utah Medical Center and Chief, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine.

Host: Michael Benson, MD Guest: Robert Silver, MD Anticardiolipin antibody syndrome. Is it real or just a throw-away diagnosis we give to placate mothers with recurrent pregnancy losses? Learn the answers with Dr. Robert Silver, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Utah Medical Center and Chief, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: James Sherley, MD Dr. James Sherley, a stem cell heretic, discusses his stem cell views and proposes that many other researchers in his field share his strong views but do not always speak out because of their desire to get tenure and or be published. He also explains his side of the story regarding his tenure at MIT.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: James Sherley, MD In this segment Dr. Sherley speaks about many stem cell related topics including the relationship between stem cells and cloning, gene therapy and how adult stem cells work.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: James Sherley, MD In this segment, Dr. James Sherley explains relationship between stem cells and human organs. He proposes that the future of embryonic stem cells are mis-represented and will not ever be able to deliver upon the many promises made.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: James Sherley, MD In this segment Dr. James Sherley offers physicians a review course on adult and embryonic stem cells.

Host: Laura Humphrey, PhD Guest: Bruce Wilson, MD In this segment, Dr. Bruce Wilson discusses the Heartmath program. Heartmath is an evidence-based treatment program for cardiac rehabilitation and stress management.

Host: Laura Humphrey, PhD Guest: Bruce Wilson, MD As Physician's, how can we help our patients find better ways to manage their stress? In this segment, Cardiologist and Director of the Heartmath Program redefines stress and explains the physiological impact of stress on the body.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Abbas Chamsuddin, MD Dr. Abbas Chamsuddin discusses the new procedure, ultrasound-assisted thrombolysis.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Abbas Chamsuddin, MD Abbas Chamsuddin, M.D. of Emory University discusses the use of embolization to treat uterine fibroids.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Abbas Chamsuddin, MD Dr. Abbas Chamsuddin of the Emory School of medicine discusses the latest techniques for treating varicose veins.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Arik Marcell, MD, MPH Dr. Arik Marcell of Johns Hopkins University discusses the health care needs of adolescent males, particularly addressing preventable behaviors.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Arik Marcell, MD, MPH Dr. Arik Marcell of Johns Hopkins University discusses how best to guide and counsel the adolescent male during a health care visit.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Arik Marcell, MD, MPH Dr. Arik Marcell of Johns Hopkins University discusses how factors such as masculine beliefs, parent-teen communication, beliefs about physician's capabilities, and insurance status influence the health care use of adolescent males.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Arik Marcell, MD, MPH Efforts to reduce unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases in adolescence would ideally target males as well as females. Yet we appear to fall short of consensus on how best to provide reproductive health services to males in young adulthood. Arik Marcell, MD, MPH, assistant professor in the departments of pediatrics and pop...

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Fitzhugh Mullan, MD Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan of George Washington University discusses the proposed U.S. Global Health Service Corps - a peace corps for health that would work to treat and prevent AIDS in 15 countries.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Fitzhugh Mullan, MD Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan of George Washington University discusses the challenge of scale up and task shifting in the face of the HIV epidemic.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Fitzhugh Mullan, MD Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan of George Washington University discusses the need for self-sufficiency in the U.S. for training medical personnel.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Fitzhugh Mullan, MD Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan of George Washington University discusses the social and economic costs of the emigration of physicians from developing countries to the U.S., U.K. and Australia.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Regina Herzlinger, PhD Professor Regina Herzlinger of Harvard Business School discusses the physician's role in consumer-driven health care as elaborated in her new book, Who Killed Health Care? America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - And The Consumer-Driven Cure

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Regina Herzlinger, PhD Professor Regina Herzlinger of Harvard Business School discusses applying consumer-driven health care to the U.S. health care system as argued in her new book, Who Killed Health Care? America's $2 Trillioin Medical Problem - And The Consumer-Driven Cure

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Regina Herzlinger, PhD Professor Regina Herzlinger of Harvard Business School discusses her new book, Who Killed Health Care? America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - And The Consumer-Driven Cure

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Nina Gentile, MD Dr. Shira Johnson speaks with Dr. Nina Gentile about the development of NIH-funded NETT, the Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials Network, which is underway ay Temple University.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Nina Gentile, MD Nationwide, about 15 million adults and children are seen in emergency departments annually for acute neurological emergencies. Because of the delay in seeing a specialist, time is lost. All practicing Emergency Room physicians have had experiences where in some cases, the outcome has significant morbidity, or in the worse scenario, the outcome has b...

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Lawrence Robbins, MD Angry, resentful, emotionally labile, manipulative; does that sound like the behavior of your patients, or even your staff?