Clinician's Roundtable

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?

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Lawrence Robbins, MD Any doctor who has an office practice encounters patients with refractory headaches. How do you manage these patients, what medications and therapies work, and when do you refer?

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Howard Eisenson, MD Guest: Martin Binks, PhD For almost 40 years, the world-renowned residential weight loss program offered at the Duke University Diet and Fitness Center has helped thousands of people change their lives. Drs. E and B discuss how we can incorporate what they have learned over four decades to help our patients lose weight and keep it off.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Lawrence Robbins, MD Adolescent headaches; they can be difficult to manage for any primary care practioner. When is it malingering, when is it the atypical presentation of another disease such as leukemia, and when it is recurrent, how do you treat it?

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Paul Markovitz, MD Fibromyalgia, migraines, IBS, TMJ, PMS and neurodermatitis are common illnesses in women. Dr. Paul Markowitz discusses neurobiochemical similarities between these various problems and a theoretical parsimony of diagnosis, and how this may inform medication choices.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Paul Markovitz, MD Dr Paul Markovitz discusses how to reduce or eliminate residual depressive symptoms, the most common being fatigue, sleep disturbance, and concentration problems.