Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: William Elliott, MD Is there evidence that patients can lower their own blood pressure by changing their breathing patterns? Do device-guided breathing tools such as RESPERATE help a patient lower their blood pressure? Find out in this segment as Dr. Larry Kaskel speaks with our guest Dr. William Elliot about breathing and blood pressure.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Bill Crounse, MD Dr. Larry Kaskel speaks with Dr. Bill Crounse, Senior Director, Microsoft Worldwide about Microsoft's recently launched HealthVault, or personal medical records system. How can HealthVault help you and your patients? Join us to find out.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Bill Crounse, MD Dr. Bill Crounse, senior director of worldwide health for the Microsoft Corporation, joins host Dr. Larry Kaskel for an interesting conversation about the most effective measures to provide training in information technologies to you and your colleagues. As these tools evolve to become more applicable to everyday health care, how can we incorporate tr...

Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Guest: Stanley Kardatzke, MD Dr. Stanley Kardatzke, author of Decisive Surgery for a Dying Healthcare System , discusses affordable medical care with the cost-effective, prepaid medical plan used in his practice.

Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Guest: Joel Ginsberg, JD, MBA Executive Director of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA), Joel Ginsberg, discusses with Dr. Michael Greenberg the challenges faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals in the medical arena. Is there an identifiable "gay lifestyle," and why does the origin of one's sexuality restrict them from some of the basic...

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Robert Shochet, MD The relationship between the doctor and patient can make a great impact on the care and recovery of the patient. How do doctors learn to form relationships with their patients? Join Dr. Rob Shochet sharing his experience in teaching medical students how to optimize communication and relationships with their patients. You may learn something to hel...

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Mark Bicket Guest: Satish Misra Host Dr. Bill Rutenberg is joined by second-year medical students Mark Bicket and Satish Misra, student leaders in the Colleges Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The Colleges Program has been compared to life at Hogwarts in its intensity, not just from an educational level, but at a community and relationship level for...

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 .