Clinician's Roundtable

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”.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Daniel Carlat, MD Dr. Daniel Carlat has written in a New York Times article called, “Dr. Drug Rep”, that allowing pharmaceutical companies to sponsor medical education leads to many bad things, including biased education, corrupt physicians, and, ultimately, harm to our patients. Host Dr. Leslie Lundt listens to what he has to say.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Kevin Antshel, PhD Does the diagnosis of ADHD qualify an adult for special accommodations under the ADA? ADHD expert Dr. Kevin Antshel explains how the process works to host Dr. Leslie Lundt.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Kevin Antshel, PhD Traditional wisdom says that people with ADHD have lower IQs. Is it possible to have ADHD and a high IQ? Syracuse University psychologist Dr. Kevin Antshel joins host Dr. Leslie Lundt to discuss twice exceptional children.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Ezra Cohen, MD Rapamycin has potential anti-cancer activity but poor oral bioavailability. Grapefruit Juice increases the bioavailability of many drugs. In this segment, Dr. Ezra Cohen shares his research in which he tests whether or not grapefruit juice increases the absorbtion of rapamycin and what impact that may have on the cost and distribution of the Drug. Join...

Host: Sayantani DasGupta, MD, MPH Guest: Rita Charon, MD, PhD Narrative Medicine: a return to traditional clinical practice or a new way to care for patients? Host Dr. Sayantani DasGupta speaks with clinician and literary scholar Dr. Rita Charon, Founder and Director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University, about the integration of medical humanities into traditional clinical p...

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Peter Bach, MD As former senior advisor to administration centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services for Cancer initiatives, our guest Dr. Peter Bach talks with host Bill Rutenberg about lessons learned while working on behalf of Medicare and Medicaid. Some highlights of this interview include discussion about physicians' use of evidence-based medicine, coverage unde...

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Peter Bach, MD We know that early detection of cancer can save lives. With this in mind, the focus turns to finding imaging mechanisms that will facilitate early detection. Does CT screening provide accurate information on lung cancer? Should high-risk patients undergo PET scans? Host Dr. Bill Rutenberg speaks with Dr. Peter Bach, of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Can...

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Peter Bach, MD Dr. Peter Bach, from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, talks with host Dr. Bill Rutenberg about racial disparities in medicine and treatment today. What are the reasons for this disparity, and how can we work to eliminate the difference? Join us to learn more.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Peter Bach, MD What is keeping our society from moving forward in our ability to cure disease? How can what is learned in the lab be brought to the frontlines more quickly and efficiently? How can individual medical institutions work together to make a more profound difference in our healthcare system? Our Guest Dr. Peter Bach talks with host, Dr. Bill Rutenberg abo...

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: William Burke, MD Scientists at many institutions are researching to find neuroprotective agents for ALS. While today's guests research focuses on other neurological diseases, he recently wrote a commentary to a published neurology article about ALS research suggesting that the properties of a drug, Taxol should also be considered in animal models researching ALS....

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: William Burke, MD In this discussion, Dr. Hill learns from Dr. William Burke about the latest research trying to link the dopamine theory to the alpha synuclean theory to better explain why Parkinson's Disease occurs. In this segment they also discuss current symptomatic treatment for Parkinson's Disease and the properties that would make up a more curative neuropr...

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Charles Morris Author and historian Charles Morris Morris “embedded” himself with the heart surgery team at New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital to learn about the inner workings of a surgical heart center for his recent book, Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center. In this segment, host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill talks with Mr. Morris about some of the more...

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Charles Morris In this segment, host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill interviews historian and author Charles Morris about his recent book Surgery: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center. Charles shares in detail how the project got started, what he hoped to accomplish, what surprised him most and many interesting anecdotes about his experience.

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Ken Harbert, PhD Host Lisa D’Andrea, PA-C, talks with Ken Harbert, PhD, dean for the School of Physician Assistant Studies at South College in Knoxville, Tenn., about developing a physician assistant program. What makes it different from the medical degree (MD) and nurse practitioner (NP) education models.

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Ken Harbert, PhD Lisa D’Andrea talks with Dr. Ken Harbert a physician assistant and the president of Health Watch, a health care management firm that provides solutions for the utilization of Advanced Practice Clinicians. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Physician Assistants and serves on the board of directors of the America...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Guest: Ken Harbert, PhD Lisa D'Andrea interviews Dr. Ken Harbert regarding the need for advanced practice clinicians as chief administrators in large health care systems.

Host: Lee Freedman, MD Guest: Aditya Bardia, MD Guest: Victor Montori, MD What is the efficacy of Vitamins and Antioxidants in cancer prevention? Dr. Aditya Bardia and Dr. Victor Montori, from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN discuss a meta-analytical study designed to answer this question. Specifically covered are beta carotene, vitamin E, and selenium.

Host: Gary Kohn, MD Guest: Levi Garraway, MD, PhD Levi Garraway, MD, PhD, of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, is credited with facilitating major advances in our understanding of cancer biology. He discusses the new paradigm of cancer, as a genomic disease which leads to abnormal activation of oncogenes and inactivation of suppressor genes. The implications for therapy, as we match gene...