Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Richard King In his book “My Maggie,” Chicago sports anchor Rich King writes a powerful, complex, and memorable love story about his childhood sweetheart and wife of 32 years. Diagnosed with hearing loss at the age of four, Maggie wore cumbersome hearing aids and felt the humiliation of being "different." Slowly, an insidious disease later diagnosed as Usher Syndro...

Host: Michael Benson, MD Guest: Scott Gottlieb, MD How much did regular use of Vioxx for long periods of time increase the risk of heart attack? What is the risk of suicide with the SSRI’s in select patient populations? The answers can only come through a robust system for monitoring post-marketing drug safety. Yet the new regulations being considered by the FDA and Congress may not be a prescript...

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Cam Patterson, MD Guest: Rick Stouffer, MD In a special segment on Heart Health, Dr Cam Patterson is interviewed by Dr Shira Johnson. Dr Patterson discusses his latest research in the genetics of cardiovascular disease.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Cam Patterson, MD Guest: Rick Stouffer, MD In a special segment on Heart Health, Dr. Shira Johnson interviews Dr. Rick Stouffer and Dr. Cam Patterson, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, to discuss improvements made in the care of acute MI at their premier cardiology research center.

Host: Matthew J. Sorrentino, MD, FACC, FASH Guest: JoAnne Foody, MD Heart disease remains the number one killer of women in this country. Dr. JoAnne Foody, a Preventive Cardiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston will discuss preventive strategies such as a lifestyle program and the use of aspirin and lipid lowering to reduce cardiovascular risk in women.

Host: Matthew J. Sorrentino, MD, FACC, FASH Guest: JoAnne Foody, MD There is an alarming trend of increasing mortality due to heart disease in younger women. Dr. JoAnne Foody, a Preventive Cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston will discuss the reasons why we may not be winning this war on heart disease and provide strategies to identify high risk women.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Harlan Krumholz, MD Hear Dr. Harlan M. Krumholz, Harold H. Hines Jr. Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health (cardiology) as he discusses the VIRGO study--Variation In Recovery: Role of Outcomes of Young AMI Patients.

Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Guest: Brian Moran, MD Dr. Michael Greenberg speaks with Dr. Brian Moran, Medical Director of the Chicago Prostate Cancer Center, about new biopsy and diagnostic techniques for men with prostate cancer.

Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Guest: Brian Moran, MD Dr. Michael Greenberg speaks with Dr. Brian Moran, Medical Director of the Chicago Prostate Cancer Treatment Center, about the various treatments available for treating prostate cancer with an emphasis on brachytherapy.

Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Guest: Brian Moran, MD Dr. Michael Greenberg speaks with Dr. Brian Moran, medical director of the Chicago Prostate Cancer Center, about brachytherapy and Dr. Moran's personal journey in creating his nationally recognized prostate cancer treatment facility.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Rick Stouffer, MD Dr. Rick Stouffer, Chief of Clinical Cardiology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Director of Interventional Cardiology gives his update on risk factors and invasive interventions in 2008.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Rick Stouffer, MD Dr Rick Stouffer, Chief of Clinical Cardiology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is interviewed by Dr. Shira Johnson. Dr Stouffer provides a state of the art update on drug eluting cardiac stents.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Betty Davies, RN, PhD Guest: Stacy Orloff, EdD Betty Davies, RN, PhD, FAAN, is Professor, Department of Family Health Care Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco and Principal Investigator on a NIH research project to examine the experiences of fathers with terminally ill children. Dr. Davies is joined by site coordinator Stacy Orloff, EdD, LCSW, to...

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Mary Whitmer, RN Hear Mary Whitmer, RN, FNP, BC-PC, a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, as she discusses the implementation of a Grieving Cart in the ICU.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Eugene Viscusi, MD Dr. Eugene Viscusi, director of acute pain management and associate professor of anesthesiology at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, discusses the latest advances in capsaicin research toward acute pain management.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Clifford Tribus, MD X-Stop, a ruuner up in the 2007 Wall Street Journal Technology Awards for best medical devices is an innovative implantable device to relieve pain in patients with spinal stenosis. In this segment Dr. Cliff Tribus shares his experience implanting the X-Stop. He discusses which patients benefit most from X-Stop and how it helps them. He also spea...

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Clifford Tribus, MD Back pain is often a complaint from patients. Spinal stenosis is often a cause of back pain, especially in the elderly. In this segment, Dr. Clifford Tribus talks with host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill about the process of identifying the source of back pain: spinal stenosis, degenerative disk disease, and beyond. He also discusses the difference between...

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Fernando Burstein, MD Dr. Fernando Burstein shares his experience in managing a large multi-disciplinary team to help correct a cleft lip and cleft palate. How does the team approach work in a complex series of multiple surgeries? What are the critical success factors in planning and executing surgeries with multiple medical diciplines involved? Join host Dr. Mark...

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Fernando Burstein, MD In combination with endoscopic surgery, botox is being used by Center for Craniofacial Disorders at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta as an innovative way to treat muscular torticollis. In this segment, Dr. Mark Nolan Hill interviews surgeon Fernando Burstein about treatment options for torticollis and how outcomes differ with our without t...

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Fernando Burstein, MD Muscular torticollis or ‘wry neck’ if untreated may result in permanent craniofacial deformities. Traditionally, torticollis has been treated with physicial therapy and/or surgery. Host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill interviews Dr. Fernando Burstein about the varying degrees of muscular torticollis and the preferred methods of treatment.

Host: Bruce Japsen Guest: Kurt Mosley Many doctors would not recommend medicine as a career, and older physicians see their younger colleagues as less dedicated and hard working, so staffing the right doctor to the right job is an increasingly more difficult challenge. Kurt Mosley, vice president of business development for physician recruiter Merritt Hawkins & Associates, tells the Chicago Tr...

Host: Michael Benson, MD Guest: Justin Barnes Those of us old enough to remember Stanley Kubrick’s blockbuster movie, 2001: A space odyssey, are likely to be at least a little concerned about the growth of the electronic medical record. In the movie, the spaceship’s computer ran amuck and started killing off the astronauts. Salvation could only be achieved through unplugging the machine. Is this c...

Host: Michael Benson, MD Guest: Justin Barnes Many doctors complain about their hospital's EMR. It is combersome and not intuitive. Yet the government wants doctors to introduce the electronic medical record to their offices. Are EMR's for doctor offices as difficult to use as their larger, more ambitious hospital brethren? Our guest today is Justin Barnes who is Vice President Marketing, Corporat...

Host: Michael Benson, MD Guest: Justin Barnes David Brailer, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in 2006, presented an anecdote at an industry meeting. “You live in Philadelphia but you are hit by a bus in San Diego while on vacation. With the EMR the emergency room doctor could access your records at the government’s regional health information organization and learn your past...

Host: Michael Benson, MD Guest: Thomas Green, Jr. Why Electronic Medical Records? The patient calls for her lab test. Your staff pulls the chart, calls the lab, gets the results, and puts it in the chart. Next, the chart is put on your desk. You call the patient but she is not in. The chart stays on your desk. After finally reaching her, the staff then puts the chart back in alphabetical file. Sou...