Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Wendy Troxel, PhD St. Jerome the Father of the Latin church said, “Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.” But is it, really? Sleep expert Dr. Wendy Troxel, a clinical health psychologist at the University of Pittsburgh, explains to host Dr. Leslie Lundt how the interplay between relationships and sleep affect physiological pathways.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Wendy Troxel, PhD Anthony Burgess once said, “Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” Join host Dr. Leslie Lundt as she welcomes Dr. Wendy Troxel to discuss relationships and sleep.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Cathy Barry-Ipema It’s an ongoing national effort to encourage patients’ direct involvement in their care. Launched in 2002, the Speak Up campaign is sponsored by the Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Cathy Barry-Ipema, chief communications officer for the Joint Commission, explains the program’s effectiveness in reaching patients...

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Donald Fry, MD Host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill talks with today's guest about his transition from 30 year successful surgical career to his role as a researcher in a healthcare think tank. They also discuss the changing healthcare workforce and alternative healthcare opportunities.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Donald Fry, MD Host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill talks to our guest, healthcare economist, Dr. Donald Fry about priorities in restructuring the US Healthcare System. How can we control quality and costs while offering healthcare access and all Americans? Join us.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Donald Fry, MD In using cost to examine surgical outcomes, complications are the greatest and most costly problem in surgical care. Our guest, healthcare economist Dr. Donald Fry talks in this segment about improving surgical quality by decreasing when possible surgical complications. What are the most common causes of surgical complications and what complications...

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Donald Fry, MD Quality of care, especially surgical outcomes cannot be effeciently measured without an standard and accepted guideline of 'expected outcomes' by which to compare actual outcomes. Today's guest, Dr. Donald Fry shares his recent research with host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill in which he discusses the many variables which need to be considered in developing a...

Host: Danny Petrasek, MD, PhD Guest: Ken Brigham, MD Predictive health is a new paradigm that defines the unique characteristics that predict disease risk for individuals and populations and uses new discoveries in biomedicine to emphasize health maintenance rather than treatment of disease. What are the greatest barriers and challenges in predcting health? Why aren't we able to predict health lik...

Host: Danny Petrasek, MD, PhD Guest: Ken Brigham, MD The Emory/Georgia Tech Predictive Health Institute is building a new model of healthcare based on advances in science, technology and translational research combined with health economics, public policy, business and ethics. In this segment, host, Dr. Danny Petrasek speaks with the Institute's Director, Dr. Ken Brigham, about why it was formed a...

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Sharon Maynard, MD Sharon E. Maynard, M.D. Assistant Professor, Division of Renal Disease and Hypertension George Washington University in Washington, DC. Dr. Maynard is one of the world’s leaders in pre-eclampsia research and clinical care and joins us to talk about what life is like for a physician researcher.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Sharon Maynard, MD Sharon E. Maynard, M.D. Assistant Professor, Division of Renal Disease and Hypertension George Washington University in Washington, DC. Dr. Maynard is one of the world’s leaders in pre-eclampsia research and clinical care and joins us to talk about her research into what causes or could treat pre-eclampsia.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Sharon Maynard, MD Sharon E. Maynard, M.D. Assistant Professor, Division of Renal Disease and Hypertension George Washington University in Washington, DC. Dr. Maynard is one of the world’s leaders in pre-eclampsia research and clinical care and joins us to talk about her research into what causes or could treat pre-eclampsia.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Sharon Maynard, MD Dr. Maynard is one of the world’s leaders in pre-eclampsia research and clinical care and and joins us to talk about the signs, symptoms and treatments of pre-eclampsia

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Ted Feldman, MD Join host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill interview Dr. Ted Feldman, Interventional Cardiology Chair at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare about the ESCAPE trial,testing the possible link between migraine headaches and PFO or Patent Foramen Ovale.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Ted Feldman, MD Recently physicians have learned that a common heart defect called patent foramen ovale or PFO found in 25% of the population could be linked to migraine headaches. In this segment host Dr. Mark Hill discusses the cause and presentation of PFO with Dr. Ted Feldman. Dr. Feldman discusses how pateint outcomes in PFO closure have led physicians to beli...

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Ted Feldman, MD In this segment, host Mark Nolan Hill continues his dicussion about percutaneous aortic valve replacement as an alternative less invasive, less risky procedure to help a patient requiring valve replacement than the traditional gold standard surgery, aortic valve replacement.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Ted Feldman, MD Each year more than 200,000 patients do not receive surgical valve replacement due to excessive risk factors, refusal of surgery and comorbidities. Percutaneous aortic valve replacement, a less invasive option, could provide the life saving alternative treatment your patient needs. Join host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill's interview with Dr. Ted Feldman to le...

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: 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.