Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Geoffrey Walford, MD Hear Dr. Geoffrey A. Walford from Harvard Medical School as he discusses symptoms, diagnosis and treatment for male menopause.

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Frederick Burkle, Jr., MD, MPH Dr. Frederick Burkle speaks about the indirect deaths that take place in a politically motivated disaster. The lack of data on the number of these lives makes them unseen, uncounted and unnoticed. As indicated by our guest, we must begin to consider that health is the most important foreign policy issue of our times.

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Frederick Burkle, Jr., MD, MPH Dr. Frederick Burkle addresses our evaluation of what level of healthcare we would find in Iraq when we invaded in 2003, based on the previous 8-year war with Iran ('80-'88), the Gulf War of '91, and 12 years of sanctions (91-'03 ). The continuing war, the looting of all hospitals and clinics, the inefficiency of the CPA (Coalition fo...

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Frederick Burkle, Jr., MD, MPH Dr. Frederick Burkle, first Head of the Ministry of Health, discusses what went wrong in fulfilling our responsibility to provide adequate and sustained healthcare to the Iraqi civilians throughout the American occupation. The interview raises the question of whether the Department of Defense should carry on the war while simultaneous...

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Paul Donatio With the looming threat of Medicare and Medicaid payment cuts to physicians, fees from other sources become even more important to a physician's practice. The healthcare industry has traditionally instilled few consequences for patients who pay late or fail to cover uncollectable insurance balances, but times are changing. How can you re-train your patien...

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Paul Donatio How well does your medical practice collect fees both from your patients and from 3rd party payers? Can you do better and how much could you really gain by trying? Paul Donatio, of the Greenflag Profit Recovery System from Transworld, joins host Dr. Larry Kaskel to discuss the 'best practices' for payment collection in your medical practice.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Thomas Goetz, MA, MPH What happens to healthcare related scientific studies that don’t get published? Where does this data go? In this segment join host Dr. Larry Kaskel in an in depth discussion about dark scientific data with Deputy Editor of Wired Magazine, Thomas Goetz who recently wrote the article "Freeing the Dark Data of Failed Scientific Experiments"

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Thomas Goetz, MA, MPH One of the newest emerging healthcare ventures sells genome profiles. For $1000 and a saliva sample you can get a report describing your personal genome. In this segment host Larry Kaskel discusses with Thomas Goetz, deputy editor of Wired magazine, his recently published cover story on retail genomics.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Laurie Malinowski, RN Researcher and Nurse, Laurie Malinowski shares with us her role in the NIH multisite, inner city, Anti-IgE study to decrease asthma in inner city children. The study is being conducted in 9 medical centers throughout the US is recruiting participants through January 2009.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Jacqueline Pongracic, MD Children's Memorial Hospital is one of eight Medical Centers participating in this two year, double blind, placebo controlled study which is a phase four clinical trial of the IgE blocker Xolair. In this segment join host, Dr. Bill Rutenberg learn from co-investigator, Dr. Jacqueline Pongracic about the logistics of conducting the study.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Jacqueline Pongracic, MD Our guest, Dr. Jacqueline Pongracic is the co-investigator of the Inner City Asthma Study sponsored by the NIH and Novartis Pharmaceuticals. In this segment, Dr. Pongracid speaks with host, Dr. Bill Rutenberg about the objectives of the study and the study protocol.

Host: Gary Kohn, MD Guest: John Donoghue, PhD Dr. John Donoghue, Director of the Brain Science Program at Brown, discusses the emerging field of neuroprosthetics and the possibilities of new help for paraplegics and those with advanced neurological diseases.

Host: Gary Kohn, MD Guest: John Donoghue, PhD Dr. John Donoghue, Director of the Brain Science Program at Brown, gives us the history and lay-of-the-land in research studies of how the brain controls movement. Are there applications for paraplegics and those with advanced neurological diseases?

Host: Paul Raeburn Guest: Bill Richardson Democrats have made healthcare reform a much higher priority than Republicans. And many of the Democratic candidates’ proposals are similar. But Richardson’s proposal differs in some important respects from those of the other Democrats. He would let Americans aged 55-64 to buy into Medicare. He would expand health care for young children and allow young ad...

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: James Rohrer, MD Utilization management programs often zero in on patients either with chronic illnesses such as diabetes, CHF, asthma and depression or those patients that use a higher than expected amount of health care services. Might there be another way? Host Dr. Leslie Lundt welcomes Professor Jim Rohrer from the Mayo Clinic to discuss his latest research usi...

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Cindy B. Ivanhoe, MD 1 in 10 Americans have a condition that can be called a severe disability. With the aging of the population and the likelihood of having a disability increasing with age, the number of patients in our practices with disabilities is expected to increase dramatically. Host Dr. Leslie Lundt welcomes Dr. Cindy Ivanhoe as she discusses severe disabi...

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Cindy B. Ivanhoe, MD Cerebral Palsy. The picture that comes to our minds is usually of a child, but 80% of CP patients are adults. What do we need to know about treating them? Dr. Cindy Ivanhoe joins host Dr. Leslie Lundt to discuss strategies for treating adults with CP.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Cindy B. Ivanhoe, MD Stroke is the third leading cause of death in America and the No. 1 cause of adult disability. Are you doing everything you can to help your patients recover? Host Dr. Leslie Lundt welcomes physiatrist Dr. Cindy Ivanhoe to discuss long term management of stroke.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Cindy B. Ivanhoe, MD Dr. Cindy Ivanhoe, Attending Physician at the Brain Injury and Stroke Program at TIRR (The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research)discusses rehabilitation of movement disorders with host Dr. Leslie Lundt.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Rachel Herz, MD Will technology bring us an electronic nose? What role might we expect scent to play in entertainment? Dr. Rachel Herz, the world’s leading expert on the psychology of smell, joins host Dr. Leslie Lundt to discuss the future of smell.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Rachel Herz, MD Is aromatherapy scientifically based? What did Freud think about the role of smell in psychotherapy? Host Dr. Leslie Lundt welcomes the world’s leading expert on the psychology of smell, Dr. Rachel Herz to discuss smell and therapy.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Robert McClory Robert McClory associate professor emeritus at Northwestern university, a former priest and author of numerous articles on the issues of Catholicism and medicine, discusses the evolving healthcare implications of new directives of the Catholic church and the patients end of life choices.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Robert McClory Robert Mcclory associate professor emeritus at Northwestern University, a former Catholic priest and author of numerous articles on the issues of Catholicism and medicine, discusses the religiuos implications on the medical care decisions that supported Terry Schiavo.

Host: Lee Freedman, MD Guest: William Haskell, MD Dr. William Haskell, professor emeritus (active) of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the lead author of the 2007 guidelines for physical in activity in adults from the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association, discusses key differences between the 1995 guidelines and the latest recommendations...

Host: Lee Freedman, MD Guest: William Haskell, MD Dr. Haskell, the lead author of the 2007 guidelines on physical activity for adults from the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association, outlines the new data linking exercise to health benefits. He also discusses the new guidelines and suggests how to implement them in our practices.