Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Lucille Marchand, MD Lucille R. Marchand BSN, MD, is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, Wisconsin. She also practices integrative and palliative medicine at the University of Wisconsin Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center. Hear Dr. Marchand as she discusses integrative oncology.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Sherwin Nuland, MD Hear Dr. Sherwin Nuland, professor of surgery at Yale University, as he discusses his book, The Art of Aging: A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Sherwin Nuland, MD Dr. Sherwin Nuland is a clinical professor of surgery at Yale University, where he currently teaches bioethics and medical history. Hear Dr. Nuland as he discusses his book, How We Die, winner of the National Book Award.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Judy Capko While you couldn't get through your day without the help of your office staff, it is unwise to be too dependent. How do you regularly keep your finger on the business side of the practice without becoming overwhelmed. Join an interesting practice management discussion with host Dr. Larry Kaskel and his guest Judy Capko.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Judy Capko Has patient loyalty diminished? What are common patient gripes? What changes can you make to improve the relationship with your patients? Join our guest Judy Capko, author of Secrets of the Best Run Practices share her insider information with host Dr. Larry Kaskel.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Allan Siperstein, MD Thyroid cancer has traditionally been difficult to accurately diagnose and re-detect in the case of a recurrence. Why is it so difficult to diagnose and have we made further progress in the ability to better identify the markers of thyroid cancer? Dr. Allan Siperstien of Cleveland Clinic Foundation has published research in the area of finding...

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Allan Siperstein, MD Metastatic liver cancer does not have an optimistic prognosis, however there are a variety of treatment options enabling patients to live longer. Dr. Allan Siperstein, of the Cleveland Clinic, specializes in Radio Frequency Ablation (RFA), offered predominantly to patients unable to undergo liver resection. Join us to learn more about RFA and a...

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Allan Siperstein, MD In this segment, Dr. Allan Sipperstein of Cleveland Clinic Foundation discusses the various types of liver metastesis and introduces the radio frequency ablation as a treatment option. What is RFA, how does it work and what outcomes can be expected?

Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Guest: Rosemarie Nelson, MS Dr. Michael Greenberg talks with Rosemarie Nelson of the Medical Group Management Associations's Health Care Consulting Group about ways to decrease the number of no-show patients in your practice.

Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Guest: Eugene Litvak, PhD One of America’s sharpest minds in health care and operations management says we’ve been looking for answers in all the wrong places. Eugene Litvak, PhD, from the Boston University Health Policy Institute, instead recommends a plan built around variability theory that will cut costs and increase quality. He lays out his strategy for an effectiv...

Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Guest: Eugene Litvak, PhD Host Dr. Michael Greenberg speaks with Dr. Eugene Litvak, of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Boston University's Health Policy Institute, about how the healthcare system has been looking for answers in all the wrong places, and how variability theory can cut costs and increase quality. The plan? To create a system where we all win.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Donald Berwick, MD, MPP What are the best ways to bring safety to the hospital setting? What type of support systems are available to doctors when errors occur? Dr. Don Berwick, President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement shares thoughts on these topics and more in an interesting interview with host Dr. Bill Rutenberg.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Donald Berwick, MD, MPP How has our healthcare system gotten to its current fragmented state? Where are the opportunities to make the greatest impacts to improve the healthcare system? Join host, Dr. Bill Rutenberg in talking with healthcare expert Dr. Don Berwick, who is President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: John Whittington, MD If we were to evaluate the US healthcare system on quality alone, how would we fare? How do we compare in quality to other healthcare systems? Join host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill in discussing quality of healthcare with Dr. John Whittington from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: John Whittington, MD The Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Triple Aim Model is meant to be adopted by organizations wanting a strategic model to improve healthcare. In this segment, IHI's Dr. John Whittington talks about some of the organizations joining Triple Aim and what type of roles they play as 'Integrators.'

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: John Whittington, MD One of the components of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Triple Aim initiative is to manage the per capita cost of healthcare. Is this an achievable goal? How do we get there? In this segment Dr. John Whittington, lead faculty of the Triple Aim Project discusses healthcare cost managment with host, Dr. Mark Nolan Hill.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: John Whittington, MD In the first part of this interview, Dr. John Whittington talks with host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill about the history and initiatives of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. In the second part of this segment he talks about Triple Aim: a healthcare challenge to improve the health of a defined population, improve the individual's healthcare exper...

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Donald Taylor, PhD Hear Dr. Donald H. Taylor, Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies at Duke University, as he discusses his research revealing that hospice saves Medicare money.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Mary Labyak, MSW Hear Mary Labyak, MSW, President and CEO of the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, the largest not-for-profit, community based hospice in the nation, dispel myths about hospice.

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Maureen Bisognano, MS Maureen Bisognano, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, explores some of the theories of Dr. Noriaki Kano. In the healthcare industry the connections between quality and cost are not always clear. Mrs. Bisognano uses Dr. Kano's framework and demonstrates three ways that health care l...

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Maureen Bisognano, MS How do quality improvements in health care yield strong returns on investment? Maureen Bisognano, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement discusses how to get leadership to buy into better healthcare. She then outlines what the medical profession can learn from successful healthcare mode...

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Charlene Harrington, RN, PhD Professor and RN Charlene Harrington discuss the Future of Nursing Homes with host, Dr. Bill Rutenberg. What policies are vital to keep nursing homes up to snuff so they’re ready for the aging population? They also discuss the development of and usefulness of Nursing Home Consumer Information System, Reimbursement policies, and Regulatio...

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Charlene Harrington, RN, PhD Professor and RN, Charlene Harrington discusses with host Dr. Bill Rutenberg the recently launched UCSF demonstration project to design and test nursing interventions to improve quality of care in nursing homes. A focus of the study is to "refine a practice model to transform the nursing home care, based on peer-reviewed research into wh...

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Richard Moss, MD Our guest Dr. Rick Moss discuses with host, Dr. Bill Rutenberg current modes of diagnosis, including the genetic basis of CF. This is followed by a discussion of current and future treatments for cystic fibrosis, including lung transplantation, stem cell and gene therapies.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Richard Moss, MD No longer a disease of childhood, patients with cystic fibrosis are now living well into adult life. Dr. Moss discusses with host Dr. Bill Rutenberg about the current state of the art of treatment that has made long-term survival possible, new morbidities resulting from increased survival to financing health care for adults with cystic fibrosis and...