Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Andrew Krakowski, MD Guest: Lawrence F. Eichenfield, MD Guest: Magdalene Dohil, MD Join host Dr. Andrew Krakowski as he speaks with Drs. Lawrence Eichenfield and Magdalene Dohil of the UCSD Rady Children's Hospital's new Eczema Center. They will be talking about updated diagnostic and treatment approaches to atopic dermatitis in children.

Host: Andrew Krakowski, MD Guest: Lawrence F. Eichenfield, MD Guest: Magdalene Dohil, MD Join host Dr. Andrew Krakowski as he speaks with Dr. Lawrence Eichenfield and Dr. Magdalene Dohil, of the new Eczema Center at the University of California, San Diego, Rady Children's Hospital. They will be talking about updated diagnostic and treatment approaches for atopic dermatitis in children.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Clint Kilts, PhD What is neuromarketing? How are big companies using information from MRI scans to make big decisions about how to spend their marketing dollars? Host Dr. Leslie Lundt welcomes Dr. Clint Kilts to discuss the future of business neuroscience.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Clint Kilts, PhD What really happens in the brain when we prescribe an antidepressant? Is the brain changed forever? Dr. Clint Kilts from Emory University joins host Dr. Leslie Lundt to explain what we know about how the brain responds to antidepressants and psychotherapy.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Clint Kilts, PhD How do our brains sort out ethical and moral dilemmas? What can neuroimaging tell us? Host Dr. Leslie Lundt welcomes Dr. Clint Kilts from Emory University to dicuss the neural representation of moral decision making.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Linda Clever, MD In 1985, Senator Alan Simpson said of Secretary of Defense Caspar W Weinberger, “He’s a million rubber bands in his resilience”. Can the same be said of you? Dr. Linda hawes Clever discusses resilience in physicians with Dr. Leslie Lundt.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Linda Clever, MD Working at the office, seeing patients at the hospital, spending quality time with your spouse, coaching the soccer team, helping kids with homework, having one or two committee positions at the hospital, attempting to run a marathon. Do you find yourself juggling commitments and not really living? Dr. Linda Hawes Clever, an expert on burnout discu...

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Linda Clever, MD What do you want to be when you grow up? Many of us are afraid to answer this question. We may be comfortable and productive in our current practice setting but not happy. How do you go about making decisions that may affect the rest of your professional life?

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Linda Clever, MD Sir William Osler said that “a physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient”. Does this apply to everything? Dr. Linda hawes Clever discusses ways to write your own prescription for renewal with host, Dr. Leslie Lundt.

Host: Michael Benson, MD Guest: Robert Hatcher, MD, MPH The female condom. The Five year Progestin IUD. The Patch. The ring. These are just some of the contraceptives introduced in the past five years. What does the future hold? With us today is Doctor Robert Hatcher, a professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Emory University School of Medicine. Many in our audience will recognize him as the...

Host: Michael Benson, MD Guest: Robert Hatcher, MD, MPH Our patients remain convinced that the birth control pill increases cancer risk. Yet one of the pill’s unappreciated benefits is the remarkable protection it can afford against ovarian cancer. This is but one of the non-contraceptive benefits of contraceptives that we will explore. You are listening to ReachMD, at our new home on XM 157. We a...

Host: Michael Benson, MD Guest: Robert Hatcher, MD, MPH The frantic page came in at 3 AM on Sunday morning. "The condom had just broken." My patient was out of state and wanted the morning after pill. Unfotunately, she gave me the number of a pharmacy that was closed at 3 AM on Sunday morning, so I had to call her back . . . Join us as we learn from Doctor Robert Hatcher, professor of Obstetrics a...

Host: Michael Benson, MD Guest: Robert Hatcher, MD, MPH Did you know that women weighing greater than 198 pounds (90 kilos) have a high risk of pregnancy on all forms of hormonal contraceptives? Can you imagine telling a patient that she is too overweight to go on the pill? Fortunately, we have an expert on the show that can help us with this delicate problem. Our guest is Doctor Robert Hatcher, a...

Host: Bruce Japsen Guest: Bruce Komiske, MHA "If you build it, they will come" may have worked for that farmer who wanted to build a baseball field in the corn, but it won't work when building support for a new Children's Hospital. From inner city squabbles with neighbors to raising large sums of money from donors, the challenges of caring for tomorrow's children are enormous. Bruce Komisky, chief...

Host: Bruce Japsen Guest: Bruce Komiske, MHA From plasma screen TVs to private rooms, the latest in Children's Hospitals might think patients are being admitted to hotels near Disney World. If these new facilities are what children want, it's because they are. Bruce Komiske, chief of New Design and Hospital Construction at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago tells about the latest in Children'...

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Host Lisa D'Andrea speaks with guest Ed Lopez, PA, about PA specialization and the push for needed changes in specialty education, recognition and certification.

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA Host Lisa D'Andrea speaks with guest Ed Lopez, PA, about PA specialization and the lack of PAs in primary care medicine.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Stacy Orloff, EdD Dr. Stacy Orloff, co-chair of the Children's Project on Palliative Hospice Services (ChiPPS), a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization discusses how ChiPPS improves palliative and hospice care for children.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Jay Berkelhamer, MD Join host Dr. Bill Rutenberg interview President of the American Academy of Pediatrics for an update on their position on SCHIP

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Steve Kron, MD Dr. Steve Kron, Associate Professor, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago, and a member of the Committees on Genetics, Cancer Biology, Cell Physiology, and Molecular Medicine discusses the life of a physician scientist.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Steve Kron, MD Dr. Steve Kron, Associate Professor, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago, and a member of the Committees on Genetics, Cancer Biology, Cell Physiology, and Molecular Medicine discusses proteomics, genomics and everything in between.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Steve Kron, MD Dr. Steve Kron, Associate Professor, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago, and a member of the Committees on Genetics, Cancer Biology, Cell Physiology, and Molecular Medicine discusses targeted therapies in cancer research.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Steve Kron, MD Dr. Steve Kron, Associate Professor, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago, and a member of the Committees on Genetics, Cancer Biology, Cell Physiology, and Molecular Medicine discusses the cancer research his laboratory has taken and what trials and tribulations they encountered along the way.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Kevin Pho, MD In this segment, Dr. Kevin Pho or the blog Dr. Kevin talks to host Dr. Larry Kaskel about the specifics of his experience as a doctor who blogs and how you can set up your own blog.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Kevin Pho, MD Medical blogs are a rapidly-growing area of medical media, attracting the full sector of healthcare professionals. In this segment, host Dr. Larry Kaskel interviews Dr. Kevin Pho of the blog 'KevinMD' about the growing new media of healthcare blogging.