Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Barjor Gimi, PhD We cage animals to keep them safe from us and us from them. What if we caged transplanted cells to keep them safe from our immune system and vice versa? Dr. Gimi discusses his research focused on encapsulated cell based therapies.

Host: Andrew Krakowski, MD Guest: Connie Mariano, MD You're a healthcare professional and you've just answered the call to help a sick airline passenger while cruising at 30,000 feet. No resources; no support staff; no emergency landing for another 1/2 hour. No problem! You know what to do because you listen to boonDOCS Medicine... More specifically, tune in to hear how the Physician-to-the-Presid...

Host: Andrew Krakowski, MD Guest: Connie Mariano, MD You're a healthcare professional and you've just answered the call to help a sick airline passenger while cruising at 30,000 feet. No resources; no support staff; no emergency landing for another 1/2 hour. No problem! Tune in to hear how Dr. Connie Mariano, past Physician-to-the-President, ensured that Air Force One was up to speed regarding its...

Host: Andrew Krakowski, MD Guest: Joan Sullivan-Garrett, RN You're a healthcare professional and you've just answered the call to help a sick airline passenger while cruising at 30,000 feet. No resources; no support staff; no emergency landing for another 1/2 hour. No problem! You know what to do because you listen to boonDOCS Medicine... Tune in with Dr. Krakowski as he speaks with Joan Sullivan-...

Host: Andrew Krakowski, MD Guest: Joan Sullivan-Garrett, RN You're a healthcare professional and you've just answered the call to help a sick airline passenger while cruising at 30,000 feet. No resources; no support staff; no emergency landing for another 1/2 hour. No problem! You know what to do because you listen to boonDOCS Medicine... Tune in with Dr. Krakowski as he speaks with Joan Sullivan-...

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Kimberly Young, PsyD In this segment Dr. Kimberly Young discusses the impact of internet abuse/addiction on the family and specifically the risks of improper internet use to children.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Kimberly Young, PsyD Is there a standard treatment for internet addition? How does the U.S. internet addiction problem compare to people from other countries? Are there studies to indicate that these treatment options work? Find out in this segment from Dr. Kimberly Young.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Kimberly Young, PsyD In this segment, Dr. Kimberly young indentifies the specific risk factors that could cause an internet addiction. She talks about the profiles of people more drawn to the internet and who find it difficult to get away.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Kimberly Young, PsyD In this segment author Kimberly Young discusses the basics of internet addiction: when it was first recognized, how common, what are the typical signs that we see.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Jerome Kassirer, MD Dr. Larry Kaskel is joined by Dr. Jerome Kassirer, the highly respected former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine and author of On the Take: How Medicine’s Complicity With Big Business Can Endanger Your Health. They will discuss the consequences of collaborations between the medical profession and industry.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Jerome Kassirer, MD Dr. Larry Kaskel welcomes Dr. Jerome Kassirer, the highly respected former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Kassirer relates a litany of well-referenced examples that demonstrate the financial conflicts of interest in medicine today and how they threaten to undermine the integrity of the profession.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Joe Frascella, MD Researchers now know that the brain is able to change from birth to death. Imaging studies of the drug addicted show proof of the changes in the brain through the addiction and again through recovery. In this segment, Dr. Joseph Frascella of NIDA explains what researcher have learned from neuro-imaging about the re-wiring of the brain.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Joe Frascella, MD There are a number of current studies looking at treatments for addiction. In this segment, Dr. Joseph Fracella of NIDA shares some of the current and future work to treat addiction including possible vaccinations, behavioral treatments, medications, education. He also discusses the challenges of providing treatments to people with addictions.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Joe Frascella, MD Which areas of the brain are impacted most in addiction? Is addiction a developmental brain disease? In this segment, Dr. Joe Fracella of NIDA discusses what new research shows about the brain development and addiction.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD Guest: Joe Frascella, MD Dr. Joseph Fracella of the National Institute on Drug Abuse explains why the way our brains our wired can cause addictions. Learn what is actually happening in the brain when a person is using addictive drugs and why some people become addicts and others do not.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Michael Ryan, MBA Dr. Larry Kaskel welcomes Mike Ryan, founder of Medical Mergers Group. Join us to hear the ins and outs of buy-ins and buy-outs from valuing partnerships, to disputes, to financing.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Michael Ryan, MBA Dr. Larry Kaskel is joined by Mike Ryan, founder of Medical Mergers Group. Mr. Ryan has helped thousands of medical practices improve their operations and determine the market value of their practice. Learn what how to determine what your practice may be worth and what you can do to increase the value.

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH Dr. Maurice Pickard is joined by Dr. Chris Beyrer who discusses the startling finding that for women, the greatest risk for contacting Aids is being married despite being monogamous. Adding great insult to injury, these individuals are often the ones exclusively blamed for "shamefully bringing" this disease into their families.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Richard L. Harvey, MD New robotic products help stroke patients learn to reuse their arms and legs. In this segment Dr. Richard Harvey talks specifically about several new robotics and explains how the intelligence of the robot gradually trains the patients to reuse their limbs.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Richard L. Harvey, MD Cortical Stimulation has been found to improve the brain functioning of patients after stroke. In this segment Dr. Richard Harvey of RIC explains 3 methods of cortical stimulation and talks about when, how and why cortical stimulation can improve outcomes for stroke patients.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Richard L. Harvey, MD Constraint Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) is a newer technique used to help stroke victims recover motor skills. In this segment Dr. Richard Harvey explains the history and process of improving motor skills using CIMT. He also breaks down the steps of shaping and talks about some of the state of the art tools used by rehab institutes to assis...

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Richard L. Harvey, MD This segment begins with a medical explanation of stroke and the risk factors of stroke. Following the basics, Dr. Richard Harvey of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago explains the neuroplasticity and recovery of the brain following a stroke.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Jayanta Debnath, MD Autophagy and Anoikis sounds to the unfamiliar like a hip law firm, but in truth these terms describe cellular processes that may soon help us find the cure to cancer.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Jayanta Debnath, MD Autophagy-one of those words we remember from the basic science courses in med school-could it be relevant to curing cancer? Discussion on cancer research focusing on autophagy.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Jayanta Debnath, MD Translating knowledge from bedside to bench and back again is the Holy Grail for all medical professionals. Physician Scientists are the transport vehicle. Today, we are discussing Dr. Debnath's choice to pursue cancer research instead of clinical care.