Plenary Session

Plenary Session

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Dr Prasad currently serves as the Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Resesarch (CBER) at the US FDA. The audio on this platform were posted before my FDA employment and do not necessarily represent the views of the FDA or the United States. This site will be inactive during my federal service. A podcast on medicine, oncology, & health policy. Host: Vinay Prasad, MD MPH from University of California San Francisco. Tweet your feedback to @Plenary_Session or e-mail plenarysessionpodcast@gmail.com

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Latest episode

May 20, 2026

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Episodes

FDA makes MRD the basis for AA 12.04.2024

5 reasons that is a bad idea

Beta Blockers After Heart Attacks Don't Work 09.04.2024

Another flawed quality metric. Reviewing the NEJM paper "Beta-Blockers After Myocardial Infarction and Preserved Ejection Fraction".

Blood based and Stool DNA colon cancer screening - Two NEJM papers 27.03.2024

They are shitty

Keynote 564 - a flawed study 01.02.2024

Another flawed study Keynote 564. Pembro in adjuvant RCC

CONTACT-01 Cabo/ Atezo in Prostate Cancer - An Unethical trial 27.01.2024

What happens when doctors run unethical studies?

CAR T causes MDS??? Manni, Goodman, Raj, Prasad 28.12.2023

Does car T cause secondary AML? We discuss

Timothee and Prasad talk 2023 cancer trials 24.12.2023

We talk about 2023 cancer trials

Aaron Goodman Prasad ASH UPDATES 20.12.2023

Goodman and I discuss ash updates. My myeloma talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAz84yCnfjQ

Mandrola and Prasad 17.12.2023

Subscribe to Sensible Med Pod; This is x over Post partum depression, orbita 2 and physics vs medicine

COVID19 Policy: What the US Got Wrong 26.11.2023

My Lecture in Curacao 4/4 Vaccines, Masks, Mandates, Lockdowns, School closure Other lectures to come

Lecture 1 of 4 Curacao - How to Keep Up with Literature 24.11.2023

Entresto, Lung Transplants, How to Keep Up with Literature - Lecture to Trainees in Curacao

Advice Pre-Med Students | Lecture at UC Berkeley 11.11.2023

This is a lecture I gave on November 5, 2023, to pre-medicine undergraduate students at University of California Berkeley.

Radiation oncology in GI malignancy - Nina Sanford and Bill Hall 31.10.2023

Radiation oncology in GI malignancy (endpoints and stratification) in the JCO

Hawai Keynote - Coffee and colon cancer & Censoring & More 23.10.2023

Prasad is back in Hawaii to give another keynote (good thing they cancelled Dallas not Honolulu). I discuss coffee and colon cancer, and censoring, and Lu177 PSMA

Ethics: How IRBs Can Do Better | My Denmark Lectures (Sept 2023) 3 Of 3 19.10.2023

This is a lecture I gave on ethics and institutional review boards in Denmark in September 2023. It is the last of the three lectures I gave.

Prasad's lecture gets cancelled/ Cifu Gets COVID a SM crossover 16.10.2023

Mandrola, Prasad and Cifu are back to discuss the latest drama

The State Of Immunotherapy In Oncology | My Denmark Lectures (Sept 2023) 2 Of 3 09.10.2023

This is a lecture I gave on the state of immunotherapy in oncology at the Immunotherapy Symposium In Denmark in September 2023. It is the second of three lectures I gave.

Do We Have Good Evidence For New Drugs? My Denmark Lectures (Sept 2023) 1 Of 3 04.10.2023

The first of the three lectures I gave in Denmark in September 2023 was on the medical evidence behind decision-making by health technology assessment groups.

Great And Crazy Things We Do In Medicine 20.09.2023

This is the live recording of a talk given on the great and crazy things we do in medicine, from cancer drugs to boosters and more.

Fixing Cancer Medicine w/ Timothee Olivier 12.09.2023

Timothee is back to discuss Malignant and Solutions

Coumadin, ECMO, RCTs and more 11.09.2023

A far reaching discussion btw Mandrola and Prasad on RCTs, Coumadin, ECMO and RCTs for covid shots

Prasad and Mandrola discuss recent journal articles/ Republicans/ Stenting 23.08.2023

Simultaneously released on Sensible Medicine. Time to subscribe to Sensible Medicine substack and podcast.

Placebo/ Journal Errors/ Cancer Screening w/ Mandrola - SM crossover 10.07.2023

Placebo/ Journal Errors/ Cancer Screening w/ Mandrola - SM crossover

Testosterone/ Should Scientists Debate/ Mike Joyner 28.06.2023

A sensible medicine crossover episode Follow the sensible medicine podcast feed for more of these discussions

Post Protocol Therapy - QOL - Adjuvant - Olivier Joins VP 10.06.2023

T. Olivier from Geneva is back. A fan favorite guest. We discuss 3 recent papers.

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