Medical Forum Podcast

Medical Forum ’s Clinical Director, Dr Joe Kosterich, caught up with clinical cardiologist Professor David Playford to discuss the prevalence, prevention, and treatment of Australian heart valve disease – a leading cause of mortality. “Heart valve disease can mean any valve disease, including aortic stenosis, aortic regurgitation, mitral stenosis, mitral regurgitation, tricuspid valve disease and...

Medical Forum ’s Clinical Editor, Dr Joe Kosterich, met with spinal surgeon Dr Paul Taylor from the Neurospine Institute to discuss the impact and prevalence of back pain in Australia. “Back pain is very common - almost everybody at some point in their life will have some low back pain - something like 97% of humanity experiences back pain at some point in their life. And it's the greatest sou...

Medical Forum’s clinical editor, Dr Joe Kosterich, recently spoke with Perth radiologist, Dr Conor Murray from ChestRad, about expanding the role for CTCA intervention to improve the identification of soft plaque in arteries and increase the provision of complementary preventative strategies, based on the results of the Scottish Computed Tomography of the HEART (SCOT-HEART) trial and other evidenc...

Medical Forum's  Clinical Editor, Dr Joe Kosterich, talks with Perth radiologist Dr Conor Murray , from ChestRad, about the latest and upcoming developments in Australian lung cancer screening. “Lung cancer is the biggest cancer killer of both men and women, and I think that's often a surprising fact,” Dr Murray said. “All efforts so far, beyond cessation of smoking, have had a trivial eff...

Medical Forum journalist Eric Martin was joined in the studio by Endoscopist, Paediatric Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist Dr Marcelo Leal – or Dr Marshmallow to his patients – to discuss the management of impaction and other pressing problems when a child presents to their GP with abdominal pain. ------------ This podcast is exclusively for Australian medical practitioners. The content discusse...

Medical Forum’s journalist, Eric Martin, sat down with Doctor Cathy Cole, a West Australian paediatric haematologist, to discuss the potential impacts of iron deficiency anaemia and the symptoms that can assist GPs and parents with a correct diagnosis for toddlers and adolescents. In addition to pointing out PICA and the pitfalls of puberty, Dr Cole highlights the discrepancies in defining referen...

Medical Forum journalist Eric Martin sat down with Dr Michelle Ammerer, an interventional cardiologist from Western Cardiology – based at St John of God Subiaco Hospital and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital – to talk about the changes that have taken place in interventional cardiology, and the latest treatments available to doctors and their patients. Dr Ammerer is one of the very few female cardiolo...

Medical Forum is privileged to present an exclusive interview with Dr. Zhao Wai Soe, the exiled Health Minister of Myanmar, who worked in Aung San Su Kyi’s government before it was overthrown by the military junta in February 2021, during the height of the pandemic. The world watched on as doctors and nurses took the lead in the peaceful uprising and protests that occurred throughout Myanmar as a...

Medical Forum ’s journalist, Eric Martin, sits down for a discussion about the impact of values and life experience on the creation of a new model for the delivery of pathology services with Dr Jonathan Grasko , the managing director of Saturn Pathology . ------------ This podcast is exclusively for Australian medical practitioners. The content discussed is not appropriate for non-medical professi...

Heart Failure has become a significant public health problem, impacting an increasing number of patients throughout our health system. Cardiologist Dr Steve Gordon from Western Cardiology says a patient’s GP plays a critical role in all stages of heart failure management, from early identification and diagnosis through to end-of-life care. “GPs really are team leaders, taking on a pivotal role in...