Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD

Guest: Harlan Krumholz, MD

Hear Dr. Harlan M. Krumholz, Harold H. Hines Jr. Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health (cardiology) as he discusses the VIRGO study--Variation In Recovery: Role of Outcomes of Young AMI Patients.

Host: Michael Greenberg, MD

Guest: Brian Moran, MD

Dr. Michael Greenberg speaks with Dr. Brian Moran, Medical Director of the Chicago Prostate Cancer Center, about new biopsy and diagnostic techniques for men with prostate cancer.

Host: Michael Greenberg, MD

Guest: Brian Moran, MD

Dr. Michael Greenberg speaks with Dr. Brian Moran, Medical Director of the Chicago Prostate Cancer Treatment Center, about the various treatments available for treating prostate cancer with an emphasis on brachytherapy.

Host: Michael Greenberg, MD

Guest: Brian Moran, MD

Dr. Michael Greenberg speaks with Dr. Brian Moran, medical director of the Chicago Prostate Cancer Center, about brachytherapy and Dr. Moran's personal journey in creating his nationally recognized prostate cancer treatment facility.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD

Guest: Rick Stouffer, MD

Dr. Rick Stouffer, Chief of Clinical Cardiology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Director of Interventional Cardiology gives his update on risk factors and invasive interventions in 2008.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD

Guest: Rick Stouffer, MD

Dr Rick Stouffer, Chief of Clinical Cardiology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is interviewed by Dr. Shira Johnson. Dr Stouffer provides a state of the art update on drug eluting cardiac stents.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD

Guest: Betty Davies, RN, PhD

Guest: Stacy Orloff, EdD

Betty Davies, RN, PhD, FAAN, is Professor, Department of Family Health Care Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco and Principal Investigator on a NIH research project to examine the experiences of fathers with terminally ill children. Dr. Davies is joined by site coordinator Stacy Orloff, EdD, LCSW, to discuss their NIH research project.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD

Guest: Mary Whitmer, RN

Hear Mary Whitmer, RN, FNP, BC-PC, a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, as she discusses the implementation of a Grieving Cart in the ICU.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD

Guest: Eugene Viscusi, MD

Dr. Eugene Viscusi, director of acute pain management and associate professor of anesthesiology at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, discusses the latest advances in capsaicin research toward acute pain management.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD

Guest: Clifford Tribus, MD

X-Stop, a ruuner up in the 2007 Wall Street Journal Technology Awards for best medical devices is an innovative implantable device to relieve pain in patients with spinal stenosis. In this segment Dr. Cliff Tribus shares his experience implanting the X-Stop. He discusses which patients benefit most from X-Stop and how it helps them. He also speaks about the concept of stenosis being a threshold disease and considers the role of a physician in helping to manage the pain threshold.