Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD

Guest: Joe McCannon

Joe McCannon, a VP at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and manager of the 5 Million Lives Campaign, discusses the groundbreaking, voluntary initiative to protect patients from five million incidents of medical harm in US hospitals over two years (December 2006 – December 2008).

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD

Guest: Joe McCannon

Joe McCannon, VP and Campaign Manager for the IHI, discusses the 100,000 lives campaign which began in 2006. Up to 15M incidents of patient harm occur in US Hospitals each year-what can we do to reduce these iatrogenic errors?

Host: Lee Freedman, MD

Guest: W. Michael Alberts, MD, MBA

Dr. Alberts, a past president of the American College of Chest Physicians, discusses the rationale for the new recommendation from that body against the use of CT scanning to screen for lung cancer.

Host: Matthew J. Sorrentino, MD, FACC, FASH

Guest: David Faxon, MD

Dr. David Faxon, Professor of Cardiology at Harvard Medical School, will outline strategies to improve early reperfusion in patients presenting with an ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. How can we improve door-to-balloon times and save lives?

Host: Matthew J. Sorrentino, MD, FACC, FASH

Guest: Ziyad Hijazi, MD

Dr. Ziyad Hijazi, an interventional cardiologist at Rush Medical Center, will discuss the diagnosis and treatment of atrial septal defects and patent foramen ovale in children and adults. When do we close these defects?

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD

Guest: Christopher Cates, MD

Following an interventional radiologic procedure, patients often have to lay still for 6-8 hours to enable their groin wound to properly close. Often times the patient returns to the physician because of a groin complication. Today's guest, Dr. Christopher Cates holds a patent on a new method for quickly sealing arterial puncture sites, decreasing the time it takes for the groin wound to seal and improving outcomes. Join host Mark Nolan Hill for an interesting interview.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD

Guest: Christopher Cates, MD

There is a huge opportunity to improve the outcomes of stroke victims by reorganizing our healthcare delivery system to provide access to acute stroke care in highly specialized stroke centers in similar ways that heart centers mobilized 25 years ago. Join host, Dr. Mark Nolan Hill in an intersting conversation with our guest, Dr. Christopher Cates.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD

Guest: Christopher Cates, MD

Physicians at Emory recently developed a procedure that combines Virtual Reality with MRI to enable vascular surgeons to walk through a procedure using Virtual Realty minutes before they do the actual procudure. In this segment, join host, Dr. Mark Nolan Hill walk through the VR procedure as a surgeon would, prior to conducting the actual procedure with our guest Dr. Christopher Cates from Emory University School of Medicine.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD

Guest: Christopher Cates, MD

Physicians at Emory recently developed a procedure that combines Virtual Reality with MRI to enable vascular surgeons to walk through a procedure using Virtual Realty minutes before they do the actual procudure. In this segment, join host, Dr. Mark Nolan Hill learn how this procedure was developed and how it is currently being used in practice and in training from our guest, Dr. Christopher Cates.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD

Guest: Don Goldmann, MD

Dr. Donald Goldmann from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement answers the challenging questions on Community Acquired MRSA. Could it have been prevented? What do we know about the genotype?