Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Shira Johnson, MD

Guest: Stephen Colagiuri, MD

What should your goals be in diabetes control for your patients? Host Dr. Shira Johnson invites Dr. Stephen Colagiur, chair of the International Diabetes Federation Task Force on Clinical Guidelines, to discuss established guidelines and the implications for primary care providers.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD

Guest: Stephen Colagiuri, MD

For years physicians have been taught to target the FBS in their diabetic patients. Dr. Shira Johnson interviews Dr. Stephen Colaguiri from the International Diabetes Federation whose recent work shows that this is not enough.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD

Guest: Graham Ogle, MD

Join Dr. Graham Ogle from Sydney, Australia, as he discusses the International Diabetes Federation Life for a Child Program.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD

Guest: Judy Capko

Not unique to medical practices, staff motivation and maximizing productivity are great opportunities and challenges for all business managers. In this segment, our guest, medical consultant Judy Capko offers insights to host Dr. Larry Kaskel on how to motivate and improve productivity from staff.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD

Guest: Judy Capko

In this segment, host Dr. Larry Kaskel interviews medical practice consultant Judy Capko about how physicians can better manage the day to day challenges in their medical practice

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD

Guest: Rick Goldstein, MD

Our guest Dr. Rick Goldstein was integral in AAP National Center of Medical Home Initiatives project to create a video about caring for terminally ill children. In this segment host, Dr. Bill Rutenberg helps us learn about the video project and what medical professionals should know about caring for terminally ill children.

Host: Michael Benson, MD

Guest: Susan Cu-Uvin, MD

For women with HIV in the US, nursing is not an option. Yet is nursing their babies a better choice for women with HIV in other countries? The answer may surprise you. Today our guest is Dr. Susan Cu-Uvin, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and Medicine at Brown Medical School. She is also Director of the Miriam Hospital's Immunology Center in Providence Rhode Island, which provides comprehensive care to over a thousand women and men living with HIV/AIDS. She is doing NIH-funded research on the prevalence and transmission of HIV among women during pregnancy.

Host: Michael Benson, MD

Guest: Susan Cu-Uvin, MD

Before the Hepatitis B vaccine, up to one-third of obstetricians had been infected with Hepatitis B—chiefly from needle sticks or other exposures to bodily fluids. However, our modern day plague, HIV has no vaccine. What are the risks to doctors and nurses from providing care to HIV patients? In this segment host Dr. Michael Benson discusses HIV during pregnancy - the myths and prejudices of both patients and health care providers - with. Guest Dr. Susan Cu-Uvin. Dr. Cu-Uvin is professor of OB/GYN and Medicine at Brown Medical School. She is also Director of the Miriam Hospital's Immunology Center in Providence Rhode Island, which provides comprehensive care to over a thousand women and men living with HIV/AIDS. She is doing NIH funded research on the prevalence and transmission of HIV among during pregnancy.

Host: Michael Benson, MD

Guest: Susan Cu-Uvin, MD

In one developing Asian country, not a single case of HIV was found among several thousand pregnant women tested. Yet in one African country, a whopping 40% of pregnant women were infected. How can either be true? Why? Today our guest is Dr. Susan Cu-Uvin, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and Medicine at Brown Medical School. She is also Director of the Miriam Hospital's Immunology Center in Providence Rhode Island, which provides comprehensive care to over a thousand women and men living with HIV/AIDS. She is doing NIH funded research on the prevalence and transmission of HIV among during pregnancy.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD

Guest: Denise L. Faustman, MD

Dr. Denise L. Faustman, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Immunobiology Laboratories at the Massachusetts General Hospital discusses how her Type 1 diabetes cure research is funded.