Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Michael Benson, MD

Guest: Robert Hatcher, MD, MPH

Did you know that women weighing greater than 198 pounds (90 kilos) have a high risk of pregnancy on all forms of hormonal contraceptives? Can you imagine telling a patient that she is too overweight to go on the pill? Fortunately, we have an expert on the show that can help us with this delicate problem. Our guest is Doctor Robert Hatcher, a professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Emory University School of Medicine. He iss the lead author of Contraceptive Technology, perhaps the most comprehensive book on contraception available. First written by Dr. Hatcher in 1967, the book’s 19th edition will be available shortly.

Host: Bruce Japsen

Guest: Bruce Komiske, MHA

"If you build it, they will come" may have worked for that farmer who wanted to build a baseball field in the corn, but it won't work when building support for a new Children's Hospital. From inner city squabbles with neighbors to raising large sums of money from donors, the challenges of caring for tomorrow's children are enormous. Bruce Komisky, chief of new hospital design and construction at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, tells about the latest trends in building support for new pediatric facilities on Inside Health Care with Bruce Japsen of the Chicago Tribune.

Host: Bruce Japsen

Guest: Bruce Komiske, MHA

From plasma screen TVs to private rooms, the latest in Children's Hospitals might think patients are being admitted to hotels near Disney World. If these new facilities are what children want, it's because they are. Bruce Komiske, chief of New Design and Hospital Construction at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago tells about the latest in Children's Hospital construction on Inside Health Care with Bruce Japsen of the Chicago Tribune.

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA

Host Lisa D'Andrea speaks with guest Ed Lopez, PA, about PA specialization and the push for needed changes in specialty education, recognition and certification.

Host: Lisa Dandrea Lenell, PA-C, MPAS, MBA

Host Lisa D'Andrea speaks with guest Ed Lopez, PA, about PA specialization and the lack of PAs in primary care medicine.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD

Guest: Stacy Orloff, EdD

Dr. Stacy Orloff, co-chair of the Children's Project on Palliative Hospice Services (ChiPPS), a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization discusses how ChiPPS improves palliative and hospice care for children.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD

Guest: Jay Berkelhamer, MD

Join host Dr. Bill Rutenberg interview President of the American Academy of Pediatrics for an update on their position on SCHIP

Host: Paul Raeburn

Guest: Amy McGuire, PhD

If you are at increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease, would you want to know? What if you carry a gene that doesn’t affect you, but could affect your children? Would you want to know then? Within a few years, it will be possible to sequence your genome for about a thousand dollars. Patients will be walking into doctors' offices with printouts of their genomes, asking what it means. Will physicians have the answers? An ethicist at Baylor College of Medicine tells us what to expect. Hosted by Paul Raeburn.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD

Guest: Steve Kron, MD

Dr. Steve Kron, Associate Professor, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago, and a member of the Committees on Genetics, Cancer Biology, Cell Physiology, and Molecular Medicine discusses the life of a physician scientist.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD

Guest: Steve Kron, MD

Dr. Steve Kron, Associate Professor, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago, and a member of the Committees on Genetics, Cancer Biology, Cell Physiology, and Molecular Medicine discusses proteomics, genomics and everything in between.