EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals

On this week’s episode of the EMJ Podcast, our host Jonathan is joined by Bruce Gewertz, Surgeon-in-Chief, Chair of the Department of Surgery, Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs, and Vice-President for Interventional Services at Cedars-Sinai Health System, Los Angeles, USA. They discuss Gewertz’s 40-year-long career in vascular surgery and academic medicine, as well as pertinent topics including burnout in healthcare professionals, self-doubt, and ensuring the establishment of a work-life balance. An anecdote about Bruce and Jonathan’s mutual friend, George Berci, who is still practicing at the age of 101, addresses fulfilment in medicine.

In this special episode, Evgenia Koutsouki, Editor of the EMJ family of journals, reflects on the most interesting and noteworthy moments of past 3 months on the EMJ podcast. Covering topics from research into childhood leukaemia to a deep dive into consciousness, this podcast looks back on the most fascinating insights provided by our guests.

On this week’s episode of the EMJ Podcast, our host Jonathan Sackier is joined by Karen Ousey, Professor of Skin Integrity and Director of the Institute for Skin Integrity and Infection Prevention at the University of Huddersfield, UK. They discuss Ousey’s career in wound healing, how she came to be a visiting adjunct professor in Australia and Ireland, and the importance of education. They also discuss antimicrobial resistance and the problems that it is causing in treating certain conditions.

In this week’s episode, Jonathan is joined by Peter Samuelson, Co-founder of the Starlight Children’s Foundation, Los Angeles, California, USA, and Co-founder and President of First Star, Oxford, UK. The pair discuss the origins of these fantastic charities and touch on Samuelson’s work in setting up Everyone Deserves a Roof (EDAR) in Los Angeles, California, USA, in 2005, which aims to tackle homelessness.

This Podcast, hosted by Brigitte Scott, explores the important role ultrasound has in Rheumatology. Join experts Lene Terslev, Chief Consultant in Rheumatology at Rigshospitalet, and Professor of Rheumatology at Copenhagen University, Denmark, and Esperanza Naredo, Rheumatologist and Associate Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, as they discuss their experiences and expertise in using ultrasound in their daily practice, how ultrasound enhances the clinical care they provide, and the benefits of using this technique for their patients.

This podcast was supported by GE Healthcare. The views and opinions of the speakers are not necessarily of GE Healthcare or EMJ.

In this week’s episode, Jonathan Sackier is joined by Ariel Halevy, Chief of Surgery at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Be’er Ya’akov, Israel. The pair reflect on Halevy’s career and share anecdotes from the operating room, looking back on his time working as a general surgeon. From stories on diagnostic surgery at a time when imaging was not available to a case report on auto-vampirism, they discuss the highlights of Halevy’s career.

This week, Jonathan is joined by Karin Butler, Project Director at York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC), UK. They discuss Butler’s career in health economics and the role of health economics consultancies and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

This week, Jonathan is joined by Nebojsa Skrepnik, the Director of Research at Tucson Orthopaedic Institute Research Center in Arizona, USA. They discuss Skrepnik’s career, how he ended up in the USA, and opening his own clinical research centre. The use of cobalt and chromium in prosthetics is also discussed, as well as how difficult-to-treat conditions such as tennis elbow can be treated with platelet-rich plasma.

In this podcast, EMJ are joined by Henrik Grönberg, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden. Focusing on the topic of precision medicine in prostate cancer, this podcast offers valuable insights into the impact that its widespread implementation could have for patients.

This podcast is supported by Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the individual speaker and do not necessarily reflect the views of Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.

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This week, our host Jonathan Sackier is joined by Deepali Pal, Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences and Founder of 3RsLabPal at Northumbria University, UK. The pair discuss Pal’s career and what led her to paediatric oncology, as well as her research to develop low toxicity drugs to treat cancer and patient-specific non-animal technologies.