Host: Michael Greenberg, MD

Guest: Rosemarie Nelson, MS

Dr. Michael Greenberg talks with Rosemarie Nelson of the Medical Group Management Associations's Health Care Consulting Group about ways to decrease the number of no-show patients in your practice.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD

Guest: Charlene Harrington, RN, PhD

Professor and RN Charlene Harrington discuss the Future of Nursing Homes with host, Dr. Bill Rutenberg. What policies are vital to keep nursing homes up to snuff so they’re ready for the aging population? They also discuss the development of and usefulness of Nursing Home Consumer Information System, Reimbursement policies, and Regulation required in the nursing home industry.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD

Guest: Charlene Harrington, RN, PhD

Professor and RN, Charlene Harrington discusses with host Dr. Bill Rutenberg the recently launched UCSF demonstration project to design and test nursing interventions to improve quality of care in nursing homes. A focus of the study is to "refine a practice model to transform the nursing home care, based on peer-reviewed research into what works and what does not." Another goal of the study is to "translate the findings from the current research into practical changes on a national scale."

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD

Guest: Richard Moss, MD

No longer a disease of childhood, patients with cystic fibrosis are now living well into adult life. Dr. Moss discusses with host Dr. Bill Rutenberg about the current state of the art of treatment that has made long-term survival possible, new morbidities resulting from increased survival to financing health care for adults with cystic fibrosis and transitioning from pediatric to adult care.

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: Shira Johnson, MD

Guest: John Halpern, MD

Host Dr. Shira Johnson welcomes Dr. John Halpern, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, to discusses his research on psilocybin for cluster headaches. Why does this treatment work, when so many others have failed to relieve the pain of cluster headaches?

Host: Shira Johnson, MD

Guest: John Halpern, MD

Dr. John Halpern has delivered scientific evidence supporting that MDMA, or Ecstasy, works to relieve anxiety for patients with terminal illness. Dr. Shira Johnson interviews this researcher from Harvard Medical School to learn more about altering perceptions by treating medical illnesses with illicit drugs.

Host: Lee Freedman, MD

Guest: Louis Soslowsky, PhD

Dr. Louis Soslowsky, from the University of Pennsylvania Health System, outlines how newer understanding of the mechanism of injury in overuse syndromes is leading to new approaches in treatment. Dr. Soslowsky shares his expertise in biomedical engineering to help doctors fine tune their approach to rotator cuff tendinosis, epicondylitis and other common clinical problems caused by overused tendons.

Host: Lee Freedman, MD

Guest: Louis Soslowsky, PhD

Dr. Soslowsky discusses how new understandings of the pathophysiology of tendon-to-bone repair are leading to a new therapeutic approach to rotator cuff tears.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD

Guest: Michael Miller, MD

Hear Dr. Michael Miller, director of preventive cardiology at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, as he discusses his research on how the Atkins, South Beach and Ornish diets affect cardiovascular health.