General Medicine and Primary Care

From the Women's Health Annual Visit in Chicago, host Ana Maria Rosario talks with Dr. Martin Chavez, the Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Fetal Surgery Program at Winthrop University Hospital, about the maternal-fetal effects of the Zika virus outbreak.

Dr. Brian McDonough explores the importance of finding personal fulfilment in work and home life with Dr. William Schiemann, CEO of Metrus Group and author of Fulfilled! Critical Choices: Work, Home, Life.

Dr. Brian McDonough chats with Scott Schober, CEO of Berkeley Varitronics Systems and author of Hacked Again: It Can Happen to Anyone, Even a Cybersecurity Expert, about the growing need for cyber security in the health care sector.

Dr. Brian McDonough sits down with Jeena Cho, co-author of The Anxious Lawyer: an 8-week Guide to a Joyful and Satisfying Law Practice through Mindfulness and Meditation, about how meditation can reduce anxiety, improve focus and clarity, and renrich your quality of life.

Health informatics provides a way for knowledge about patients, diseases, therapies and medicines to be more easily shared. Greater access to data can be used to improve healthcare on a larger scale.

Dr. Brian McDonough talks with Dr. Don Liss, Senior Medical Director at Independent Blue Cross about how health informatics is shaping health care.

Reports indicate that there is a national upsurge in the number of women with opioid addiction. The problem is multigenerational, with consumption habits that begin as early as the mid-teenage years and extend well into the elderly population.

Additionally, opioid addiction disproportionately affects women, who are more likely to become dependent and overdose unintentionally on painkillers compared to men.

Host Dr. Patrice Basanta-Henry talks with Dr. Regan Theiler, Director of the Division of General OB/GYN at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center about treatment approaches for opioid-addicted pregnant women and women of childbearing age.

From the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation's Take Steps walk in Philadelphia, host Rhondell Domilici talks with Dr. Michael Kwiatt, a surgeon at Cooper University Health Care, about the indications and benefits of surgery for patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

From the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation's Take Steps Walk in Philadelphia, host Rhondell Domilici talks with Jonathan Hoffman, Board Member of Crohn's & Colitis Foundation's Philadelphia Chapter, about his experience living with IBD.

Law, Cindy C. Y. MD; Sasidharan, Saranya MD; Rodrigues, Rodrigo MD; Nguyen, Deanna D. MD; Sauk, Jenny MD; Garber, John MD; Giallourakis, Cosmas MD; Xavier, Ramnik MD, PhD; Khalili, Hamed MD, MPH; Yajnik, Vijay MD, PhD; Ananthakrishnan, Ashwin N. MD, MPH

Host: Dr. Manish Singla, Gastroenterology Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD

Background: The management of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs; Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis) is increasingly complex. Specialized care has been associated with improved ambulatory IBD outcomes.

Aims: To examine if the implementation of specialized inpatient IBD care modified short-term and long-term clinical outcomes in IBD-related hospitalizations.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study included IBD patients hospitalized between July 2013 and April 2015 at a single tertiary referral center where a specialized inpatient IBD care model was implemented in July 2014. In-hospital medical and surgical outcomes as well as postdischarge outcomes at 30 and 90 days were analyzed along with measures …

From the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation's Take Steps Walk in Philadelphia, host Rhondell Domilici talks with Dr. Lindsey Albenberg, Gastroenterologist in the division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, about the value of nutrition in managing inflammatory bowel disease.