General Medicine and Primary Care

Host: John Russell, MD

Dr. John Russell speaks with Dr. Donna Ryan, Professor Emeritus at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge Louisiana. Dr. Ryan serves as co-Chair of the panel to revise the NIH-supported evidence-based Guidelines on the Evaluation and Management of Overweight and Obesity in Adults. She is past President of The Obesity Society and currently Associate Editor in Chief of the journal, Obesity.

Host: Alicia A. Sutton

Guest: Bill Levisay, MBA

Past success is not always a predictor of future success, and nowhere is this clearer than in the medical field. But what can medicine draw from the unprecedented successes and colossal failures of the corporate world? Joining host Alicia Sutton to discuss the gravity of success, and ways to avoid failure in the wake of that success, is Bill Levisay, Chief Customer Officer at Bolthouse Farms in Atlanta, GA.

Host: Brian P. McDonough, MD, FAAFP

Marla Heller, MS, RD is the author of the best-selling books, The DASH Diet Action Plan, The DASH Diet Weight Loss Solution, The Everyday DASH Diet Cookbook, and more recently The DASH Diet: Younger You. In her discussion with host Dr. Brian McDonough, she proposes a nutritional guidance plan intended to halt and even reverse many of the effects of aging by improving blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, and helping readers reach a healthy weight.

Host: Alicia A. Sutton

Guest: Alexander M. Djuricich, MD, FACP, FAAP

Guest: Brian S. McGowan, PhD

Are you using social media in your practice setting? If not, you may be missing important new peer-to-peer educational opportunities and innovative means of connecting with your patients for better care provision. Joining Alicia Sutton to discuss the emerging roles of social media in medicine are Brian McGowan, Chief Learning Officer for ArcheMedx, and Dr. Alexander Djuricich, Associate Dean for CME at Indiana University School of Medicine.

Host: Brian P. McDonough, MD, FAAFP

Nearly 55% of infants in the United States sleep on unsafe bedding, despite warnings from the Centers for Disease Control and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine to use firm flat surfaces covered with fitted sheets. Parents are being presented with several more comfortable, "baby friendly" appearing alternatives, as well as having their infants children sleep with them in their own beds, both of which create risks of SIDS and roll-over suffocations, respectively. Joining Dr. Brian McDonough to discuss safety standards and health priorities for infant sleep habits is Dr. Shalini Paruthi, Assistant Professor in the Divisions of Pulmonary Medicine and Sleep Medicine, and Director of the Pediatric Sleep Research Center at St. Louis University School of Medicine.

Host: Robert C Green, MD, MPH

Guest: Howard Levy, MD, PhD

Incorporating family histories and genetic health information into primary care has been a long term vision for many experts in the medical genetics field. When will this vision become a reality, and what will it take to enable widespread adoption of these tools in general practioners' offices nationwide? Host Dr. Robert Green welcomes Dr. Howard Levy, primary care physician, geneticist, and assistant professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Levy's research interests center on the integration of genetics into primary care, education of non-geneticist providers about genetics, and the natural history and management of Ehlers Danlos syndrome and related disorders of connective tissue.

Host: Howard Levy, MD, PhD

Guest: Robert C Green, MD, MPH

Genomic Medicine is making a rapid entry into the healthcare landscape, but questions on the potential vs realized impacts toward clinical care outcomes persist. Which genomic information will be crucial to patient care? Addressing this and other questions with host Dr. Howard Levy is Dr. Robert Green, Director of the Genes-2-People (G2P) Research Program in Translational Genomics and Health Outcomes at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Host: Howard Levy, MD, PhD

Guest: David H. Ledbetter, PhD, FACMG

From the ASHG Meeting in San Diego, Dr. Howard Levy is joined by Dr. David Ledbetter, Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at Geisinger Health System. Dr. Ledbetter shares his career story as an internationally recognized researcher in the advancement of medical genomics, and the initiatives he is leading at Geisinger to bring genomic sequencing to primary care settings for improved risk assessments and better patient outcomes.

Guest: Wylie Burke, MD, PhD

Host: Howard Levy, MD, PhD

The advances of genetic and genomic medicine within clinical practice enable more precisioned, predictive care decisions. But with these new capabilities and access points to patient information come new ethical challenges. Understanding which information will be clinically valuable, how and where that information should be stored, who can access it and why are just starting points for ethical consideration. Joining Dr. Howard Levy to explore this important topic in greater depth is Dr. Wylie Burke, Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington. Dr. Burke is also Principal Investigator of the University of Washington Center for Genomics and Healthcare Equality, an NIH-funded Center of Excellence in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) Research, and dual Principal Investigator of the Northwest-Alaska Pharmacogenomic Research Network. Her research addresses the social, ethical and policy implications of genetic information.

Host: Howard Levy, MD, PhD

Guest: Cynthia Casson Morton, PhD

After many years of collaborative research spanning the globe, the genetic mechanisms of uterine fibroid development have become well understood. What are the clinical ramifications of this knowledge, and how can genetic testing further guide treatment decisions? Speaking with Dr. Howard Levy on the genetics of uterine fibroids is Dr. Cynthia Morthon, Past President of the American Society of Human Genetics, and Professor of OB/GYN and Pathology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.