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  • Ep 17: Dr. Joel "Kidney_Boy" Topf on a New Career Path for Physicians Post-Training

    Connect with Dr. Topf on Twitter @kidney_boy  and check out his blog http://www.saltwhisperer.me/ .Joel Topf went to medical school at Wayne state University School of Medicine and did Med-Peds at Indiana University. He completed an adult fellowship in nephrology at the University of Chicago. He is currently a clinical nephrologist in Detroit at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine. Joel’s passion is using social media and new media to teach nephrology. He started his blog, PBFluids in 2008. He developed NephMadness and NephJC to leverage the power of community, digital scholarship and creativity to teach nephrology. He is the founder and program director of the Nephrology Social Media Collective internship which trains medical professionals to use social media for medical education. He was recognized by the American Society of Nephrology with the Robert Narins award for innovations in Teaching in 2017.

    38 min
  • Ep 16: Choosing Life Over Death: The Fall & Rise of Renal Warrior

    Wilson Du is living proof of what it means to look death in the eye and persevere.  When all hope was lost when receiving a diagnosis of stage 5 kidney failure, Wilson Du chose life. And that is when the Renal Warrior was born.

    Along with Patty McCormac, RN, Director of Programs at the National Kidney Foundation, Wilson Du, the Renal Warrior, shares his story about being diagnosed with kidney failure and what other patients can do to overcome it.

    Follow Renal Warrior on:

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RenalWarrior/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renalwarrior2016/

    Check out his new gym for patients: https://www.facebook.com/TheMissionHQFitness/

    For more info on kidney disease, visit and support the National Kidney Foundation: https://www.kidney.org/

    1 hr 12 min
  • Ep 15: Dr. Natalia Ivascu, Weill Cornell Medicine's Director of the Cardiothoracic Surgical Intensive Care Unit

    Follow Dr. Ivascu on Twitter @NIvascuMD

    Dr. Natalia Ivascu is an Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology. She cares for patients as a Cardiac Anesthesiologist and Critical Care Intensivist in the Cardiothoracic Surgical Intensive Care Unit. Dr. Ivascu is the Director of the Cardiothoracic Surgical Intensive Care Unit (CTICU).

    Dr. Ivascu completed her undergraduate studies in Cellular and Molecular Biology at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. She went on to earn her medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan. She began her career at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Medical College as a resident in Anesthesiology. Dr. Ivascu completed an additional year of fellowship training at Cornell, in Cardiovascular Anesthesiology. She then spent a year at the Columbia University campus of NYP as a fellow in Critical Care Medicine.

    Dr. Ivascu is board certified in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. She is also a Diplomate of the American Board of Echocardiography, with certification in Advanced Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography and Special Competence in Critical Care Echocardiography.

    50 min
  • Ep 14: Dr. Susan Martinelli on Physician Burnout in Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology

    Dr Susan Martinelli is a Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with her clinical specialty in cardiothoracic anesthesiology.  She is passionate about resident education and serves as the Associate Residency Program Director.  She is also interested in physician wellbeing with research interests in the flipped classroom in residency education and finding ways to include family and friends into wellness programming. You can follow her on Twitter @DrSusieUNC

    39 min
  • Ep 13: Dr. Tjorvi Perry - Chief of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia at the University of Minnesota Medical Center

    Dr. Perry is the Chief of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia at the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis. He completed his anesthesia training and subspecialty training in cardiothoracic anesthesia at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School of Medicine, where he went on to receive his Masters in Clinical and Translational Research. His current professional focus is understanding how what happens at the intersection of human behavior and complex systems, such as the cardiac operating rooms, impacts professional satisfaction and personal wellbeing of the physician, and safety and clinical outcomes of the patient.

    At this years' Annual Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Meeting in Chicago, Dr. Perry delivered a talk titled "Art to Automation; Reclaiming Our Presence and Intuition in the Operating Room" with the aim of shedding light on the complexities of adequately caring for the critically ill in our current clinical setting, and elevating the conversation around how we might leverage existing and in-coming technology in ways that might augment the performance of our clinical care teams.

    Dr. Perry is always looking for value-added conversation with anyone, medical or not, that might add perspective on this very relevant and timely issue. He can be reached or followed through Twitter; @teperryMD.

    1 hr 2 min
  • Ep 12: Dr. Barodka on Acute Kidney Injury Post Cardiac Surgery

    Dr. Viachaslau Barodka is an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His area of clinical expertise is cardiac anesthesiology. An expert in both red blood cell deformability and vascular stiffness, Dr. Barodka has a strong connection to Biomedical engineering and is developing new tools for real time assessment of renal function. He has also optimized strategies to reduce renal failure post cardiac surgery.

    Dr. Barodka earned his M.D. from Belarussian State Medical Institute in Minsk, Belarus. He completed a residency in orthopaedic surgery at City Pediatric Outpatient Clinic No. 17 in Minsk and another residency in anesthesiology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Dr. Barodka performed a fellowship in anesthesiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Barodka joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2009.

    His research interests include vascular stiffness, blood transfusion and cardiovascular physiology.

    30 min
  • Ep 11: Dr. Barry N. Gardiner on pioneering Surgical Robotics with the da Vinci Surgical System at Intuitive with

    Dr. Barry N. Gardiner, MD obtained his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He completed his internship and a five year residency in general surgery at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. In addition, he was the recipient of an N.I.H. Fellowship in Gastroenterology, completing a two year study in clinical gastroenterology and research investigation into the formation of cholesterol gallstone formation under the tutelage of Donald M. Small at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts.

    Dr. Gardiner served as a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army, both as Staff Surgeon and Director of the Department of Investigational Surgery at the Presidio of San Francisco. He then joined the clinical faculty of the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine until entering private practice in general surgery in the East Bay.

    Dr. Gardiner pioneered the introduction and development of laparoscopy in general surgery in the early 1990’s and was the principal clinical advisor to Intuitive Surgical, Inc. during the development and clinical trials of the da Vinci™ surgical robot.  He was the principal investigator for the clinical trial of the da Vinci™ system in Mexico City and testified before the FDA panel meeting in 1999 which resulted in the FDA clearing the da Vinci™ surgical system for general laparoscopic use.  Dr. Gardiner has vast experience in minimally invasive surgical techniques, and uses these techniques extensively in the field of general surgery, including innovative surgical approaches with the da Vinci™ robot.

    1 hr 14 min

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