Medical Breakthroughs from Penn Medicine

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Medical Breakthroughs features the newest medical advancements in the areas of oncology, cardiology, neurosciences, orthopedics, and genetics featuring America’s leading physicians and medical researchers from Penn Medicine.

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Medical Breakthroughs from Penn Medicine episodes:

12.30.2022
The Acceleration Lab: Key Initiatives in Patient-Centered Care
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Roy Rosin, MBA Guest: Shivan Mehta, MD, MBA, MSHP From home care to cancer screening, what are some of the top initiatives in patient care...
09.30.2022
Healing at Home: Advancements in Screening for Postpartum Depression
Host: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP Guest: Kirstin Leitner, MD Current screening tools for postpartum depression may have limitations, but a new texting service as part of the Healing at Home program...
09.30.2022
Considering CAR T-cell Therapy in Follicular Lymphoma
Host: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP Guest: Elise Chong, MD Patients with follicular lymphoma who relapse or don’t respond to treatment don’t have many therapeutic options, but a recently FDA-approved CAR T-cell...
03.31.2022
Diving into Developments in Ovarian Cancer Detection
Host: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP Guest: Janos L. Tanyi, MD, PhD Recently the FDA approved a “Glowing Tumor” imaging drug to help oncologists better identify ovarian cancer cells using an approach...
03.03.2022
Breaking Through Barriers: Meet the Minds Behind Emerging mRNA Technology
Host: John J. Russell, MD Guest: Drew Weissman, MD, PhD Guest: Katalin Karikó, PhD As mRNA technology continues to emerge and evolve, Penn Researchers Dr. Drew Weissman and Dr. Katalin...
02.28.2022
The Aorta Center at Penn Medicine: An Inside Look at a Comprehensive Model of Care
Host: John J. Russell, MD Guest: Joseph E. Bavaria, MD Featuring a wide range of disciplines and a new approach to comprehensive care, what do we need to know about the Aorta...
12.30.2021
A Peek Inside the Pavilion: Exploring Penn Medicine’s Newest Facility
Host: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP Guest: Kathryn Gallagher, MS, RN, BSN Guest: Kate Newcomb-DeSanto, MSN, RN, MSW What does Penn Medicine’s newly-opened patient room facility have to offer? Dr....
02.24.2021
Exploring the Benefits & Safety of COVID-19 Vaccine Technology
Host: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP Guest: Drew Weissman, MD, PhD Dr. Drew Weissman, Professor of Medicine at Penn Medicine joins Dr. Turck to discuss his new COVID-19 vaccine technology and how...
11.09.2020
Exploring the Role of Immunosuppression in Autoimmunity for MS Patients Amid COVID-19
Host: Paul P. Doghramji, MD, FAAFP Guest: Amit Bar-Or, MD, FRCP, FAAN, FANA The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused us to reconsider how we treat our patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and even the role of...
07.07.2020
Updates in Uterine Factor Infertility: The Promise of Transplants
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Kathleen E. O'Neill, MD, MTR Guest: Nawar Abdul Latif, MD, MPH, MSCE Patients with uterine factor infertility, or UFI, only had two options if they...
06.12.2020
Expanding Options for the Management of Multiple Sclerosis
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Amit Bar-Or, MD, FRCP, FAAN, FANA Joining Dr. Jennifer Caudle to discuss the latest research furthering our understanding and treatment of multiple sclerosis is Dr. Amit Bar-Or,...
06.10.2020
Gaining a Deeper Understanding of Inherited Cardiomyopathy
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Anjali Owens, MD Without any targeted therapies available for inherited cardiomyopathy, how can we treat our patients coping with its debilitating symptoms? Here to share her diagnostic...
05.20.2020
Catching Up on Current & Future Breast Cancer Clinical Trials
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Ari Brooks, MD It’s not uncommon to encounter barriers when screening, diagnosing, and treating breast cancer, which is why clinical trials aim to combat those barriers. Here to share with us the designs...
05.11.2020
Stopping Seizures: A New Treatment Approach for Epilepsy
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Timothy Lucas, MD, PhD With the amount of treatment options available for epilepsy, how can clinicians ensure that they’re matching patients with the most appropriate option? Dr. Timothy Lucas, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery...
03.31.2020
Upgrading Breast Cancer Screening with Digital Breast Tomosynthesis
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Emily F. Conant, MD While screening for breast cancer using digital mammography enables us to detect the cancer earlier when it’s more treatable, it also comes with the risk of false-positives, which cause...
12.20.2019
The Role of Integrative Therapy in Cancer Care
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: William Levin, MD To explore the complementary approaches to care that are making an impact in the oncology field, Dr. William Levin joins Dr. Jennifer Caudle to discuss how integrative therapy can help...
12.20.2019
The Role of Integrative Therapy in Cancer Care
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: William Levin, MD To explore the complementary approaches to care that are making an impact in the oncology field, Dr. William Levin joins Dr. Jennifer Caudle to discuss how integrative therapy can help...
09.27.2019
Illuminating Innovations in Tumor Resection Surgery
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Sunil Singhal, MD, FACS Even though its full potential is still being explored, TumorGlow™ seems to be lighting the way for better patient outcomes since it’s been shown to improve localization, visualization, and...
05.03.2019
Endeavors of the Heart: Leveraging Innovative Technologies for Transcatheter Therapies
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Guest: Howard C. Herrmann, MD Twelve years after performing the first transcatheter aortic valve replacement, Penn Medicine continues to gain momentum in the transformation of cardiovascular transcatheter therapies....
01.14.2019
Reinventing Autologous Breast Reconstruction to Reduce Pain & Postsurgical Opioid Use
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Suhail K. Kanchwala, MD Improving his patients’ post-surgical experience was Dr. Suhail Kanchwala's goal when he sought to develop a new method for autologous breast reconstruction. The...
06.08.2018
Are VADs the Answer to the Heart Failure Epidemic?
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Eduardo Rame, MD Following a successful ventricular assist device clinical trial, Dr. Jennifer Caudle is joined by Dr. Eduardo Rame, Cardiologist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, to discuss how this...
06.08.2018
Are VADs the Answer to the Heart Failure Epidemic?
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Eduardo Rame, MD Following a successful ventricular assist device clinical trial, Dr. Jennifer Caudle is joined by Dr. Eduardo Rame, Cardiologist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, to discuss how this...
04.23.2018
FDA-Approved Gene Therapy Reverses Blindness in Children & Adults
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Jean Bennett, MD, PhD Guest: Albert Maguire, MD Power couple Drs. Jean Bennett and Albert Maguire discuss how their new therapy for the RPE65 gene,...
02.02.2018
When Your Patient Has a Spinal Deformity: Clinical Priorities
Host: Barnett Mennen, MD Guest: Comron Saifi, MD Spinal deformity places strain on the vertebrae and supporting muscles, tendons, ligaments, and tissues supporting the spinal column. The treatment and management of this...
01.17.2018
What to Know About a State-of-the-Art Approach to GIST Treatment
Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Ronald DeMatteo, MD, FACS A Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST) is a rare sarcoma that begins in the digestive tract or stomach, with an incident rate in the...
01.17.2018
What to Know About a State-of-the-Art Approach to GIST Treatment from Penn Medicine
Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Ronald DeMatteo, MD, FACS A Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST) is a rare sarcoma that begins in the digestive tract or stomach, with an incident rate in the United States of approximately 4,000 to 6,000 cases...
01.03.2018
Penn Medicine Neurosurgery Expert on Focused Ultrasound for Essential Tremor
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Gordon Baltuch, MD, PhD Essential Tremor is one of the most common movement disorder, affecting an estimated 3% of the population or approximately 10 million individuals in the United States. A new technology,...
10.23.2017
CAR-T Cell Therapy: A Breakthrough Treatment for Fighting Cancer
Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Robert Vonderheide, MD For years, the foundations of cancer treatment, surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy were utilized with the objective of weakening cancer. But over the past...
10.23.2017
CAR-T Therapy: A Breakthrough Tool for Fighting Cancer
Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Robert Vonderheide, MD For years, the foundations of cancer treatment, surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy were utilized with the objective of weakening cancer. But over the past several years, immunotherapy – therapies that enlist and...
07.09.2017
Treating the Female Athlete: Sports Medicine Updates for Women, by Women
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Ellen Casey, MD, CAQSM, FACSM Female athletes are at an increased risk for certain specific sports-related injuries, a fact that led to the creation of the Penn Center for the Female Athlete. Due to the...
06.07.2017
Unclog the Arteries: Treatment Options for Arterial Disease
Host: Barnett Mennen, MD Guest: Grace Wang, MD, FACS Unclogging patient arteries is a key step to preventing stroke in patients with arterial disease. Whether it be preventing the operative stage, or...
05.23.2017
Pancreatic Cancer: Associated Signs, Symptoms, Risk Factors and Treatment Approaches
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Major Kenneth Lee, IV, MD, PhD Though a relatively rare disease, pancreatic cancer remains at the forefront of clinical discussion due to its highly aggressive nature. Dr....
05.03.2017
Hepatitis C Virus (HCV): Current Screening Guidelines and Treatment Approaches
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Vincent Lo Re, MD, MSCE In 2014, the CDC estimated a total of 2,194 cases of acute hepatitis across 40 states and estimates that 2.7-3.9 million people...
02.13.2017
Neck and Back Pain: When Should You Refer Your Patients to a Neurosurgeon?
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Guest: Patrick J. Connolly, MD Back and neck pain is extremely common, with 80-90% of people experiencing some pain within their lifetime. About 90% of cases resolve within...
02.06.2017
Hot Topics in Counseling Patients Who are Trying to Conceive
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Guest: Robert H. Debbs, DO Joining Dr. Matt Birnholz to discuss counseling methods for patients who are trying to conceive is Dr. Robert Debbs, Director of the Pennsylvania...
02.06.2017
Hot Topics in Breast Cancer Innovations
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Guest: Ari Brooks, MD Guest: Brian Englander, MD Host Dr. Matt Birnholz is joined by Dr. Ari Brooks, Director of Endocrine and Oncology Surgery and Director...
02.02.2017
A Thoracic Surgeon's Viewpoint on Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment of a Lung Cancer Patient
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Guest: Taine Pechet, MD Dr. Taine Pechet, chief of surgery at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and associate professor of clinical surgery at Penn Medicine joins host Dr. Matt...
02.02.2017
Full Spectrum of Breast Reconstruction Surgeries: From Cosmetic to Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Guest: Paris D. Butler, MD, MPH Host Dr. Matt Birnholz welcomes Dr. Paris D. Butler, who will be discussing breast reduction surgery for women who suffer from chronic...
01.05.2017
Curing Blindness: How Researchers are Utilizing Gene Therapy
Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Jean Bennett, MD, PhD There are 39 million people worldwide who are in total blindness and another 246 million with very low vision. The most frequent forms...
10.10.2016
Cranial Base Disorders: Etiologies, Surgical Approaches, and Research Innovations
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Guest: John Y.K. Lee, MD Guest: Jason G. Newman, MD, FACS Joining Dr. Matt Birnholz to discuss innovative surgical approaches to cranial base disorders are Doctors John Y. K. Lee and Jason G. Newman....
08.08.2016
Time is Brain: Diagnosing and Treating Stroke in the Golden Window
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Michael Mullen, MD Every second counts for stroke patients. During a stroke, two-million brain cells die every minute, making the urgent administration of therapies and treatment vital...
08.01.2016
Innovations in Diagnosis and Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Joseph Berger, MD, FACP, FAAN, FANA Multiple sclerosis is a notoriously difficult disease to diagnose early on. With no singular confirmatory tests yet available, physicians often become...
07.18.2016
4 Latest Advances in Epilepsy Treatment at Penn
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Kathryn Davis, MD, MTR Guest: Timothy Lucas, MD, PhD According to the epilepsy foundation, epilepsy is the 4th most common neurological problem in the U.S....
07.04.2016
Groundbreaking Child Bilateral Hand Transplant
Host: Shira Johnson, MD For the first time, Penn Medicine surgeons were able to complete a bilateral hand transplant on a child. The surgical team successfully transplanted donor hands and forearms onto 8-year-old Zion...
06.27.2016
Who is at Risk for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH)?
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: K. Akaya Smith, MD Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH): Who is at greatest risk for developing it? What do practitioners need to know about diagnosing, treatment and the...
06.13.2016
PVC Ablation Procedures for Ventricular Tachycardia
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Francis Marchlinski, MD Host Dr. Jennifer Caudle welcomes Dr. Francis E. Marchlinski, Richard T. and Angela Clark President's Distinguished Professor and Director of the Electrophysiology Laboratory at...
05.16.2016
Chronic Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) and Post Thrombotic Syndrome (PTS): What Physicians Need to Know
Host: Barnett Mennen, MD Guest: Deepak Sudheendra, MD, FSIR, RPVI Host Dr. Barry Mennen joins Dr. Deepak Sudheendra, Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology & Surgery at the Hospital of the University Of...
05.09.2016
Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD): Revascularization for Clinical Limb Ischemia
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Timothy W.I. Clark, MD Host Dr. Jennifer Caudle welcomes Dr. Timothy Clark, Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology and the Director of Interventional Radiology at Penn Presbyterian Medical...
04.25.2016
Bridging The Cardiology Gap: Care Priorities for Adults With Congenital Heart Disease
Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO Guest: Yuli Kim, MD Advancements in cardiac surgery and medical care for pediatric patients over the past decades have produced a sizeable population of adults living with congenital...
04.18.2016
Addressing Breast Cancer's High Recurrence Rates: The Breast Cancer Translational Center of Excellence (TCE)
Host: Barnett Mennen, MD Guest: Angela DeMichele, MD, MSCE Penn Medicine’s Breast Cancer Translational Center of Excellence (TCE), known as the 2-PREVENT TCE is led by Drs. Lewis Chodosh and Angela DeMichele....

What's Medical Breakthroughs from Penn Medicine about?

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Medical Breakthroughs from Penn Medicine episodes:

The Acceleration Lab: Key Initiatives in Patient-Centered Care

Healing at Home: Advancements in Screening for Postpartum Depression

Considering CAR T-cell Therapy in Follicular Lymphoma

Diving into Developments in Ovarian Cancer Detection

Breaking Through Barriers: Meet the Minds Behind Emerging mRNA Technology

The Aorta Center at Penn Medicine: An Inside Look at a Comprehensive Model of Care

A Peek Inside the Pavilion: Exploring Penn Medicine’s Newest Facility

Exploring the Benefits & Safety of COVID-19 Vaccine Technology

Exploring the Role of Immunosuppression in Autoimmunity for MS Patients Amid COVID-19

Updates in Uterine Factor Infertility: The Promise of Transplants

Expanding Options for the Management of Multiple Sclerosis

Gaining a Deeper Understanding of Inherited Cardiomyopathy

Catching Up on Current & Future Breast Cancer Clinical Trials

Stopping Seizures: A New Treatment Approach for Epilepsy

Upgrading Breast Cancer Screening with Digital Breast Tomosynthesis

The Role of Integrative Therapy in Cancer Care

The Role of Integrative Therapy in Cancer Care

Illuminating Innovations in Tumor Resection Surgery

Endeavors of the Heart: Leveraging Innovative Technologies for Transcatheter Therapies

Reinventing Autologous Breast Reconstruction to Reduce Pain & Postsurgical Opioid Use

Are VADs the Answer to the Heart Failure Epidemic?

Are VADs the Answer to the Heart Failure Epidemic?

FDA-Approved Gene Therapy Reverses Blindness in Children & Adults

When Your Patient Has a Spinal Deformity: Clinical Priorities

What to Know About a State-of-the-Art Approach to GIST Treatment

What to Know About a State-of-the-Art Approach to GIST Treatment from Penn Medicine

Penn Medicine Neurosurgery Expert on Focused Ultrasound for Essential Tremor

CAR-T Cell Therapy: A Breakthrough Treatment for Fighting Cancer

CAR-T Therapy: A Breakthrough Tool for Fighting Cancer

Treating the Female Athlete: Sports Medicine Updates for Women, by Women

Unclog the Arteries: Treatment Options for Arterial Disease

Pancreatic Cancer: Associated Signs, Symptoms, Risk Factors and Treatment Approaches

Hepatitis C Virus (HCV): Current Screening Guidelines and Treatment Approaches

Neck and Back Pain: When Should You Refer Your Patients to a Neurosurgeon?

Hot Topics in Counseling Patients Who are Trying to Conceive

Hot Topics in Breast Cancer Innovations

A Thoracic Surgeon's Viewpoint on Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment of a Lung Cancer Patient

Full Spectrum of Breast Reconstruction Surgeries: From Cosmetic to Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Curing Blindness: How Researchers are Utilizing Gene Therapy

Cranial Base Disorders: Etiologies, Surgical Approaches, and Research Innovations

Time is Brain: Diagnosing and Treating Stroke in the Golden Window

Innovations in Diagnosis and Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis

4 Latest Advances in Epilepsy Treatment at Penn

Groundbreaking Child Bilateral Hand Transplant

Who is at Risk for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH)?

PVC Ablation Procedures for Ventricular Tachycardia

Chronic Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) and Post Thrombotic Syndrome (PTS): What Physicians Need to Know

Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD): Revascularization for Clinical Limb Ischemia

Bridging The Cardiology Gap: Care Priorities for Adults With Congenital Heart Disease

Addressing Breast Cancer's High Recurrence Rates: The Breast Cancer Translational Center of Excellence (TCE)