On The Wards: On The Pods Medical Podcast for Doctors

James talks to Professor Nick Evans about an approach to vomiting in the neonate.

Summary Writer:  Elizabeth Campbell

Editor:  Nhi Nguyen

Interviewee: Nick Evans

About Professor Nick Evans

Nick Evans has been a Staff specialist in Neonatal Medicine at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor at University of Sydney since 1991. His research interests have been varied including the use of ultrasound in an acute care setting, the haemodynamic causes of brain injury in preterm babies and prevention of brain injury from severe jaundice in term babies.

James talks to Professor Tim Shaw about eHealth, the challenges of implementing technologies into the health system and how junior doctors can get involved in technology and healthcare.

Summary Writer:  Elizabeth Campbell

Editor:  James Edwards

Interviewee:  Tim Shaw

About Tim Shaw

Tim Shaw is the inaugural Professor of eHealth and Director of Research in Implementation Science and eHealth Group (RISe) in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney. He is an internationally recognised leader in the impact of technology on healthcare and translation of evidence into practice and policy.

He leads implementation science across two Translational Cancer Research Centres, which combines the full spectrum of his translational research experience from basic research through to application of evidence into practice.

Tim began his career as a biomedical research scientist. He then took non-academic leadership roles in developing a number of substantial professional health education and quality improvement programs in Australia and internationally, ultimately setting up the successful Centre for Innovation in Professional Health Education and Research at the University of Sydney. He spent 12 months as an invited Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School (2008–09), before becoming the Director, Workforce Education and Development Group, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney (2009-2014).

James talks to Dr Tim Suharto about Acute pain management, in the second of a two-part podcast series.

You can listen to Part 1: Acute pain management here.

Summary Writer:  Hayden Alicajic

Editor:  James Edwards

Interviewee: Tim Suharto

About Dr Tim Suharto

Tim is a specialist anaesthetist and one of the supervisors of training at Nepean Hospital.  He is involved in the anaesthetic education program and leads the Group for Anaesthetic Simulation (GAS), which delivers in-situ crisis scenarios involving critical care doctors and nurses. Tim is an instructor for the Nepean Difficult Airway course as well as the Nepean Can’t Intubate Can’t Oxygenate (CICO) workshop. He is a strong advocate for innovation in medical education and developing links between sub-specialties in medicine to enhance understanding and collaboration.

Tim’s clinical work encompasses both public and private practice with regular sessions in acute pain medicine, anaesthesia for orthopaedics, ENT, neurosurgery and interventional radiological procedures.

James talks to Dr. Tim Suharto about acute pain management in the first of a two-part series.

You can listen to Part 2: Acute pain management here.

Summary Writer:  Nicholas Malouf

Editor: John-Paul Favero

Interviewee: Tim Suharto

About Dr. Tim Suharto

Tim is a specialist anaesthetist and one of the supervisors of training at Nepean Hospital. He is involved in the anaesthetic education program and leads the Group for Anaesthetic Simulation (GAS), which delivers in-situ crisis scenarios involving critical care doctors and nurses. Tim is an instructor for the Nepean Difficult Airway course as well as the Nepean Can’t Intubate Can’t Oxygenate (CICO) workshop. He is a strong advocate for innovation in medical education and developing links between sub-specialties in medicine to enhance understanding and collaboration.

Tim’s clinical work encompasses both public and private practice with regular sessions in acute pain medicine, anaesthesia for orthopaedics, ENT, neurosurgery and interventional radiological procedures.

James talks to Julian Nasti about anxiety symptoms.

Summary Writer:  Antonia Clarke

Editor:  James Edwards

Interviewee: Julian Nasti

About Dr Julian Nasti

Dr Julian Nasti is an Advanced Trainee in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry currently based at Canterbury Hospital where the main focus of his clinical work is perinatal mental health.

James talks to Dr Barbara Depczynski about diagnosing diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA).

Summary Writer:  Nicholas Malouf

Editor:  James Edwards

Interviewee: Barbara Depczynski

About Dr Barbara Depczynski

Barbara Depczynski is a senior staff specialist in endocrinology at Prince of Wales Hospital. Barbara’s major interests are type 2 diabetes, inpatient diabetes management, pituitary disease and PCOS. Barbara Depczynski serves on ACI In Hospital Diabetes Management Working Group. She is involved with both under graduate and post graduate teaching.

James talks to Dr Barbara Depczynski, Endocrinologist, about BSL monitoring, hypoglycaemics and insulin as part of the perioperative management of diabetic patients.

Summary Writer:  Linda Wu

Editor:  Paul Hamor

Interviewee:  Barbara Depczynski

About Dr Barbara Depczynski

Barbara Depczynski is a senior staff specialist in endocrinology at Prince of Wales Hospital. Barbara’s major interests are type 2 diabetes, inpatient diabetes management, pituitary disease and PCOS. Barbara Depczynski serves on ACI In Hospital Diabetes Management Working Group. She is involved with both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

James talks to Ian Caterson about obesity. A topic not often addressed on the wards, yet an extremely common condition. Around 30% of Australians are obese and another 35% are overweight. In hospital, we generally deal with the complications, e.g. diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnoea, arthritis, and many others.

Summary Writer: George McClintock

Editor:  James Edwards

Interviewee: Ian Caterson

About Ian Caterson

Professor Ian Caterson is currently Foundation Director of the Boden Institute of Obesity Nutrition Exercise and Eating Disorders and Boden Professor of Human Nutrition at the University of Sydney. He has held the latter position since 1997. Prior to that he was Senior Staff Specialist and Director of Clinical Endocrinology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

Ian has been president of both the Australian Diabetes Society and the Australasian Society for the Study of Obesity and is president-elect of the World Obesity Federation.

He is a recognised expert on obesity, its causes, prevention and management. Ian is on the Clinical Care group of World Obesity, chairs the Expert Obesity Committee for the Australian National Preventive Health Agency, and is on the Prevention and Community Health Committee of the NHMRC of Australia.

Associate Professor Stacey Jankelowitz discusses seizures, a common occurrence on the wards.

Summary Writer: George McClintock

Editor:  James Edwards

Interviewee: Stacey Jankelowitz

About Stacey Jankelowitz

Associate Professor Stacey Jankelowitz is a Staff Specialist neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Stacey has clinical and research interests in stroke and peripheral nerve and muscle disease.

Dr Nathan Trist talks to Dr Kerrie Jones and Dr Jessica Tidswell from the Royal Darwin Hospital. Learn more about indigenous health in the top end and the social and communication challenges associated with indigenous health in this podcast.

Summary writer:  Jessica Tidswell

Editor:  Bruce Way

Interviewer:  Nathan Trist

Interviewee:  Kerrie Jones, Jessica Tidswell

About Dr Kerrie Jones

Kerrie Jones is a Senior Emergency Medicine specialist with postgraduate qualifications in advanced paediatric emergency medicine, family planning, counselling, and humanitarian aid. She is a senior lecturer at Flinders Medical School, and has served as Director of Emergency Medicine training at Royal Darwin Hospital. As Clinical Dean of the Northern Territory medical program, Kerrie is committed to providing better healthcare to rural and Aboriginal communities.

About Dr Jessica Tidswell

Jess Tidswell is an Emergency Registrar, currently working in the Top End, at Royal Darwin Hospital's Emergency Department. She started her training in her home town of Adelaide, at the University of Adelaide, completing her undergraduate degree in 2012. Jess then interned at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, before heading north to work in the Northern Territory. For the past few years Jess has worked in a variety of areas of the Royal Darwin Hospital and the Top End, including remote communities. She committed to Emergency training last year and plans to continue her training in the Top End, where she finds the work fascinating, the people diverse and the lifestyle enjoyable.

About Dr Nathan Trist

Nathan Trist is Senior Resident Medical Officer with an interest in indigenous and remote health.