OR-Live: Live and On-Demand Medical Healthcasts

Shawnee Mission Medical Center (SMMC) will host a Total Knee Replacement (TKR) Live Surgery Webcast on Tuesday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. The Webcast will feature Robert Sharpe, MD, of Midwest Orthopaedics, PA, as he surgically reconstructs a patient's knee.

To see the entire program visit: http://www.or-live.com/shawneemission/2225/index.cfm?cmpid=itunes2225

On Tuesday, October 7, watch surgeons from University Hospitals Case Medical Center perform a nipple sparing mastectomy with complete reconstruction.

Join surgical oncologist Dr. Richard C. Hoefer and radiation oncologists Dr. Michael Miller and Dr. Song Kang for a webcast featuring live lumpectomy surgery to remove early stage breast cancer.

On Wednesday, September 24, at 4:30 p.m. EDT, join orthopedic surgeons from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital as they discuss and demonstrate leading-edge surgical options available for young adults and active older patients with hip disease.

On October 8 at 12:00 p.m. CDT, ProHealth Care will present a panel discussion at Waukesha Memorial Hospital on CyberKnife, one of the world's most sophisticated cancer treatment technologies.

On October 23, 2008, at 6:00 PM CST, surgeons at Vanderbilt Medical Center are hosting a live, one-hour webcast to demonstrate a new surgical weight loss procedure which has been proven to reduce appetite and provide for healthy weight loss for the obese.

View the full program by visiting: http://www.or-live.com/vanderbilt/2320/index.cfm?cmpid=itunes2320

Halifax Health will present a live online bariatric surgery on Monday, September 22 at 7 pm. Joel Sebastien, MD, FACS, will perform a laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding, better known as a Lap-Band® surgery.

Richard Fessler, MD, PhD, a renowned spinal surgeon at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital, will demonstrate the use of minimally invasive surgery to treat scoliosis during a live interactive webcast on October 7th at 3 p.m. CDT.

At the Center for Prenatal Pediatrics, pregnancy involves caring for two patients – mother and baby. In high-risk cases where the baby has a birth defect, the mother may need specialized adult care while the fetus requires a pediatric focus.

Join Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center on Sept. 10, 2008 at 6:00 PM as they webcast their 10th Annual Symposium on Prostate Cancer, a patient education event featuring newest advances in treatment, screening and prevention of prostate cancer.