Host: Larry Kaskel, MD

Guest: Jeffrey Kline, MD

Dr. Larry Kaskel welcomes Dr. Jeffrey Kline, Research Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center. They will discuss the conflict between new technology and its risks in overcrowded US emergency departments. Is this an instance when less is more?

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD

Guest: Jeffrey Kline, MD

Dr. Larry Kaskel is joined by Dr. Jeffrey Kline, developer of the PERC decision rule. He will discuss how PERC can decrease unnecessary, expensive testing being performed on healthy persons primarily in response to physicians’ fear of medical malpractice.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD

Guest: Barjor Gimi, PhD

Dr. Gimi discusses his micro-container patent and related research focused on encapsulated cell based therapies.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD

Guest: Barjor Gimi, PhD

Dr. Gimi discusses his research focused on encapsulated cell based therapies, and how it compares to what others are doing in the field.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD

Guest: Barjor Gimi, PhD

We cage animals to keep them safe from us and us from them. What if we caged transplanted cells to keep them safe from our immune system and vice versa? Dr. Gimi discusses his research focused on encapsulated cell based therapies.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD

Guest: Richard L. Harvey, MD

New robotic products help stroke patients learn to reuse their arms and legs. In this segment Dr. Richard Harvey talks specifically about several new robotics and explains how the intelligence of the robot gradually trains the patients to reuse their limbs.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD

Guest: Jayanta Debnath, MD

Autophagy and Anoikis sounds to the unfamiliar like a hip law firm, but in truth these terms describe cellular processes that may soon help us find the cure to cancer.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD

Guest: Jayanta Debnath, MD

Autophagy-one of those words we remember from the basic science courses in med school-could it be relevant to curing cancer? Discussion on cancer research focusing on autophagy.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD

Guest: Luis Porrata, MD

Tens of thousands of autologous stem cell transplants are performed each year to treat blood cancer. Is there a way to increase the long term success rates?

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD

Guest: Luis Porrata, MD

Tens of thousands of autologous stem cell transplants are performed each year to treat blood cancer. Is there a way to increase the long term success rates?