Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Wendy Troxel, PhD Anthony Burgess once said, “Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” Join host Dr. Leslie Lundt as she welcomes Dr. Wendy Troxel to discuss relationships and sleep.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Cathy Barry-Ipema It’s an ongoing national effort to encourage patients’ direct involvement in their care. Launched in 2002, the Speak Up campaign is sponsored by the Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Cathy Barry-Ipema, chief communications officer for the Joint Commission, explains the program’s effectiveness in reaching patients.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Donald Fry, MD Host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill talks with today's guest about his transition from 30 year successful surgical career to his role as a researcher in a healthcare think tank. They also discuss the changing healthcare workforce and alternative healthcare opportunities.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Donald Fry, MD Host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill talks to our guest, healthcare economist, Dr. Donald Fry about priorities in restructuring the US Healthcare System. How can we control quality and costs while offering healthcare access and all Americans? Join us.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Donald Fry, MD In using cost to examine surgical outcomes, complications are the greatest and most costly problem in surgical care. Our guest, healthcare economist Dr. Donald Fry talks in this segment about improving surgical quality by decreasing when possible surgical complications. What are the most common causes of surgical complications and what complications can be controlled by adherance to commonly accepted practices? Join host Mark Nolan Hill for this interview to learn more.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Donald Fry, MD Quality of care, especially surgical outcomes cannot be effeciently measured without an standard and accepted guideline of 'expected outcomes' by which to compare actual outcomes. Today's guest, Dr. Donald Fry shares his recent research with host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill in which he discusses the many variables which need to be considered in developing a guideline of expected outcomes for surgical procedures.

Host: Danny Petrasek, MD, PhD Guest: Ken Brigham, MD Predictive health is a new paradigm that defines the unique characteristics that predict disease risk for individuals and populations and uses new discoveries in biomedicine to emphasize health maintenance rather than treatment of disease. What are the greatest barriers and challenges in predcting health? Why aren't we able to predict health like we can predict in the science of physics? Join host Dr. Danny Petrasek talking with Director of the Emory/Georgia Tech Predictive Health Center, Dr. Ken Brigham.

Host: Danny Petrasek, MD, PhD Guest: Ken Brigham, MD The Emory/Georgia Tech Predictive Health Institute is building a new model of healthcare based on advances in science, technology and translational research combined with health economics, public policy, business and ethics. In this segment, host, Dr. Danny Petrasek speaks with the Institute's Director, Dr. Ken Brigham, about why it was formed and what they hope to accomplish.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Sharon Maynard, MD Sharon E. Maynard, M.D. Assistant Professor, Division of Renal Disease and Hypertension George Washington University in Washington, DC. Dr. Maynard is one of the world’s leaders in pre-eclampsia research and clinical care and joins us to talk about what life is like for a physician researcher.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Sharon Maynard, MD Sharon E. Maynard, M.D. Assistant Professor, Division of Renal Disease and Hypertension George Washington University in Washington, DC. Dr. Maynard is one of the world’s leaders in pre-eclampsia research and clinical care and joins us to talk about her research into what causes or could treat pre-eclampsia.