Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Mary Whitmer, RN Hear Mary Whitmer, RN, FNP, BC-PC, a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, as she discusses the implementation of a Grieving Cart in the ICU.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Eugene Viscusi, MD Dr. Eugene Viscusi, director of acute pain management and associate professor of anesthesiology at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, discusses the latest advances in capsaicin research toward acute pain management.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Clifford Tribus, MD X-Stop, a ruuner up in the 2007 Wall Street Journal Technology Awards for best medical devices is an innovative implantable device to relieve pain in patients with spinal stenosis. In this segment Dr. Cliff Tribus shares his experience implanting the X-Stop. He discusses which patients benefit most from X-Stop and how it helps them. He also speaks about the concept of stenosis being a threshold disease and considers the role of a physician in helping to manage the pain threshold.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Clifford Tribus, MD Back pain is often a complaint from patients. Spinal stenosis is often a cause of back pain, especially in the elderly. In this segment, Dr. Clifford Tribus talks with host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill about the process of identifying the source of back pain: spinal stenosis, degenerative disk disease, and beyond. He also discusses the difference between vascular and neurogenic claudication in spinal stenosis.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Fernando Burstein, MD Dr. Fernando Burstein shares his experience in managing a large multi-disciplinary team to help correct a cleft lip and cleft palate. How does the team approach work in a complex series of multiple surgeries? What are the critical success factors in planning and executing surgeries with multiple medical diciplines involved? Join host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill to learn more.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Fernando Burstein, MD In combination with endoscopic surgery, botox is being used by Center for Craniofacial Disorders at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta as an innovative way to treat muscular torticollis. In this segment, Dr. Mark Nolan Hill interviews surgeon Fernando Burstein about treatment options for torticollis and how outcomes differ with our without the use of botox.

Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD Guest: Fernando Burstein, MD Muscular torticollis or ‘wry neck’ if untreated may result in permanent craniofacial deformities. Traditionally, torticollis has been treated with physicial therapy and/or surgery. Host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill interviews Dr. Fernando Burstein about the varying degrees of muscular torticollis and the preferred methods of treatment.

Host: Bruce Japsen Guest: Kurt Mosley Many doctors would not recommend medicine as a career, and older physicians see their younger colleagues as less dedicated and hard working, so staffing the right doctor to the right job is an increasingly more difficult challenge. Kurt Mosley, vice president of business development for physician recruiter Merritt Hawkins & Associates, tells the Chicago Tribune's Bruce Japsen about the challenges facing doctors looking to get out and doctors who want to stay in the medical field.

Host: Michael Benson, MD Guest: Justin Barnes Those of us old enough to remember Stanley Kubrick’s blockbuster movie, 2001: A space odyssey, are likely to be at least a little concerned about the growth of the electronic medical record. In the movie, the spaceship’s computer ran amuck and started killing off the astronauts. Salvation could only be achieved through unplugging the machine. Is this cautionary tale an allegory for our times? What does the future hold for the EMR? Our guest today is Justin Barnes who is Vice President Marketing, Corporate Development and Government Affairs. He has testified before Congress and the Administration 7 times in the past two years. Among his many committee appointments include service on the privacy expert panel of the Certification commission for Healthcare Information Technology. Today we will be discussing the future of the Healthcare Information Technology industry.

Host: Michael Benson, MD Guest: Justin Barnes Many doctors complain about their hospital's EMR. It is combersome and not intuitive. Yet the government wants doctors to introduce the electronic medical record to their offices. Are EMR's for doctor offices as difficult to use as their larger, more ambitious hospital brethren? Our guest today is Justin Barnes who is Vice President Marketing, Corporate Development and Government Affairs. He has testified before Congress and the Administration 7 times in the past two years. Among his many committee appointments include service on the privacy expert panel of the Certification commission for Healthcare Information Technology.