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An interview with Dr. Jeremy Lazarus, President of the AMA

2013-06-0216:24

In this episode, Radio Rounds director John Corker sits down with Dr. Jeremy Lazarus. Dr. Lazarus is a private-practice psychiatrist from Denver who has spent the past year serving as President of the American Medical Association (AMA). Dr. Lazarus shares his unique insight into the critical role that physicians must play in national health policy discussions, as well as the AMA's new strategic plan to improve health outcomes in Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease, to accelerate change in m...

An interview with Dr. Jerry Avorn, Author of Powerful Medicines

2013-05-2927:34

Dr. Jerry Avorn is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, which uses an interdisciplinary approach to evaluate the effectiveness of existing and new prescription drugs in relation to their risks and costs and to study how medications are used by physicians and patients. He also authored the book Powerful Medicines, describing the The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs, and he'll be discussing his...

An interview with Dr. Mitesh Patel

2013-05-2014:38

In this episode, Radio Rounds host Lakshman Swamy talks to Mitesh Patel, the co-founder of Docphin, a web-based service that helps physicians and students stay connected to medical literature. He talks about the importance of staying up to date in medicine, and how Docphin makes it easier. Dr. Patel has been a TEDMED expert panelist and a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar.

An interview with Dr. Katherine Chretien

2013-05-1222:42

This week's episode of Radio Rounds celebrates Mothers' Day by speaking with Dr. Katherine Chretien, an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the George Washington University Medical School, a mother of three children, and the founder of the group blog Mothers in Medicine. Dr. Chretien also serves as Internal Medicine Clerkship Director at George Washington and as Chief of the Hospitalist Section at the DC Veterans Affairs Hospital. In this interview, Dr. Chretien discusses the challen...

An interview with Kristin Schwarz and Shaan Gandhi

2013-05-0524:56

On Monday April 21, approximately 36,000 runners participated in the historic 118th Boston Marathon, just over a year after the event on Boston’s Patriots Day was marred by a horrific terrorist attack. Shortly after the tragic bombing in 2013, which killed three people and wounded more than 260 others, Radio Rounds host and current resident physician Lakshman Swamy spoke with then-third year medical students Kristin Schwarz (Boston University) and Shaan Gandhi (Harvard University). Kristin an...

An interview with Dr. Vinny Arora

2013-04-2828:12

In this episode, Radio Rounds Director Lakshman Swamy sits down with Dr. Vinny Arora of the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine. Indicating that she believes resident work hour restrictions are here to stay, Dr. Arora discusses the development of a “new professionalism” for residents as they are forced to hand over or receive patients – often in the middle of treatment – when it’s time for a shift-change. You can read more on this topic in her recent JAMA article "Professio...

An interview with Dr. Neel Shah

2013-04-2117:11

In this episode, Radio Rounds host Lakshman Swamy catches up with Dr. Neel Shah, founder of Costs of Care. At the time, Dr. Shah was a chief resident in obstetrics and gynecology at Brigham & Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. In August 2013, he joined the Harvard Medical School faculty as an Assistant Professor and member of the newly formed Ariadne Labs for Health Systems Innovation. Prior to starting residency, he created the not for profit organization Costs of Care,...

An interview with Michael Hoaglin

2013-04-1420:41

Michael Hoaglin is a 4th year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania. A 2007 Rotary International Amabssadorial Scholar and a 2010 Health Informamtion Management Systems Society Foundation Scholar. He has been a consultant for Accenture for electronic medical records and now currently an expert medical researcher for the nationally syndicated Dr. Oz show.

A pulse piece by Justin Sanders

2013-04-0710:34

This episode of Radio Rounds features another piece from Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine. Radio Rounds host Imran Ali will be reading Justin Sanders' "Deja Vu," a first person narrative describing Dr. Sanders' experience in primary care in New York City.

An interview with Nathan Moore and Elizabeth Askin

2013-03-1014:40

Nathan Moore and Elizabeth Askin are medical students at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and authors of The Healthcare Handbook. They have studied the most significant aspects of the US health care system, including the roles of various practitioners, the pharma and device industries, medicare and medicaid, and of course health care reform and summarized what they learned into a short, unbiased, easy to read guide to American health care.

An interview with Dr. Thomas Moore

2013-03-0315:26

Thomas Moore, PhD is the author of the bestselling book Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them. He has been a monk, a musician, a university professor, and a psychotherapist, and today he lectures widely on holistic medicine, spirituality, psychotherapy, and the arts. We spoke to Dr. Moore about his definition of the "soul" in health care, what this means to a patient's healing process and what physicians-in-training can do to ...

A Pulse piece by Steve Lewis

2013-02-2313:05

On this episode of Radio Rounds, we are proud to announce the start of our relationship with Pulse Magazine: Voices From the Heart of Medicine. This publication, available at http://www.pulsemagazine.org/, publishes personal accounts of illness and healing with the goal of fostering humanism and encouraging advocacy. In the future, our Radio Rounds hosts will be reading the short stories on behalf of the authors. Today, we’re honored to feature a story read by the original author: Five Years ...

An interview with Dr. David Rosenthal

2013-02-1730:07

David Rosenthal is a primary care physician currently working to create a medical home model for primary care that serves homeless veterans in the VA Connecticut system. We interviewed him during his third year of residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. He discusses how his "previous life" as a documentary filmmaker plays a role in the care of his patients today. We feature some clips from his film, Witnessing Death: a grandson's reflections on Alzheimer'...

An interview with IHI Open School's Dr. James Moses & Mike Briddon

2012-12-1623:58

For our 100th episode, Radio Rounds continues its series on patient safety with a focus on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School for Healthcare Professionals. The Open School is just that-- open and free for students and faculty everywhere. It offers a series of online modules teaching patient safety, quality improvement, leadership, and much more. With over 150,000 members and its courses being incorporated as a requirement for graduation at a number of medical schools across ...

An interview with Junzi Shi

2012-12-0915:26

In this episode, Radio Rounds host and director John Corker speaks with Junzi Shi, a second-year medical student at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, who is anxiously looking forward to embarking on her Trip With Timmy. Shi shares her stories about the unique life experiences that haves inspired her to study Global Health and her previous experience providing fresh water, waste and energy solutions for developing ommunities around the world.

An interview with Matt Macgregor

2012-12-0816:38

In this episode, Radio Rounds contributor Ryan Shapiro speaks with Matt MacGregor, Executive Director of Timmy Global Health. Timmy Global Health's "Take a Trip With Timmy" contest - now in it's second year - is a unique Global Health opportunity for Medical Students to travel abroad and serve some of our world's neediest patients. MacGregor shares with listeners the unique aspects of both his organization and its new contest that set them apart from other opportunities for Medical Students...

An interview with Andrew White

2012-12-0816:12

In this episode, Radio Rounds host and Director John Corker speaks with Drew White, a first-year medical student at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School, who recently returned from his Trip With Timmy in Ecuador. White shares stories of his death-defying first few days of life and his uniquely humanistic experiences with Ecuadorian patients, both of which have shaped his views on health care, poverty and his future profession.

An interview with Dr. Virginia Hood, Part 2

2012-12-0218:07

In this episode of Radio Rounds, the second of a two-part series, host Avash Kalra concludes his conversation with Dr. Virginia Hood, the Immediate Past President of the American College of Physicians. Dr Hood discusses the effect of the legal system on the cost of medicine, as well as issues related to immigrant medical care and social media.

An interview with Dr. Virginia Hood

2012-11-2518:49

In this episode of Radio Rounds, the first of a two-part series, host Avash Kalra offers a special Thanksgiving perspective and speaks with Dr. Virginia Hood, the Immediate Past President of the American College of Physicians, about the ACP's patient-centered advocacy efforts, and about the challenges of controlling the cost of medicine.

An interview with Dr. Marty Makary

2012-10-2114:37

Host John Corker sits down with Dr. Marty Makary to discuss his new book, Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care. Dr. Makary is a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Medical Center and national leader in the movement for transparency and quality improvement in health care. He discusses his experiences in a broken, sometimes dangerous hospital system, and how patients could make smarter, safer choices regarding their healthcare if they knew as m...

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