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To tackle the complicated world of neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), Chadi is joined by Pamela Kunz, MD, Director of the Center for GI Cancers at Yale Cancer Center; as well as the Vice Chief of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for medical oncology at Yale Cancer Center. Dr. Kunz begins by shedding light on potential reasons for … Read more

Vincent Rajkumar, MD, Mayo Clinic, and Editor-in-Chief of Blood Cancer Journal, rejoins the show to answer some critically important questions related to medical publications and information reliability in the pandemic and post-pandemic world. As a consumer of medical news, which sources of information should you take seriously? Should you ignore press releases and pre-prints in … Read more

Chadi dives into the world of nutrition and dieting with Kevin Bass, MD, Ph.D. student in Texas; Ethan Weiss, MD, cardiologist; and Aaron Goodman, MD, hematologist and current subscriber to the Ketogenic diet. The groups begins with a history of the “Keto” diet and how it has transformed into a popular diet for weight loss, … Read more

To provide an update on the COVID spike and response in India over the past 6 weeks since Chadi’s previous episode, Aju Mathew, MD, oncologist practicing in southern India, joins the show. Dr. Mathew begins by describing the tradeoffs of moving home to practice in India while leaving his academic career behind in the US, … Read more

In early May, a Lithuanian doctor named Laura Silinskyte committed suicide after facing constant bullying from her superiors at her regional hospital. To shed light on the issue of medical bullying and physician suicide, Chadi is joined by two friends of Dr. Silinskyte—Monika Arzanauskaite, a radiologist, and Gil Morgan, a medical oncologist—as well as a personal friend Laurie Gordon, an adult and child psychiatrist with experience treating healthcare workers.

For this special episode, Chadi invites John Marshall, MD, Chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, and his wife Liza Marshall, a lawyer by training who was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer 15 years ago. John and Liza co-wrote a book, titled Off Our Chests, about their shared experience of overcoming her … Read more

Chadi welcomes “Papa Heme,” or Aaron Goodman, MD, hematologist at University of California San Diego, and Matt Wilson, MD, Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre (UK), to debate the importance and utility of CNS prophylaxis for patients with DLBCL. The trio explain the origins of the debate, who the high-risk patients are in the first … Read more

Bishal Gyawali, MD, PhD, Queen’s University Cancer Research Institute (Canada), joins the show to discuss the measurement of clinical benefit of new therapies and optimizing clinical trial design. Dr. Gyawali recaps a presentation he gave at last year’s ESMO Annual Meeting on clinical trial characteristics leading to artificial improvement of ESMO-MCBS scores for cancer drugs, … Read more