Podcasts

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,

Recurring guests Saurabh Jha, MD, radiologist in Philadelphia, and Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, hematologist/oncologist in San Francisco, seek to settle the debate surrounding COVID vaccine passports. Both scholars defend their recently published viewpoints – Dr. Jha arguing for passport mandates and Dr. Prasad arguing against them. Will requiring proof of vaccination be driven by the

To truly understand the gravity of the somber COVID situation in India, Chadi hosts Parameswaran Hari, MD, MRCP, chief of oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, and Nikita Mehra, MD, associate professor of medical oncology, Cancer Institute Adyar (India). Dr. Hari begins by providing a ground-floor perspective of the COVID situation in India from his visit

Chadi hosts three medical oncologists to break down “near equivalence” for alternative standard-of-care cancer therapies – a new paradigm published in detail in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Ian Tannock, MD, PhD, Princess Margaret Cancer Center (Canada); Mark Ratain, MD, University of Chicago; and Daniel Goldstein, MD, Rabin Medical Center (Israel), describe what is meant

Chadi hosts two thoracic oncologists to dish and debate on the nuances of lung cancer screening: Charu Agarwal, MD, MPH, University of Pennsylvania, and Lecia Sequist, MD, MPH, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The trio start by making the case for screening the healthy, low-risk population as well as people with a smoking

George Dawson, MD, addiction and neuropsychiatrist in Minnesota, joins Chadi to discuss mental illness and COVID – of having the virus itself, as well as the result of isolation and lack of social interaction. Dr. Dawson shares how individuals with drug or alcohol addictions have struggled to stay sober while being stuck at home without

Krishna Komanduri, MD, chief of the division of transplantation and cellular therapy, University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, joins the show to provide a fascinating account of the history of allogeneic and autologous transplantation, the discovery of the difference between B cells and T cell, and up through modern cellular therapy with a forecast

Chadi invites Amy Barhorst, MD, and Rocco Pallin, colleagues at UC Davis Health, to tackle the stigma and underdiagnosing of mental health in America and how mental illness intersects with gun violence in this country. The experts delve into whether community and person-to-person violence should be largely attributed to mental illness as well as why