Alison Bateman-House, MPH, PhD, medical ethicist at New York University’s School of Medicine, explains the distinction between direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of doctors and drugs to that of consumer goods, as well as regulatory and ethical concerns of DTC advertising on the part of hospitals and drugs.
Jill Feldman, lung cancer survivor and advocate, shares her familial history of lung cancer that drove her to advocacy work long before her own diagnosis of EGFR-positive disease, as well as her treatment courses with erlotinib and subsequent SBRT for many years before osimertinib.
Ameet Kini, MD, PhD, hematopathologist, and Patrick Hagan, MD, hematologist/oncologist, both at Loyola University Medical Center, deliberate on the clinical importance of Measurable Residual Disease.
Vincent Rajkumar (@VincentRK), MD, hematologist at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN), shares the distinction between conflicts of interest that guide individual physicians and those that guide entire practices, what types of conflicts should be collected as “material” and which should disregarded (eg, “transfer of value” payments), issues with disclosure expectations in modern medical research, and
Chadi facilitates a discussion between three GU oncologists on the latest research and treatment updates in the field.
John Doench, PhD, Associate Director of the Genetic Perturbation Platform, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, joins Chadi for a fascinating discussion on the history of CRISPR as a scientific breakthrough, the ease of merging CRISPR technology into human cells, challenges remaining for CRISPR to become a widely used clinical tool and ultimately helping patients,
In the inaugural episode of Healthcare Unfiltered, host Chadi Nabhan invites cardiologists Venk Murthy, MD, University of Michigan, and Anish Koka, MD, private practice in Philadelphia, to contextualize the effects of COVID-19 on the heart, as explained in a flawed JAMA Cardiology publication that was close to having such trickle down effects as cancelling college sports across the US.
A radiologist tweets a joke about COVID-19 and a cardiologist tweets a serious note on the role of doctors in shaping social policy. Both are met with similarly outraged reactions. Saurabh Jha, MBBS, MRCS, MS, and John Mandrola, MD, share with Chadi the immediate aftermath of their tweets and reflect on how social media has
the award-winning hematologist and a medical oncologist who hosted Outspoken Oncology, a podcast featuring candid discussions of the most pressing, and often controversial, medical topics. Combining his background in cancer research and health care advocacy, Dr. Nabhan brings a unique and powerful perspective to current medical events.
