Plenary Session
386 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsA podcast on medicine, oncology, & health policy.
Host: Vinay Prasad, MD MPH from University of California San Francisco.
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3.57 Career Paths and Evolution of the Oncology Randomized Clinical Trial with Dr. Christopher Booth
March 26, 2021 03:34 - 1 hour - 53.3 MBOn today's episode we talk with popular guest Dr. Chris Booth of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada about mapping out a career path after medical school and about his new paper out now in JAMA Oncology titled "Evolution of the Randomized Clinical Trial in the Era of Precision Oncology". The Oncology RCT: doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2021.0379 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.56 Quality of Control Groups in RCTs of Multiple Myeloma with Dr. Ghulam Rehman Mohyuddin
March 25, 2021 00:45 - 31 minutes - 25.3 MBToday we interview Dr. Ghulam Rehman Mohyuddin of Kansas University Medical Center on his new paper out now in The Lancet Haematology titled "Quality of control groups in randomised trials of multiple myeloma enrolling in the USA: a systematic review". Control Groups: doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3026(21)00024-7 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.55 Equity in Vaccine Distribution, Cancel Culture, and Zero COVID-19 with Dr. Matthew Smith
March 24, 2021 04:21 - 1 hour - 74.6 MBToday we sit down with Dr. Matthew Smith, an associate professor in the Northeastern University Department of Philosophy and Religion, to discuss the morality and philosophical backbone behind COVID-19 vaccine distribution and how we should define equity; cancel culture and its historical longevity; and the impossibility (at least in the USA) of Zero COVID-19. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.54 The Passing of Dr. José Baselga
March 23, 2021 02:58 - 15 minutes - 13.6 MBFor today's episode we have a short monologue in remembrance of famed cancer researcher Dr. José Baselga. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.53 Updates on COVID-19 and Looking Back Over the Last Year with Dr. Aaron Richterman
March 19, 2021 00:53 - 1 hour - 76.4 MBToday we interview Dr. Aaron Richterman, an infectious disease specialist at Penn Medicine. We talk about updates on all things COVID-19 and we look back at how treatments, risk assessment, and behavior have changed. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.52 Medicine, Leadership, SARS-CoV-2, and Social Media with Dr. Bob Wachter
March 14, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 74.9 MBToday we interview Dr. Bob Wachter, the Chair of the Department of Medicine at University of California San Francisco. We talk about a wide range of topics including medicine, leadership, SARS-CoV-2, and social media. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.51 COVID-19 Modeling with Youyang Gu
March 12, 2021 22:57 - 55 minutes - 57.5 MBOn today's episode we interview Youyang Gu, an independent data scientist who created some of the most models of the COVID-19 pandemic. He talks us through how he made the projections. His work is available on his website: https://covid19-projections.com/ Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.50 Evildoer Marty Makary [SHORT]
March 11, 2021 23:24 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBOn today's SHORT episode, we talk about censorship, Facebook, Twitter, and the "evildoer" Dr. Marty Makary. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.49 The Role of Government in Public Health and in COVID-19 Policy with Dr. Robert Freudenthal
March 10, 2021 01:56 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBToday we interview Dr. Robert Freudenthal, a psychiatrist in training at Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust in London, UK. We talk abut the power of the state and its role in public health policy. We focus specifically on how governments worldwide have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, from extreme lockdowns to harm reduction advisories. We discuss how policy can be medical overreach as well as how it interplays with the criminal justice system and racial and class inequities. ...
3.48 The Predictive Value of High Tumor Mutational Burden with Dr. Luc Morris
March 06, 2021 01:14 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBToday we interview Dr. Luc Morris of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on his new paper out now in JAMA Oncology titled "Response Rates to Anti-PD-1 Immunotherapy in Microsatellite-Stable Solid Tumors With 10 or More Mutations per Megabase". Response Rates: doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.7684 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.47 COVID-19 Vaccine Results, Messaging on a Patient Level, & Schools with Dr. Monica Gandhi
March 03, 2021 01:37 - 56 minutes - 82.8 MBToday we interview Dr. Monica Gandhi, Associate Division Chief of the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF/ San Francisco General Hospital, and medical director of the HIV Clinic at SFGH, on COVID-19 interventions. We talk about results from the vaccine studies and how vaccination is perceived by the public. We talk about her new paper out now in The Lancet Infectious Disease on the importance of non-pharmaceutical interventions (masking, social distancing, ventil...
3.46 COVID-19 Risk, Cases, and Transmission in K-12 Schools with Dr. Tracy Høeg
February 27, 2021 05:19 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBToday we interview Dr. Tracy Høeg on her new paper and her ongoing research into COVID-19 transmission in K-12 schools in Wisconsin, USA. Dr. Høeg is an epidemiologist and an interventional sports and medicine spine specialist at Northern California Orthopaedic Associates. Her paper is titled "COVID-19 Cases and Transmission in 17 K-12 Schools - Wood County, Wisconsin, August 31-November 29, 2020" and is published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Cases in K-12 Schools: doi...
3.45 USMLE Steps, Residency Match, & M.D. vs D.O. with Dr. Bryan Carmody
February 24, 2021 21:31 - 1 hour - 81.7 MBOn today's episode we interview Dr. Bryan Carmody, commonly known as the Sheriff of Sodium. He's a pediatric nephrologist at Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters in Virginia. We talk with him about the USMLE Steps (Step 1, Step 2, and Step 2 CS), their usefulness, their origins, and how to reform them. We also break down and discuss the inner workings of residency matching and the M.D. and D.O. designations. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube ch...
3.44 The Role of Philosophy, COVID-19 Policy, and COVID-19 Exceptionalism with Dr. Alex John London
February 17, 2021 23:54 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBToday we sit down with Dr. Alex John London, the Clara L. West Professor of Ethics and Philosophy and Director of the Center for Ethics and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, to discuss the role of philosophy, COVID-19 exceptionalism, and various aspects of COVID-19 health policy including masking, vaccination, and schools. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.43 Reviewing the Beat AML Master Trial
February 15, 2021 19:04 - 26 minutes - 25.7 MBOn today’s episode we review the findings of the Beat AML study as published in Nature Medicine in an article titled “Precision medicine treatment in acute myeloid leukemia using prospective genomic profiling: feasibility and preliminary efficacy of the Beat AML Master Trial”. Beat AML: doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-1089-8 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.42 Overdiagnosis and Cutaneous Melanoma Diagnoses with Dr. Adewole Adamson and Dr. Benjamin Mazer
February 10, 2021 00:59 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBFor today's episode, we sit down with Drs. Ade Adamson of the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School and Ben Mazer of Johns Hopkins Hospital to discuss their new paper out now in the New England Journal of Medicine titled "The Rapid Rise in Cutaneous Melanoma Diagnoses". It's one of the best papers you'll read all year. Melanoma Diagnoses: doi.org/10.1056/NEJMsb2019760 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUib...
3.41 Building a Meta-Research Career and Constructing COVID-19 Health Policy with Dr. John Ioannidis
February 07, 2021 18:13 - 1 hour - 188 MBFor today's special episode, we sat down with Dr. John Ioannidis of Stanford University for an outdoor in-person interview. We take a deep dive into his work from 2000 all the way up to present day: his career from 2000 to 2010, his move to Stanford, and his work on COVID-19. We take a deep dive into his work on COVID-19: IFR, shielding ratio, the question of whether lockdown works, opening schools, and what public health policy should be. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession ...
3.40 COVID-19 Vaccines, Origin of SARS-CoV-2, and Pandemic Mitigation with Prof Francois Balloux
February 05, 2021 19:42 - 56 minutes - 51 MBOn today's episode we're joined by geneticist Dr. Francois Balloux, the Director of the University College London Genetics Institute and professor of computational systems biology, on pandemic mitigation, SARS-CoV-2 variants, how news and social media amplify fear over fact, opening schools, lethality and risk, the origin of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 vaccine efficacy and vaccine escape, and more! Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/ch...
3.39 Public Health Messaging on COVID-19 with Drs. Julia Marcus and Stefan Baral
February 04, 2021 03:20 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBOn today's episode we feature an in-depth interview with Dr. Julia Marcus (Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School) and Dr. Stefan Baral (Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), two infectious disease epidemiologists, on public health messaging around COVID-19 -- what we're getting right and where we're going terribly wrong. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.38 Oncology During COVID-19 & RCTs from Low- vs High-Income Countries with Dr. Christopher Booth
January 29, 2021 19:18 - 56 minutes - 55.8 MBOn today's episode we sit down with Dr. Chris Booth of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada to discuss his new paper out now in JAMA Oncology titled "An Analysis of Contemporary Oncology Randomized Clinical Trials From Low/Middle-Income vs High-Income Countries". We also talk about how COVID-19 has affected oncology research. We touch, too, on the topic of evaluating how you spend your time and prioritizing your research. Contemporary Oncology RCTs: doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2020....
3.37 Skepticism, COVID-19, and Debating Science in the Era of Trade-Offs with Jacob Hale Russell
January 27, 2021 01:12 - 1 hour - 88.9 MBOn today's episode we are joined by Jacob Hale Russell, an Associate Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School. We discuss his forthcoming book on skepticism, elites, and expertise, as well as his article out now on StatNews about the myth of COVID-19 denial. We talk about anti-intellectualism and how science ought to be debated in the era of trade-offs and COVID-19. Straw Man of Pandemic Denial: www.statnews.com/2020/12/23/put-straw-man-pandemic-denial-out-of-its-misery/comment-page-1/ Back u...
3.36 Sustainable Ex-Vivo Seafood with Dr. Arye Elfenbein
January 22, 2021 01:42 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MBOn today's episode we sit down with Dr. Arye Elfenbein, a cardiologist and "doctorpreneur " to interview him on the bio-tech company he recently co-founded: Wildtype. Wildtype manufactures ex-vivo fish meat for human consumption in fulfillment of their mission to create the cleanest, most sustainable seafood. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.35 The Secrets of Vermont in Taming the COVID-19 Pandemic with Anne Sosin
January 20, 2021 04:04 - 36 minutes - 32.6 MBToday we interview Anne Sosin of Dartmouth College on public health policy in Vermont and how the state has uniquely tamed the COVID-19 pandemic. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.34 COVID-19 From a Philosopher's Point of View with Dr. Matthew Smith
January 15, 2021 02:47 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBToday we sit down with Dr. Matthew Smith, an associate professor in the Northeastern University Department of Philosophy and Religion, for a far-ranging discussion on COVID-19 from a philosopher's point of view. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.33 Hematologic Malignancies and Transplantation with Dr. Aaron Goodman
January 12, 2021 02:21 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBToday we are joined by Dr. Aaron Goodman, an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California San Diego, who talks with us about hematologic malignancies, transplantation, and our new paper out now in Blood titled "Persistent Challenges with Treating Multiple Myeloma Early". Persistent Challenges: doi.org/10.1182/blood.2020009752 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.32 Publishing Original Thought in Medical Journals with Dr. Stephen Bradley
January 08, 2021 23:56 - 52 minutes - 49.3 MBToday we talk with Dr. Stephen Bradley, a General Practitioner and Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, on publishing in medical journals -- peer review, editorial practices, anti-intellectualism, and more! Notes on Nationalism: www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/notes-on-nationalism/ Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.31 Random Thoughts on Visiting Hospital Patients During COVID-19 and Norman Wang's Lawsuit
January 06, 2021 02:10 - 40 minutes - 38.7 MBToday we have for you an episode of random thoughts. We talk over the ramifications of the strict COVID-19 policy that prevents people from visiting their dying loved ones in the hospital. We also talk more about Norman Wang and his surrounding controversy given the recent lawsuit the Center for Individual Rights has filed against the University of Pittsburgh on his behalf. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF...
3.30 Benefit and Risk of SpaceOAR with Dr. William Hall
January 05, 2021 04:43 - 41 minutes - 43.5 MBOn today's episode we interview Dr. Bill Hall, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Surgery at Medical College of Wisconsin, on our new paper out now in The Lancet Oncology titled "Considering benefit and risk before routinely recommending SpaceOAR". SpaceOAR: doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30639-2 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.29 Censorship in Medicine with Jonathan Darrow
December 31, 2020 02:21 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBOn today's episode we discuss censorship in medicine in all its forms with legal expert Jonathan Darrow, an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.28 Exploring the History of Medicine with Dr. Adam Rodman, host of Bedside Rounds
December 21, 2020 18:30 - 1 hour - 74.4 MBOn today's episode we talk podcasting and the history of medicine with Dr. Adam Rodman, the creator and host of the wildly popular podcast Bedside Rounds, and a hospitalist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.27 All Recent Acute Myeloid Leukemia Drugs with Dr. Bernard Marini
December 16, 2020 23:38 - 56 minutes - 60.6 MBOn today's episode we discuss all the new drugs for acute myeloid leukemia with Dr. Bernie Marini, a Clinical Pharmacist Specialist in Hematology at University of Michigan Medicine. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.26 The Importance of Debate and Dialogue with Dr. Saurabh Jha
December 15, 2020 03:59 - 57 minutes - 53.6 MBToday's episode is an interview with Dr. Saurabh Jha, an Associate Professor of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, on the importance of debate and dialogue both historically and in today's modern context. This is the second episode in our experiment in breaking our content up into bite-sized, single-topic episodes. What do you think? Do you prefer a shorter, single-focus episode, or do you prefer our old format? Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession C...
3.25 Public Health Policy on the Risk of COVID-19 in Children with Dr. Alasdair Munro
December 12, 2020 02:18 - 54 minutes - 51.8 MBNow that we are nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, we invite Dr. Alasdair Munro, a pediatrics infectious disease expert, back on to the show to discuss recent developments in public health policy concerning the spread of COVID-19, the risk of it, and children. We also talk about the rigorously policed echo chamber of Twitter, specifically #medtwitter, and finding an audience for controversial opinions. This week is also the start of an experiment in breaking our cont...
3.24 KEYNOTE-177 & Mathematic Models for Fighting COVID-19 with Dr. Wesley Pegden
December 04, 2020 23:04 - 1 hour - 72.8 MBThis week we return to our roots of oncology and dissect the recent results from KEYNOTE-177. We also have an in-depth interview with mathematician Dr. Wes Pegden of Carnegie Mellon University on a mathematical approach to the COVID-19 pandemic. KEYNOTE-177: doi.org/0.1056/NEJMoa2017699 COVID-19 Mathematical Model: https://math.cmu.edu/~wes/covid.html Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.23 Capturing Your Audience with Dr. Zubin "ZDoggMD" Damania & JAVELIN 100 with Dr. Karine Tawagi
November 26, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 67.7 MBWe have a short and sweet episode for you this week -- no monologue, just two deep-dives with two stellar guests. Our first interview is with Dr. Zubin Damania (known as ZDoggMD) and we cover everything from making original music to the artistry of professional oratory to the pain of electronic health records. Our second interview is a return to our popular segment Journal Club with a Fellow: We invite on Dr. Karine Tawagi of the Oschner Clinic in Louisiana to discuss the JAVELIN 100 study. ...
3.22 New Podcast, Opening Schools with Dr. Vladimir Kogan, Virtual Learning with Dr. Carycruz Bueno
November 21, 2020 01:09 - 3 hours - 201 MBOur first guests this week are Drs. Adam Cifu and Scott Stern and are on to discuss their new podcast Symptom to Diagnosis -- based on their book of the same name -- about clinical reasoning. Next we bring back political scientist Dr. Vlad Kogan (from episode 3.13) to discuss the need to re-open schools in the context of rising COVID-19 cases and a changing political landscape. Finally we interview Dr. Carycruz Bueno on her critical research into the harms of fully virtual schooling. Back us...
3.21 Affirmative Action with Leah Litman, Cost Implications with Dr. DeMartino, & Dr. John Mandrola
November 13, 2020 23:36 - 3 hours - 204 MBFirst up this week we interview constitutional law scholar Leah Litman, an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, on Dr. Norman Wang and the intricacies of the laws on affirmative action. Next, we talk with Dr. Patrick DeMartino, a pediatric hematology/oncology fellow at Oregon Health & Science University, on his new paper out now in JAMA Internal Medicine: "Potential Cost Implications for All US Food and Drug Administration Oncology Drug Approvals in 2018". Finally, we sit...
3.20 Public Health Messaging, COVID-19 in the U.S. Northeast, Journal Club with a Fellow
November 07, 2020 05:59 - 3 hours - 172 MBWe have a multitude of interviews for you this week. We start by interviewing Dr. Julia Marcus of the Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute on messaging around public health interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic. We continue talking about COVID-19 with Anne Sosin and Dr. Elizabeth Carpenter-Song, both of Dartmouth College. They join us on the podcast to discuss how the Northeast region of the United States has uniquely handled COVID-19. Finally, we bring back t...
3.19 COVID-19 and the AIDS Pandemics with Dr. Monica Gandhi & Classical Hematology Chat
October 30, 2020 23:55 - 1 hour - 130 MBWe talk this week with Dr. Monica Gandhi, Associate Division Chief of the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF/ San Francisco General Hospital, and medical director of the HIV Clinic at SFGH. Speaking from decades of experience treating HIV/AIDS patients, she gives us her take on the public health policies enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We then conclude this week's episode with a Classical Hematology Chat with Dr. Sven Olson of Oregon Health & Scien...
3.18 Social Media and News with Dr. Benjamin Mazer & Caplacizumab for TTP with Dr. Tem Bendapudi
October 23, 2020 21:18 - 2 hours - 119 MBThis week we have two fantastic interviews for you: The first is with Dr. Ben Mazer on the interplay between social media and news; the second is with Dr. Tem Bendapudi on whether Caplacizumab should be the standard of care for thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.17 COVID-19 and Schools in Norway with Dr. Atle Fretheim & Cancer Biology with Dr. Anthony Letai
October 16, 2020 23:21 - 2 hours - 140 MBThis week we sit down virtually with Dr. Atle Fretheim, Research Director of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, to talk about how Norway has responded to the COVID-19 crisis - specifically, how they've handled it when it comes to public schools. We also have an interview with Dr. Anthony "Tony" Letai of the Dana Farber Cancer Center on cancer biology. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.16 Non-Drug Interventions with Dr. Margaret McCartney & Cancer Biology with Dr. Jason Sheltzer
October 09, 2020 22:28 - 2 hours - 136 MBWe start this week's episode off with a monologue covering a few current events, notably the recent editorial on the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA published by the New England Journal of Medicine titled "Dying in a Leadership Vacuum". From there we interview Dr. Margaret McCartney on her recent opinion piece in the BMJ titled "We need better evidence on non-drug interventions for covid-19"; we talk about masks, schools, the need for randomized trials, and more. Finally, we interview Dr. Jason ...
3.15 COVID-19 in Children with Dr. Alasdair Munro & Pandemic Public Health with Dr. Stefan Baral
October 06, 2020 15:45 - 1 hour - 112 MBWe start this week's episode by interviewing Dr. Alasdair Munro, a pediatrics infectious disease expert, on the risk of spread of COVID-19 in children and through schools. We end with an interview with Dr. Stefan Baral, a field epidemiologist studying COVID-19, on the nature of public health during a global pandemic. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
3.14 COVID-19 with Dr. John Ioannidis & Trial Eligibility with Dr. Mary-Elizabeth Percival
October 03, 2020 01:45 - 2 hours - 148 MBThis week we have a two-hour-long, far-ranging interview with Dr. John Ioannidis of Stanford University on, broadly, meta-research and COVID-19 - including his recent controversies. We end the episode with an interview with Dr. Mary-Elizabeth Percival of the University of Washington on her new paper out now in Haematologica: "Survival of patients with newly diagnosed high-grade myeloid neoplasms who do not meet standard trial eligibility". High-Grade Myeloid Neoplasms: doi.org/10.3324/haema...
3.13 COVID-19 and Schools, COVID-19 and Scott Atlas, and COVID-19 Policy
September 25, 2020 00:17 - 2 hours - 157 MBThis week's episode is all about COVID-19. We discuss general COVID-19 health policy and how spread of SARS-CoV-2 has been managed and should be managed; we discuss whether or not schools should be re-opened; and we discuss Dr. Scott Atlas's views. Our special guests are political scientist Dr. Vladimir Kogan, epidemiologist Dr. Daniel Morgan, and health economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/...
3.12 TMPRSS2, Cancer Imaging with Drs. Becker and Woo, Clinical Epidemiology with Dr. Thomas Newman
September 19, 2020 15:10 - 2 hours - 149 MBWe start this week's episode by critically examining the new paper titled "Racial/Ethnic Variation in Nasal Gene Expression of Transmembrane Serine Protease 2 (TMPRSS2)" and asking, is it racist? After that, we discuss advances in prostate cancer imaging with two imaging specialists from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Drs. Anton Becker and Sungmin Woo. Finally, we have a far-reaching interview with Dr. Thomas Newman of University of California San Francisco on clinical epidemiology a...
3.11 Experts, Lockdown, Affirmative Action, & COVID-19 and Hearts with Professor Darrel Francis
September 12, 2020 03:46 - 2 hours - 111 MBThis week's monologue touches on the credibility of expert speakers, evaluating the COVID-19 lockdown as health policy, and the anti-affirmative action white paper written by Dr. Norman Wang and its controversy. In the second half of the episode we interview Professor Darrel Francis of Imperial College London on COVID-19 cardiology and Vascepa. Anti-Affirmative Action: doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.120.015959 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.yout...
3.10 Colon Cancer Screening, Vascepa Patent with Jonathan Darrow, PREVENTT with Dr. Toby Richards
September 05, 2020 16:07 - 2 hours - 112 MBWe have a number of topics for you this week! Among them, we cover the issue of colon cancer screening, especially in the light of Chadwick Boseman's recent passing. We interview Jonathan Darrow, an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and faculty at Brigham and Women's Hospital, on patent litigation and the recent patent appeal for Vascepa. Finally, we interview Dr. Toby Richards, Professor of Surgery, on running clinical trials and, specifically, the results of his recent trial PRE...
3.09 COVID-19 Risk, Financial Toxicity, & HALT-IT for Journal Club with Fellow Dr. Justine Ryu
August 29, 2020 00:53 - 1 hour - 79.2 MBWe start this week's episode by revisiting our discussion from last week on the PNAS study on racial concordance and birthing mortality. We continue our theme of critical appraisal by then tearing apart the recent paper published in BMJ titled "Two metres or one: what is the evidence for physical distancing in covid-19?" and its inability to support its colorful figures. We end the monologue with a few thoughts on academics who somehow author one paper a week. Finally, we turn to the last two...
3.08 Racial Concordance in Birthing Mortality & HERO for Journal Club with Fellow Dr. Michael Burns
August 22, 2020 03:01 - 1 hour - 90.7 MBThis week we take a deep dive into two recently published studies, their surrounding controversy, and the broader implications. The first study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA and is titled "Physician–patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns". The second was published in the New England Journal of Medicine and is titled "Oral Relugolix for Androgen-Deprivation Therapy in Advanced Prostate Cancer", com...