Real, Smart People
8 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThe real story of how medicine moves forward, one smart person at a time.
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Miriam: The Dancing Scientist
June 16, 2021 17:00 - 4 minutes - 3.13 MBMiriam Merad, MD, PhD, is an evangelist for the immune system. “What's my mission in life? To reveal the power of the immune system in treating most human diseases,” she says on Real, Smart People. An internationally acclaimed physician-scientist, Dr. Merad is also passionate about inspiring new generations of scientists. “For people to follow you, you have to show them that this is exciting,” she says. In this audio portrait, Dr. Merad talks about the promise of immunotherapy and the import...
Bevin: The Problem Solver
May 10, 2021 07:00 - 6 minutes - 4.42 MBBevin Cohen, PhD, MS, MPH, RN, is Director of Research and Evidence-Based Practice at The Mount Sinai Hospital Links: Nursing at Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing at Mount Sinai Mount Sinai Health System Celebrates Nurses Week
Jess: Love Thy Neighbor
March 11, 2021 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.73 MBJess Ting, MD, has learned to thrive without road maps. As a kid, he taught himself to play the upright bass and went on to study at Juilliard. Now he’s blazing trails in transgender medicine and surgery. “It’s a great field because it’s so young,” Dr. Ting says. “There’s lots of room to innovate.” Among Dr. Ting’s innovations—a completely new approach to vaginoplasty, called the Peritoneum Vaginoplasty. In this audio portrait, Dr. Ting talks about how innovation happens and what he’s learne...
Joshua: The Sculptor
February 09, 2021 09:00 - 6 minutes - 4.24 MBNeurosurgeon Joshua Bederson, MD, has performed more than 4,000 neurosurgeries at Mount Sinai. In this audio profile, he talks about the beauty of the brain and the connection between neurosurgery and his other passion: sculpting. Dr. Bederson is Leonard I. Malis, MD / Corinne and Joseph Graber Professor of Neurosurgery and System Chair for the Department of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Health System. Links Dr. Bederson's official bio Department of Neurosurgery at the Icahn School of Medi...
Mary: Autopsies Save Lives
January 13, 2021 08:00 - 8 minutes - 5.6 MBEarly in the pandemic, when little was known about the SARS-CoV-2 virus, neuropathologist Mary Fowkes, MD, PhD, volunteered to perform autopsies on COVID-19 victims. Wearing a full-body protective suit and often working alone, she painstakingly examined the virus’s impact on the brain. What she and her team found shocked her—significant blood clots in the brain and vital organs. The discovery led to the increased use of blood thinners in COVID-19 patients. In this episode, Dr. Fowkes tells h...
Yasmin: The Barrier Breaker
December 07, 2020 08:00 - 7 minutes - 4.87 MBFirst they said it wasn't important to study opioid addiction. Then they said it wasn't possible to do it her way. Hear how Yasmin Hurd, PhD, learned to tune out the noise and take control. Links: Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai - https://bit.ly/2Ic9vfB Hurd Laboratory - http://labs.neuroscience.mssm.edu/project/hurd-lab/ "Addressing racism and disparities in the biomedical sciences" (article in Nature Human Behavior) - https://go.nature.com/3osFyau
Adolfo: The Virus Hunter
December 07, 2020 08:00 - 5 minutes - 3.75 MBAdolfo is on a mission with millions of lives at stake.
Introducing Real, Smart People
November 23, 2020 17:00 - 1 minute - 910 KBBite-sized portraits of the most innovative minds in medicine. A new podcast from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.