Deep Dive - Season 11

EP. 1: Deep Dive: Into Volunteer Veterinarians and Amici Cannis

August 18th 2023

Marian Schenk, DVM, details her travel experience to Ecuador with the non-profit organization Amici Cannis and the Tufts International Alumni Student Service Program. During her time volunteering, she was able to offer sterilization, vaccination and other veterinary treatments, but also educate the people about the humane treatment of animals. All this while mentoring a current Tufts veterinary student and providing continuing education for local veterinarians.

EP. 2: Deep Dive: Into Increasing Minority Representation Among Dental Professionals

August 17th 2023

African Americans make up more than 12% of the national population, but just 3.8% of U.S. dentists. This disparity has real consequences for the population as a whole, and it’s a problem Meharry School of Dentistry at Meharry Medical College Dean Cherae Farmer-Dixon DDS, MSPH, FACD, FICD hopes to help solve. Dr Farmer-Dixon joins to discuss her recent testimony to congress on this issue and how community based programs can help increase African American representation among US dental professionals.

EP. 3: Deep Dive: Into Improving Patient Outcomes Through AI

August 16th 2023

ReachRX is an artificial intelligence- powered clinical search engine backed by ChatGPT. It provides an efficient interface to access clinical information where providers and patients can ask questions on products, disease states, and on and off- label uses and receive up-to-date data that is properly-sourced and verifiable. Jeff DeVico delves into the role of AI in dermatology and patient care.

EP. 4: Deep Dive: Into Types of Chromatography

August 15th 2023

Dr. Varoon Singh of the National Dope Testing Laboratory discusses his experience with different types of chromatography, the various scientific papers he has recently published, with topics such as sample preparation using chromatography with mass spectrometry and analyzing multi-residue particles using SPME and LC with HRMS.

EP. 5: Deep Dive: Into iAware

August 14th 2023

Annmarie Hipsley, DPT, PhD, offers an update and overview of iAware Inc, a non-for-profit organization that was established for the awareness of age-related ocular disease. Their beneficiary is the Khmer Sight Foundation, which has a mission to train Cambodian ophthalmologists and raise awareness of ocular diseases.

EP. 6: Deep Dive: Into Clinical Trials & Reproductive Health

August 4th 2023

Elizabeth (Beth) Garner, chief scientific officer for Ferring Pharmaceuticals, speaks with Meg Rivers, managing editor of Pharmaceutical Executive®, about her transition from being an gynecologic oncologist to working in pharma, specifically clinical trials.

EP. 7: Deep Dive: Into Diabetic Retinopathy

August 3rd 2023

Ward Fickweiler, MD, PhD, discusses inverse associations between diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration (AMD), with clinical and biochemical factors inversely correlated between these ocular diseases.

EP. 8: Deep Dive: Into AHN’s Fertility Clinic

August 2nd 2023

Lori Homa, MD, discusses the new fertility clinic from Allegheny Health Network. The clinic will be used for procedures such as egg retrievals, hysteroscopy, blood draws, and ultrasounds. It is updated with new embryology equipment and provides the full spectrum of infertility services.

EP. 9: Deep Dive: Into the Unreliability of Bite Mark Forensics

August 1st 2023

Mary Bush, DDS, led some of the first research demonstrating the problems with bite marks as forensic evidence, and she joins to discuss the research and why it’s unlikely bite mark forensics will be trusted as evidence in court in the future.

EP. 10: Deep Dive: Into Addressing ADHD With Dietary Improvements

July 31st 2023

Dana Kay discusses how modifications in diet benefit children with ADHD.

EP. 11: Deep Dive: Into Chromatography

July 28th 2023

Professor Leo Wang Hantao of the University of Campinas talks about investigating the influence of ion management parameters on the data produced by comprehensive gas chromatography–high-resolution mass spectrometry (GC×GC–HRMS) equipped with a Fourier transform-orbital ion trap mass analyzer, and his investigation into employing channel occlusion for sample preparation in untargeted analysis in petroleomics.

EP. 12: Deep Dive: Into Health Care and the Environment

July 26th 2023

Sandra Jee, MD, discusses how health care facilities and offices play a role in climate change, and how fossil fuel divestment in the long-term can help the pediatric population.

EP. 13: Deep Dive: Into Integrative Veterinary Medicine

July 25th 2023

Patrick Mahaney, VMD, CVA, CVJ, discusses how holistic and traditional treatments can complement each other when treating pet patients with cancer.

EP. 14: Deep Dive: Into Reducing Antineoplastic Drug Residue

July 24th 2023

AnnMarie Walton, PhD, MPH, RN, OCN, CHES, FAAN, discusses her research on plastic-backed pads and discusses the importance of better methods to reduce exposure to antineoplastic drug residue.

EP. 15: Deep Dive: Into Medical Cannabis

July 21st 2023

Dr. Peter Grinspoon, a primary care doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital, an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a 25-year cannabis specialist, shares his personal background with medical cannabis and his extensive knowledge from years of research and patient care.

EP. 16: Deep Dive: Into Adverse Events Toolkits

July 20th 2023

Infection Control Today spoke with Lee Adler, DO, infectious disease specialist, AdventHealth System, and Amy Ashcraft, MPA, a deputy regional inspector general with the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) about the Adverse Events Toolkits recently published by the OIG.

EP. 17: Deep Dive: Into Incidental Pulmonary Emboli

July 18th 2023

Ali Tejani, M.D., discussed pertinent insights on leveraging the value of adjunctive artificial intelligence enabled triage software for computed tomography scans with radiology workflow improvements to achieve “clinically meaningful change” for patients with incidental pulmonary emboli findings.

EP. 18: Deep Dive: Into Bladder-Preserving Treatments

July 17th 2023

Sophia C. Kamran, MD, gives an update on bladder preservation in the treatment of muscle-invasive bladder cancer.