EP. 1: Inside the Practice: Inside PYLARIFY
December 10th 2021
Bridget Koontz, MD, the US Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Global Chief Medical Officer at GenesisCare, discusses the use of PYLARIFY to assist in the diagnosis of prostate cancer.
EP. 2: Inside the Practice: Inside Medical Professionals’ Environmental Footprint
December 8th 2021
Stacy Loeb, MD, PhD, MSc, discusses what urologists can do to be more sustainable both at home and in the workplace, including plant-based diets, environmental consciousness at conferences, and telemedicine. She also discusses the background and findings of the study, “Climate change impact of virtual urology meetings,” presented recently at the 2021 American Urological Association Annual Meeting.
EP. 3: Inside the Practice: Inside Cleveland Clinic's 7T MRI Machine
December 6th 2021
The Cleveland Clinic had a new 7T MRI machine installed and Mark Lowe, PhD, explains the capability of this technology now that it’s FDA approved for not only research, but also clinical purposes.
EP. 4: Inside the Practice: Inside COVID-19 Veterinary Industry Adaptation
November 19th 2021
Roy Jain, MBA, chief operating officer at Blue River Pet Care and Priscilla Cherry, vice president of operations at Blue River Pet Care share how they adapted practice operations amid COVID-19 and accommodated the influx of “pandemic pets” by prioritizing the safety and mental well-being of their staff and clients, leveraging technology, and beyond.
EP. 5: Inside the Practice: Inside Pediatrician Shadowing
November 17th 2021
Dr. Andrew Schuman, clinical assistant professor of pediatrics, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, in Lebanon, New Hampshire discusses how he mentors pre-med and medical students (including some of his former patients) by allowing them to shadow him throughout the day, and how it can offer not only a tonic from burnout, but pay it forward to our future health care workers.
EP. 6: Inside the Practice: Inside Foulkeways Christmas Show
November 15th 2021
Thanks to the COVID-19 vaccines, nursing homes and other long-term care facilities have become less of a threat to residents this year. That wasn’t the case in 2020, when nursing homes were the nexus of COVID-19. Nearly 20% of the approximately 750,000 Americans who’ve died in the COVID-19 pandemic have been nursing home residents. How do you bring holiday cheer to this most vulnerable population who not only had to fight off COVID-19, but also the isolation that came with it? Around Thanksgiving last year, Mary Knapp, director of health services at Foulkeways at Gwynedd, decided to start planning a Christmas show. A Christmas show not only for the residents, but performed by the residents.
EP. 7: Inside the Practice: Inside FAME - Improving Women’s Health in Rural Africa
November 12th 2021
On this episode, Nurse Barb joins Michael Krychman, MD, to discuss her involvement with FAME, the Foundation for African Medicine Education (FAME)—an organization devoted to advancing quality medical care and education in rural Tanzania. Dehn also discusses the Global Fellowship Program for ob/gyns she is spearheading for FAME, and ways any physician can get involved.
EP. 8: Inside the Practice: Inside a Key Driver of Cancer Cell Development
November 10th 2021
Alan Tackett, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Deputy Director of Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, and Scharlau Family Endowed Chair for Cancer Research at UAMS College of Medicine, discusses research he led on a key driver of cancer cell development.
EP. 9: Inside the Practice: Inside Creating Digital Tools to Improve Disease Management
November 8th 2021
Avoiding clinical inertia and achieving optimal levels of prescribing for guideline-directed medical therapies is a problem that spans across almost all specialties in medicine. In cardiology, clinicians point to gaps in prescribing of guideline-directed therapies as a treatment gap leading to negative outcomes for some patients. In this edition of Inside the Practice, Dr. Stephen Greene discusses the process of creating a digital dashboard for increasing prescribing of guideline-directed therapies that was recently rolled out within the Duke Medicine health systems.
EP. 10: Inside the Practice: Inside Pack4U
November 5th 2021
Shane Bishop, pharmacist and Pack4U founder, discusses how Pack4U has created a pharmacy network, making it easier for pharmacies to deliver medications and provide personalized care within their communities. He dives into the $500 billion dollar medication adherence issue that exists and discusses innovative patient-care models and the use of technology to improve adherence, patient health outcomes and quality measures.
EP. 11: Inside the Practice: Inside the VCS and NEXT Oncology Partnership
November 3rd 2021
Dr. Anthony W. Tolcher, of NEXT Oncology and Texas Oncology, and Dr. Alexander I. Spira (SPY-RA), of the Virginia Cancer Specialist Research Institute and the Phase 1 Trial Program, join Inside the Practice to discuss a new partnership that will allow more patients to enroll to phase 1 trial. NEXT Oncology and the Phase 1 Trial Program of Virginia Cancer Specialists have come together to give patients who have tried multiple other lines of therapy another chance at successful cancer treatment. In the interview, Tolcher and Spira discuss what they hope will come out of this partnership and where they see potential moving forward.
EP. 12: Inside the Practice: Inside Changing Consumer Access Preferences
November 1st 2021
Dr. Erin Jospe is a board-certified physician and remains clinically active with 20+ years of experience. She earned her MD from The John Hopkins School of Medicine, and completed clinical training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Jospe discusses how consumer access preferences have changed throughout the pandemic and what independent practices can respond to these changing demands.
EP. 13: Inside the Practice: Inside Teeth for Monsters
October 29th 2021
Not everyone who studies the techniques used in the dental industry goes on to have a career fixing people’s teeth. For make-up artist Matt Turull, learning the skills of a dental lab technician was a pathway to creating better teeth for his work doing make-up for movie and TV productions. He joins Dental Products Report editorial director Noah Levine to discuss the “theatrical dentistry” work he does using the materials and techniques of a dental lab to craft teeth that help actors and actresses embody their characters, whether they need a distinctive gap in an otherwise normal smile, or sharp fangs while playing an otherworldly monster.
EP. 14: Inside the Practice: Inside Hurricane Season Preparation
October 27th 2021
Sarah Jackson speaks on how her dermatology practice has to prepared for hurricanes such as Hurricane Ida. She describes how her past experiences influences her current preparedness protocol and the details of how she protects important business documents and treatments.
EP. 15: Inside the Practice: Inside the Teal Pumpkin Project
October 25th 2021
Established in the Fall of 2012 through a food allergy support group in Tennessee, the Teal Pumpkin Project has been integral in providing kids with food allergies and other conditions with safe, allergy-friendly treats during the Halloween season. Since then, the project has expanded to all 50 states in the US and a total of 6 continents.