Plenary Session - inactive due to federal service
A podcast on medicine, oncology, & health policy.
Host: Vinay Prasad, MD MPH from University of California, San Francisco.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 64 minutes
- Episodes
- 397
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
3.68 A Career in Academic Medicine & Challenges of 2021 with Former Harvard Dean, Dr. Jeffrey Flier
On today's episode, we interview Dr. Jeffrey Flier, an esteemed endocrinologist and physician researcher who was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University for nine years (2007-2016). We t…
01:10:43 |
Thu 29 Apr 2021
3.67 Thoughts on PhD Programs and Idecabtagene Vicleucel with Dr. David Russler-Germain
Today we bring back popular guest Dr. David Russler-Germain, a Hematology/Oncology Fellow at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, to discuss his thoughts on PhD programs (in res…
01:02:26 |
Fri 23 Apr 2021
3.66 COVID-19 Policies and Progressing Past Disagreement with Dr. Martin Kulldorff
Today we talk with Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, about COVID-19 health policy and about disagreement.
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01:05:44 |
Fri 16 Apr 2021
3.65 Banning Books, Social Media, & Medical Education with Dr. Adam Cifu
Today we bring back popular guest Dr. Adam Cifu, a Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, to talk about the idea of banning books. the power of social media, and the current state of med…
01:02:11 |
Wed 14 Apr 2021
3.64 A Legal and Philosophical View on COVID-19 with Samantha Godwin
Today we are joined by Samantha Godwin, a Resident Fellow for the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, to discuss COVID-19 health policy from a legal and philosophical perspective.
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00:57:21 |
Mon 12 Apr 2021
3.63 The Medical Scientist Training Program with Dr. David Russler-Germain
Today we talk again with Dr. David Russler-Germain, a Hematology/Oncology Fellow at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, this time on the Medical Scientist Training Program (MST…
01:02:11 |
Thu 08 Apr 2021
3.62 COVID-19 Transmission, Vaccines, & Olaparib with Dr. Tom Beer
Today we interview Dr. Tom Beer, the Deputy Director of the Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute, about COVID-19 transmission, policy, and vaccines. We also talk about olaparib.…
00:35:12 |
Thu 08 Apr 2021
3.61 The Neuroscience and Psychology of Recreational Drug Use in Adults with Dr. Carl Hart
Today we are joined by guest Dr. Carl Hart, a behavioral neuroscientist and Professor of Psychology at Columbia University. We discuss his research, his philosophies, and his new book "Drug Use for G…
00:45:38 |
Tue 06 Apr 2021
3.60 Drugs for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia with Dr. Bernard Marini
Today we bring back popular guest Dr. Bernie Marini, a Clinical Pharmacist Specialist in Hematology at University of Michigan Medicine, to discuss treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL).
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01:22:15 |
Wed 31 Mar 2021
3.59 Genetic Alterations Linked to SARS-CoV-2 Acquisition and Bad Outcomes with Dr. Nathan Pearson
Today we are joined by genomicist Dr. Nathan Pearson, founder of Root (rootdeep.com), to discuss which genetic alterations in the host predispose to SARS-CoV-2 acquisition and bad outcomes.
Gift of …
00:27:55 |
Tue 30 Mar 2021
3.58 Expertise and Disinformation with Jacob Hale Russell
Today we bring back popular guest Jacob Hale Russell, an Associate Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School, for a discussion on expertise, disinformation, and intellectual disagreement.
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01:13:37 |
Fri 26 Mar 2021
3.57 Career Paths and Evolution of the Oncology Randomized Clinical Trial with Dr. Christopher Booth
On 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 i…
01:03:30 |
Fri 26 Mar 2021
3.56 Quality of Control Groups in RCTs of Multiple Myeloma with Dr. Ghulam Rehman Mohyuddin
Today 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 multipl…
00:31:43 |
Thu 25 Mar 2021
3.55 Equity in Vaccine Distribution, Cancel Culture, and Zero COVID-19 with Dr. Matthew Smith
Today 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-…
01:21:33 |
Wed 24 Mar 2021
3.54 The Passing of Dr. José Baselga
For today's episode we have a short monologue in remembrance of famed cancer researcher Dr. José Baselga.
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00:15:47 |
Tue 23 Mar 2021
3.53 Updates on COVID-19 and Looking Back Over the Last Year with Dr. Aaron Richterman
Today 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 behav…
01:21:55 |
Fri 19 Mar 2021
3.52 Medicine, Leadership, SARS-CoV-2, and Social Media with Dr. Bob Wachter
Today 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,…
01:14:01 |
Sun 14 Mar 2021
3.51 COVID-19 Modeling with Youyang Gu
On 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 av…
00:55:43 |
Fri 12 Mar 2021
3.50 Evildoer Marty Makary [SHORT]
On today's SHORT episode, we talk about censorship, Facebook, Twitter, and the "evildoer" Dr. Marty Makary.
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00:11:14 |
Thu 11 Mar 2021
3.49 The Role of Government in Public Health and in COVID-19 Policy with Dr. Robert Freudenthal
Today 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 heal…
01:03:01 |
Wed 10 Mar 2021
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