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.
Tweet your feedback to @Plenary_Session or e-mail [email protected].
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 64 minutes
- Episodes
- 397
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
3.08 Racial Concordance in Birthing Mortality & HERO for Journal Club with Fellow Dr. Michael Burns
This 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 Nationa…
01:33:09 |
Sat 22 Aug 2020
3.07 Lung Cancer Omics and Mortality, PPIs and COVID-19, & RECIST with Dr. Elizabeth Eisenhauer
We have a lot in store for you this week! We start off by evaluating two recently published studies: "Evaluation of Omics-Based Strategies for the Management of Advanced Lung Cancer" (published in th…
02:42:03 |
Sat 15 Aug 2020
3.06 COVID-19 Vaccine Access, ADAURA, QOTW, & Journal Club with Fellow Dr. Karine Tawagi
We start this week's episode by discussing access to investigational COVID-19 vaccines and recapping the problems with the ADAURA study. We transition from there to a Question of the Week with medica…
01:55:39 |
Fri 07 Aug 2020
3.05 LIVE! A Midsummer Night's Stream
This is the recording of a LIVE episode of Plenary Session in which Dr. Sue S Yom interviewed our host, Dr. Vinay Prasad, on how he built his career and how he conceptualizes his work. There's also a…
01:16:10 |
Thu 30 Jul 2020
3.04 Listener Questions & MedTwitter and Risk-Benefit Profile of Ramucirumab with Dr. Bishal Gyawali
This week we respond to several questions sent in by listeners and then we interview Dr. Bishal Gyawali of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada on MedTwitter, other recent events, and his …
01:31:46 |
Fri 24 Jul 2020
3.03 The National Lung Matrix Trial & the Major Flaw of the SPRINT Trial with Dr. Mark Friedberg
This week we discuss two major papers: The first was just recently released in Nature and it's titled "The National Lung Matrix Trial of personalized therapy in lung cancer". The second is a few year…
01:09:28 |
Sat 18 Jul 2020
3.02 BONUS! National Clinician Scholars Program with Dr. Hilary Seligman
This week's BONUS episode is a discussion of the National Clinician Scholars Program with Dr. Hilary Seligman, the head of the program at University of California, San Francisco. The deadline for the…
00:34:26 |
Mon 13 Jul 2020
3.01 Risk of COVID-19 Among Users of PPIs, Time to Treatment Initiation, & Dr. Lynora Saxinger
This week we discuss recent research (and the accompanying Twitter thread) on the risk of COVID-19 among users of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). We also hold a philosophical discussion on the researc…
01:41:44 |
Sat 11 Jul 2020
2.60 BONUS! Cancer Meta-Research 101: The Lay of the Land of Cancer Research
This BONUS episode is the recording of a lecture given on June 18, 2020 as part of Stanford's METRICS International Forum. METRICS stands for Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford University. T…
00:52:33 |
Tue 07 Jul 2020
2.59 The Best Doctor, Selinexor, & Annotation Services for NGS with Drs. Katsoulakis and Kelley
This week we respond to some listener feedback from Dr. Christopher Booth and use it to talk about how to be the best hematologist-oncologist. We also discuss the SADAL study on Selinexor for patient…
01:15:28 |
Fri 03 Jul 2020
2.58 RECOVERY & Twitter, Academic Debate, and Transitioning Your Career with Dr. Andrae Vandross
This week we briefly cover updates on the RECOVERY trial before segueing into an interview with Dr. Andrae Vandross on Twitter (specifically #medtwitter), academic discussions, and changing your care…
01:21:03 |
Sat 27 Jun 2020
2.57 RECOVERY, Clinical Trials in the US, EFS, Writing, Dr. Raj Chetty, & Dr. Ian Tannock
This week's episode is jam-packed with topics! We talk about the RECOVERY trial, the U.S. clinical trial infrastructure, event-free survival (EFS) and cost of care in acute myeloid leukemia, how long…
02:14:41 |
Fri 19 Jun 2020
2.56 HER2CLIMB & Misinformation and Disinformation with Dr. Cailin O'Connor
This week we tackle the topic of tucatinib in HER2-positive breast cancer with brain metastases. We also interview Dr. Cailin O'Connor of the University of California Irvine on her research on misinf…
01:02:24 |
Fri 12 Jun 2020
2.55 Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19, ASCO, QOTW, Private Equity in Medicine with Dr. Jane Zhu
We start this week's episode by covering some recent research: After thoroughly critiquing the recent randomized trial of hydroxychloroquine for postexposure prophylaxis for COVID-19, we then discuss…
02:06:33 |
Fri 05 Jun 2020
2.54 Classical Hematology Chat on Thrombosis in COVID-19 & Drugs for COVID-19 with Dr. Walid Gellad
This week we talk all things COVID-19! We start with an in-depth Classical Hematology Chat with Dr. Sven Olson and Dr. Joseph Shatzel of Oregon Health & Science University on thrombosis and anticoagu…
02:07:20 |
Sun 31 May 2020
2.53 Why Agreeing 65% with Someone is Important & COVID-19 Health Policy with Dr. Daniel Morgan
This week we discuss why being open-minded enough to agree partially with someone - instead of taking an all-or-nothing approach to a discourse - is important. We also sit down with epidemiologist Dr…
01:04:31 |
Sat 23 May 2020
2.52 Malignant Audiobook, PROfound trial, & Literature and Medicine with Dr. Adam Cifu
This week we have an announcement -- the audiobook of "Malignant: How Bad Policy and Bad Evidence Harm People with Cancer", written and narrated by our host Vinay Prasad, is available now on Amazon, …
01:43:36 |
Sat 16 May 2020
2.51 BONUS! Clinical Trials Part 3
This BONUS lecture was a talk given to the Hematology/Oncology fellows at Oregon Health & Science University. It's part three of a three-part series on clinical trials.
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01:00:58 |
Wed 13 May 2020
2.50 Neil Ferguson, Ending Lockdown, & Updates on COVID-19 Management with Dr. Benjamin Singer
This week's topic is all things COVID-19 -- we discuss the viral scandal of British epidemiologist Neil Ferguson's actions and how it reflects (or doesn't) on his work, we talk about the nuances of h…
01:06:40 |
Thu 07 May 2020
2.49 COVID-19 Contrarians, Remdesivir, & Book Club on "Malignant" with OHSU HemOnc Fellows
This week we begin with a monologue on the recent controversy surrounding Dr. John Ioannidis's published opinions on the COVID-19 pandemic. We end with a group discussion with Oregon Health & Science…
01:26:05 |
Sat 02 May 2020
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