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
2.28 Trastuzumab in Later Lines of Therapy for HER2+ Breast Cancer, Kaplan-Meier Curves, & Patreon
We're back in Plenary Session HQ! We have multiple topics for you this week. We cover the use of trastuzumab in later lines of therapy for HER2+ metastatic breast cancer, we take a listener question …
01:03:52 |
Fri 20 Dec 2019
2.27 BONUS! Use of Bone-Modifying Agents Among Medicare Beneficiaries with MM with Dr. Arjun Gupta
This BONUS episode is an interview with Dr. Arjun Gupta, a second-year hem/onc fellow at Johns Hopkins University, on his new paper out TODAY in JAMA Oncology titled ''Use of Bone-modifying Agents am…
00:26:04 |
Thu 12 Dec 2019
2.26 Questions of the Week: Hematology/Oncology, USMLE Step 2 CK, & a bonus Hematology/Oncology
This is the last week of pre-recorded episodes -- we'll be back next week with a fresh, hard-hitting monologue. In the meantime, we have three questions of the week for you. Two are inspired by the h…
00:40:15 |
Mon 09 Dec 2019
2.25 Questions of the Week: Hematology/Oncology, the USMLE Step 2 CK, & One From a Med Student
Our host is still out of town, but don't worry -- we have some questions of the week to tide you over. The first is inspired by the hematology/oncology boards, presented by Dr. Sven Olson; the second…
00:47:27 |
Mon 02 Dec 2019
2.24 Questions of the Week: the USMLE Step 2 CK, Hematology/Oncology, & One From a Med Student
This week our host is still in Australia, but we have some questions of the week saved for you! The first is inspired by the USMLE Step 2 CK, presented by Ian Straehley; the second is inspired by the…
00:37:50 |
Tue 26 Nov 2019
2.23 Question of the Week & Ethics and Inefficiencies of Clinical Trials with Dr. Jonathan Kimmelman
First up this week is Question of the Week inspired by the Hematology/Oncology boards, with Dr. Sven Olson. No monologue on current trials this week because our host is still in Australia, so we conc…
00:58:22 |
Wed 20 Nov 2019
2.22 Question of the Week & EMR, Talking to Patients, and Being a Doctor with Dr. Robert Hirschtick
This week we have a question of the week from Ian Straehley, inspired by the USMLE Step 2 CK, as well as an interview with Dr. Robert Hirschtick of Northwestern University on what it means to be a do…
00:56:02 |
Fri 15 Nov 2019
2.21 Aiming for the Hard Targets & Harm From Screening and Overdiagnosis with Dr. H Gilbert Welch
We begin this week's episode by addressing a listener's feedback to our discussion of smoldering multiple myeloma. We then expand on our critique of 'going after the soft targets' (criticizing studie…
02:13:31 |
Fri 08 Nov 2019
2.20 "Courageous Skeptics", Lenalidomide, QOTW, and a Political Conversation with Dr. Andy Saultz
We begin this week's episode with a thoughtful discussion of the internet's "courageous skeptics". Then, after lamenting the way in which the recent study "Randomized Trial of Lenalidomide Versus Obs…
02:35:44 |
Fri 01 Nov 2019
2.19 Remembering Dr. Bernard Fisher & Self-Diagnosis with Dr. Mark Lewis
This week we give a short monologue on the late Dr. Bernard Fisher's legacy in the field of oncology, and then dive into a far-ranging interview with Dr. Mark Lewis of Intermountain Healthcare on his…
02:13:17 |
Fri 25 Oct 2019
2.18 Questions of the Week, Talking About Toxicity, ASCO Guidelines Authors' COI with Dr. Eitan Amir
This week we begin with a critique of the recent perspective article in the New England Journal of Medicine, titled "Talking about Toxicity — 'What We’ve Got Here Is a Failure to Communicate'". After…
01:17:26 |
Fri 18 Oct 2019
2.17 Questions of the Week, BEACON, & Use of Subacuate Rehab with Dr. Jonathan Yeh
We start this week's episode with a quick breakdown of why the recent BEACON trial is "the worst trial" host VP has ever read. After that, we have two questions of the week: one from medical student …
01:21:53 |
Tue 08 Oct 2019
2.16 FLAURA & What Truly Matters in the Career of an Academic Physician with Dr. Vinay Prasad
This week we break down the limitations of the recent FLAURA trial and then we're back in the Plenary Session Mobile Command Unit! We have a special guest host, Dr. Christopher Booth of Queen's Unive…
01:37:57 |
Wed 02 Oct 2019
2.15 Bonus! The Value of Progression-Free Survival as a Treatment Endpoint with Dr. Michael Raphael
This BONUS episode is an interview with Dr. Michael Raphael of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario on his new paper out today in JAMA Oncology: "The value of progression-free surviv…
00:35:27 |
Thu 26 Sep 2019
2.14 Questions of the Week & Qualifications of a Fellowship Applicant with Dr. Jeremy Cetnar
This week we sit down with Dr. Jeremy Cetnar, director of the Oregon Health & Science University Hematology & Oncology Fellowship Program. In this far-ranging interview, we discuss what he is looking…
01:41:06 |
Tue 24 Sep 2019
2.13 BONUS! RCTs Supporting Approvals of Cancer Drugs by EMA with Dr. Huseyin Naci
On this week's BONUS episode, we sit down with Dr. Huseyin Naci, Assistant Professor of Health Policy at the London School of Economics, to discuss his new paper that came out Wednesday (producer's e…
00:39:32 |
Fri 20 Sep 2019
2.12 Questions of the Week, Ethics of RCTs, & Transmission and Medical Overuse with Dr. Dan Morgan
We begin this week's episode by revisiting last week's topic on the ethics of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to address some of the controversy stirred up by our episode. We transition from ther…
01:37:47 |
Tue 17 Sep 2019
2.11 Questions of the Week, When RCTs are Necessary, & AYA Oncology with Dr. Adam Duvall
After a hiatus from our segment on reviewing recent trials, we return to discuss the need for randomized controlled trials (RCTs). In the wake of the 2019 World Conference on Lung Cancer, we focus on…
01:41:29 |
Thu 12 Sep 2019
2.10 Questions of the Week: the USMLE Step 2 CK, the MKSAP, & Hematology/Oncology
We have three questions for you this week: one from Ian Straehley, inspired by the USMLE Step 2 CK; one from Dr. Derrick Tao, inspired by the MKSAP; and one from Dr. Sven Olson on hematology and onco…
00:23:27 |
Thu 05 Sep 2019
2.09 Questions of the Week & Informed Consent in Clinical Trials with Dr. Lynn Jansen
We start this week with two Questions of the Week: the first is from Ian Straehley on the USMLE Step 2 CK, and the second is from Dr. Sven Olson on hematology/oncology. We end with an interview with …
01:20:18 |
Wed 28 Aug 2019
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