Conference Coverage

Host: Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CCMEP ReachMD Presents Conference Coverage Highlights from the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education 2010 35th Annual Conference in New Orleans on January 27-30, 2010. The theme of the conference - Establishing CME as a Pathway to Better Patient Care - provided the opportunity for medical educators and planners from various specialties to share best practices and discuss broader issues and concerns. Guests on this program include: Alejandro Aparicio, MD, Director, Division of Continuing Physician Professional Development, American Medical Association Maureen Doyle-Scharff, MBA, FACME, Senior Director, Medical Education Group, Pfizer, Inc. Joseph Kim, MD, MPH, Director of Medical Affairs and Technology, Medical Communications, Media, Inc.

Host: Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CCMEP ReachMD Presents Conference Coverage Highlights from the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education 2010 35th Annual Conference in New Orleans on January 27-30, 2010. The theme of the conference — Establishing CME as a Pathway to Better Patient Care — provided the opportunity for medical educators and planners from various specialties to share best practices and discuss broader issues and concerns. Guests on this program include: Jann Balmer, PhD, President of the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education and Director of CME at the University of Virginia School of Medicine Dave Davis, MD, Senior Director, Academic Affairs, Association of American Medical Colleges George Mejicano, MD, Associate Dean for Continuing Professional Development, University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health Don Detmer, MD, MA, President and chief Executive Officer, American Medical Informatics Association

Host: Mark Chyna, MD These Conference Coverage Highlights are from the American Society of Clinical Oncology's Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, held January 22nd to the 24th in Orlando, Florida. The meeting presented more than 500 abstracts on gastrointestinal cancers affecting the esophagus, stomach, hepatobiliary system, pancreas, small bowel, colon and rectum.

Host: Mark Chyna, MD The 32nd Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium took place December 9th through the 13th, 2009. The meeting featured more than 1,000 presentations on the experimental biology, etiology, prevention, diagnosis, and therapy of breast cancer and premalignant breast disease. These highlights cover major findings.

Host: Mark Chyna, MD Tune in for highlights and latest research presented at the American Association for Respiratory Care's 55th International Respiratory Congress. This meeting took place in San Antonio, Texas, December 5th through 8th. Findings included the effect of specialized rapid response teams on serious complications like cardiac arrest and respiratory failure, the ability of neonates to ventilate on Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist, or NAVA, and research on the improved prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Tune in to hear important highlights from research findings presented at the Radiological Society of North America's 2009 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, November 29th through December 4th.

Host: Jason Birnholz, MD Guest: Stamatia Destounis, MD These interviews were recorded at the Radiological Society of North America's 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, which took place November 29th through December 4th, 2009, in Chicago. Host Dr. Jason Birnholz talks with Dr. Stamatia Destounis, associate clinical professor of radiology at the University of Rochester, and a practicing radiologist at the Elizabeth Wende Breast Care Center in Rochester, New York. Dr. Destounis presented a paper entitled "The Role of Ultrasound Elastography for Differentiating Benign from Malignant Breast Lesions: Can Benign Result Biopsies Be Reduced?"

Host: Jason Birnholz, MD These interviews were recorded at the Radiological Society of North America's 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, which took place November 29th through December 4th in Chicago. Host Dr. Jason Birnholz talks with Dr. Rozemarijn Vliegenthart, from the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands, who presented at the conference a paper entitled, "High Prevalence of Treatable Severe Coronary Artery Disease: Findings in a Randomized Controlled Trial in Cardiac Asymptomatic Peripheral Arterial Disease Patients." Dr. Birnholz also sits down with Dr. Asim F. Choudhri, from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, to talk about tele-radiology and smartphones.

Host: Jason Birnholz, MD This program features Dr. David Cosgrove, professor of clinical ultrasound, Imperial College School of Medicine, and honorary consultant in radiology at the Hammersmith Hospital in London. He is an expert in ultrasound, known around the world, and is the author of numerous publications. He speaks with host Dr. Jason Birnholz about a new form of ultrasound imaging— elastography, or sheer wave imaging — for detecting breast cancer. Next, Dr. Birhnolz sits down with Dr. Michelle Brown, associate professor of radiology at the University of California, San Diego. She is presenting research on detection of placenta accreta using MRI. The incidence of placenta accreta has increased ten-fold since 1950, as the incidence of the primary risk factor, cesarian section, has also increased. These interviews were recorded at the Radiological Society of North America's 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, which took place November 29th through December 4th in Chicago.

Host: Jason Birnholz, MD Host Dr. Jason Birnholz reports from the Radiological Society of North America's 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, which took place November 29th through December 6th in Chicago. In this segment, he speaks with Dr. Wendie Berg, from Johns Hopkins University, about early detection and breast cancer, and Dr. Alexis Kelekis, assistant professor of radiology at the University of Athens, about percutaneous disc decompression treatment for herniated disc.

Host: Mark Chyna, MD The American Heart Association Scientific Sessions took place Nov. 14 to 18 in Orlando, Florida, and attracted more than 20,000 attendees from around the world. Listen here for highlights from groundbreaking research presented at the meeting in both basic and clinical science.

Host: Mark Chyna, MD Listen to highlights from research presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology's 2009 annual meeting. The meeting took place November 5th through the 10th, 2009, in Miami Beach, Florida.

Host: Mark Chyna, MD Tune in for highlights from CHEST 2009, which took place October 31 through November 5th, in San Diego, California.

Host: Mark Chyna, MD Tune in to hear news and research from the Infectious Diseases Society of America's 47th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.

Host: Mark Chyna, MD Tune in for highlights from the conference floor, at the most recent American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition. This year's meeting took place October 17th through the 20th, 2009, in Washington, DC.

Host: Mark Chyna, MD Tune in to to learn about research and highlights from the American Heart Association's 63rd High Blood Pressure Research Conference. The meeting happened September 23rd through the 26th, 2009, in Chicago.

Representative Charles Boustany, MD, of Louisiana, responds to President Obama's healthcare address in front of a joint session of Congress, September 9, 2009. Listen here or download the podcast. To hear President Obama's address, click here.

Listen here or download the podcast of President Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress on September 9, 2009, outlining his plan for healthcare reform. To listen to the Republican response delivered by Rep. Charles Boustany, MD (R-LA), click here.

Vice President Joe Biden, alongside Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Dr. David Blumenthal, the Obama administration's National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, leads this roundtable discussion on healthcare reform and the need to ‘modernize the system' with broad implementation of electronic health records (EHRs). Hosted by Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago on August 20, 2009, the discussion ranges from the keys to improving the coordination of care through EHRs, to enhancing patient safety and reducing privacy concerns, to promoting vital cost and effectiveness measures across the spectrum of care. Vice President Biden announced the availability of $1.2 billion in federal grants for electronic health record systems. The funding comes from the $787 billion stimulus package passed earlier this year. It is ticketed to finance the creation of EHR technology extension-centers, which will provide clinicians and hospitals with on-the-spot support for the installation and utiliza

Tune in for complete audio of the prime-time presidential news conference from the White House, July 22, 2009. President Obama outlines his plan for overhauling the nation's healthcare system, and takes questions.