Today's episode is hosted by guest Logan Powell, an incoming medical student at the Texas A&M College of Medicine and creator of this podcast's show notes. He reverse interviews our usual host, Dr. Vinay Prasad, in honor of the one-year anniversary release of Dr. Prasad's book "Malignant: How Bad Policy and Bad Evidence Harm People with Cancer". They explore a few behind-the-scenes stories. Show notes: www.plenarysessionpodcast.com Listen to Malignant with a free 30-day trial of Audible: www...
Jun 02, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Today we try something new. We're joined by five esteemed multiple myeloma experts for a back-and-forth round table discussion on the disease, including initial therapy, high risk, and maintenance. Our guests are Dr. Raj Chakraborty of Columbia University, Dr. Sam Rubinstein of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Dr. Manni Mohyuddin of the University of Utah, Dr. Ben Derman of the University of Chicago, and Dr. Kevin Knopf of Highland Hospital. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plena...
May 31, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Today we bring back our popular Journal Club with a Fellow segment. We're joined by Dr. Karine Tawagi of the Oschner Clinic in Louisiana to discuss the CLEAR trial: "Lenvatinib plus Pembrolizumab or Everolimus for Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma" as published in the New England Journal of Medicine. CLEAR: doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2035716 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
May 28, 2021•35 min
Our guest today is Dr. Joshua Briscoe of Duke University. We discuss Med-Psych (a joint internal medicine and psychiatry residency) and how it and palliative care connect to the human side to medicine: providing the care for quality of life and dignity that patients actually need, from comfortable bedding to physician-assisted suicide. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
May 27, 2021•47 min
We're joined today by Dr. Aaron Goodman, a hematologist/oncologist at the University of California San Diego, to discuss diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). We talk about bad cancer drugs and bad Twitter users. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
May 26, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Today we sit down with Dr. Ioana Cristea of the University of Pavia, Italy and the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford to discuss meta-research, reproducibility, and expertise. We also talk about our shared experiences as "early career researchers" (ECRs), also known as Early Stage Investigators, a term coined by the National Institutes of Health to describe researchers who earned their last research degree less than 10 years ago. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check ...
May 25, 2021•1 hr 17 min
Today we host a Classical Hematology Chat on thrombosis associated with COVID-19 vaccines. We're joined by Drs. Sven Olson and Joseph Shatzel of Oregon Health & Science University as we talk about cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) and vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT). Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
May 24, 2021•46 min
Today we are joined by Genève Campbell, scholar of democracy and government, as we discuss sociology and politics in the context of COVID-19. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
May 21, 2021•1 hr 17 min
Today we sit down with Dr. Bishal Gyawali of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and with Dr. Nathan Cherny of Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel to talk about the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) and the ESMO-Magnitude of Clinical Benefit Scale (ESMO-MCBS), which aims to improve cancer therapy decision-making. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
May 20, 2021•54 min
On today's episode, we sit down with Dr. Cathrine Axfors of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) to discuss how Sweden responded to COVID-19 and the nation's attention to what policies would be sustainable. We also touch on her paper "Mortality outcomes with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine in COVID-19 from an international collaborative meta-analysis of randomized trials" as well as school closures, data to support mask policies, and more! Hydroxychloroquine: doi.org/10.1...
May 19, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Today we talk with Dr. Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics about astronomy and the culture of the academy, as well as diving into topics discussed in his new book Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth. Extraterrestrial: https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/Extraterrestrial/9780358274551 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
May 18, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Today we talk with Dr. Mark Lythgoe, a Clinical Research Fellow at Imperial College London, on his new paper titled "Race reporting and diversity in US food and drug administration (FDA) registration trials for prostate cancer; 2006-2020", out now in Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases. Race Reporting: doi.org/10.1038/s41391-021-00361-0 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
May 17, 2021•26 min
On today's episode, we invite Dr. Chris Whaley of RAND and Dr. Neeraj Sood of the USC Price School of Public Policy to discuss their new paper titled "Back to School: The Effect of School Visits During COVID-19 on COVID-19 Transmission", out now in the National Bureau of Economic Research. Back to School: doi.org/10.3386/w28645 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
May 14, 2021•43 min
Today our guest is Dr. Paul Edward Sax, Clinical Director of the Infectious Disease Clinic and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. We talk about all things COVID-19. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
May 14, 2021•1 hr 23 min
On today's episode, we interview Dr. Roxana Daneshjou, a clinical scholar in dermatology and postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University. We talk about artificial intelligence in dermatology and beyond. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
May 13, 2021•43 min
On today's episode, we have a short monologue for you on the recent CheckMate 577 study that was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The title of the paper is "Adjuvant Nivolumab in Resected Esophageal or Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer". CheckMate 577: doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2032125 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
May 12, 2021•16 min
Today we're joined by Dr. Daniel Meyers of the University of Calgary who's here to discuss his new paper out now in the Journal of Cancer Policy. It's titled "Industry payments to US physicians for cancer therapeutics: An analysis of the 2016–2018 open payments datasets". Industry payments: doi.org/10.1016/j.jcpo.2021.100283 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
May 11, 2021•48 min
Today we sit down with Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the inaugural Vice Dean for Population Health and Health Equity in the UCSF School of Medicine. We talk about mentorship throughout a career, the unique value of epidemiology and biostatistics, finding passion in your work, disparities in healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic, and more. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.co...
May 05, 2021•1 hr 31 min
Today we sit down with Dr. Monica Gandhi, Associate Division Chief of the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF/ San Francisco General Hospital, and medical director of the HIV Clinic at SFGH. We talk about ending COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, vaccination boosters, and more. She gives us the motivation we all need right now. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
Apr 30, 2021•31 min
Today we talk with Dr. Manni Mohyuddin of Kansas University Medical Center on his new paper out now in JAMA Network Open titled "Reporting of Postprotocol Therapies and Attrition in Multiple Myeloma Randomized Clinical Trials: A Systematic Review". Postprotocol Therapies: doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.8084 Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
Apr 29, 2021•40 min
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 talk about his career in academic medicine as well as the challenges of 2021. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
Apr 29, 2021•1 hr 11 min
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 response to a listener question) as well as his take on Idecabtagene vicleucel for multiple myeloma. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
Apr 23, 2021•1 hr 2 min
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. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
Apr 16, 2021•1 hr 6 min
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 medical education. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
Apr 14, 2021•1 hr 2 min
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. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
Apr 12, 2021•57 min
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 (MSTP). Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
Apr 08, 2021•1 hr 2 min
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. Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
Apr 08, 2021•35 min
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 Grown-Ups." Drug Use for Grown-Ups: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/534657/drug-use-for-grown-ups-by-dr-carl-l-hart/ Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
Apr 06, 2021•46 min
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). Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
Mar 31, 2021•1 hr 22 min
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 Life: www.giftoflife.org/page/content/covid19faq Back us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/plenarysession Check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUibd0E2kdF9N9e-EmIbUew
Mar 30, 2021•28 min
