Sage Clinical Medicine & Research

Drug shortages have become universal and impact all levels of care, both inpatient and outpatient. In this podcast, Joyce Generali meets with Dr. Samaneh Wilkinson to discuss how such shortages impact patient care and what measures can be taken to provide optimal care for patients in the continuing face of drug shortages.

There is an increasing awareness of non-tuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) disease as our populations ages and survival increases in chronic diseases due to new medical advances. NTM infections are often challenging to diagnose unless you are thinking about them as a possibility in your differential diagnosis. Therefore, there is an urgent need to identify population subgroups that are at increased risk for NTM infections. In this edition of the JIM podcast, Drs. Stephanie Baers and Sarah Tran discuss their recent manuscript: Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections in patients with end-stage renal disease: Prevalence, risk factors, and mortality which can be found in the October 2023 issue of JIM.

In this podcast, Joyce Generali meets with Dr. Samaneh Wilkinson to discuss the shortage of pharmacy technicians nationwide and how to standardize training in a program that pays the technician during training.

In this episode, craniofacial surgeon and children's book author, Edward Buchanan, discusses his pediatric facial microsurgery experience with Carolyn Rogers-Vizena and FACE resident ambassador Chioma Obinero. Read the article here.

In this podcast, Joyce Generali meets with Dr. Samaneh Wilkinson to discuss new developments in assisting patients with financial difficulties in order to obtain medications. She describes the current issues facing such patients and the importance of increasing access to medications.

In this podcast, Joyce Generali meets with Dr. Samaneh Wilkinson to discuss Mark Cuban’s entrance into the world of pharmacy and its potential impact for the patient, pharmacists, and healthcare in general.

In this podcast, Joyce Generali meets with Dr. Lauren Campanella to discuss her article, “Expanding Pharmacy Services to the Hemophilia Treatment Center”. The article is published in the October 2023 issue of Hospital Pharmacy.

In this podcast, Joyce Generali meets with Dr. Roland N. Dickerson discuss his article, “Significant Published Articles in 2022 for Pharmacy Nutrition Support Practice”. The article is published in the October 2023 issue of Hospital Pharmacy.

In this episode of The Cleft Palate Craniofacial Journal podcast series, Pat Chibbaro, Multimedia Specialist, interviews Nicola Stock and Carrie Heike, authors of the CPCJ article entitled, "Establishing an International Interdisciplinary Research Network in Craniofacial Microsomia: The CARE Program" (coauthored by Canice E. Crerand, Alexis L. Johns, Christy M. McKinney, Maarten J. Koudstaal, Amelia F. Drake).

In this multidisciplinary oculoplastic and craniofacial surgery episode, co-authors Arun Jain and Stacey Francis discuss how they use the temporoparietal fascial flap for periorbital reconstruction with Edith Reshef and Carolyn Rogers-Vizena. Read the article here.

In this episode of The Cleft Palate Craniofacial podcast series, Multimedia Editor Pat Chibbaro interviews Dr. Usama S. Hamdan, author of the CPCJ article entitled, "Ergonomics for Cleft Providers: A Brief Communication" (co-authored Wassim Najjar, Raj M. Vyas, Lindsay Schuster, Sara Hussein, Robert A. Younan, Mario Haddad, Beyhan Annan, Adam Johnson, and Jordan W. Swanson)

In this episode of The Cleft Palate Craniofacial podcast series, Multimedia Editor Pat Chibbaro interviews Dr. Usama S. Hamdan, author of the CPCJ article entitled, "Ergonomics for Cleft Providers: A Brief Communication" (co-authored Wassim Najjar, Raj M. Vyas, Lindsay Schuster, Sara Hussein, Robert A. Younan, Mario Haddad, Beyhan Annan, Adam Johnson, and Jordan W. Swanson)

Dr Alessandro Cicchetti and Luca Possenti present the results of the AIRC project “Mechanistic computational modelling of radiation damage to microvasculature and of its effect on tumour microenvironment”. This research comprises pre-clinical microfluidic chips, in-silico models, and patient data. The interview by Dr Orazio Fortunato gives an overview of the methodology and the possible impact on clinical practice.

Blurb In this posdcast Dr. Luigi Rolli, Dr. Chiara Ciniselli, Dr. Paola Perego and Dr. Giulia Bertolini discuss the biological role of the antimetastatic gene KiSS1 based on the results they obtained in Non Small Cell  Lung Cancer cellular models and in liquid biopsies obtained from patients and healthy subject

Dr. Sean Kandel is from the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine where he is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine. Dr. Kandel plays a critical role in Resident Research in the Department of Medicine and as well as developing an integrative model of mental health professionals along side Primary Care Providers. Dr. Kandel’s more recent work is investigating new screening tools for mental health disorders that can be deployed in the primary care setting. This new anxiety screening tool is the focus of a his recent manuscript in JIM and the topic of this podcast.

In this episode, Dr. Virginia Litle, guest editor of Foregut’s special disparities issue, talks with Dr. Malhar Parikh about his paper "Understanding the Spectrum of Esophageal Cancer Disparities", Dr. Christopher Towe about his paper "The Impact of Disparities on Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy", and Dr. Zubair Malik about his paper "Understanding the Sex, Racial, and Ethnic Disparities in Eosinophilic Esophagitis." Read the full issue here.

In this episode, Dr Antonio Silvani presents his editorial “New perspectives: glioma in adult patients”. The aim of this research is to consider some aspects of the diagnosis and treatment of adult gliomas and how innovations in diagnosis and therapy, including Artificial intelligence and Next-generation sequencing, are opening up new scenarios in approaching these tumors. Furthermore, dr Silvani highlights burden in the patients’ quality of life of the postoperative treatment planning and follow-up. Link to the article https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03008916231159716

In this podcast, Dr Mélanie Claps and Dr Giuseppe Procopio discuss about the results of the Breakpoint Trial: a prospective, multicenter, single arm phase II trial evaluating efficacy and safety of cabozantinib for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma progressed after one line of treatment based on immune-checkpoints inhibitors.

The Journal of Investigative Medicine’s Editor in Chief Dr. McCallum welcomes Dr. Samrat Das in this episode. Dr. Das is an Associate Professor at Duke University School of Medicine and Director of both Pediatric Undergraduate Medical Education and Duke Childrens Hospital’s Procedural Sedation Unit. He informs us what it takes to fundraise for science and research through lobbying and asking for more funding for NIH and NSF. Dr. Das talked about how inflation can affect operations along with the need to increase research to support marginalized populations as examples of why there is a need for increased funds year after year. The team of researchers where he is the AFMR representative presented their case to the decision-makers and Dr. Das gave us a summary.

In this podcast, Dr Michela Casanova, Dr. Patrizia Gasparini e Dr. Luca Bergamaschi discuss the importance of a pediatric precision medicine program for relapsed and refractory patients with solid tumors. In particular they present the Institutional program INTperkids, while giving an overview on other Italian Precision Medicine programs for pediatric patients and outlining future prospective.