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What are your chances of increased suicide behavior after weight-reduction surgery?
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File ER_101/1549er5a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Amir A. Ghaferi, MD
- Guest Website University of Michigan Health System
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Guest Bio
Dr. Amir A. Ghaferi graduated summa cum laude/Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA in 2001, received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2005, and completed his general surgery residency at the University of Michigan in 2012.
Dr. Ghaferi also completed a health services research fellowship with the Michigan Surgical Collaborative for Outcomes Research and Evaluation group and obtained a Masters degree in Health and Healthcare Research during this time. He joined the University of Michigan faculty in 2012 as an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the School of Medicine and an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business. At the Ann Arbor Veterans Administration Healthcare System, he is the Chief of General Surgery and Founder/Director of the Bariatric Surgery Program which serves Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana.
Dr. Ghaferi's clinical practice is devoted to advanced laparoscopy, including gastroesophageal reflux surgery, bariatric surgery, and abdominal wall and groin hernias. He is also very active in medical student and resident education. He is currently the third year medical student clerkship director at the VA hospital and serves on the Advisory Committee of the Academic Surgeon Development Program aimed at implementing a structured curriculum for students interested in a surgical career from the undergraduate to graduate level. Dr. Ghaferi is also a core faculty member in the Medical School's Health Policy Path of Excellence.
Dr. Ghaferi's research focuses on understanding the relationship of organizational culture to quality and efficiency, with the ultimate goal of designing interventions to improve care locally, regionally, and nationally. He is currently a co-investigator on an NIH funded grant that seeks to assess the micro-system resources, the safety attitudes and culture, and the safety-related practices and behaviors that are potentially related to "failure to rescue" –the ability to recognize and manage major postoperative complications. Dr. Ghaferi also holds a career development award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to evaluate the organizational dynamics contributing to failure to rescue. He has also been awarded the National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program Grant through the National Center for Minority Health Disparities specifically to study racial disparities in surgical safety. His research has been published in prominent journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, Medical Care, and Annals of Surgery.
Dr. Ghaferi is an active member of several national societies (American College of Surgeons, AcademyHealth, Association for Academic Surgery, and Phi Beta Kappa). He serves on a national Outcomes Research Committee for the Association for Academic Surgery, as well as several institutional committees. He has received numerous national awards, including the Association for Academic Surgery Resident Research Award, American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer Paper Competition, American Society of Clinical Oncology Cancer Foundation Merit Award, and the International Society of Gastrointestinal Oncology Education Grant. - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Leigh Vinocur, MD
Why does heavy alcohol consumption cause "Holiday Heart Syndrome"?
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- Segment Number 5
- Audio File ER_101/1547er5e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Chadd Kraus, MD
- Guest Website Emergency Care For You
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Guest Bio
Dr. Chadd Kraus is an emergency physician from Pennsylvania. He currently works for emergency resources management, an affiliate of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Clarion, PA.
Dr. Kraus specializes in the areas of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He did his emergency medicine residency at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, PA. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Leigh Vinocur, MD
Creams and ointments that claim to address stretch marks are everywhere. What kinds are best, if any?
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- Segment Number 4
- Audio File ER_101/1547er5d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Frank Wang, MD
- Guest Website University of Michigan Health System
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Frank Wang, MD, is a board-certified dermatologist at the University of Michigan Health System. He received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College. Dr. Wang joined the faculty at the U-M Department of Dermatology in 2010 after his U-M fellowship and residency. His interests and expertise include aging skin and stretch marks, along with general clinical dermatology.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Leigh Vinocur, MD
What type of exercise is best for burning fat and losing weight?
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File ER_101/1547er5c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Francisco Torres, MD
- Book Title Dr. T's Drop the Fat Diet; 12 Steps to a Leaner You Forever
- Guest Website Drop the Fat
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Guest Bio
Dr. Francisco Torres performed his residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Veterans Administration Hospital in San Juan before completing a Musculoskeletal Fellowship at Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans. As a trained age-management physician he works with patients on preventing age-related disease in order to optimize health and longevity. He has authored or co-authored several articles published in various medical journals.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Leigh Vinocur, MD
What is a food cue, and what happens in your brain when you see one?
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File ER_101/1547er5b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Susan Carnell, PhD
- Guest Website John's Hopkins Medicine
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Guest Bio
Susan Carnell received her BA in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford and completed her PhD on parental feeding style and children's eating behavior at University College London. She was then awarded an ESRC/MRC Interdisciplinary Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, in which she used behavioral and genetic data from a nationwide study of twin children to examine genetic and environmental influences on appetite and obesity.
In 2007, Dr. Carnell moved to the New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center where she developed an interest in neuroendocrine influences on eating behavior and weight. Here she spearheaded two projects examining brain and gut hormone responses to stress and food cues in obese and lean adults with and without Binge Eating Disorder, and was awarded a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence award from NIDDK to investigate fMRI responses to food cues in obese and lean adolescents at high and low familial/genetic risk of obesity.
In 2013 she joined the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where she is an Assistant Professor. Her current research interests include neuroimaging studies of appetite and obesity, and genetic and environmental influences on children''s eating behavior. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Leigh Vinocur, MD
Are wearable devices beneficial for your health?
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File ER_101/1547er5a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MS
- Guest Website University of Pennsylvania
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Guest Bio
Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Care Management at the Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is a faculty member at the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation and the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics. He is a Staff Physician at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. Dr. Patel's research leverages concepts from behavioral economics to design connected health approaches to improve individual health behaviors.
He has led several randomized, controlled trials that used wearable devices, smartphone applications, and workplace weight scales to track health behaviors. These studies evaluate interventions designed using financial and social incentives to change health behaviors.
His work also evaluates how information technology-based interventions can be designed to use concepts from behavioral economics change physician behaviors to reduce low-value services and increase the delivery of high-value care. Dr. Patel's work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the Annals of Internal Medicine. His work has been featured in the New York Times, NPR and CNN. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Leigh Vinocur, MD
How can overuse of antibiotics cause more harm than good?
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- Segment Number 5
- Audio File ER_101/1546er5e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Kevin Klauer, DO
- Guest Website Emergency Care For You
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Guest Bio
Kevin Klauer, DO, EJD, FACEP, is Chief Medical Officer–Emergency Medicine and Chief Risk Officer for TeamHealth as well as the Executive Director of the TeamHealth Patient Safety Organization. He is an assistant clinical professor at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Dr. Klauer served as editor-in-chief for Emergency Physicians Monthly publication for five years and is the co-author of two risk management books: Emergency Medicine Bouncebacks: Medical and Legal and Risk Management and the Emergency Department: Executive Leadership for Protecting Patients and Hospitals. Dr. Klauer also serves as Speaker of the ACEP Council. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Leigh Vinocur, MD
By changing the way you think, can you feel better during the winter months?
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- Segment Number 4
- Audio File ER_101/1546er5d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Kari Alyse Leibowitz, PhD
- Guest Website Stanford Mind and Body
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Guest Bio
Kari Alyse Leibowitz began her PhD in Social Psychology at Stanford University in 2015. She is interested in understanding how best to promote mindsets that increase psychosocial well-being, with a particular emphasis on understanding compassionate mindsets in various populations.
At Stanford, Kari is a member of the Mind and Body Laboratory. Kari received her BA from Emory University in 2012. After graduation, Kari spent two years as the Program Coordinator for the Emory-Tibet Partnership and coordinated the visit of the Dalai Lama to Emory in 2013. From 2014-2015, Kari spent a year studying wintertime mindset above the Arctic Circle in Norway under a Fulbright research grant. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Leigh Vinocur, MD
Why does your body react negatively after no exercise?
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File ER_101/1546er5c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Scott Weiss, PT, MS
- Guest Website Bodhizone
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Guest Bio
Dr. Scott Weiss is a licensed physical therapist and board certified athletic trainer in the state of New York. He is also a registered exercise physiologist, strength and conditioning specialist and owner of five physical therapy and sports medicine clinics in new York city and queens. Scott possesses both a bachelor's and master's degree in exercise physiology and a doctorate in physical therapy.
Throughout his career, he had the pleasure and good fortune to work with some of the world's elite athletes. These include several United States Olympic Teams, National Football League (NFL), National Hockey League (NHL) and celebrities all over the big screen. In the last decade, Scott was chosen to be part of our Unites States sports medicine team in Athens, Greece and Beijing, China and London, England were he provided emergency medical and physical therapy services to all our U.S. athletes. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Leigh Vinocur, MD
What is the link between sleep apnea and heart disease?
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File ER_101/1546er5b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Susan Redline, MD
- Guest Website Brigham and Women's Hospital
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Guest Bio
Dr. Susan Redline is Senior Physician, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders; and Director, Program in Sleep and Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Leigh Vinocur, MD
