Health and Medicine (Audio)

The role of diet and exercise in addressing prostate cancer with June Chan, UCSF. Series: "Prostate Cancer Patient Conference" [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 34972]

Alan Shindel, MD, Michael Rabow, MD, Nannette Perez, NP Series: "Prostate Cancer Patient Conference" [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 34973]

Merel Nissenberg, Esq; Thomas Kirk; Brad Ekstrand, MD; David Lowther, MD Series: "Prostate Cancer Patient Conference" [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 34974]

Practical tips for the consumer including how to approach decision-making from patients. Series: "Prostate Cancer Patient Conference" [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 34975]

Selena Chan, DO, takes you through a brief history of treating mental health from the stone age to today. She then looks at psychiatry today and how we are at a time when behavioral medicine is uniquely situated to bridge biomedicine and an array of healing modalities. Series: "Mini Medical School for the Public" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 34526]

Alysson Muotri explores how discoveries made using tiny Zebrafish will lead to cures for blood diseases like leukemia using stem cells, and how those cures will reach patients through California's network of Alpha Clinics. Series: "Stem Cell Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 33178]

Dr. Atul Butte is one of the world’s leaders in precision medicine, data analytics, and artificial intelligence as they apply to healthcare. This interview explores the opportunities and challenges in precision medicine, big data, and artificial intelligence, as well as the work of he and his group – at UCSF and throughout the UC system – to capitalize on the digital transformation of medicine to improve health and healthcare. Dr. Butte is the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor and inaugural Director of the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute (BCHSI) at UCSF and the Chief Data Scientist for UC Health, the consortium of all six University of California academic health centers. Dr. Butte has authored over 200 publications, with research repeatedly featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Dr. Butte, who was elected into the National Academy of Medicine in 2015, is the founder of several start-ups.  Series: "A Life in Medicine: People Shaping Healthcare Today" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 34716]

We have come so far in understanding the brain, yet we are often perplexed by our emotions. Geronima Cortese gives an brief history of herbalism and how it is practiced today. She explores the herbal approach from diagnosis to treatment. Series: "Mini Medical School for the Public" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 34525]

David Lukoff, PhD, explores transpersonal psychology, the study of human growth and development from a perspective of spirituality and the inner soul. Series: "Mini Medical School for the Public" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 34524]

Alysson Muotri and Catriona Jamieson discuss how cutting-edge stem-cell-based cures will reach patients through California's network of Alpha Clinics. Series: "Stem Cell Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 34763]

Dr. Steven Schroeder is Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care at UCSF, where he also heads UCSF’s Smoking Cessation Leadership Center. In this interview, he discusses academic medicine, the epidemic of substance abuse, his work at the RWJ Foundation (including the “failed study” that helped build the field of palliative care), and his life in healthcare policy and politics. Between 1990 and 2002, Dr. Schroeder was President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. During that time, the Foundation gave out nearly $4 billion in grants, including for new programs in substance abuse prevention and treatment, care at the end of life, and health insurance expansion for children, among others. He has won numerous awards, including six honorary doctoral degrees and the Gustav Leinhard Award from the National Academy of Medicine. Series: "A Life in Medicine: People Shaping Healthcare Today" [Health and Medicine] [Business] [Show ID: 34715]

A pioneer of individualized medicine and author of the upcoming book Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again, Eric Topol merges genomic and digital technologies with artificial intelligence to advance a new era of High Performance Medicine. In a talk that is bound to keep you at the edge of your seat, Topol gives us a glimpse of the future, helping us understand the promise and expose the pitfalls of artificial intelligence in medicine. Pioneer of individualized medicine and bestselling author. Dr. Topol merges genomic and digital health technologies with artificial intelligence to advance a new era of High Performance Medicine. Series: "Front Row at Scripps Research" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 34644]

Living well with diabetes takes emotional strength. Staying strong emotionally is important to keeping stress under control which helps keep blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol levels where they belong. Lawrence Fisher explores the social, behavioral, self-management support and care system factors that affect the management of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Series: "Mini Medical School for the Public" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 34679]

Professor at Yale University and the founding director of the Yale Stem Cell Center Haifan Lin talks about how the discoveries of small non-coding RNAs, including PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), have significantly expanded the RNA world. Series: "Stem Cell Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 34682]

Monitoring insulin and glucose for diabetics has come along way. Find out what's new from connected devices to closed loop insulin delivery and continuous glucose monitors. Series: "Mini Medical School for the Public" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 34676]