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Conversations with doctors progressing the field of medicine. We talk to cardiologists, paediatricians, surgeons, psychiatrists, dermatologists, and every specialty between. Presented by HotDoc. Hosted by Michael McKay.

04/03/2021

S01E15: Dr Fiona Wood—Burns surgery and spray-on skin

Dr Fiona Wood is an Australian plastic surgeon with over 20 years experience specialising in burns. She is a consultant plastic surgeon at Fiona Stanley Hospital and Perth Children's Hospital. She is also the Director of the Burns Service of Western Australia and is the co-founder of the first skin cell laboratory in WA. Her lab uses a technology that involves spray-on skin to help patients recover from severe burns. Dr Wood was named a Member of the Order of Australia in 2003. That same year and a year later she won Western Australian Citizen of the Year for her contribution to the field of burns research. A year later in 2005 her contribution to burns care was further recognised when she won Australia’s highest accolade, Australian of the Year.

47 min
17/12/2020

S01E14: Dr Rishi Manchanda—Upstream healthcare

Dr Rishi Manchanda is a physician, author and healthcare leader who has spent more than a decade developing strategies to improve health outcomes in resource-poor communities. He has served as Director of Social Medicine for a network of community health centres in Los Angeles and as the lead primary care physician for homeless Veterans. He is also the President of HealthBegins, a social enterprise that provides healthcare professionals and community partners with tools to improve the care they provide to people in their local communities.

59 min
17/11/2020

S01E13: Dr BJ Miller—Palliative care and dying well

Dr BJ Miller is a practicing hospice and palliative care physician and a triple amputee. He is one of the world’s leading public ambassadors for palliative care and dying well. He currently sees patients and caregivers via telehealth through Mettle Health, a company he co-founded. His 2015 TED Talk, “What Really Matters at the End of Life,” has received more than 11 million views to date. He has also written a book, A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death, and has been featured in numerous publications, including the New York Times, NPR and PBS.

54 min
27/10/2020

S01E12: Dr Sandeep Jauhar—Cardiology and a history of the heart

Dr Sandeep Jauhar is a US cardiologist and writer for The New York Times. He has written three books. His most recent, Heart: A History, is beautifully written and tells the colourful history of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives for us to learn what cardiologists today know about the heart. As well as The New York Times, Dr Jauhar’s opinions have appeared on NPR, CNN and MSNBC, and his essays have been published in Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and Slate.

31 min
29/09/2020

S01E11: Dr Vikram Patel—Social medicine and global health

Dr Vikram Patel is a psychiatrist and Professor at Harvard’s Department of Global Health and Population. In 2015 he was listed in TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential persons of the year. He is an Adjunct Professor and joint Director of the Centre for Chronic Conditions and Injuries at the Public Health Foundation of India; a Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; and the Co-founder of Sangath—an Indian NGO, which won the MacArthur Foundation’s International Prize for Creative and Effective Institutions in 2008 and the World Health Organization’s Public Health Champion of India award in 2016. Dr Patel has served on several WHO Government of India committees and his work on the burden of mental disorders, their association with poverty and social disadvantage, and the use of community resources to deliver interventions has been recognised by the Chalmers Medal from the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in the UK, the Sarnat Medal from the US National Academy of Medicine, and the Humanitarian Prize from the Brain & Behaviour Research Foundation.

44 min
06/09/2020

S01E10 Dr Daniel Kraft—The future of medicine

Dr Daniel Kraft is a physician-scientist, inventor and entrepreneur. He has been the Chair of Medicine at Singularity University since the organisation's inception in 2008, and is also the founder and chair of Exponential Medicine, a program that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare. With over 25 years in the field, Dr Kraft has worked as a surgeon in the United States fighter pilot squadron and was shortlisted as a NASA astronaut. He is the inventor of multiple biomedical devices, including the MarrowMiner, an FDA-approved device for the harvest of bone marrow. His academic research has focused on stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, stem cell derived immunotherapies for cancer, and bioengineering human T-cell differentiation. His research has been published in journals that include Nature and Science, and he has presented six different TED talks.

56 min
25/08/2020

S01E09: Dr Richard Weller—Sunlight and heart health

Dr. Richard Weller is a UK academic dermatologist whose views have been published in New Scientist, BBC, Sydney Morning Herald and more. He is an honorary NHS Consultant Dermatologist with a particular interest in medical dermatology and eczema. In his TED talk, Could the sun be good for your heart, which has reached more than one million people, Dr Weller explains how his research shows that nitric oxide—a chemical transmitter stored in huge reserves in the skin—can be released by UV light to great benefit to both blood pressure and the cardiovascular system. To help people get the benefit of the sun while protecting themselves from skin cancer he has produced the world’s first nitric oxide promoting sunscreen.

56 min
09/08/2020

S01E08: Dr Mark Tyndall—Vaping and harm reduction for opioid use

Dr Mark Tyndall is a physician, epidemiologist and public health expert. He has worked as the Director of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and as a Professor of Medicine at the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. Dr Tyndall was one of North America’s earliest advocates for harm reduction programs and was at the forefront of North America’s first legally sanctioned supervised injection facility—INSITE—which was established in Vancouver in 2003. He has also recently launched The MySafe project—an opioid dispensing machine that resembles an ATM and gives people addicted to opioids access to a prescribed amount of medical-quality hydromorphone. He developed the project in an attempt to reduce the number of deaths via overdose in Vancouver.

58 min

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S01E15: Dr Fiona Wood—Burns surgery and spray-on skin

S01E14: Dr Rishi Manchanda—Upstream healthcare

S01E13: Dr BJ Miller—Palliative care and dying well

S01E12: Dr Sandeep Jauhar—Cardiology and a history of the heart

S01E11: Dr Vikram Patel—Social medicine and global health

S01E10 Dr Daniel Kraft—The future of medicine

S01E09: Dr Richard Weller—Sunlight and heart health

S01E08: Dr Mark Tyndall—Vaping and harm reduction for opioid use

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