Checking the Vitals with Dr Quraishi
Checking the Vitals
Joining me today is Dr. Quraishi, a pediatric intensivist and ECMO advocate. In this episode, we discuss how he began his medical schooling at 16 in Mumbai, India, his transition to America to continue medical training, and how ECMO is changing and will continue to change healthcare.
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Checking The Vitals with Dr. Choll Kim: Minimally Invasive Spine Surgeon
Checking the Vitals
Joining me today is Dr. Choll Kim, a Harvard Medical School graduate who completed his residency at UCSD Medical Center and a complex spine fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. He is currently in private practice in San Diego, CA, where he specializes in minimally invasive spine surgery. In this episode, we discuss a number of topics including what made him leave the world of research and pursue a career as a surgeon, how the field of minimally invasive spine surgery has changed over the 20 years he has been practicing, and how future technology, like augmented reality, will change the surgical...
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Checking the Vitals with Dr. Alan Daniels
Checking the Vitals
Joining me today is Dr. Alan Daniels, chief of spine surgery at brown university and University Orthopedics. In this episode, we discuss how Dr. Daniels found his way to both healthcare and to his surgical specialty. We also discuss how he handles training his residents and his theory on how a patient should seek out the best surgeon for their needs.
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Checking the Vitals with Dr. Thomas Gruber
Checking the Vitals
Joining me today is Dr. Thomas Gruber. Board-certified neurosurgeon in Paducah Kentucky at Baptist Health. In this episode we discuss. How the democratization of technologies is making patient care better, and how his passion for helping patients with glioblastoma‘s has led him to write a patient’s guide for the illness.
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Checking the Vitals with Dr. Levy
Checking the Vitals
I’m Todd Schlosser and joining me today is Dr. Charles Levy, MBA, neurological surgeon and CEO of Affordable Healthcare Solutions. In this conversation, we discuss his transition from soldier to doctor. We also take a look at how a mentor’s faith in his abilities changed his medical career and how new technologies can be used in healthcare to reduce overall costs.
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Checking The Vitals with Dr. Leon Eydelman
Checking the Vitals
Joining me today is Dr. Leon Eydelman, an Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care Unit Physician. In this conversation, we discuss why he decided to focus on emergency medicine. We also take a look at his focus on ECMO and his experiences with setting up ECMO programs. Enjoy the conversation.
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Checking the Vitals with Sherri Mckinney
Checking the Vitals
In this episode, we examine what has led to the current blood crisis in America and how this issue is impacting hospitals, healthcare workers, and patients. We also discuss how we can all work together to overcome this crisis. Enjoy the conversation.
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Checking the Vitals with Greg Mork
Checking the Vitals
Joining me today is Greg Mork, Director of Clinical Perfusion at Rush University Medical Center. In this conversation, we discuss how he “backed into” his job as a perfusionist, how the training for perfusionists has changed over the years, and he shares an incredible story that left both of us in tears.
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Checking The Vitals with Ed DeLaney and Dr. Derek Brinster
Checking the Vitals
Joining me today is Ed DeLaney, the Director of Perfusion at Northwell Health, and Dr. Derek Brinster, a cardiovascular thoracic surgeon and Director of Aortic Surgery at Northwell Health. In this conversation, we discuss how perfusionists and surgeons work together to provide excellent patient care during heart surgery. We also examine how vital communication is in the operating room, how innovations happen, and how they are then shared with other surgery teams.
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Checking The Vitals Dr. Ziad Hage
Checking the Vitals
Joining me today is Dr. Ziad Hage from Novant Health in Charlotte, NC. Dr. Hage is a board-certified skull-based neurosurgeon specializing in cerebrovascular and endovascular approaches. In this episode, we talk about how his family inspired him to enter the healthcare space, what exactly led him to the surgical space, his transition from Lebanon to the United States after medical school, and how a conversation with a friend made him change his surgical focus from plastics to neurosurgery.
info_outlineIn this conversation, Steven and I discuss how a great mentorship led him to a career in neurosurgery. We also discuss how pediatrics has its own specific challenges, both on the operating room table and in communicating with the patient.