Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Arjun Srinivasan, MD Dr. Shira Johnson interviews Dr. Arjun Srinivasan, who is a Medical Epidemiologist from the CDC in Atlanta. His work is to diagnose and to prevent outbreaks of infections in the hospital and in the community. Learn about a resistant infection caused by Acinetobacter which is prolonging ICU stays across the country. Acinetobacter species has become increasingly difficult to treat due to the development of antibiotic resistance, and mortality and length of hospitalization are increased in a subset of patients.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Arjun Srinivasan, MD Join Dr Shira Johnson as she interviews Dr. Arjun Srinivasan, a Medical Epidemiologist from the CDC in Atlanta. His job is to investigate outbreaks of infections in hospitals and communities across the country and importantly, to prevent them from occurring again. Why is resistance spreading from the community to the hospital, and are we responding appropriately? What you don't know about MRSA may surprise you.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Arjun Srinivasan, MD Dr. Arjun Srinivasan is a Medical Epidemiologist at the CDC in Atlanta, and his work involves diagnosing and and stopping outbreaks of infectious diseases. Join Dr. Shira Johnson as she interviews him to learn why a virulent strain of the well known MRSA microcrobe is on the rise in the community at this time. Are we effective in our approach to the new epidemic of antibiotic resistance in this organism? And why did it occur?

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Donna Jarmusz, MA Donna Jarmusz,Vice President for Development and Strategic Initiatives of the Chicago based company Alter+care, an integrated, comprehensive consulting services company that plans, develops, finances and manages healthcare real estate assets, discusses how physicians can improve the success of their practices through Comprehensive Facility Planning, specifically Wellness Centers.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Donna Jarmusz, MA Donna Jarmusz, vice president for development and strategic initiatives for the Chicago-based company Alter+care, an integrated comprehensive consulting services company that plans, develops, finances and manages healthcare real estate assets, discusses the concept of Wellness Centers. How are physicians helped in managing the business of wellness?

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Linda Given Welch, CNM Linda Given Welch, a certified nurse-midwife currently in clinical practice in Illinois with delivery privileges at Evanston Northwestern Hospital. Linda has a masters degree in Nursing from Rush University (Chicago) and a certificate in nurse-midwifery from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is an Instructor in Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University and an Adjunct Clinical Instructor in Maternal Child Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago is discussing the clinical impact that a midwife can have.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Sabina Dambrauskas, CNMs Sabina Dambrauskas, a retired certified nurse-midwife and Instructor at the College of Nurse-Midwives at the University of Illinois at Chicago is discussing the clinical impact that a midwife can have in medical care.

Host: Gary Kohn, MD Guest: Ursula Bauer, PhD Population-level controls on smoking result in more aware and motivated smokers coming to the practicing physician's office. Dr. Bauer discusses how changing the environment, changes the smoker, and how physicians can access resource which piggy-back on these changes.

Host: Gary Kohn, MD Guest: Ursula Bauer, PhD Because of a perceived lack of leadership at the Federal level, several states and communities have taken the lead in public health policy and smoking. Dr. Bauer shares with us the experience of New York state and how this impacts both smokers and non-smokers.

Host: Gary Kohn, MD Guest: Gregory Gilbert, MD In the event of a flu pandemic, Dr. Gregory Gilbert, an Emergency Medicine Specialist at Stanford University, suggests it may make sense to keep people with suspected flu out of the ER, while triaging them to the care they need. He discusses the concept of "drive-thru" triage and how it might be adapted to community hospitals.