Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Karon Gibson, RN Are you a medical professional itching to be an author? In this segment, registered nurse and author Karon Gibson explains her experience authoring and publishing the book, Nurses On Their Own.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Karon Gibson, RN Registered nurse and cable TV host, Karon Gibson tells her personal story from ER nurse to medical TV host. She also offers advice on how medical professionals can break into media or at least become a resource to the media.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Karon Gibson, RN Nurse and author Karon Gibson explains the hair analysis process and explains what it can tell you about the health of your patients.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Karon Gibson, RN In this segment author and nurse Karon Gibson shares her first hand knowledge of how medical offices can maximize the insurance reimbursement for patient services provided.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Mark Plaster, MD In this segment, Dr. Plaster talks about what it was like to leave clinical practice as a successful ED physician and enlist in the US Marine Corps for the first time just after September 11th.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Mark Plaster, MD In this segment, Dr. Plaster talks about starting up his journal, Emergency Physicians Monthly. Today this is the number one free journal in ED medicine. It features his signature column, Night Shift.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Jerry Nadler, MD How does an MD also find the time to build a career in research and development? Dr. Nadler discusses 'Protected Time' and how he was able to move from a practicing clinician to researcher.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Jerry Nadler, MD Dr. Jerry Nadler, Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and Director of the Diabetes and Hormone Center of Excellence at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, VA discusses his Type I diabetes research looking for a two-drug cure.

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Raghu Mirmira, MD,PhD Physician-scientists are stretched to the max-one foot by the bed and the other by the bench. What makes them choose this life?

Host: Bruce Bloom, DDS, JD Guest: Raghu Mirmira, MD,PhD Dr. Raghu Mirmira, Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Director of the Diabetes and Hormone Center of Excellence at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, VA is here to discuss his work with transcription factors, the timing of their expression, the genes they target and their structural properties in the hopes of developing new islet cells in Type I diabetics.