Dr. Larry Shulman of University of Pennsylvania meets with hosts Charu Aggarwal & Jack West to discuss the promise & challenges of telemedicine in the US & internationally, physician burnout, & the critical value of building programs for global oncology. (41:50)
Drs. Aggarwal and West welcome Dr. Vincent Rajkumar, Professor of Medicine and multiple myeloma from Mayo Clinic, as they discuss global oncology, academic publishing in a digital world, and advances in telemedicine in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. (41:37)
Co-hosts Charu Aggarwal and Jack West are joined by guest expert Sanjay Popat to discuss how practice should change & open questions on molecular testing & adjuvant EGFR inhibitor osimertinib for resected early stage EGFR mutation-positive NSCLC. (48:30)
Drs. Charu Aggarwal and Jack West chat with Dr. Gil Morgan, Medical Oncologist at Skåne University Hospital in Lund, Sweden and founder of Cancer News Service OncoAlert, to discuss the genesis of OncoAlert and how it has helped to cultivate a greater sense of an international oncology community through digital education. (48:20)
Dr. Alfredo Addeo, Sr Oncology Consultant at Geneva University Hospital, chats with Dr. Jack West about his path of growing up in Italy, moving to the UK, then Switzerland, & his adventures practicing medicine in different cultures & health care systems. (51:11)
Dr. Taofeek Owonikoko of Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University speaks with Dr. Jack West about his decision to retrain in oncology, the draw he felt to thoracic oncology and small cell lung cancer, & a few cultural challenges he felt along the way. (27:45)
Dr. Gilberto Lopes, medical oncologist at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, chats with host Dr. Jack West about the growth of global oncology as a field, new training programs, and his role as Editor-in-Chief of ASCO’s Journal of Global Oncology. (24:14)
Dr. Gilberto Lopes from U Miami Sylvester Comprehensive School of Medicine recounts his path from childhood & education in Brazil to training in Miami, then Singapore, back to Brazil, & his return to Univ of Miami to develop a new global oncology program. (36:06)
Dr. Jack West & pulmonary pathologist Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, MD from the Cleveland Clinic discuss changing workflows in pathology introduced by artificial intelligence, telemedicine, & new digital platforms for education & support. (27:17)
Dr. Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, pathologist at Cleveland Clinic, speaks with Dr. Jack West about the strong pathology community on Twitter and how social media are providing new opportunities to share information and create broader medical communities. (26:13)
