Musculoskeletal Disorders

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD
Guest: Richard Blau, MD

Dr. Richard H. Blau is the founder and Medical Director of The Arthritis Institute of Long Island in Long Island, New York and a Founding Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology. Hear Dr. Blau as he discusses his book, Too Young to Feel Old: The Arthritis Doctor's 28-Day Formula for Pain-Free Living.

Guest: Spero Karas, MD
Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD

The reported rates of failure after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair are widely varied. Dr. Spero Karas, director of the Emory Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Fellowship Program, talks host Dr. Mark Nolan Hill through the double-row rotator cuff repair procedure, a newer and more successful repair technique. Which patient populations will do best with this procedure and how do the results differ when compared with a more traditional repair?

Guest: Charles Raison, MD
Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD
Is depression a condition of immune activation? There has been a dramatic paradigm shift in how we think about inflammatory response and disease. Host Dr. Leslie Lundt welcomes Dr. Charles Raison to discuss the latest research linking inflammation and depression.

Guest: Murray Favus, MD
Host: Lauren Streicher, MD
Dr. Murray Favus, a Professor of Medicine at The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, and director of The University of Chicago Bone Program discusses denosumab, zoledronic acid, oral calcium sensing receptor antagonists, and other emerging therapies for osteoporosis.

Guest: Murray Favus, MD
Host: Lauren Streicher, MD
Dr. Lauren Streicher speaks with Dr. Murray Favus, professor of medicine at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and director of the University of Chicago Bone Disease Program, about managing patients who are not tolerating a bisphosphonate or who do not respond to bisphosphonate therapy.

Guest: Murray Favus, MD
Host: Lauren Streicher, MD
Dr. Lauren Striecher speaks to Dr. Murray Favus, a Professor of Medicine at The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, and director of The University of Chicago Bone Program. They will discuss management of patients identified with osteoporosis.

Guest: Thomas Gilliam, PhD
Host: Gary Kohn, MD
Obese workers have a disproportionate amount and intensity of workplace injuries. Dr. Gilliam suggests some trends, implications, and remedies.

Host: Gary Kohn, MD
Guest: Thomas Gilliam, PhD

What is the impact of age and obesity, and what does this mean for workforce selection processes and corporate healthcare costs?

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD
Guest: Jacob Teitelbaum, MD

Over 40 Million Americans suffer from arthritis. Join Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum, Director of the Fibromyalgia and Fatigue Centers, based in Dallas, Texas, and author of "Pain Free 1-2-3: A Proven Program for Eliminating Chronic Pain Now," discuss his 4-step natural program to treat arthritis.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD
Guest: Elizabeth Tieman, MD

Work-life balance: how many of us can say we have it, let alone come close to having it? Board-certified radiologist Dr. Betsy Tieman is one healthcare professional who can say she achieved work-life balance by leaving private practice where she was working 14 hours a day to take advantage of locum tenens work, which also enabled her to train and compete in triathlons.

Guest: Joan Lappe, PhD
Host: Renee Matthews, MD
In this segment, Dr. Lappe talks about how Vitamin D and Calcium Supplementation decreases the rate of stress fractures in female navy recruits.

Guest: Jacob Teitelbaum, MD
Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD
Join Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum, Director of the Fibromyalgia & Fatigue Centers and author of "From Fatigued to Fantastic" discuss the latest research, and treatment of chronic fatigue.

Guest: Jacob Teitelbaum, MD
Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD
Join Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum, Medical Director of the Fibromyalgia and Fatigue Centers and author of "From Fatigued to Fantastic" as he offers a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 101.