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Episode Guide

season six

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Episode 601: 9/11 — The Medical Response
Guests: Dr. Steven Sampson (Clinical Professor at UCLA), Dr. Jacqueline Moline (Director, World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program)
Air Date: September 11, 2011

Episode 602: The Unfinished Agenda
Guest: Dr. Jon Andrus (Deputy Director of the Pan-American Health Organization)
Air Date: September 18, 2011

Episode 603: The AMA and Student Voices
Guest: Dr. Peter Carmel (President of the American Medical Association)
Air Date: September 25, 2011

Episode 604: The Ways We Live and Die
Guest: Dr. David Casarett (Author of Last Acts: Discovering Possibility and Opportunity at the End of Life)
Air Date: October 2, 2011

Episode 605: Slightly Funnier Than Placebo
Guest: ZDoggMD (Physician and Medical Satirist)
Air Date: October 9, 2011

Episode 606: The Underwear Drawer
Guest: Dr. Michelle Au (anesthesiologist and acclaimed author of This Won’t Hurt a Bit (And Other White Lies) and the blog The Underwear Drawer). Air Date: October 16, 2011.

Episode 607: American Medicine, Global Healing
Guests: Dr. Meg Sullivan (Timmy Global Health’s Medical Director in Guatemala) and Matt MacGregor (Executive Director, Timmy Global Health). Air Date: October 23, 2011.

Episode 608: Zombie MD
Guest: Dr. Steven Schlozman (Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School and Author of The Zombie Autopsies)
Air Date: October 30, 2011

Episode 609: Foundation for House M.D.
Guest: Dr. Harley Liker (Medical Technical Advisor for the television program House)
Air Date: November 6, 2011

Episode 610: Technically Speaking
Guest: Dr. William Hanson (Author of The Edge of Medicine)
Air Date: November 13, 2011

Episode 611: Always A Lion in the House
Guest: Dr. Robert Arceci (Director of Pediatric Oncology at Johns Hopkins University and Creator of the Emmy-Award winning documentary A Lion in the House)
Air Date: November 20, 2011

Episode 612: Saving the Safety Net
Guest: Dr. Sharon Sherlock (Executive Director for Reach Out Dayton, a clinic that provides free medical care to residents of Montgomery County in Ohio)
Air Date: November 27, 2011

Episode 613: Dr. Edlow’s Deadly Dinner Party
Guest: Dr. Jonathan Edlow (Author of The Deadly Dinner Party)
Air Date: December 4, 2011

Episode 614: The Interview
Guests: Medical student members of admissions committee
Air Date: December 11, 2011

Episode 615: Gesundheit! Featuring Patch Adams
Guest: Patch Adams (physician, social activist, and founder of the Gesundheit! Institute)
Air Date: December 11, 2011

season five

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Episode 501: An Apple a Day
Guests: Dr. Preston Maring (OB/GYN in Oakland, CA and founder of organic farmers’ market), Ben Maring (MS4 at New York University)
Air Date: January 31, 2011

Episode 502: Superbowl Special — Head Injuries and Concussion
Guests: Alex Bagley (MD/PhD student at Harvard University) and Dan Daneshvar (MD/PhD student at Boston University), founders of the Sports Legacy Institute Community Educators (SLICE) program; Dr. Matthew DiPaola, Asst Professor of Surgery, Dept. of Orthopedic Surgery, Wright State Univ. Boonshoft School of Medicine
Air Date: February 6, 2011

Episode 503: Dollars and Sense — The Economics of Health Reform
Guest: Dr. Meena Seshamani (Director of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Policy Analysis)
Air Date: February 13, 2011

Episode 504: Lessons from the End of Life
Guest: Dr. Ira Byock (Director of Palliative Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and acclaimed author of Dying Well)
Air Date: February 20, 2011

Episode 505: Spine Surgeon to Spinal Cord Injury Survivor
Guest: Dr. Scott Spann (spinal cord injury survivor and orthopedic spine surgeon)
Air Date: February 27, 2011

Episode 506: Confronting the Silent Suffering — Medical Student Depression and Burnout
Guests: Dr. Thomas Schwenk (Dean of the University of Nevada School of Medicine) Dr. Lisa Dyrbye (Department of Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN)
Air Date: March 6, 2011

Episode 507: The Inspiration Behind House
Guests: Dr. Lisa Sanders (NY Times columnist, Technical Advisor for House, and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Yale University)
Air Date: March 13, 2011

Episode 508: Robotic Surgery — Past, Present, and Future
Guests: Dr. Bruce Bernie (OB/GYN physician in Dayton, Ohio)
Air Date: March 27, 2011

Episode 509: Celebrating the Gift of Life
Guests: Dr. William Rundell (Director of Transplant Surgery at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio and Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Wright State Univ. Boonshoft School of Medicine), Dr. John Donnelly (Asst. Professor of Family Medicine at the Wright State Univ. Boonshoft School of Medicine… and a pancreas transplant recipient), Dr. Alexander Tabarrok (Professor of Economics at George Mason University and co-author of the economics blog Marginal Revolution)
Air Date: April 3, 2011

Episode 510: The Science Behind the Art — The Rational Clinical Exam
Guest: Dr. David Simel (Faculty member in the Dept. of Internal Medicine at Duke University and Editor of the Rational Clinical Examination series published by JAMA Evidence)
Air Date: April 10, 2011

Episode 511: Faith in Medicine — Healing the Whole Patient
Guest: Dr. David Stevens (Chief Executive Officer of the Christian Medical & Dental Associations and Former Medical Director for Samaritan’s Purse, with whom Dr. Stevens led medical teams into war zones in both Somalia and Sudan)
Air Date: April 17, 2011

Episode 512: Oh, the Humanities!
Guests: Residency Program Directors — Dr. Kevin Hinchey (Internal Medicine, Tufts University Baystate), Dr. Patrick Duff (OB/GYN, Univ. of Florida), and Dr. Michael Leitman (Surgery, Albert Einstein University’s Beth Israel Medical Center in NYC).
Air Date: April 24, 2011

Episode 513: The Patient in the Center
Guest: Dr. Pamela Wible (board-certified family physician in Eugene, Oregon, and nationally recognized innovator in patient-centered care)
Air Date: May 1, 2011

Episode 514: Beyond Borders — Dr. Chris Coppola, A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq
Guest: Dr. Chris Coppola (Author of Coppola: A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq)
Air Date: May 8, 2011

season four

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Episode 401: Out of this World — NASA’s Physician in Space
Guest: Dr. Michael Barratt (mission specialist with the NASA Space Shuttle Program)
Air Date: August 8, 2010

Episode 402: White Coats, Long Roads & Dreams
Guests: First year medical students and their parents (live at the at the Boonshoft School of Medicine Class of 2014 White Coat Ceremony)
Air Date: August 15, 2010

Episode 403: Resilience — Life After Loss
Guest: Dr. George Bonanno (Professor of Clinical Psychology and Chair of the Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology at Columbia University’s Teachers College and Author of The Other Side of Sadness: What The New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After a Loss)
Air Date: August 22, 2010

Episode 404: Climbing the Decision Tree
Guest: Thomas Goetz (Author of The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine and executive editor of Wired Magazine)
Air Date: September 5, 2010

Episode 405: Exploring Osteopathic Medicine
Guests: Dr. Stephen Shannon (President of the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine) and Dr. Walter Hartwig (Department Chair of Anatomy at Touro University-San Francisco and author of Med School Rx: Getting In, Getting Through, and Getting On with Doctoring)
Air Date: September 12, 2010

Episode 406: Medical School Milestone — Third Year Students Enter the Hospital
Guests: Dr. Brenda Roman (Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Medical Student Education, and Director of the Psychiatry clerkship at the Wright State Univ. Boonshoft School of Medicine), Dr. Gregory Toussaint (Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Director of Inpatient General Pediatrics, and Director of the Pediatrics clerkship rotation at the Wright State Univ. Boonshoft School of Medicine), Third-year medical students Meera Menon, Arjun Vibhakar, and Shaden Khalaf
Air Date: September 19, 2010

Episode 407: On the Hot Seat — The Medical School Interview
Guests: Dr. David Neumeyer (Associate Dean of Admissions at the Tufts University School of Medicine), Dr. David Wofsky (Associate Dean of Admissions at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine), Brad Kuhn (a second-year medical student who sits on the admissions committee at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine)
Air Date: September 26, 2010

Episode 408: Human-Centered Health Homes
Guests: Dr. Pat Jonas (past President of the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians, and current owner and president of Family Health Connections, Inc., a family focused family medicine practice where he works as a family physician), Steven Deal (secretary and a volunteer board member for the Center for Innovation in Family and Community Health)
Air Date: October 3, 2010

Episode 409: Rethinking General Surgery
Guest: Dr. George Sheldon (Director of the Health Policy and Research Institute of the American College of Surgeons and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of North Carolina)
Air Date: October 10, 2010

Episode 410: Rounding with Governor Howard Dean
Guest: Governor Howard Dean, M.D. (family physician by training, former Governor of Vermont, and 2004 U.S. Presidential candidate)
Air Date: October 17, 2010

Episode 411: Advising Capitol Hill, Dr. Peggy Wilmoth (RADIO ROUNDS 50th EPISODE!)
Guest: Dr. Peggy Wilmoth (2009-10 Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow on assignment with Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi; Nursing professor at the University of North Carolina – Charlotte; Brigadier General in the United States Army Reserve.)
Air Date: October 24, 2010

Episode 412: Cholera Outbreak in Haiti (Special Report)
Guests: Dr. Evan Lyon (Partners in Health physician who has worked in Haiti to help with relief efforts following earthquake and cholera disasters), Dr. Laurel Elder (Associate Professor of Pathology, Wright State Univ. Boonshoft School of Medicine)
Air Date: October 31, 2010

Episode 413: Mysteries & Oddities in the Mutter Museum
Guests: Dr. Robert Hicks (Director) and Anna Dhody (Curator), from the Mutter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Air Date: November 7, 2010

Episode 414: Triumph After Tragedy — 11 Seconds, 15 Years Later
Guest: Travis Roy (spinal cord injury survivor and founder of the Travis Roy Foundation)
Air Date: November 14, 2010

Episode 415: The Search for Treatment — Alzheimer’s and its Burdens
Guests: Dr. Steven T. DeKosky (Vice President and Dean for the School of Medicine at the University of Virginia), Dr. Zachary London (Director of the Neurology Residency Program at the University of Michigan)
Air Date: November 21, 2010

Episode 416: Dr. Anonymous and the Social Media (R)evolution
Guest: Dr. Anonymous (a.k.a. Dr. Mike Sevilla, a family physician in Youngstown, Ohio, social media enthusiast and host of The Doctor Anonymous Show on DoctorAnonymous.com)
Air Date: November 28, 2010

Episode 417: Medicine Today — It’s Everyone’s Business
Guest: Dr. Tom Harbin (Author of What Every Doctor Should Know… But Was Never Taught in Medical School)
Air Date: December 5, 2010

Episode 418: Brevity is its Soul
Guests: Margaret Edson (Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright of Wit), Dr. Bob Reece (Professor Emeritus of Medical Ethics at the Wright State Univ. Boonshoft School of Medicine)
Air Date: December 12, 2010

season three

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Episode 301: January Heat Wave
Guest: Harlan Selesnick (Orthopedic Surgeon and Team Physician for the NBA’s Miami Heat)
Air Date: January 3, 2010

Episode 302: Med School Rx
Guests: Dr. Walter Hartwig (Professor of Anatomy at Touro University; Author of Med School Rx: Getting In, Getting Through, and Getting On with Doctoring), Dr. Michael Leitman (General Surgery Residency Program Director at Beth Israel Medical Center, NYC)
Air Date: January 10, 2010

Episode 303: Heroes Among Us — Hope For Haiti & Battling Childhood Cancer
Guests: Dr. Evan Lyon (Partners in Health physician en route to Haiti), Brandon (neuroblastoma patient at the Haslinger Pediatric Palliative Care Center in Akron, Ohio), Dr. Steven Reichert (Internal Medicine Residency Program Director at New York Hospital Queens)
Air Date: January 17, 2010

Episode 304: The First Patient
Guests: Dr. Christine Montross (Psychiatrist and Author of Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab), Dr. Gary Frishman (OB/GYN Residency Program Director at Brown University)
Air Date: January 24, 2010

Episode 305: Social Media’s Bedside Voice, KevinMD
Guest: Dr. Kevin Pho (creator and author of KevinMD.com, the web’s leading physician blog), Dr. Gerald Berke (Director for the Otolaryngology residency program at UCLA Medical Center)
Air Date: January 31, 2010

Episode 306: Restoring Lives — A Plastic Surgeon, His Patient & A Story from Haiti
Guests: Dr. Steven Schmidt (plastic surgeon in Dayton, Ohio), Cynthia (breast cancer survivor), Dr. Douglas McKeag (Indiana University sports medicine physician), Dr. Evan Waxman (Director of the Opthamology Residency Program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center)
Air Date: February 7, 2010

Episode 307: Powerful Perspectives — Casey’s Paralysis and Dr. Lyon’s Return from Haiti
Guests: Casey (patient at the Haslinger Family Pediatric Palliative Care Center at Akron Children’s Hospital in Akron, Ohio), Dr. Evan Lyon (Partners in Health physician), Dr. Lenny Feldman and Dr. Rosalyn Stewart (Co-Directors of the Internal Medicine/Pediatrics residency program at Johns Hopkins University)
Air Date: February 14, 2010

Episode 308: Facing the Skeptics with Dr. Steven Novella
Guests: Dr. Steven Novella (Director of Neurology at Yale University and host of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast ), Dr. Tim Pritts (Director of the General Surgery Residency Program at the University of Cincinnati) and Dr. Steven Reichert (Director of Cornell University’s Internal Medicine Residency Program at New York Hospital Queens).
Air Date: February 21, 2010

Episode 309: Black History Month — Advancing Health and Wellness
Guests: Dr. John Rich (Chair of Health Management and Policy at the Drexel University School of Public Health and author of Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men), Shavon Arline (Health Care Program Director for the NAACP), Travelle Franklin-Ford (National President of the Student National Medical Association), Dr. Kevin Watt (Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine)
Air Date: February 28, 2010

Episode 310: Moving Mountains — An Inspired Effort to Eradicate Disease
Guests: Dr. Jon Andrus (Deputy Director for the Pan American Health Organization, part of the World Health Organization (WHO), and winner of the Distinguished Service Medal, the highest award of the United States Public Health Service), Dr. Alex Macario (Director of the Anesthesiology Residency Program at Stanford University)
Air Date: March 7, 2010

Episode 311: Improvization in Medicine… and All That Jazz
Guests: Dr. Paul Haidet and Dr. Gary Onady (physicians and jazz enthusiasts)
Air Date: April, 2010 (BONUS EPISODE)

Episode 312: Rounding on the Hill
Guest: Dr. James Rohack (President of the American Medical Association)
Air Date: April, 2010 (BONUS EPISODE)

Episode 313: No Letter, Now What? (Medical School Admissions Special)
Guests: Dr. Stephen Manuel (Assistant Dean of Admissions, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine), Dr. Steve Peterson (Associate Dean of Admissions, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine), Debra Stalk (Director of Admissions, The Commonwealth Medical Program)
Air Date: May, 2010 (BONUS EPISODE)

season two

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Episode 201: Rounds Goes Courtside
Guests: Dr. Brian Cole (2009 NBA Team Physician of the Year, Chicago Bulls), White Coat Confidential (Radio Rounds band)
Air Date: August 9, 2009

Episode 202: Health Inequity and Disparities (A Lyon-Hearted Approach)
Guest: Dr. Evan Lyon (Partners in Health physician who works in Cambrige MA and Port-au-Prince, Haiti)
Air Date: August 16, 2009

Episode 203: The Human Journalist
Guest: Dr. Elissa Ely (Psychiatrist in Boston, MA and writer for The New York Times and The Boston Globe)
Air Date: August 23, 2009

Episode 204: A Real WHO’s Who
Guest: Dr. Martin Makary (United Nations World Health Organization, GI surgeon at Johns Hopkins, CNN medical correspondent)
Air Date: August 30, 2009

Episode 205: Cutting to the Heart of the Matter
Guest: Dr. Anthony J. Acinapura (Cardiothoracic surgeon, Associate Professor of Surgery at New York University School of Medicine)
Air Date: September 3, 2009

Episode 206: Rounds Goes Genetic
Guest: Dr. Robert Marion (Author of Genetic Rounds: A Doctor’s Life in the Field that Revolutionized Medicine; Professor of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
Air Date: September 13, 2009

Episode 207: Hope With Honesty
Guest: Dr. Paula Termuhlen (Chief of Surgical Oncology and Director of the Surgery Residency Program at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine)
Air Date: September 20, 2009

Episode 208: H1N1 Special Report
Guest: Dr. Inzune Hwang (Technical Specialty Unit Lead for the 2009 H1N1 Response at the CDC’s Emergency Operations Center)
Air Date: September 27, 2009

Episode 209: National Child Health Day
Guests: Dr. Joel Fein (The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia), Dr. Shalini Forbis (Dayton Children’s Medical Center)
Air Date: October 4, 2009

Episode 210: Surviving the ‘Initiation’
Guest: Dr. Sandeep Jauhar (Author of Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation; Director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center; Assistant Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
Air Date: October 11, 2009

Episode 211: Blue Collar, Cold Steel
Guest: Dr. Michael Collins (Author of Hot Lights, Cold Steel and Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs; Orthopedic surgeon)
Air Date: October 18, 2009

Episode 212: Revisiting the House of God
Guest: Samuel Shem (Author of The House of God, named as one of the greatest books ever written about the medical profession, and The Spirit of the Place)
Air Date: October 25, 2009

Episode 213: You’re A Logical Doc
Guest: Dr. Daniel Miller (Urologist in Dayton, OH and Assistant Clinical Professor at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine)
Air Date: November 1, 2009

Episode 214: A Stroke of Insight
Guest: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor (author of My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey)
Air Date: November 8, 2009

Episode 215: Dr. Conrad Fischer Part I: The BEST Time to be in Medicine
Guests: Dr. Conrad Fischer (Author of Routine Miracles: Restoring Faith and Hope in Medicine), Dr. Larry Lawhorne (Chair of Geriatrics for the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine), Beth Delaney (Program Manager, Palliative Care, Miami Valley Hospital)
Air Date: November 15, 2009

Episode 216: Dr. Conrad Fischer Part II: Hope. The Facts. Heroism.
Guest: Dr. Conrad Fischer (Author of Routine Miracles: Restoring Faith and Hope in Medicine)
Air Date: November 22, 2009

Episode 217: JAMA — The Editor-in-Chief
Guest: Dr. Catherine DeAngelis (Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of the American Medical Association — JAMA; Professor of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
Air Date: November 29, 2009

Episode 218: Tracy Kidder — Beyond Mountains Beyond Mountains (Season Two Finale)
Guest: Tracy Kidder (Pulitzer Prize winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains and Strength in What Remains)
Air Date: December 6, 2009

season one

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Episode 101: The Future of Medicine
Guests: Dr. Gary LeRoy (Dean of Student Affairs and Admissions at the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University; Miami Valley Family Physician of the Year), Susan Conrad MSIV, Steve Zitelli MSIII
Air date: April 12, 2009

Episode 102: Global Health
Guests: Dr. Diklar Makola (Gastroenterologist in Dayton, Ohio with extensive experience working in the U.S and Africa), and second-year medical students Matias Iberico and Jonathan Slaughter (Co-chairs of the Boonshoft School of Medicine’s ‘Global Health Initiative’ organization).
Air date: April 19, 2009

Episode 103: Have a Heart
Guests: Dr. Franklin Handel (Cardiologist), TJ Hufford (President, Boonshoft School of Medicine Class of 2012)
Air date: April 26, 2009

Episode 104: Medical School Admissions
Guests: Dr. Stephen Peterson (Dean of Admissions, Boonshoft School of Medicine), Dr. R. Stephen Manuel (Dean of Admissions, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine), Ms. Lorna Kenyon (Director of Admission, The Ohio State University College of Medicine), Joshua Evans MSII (Student Representative for Admissions committee)
Air Date: May 3, 2009

Episode 105: Women in Medicine
Guests: Dr. Amy Reed (Vascular surgeon, University of Cincinnati), Dr. Sheela Barhan (OB/GYN), Joanna Hurrell MSII, Michelle Kline MSI, Nicole Majoras MSI, Laura Previll MSII
Air Date: May 10, 2009

Episode 106: The Healer’s Art
Guests: Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen (New York Times best-selling author of Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal), Dr. Evangeline Andarsio and Dr. Dean Parmelee (Co-Directors of the Healer’s Art program at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine)
Air Date: May 17, 2009

Episode 107: The Gift of Life
Guests: Dr. Thav Thambi-Pillai (Transplant Surgeon), Dr. John Donnelly (Family Medicine Physician and transplant recipient)
Air Date: May 24, 2009

Episode 108: Advocacy in Medicine
Guests: Dr. Alvin Jackson (Director of the Ohio Department of Health), Dr. B. Laurel Elder (Professor of Pathology, Wright State Univ. Boonshoft School of Medicine), Dr. Aaron Patterson, Tony Hesketh MSIII, George Salloum MSII, Shanthi Ramesh MSII
Air Date: May 31, 2009

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