The Sett

The Value of Child Trauma Centers

Episode 59: Dr, Mark Slidell

Mark Slidell, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Chicago. He specializes in pediatric surgery and is the Director of Pediatric Trauma at Comer’s Children Hospital.

Cars Curing Kids and Other Charitable Work

Episode 58: Dr. Peter Nichol

Peter Nichol, MD, discusses his commitment to rural healthcare on this week’s episode of the Surgery Sett. Dr. Kohler and Dr. Nichol also discuss Dr. Nichol’s work with Cars Curing Kids foundation and other charitable work to improve health for children in Wisconsin.

Here are links to organizations discussed in this podcast:

https://carscuringkids.net/

https://www.rmhcmadison.org/

A Culture of Wellness

Episode 54: Dr. Catherine Cheng

Catherine Cheng, MD, is a national speaker on physician health and well-being. Her medical interests are stress management, social and emotional aspects of health, and health education. She is a clinical instructor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Dr. Kohler spoke with Dr. Cheng after she gave her Grand Rounds Talk, “We Are the System: From Personal Resilience to A Culture of Wellness.”

https://videos.med.wisc.edu/videos/84678

Here are links to books mentioned in the podcast:

The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

https://righteousmind.com/

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard By Chip Heath and Dan Heath

https://heathbrothers.com/books/switch/

Thinking, Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374533557

New Treatments in Melanoma

Episode 51: Dr. Carol Bradford

Dr. Carol Bradford of the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center has discovered new ways to help patients with melanoma without doing too much or too little. Find out more about Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy on this week’s episode of The Surgery Sett. To hear Dr. Bradford’s Grand Rounds Talk, “Contemporary Management of Melanoma of the Head and Neck,” click here.

The Opioid Crisis: One Surgeon’s Perspective.

Episode 46: Dr. Rebecca Busch 

Rebecca Busch, MD, is a General Surgery Resident at UW but is currently taking two years away from her surgical training to pursue research with Dr. Kenneth Kudsk. Today, though, Dr. Busch talks not about her research, but about the epidemic of opioids ravaging our communities. She gave a recent Grand Rounds talk entitled, “The Opioid Crisis: One Surgeon’s Perspective.” The opioid crisis has directly impacted Dr. Busch’s family.

Measuring What (Also) Matters: High Quality End of Life Care

Episode 45: Dr. Zara Cooper 

Zara Cooper, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Cooper talks about high quality end of life care for seriously ill surgical patients.  She is also does research to improve end-of-life care through the National Institutes of Aging. Dr. Cooper is actively involved in ethics and palliative care education for surgical residents and fellows.

The Challenges of Rural Medicine

Episode 44: Dr. Julie Conyers

Julie Conyer, MD, practices medicine at PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center in Ketchikan, Alaska. Dr. Conyers is a general surgeon with more than 20-years’ experience. Dr. Conyers says she chose to specialize in general surgery after she “fell in love with it” during her third year of residency. Click HERE to see Dr. Conyer’s Grand Rounds talk “Medicine and Wide Open Spaces.”

#I Look Like a Surgeon with Drs. Logghe & Pitt

Episode 43: Dr. Heather Logghe and Dr. Susan Pitt

Heather Logghe, MD, and Susan Pitt, MD, are two of the women behind the Twitter hashtag #ILookLikeASurgeon, which raises the visibility of women surgeons and sparks discussion about the challenges women face in surgery. Drs. Kohler, Logghe and Pitt discuss how the #ILookLikeASurgeon movement grew online and reached millions of Twitter users.

 Check out Dr. Logghe's blog http://alliesforhealth.blogspot.com/

The Cost of Getting Sick

Episode 41: Dr. Daniel Abbott

Daniel Abbott, MD, is the Surgical Director of the UW Health Liver and Pancreas Center. Dr. Abbott’s clinical focus is on gastrointestinal malignancies, as well as melanoma and sarcoma. Dr. Abbott is also a health services researcher and he focuses on cost-effectiveness, systems efficiency, and socioeconomic disparity in cancer care.

To see videos of Grand Round talks click here.

Surgical Power Couples

Episode 40: Dr. Laurel Rice and Dr. Chip Foley are one of the power couples of surgery here in Madison. They did a Grand Rounds talk on the subject, which can be seen here.

Dr. Foley specializes in the treatment of diseases of the colon and rectum, including colon and rectal cancer, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, and diverticulitis. He is also the vice chairman of Clinical Operations of the General Surgery Division of University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.

Dr. Laurel Rice is chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a professor in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. She is nationally recognized as an expert in the care of women with gynecologic malignancies and her research focuses on endometrial carcinoma.