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The History of Surgical Education in America

Episode 49: Dr. Joseph Losee

Dr. Joseph Losee, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics in the Division of Plastic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, is the guest this week. Dr. Kohler spoke with Dr. Losee after he gave a Grand Rounds talk called “The History of Surgical Education in America: Past, Present and Back to the Future.” It’s a remarkable distillation of how we got to where we are. Dr. Kohler and Dr. Losee talk about the informal medical education of Colonial America and medicine’s Wild West days. And they ponder what the future of medical education could look like. To see Dr. Losee's Grand Rounds talk, click here.

Loin Pain Hematuria Syndrome--A Surgical Disease

Episode 48: Dr. Robert Redfield

Robert Redfield, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Transplantation in Department of Surgery here at U.W.—Madison, and holds the Endowed Chair, Berkman Family Transplantation Professorship. Dr. Redfield specializes in pancreatic and multi-organ transplants, along with autotransplantation. Dr. Kohler and Dr. Redfield discuss the rare disease, Loin Pain Hematuria and the treatment offered here at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Redfield gave an illuminating Grand Rounds talk, which can be found here.

The Simplicity and Complexity of Organ Transplantation

Episode 47: Dr. Allan Kirk 

Allan Kirk, MD, specializes in organ transplantation and is the chair of the Department of Surgery at Duke University. Dr. Kirk received his MD and PhD in Immunology from Duke University. He also received a fellowship from U.W.--Madison to study multi-organ transplantation. Dr. Kirk and Dr. Kohler discuss the simplicity and complexity of organ transplantation and what defines a surgeon.Dr. Kirk he gave a terrific Grand Rounds talk, which can be found 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/

Maintaining Weight Loss

Episode 42: Dr. Corrine Voils 

Corrine Voils, PhD, is a psychologist and the scientific director of Wisconsin Surgical Outcomes Research Program at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Voils has been the Principal Investigator of randomized controlled trials to evaluate the efficacy of a weight loss maintenance intervention.

She will be discussing her findings about weight loss maintenance at the 2018 UW Obesity Management Summit to be held May 18 & 19 at Monona Terrace in downtown Madison. Registration is open online.

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.