The EMJ Podcast: Insights For Healthcare Professionals

In this second instalment, Jonathan and Saira Hameed, Consultant Endocrinologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and a Senior Tutor and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London, delve further into advocating for patients and collaborating across specialities. Find out her plan to prevent the children of today from ever becoming patients.

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(00:33)- Introduction

(01:03)- Dangers of drug use without a prescription

(03:17)- Perseverance in clinical research

(06:20)- Advocating for patients

(09:00)- Thinking upstream

(11:28)- Advice for aspiring medical professionals

(13:37)- Saira’s three wishes for healthcare

What is the relationship between food and metabolic health? Find out with Saira Hameed, Consultant Endocrinologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and a Senior Tutor and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. In this episode, Jonathan and Hameed discuss her book “The full Diet,” and how food intake alters energy expenditure in turn metabolic rate.

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(00:00)-Introduction

(02:54)-The evolution of Saira’s journey

(05:49)- Imperial-SatPro weight management programme

(12:27)- The Full Diet

(20:59)- Powerful of the 200 references

(24:54)- What we eat, how we eat, and what we weigh have an impact

Is social media a force for good or evil? Find out in this week's podcast episode, where Jonathan and Brennan Spiegel, Director of Health Services Research at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center explore AI and social media, before discussing irritable bowel syndrome and the gastro-intestinal manifestations of COVID-19.

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(00:00)-Introduction

(01:02)- Social media as a force for good or evil

(07:36)-Artificial intelligence: preserving the humanity of healing

(11:48)-Gastro-intestinal manifestations of COVID-19

(14:34)-Navigating the assault course of the GI tract

(16:40)-Irritable bowel syndrome

(20:26)-The flaws of healthcare systems, how can technology help?

(24:55)-Brennan’s 3 wishes

Join Michelle Michels, Head of the Centre of Expertise for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, for the latest episode of the EMJ Podcast. A summary of the pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of HCM is presented, followed by a discussion on the challenges in managing HCM, the correlations between genotype and phenotype, and significant advancements derived from the analysis of long-term extension data. Listen now for more insights into this fascinating subject!

In this week’s episode, Jonathan is joined by Geraldine Dawson, Director of the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development, and the Duke Autism Clinic, Durham, North Carolina, USA. In the first of a two-part episode, the pair discuss autism screening, the characteristics of autism in infancy, and the benefits of early intervention in social interactions.

Use the following timestamps to navigate the content in this episode: (00:00)-Introduction (02:15)-What led Dawson to an academic career in psychology and autism (05:09)-How do we characterise being ‘on the spectrum’? (09:29)-Aetiology of autism: genetic and environmental factors (13:20)-Dawson’s early, groundbreaking research into autism symptoms in infancy (17:17)-Why is the incidence of autism increasing? (19:45)-The Early Start Denver Model: early autism interventions (23:24)-Time Magazine’s medical breakthrough of 2012