UC San Francisco (Audio)
Programs from the University of California, San Francisco.
Episodes
August 18, 2025 • 39 mins
As part of the 2025 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Dr. Raul Gutierrez,
Associate Professor of Pediatrics at San Francisco General Hospital, talks about supporting immigrant children. Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 40619]
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August 15, 2025 • 57 mins
Dr. Robert Baron explores current strategies for treating obesity, emphasizing evidence-based approaches to diagnosis, lifestyle change, medication, and long-term weight maintenance. He explains the limitations of body mass index (BMI) as a diagnostic tool and highlights the importance of assessing both excess fat and its health consequences. He reviews dietary principles, including calorie reduction, avoiding added sugars, and the...
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August 13, 2025 • 34 mins
As part of the 2025 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Allen Friedland,
Terri Hancharick and Jack Jadach talk about a collaborative approach to enhancing health in fitness centers. Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 40613]
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August 8, 2025 • 57 mins
Dr. Robert Baron outlines major updates in type 2 diabetes care, emphasizing that blood sugar control alone does not significantly reduce cardiovascular risk, though it helps prevent microvascular complications. New guidelines now prioritize medications with proven cardiovascular and kidney benefits—GLP-1 receptor agonists and SGLT2 inhibitors—over traditional first-line therapy like metformin. Baron explains how these newer drugs ...
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August 3, 2025 • 33 mins
UCSF researchers June Chan and Stacey Kenfield share evidence-based strategies for improving prostate cancer outcomes through exercise and diet. They highlight studies showing that physical activity—including resistance and high-intensity interval training—is linked to lower risk of prostate cancer progression and death. They discuss plant-based diets, dietary indices, and specific foods like tomatoes, fish, and nuts, along with th...
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August 1, 2025 • 58 mins
Dr. Robert Baron reviews best practices in lipid management for preventing cardiovascular disease, with a focus on statin use. He outlines the strong evidence for statins in reducing heart attack and stroke risk by 25–33%, particularly in patients with clinical atherosclerotic disease, diabetes, or high LDL. He explains why shared decision-making is key in primary prevention, where guidelines vary and risk thresholds are debated. B...
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As part of the 2025 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Dr. Mary Dubon of Harvard Medical School talk about adaptive and para sports for youth with physical and developmental disabilities. Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 40617]
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July 28, 2025 • 10 mins
Prostate cancer and its treatments can significantly impact bone health, increasing the risk of fractures and weakening the immune system. Dr. Terence Friedlander explains how hormone therapy, radiation, and chemotherapy contribute to bone loss and highlights the importance of regular monitoring. He reviews the role of bone-building cells and the effects of osteopenia and osteoporosis, conditions that become more common with age an...
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July 28, 2025 • 13 mins
Dr. Steven Seyedin presents an overview of PSA recurrence and risk factors for assessment. A PSA test is a blood test used to detect prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in the blood, which can be elevated in cases of prostate cancer and is a common screening tool. He explains how PET, CT, and MRI work, highlighting the precision of PSA PET in detecting cancer spread by targeting PSA proteins on tumor cells. This imaging method ...
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July 20, 2025 • 39 mins
As part of the 2025 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Dr. Diane Cullinane talks about the spectrum of therapeutic approaches for working with people with autism. Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 40615]
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July 18, 2025 • 15 mins
UCSF’s Dr. Cornelia Ding demystifies the prostate cancer pathology report and explains how to read and understand it. The report contains five key sections: patient information, diagnosis and comments, gross description, and any addendums or amendments. It serves multiple purposes—as a medical, legal, and clinical communication tool—and often contains technical language not written for patients. Dr. Ding walks through important ter...
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July 16, 2025 • 12 mins
Prostate cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer and second leading cause of cancer death among men in the U.S., with evolving screening and treatment practices reshaping care in 2025. UCSF's Dr. Matthew Cooperberg highlights a shift away from overdiagnosis and overtreatment of low-risk cancers, focusing instead on identifying aggressive disease through tools like MRI and advanced biomarker tests. A new “smarter screening...
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July 14, 2025 • 20 mins
In this presentation, UCSF’s Dr. Eric Small explains the role of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in prostate cancer treatment across various stages of the disease. He discusses how prostate cancer cells rely on testosterone to grow and how medications can effectively reduce testosterone levels by targeting hormone signals or blocking production. Dr. Small outlines the different forms of ADT—injectables, implants, and pills—and r...
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July 14, 2025 • 35 mins
As part of the 2025 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Yao Du from the Keck School of Medicine at USC, talk about the risks and benefits of technology and generative AI. Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 40624]
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July 13, 2025 • 47 mins
As part of the 2025 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Edlyn Peña,
Professor of Educational Leadership Doctoral Program at California Lutheran University, Emma Cladis, a Vanguard University student, talk about college for people with autism. Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 40612]
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July 11, 2025 • 41 mins
As part of the 2025 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Dr. Eric London, Director of the Autism Treatment Laboratory at the New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, examines the evolving understanding of autism’s diagnostic label. Speaking as a psychiatrist, researcher, and parent of a child on the autism spectrum, he explores how definitions of autism have changed over time and are largely base...
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July 7, 2025 • 9 mins
Dr. Hao Nguyen presents focal therapy as a promising treatment option for carefully selected prostate cancer patients, especially those with intermediate-risk, localized disease. Unlike whole-gland treatments, focal therapy targets only the tumor while preserving healthy tissue, reducing the risk of side effects like urinary or sexual dysfunction. UCSF offers multiple approaches—high-intensity focused ultrasound, cryotherapy, and i...
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July 7, 2025 • 42 mins
As part of the 2025 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Marta E. Wosińska from the Center on Health Policyat The Brookings Institution talks about medication shortages. Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 40616]
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As part of the 2025 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Dr. Whitney Deal, an emergency physician at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, talks about using the least restrictive approach when dealing with an agitated autistic patient. Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 40614]
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UCSF oncologist Dr. Jonathan Chou discusses how genetics and genomics are transforming the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. He explains how inherited and acquired mutations—especially in DNA repair genes like BRCA2—can impact both cancer risk and treatment decisions. Dr. Chou outlines how UCSF researchers use tumor and blood-based biopsies to identify key mutations and genomic features that help tailor care for each pati...
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