Penn Medicine Physician Interviews

Lisa Dobruskin., MD, reviews the management of obesity at Penn Princeton Bariatrics with a focus on continuity of patient-oriented care and the pathophysiology of weight gain and loss. Dr. Dobruskin reviews current minimally invasive surgical offerings, o...

For more than two decades, advanced practice providers at the Penn Surveillance Clinic have monitored and counseled patients with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) disease. A congenital disorder, BAV is associated with the connective tissue syndrom...

Obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Sarita Sonalkar provides an insightful review of the Penn Pregnancy Early Access Center, or PEACE Program, an integrated family planning and urgent pregnancy care center. In her engaging discussion, Dr. Sonalkar highlights ...

Aortic aneurysms contribute to thousands of aortic dissections and ruptures every year in the United States, and are virtually undetectable in the general population. In this podcast, cardiac surgeon Jeremy McGarvey, MD, desc...

Drs Timothy Markman and Keith Cengel review the devices, medications and surgical approaches to ventricular tachycardia (VT), an arrhythmia linked to sudden death, our current understanding of the origins of VT, and clinical research into new approaches at Penn, including ...

Is there a surgical answer to intractable hypertension? Drs. Taisei Kobayashi and Debra Cohen offer their clinical insights (surgery and nephrology, respectively) on catheter-based renal denervation and its indications for patients with refrac...

The second most common hematologic malignancy, multiple myeloma has an incidence of ~35,000 new cases a year in the United States. In this episode, Drs. Adam Cohen and Shivani Kapur convene to lay out a roadmap for the treatment journey ...

Dr. Leonid Emerel reviews the management of non-small cell and small cell lung cancer at the multidisciplinary cancer clinic in the Medical Arts Pavilion at Penn Medicine Princeton Thoracic Surgery....

Alexander W. R. Bridges, MD, offers the insight of a cardiothoracic surgeon to an engaging discussion of atrial fibrillation, its causes, risk factors, pathophysiology, populations affected, and treatments. The object of therapy, Dr. Bridges attes...

Heritability has long been known to play a role in aortic aneurysm and dissection for individuals with the Marfan and Loeys-Dietz syndromes. Recent research at Penn Medicine and elsewhere has revealed the presence of genetic variants linked to th...

Electrocardiologist Matthew A. Bernabei, MD, examines the history of ablation for atrial fibrillation and its latest iteration, pulsed field ablation, or PFA. Now available at Penn Medicine, PFA uses an electrical field rathe...

Cancer and surgery specialists Drs. Kara Maxwell, Daniel Lee, Jennifer Zhang, and Bryson Katona delve into the nuances of BRCA-positive breast, prostate, and pancreatic cancers in men. This wide-ranging discussion encompasses BRCA heritability, diagnostics, scr...

Kendall Lawrence, MD, a specialist in aorta surgery, examines the physiology, symptomatology, types, and causes of acute aortic dissection and describes the management of these events at the Penn Aorta Center—including Center’s direct-to-OR pro...

Dr. Nawar Latif offers a nuanced overview of heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy, or HIPEC, as an adjunct to surgery in women with ovarian cancer. The introduction of heated chemotherapy at the peritoneum greatly increases its absorption and minimizes ...

Dr. E. John Wherry, Director of the Colton Center for Autoimmunity at Penn Medicine, offers his insight on the Center’s therapeutic and novel research missions to revolutionize awareness, diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune diseases through collaborative, t...

Rare, heritable Li-Fraumeni Syndrome, imposes an approximate 90% risk of breast cancer and the sarcomas, among other cancers, over the lifetime of affected individuals. Drs. Suzanne MacFarland, and Kara Maxwell, discuss the urgent need for early diagnosis and intensive lif...