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Spend Money on AI or Just Give Doctors More Time? Eric J. Topol, MD; Abraham Verghese, MD; Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD DISCLOSURES September 04, 2019

Advanced Radiology MSK MRI - Christine Chung MD Christine Chung, MD, is a world renowned musculoskeletal (MSK) radiologist, professor of radiology, clinical translational researcher, and the director of the UC San Diego's MSK Imaging Research Group.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, PHD: Founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN: Nursing professor, President, Mind & Life Institute Congressman Tim Ryan: Mindfulness advocate, 2020 Presidential candidate Kristin Neff, PhD: Author, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself Bobby Mukkamala, MD: Member, AMA Board of Trustees Ron Epstein, MD: Author, Attending: Mindfulness, Medicine and Humanity And many others!

"Jennifer M Radin, PhD Nathan E Wineinger, PhD Prof Eric J Topol, MD Steven R Steinhubl, MD"

"In this podcast, IFM's Director of Medical Education, Dan Lukaczer, ND, interviews researcher, educator, and clinician David Rakel, MD, on the power of empathy, compassion, the placebo effect, and the patient story. In particular, they explore how empathy and sympathy can lead to burnout, while compassion can be restorative." shared by Vicky Newman

Recommended by DeAunne Denmark MD PhD: BJ Miller, MD @ UCSF Palliative Medicine - one of the foremost experts and innovators in the field. "You don't have to spend much time there (Zen Hospice) to realize that the most crucial, and distinctive, piece of the operation is its staff of volunteers. Freed of most medical duties by the nursing staff, the volunteers act almost as existential nurses. They sit with residents and chat, offering their full attention, unencumbered by the turmoil a family member might feel. The volunteers are ordinary people: retired Macy's executives, social workers, bakers, underemployed millennials or kibitzing empty-nesters. Many are practicing Buddhists. Many are not. (Miller isn't.) But Buddhism informs their training. There's an emphasis on accepting suffering, on not getting tripped up by one's own discomfort around it. "You train people not to run away from hard things, not to run away from the suffering of others," Miller explained.

Recommended by DeAunne Denmark MD PhD: "Most people who need palliative care are not dying. They are living, and often for a very long time with serious illnesses.... They have a tremendous burden of suffering and caregiver distress, but they are not dying. Palliative care was an answer to that gap. It was recognizing that living with a serious illness nowadays is almost always a chronic disease. No matter how long people have to live, they deserve the same attention to quality of life, treatment of symptoms, management of depression, support for their families, and support for social issues like financing and housing. It should be based on need, not prognosis." -- Diane Meier, MD

"Leroy Hood, MD, PhD SVP and Chief Science Officer, Providence St. Joseph Health; Chief Strategy Officer, Co-founder and Professor, ISB"

"Melanie R. Fiorella, MD Primary Care Physician Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health Specialties: Primary Care Family Medicine (Primary Specialty) Integrative & Holistic Medicine Pediatrics"

American Nutrition Association The Genomics of Obesity Sharon Hausman-Cohen, MD The modernization of our society has contributed to higher rates of obesity through an environment that promotes increased caloric intake and decreased physical activity. However, recent studies suggest that genetics may contribute to 40-70% of obesity with the discovery of more than 50 genes that are strongly associated with obesity. Changes in the environment have significantly increased obesity rates over the last 20 years, and the presence or absence of genetic factors can protect us from or predispose us to obesity in conjunction with diet and lifestyle factors that support healthy weight. In this webinar, Dr. Hausman-Cohen will * Describe how the leptin pathway is interrelated to the functions of genes in the hypothalamus, as well as how inflammation, fat absorption and insulin can contribute to obesity. * Discuss how specific food intake can be linked to obesity risk and how weight loss can be individualized based on a patient's genomics. * Attain practical ways of discussing various obesity interventions and patterns with patients - whether or not practitioners have access to patient genomic data. Category"

Coronavirus Safety Guide by Andrew Junkin, MD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School Boston, MA First published: March 23, 2020 | Last updated: May 3, 2020 This guide is also available in Spanish

"Learn more Click here to subscribe to the CTRI News and Funding Opportunities monthly newsletter. Learn more   Director's Message I am pleased to announce the availability of the ACTRI Virtual Research Desktop (VRD) for UC San Diego Health research scientists and staff. The service is a collaboration between ACTRI and UC San Diego Health System Information Services (IS). The VRD is a HIPAA-compliant virtual desktop that operates in a secure private cloud server environment managed by the ACTRI and housed in a UC San Diego data center. Read more from Director Gary S. Firestein, MD"

Mimi Guarneri on PBS!

"The relationship between doctors and patients has eroded over recent decades, with minimal time and keyboards as the main culprits. Physicians-and all clinicians-are experiencing burnout at increasing rates, and superficial contact with patients is resulting in diagnostic errors and unnecessary tests and procedures. In his latest book, Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again, Eric Topol, MD, reveals how artificial intelligence (AI) can help restore the critical human connection between doctor and patient. Described by many in the medical field as a futurist, Topol gives readers a deep dive into how AI will not only transform the practice of medicine, but also radically reshape health systems and impact biomedical research."

Dr. K's mentor "Lee Hood, MD, PhD, is a pioneer in the systems approach to biology and medicine. His research has focused on molecular immunology, biotechnology, and genomics. Dr. Hood began his career at Caltech, where he and his colleagues developed the DNA gene sequencer and synthesizer and the protein synthesizer and sequencer, which paved the way for mapping the human genome. A pillar in the biotechnology field, Dr. Hood has played a role in founding more than fourteen biotechnology companies, including Amgen, Applied Biosystems, Darwin, and Integrated Diagnostics."

"David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN) and one of the youngest individuals to be appointed to the faculty at Penn Medicine, where he is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in Translational Medicine & Human Genetics, Founding Director of the Center for Study & Treatment of Castleman & inflammatory Lymphadenopathies (CSTL). An NIH-funded physician-scientist, he has dedicated his life to discovering new treatments and cures for deadly disorders like idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD), which he was diagnosed with during medical school. As common as ALS and more deadly than lymphoma, iMCD involves the immune system attacking and shutting down the body's vital organs such as the liver, kidneys, bone marrow, and heart. After spending months hospitalized in critical condition, having his last rites read, and having four deadly relapses, he is now in his longest remission ever thanks to a treatment that he identified in the lab."

DeAunne Denmark, MD, PhD: "To date, the FDA has granted EUA for only these 4 companies: Cellex, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, Chembio Diagnostic Systems and the Mount Sinai Laboratory. Really looking forward to the validation and head-to-head comparison data promised here from the FDA, Chan Zuckerberg (supposedly this week?), and others. That should be telling... "

Recommended by DeAunne Denmark, Phd, MD

Recommended by Tyler Orion, Endorsed by DeAunne Denmark, MD, PhD :This is an example of the high quality and thoughtful study design needed to accurately and meaningfully interpret real-world tracking data. This prediction signal would not have been detected in the larger (inconsistently reporting) group, or in those who hadn't tracked enough before getting sick. Which relates to the importance of creating a baseline health timeline and consistently collecting robust, standardized pre-intervention contextual data. And another illustration re: why I keep circling back to these in all of our n-of-1 discussions :)

Recommended by: DeAunne Denmark, MD, PhD "It's important for the public to be aware of what's available to them in the world of genomics and precision medicine. Various resources are available that provide general and disease-specific information about genomics and precision medicine. A list of some resources available to the public is provided below, but additional resources are likely available through your health provider or other groups such as the US National Institutes of Health."

The resource index in this article is incredible.