INTERVIEWS

Alistair Fulton, Vice President and General Manager of Semtech’s Wireless and Sensing Products Group discusses Semtech’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and how their customers worldwide have integrated its LoRa® technology with Alibaba Cloud’s and Tencent Cloud’s platforms to deploy IoT-based monitoring applications for quarantine scenarios in China, while smart temperature sensors are also enabling healthcare workers in Italy to identify individuals with a high temperature. These are just a few examples being done by high-tech companies such as Semtech.  

Dr. James Wheless, MD, Co-Director of the Le Bonheur Comprehensive Epilepsy Program discusses how sleep deprivation due to stress and anxiety over the pandemic can trigger an increase in breakthrough seizure frequency, intensity, and length.  He offers tips for talking to patients about the importance of sleep health, the importance of epilepsy action plans, the role of rescue medications to manage overall health and limit hospital visits, and how telehealth consultations lend themselves especially well to reviewing proactive epilepsy care plans with patients and caregivers.

Dr. Emily Lopes, a Gastroenterology Clinical and Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital discusses the Abstract presentation from Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) 2020 titled “Dietary gluten intake and risk of inflammatory bowel disease among US women without celiac disease”.

Dr. Andrew Chan, Chief of Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital discusses the presentation from Digestive Disease Week® titled “Physical activity is associated with a lower risk of esophageal cancer”.

Dr. Keyan Salari, a urologic oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and instructor in surgery, Harvard Medical School discusses his Abstract presentation from the American Urological Association (AUA2020) Annual Meeting titled “5-alpha reductase inhibitors and risk of overall and fatal bladder cancer”.

Returning guest, award-winning author, speaker, and international health advocate Silvie Beljanski discusses several tips on strengthening immunity and obtaining wellness balance.  She talks about how she views COVID-19 as an environmental toxin, how the war on cancer is impacted by the focus and resources applied to COVID-19, and what we need to know about integrative medicine when considering experimental COVID drug treatments.

Dr. Raymond Liu, MD, discusses a new research paper that details how Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) quickly ramped up its existing telehealth oncology program at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.  The paper published in JCO Oncology Practice, titled “Telehealth in Oncology During the COVID19 Outbreak: Bringing the house call back virtually,” offers insights for medical centers and health systems throughout the country that are facing similar challenges.

Dr. Jacob Sands, a thoracic medical oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, discusses advanced lung cancer and a new initiative by Merck in collaboration with the GO2 Foundation for Lung Cancer called “Worth the Fight: Taking on Lung Cancer”, that offers support and resources to people impacted by advanced lung cancer and empower them to take an active role in their cancer care.

Returning guest, Ken Cahill, CEO of SilverCloud Health, discusses how they are responding to the coronavirus pandemic with the increased demand for effective mental health treatment.  SilverCloud offers an industry-leading, clinically-validated digital mental health platform used by over 300 organizations around the world including Optum Health and 70% of the UK’s NHS.

Dr. Michael Dougan, gastroenterologist/internist at Massachusetts General Hospital discusses the research presented at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) 2020 titled “Immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated celiac disease”.