Hosts Kym McNicholas and Dr. John Phillips are LIVE in Venice, Italy at one of the most advanced educational events for doctors treating peripheral artery disease, a circulation issue impacting mainly the legs that impacts three-in-five people who suffer a heart attack. It's also the leading cause of amputation in the country. CLI-C Global, founded by Dr. Mariano Palena and Dr. Marco Manzi share best practices at the event for treating the most advanced stages of this disease. Hear some of the most impactful moments from this event during this week's episode.
Jenny couldn’t wait for her Mom to meet her firstborn. So she flew her in from the Congo and within days she fell ill and was hospitalized. She was placed on machines and medications to try and save her life but didn’t realize at that time it might be at the expense of her limbs. Jenny’s Mom is a live thanks to the ECMO machine and vasopressors but she now has to learn to live without all four limbs. Jenny and her sisters are hoping their Moms story will help save others from the same fate.
Serial Entrepreneur Jeff Stevens is not a doctor. He’s never worked in medicine in any capacity. But he is making the changes we all want to see in medicine as a computer scientist. He cut his teeth on healthcare innovation, combining what he learned about the physics of a microphone when he worked as a music engineer intern starting in college, with data analytics he practiced as a risk mitigator and technology futurist on Wall Street. Listen to how Jeff’s life unfolds from a boy on a paper route, to learning computer programming languages, to capitalizing on those manipulating the stock markets, to music engineer, to technology futurist and evangelist, to developing a diagnostic tool for expecting Moms that caught the attention of NASA, to ultimately creating what could bridge the gap in healthcare, putting potentially life-saving medical grade diagnostics in your hands that can be remotely monitored by your healthcare team. Hosts Kym McNicholas and Dr. John Phillips get inside the heart and the mind of this self-proclaimed ‘dreamer.’
Society of Vascular Surgery Executive Director Ken Slaw, Ph.D, and his wife Anne Slaw, JD, share their quest to save their son who was diagnosed with a rare, life-threatening, genetic, neurologic disease present at birth. Familial Dysautonomia, abbreviated FD, at the time of diagnosis, had a life expectancy rate of 10 years. That wasn't acceptable to Ken and Anne. Ken reached out to his life-long network of healthcare professionals and attended pediatric conferences in search of researchers while Anne launched FD Now, a 501(c)(3) and started fundraising. They teamed up with Dr. Berish Rubin and Dr. Sylvia Anderson, who through the partnership launched The Laboratory for Familial Dysautonomia Research at Fordham University, New York, which is dedicated to studying the molecular biology of this disease. In addition to the discovery of the gene mutation that causes FD, research at the laboratory has produced numerous life-changing treatment breakthroughs. Listen in to hosts Kym McNicholas and Dr. John Phillips interview Ken and Anne about their story, which they hope will inspire others to not give up hope.
William Shakespeare said eyes are the windows to the soul. But they're so much more than that. Eyes are the windows to vascular health. Your eyes are windows to the live action of blood vessels, nerves and connective tissues throughout your body. Problems spotted in the eye are often the first signs of disease lurking elsewhere. Dr. Harvey Fishman is here to talk about traditional and innovative diagnostics that can give you not only insight into your eye health, but also your vascular health with indicators that show diabetes, high blood pressure, blocked vessels, aortic aneurysm, and more. Dr. Harvey Fishman is an ophthalmologist who's always on the cutting edge of what's new and next in eye care. A former Chief Resident in Ophthalmology, Stanford University, Department of Ophthalmology, he is now medical director of Fishman Vision while always continuing to pursue multiple entrepreneurial ventures. He provides a window to the future of your eye exam as a key source of information for your overall health.