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Scientific Sense ®Decision Options ® by Gill Eapen: Mr. Aby Alexander on emerging technologies in connectivity.Decision Options ® by Gill Eapen: Mr. ABY ALEXANDER, CEO of Broadsat Technologies, that is on a mission to deliver cutting-edge connectivity solutions where traditional fiber infrastructure is not viable. His expertise in ATSC 3.0 and Broadcast Internet technologies has been crucial in shaping the innovative approach to remote area connectivity. Prior to founding the company, Aby was the President & CEO of Thomson Broadcast America’s, & Thomson Holding.
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GU Cast | Urology PodcastMeet the translational scientists working on PSMA theranosticsAnother GU Cast special from the ProsTIC Preceptorship in Melbourne. Today Dr Renu Eapen welcomes back guest co-host Associate Professor Arun Azad, Medical Oncologist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, to discuss some fantastic translational work going on in his Centre based on our Lutetium PSMA experience. We welcome three great guests to talk about their work. Dr Luc Furic is Head of Translational Prostate Cancer Research at Mac; Dr Louise Kostos is a Medical Oncologist doing a PhD looking at mechanisms of resistance with LuPSMA, and Dr Heidi Fettke is a Post-Docotoral researcher focussing on circulating tumour cells...2022-04-1034 min
Scientific Sense ®Prof. Azra Raza of Columbia University on Cancer diagnosis, prevention and treatmentScientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Azra Raza is Professor of Medicine and the Director of the MDS Center at Columbia University. Her research focus has been the identification of the presence of cancer as early as possible and to prevent it from developing into its end-stage monstrosity.2021-12-1650 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Nathalie Mathieu-Bolh of University of Vermont on the economics of obesity, food and policyWe are what we eat: Obesity, income, and social comparisons, Could obesity be contagious? social influence, food consumption behavior, and body weight outcomes, The elusive link between income and obesity, Hand-to-mouth Consumption and Calorie Consciousness: Consequences for Junk-food Taxation, and Economic Stress and Body Weight During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Nathalie Mathieu-Bolh is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont. Her research focuses on the effect of tax reforms, optimal tax...2021-12-141h 07Scientific Sense ®Prof. Philip Lebel of Montclair State University on risk, economic growth and policyThe Role of Creative Innovation in Economic Growth, Managing Risk in Africa Through Institutional Reform, and Risk and the State: How Economics and Neuroscience Shape Political Legitimacy to Address Geopolitical, Environmental, and Health Risks for Sustainable Governance
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Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Philip Lebel is emeritus professor of economics at Montclair State University. His research spans drivers of economic growth and management of risk2021-12-111h 00Scientific Sense ®Prof. Frank Wilczek of MIT and the 2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics on the Fundamentals of PhysicsFundamentals: Keys to Reality
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Frank Wilczek who is Professor of Physics at MIT and the 2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Known for the discovery of asymptotic freedom, the development of quantum chromodynamics, the invention of axions, and more.
Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo2wiIHPM35xPawotek2IDA/join2021-12-081h 29Scientific Sense ®Prof. Nadine Strossen of New York Law School on free speech and cancel cultureAmerica’s Censored Speech Platforms, and Resisting Cancel Culture
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Nadine Strossen is Professor of Law, Emerita at New York Law School. She is also the Former President, American Civil Liberties Union from 1991–20082021-12-061h 04Scientific Sense ®Prof. Alex Frangi of the University of Leeds on in-silico clinical trialsIn-silico trial of intracranial flow diverters replicates and expands insights from conventional clinical trials, and Virtual endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms: models and uncertainty.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Alex Frangi is Chair of Computational Medicine at the University of Leeds. His focus area of research includes computational medicine with emphasis on computational medical imaging, image-based biomechanics, machine learning, deep learning, and big health data analytics2021-12-041h 01Scientific Sense ®Prof. Jennifer Jordan of IMD, Switzerland on leadershipEvery Leader Needs to Navigate These 7 Tensions, Cracking the millennial code, and Antecedents of leaders' power sharing: The roles of power instability and distrust
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Jennifer Jordan is Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at IMD, Switzerland. Her research focuses on the areas of digital leadership, ethics, influence, and power.2021-12-0349 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastPSA - creating more Patient Stress and Anxiety than usual!In the past few weeks we noticed some strangeness appearing in the PSA reports from one of our major pathology providers here in Australia. Dorevitch Pathology had started reporting PSA levels using BOTH the Siemens Atellica assay, AND the Abbott Alinity assay on the same blood sample. So patients were turning up with two PSA results for the same sample - and were these the same?? Afraid not! Sometimes the differences were huge, leading to much "Patient Stress and Anxiety". So we decided to get some expert help, and invited Dr Alan McNeil, Chemical Pathologist at Dorevitch, to...2021-11-2940 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Bruce Hammock of University of California, Davis on insect Biology and Mammalian EnzomologyInsect Biology, Mammalian Enzomology, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry, and Immunoassay and Biosensor
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Bruce Hammock is Professor of Entomology & Nematology at the University of California, Davis. His Research Interests span Immunochemistry, Insect Research and Mammalian Research2021-11-2651 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Deirdre McCloskey of the University of Illinois at Chicago on Libertarianism and EconomicsWhy You Are Not a Conservative, Wokesters, Wake!, Infantilized Liberalism, The Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren are Immense, Prudence Over Sustainability, and How Growth Starts
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Deirdre McCloskey is Professor of Economics and of History, Emerita, and Professor of English and of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. One of her recent books is Why liberalism works: how true liberal values produce a freer, more equal, prosperous world for all2021-11-231h 27Scientific Sense ®Prof. Kenneth Pomeranz of the University of Chicago on China, Europe, and the making of the modern World economyThe great divergence China, Europe, and the making of the modern World economy
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Kenneth Pomeranz is Professor of Modern Chinese History at the University of Chicago2021-11-191h 13Scientific Sense ®Prof. Claudia Flores of the University of Chicago on aligning law enforcement with human rightsGlobal impunity: How police laws & policies in the world’s wealthiest countries fail international human rights standards
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Claudia Flores is a Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and the director of the Global Human Rights Clinic (GHRC). Her research and advocacy focuses on issues of inequality and failures of good governance and rule of law2021-11-1739 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Holly Ingraham of UCSF on Estrogen signaling in the brain and gutEstrogen signaling in arcuate Kiss1 neurons suppresses a sex-dependent female circuit promoting dense strong bones, Oestrogen engages brain MC4R signaling to drive physical activity in female mice, and LRH-1 mitigates intestinal inflammatory disease by maintaining epithelial homeostasis and cell survival
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Holly Ingraham who is Professor of Cellular Molecular Pharmacology at UCSF. Her research focuses on the basic science of "Hormones and Nerves in Female Physiology" aimed at improving women's health.2021-11-1643 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Wendy Pearlman of Northwestern University on Syrian uprising and politicsNarratives of Fear in Syria, Moral Identity and Protest Cascades in Syria, Mobilizing From Scratch: Large-Scale Collective Action Without Preexisting Organization in the Syrian Uprising, Syrian Views on Obama’s Red Line: The Ethical Case for Strikes against Assad, and Religion and Mobilization in the Syrian Uprising and War.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Wendy Pearlman is Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University. Her research interests include Comparative Politics of the Middle East, Social Movements, Conflict Processes, Emotions, The Political Effects of Emigration, and The Arab-Israeli Conflict2021-11-1258 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Sreekumar Bhaskaran of Southern Methodist University on durable goods pricing & distributionSelling and Leasing Strategies for Durable Goods with Complementary Products, Implications of Channel Structure for Leasing or Selling Durable Goods, Consumer Mental Accounts and Implications to Selling Base Products and Add-ons, and Sequential Product Development and Introduction by Cash-Constrained Start-Ups
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Sreekumar Bhaskaran is an associate professor of information technology and operations management at the Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business. His research focuses on new product development and innovation.2021-11-101h 14Scientific Sense ®Prof. Marianna Bolognesi of the University of Bologna on language, concepts and communication.Editors’ Introduction: Abstract Concepts: Structure, Processing, and Modeling, How language and image construct synaesthetic metaphors in print advertising, On abstraction: decoupling conceptual concreteness and categorical specificity, The linguistic dimensions of concrete and abstract concepts: lexical category, morphological structure, countability, and etymology, and Framing COVID-19: How we conceptualize and discuss the pandemic on Twitter
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Marianna Bolognesi is Senior assistant professor of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on lexical semantics and multimodal communication, and in particular on the relation between language and thought, and on the s...2021-11-0859 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Ryan Ogliore of Washington University in St. Louis on comets, meteorites, and Earth's waterIncorporation of a late-forming chondrule into comet wild 2, Earth’s water may have been inherited from material similar to enstatite chondrite meteorites, and Cosmic symplectite recorded irradiation by nearby massive stars in the solar system’s parent molecular cloud
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Ryan Ogliore is Assistant Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. His research group uses microanalytical techniques to study extraterrestrial materials in order to better understand the formation and evolution of our Solar System, as well as other stars.2021-11-0654 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Lance Dixon of Stanford University on the connection between gravity and subnuclear forcesHow the fundamental force of gravity is essentially the “square” of the subnuclear forces underlying the Standard Model of particle physics (gauge theory), and how this idea can be used for gravitational wave physics.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Lance Dixon is Professor of Particle Physics and Astrophysics at Stanford University. He is interested in novel descriptions of how relativistic particles scattering, and how those insights can be applied to a variety of problems.2021-11-0458 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Claudia Goldin of Harvard on Career & Family: Women’s Century Long Journey Toward EquityCareer & Family: Women’s Century Long Journey Toward Equity
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Claudia Goldin is Professor of Economics at Harvard University and was the director of the NBER’s Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017. She is a co-director of the NBER's Gender in the Economy Study Group.2021-11-021h 13Scientific Sense ®Prof. Matteo Maggiori of Stanford University on investor beliefs, trading, and global capital flowsFive facts about beliefs and portfolios, The joint dynamics of investor beliefs and trading during the covid-19 crash, A model of the international monetary system, International Currencies and Capital Allocation, Redrawing the Map of Global Capital Flows: The Role of Cross-Border Financing and Tax Havens, and Climate change and long-run discount rates: evidence from real estate
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Matteo Maggiori is a Professor of Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business. His research focuses on international macroeconomics and finance.2021-10-301h 13Scientific Sense ®Prof. Keith Riles of the University of Michigan on Continuous Gravitational WavesAll-sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Isolated Neutron Stars LIGO Data
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Keith Riles, Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan. He carries out research into the fundamental forces of nature, working in both gravitational wave and elementary particle physics.2021-10-281h 07GU Cast | Urology PodcastVISION - "a dilapidated, delinquent, unethical control arm"So said UCSF Oncologist and major league podcaster Dr Vinay Prasad in his recent Plenary Session podcast, reviewing the VISION trial in NEJM. We have already covered VISION here at GU Cast, but we decided to invite Vinay on the podcast to de-visit VISION and other aspects of trial design. Vinay is a Haematologist Oncologist at the University of California, San Francisco, and researcher interested in health policy. He is author of "Malignant", and has huge listenership to his Plenary Session Podcast and YouTube channel. He is certainly not afraid to call out issues with trial design and health...2021-10-2245 minScientific Sense ®Mr. Steve Hoffman of Founders Space on how technology is shaping our futureThe five forces that change everything: How technology is shaping our future
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Mr. Steve Hoffman who is the CEO of Founders Space, a Silicon Valley based Incubator and Accelerator. He is also a venture investor, serial entrepreneur, and author of several books.2021-10-181h 14Scientific Sense ®Prof. Wendy Freedman of the University of Chicago on the tension on Hubble Constant measurementsAnswering the Most Important Problem in Cosmology Today: Is the Tension in the Hubble Constant Real?
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Professor Wendy Freedman is Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. Her current projects involve measurements of the Hubble constant -- the current expansion rate, as well as the past expansion rate, providing constraints on the acceleration of the universe and dark energy.2021-10-1559 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Vardit Ravitsky of the University of Montreal on the ethics of genetic testing & communicationConceived and Deceived: The Medical Interests of Donor-Conceived Individuals, Autonomous Choice and the Right to Know One’s Genetic Origins, Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) Identifying key clinical, ethical, social, legal and policy issues, The Shifting Landscape of Prenatal Testing: Between Reproductive Autonomy and Public Health, and Let’s Do Better: Public Representations of COVID-19 Science
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Vardit Ravitsky is Professor of Bioethics at the University of Montreal. Her research focuses on the ethics of genomics and reproduction.2021-10-1356 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Gianluca Carnabuci of ESMT Berlin on InnovationKnowledge Specialization, Knowledge Brokerage and the Uneven Growth of Technology Domains, The Ecology of Technological Progress: How Symbiosis and Competition Affect the Growth of Technology Domains, Where do firms’ recombinant capabilities come from? intra-organizational networks, knowledge, and firms’ ability to innovate through technological recombination, Social networks, cognitive style, and innovative performance: a contingency perspective, Risky Recombinations: Institutional Gatekeeping in the Innovation Process, and Categories, attention, and the impact of inventions.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Gianluca Carnabuci is a professor of organizational behavior at ESMT Berlin. Gianluca's research interests revolve around the analysis of inter- and intra-organizational networks, with parti...2021-10-111h 07Scientific Sense ®Prof. Michael Gibbs of the University of Chicago on working from HomeWork from Home & Productivity: Evidence from Personnel & Analytics Data on IT Professionals, “Working” remotely? selection, treatment, and the market provision of remote work, and Why Working From Home Will Stick
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Michael Gibbs is Clinical Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago. He studies the economics of human resources and organizational design.2021-10-101h 00Scientific Sense ®Dr. Christof Koch of Allen Institute on the architecture of the brain and consciousnessA survey of spiking activity reveals a functional hierarchy of mouse corticothalamic visual areas, Human cortical expansion involves diversification and specialization of supragranular intratelencephalic-projecting neurons, and The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Christof Koch is the Chief Scientist of the MindScope Program at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. His passion are neurons – the atoms of perception, memory, behavior and consciousness – their diverse shapes, electrical behaviors, and their computational function within the mammalian brain, in particular in neocortex.2021-10-0751 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastActive surveillance no longer "preferred" management for low-risk prostate cancer? Really NCCN??! JeezThis one really slipped under the radar when the National Comprehensive Cancer Centre Network (NCCN) Prostate Cancer Guideline Panel released their updated guidelines a few weeks ago. That is until Dr Dan Lin mentioned it to Dr Matt Cooperberg, who promptly flagged it to his very large Twitter following. And what a reaction! Almost universally panned by the urological community, especially advocates for active surveillance (AS), who have long despaired at the low rates of AS uptake in the US, and who worry that this change may lead to even lower rates of AS in the USA. ...2021-10-0740 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Dean Buonomano of UCLA on the biology of timeThe biology of time across different scales, Population clocks: motor timing with neural dynamics, Temporal Perceptual Learning, and The Neural Basis of Timing: Distributed Mechanisms for Diverse Functions.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Dean Buonomano, Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience and Neurobiology at UCLA. The primary goal of his laboratory is to understand the neural basis of temporal information processing.2021-10-051h 14Scientific Sense ®Prof. Garance Genicot of Georgetown University on aspirations, inequality, networks and electionsTolerance and Compromise in Social Networks, Aspirations and inequality, Electoral Systems and Inequalities in Government Interventions, and Political Reservations as Term-Limits.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Garance Genicot is Professor of Economics at Georgetown University. She studies key issues in development economics such as aspirations, informal credit and insurance markets, intra-household bargaining, social networks, tolerance and inequality.2021-10-031h 02Scientific Sense ®Prof. Gautam Menon of Ashoka University on the dynamics of COVID spread and policies in IndiaThe dynamics of COVID spread and policies in India
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Gautam Menon is Professor of Physics and Biology, and Director of the Centre for Climate Change & Sustainability at Ashoka University, India. He is also Professor of Theoretical Physics and Computational Biology at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences in India.2021-10-011h 00Scientific Sense ®Prof. James Hughes of the University of Massachusetts on public policy, sociology and ethicsEcoSocialism and the Technoprogressive Perspective, The Politics of Moral Enhancement: Tripping our Way to Social Democracy, and A Socialist Approach to Disaster Preparedness.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. James Hughes is Associate Provost for Institutional Research, Assessment, and Planning at University of Massachusetts, Boston. His interests span many areas including public policy, community medicine, sociology and ethics.2021-09-291h 31Scientific Sense ®Prof. Amy Orsborn of the University of Washington on brain-machine interfacesClosed-Loop Decoder Adaptation Shapes Neural Plasticity for Skillful Neuroprosthetic Control, Parsing learning in networks using brain–machine interfaces, and A Game-Theoretic Model for Co-Adaptive Brain-Machine Interface.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Amy Orsborn who is assistant professor of Computer and Bio Engineering at the University of Washington. She works at the intersection of engineering and neuroscience building brain-machine interfaces to restore and rehabilitate motor function after injury. The main emphasis of her work is building interfaces that can adapt along-side the brain to shape brain plasticity.2021-09-2756 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Teresa Fort, Associate Professor of Dartmouth College on the decline in US manufacturingNew Perspectives on the Decline of US Manufacturing Employment, Structural Change Within Versus Across Firms: Evidence from the United States, Colocation of Production and Innovation: Evidence from the United States, and Heterogeneous Globalization: Offshoring and Reorganization
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Teresa Fort is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. She conducts research in international trade and industrial organization.2021-09-251h 00Scientific Sense ®Prof. Gabriele Veneziano of Collège de France on the Quantum Universe and String TheoryA Quantum Universe Before the Big Bang(s), String Theory and Pre-big bang Cosmology, and High-energy collisions of particles, strings and branes.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Gabriele Veneziano who is a pioneer of String Theory. He has conducted most of his scientific activities at CERN , and held the Chair of Elementary Particles, Gravitation and Cosmology at the Collège de France in Paris till he retired.2021-09-231h 22GU Cast | Urology PodcastSTAMPEDE delivers yet again!Some huge data coming out of #ESMO21 this week! And as ever, the amazing STAMPEDE trial delivers another practice-changing headline grabber. This time it's a focus on so-called "M0 high-risk" patients in STAMPEDE, with clear data showing that the addition of two years of abiratrone acetate to standard of care provides a massive benefit in metastasis-free survival and overall survival. We are joined today by STAMPEDE co-PI Professor Noel Clarke, Urologist and Professor of Urological Oncology at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust, and Professor Silke Gillessen, Medical Oncologist at the Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, and also a...2021-09-2348 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Gina Poe of UCLA on SleepInput Source and Strength Influences Overall Firing Phase of Model Hippocampal Pyramidal Cells During Theta: Relevance to REM Sleep Reactivation and Memory Consolidation, Different Simultaneous Sleep States in the Hippocampus and Neocortex, Unraveling Why We Sleep: Quantitative Analysis Reveals Abrupt Transition from Neural Reorganization to Repair in Early Growth, and Shining a Light on the Mechanisms of Sleep for Memory Consolidation
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Gina Poe, who is Professor of Integrative Biology and Physiology at UCLA. Her Lab investigates the mechanisms by which sleep traits serve learning and memory consolidation.2021-09-211h 00Scientific Sense ®Prof. Maria Roche of Harvard Business School on the impact of inter-personal exchange on innovationThe impact of inter-personal exchange on innovation in three different contexts: neighborhoods, co-working spaces, and university laboratories.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Maria Roche is an Assistant Professor of Business at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on the production and diffusion of knowledge, which she examines in various contexts.2021-09-1953 minScientific Sense ®Dr. Murad Banaji is a Mathematician of Middlesex University on the statistics of COVID in IndiaScientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Murad Banaji is a Mathematician in the School of Science & Technology at Middlesex University, London. He has worked on a variety of problems at the interface between dynamical systems, and combinatorics, with applications to real-world systems with a network structure, including in biology and chemistry.2021-09-171h 01Scientific Sense ®Prof. Selva Nadarajah of the University of Illinois, Chicago on Real OptionsReal Options in Energy: A Guided Analysis of the Operations Literature, Data-Driven Storage Operations: Cross-Commodity Backtest and Structured Policies, Meeting Corporate Renewable Power Targets , and Self-adapting Robustness in Demand Learning.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Selva Nadarajah who is Assistant Professor of Operations Management and Decision Sciences at the University of Illinois, Chicago. One of his research interests is decision-making under uncertainty and flexibility.2021-09-161h 02Scientific Sense ®Prof. Katarina Juselius of the University of Copenhagen on Searching for a Theory That Fits the DataSearching for a Theory That Fits the Data: A Personal Research Odyssey.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Katarina Juselius is Professor Emeritus of econometrics and empirical economics at the University of Copenhagen. Her work has been on empirical macro models and associated issues.2021-09-131h 06GU Cast | Urology PodcastPSMA PET/CT prior to biopsy?? PRIMARY trial in Eur UrolAre GU Cast overly interested in PSMA imaging and theranostics??! Yep, afraid so! So no surprise that we're featuring this very interesting prospective trial published in European Urology this week. The objective is to evaluate the role of PSMA PET/CT prior to prostate biopsy ie in the early detection space. Can this augment mpMRI? Or replace it? Or is it all just madness due to profligate access to PSMA in Australia??!We are joined by PI Professor Louise Emmett, Nuclear Medicine Physician at St Vincent's in Sydney, to chat about the PRIMARY trial, and co-author Associate Professor...2021-09-1338 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Maja Matarić of USC on human-robot interaction methods for behavior change.Designing a Socially Assistive Robot to Support Older Adults with Low Vision, Modeling User Empathy Elicited by a Robot Storyteller, Affect-Aware Deep Belief Network Representations for Multimodal Unsupervised Deception Detection, and Simulation-Based Analysis of COVID-19 Spread Through Classroom Transmission on a University Campus
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Maja Matarić is professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics at the University of Southern California. Her research is focused on developing personalized human-robot interaction methods for behavior change aimed at health, wellness, rehabilitation, training and education.2021-09-1156 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Sabine Kastner of Princeton University on the Ryhtemic Theory of Attention and Gender BiasA rhythmic theory of attention, A brief comparative review of primate posterior parietal cortex: A novel hypothesis on the human toolmaker, Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions, and Bringing Kids into the Scientific Review Process.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Sabine Kastner is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. The goal of her research program is to better understand how large-scale networks operate during cognition, with particular emphasis on interactions between cortex and thalamus.2021-09-091h 05Scientific Sense ®Prof. Carol Gould of Florida Atlantic University on the histrionic personality disorderWhy the histrionic personality disorder should not be in the DSM: A new taxonomic and moral analysis
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Carol Gould is a Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University, where she teaches primarily Aesthetics, Philosophy of Psychiatry, and Ancient Greek Philosophy, areas in which she publishes widely. Many of her recent publications concern the relation between aesthetics, ethics, and personhood. She is currently completing a book on True Glamour, an unexplored topic in philosophy that stands at the intersection of Aesthetics, Ethics, and Philosophy of Psychiatry.2021-09-0743 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastThat Letter | Moving beyond, with Neil Fleshner, Sarah Psutka & Nathan LawrentschukSo there we were, thinking we did a nice job highlighting the #Manels paper published in European Urology recently, and basking a little bit in the glow of positivity it brought to the topic of gender diversity in Urology. We were also really pleased to see the accompanying Editorial which outlined the European Urology position on gender diversity and equality, led by Associate Editor Professor Sarah Psutka and senior members of the Journal's Editorial Board. Then, a Letter to the Editor appeared and provoked quite a response on social media. It described the results of the European Urology p...2021-09-0639 minScientific Sense ®Dr. Peter Vereš of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics on Planetary DefensePlanetary Defense: Discovery and characterization of Near-Earth objects and possibilities to protect the Earth against the cosmic collisions.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Peter Vereš is a research scientist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, at the Minor Planet Center (MPC). MPC is the official worldwide organization in charge of collecting observational data of minor planets, calculating their orbits, computing ephemerides, announcing discoveries and publishing the data. 2021-09-051h 02Scientific Sense ®Prof. Daniel Appelbaum of the University of Chicago on Radiomics, Theranostics and AIRadiomics in Oncology, Theranostics in Nuclear Medicine and the rise of AI in the field.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Daniel Appelbaum who Professor of Radiology and the Director, of the Nuclear Medicine and PET Imaging at the University of Chicago.2021-09-0346 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Ruchi Gupta of Northwestern University on Food AllergiesFOOD WITHOUT FEAR: Identify, Prevent, and Treat Food Allergies, Intolerances, and Sensitivities
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Ruchi Gupta is Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on food allergies2021-09-011h 04Scientific Sense ®Prof. Henry Greenside of Duke University on How Nervous Systems Produce BehaviorFrom Matter to Minds : A Physics Perspective on How Nervous Systems Produce Behavior
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Henry Greenside is Professor of Physics and Neurobiology at Duke University. His research group study problems in theoretical neurobiology.2021-08-301h 05
GU Cast | Urology PodcastAlex Kutikov has a picture of Toni Chouieri on his desk! Plus Keynote 564 gets a GrillingThis headline may be true (check our YouTube version for proof!), but the bromance certainly hit a bumpy patch when it came to discussing Keynote 564 on GU Cast today! We congratulate Dr Toni Chouieri (Medical Oncologist and Director of the Lank Center for GU Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute), and colleagues for the publication of Keynote 564 in NEJM recently, and to Toni for his plenary at ASCO this year. And we welcome Dr Alex Kutikov, Urologist and Chief of Urologic Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Centre, and an old mate of Toni's, and studio guest Associate Professor Ben...2021-08-3045 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Yael Niv is Professor of Princeton University on brain and behaviorThe primacy of behavioral research for understanding the brain, Human orbitofrontal cortex represents a cognitive map of state space, A model of mood as integrated advantage, and The case against economic values in the orbitofrontal cortex (or anywhere else in the brain)
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Yael Niv is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. The main focus of her research is to elucidate the computational, cognitive and neural processes involved in learning task representations from experience.2021-08-281h 07Scientific Sense ®Prof. Timothy Buschman of Princeton University on Working Memory in the human brainBalancing Flexibility and Interference in Working Memory, Shared mechanisms underlie the control of working memory and attention, Rotational dynamics reduce interference between sensory and memory representations, and Toward a neurobiology of internal selective attention
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Timothy Buschman is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. His research aims to understand how the brain accomplishes intelligent and rational behavior by guiding our actions towards a goal.2021-08-261h 06Scientific Sense ®Prof. Sliman Bensmaia of the University of Chicago on Neuroprostheses and bionic handIntracortical microstimulation of human somatosensory cortex and Chronic Use of a Sensitized Bionic Hand Does Not Remap the Sense of Touch.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Sliman Bensmaia is Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on how nervous systems give rise to flexible, intelligent behavior, especially sensory processing, that is how are robust and flexible neuronal representations of the environment constructed to support behavior?2021-08-241h 02Scientific Sense ®Prof. Piyush Agarwal of the University of Chicago on the disparity in Urology specialityDemand and capacity imbalance for urologists as population ages, The disparity in care for rural populations, Changing ideas in cancer, and the need for more female participation in urology.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Piyush Agarwal is Professor of Surgery and Urology and Director, Bladder Cancer Program at the University of Chicago. His clinical and laboratory research focuses on bladder cancer, the urinary microbiome, molecular targeted therapy and immunotherapy.2021-08-2243 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Issam Awad of the University of Chicago on Cerebral Cavernous Malformation (CCM)Comprehensive transcriptome analysis of cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) across multiple species and genotypes, Common transcriptome, plasma molecules, and imaging signatures in the aging brain and a Mendelian neurovascular disease, cerebral cavernous malformation, and A Roadmap for Developing Plasma Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers of Cerebral Cavernous Angioma With Symptomatic Hemorrhage (CASH)
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Issam Awad is Professor of Neurological Sciences and Surgery, Neurology, Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior at the University of Chicago. One of his research interests is the natural history and biologic behavior of vascular malformations of the brain2021-08-2048 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Zhirong Huang of Stanford University and SLAC on x-ray free-electron lasersFully Coherent X-Ray Pulses from a Regenerative-Amplifier Free-Electron Laser and Refractive Guide Switching a Regenerative Amplifier Free-Electron Laser for High Peak and Average Power Hard X Rays
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Zhirong Huang is Professor of Photon Sciences, Particle Physics and Astrophysics at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Lab. His research focuses on accelerators and x-ray free-electron lasers.2021-08-1856 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Michal Zochowski of the University of Michigan on the Physics of Brain, Sleep and MemoryA Dynamical Role for Acetylcholine in Synaptic Renormalization, Resonance with subthreshold oscillatory drive organizes activity and optimizes learning in neural network, and Acetylcholine Mediates Dynamic Switching Between Information Coding Schemes in Neuronal Networks
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Michal Zochowski is Professor of Physics and Biophysics at the University of Michigan. His group focuses on trying to understand mechanisms of the formation of patterns in coupled dynamical systems, with special focus on their applicability and role during information processing in the brain.2021-08-1657 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Daniel McKinsey of the University of California, Berkeley on hunting for dark matterScientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Daniel McKinsey is Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on direct searches for dark matter interactions, and he serves as Co-Spokesperson of the LUX experiment. He also collaborates on the LZ experiment and is doing R&D on superfluid helium for low-mass dark matter detection.2021-08-1457 minScientific Sense ®Prof. Janet Currie of Princeton University on the inequality in mortality and disparities in policyScientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Janet Currie is Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the Co-director of Princeton's Center for Health and Wellbeing. She also co-directs the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research2021-08-121h 00GU Cast | Urology PodcastCan MRI replace biopsy for patients on active surveillance? It already has!Fascinating GU Cast today focussing on the role of MRI scanning for patients on active surveillance (AS) for prostate cancer. We are joined by two of the world's leading experts on prostate MRI to discuss two recent systematic reviews on this topic. Professor Anwar Padhani, Radiologist at Mt Vernon Cancer Centre and the Institute of Cancer Research in London, and Professor Caroline Moore, Urologist at University College London, give some fascinating insights and tackle some controversial questions. Patients and clinicians would love to avoid further biopsies as part of active surveillance monitoring. However, repeat biopsy remains a strong re...2021-06-2438 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastPost-ASCO VISION deep dive - with Dr Mike MorrisBig week for prostate cancer ( especially for PSMA enthusiasts like us!), with the phase III VISION trial heading the plenary session at the ASCO Annual Meeting. VISION is the long-awaited pivotal randomised trial of Lu-PSMA vs standard of care for men with progressive mCRPC following chemo +/- AR pathway inhibitors. Lots of stuff to dive into, even as we await the NEJM paper. We scrutinise the control arm and dive deep into teh issue of imaging and patient selection.Regular hosts Professor Declan Murphy and Dr Renu Eapen are joined by some of our experienced Lu-PSMA specialists at...2021-06-0840 min
GU Cast | Urology PodcastGU Cast PROSPECT Summer SeriesWe know that many of our listeners are in the depths of a tough COVID Winter in the Northern Hemisphere, so we thought we might bring you some summer cheer from Australia where the sun is shining and COVID is less of an issue! We have joined with our friends at PROSPECT, a prostate cancer educational initiative which has been running in Australia for eight years. to bring you a 3-part podcast summer series focussing on our favourite hot topics in prostate cancer. Today we focus on two areas with a big crossover - so-called "non-metastatic (M0)" castration-resistant p...2020-12-2243 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastFDA approves PSMA PET/CT! We chat with UCSF teamBig day today with the approval of Ga68-PSMA PET/CT by the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA). The FDA have approved a combined academic application from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and means that those two centres now have FDA approval to use PSMA PET/CT for staging newly-diagnosed prostate cancer, as well as those with suspected recurrence following previous treatment. Today we chat with the UCSF team behind the application, led by Dr Thomas Hope, Nuclear Medicine Physician and Radiologist, and his urology colleagues Dr...2020-12-0335 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastGoing Nuclear | GU Oncology highlights from #EANM20The European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) Annual Meeting is the world's leading nuclear medicine congress, and took place (virtually) last week. From being a very minor part of nuclear medicine just a few years ago, GU Oncology is now one of the most exciting areas in nuclear medicine, and this year's EANM Meeting featured a huge amount of original research in prostate cancer and other GU malignancies. Today we are joined by EANM Congress Chair, Dr Stefano Fanti from Bologna, Italy, and Dr Irene Burger, Head of Nuclear Medicine in Baden, to review the top papers from...2020-11-1041 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastNAVIGATE-ing active surveillance optionsToday we focus on the NAVIGATE study, a randomised trial of an online decision aid for men and their partners recently diagnosed with localised prostate cancer. Active surveillance is the preferred option for many men with low-risk prostate cancer, and may also be recommended for some men with favourable intermediate-risk prostate cancer, but many patients find the idea of surveillance to be stressful, and find the choice of management options to be bewildering. So today we chat with some of the team behind the NAVIGATE study which is designed to address some of these issues. NAVIGATE is running in A...2020-10-2940 minGU Cast | Urology Podcast#ESMO20 highlights with Ben Tran and Ciara ConduitRegular GU Cast guest, Dr Ben Tran, joins us today to review some highlights from the recent virtual #ESMO20 Annual Meeting. Ben made headlines himself at this year's meeting as he presented his phase 1 study of AMG160 was selected for the prostate cancer plenary session (you got to tune in to hear him explain what a half-life extended bi-specific T cell engager is! Peter Mac Phase I and GU Fellow, Dr Ciara Conduit, also joins us to discuss this and other highlights including IPAT, PROfound, and the Checkmate 9ER study for mRCC. Usual hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen. 2020-10-1435 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastRAVES clarifies post-operative radiotherapy in prostate cancerA big week for prostate cancer in the Lancet! No less than three much-anticipated randomised trials to investigate the role of adjuvant vs salvage radiotherapy in prostate cancer, were published in the Lancet and Lancet Oncology this week, plus a pre-planned meta-analysis of all three. RAVES, RADICALS-RT, and GETUG-AFU 17, each examined the issue of post-operative radiotherapy in men at risk of biochemical recurrence, and randomised those men to receive radiotherapy prior to PSA recurrence (adjuvant), or at the first sign of PSA recurrence (early salvage). There were some differences in patient population and trial design, but the overall message...2020-10-0132 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastThe kids are in charge! Trainee-led collaborative research in UrologyToday we focus on trainee-led collaborative research, focussing on three of the best examples out there. We chat with the leaders of the British Urology Researchers in Surgical Training (BURST), the European Society of Residents in Urology (ESRU), and the Australian Young Urology Researchers Organisation (YURO). These groups have a number of missions, including networking and mentorship for trainees, but they also have a particular interest in collaborative research. We chat with Veeru Kasi and Meg Kulkarni from BURST, Diego Carrion Monsalve from ESRU, and Ellen O'Connor from YURO, about the beginnings of their respective organisations, how they function...2020-09-2447 minGU Cast | Urology Podcast"I don't like reading papers" | with CUA Journal Editor-in-Chief, Mike LeveridgeContinuing our season of chats with newly-minted Editors-in-Chief of top urology journals, today we chat with Dr Mike Leveridge of the Department of Urology, Queen's University, Ontario. Mike has just taken the reins as Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Association of Urology (CUA) Journal, one of our favourite national journals, and has just published his opening editorial. CUA J is open access with no article processing fees - the rest of teh world should follow this example!!One of our all time favourite friends in North America, and a great choice to lead this really useful journal. Usual hosts...2020-09-1031 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastIMPORTANT STUFF, with Ben DaviesUro-Twitterati legend Dr Ben Davies joins us today to trawl through his Twitter feed and share his wisdom on everything from tomatoes to leadership positions in Urology. Ben is Professor of Urology at the University of Pittsburgh, Chief of Urology at Shadyside/Hillman Cancer Centre and Director of the Uro-Oncology Fellowship Program. No holds barred chat with one of our favourite friends in Urology! With your usual hosts, Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen. Ben's Twitter feed https://twitter.com/daviesbj 2020-09-0230 minGU Cast | Urology Podcast"A Home and a Vehicle" | New Editor-in-Chief Freddie Hamdy discusses the future of the BJUIProfessor Freddie Hamdy, Professor of Urology at the University of Oxford, has recently taken up the reigns as Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Urology International (BJUI) and has just published the first edition with his new editorial team. The BJUI has been around for more than 90 years and is one of the top journals in the world of urology. Its impact factor rose to an all-time high under the leadership of Prof Hamdy's predecessor. Professor Prokar Dasgupta, who also led a huge change to embrace digital and social media, and therefore Prof Hamdy takes over at an exciting...2020-08-3030 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastBAUS President Tim O'Brien on catalysts for changeTim O'Brien, Consultant Urologist at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London, joins GU Cast to chat about his recent appointment as President of The British Association of Urological Surgeons. Tim has taken the reigns of BAUS during these most extraordinary of times, and is determined to make the most of the opportunities! Nothing like a pandemic to help make some changes. Tim joins usual hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen for a most entertaining and insightful chat. 2020-08-2541 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastUSANZ President discusses trainee issues during COVIDToday we are joined by USANZ President, Dr Stephen Mark, to discuss the big challenges faced by trainees during COVID. We include soundbites from many trainees and aspiring trainees who sent in voice memos to highlight the stresses and concerns they have - some amazing comments! Stephen responds to these concerns and gives us a glimpse into USANZ plans for the future. Regular hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen are joined by Associate Professor Nathan Lawrentschuk. 2020-08-1343 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastUrinary Diversion in Women Following Radical Cystectomy | Urotoday special with Dr Ashish Kamat and Dr Renu EapenToday GU Cast again joins up with our good friends at Urotoday.com to cross post this episode. Our own Dr Renu Eapen is interviewed by Dr Ashish Kamat (an old friend of GU Cast), as part of the Urotoday Bladder Cancer Centre of Excellence, to discuss urinary diversion in female patients following radical cystectomy. You can find the original Urotoday post, including some supporting slides, on the following link https://www.urotoday.com/video-lectures/bladder-cancer/video/mediaitem/1844-urinary-diversion-in-women-following-radical-cystectomy-renu-eapen.html 2020-08-0625 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastElective surgery restrictions in Melbourne - what does this mean for GU cancer patients?With the COVID pandemic situation continuing to worsen in Melbourne, further restrictions have been put in place for elective surgery. Pre-op COVID swabs are already mandatory, and now only the most urgent surgeries can go ahead. We are joined by the Directors of three of Melbourne's busiest urology cancer centres to see what this means for patients. Professor Damien Bolton from the Austin, Associate Professor Nathan Lawrentschuk from the Royal Melbourne Hospital (and Peter Mac), and co-host Professor Declan Murphy from Peter Mac. Dr Renu Eapen is co-host as ever. 2020-07-3032 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastFocal therapy and salvage radical prostatectomyToday we chat with Dr Paul Cathcart, Urologist at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London, who has a specialist interest in salvage radical prostatectomy. Paul is one of the world's most experienced salvage prostatectomists and joins us to chat about patient selection and surgical technique to optimise outcomes, especially for patients who have undergone focal therapy. Post-HIFU/brachy/cryo/Nano knife - he does them all! And has published lots of data in this area.Paul also chats about the UK National Prostate Cancer Audit as he leads the Quality group in this huge project. Co-hosts...2020-07-2336 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastA great surgical randomised trial! Plus the amazing ProximieToday Melbourne is back in lockdown (boo), so to cheer ourselves up, we bring you a fantastic GU Cast with two great guests! Dr Jim Porter from Seattle has hit the headlines twice recently; first with a superb randomised trial of a point of surgical technique during robotic prostatectomy recently published in the BJUI; and second, the global headlines that he made when he mentored Dr Archie Fernando perform a complex robotic surgery in London, while in his pyjamas in Seattle! We chat with the founder and CEO of Proximie, whose technology enabled this, Dr Nadine Haram, an extraordinary...2020-07-0935 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastPrecision prostate cancer simplified with Neeraj AgarwalWe are joined today by the fantastic Dr Neeraj Agarwal of the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Utah to discuss some contentious areas in mCRPC, especially around DNA repair defects, immunotherapy and other targeted therapies. Also joined again in studio by our colleague Associate Professor Arun Azad, and regular hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen.2020-06-2532 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastBCG and COVID19 - a BADAS combinationDr Ashish Kamat, Professor of Urologic Onology at MD Anderson Cancer Centre joins us for a chat about the BADAS trial which he is leading. Fascinating trial to see if BCG vaccination might protect health care workers. And of course we talk bladder cancer as Ashish is a huge key opinion leader with many leadership roles in bladder cancer research and advocacy. usual hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen are joined by Associate Professor Nathan Lawrentschuk from Peter Mac. Nathan is also Director of Urology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and leads Bladder Cancer Australia. 2020-06-0831 min
GU Cast | Urology PodcastMonty talks renal cancer at #ASCO20Dr Sumanta Pal from City of Hope, CA, joins us to discuss renal cancer highlights at virtual #ASCO20. Monty heads the renal cancer program at City of Hope and is a huge KOL in renal cancer. Also great fun on Twitter @montypal of course. Enjoy this fireside chat with Monty, Dr Ben Tran, medical oncologist at Peter Mac, and regular hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen. PS our podcast art today features Monty and Eric Jonasch when they popped in to see us at Peter Mac in February 2018. Nice pose gents!2020-06-0730 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastBladder cancer finally in the limelight with an ASCO Plenary!Dr Elizabeth Plimack, Chief of GU Medical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Centre, Philadelphia, joins us to discuss bladder cancer highlights at ASCO 20. For the first time, urothelial cancer featured in an ASCO Plenary with Dr Tom Powles presenting the primary endpoint of JAVELIN100, a practice-changing study of switch-maintenance in metastatic urothelial cancer. Betsy did a fantastic discussion in the plenary and joins us today to discuss this and others. Regular hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen are joined by Dr Ben Tran, GU Trials Lead at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.2020-06-0430 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastOliver Sartor's favourite bits | #ASCO20 prostate cancer highlightsThe first in our series of post-#ASCO20 podcasts. Today we chat with Dr Oliver Sartor of Tulane Cancer Centre about his favourite prostate cancer moments from virtual #ASCO20. PSMA imaging and therapy, neo-adjuvant intensive ADT, M0 CRPC etc etc - all get a mention in a whirlwind run through the main prostate cancer sessions. Regular hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen are joined by Peter Mac colleagues, Associate Professor Arun Azad and Professor Michael Hofman. 2020-06-0242 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastThe post-prostatectomy journey - things I wish we knew back thenWe are joined today by Alan and Fiona White to discuss their perspectives as a couple who have been on this journey, and who spend a lot of time supporting other couples. Alan had an open radical prostatectomy in 2011, and himself and Fiona have developed https://www.theprostatezone.com to help others on the journey. Regular hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen are also joined by prostate cancer Nurse Consultant, Emma Birch. 2020-05-2929 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastSTAMPEDE and all thatToday we are joined by Professor Nick James, Principal Investigator of the STAMPEDE study; an amazing ongoing series of practice-changing randomised trials for men with advanced prostate cancer. Nick discusses recent highlights of STAMPEDE, imminent developments in STAMPEDE, the impact of PSMA PET/CT, as well as some challenges in the COVID era. He also discusses his recent move from Birmingham to the Institute of Cancer Research/Royal Marsden, and his son's recent Zoom wedding in South America! Regular hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen are joined in studio by Associate Professor Arun Azad, medical oncologist at Peter MacCallum...2020-05-2137 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastPreparing for ProstatectomyToday we are joined by Nurse Consultants, Emma Birch and Marc Diocera, and also by patient advocate Alan White, to discuss how they work together to prepare patients and their loved ones who are coming up to robotic prostatectomy. They describe the evolution of their "Robocare" program over teh past ten years, and look ahead to how COVID19 is creating opportunities to make it even more accessible. Hosted by Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen. 2020-05-1834 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastUrotoday and GU Cast get togetherToday we hook up with our good friends at Urotoday.com. Dr Alicia Morgans interviews Professor Declan Murphy for the Urotoday.com website, and we are cross-posting as a GU Cast podcast, introduced by Dr Renu Eapen. Alicia interviews Declan about the COVID situation in Australia as part of the Urotoday.com global overview. 2020-05-1716 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastSilver Linings! With Matt CooperbergDr Matt Cooperberg from UCSF joins us on GU Cast to give us his Top 5 "Good Things to Come Out of COVID". The usual mixture of banter and bonhomie with Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen from Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Enjoy!!2020-05-1431 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastSBRT and prostate cancer | Three global experts have a chatToday we are joined by three giants in the world of stereotactic-assisted body radiotherapy (SBRT), to discuss the use of SBRT in various stages of prostate cancer. Associate Professor Shankar Siva from Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre joins us in the studio, along with Dr Alison Tree from the Royal Marsden in London, and Dr Piet Ost from Ghent. Your usual hosts are Professor Declan Murphy and Dr Renu Eapen. 2020-04-2935 minGU Cast | Urology Podcast"This has opened our minds to what might work"Nurses are stepping up to support cancer patients during the COVID pandemic. Today we hear from Liz Medhurst, Urology Nurse Consultant at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, in discussion with Louisa Fleure, Lead GU Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London. Louisa and Liz discuss some of teh innovative ways we can support cancer patients during these strange times. Hosted as ever by Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen. 2020-04-2730 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastTestis cancer and Telehealth - business as usual in TorontoToday we are joined by Dr Rob Hamilton, Urologist at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, and world-leading testis cancer specialist. Rob has been running a randomised trial of telehealth surveillance for testis cancer patients so has some great insights and advice for the rest of us. We also discuss his interest in testis cancer biomarkers and robotic surgery for retroperitoneal testicular cancer. Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen are joined again by Dr Ben Tran, Medical Oncologist at Peter Mac who knows Rob from his time doing a Fellowship at Princess Margaret. 2020-04-2129 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastBladder cancer and COVID - San Francisco perspectivesDr SIma Porten, Urologist at the University of California San Francisco, joins GU Cast to discuss the management of bladder cancer during the COVID pandemic. Huge challenges balancing risks of treatment vs risks of disease progression. Regular hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen are joined by Dr Ben Tran, medical oncologist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne 2020-04-0929 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastKidney cancer and COVID | Live to LondonDr Ben Challacombe, Urologist at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, & Chair of BAUS Oncology, joins us on GU Cast to discuss life in London as COVID nears its peak. Ben and the BAUS Oncology Committee released guidelines on the management of renal cancer a few days ago and he joins Declan Murphy, Renu Eapen, and Daniel Moon to discuss these. 2020-04-0733 minGU Cast | Urology Podcast"It's ok to wait" - Italian perspectives on prostate cancer in COVID timesProfessor Alberto Briganti from San Raffaele University in Milan joins us for this episode of GU Chat. Today we focus on the challenges of managing localised prostate cancer during the COVID crisis. Amazing perspectives from the North of Italy. Regular hosts Declan Murphy and Renu Eapen are also joined this week by Dr Daniel Moon, Urologist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. 2020-04-0131 minGU Cast | Urology PodcastPSMA trumps conventional imaging - proPSMA discussionProfessor Declan Murphy and Dr Renu Eapen host the launch episode of GU Cast, a podcast focussing on GU cancers, from the team at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. Today our guest is Professor Michael Hofman, who discusses the proPSMA trial, published in The Lancet the week. Professor Caroline Moore from University College London joins us to comment. 2020-03-2634 min
The LighthouseSpiritual Warfare: Stand Firm in Christ
Busting several myths and false notions about spiritual warfare, Rev Eapen expounds Ephesians 6:10ff, explaining the true nature of spiritual warfare. This message was preached at CITAM Parklands on 26 Aug 2018. Download the presentation used with this sermon.
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