The Medmastery Show - with Franz Wiesbauer MD

Welcome to Episode 13 of the Medmastery Show. I hope you had a great summer and go with energy and inspiration into the new academic year. Inspiration and energy is what you'll get from today's interview. I promise you that. There are lots of nuggets of wisdom that you can apply and use in your own life. Today's guest is Dr. Dan Siegel. He's an internationally acclaimed psychiatrist and New York Times bestselling author. He received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and then trained in pediatrics and psychiatry at UCLA. Dr. Siegel is an internationally acclaimed mindfulness expert and is known for his work on the new field of Interpersonal Neurobiology. You'll learn more about it in the interview. He received many honors some of which include the UCLA psychiatry department's teaching award and several honorary fellowships for his work as director of UCLA's training program in child psychiatry. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and is the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute. He has lectured for folks like the Dalai Lama, Pope John Paul II, Google University, the Minister of Education of Singapore and the Public School Superintendents of the United States. So you see, there are lots of people who trust his advice and whose lives he helped to improve. I could go on and on raving about Dan. Instead I suggest you listen to and learn from the man himself.

Dr. Harper is the Chair of Cardiology, at the Presbyterian Dallas Hospital . He was voted "Best Doctor in Dallas" by D Magazine and according to the Guide to top Doctors is among the best doctors in America. His clinical interests include bedside cardiology, he used to be an intervent. cardiologist but is now focussing more on being a consultant and on intensive care, he's a passionate teacher and spends roughly 1/3 of his time teaching residents and medical students at the University of Texas Soutwestern Medicalschool. In 2009 he launched a unique conference entitled "Literature and Medicine". In this podcast, Dr. Harper will teach you how you can use literature in order to become a better doctor, a better storyteller, a more empathetic listener and much, much more. This is a unique conversation with lots of pieces of wisdom. I really enjoyed it and I hope you will too. So without further ado, here's Dr. John Harper.

Today Franz is interviewing Dr. Joseph Martin. He's a neurologist and the former dean of Harvard Medical School. In this conversation, he shares several key insights from his roles as physician, educator, scientist and "politician". There are so many nuggets of wisdom in this coversation. We are super-excited to share this inspirational interview with you and would love to hear your thoughts in the comments section of our blog! About Joseph Martin Born in Alberta, Canada in 1938, he went to the University of Alberta Medical School. Trained as a neurologist, he was appointed Chair of Neurology at McGill University in 1977 at the young age of 39. After that he became chief of the neurology service at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1978. At Harvard he established the Huntington's Disease Center that eventually lead to the discovery of the gene for Huntington's disease. In 1989 he became dean at UCSF School of Medicine and would later serve as the dean of Harvard Medical School between 1997 and 2007. Dr Martin is a member of the Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences. For more show-notes, please visit our blog at www.medmastery.com/blog

Today's guest is Dr. Bernhard J. Gersh. He is the Professor of Medicine and past Chair of Cardiovascular Education at Mayo Medical School, as well as Consultant of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Born in Zambia, he went to highschool and medical school in South Africa. After medschool he received a Rhodes scholarship and went to Oxford where he did his PHD in anesthesiology. When he came back to SA, he started his training and learned the nuts and bolts of hands-on clinical cardiology. In 1978 he joined the Mayo Clinic to continue his training. He has remained in their faculty up until the present moment with a short break of 5 years that he spent in Georgetown University in Washington DC. He has been awarded many clinical honors and it's no exaggeration to say that he's one of the most renowned cardiologists in the world. In this interview we're talking about Dr. Gersh's track record, how he evolved from having to repeat first year at medical school to having straight A's and receiving the Rhodes scholarship. Furthermore he gives advice to younger doctors on how to show effort and establish work relationships with senior colleagues.

Today's guest is Dr. Jonathan Sackner-Bernstein, a cardiologist by training with a background in electrical engineering. He has had an amazing career so far… After doing his internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at Mount Sinai in New York, he discovered his love for product development, which took him along a new and very interesting career path. Among other positions, he served as an advisor to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and was invited by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to serve as a consultant to their new Biological Tactics Office. In a very inspiring TED talk at TEDx Brussels he discussed the fact that it's never too late to leave your dent in the universe. I highly recommend you watch the talk! A large portion of our interview is centering around the things he discussed in that talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tSCdNmd4BM Make sure to go to our blog where you can access the show notes with links to all books and resources that were discussed during the interview.

Today's guest is yet another cardiology superstar. He's one of the founding fathers of modern lipid research. It's very likely that much of what you do as a clinician every day has been hugely influenced by this man's research. Here are a couple of facts: He's dean of Weill Medical College of Cornell University Previous to that he was chairman of the department of Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine where he collaborated extensively with the world-renowned cardiac surgeon and innovator Michael DeBakey He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University His main research focus is in lipids, he's authored several landmark trials in this field including the seminal AFCAPS/TexCAPS study He was the National President of the American Heart Association and President of the International Arterosclerosis Society He's a member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences He has received many honors and has published several books. A Pubmed search of his name yields over 600 publications The list of accomplishments goes on and on. Here's What You'll Learn From Antonio In This Episode: What personality traits are most desirable in a doctor How to become a successful researcher and clinician His productivity secrets Whom he admires and models And much, much more

Today's guest is none other than cardiology superstar Eric Topol MD. He's the Chief Academic Officer of Scripps Health, Director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, Editor in Chief of Medscape and theheart.org, he's the The Gary and Mary West Chair of Innovative Medicine, and co-founder of the West Wireless Health Institute to name just a few. At the young age of 36, Eric Topol was named Chairman of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic where he helped to catapult the institution into the leading ranks of the field. Eric has received so many honors that it's beyond the scope of this post to list them all. This is just a short excerpt: He was named Doctor of the Decade by the Institute for Scientific Information. In 2012 the journal „Modern Healthcare" ranked him as the most influential physician executive in the US. In 2009 GQ magazine elected Eric to be one of 12 physcician rockstars. He was elected into the Institute of Medicine by the National Academy of Science and the list goes on and on. In 2012 he published the seminal Book "The crative desctruction of medicine" that has been all over the media. It has become hugely popular especially among tech-savvy physicians. His book and his initiatives at Scripps have made him the figurehead of all things on the intersection of medicine and technology. So he's been featured and interviewed on popular TV show like Colbert Nation and his TED talk has been viewed over 600.000 times. He's been featured on the Economist, CSpan and Techcrunch. And even though he's such an acclaimed physician, he has remained approachable and ready to share his wisdom with the world. In this episode you will learn: What skills are most valuable for a young doctor What character traits will keep you from being successful What was the best advice he ever got from a mentor What he would recommend to his 20 year old self How to approach someone who could potentially become your mentor. What books Eric recommends How Eric spends his mornings How he keeps up with all the information overflow How Eric uses Twitter to stay productive and up-to-date What to do if you find yourself in a position that won't let you maximize your full potential How to stay motivated How Eric structures his mornings so he's energized and up-to-date How to choose the right projects to work on And much, much more