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Advances in Obesity Medicine: Better Bariatric Surgery Options and Outcomes Video

Advances in Obesity Medicine: Better Bariatric Surgery Options and Outcomes

With obesity affecting 40% of the U.S. population, bariatric surgeon Jonathan Carter, MD, reviews the devastating health effects of excess body fat and contends that clinicians can no longer sidestep difficult conversations about weight management.
Strategies for Head and Neck Cancer: What to Look, Feel and Listen For Video

Strategies for Head and Neck Cancer: What to Look, Feel and Listen For

UCSF specialist Chase Heaton, MD, presents a guide to identifying head and neck cancers, including steps, tools and tips for a comprehensive exam; alarm-bell statements from your patients; and the one assumption you want to make about any neck lump.
Update on Liver Lesions: What Works in Managing HCC Video

Update on Liver Lesions: What Works in Managing HCC

Based on clear metrics, transplant hepatologist Neil Mehta, MD, presents diagnostic criteria for hepatocellular carcinoma, then shows how UCSF’s HCC team reaches decisions on treatment for individual cases – with plans ranging from resection or ablation to downstaging drugs and transplantation.
Making Sense of MGUS: How to Detect Plasma Cell Disorders and Assess Associated Risks Video

Making Sense of MGUS: How to Detect Plasma Cell Disorders and Assess Associated Risks

Affecting up to 5% of the U.S. population (and increasingly common with age), monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) raises the risk of multiple myeloma, but – as its full name suggests – it can be hard to say by how much.
Keys to the Knees: How to Approach a Variety of Meniscus Tears Video

Keys to the Knees: How to Approach a Variety of Meniscus Tears

Historically misunderstood even by sports medicine specialists, meniscus tears are a range of conditions best managed by considering specifics of both the injury and the patient.
Burden of Stroke in Women Video

Burden of Stroke in Women

Vineeta Singh, MD, discusses stroke in women and the relationship between gender and symptoms, risk-factors, prevalence and mortality. Dr. Singh also examines stress and depression as a possible risk factor for stroke in women.
Better Management of Lung Nodules: Cutting-Edge Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tools Video

Better Management of Lung Nodules: Cutting-Edge Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tools

Interventional pulmonologist Diana H. Yu, MD – who performed the first robotic bronchoscopy at UCSF – presents the case for more aggressive lung screening in California and throughout the country, then offers an exciting look at the latest ultrasound and robotic techniques for detecting lesions, assessing risk of malignancy and performing biopsies.
Headache Help: Making Sense of Migraines and a Multitude of Therapies Video

Headache Help: Making Sense of Migraines and a Multitude of Therapies

Neurologist Morris Levin, MD, director of the UCSF Headache Center, reviews the diagnostic criteria for migraines and other headaches, followed by a breakdown of preventive and acute treatments.
The COPD Blues: A Guide to Optimizing Outpatient Management Video

The COPD Blues: A Guide to Optimizing Outpatient Management

For the 30 million adults in the U.S. with COPD, effective care requires providers to have an up-to-date understanding of treatment options as well as the ability to respond to changes in a patient’s status.
Redefining Sudden Cardiac Death Video

Redefining Sudden Cardiac Death

Zian H. Tseng, MD, discusses the conclusions of the UCSF Prospective Countywide Surveillance and Autopsy Characterization of Sudden Cardiac Death (POST SCD) Study.
Soothing the Itch: How to Identify and Meet the Varied Needs of Patients With Eczema Video

Soothing the Itch: How to Identify and Meet the Varied Needs of Patients With Eczema

Dermatologist Tim Berger, MD, draws on decades of experience to illuminate the range of conditions called eczema, providing diagnostic criteria for different types, a pruritus rating scale to use with patients, and effective treatment strategies.
Getting to the Point: A Quick Guide to Steroid Injections for the Knee Video

Getting to the Point: A Quick Guide to Steroid Injections for the Knee

Orthopedic surgeon Brian Feeley, MD demos his technique step by step, including landmarks and medication prep. Learn what you need to know in less than four minutes.
Insulin, PCOS and Systemic Interconnections Video

Insulin, PCOS and Systemic Interconnections

Heather Gibson Huddleston, MD, takes a look at insulin resistance and how that contributes to polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) as a multisystem disorder.
Imaging in HCM Management: Diagnosis, Monitoring & Treatment Video

Imaging in HCM Management: Diagnosis, Monitoring & Treatment

Theodore Abraham, MD, discusses the critical role of imaging in the diagnosis and management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), the world’s most common genetic heart condition.
Menopause Management: New Strategies That Improve Women’s Lives Video

Menopause Management: New Strategies That Improve Women’s Lives

OB-GYN and reproductive health specialist Michael Policar, MD, MPH, offers an evidence-based guide to easing the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause.
Navigating the Maze of Breast Cancer Guidelines: Efficient Paths to Personalized Screening Video

Navigating the Maze of Breast Cancer Guidelines: Efficient Paths to Personalized Screening

To help PCPs address patients’ breast cancer screening concerns, surgeon Shoko Emily Abe, MD, FACS, breaks down the multitude of screening directives and modalities, with a focus on the needs of those at average risk and those with dense breast tissue.
Mammography 101 Video

Mammography 101

Bonnie Joe, MD explains the differences between screening and diagnostic mammography, shows evidence for screening, answers common questions about radiation risk and false positives and discusses digital breast tomosynthesis, also known as 3D mammography.
Osteoporosis and the UCSF Metabolic Bone Clinic Video

Osteoporosis and the UCSF Metabolic Bone Clinic

Edward Hsiao, MD, gives an overview of osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease treated at the UCSF Metabolic Bone Clinic, based in the UCSF Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism.
The Human Microbiome and Breast Cancer Video

The Human Microbiome and Breast Cancer

Immunologist Michael Campbell and breast cancer surgeon Laura Esserman speak at the April 2017 Bay Area Breast Cancer Forum about the human biome, how it’s being studied and how it relates to breast cancer prevention and treatment.
New Perspectives on Persistent Opioid Dependence: Reasons Patients Struggle, Routes to Better Care Video

New Perspectives on Persistent Opioid Dependence: Reasons Patients Struggle, Routes to Better Care

Pain medicine specialist Chris R. Abrecht, MD, explains why the clinical focus on the physical pain of opioid withdrawal may be hampering effective treatment
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM): A Fresh Look at Health Impacts, Screening Tests & Management Tools Video

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM): A Fresh Look at Health Impacts, Screening Tests & Management Tools

Having experienced GDM herself while pregnant, perinatologist Jennie Duffy, MD, understands the challenges for both patients and doctors in the quest for better glycemic control.
The Sniff Test: How to Identify Chronic Sinusitis and Treat It Appropriately Video

The Sniff Test: How to Identify Chronic Sinusitis and Treat It Appropriately

Medical management of chronic sinusitis – a common, complex and costly disorder – often fails to bring patients relief. So, which treatments have value? Otolaryngologist Anna Butrymowicz, MD, FAAOA, presents an update, delineating diagnostic steps and therapeutic options, including when to consider surgery.
Medical Management of Seizures and Epilepsy Video

Medical Management of Seizures and Epilepsy

An in-depth look at the many medication options for patients with epilepsy, addressing safety issues such as driving, the success of surgery when meds don’t work, and other options, from thalamus stimulation and RNS to ketogenic diets for kids and adults.
Navigation in Spinal Surgery: An Advantageous Tool of the Trade Video

Navigation in Spinal Surgery: An Advantageous Tool of the Trade

Shane Burch, MD. Offering tips from his own experience in both complex and minimally invasive procedures, he explains navigation’s benefits – which include reducing radiation exposure, highlighting individual anatomy and supporting tasks such as screw placement – as well as how to avoid common user errors.

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