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Pediatric Spondylolisthesis: Identifying Surgical Candidates and Selecting the Approach Video

Pediatric Spondylolisthesis: Identifying Surgical Candidates and Selecting the Approach

In a talk with relevance for both adult and pediatric spinal care providers, orthopedic surgeon Sigurd Berven, MD, discusses complex decisions on whether and how to treat a child with high-grade spondylolisthesis.
Know Your Thyroid: Here’s Help With Understanding Nodules and Cancer Video

Know Your Thyroid: Here’s Help With Understanding Nodules and Cancer

Thyroid disease is increasingly common. In this video, UCSF specialists clearly explain the basics of thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer, helping patients make sense of their treatment options, from monitoring to surgery to radioactive iodine.
UCSF Osher Center Overview: Integrative Medicine’s Value for Providers and Patients Video

UCSF Osher Center Overview: Integrative Medicine’s Value for Providers and Patients

Sanford C. Newmark, MD, medical director of the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, explains what integrative medicine is (hint: it’s neither “alternative medicine” nor homeopathy) and how referred patients can benefit from its proven techniques.
High Risk for Breast Cancer: Methods and Schedules to Ensure Optimal Screening Video

High Risk for Breast Cancer: Methods and Schedules to Ensure Optimal Screening

Hematologist-oncologist Elham Vosoughi, MD, starts with an update on breast cancer stats, noting that incidence in the United States is increasing by 1% every year – with an even sharper rise for women under 50.
Complex Drugs, Complex Patients: Navigating New Options for Diabetes Management Video

Complex Drugs, Complex Patients: Navigating New Options for Diabetes Management

Robert J. Rushakoff, MD, helps providers get up to speed on the latest drugs, explaining benefits, crucial caveats, and factors ranging from expense to nonadherence.
Burnout Interventions to Benefit Individuals and Systems Video

Burnout Interventions to Benefit Individuals and Systems

Sunita Mutha, MD, discusses common symptoms, the many negative consequences for the health care field, and proven interventions.
Cervical and Thoracolumbar Spinal Deformity Treatment Strategies, Part III: Case Examples Video

Cervical and Thoracolumbar Spinal Deformity Treatment Strategies, Part III: Case Examples

Lee Tan, MD discusses three recent cervical spine and thoracolumbar spinal deformity cases and the surgical interventions used to treat these diverse conditions.
Optimize Spinal Surgery Outcomes Through Teamwork Video

Optimize Spinal Surgery Outcomes Through Teamwork

Vascular surgeon Dr. Charles Eichler discusses UCSF’s success with including vascular surgeons in lumbar fusion procedures and finding the least invasive approach for each patient.
Minimally-Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery Video

Minimally-Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery

Tobias Deuse, MD, discusses the advantages of minimally invasive approaches for the treatment of mitral valve insufficiency.
Knee and Hip Replacements: Tips and Tools to Optimize Your Referrals Video

Knee and Hip Replacements: Tips and Tools to Optimize Your Referrals

Noting the prevalence of osteoarthritis and a general lack of consistency in which patients are referred, orthopedic surgeon Claudio Diaz Ledezma, MD, lays out efficient evaluation strategies for primary care providers.
The UCSF Hip Preservation Center: Where Hurting Hips Go to Become Happy Hips Video

The UCSF Hip Preservation Center: Where Hurting Hips Go to Become Happy Hips

See how our specialists work together and use advanced techniques to address all types of hip injuries in all types of patients, including infants and athletes.
Endocrine Tests: Keys to Interpreting Results and Identifying Issues Video

Endocrine Tests: Keys to Interpreting Results and Identifying Issues

Neuro-endocrinologist Lewis S. Blevins Jr., MD, a specialist in pituitary disorders, breaks down the complexities of hormone levels, with wisdom on how various conditions typically look both in terms of symptoms and test results.
Fresh Insight on Cataracts: An Update on Evaluation and Management Video

Fresh Insight on Cataracts: An Update on Evaluation and Management

Optometrist Emily Eng, OD, MS, FAAO, starts with a refresher on eye anatomy and the factors that make lenses get cloudy, then describes what patients want to know about cataract surgery (the most performed procedure in all of medicine), including pre- and post-op care.
COVID Care and Control: How to Use What We’ve Learned So Far Video

COVID Care and Control: How to Use What We’ve Learned So Far

Pulmonologist Brian Block, MD, submits an enlightening analysis of U.S. COVID data, including his own work examining mortality in overburdened hospitals.
Personalized Therapy for Early-Stage Lung Cancer at UCSF Video

Personalized Therapy for Early-Stage Lung Cancer at UCSF

Follow the journey of a UCSF patient with early-stage, high-risk lung cancer, from history to treatment and prognosis, including how surgeons chose to do a robotic assisted VATS lobectomy and an analysis of how well chemo is likely to work for her.
The Value of Focused Ultrasound for Essential Tremor: Safety, Precision, Sustained Results Video

The Value of Focused Ultrasound for Essential Tremor: Safety, Precision, Sustained Results

The most common movement disorder, essential tremor often doesn’t respond to meds and depresses quality of life. As neurosurgeon Doris Wang, MD, PhD, explains in this short, information-packed presentation, focused ultrasound can bring immediate and lasting relief to many.
Down to Earth: Lowering Blood Pressure With Evidence-Based Natural Techniques Video

Down to Earth: Lowering Blood Pressure With Evidence-Based Natural Techniques

Taking an integrative approach, Dr. Jennifer Ashby, DAOM, MS, discusses how to educate patients on hypertension and its consequences, including by providing accessible definitions (such as for systolic and diastolic) and straight talk on the gray zone in which early-stage hypertension is often labeled as normal (even by doctors).
Subfertility in Male Patients: A Specialist Illuminates Diagnosis and Care Video

Subfertility in Male Patients: A Specialist Illuminates Diagnosis and Care

Reproductive urologist James F. Smith, MD, MS, discusses the wide range of causes for male fertility problems, from structural abnormalities, such as varicocele, to lifestyle factors, such as tobacco use, to hormonal issues, which can arise from use of common medications and supplements.
Look Beyond Symptoms: When to Test for Pituitary Tumors Video

Look Beyond Symptoms: When to Test for Pituitary Tumors

Tumors of the body’s “master gland” cause various symptoms – headaches, depression, sexual dysfunction, vision loss – that doctors often attribute to other conditions. UCSF endocrinology and neurosurgery specialists discuss keys to identifying patients as well as the merits of telehealth referrals in the time of COVID.
Advanced Care of Subdural Hematoma in the Elderly: A Look at Embolization Video

Advanced Care of Subdural Hematoma in the Elderly: A Look at Embolization

Neurosurgeon Luis Savastano, MD, PhD, discusses middle meningeal artery embolization, a cutting-edge, outpatient procedure for subdural hematoma.
Louder for the Patients in the Back: Making the Most of New Hearing Aid Options Video

Louder for the Patients in the Back: Making the Most of New Hearing Aid Options

Hearing loss is associated with cognitive decline, so finding solutions that help patients stay socially connected is crucial.
Surgery for Epilepsy: Advanced Techniques and Appropriate Candidates Video

Surgery for Epilepsy: Advanced Techniques and Appropriate Candidates

Many patients with uncontrolled seizures are unaware that they can be helped – and providers have an opportunity to start them toward a better quality of life simply by explaining the latest options.
Exploring Potential Treatment Options for COVID-19 Video

Exploring Potential Treatment Options for COVID-19

Annie Luetkemeyer, MD, professor of infectious diseases at UCSF, is an expert on the treatment of viral infections. On March 24, 2020, Robert Wachter, MD, chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF, interviewed her on the evidence behind potential treatments for COVID-19 as well as how to assess new and existing drugs in a pandemic.
Keep Them on Their Feet: Vigilant Diabetic Care Saves Limbs Video

Keep Them on Their Feet: Vigilant Diabetic Care Saves Limbs

In response to rising rates of diabetes and related amputations, the co-directors of UCSF’s Center for Limb Preservation – which has a limb salvage rate of 92 percent – present a quick guide to detecting amputation risk. They include COVID-specific advice to prevent delays in diagnosis and referral.

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