Endocrine News Podcast: Recent Episodes
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NOTE: This is an edited re-release of Episode 52. Host Aaron Lohr talks about incretins and type 2 diabetes management with Zenqi Liu, MD, chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. This episode is certified for up to 0.5 American Medical Association Physician's Recognition Award (AMA PRA) Category 1 credits and American Board of Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification (ABIM MOC) points. Browse to https://bit.ly/3uEqWto for more information and the certification course. This activity is supported by an educational grant from Lilly. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast
Host Aaron Lohr talks about incretins and type 2 diabetes management with Zhenqi Liu, MD, chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. This episode is certified for up to 0.5 American Medical Association Physician's Recognition Award (AMA PRA) Category 1 credits and American Board of Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification (ABIM MOC) points. Browse to https://bit.ly/3uEqWto for more information and the certification course. This activity is supported by an educational grant from Lilly. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast
In recent years, much attention has been paid to the amount of Bisphenol A, or BPA, an endocrine-disrupting chemical, found in plastic products. But are the standards we have in place enough? Host Aaron Lohr talks with Heather Patisaul, PhD, of North Carolina State University. An Endocrine Society member, Dr. Patisaul is an expert on BPA whose research contributed to findings from a coalition that the Society participated in. This coalition of physicians, scientists, and public health and environmental organizations has petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to set stricter BPA limits in plastic food containers, among other products. This followed recent, stricter changes in European Union standards for BPA exposure. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast
For our 50th episode since launching in 2018, host Aaron Lohr takes a look at drone and robotic technology being used for medicine delivery and patient education. He speaks with Derek O'Keeffe, MD, PhD, of the National University of Ireland, Galway, who has been at the forefront of this development in patient care. Dr. O'Keeffe will present on Tuesday, November 9, at the Endocrine Society's upcoming half-day-long, educational event, "Insulin 2121: The Next 100 Years of Discoveries," which you can register for at https://www.endocrine.org/insulin100 . This episode is sponsored by an unrestricted, educational grant from Lilly USA LLC. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast
Host Aaron Lohr talks about cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes with Jonathan Purnell, MD, from Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Purnell chaired the Endocrine Society's recent educational series, "Current and Future State of Cardiovascular Disease in Type 2 Diabetes," which is available through December 2021. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast
We explore type 1 diabetes, everything from diagnosis to treatment strategies, hypoglycemia, technology, and teleheath. Host Aaron Lohr talks with Irl Hirsch, MD, from the University of Washington, and Davida Kruger, NP, from the Henry Ford Health System. They co-chair the Endocrine Society's 8th Annual Endocrine Fellows Type 1 Diabetes Care and Management Program. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast
Host Aaron Lohr talks about obesity, infertility, and a lifestyle intervention program, Fit for Fertility, presented during the Endocrine Society's annual meeting ENDO 2021 by researchers from the University of Sherbrooke in Canada. Here he speaks with the first author of the presentation, Matea Belan, PhD. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast
Host Aaron Lohr talks about vitamin D insufficiency and COVID-19 with Laurel Mohrmann, MD, and Sweta Chekuri, MD, both from Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Drs. Mohrmann and Chekuri participated on a team that presented in March on vitamin D insufficiency at ENDO 2021. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast
Host Aaron Lohr talks about thyroiditis and COVID-19 with Ilaria Muller, MD, PhD, from the University of Milan. Dr. Muller presented her research in March at ENDO 2021: "Early Follow-up of Atypical Thyroiditis Induced by SARS-CoV-2." For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast
A new study in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism shows the relationship between abnormal sodium levels and greater risk of respiratory failure and death in patients with COVID-19. Host Aaron Lohr speaks with two of the authors, Ploutarchos Tzoulis, MD, PhD, from University College London Medical School and Julian Waung, PhD, from the Whittington Health NHS Trust in London. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast
The pandemic has changed the world of medical and science conferences, including the Endocrine Society's annual meeting, ENDO 2021, which will be an all-virtual event. Host Aaron Lohr talks with Felix Beuschlein, a professor at University Hospital Zurich and chair of the Society's annual meeting steering committee, about what to expect. ENDO 2021 will be held on March 20-23. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
Today we celebrate 100 years since the discovery of insulin. We talk with Elizabeth A. Stephens, MD, an endocrinologist with the Providence Medical Group in Portland, Ore., about the importance of this landmark discovery, how it shaped our understanding and treatment of diabetes, and how it sets the stage for the exciting breakthroughs of tomorrow. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
We look at sugars and appetite with Kathleen Page, MD, associate professor of medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. Dr. Page is the corresponding author of a new article published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, "Appetite-Regulating Hormones Are Reduced After Oral Sucrose vs Glucose: Influence of Obesity, Insulin Resistance, and Sex." For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
Host Aaron Lohr talks about time in range, hypoglycemia, and continuous glucose monitoring with Steven Edelman, MD, and Jeremy Pettus, MD, from the University of California, San Diego, and Rayhan Lal, MD, of Stanford University. Once you finish listening, take a survey, and you will receive a fashionable pancreas pin. The survey and all other links can be found at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast. This episode is sponsored by an unrestricted, educational grant from Novo Nordisk, Abbott Diabetes Care, and Medtronic.
Hear host Aaron Lohr's talk with Donna Ryan from Pennington Biomedical about the latest developments in obesity treatment. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
Host Aaron Lohr talks about hypoglycemia with Elizabeth Seaquist, MD, from the University of Minnesota, and Cecilia Low Wang, MD, from the University of Colorado Hospital. Drs. Seaquist and Low Wang are the faculty of the ENDO Online 2020 session titled "Severe Hypoglycemia: The Frequently Forgotten Threat." Once you have listened to the episode, let us know what you think about it by taking a survey, the link to which you can find on our website, https://www.endocrine.org/podcast (click on the episode link). Fill out the survey, and we will send you an insulin pin. This podcast is supported by an unrestricted, educational grant from Lilly.
We continue in our four-part micro-series on endocrine in the time of COVID. Aaron talks more with Joshua Joseph, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Dr. Joseph talks about disparities in research funding and the need for mentoring for young researchers, changes in policymaking that helps poor and BIPOC communities, and more engagement by endocrinologists both in the pandemic and in the treatment of all communities. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
We continue in our four-part micro-series on endocrine in the time of COVID. Here Aaron talks about the health disparities we see in the pandemic, especially those affecting African-American patients, with Joshua Joseph, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
We continue in our four-part micro-series on endocrine in the time of COVID. Aaron talks some more with Kathleen Dungan, MD, associate professor of medicine at the Ohio State University Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, about continuous glucose monitoring, training for caregivers and nurses, and telehealth. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
We begin the first in a four-part micro-series on endocrine in the time of COVID. Here Aaron talks with Kathleen Dungan, MD, associate professor of medicine at the Ohio State University Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, about what we know right now about the effects of COVID-19 on the patient with diabetes. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
Aaron talks about thyroid and pregnancy with Elizabeth Pearce, professor of medicine at Boston University Medical Center and president of the American Thyroid Association. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
The Endocrine Society’s chief professional and clinical affairs officer, Robert Lash, MD, talks with Griffin Rodgers, MD, director of the NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and William Cefalu, MD, director of NIDDK’s Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Disease. They talk about the institute’s mission, the months since Dr. Cefalu took over the division, and their interactions with professional organizations like the Endocrine Society. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
We hear from Christopher Mulla, MD, from the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, about his research about the closed loop glucagon pump as a strategy for post-bariatric hypoglycemia. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
Aaron welcomes back Maria Fleseriu, MD, from Oregon Health and Science University, this time to talk about the latest in acromegaly research and treatment. He also speaks with Marvin Avila, an acromegaly patient living in the Washington, DC, metro area. Endocrine Society members, for a chance to win a pituitary pin, please complete a survey at https://education.endocrine.org/acromegalypodcast (login required). This episode is supported by Pfizer through an unrestricted, educational grant. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
Aaron talks about finding your path after your postdoc with W. Lee Kraus, PhD, from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Nicola Partridge, PhD, from New York University College of Dentistry. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
Caitlin talks with author and researcher Nayara Aquino, PhD, from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, about her research on neuroendocrine control of the female reproductive system. Her paper, published in Endocrinology in June 2017, was selected for the Endocrine Society’s Women in Endocrinology Thematic Issue. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
Aaron talks about treating Cushing's disease with Maria Fleseriu, MD, professor of medicine and neurological surgery at Oregon Health and Science University. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
We talk about the sometimes conflicting perspectives in the treatment of menopausal symptoms with Cynthia Stuenkel, M.D., clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
Aaron speaks with Manasi Das, PhD, of the University of California San Diego. At ENDO 2019 in New Orleans, Dr. Das presented research on post-menopausal obesity, suggesting that time restricted feeding can delay breast cancer in a mouse model. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
A year after we interviewed her at ENDO 2018, we talk again with Stephanie Page, MD, PhD, from University of Washington, about her continuing research on a prototype male pill. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
Caitlin talks about the European Union’s recent resolution on endocrine-disrupting chemicals. She is joined by Rémy Slama, PhD, an environmental epidemiologist and senior investigator at INSERM, France’s National Institute of Health and Medical Research, and Barbara Demeneix, PhD, professor in the Comparative Physiology Laboratory within the Natural History Museum in Paris. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
Caitlin and Aaron talk with Kyle McNerney, MD, from Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. At ENDO 2019, Dr. McNerney presented a study to determine the connection between vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy and insulin resistance in children. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
Getting published can be a challenging journey. In this episode, Caitlin and Aaron talk with Andrea Gore, Ph.D., from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Gore has published more than 150 articles and is a past Editor-in-Chief of the journal Endocrinology. Here she talks about what makes for a well-written scientific paper and about the peer review process: what to expect and how to understand the feedback from editors. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
We look into promising findings from clinical trials regarding Burosumab, a human monoclonal antibody designed for the treatment of X-linked hypophosphatemia. With us are Erik Imel, MD from the Indiana University School of Medicine and Suzanne Marie Jan De Beur, MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
Aaron talks with Deborah Kurrasch, PhD, associate professor at the University of Calgary, and Dinu Nesan, PhD, postdoctoral fellow also at University of Calgary. At the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in 2019, they presented research on BPA exposure's effects on circadian rhythms in mice during pregnancy. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
Caitlin and Aaron talk with Dr. Anders Carlson, medical director of the International Diabetes Center in Minneapolis, about his research on hypoglycemia in older adults with type 1 diabetes. Dr. Carlson presented this research at the Endocrine Society’s 2019 annual meeting in New Orleans. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
There are good days and bad days. For the endocrinologist, that bad day can happen when a grant application or journal submission is rejected or following a misstep with a patient or in the lab. In this episode, Aaron and guest host Cecilia Low Wang, MD, from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, talk about how young researchers and trainees can understand, learn from, and bounce back from rejection and other challenges when building a career in clinical practice or scientific research. Our guests are Joy Wu, MD, PhD, from Stanford University and Rob Fowkes, PhD, from the Royal Veterinary College at the University of London. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
We continue our special Women in Endocrinology series. Caitlin talks with Rebecca Simmons, MD, from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, about her 2018 article in Endocrinology about islet dysfunction in intrauterine growth restriction. This paper was selected for a special thematic collection of Endocrine Society-published articles by women. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
Aaron catches up with Anuja Dokras MD, PhD, a physician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Penn Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Center, about her presentation at ENDO 2019 on anxiety, depression, and quality of life between white and black women with polycystic ovary syndrome. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
We continue our special Women in Endocrinology series. Caitlin talks with Varykina Thackray, PhD, from the University of California, San Diego, about her 2018 article in JCEM about polycystic ovary syndrome and hyperandrogenism. This paper was selected for a special thematic collection of Endocrine Society-published articles by women. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
We talk about insulin affordability with Alvin Powers, MD, from Vanderbilt University and the Endocrine Society's chief professional and clinical affairs officer, Rob Lash, MD. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
We celebrate women in endocrinology by launching this podcast series, talking with authors of 12 influential, high-impact research papers representing the spectrum of basic through clinical research, geographical diversity and career stage, published in Endocrine Society journals since 2017. Here we speak with Stina Rikke Jensen, PhD, a researcher at Novozymes in Denmark. Her 2017 Endocrinology paper, on biological roles of insulin and its receptor in murine intestinal growth and function, is part of a special thematic collection of these 12 influential papers. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
R. Michael Tuttle, from Memorial Sloan Kettering and Weill Medical College, talks with Caitlin and Aaron about the upcoming ENDO 2019 and especially how first-time attendees and trainees can navigate the sometimes overwhelming experience. Also, Caitlin tells us about the upcoming Women in Endocrinology Thematic Collection. The Society is seeking nominations for this collection, which will be published in March in time for the meeting. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
We talk with James Findling from the Medical College of Wisconsin about the debate surrounding the symptoms that some see as indicative of adrenal fatigue and failure and others see as a false positive for a condition that, in fact, does not exist. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
We talk with Ann E. Kearns, associate professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, about the questions endocrinologists are asked by their patients about osteoporosis. Dr. Kearns led a discussion about osteoporosis treatment and care in September at the Endocrine Society's Clinical Endocrinology Update in Miami. We spoke with her there. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
We talk with Kristy Brown, assistant professor of biochemistry and medicine, and Priya Bhardwaj, a PhD candidate, both at Weill Cornell Medicine, about their research correlating obesity with DNA damage in the breast epithelium of BRCA mutation carriers, and investigating potential connections with adipose inflammation and elevated aromatase expression. They presented their research at the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in Chicago. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
As part of Women’s Health Month, we speak with Jerilynn Prior, who talks about a new treatment approach to perimenopause: oral, micronized progesterone. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
We interview Charles Sklar, from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, about the latest Endocrine Society clinical practice guideline. Dr. Sklar talks about the need to screen for endocrine disorders in long-term survivors of childhood cancer. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
In this episode, we speak with Angela Magdaleno, from the Lehigh Valley Health Network, about preconception counseling for women with diabetes. Dr. Magdaleno presented findings of a patient review and a survey of providers at the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
We talk with Alberto Ferlin, a professor of endocrinology at the University of Brescia, Italy, about his cohort findings connecting semen quality, reproductive function, and conditions in men such as hypogonadism, high body-mass index, and metabolic syndrome. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
We talk with Stephanie Page, a professor of medicine at the University of Washington, about research on what she calls a prototype male pill. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.
We talk about diabetes and cancer with Anupam Kotwal, endocrinology fellow at the Mayo Clinic. His research shows the potential for autoimmune diabetes outcomes from novel anti-cancer agents. For more information, including helpful links and other episodes, visit our website at https://www.endocrine.org/podcast.