The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast

Episode 71: Discussing Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare with Dr. Louis Atallah

Our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians Podcast with Louis Atallah, PhD, R and D lead Clinical AI and analytics at Phillips in Boston, MA, USA. This episode is co-hosted with Dr. MohammadAli Jardaly. Dr. Atallah is working mostly in tele ICU and eiCU monitoring developing AI algorithms to detect disease early, improve outcomes, and improve quality of care. In this episode, we discuss the role of AI currently and in the future in healthcare, its potential to improve quality of care, and assist healthcare workers and physicians in evaluating disease and monitoring patients. 

If you are a physician, you have to listen to this episode to understand your evolving role in the future and whether or not you will still have a job:)

This episode is available on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, Anghami, and iHeartRadio under The Lebanese Physicians Podcast. 

 

#Artificialintelligence #healthcare #qualityofcare #clinicalinformatics

Episode 70: Enhancing Access to Primary Care and the Role of Medical Informatics

Please listen to our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast discussing clincial informatics in primary care and its role in enhancing access to primary care and preventive care. This episode is co-hosted with Dr. MohammadAli Jardaly. Our guest is Dr. Ramy Khalil who is now based in Dubai, but is still director of medical informatics at PeopleOne Health, a direct primary healthcare company in the US that offers health plans for employers offering direct primary and preventive care to their employees thus cutting administrative costs. 

Preventive and primary care suffers from lack of primary care physicians and primary care physician burnout in the United States and the MENA region due to low reimbursement and overwork. We discuss the role of AI and medical informatics in improving access to primary care enhancing quality of life for primary care physicians and job satisfaction while at the same improving patient care. 

An episode not to be missed, the longest episode we have recorded so far. 

#primarycare #preventivecare #medicalbilling #Artifiicialintelligence #Medical Informatics

Episode 69: The role of Artificial Intelligence in Optimizing Nursing Processes with Cynthia Abi Khalil

Please listen to our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast discussing the role of Artificial Intelligence in Optimizing nursing processes. In this episode, which was co-hosted by MohammadAli Jardali and Antoine Saab, we discuss our topic with Cynthia Abi Khalil, director of nursing services at The Lebanese Hospital-Geitaoui. Ms. Abi Khalil is currently pursuing her PhD in Medical Informatics at the Sorbonne University in Paris. She is exploring the identification of key design and implementation features that are related to optimizing the usability, clinical relevance and outcomes of clinical decision support systems implemented
for the nursing process. We discuss her efforts to start this process at her current hospital, and the recent conference she organized among the major hospitals in Lebanon aimed at streamlining AI implementation and research at these different hospitals. This is an episode you would not want to miss. 

It is available on Apple, Anghami, Spotify, and iHeartRadio. 

Episode 68: Medical NGO work in Lebanon and the Middle East with Drs. Vlad Chaddad and Tania Baban

Please listen to our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast with Drs. Tania Baban and Vlad Chaddad, and co-hosted with Dr. MohammadAli Jardali. Dr. Chaddad has been a very active member of the NGO community in the region and is currently responsible for the work of IRC in the region. Dr. Baban is medical director of the MedGlobal mission in Lebanon. In this episode, we discuss medical NGO work in Lebanon and the Middle East, especially in light of the recent crises in the region and after the Beirut blast. We discuss the importance of sustainability and empowering local communities of people and healthcare workers to deliver preventative healthcare services in the areas they servce. We also delve into the importance of collaboration among the different NGOs. 

#IRC #internationalrescuecommittee #MedGlobal #NGO #lebanon

 

This episode is available on Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and Anghami

Episode 67: The Use of Aritificial Intelligence for Pandemic Monitoring and Surveillance with Antoine Saab, PhD

The COVID-19 pandemic showed the world that our pandemic monitoring systems could not prevent and detect the scale of the pandemic in a timely manner. The responses around the world were variable and differed by region. In this episode co-hosted with MohammadAli Jardali, we discuss with Antoine Saab, PhD, Healthcare Quality and Development Manager at Lebanese Hospital Geitaoui-UMC, his project "Strengthening Lebanon's pandemic surveillance system through AI-driven automation of laboratory data", which will be funded by the Canadian AI4PEP Funding Program. We discuss the role and future of AI in healthcare, in pandemic monitoring, and in improving healthcare quality. An episode not to be missed. 

#Artificialintelligence #healthcare #lebanon

The episode is available on Apple, Spotify, Anghami, and iHeartRadio. 

Episode 66: Discussing Substance Use Disorders and Mental Health Awareness with Drs. Hala Najm, Rasha Abi Hana, and Ziad Khatib

Please listen to our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast with Hala Najm, Rasha Abi Hana, and Ziad Khatib. This is the first episode recorded in person in Washington, D.C. Ms. Najm and Ms. Abi Hana have significant experience in substance use disorders and mental health awareness in Lebanon. Ms. Najm is also on a Hubert Humphrey Fulbright scholarship at VCU researching substance use disorders and prevention. In this episode, we discuss methods to prevent and treat substance use disorders and we discuss genetics and risk factors of the disease. We also discuss the push towards improving mental health awareness and reducing stigma in Lebanon through Ms. Abi Hana's experience advising the Ministry of Public Health on this issue. We also learn about stigma and substance use disorders in Europe through Dr. Khatib's experiences. 

An episode not to be missed. 

Available on Apple, Spotify, Anghami, and iHeartRadio

#Mentalhealthawareness #substanceuse #Mentalhealth

 

Episode 65: The mental health needs of healthcare workers in crisis zones with Dr. Maya Bizri

lease tune in to our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast with Dr. Maya Bizri, MD MPH discussing a topic that is often underrecognized, the mental health of healthcare workers. In this episode, we discuss Dr. Bizri's recent trip to Ukraine with MedGlobal in which she visited Lviv in Ukraine as part of a MedGlobal team invited by the Ministry of Health. The team developed a training program for healthcare workers to recognize mental health ailments in their colleagues early on.

Over the past decade, there have been multiple crises in a various areas around the world including Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Ukraine, Mali, and multiple others. On top of that, there has been the COVID-19 crisis. Healthcare workers have been affected significantly by these crises, and especially by COVID-19. Recognizing the mental health effects of these crises on healthcare workers is of utmost importance. Dr. Bizri highlights the importance of this point and discusses future plans for early recognition.

#mentalhealthawareness #healthcareworkers #ukraine  @AUBMC_Official   @MedGlobal 

This episode is also available on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and Anghami under The Lebanese Physicians'Podcast​

Episode 64: Discussing the genetic determinants of Autism Spectrum Disorder with Dr. Maria Chahrour

Please listen to and watch our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast with Dr. Maria Chahrour at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX.

 

Autism Spectrum Disorder affects 1 in 36 children in the United States according to the CDC website. According to the WHO, 1 in 100 children worldwide have been identified with the disorder.

 

In this episode, we discuss the incidence and impact of Autism Spectrum Disorder in the United States and worldwide. We then delve into Dr. Chahrour's research on the genetic determinants of Autism Spectrum Disorder and the future landscape of therapeutic options. Similar to cancer therapeutics, it seems that the future will focus on genetic mapping of the disorder and determining targeted treatment options. This episode is available on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and Anghami.

#autismspectrumdisorders #autismawareness #genetherapy

Episode 63: Rates of Malnutrition in Patients Admitted to Lebanese Hospitals with Krystel Ouaijan

Listen to our latest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast with Krystel Ouaijan, Senior Dietician specialized in critical illness at Saint George Hospital University Medical Centre and secretary and founding member of the Lebanese Syndicate for Dieticians and Nutritionists. In this episode, we discuss her latest research on the rates of malnutrition in Lebanon and the impact of those rates on hospital length of stay and morbidity and mortality on those patients. We also discuss the impact of the economic crisis on those rates. 

This is her latest published article: 

Ouaijan K, Hwalla N, Kandala NB, Mpinga EK. Prevalence of Malnutrition in Hospitalized Patients in Lebanon Using Nutrition Risk Screening (NRS-2002) and Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) Criteria and Its Association with Length of Stay. Healthcare (Basel). 2023;11(5):730. Published 2023 Mar 2. doi:10.3390/healthcare11050730

Stay tuned for more data that will be published soon and stay tuned for policy change proposals this data will be generating. 

You can listen to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio and Anghami. 

#Malnutrition #hospitallengthofstay #chronicdisease

Episode 62: An Amazing Feat: Successful Separation of Conjoined Twins for the First Time in Lebanon

Watch and listen to our newest episode of The Lebanese Physicians' Podcast co-hosted with Dr. MohammadAli Jardali. In this episode, we discuss with Drs. Ahmad Zaghal (Pediatric Surgery at AUBMC) and Houssein Darwish (Neurosurgery at AUBMC) the recent accomplishment of the separation of conjoined twins at AUBMC.

We discuss the great team of doctors, nurses, and personnel who were instrumental in making this story a success. We delve into the planning phases, the day of the surgery, and the post surgical follow-up of the twins. Then, we talk about the resilience of the physicians and healthcare workers still being able to perform complex surgeries despite the unstable economic and political situation in Lebanon.

This episode can be found on Apple, Spotify, Anghami, and iHeart Radio in addition to YouTube. #conjoinedtwins #successstories #pediatrics #neonatology  @AUBMC_Official ​