Podcast appearances and mentions of Robert J Cerfolio

Meet Robert J. Cerfolio, MD aka “Cerf”. He is one of the world's top thoracic surgeons and his peers have voted him one of America's Best Doctors. He is an author of several books and certainly a very interesting and charismatic human being. This conversation is guaranteed to pique your interest. enJOY! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mara Antonoff of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, USA, moderates a discussion on maintaining physical health to prevent burnout in cardiothoracic surgery. She is joined by Robert J. Cerfolio of NYU Langone Health in New York, Lisa M. Brown of University of California Davis Health, and Jennifer Sue Lawton of Johns Hopkins Medicine. They discuss the various ways to incorporate physical health and fitness as part of effective work-life balance.

New York City has been at the epicenter of COVID-19, and one leading organization there met the pandemic onslaught head-on. On this episode, we’ll hear how that organization sparked innovations in care, staff support and even a key construction project to create a new dynamic and pace for the future. Guest speaker:Robert J. Cerfolio, MD, MBAExecutive Vice PresidentVice Dean, Medical SchoolChief of Hospital OperationsNYU Langone Health Moderator:Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHMAssociate Vice PresidentClinical ResourcesVizient Show Notes:[02:08] Nimbleness: dealing with the unknown[02:40] Ramping up number of executive meetings[03:40] Innovation: accelerating the graduation of fourth-year medical students[03:48] Innovation: accelerating an ER expansion to months instead of years[04:10] Continuing to operate at “warp speed” and not going back[04:27] Ramping up ICUs[05:20] Innovations in clinical care[06:20] Innovations in taking care of staff[07:22] Takeaways in dealing with a COVID upsurge[08:55] Not just a microangiopathic disease, a hypercoagulable state—use of IV heparin[09:47] Use of low-molecular-weight heparin Links | Resources:Early Heparin therapy improves hypoxia in COVID-19 patients Click hereHealth System in Pandemic Epicenter Identifies Outcomes & New Risk Factors of Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19 Click here9 ways Covid-19 may forever upend the U.S. health care industry Click hereCare for Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19 (JAMA, March 2020) Click here Subscribe Today!Apple PodcastsSpotifyAndroidStitcherRSS Feed 

On this episode, we continue the story of a health care organization in New York City, at the flashpoint of the COVID-19 outbreak, and the breakthrough innovations it made to enable continued care during the first wave. Our discussion focuses on the importance of staff resilience, reaching out to patient families, the use of medical students on the frontlines and dealing with the staggering costs of the pandemic. Guest speaker:Robert J. Cerfolio, MD, MBAExecutive Vice PresidentVice Dean, Medical SchoolChief of Hospital OperationsNYU Langone Health Moderator:Tomas Villanueva, DO, MBA, FACPE, SFHMAssociate Vice PresidentClinical ResourcesVizient Show Notes:[00:25] Biggest surprise in past four months[01:15] Improving communication with patient families[04:16] Long-term costs to the organization[04:40] Reaching pre-COVID volumes in elective procedures[05:02] Innovations to mitigate the financial toll[05:34] No staff layoffs, furloughs or pay cuts[05:50] Regaining patient trust; need to care for patients with non-COVID conditions[07:01] Convincing staff that facility is safe; eliminating unnecessary precautions[08:21] Message for leaders Links | Resources:Health System in Pandemic Epicenter Identifies Outcomes & New Risk Factors of Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19 Click here9 ways Covid-19 may forever upend the U.S. health care industry Click hereCare for Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19 (JAMA, March 2020) Click here Subscribe Today!Apple PodcastsSpotifyAndroidStitcherRSS Feed 

Director of the Perlmutter Lung Cancer Center, chief of clinical thoracic surgery, Robert J. Cerfolio, MD talks about his career at the University of Alabama to his current responsibilities at NYU Langone Health, including his work in robotics.