This Week on Sound Medicine...Sep 18

Tune in at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, to Sound Medicine, the weekly radio program co-produced by IUSM and WFYI Public Radio (90.1 FM) in Indianapolis. The program is hosted by Barb Lewis. Co-hosting the program will be Kathy Miller, MD, David Crabb, MD, and Stephen Bogdewic, PhD. Guests include Michael Kowolik, DDS, director of graduate research in periodontics at the IU School of Dentistry, who will discus his research on the potential relationship between gingivitis and heart disease.

Ann Zerr, MD, the medical director of the IU National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health who has coordinated care for Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Indiana, will give a medical update on the evacuees now housed at the Indiana State Fairgrounds.

Smokers trying to kick the habit may want to tune in to hear Arden Christen, DDS, co-director of the Clarian Tobacco Control Center, discuss what works and what doesn’t. Dr. Christen is professor and director of Preventive and Community Dentistry in the Department of Oral Biology at the IU School of Dentistry.

Richard Frankel, PhD, professor of medicine and a medical sociologist at IUSM, will discuss the use of computers in exam rooms. Dr. Frankel is the author of “The Effects of Exam-Room Computing on Clinician-Patient Communication,” which was the lead article in the August issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Tune in Sunday, Sept. 25, to learn more about the Senior Health Insurance Information Program for Indiana, as well as pancreatic cancer research, and what questions women under the age of 40 should ask their physician.

Archived editions of Sound Medicine, as well as other helpful health information, can be found at soundmedicine.iu.edu/

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