This Week on Sound Medicine...Sep 10

Tune in at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 10, 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-hosts of this week’s program are Ora Pescovitz, MD, and Stephen Bogdewic, PhD.

Guests include emergency room physician Frank Messina, MD, clinical assistant professor of medicine and associate medical director of emergency services at IUSM, will assess our nation’s emergency response system five years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Also appearing will be Michael Reece, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of public health, who will discuss the lack of thorough sex education in Indiana’s public schools. Reece also is director of the Sexual Health Research Working Group at Indiana University.

Field reporter Meghan Freeman will chat with high school students who attended the seventh annual Molecular Medicine in Action program at IUSM. The two-day program offers high-achieving students the opportunity work with medical scientists in the labs of the Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research. This program hopes to spark interest in the field of medical research.

Eric Meslin, PhD, will present a Sound Ethics moment on the United States policy that allows organ donation to occur after brain death. In some nations, organ donation after cardiac death is becoming the new standard. Dr. Meslin is director of the IU Center for Bioethics.

Sharon Kaufman, PhD, professor of medical anthropology at the University of California at San Francisco, will share information from her book, And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life.

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

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