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Plenary Session

Vinay Prasad, MD MPH·399 episodes

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A podcast on medicine, oncology, & health policy. Host: Vinay Prasad, MD MPH from University of California, San Francisco. Tweet your feedback to @Plenary_Session or e-mail [email protected].

Episodes

36 min
May 20, 2026
Longevity Episode 2 - Nutrition science

Longevity Episode 2 - Nutrition science by Plenary Session

29 min
May 12, 2026
Longevity Lecture series Introduction and Lecture 1

Longevity Lecture series Introduction and Lecture 1 by Plenary Session

19 min
Feb 20, 2025
CABINET - trial - Cabozantinib for NET

Back to basics as I break down a trial

38 min
Feb 19, 2025
CIA says lab leak, Fauci's pardon, NIH's meetings, RFK Jr's hearing & more!

I discuss the CIA admitting that COVID was a lab leak; Fauci's pardon; NIH meetings; RFK Jr's Senate confirmation hearing; and more.

31 min
Feb 19, 2025
Why the NIH is a broken funding system

I discuss the recent reduction in indirect funds for NIH grants and lay out why the NIH is a broken funding system.

22 min
Feb 19, 2025
Elon's 6 Engineers/ Unelected/ RFK Jr/ MMR vaccines/ DEI/ USAID and NIH funding complaints

I'm talking about USAID and Elon's team of six engineers; the Bobby Kennedy Jr hearings, particularly concerning Samoa; MMR vaccines; DEI; and NIH funding complaints.

27 min
Feb 19, 2025
Trump is breaking media brains / NIH cuts indirect payments and scientists freak out

I discuss the intense media coverage of Trump and the recent decision to cap indirect costs of NIH grants at 15%.

27 min
Feb 19, 2025
RFK Jr takes office/ CDC layoffs/ Varmus criticizes Jay's proposal for Academic Freedom

I discuss RFK Jr.'s confirmation as the US Secretary of Health and Human Services; recent layoffs at the CDC and NIH; and some comments by Harold Varmus in criticism of Jay Bhattacharya.

29 min
Feb 1, 2025
Trump's Big Health Care Changes: NIH study sections, MMWR gag order, WHO withdrawal & more!

I discuss Trump's big health care changes: NIH study sections, the MMWR gag order, the US withdrawal from WHO, and more!

18 min
Jan 27, 2025
The ENTIRE healthcare system is broken, not just health insurance companies

The entire healthcare system is broken, it's not just health insurance companies.

41 min
Jan 24, 2025
Alcohol - Is it healthy? Everything you need to know about Beer, Wine and Spirits

Is alcohol healthy for you? I break down everything you need to know about beer, wine, and spirits.

1 hr 58 min
Dec 11, 2024
2 HOUR ASH Presentation with AARON GOODMAN & MANNI & More

Our 2 hour critical appraisal and ASH review. SO many guest stars

48 min
Nov 13, 2024
Systematic Reviews - An Introduction⧸ How to do them⧸ Search Strategies⧸ Common Errors

Lecture on systematic review, given by Vinay Prasad MD MPH to students in the UCSF Training in Clinical Research Program, November 2024.

31 min
Nov 3, 2024
Special post-ESMO 2024 edition !

Timothee Olivier and I discuss the top ESMO 2024 abstracts!

59 min
Oct 28, 2024
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - My Keynote

AI in healthcare - my latest keynote address

1 hr 36 min
Oct 16, 2024
Masking Mistakes - my panel discussion at the Emory Center for Ethics

"Masking Mistakes: Lessons from the Science, Policy, and Coverage of COVID-19", the 2024 Brian Shields Lecture on Institutional Ethics which took place on Monday, October 7, 2024 for the Emory Center for Ethics. A conversation with Carlos Del Rio, MD and Vinay Prasad, MD MPH with moderation by Gerard Vong, DPhil, Director of the MA in Bioethics program.

41 min
Aug 31, 2024
How We Can Do Better As A County Hospital

Screening/ Drug efficacy/ Sotorasib/ Adaura and more

37 min
Aug 2, 2024
Driver mutation lung cancer - My lecture

My UCSF lecture on driver mutation lung cancer

45 min
Jun 23, 2024
Post ASCO wrap up with Timothee Olivier

We break down the best studies from ASCO

1 hr 54 min
Jun 5, 2024
Critical Appraisal - My 2 hour ASCO lecture - Day 2 version

Critical Appraisal - My 2 hour ASCO lecture - Day 2 version by Plenary Session

29 min
May 30, 2024
Asco Prequel - We talk about what to look for

What you need to know in advance of ASCO

45 min
May 27, 2024
A SM crossover - Cifu, Prasad, Mandrola

Should trials have carbon footprint as an endpoint?

52 min
May 17, 2024
When Evidence EXPIRES - My Grand Rounds Today at Mt Sinai

My grand rounds; Beta blockers post MI Single center vs multicenter RCT Masks Boosters and more

41 min
May 10, 2024
Cifu, Mandrola, Prasad - SM crossover

I crossover SM podcast; Harvard med students video, Justice curriculum, Masking half the year

26 min
Apr 17, 2024
Patient advocates funded by Pharma

Patient advocates, Pharma funding, and is MRD a suitable endpoint

8 min
Apr 12, 2024
FDA makes MRD the basis for AA

5 reasons that is a bad idea

15 min
Apr 9, 2024
Beta Blockers After Heart Attacks Don't Work

Another flawed quality metric. Reviewing the NEJM paper "Beta-Blockers After Myocardial Infarction and Preserved Ejection Fraction".

17 min
Feb 1, 2024
Keynote 564 - a flawed study

Another flawed study Keynote 564. Pembro in adjuvant RCC

24 min
Jan 27, 2024
CONTACT-01 Cabo/ Atezo in Prostate Cancer - An Unethical trial

What happens when doctors run unethical studies?

27 min
Dec 28, 2023
CAR T causes MDS??? Manni, Goodman, Raj, Prasad

Does car T cause secondary AML? We discuss

44 min
Dec 24, 2023
Timothee and Prasad talk 2023 cancer trials

We talk about 2023 cancer trials

52 min
Dec 20, 2023
Aaron Goodman Prasad ASH UPDATES

Goodman and I discuss ash updates. My myeloma talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAz84yCnfjQ

49 min
Dec 17, 2023
Mandrola and Prasad

Subscribe to Sensible Med Pod; This is x over Post partum depression, orbita 2 and physics vs medicine

1 hr 27 min
Nov 26, 2023
COVID19 Policy: What the US Got Wrong

My Lecture in Curacao 4/4 Vaccines, Masks, Mandates, Lockdowns, School closure Other lectures to come

41 min
Nov 24, 2023
Lecture 1 of 4 Curacao - How to Keep Up with Literature

Entresto, Lung Transplants, How to Keep Up with Literature - Lecture to Trainees in Curacao

48 min
Nov 11, 2023
Advice Pre-Med Students | Lecture at UC Berkeley

This is a lecture I gave on November 5, 2023, to pre-medicine undergraduate students at University of California Berkeley.

23 min
Oct 31, 2023
Radiation oncology in GI malignancy - Nina Sanford and Bill Hall

Radiation oncology in GI malignancy (endpoints and stratification) in the JCO

45 min
Oct 23, 2023
Hawai Keynote - Coffee and colon cancer & Censoring & More

Prasad is back in Hawaii to give another keynote (good thing they cancelled Dallas not Honolulu). I discuss coffee and colon cancer, and censoring, and Lu177 PSMA

42 min
Oct 19, 2023
Ethics: How IRBs Can Do Better | My Denmark Lectures (Sept 2023) 3 Of 3

This is a lecture I gave on ethics and institutional review boards in Denmark in September 2023. It is the last of the three lectures I gave.

54 min
Oct 16, 2023
Prasad's lecture gets cancelled/ Cifu Gets COVID a SM crossover

Mandrola, Prasad and Cifu are back to discuss the latest drama

46 min
Oct 9, 2023
The State Of Immunotherapy In Oncology | My Denmark Lectures (Sept 2023) 2 Of 3

This is a lecture I gave on the state of immunotherapy in oncology at the Immunotherapy Symposium In Denmark in September 2023. It is the second of three lectures I gave.

1 hr 16 min
Oct 4, 2023
Do We Have Good Evidence For New Drugs? My Denmark Lectures (Sept 2023) 1 Of 3

The first of the three lectures I gave in Denmark in September 2023 was on the medical evidence behind decision-making by health technology assessment groups.

1 hr 54 min
Sep 20, 2023
Great And Crazy Things We Do In Medicine

This is the live recording of a talk given on the great and crazy things we do in medicine, from cancer drugs to boosters and more.

42 min
Sep 12, 2023
Fixing Cancer Medicine w/ Timothee Olivier

Timothee is back to discuss Malignant and Solutions

48 min
Sep 11, 2023
Coumadin, ECMO, RCTs and more

A far reaching discussion btw Mandrola and Prasad on RCTs, Coumadin, ECMO and RCTs for covid shots

42 min
Aug 23, 2023
Prasad and Mandrola discuss recent journal articles/ Republicans/ Stenting

Simultaneously released on Sensible Medicine. Time to subscribe to Sensible Medicine substack and podcast.

1 hr 23 min
Jul 10, 2023
Placebo/ Journal Errors/ Cancer Screening w/ Mandrola - SM crossover

Placebo/ Journal Errors/ Cancer Screening w/ Mandrola - SM crossover

59 min
Jun 28, 2023
Testosterone/ Should Scientists Debate/ Mike Joyner

A sensible medicine crossover episode Follow the sensible medicine podcast feed for more of these discussions

41 min
Jun 10, 2023
Post Protocol Therapy - QOL - Adjuvant - Olivier Joins VP

T. Olivier from Geneva is back. A fan favorite guest. We discuss 3 recent papers.

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