Aphasia & Linguistic Neuro-diversity: A personal and theological journey with Dr. John Perry & Christopher Whyte

Aphasia & Linguistic Neuro-diversity: A personal and theological journey with Dr. John Perry & Christopher Whyte

Dr. Perry is Senior Lecturer in Theological Ethics at St. Andrews University. Mr. Whyte is completing his Phd on Dietrich Bonhoeffer at the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology at St. Andrews University. This presentation describes Dr. Perry’s personal experience in suffering a stroke after a car accident, his road to recovery, and theological reflections on neuro-diversity.

Congenital HIV Infection and Challenges to Care Engagement with Dr. Merceditas Villanueva, MD

Congenital HIV Infection and Challenges to Care Engagement with Dr. Merceditas Villanueva, MD

Dr. Villanueva is the Director of the HIV Program at Yale, the Firm Chief of the Donaldson Service, and Course Director of Attacks and Defenses at the Yale School of Medicine, and the Director of Yale’s Ryan White funding. In this noon conference, she presents a case study of a patient with congenital HIV, incorporating updates for the latest HIV regimens.

YJBM Science News Podcast: Episode 16

YJBM Science News Podcast: Episode 16

Welcome to this week’s episode of YJBM Science News, where we discuss the recent news in healthcare and science across the Yale community. Today, our hosts Mara and Samantha will share some of the most intriguing topics of the past week.

Links:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-024-02216-7
https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(24)00079-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07255-w
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2024.01.031

Giving Voice to Douceline of Digne

Giving Voice to Douceline of Digne

In this episode of the ISM Fellows Podcast, Dr. Samantha Slaubaugh offers insights into her work on Douceline of Digne as a rare paradigm of liturgical practice among the Beguines of Marseilles. Dr. Slaubaugh also discusses the way in which Douceline of Digne, through her unique practice of liturgy, is situated in her medieval community that reveals the unexpected fragility of her sociopolitical circumstances.

Consensus Guidelines: Postdural Puncture Headache

Consensus Guidelines: Postdural Puncture Headache

In this episode, Dr. Vishal Uppal, whose primary research interests are improving the safety and efficacy of regional anesthesia techniques in high-risk patient populations, discussed his article Consensus Practice Guidelines on Postdural Puncture Headache From a Multisociety, International Working Group: A Summary Report.

Consensus guidelines
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37581893/
Atypical headache following dural puncture in obstetric
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24934311/
A prospective controlled study of continuous spinal analgesia versus repeat epidural analgesia after accidental dural puncture in labour
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22153280/
One patch or more? Defining success in treatment of post-dural puncture headache
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28089183/
Sphenopalatine ganglion block for postdural puncture headache
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19413836/
Major Neurologic Complications Associated With Postdural Puncture Headache in Obstetrics: A Retrospective Cohort Study
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31335402/
The volume of blood for epidural blood patch in obstetrics: a randomized, blinded clinical trial
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21596867/

AI and Medical Software Engineering with Hirohito Okuda

AI and Medical Software Engineering with Hirohito Okuda

Our guest is Mr. Hirohito Okuda. Mr Okuda has close to 30 years of working experience in the medical device industry. Currently he is a principal AI engineer at Konica Minolta, Japan where he directs AI engineering across the company, leads generative AI adaptation, helps to establish AI guidelines and is also a member of the AI ethics review committee that reviews all AI products across the company. Prior to that, he was for 2 years an AI R&D division manager at DeNa and for 10 years prior he was a software engineering division manager at General Electric, Japan. Before that, he spent two years as a research software engineer at Yale. The interview was recorded on Dec 6, 2023.

Season Two, Episode Seven: Harold Hongju Koh

Season Two, Episode Seven: Harold Hongju Koh

Sterling Professor of International Law Harold Hongju Koh’s family history is deeply intertwined with Yale Law School. For our bicentennial in 2024, Koh shares his family’s story and reflects on his tenure as Dean from 2004 to 2009, including his work to broaden the school’s focus to make Yale a global law school.

Into the Valley: Indigenous Artistic Rituals in Southwest China

Into the Valley: Indigenous Artistic Rituals in Southwest China

As an ethnographer of art, Dr. Katie Dimmery’s work focuses on the ways in which communities and identities are shaped by artistic ritual in the southwest region of China. Her research attends to the practices of indigenous ritualists and how these practices are situated in regional ethnic and social politics. This conversation traces the history of one particular valley in southwest China and how aesthetics and artistic traditions are being enacted today by the people who live there.