Plenary Session
Dr Prasad currently serves as the Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Resesarch (CBER) at the US FDA. The audio on this platform were posted before my FDA employment and do not necessarily represent the views of the FDA or the United States. This site will be inactive during my federal service.
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Host: Vinay Prasad, MD MPH from University of California San Francisco.
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Longevity Lecture series Introduction and Lecture 1
CABINET - trial - Cabozantinib for NET
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.
2025-02-19Link to episode
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%.
2025-02-19Link to episode
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.
2025-02-19Link to episode
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.
2025-02-19Link to episode
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.
2025-02-19Link to episode
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!
2025-02-01Link to episode
The ENTIRE healthcare system is broken, not just health insurance companies
The entire healthcare system is broken, it's not just health insurance companies.
2025-01-27Link to episode
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.
2025-01-24Link to episode
2 HOUR ASH Presentation with AARON GOODMAN & MANNI & More
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.
2024-11-13Link to episode
Special post-ESMO 2024 edition !
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - My Keynote
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.
2024-10-16Link to episode
How We Can Do Better As A County Hospital
Driver mutation lung cancer - My lecture
Post ASCO wrap up with Timothee Olivier
Critical Appraisal - My 2 hour ASCO lecture - Day 2 version
Critical Appraisal - My 2 hour ASCO lecture - Day 2 version by Plenary Session
2024-06-05Link to episode
Asco Prequel - We talk about what to look for
A SM crossover - Cifu, Prasad, Mandrola
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
2024-05-17Link to episode
Cifu, Mandrola, Prasad - SM crossover
I crossover SM podcast; Harvard med students video, Justice curriculum, Masking half the year
2024-05-11Link to episode
Patient advocates funded by Pharma
FDA makes MRD the basis for AA
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".
2024-04-09Link to episode
Blood based and Stool DNA colon cancer screening - Two NEJM papers
Keynote 564 - a flawed study
CONTACT-01 Cabo/ Atezo in Prostate Cancer - An Unethical trial
CAR T causes MDS??? Manni, Goodman, Raj, Prasad
Timothee and Prasad talk 2023 cancer trials
Aaron Goodman Prasad ASH UPDATES
Goodman and I discuss ash updates.
My myeloma talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAz84yCnfjQ
2023-12-20Link to episode
Mandrola and Prasad
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Post partum depression, orbita 2 and physics vs medicine
2023-12-17Link to episode
COVID19 Policy: What the US Got Wrong
My Lecture in Curacao 4/4
Vaccines, Masks, Mandates, Lockdowns, School closure
Other lectures to come
2023-11-26Link to episode
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
2023-11-24Link to episode
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.
2023-11-11Link to episode
Radiation oncology in GI malignancy - Nina Sanford and Bill Hall
Radiation oncology in GI malignancy (endpoints and stratification) in the JCO
2023-10-31Link to episode
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
2023-10-23Link to episode
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.
2023-10-19Link to episode
Prasad's lecture gets cancelled/ Cifu Gets COVID a SM crossover
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.
2023-10-09Link to episode
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.
2023-10-04Link to episode
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.
2023-09-20Link to episode
Fixing Cancer Medicine w/ Timothee Olivier
Coumadin, ECMO, RCTs and more
A far reaching discussion btw Mandrola and Prasad on RCTs, Coumadin, ECMO and RCTs for covid shots
2023-09-11Link to episode
Prasad and Mandrola discuss recent journal articles/ Republicans/ Stenting
Simultaneously released on Sensible Medicine. Time to subscribe to Sensible Medicine substack and podcast.
2023-08-23Link to episode
Placebo/ Journal Errors/ Cancer Screening w/ Mandrola - SM crossover
Testosterone/ Should Scientists Debate/ Mike Joyner
A sensible medicine crossover episode
Follow the sensible medicine podcast feed for more of these discussions
2023-06-28Link to episode
Post Protocol Therapy - QOL - Adjuvant - Olivier Joins VP
T. Olivier from Geneva is back. A fan favorite guest. We discuss 3 recent papers.
2023-06-10Link to episode
ADAURA OS RESULTS - THE TRIAL WAS UNETHICAL
Researchers were too busy counting dead bodies to give the control arm appropriate therapy when their cancer recurred. Disgusting conduct.
I break down ADAURA
2023-06-08Link to episode