Dell Medical School

But first, I'd like to introduce Dr. Esther Melamed.

Dr. Melamed is a board-certified neurologist and associate professor in the Department of Neurology at Dell Medical School.

She completed her dual MD-PhD and neuroimmunology training at UCLA.

and her research focuses on how environmental factors and the immune system intersect in neuroinflammatory disease.

What do you mean? What do you mean? Like what? Like what?

Well, they've underwritten Dell Medical School, and the funds have gone to pay for student affairs, medical school, fundraising, public relations, academic faculty support.

Not one penny of the 490 million has ever gone to treat one patient.

Wow.

and so the

year

the the hospital district has been directing what 35 million a year to the ut dell medical school right to create that new hospital 35 that feels like double dipping it it feels like ut can generate their own income to build a to build a hospital right state dollars donations that sort of thing

well it is first of all it is double dipping because taxpayers are not only paying for the 35 million for a slush fund to the university of texas until medical school but the medical schools receives tens of millions of dollars from central health taxpayers to actually pay for health care and i don't think anybody has a problem i certainly don't with central health paying for specialty and other medical care from the medical school, it's paying 35 million for what's clearly has nothing to do with healthcare.

The brain is plastic and healing is possible.

Today, we're honored to sit down with Dr. Memba Jabi, a leading clinical neuroscientist at Dell Medical School.

Dr. Jabi's groundbreaking work bridges neurogenetics, brain imaging, and effective neuroscience.

helping us understand how genes, brain circuits, and trauma shape our emotional lives and how we can heal.

Yeah.

So you asked if I could say a bit.

So yeah, I'm a clinical neuroscientist by training and faculty member at the Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin, and leading the neurogenetics, affective neurogenetics laboratory.

And my work together with colleagues both in the lab as well as within the research community at Delmet UT and elsewhere are focused on trying to understand in a nutshell the biological basis of how we navigate the complex world around us and how we manage and deal with our emotions as we react to the world around us and how that has implications for both our physical and emotional health as well as well-being.

He goes by Ade.

He is a dermatologist and associate professor in internal medicine at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas, Austin.

This is why, you know, you go online and you have influencers talking about sunscreens from other parts of the world.

They all have this stuff, and so this is now our opportunity to be able to catch up with the rest of the world as it comes to, you know, modern sunscreens.

Last time on the podcast we had conversations with Kareen Kondekanapa, CSO at Vallo Health, and a repeat guest, Cetera Therapeutics CEO Karsten Eastman.

This week we have two interviews, although three guests, as we chat with Thea Life President and CEO Thomas Ruggia about myopia and And then we have a conversation with Brian McClellan, who conducted research on pancreatic cancer as a postdoctoral fellow at Dell Medical School, and with William Matsui, the study's senior author and former executive vice dean for research at Dell Medical School.

And both of them are now in the Department of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

if you do have news or suggestions for who should be on the podcast or indeed any other suggestions or comments please do get in touch at jim at deeptechdigest.com which is also the address you can use if you're interested in advertising with us or sponsoring a podcast episode or for event coverage or to discuss places that should change their names First up this week, it's a conversation with Theolife president and CEO, Thomas Ruggia.

So something that we need to be considering right now.

Next, we're going to be talking about research on pancreatic cancer.

with Brian McClellan, who conducted research as a postdoctoral fellow at Dell Medical School, and with William Matsui, the study's senior author and former executive vice dean for research at Dell Medical School.

Hello to you both, and thanks for coming on the podcast to share the details on your work with us today.

Is it true that if you have darker skin you're at a lower risk of skin cancer?

So I talked about this with Dr. Ade Adamson, who's a dermatologist from Dell Medical School at University of Texas Austin.

Mm.

And, um, based on Ade's own experiences in the clinic, like with melanoma, he told me...

Yeah, great question, great area of focus.

In addition to being a social worker at UT, I teach in Dell Medical School and Medical Humanities, and we spend a lot of time on physicians, practitioners being sensitive to the fact that for many people, their entire worldview is organized around or related to their religion or spirituality.

So therefore, any experience, including that of illness, has to be integrated in some form or fashion in relationship to those domains of their life.

And that's sort of true for me.