EPISODE · Nov 8, 2024 · 1H 12M
Gina Suh, MD: What it's really like to treat patients with phage therapy
from Podovirus · host Jessica Sacher and Joseph Campbell
What's it like to be a doctor treating patients with phage therapy in the US today? Dr. Gina Suh, Mayo Clinic infectious disease physician, tells us: - How she established phage therapy as an option for her patients at Mayo - How phages have helped her patients - What's been hardest - Where she's hopeful - Where things have gotten worse - What's next This episode, I'm joined by my phage friend Joe Campbell (former NIH program officer)! This is part 1 of a series we'll be co-hosting together, digging into phage therapy from multiple perspectives, trying to answer our curiosities about what's holding phage therapy back in this country and beyond — stay tuned! Chapters 00:00 Introduction to our new phage therapy series 01:23 Dr. Gina Suh's journey into phage therapy 06:01 How Gina has shifted how she selects patients for phage therapy 14:35 Challenges Gina has faced with phage therapy 17:46 Research needs: what the field should be studying 26:16 Infrastructure needs: Gina's wishlist 44:34 Gina's phage therapy aspirations 55:18 Why are there no support groups for antibiotic resistance? Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/b2NBYn4jEUo Learn more: Paper by Gina and team: Considerations for the use of phage therapy in clinical practice: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35041506/ Video: Gina Suh and John Haverty talk about John's treatment with phages (2021): https://youtu.be/XZPLt6wkh5A?si=PxSZAYmOkn2KICLs
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What's it like to be a doctor treating patients with phage therapy in the US today? Dr. Gina Suh, Mayo Clinic infectious disease physician, tells us: - How she established phage therapy as an option for her patients at Mayo - How phages have helped her patients - What's been hardest - Where she's hopeful - Where things have gotten worse - What's next This episode, I'm joined by my phage friend Joe Campbell (former NIH program officer)! This is part 1 of a series we'll be co-hosting together, digging into phage therapy from multiple perspectives, trying to answer our curiosities about what's holding phage therapy back in this country and beyond — stay tuned! Chapters 00:00 Introduction to our new phage therapy series 01:23 Dr. Gina Suh's journey into phage therapy 06:01 How Gina has shifted how she selects patients for phage therapy 14:35 Challenges Gina has faced with phage therapy 17:46 Research needs: what the field should be studying 26:16 Infrastructure needs: Gina's wishlist 44:34 Gina's phage therapy aspirations 55:18 Why are there no support groups for antibiotic resistance? Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/b2NBYn4jEUo Learn more: Paper by Gina and team: Considerations for the use of phage therapy in clinical practice: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35041506/ Video: Gina Suh and John Haverty talk about John's treatment with phages (2021): https://youtu.be/XZPLt6wkh5A?si=PxSZAYmOkn2KICLs
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