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This chat offers a lesson on some of the latest pressing issues and trends in clinical research, bladder cancer, healthcare quality, electronic health records, and pharmaceutical industry relationships with academia from Dr. Guru Sonpavde, a cutting-edge, innovative medical oncologist and Bladder Cancer Director at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, member of Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) and Bladder Cancer Task Force of the U.S. NCI Genitourinary Steering Committee. Highlights/Timeline: 4:45 – Perspectives on the physician patient relationship and how it has changed over the years 5:20 – Shared Decision-Making with patients 6:30 – Are patients more demanding than ever today and as a result present a challenge to physicians? 7:47 – Role of Innovative Clinical Research on the continuity of care? 10:08 – Memorable stories of novel treatments transforming patients’ lives 10:42 – One of Dr. Sonpavde’s patients was thought to be terminal having undergon