Health Professional Radio - Podcast

Dr. Neal Kassell, founder and chairman of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation, discusses focused ultrasound, a revolutionary, non-invasive, highly disruptive technology approved in the United States to treat essential tremor, tremor-dominant Parkinson’s disease, uterine fibroids, pain from bone metastases, and prostate cancer. The technology is in various stages of research and development around the world for more than 100 diseases and conditions, including ALS, Alzheimer's, hypertension, and tumors of the brain, liver, breast, and pancreas. He talks about how this therapy is poised to impact the way we treat some of our most elusive diseases. Dr. Kassell is the founder and chairman of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation and former Co-Chair of Neurosurgery at the University of Virginia. He has published more than 500 scientific papers and book chapters, and his research has been supported by over $30 million in NIH and industry grants and contracts. A member of numerous medical societies in the United States and