Adam Walker’s Pharma Prescribed Podcast

⚠️ This episode discusses suicide and men's mental health. Samaritans → 116 123 (UK, free, 24/7) Ryan Parke — TEDx speaker, men's coach and author of How to Help Him — joins Adam Walker for the most personal episode on the Pharma Prescribed Podcast. In June 2019, Ryan bumped into Brad's mum. Brad was the most successful man Ryan knew — fast car, big house, loving family. Brad had done everything w...

Wendy Turenne — known industry-wide as Real World Wendy — joins Adam Walker for a conversation about data, storytelling and what it takes to turn messy healthcare information into decisions that matter. Wendy is the child of two statisticians and a biostatistician herself. She spent 25+ years across providers, payers, health tech and government, most recently as Chief Data Officer and SVP at Aetio...

Jan Krikava — co-founder and managing director of Docuply — joins Adam Walker for a practical conversation about quality management, affordable compliance and building a pharma software startup from scratch in Germany. Jan started at SAP, went self-employed at 25, founded a consulting company (KLQC) for regulated industries, then spent two years validating one idea: smaller pharma and biotech comp...

Dr. Andree Bates — founder and CEO of Eularis and 22-year veteran of pharmaceutical AI — joins Adam Walker for the most technically visionary conversation on the Pharma Prescribed Podcast. Andree grew up in Papua New Guinea and Japan, holds a PhD in neuroscience, and built machine learning models in her lab before most people knew what AI stood for. She digitized her first pharma company after tel...

Paul McCormack — founder of Intention Performance and creator of the Untapped Performance Project — joins Adam Walker for the most personally resonant conversation on the Pharma Prescribed Podcast. Paul grew up in the west of Scotland, where alcohol was the reward you earned with age. For nearly 20 years it was the connector — work drinks, football clubs, expat life in London and Sydney. Every Oct...

Sverre Bengtsson — co-founder of Viedoc Technologies, ACDM board member and angel investor in 30+ life science ventures — joins Adam Walker for a conversation about building a global eClinical platform from a blank sheet of paper. Sverre trained as a statistician in Sweden, got lured into clinical research by someone who said "you know a bit of statistics, can't you do things here?" — and never le...

Nuria Coll Bastus — founder and CEO of ClinicalNet — joins Adam Walker for a conversation about why 80% of clinical trials are delayed by recruitment, and how one platform could change that. Nuria has a PhD in onco-genomics from Barts Cancer Institute, spent years in pharma, and kept getting calls from friends and family: "Can you find a clinical trial for my loved one?" She could — but it took si...

Artem Adrianov — co-founder and CEO of CluePoints (SEG Integrity) and author of the Definitive Guide to RBQM — joins Adam Walker for a conversation about risk, quality, fraud detection and what it really means to build a company from its values up. Artem holds a PhD in mathematical modelling and an Executive MBA from Cass Business School. He started by asking a simple question: how do you detect f...

Dr. Anna Titkova — International Operations Director at Pratia and former Country Head of Pratia Ukraine — joins Adam Walker for one of the most deeply human conversations on the Pharma Prescribed Podcast. Anna built Pratia Ukraine from scratch during COVID — registering two companies, establishing eight embedded clinical research units across four cities, randomising nearly 500 patients in a COVI...

Natalie Douglas — former CEO of Healthcare at Home, creator of the managed access market and Adam's mentor — joins Adam Walker for one of the most personally significant conversations on the Pharma Prescribed Podcast. Natalie started carrying the bag at Janssen Pharmaceuticals. She was the only person on her training course without a biochemistry degree. Her trainer told her: "You don't have to be...

Dr. Keith Berelowitz — founder and CEO of PRx Engage — joins Adam Walker for a conversation about patient engagement, self-determination theory and what it actually takes to build a clinical trial matching platform that patients trust. Keith lost a friend at a young age. That drove him into science, then into bench research at the Royal Free, then into commercial clinical research at Richmond Phar...

Steve Sanghera — CEO of Inventus — joins Adam Walker for a conversation about purpose-built clinical trial devices, global connectivity and why this industry needs someone obsessing over the rivets. Steve came from mobile telecoms and finance. During COVID, a lost contract with Motorola led to a question: who needs this many devices? The answer was clinical trials. Half a million devices later, In...

Dr. Berry Pierre — board certified internist, host of the Lunch and Learn Podcast and digital health educator with over 2,000 YouTube videos — joins Adam Walker for one of the most energising conversations on the Pharma Prescribed Podcast. Dr. Berry grew up in a Haitian community in the US, inspired by his childhood paediatrician Dr. Gasstone — the community physician who spoke their language and...

Leigh Fell — founder of Caritas Bioscience, Sunday Times 25 Women Succeeding in 2025 and champion of corporate athleticism — joins Adam Walker for a conversation about building a purpose-driven CRO, burnout, wellbeing and what it means to treat people the way you'd want to be treated. Leigh started in clinical operations running oncology trials, experienced burnout as a CRA, and vowed to build a c...

Anders Mortin — co-founder of Triticon and builder of the Knowledge World platform — joins Adam Walker for a conversation about eClinical consulting, knowledge sharing and what it means to build a company that values being useful over being big. Anders holds a Master's in engineering physics from Lund University and fell into clinical data management by accident — a handball teammate needed extra...

Belma Alispahic — co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Analysismode — joins Adam Walker for a conversation about AI-powered bioprocess development, digital twins and what happens when a curious kid from Bosnia decides she can't be an astronaut. Belma has a Master's in applied biotechnology from Uppsala University and co-founded Analysismode during COVID. The company's platform, SimCell, uses...

Wessam Sonbol — founder and CEO of Delve Health — joins Adam Walker for a conversation about decentralised trials, patient concierge teams and what happens when clinical research failed your mother and you decide to fix it. Wessam's mom was a cancer patient who struggled to join a clinical trial — not because the science failed, but because the process did. The paperwork, the jargon, the drives, t...

Philip Morisky — Chief Optimist at Adherence and guardian of the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS) — joins Adam Walker for the very first episode of the Pharma Prescribed Podcast. Philip's father, Dr. Donald Morisky, developed the MMAS at UCLA over a 40-year career in behavioral science. The scale is now used in over 100 countries and hundreds of languages. Philip has taken it from academi...

Yuriy Lebid — CEO of Pharmaxi — joins Adam Walker for Episode 2 of the Pharma Prescribed Podcast, and one of the most extraordinary stories of entrepreneurial resilience in the entire series. Yuriy is a doctor, scientist and self-taught clinical research expert who built a full-service CRO from scratch in Ukraine. When Russia invaded on February 24th, 2022, he made a promise to his 28 employees: n...

Charbel Abdo — pharmacist from Lebanon, MSc Pharmaceutical Sciences (distinction) from the University of Greenwich — joins Adam Walker for one of the most personal and hopeful conversations on the Pharma Prescribed Podcast. Charbel grew up in a small village in Lebanon, moved to Beirut alone to study pharmacy, graduated during the country's worst economic crisis, then came to the UK to earn his Ma...

Matthew Mace — founder of Study Connect, host of the Study Success Podcast and board director at Precision Cardiovascular — joins Adam Walker for one of the most energetic conversations on the Pharma Prescribed Podcast. Matt isn't from pharma. He comes from MedTech, cardiovascular devices and cardiology innovation. As co-founder and CSO at Acharai, he led the largest hemodynamic study in heart fai...

Charlotte Chadwick — founder of Clinology and Dynamic Clinical Solutions — joins Adam Walker for a conversation about 25 years in clinical operations, building a phase one unit from scratch and creating a platform that makes expert consultants visible to the companies that need them. Charlotte started as a junior QC at a generic trial site in Manchester, became a CRA at Lundbeck, spent 13 years as...