Health Professional Radio - Podcast

Jim Joyce, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Sigyn Therapeutics discusses the development of Sigyn Therapy, the company's blood purification technology to overcome the limitations of drugs and other devices to treat Cytokine Storm induced inflammatory conditions that lead to sepsis. He explains the relationship between Cytokine Storm and COVID and how this blood purification technology is an approa...

Rami Levin, President and CEO of Saniona discusses Tesomet, the first and only investigational treatment for Hypothalamic Obesity (HO) to receive orphan drug designation. This marks a major milestone for the patient community as there are currently no medications specifically approved for HO. Patients living with this disease experience uncontrollable hunger and intractable weight gain, which is o...

Dr. Bruce Bender, PhD, lead researcher and co-director of the Center for Health Promotion at National Jewish Health discusses recent research published in "The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice" about The Asthma Toolkit Bootcamp, a program that improved physician adherence to current guidelines, leading to fewer hospitalizations, emergency room visits, and decreased use of or...

Daniel Shapiro, author of "The Thin Ledge: A Husband's Memoir of Love, Trauma, and Unexpected Circumstances" shares the reality of the fifteen years he spent living and caring for his wife, who suffered two massive brain hemorrhages and a personality change, while also single handedly raising their three young children. He discusses moving on and growing from trauma, moral issues, the struggle of...

Adam Sachs, co-founder and CEO of Vicarious Surgical, a company backed by Bill Gates and Vinod Khosla, discusses the company's Fantastic Voyage inspired-surgical robot that uses immersive reality to guide today's surgeons inside the body with new, groundbreaking technology that sets it apart from competitors. The system has received FDA Breakthrough Device designation. Adam Sachs is CEO of Vicario...

Hideki Garren, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer at Prothena discusses data from two presentations at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC); PRX012, Prothena’s next generation anti-amyloid beta (Aβ) antibody and the dual Aβ-tau vaccine being developed for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). He talks about the company's approach to addressing the AD global h...

Dr. Cindy Jacobs, PhD, MD, President and Chief Medical Officer at Achieve Life Sciences discusses the grant that was awarded from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to evaluate the use of cytisinicline as a treatment for the cessation of nicotine e-cigarette use. Cindy Jacobs, Ph. D., M.D. · President & Chief Medical Officer, Achieve Life Science...

Returning guest, Cathy Kuhn, PharmD, Director, Voice of the Customer at Updox, a complete healthcare communication platform for in-person and virtual care, discusses their recently released "Paperless Practice Playbook" with tips for providers on how to increase productivity, improve patient engagement and reduce burnout. She talks about why providers must eliminate paper in order to reduce the am...

Derek Wallace, Vice President and Dengue Global Program Lead at Takeda, discusses the first public presentation of long-term safety and efficacy results from the ongoing pivotal Phase 3 Tetravalent Immunization against Dengue Efficacy Study (TIDES) trial of its dengue vaccine candidate, TAK-003, and the launch of the company’s global HCP dengue education platform, Dengue Academy. Derek Wallace, MB...

Mike Rea, is founder of Protodigm, a contract skunkworks lab specializing in minimizing the risk of drug development by avoiding bias, premature specialization, and providing clients a universe of possibilities in which a drug could be brought to market. He talks about how the use of the skunkworks concept common in tech and engineering can innovate drug development. Mike is the founder of Protodi...

As the most common type of non-cancerous tumors in women of reproductive age, uterine fibroids can cause physical symptoms, including heavy menstrual bleeding. Additionally, uterine fibroids can take a significant toll on quality of life, relationships and intimacy, employment, and create an overall reduced quality of well-being in a patient’s health. Dr. Veronica Gillispie-Bell, Senior Site Lead...

Dr. ​Steve Roman​o​, ​MD, ​Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals discusses the results of their pivotal Phase 3 STRATA2016 clinical trial of StrataGraft ®, an investigational allogeneic cellularized scaffold product in development for the treatment of adult patients with deep partial-thickness burns. The data was published in "Burns" peer review jour...

Nearly 1.8 million people globally die of lung cancer each year, more than the second and third most deadly cancers combined (colorectal and stomach cancer, respectively) because it is often detected and treated too late. Dr. Avrum "Avi" Spira, MD, MSc, Global Head of the Lung Cancer Initiative (LCI) at Johnson & Johnson, a renowned pulmonologist and lung cancer researcher, wants to make lung canc...

Dr. Chris Anzalone, PhD, President and CEO of Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals discusses new positive patient-level data from their AROAAT2002 global Phase 2 study of ARO-AAT, an RNA therapeutic being co-developed by the company and Takeda, in patients with liver disease caused by alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD). He also talks about the company's RNAi platform. Dr. Christopher Anzalone has been Pre...

Returning guest, Dr. Kaveh Safavi, Global Health Lead of Accenture Health, discusses the findings from their 2021 Digital Health Tech Vision report that surveyed 399 healthcare executives across six countries to better understand their view of the impact technology is having on the healthcare industry and what this means for the future. Kaveh Safavi, M.D., J.D., is a senior managing director at Ac...

Dr. James Tursi, MD, Chief Scientific Officer of Ferring Pharmaceuticals discusses developments in microbiome-based therapeutics for the treatment of recurrent C. difficile (rCDI) infection. The current standard of care treatment for rCDI is currently antibiotics. While they are important, they do not restore the underlying health of the gut microbiome, nor can they stop C. diff​icile​ spores from...

Dr. Arezou Khosroshahi​, ​MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Emory University​ discusses the enrollment of the first patient in Horizon Therapeutics' Phase 2 trial to evaluate HZN-7734, ​a first- in-class, fully human monoclonal antibody to treat people with moderate to severely active systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). SLE is an autoimmune disease where the immune system mistakenly attacks h...

Returning guest, Dr. Bruce Sands, M.D., M.S., Chief of the Dr. Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology at Mount Sinai Hospital and the Dr. Burrill B. Crohn Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology), at the Icahn Institute for Medicine at Mount Sinai discusses new data presented at the 16th Congress of European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation (ECCO) from a trial evaluating biologic induction...

Girish Navani, CEO and Cofounder of eClinicalWorks, a leader in healthcare IT solutions discusses PRISMA, the healthcare industry's first health information search engine that leverages a "one patient, one record" approach for fast and accurate decision-making that can be lifesaving. This platform helps to better know patients and provide more effective clinical care and can even cut patient wait...

Returning guest, Dr. Larry Edwards, ​MD, MACP, MACR, rheumatologist and Chairman of the Gout Education Society discusses managing gout during the summer, with travel and get togethers, and how HCPs can prepare their patients to manage proper medications and lifestyle habits during this time. Dr. N. Lawrence Edwards is Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, as well...

Returning guest, Dr. Jeremy Levin, Chairman and CEO of Ovid Therapeutics, Inc., and former chairman of the global Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) discusses the new COVID variant Delta-Plus, a virus that mutated from the highly infective Delta version, and why vaccinations are so crucial. Dr. Jeremy M. Levin is Chairman and CEO of Ovid Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:OVID), a company whose mis...

Dr. Ryan Mathis, MD, Vice President of Commercial Strategy at PolarityTE discusses SkinTE™ an innovative alternative for the treatment of chronic wounds, like diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). He talks about the science behind SkinTE™, how it's made of a patient’s own full-thickness skin, which retains the endogenous regenerative cellular populations found throughout his/her skin within multicellular s...

Returning guest, Dr. Bruce Sands, M.D., M.S., Chief of the Dr. Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology at Mount Sinai Hospital and the Dr. Burrill B. Crohn Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology), at the Icahn Institute for Medicine at Mount Sinai discusses new data presented at the 16th Congress of European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation (ECCO) from a trial evaluating biologic induction...

Leon Lerman, CEO of Cynerio, the leading provider of Healthcare IoT cybersecurity and asset management solutions discusses the biggest security challenges for healthcare in a post-COVID environment, why health systems should move to the Zero Trust model to secure their systems and devices, and whether governing bodies should provide cybersecurity requirements for healthcare. Leon Lerman is the co-...

Returning guest, Dr. Gregg Sylvester, Chief Medical Officer at Seqirus, a global leader in influenza prevention, discusses data from a first-of-its-kind co-administration study conducted by Novavax of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate (Novavax, NVX-CoV2373) and an approved influenza vaccine (Seqirus, Flucelvax Quadrivalent and Fluad). He talks about the potential advantages for patients and physici...