Oncology Overdrive

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Christina Gomez, MD, about the power of patients' voices, finding joy in physicians work-life balance and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :58 •    About Gomez 1:09 •    The interview 1:45 •    How did you get to where you are today as a GI oncologist? 2:02 •    Have you seen an increase in young people with GI...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Ashley Sumrall, MD, about advocacy outside of their oncology practices and organizations, what lies ahead for the field of neuro-oncology and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :58 •    About Sumrall 1:16 •    The interview 2:54 •    How did you end up in the neuro-oncology space? 3:21 •    As a neuro-oncologist,...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with George Sledge, MD, about patient feedback benefiting leadership decision-making, the future of precision medicine in oncology and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :58 •    About Sledge 1:03 •    The interview 2:59 •    How did you become an oncologist? 3:24 •    Tell us about your journey into leadership in onco...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Jan Kitajewski, PhD, about blending community need with scientific advancement, his role as the director of a cancer care center and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :58 •    About Kitajewski 1:08 •    The interview 2:59 •    Tell me about how you started and your pathway to this position. 3:26 •    You have a v...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Avital O'Glasser, MD, about the challenges facing non-traditional scholarship, amplifying diverse voices in medicine and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :58 •    About O'Glasser 1:15 •    The interview 2:36 •    Jain and O'Glasser on their friendship and how they met. 2:52 •    What is non-traditional scholarsh...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with St. Jude's Steven Gottschalk, MD, and Paulina Velasquez, MD, about the evolution of bone marrow transplant and cell therapy, increasing accessibility to CAR T-cell therapy and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :58 •    About Gottschalk 1:12 •    About Velasquez 1:57 •    The interview 2:23 •    About Gottschalk's...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Erica Barnell, MD, PhD, about Geneoscopy's non-invasive screening and early detection technology, helping improve patient compliance for gastrointestinal health and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :58 •    About Barnell 1:07 •    The interview 2:05 •    Tell me about how you got into this space and co-founded y...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Laura Petrillo, MD, about navigating patients through changes and goals in palliative care, understanding patients living with and surviving advanced cancer and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :58 •    About Petrillo 1:03 •    The interview 1:40 •    How did you find yourself in medicine, specifically in pallia...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Kerry Reynolds, MD, about immunotherapy-related adverse events, creating educational resources on immunotherapy management and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :58 •    About Reynolds 1:06 •    The interview 2:45 •    Tell me about how your journey led you to this field of immunotherapy-related adverse events? 3...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Amy Comander, MD, about incorporating lifestyle changes for cancer patients, developing lifestyle pathways for survivors and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :58 •    About Comander 1:14 •    The interview 3:40 •    How do you manage to incorporate running on such a high level into your day-to-day life? 4:04 •  ...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Pia Chowdry, MD, about access to care in rural communities, how physicians can present information to patients and their caregivers and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :58 •    About Chowdry 1:04 •    The interview 1:54 •    What was your journey into oncology and how did you end up practicing in Louisiana? 2:0...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Douglas Micalizzi, MD, and Lecia Sequist, MD, about adopting novel technologies for early detection, public perception of prevention screening and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :58 •    About Micalizzi 1:12 •    About Sequist 2:26 •    The interview 4:06 •    Sequist's background and how she got into the scre...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Mettle Health's Claritza Rios, MD, and Bridget Sumser, SW, about misconceptions surrounding palliative care, communication training as self-care for physicians and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :50 •    About Sumser 1:07 •    About Rios 1:52 •    The interview 2:18 •    About Rios and how she got into palliat...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD , speaks with Cardinal Health's Parisa Asgarisabet, PhD and Scott Swain, PhD, MPH about benefits and uses of real-world evidence, the issue of diversity in clinical trials and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive 1:11 •    About Swain 1:26 •    About Asgarisabet 2:45 •    The interview 3:30 •    About Swain and how you ended up...

In this episode, hosts Shikha Jain, MD, Douglas H. Jones, MD, Amy Comander, MD, Dagny Zhu, MD, Don Dizon, MD, and Mark A. Lewis, MD, discuss the new social media platform, Threads and how physicians can use it for their practice. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :57 •    The topic 1:10 •    How many have created a profile on Threads? Why or why not? 2:59 •    Dr. Jain...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD , speaks with the Patient Empowerment Network's Tracy Rode about providing patients with tools for advocacy, developing accessible patient resources and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive 1:11 •    About Rode 1:23 •    The interview 2:34 •    Can you tell us about your journey and how you ended up in this space as such a stron...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Medidata's Alicia Staley about enhancing the patient care experience from a former patient's perspective, building empathetic technical solutions and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive 1:11 •    About Staley 1:22 •    The interview 2:37 •    Tell me about your journey and how you ended up at Medidata with your uni...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Stephen Beeson, MD, about the challenges physicians face when prioritizing work life balance, components for building skills to lead in health care and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive 1:11 •    About Beeson 1:23 •    The interview 2:36 •    Tell me about how you got into the coaching and mentorship space. What...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD , speaks with Ken Bloom, MD, FCAP, about developing technologies to assist cancer analysis and pathology, the spatial component of antibody conjugates and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive 1:11 •    About Bloom 1:16 •    The interview 2:10 •    How did you come into your clinical roles, deciding to become a pathologist and ge...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD , speaks with Edward Kim, MD about what it means to be a disruptive innovator, how to lead efforts in health care system changes and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive 1:11 •    About Kim 1:19 •    The interview 3:00 •    What was your journey into oncology and the leadership roles you hold now? 3:27 •    Jain and Kim on chang...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD , speaks with CureMatch CEO Navid Alipour about the rise of AI in the health care space, how technology can elevate the ways in which we diagnose and deliver health care and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :14 •    About Alipour :28 •    The interview 1:34 •    How did you get into the AI space? 2:06 •    Can you talk about...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Jorge García, PharmD, about the economic benefits of biosimilars, the unique perspective pharmacists can bring to cancer care costs and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :14 •    About García :23 •    The interview 2:44 •    How did you enter the world of pharmacy? What was your journey into this field? 3:11 •  ...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD , speaks with Isabelle Choi, MD , about the use of proton therapy in radiation oncology, improving accessibility to radiation technology and more. •    Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :14 •    About Choi :27 •    The interview 2:00 •    Can you tell us about your journey to become a radiation oncologist? 2:18 •    What is proton thera...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Lipi Roy, MD, about using her voice and platform to advocate for underserved populations, media's role in educating and empowering the public and more. ·         Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :14 ·         About Roy :26 ·         The interview 2:07 ·         Tell me about how you got to where you are today. 2:47 ·      ...

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Raj Sundar, MD, about cultural competency and humility in medicine, building a healing relationship with patients and more. ·         Welcome to another exciting episode of Oncology Overdrive :14 ·         About Sundar :21 ·         The interview :53 ·         Tell me about how you got to where you are today. What was your journey to becoming a fa...