Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary

In 2016, Sara Woods was diagnosed with Clear Cell Sarcoma, a very rare form of Sarcoma, which is in itself a rare form of cancer. Today in 2020, Sara is 17 years old. This week on Out of Patients , we've set aside two entire episodes to focus in on the story of what Sara's mother Lennie Woods did when Sara's diagnosis landed on her family. This is the story of the patient experience of Sarcoma, an...

In 2016, Sara Woods was diagnosed with Clear Cell Sarcoma, a very rare form of Sarcoma, which is in itself a rare form of cancer. Today in 2020, Sara is 17 years old. This week on Out of Patients , we've set aside two entire episodes to focus in on the story of what Sara's mother Lennie Woods did when Sara's diagnosis landed on her family. This is the story of the patient experience of Sarcoma, an...

On today’s show, you’re going to hear from my friend and colleague Bruce Cozadd , Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Jazz Pharmaceuticals. And NO — this was not a conversation about the glamorous Pharmaceutical Industy and all its unique facets — shall we say — worthy of endless discussion. I wanted to talk with him – as my friend, my peer, fellow Founder and CEO — about leadership during COVID and a...

Dr. Bob Bollinger is the Raj and Kamla Gupta Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Medicine, and he holds joint appointments in International Health at the Johns Hopkins (JH) Bloomberg School of Public Health, and in Community Public Health at the JH School of Nursing. He is Founding Director of the Center for Clinical Global Health Education (C...

Dr. Saralyn Mark , first and foremost, is a Leader of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA). She served as the Senior Policy Advisor to the White House Office of Science and Technology during the Obama administration working on the Ebola outbreak in 2014. At the Department of Health and Human Services and NASA, she was the first Senior Medical Advisor to the Office on Women’s Health. She...

Matthew Lamb, Ph. D. is an Assistant Professor or Epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center. He focuses on infectious disease prevention, treatment, and scale-up. His research focuses on identifying best practices in public health approaches to HIV prevention, service delivery, and treatment in resource-limited settings. Dr. Lamb focuses on applying causal inference in implementation sett...

Andrew and I had the pleasure to welcome in-studio  Patrick James Lynch , a true renaissance man of many hats who was born of his condition — for a DOUBLE INTERVIEW. If I were to fully divulge all that is Patrick James Lynch, this intro would be longer than the episode.  So in brief, he is one of world's most influential hemophilia patient leaders in addition to being a filmmaker, actor,...

Dr. Greg Hammer is pediatric intensive care physician, pediatric anesthesiologist and author of the new book “GAIN Without Pain The Happiness Handbook for Health Care Professionals,” which speaks to the philosophies of mindfulness to reduce or mitigate physician burnout — and if there were ever a time for our "Spidey Senses" to be tingling about physician burnout, it’s right now while the world is...

Matthew and Andrew welcome cancer survivors Nina Beaty , Creator, The EmPat Cancer Project, and Katie Brown, Vice President of Support and Survivorship Programs at The LUNGevity Foundation, to opine on the current status of lung cancer in America and around the world. Issues of stigma, the increasing prevalence in young women, new treatment options, and how to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic are ju...

Peter MacDowell is the Clinical Director of Rochester Dermatologic Surgery and former Co-Director of Clinical Trials Office at the Wilmot Cancer Institute. If that last name sounds familiar, well that’s because Peter is the brother of Andrew MacDowell, my Co-Founder, and COO here at OffScrip Media. Sibling rivalry be damned — and while we may have reinforced some established biases between upstate...

How does one "Schoolhouse Rock" the interesting world of Clinical Trials? On the show, Matthew and his Co-Founder/COO Andrew MacDowell are joined by Medaptive Health ’s co-founders Eric Kroll and Jeremy Block to help break down and de-jargon what exactly is going on in the world of trials, patient advocacy, drug approvals — and the ever evolving role of Industry, for better or for worse. See...

Six music Emmys, two Grammy nominations, four gold records, seven Public Television specials and 8 million records sold. After more than three decades as an international entertainer, John Tesh is a living legend. In his new book, " Relentless: Unleashing a Life of Purpose, Grit, and Faith ," Tesh describes how the obstacles that shaped him—including being suspended from college, living homeless f...

In this sponsored episode, Matthew sits down with his friends to talk all about the glamorous issue of Xerostomia, otherwise known as "Dry Mouth." This is a problem for millions of Americans, but no one talks about it. Why don’t we talk about it? Maybe it’s because when your mouth is dry, talking is the last thing you want to do. There are way too many causes of dry mouth, such as stress & anx...

Too often, patients are blatantly taken advantage of by Industry who profit off of our stories and our experience dealing with a disease we didn't ask to have. If our experience is so critical to Industry's bottom line, there should exist fundamental compensation standards under which which they operate. Period. Matthew Zachary welcomes OffScrip Media Senior Producers Andrew MacDowell (Co-Founder...

Jean-Luc Neptune , MD MBA, or JL as he is known, is a serial entrepreneur and a digital health pioneer. He’s a licensed physician in New York State, founder of Suntra Modern Recovery , serves as Entrepreneur-In-Residence at the Hospital For Special Surgery here in NYC, and if that’s not enough, the man has an MBA from Wharton. What makes this episode so special, is that JL just recovered from COVI...

Craig DeLarge is a Digital Health Strategist and Educator at the Digital Mental Health Project , a project aimed at effectively using digital technology in the mental health field, aka MentalTech, to combat mental illness. His main missions are to improve health and build up leaders. Craig has also worked with companies such as IMS Health (IQVIA), CMI/Compas, J&J, GSK, Novo Nordisk, Merck and...

Immunotherapy and Policy. How can the FDA evolve to help advance and support novel approaches to medicine? How does the field of immune-driven diagnostics serve as a case in point for the need for evolution in existing regulatory frameworks? Special guests: Meghan Gutierrez Chief Executive Officer Lymphoma Research Foundation Leo David Wang, M.D., Ph. D. Assistant Professor, Department of Immuno-O...

Beyond Immunotherapy. The present and future of immune-driven medicine; toward an understanding of the immune system as the driver of solutions for treatment, prevention, and diagnosis of disease; identifying and creating responses to specific immune activation pathways. Special guests: Meghan Gutierrez Chief Executive Officer Lymphoma Research Foundation Leo David Wang, M.D., Ph. D. Assistant Pro...

A Brief History of Immunotherapy. CAR-T, t-cell augmentation, and immunotherapy in general over the past decade. We will talk about why is this approach so compelling, and what its limitations have been to date. Special guests: Meghan Gutierrez Chief Executive Officer Lymphoma Research Foundation Leo David Wang, M.D., Ph. D. Assistant Professor, Department of Immuno-Oncology Assistant Professor, D...

Jen Horonjeff is a chronic illness patient by birth, a PhD by training, and an entrepreneur by necessity. She was named one of Entrepreneur Magazine's 50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs of 2018 for her work as Founder and CEO of Savvy Cooperative, the first patient-owned public benefit co-op. Rooted in science, but driven by creativity and user-centered design, she believes that giving patients ownershi...

Joe Dolce is the host of the Brave New Weed podcast and author of Brave New Weed: Adventures into the Uncharted World of Cannabis, which was hailed by the New York Times as “a loving rethink of all things marijuana …a trusted hitchhiker’s guide to this new universe,” and by Dr. Raphael Mechoulam as “outstanding.” Joe is also the founder of MedicalCannabisMentor.com, the most modern, evid...

Matthew Lamb, Ph. D . is an Assistant Professor or Epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center. He focuses on infectious disease prevention, treatment, and scale-up. His research focuses on identifying best practices in public health approaches to HIV prevention, service delivery, and treatment in resource-limited settings. Dr. Lamb focuses on applying causal inference in implementation set...

Dr. Catharine Young has always been drawn to tackling big problems. She currently serves as the Executive Director for the Shepherd Foundation, an organization which seeks to build a movement to revolutionize treatment, care and education for rare cancer patients and their families. Catharine has also always been drawn to science - the thread that ties her career journey t...

On today's show, Matthew discusses COVID-19 and its impact on the cancer community with Michael Parisi (CEO at Guidemark), Andrea Ferris (President and Chairman of Lungevity) and Andrew MacDowell (OffScrip Media Co-Founder and COO.) The world is burning, and we have to keep it spinning. The need is incalculable. The resources are scarce. We need hope, but more importantly, we need FACTS. See Priva...

On today's show, in a role reversal, Matthew is interviewed by his two colleagues, Andrew MacDowell (OffScrip Media Co-Founder/COO) and Jen Horonjeff (OffScrip Media Senior Producer and Founder of Savvy Coop) From the origins of Matthew's original diagnosis, to the conception and founding of Stupid Cancer, his stepping down, taking a sabbatical and now — for his "Second Act" — this is OffScrip Med...