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Send us Fan Mail The Undiagnosed Diseases Network Foundation ( https://udnf.org/ ) is a patient-led nonprofit organization founded in 2023 committed to improving access to diagnosis, research, and care for all with undiagnosed and ultra-rare diseases, with a focus on fostering collaboration among patients, clinicians, and scientists to enhance the quality of life of undiagnosed and ultra-rare dise...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Ha Hong, Ph. D. ( http://hahong.org/ ), is Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at Medtronic Endoscopy ( https://www.medtronic.com/covidien/en-us/clinical-solutions/gastrointestinal-health.html ) where he oversees AI R&D and strategy, emphasizing building responsible AI solutions for patient care, and has a track record of inventing and delivering breakthrough technologie...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Drew Weissman, M.D., Ph. D., ( https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p20322 ) is a 2023 Nobel Laureate in Medicine ( https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/summary/ ), Roberts Family Professor in Vaccine Research and Director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation ( https://rnainnovation.med.upenn.edu/ ). He is also a Professor in the Department of M...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. David Grier, Ph. D. is Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for Soft Matter Research, at NYU ( https://as.nyu.edu/features/meet-faculty-of-as/david-grier.html ). Dr. Grier’s research focuses on experimental soft condensed matter physics—an interdisciplinary field that includes physics, chemistry, biology, and nanotechnology, ultimately aiming to understand how objec...

Send us Fan Mail J. Craig Venter, PhD, ( https://www.jcvi.org/about/j-craig-venter ) is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century for his numerous invaluable contributions to genomic research. Dr. Venter is founder, chairman, and CEO of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit, research organization with approximately 120 scientists and staff dedicated to human, m...

Send us Fan Mail Brigadier General (Res.) Uri Oron is Israeli Space Agency (ISA) Director ( https://www.space.gov.il/en ). ISA is a national agency operating under the auspices of the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology ( https://www.gov.il/he/departments/ministry_of_science_and_technology/govil-landing-page ), and they are responsible for initiating, leading and coordinating all activi...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young, Ph. D. ( https://www.ree.usda.gov/biographies ) serves as the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics (REE), and Chief Scientist at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The REE mission area is comprised of more than 8,500 employees with a $4 billion budget across its five component organizations including the Agricultural Re...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Anthony S. Fauci is Distinguished University Professor in the Georgetown University School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine, in the Division of Infectious Diseases ( https://medicine.georgetown.edu/divisions/infectiousdiseases/ ), an academic division that provides clinical care, conducts research and trains future physicians in infectious diseases. He also holds an additi...

Send us Fan Mail Mr. Ian Watson currently serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Chemical and Biological Defense (DASD/CBD) at the U.S. Department of Defense ( https://www.acq.osd.mil/ncbdp/leadership/bio-Watson.html ). In this capacity he is the principal advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (ASD) for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs (NCB) and conducts...

Send us Fan Mail Craig Thompson is the Chief Executive Officer of Cerevance ( https://www.cerevance.com/about ), a private, clinical-stage drug discovery and development company focused on developing novel therapeutics for central nervous system (CNS) diseases using the company’s proprietary Nuclear Enriched Transcript Sort sequencing (NETSseq) technology, a machine learning platform that helps me...

Send us Fan Mail Professor Ibrahim Abubakar, FMedSci is Pro-Provost (Health), Dean, Faculty of Population Health Sciences and Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University College London ( UCL - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/tb/people/professor-ibrahim-abubakar ). He was previously director of the UCL Institute for Global Health until July 2021. Prof. Abubakar was appointed National Institute f...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Jerome Adams, MD, MPH, FASA ( https://www.purdue.edu/provost/health/adams.html ) is Presidential Fellow, Executive Director of Purdue's Health Equity Initiatives, and Distinguished Professor of Practice in the Departments of Pharmacy Practice and Public Health, at Purdue University. As the 20th U.S. Surgeon General and a prior member of the President’s Coronavirus task fo...

Send us Fan Mail COL Tina Schoenberger is Director of the U.S. Army Nuclear and Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Agency ( USANCA - https://www.usanca.army.mil/ ); a U.S. Army HQ field operating agency of both nuclear and CWMD military and civilian professionals, headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. USANCA is operationally and technically responsive to the Army’s Total Force and the Joint...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Jomana Musmar, MS, PhD, is the Designated Federal Officer and Executive Director of the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria ( https://www.hhs.gov/ash/advisory-committees/paccarb/membership/designated-federal-officer-jomana-musmar/index.html ), and Senior Public Health Advisor within the Office of Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Policy ( ht...

Send us Fan Mail A cognitive neuroscientist by training, Dr. Vijeth Iyengar ( https://www.aarpinternational.org/about-us/staff/vijeth-iyengar ) is Director of Global Aging at AARP where he leads cutting-edge research, drives thought leadership on global aging issues, and cultivates relationships and strategic alliances to promote the enterprises vision for the global 50+ population. Prior to joini...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Susanne Rafelski, Ph. D. is Deputy Director, Scientific Programs at the Allen Institute for Cell Science ( https://alleninstitute.org/division/cell-science/ ) and was named to this position in December, 2020. Dr. Rafelski began imaging live cells and visualizing intracellular dynamics in 3D when she was only 17 and hasn't been able to stop since. Her life-long scientific...

Send us Fan Mail Major General (ret) Dr. Aamer Ikram is currently the Director of the Pakistan Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (FELTP), as well as Chairperson of the Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network ( TEPHINET - https://www.tephinet.org/aamer-ikram ) Advisory Board; a global network of Field Epidemiology Training Programs spanning more th...

Send us Fan Mail Prof. Tshilidzi Marwala is the Rector of the United Nations University ( https://unu.edu/about/staff/tshilidzi-marwala ) and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. The United Nations University (UNU) is the think tank and academic arm of the United Nations. Headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, with diplomatic status as a UN institution, its mission is to help resolve gl...

Send us Fan Mail As Vice President of Strategic Alliances for Tavistock Development Company ( https://www.tavistock.com/ ), Gloria Caulfield oversees the health and medical partnerships, as well as business development, for Tavistock's visionary Lake Nona community ( https://www.lakenona.com/ ). In her role, Gloria is instrumental in managing corporate partnerships and identifying strategic i...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Jamie Justice, Ph. D. ( https://www.xprize.org/about/people/jamie-justice-ph-d ) is the Executive Vice President of the Health Domain at XPRIZE Foundation, where she leads international networks to drive innovative solutions to improve human health and aging that is affordable and accessible to all. She also serves as Adjunct Professor in Internal Medicine Section on Gerontolo...

Send us Fan Mail Disclaimer: The views, information and opinions expressed by guests on this podcast are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of their employers. Irina Pelphrey is the Vice President of Health and Managed Care at Albertsons Companies, Inc. ( https://www.albertsons.com/ ), a national grocer, second-largest supermarket chain in North America...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Syra Madad, DHSc, MSc, MCP is the Senior Director of the System-wide Special Pathogens Program at NYC Health + Hospitals ( https://www.nychealthandhospitals.org/institute-for-disease-and-disaster-management/the-team/ ). Her work focuses on the preparedness for, response to and recovery from infectious disease outbreaks with an emphasis on healthcare and public health bioprepar...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Mohammed Alhamali, is Chairman of the National Innovation & Regulatory Sandbox Committee, And Chief Innovation Officer & Regulatory Sandbox, SEHA Virtual Hospital & Enablement Centre, Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia (https://www.moh.gov.sa/). Dr. Alhamali is also Cofounder / General Manager of the Society of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and has served as...

Send us Fan Mail Karen Zaderej is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Axogen Corporation ( https://www.axogeninc.com/ ), a leading company focused specifically on the science, development and commercialization of technologies for peripheral nerve regeneration and repair, with a primary goal of restoring peripheral nerve function and quality of life to patients with physical damage...

Send us Fan Mail Eric Olson is Founder, Chief Operating Officer, and Chairman, of Babson Diagnostics ( https://www.babsondx.com/ ), a company bringing medically-accurate blood testing to the retail pharmacy setting, and empowering people to take charge of their health, by reimagining the entire blood testing process from ordering, collection, handling, analyzing, and reporting of results, making i...