The Anti-Doping Podcast

Brett Clothier is Head of Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), and in this episode, he shares more about his career in sport integrity and the work that he and the team at AIU are doing to help protect clean sport. We discuss some of the biggest challenges the sport of athletics (track and field) is currently facing, AIU's efforts to address these issues, how AIU engages with stakeholders across the sp...

Dr. Sara Amalie Solheim is a former PCC Fellow, and she is currently a Researcher and Athlete Passport Management Unit (APMU) Manager at the Norwegian Doping Control Laboratory and Nordic APMU. In this episode, Sara discusses her career path, her work a the Norwegian Doping control Lab, and her PCC-funded Fellowship research projects. These projects examined the potential confounding effects of no...

Dr. Maarten Cruyff is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and Chair of Methodology and Statistics at Utrecht University. In this episode, he discusses how methods used to measure doping prevalence have changed over time, his work on different models for collecting and analyzing responses from athlete surveys about doping, his role in the World Anti-Doping Agenc...

Kara  Goucher is a three-time NCAA champion, two-time Olympian, winner of the silver medal at the 2007 World Championships in the 10,000 meter race, and a podium finisher at the Boston and New York Marathons. She is currently a mom and a successful author, television commentator, and podcaster. In this episode, Kara discusses her passion for running, the ups and downs of her athletic career, her e...

Carlos   López  Tiboni is  Senior Anti-Doping Ma nager at the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). He shared details about FIFA's history, their approach to anti-doping, their current anti-doping program, and the organization's priorities for the future.  Carlos  provided insight into the scope of FIFa's anti-doping testing and education efforts, and the partnerships that help...

Holly Shick is Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee  (USOPC). She is also Vice Chair of the Board of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum and a member of the Board of Governors of the Partnership for Clean Competition. In this episode, Holly explains why the USOPC created her role in 2020, how the ethics and compliance environment at the USOPC has...

Dr.  Neil  Robinson  Neil is Head of the Science & Medical Department at the International Testing Agency (ITA). In this episode, he discusses his career, the role of ITA in the anti-doping community, and current scientific priorities. We go in-depth on the logistics, challenges, and impacts of anti-doping sample storage and re-analysis, opportunities in anti-doping data analytics, collaborations...

Dr. Michael Skinnider is an Assistant Professor in the Ludwig Princeton Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University. In this interview, Mike discusses how he got involved in anti-doping research and provides an in-depth look into the novel chemical artificial intelligence (AI) platform he has been developing tha...

Dr. Olivier de Hon is  the Chief Science Officer and Director of Intelligence and Investigations at Doping Authority Netherlands. In this episode, he shares more about the history of the organization, progress in estimating doping prevalence, challenges in assessing the effectiveness of anti-doping programs, and considerations for promoting clean sport among elite athletes as well as recreational...

Dr. Jennifer Royer is the TrueSport & Awareness Senior Director at the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). In this episode, she goes in-depth on  the educational materials and resources that TrueSport provides for coaches, athletes, and their families. We also hear about her career, hot topics in sport education, and how TrueSport engages athletes and other partners to support and raise awareness for...

Greta Neimanas is an Elite Education Coordinator at the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). She is a two-time Paralympian and two-time World Champion cyclist with U.S. Para Cycling. In this interview, she discussed her athletic career and her experiences with the anti-doping system as an elite athlete. Greta described her work at USADA, their current anti-doping education programs, and the important...

Rusty Smith is Head of Research P rograms at the Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC). In this episode he discusses his career, his current role at the PCC, and  PCC funding opportunities, including upcoming deadlines for the next cycle of PCC Research Grants and Fellowships. We also cover the PCC's research priorities, anti-doping collaborations and partnerships, goals for the future, and more...

Dr. Daniel Westmattelmann  is Professor in Business Administration at the Private University of Economics and Technology (PHWT) in Vechta, Germany, as well as an Affiliated Researcher at the University of Münster. In this episode, he discussed his former career as a professional cyclist, his path to becoming a researcher, and some of his recent research projects. In particular, he described a PCC-...

The Catalonian Anti-Doping Laboratory was established in 1985, and this year marks their 40th anniversary of operations. Dr. Rosa Ventura Alemany is Director of the laboratory, which is within the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) in Barcelona, Spain. In this episode, she discusses how the laboratory and the field of anti-doping have evolved over the years, some of the lab's major...

Dr. John Eiler is the Robert P. Sharp Professor of Geology and Geochemistry, as well as the Ted and Ginger Jenkins Leadership Chair of the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at Caltech. In this episode, John discusses his career, his research examining the molecular structure of isotopes, and how the approach that he and his collaborators have developed is relevant for the anti-doping c...

In the second episode of our two-episode mini-series featuring Biotage, Esraa AboJasser and Dr. Lee Williams share more detail about their work, particularly in the North America region. Biotage is a global supplier and solutions partner to a wide range of customers within drug discovery, drug development, and analytical testing. The company's products and solutions are critical for anti-doping la...

In this episode, Monika Vezse and Dr. Lee Williams joined us to talk about their work at Biotage, a global supplier and solutions partner to a wide range of customers within drug discovery, drug development, and analytical testing. The company's portfolio includes products and solutions that are critical for anti-doping laboratories and scientists conducting anti-doping research. This is the first...

Shannon Rowbury is an accomplished elite U.S. track athlete and three-time Olympian. She is an Olympic bronze medalist, two-time World bronze medalist, World Record Holder in the distance medley relay, former American record holder in the 1,500 meter, 2 mile, and 5,000 meter races, and she has been ranked among the top ten female track athletes in the world for a decade. In addition, Shannon is a...

Rahul  Gupta , MD, MPH, MBA, FACP, is a physician, President of GATC Health Corp, and the former Director of the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). He was the first medical doctor to lead ONDCP, and he served as the Director from November 2021 - January 2025. Through his work, particularly at ONDCP, Dr.  Gupta has made important contributions to protecting public health, which is...

Dr. Lori Bestervelt is Senior Vice President of Certification Services at TruShield Certified and a member of the PCC's Scientific Advisory Board. She was previously Chief Science Officer at NSF International for 22 years, and she has over 20 years of experience in sport certification programs. Dr. Bestervelt discussed the importance of banned substance certification, the gap in the market that Tr...

John  Hertig , PharmD, MS, CPPS, FASHP, is Founder of  Hertig Healthcare Advising and former faculty in the Pharmacy Practice Department in the Butler University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. He is also Past-President and a current Board of Directors member of the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies and is a Member of the United States Food and Drug Administration Drug Safety and Risk M...

Dr. Kevin Murray is  a Postdoctoral Associate in the Integrative Physiology of Aging Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the recipient of this year's PCC-sponsored Anti-Doping Postdoctoral Award in partnership with the American Physiological Society (APS). In this episode, we discuss his career path and his research, particularly focusing on his recent work studying the role extracell...

Dan Burke is the Intelligence and Investigations Director at the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). In this episode, he describes USADA's approach, tactics, and tools, for anti-doping investigations, including work in the area of cybercrime and online investigations. He also shares insights and experiences from his nearly three decades working in U.S. federal law enforcement, including his prior rol...

Dr. Sven Voss is Director of the Institute of Doping Analysis and Sports Biochemistry (IDAS) – Dresden, a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)-accredited doping control laboratory in Germany. In this interview, he described his career path and his experiences working at multiple anti-doping labs around the world. In particular, he provided insights on IDAS – Dresden, including its history, their routin...

Dr. Vinod Nair is Associate Laboratory Director of the WADA-Accredited Sports Medicine and Research Testing Laboratory (SMRTL). In this episode, Vinod covers how anti-doping labs strive to provide efficient and cost-effective services while maintaining the rigor and quality standards required in the industry. He explains how SMRTL incorporates automation into their lab's work and shares his though...