The Conn Job

In this fascinating international episode of The Conn Job , host Dr. Ann Conn sits down with Suresh Sudula, a musculoskeletal specialist practicing in the United Kingdom who specializes in physiotherapy, ultrasound-guided injections, regenerative medicine, and spinal procedures. Mr. Sudula shares his unique professional journey from training as a physiotherapist in India to expanding his role in t...

On this episode of The Conn Job , Dr. Ann Conn sits down with Claudia Telling for a deeply personal conversation about chronic back pain, sciatica, navigating the UK healthcare system, and finally finding relief through surgery. Claudia shares how a dance injury in university led to years of intermittent back problems that suddenly escalated into a medical crisis. What began as a “twinge” in Decem...

In this profoundly personal and visionary keynote episode of The Conn Job , Dr. Ann Conn explores one of the most urgent questions in modern medicine: Are we standing at a Galileo moment in brain science? Drawing from her experience as a neurologist, physician, mother, and survivor of unimaginable loss, Dr. Conn examines why progress in treating major brain disorders has stagnated for decades — an...

Healing the Healers with Dr. Wendy Lau In this deeply reflective and heartfelt episode of The Conn Job , host Dr. Ann Conn sits down with Dr. Wendy Lau to explore the emotional, spiritual, and systemic realities of practicing medicine today. Dr. Lau shares her transformative journey from emergency medicine physician in New York to becoming a Zen priest at Upaya Zen Center, where she now helps clin...

Welcome back to The Conn Job with Dr. Ann Conn. In this powerful and forward-looking episode, I sit down with Dr. Cara Altimus, Director at the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy, along with leaders from the BD² (Breakthrough Discoveries for Bipolar Disorder) Initiative: Dr. Emily Baxi, Integrated Network Program Director, and Dr. Daniel Pham, Director of the BD² Discovery Research...

EPISODE 4: The Neuroscience of Creativity — From Writer’s Block to Breakthrough Guest: Alice Flaherty, MD — Neurologist,  Movement Disorder Specialist, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital Where does creativity live in the brain—and what happens when it suddenly disappears or explodes? In this fascinating conversation, Dr. Ann Conn and renowned Harvard neurologist Dr. Alice...

The Genetics of Psychosis — What Your DNA Can (and Can’t) Tell You Guest: Fernando Goes, MD — Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Is psychosis written in your genes? And if so, how much of the story can science actually read? In this powerful episode, Dr. Ann Conn sits down with Dr. Fernando Goes, one of the world’s leading psychiatric geneticists, to explore the cutting-edge science behin...

A Conversation with Dr. Sabina Berretta In this extraordinary episode of The Conn Job, Dr. Ann Conn sits down with Dr. Sabina Berretta, MD, PhD—Director of the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (HBTRC) at McLean Hospital, part of the NIH Neurobiobank. Dr. Berretta is a globally recognized leader in human brain research whose work has transformed our understanding of psychiatric and neurological...

Welcome to the very first episode of The Conn Job with Dr. Ann Conn. In this powerful debut, I sit down with Dr. Ashley Weiss, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, Program Director for Child Psychiatry at Tulane University, and a nationally recognized leader in early psychosis intervention. Dr. Weiss is the founder of EPIC New Orleans, an early intervention program for psychosis, and CALM New Orle...