The Patients Speak

This episode features a roundtable on improving diversity and inclusion in clinical trials. Roundtable guests include representatives from Latinos in Clinical Research , whose purpose is to increase Latino participation within the clinical research industry. Topics include: Introductions and roles State of diversity in clinical research Diversity and inclusion in recruiting Improving diversity in...

Touch as a listening tool: an interview with Sushma Subramanian In a world where we're increasingly reliant on technology to communicate, it's easy to forget the importance of face-to-face interaction. But as Sushma Subramanian reminds us, touch is an essential part of communication that can often be overlooked. As a healthcare provider, medical marketer, or pharma executive, you know that buildin...

Dr. Ann Hester is a board-certified internal medicine physician with more than 25 years of direct patient care experience. Her passion for empowering patients started in medical school when she organized health fairs and wrote patient information literature. Her book Your Family Medical Record: An Interactive Guide to Getting the Best Care was published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2000. In N...

Dr. Maria De Leon is a movement disorder specialist living with Parkinson’s disease for 15 years. She is an activist for research, patient, and women issues -- all to overcome disparity, promote equity, and increase access to healthcare to improve patients' and caregivers' lives as we fight for a cure. In our conversation, we discuss: Patients with Parkinson's disease have important insights that...

Welcome back to our podcast, The Patients Speak. Our guest today is a physician, medical executive, and medical director in the Cedar Sinai Medical Group. Dr. Alen Voskanian . Dr. V oversees about 300 physicians in a multispecialty practice that includes primary care and medical specialties of all kinds, including pediatrics and OB/Gyn, and is the author of a terrific new book, Reclaiming the Joy...

Welcome back to our podcast, The Patients Speak. Today’s interview we got to sit down and speak with the author of Shining Brightly: A Memoir of Resilience and Hope , Howard Brown . Howard is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, speaker, podcaster, and two-time stage IV cancer patient, survivor and advocate. He shares the keys to leading a resilient life that drives successful community leaders, busines...

Meet the Director of Data Science and Analytics at NutriSense , Olga Sazonova . Olga has also worked with GRAIL, Inc as a Senior and Staff Scientist and with 23andMe as a Product Scientist II and Computational Biologist. We explore a very unique side of listening to the patient with Olga through her expertise as a biological data scientist and her experience leading teams of exceptional analysts a...

Welcome back to our podcast The Patients Speak.  Today we're going to hear the story and the journey of a very special guest, Seth Rotberg. Seth has been diagnosed with Huntington's disease (carrying the gene for it) and has become a patient advocate for genetic testing, in general, for many rare conditions. Seth is more than just a patient advocate – he is the co-founder of a non-profit Our...

Hello friends and welcome back to our podcast, The Patients Speak, and happy New Year 2023. If you just started listening to our show over the first few episodes, you know we've heard many great stories and examples from leaders on how to listen better. Specifically, we've heard from patient advocates on the ways they promote the patient voice and how they share a commitment to helping us all elev...

It’s been a great start to the podcast. We've learned so much and have been inspired to accelerate the patient journey. We've heard motivating words from healthcare leaders on the importance of listening to the patients speak. When we reflect on just these four episodes, we get a sense of importance and the commitment of leaders to elevate patient listening to a new level. Listening to patients st...

Our guest today is Navid Alipour of AI MED GLOBAL . Today we take a look at how AI and precision personalized medicine, even medical imaging, converge with this idea of personalizing treatments.  Navid tells Mark about his business story and the technology behind his company, AI MED GLOBAL and CureMatch . Some of the main topics we talked about: How their AI technology creates faster results...

Welcome back to our podcast The Patients Speak, our guests today are Cassandra Hui of Heal Mary and Alicia Lawrence of the National Organization of Rare Diseases, NORD . On this podcast, we combine business and scientific innovation with listening to the patient voice and how they can benefit, and how we can accelerate the patient journey.  In our episode today we discuss rare diseases includ...

Hello everyone and welcome back to our podcast, The Patients Speak, where we're combining the business and science innovations of healthcare with the patient voice and how to help them navigate the system to get from diagnosis to wellness faster and more smoothly, and navigate the complicated healthcare system. Today our guest is Andrea Wilson Woods, president and founder of a non-profit called Bl...

Welcome back to our podcast, The Patients Speak, where we're combining the business and science innovations of healthcare with the patient voice and how to help them navigate the complicated healthcare system to get from diagnosis to wellness faster and more smoothly. Today we have two great guests and some interesting and timely information about how to accelerate the enrollment and recruitment o...

Welcome back to our podcast, The Patient Speak, where we're combining the business and science innovation of accelerating the patient journey with what we need to hear from the patients themselves and when we listen to their voices. And we have a great guest to help enlighten us in that area today, Pam Cusick , Senior Vice President of Rare Patient Voice , an organization that connects patients wi...

Welcome back to The Patients Speak, where we're combining the business and science innovation of healthcare with the patient voice on how we need to accelerate their journey from diagnosis to wellness. Our guest today is Michael Sapienza , the CEO of the Colorectal Cancer Alliance. We had a wonderful discussion on the CCA’s most recent Colon cancer campaign that was beautifully executed by Ryan Re...

Welcome back, friends, to our podcast, The Patients Speak . We're the podcast where we try to capture both the business and scientific innovation that's going on in healthcare with the patient's voice and what we can learn when we really listen to the patient.  My guest today is Dr. Peter Small . He's an acoustic epidemiologist by training and by trade, but he's also leading the efforts to un...

Hello everyone and welcome back to our podcast, The Patients Speak, where we're combining the business and science innovations of healthcare with the patient voice and how to help them navigate the system to get from diagnosis to wellness faster and more smoothly. Our guest today is Kaitlin McGreyes who is the founder and CEO of a venture called Be Her Village , a gift registry app. “ Be Her Villa...

Welcome back friends to our podcast, The Patients Speak . Where we learn about the voice of the patient and how the patients can contribute more to the science and business aspects of innovation in the world of medicine. Today our conversation is going to focus on new technologies and new platforms to improve our listening, how we really hear the patient voice and understand the emotions behind th...

Welcome back friends to our podcast, the Patients Speak . Where we learn about the voice of the patient and how the patients can contribute more to the science and business aspects of innovation in the world of medicine . The goal is to  underscore the patient's voice in drug development, new device creation, new diagnostic development, and even innovation of support programs or apps. Our gue...

Dr. Mark Pimentel, Cedars-Sinai + Matt Mitcho, Gemelli Biotech Welcome back to one of the first episodes of our new podcast, The Patients Speak. We're combining the business aspects of innovation and the science of innovation with the patient voice and what the opportunities are to incorporate more of the patient experience into our strategies and into our work. Today, we're joined by Dr. Mark Pim...

Welcome friends, to our new podcast, The Patients Speak, where we combine the business and science innovations in healthcare with the patient voice, the patient experience, and activating patients to be more involved and more empowered in their own healthcare.  Today's guest is Shefali Shah , she's global VP of market access and commercial effectiveness for a company called MindMaze , a brain...

Welcome to one of the first episodes of our new podcast, The Patients Speak, where we combine business and science innovation with how patients need to be represented in research and marketing. One of the topics we discuss today is how to make sure the patient's voice is heard all through that research process, on into the development and commercialization of new products, with our guest, Michael...

Welcome friends to our new podcast, The Patients Speak. As we have conversations with innovative healthcare executives about what they learn when they hear the patients speak.  Today's topic is about listening while commercializing new therapies. There is market research, there is strategy, there are marketing programs, and there are opportunities to listen and learn all through that process....

Welcome to our new podcast, “The Patients Speak: Healthcare Innovations, Accelerating the Patient Journey.” We share interviews with healthcare executives and medical providers. What they hear from the patients they serve and how their innovations will improve the patient's journey. Produced by 83bar Inc. ,  with best-selling author, Mark Stinson . Our podcast is unique because it combines Bu...