Improving diversity, inclusion, and equity in underrepresented communities requires a high-touch approach. In this episode, executive director Lilly Bunch talks about how Greater Gift is working hands-on with communities to build trust relationships and increase awareness around clinical research to improve their design and address health disparities in the disease states as a result. She discusses legislative and structural changes that would impact patients’ participation and reimbursement, em...
Feb 14, 2023•43 min
Let's age well, let's age together. In this episode, Lisa Ireland, President & CEO of the Longevity Science Foundation (LSF), talks about their nonprofit work supporting research to expand the healthy human lifespan. Nowadays, humans live longer than they used to, and many players are investigating the longevity space, making breakthroughs that the LSF is interested in sharing. She also touches on the best use of technology to enhance human health and the funding of longevity scientific rese...
Feb 10, 2023•16 min
The long-term care sector is an essential part of the health industry but has struggled for a while. In this episode, Samantha Rapuk, Executive Director of Lutheran SeniorLife, talks about long-term care, breaking down the different care-continuum services, and the hardships she’s witnessed within non-profit institutions in the space. She reinforces the importance of caring for the sick, the elderly, and their families and speaks about how at Lutheran SeniorLife, every single worker keeps their ...
Feb 08, 2023•40 min
Healthcare finds itself at an ideal place to be boosted by its digital capabilities. In this episode, Tony Ambrozie, SVP and Chief Digital Officer/CIO for Baptist Health South Florida talk about driving digital transformation in the healthcare space. He explains why the industry should invest in rebuilding technology systems and product management organizations while focusing on using AI and ML technologies in the consumer journey. Tune in to learn more from Tony Ambrioze about how healthcare’s ...
Feb 02, 2023•21 min
Let’s unpack today’s healthcare industry! We are excited and happy to announce that the latest Outcomes Rocket Podcast is Chalk Talk Jim, hosted by the incredible James Jordan. In this new show, Jim wants to bring the industry’s greatest minds to unravel the details of our industry and go beyond the niche. Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health
Feb 01, 2023•17 min
Medical ethics committees protect research participants. James Riddle, vice president of Research Services and Strategic Consulting at Advarra, talks about Institutional Review Boards and their work to ensure that research participant protocols are safe, transparent, and fair. Tune in to learn more about IRBs and their role in making medical research safe! Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resources: outcomesrocket.health
Jan 31, 2023•34 min
Imagine having a digital pet that helps you take care of yourself. In this episode, Victor Wang, founder, and CEO of Care.Coach talks about using a digital pet avatar to coach complex patients to improve their self-care. These digital avatars use conversations to build relationships with their owners, reducing loneliness and increasing outcomes. Tune in to learn how digital pet avatars can improve patients’ self-care and health outcomes! Click this link to the show notes, transcript, and resourc...
Jan 26, 2023•16 min
Understanding business and customers is crucial for better marketing in healthcare. Don Stanziano, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at Geisinger, talks about his experience in healthcare marketing and the lessons he’s learned from it, focusing on brand and customer management. As a marketer, Don believes his role benefits significantly from building trust relationships inside his organization and with external stakeholders. Tune in and learn about brand and customer management in healt...
Jan 23, 2023•26 min
Healthcare in Nevada has a lot of potential and growth opportunities. In this episode, Paul Krakovitz, Region President for Intermountain Healthcare’s Desert Region, shares what it takes to deliver value-based healthcare to various communities in Nevada. Intermountain Healthcare entered Nevada around three years ago, and ever since, they’ve been working to provide care to its communities while looking for opportunities where care is missing, finding these gaps and filling the voids is now a Nort...
Jan 19, 2023•22 min
LabOps is both a driver and an influencer within a CDMO. In this episode, Shailah Yazdani, Director of Operations at the Center for Breakthrough Medicines (CMB) at Discovery Labs, talks about her journey into LabOps, the multiple facets and capabilities CBM has as a Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), and the role LabOps play there. Shailah discusses how operations provide an infrastructure for different work streams within a CDMO and why good communication is key. Tune i...
Jan 19, 2023•20 min
Community Health is a promising path to better health equity. In this episode, Kevin Green, VP of Community Health Centers at Ochsner Health, discusses his work improving health equity by addressing community health, targeting social determinants, and encouraging community engagement with the medically underserved population across Louisiana. He explains how Ochsner Health creates access by providing transportation, virtual visits, and improving inpatient visits; as well as advising other organi...
Jan 19, 2023•24 min
Childcare is difficult to access right now, even for mothers who work in healthcare. In this episode of Insights Out, Kat McDavitt, Chief Strategy Officer at Innsena and CEO of the Zorya Foundation, shares her work on for-profit and non-profit fronts. She talks about ensuring women working in the healthcare sector childcare support and the help they need to continue working and advancing their careers. Finally, she speaks about how for her, giving back and showing you care about the issues you w...
Jan 18, 2023•27 min
A Rare Clinical Research Perspective from Both Sides of the Fence It’s uncommon to see those in the clinical research profession move from site-based roles to sponsor-based roles - or vice versa. In this episode, Adrienne Gaggi, Associate Director of Clinical Development at Aldeyra Therapeutics, shares her thoughts on hot topics around clinical research. Adrienne gives her comprehensive, expert opinion about patient enrollment, sites, and sponsors' roles, as well as the different challenges face...
Jan 17, 2023•26 min
Writing about science is no simple feat. In this episode of Marketing Mondays, Kristina Grifantini, Director of Scientific Communications and Marketing at Scripps Research, shares her thoughts on science communications, journalism, and marketing. Kristina speaks about the valuable elements she has to take from science journalism, marketing, and PR to find an appropriate communication language when working for a research institution like Scripps. Tune in to learn what a good science writer can br...
Jan 16, 2023•25 min
We must start working with the physician, not around the physician. In this episode, Dr. Miles Snowden, Chief Growth Officer & Executive VP of Physician Strategies at Navvis, shares their work on partnerships and models that pay physicians better and reward them for the value of the care they provide. Navvis is an operating partner for stakeholders participating in value-based reimbursement arrangements. Tune in to learn from Miles’ journey for value-based healthcare! Click this link to the ...
Jan 12, 2023•29 min
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science's positive impact on the Pharma Industry and patients are astounding. In this episode, Tommaso Mansi, Vice President, AI/ML and Digital Health, R&D, The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson talks about the development of AI approaches to the development of medications and treatments for specific diseases with the help of digitized biomedical data. Tommaso shares the importance of having proper data governance in...
Jan 12, 2023•28 min
Healthcare marketing seeks to drive stakeholders’ behaviors toward a joint goal. In this episode of Marketing Mondays, Andreea Borcea has a chat with Vania Cao, Senior Marketing Manager at Natera, about how marketing can impact healthcare customers by learning from neuroscience and approaching them as human beings to understand segmentation. Human behavior is the marketing foundation, and our environments shape it. Identifying those external aspects is crucial in the segmentation process, and fi...
Jan 09, 2023•30 min
When healthcare meets any other profession, amazing things happen; this is how two engineers created a completely novel anti-cancer treatment. In this episode, CEO Lana Volokh, and CTO Alex Tendler, co-founders of ExProTher, talk about how their company is developing first-in-class cancer treatments. This oncology therapeutic delivers p53 protein into tumor cells using extracellular vesicle-based technology. They tell the story of how two engineers embarked on an entrepreneurial journey in the h...
Jan 05, 2023•20 min
There is a gold rush happening in the epigenetics field, and this company is offering the most sophisticated tools to find it! In this episode, Andrea Johnstone, Senior Director of Product Development at EpiCypher, talks about epigenetics and how they develop next-generation tech and tools to target chromatin regulatory processes, restore normal gene expression, and prevent disease. Andrea explains thoroughly what epigenetics consist of, what chromatin is, and the role that it plays in cell deve...
Jan 05, 2023•24 min
Data can teach us about human health, it’s time to invest in it. In this episode, Vineeta Agarwala, physician, investor, and general partner at Andreesen Horowitz, commonly known as a16z, talks about digital health adoption and investing in companies with products that can pragmatically change patient care and increase workforce efficiency. Vineeta speaks about not only being an investor but also a practicing physician and how that impacts her perspective on innovative digital health startups an...
Jan 05, 2023•22 min
Advancements in Research are Never a Straight Line In this episode, Ulf Hannelius, President and CEO at Diamyd Medical gives us an inside scoop on their development of an innovative medicine for Type 1 Diabetes and explains how the path to success is often a function of tenacity, focus, and community. Ulf starts by talking about the business model, explicitly outsourcing and manufacturing, around an asset like Diamyd. He tells the story of Diamyd’s failure, the approaches they tried to bring pos...
Jan 03, 2023•38 min
Until recently, healthcare didn't have the right tools to address mental health. In this episode, Dr. Tom Young, chief medical officer and founder of Proem Behavioral Health, talks about how his company provides caregivers with a process model and tools to improve equality and parity in mental health. Dr. Young shares how Proem makes every step visible to the caregiver, allowing them to follow their patient's progress. He also discusses biometrics as a game-changer in diagnostics and treatments....
Dec 29, 2022•27 min
As a system, healthcare can benefit from embracing a culture of collaboration and safety, something the whole world got to see during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode, Michael J. Reidy, a senior consultant at Interaction Associates, talks about how his company uses tools, programs, and techniques to build a safety culture, improve leadership, and develop conscious collaboration in workplaces. He discusses behavioral aspects, like thinking and attitude, that can play a role in building a tr...
Dec 23, 2022•24 min
Many young companies could use a little help. In this episode, Ornella Kossi, lab operations associate at BioLabs Heidelberg, talks about her job within the company and how they facilitate the growth of many startups in the lab space. BioLabs does this by providing them with access to infrastructure, lab operations management, community, big pharma partners, and mentors who can guide them through the difficult hoops of being an early-stage company. Ornella discusses the challenges startups can f...
Dec 22, 2022•30 min
Core Education is transforming higher education to impact the business and healthcare culture. In this episode, Geoffrey Roche, SVP of National Health Care Practice & Workforce Partnerships at Core Education PBC talks about how healthcare is all about serving others. He fell in love with health administration from where he has led numerous projects with lasting impact. However, healthcare is very risk-averse when implementing changes to solve well-known problems in the industry. Throughout t...
Dec 22, 2022•16 min
Reinventing healthcare is a one-system-at-a-time thing. In this episode, Mike Waterbury, CEO of Goodroot, explains how they provide a whole suite of services for talent inside healthcare to think differently, innovate, bring their ideas to life, and make an impact. Mike talks about pharmaceutical switch technology and how Goodroot is working to reduce costs and deliver Gross-to-Net drug pricing to patients at their point of sale. He also discusses barriers that affect the accessibility of health...
Dec 21, 2022•27 min
Clinical Researchers: Are they Made or are they Born? In this episode, Dan Sfera, the Clinical Trials Guru, speaks about his journey in the clinical research industry as a leader of many different clinical research sites and what it takes to run one successfully. He details what makes a good CRC and shares some examples to explain how every study is different depending on many factors like protocols and team size. Dan shares a controversial tip around sites’ patient enrollment feasibility and a ...
Dec 20, 2022•34 min
Individuals that work in healthcare are some of the most purpose-centered workers across any industry. In this episode, Greg Sloan, Chief Purpose Officer and Co-Founder of Go Beyond talk about his work helping healthcare workers to find more fulfillment in their careers through different tools and programs. In consequence, when an employee is happy at their work, it benefits the entire system. Greg provides examples in his career where the skills Go Beyond works on would’ve been helpful and enth...
Dec 19, 2022•22 min
The tripledemic of Covid, flu, and RSV is causing a critical surge of pediatric respiratory illness that requires emergency care. The strain is especially great in rural areas where access to pediatric specialists may be extremely limited. It is therefore imperative that all EDs have the appropriate resources and capable staff to provide effective emergency care for children. Recognizing the urgent need among caregivers for a refresher on pediatric respiratory emergency response, Tegria, a healt...
Dec 16, 2022•13 min
The insurance industry has to be educated about what ReActiv8 means in terms of opportunities for chronic low back pain patients. In this episode, Chip Moebus, Vice President of Reimbursement and Market Access at Mainstay Medical, talks about the Reactiv8 therapy and the different elements that play into bringing access to these types of innovations for chronic low back pain patients; The evidence generation and patient selection criteria, the groundwork necessary to educate the payer community,...
Dec 15, 2022•23 min
