Eric Doherty is President of PERSOWN, the company striving to make a lifesaving impact by delivering accurate, rapid and affordable diagnostics to the point of care anywhere in the world. In this episode of The Health Pulse, Doherty joins host Alex Maiersperger to discuss disparities in global health care and how access to high-quality, low-cost diagnostics can help close the gap. Doherty shares the shocking statistic that there are 0.23 doctors per 10,000 people in the world’s poorest countries...
Aug 23, 2022•22 min•Ep. 52
SAS’ Antonio De Castro is a truly global citizen. Having lived in Southeast Asia and Europe, now working for a US company, he joined Alex from a studio in Singapore to talk global and local trends in the wake of COVID-19 and his passion for data and analytics in health care. Later in this season of the Health Pulse podcast, he’ll be jumping into the conversation as guest host for Asia Pacific. De Castro loves mathematics and problem solving and has a background in nutritional research. These pas...
Jul 26, 2022•17 min•Ep. 51
What has disruption taught us about global supply chains? Dr. Robert Handfield shares his vision on what agile and resilient supply chain models look like in the future. He is Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at North Carolina State University, as well as Founder and Executive Director of The Supply Chain Resource Cooperative. On this episode, Handfield joins host Alex Maiersperger to talk about the impact of the pandemic on global supply chains and provides insights into what...
Jul 12, 2022•32 min•Ep. 50
For Felipe Sotelo, it’s all about priorities. That’s why Dad & Husband are the titles on his LinkedIn profile. It’s also why he now believes demand forecast agility is more important than accuracy in the post-pandemic world of supply chain disruptions. On this episode of The Health Pulse, positive thinker, business reinvention leader and writer Sotelo joins host Alex Maiersperger to share his insights as a supply chain leader for organizations including Johnson & Johnson, Teva Pharmaceut...
Jun 28, 2022•20 min•Ep. 49
Is it too much to expect health care to deliver delightful experiences? Dr. Koen Kas doesn’t think so, and his vision includes digital twins, personal data stores and preventive medicine. He is a health care visionary, digital health and biomarker expert, health-tech entrepreneur, Professor of Molecular Oncology and Digital Health at the University of Ghent, international keynote speaker and author of Sick No More and Your Guide to Delight. Host Alex Maiersperger and Kas talk about the concept o...
Jun 14, 2022•28 min•Ep. 48
Dr. Sean Khozin is on a mission to break down silos and improve access to quality cancer care for all. Khozin is a board-certified oncologist, physician scientist, data scientist and the CEO of ASCO’s CancerLinQ, a nonprofit health technology company focused on improving health outcomes for all patients with cancer. On this episode of The Health Pulse, Khozin joins host Alex Maiersperger to discuss how his organization is democratizing access to the best cancer care by bringing real-world eviden...
Jun 01, 2022•30 min•Ep. 47
Our mission at ElectrifingAI is to bring you up-to-date insights on the latest developments taking shape in the electricity sector. Along the way, we’ll help demystify the connection between the greatest machine ever built — the electric grid — and the greatest enabler of our time — data analytics. To help us do that, we’ll have a series of guests who hold a variety of different roles within the industry. And for this episode, it’s a privilege to begin our third season … and our broader view of ...
Mar 22, 2022•26 min•Ep. 46
In this episode, Greg speaks with Professor Patricia Maguire, Director of University College Dublin’s Institute for Discovery. The Institute’s mission is to drive interdisciplinary research at UCD. Maguire is a biomedical scientist. Her research focuses on platelets, an interest that began 25 years ago when her father suffered his first heart attack and she recognized the need for better diagnostics in the clinic. Maguire explains that platelets circulate in our blood, picking up information alo...
Dec 15, 2021•22 min•Ep. 45
On this episode, Greg catches up colleague Reggie Townsend, director of the Data Ethics Practice at SAS. Recognizing the increasing market need around data ethics, SAS formed the practice to establish principles and processes for governing Artificial Intelligence (AI). Townsend defines AI as an algorithm or set of instructions given to a computer for decision making. He explains that the market definition of AI is now the entire analytics life cycle from the initial ingestion of data through to ...
Dec 08, 2021•28 min•Ep. 44
On this episode, Greg is joined by Dr. Melissa Strong, founder and lead data scientist for IndiOmics. Her background is in molecular biology and epigenetics—or how our environment can affect our gene expression. The idea behind IndiOmics started when Dr. Strong was pregnant with her son and interested in better understanding chemical exposure in utero. The organization’s mission is to educate the public about common chemicals that have the ability to affect us on a cellular level and what we can...
Nov 24, 2021•22 min•Ep. 43
On this episode, Greg Horne talks with Dr. Robert Winn, Director at VCU Massey Cancer Center. Dr. Winn is the second ever African American to be director of a cancer center in the United States. Growing up as the child of a 15-year-old mother, he didn’t dream of becoming a doctor, but two priests in his life saw his potential and helped him to get on a path that eventually led to medical school. In his role at Massey Cancer Center and his life, Dr. Winn focuses on two goals – eradicating cancer ...
Nov 10, 2021•26 min•Ep. 42
On this episode, Greg Horne interviews Craig Lipset, advisor, advocate and educator in the area of decentralized clinical trials and the former head of clinical innovation at Pfizer. During his time at Pfizer, Craig helped design and lead the first fully remote, decentralized trial. Surprisingly, that was more than a decade ago. In fact, Craig explains that the methods, investment and even the regulatory readiness around decentralized trials existed in the industry long before the pandemic. The ...
Oct 27, 2021•25 min•Ep. 41
On this episode host Greg Horne interviews David Rhew, M.D., Global Chief Medical Officer & VP of Healthcare for Microsoft, on the role of technology in health care. Dr. Rhew, who has a background in infectious disease management, observed early in his career that evidence-based practices often lead to better health outcomes, but they aren’t adhered to consistently. From there he set out on a digital transformation journey that quickly brought him into health tech and eventually Microsoft. D...
Oct 14, 2021•22 min•Ep. 40
Jennifer Byrne, CEO of contract research organization Javara Research, has a lifelong passion for serving patient populations through clinical research. On this episode, Jennifer shares with Greg the concept of learning health systems that improve health care through research. Javara brings a lot of the traditional advantages that a CRO brings to pharma to health care systems through an integrated research organization approach. The organization's strategic vision and partnerships are centered a...
Sep 03, 2021•23 min•Ep. 39
Grainne Lynch, Senior Manager and Traceability Lead for Accenture, helps pharmaceutical companies be compliant with supply chain legislation around preventing counterfeit medicines from entering the supply chain. Her expertise is around helping pharmaceutical manufacturers implement common capabilities and coding to allow tracking and tracing of products at the unit level. On this episode, Grainne explains to Greg that the pharmaceutical industry is on the forefront of a consumer-led trend deman...
Aug 20, 2021•19 min•Ep. 38
Jessica DaMassa is the Executive Producer and Host of video series, What’s the Future, Health?, where she interviews key stakeholders in health tech to uncover unique perspectives on where the industry is headed. On this episode of The Health Pulse, Jessica briefly switches from her usual role as interviewer to share her observations on the trends to watch right now in health care. She shares with Greg several clues on the future based on the unprecedented funding pouring into the health tech sp...
Aug 06, 2021•24 min•Ep. 37
Caitlin Donovan is the Global Head of Uber Health. In this role, she’s responsible for figuring out how to fix logistical issues in health care. Caitlin begins by sharing why she’s so inspired by her role at Uber Health. Coming from a variety of health care executive roles, Caitlin observed that all too often what goes wrong in patient care isn’t clinical—it’s what happens when they aren’t in front of their provider. Maybe they don’t have transportation to an appointment, their prescription didn...
Jul 23, 2021•20 min•Ep. 36
Dr. Dawnté Early (she/her) is the Chief of Research and Evaluation for the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission in California. Dr. Early joined Greg for a chat about whole person care, and she shared that her love of sports (she played college basketball and coached her children’s teams) instilled a desire to give back to her community. In her current role, Dr. Early supports the Commission’s mission is to transform the mental health system so that everyone who needs ca...
Jul 09, 2021•25 min•Ep. 35
On this episode, Greg is joined by Herman De Prins, Global CIO of UCB. UCB is a mid-sized global biopharma company focusing on immunology and neurology. Herman describes UCB’s journey into artificial intelligence (AI) projects aimed at treatments for epilepsy. Herman also shares how UCB promoted data literacy and AI among its staff of more than 8,000 people. The programs UCB has put in place have been very effective in driving enthusiasm for data-driven decision making throughout the company. In...
Jun 25, 2021•13 min•Ep. 34
Peter Muhoro has a front row seat for the ongoing energy transition, so the VP of strategy and technology at Rappahannock Electric Cooperative is the perfect guest to talk with host Sal Gill about what it will require for utilities to start building tomorrow today. On the Season 2 finale of Electrifying AI, Peter and Sal discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the expectations of electricity consumers, how the business model for electric utilities could be in for a massive change, and how ...
Jun 17, 2021•31 min•Ep. 33
On this episode, Greg talks with Dana Bernson, epidemiologist and Director of Special Analytic Projects at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, about her work to use data and analytics to guide public health planning and crisis response. Dana shares insights from the department’s initial effort to link data sources across state government to get more contextual information to help address the opioid epidemic. Not surprisingly, one data set often gives us a piece of the puzzle, but link...
Jun 11, 2021•22 min•Ep. 32
Ahad Esmaeilian is helping drive us toward the electricity system of the future. The director of business development for Avangrid, Ahad has earned a Ph.D. from Texas A&M and holds master’s degrees from universities in both the U.S. and his home country of Iran. And while Ahad’s daily focus is to work across the industry to advance clean energy through the interconnection of wind, solar and other utility-scale renewable energy resources, his academic and professional careers have largely foc...
Jun 03, 2021•33 min•Ep. 31
On this episode, Greg chats with SAS EMEA life sciences sales director Jonathan Riches about digital transformation in pharma. Jonathan argues that while buzzword technology like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning get a lot of attention, it’s really culture and change-management that determine an organization’s success with digital transformation. Why? The life sciences industry is highly regulated by necessity, and many pharmaceutical companies have been around for one hundred or...
May 28, 2021•20 min•Ep. 30
Dawn James is a violinist, a geoscientist, a mom and a technology solutions professional. She could even help you understand how fluvial sedimentology works! But those descriptors only scratch the surface of the experience and expertise Dawn brings to her role as the U.S. director of sustainability and environmental services at Microsoft. On this episode of Electrifying AI, Dawn joins host Sal Gill to examine how analytics, artificial intelligence and cloud technologies are playing a role in the...
May 20, 2021•36 min•Ep. 29
We’ve moved! Find us at https://reimagine-marketing.transistor.fm/ as we continue to ponder the future of customer experience. The Reimagine Marketing podcast explores how marketing organizations are re-inventing themselves in the age of the digital consumer. This episode features two of our global co-hosts, Wilson Raj and Steven Hofmans, as they review Season One episodes and guests, explore some of the hot topics facing marketers today and share some of the potential topics we’ll unpack during...
May 18, 2021•20 min•Ep. 28
On this episode Major General Elder Granger, M.D. US Army (retired) joins Greg to discuss health care and the military. Dr. Granger currently the President and CEO of THE 5Ps, LLC, a health care, education, and leadership consulting organization. He also serves on the board of directors for CignaHealth, Cerner and Defense Logistics Health. Dr. Granger’s interest in medicine started young with a high school science project on sickle cell anemia. Dr. Granger also participated in a summer program f...
May 14, 2021•27 min•Ep. 27
Earth Day offers an annual opportunity to reflect on and advance climate action, but this year’s observance brought with it some big news. Among other aims, the Biden Administration announced that the United States will target reducing emissions by 50 percent by 2030, as compared to 2005 levels. Other initiatives were announced around how to help developing countries establish net-zero strategies, how to transform the transportation sector and how to harness the potential of solar, wind and ener...
May 06, 2021•27 min•Ep. 26
We’ve moved! Find us at https://reimagine-marketing.transistor.fm/ as we continue to ponder the future of customer experience. “The modern (today’s) definition of Southern Hospitality is combining the ease and comfort of a digital interaction with the trust that your individual experience is unique and important.” – Clark Twiddy In a “socially distant” market, the hotel industry is among the hardest hit. Like many industries, hospitality will see both substantial and subtle shifts in the post-pa...
May 04, 2021•30 min•Ep. 25
Mike Turner, customer intelligence guru at SAS, joins Greg for a chat about customer intelligence in life sciences. Pharma organizations don’t think of their customers in the same way that retailers do, but they do have customers, including the health care professionals (HCPs) who prescribe their medicinal products and clinical trial subjects. The adoption of customer intelligence programs in pharma accelerated dramatically at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic because organizations were forced ...
Apr 30, 2021•22 min•Ep. 24
The job of a leader is much more difficult than it once was, according to Bill Boulding, the dean of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Dean Boulding is an expert on leadership — and on this episode of Electrifying AI, he joins host Sal Gill to discuss what leaders in the electricity industry need to focus on for 2021 and beyond. Their conversation spans change management, corporate responsibility, climate change, decarbonization and how the industry can fend off or emerge from crises o...
Apr 22, 2021•30 min•Ep. 23
