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The Human Subject

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A podcast about the future of clinical research and the humans that make it happen.

Episodes

Technology That Will Help You: Validating DCT Tools w/ Bernadette Tosti

Bernadette Tosti, Chief Product Office for ProofPilot, draws on her long wealth of clinical research experience to discuss best practices to validate new digital tools for decentralized clinical trials. She also shares with co-hosts Nelia Padilla and Jefferson Smith the future questions about clinical research that she beleives need to be answered.

Apr 09, 202353 min

Digitization and Customization: The Future (and Present) of Clinical Research w/ Dr. Isaac Rodriguez-Chavez

Dr. Isaac Rodriguez-Chavez is a pioneer in the field of clinical research. He joins the podcast to explain how important the twin concepts of digitization and customization are for designers of decentralized clinical trials--providing necessary tools is as important as responding to the needs of the patient. Dr. Rodriguez-Chavez also addresses challenging questions about the future of clinical research.

Mar 20, 202335 min

Cultivating Leadership in Health Care w/ Paul Rude (YPrime Cut)

Paul Rude from Fierce Strategy + Creative discusses health care leadership strategies, the revolutionary impact of patient-owned health information, and the need to meet patients where they're at to recruit for clinical research. (35 minutes)

Jan 30, 202336 min

Cultivating Leadership in Health Care w/ Paul Rude

Paul Rude from Fierce Strategy + Creative discusses health care leadership strategies, the revolutionary impact of patient-owned health information, and the need to meet patients where they're at to recruit for clinical research.

Jan 27, 20231 hr 13 min

Automating Clinical Research Protocols w/ Joseph Kim (YPrime Cut)

Joseph Kim, Chief Strategy Officer of ProofPilot , discusses how clinical research can be unnecessarily wordy and complicated. Different interpretations of clinical research protocols bogs the process down, creating obstacles to capture data. Joseph proposes automating clinical research protocols as a solution to these issues.

Nov 30, 202214 min

Automating Clinical Research Protocols w/ Joseph Kim

Joseph Kim, Chief Strategy Officer of ProofPilot , discusses how clinical research can be unnecessarily wordy and complicated. Different interpretations of clinical research protocols bogs the process down, creating obstacles to capture data. Joseph proposes automating clinical research protocols as a solution to these issues.

Nov 30, 202259 min

Managing for Human Behavior in Clinical Research w/ Dr. Kate Wolin

Health care entrepreneurial executive and behavioral epidemiologist Dr. Kate Wolin joins the podcast to discuss using personalized technology to manage human behavior in clinical research. Dr. Kate Wolin's website Daniel Pink: Autonomy, Mastery & Purpose

Nov 02, 20221 hr 2 min

Optimizing Clinical Research w/ Sylvia Baedorf Kassis (YPrime Cut)

Sylvia Baedorf Kassis, Program Manager at the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard, discusses her experience optimizing clinical research and how innovations in other sectors can be applied to the clinical research process.

Oct 03, 202220 min

Optimizing Clinical Research w/ Sylvia Baedorf Kassis

Sylvia Baedorf Kassis, Program Manager at the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard, discusses her experience optimizing clinical research and how innovations in other sectors can be applied to the clinical research process.

Oct 03, 20221 hr 6 min

A Community-Minded Perspective to Clinical Research w/ Dr. Nita Vangeepuram

Dr. Nita Vangeepuran is the Co-Director of Community Engagement at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine's Institute of Health Equity Research. She discusses the importance of why expanding community involvement with clinical research is not only important to secure funding but also have improved and targeted results. Dr. Vangeepuran also shares her thoughts on the future of clinical research, including personalized medicine and data-gathering.

Sep 26, 20221 hr 16 min

The Human Trial w/ Lisa Hepner (YPrime cut)

Lisa Hepner, director / producer of "The Human Trial" documentary, discusses her film and shares what she learned about the struggles faced by clinical trail participants and by drug companies seeking to raise the necessary funds for a successful clinical trail.

Sep 19, 202222 min

The Human Trial w/ Lisa Hepner

"The Human Trial" is a documentary that follows clinical trial participants as they assist in a cure for diabetes. Producer and director Lisa Hepner discusses her interest in capturing the clinical research process on film, including the struggles faced by both the participants and also by drug manufacturing company ViaCyte to secure the necessary funding to complete the research.

Sep 19, 20221 hr 8 min

Maximizing Patient Centricity pt. 2 w/ Dr. Irfan Khan

Dr. Irfan Khan explains Circuit Clinical's patient voice and patient insight approach, increasing engagement with patients to provide feedback on their health care experience--and how this approach should be applied to clinical research.

Sep 12, 202215 min

Maximizing Patient Centricity pt. 1 w/ Dr. Irfan Khan

Patient centricity means putting the patient first in an open and sustained engagement in clinical research. Dr. Irfan Khan, Founder and CEO of Circuit Clinical, explains why patients in the health care system should be viewed as consumers and should be provided the best experience possible, improving the clinical research experience.

Sep 12, 202216 min

Maximizing Patient Centricity w/ Dr. Irfan Khan

Dr. Irfan Khan is the founder and CEO of Circuit Clinical, one of the largest research organizations in the United States. In this discussion, Dr. Khan discusses the necessary steps to create a complex research ecosystem that maximizes patient centrcity and increases trust and transparency for participants in clinical research.

Sep 12, 20221 hr 1 min

Managing for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Clinical Research w/ Dr. Barbara Bierer

As both the Director of Regulatory Ethics at Harvard's Clinical and Translational Science Center and the Faculty Director of the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Barbara Bierer "lives and breathes" equity and inclusion in clinical research. She joins the podcast to discuss how increasing patient access and opportunities is a necessary feature when designing and implementing clinical research. 

Sep 04, 202251 min

Season One Wrap-Up

In the final episode for the first season of the Human Subject, co-hosts Eric and Jeff Smith reflect on the guests, topics, and surprises over the course of the initial season. Also included: clinical research-related jokes! Plus a special appearance by Season Two's co-host Nelia Padilla, who offers a preview of what to expect in future Human Subject episodes.

Sep 03, 202138 minSeason 1Ep. 9

Revisiting COVID Vaccine Prognostications w/ Lindsay Chandler

Eric and Jeff are joined by Lindsay Chandler, Clinical Research Supervisor at Providence Cancer Institute, to revisit audio recorded prior to wide release of the COVID-19 vaccine. Did their predictions come true? What circumstances occurred to change their mind regarding the vaccine? Also discussed: why Russia's vaccination rates are so low despite the country being first to develop a vaccine.

Jul 25, 20211 hr 8 min

The Patient Advocate Approach w/ Rochelle Williams-Belizaire

Rochelle Williams-Belizaire, Assistant Director of Research Collaborations in Precision Oncology at the Knight Cancer Institute discusses the importance of patient advocates in clinical research, steps currently underway to increase diversity &  inclusion, and explains her metaphor about how personalized medicine would be similar to bringing your car in for a tune-up.

Jun 28, 202158 minSeason 1Ep. 6

Selenocysteine, the 21st Amino Acid w/ Pam Cassidy

Melanoma researcher Pam Cassidy from Oregon Health & Sciences University discusses her fascination with the antioxidant selenocysteine, "the twenty-first amino acid," how her background in chemistry makes her concerned about the COVID variants, and the interface where research transitions from preclinical work to human trials.

Jun 21, 202143 min

Changing the Culture of Clinical Research w/ Ken Getz

Ken Getz, Tufts Research Professor and Founder of CISCRP, discusses the emergence of patient-centered research, why non-successful studies need to be funded, and his hope that COVID leads to increased collaborations in clinical research.

Jun 14, 202151 min
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