Dr. Soham Roy is the Chief of Pediatric Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgery at the University of Texas at Houston. Dr. Roy earned his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his MD from Washington University at St. Louis. He completed his residency in otolaryngology (ENT) at the University of Miami and fellowship in pediatric otolaryngology at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Dr. Roy was on staff at the University of Miami before joining the University of Texas. He is an expert in operatin...
Jan 05, 2022•34 min
Katy Talento is a veteran health policy advisor and the CEO of AllBetter Health. She obtained her BA degree from the University of Virginia and her MS in epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Katy was the lead health policy advisor under the Trump administration where she helped increase healthcare price transparency and lower prescription drug prices among other objectives. After her time in DC, she went into healthcare consulting to help employers reduce healthcare s...
Sep 04, 2021•53 min
Dr. Michael Patrick (Dr. Mike) is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Ohio State University College of Medicine and is the producer and host of Pediacast: a pediatric podcast for parents. Dr. Mike received his MD from Ohio State. He completed residency and fellowship at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Croup and bronchiolitis are two of the most common childhood illnesses. Tune in to learn all about the symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments of croup and bronchiolitis. Dr. Mike has been in podca...
Aug 04, 2021•31 min
Jake Exline is 29 years old and lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Jake was born in Indiana and was diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot at 9 months of age. Tune in to hear about how they discovered his congenital heart disease, his surgeries, and the other aspects of his experience with Tetralogy of Fallot.
Jul 30, 2021•24 min
Dr. Vikram (Vik) Sood is an Assistant Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School. Vik completed his undergraduate degree, medical school, and surgical training all at the University of Michigan. He is a member of the pediatric heart surgery group at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. Tetralogy of Fallot is one of the most common congenital heart disease lesions. Tune in to learn all about Tetralogy of Fallot: the physiology, surgical treatment, and everything in betwee...
Jul 23, 2021•31 min
Dr. Jennifer Andrews is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Andrews received her MD at the University of South Florida and completed her residency in pediatrics at the University of North Carolina. She completed her fellowship in pediatric hematology at Emory University and another fellowship in transfusion medicine at Stanford University. She was on staff at Stanford until joining Vanderbilt in 2018. Dr. Andrews specializes in ...
Jun 24, 2021•28 min
Seth Sullivan is 32 years old and lives in Wichita, Kansas. 8 years ago, after an intense CrossFit workout he had “coca-cola” brown urine. Seth had served in the United States Marine Corps, so he went to the VA emergency room. Extremely high myoglobin levels indicated rhabdomyolysis and he needed IV fluids to prevent further kidney damage. Tune in to hear the story of how he got rhabdomyolysis and his experience with the VA healthcare system.
Jun 23, 2021•45 min
McCall Jensen is 21 years old from Ramsey, New Jersey and was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 4. She used insulin by injections prior to using a pump in 4th grade. As of 2 months ago, she now uses a closed loop system also known as an artificial pancreas. Tune in to hear how she 1st found out she had diabetes, how the closed loop system insulin therapy works, and the other aspects of having type 1 diabetes.
Jun 23, 2021•20 min
Heather Fountaine is 37 years old from Salt Lake City, Utah and was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 13. She has used different types of insulin through the years and she has continued to use injections to this day. Tune in to hear about how she 1st was diagnosed, how diabetes treatment technology has changed through the years, and the financial burden of insulin along with many other aspects of her experience with type 1 diabetes.
Jun 20, 2021•27 min
Dr. Ananda Basu is the Harrison Professor of Medicine in the division of Endocrinology at the University of Virginia. He received his MD from the Jawaharlal Institute in Pondicherry, India. He trained in endocrinology in Birmingham, England. He completed his fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Basu was part of the Mayo faculty until 2011 and has been at UVA since. His research interests include better understanding the physiology of Type 1 diabetes and the artificial pancreas. Tune in to learn ab...
Jun 16, 2021•30 min
Jordy Gibbons is 24 years old from Buena Vista, Virginia and was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma in October of 2019. Jordy is a senior at Southern Virginia University majoring in art and he plays guitar in a band called Bird Club. Ewing’s sarcoma is a rare form of cancer that takes place in the bones. Jordy’s sarcoma was stage 4 when he was diagnosed. He went through 14 cycles of chemotherapy then standard radiation therapy. Currently, Jordy is free of treatment with consistent monitoring. Tune i...
Dec 18, 2020•33 min
Dr. Tyler Rouse is the creator and host of the Legends of Surgery Podcast. His podcast provides fascinating history and insight on historic surgeons, surgical procedures, and the entire field of medicine. Dr. Rouse has created a special episode on Dr. Russell M. Nelson for this podcast. Dr. Russell M. Nelson is currently the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Prior to his full-time church service he practiced as a cardiothoracic surgeon. He was a key figure in the deve...
Dec 01, 2020•32 min
Dr. Andrew Fire won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2006 for the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi). Dr. Fire is the George D. Smith Professor in Molecular and Genetic Medicine, and Professor of Pathology and Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He received his AB degree in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley. He received his PhD in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He did training at the Medical Research Council Labor...
Oct 30, 2020•33 min
Dr. Paul Kay is a pathologist in Springfield, Illinois. Dr. Kay works at multiple hospitals within the Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS). Dr. Kay received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of Utah. He received his MD and PhD from Mayo Clinic, and completed his pathology residency there as well. Dr. Kay is a part-time pre-medical advisor for Brigham Young University. Tune in to learn about the specialty of pathology: what pathologists do, the process of examining a tis...
Oct 24, 2020•19 min
Kathryn Turley lives in Cottonwood Heights, Utah and was diagnosed with breast cancer in May of 2010. Kathryn had grade 3 stage 2b triple-positive (ER, PR, HER2) breast cancer which in general is more aggressive than other breast cancers and requires additional chemotherapy treatment. After surgery, a year of chemotherapy, and additional radiation therapy, Kathryn has been breast cancer free. Tune in to hear her amazing perspective on what it’s like to be diagnosed with breast cancer, the import...
Oct 20, 2020•21 min
Dr. Ruth O'Regan is the Division Head of Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and is an associate director of the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center. Dr. O’Regan specializes as a breast cancer physician and researcher. She is ranked by Newsweek/Castle Connolly Medical as one of the top oncologists in the nation. She received her MD from University College in Dublin, Ireland. She completed her internal medicine residenc...
Oct 19, 2020•19 min
Dr. Peter Fisher is a urologist with Summit Urology Group in Salt Lake City, Utah. In March of 2018 he collapsed on a basketball floor from sudden cardiac arrest. Fortunately, he was brought back to life via bystander CPR and immediate emergency care, and later regained full neurological function. Dr. Fisher has talked about his experience and how it relates to physician burnout in varying conferences across the country. Tune in to hear about his experience with cardiac arrest and his observatio...
Sep 02, 2020•37 min
Dr. Scott Hacking is an interventional cardiologist at St. Marks and Lone Peak Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. He received his bachelor’s in business from Brigham Young University and received his MD from the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Utah and completed his cardiology fellowship at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York. Dr. Hacking treats patients with many different kinds of heart problems and disease...
Aug 28, 2020•18 min
Dr. Michael Douvas is an Associate Professor of Medicine in Hematology and Oncology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Dr. Douvas received his undergraduate degree in Economics from Princeton University and his MD from the University of Virginia. He completed both his residency in Pediatrics and his fellowship in Adult and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Douvas treats a variety of patients between ages 15-40 for various cancers. He also has b...
Aug 12, 2020•27 min
Dr. Luke Maese is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at the University of Utah and a co-Director of the Leukemia/Lymphoma program at Primary Children’s Hospital. He received his Bachelor’s in Human Biology from the University of Kansas and his degree in osteopathic medicine (DO) from Kansas City University. He completed his residency in Pediatrics at the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and his fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the University o...
Aug 09, 2020•53 min
Ricky Stafford is from Orem, Utah and was diagnosed with leukemia as a freshman in high school. Ricky has a rare form of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) called Philadelphia Chromosome Positive ALL (Ph+ALL). After chemotherapy and ponatinib, Ricky was in remission, then two years later, Ricky’s cancer relapsed. More severe chemo, radiation, and a bone marrow transplant followed, but now Ricky is in remission once again. Tune in to hear his incredibly inspiring story: the ups and downs, what he...
Jul 31, 2020•28 min
Dr. Margaret Pearle is the Vice Chair of Urology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She received her MD and PhD from the University of Chicago, completed her urologic residency at Northwestern, and her fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Pearle is a co-head of the endourology department and is a Dr. Ralph C. Smith Distinguished Chair in Urologic Education. Texas Monthly has named Dr. Pearle a Super Doctor. Tune in to learn the ins and outs of kidney stone disease: the causes, s...
Jul 21, 2020•35 min
Dr. David King is an Acute Care Surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital Trauma Center. He received his MD, completed his residency and fellowship at the University of Miami along with a residency stop at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. King was an U.S. Army Lieutenant and combat surgeon before Mass General. Dr. King is the principal investigator in the upcoming REVIVE trial for ResQFoam. ResQFoam is a hemostatic agent that applies pressure to the internal active bleeding site. Tune i...
Jun 24, 2020•25 min
Dr. Richard Ohye is the Head of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Associate Chair of Cardiac Surgery, and the co-Director of the Congenital Heart Center at the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He received his MD, completed his general surgery residency, and his cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at Ohio State. He completed his pediatric cardiovascular fellowship at the University of Michigan. He is the ...
Jun 22, 2020•26 min
Dr. Kimberly Yonkers is a Professor of Psychiatry, Epidemiology, and Reproductive Services at the Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Yonkers received her MD from Columbia and completed her residency at the McLean Hospital. She is the Chief of the Yale New Haven Health Division of Psychological Medicine and the Director of the Center for Women and Mothers. Her awards include the Harold Berman Award for Mentorship, the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine Wayne Katon Research Award, and Best Doc...
Jun 19, 2020•29 min
Dr. Robert Ostroff is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University and is the Director of the Mood Disorders Unit at Yale Psychiatric Hospital. Dr. Ostroff received his MD at George Washington University and completed both residency and internship in New Haven, Connecticut at Yale and Hospital of Saint Raphael. He also is the Co-Medical Director of the Interventional Psychiatry Service at Yale Psychiatric Hospital. Dr. Ostroff has been a voice in raising awareness of the stigma of psych...
Jun 13, 2020•17 min
Dr. Rodrigo Hasbun is a Professor of Infectious Diseases at McGovern UTHealth. Dr. Hasbun obtained his MD at the Autonomous University of Central America in Costa Rica. He completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He completed his fellowship in infectious diseases at Yale University. He received his Masters in Public Health from Tulane University. Dr. Hasbun has performed momentous research on meningitis and endocarditis funded by the NIH, ...
Jun 04, 2020•16 min
Dr. John Krystal is the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and the Robert L. McNeil, Jr Professor of Translational Research at the Yale University School of Medicine. He received his BA in behavioral sciences at the University of Chicago. He received his MD and completed his residency at Yale. He is the Chief of Psychiatry at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He is the Director of the NIAAA Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism and the Clinical Neuroscience Division of he VA National...
Jun 02, 2020•30 min
Dr. Peter Fisher is a urologist with Summit Urology Group in Salt Lake City, Utah. He received his MD from the University of Utah, and completed his urologic residency at the University of Michigan. Dr. Fisher started the robotic surgery programs at St. Marks Hospital (SMH) and Lone Peak Hospital. He was the Chief of Surgery at SMH from 2013-2015. Dr. Fisher is currently the Director of Urology and Men’s Health at SMH, and directs the ZERO Prostate Cancer Annual Run to support prostate cancer pa...
May 19, 2020•41 min
Dr. James Armitage is a professor of internal medicine and medical oncologist/hematologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He received his undergraduate and medical degree at the University of Nebraska, and completed his internal medicine residency there as well. He completed his fellowship in hematology-oncology at the University of Iowa. Dr. Armitage developed and directed the bone marrow transplant programs at Iowa and UNMC. At UNMC he’s served as vice chair of the Department of...
Apr 29, 2020•32 min
