Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary
432 episodes - English - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★★ - 45 ratingsOut of Patients is a no-BS podcast about making healthcare suck less for everyone. Join award-winning host Matthew Zachary each week as he and his guests sardonically deconstruct all the shenanigans in terms normal humans can understand, along with a healthy dose of 80s nostalgia and random pop culture references. So strap in, and let's all make the system less horrible; because advocacy is the only thing that's ever changed anything.
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The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (and a Tribute to Ellen Stovall)
October 13, 2020 05:00 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBToday on the show, I welcome Shelly Fuld Nasso, Chief Executive Officer at the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. It's important to note that NCCS, as it is referred to because #acronyms, is the Nation's oldest survivor-led advocacy organization founded during the Paleolithic Era of Cancer Care — the time before time — of 1986. Yes, the same year as Top Gun, Aliens, Crocodile Dundee, The Color Purple, and Rodney Dangerfield's Back To School, also introduced the word "Surviv...
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (and a Tribute to Ellen Stoval)
October 13, 2020 05:00 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBToday on the show, I welcome Shelly Fuld Nasso, Chief Executive Officer at the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. It's important to note that NCCS, as it is referred to because #acronyms, is the Nation's oldest survivor-led advocacy organization founded during the Paleolithic Era of Cancer Care — the time before time — of 1986. Yes, the same year as Top Gun, Aliens, Crocodile Dundee, The Color Purple, and Rodney Dangerfield's Back To School, also introduced the word "Surviv...
The One With Matt Holt: Self-Proclaimed "Healthcare Curmudgeon"
October 08, 2020 04:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBToday on the show, if there ever were a human Wikipedia sentinel of digital health history, it would be Matt Holt, Founder of The Healthcare Blog (ca 2003), Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Health2.0, President at Smack.health and self-proclaimed 'Healthcare Curmudgeon." Beyond the obvious "Wayback Machine" discourse, Matt genuinely takes us down the origin story rabbit hole to, pretty much, the exact moment when the tubes of the interweb met up with whatever an EMR was back when Must ...
When Pink Doesn't Cut It: The Entrepreneur Survivor
October 06, 2020 05:00 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBToday, on the show, friend, colleague, and fellow young adult cancer survivor/advocate Rebecca Batterman. But let's not let that last label define her because she is OH SO MUCH MORE. Rebecca is an "Innovation Consultant" — what does that mean? Well, stick around to find out, but I can attest that she has one of the most acute minds for seeing signal through noise, and I've been inspired by her ever since we met. Never one to stop reinventing herself after stints in branding, media, ...
The Chutzpah Show with Sarah Cotenoff
October 01, 2020 05:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBOn the show today, live in person here at OffScrip Media Studios in downtown Manhattan, Sarah Cotenoff, Co-Founder of Podsights — and, more importantly — former intern at The Stupid Cancer Show. Losing your father to cancer as a teenager is never a good thing. But the forced maturity it gives you can ultimately come in handy if and when more crap you didn’t expect happens upon you. In Sarah’s case, it was — after a comedic series of misdiagnoses — Psoriatic arthritis, a condition sh...
Dr. Guy Maytal: "Being Ill" vs "Having an Illness"
September 29, 2020 05:00 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBToday on the show, a peek into the fascinating world of psychiatric oncology with my friend Dr. Guy Maytal, Chief of Integrated Care and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. I’ve often heard the phrase “ambassadors of dignity” when referring to the empathic mental health professionals who not only listen to the lyrics but hear the symphony of grief, struggle, and challenge that patients bring. Guy is one of those heroes, and it was a ...
Lenox Hill, Part Two
September 24, 2020 04:00 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBWelcome to Part Two my conversation with Dr. David Langer, Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Lenox Hill Hospital, Co-Founder of Playback Health, and star of the critically acclaimed Netflix series, Lenox Hill. If you’ve listened to Part One — and I hope you did because it’d be weird if you hadn’t — there is such richness into David’s humanity and approach to medicine beyond the biology of the patient, their caregivers, and loved ones. We really dig into what David’s been...
Lenox Hill, Part One
September 22, 2020 04:00 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBSome of you may have heard about the acclaimed Netflix series, Lenox Hill. If you haven’t, you’ve to to check it out. Four doctors at New York's storied Lenox Hill Hospital balance their personal lives and their dedication to their patients in this documentary series. And one of those doctors joins me today. Dr. David Langer, Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Lenox Hill Hospital and Co-Founder of Playback Health is one of those doctors — and he joins me here in-studio — ...
[BONUS] Lifehacking COVID-19: Back-to-School Insanity Edition
September 18, 2020 05:00 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBToday, a frenetic BONUS episode with my dear friend of 30+ years, the always eclectic, impossibly talented Half-Greek/Half-Italian spitfire no BS unicorn that is Elura Nanos. As two exasperated Gen-X parents of young kids, we needed a COVID-19 venting session to outgas our egregious misgivings with the endless ignominious malfeasance on the part of the school systems to figure out what the hell is actually happening. Prepare to nod your head, fellow parents with school-age children,...
They're Real and They're Spectacular: Board-Certified Patient Advocates
September 17, 2020 05:00 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBGet ready to learn a lot on today’s show. For example, did you know there are Board Certified Patient Advocates? You heard that. And it’s not what you think. It’s better. Joining me to discuss this — and OH SO MUCH MORE — is Dr. Grace Cordovano, the CEO of Enlightening Results and the Co-Founder of Unblock Health. I’m at my best when I feel like the dumbest guy in the room by learning things I had no idea about. This is that conversation, and I hope you take away what I did because ...
Kara McGuirk-Allison: A Not-So-Hidden Brain
September 15, 2020 05:00 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBToday on the show, what happens when a legacy, award-winning NPR radio producer/young adult cancer survivor is interviewed by a gracefully aging, semi-legacy, non-award-winning, non-NPR producer/young adult cancer survivor? Does a media event horizon manifest in the clouds along with the token interdimensional SKY BEAM from comic book movies? Kara McGuirk-Allison is an award-winning public radio and podcast producer with 25 years of experience in storytelling, production, and journa...
GATTACA CHATTACA: Is Our DNA Our Destiny?
September 10, 2020 05:00 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBOn the show today, DNA Science Superhero Dawn Barry, President and CEO at LUNA, a public benefit corporation that is restoring power to the people by giving them back control of their genomic health information for the greater good? What a novel idea. While we would have loved to spend the entire show debating the virtues of Beyond Meat vs. Impossible Burger, we really dig into to the very nature of how, from the perspective of consumer and cultural adoption, the very conversation a...
Dr Saralyn Mark: You Can Be a Winner at the Game of COVID-19 Whack-A-Mole
September 08, 2020 05:00 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBOn the show today, another stellar returning champion, Dr. Saralyn Mark, Former Senior Medical and Policy Advisor to The White House, NASA, and the Department of Health And Human Services, Physician Women’s Leader at the American Medical Women’s Association and Author of “Stellar Medicine: A Journey Through the Universe of Women’s Health.” Now, that was a hand full of epic credentials, but the rubber really hit the road today when we both dig deep into the calculus of COVID, meaning...
Tricia Brouk: So you want to be a speaker? You want to tell your story?
September 03, 2020 05:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBSo you want to be a speaker? You want to tell your story? Spoiler alert, it’s not so easy, and I think you might know why. Anyone can tell their story, but that doeth not maketh them a storyteller. There is a definitive art, method, and process to be a storyteller, nee, perhaps even an orator. But not necessarily a Town Crier. Today I am joined by my friend and colleague, Tricia Brouk, an award-winning director, choreographer, speaker, writer, podcaster, and Founder of The Big Talk ...
What Happens When The Health Coach Gets Cancer?
September 01, 2020 05:00 - 26 minutes - 24.7 MBToday on the show, I welcome Andrea Ottaiano, recovering agency, Pharma, and media veteran, research junkie, health coach, Founder of Silver Lining Holistic Health AND — if that’s not enough — 13-year survivor of breast cancer, liver cancer, and cholangiocarcinoma. So what happens with the Health Coach gets cancer? When the professional becomes the patient? That is a “both sides of the coin” story to tell, and she’s got a good one. We also rage on about how the jargon of “Whole Pati...
Staying Angry: Michael Millenson is "Demanding Medical Excellence"
August 27, 2020 05:00 - 24 minutes - 22 MBAuthor and journalist Michael Millenson is one of the original agitators of the status quo of healthcare. He is a friend, mentor, and someone I have consistently referred to as the “older, angrier, and more sagacious version of me.” His activism over the past 20+ years has paved the way for scores od patient advocates like me to grow our experiences into formidable and influential bully pulpits. And his book, Demanding Medical Excellence” is a template for what SHOULD be happening w...
Come again? Confronting Infertility with Barb Collura
August 25, 2020 05:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBToday’s show about fertility and family planing is very personal to millions of people. Because, while you may want to be a biological mom or dad one day, bad things happen to good people. Joining me is perhaps one of the most unsung advocacy heroes you may never have heard of, Barb Collura, the President and CEO of RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association. One in eight couples struggle with infertility, and that’s not discount the single men and women who may not have a partne...
Telehealth with Dr. Joe Mikhael: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
August 20, 2020 05:00 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBToday on the show, returning champion Dr. Joseph Mikhael, Professor of Applied Cancer Research at the TGen institute for City of Hope AND the Chief Medical Officer of the International Myeloma Foundation. We are talking all things Telehealth, telemedicine, tele-patients, tele-hospital, and video telephones, otherwise known as cell phones, tablets, and computers.Upside. Downside. Side side? Zoom fatigue. eBurnout. Telehealth in the workplace (when there IS a workplace) Our reliance o...
The One With Jane Sarasohn-Kahn
August 18, 2020 04:00 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBToday's show is not a "very special episode" of Different Strokes, Facts of Life, Family Ties, Webster, or Blossom, BUT it is a "very special episode" nonetheless. Jane Sarasohn-Kahn has been a friend, a teacher, a mentor, a sherpa, a conscience, and a big sister to me for over 15 years. I mean it when I say she is as close to biological family as you can get without the Jerry Springer sibling DNA test. My origin story of becoming a cancer advocate diverged in 2004 between the nonpr...
The Forgivably Canadian Dr. Joe Mikhael, Myeloma, and Justin Trudeau Clickbait
August 13, 2020 05:00 - 36 minutes - 33 MBOn today’s show, Dr. Joseph Mikhael, Professor of Applied Cancer Research at the TGen institute for City of Hope AND the Chief Medical Officer of the International Myeloma Foundation, an incredible nonprofit advocacy and research organization that I’ve been proud to call a partner for many many years. They’re a great group. Joe is one of the most highly coveted and requested subject matter experts and speaks at hundreds of conferences worldwide (when those used to exist) and webinar...
COVID-19 Facts? Dr. Jean-Luc Neptune Don't Need No Stinkin' Facts!
August 11, 2020 05:00 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBOn today’s show, returning champion Dr. Jean-Luc Neptune, physician, entrepreneur, innovator, technologist, digital health guru, and Founder at Suntra Modern Recovery, a Telehealth platform offering personalized recovery solutions for people with substance use disorders. As two separate possessors of COVID-19 antibodies, this time around on the show, the tables were turned as I got to ask him a whole bunch of “there are no stupid questions” questions — in an attempt to work our wiza...
Can Science Speak "Person"?: A Quandary for Dr. Catharine Young
August 06, 2020 05:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBOn today’s show, returning champion Dr. Catharine Young, former Senior Director of Science Policy at the Biden Cancer Initiative, and current Executive Director at the SHEPHERD foundation. A human of many hats, she’s also a TED Fellow, Presidential Leadership Scholar, and Doctor of Philosophy with one of the most awesomely sardonic Twitter feeds around @CatYoung. Catharine was one of my very first guests on the program, SO if you want to hop in your Delorean and check out Episode 5 ...
Stop Innovating and Do Something: TJ Sharpe
August 04, 2020 05:00 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBOn today's show, friend, colleague, fellow young adult cancer survivor, advocate, speaker, blogger, and Stage IV melanoma bald guy, TJ Sharpe. He just celebrated his 8-year cancerversary and — spoiler alert — is still here alive, kicking, and staying just angry enough to keep poking a stick at the dumpster fire that is our modern-day healthcare system. His activism has made him one of the dominant voices in clinical trial and immunotherapy awareness for patients and HCPs and his sup...
John Gorman: Medicare 101 and Racial Disparities in Healthcare
July 30, 2020 05:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBOn today’s show, John Gorman, Founder of the Gorman Health Group, member of the Board of Directors of Henry Ford Health System’s Health Alliance Plan, and the Chairman at Nightingale Partners LLC which — to paraphrase — make things suck a whole less for underserved and economically disadvantaged communities by focusing on racial disparities in healthcare. His 30+ years experience in public service has given him a genuinely unique perch on which to sit atop, and his advocacy efforts ...
The Accidental Patient Radvocate: Christine Hodgdon
July 28, 2020 05:00 - 28 minutes - 26 MBChristine Hodgdon is a globe-trotting, human Fodor conservation biologist turned patient “radvocate” (that would be my neologism for radical advocate) by way of her enduring the loss of her father to rare cancer at the same time of her own Dx of Stage IV Metastatic Cancer AND Thyroid Cancer. Gesundheit! She was 34. Among many other interesting things, we talk about the gaps in cancer research that exist because the patients are not involved. Guys? We’re the end user here. Dear Pharm...
Find Your Pack: Trevor Maxwell on Creating Man Up to Cancer
July 23, 2020 05:00 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBOn today's show, we welcome Trevor Maxwell. Trevor is a husband, a writer, and a father to two teenage daughters. Two years ago, he was diagnosed with stage four metastatic colon cancer. He is a powerhouse advocate who never envisioned becoming an advocate. But that's how it works, right? You recognize a need, get angry that it is not being met, and become the accidental advocate. The need Trevor recognized was that, in the economy of cancer support, a dearth of gender-specific supp...
You’ll Pay for This: Julie Croner on the Value of the Patient Experience
July 21, 2020 05:00 - 26 minutes - 24 MBOn today's show, we welcome Julie Croner, Vice President of the Patient Leader Network at WEGO Health. Julie is a rare disease activist who has been educating and empowering patients for more than a decade with tools to better advocate for themselves and others. She and I met a while ago at one of those spectacularly stupid Pharma conferences where tokenism reigns supreme. These are the conferences where they ask patients to share their story FOR FREE—that's right, NO compensation f...
Advocates Are Not Born. They Are Made: Lilly Stairs and the "Donut Hole of Patient Access"
July 16, 2020 05:00 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBLilly Stairs is the Founder of Patient Authentic, which is exactly as it sounds: a bully pulpit that takes (1) the chocolate that is the health tech sector and (2) the peanut butter that are the nonprofits, and makes the Reeses Peanut Butter cup of social change that puts the patient at the forefront of every conversation. Advocates are not born. They are made, often of their own condition. Lilly is no exception having been diagnosed with psoriasis at 7, and then both psoriatic arth...
"Such a Beautiful Thing": Susannah Fox on How 21st Century Patients Find Their Tribes
July 14, 2020 04:00 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBOn today's show, my good friend, long-time partner-in-crime advocate, and Princess Leia Jedi Master of Health Tech, Susannah Fox, who I consider to be one of the most insightful, introspective and influential unicorn, renaissance human beings around. Susannah was the Chief Technology Officer for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is currently on the boards of Cambia and Hive, and provides research and advice about navigating the intersection of health and technolog...
Overhead: Dan Pallotta on How Great Nonprofits Actually Work
July 07, 2020 05:00 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBOn today's show, we welcome one of the most influential human beings of my career: Dan Pallotta, champion of charity and the entire nonprofit business sector. Dan's take on how we as a culture think about charity the wrong way planted a bedrock philosophy in my head for how I was going to grow and lead Stupid Cancer to scalable success without the pitfalls of donors complaining about "Overhead." "I'll give you money but don't spend it on electricity. Only programs." Dan's much-bally...
Fertility Questions? Alice Crisci Has FertilityAnswers
June 30, 2020 05:00 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBAlice Crisci is a cancer survivor, entrepreneur and activist. She founded MedAnswers to speed consumer access to specialty medicine. Her company's first app product, FertilityAnswers, is the only social network for fertility. FertilityAnswers connects users struggling to conceive with multi-disciplinary experts who can answer their anonymous fertility questions. Alice also founded the oncofertility charity, Fertile Action, three weeks into her breast cancer diagnosis at 31-years-ol...
Sarcoma: Sara's Cure and the Race Against Time, Pt 2
June 25, 2020 05:00 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBIn 2016, Sara Woods was diagnosed with Clear Cell Sarcoma, a very rare form of Sarcoma, which is in itself a rare form of cancer. Today in 2020, Sara is 17 years old. This week on Out of Patients, we've set aside two entire episodes to focus in on the story of what Sara's mother Lennie Woods did when Sara's diagnosis landed on her family. This is the story of the patient experience of Sarcoma, and of Sara's Cure: the bold non-profit organization created by Lennie, along with her fi...
Sarcoma: Sara's Cure and the Race Against Time, Pt 1
June 23, 2020 05:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBIn 2016, Sara Woods was diagnosed with Clear Cell Sarcoma, a very rare form of Sarcoma, which is in itself a rare form of cancer. Today in 2020, Sara is 17 years old. This week on Out of Patients, we've set aside two entire episodes to focus in on the story of what Sara's mother Lennie Woods did when Sara's diagnosis landed on her family. This is the story of the patient experience of Sarcoma, and of Sara's Cure: the bold non-profit organization created by Lennie, along with her fi...
COVID-19 and Corporate Leadership: Bruce Cozadd, CEO of Jazz Pharmaceuticals
June 16, 2020 05:00 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBOn today’s show, you’re going to hear from my friend and colleague Bruce Cozadd, Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Jazz Pharmaceuticals. And NO — this was not a conversation about the glamorous Pharmaceutical Industy and all its unique facets — shall we say — worthy of endless discussion. I wanted to talk with him – as my friend, my peer, fellow Founder and CEO — about leadership during COVID and all the other crazy shit going on. Listen to Matt and Bruce on The Stupid Cancer Show her...
COVID-19 Explainer: Telehealth vs. Infectious Diseases
June 11, 2020 05:00 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBDr. Bob Bollinger is the Raj and Kamla Gupta Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Medicine, and he holds joint appointments in International Health at the Johns Hopkins (JH) Bloomberg School of Public Health, and in Community Public Health at the JH School of Nursing. He is Founding Director of the Center for Clinical Global Health Education (CCGHE), Director of the JHU Fogarty India Program, and Associate Director for Medicine of the JH C...
The Magic Bullet: Dr. Saralyn Mark on COVID-19, Women's Health, and the Immune System
June 09, 2020 05:00 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBDr. Saralyn Mark, first and foremost, is a Leader of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA). She served as the Senior Policy Advisor to the White House Office of Science and Technology during the Obama administration working on the Ebola outbreak in 2014. At the Department of Health and Human Services and NASA, she was the first Senior Medical Advisor to the Office on Women’s Health. She joined Matthew remotely to cut through the clutter, break down some of the COVID-19 mum...
COVID-19 Explainer: Epidemiologist Dr. Matt Lamb Returns
June 04, 2020 05:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBMatthew Lamb, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor or Epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center. He focuses on infectious disease prevention, treatment, and scale-up. His research focuses on identifying best practices in public health approaches to HIV prevention, service delivery, and treatment in resource-limited settings.Dr. Lamb focuses on applying causal inference in implementation settings. He teaches courses in the Epidemiology department on introductory epidemiology and ...
Stupid Hemophilia: Cancer, Rare Disease, and Steve Guttenberg?
June 02, 2020 05:00 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBAndrew and I had the pleasure to welcome in-studio Patrick James Lynch, a true renaissance man of many hats who was born of his condition — for a DOUBLE INTERVIEW. If I were to fully divulge all that is Patrick James Lynch, this intro would be longer than the episode. So in brief, he is one of world's most influential hemophilia patient leaders in addition to being a filmmaker, actor, producer, media guy, keynote speaker, and Founder/CEO of both Bloodsteeam Media, a rare and chro...
Physician Burnout Explainer: Author Greg Hammer MD on Mindfulness in a Crisis
May 26, 2020 05:00 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBDr. Greg Hammer is pediatric intensive care physician, pediatric anesthesiologist and author of the new book “GAIN Without Pain The Happiness Handbook for Health Care Professionals,” which speaks to the philosophies of mindfulness to reduce or mitigate physician burnout — and if there were ever a time for our "Spidey Senses" to be tingling about physician burnout, it’s right now while the world is burning. GAIN Without Pain on Amazon See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privac...
COVID-19 and Lung Cancer: Stigma, Advocacy, and the Latest Research
May 21, 2020 05:00 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBMatthew and Andrew welcome cancer survivors Nina Beaty, Creator, The EmPat Cancer Project, and Katie Brown, Vice President of Support and Survivorship Programs at The LUNGevity Foundation, to opine on the current status of lung cancer in America and around the world. Issues of stigma, the increasing prevalence in young women, new treatment options, and how to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic are just some of the pressing topics we cover in this crucial episode. See Privacy Policy at ...
This Is Only A Test, Part Two: The Glamorous and Exotic World of Clinical Trials
May 19, 2020 05:00 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBPeter MacDowell is the Clinical Director of Rochester Dermatologic Surgery and former Co-Director of Clinical Trials Office at the Wilmot Cancer Institute. If that last name sounds familiar, well that’s because Peter is the brother of Andrew MacDowell, my Co-Founder, and COO here at OffScrip Media. Sibling rivalry be damned — and while we may have reinforced some established biases between upstate and downstate New York — we had a fantastic conversation down the rabbit hole of clini...
This Is Only A Test, Part One: The Glamorous and Exotic World of Clinical Trials
May 12, 2020 05:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBHow does one "Schoolhouse Rock" the interesting world of Clinical Trials? On the show, Matthew and his Co-Founder/COO Andrew MacDowell are joined by Medaptive Health’s co-founders Eric Kroll and Jeremy Block to help break down and de-jargon what exactly is going on in the world of trials, patient advocacy, drug approvals — and the ever evolving role of Industry, for better or for worse. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.c...
Relentless: John Tesh on Music, Cancer, Grit, and Faith
May 05, 2020 05:00 - 40 minutes - 36.6 MBSix music Emmys, two Grammy nominations, four gold records, seven Public Television specials and 8 million records sold. After more than three decades as an international entertainer, John Tesh is a living legend. In his new book, "Relentless: Unleashing a Life of Purpose, Grit, and Faith," Tesh describes how the obstacles that shaped him—including being suspended from college, living homeless for months, and facing a deadly disease—shaped his remarkable life. See Privacy Policy at...
Dry Mouth Sucks: Matt and Friends Gather to Endorse Moisyn (Sponsored Content)
May 01, 2020 05:00 - 32 minutes - 30 MBIn this sponsored episode, Matthew sits down with his friends to talk all about the glamorous issue of Xerostomia, otherwise known as "Dry Mouth." This is a problem for millions of Americans, but no one talks about it. Why don’t we talk about it? Maybe it’s because when your mouth is dry, talking is the last thing you want to do. There are way too many causes of dry mouth, such as stress & anxiety, cancer treatment, antihistamines, menopause, alcohol or cannabis, vaping, coffee, an...
Pay the Patients: It's Time to Compen$ate Patients for Their Experience
April 28, 2020 11:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBToo often, patients are blatantly taken advantage of by Industry who profit off of our stories and our experience dealing with a disease we didn't ask to have. If our experience is so critical to Industry's bottom line, there should exist fundamental compensation standards under which which they operate. Period. Matthew Zachary welcomes OffScrip Media Senior Producers Andrew MacDowell (Co-Founder and COO,) Jen Horonjeff (Founder/CEO of Savvy Coop) and Sandy Vassos (Nonprofit Execut...
COVID-19 Explainer: Dr. Jean-Luc Neptune Tells His Own Story of Surviving the Virus
April 23, 2020 11:00 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBJean-Luc Neptune, MD MBA, or JL as he is known, is a serial entrepreneur and a digital health pioneer. He’s a licensed physician in New York State, founder of Suntra Modern Recovery, serves as Entrepreneur-In-Residence at the Hospital For Special Surgery here in NYC, and if that’s not enough, the man has an MBA from Wharton. What makes this episode so special, is that JL just recovered from COVID-19. And this is not just a telling of the story of "when the Doctor becomes the patient...
Craig Delarge: The Digital Mental Health Project
April 21, 2020 11:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBCraig DeLarge is a Digital Health Strategist and Educator at the Digital Mental Health Project, a project aimed at effectively using digital technology in the mental health field, aka MentalTech, to combat mental illness. His main missions are to improve health and build up leaders. Craig has also worked with companies such as IMS Health (IQVIA), CMI/Compas, J&J, GSK, Novo Nordisk, Merck and Takeda Pharma International (Singapore) to positively impact the health community. Craig tea...
Resilience: Craig DeLarge on Digital Mental Health in the Era of COVID-19
April 21, 2020 11:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBCraig DeLarge is a Digital Health Strategist and Educator at the Digital Mental Health Project, a project aimed at effectively using digital technology in the mental health field, aka MentalTech, to combat mental illness. His main missions are to improve health and build up leaders. Craig has also worked with companies such as IMS Health (IQVIA), CMI/Compas, J&J, GSK, Novo Nordisk, Merck and Takeda Pharma International (Singapore) to positively impact the health community. Craig tea...
The Immunotherapy Series, Pt 3: Policy and the FDA
April 16, 2020 11:00 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBImmunotherapy and Policy. How can the FDA evolve to help advance and support novel approaches to medicine? How does the field of immune-driven diagnostics serve as a case in point for the need for evolution in existing regulatory frameworks? Special guests: Meghan Gutierrez Chief Executive Officer Lymphoma Research Foundation Leo David Wang, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Immuno-Oncology Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics City Of Hope This series ...
The Immunotherapy Series, Part 3
April 16, 2020 11:00 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBImmunotherapy and Policy. How can the FDA evolve to help advance and support novel approaches to medicine? How does the field of immune-driven diagnostics serve as a case in point for the need for evolution in existing regulatory frameworks? Special guests: Meghan Gutierrez Chief Executive Officer Lymphoma Research Foundation Leo David Wang, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Immuno-Oncology Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics City Of Hope This series ...