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Empowering Rare Disease Patients to Solve Problems - Annie Kennedy, Chief of Policy, Advocacy and Patient Engagement at the EveryLife Foundation
Episode 354
“Our rare disease community is looking to solve for many different types of policy barriers because we have a very diverse patient community,” says A…
3 years, 8 months ago
Lessons From ‘Patient School’ That Medical School Doesn’t Teach - Dr. Alin Gragossian, Heart Transplant Recipient and Emergency Medicine Specialist
Episode 353
“In about three weeks, I went from a completely normal thirty-year-old to somebody with a heart transplant. It was crazy,” says Dr. Alin Gragossian, …
3 years, 8 months ago
Navigating Changes, Choices and Challenges Facing Med Students and Faculty - Dr. Kim Tartaglia of Ohio State University Wexner College of Medicine
Episode 352
There are so many choices to make as an undergrad in med school: selecting which medical field to go into; whether to go down the academic path; and …
3 years, 8 months ago
Patients Can Be the Most Effective Teachers - Dr. Mark Korson, Director of Education and Physician Support Services at VMP Genetics
Episode 351
A singing guest! A poetic chat bot! This special episode of Raise the Line features those unusual artistic highpoints along with the substantive and…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Unexpected Career Opportunities in Life Sciences - Marc Cummings, President & CEO of Life Science Washington and Dr. Tina Albertson, Chief Medical Officer at Lyell Immunopharma
Episode 350
“There's a real diversity of jobs available that folks don’t always think about initially when they think about going into healthcare,” says Marc Cum…
3 years, 9 months ago
A Patient-Centered Approach to Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy - Dr. Manish Agrawal, Co-Founder and CEO of Sunstone Therapies
Episode 349
“With psychedelics right now, there's a lot of hype around the compound, which is somewhat important, but Sunstone Therapies is really founded on the…
3 years, 9 months ago
At the Crossroads of Social Justice and Medicine - Dr Githinji Gitahi, Group CEO of Amref Health Africa
Episode 348
Our guest on this episode of Raise the Line, Dr. Githinji Gitahi, ended up in the medical field because he’s always had a nagging need for social jus…
3 years, 9 months ago
Seeing Language Differences as An Opportunity, Not a Barrier - Dr. Pilar Ortega, Founding President of the National Association of Medical Spanish
Episode 347
Why is it that Hispanics make up 20% of the U.S. population, but only 6% of the physician workforce? Well, Dr. Pilar Ortega, founding president of th…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Limitations of Medical Knowledge - Dr. Lisa Sanders, Author of the "Diagnosis" Column for The New York Times
Episode 346
“Patients don’t understand how little we actually know in medicine. I'm not sure if doctors understand this, either,” says Dr. Lisa Sanders, an assoc…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Need for Leadership Training in Medical School - Nita Gombakomba, National President of the Student National Medical Association
Episode 345
“In medical school, you don't learn about leadership. You don't learn about what skills are required to make large-scale strategic decisions that can…
3 years, 9 months ago