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An Inside Look At the Long Battle to Legalize Psychedelics: Dr. Rick Doblin, Founder & Executive Director of MAPS
Episode 344
“I know it's hard for people to think about holding on if they're in despair, but there's the possibility of healing coming ahead. Don’t give up hope…
3 years, 9 months ago
Fostering Respect for Science and Support for Health Innovation - Max Bronstein, Assistant Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Episode 342
The growth in skepticism about science that was fueled by disinformation during the pandemic has been a frequent topic on Raise the Line, with many i…
3 years, 9 months ago
Using AI to Solve Medical Mysteries and Spur Rare Disease Treatments – Dr. Matthew Might, Kaul Precision Medicine Institute at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Episode 343
“It's still early days in the application of all this technology relative to its long-term potential, but even so, it's already producing some big wi…
3 years, 10 months ago
Navigating Change in the U.S. Healthcare System - Susan Dentzer, President & CEO of America’s Physician Groups
Episode 341
We welcome one of the nation's most respected health and health policy thought leaders to Raise the Line on this episode. Susan Dentzer’s remarkable…
3 years, 10 months ago
A Reservoir of Hope Drives Research Into a Rare Brain Disorder - Scott Reich, Co-Founder of Believe in a Cure
Episode 340
“There's a reservoir of hope, energy and optimism many of us have that we may not know about until we're really tested,” says attorney and author Sco…
3 years, 10 months ago
A Hypothesis-Agnostic Approach to Accelerating Drug Discovery - Dr. Chris Gibson, Co-Founder and CEO of Recursion
Episode 339
“I’m currently sitting 100 feet away from a giant lab full of robots where we can do up to 2.2 million experiments a week,” says Dr. Chris Gibson, th…
3 years, 10 months ago
Taking Quality from the ‘Back of the House’ to Front of Mind: Stephanie Mercado, CEO of the National Association for Healthcare Quality
Episode 338
You might think improving healthcare quality is largely in the hands of the clinicians providing the care, but much of this challenging work is actua…
3 years, 10 months ago
Perspectives on Improving the Rare Disease Patient Journey - Dr. Maria Pfrommer, Director of Nursing Education at Osmosis and her husband, Jack Pfrommer
Episode 337
Regular listeners to Raise the Line know so-called "rare diseases" aren't really rare when you consider up to thirty million Americans are affected b…
3 years, 11 months ago
Using Rare Disease Research to Unlock Common Diseases - Matt Wilsey, CEO of Grace Science
Episode 336
Grace Wilsey was born with a deadly genetic mutation so rare that at the time of her birth, it had never been identified in another person. The disor…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Power of a Rare Disease Community - Luke Rosen, Founder of KIF1A.org
Episode 335
“You know, it's easy to say that default answer that everything's okay, but it's really not. She's lost a lot of her vision, she's got hundreds of se…
3 years, 11 months ago