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Welcome back to Common Sense Medicine! This is a great interview with a physician who is working in the intersection of the care navigation space. Patient-centered care can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. For me, it means that patients are heard in their care journeys and feel as though they have agency in a system which is often confusing and not at all “human-centered.” My guest today is trying to change that through providing a better solution care navigation in cancer care. Dr. Hillary Lin is a Stanford-trained, board-certified internal medicine physician and the Co-founder and CEO of Curio, a HealthTech startup addressing health equity and outcomes via Al-enabled navigation. Dr. Lin has contributed to neuroscience and oncology with her peer-reviewed research work. She is a frequent speaker and advisor for programs, including Headstream Innovation and Cornell BioVenture eLab. In her personal life, she enjoys immersive experiences and has completed over 200 escape rooms worldwide.Video Version[00:

Welcome back to Common Sense Medicine! This is the last post of the year, moving into the holidays, so wishing you happy holidays and a happy new year. In this episode, I’m joined by Stuart Blitz, who is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Hone Health, a men's optimization clinic that offers at-home blood tests, tele-health consultations, and medication delivery. Prior to this, Stuart held the position of Chief Business Officer at Seventh Sense Biosystems (now YourBioHealth), where they played a key role in designing and developing the world's first push-button blood collection device. Before that, they worked at AgaMatrix, where they served as the Executive Director of Business Development and Strategy, as well as the Director of Worldwide Commercial Development. Stuart's experience spans over several years and includes a focus on improving healthcare systems and providing convenient solutions for consumers.Check out the episode on Spotify, iTunes, or YouTubeIf you’ve been forwarded this email and

Welcome back to Common Sense Medicine! In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Jimmy Turner, an academic anesthesiologist, self-proclaimed money nerd, and host of "Money Meets Medicine" podcast. He's also the author of "The Physician Philosopher's Guide to Personal Finance" Dr. Turner's mission is to empower doctors to find work-life balance and financial freedom. We delve into his journey from burnout to empowerment and discuss his involvement with Attend, a groundbreaking startup that redefines how physicians navigate financial challenges. For more insightful discussions, be sure to follow him on Twitter (@TPP_MD) and check out his book, and visit Attend's website for valuable resources and support. Join me as I explore the intersection of medicine and finance and discover practical solutions for physicians seeking a better quality of life.Again, if you’ve been forwarded this email and are just getting this for the first time— thanks for reading! I publish podcasts monthly and I’d love for you to subscribe usi

Welcome back to Common Sense Medicine! For the post, skip down ~2 scrollsLong time, no see, you say. Well, that’s true. I’ve been busy and not-so-busy these past few years, and the long overdue post about “where have you been, Shree?” is coming—I promise. But first, a reflection. Since 2018, when I started this show, the world of healthcare, and my own perspective about it, has changed tremendously. However, there is one constant: talking to people who are “in the weeds” (to borrow a corporate phrase) of the work is the best way to get up to speed in the space. There is so much happening in the world of healthcare like Generative AI, electronic health records, and biotech, and I want to write more about all of it. As I’m in a more “chill” part of medical school, I’ve been taking the time to talk to founders of interesting HealthTech startups to build a framework about where the industry is headed.When can I expect more posts?, you say. First of all, I’m not sure anyone is asking for more emails in their mailb

Dr. Sutterer is a 4th year physical medicine and rehabilitation resident physician and will begin a sports medicine fellowship this summer. He is also a YouTuber with nearly 450,000 subscribers on his channel where he provides educational videos about sports medicine and injury analysis. You’ll want to listen if you’d like to hear about his experience starting a YouTube channel focused on sports medicine, his opinion on performance enhancing drugs and how physicians should think about them, and how he makes his videos while also being a full time resident physician of physical medicine and rehabilitation. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.shreenadkarni.com

Today, I’m interviewing Brett and Jared Dashevsky. They’re brothers, and a dynamic duo who run a media company called Healthcare Huddle. If that’s not enough for you, Brett is also a project manager at Capital One, and Jared has a Masters in Healthcare Systems Engineering and is a current medical school student. Jared used his foundations in healthcare innovation to build his weekly newsletter which he runs with Brett and his medical school classmate, Harrison Kaplan. Since its inception in 2019, Healthcare Huddle has grown it's audience to around 15,000 health professionals and students. I’m excited to have them on because, well, I am one of those 15,000 readers. It’s important to stay informed about healthcare and they do it with bite sized pieces that you can read in 5 minutes. Even in medical school, I am able to keep in front of the news cycle about the COVID-19 updates because Brett, Jared, Harrison, and the whole team at Healthcare Huddle has me covered. If you want to learn more go to shreenadkarni.co

Dr. Patel is on faculty at the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care innovation and the Center for Health Incentives and behavioral economics, and a Staff Physician at the Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia, and a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. His research focuses on combining insights from behavioral economics with scalable technology platforms to improve health and health care. He has led more than 25 clinical trials in partnership with health systems, insurers, employers, and community organizations that tested ways to design nudges, incentives, and gamification to change clinician and patient behavior. This work includes digital health interventions using wearable devices and smartphones, and health system interventions using the electronic health record. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.shreenadkarni.com

Today's podcast is with Shailin Thomas (@shailinthomas), who is a fifth-year student (and third year medical student) in a joint MD/JD program between Harvard Law School and the New York University School of Medicine. He received his B.S. from Yale University where he stuied cognitive neuroscience—exploring the anatomy and hysiology behind social phenomena. His interests lie at the intersection of clinical medicine and the legal forces that shape it. Prior to graduate school, Shailin worked on both the administrative and clinical sides of health care, and as a research associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. While in graduate school, he has served as a Student Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, and as an Admissions Ambassador with the NYU School of Medicine Office of Admissions — helping to recruit the next generation of physician leaders. His writing has been published in a number of outlets, including the Journal o

Today's guest is Dan Munro, who is, in his own words, "not a clinician or an economist," but he is interested in how healthcare is broken in the United States and how technology innovation and policy can solve that. He first started writing about healthcare starting as a Forbes Contributor in 2011, and Dan has since appeared in a wide range of publications. We talked about his first book, called Casino Healthcare, and many other topics. We talk about 1:48 - His background as an system engineer, and how that helped him get into healthcare and how it operates from a software engineering perspective 9:08 - How the AMA meets behind closed doors in order to price healthcare via CMS 13:09 - How uncompensated care can lead to higher premium rates, and tiered care (case study: Hahnemann shut down) 23:59 - Why he thinks that medical Education should be free from a systems level perspective 28:03 - Why healthcare can never be a consumer product like in other parts of our life 34:27 - Telemedicine and the advent of tel

Peter A. Ubel M.D. is the Madge and Dennis T. McLawhorn University Professor of Business, Public Policy and Medicine at Duke University. A physician and a behavioral scientist, he uses the tools of decision psychology and behavioral economics to explore topics like informed consent, shared decision making and health care cost containment.  He has authored over 300 academic publications, the majority of which involve empirical explorations of decision psychology as it pertains to health care. He has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and is a regular contributor at Forbes. His books include Pricing Life (MIT Press 2000), Free Market Madness (Harvard Business Press, 2009) and Critical Decisions (HarperCollins, 2012). His newest book, Sick to Debt, is scheduled for release in 2019 (Yale University Press). You can find his blogs and other information at http://www.peterubel.com/.  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers o

Professor Forman is a Professor of Diagnostic Radiology (and faculty director for Finance),  Public Health (Health Policy), Economics and Management.  Professor Forman directs the Health Care management program in the Yale School of Public Health and teaches healthcare economics in the Yale College Economics Department. He is the faculty founder and director of the MD/MBA program as well as the faculty director of the healthcare focus area in the School of Management’s MBA for Executives program. As a practicing emergency/trauma radiologist, he is actively involved in patient care and issues related to financial administration, healthcare compliance, and contracting. His research has been focused on improving imaging services delivery through better access to information. He has worked as a health policy fellow in the U.S. Senate, on Medicare legislation. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.shreenadkarni.com

Dr. Kumar is is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Interventional Radiology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.  He completed his fellowship training in Vascular and Interventional Radiology  at the Mount Sinai system in NYC. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Interventional Radiology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. He mentors many residents and students interested in IRHis treats a wide spectrum of diseases using minimally invasive procedures include Peripheral Arterial Disease, venous disease, dialysis , women’s health/Uterine Fibroid Embolization, Liver cancer. He grew up in Houston, Texas and moved to New York City for residency after medical school. He has lived in NYC for 10 years. In his free time he enjoys trying new restaurants in the city, sports, traveling.  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.shreenadkarni.com

Dr. Balentine received his undergraduate degree from McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. He attended medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine graduating in 1983. He completed his internship at St. Joseph's Hospital in Philadelphia and his Emergency Medicine residency at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in the Bronx, where he served as chief resident. In 1992 Dr. Balentine started practicing Emergency Medicine at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx where he served as Residency Director and Department Co-Director. Dr. Balentine served as Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of St. Barnabas Hospital and Healthcare System in the Bronx until 2014. He is Past-President of the New York Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians and Vice Chair of the New York State Board of Medicine. He has authored and edited many web and textbook chapters and was the founding medical editor of newyorkmedicaljournal.org. Dr. Balentine is currently Dean, College of Os

Kevin is currently a postdoctoral associate the laboratory of David D. Moore, PhD, focusing on the role of lipids and one carbon metabolism-related nutrients on nuclear receptor signaling with broad relevance to both physiological and pathophysiological states. Kevin additionally is a primary collaborator for NCT03194659, a randomized, controlled trial of choline supplementation during pregnancy. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.shreenadkarni.com

We are four medical students attending the University of Utah School of Medicine. We love Anki but found it very difficult to use at first. We originally made a few videos to help our classmates and eventually decided to keep making tutorials so we could share with all Anki users worldwide. The four of us are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and believe that serving others is what brings true happiness. We hope you enjoy everything we have put together for you! My name is Tyson Burnham. I'm a second-year medical student at the University of Utah. I am originally from Arizona but have lived in Utah for the better part of 8 years. I did my undergraduate studies in neuroscience at Brigham Young University. During my studies at BYU, I took 2 years off of school to serve a mission in Argentina for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I come from a family of physicians and have known since childhood I wanted to be a doctor. After medical school, I plan on pursuing a residency i

Dara Kass, MD is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, where she also serves as the director of Equity and Inclusion for the Emergency Department. After completing her residency at SUNY Downstate Medical School and Kings County Hospital, she served as faculty of Staten Island University Hospital, where she facilitated the start of their EM residency program. She previously served as the director of undergraduate medical education at NYU. As director, she introduced longitudinal career advising, innovative educational modalities, and numerous clinical experiences. She is the founder of FemInEM, an organization dedicated to the achievement of gender equity in emergency medicine. FemInEM serves as an open access resource for women in EM, a community focused on career development, physician support, and seeing women in medicine thrive. What began as a blog is now a movement, a multi-faceted community comprised women in medicine all over the world.  This is a public ep

Varun and Shree sit down to talk about some viewer questions that we got from Instagram and Twitter @csmedicine. We also talk about mini-medical interviews, research for high school students, and how to write a good personal statement. If you're interested in more topics like these, definitely leave a comment about what you want to hear about next! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.shreenadkarni.com

Dr. Gopal Desai is a resident physician at the NYU School of Medicine specializing in Anesthesiology.   This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.shreenadkarni.com

Varun and Shree talk about Biases against IMGs in Residency, Activism in Medicine, and why we need more rural doctors in the US. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.shreenadkarni.com

Tricia Rae Pendergrast is a medical student at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine and is interested in Pediatric intensive care and critical care medicine. She joins me to talk about medical school, and how we can dismantle barriers in medicine for people who identify as LGBTQ+. You can find her @traependergrast This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.shreenadkarni.com