INTERVIEWS

Minaa B., a licensed mental health professional discusses her new book “Owning Our Struggles” an important book advocating for mental health inclusivity. She talks about how community-care is as important as self-care, cultural healing practices, building healthy relationships, holding yourself accountable, and healing parent-child relationships.

Returning guest, Allison London Brown, CEO of LUMINELLE discusses LUMINELLE SUSTAINE endoscopic system and the recently FDA-cleared LUMINELLE Bx (Biopsy) RotoSheath of which she is a co-inventor. She talks about the uptick in the number of women diagnosed with uterine cancers due to the pandemic lockdown and certain procedures being considered elective. She shares her thoughts on the need for uterine screening in addition to mammograms and the disparity when it comes to women’s health.

Dr. Matthew Old, MD, Director of the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at The James, Ohio State University, Comprehensive Cancer Center discusses HPV-related cancer, cancer treatment/detection, and why vaccination is important for older adults.

Dr. Jeremy Abramson, Director of the Lymphoma Program and the Jon and Jo Ann Hagler Chair in Lymphoma at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and principal investigator of the study discusses the updated efficacy and safety data results for Seagen’s ADCETRIS ® (brentuximab vedotin) in combination with an immunotherapy-containing regimen. These data were presented at the 17th International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma (ICML).

Rae Jimenez, Chief Product Officer at AAPC discusses medical coding and why it’s important for patients to know “what’s the code” prior to getting a surgery or procedure and how nurses and doctors can better advise their patients. Medical coding has also become a great career for many people allowing some to work from home.

KimberLee Heidmann, Executive Vice President of Patient Experience and Customer Success at Scout Clinical, part of the Meeting Protocol Worldwide family, discusses Scout Clinical’s mission to help patients stay enrolled in clinical trials. On average, clinical trial participants must travel over 60 miles one way to visit clinical trial sites, contributing to just over half of all trials being terminated due to insufficient patient enrollment and retention.

Returning guest, Sylvie Beljanski, Founder and Executive Vice President of the Beljanski Foundation and a renowned expert in the field of natural approaches to cancer, discusses the foundation’s latest research project on breast cancer stem cells. To learn more visit https://integrativecancerconference.com/

Drs. Silvia Morris, MD, Diane Boykin, MD, and Angela Walker, MD, discuss their new book “The Game Plan: A Woman’s Guide to Becoming a Doctor and Living a Life in Medicine.” They talk about medical career pathways, why more female doctors are needed in the profession, and share about their own careers.

Dr. David Neubauer, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins Medicine discusses the current landscape of insomnia treatments and the petition for the DEA to de-schedule the Dual Orexin Receptor Antagonists (DORAs) class of insomnia medications which offer an entirely different approach to treating insomnia and meets an unmet need for longer-term use with little risk of dependence.

Mei Mei Hu, CEO of Vaxxinity, discusses the company’s approach to targeting a wide variety of chronic diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, migraine, and hypercholesterolemia, as well as their COVID-19 booster vaccine. Vaxxinity aims to utilize its unique synthetic peptide platform technology to bring the convenience, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of vaccines to the treatment and prevention of chronic diseases — making critical medicines available to all. For more information on Vaxxinity visit https://vaxxinity.com.