Michelle Andrews built a career inside the pharma machine long before anyone knew what “DTC” meant. She helped launch Rituxan and watched Allegra commercials teach America how to ask for pills by name. Then she landed in the cancer fun house herself, stage 4 breast cancer, and learned exactly how…
Dr. Anne Marie Morse walks into the studio like a one-woman Jersey Broadway show and leaves behind the best damn TED Talk you’ve never heard. She’s a neurologist, sleep medicine doc, narcolepsy expert, founder of D.A.M.M. Good Sleep, and full-time myth buster in a white coat. We talk about why…
Gigi Robinson grew up with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a disease that turns your joints into overcooked spaghetti. Instead of letting it sideline her, she built a career out of telling the truth about invisible illness. We talk about what it takes to grow up faster than you should, why chronic illness…
Episode Description: If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a Bronx-born pediatric nurse with stage 4 colon cancer survives, raises a kid, becomes a policy shark, and fights like hell for the ignored, meet Vanessa Ghigliotty. She’s not inspirational. She’s a bulldozer. We go way back—like pre-Stupid Cancer back—when there…
Risa Arin doesn’t just talk about health literacy. She built the damn platform. As founder and CEO of XpertPatient.com (yes, expert with no E), Risa’s taking a wrecking ball to how cancer education is delivered. A Cornell alum, cancer caregiver, and ex-agency insider who once sold Doritos to teens, she…
Dr. Jamie Wells is back—and this time, she brought a book. We cover everything from biomedical design screwups to the glorified billing software known as the EHR. Jamie's new book, A Clinical Lens on Pediatric Engineering, is a masterclass in what happens when you stop treating kids like small, drunk…
Erica Campbell walked away from corporate life, took a hard left from the British Embassy, and found her calling writing checks for families nobody else sees. As Executive Director of Pinky Swear Foundation, she doesn’t waste time on fluff. Her team pays rent, fills gas tanks, and gives sick kids'…
Allyson with a Y. Ocean with two Ls. And zero chill when it comes to changing the face of cancer care. Dr. Allyson Ocean has been quietly—loudly—at the center of every major cancer breakthrough, nonprofit board, and science-backed gut punch you didn’t know you needed to hear. In this episode,…
![[BONUS] No One Told Me: COVID and Cancer](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3pjkGlnm3Ng/maxresdefault.jpg "[BONUS] No One Told Me: COVID and Cancer")
Sponsored by Invivyd, Inc. Nobody wants to hear about COVID-19 anymore. Especially not cancer patients. But if you’ve got a suppressed immune system thanks to chemo, radiation, stem cell transplants—or any of the other alphabet soup in your chart—then no, it’s not over. It never was. While everyone else is…
EPISODE DESCRIPTION Lisa Shufro is the storyteller’s storyteller. A musician turned innovation strategist, TEDMed curator, and unapologetic truth-teller, Lisa doesn’t just craft narratives—she engineers constellations out of chaos. We go way back to the early TEDMed days, where she taught doctors, scientists, and technocrats how not to bore an audience…
What happens when you blend the soul of Mr. Rogers, the boldness of RuPaul, and just a pinch of Carrie Bradshaw? You get Sally Wolf. She’s a Harvard and Stanford powerhouse who ditched corporate media to help people actually flourish at work and in life—because cancer kicked her ass and…
Episode Description Audra Moran is the President and CEO of OCRA—Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance—which means she spends her days doing things most of us wouldn’t survive five minutes doing: merging nonprofits, leading national patient support programs, funding lifesaving research, surviving pharma grant hell, and trying to reach every woman in…
Christine Verini is a pharmacist by training, a nonprofit CEO by title, and an unapologetic empath by design. She now leads CancerCare, one of the oldest, least-known, and most impactful organizations in the country that actually helps real cancer patients deal with the practical garbage no one likes to talk…
Jennifer Finkelstein is not here for your pity, your pinkwashed slogans, or your performative awareness campaigns. She’s a 20-year young adult breast cancer survivor who turned trauma into a blueprint for action and built 5 Under 40, a no-BS nonprofit supporting women diagnosed with breast cancer under 40. In this…
What happens when a black belt, sword-slinging fitness icon gets cancer—twice? She picks up a camera and dares the universe to test her again. Ilaria Montagnani is not your average anything. She’s been building strong bodies (and stronger minds) for over 30 years as the founder of Powerstrike (https://powerstrike.com/ilaria) .…
Dr. David Fajgenbaum (https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidfajgenbaum/) is many things, but for the purposes of this episode, let's just say he went from an all-star college athlete to being read his last rites in a matter of weeks. In addition to his tenure as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UPenn's Perelman School…
Elura and Matthew are joined by PrEP advocate and Tub Talks (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHxrku7LAqIe6S5pmFqYR8ZrTWDCEZ6G5) host Damon Jacobs, LMFT (https://twitter.com/DamonLJacobs) to give a monkeypox update and discuss two stories relating to the Affordable Care Act. Damon also tells his own story of trying to access the monkeypox vaccine in New York earlier this…
Today on the show, I welcome Vikram Bhaskaran, (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikrambhaskaran/) and Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohan-ramakrishna-md-5a0444a6/) (Chief of Neurological Surgery at New York Presbyterian) live in-studio to talk about Roon (https://roon.care/) , their intriguing new cancer navigation platform for patients and caregivers. Roon is personal to Vikram as his whole career shifted…
On the show today, Matthew is joined live in-studio by Larry Reine (https://www.larryreines.com/more-about-me) s, a young adult rare disease advocate and Founding Member of the Aaron Myer Consulting Group. From humble beginnings as a 12-year-old paperboy learning the ropes of supply chain, customer service, and accounting, his life took a…
The amazing Victoria Fenton (https://victoriafenton.net) joins me today from across the pond in England to share one of the greatest British accents I've ever welcomed to the program. Well, that and the fabulous feeling when you know something is wrong with your body, and no medical professional will take you…
![[THROWBACK] Pay the Patients: It's Time to Compen$ate Patients for Their Experience](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fH-FdJopu40/maxresdefault.jpg "[THROWBACK] Pay the Patients: It's Time to Compen$ate Patients for Their Experience")
Today we’re dropping a very special throwback to an early episode of Out of Patients. Too 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…
Elura Nanos and Matthew Zachary discuss Ryan Reynolds and his colonoscopy campaign, how J&J is dodging cancer patients through the Texas-two-step and why healthcare workers are striking around the country. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
![[BONUS] Dear Cancer: What Is Biomarker Testing?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R0aeX4tZ1rg/maxresdefault.jpg "[BONUS] Dear Cancer: What Is Biomarker Testing?")
Welcome to "Dear Cancer," a takeover episode of Out of Patients with special guest hosts Dr. Mark Lewis, (https://intermountainhealthcare.org/find-a-doctor/l/lewis-mark-a/) an oncologist from Intermountain Medical Center, and Stephanie Elsea (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanieelsea/) , a volunteer patient advocate from The Lustgarten Foundation. (https://lustgarten.org) Together with Matthew Zachary, Mark and Stephanie break down the latest…
Mat The W and Elura Thou Nanos talk about celebrity musician forays into mental health advocacy, doctors doing really bad things and recent SCOTUS arguments on California's pork regulations. Oink! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
