Episodes

March 4, 2021

VAX ON: Matt & Elura Got Vaxxed, COVID Passports, and Marching Band Pods

In this episode of VAXON, Matthew Zachary and Elura Nanos debrief after receiving their second COVID-19 vaccine. They also discuss the CDC’s updated protocol for those who are vaccinated, how airlines are planning to help vaccinated passengers cross borders with ease, and how one intrepid high scho…
March 3, 2021

The #BCSM Podcast, EP2: Community of Communities

In this crossover episode, we meet breast cancer advocates and users of #BCSM, Liza Bernstein, Anne Marie Mercurio, Christine Hodgdon, and Julia Maues. We find out how they got involved in #BCSM and how they utilized the hashtag to further their advocacy. If you like this series, be sure to subscri…
March 2, 2021

The Art of Survivorship: David M. Bailey and Dr. Adam Dachman

This episode of Out of Patients features a new segment called The Art of Survivorship (AOS). Today, Matthew takes a trip down memory lane to highlight and recognize two fellow musicians affected by cancer. Prepare to be inspired by Dr. Adam Dachman and the late David M. Bailey in this special episo…
March 1, 2021

The #BCSM Podcast, EP1: Origin Story

Welcome back to Out of Patients! For months here at OffScrip Media, we’ve been working with breast cancer patient advocate Alicia Staley on a narrative series about how breast cancer patients dared to be the change they wished to see, saw an opportunity to fill a need, and created the Breast Cancer…
Feb. 25, 2021

VAX ON: Snowpocalypse, Fake Grannies, and Opening Schools Someday?

In this first-ever episode of VAXON, Matthew Zachary and Elura Nanos discuss a very inconvenient snowpocalypse, fake grandmas, Biden’s goal to open K-8 schools, and more! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Feb. 23, 2021

Don't Start A Charity: An Cautionary Origin Story

Elizabeth Woolfe is a veteran nonprofit consultant and unmatched sherpa guide in the business, management, and organizational culture of charity. Full disclosure: Liz also one of my best friends in the world and saved my ass more than a few times serving as strategic counsel to Stupid Cancer during…
Feb. 18, 2021

VAX ON: A New Weekly Roundup of Healthcare News Fuckery

Award-winning hosts and patient advocates Matthew Zachary and Elura Nanos react to the great vaccine rollout of 2021. They’ll sort through the week’s healthcare news and related fuckery as America gets its vax on and shows #COVID19 the door. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Cali…
Feb. 17, 2021

[BONUS] "Jen Horonjeff is Noncompliant" The Clinical Trial Quid-Pro-Quo

On this bonus episode of "Jen Horonjeff is Noncompliant," Jen brings to Matthew Zachary's attention the idea that patients who enroll in clinical trials should more than benefit from the therapeutic aspects of treatment. After all, aren't they essentially helping a private sector on their go-to-mar…
Feb. 16, 2021

Dr. Mark Lewis Is the Twitter We're Looking For

Dr. Mark Lewis is the Director of GI Oncology at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City. He is also a young adult survivor of pancreatic cancer, a thought leader on #MEDTwitter, and one of the funniest and down-to-earth physicians you’re likely to meet. Motivated by losing his father to cancer,…
Feb. 11, 2021

Biomarkers: Where Are All the Patents At?

On the show today, Bio Entrepreneur Marty Keiser, Founder of IV BioHoldings, LiquidLung, HepGene, and Mammogen. What is a biomarker? Hint - it's not inside a box of Crayola. Biomarkers are aspects of our genes that do so much more than determine our height, eye color, and predisposition to cancer. …
Feb. 9, 2021

The Alliance for Health Policy: Don't Mess With Us

On the show today: President and CEO of the Alliance for Health Policy, Sarah Dash. AHP —or “The Alliance” — is a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to informing policymakers on critical health policy issues. I know it sounds wonky but it’s actually awesome because they are the good kind of “how the s…
Feb. 4, 2021

CDC I Told You So: Debunking Stuff with Dr. Lisa Richardson

HUGE show today with Dr. Lisa Richardson, Division Director, Cancer Prevention and Control at the CDC. As the first guest I've ever had on the show with a BS in Zoology, Lisa is the real deal. She's down to earth, speaks "person" and "science" simultaneously, and has been a 25+-year first-hand witn…
Feb. 2, 2021

The Cancer Support Community: A 101 with Linda Bohannon

Today on the show, I welcome Linda Bohannon, President of The Cancer Support Community, the largest nonprofit provider of social and emotional support for anyone touched by cancer. An oncology nurse by trade, Linda and I go back to a time long before Stupid Cancer. In the mid-2000s, she was running…
Jan. 28, 2021

In Memoriam: Remembering Annie Goodman

I've got a treat for you today because my buddy Steve Goodman here with live in-studio. He is sitting about nine feet away, chomping at the bit to chat about all the shared things we find aggrieved, inane, downright agitating, and yet possibly hopeful. The man's a mensch, first and foremost. He's a…
Jan. 26, 2021

A Brief History of Young Adult Cancer Psychotherapy

On the show today, the legendary Julie Larson, speaker, educator, psychotherapist, and luminary, legacy young adult cancer advocate. As one of the few people who have been consistently working in the same career profession they went to school for, Julie may consider herself a midwestern gal transpl…
Jan. 21, 2021

Stupid Endometriosis With Melissa Boudreau, Host of "the Cycle"

Across the years running Stupid Cancer, I can’t tell you how many times I was approached by other young adult chronic disease patients and communities asking if we’d ever think of franchising the brand. You know – Stupid Lupis. Stupid Fibro. Stupid MS. Stupid Type 1. You get the point. We all need …
Jan. 19, 2021

We're Not Worthy: The One and Only Dr. Julia Rowland

Just when I thought I was the only 20-something with cancer adrift in the 1990s with nary a support group or a cancer buddy, along came an intro to my friend and mentor, Dr. Julia Rowland. Widely recognized as an international scholar and foremost leader in the psychosocial aspects of cancer care b…
Jan. 14, 2021

Healthcare Optimism and the Marvelous Mrs. Halle Tecco

On the show today, another epic DeLorean throwback to the past episode with Halle Tecco, an origin story convened during the heyday of LIVESTRONG and born of a shared desire to make cancer suck less. Aside from being one of the most ambitious, talented, relentless, and startup junkie-ist(?) actual …
Jan. 12, 2021

Stupid Brain Cancer With Cancer Nerd and Google Scholar Liz Salmi

I’ve never said the words “Cancer Nerd and Google Scholar” in succession before, but that only partially describes the epicness of my guest today, one Liz Salmi — self-proclaimed “Citizen Scientist” and “Professional Medical Nerd.” — and I attest that both of these are appropriate, accurate and des…
Jan. 7, 2021

Cycle of Lives: Grief, Loss, Redemption, Opportunity, and Advocacy

“What do you do with the mad that you feel?” — One of the more definitive quotes from the definitive Mr. Rogers. For my guest today, David Richman, the choice he made after losing his sister to cancer was to turn pain into passion, lace-up, and in true Forrest Gump fashion, JUST START RUNNING. 85 m…
Jan. 5, 2021

"The System" – What Is It Good for? Absolutely Something, Maybe?

On the show today, Alan Balch, CEO at the Patient Advocate Foundation and the National Patient Advocate Foundation. After we reconcile that Alan is one of the few people actually doing what they studied in college, and without triggering his inner political economist, we talk about the fundamental …
Dec. 29, 2020

The One With Advocate Luminary Gwen Darien

On the show today, a luminary in the annals of cancer advocacy, the one, and only Gwen Darien. While she may be the EVP for Patient Advocacy at the National Patient Advocate Foundation and the Patient Advocate Foundation, her story runs so much deeper; 30 years into the past actually where a young,…
Dec. 22, 2020

A "So-Called" Normal Life: Erin Zammett Ruddy's Little Book of Life Skills

On the show today, I welcome one of my advocate heroes, Erin Zammett-Ruddy, a young adult cancer survivor I met during the LIVESTRONG days in the early 2000s. She may have barely crossed the 5-year survivor finish line (that’s what we called it back then), but she was — and still is — a force to be…
Dec. 17, 2020

FemTech, Dad Bods, and the Mental Health of Aging Well

On the show today, I welcome two very inspirational guests. Fard Johnmar is a digital health innovator I met in 2005 before “The Internet” was a thing. He was ahead of his time then, and he’s ahead of his time 15 years later. And Denise Pines is truly a force to be reckoned with. Here come lots of …