Episodes

July 7, 2020

Overhead: Dan Pallotta on How Great Nonprofits Actually Work

On today's show, we welcome one of the most influential human beings of my career: Dan Pallotta, champion of charity and the entire nonprofit business sector. Dan's take on how we as a culture think about charity the wrong way planted a bedrock philosophy in my head for how I was going to grow and …
June 30, 2020

Fertility Questions? Alice Crisci Has FertilityAnswers

Alice Crisci is a cancer survivor, entrepreneur and activist. She founded MedAnswers to speed consumer access to specialty medicine. Her company's first app product, FertilityAnswers, is the only social network for fertility. FertilityAnswers connects users struggling to conceive with multi-discip…
June 25, 2020

Sarcoma: Sara's Cure and the Race Against Time, Pt 2

In 2016, Sara Woods was diagnosed with Clear Cell Sarcoma, a very rare form of Sarcoma, which is in itself a rare form of cancer. Today in 2020, Sara is 17 years old. (Part 2 of 2)
June 23, 2020

Sarcoma: Sara's Cure and the Race Against Time, Pt 1

In 2016, Sara Woods was diagnosed with Clear Cell Sarcoma, a very rare form of Sarcoma, which is in itself a rare form of cancer. Today in 2020, Sara is 17 years old.
June 16, 2020

COVID-19 and Corporate Leadership: Bruce Cozadd, CEO of Jazz Pharmaceuticals

On today’s show, you’re going to hear from my friend and colleague Bruce Cozadd, Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Jazz Pharmaceuticals. And NO — this was not a conversation about the glamorous Pharmaceutical Industy and all its unique facets — shall we say — worthy of endless discussion. I wanted to…
June 11, 2020

COVID-19 Explainer: Telehealth vs. Infectious Diseases

Dr. Bob Bollinger is the Raj and Kamla Gupta Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Medicine, and he holds joint appointments in International Health at the Johns Hopkins (JH) Bloomberg School of Public Health, and in Community Public Health at the JH Schoo…
June 9, 2020

The Magic Bullet: Dr. Saralyn Mark on COVID-19, Women's Health, and the Immune System

Dr. Saralyn Mark, first and foremost, is a Leader of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA). She served as the Senior Policy Advisor to the White House Office of Science and Technology during the Obama administration working on the Ebola outbreak in 2014. At the Department of Health and Hu…
June 4, 2020

COVID-19 Explainer: Epidemiologist Dr. Matt Lamb Returns

Matthew Lamb, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor or Epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center. He focuses on infectious disease prevention, treatment, and scale-up. His research focuses on identifying best practices in public health approaches to HIV prevention, service delivery, and treatmen…
June 2, 2020

Stupid Hemophilia: Cancer, Rare Disease, and Steve Guttenberg?

Andrew and I had the pleasure to welcome in-studio Patrick James Lynch, a true renaissance man of many hats who was born of his condition — for a DOUBLE INTERVIEW. If I were to fully divulge all that is Patrick James Lynch, this intro would be longer than the episode.  So in brief, he is one of w…
May 26, 2020

Physician Burnout Explainer: Author Greg Hammer MD on Mindfulness in a Crisis

Dr. Greg Hammer is pediatric intensive care physician, pediatric anesthesiologist and author of the new book “GAIN Without Pain The Happiness Handbook for Health Care Professionals,” which speaks to the philosophies of mindfulness to reduce or mitigate physician burnout — and if there were ever a t…
May 21, 2020

COVID-19 and Lung Cancer: Stigma, Advocacy, and the Latest Research

Matthew and Andrew welcome cancer survivors Nina Beaty, Creator, The EmPat Cancer Project, and Katie Brown, Vice President of Support and Survivorship Programs at The LUNGevity Foundation, to opine on the current status of lung cancer in America and around the world. Issues of stigma, the increasin…
May 19, 2020

This Is Only A Test, Part Two: The Glamorous and Exotic World of Clinical Trials

Peter MacDowell is the Clinical Director of Rochester Dermatologic Surgery and former Co-Director of Clinical Trials Office at the Wilmot Cancer Institute. If that last name sounds familiar, well that’s because Peter is the brother of Andrew MacDowell, my Co-Founder, and COO here at OffScrip Media.…
May 12, 2020

This Is Only A Test, Part One: The Glamorous and Exotic World of Clinical Trials

How does one "Schoolhouse Rock" the interesting world of Clinical Trials? On the show, Matthew and his Co-Founder/COO Andrew MacDowell are joined by Medaptive Health’s co-founders Eric Kroll and Jeremy Block to help break down and de-jargon what exactly is going on in the world of trials, patient a…
May 5, 2020

Relentless: John Tesh on Music, Cancer, Grit, and Faith

Six music Emmys, two Grammy nominations, four gold records, seven Public Television specials and 8 million records sold. After more than three decades as an international entertainer, John Tesh is a living legend. In his new book, "Relentless: Unleashing a Life of Purpose, Grit, and Faith," Tesh de…
May 1, 2020

Dry Mouth Sucks: Matt and Friends Gather to Endorse Moisyn (Sponsored Content)

In this sponsored episode, Matthew sits down with his friends to talk all about the glamorous issue of Xerostomia, otherwise known as "Dry Mouth." This is a problem for millions of Americans, but no one talks about it. Why do...
April 28, 2020

Pay the Patients: It's Time to Compen$ate Patients for Their Experience

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 Industry's bottom line, there...
April 23, 2020

COVID-19 Explainer: Dr. Jean-Luc Neptune Tells His Own Story of Surviving the Virus

Jean-Luc Neptune, MD MBA, or JL as he is known, is a serial entrepreneur and a digital health pioneer. He’s a licensed physician in New York State, founder of Suntra Modern Recovery, serves as Entrepreneur-In-Residence at the Hospital For Special Surgery here in NYC, and if that’s not enough, the m…
April 21, 2020

Resilience: Craig DeLarge on Digital Mental Health in the Era of COVID-19

Craig DeLarge is a Digital Health Strategist and Educator at the Digital Mental Health Project , a project aimed at effectively using digital technology in the mental health field, aka MentalTech, to combat mental illness. Hi...
April 16, 2020

The Immunotherapy Series, Part Three: Policy and the FDA

Immunotherapy and Policy. How can the FDA evolve to help advance and support novel approaches to medicine? How does the field of immune-driven diagnostics serve as a case in point for the need for evolution in existing regulatory frameworks? Special guests: Meghan Gutierrez Chief Executive Of…
April 15, 2020

The Immunotherapy Series, Part Two: Beyond Immunotherapy

Beyond Immunotherapy. The present and future of immune-driven medicine; toward an understanding of the immune system as the driver of solutions for treatment, prevention, and diagnosis of disease; identifying and creating responses to specific immune activation pathways. Special guests: Meghan…
April 14, 2020

The Immunotherapy Series, Part One: A Brief History

A Brief History of Immunotherapy. CAR-T, t-cell augmentation, and immunotherapy in general over the past decade. We will talk about why is this approach so compelling, and what its limitations have been to date. Special guests: Meghan Gutierrez Chief Executive Officer Lymphoma Research Fo…
April 1, 2020

Out of Patients: Jen Horonjeff on Giving Patients Ownership in What They Help Create

Jen Horonjeff is a chronic illness patient by birth, a PhD by training, and an entrepreneur by necessity. She was named one of Entrepreneur Magazine's 50 Most Daring Entrepreneurs of 2018 for her work as Founder and CEO of Savvy Cooperative, the first patient-owned public benefit co-op. Rooted in s…
March 30, 2020

Brave New Weed: Joe Dolce on Cannabis and Wellness

Joe Dolce is the host of the Brave New Weed podcast and author of Brave New Weed: Adventures into the Uncharted World of Cannabis, which was hailed by the New York Times as “a loving rethink of all things marijuana …a trusted hitchhiker’s guide to this new universe,” and by Dr. Raphael Mechoulam as…
March 27, 2020

COVID-19 Explainer: An Epidemiologist Looks Ahead

Matthew Lamb, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor or Epidemiology at Columbia University Medical Center. He focuses on infectious disease prevention, treatment, and scale-up. His research focuses on identifying best practices in public health approaches to HIV prevention, service delivery, and treatmen…