Episodes

Nov. 14, 2023

ADHD, Dyslexia, and The Frontier Psychiatrist Dr. Owen Muir

Dr. Owen Muir is an Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families-trained psychiatrist and official Mentalizing Treatment Supervisor. He is the coauthor of Adolescent Suicide and Self Injury: Mentalizing Theory and Treatment, a dual board-certified physician, with ABPN certification in gener…
Nov. 7, 2023

Melissa Berry is "The Cancer Fashionista"

Melissa Berry, aka The Cancer Fashionista, is a Stage 1 Triple Negative Breast Cancer. She is now the founder of Cancer Fashionista (a fashion, beauty, and lifestyle platform for the breast cancer community), the host of the "Dear Cancer, I'm Beautiful" podcast, and the board chair for the Triple N…
Oct. 31, 2023

Why I Wore Lipstick To My Mastectomy

In today's episode, Matthew welcomes one of his nearest and dearest friends, Geralyn Lucas, whom he met in the earliest days of the nascent adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer movement circa 2004. Geralyn, a storied American journalist and television producer, had only recently survived breast …
Oct. 24, 2023

Revisiting The Cancer Mavericks: A History of Survivorship

In 2021, OffScrip Health produced The Cancer Mavericks: A History of Survivorship, an award-winning 8-part limited documentary series about the people and not the disease. So, if you're a narrative history podcast junkie, listen to Episode One of The Cancer Mavericks right here on the Out of Pa…
Oct. 17, 2023

The Cancer Coaster: The Ups & Downs of CLL

We are hijacking today's episode of Out of Patients to bring you the pilot episode of "Cancer Coaster," a fresh new series from OffScrip Health focused on the many ups and downs of the emotional journey cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers face. For this particular pilot, we're focusing speci…
Oct. 10, 2023

Sepsis Is Some Crazy Shit For Serious

The SUNY Binghamton alumni network is rife with incredible humans who are changing the world one day at a time. On the show today, I'm proud to welcome Tom Heymann, President and CEO at Sepsis Alliance, the nation's leading infection prevention and Sepsis education and advocacy organization. Wh…
Oct. 3, 2023

Can You Hire Me Now? (America's Rural Health Staffing Crisis)

Sometimes LinkedIn DMs come in handy, as this is the case with Dr. Paul Toomey. A cold outreach became a spot on the show when this Board-certified surgical oncologist — and biomedical engineer by trade — began to share his remarkable story with me. Paul is the CEO of Ring of Hires, which claims to…
Sept. 26, 2023

Who remembers i[2]y? Leah Shearer does!

Prepare the Wayback Machine for today's chat with Leah Shearer, who, for all intents and purposes, was one of the first ten volunteers from 2007 who contributed to the birth of Stupid Cancer and the greater young adult cancer movement. The "girl so nice she got cancer twice" Leah—a native of Ro…
Sept. 19, 2023

Pharma Marketing is mid with "Black Wellness Marketer" Erica Hawthorne

Erica Hawthorne identifies as a "People-Focused Marketer," has won several industry awards in digital media strategy as a badass "Black Wellness Marketer." I recently heard her speak at a Pharma conference, and she blew the doors of the place, stunning the audience with her no-BS perspective and fo…
Sept. 12, 2023

Koby and Hannah's Summer Vacation

Kicking off Season 8 of Out of Patients, in today's special "Back To School" episode, I'm joined live in-studio once again by my fabulous twins, Koby and Hannah. "Kids say the darndest things" ain't got nothing on this amazing conversation about how we spent our summer vacation, what it means to tu…
Sept. 5, 2023

[BEST OF] Fight Cancer! with The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (EP280 Rebroadcast)

Today's episode is made possible in part by The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACSCAN), the nation's leading cancer advocacy organization working daily to make cancer issues a national priority.  Today I am joined live in-studio by Pam Traxel (ACSCAN Senior Vice President for Al…
Aug. 31, 2023

[BONUS] Episode 2: ASCO 2023 We The Patients: Julia, Myelofibrosis Patient Advocate

I sat down with this certified health educator named Julia who, after a storied career in that discipline, found herself in the patient's chair instead.
Aug. 31, 2023

[BONUS] Episode 1: ASCO 2023 We The Patients: Dr Tania Small

My guest for this episode is Dr. Tania Small, a returning champion to Out of Patients. She is a pediatric oncologist by trade who crossed over to drug development so she could scale the medicines that could help more children than she ever could in practice.
Aug. 29, 2023

[BEST OF] Lithium: Not Just For Batteries (EP291 Rebroadcast)

Dr. Sudhir Gadh is a board-certified psychiatrist and Commander in the US Navy Reserve. He is also Medical Director for the Center for Recovery and Wellness, with a core focus on low-dose Lithium, as a comprehensive approach for patients to improve brain function. Joining Matthew live in-studio, th…
Aug. 22, 2023

[BEST OF] Musical Theater Nerd Patient Advocates Unite: Jennifer "Jay" Palumbo (EP273 Rebroadcast)

On today's quirky show, I welcome Jen Palumbo, an epic human Energizer Bunny who takes a licking and keeps on ticking. Jen is a freelance writer, Forbes contributor, and women's health advocate, specifically for reproductive rights. In a spirited coincidence, it turns out we both went to the same c…
Aug. 15, 2023

[BEST OF] Robots In My Head: Deep Brain Stimulation (EP298 Rerun)

Mental health is an umbrella term that spans a spectrum of severity. But when it comes to treatment-resistant major depressive disorder, it's a whole other ball game. A former healthcare communications executive, Jon Nelson is a living, breathing example of hope and progress in the mental health ec…
Aug. 8, 2023

[BEST OF] A Rural Health Reality Check (EP284 Rebroadcast)

Gabe Charbonneau is a rural health Family Physician, Co-Founder of Medicine Forward, and progenitor of the viral #FightBurnout movement sweeping the country. Among the many critical issues discussed, Gabe highlights the decline in quality care against the backdrop of unrealistic demands of payers a…
Aug. 1, 2023

[BEST OF] White House Cancer Moonshot Coordinator Danielle Carnival, Ph.D. (EP268 Rebroadcast)

I was privileged to welcome Dr. Danielle Carnival, White House Cancer Moonshot Coordinator, to the studio. We talked about the President's priorities, principal directives, and legislative strategies, as well as what Americans can look forward to in the coming months and years through this ambitiou…
July 25, 2023

There Is No Elevator to Healing. We All Have to Take the Stairs.

Today's episode is a case study in the showcasing of genuine humanity. So we're going to rural Alabama to talk with a gentleman named Kermit Farmer, a genuine renaissance man of many disciplines. Kermit lost his wife Linda, an oncologist, to cancer after 19 years of marriage. He is doing extraordin…
July 18, 2023

The Animal-Loving Venture Capital Whisperer: Deanna Dammers

The world of investing, investor culture, startup culture, Series-B rounds, and cap tables are foreign concepts to many people, especially me. And to further reinforce my "fish out of water" status in this particular sector of the life sciences industry, I doubled down by welcoming Deanna Dammers t…
July 11, 2023

Help me PharmD, You're My Only Hope

Today's modern-day pharmacist faces very different challenges, especially given America's rural health crisis. Everything from access and resourcing to burnout and pricing, patients are more dependent than ever on the relatio...
July 6, 2023

I Got A Book Deal!

I am privileged to have lived an unordinary life. No one asks to get sick, yet here we are, drafted into a life born of our condition, fueled by the right amount of rage and disappointment, and motivated to do our best to plug the holes in the dam that we can. From fixing Macs in the 1990s at O…
June 27, 2023

When the GenX History Major Becomes a Certified Dietitian Nutritionist

Vanessa M. Rissetto, MS, RD, CDN, goes toe-to-toe with Matthew Zachary in a quick-witted battle of wry sarcasm, dark comedy, and GenX nostalgia in this throwback episode about life before the Internet when food, in general, was less horrible and how a BA in History transformed her into a Certified …
June 20, 2023

In The Bubble with Andy Slavitt: From CMS to Accidental Podcast Hero

[FANBOY ALERT] For most healthcare geeks, Andy Slavitt may be best known as the Former Acting Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). For millions more, he is the podcast hero we didn't know we needed and the one we so clearly deserved as the host of Lemonada Media's…