Miruna Sasu: Decoding the Data with COTA

Meg welcomes Miruna Sasu, President and CEO of COTA, an RWE service founded by doctors, engineers, and data scientists to create clarity from fragmented and often inaccessible real-world data to provide a comprehensive picture of cancer that can be used to advance carepaths and research.Meg and Miruna discuss utilizing patient-generated data, difficulties with EMR, the drug development and clinical trial processes, as well as ethical considerations and patient burden. Miruna reflects on her own personal experience with cancer diagnoses for both of her primary caregivers: her grandparents. She also shares her mentorship experience and provides advice to get involved and take control of your care as a patient.Further Reading:Antimicrobial Nectar Inhibits a Florally Transmitted Pathogen of a Wild Cucurbita PepoFloral Transmission of Erwinia tracheiphila by cucumber beetles in a wild Cucurbita pepoIndirect costs of a nontarget pathogen mitigate the direct benefits of a virus-resistant transgene in wild CucurbitaCOTA and Google Partner to Use Natural Language Processing to Harness Unstructured Datahttps://cotahealthcare.com/blog/Episode Credits: The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company. Hosted by Meg Escobosa. Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, Medina Sabic, and Wendy Nielsen.Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty. All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty. ©2023 The Krinsky Company