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Nala Talk
by Nalagenetics
NalaTalk is a weekly series by Nalagenetics focused on discussing pharmacogenomics, genetic testing, and other exciting discoveries and implementation in the clinical genetics field. Every week, we discuss with the experts and contextualize the topics with real-life stories.
Episodes
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NalaTalk S2E3 - Vitamins and Minerals for Young Professionals
For young professionals, consuming coffee in the morning and fast food for lunch, and perhaps other unhealthy snacks to prevent drowsiness is a normal daily diet. Not infrequently, lunch was missed because of the limited time squeezed by various meetings. Not to mention that the office…
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NalaTalk #20: Healthcare from a Functional Medicine Practitioner's Perspective ft. dr. Catherine Tjahjadi
As we herald the New Year 2022, dr. Esther sat down with dr. Catherine Tjahjadi from Triha Clinic in Jakarta. As a practitioner of Functional Medicine, dr. Catherine emphasized the importance of approaching health, not only through pharmacological intervention methods but also through nutrition…
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NalaTalk #19: Exploring Genetics-guided Meal Plan ft. Emilia Achmadi
In this Christmas episode, we spoke to Ms. Emilia Achmadi, a nutritionist from Oklahoma State University, about optimizing our diet based on our genetics. She shared a lot about how different people have varying nutritional needs. Not only that, she also emphasized the importance of assessment,...
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NalaTalk #18: A Brief Introduction to Nutrigenetics
We dove deeper into the topic of nutrition this week where we invited our Nala NutriReady™ Product Manager, Astrid Karunia, back as our guest speaker. In this episode, we explored the differences between pharmacogenomics and nutrigenomics, from how drug molecules interact differently from...
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NalaTalk #17: Revisiting Basic Pharmacogenetics Concepts
With clinical genetics still being a nascent field today, a lot of effort needs to be made by many healthcare practitioners to update their knowledge of the field. In this episode, Fadhli and Esther revisited some fundamental concepts in genetics, particularly its relation to drug action in the...
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NalaTalk #16: Genetics of Gout and its Treatment
Diving deeper into relevant illnesses during the festivities, Fadhli and Esther sat down to discuss gout or hyperuricemia. The condition once dubbed as the "rich man's disease" turned out to have quite a bit of genetic implication, both on the pathophysiology and even on the pharmacogenomics of…
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NalaTalk #15: What's The Deal With Cholesterol?
With incoming big feasts and hampers as we ushered in the holiday season, Esther and Fadhli are back to having conservations around cholesterol and its impact on our health when it's in excess. Statins are widely prescribed by doctors to control cholesterol levels within acceptable limits and...
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NalaTalk #14: Empowering Schizophrenia Treatment Through Genetics ft. Kathleen Irena
Continuing on our discussion about mental health, this week we interviewed Kathleen, Nalagenetics' Clinical Research Associate, about her research effort about the pharmacogenetics effect of Schizophrenia medicine. We talked about this ongoing research in collaboration with Rumah Sakit Cipto...
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NalaTalk #13: Taking Care of Mental Health
Taking care of mental health is so important! With increasing awareness revolving around mental well-being, we decided to discuss the different aspects of psychiatry, and of course its link with genetics. In this episode, Fadhli and Esther sat down and explored in particular the major depressive...
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NalaTalk #12: Managing Stomach Pain
Back with another episode where we talk about common use cases in the community. This week, Esther and Fadhli discussed managing stomach pain caused by gastroesophageal reflux disease known as GERD. Some people take medications to relieve the symptoms of GERD and proton pump inhibitor (PPI) is...
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NalaTalk #11: Period Pain Management
We took this opportunity to discuss a few cases of period pain which impact the majority of women in their lifetime. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are usually the first-line treatment for period pain and are effective. However, a proportion of women do not get much relief from…
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NalaTalk #10: Taking Control of Your Own Health ft. Johanes Wardhojo
In this episode, we spoke to Pak Johanes who benefited from taking genetic tests. Inspired by the idea of precision medicine he shared what made him interested in taking the tests and the variety of genetic tests that are available. He gained new insights about his health and how it can be...
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NalaTalk #9: Primary Care Physician's Journey with Pharmacogenomics ft. dr. Alita Palpialy
We sat down with the founder of Arcadia Clinic Jakarta, dr Alita, to chat about her experience with clinical genetics testing as well as her journey as a young doctor in Papua that started her interest in the field of personalized medicine. dr Alita shared her philosophy in patient care, how she...
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NalaTalk #8: Genetics Testing from a Pharmacy Academician's Perspective ft. Baitha P. Maggadani
Baitha Palanggatan Maggadani, M.Farm., Apt. is an experienced pharmaceutical and bioanalysis lecturer in Universitas Indonesia, that is currently conducting research together with Dr. Samuel Haryono, MRCCC, and Nalagenetics on pharmacogenomics. In this episode, we dove deeply into the perspective...
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NalaTalk #7: A Surgical Oncologist's Take on Implementation of Pharmacogenomics ft. Dr. dr. Samuel J. Haryono, Sp.B (K)Onk
We are honored to be joined by Dr. dr. Samuel J. Haryono, Sp.B (K)Onk, a highly renowned surgical oncologist at Dharmais Cancer Hospital and Siloam MRCCC Hospital. He demonstrated his interest and excitement in implementing pharmacogenomic tests in breast cancer research and kindly shared new...
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NalaTalk #6: Pharmacogenomics Research Landscape in Indonesia
This sixth installment of NalaTalks introduces Nalagenetics' highly experienced clinical research associate and medical doctor, dr Amelia Margareta where she talks about the exciting new and ongoing pharmacogenomics research projects in Indonesia. She discussed the research partnerships…
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NalaTalk #5: De-mystifying Machine Learning in Healthcare ft. Yash Sonthalia
We invited our product data scientist, Yash, to our fifth episode of this series. He spearheaded the Covid Likelihood Meter initiative (www.covidmeter.id) for healthcare workers in inaccessible areas, in collaboration with Center for Indonesia's Strategic Development Initiatives (CISDI).…
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NalaTalk #4: Unlocking Patient Engagement through Apps ft. Pingasari Tandrawijaya
The fourth episode brought Pingasari Tandrawijaya, Nalagenetics' mobile app product manager, to explain the importance of patient engagement in advancing clinical genetics in Indonesia. Ping introduced the Nala Personal Health Manager app with the idea of increasing the accessibility of clinical...
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NalaTalk #3: Building a Genetic Database ft. Astrid Karunia
In this third episode, dr Esther Widjaja sat down with the product manager of Nalagenetics, Astrid Karunia to discuss the rigors of developing a trustworthy clinical database. Astrid K shared the thought process behind building a knowledge base as well as how does one goes about collecting…
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NalaTalk #2: From a Researcher to an Entrepreneur ft. Astrid Irwanto
For the second installment of this series, Fadhli Adesta discussed with Dr Astrid Irwanto, geneticist-turned-entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Nalagenetics to discuss the highs and lows of bringing genetics from bench to bedside. Dr Astrid shared her personal story on how Nalagenetics developed from…
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NalaTalk #1: Leading DNA Testing in Asia ft. Levana Sani
In this first episode, Fadhli Adesta, product lead of Nalagenetics, sits down with CEO and Co-Founder of Nalagenetics, Levana Sani to discuss DNA testing in Asia. The new discovery in genetic test that Levana Sani found when she was a researcher changed her life. To her, genetic testing can be...
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NalaTalk is a weekly series by Nalagenetics focused on discussing pharmacogenomics, genetic testing, and other exciting discoveries and implementation in the clinical genetics field. Every week, we discuss with the experts and contextualize the topics with real-life stories.
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NalaTalk is a weekly series by Nalagenetics focused on discussing pharmacogenomics, genetic testing, and other exciting discoveries and implementation in the clinical genetics field. Every week, we discuss with the experts and contextualize the topics with real-life stories.
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