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Health & Veritas — 222 episodes

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1

Lee Schwamm: Onboarding AI at the Hospital

2

Wolfram Goessling: Lessons from the Other Side of Cancer

3

Trust, Truth, and Moral Distress

4

Stephen Latham: The End of Irreversibility

5

Deborah Proctor: Help That Endures

6

Selwyn Rogers: Bearing Witness to Violence

7

Arya Singh: Beyond Accessibility

8

Vaccines, Cholesterol, and Other News

9

Kevin Billingsley: The Making of the Modern Surgeon

10

Kevin Sheth: Innovation Toward a Healthier Brain

11

Janet Currie: Investing in Kids

12

Evangelos Oikonomou: Decoding the Hidden Signals of Heart Disease

13

Joel Hirschhorn: How Genes Add Up

14

Measles Outbreaks, Preventative Cardiology, and Other News

15

Robert Wachter: AI Is Already Remaking Healthcare

16

Mary-Ann Etiebet: Confronting Preventable Disease

17

Jonathan Cohn: Health Policy in the Age of MAHA

18

Sara Rosenbaum: Expanding Coverage, One Step at a Time

19

Ania Jastreboff: Treating Obesity Without Shame

20

Julie Rovner: On the Health Policy Beat

21

Ezekiel Emanuel: Ice Cream and Other Keys to a Long Life

22

An Ongoing Conversation about Health and Healthcare

23

Basmah Safdar: Why Women Experience Illness Differently

24

Sudhakar Nuti: Bringing Healthcare to the Unhoused

25

Peter Hotez: Mapping the Anti-Science Machine

26

The Cost Curve, Flu, and Other News

27

Jerry Avorn: Countering the Drug Marketing Machine

28

Ali Rahimi: A Cardiologist in Your Pocket

29

Nate Wood: Cooking Lessons for Better Health

30

Akiko Iwasaki: What Have We Learned About Long COVID?

31

Rajlakshmi Krishnamurthy: Coordinated Care, Better Care

32

Crowded Emergency Rooms and Other News

33

Vanessa Cooper: The Science of Headaches

34

Kate Heilpern: Jumping into the Deep End

35

Barry Wu: The Questions to Ask the Elderly

36

Eric Topol: The Keys to Healthy Aging

37

Science, Politics, and Personality

38

Katelyn Jetelina: A Visit from Your Local Epidemiologist

39

Seth Berkowitz: The Power Problem

40

Azita Emami: Educating Nurse-Leaders

41

America's Healthcare Paradox and Other News

42

Stephen Waxman: Easing the Horrors of Chronic Pain

43

The 'Big Beautiful Bill' and Other News

44

Sarah DeSilvey: Creating Space for Healing

45

Dave Chokshi: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Pandemic

46

Live at the Yale Innovation Summit 2025

47

Rebekah Gee: Improving Health, One Family at a Time

48

James Dodington: Protecting Kids from Gun Violence

49

Thomas Gill: The Secrets to an Active Old Age

50

Joel Bervell: The Healthcare Communicator

51

Afib, AI Agents, and Other News

52

Deepak D'Souza: Perils of Cannabis and Promise of Psychedelics

53

Evan Sussman: Expanding Access to Fertility Drugs

54

Alexi Nazem: Building Healthcare Solutions

55

Ryan Schwarz: Thinking Differently about the Primary Care Crisis

56

Mark McClellan: An Economic Lens on Healthcare

57

Aging in Bursts and Other News

58

Sarah Taylor: The Science of Breastfeeding

59

Michael Dunne: Confronting the Antibiotic Resistance Crisis

60

Paul Lombardo: Reckoning with the Dark History of Eugenics

61

Deborah Rhodes: A Breast-Cancer Screening Breakthrough

62

The AI in the Doctor's Office and Other News

63

Lisa Rosenbaum: Medicine, Well-Being, and Victimhood

64

Susan Mayne: Keeping Food Safe

65

Sachin Jain: Has Managed Care Lost Its Way?

66

Perverse Incentives in Healthcare and Other News

67

Dana Dunne: Learning to Learn

68

Jaewon Ryu: The Power of Integrated Care

69

Aaron Kesselheim: Law, Policy, and Health

70

Vin Gupta: Impact at Scale

71

Halle Tecco: Investing in Women's Health

72

Rahul Rajkumar: Intensive Home-Based Care for High-Need Patients

73

Medicine-Life Balance and Other News

74

Stephen Knight: Investing in Biotech Solutions

75

Michael Sherling: Building a Better Electronic Health Record

76

The Physician Shortage and Other News

77

Max Laurans: An Entrepreneurial Life in Medicine

78

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy: Crises and Common Ground

79

Boosters, Brain Age, and Other News

80

Ania Jastreboff: The Transformative Obesity Drugs

81

Margaret McGovern: Building an Integrated Health System

82

Lee Schwamm: Smarter Healthcare Systems With AI

83

Joshua Sharfstein: Policy and Health

84

Kate Goodrich: A Better Model for Care

85

Timothy Westmoreland: Healthcare at the Supreme Court

86

An HIV Breakthrough and Other News

87

Lisa Suter: Medicine, Measurement, and Equity

88

Anna Reisman: Bringing the Humanities to Medicine

89

Mitesh Rao: Democratizing Healthcare Data

90

Live at the Yale Innovation Summit

91

Chima Ndumele: Reinventing Medicaid

92

Ruth Katz: Crafting Landmark Legislation

93

Greg Licholai: Breaking through the Innovation Bottleneck

94

The Primary Care Crisis and Other News

95

Arthur Caplan: Medicine's Toughest Ethical Questions

96

Scott Berkowitz: Value-Based Care and Population Health

97

Atheendar Venkataramani: Opportunity, Hope, and Health

98

Kate McEvoy: How Medicaid Is Driving Healthcare Innovation

99

Margo Harrison: Women's Health as a Path to Empowerment

100

Zack Cooper: High Healthcare Costs: Who Pays, Who Benefits

101

Robert Alpern: Creating an Inspired Medical School

102

Robert Rohrbaugh: Bringing Antiracist Tools to Clinical Practice

103

A Cheating Scandal, Abandoned Research, and Other News

104

Lucila Ohno-Machado: AI and the Art of Medicine

105

Farzad Mostashari: Aligning Incentives to Fix Primary Care

106

Christopher O'Connor: Hospital Leadership in Trying Times

107

Manisha Juthani: Solving Infectious Disease Mysteries

108

Claudine Litman: Designing Better Healthcare Solutions

109

Reshma Ramachandran: Will the Supreme Court Upend Healthcare Regulation?

110

Another Winter Wave, and Other News

111

Julie Ann Sosa: Personalizing Treatment of Thyroid Cancer

112

Eric Winer: A Cancer Doctor's Journey

113

Tina Loarte-Rodríguez: Understanding Inequities in Healthcare

114

Tara Sanft: Life after Cancer

115

Stephanie Sudikoff: The Power of Medical Simulation

116

Jerold Mande: Our Food Is Making Us Sick

117

John Morton: The State of Obesity Treatment

118

Dhruv Khullar: The Physician-Journalist

119

Melinda Pettigrew: The Battle Against Antimicrobial Resistance

120

The Latest on COVID-19 Vaccines, and Other News

121

Katherine Baicker: Rigorous Thinking about Hard Problems

122

Peter Salovey: A More Unified, Accessible, and Innovative Yale

123

Marc Auerbach: Getting Emergency Departments Kid-Ready

124

An Inspiring Nobel Win and Other News

125

Mallika Mendu: Improving Operations

126

Nita Ahuja: Epigenetics and Cancer

127

Peter Hotez: Opposing the Anti-Science Movement

128

Ted Long: A Model for Effective Primary Care

129

Zhenqiu Lin: Measuring Quality, Improving Care

130

Best of Health & Veritas, Summer 2023

131

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy: Building a Culture of Health

132

Alan Friedman: To Err Is Human

133

Melissa Davis: Can a Radiologist Trust AI?

134

Julius Chapiro: Minimally Invasive Liver Cancer Treatment

135

Dawn Harris Sherling: What Food Additives Are Doing to Your Microbiome

136

Hil Moss: The Gap in Care for Cancer Survivors

137

Sejal Hathi: Serving the Public

138

David Fiellin: The Treatments Changing the Lives of People with Opioid Addictions

139

Abbe Gluck: The Legal Determinants of Health

140

Sandeep Jauhar: A Witness to Dementia

141

Albert Ko: A Journey in Public Health

142

Joseph Sakran: Confronting Gun Violence

143

Josh Geballe: Turning Yale Innovation into Startups

144

Amanda Skinner: Navigating Reproductive Care after Roe

145

Elizabeth Arleo: Advice for Working Mothers from a Women's Health Specialist

146

Megan Ranney: What's Next for Public Health?

147

Cary Gross: Effective Cancer Screening

148

Michael Alosco: The Toll of Repetitive Head Impacts

149

Helen Burstin: Research with an Impact

150

Michael Ivy: Doctors and Mental Health

151

Harlan Krumholz, This Is Your Life

152

Ami Parekh: Tools for Navigating Care

153

Brita Roy: Leveraging Community Resources for Better Health

154

Anna Kaltenboeck: Untangling Drug Prices

155

Tara Lagu: The Doctor Won't See You Now

156

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld: The CEO Whisperer

157

Countering COVID Revisionism

158

Leora Horwitz: Toward a Continuously Learning Healthcare System

159

Gil Addo: Building a Model for Virtual Specialty Care

160

Healthcare Headlines

161

F. Perry Wilson: The Formula for Medical Misinformation

162

Lisa Sanders: The Art of Diagnosis

163

Jeffrey Gruen: The Genetic Roots of Learning Disabilities

164

Kristen Nwanyanwu: Vision and Equity

165

Dr. Eric Topol: Pushing Medicine into the Future

166

Dr. Nancy Brown: The Power of Mentorship

167

Dr. Vineet Arora: Reinventing Medical Education

168

Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith: The Systemic Roots of Inequities in Health

169

Dr. Lisa Leffert: Leading in Anesthesiology

170

Nicholas Christakis: The Better Angels of Our Nature

171

Dr. Utibe Essien: Who Gets Access to Innovative Treatments?

172

Taking the Pulse

173

Dr. Ania Jastreboff: The Revolution in Obesity Medication

174

Ingrid Nembhard: Improving Healthcare Organizations to Improve Health

175

Jonathan Rothberg: The Scientist-Entrepreneur

176

Dr. Jeremy Faust: Is COVID Over? It's Complicated.

177

Dr. Esther Choo: The View from the Emergency Department

178

Beating the Outbreaks

179

Dr. James Hamblin: Should You Stop Washing?

180

Teresa Chahine: The Social Entrepreneur's Guide to Making Change

181

Jennifer Miller: Scoring the Ethics of Pharma Companies

182

Rethinking Research

183

Dr. Rebekah Gee: Can We Bring Family Healthcare to the Home?

184

Gregg Gonsalves: An Inspiring Nonlinear Path to Impact

185

Your Co-Host's Remarkable Career

186

Dr. Seth Trueger: When the Doctor Becomes a Patient

187

Thomas Balcezak: Can Hospitals Recover from COVID-19?

188

Dr. Amy Justice: Unlocking the Insights in Healthcare Data

189

Jason Schwartz: Building a Better Vaccine Policy

190

Dr. Cecelia Calhoun: Taking on Systemic Inequities

191

Dr. Gail D'Onofrio: Grappling with the Opioid Epidemic

192

Melinda Irwin: Can Nutrition and Exercise Improve Cancer Outcomes?

193

Sherry Glied: Getting Ready for the Next Pandemic

194

Lauren Taylor: Ethics and Public Health

195

Zeke Emanuel's Provocative Advice on Making Healthcare Better

196

Dr. Daniel Stein: What the Data Says about Your Doctor

197

Edward Kaplan: What Does Wastewater Reveal about COVID-19?

198

Dr. Lakshmanan Krishnamurti: Hope for Sickle Cell Patients

199

Dr. Kristin Mattocks: Advancing the Health of Women Veterans

200

Dr. Mandy Cohen: Delivering Health, Not Just Healthcare

201

Dr. Ijeoma Opara: Partnering with a Community

202

Dr. Saad Omer: Lessons Learned about Vaccine Hesitancy

203

Dr. Emily Wang: Mass Incarceration and Health

204

Dr. Akiko Iwasaki: Is Long COVID One Disease or Many?

205

Dr. Randi Epstein: Medical Storytelling

206

Nathan Grubaugh: Genomic Surveillance

207

From COVID or with COVID?

208

Anne Wyllie: The Latest on Omicron

209

Dr. Albert Ko: A Wider View of COVID-19

210

Fiona Scott Morton: Taming Healthcare Costs

211

Liza Fisher: Long COVID

212

Dr. Joseph Ross: Omicron; The Drug Approval Process

213

Dr. Rohan Khera: AI, Machine Learning, and Medicine

214

Jason Abaluck: Health Economics

215

Anne Wyllie: The Saliva Test

216

Dr. Mary-Ann Etiebet: Saving Mothers' Lives

217

Elizabeth Bradley: Leading Vassar through COVID-19

218

Dr. Erica Spatz: Shared Decision-Making

219

Why Are We Paying for Ineffective Treatments?

220

Will AI Transform Radiology?

221

Medical Education

222

Boosters and Nocebos