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Health Innovation Matters

Mar 28, 2019

Robin chats with Stephen Shaya, Chief Medical Officer and EVP of Corporate Development at J&B Medical. Shaya describes his riveting immigrant story, which starts with his parents coming from Iraq in 1966. His father worked four jobs while attending the University of Michigan. His father eventually founded J&B Medical...


Mar 25, 2019

Robin chats with Suzi Johnson, MPH, RN, Vice President of Sharp HospiceCare in San Diego, who won the 2019 Hearst Health Prize at the 19th Annual Population Health Summit in Philadelphia March 19. Sharp’s program provides expert palliative care directly in the patient’s home—prior to the patient having to go to...


Mar 19, 2019

Robin chats with cardiologist Peter Libby, Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, who has researched the role of inflammation as a cause of disease. According to Libby, inflammation consists of two key...


Mar 11, 2019

Robin chats with David Pearce, executive vice president of innovation and research at Sanford Health, about the diagnosis and treatment of rare diseases.  Technology is at the forefront in the treatment of rare disease with the advent of gene therapy, Pearce says. There is tremendous interest from Big Phama in...


Mar 1, 2019

Robin talks with Naveen Jain, entrepreneur, philanthropist and founder of an impressive list of innovative companies that includes Moon Express, Intelius and Infospace. His newest company, Viome, provides bacteria analysis of the gut to uncover the source of digestive and other health problems. According to Jain, the...