Best Nancy Brinker Podcasts (2024)

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Detect and Prevent: Diagnostics-Driven Virtual Care from Everly Health, with Dr. Liz Kwo 34:52

26d ago34:52

34:52

Meg welcomes Liz Kwo, MD, MBA, and Masters in Public Health (all from Harvard). Dr. Kwo is the Chief Commercial Officer at Everly Health, a personalized diagnostic-driven care-at-home solution. She is an experienced healthcare executive specializing in P&L management, B2B/B2C marketing and sales, strategic partnerships, and post-merger integration.…

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Breaking Silos: Equitable Healthcare Transformation with Shruti Kothari of Blue Shield California 42:01

2M ago42:01

42:01

Meg is joined by Shruti Kothari, Director of Industry Initiatives at Blue Shield California, an independent member of the Blue Shield Association with 4.7 million members, 7,800 employees, and $22.9 billion in annual revenue that provides health care service plans to residents of California. Shruti is also the founder of Women of Community, an orga…

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Optimizing Existing Healthcare Benefits with Uber's Core Competencies: Caitlin Donovan, Global Head of Uber Health 43:01

2M ago43:01

43:01

Meg is joined by Caitlin Donovan, Global Head of Uber Health, which focuses on delivering a “better patient experience with transportation, same-day prescription, and home delivery for groceries and over-the-counter items, enhancing benefit coordination.” Caitlin explains Uber Health’s services: transportation, prescription delivery, and grocery an…

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Inventing, Investing, Advising: Natalie Douglas, Healthcare Virtuoso 44:14

4M ago44:14

44:14

Meg welcomes Natalie Douglas, an award-winning healthcare specialist, an experienced entrepreneur, CEO, board director, and investor. She is the founder of Lucidity LLC and RealiTi Health, as well as chairman of the board for Entia Ltd and TidalSense. She is also an investor and advisor for many portfolio companies, such as Ceek Women’s Health, RwH…

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Nancy G. Brinker: A Promise for Life 45:53

5M ago45:53

45:53

Meg welcomes Nancy G. Brinker, the founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure and The Promise Fund of Florida. Nancy was also United States Ambassador to Hungary from 2001 to 2003 and Chief of Protocol of the United States from 2007 to the end of the George W. Bush administration. Nancy walks us through her personal experience with her sister Suzy's ba…

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[BONUS] The Lost Pilot Episode: "Cancer Mavericks Goes To Hollywood" 48:45

7M ago48:45

48:45

Knownst to Matthew Zachary, but unknownst to others, long before the Award-Winning documentary "The Cancer Mavericks: A History of Survivorship" hit podcast feeds, a pilot episode was storyboarded and produced to test the waters with our newly minted production team, helmed by acclaimed executive producer, Steve Lickteig. If all went to plan, we wo…

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Homeward: Cultivating Rural Health 41:25

7M ago41:25

41:25

"If you live in a county that's designated as 'rural,' your healthcare outcomes are far worse, to the tune of 23% higher mortality. In these rural markets, hospital closures...rural health clinic closures are increasing at an exceeding rate. There's half the number of primary care doctors and about an eighth or a tenth the number of specialty care …

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Liz Beatty: Building Trust in Clinical Trials 37:40

10M ago37:40

37:40

Meg welcomes Liz Beatty, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Inato, a marketplace that enables clinical researchers and sponsors to make clinical research more inclusive and accessible for patients no matter who they are or where they live. Inato also increases clinical trial efficiency by enabling all community sites to offer the right trials t…

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Anna Lindow: Brave Health 35:16

11M ago35:16

35:16

Meg welcomes Anna Lindow, CEO + Co-Founder at Brave Health, a virtual mental health provider dedicated to helping people thrive by engaging them in high-quality, affordable, and easily accessible mental health care. Meg and Anna discuss the supply and demand imbalance for mental health services, especially for Medicaid recipients and other underser…

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Miruna Sasu: Decoding the Data with COTA 38:21

1y ago38:21

38:21

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, diff…

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Lori Daugherty: Resilience in the Workplace 33:19

1y ago33:19

33:19

Meg welcomes Lori Daugherty, CEO of Ascellus, a physical and behavioral health provider for injured workers that provides customized treatment options through CBT practices, as well as medical care for injured workers. With a network of over 1,500 licensed clinicians nationwide, Ascellus works to improve resilience, health outcomes, and reduce cost…

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Inna Plumb: Outside the Box, Inside the Home 40:13

1+ y ago40:13

40:13

Meg welcomes Inna Plumb, Co-Founder and COO of MedArrive. MedArrive enables healthcare providers to seamlessly extend care services into the home, unlocking access to high-quality healthcare for more people at a fraction of the cost. MedArrive’s fully integrated care management platform allows providers and payors to bridge the virtual care gap by …

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Vivian DeWoskin: Connecting Dots with Komodo Health 32:31

1+ y ago32:31

32:31

Meg welcomes, Vivian DeWoskin, VP of Strategy and Head of Life Sciences at Komodo Health. Meg and Vivian discuss Komodo Health, which brings together large amounts of anonymized, linked patient-level data used to understand how patients navigate their care journey in the real world; Komodo Health’s “Healthcare Map;” data and rare diseases; access t…

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Series Finale: If History Teaches Us Anything 17:14

1+ y ago17:14

17:14

Welcome to the series finale of The Cancer Mavericks. In this final episode, we reflect on the first seven episodes through the lens of history and progress with a series of insightful conversations featuring some of healthcare's most influential and visionary voices across the past four decades. If history is a teacher, we have learned that change…

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Stephanie Trunzo: Paved in Partnership 39:03

2y ago39:03

39:03

Meg welcomes Stephanie Trunzo, SVP and GM of Oracle Health. Oracle Health provides cloud solution systems for health insurance, healthcare providers, virtual care, electronic health record systems, and public health. Stephanie leads the P&L across strategy, product, services, sales, support, and operations. Oracle Health connects clinical, operatio…

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Shahrzad Yavari: Inside the Cold Chain 39:02

2y ago39:02

39:02

Meg welcomes Shahrzad Yavari, COVAX Cold & Supply Chain Consultant at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Gavi is an organization working to improve vaccination efforts globally. Shahrzad is a public health strategist and avid women’s rights advocate who has dedicated much of her efforts to creating opportunities for women globally. Her background in psych…

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Eliza Sternlicht: MediCircle's Cancer Care Revolution 41:33

2y ago41:33

41:33

Meg welcomes Eliza Sternlicht, Co-Founder and COO of MediCircle, a New Jersey-based pharmaceutical redistribution startup. Eliza Sternlicht is not only a startup co-founder with a rich history of working to solve medical issues and disparities, she’s a senior in college at Brown University. At such a young age, Eliza already has an enviable resume …

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Jayme Ambrose: The Maslow Effect 49:20

2y ago49:20

49:20

Meg speaks with Jayme Ambrose, CEO of Adobe Care & Wellness, an innovative healthcare solution company that focuses on customizing programs for insurance groups, providers, hospitals, and families. Meg and Jayme discuss Jayme’s background as a psychiatric nurse and workers compensation case manager; Adobe’s focus on social determinants and proactiv…

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Eileen Maus: The Floor Is Yours 46:59

2y ago46:59

46:59

On the first episode of Season 2 of The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare, Meg Escobosa is joined by Eileen Maus, CEO of Renovia Inc. Meg and Eileen discuss the inspiration for Eileen’s passion for women’s health, starting a career in healthcare in the 80’s and 90’s, and the truth about urinary incontinence and its stigmatization. They also talk ab…

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Deborah DiSanzo: On Saving Lives 42:09

2+ y ago42:09

42:09

On Episode 10, the final episode of Season 1 of The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare, Meg is joined by Deborah DiSanzo, President of Best Buy Health. Meg and Deborah discuss the untold origins of the podcast. Deborah speaks of her early days with Apollo Computer and the surprising turn her career path took leading her to Hewlett Packard, Philips H…

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Dr. Sabine Linn: Flipping the Switch on Cancer 52:44

2+ y ago52:44

52:44

On Episode 9 of The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare, Meg is joined by Dr. Sabine Linn, professor of translational oncology focusing on breast cancer at Utrecht University and a practicing medical oncologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. The two discuss Dr. Linn's work in biomarker research, the immunological aspects of breast cancer, advan…

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Elena Sini: Priority Number One 42:52

2+ y ago42:52

42:52

On Episode 8 of The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare, Meg is joined by Elena Sini, Group CIO of GVM Care & Research in Milan, Italy. The two discuss Elena’s background as CIO in both the public and private sectors, her role in founding the HIMSS Italian Community, the security and privacy of health data, the power of building a personal and profes…

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Lisa Emery: Leading, Listening, and Letting Go 49:48

2+ y ago49:48

49:48

In this week’s episode of The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare, Meg Escobosa is joined by Lisa Emery, CIO at The Royal Marsden National Health Service Foundation Trust. Meg and Lisa discuss the surprising similarities between biomedical science and healthcare IT, the power of leading by letting go, the skills needed to successfully deliver on a di…

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Dr. Luna Gargani: Point-of-Care in Pisa 47:45

2+ y ago47:45

47:45

Meg speaks with Dr. Luna Gargani, Cardiologist and Researcher at the University of Pisa in Pisa, Italy. As an advocate and pioneer of point-of-care lung ultrasound, Luna has played a key role in bringing this technology full-circle. Meg and Luna talk about the dramatic impact one key mentor made in her career, why, despite much resistance, Luna was…

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Dr. Shikha Anand: Upscaling Health in Context 51:44

2+ y ago51:44

51:44

The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare Episode 5 - Dr. Shikha Anand: Upscaling Health in Context Today, on Episode 5 of the podcast, Meg speaks with Dr. Shikha Anand, Chief Medical Officer, Withings. Meg and Shikha discuss Shikha’s enduring drive to build a better healthcare system that fits patients’ lives; how she surprised herself after a fruitfu…

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Lisa Rometty: Leading Without a Blueprint 41:24

2+ y ago41:24

41:24

The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare Today, on Episode 4 of the podcast, Meg speaks with Lisa Rometty, President at CVS Kidney Care. Meg and Lisa discuss Lisa’s realization of her deep ambition to make a positive difference in people’s lives based on a significant loss early in her life; her shift in perspective when she became a parent; the need …

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Cancer Doesn't Suck Equally 36:35

2+ y ago36:35

36:35

A cancer diagnosis sucks no matter what — but factors like income, education, racism, geography, housing, and access to health care, known as "social determinants of health," can worsen the burden. When researchers zoom out from individual experiences and survey cancer survivors, they see patterns called social determinants of health. Individual ci…

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Tina Moen: Humans Helping Humans 40:20

2+ y ago40:20

40:20

The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare Episode 3 - Tina Moen “Humans Helping Humans” Today, on our third episode, host Meg Escobosa welcomes Tina Moen, GM IBM Micromedex & Chief Pharmacy Officer, IBM Watson Health. Meg and Tina discuss Tina’s overnight decision to become a pharmacist, her inspiration and evolution as a leader, her view of the value …

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Cancer Mavericks Goes to Hollywood 39:46

2+ y ago39:46

39:46

For decades, the portrayal of cancer in movies and television was grim. If a character was diagnosed with cancer, it was a near certainty they'd be dead by the credits. But, like cancer treatment itself, Hollywood evolved, and many storylines about cancer became stories of survival. In this episode, we ask the question, "Who influences us and why?"…

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Sue Schade: Own Your Own Career 37:15

2+ y ago37:15

37:15

The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare Episode 2 - Sue Schade: “Own your Own Career” Today, on our second episode, host Meg Escobosa welcomes Sue Schade, a Principal at Starbridge Advisors and interim CIO at Boston Children’s Hospital. Meg and Sue discuss Sue’s early days in paper-based health data as a chart secretary and programmer; The evolution …

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The Young Adult Cancer Movement 42:17

3y ago42:17

42:17

Facing a diagnosis of cancer at any age is horrible. But for young adults, it’s just plain different. Not better. Not worse. Different. Those diagnosed between the ages of 15 and 39 are on a planet all their own, often left to fend for themselves as lost voices sandwiched between pediatrics and adult cancer. The consequences of living with, through…

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Tracy Byers: Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable 34:52

3y ago34:52

34:52

The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare Episode 1 - Tracy Byers: Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable Today, on our very first episode, host Meg Escobosa welcomes Tracy Byers, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Imaging at Change Healthcare. Meg and Tracy talk about what got Tracy hooked in healthcare, some of her early ca…

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I'm Alive? HELP! 42:04

3y ago42:04

42:04

In just over 20 years, the number of cancer survivors in the United States has doubled to 17 million survivors, each confronting their new (ab)normal lives. From chemo brain to PTSD, medical debt to workplace discrimination, this episode follows survivors along with their unique—and often difficult—paths post-treatment. In this episode, we hear fro…

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Welcome to The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare 1:03

3y ago1:03

1:03

Coming soon, from The Krinsky Company: The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare, a podcast celebrating courage, perseverance, creativity, and vision in the pursuit of healthcare innovation. Join host Meg Escobosa in conversation with some of the most inspiring and forward-thinking women working in healthcare today. Meg goes behind the scenes to uncove…

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The March on Washington 40:50

3y ago40:50

40:50

Advocacy can take many forms in the cancer community — from advocating for yourself or a loved one to receive the best possible treatment to calling your Congressperson or testifying on Capitol Hill to demand increased access to care. This episode explores different ways cancer mavericks have elevated survivors’ needs and improved their lives, incl…

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The Alumni Association 38:45

3y ago38:45

38:45

By the 1980s, cancer was no longer a death sentence. But the question of what surviving actually meant was unanswered. Cancer survivors had to navigate issues around employment, relationships, and the emotional and physical side effects of treatment in a world that largely didn’t know what to do with them. (and they were still called “victims.”) In…

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Lasker's War 41:33

3y ago41:33

41:33

Mary Lasker used to say that more money was spent on advertising campaigns for gum than was spent on cancer research. She’d seen the effects of that almost non-existent budget first hand: she watched people close to her die from cancer, including her advertising exec husband. She was outraged by the lack of money and research devoted to ending the …

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Introducing: The Cancer Mavericks 3:58

3y ago3:58

3:58

Most people don’t know that you’re considered a cancer survivor at the moment of diagnosis. It wasn’t always this way. Sixty years ago, a cancer diagnosis was a death sentence. And if you did survive, you were left to figure out the rest of your life on your own. But some survivors demanded something different, something better. From OffScrip Media…

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