Welcome to ABA Ultimate Showdown! - a podcast promoting constructive, respectful, and professional discourse to advance the field of behavior analysis. We use a structured debate format to achieve several goals: ~ Encourage respectful conversations among professionals in all settings ~ Advance a deeper knowledge about critical topics in our field through research presented from multiple perspectives ~ Promote civility and an understanding of perspectives that differ from your own ~Model a us ...
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Each week we interview a company founders, medical researchers, physicians or other healthcare industry experts and hear them talk about the challenges of treating patients in the area of their expertise. We'll also hear about gaps in treatment options, and how cutting-edge research is aiming to fill those gaps, both in the short term and in the far future. Then, we talk to entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and other investors who are paving the way for a new generation of therapies, and wh ...
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Round 14: What is the goal of a functional assessment? Debaters: Dr. Mahshid Ghaemmaghami and Dr. Jeffrey Tiger
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Welcome to ABA Ultimate Showdown – a podcast promoting constructive, respectful, and professional discourse to advance the field of behavior analysis. Round 14 of the Showdown debates the motion: The goal of a functional assessment is to identify a function that will inform treatment. Our debaters, Dr. Jeffrey Tiger and Dr. Mahshid Ghaemmaghami, ar…
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Round 13: Is ABA inherently trauma informed?
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Welcome to ABA Ultimate Showdown – a podcast promoting constructive, respectful, and professional discourse to advance the field of behavior analysis.Round 13 of the Showdown debates the motion: ABA is inherently trauma informed. Our debaters, Rosalie Prendergast and Saundra Bishop, are actively disseminating their passion on a wide scale to profes…
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Round 12: Online Education or Traditional Learning? An Inside Look at the Future of Higher Education
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Welcome to ABA Ultimate Showdown – a podcast promoting constructive, respectful, and professional discourse to advance the field of behavior analysis. Round 12 of the Showdown debates the motion: Higher education is ideally delivered in a traditional format. Our debaters, Dr. Katie Croce and Dr. Joe Novak, are passionate and well versed, both havin…
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Round 11: Praise Be! A Critical Look into a Common Practice
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Round 11: Praise Be! A Critical Look into a Common Practice Welcome to ABA Ultimate Showdown – a podcast promoting constructive, respectful, and professional discourse to advance the field of behavior analysis. Round 11 of the Showdown debates the motion: Using behavior specific praise to reinforce learners’ behavior is best practice. Our debaters …
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IRegained is Transforming Post-Stroke Care with its Innovative MyHand Rehabilitative Device
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IRegained is startup and social impact venture with a vision of helping patients regain their hand function after a stroke. Their innovative device called MyHand leverages the principles of neuroplasticity by guiding patients through a series of highly personalized hand exercises that gradually rewire the brain around the affected area. The device …
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Tamvoes: Empowering individuals with their information and professionals with client management
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*** if you enjoy these talks, learn something from them, want to see more, be sure to subscribe 🎬🔔✨❗️🎬 🔔✨❗️ *** In this episode we’re joined by Rukia Mire, Madison (Maddy) McBay and Jessica Lunshoff of Tamvoes, a digital health platform empowering individuals with their information and professionals with client management. At its score, Tamvoes sol…
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Tali AI: The information retrieval virtual assistant for providers | Co-Founder,CEO Mahshid Yassaei
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In this episode we spoke with Mahshid Yassaei about Tali, an innovative NLP-based information retrieval algorithm that is built for purpose to help clinicians at the point of care. Prior to Tali, Mahshid also co-founded Evenset, a custom medical and healthcare software development company focused on helping entrepreneurs and established companies b…
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YourCoach.Health : Universal Platform for Health & Wellness Coaches | COO Eugene Borukhovich
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Wouldn’t it be great to have a team of coaches to help you through your day-to-day life? Realizing that people have complex and ever-changing health needs – something that healthcare systems are not well equipped to handle - YourCoach has set out to enable people to improve their health and wellness through a holistic approach and a “squad” of cert…
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Chat with Round 10 Debaters: Stereotypy Follow Up
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Welcome to ABA Ultimate Showdown – a podcast promoting constructive, respectful, and professional discourse to advance the field of behavior analysis. During this candid conversation, we chat with the debaters of Round 10 and our executive director, Cara Graham. Special thanks to Amy Gravino, Angela DiPoce, and Ashley Callahan for the months they s…
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Open Orphan: Global Leader in Human Challenge Vaccine Development | Executive Chairman Cathal Friel
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Open Orphan is paving the way for the large-scale adoption of “human challenge studies” for vaccine development. Although this unique study design has been around for over 40 years and has been used to test a variety of vaccines and anti-virals for disease such as, cholera, influenza, asthma and RSV, among many others, the challenge model has recen…
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Round 10: The Ethical Implications of Treating Stereotypy
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Welcome to ABA Ultimate Showdown – a podcast promoting constructive, respectful, and professional discourse to advance the field of behavior analysis.Round 10 of the Showdown debates the motion: Stereotypy as a symptom of autism does not need to be treated. We welcome our first guest debater, Amy Gravino, who joins Angela DiPoce in debating Ashley …
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MyelinH & MyelinS: the Brain-Computer Interface Companies Disrupting the Health & Space Tech Sectors
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Zied Tayeb, CEO and Samaher Garbaya, COO co-founded two award-winning startups that are poised to bring impactful innovation in both health-tech (Myelin-H) and space tech (Myelin-S). Their mission statements are: 🏥 🧠 Myelin-H: to allow clinicians to remotely diagnose and monitor the health statuses of their patients anywhere, anytime, regardless of…
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Caravan Health, the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) with a Proven Model | with CEO Tim Gronniger
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On this podcast we are always looking for innovative technologies and services that address unmet need in healthcare, expand access to essential and effective healthcare and improve outcomes for both patients and providers. So, we were excited at the opportunity to speak with Tim from Caravan Health! While ACO’s may not have the appeal of flashy ne…
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The Digital Therapeutics Alliance (DTA): From Principles to Practice | with ED Megan Coder
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Digital therapeautics (DTx) are clinical intervention delivered as software that can help with medical ailments as wide ranging as asthma, epilepsy, IBS, depression, diabetes, arthritis, among many other conditions. Why do we bring this up now? A handful of DTx companies have been around for about a decade or so, but the pandemic has accelerated th…
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The New Path to Cardiovascular Fitness & Overall Health – PAI Health | Sally Powell & Dr. Carl Lavie
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PAI Health’s mission is to become the new global standard for physical activity. And they are well on their way … Everyone knows that physical activity is correlated with overall health, but have you ever wondered exactly how much activity is enough to keep your heart and body optimally healthy? Enter PAI Health. The Personal Activity Intelligence …
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Expanding Digital Mental Health Services to Canadians & the World – MindBeacon | with CEO Sam Duboc
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Despite the hardship brought on by the covid-19 pandemic, one of the silver linings (if we can say so) is the major shift toward digital access to healthcare around the world. If access to affordable, timely and effective mental health services was a major challenge before the pandemic, what we’ve seen over the past year is a skyrocketing demand fo…
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Ayogo: Applying Gaming Principles to Improve Health | CEO Michael Fergusson
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Ayogo has been named one of the top 100 most innovative mHealth companies in the world - twice. And it’s easy to see why … Ayogo works with some of the biggest therapeutics companies in the world to build applications that use well-established principles of perceived self-efficacy and behaviour change to promote treatment adherence and improve heal…
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MedStack: The Data Privacy and Security Solution for Digital Health Companies | CEO Balaji Gopalan
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Prior to founding MedStack Balaji Gopalan was perhaps best known as the Product Strategist who brought BlackBerry's iconic BBM service to market. Balaji is a passionate advocate of tech for good, platforms, data security and privacy and digital health. In 2014 Balaji was looking to build a developer platform for a digital identification company cal…
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What do you get when you cross digital health and wound care? iWound | with Robin Mossing
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Robin Mossing is EVP of Clinical Operations at iWound, a digital platform that is revolutionizing wound care through clinical education, standardizing assessments and treatment plans, and longitudinal monitoring for improved outcomes. And this is just the tip of the iceberg in iWound’s vision. Robin brings with him two decades of experience as a cl…
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PERSONALIZED PRECISION MEDICINE IN THE REAL WORLD | Dr. Elaine Chin
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Dr. Elaine Chin is a physician, author, founder of multiple medical and wellness centers, thought leader in the field of precision and personalized medicine and a trailblazer in putting these principles into practice. We introduced the idea that using technology available today – called precision diagnostics – physicians can assess a patient’s uniq…
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AI AND VOICE POWERED CLINICAL ASSISTANT CONNECTING HEALTHCARE
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In this episode I spoke with the co-founders of a Toronto Ontario based digital health startup that is developing a suite of AI powered clinical assistant tools for individual practices, hospitals and other healthcare services. Hear the story behind the company’s founding, its early mission and current vision from the co-founders. As I came to lear…
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Round 9: Are BCBA Owned Businesses at an Ethical Disadvantage?
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Welcome to ABA Ultimate Showdown – a podcast promoting constructive, respectful, and professional discourse to advance the field of behavior analysis. Round 9 of the Showdown debates the motion: It is possible to ethically and effectively market ABA businesses within the guidelines. We got a lot of great feedback from social media regarding the cha…
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REAL-TIME CANCER THERAPY MONITORING – Cadex Genomics | Bill Haack & Greg Schafer
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Bill Haack, CEO and Greg Schafer, CCO are part of a seasoned team that is leading an initiative to transform the way in which responsiveness to cancer treatment is assessed. If all goes to plan, the technology being developed at Cadex Genomics could impact the course of treatment for millions of late-stage (solid state) cancer patients worldwide. A…
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PATIENT EDUCATION SOFTWARE & REDUCING MEDICAL ERRORS - Precare.ca | Raphael Gotlieb
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Raphael Gotlieb created Precare.ca to address a growing problem in frontline healthcare – that miscommunication between providers and patients often leads to sub-optimal care, and in the worse cases, to medical errors and deaths. Educating patients about medical procedures using contextualized audio-visual content that is language-specific to the p…
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HANDHELD BIOPRINTER TO TREAT SEVERE BURNS - ReverTome | Richard Cheng
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While completing his PhD Richard worked to design and build a hand-held bioprinter – ReverTome - that can be used in real clinical settings to treat patients surviving severe burns. But what is bioprinting and how does it work? Can this unique bioprinter really regenerate skin? We answer these and a few other questions – stay tuned in! Richard also…
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Inside QiiQ Healthcare - Reducing Wait Times & Improving Emergency Care Workflows
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If you’ve ever been in an emergency department you’ve probably noticed how busy, chaotic, exhausting and uncomfortable it can be. But ED’s are also places where highly trained professionals cope with extremely challenging work conditions in order to save patients’ lives. So, how can an ED be improved to optimize healthcare service delivery, to help…
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Physician-Scientiest, Tech Entrepreneur & Founder TrendMD - Paul Kudlow
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Dr. Paul Kudlow MD PhD is a physician-scientist, father, Founder/Advisor and former CEO of TrendMD – the largest native advertising platform for academic research that reaches over 150 million unique visitors per month. In this episode I talked to Paul about his transition from medical residency into founding and running TrendMD, the early stages a…
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Welcome to ABA Ultimate Showdown – a podcast promoting constructive, respectful, and professional discourse to advance the field of behavior analysis.Round 8 of the Showdown debates the motion: BCBAs have enough resources to ethically and effectively manage their caseload. This debate dives into several important topics that support behavior analys…
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Welcome to ABA Ultimate Showdown - a podcast promoting constructive, respectful, and professional discourse to advance the field of behavior analysis. Round 7 of the Showdown debates the motion: Physical prompts should be avoided. The debate primarily discusses whether or not it’s appropriate for professionals to use physical prompts. This round al…
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Welcome to ABA Ultimate Showdown - a podcast promoting constructive, respectful, and professional discourse to advance the field of behavior analysis. In March of 2020, amidst the US’s stay at home recommendations, we were asked to participate in a forum for stressed professionals to take a break and connect with others. We jumped at the chance to …
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Round 6: The Science vs. Religion Debate with an ABA Twist
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Welcome to ABA Ultimate Showdown - a podcast promoting constructive, respectful, and professional discourse to advance the field of behavior analysis.Round 6 of the Showdown debates the motion: Behavior analysts can compartmentalize their beliefs. They can be both religious or spiritual and effectively practice ABA. We delve into determinism, refer…
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Health Enterpreneur & Commercialization Pro Rob Iaboni of Digital Health Startup CoHealth
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In this episode I spoke with Rob Iaboni of CoHealth App, a digital health startup that was founded in Toronto in 2016. Since joining CoHealth App in 2017 Rob Iaboni has been instrumental in growing its partnerships and customer base (primarily hospitals and primary care clinics) and along with this its real world impact on patients. Today he leads …
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Round 5: Are We Providing Super-vision or Just Okay-vision?
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Welcome to ABA Ultimate Showdown - a podcast promoting constructive, respectful, and professional discourse to advance the field of behavior analysis.Round 5 of the Showdown will debate whether or not the current BACB supervisory system is sufficient to train effective behavior analysts. We draw analogies to other disciplines, discuss how autonomy …
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Healthcare Software for the Evolving Policy Niche: Learnings from Saud Juman, Father, Founder and Former CEO of Policy Medical
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In this episode of Trends in MedTech we speak with Saud Juman, founder and former CEO of Policy Medical, a governance, risk and compliance management software for healthcare enterprises. Saud takes us through his journey of first coming up with the idea to solve a particular problem that healthcare facilities were facing, to launch and growing a fu…
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Round 4: To Use Restraints or Not to Use Restraints? That is the question.
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Welcome to ABA Ultimate Showdown - a podcast promoting constructive, respectful, and professional discourse to advance the field of behavior analysis. Round 4 of the Showdown attempts to respectfully cover the much debated topic of restraints. Since this topic is so controversial within and outside of our field, we were very careful about our wordi…
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Hilarious Definitions of Behavior Analytic Terms (or Preview for Round 4)
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Welcome to ABA Ultimate Showdown - a podcast promoting constructive, respectful, and professional discourse to advance the field of behavior analysis.While we are finishing up the final details of Round 4, we wanted to give you a comical reminder of why it is important to use every day language when we are working with clients. The theme of this pr…
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Round 3: The Ethical Dilemma of Gifts
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*Behavior analysts should not accept gifts because it creates a dual relationship. * Welcome to ABA Ultimate Showdown - a podcast promoting constructive, respectful, and professional discourse to advance the field of behavior analysis. Round 3 of the Showdown attempts to answer that longstanding question - to accept gifts or not to accept gifts? We…
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Round 2: When to Include Parents as Active Participants in Implementing the Behavior Plan
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*It is in the client’s best interest for behavior analysts to include parents as active participants in implementing the behavior plan from the beginning. * Welcome to ABA Ultimate Showdown - a podcast promoting constructive, respectful, and professional discourse to advance the field of behavior analysis. Round 2 of the Showdown is slightly less c…
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Wait Times, E-Referrals and Putting Service in Front of Health Tech, with Dr. Ilan Shahin, Co-Founder of ConsultLoop
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In this episode we spoke with Dr. Ilan Shahin, a practicing physician-entrepreneur who has co-founded ConsultLoop, a health service navigation software that helps providers better track and manage patient referrals. One of the care problems that ConsultLoop is addressing is the lack of standardization in the traditional, paper or fax-based referral…
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Raising the Bar for Advanced Knee Assessment Technology with Michelle Laflamme, CEO of Emovi
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In this episode I spoke with Michelle Laflamme, CEO of Emovi, a medical device company dedicated to developing and commercializing advanced technologies for the assessment of knee pain. Emovi began in 2008 when Michelle, a practicing lawyer at the time, was reviewing the clinical evidence behind its signature device, KneeKG, that helps clinicians t…
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At the Intersection of Medical Practice, Technology, and Healthcare Systems, with Dr. Damon Ramsey and Dr. Puneet Seth of InputHealth
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In this episode we spoke with Dr. Damon Ramsey, CEO, and Dr. Puneet Seth, Chief Medical Officer, of InputHealth, a healthcare software company that has developed a collaborative health record system to provide higher value service to physicians and patients. Healthcare, unlike many other industries, is not traditionally one in which technology disr…
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Round 1: Practical Functional Assessment (IISCA) vs. the Traditional Functional Analysis
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*The practical functional assessment serves as an effective procedure to analyze and treat problem behavior. * Welcome to ABA Ultimate Showdown - a podcast promoting constructive, respectful, and professional discourse to advance the field of behavior analysis. We are stoked to be able to bring you Round 1 of the Showdown. Our first topic will be t…
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Precursor to Round 1: Practical Functional Assessment(IISCA) vs. the Traditional Functional Analysis
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Welcome to ABA Ultimate Showdown - a podcast promoting constructive, respectful, and professional discourse to advance the field of behavior analysis. We are stoked to be able to bring you this precursor episode of the Showdown. Our first topic will be the hotly debated practical functional assessment that includes the interview-informed, synthesiz…
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Welcome to ABA Ultimate Showdown - a podcast promoting constructive, respectful, and professional discourse to advance the field of behavior analysis. We use this introductory episode to discuss three main topics: the inception of this podcast, the general format that will be used for each debate, and how we hope this podcast will influence behavio…
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How a Berry-Sized Cavernoma Changed His Life, with Sean Costella
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In this episode Sean Costella takes us through the events leading up to his diagnosis of a rare disease, a cavernoma, and how he took a leap of faith on one doctor’s opinion that ended up saving his life. When his symptoms got so bad that they couldn’t be ignored, Sean underwent an emergency surgery. Luckily, that surgery went well, but when he wok…
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Portal into the Future of Medicines Delivery Technology with Dr. Patrick Anquetil of Portal Instruments
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In this episode we hear from Dr. Patrick Anquetil, CEO of Portal Instruments, a medical device company based in Boston, MA that aims to make needles and syringes a thing of the past. I asked Patrick about his journey from graduate research to becoming an equity analyst, and then returning to Harvard Business School to pursue his entrepreneurial int…
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Naturopathic Medicine: A Different Toolkit for a Functional Approach to Patient Care with Dr.Taylor Bean
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In this episode we have an insightful and delightful conversation with Dr. Taylor Bean, a practicing Naturopath Doctor based in British Columbia, about the naturopathic approach to healing, and how this can be used to optimize care for patients. It was fascinating to hear her about experiences working in an Asian healthcare system, and how vaccinat…
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It's all in the Nutri: Educating People About Nutrition, Supplements & Choices with Sahar Kafi
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In this episode I speak with Sahar Kafi about her passion of informing people about food and nutrition supplements as a vehicle to improve their health. She advocates for the importance of enabling people to make educated decisions about what they consume, because these choices play a key role in maintaining energy and overall health. We also dive …
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Nature's Medicine, Holistic Healing & Owning Your Health with Carrie Dolha
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In this episode I have a candid conversation with Carie Dolha about her personal experience with a difficult diagnosis, and how she had to change her mindset to take ownership of her health and recovery. Through this journey she discovered the medicinal properties of plants, and gained a new perspective on health and a newfound sense of self healin…
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Beyond Taboo: Treating Illness with Medical Cannabis with Chris Macmillan
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In this episode I talk with Chris Macmillan about the legalization of medical cannabis in Canada, product accessibility to patients who can benefit from its medicinal properties, and Chris's vision for the industry. If you're new to the topic of legalizing cannabis and are interested in learning how you might be able to use it to manage an ailment,…
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