Welcome to Part 2 of a two-part colorectal cancer (CRC) awareness series featuring guest Trevor Maxwell, Founder and CEO of Man Up to Cancer, a non-profit that inspires men to connect and avoid isolation during their cancer journeys. Trevor shares what he’s learned since being diagnosed with stage 4 CRC six years ago, the darkness he faced from men…

Today, 80% of adults younger than 60 are not being effectively screened for colorectal cancer. They now have a 50% greater chance of being diagnosed than they did in the 90s. Additionally, the rise of early-onset CRC—even in otherwise healthy young people in their 20s and 30s—is unprecedented. This marks the 60th episode of the Precision Medicine P…

In this episode of the Precision Medicine Podcast, host Karan Cushman does some time traveling with Dr. Douglas Flora through his lifetime journey with cancer. Dr. Flora is the Medical Director of Oncology Services at St. Elizabeth Healthcare and Editor-in-Chief AI in Precision Oncology, a peer-reviewed research journal dedicated to advancing artif…

In this episode of the Precision Medicine Podcast, hosts Karan Cushman and Clynt Taylor welcome back Dr. Luis Raez, Medical Director and Chief Scientific Officer at Memorial Cancer Institute who is joined by Dr. Pranil Chandra, Chief Genomic Officer at PathGroup. Together, we discuss the key barriers to performing comprehensive genomic profiling in…

To mark the beginning of Season 5 of the Precision Medicine Podcast, we are honored to welcome Dr. Debra Patt, Executive Vice President of Texas Oncology. As an oncologist and breast cancer specialist at one of the nation’s largest community cancer practices, Dr. Patt is on the frontlines of oncology care every day. She joins us to discuss how Texa…

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Karen Winkfield, Executive Director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance, appointee to President Joe Biden's National Cancer Advisory Board, and co-host of the weekly podcast, 3 Black Docs, which is dedicated to educating the community about health and health disparities in an approachable and entertaining way. D…

In episode 55 of the Precision Medicine Podcast, we welcome Dr. Stephen Kingsmore, President and CEO of the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine. Dr. Kingsmore joins us to discuss the extraordinary role whole genome sequencing is playing in prolonging and improving the life of critically ill newborns. Read the full summary and tune in her…

Dr. Christian Rolfo, President of the International Society of Liquid Biopsy and Associate Director for Clinical Research at the Center of Thoracic Oncology at the Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, joins us to explain the unique role liquid biopsies are playing in the diagnosis and treatment of …

In this Precision Medicine Podcast episode, we are joined by Dr. Belinda King-Kallimanis, Director of Patient-Focused Research at LUNGevity—an organization that brings together research, education and support services for patients and caregivers in the lung cancer community—and Nichelle Stigger, LUNGevity board member and lung cancer survivor. They…

In celebration of the three-year anniversary of the Precision Medicine Podcast, we take a look back at how far precision diagnostics have come with the help of one of our first guests Hannah Mamuszka, Founder and CEO of Alva10, and her colleague Lena Chaihorsky. Both women are focused on resolving the knowledge gap between payers and diagnostic com…

In this episode, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we speak with Ali Rogin, author of Beat Breast Cancer Like a Boss and award-winning producer of PBS NewsHour. Ali is what is commonly known as a breast cancer previvor, someone who knows they have a mutation that may lead to cancer and takes preventative steps to avoid a diagnosis. With th…

For our 50th episode, we welcome Dr. Kashyap Patel, medical oncologist and CEO of Carolina Blood and Cancer Center, current president of the Community Oncology Alliance (COA), and author of the book, Between Life and Death: From Despair to Hope. Dr. Patel explains the social determinants that can impact the quality of care and opportunity for preci…

In this episode of the Precision Medicine Podcast, Janine Morales, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at Trapelo Health takes us inside the complex world of evidence-based decision making in oncology. Specifically, she dives deeps into some of the nuances in the latest targeted therapy approvals and explains how having access to a real-time knowledge-ba…

Dr. Howard McLeod is Medical Director for Precision Medicine at The Geriatric Oncology Consortium, a fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and has worked on research projects with some of the most notable institutions around the world, including FDA, NIH, and NCI. We cover a lot of ground with Dr. McLeod in this podcast, including car…

Bill Bonello, president of NeoGenomics Informatics, and Clynt Taylor, president of Trapelo Health, discuss challenges in precision medicine and how evidence-based technologies can help deliver more appropriate, value-based care to more patients. As a subtext to the discussion is the recent acquisition of Trapelo Health, creator of clinical decision…

In this notable episode, Dr. Caroline Carney, Chief Medical Officer at Magellan Health, and Clynt Taylor, CEO at Trapelo Health, join us to discuss how collaborative technologies can help payers more effectively manage the cost of precision oncology while delivering the best outcomes for patients. Read the full summary.…

In this episode, Dr. F. Anthony Greco, medical oncologist at Tennessee Oncology, discusses the role that precision medicine has played in improving our diagnosis and treatment of cancer.By Trapelo

In this Part 2 podcast featuring Dr. Gabriel A. Bien-Willner, Medical Director of the MolDX programat Palmetto GBA, we dive into the core challenges that payers face in navigating the explosion of precision medicine tests and treatments, and specifically how the prior authorization process can be streamlined by keeping payers updated on changes in …

Christopher Boone, Vice President and Global Head of Health Economics & Outcomes Research at AbbVie, shares his thoughts on how using data to understand a patient’s real-world environment can expand the practice of Precision Medicine.By Trapelo

It is fitting that our first guests on Season 3 of the Precision Medicine Podcast are Rob Metcalf, CEO of Concert Genetics and Clynt Taylor, CEO of Trapelo Health who are both innovators in precision medicine technology. What we learn from them in this episode is that after 20 years of hearing about the “promise of precision medicine,” technology h…

In this episode, and in honor of lung cancer awareness month we had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Luis Raez, Medical Director and Chief of Hematology Oncology at Memorial Cancer Institute who focuses on treating lung cancer. Hear how the emergence of next-generation sequencing has changed his approach to lung cancer treatment, what notable disc…

In the first of a two-part podcast, Gabriel A. Bien-Willner MD, PhD, FCAP, Medical Director at MolDX, and Chief Medical Officer at Palmetto GBA shares how he has helped implement payer controls and coverage and set policies for affiliated Medicare Administrative Contractors in 28 states. In the past, payers have had to navigate the growing field of…

Dr. Mark Moasser, a physician-scientist and breast cancer specialist at the University of California, San Francisco discusses his research focus on the HER2 oncogene, the latest trial findings and the importance of improving patient access to clinical trials. At Trapelo, connecting oncologists with patient-appropriate clinical trials is a major par…

In this episode, Clynt Taylor, CEO at Trapelo Health, talks with Lori Brisbin, Vice President of Precision Medicine at Texas Oncology, one of the largest practices in the United States. The discussion centers on how this expansive network of oncologists is leveraging the web-based Trapelo™ platform to provide evidence-based decision support to its …

On this Precision Medicine Podcast, author and CEO of the Toft Group (a ZRG company), Robin Toft, joins us to discuss her new book, We Can, and share her thoughts on the need for more women and greater diversity in the C-suite and the boardroom within the life science industry. Read the full summary here.…

Roy Smythe, M.D, explains why proteins are more useful than genes for understanding the human body and creating precision medicines to heal it. Dr. Smythe is CEO of SomaLogic, a leading-edge, biotechnology company headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. The company scans human proteins to gain insights into the past, current, and future health of patie…

In this Precision Medicine Podcast episode, we met with lung cancer patients Lisa Goldman and Tori Tomalia to discuss their organization, the ROS1ders, which they created to advocate and support those with ROS1-positive cancer—a group that represents just 2% of lung cancer patients. We were fascinated by how two women with no medical background cou…

In our second podcast with Dr. John Quackenbush, Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, we delved deeper into his approach to understanding cancer by studying entire gene networks rather than simple mutations. Read the full summary here, subscribe and learn more about our lead sponsor Tra…

In this episode of The Precision Medicine Podcast, we speak with Dr. Arturo Loaiza-Bonilla, Chief Medical Officer and Director of Research for the Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Philadelphia, about how precision medicine is changing the treatment of GI cancers. Learn about the personal experiences that inspired his medical career focus and …

In this episode 32 of the Precision Medicine Podcast sponsored by Trapelo, we talk extensively with Barbara Fortini, PhD, the Program Director for the Master of Science in Human Genetics and Genomic Data Analytics program at the Keck Graduate Institute about what students of biology and genetics need to know today versus what they needed to know a …

Dr. Adam Brufsky, Medical Director for the Women’s Cancer Program at the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, shares the newest findings from the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) and discusses the important role of precision medicine in breast cancer care. Tune in and #Subscribe here https://bit.ly/2sT9y8r #PrecisionMedicinePodcast #SABC19…

In this first episode of season two of the Precision Medicine Podcast, Dr. John Quackenbush discusses his approach to understanding what makes cancer cancer by studying entire gene networks rather than simple mutations. Dr. Quackenbush is Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health and one of t…

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Selin Kurnaz, CEO and cofounder of Massive Bio, who led a panel at the Precision Medicine Leadership Summit in Philadelphia. The panel discussion, Precision Medicine Clinical Trials and Novel Designs: Levering Data, ‘Omics’, AI and Policy focused on the importance of increasing patient accessibility to clinical tr…

In this episode, we talk with Kristine Ashcraft, founder and CEO of YouScript, a platform that synthesizes all evidence impacting drug response, including pharmacogenetic testing, to support doctors and pharmacists in making faster, more proactive decisions at the point of care. For a summary and transcript visit https://bit.ly/2O5Fpuj…

To celebrate our upcoming anniversary, we're going back to where the Precision Medicine Podcast made its debut nearly one year ago. Dr. Edward Abrahams is President of the Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC) and host of the 15th Annual Personalized Medicine Conference coming up on November 13 at Harvard Medical School. In this episode, we discuss…

In honor of breast cancer awareness month, Dr. Erica Stringer-Reasor joins us to discuss how breast cancer has led the way in the adoption of precision medicine. Dr. Stringer-Reasor is an expert in the field of breast cancer, a fast-rising star in cancer research and Assistant Professor of Hematology Oncology at the University of Alabama, Birmingha…

In this podcast, Nigel Russell, Founder and Co-president of the Journal of Precision Medicine and host of the Precision Medicine Leadership Summit, joins us to talk about how his team communicates the importance and challenges of Precision Medicine to a broad and sometimes under-informed readership.By Trapelo

In Part Two of our two-part interview with Dr. Jack West, Associate Clinical Professor at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, we discuss the differences between how community oncologists are applying—or in many cases not applying—precision medicine as opposed to how it is applied by academic oncologists.…

Ten-year cancer survivor and patient advocate Randall Broad, shares his personal story with stage III non-small cell lung cancer and how that experience made him acutely aware of the need for improved communication between patients and physicians in an effort to facilitate mutual understanding and better outcomes. Listen here. ​…

Dr. Michael Kolodziej is CIO at ADVI Health and a pioneer in developing value-based reimbursement models for cancer care. Having seen him present his talk, “The Healthcare Landscape of 2025: 3 Trends That Can Change Cancer Care Forever,” at a Florida Association of Clinical Oncology (FLASCO) event, we were anxious to dive deeper into the trends her…

Mr. Chet Burrell, former president and CEO of Care First Blue Cross Blue Shield and Executive Chairman of the Intervention Insights Board of Directors, discusses the challenges payers face in managing the growth of precision medicine for cancer care and why he's championing Trapelo's precision diagnostic platform as the first collaborative technolo…

Laboratories could be considered the epicenter of the precision medicine industry, so we were thrilled to have Dr. Michael Astion, Medical Director for the Department of Laboratories at Seattle Children's Hospital join us. In this episode, he introduces us to PLUGS, (Patient Centered Laboratory Utilization Guidance Service) a grassroots program he …

We’ve received many questions about the challenges clinicians face in knowing when to use pharmacogenetic tests in practice. So we invited our resident "genome educator" back! Inthis episodeJeanette McCarthy, co-founder of Precision Medicine Advisors, returns to address those questions and discuss some of the issues health care providers face. List…

Dr. Windy Dean-Colomb, an MD Anderson-trained MD, PhD, and practicing medical oncologist, and Dr. Clayton Yates, a professor of biology at Tuskegee University and director of the university's Multidisciplinary Center for Biomedical Research, join us to discuss the importance of studying and addressing racial disparities in oncology.…

How precision medicine is moving oncologists away from population-based treatments to more patient-appropriate care. Dr. Lee Newcomer, board-certified oncologist and former SVP of oncology and genetics at UnitedHealthcare, answers pressing questions about the current costs of cancer care, how diagnostics are currently reimbursed and who should cont…

Precision Medicine Podcast guest Dr. Sandeep “Bobby” Reddy talks about how he became an early adopter of precision medicine and the opportunities that exist to present its economic benefits. Listen to the full episode here.By Trapelo