Healthcare Unfiltered

Dr. Julie Gralow, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of ASCO (American Society of Medical Oncology,) the largest society for oncologists around the world, shares her career journey until she assumed the post of ASCO-CMO during the COVID-19 pandemic. Julie is a pioneer in global oncology and a world-renowned leader in breast cancer, being an innovator and a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle for over 20 years. Her impact on the field is second to none. Dr. Gralow discusses how ASCO attempts to address hot and controversial issues in oncology in a timely and effective manner. We go over the current chemotherapy shortage and abortion rights for patients with cancer, among other topics. This episode is a must-listen for everyone in oncology; hear the most influential medical voice in oncology on behalf of our society and be inspired. View “A Day in the Life” of Dr. Gralow at the ASCO Annual Meeting. https://twitter.com/asco/status/1671578875145461774 Check out Chadi’s website for all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes and other content. www.chadinabhan.com/ Watch all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes on Youtube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiJPTpIJdIiukcq0UaMFsA

In another change-of-pace episode, Chadi hosts Tom Harari, MBA, serial entrepreneur and writer of personal finance, business, and self-improvement. Tom shares his personal business ventures and professional story to date, opens up about how heartbreak in his personal life was a truly life-changing moment from which to grow, and recaps his viral Twitter thread of the “38 lessons I'd tell my 18 year old self.” There are plenty of advice nuggets and thought-provoking tidbits from this honest and self-reflective dialogue about how to better your life and set yourself up for future success. Read Tom’s recent writings and subscribe to his newsletter. www.tomharari.co Check out Chadi’s website for all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes and other content. www.chadinabhan.com/ Watch all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes on Youtube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiJPTpIJdIiukcq0UaMFsA

Alex Herrera, MD, associate professor of medicine and lymphoma “guru” at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, joins the show on the last day of the ASCO Annual Meeting after being on stage for his Plenary session. Dr. Herrera shares the remarkable, resilient story of his family life, upbringing, life-altering injury, and improbable journey from playing baseball in Miami to a leadership role at City of Hope. Captivating, inspiring, gut-wrenching, and uplifting, Dr. Herrera’s account is truly worthy of your attention. Read Dr. Herrera’s story in The ASCO Post. https://ascopost.com/issues/december-25-2022/alex-herrera-md-finds-a-path-from-the-baseball-fields-of-miami-to-a-leadership-role-at-city-of-hope/ Check out Chadi’s website for all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes and other content. www.chadinabhan.com/ Watch all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes on Youtube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiJPTpIJdIiukcq0UaMFsA

Tyler Olson of Olson Consulting LLC joins the show to share his financial advice and planning for physicians and medical students as they go through their careers. Chadi and Tyler hit on the early financial decisions that medical students and early career physicians should make to support their lives as they deal with delayed income, why Tyler decided to open his own consulting firm, and why he focuses his consulting solely for the benefit of medical professionals. He shares how medical students and residents can see the trajectory of the debt they accumulate while in training and set a “plan to plan” and manage cash flow to alleviate that debt efficiently. View resources on the Olson Consulting website. https://www.olsonconsultingmi.com/home Check out Chadi’s website for all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes and other content. www.chadinabhan.com/ Watch all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes on Youtube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiJPTpIJdIiukcq0UaMFsA

Nitin Jain, MD, associate professor in the department of leukemia, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, is the guest of honor to provide a comprehensive and simplified overview of the major advances in chronic lymphocytic leukemia over the past two decades. Dr. Jain talks mutations and time to treatment, prognostic markers, BTK inhibitors, combination regimens, current research, toxicities, cost, and a host of controversies with trial comparator arms, drug similarities, and MRD. Check out Chadi’s website for all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes and other content. www.chadinabhan.com/ Watch all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes on Youtube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiJPTpIJdIiukcq0UaMFsA

In this pivot episode, James Winterman, Vice President of Scientific Marketing at Caris Life Sciences, joins Chadi as a citizen of England to discuss and reflect on the passing of the late Queen Elizabeth II. He begins with a condensed history lesson of the United Kingdom, how the healthcare system differs slightly across the UK and how it compares to that of the US, and where government power rests. Then, he delves into the royal family and their position in all of this. What social and political roles do individuals in the royal family have? How and why does the royal family bring the people of England together? James answers these questions and more, along with a detailed explanation of how the Queen has had a more profound impact on his life than he had known before her passing. Check out Chadi’s website for all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes and other content. www.chadinabhan.com/ Watch all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes on Youtube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiJPTpIJdIiukcq0UaMFsA

Stacie Dusetzina, PhD, Professor of Health Policy, Ingram Professor of Cancer Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, makes her long-awaited return to the show to cover all things related to pharmacy benefit managers. Stacie talks about the good, the bad, and the ugly, starting with the history of the PBMs and how they grew within the healthcare industry. What exactly is the role of the PBMs and why do they exist? Have they helped in reducing cost of care, and if not, why? Why are they heavily criticized? Stacie, as always, articulates the facts and separates the signal from noise. Check out Chadi’s website for all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes and other content. www.chadinabhan.com/ Watch all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes on Youtube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiJPTpIJdIiukcq0UaMFsA

Tiffany McConathy, an oncology nurse practitioner in Arkansas, tells the sombering story of her infant daughter’s battle with pediatric brain and spinal cancer. She details Nora’s course of events, including the long pathology and diagnosis journey, the decision to move forward with treatment, and the months of good responses that followed prior to her passing. Tiffany also shares how Nora’s COVID-19 diagnosis during treatment pushed back her transplantation and eventual autopsy, just 9 days before her passing. This deeply saddening discussion will inspire you to think differently about pediatric cancers, just as the experience has inspired Tiffany to create the non-profit organization “Princess Nora’s Warrior Foundation.” Read about and donate to this foundation. https://noraswarriors.com/ Check out Chadi’s website for all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes and other content. www.chadinabhan.com/ Watch all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes on Youtube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiJPTpIJdIiukcq0UaMFsA

Kyle Kiser, CEO of Arrive Health, joins the show to highlight his company’s unique approach to lowering costs of prescription drugs for patients in the US. He explains how physicians often make changes to their prescription recommendations based on Arrive Health’s presence as an “invisible component within the EMR,” how they aggregate data to generate clinical alternatives and relevant alternatives to payer preferences, how they maneuver around prior authorizations, the need (or lack thereof) of intermediaries like PBMs, and much more. Check out Chadi’s website for all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes and other content. www.chadinabhan.com/ Watch all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes on Youtube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiJPTpIJdIiukcq0UaMFsA

Chadi hosts a duo of Canadiens to discuss quality of life and patient-reported outcomes in clinical trials: Christopher Booth, MD, and Michael Brundage, MSc, FRCPC, MD, both of Queen's University. They begin by pontificating on whether quality of life is a “must” endpoint in designing interventional clinical trials today, the timeline of how “PROs” came to be a term and an important component of clinical trials, how PRO measures should differ across disease types and trials, and how PROs should be approached from an organizational and operational standpoint. Then, they discuss and use examples to illustrate how practical it is for providers to regularly measure quality of life and PROs, how payers should be approached for discussion on PRO measures, whether toxicity of therapies are underestimated by providers, and a whole lot more. Check out Chadi’s website for all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes and other content. www.chadinabhan.com/ Watch all Healthcare Unfiltered episodes on Youtube. www.youtube.com/channel/UCjiJPTpIJdIiukcq0UaMFsA