Health Science Radio
What is quantum computing and how will it improve healthcare? What are the latest innovations in cell and gene therapy? How are human eating habits affected by our evolution? Health Science Radio is a podcast that answers these questions and more, exploring tomorrow’s medicine today. We talk with University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus researchers who are devoted to solving the most persistent challenges in health science.
Episodes
40 episodes since 2022
Céline Dion’s Doctor Advances Medicine for Patients of Rare Neurological Disorders
This episode features a discussion about autoimmune neurological diseases, including the rare stiff person syndrome (SPS) that affects Canadian superstar Céline Dion. Our guest is Amanda Piquet, MD, associate professor
September 12, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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25:37
How Should We Be Talking About Grief?
In the wake of a loss, how do we reconcile the Five Stages of Grief with feelings that shift day to day? In this episode of Health Science Radio, licensed professional counselor and assistant professor of psychiatry Mandy Doria walks through so...
September 04, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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29:39
Better. Stronger. Faster. Scientists Rebuild Cancer-Killing Cells
This episode features a discussion about treating cancer through immunotherapy, including tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte, or TIL, therapy. Our guest is Eduardo Davila, professor in the Division of Medical Oncology at the University of Colorado S...
August 06, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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33:20
The Sci-Fi World of Brain Chip Implants Is Here. What Does it Mean?
This episode of Health Science Radio features a discussion about the fast-growing field of neurotechnology and what it means for patients with paralysis or neurodegenerative brain diseases including Parkinson’s and epilepsy. Our guest is Cristi...
June 25, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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34:41
Fulfilling a Dream: Ophthalmology Researcher Works to Restore People’s Vision
This episode features a discussion about a groundbreaking effort to restore vision in patients with age-related macular degeneration, or AMD. Our guest is Valeria Canto-Soler, associate professor of ophthalmology at the University of Colo...
April 22, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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28:10
Painful Joints That Heal Themselves? It Could Happen – Sooner Than You Think
This episode features a discussion about osteoarthritis, a painful degenerative disease that affects 32.5 million Americans. With no existing effective regenerative therapy, treatments are limited to anti-inflammatory injections and, ultimately...
April 19, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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27:11
National Crisis of Physician Burnout: What Can Be Done?
This episode features a discussion about the burnout crisis among physicians and other healthcare professionals. The Association of Medical Colleges estimates that the United States will face a shortage of between 38,000 and 124,000 physicians ...
March 28, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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37:21
New Therapy Quiets Brain’s ‘False Alarms,’ Aims to Cure Chronic Pain
This episode features a discussion about new and exciting neuroscience-based treatments that are aimed toward recovery from chronic pain. Our guest is Dr. Yoni Ashar, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Me...
January 25, 2024
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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33:35
CU Anschutz Harnesses Technology and Innovation to Speed Drug Discovery
In this episode of CU Anschutz 360, Daniel LaBarbera, PhD, director of the Center for Drug Discovery, talks about harnessing technology and innovation to speed the development of new therapies. He discusses robotic automation, quantum computing...
December 15, 2023
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29:56
From Childhood Fascination to Life-Changing Research
In this episode of CU Anschutz 360, Angelo D’Alessandro, PhD, shares his fascination with blood science and how it led him into biochemistry, molecular genetics and metabolomics. A steadfast collaborator, D’Alessandro explains why multidiscipli...
September 11, 2023
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32:44
CU Anschutz Takes Lead in Unraveling the Mysteries of Long COVID
This episode of CU Anschutz 360 focuses on the research into long COVID taking place at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. An important study involving CU Anschutz researchers ties into RECOVER, a national initiative seek...
July 10, 2023
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27:24
CAR T-Cell Pioneer Takes Aim at Where No Campus Has Gone Before
In this episode of the CU Anschutz 360 podcast, Terry Fry, MD, the inaugural executive director and Charles C. Gates Endowed Chair of the Gates Institute, explains how the institute is heading toward new frontiers of targeted cell and gene ther...
May 05, 2023
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28:00
At CU Anschutz, the Future of AI Is Here
In this episode of the CU Anschutz 360 podcast, Casey Greene, PhD, the founding chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, offers insights into the rapid development of artificial intelli...
March 10, 2023
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34:00
COMBAT Seeks to Solve Military's Clinical Challenges, Translate Science for Civilian Communities
This episode of CU Anschutz 360 focuses on the Center for Combat and Battlefield Research at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Launched in January 2019, the COMBAT Center conducts research that impacts clinical patient care, b...
February 06, 2023
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30:00
Seeing a Regressive Form of Down Syndrome From All Sides
This episode of CU Anschutz 360 focuses on the mysterious and debilitating condition known as Down Syndrome Regression Disorder. DSRD is a severe neurological condition with symptoms such as loss of speech, inability to perform activities of da...
November 08, 2022
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26:54
CAR T-Cell Therapy Transforming Science and Cancer Patient Outcomes at CU Anschutz
This episode of CU Anschutz 360 focuses on a promising breakthrough therapy for patients with large B-cell lymphoma, an aggressive subtype of the disease. The clinical trial was led by Manali Kamdar, MD, clinical director of the lymphoma progra...
August 15, 2022
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24:46
OCD ruled Moksha Patel's life until a rare surgical procedure changed everything
Moksha Patel is a successful senior instructor at CU School of Medicine. He has been dealing with severe OCD his whole life. When he came to CU Anschutz as a fellow in hospital medicine, his advisors intervened. After a year of clearing insurance ...
May 02, 2022
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39:18
How Nature Compels us to Overeat
In this episode of CU Anschutz 360, Johnson expounds on why humans tend to overeat and gain weight, and why it’s rooted in nature. What do we have in common with hibernating bears, sperm whales and emperor penguins? What triggers fat storage for a...
April 27, 2022
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36:29
Looking for the cause and future treatments of Alzheimer's
This episode of CU Anschutz 360 explores Alzheimer's research, featuring the inspiring teamwork of Diego Restrepo, PhD, and Maria Nagel, MD. Their random meeting in 2018 led to focused study and insights into the triggers, or accelerants, of Alzhe...
March 10, 2022
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26:57
The Science of Super Athletes: Iñigo San Millán
Media relations senior director David Kelly speaks with Iñigo San Millán, a researcher at the CU School of Medicine and trainer of super athletes, including the most recent two-time Tour de France winner. Doctor San Millan uses his work with athle...
November 02, 2021
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33:06
How Does Social Media Affect Our Mental Health?
In this episode of CU Anschutz 360, Emily Hemendinger, LCSW, explores the positive and negative consequences of social media use on our mental health. She asserts that the COVID-19 pandemic, when social media use skyrocketed, caused a mental healt...
June 08, 2021
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31:27
Changing her Course: Mountain Biker Rides Out Long COVID
It’s Real: Doctor, Patient Face Mysterious Long COVID
April 30, 2021
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29:26
CU-Led Playbook Gives Rural Health Leaders a Voice
When the pandemic struck last spring, rural health experts at CU and the Colorado Hospital Association fanned out to ask rural healthcare leaders what was working and what wasn’t amid the public health crisis. The result is a 134-page playbook tha...
March 15, 2021
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42:52
Closing the Cancer Care Gap Can Be a Matter of Life and Death
CU Cancer Center’s Cathy Bradley works to put treatment within everyone’s reach.
February 25, 2021
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24:47
Covid Reflections: Public Health with Jonathan Samet, MD, and Glen Mays, PhD
Dean of the Colorado School of Public Health Dr. Jonathan Samet and chair of the department of health systems, management and policy at the Colorado School of Public Health Dr. Glen Mays talk about modeling, lockdowns and what this pandemic means ...
December 22, 2020
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