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NEJM Interviews
Insightful conversations with leading experts in the field of health care, medical research, policy, and more from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Each episode examines the many complexities found at the junction of medicine and society.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Dominique Béhague on therapeutic strategies that rely on bidirectional critical analysis and learning.
Dr. Dominique Béhague is an associate professor of medicine, health, and society at Vanderbilt University and a reader in the Department of Global Health and…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. David Cutler on the debate over Medicare for All and other proposals for reforming the U.S. health care system.
Dr. David Cutler is a professor of applied economics at Harvard University. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the…
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NEJM Interview: Drs. James Shultz and Krista Nottage on climate-change–driven storms and their disproportionate effects on marginalized populations.
James Shultz is director of the Center for Disaster and Extreme Event Preparedness at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Krista Nottage is a…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Dhruv Kazi on a new California law aimed at increasing use of preexposure prophylaxis by people at heightened risk for acquiring HIV infection
Dr. Dhruv Kazi is associate director of the Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology and director of the Cardiac Critical Care Unit at Beth Israel…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Michele Friedner on how the concept of normality affects health care decisions.
Dr. Michele Friedner is an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Stephen Morrissey, the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Adewole Adamson on the role of machine learning in cancer diagnosis.
Dr. Adewole Adamson is a dermatologist and assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Goudarz Molaei on range expansion of the lone star tick and other tick species and implications for human health.
Goudarz Molaei is a research scientist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and an associate clinical professor in the Department of Epidemiology…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Jonathan Oberlander on legislation aimed at reducing spending on prescription drugs.
Dr. Jonathan Oberlander is a professor of social medicine and health policy and management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Stephen…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Peter J. Campbell on genome sequencing in cancer.
Dr. Peter Campbell is head of cancer, aging, and somatic mutation, senior group leader, and joint head of the Cancer Genome Project at the Wellcome Trust…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Ippolytos Kalofonos on the gatekeeper role played by U.S. physicians in facilitating vulnerable patients’ access to disability benefits.
Dr. Ippolytos Kalofonos is an assistant professor at the International Institute and Center for Social Medicine and Humanities at UCLA and the Greater Los…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Kevin De Cock on the research and public health benefits of autopsies and other forms of postmortem investigation.
Dr. Kevin De Cock is the Kenya country director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Michael Fralick on contributors — and proposed solutions — to high insulin prices in the United States.
Dr. Michael Fralick is an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto and a general internist at Mount Sinai Hospital…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Caleb Gardner on the limitations of an increasing focus on biologic knowledge in psychiatry.
Dr. Caleb Gardner is a psychiatrist who recently completed his residency at Cambridge Health Alliance. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Lakshmi Ganapathi on threats to medical deferred action.
Dr. Lakshmi Ganapathi is an attending physician in the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Nephrology at Boston Children’s Hospital. Stephen Morrissey, the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Yogesh Jain on the production of medical evidence that can benefit people in lower-resource settings.
Dr. Yogesh Jain is a public health physician at Jan Swasthya Sahyog in India. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Stacie Dusetzina on three proposals for redesigning the Medicare Part D prescription-drug benefit.
Dr. Stacie Dusetzina is an associate professor of health policy at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the…
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NEJM Interview: Prof. Tara Sklar on recent state laws creating prescription-drug affordability boards.
Dr. Tara Sklar is a professor of health law at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Benard Dreyer on government policies and actions that build on a legacy of antiimmigrant sentiment in the United States.
Dr. Benard Dreyer is a professor of pediatrics at the New York University School of Medicine. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Robert Aronowitz on how the largely social processes by which we identify diseases can transform diseases themselves.
Dr. Robert Aronowitz is chair of the department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Debra Weinstein on policies related to parenting during medical training that could be implemented at the national, institutional, and program levels.
Dr. Debra Weinstein is vice president for graduate medical education at Partners HealthCare and a member of the Journal’s Perspective Advisory Board. Stephen…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Ida Sim on mobile devices and health.
Dr. Ida Sim is Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), Director of Digital Health for the Division of General Internal…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Michael Baden on deaths of women due to complications from illegal abortion attempts.
Dr. Michael Baden is a forensic pathologist. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. L. Rosenbaum. Perilous…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Catherine Lucey on the identification and treatment of opioid use disorder in medical students.
Dr. Catherine Lucey is vice dean for education at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Renee Salas on the effects of climate change on human health and health systems.
Dr. Renee Salas is an affiliated faculty member at the Harvard Global Health Institute and an emergency medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Kelly Knight on reproductive injustice and actions clinicians can take to prevent disparities in reproductive health outcomes
Dr. Kelly Knight is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco…
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NEJM Interview: Elizabeth Nash on state-level abortion restrictions, including recent efforts that directly challenge Roe v. Wade.
Elizabeth Nash is the senior state issues manager at the Guttmacher Institute. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Deborah Anderson on the potential for new contraceptive methods to ease problems associated with population growth.
Dr. Deborah Anderson is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology, microbiology, and medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. Stephen Morrissey…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Katherine A. High on gene therapy for genetic disease.
Dr. Katherine High is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania and president and head of research…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Pieter Cohen on the legal status of cannabidiol and an opportunity to strengthen the FDA’s approach to safety requirements for new dietary ingredients.
Dr. Pieter Cohen is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Anita Berlin on the relationship between the state and medical care and maintaining the integrity of the medical code of ethics.
Anita Berlin is a professor of primary care education at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London. Stephen…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Julie Cantor on steps taken by local governments to control the spread of measles.
Dr. Julie Cantor is an adjunct professor at the UCLA School of Law. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. J.D…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Evan E. Eichler on genetic variation, comparative genomics, and the diagnosis of disease.
Dr. Evan Eichler is Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Roy Perlis on esketamine as an option for treatment-resistant depression.
Dr. Roy Perlis is the director of the Center for Quantitative Health at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Jonathan Oberlander on the latest legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act and the ongoing health policy stalemate in Washington.
Dr. Jonathan Oberlander is a professor of social medicine and health policy and management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Stephen…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Héctor Carrasco on strategies for uncovering and addressing the fundamental causes of complex health problems.
Dr. Héctor Carrasco is a physician and a doctor of public health candidate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Stephen Morrissey, the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Deborah Dowell on concerns about misimplementation and misapplication of the CDC’s opioid-prescribing guideline.
Dr. Deborah Dowell is the chief medical officer of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Anthony Fauci on troubling increases in measles cases in the United States and globally.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Michael F. Clarke on clinical and therapeutic implications of cancer stem cells.
Dr. Michael F. Clarke is a professor at Stanford Medical School and Associate Director of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Sanjeev Krishna on delays in parasite clearance observed in patients with malaria treated with artesunate.
Dr. Sanjeev Krishna is a professor of molecular parasitology and medicine at St. George’s, University of London. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr on an ambitious new HIV goal for the United States and lessons to be learned from the global HIV response.
Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr is the director of ICAP at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Daphna Stroumsa on the limitations of classification systems in health care and their potential effects on patients.
Dr. Daphna Stroumsa is a fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program and a clinical lecturer in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Jeremy Farrar on the emergence and spread of new infectious diseases and ensuring swift, coordinated action in the face of threats.
Dr. Jeremy Farrar is the director of the Wellcome Trust. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. J.J. Farrar…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Scott Podolsky on the revolution in pharmaceutical marketing that set the stage for physician “education” about treating pain with opioids.
Dr. Scott Podolsky is a professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Helen Blau on stem cells in the treatment of disease.
Dr. Helen Blau is the director of the Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Stephen Morrissey, the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Matthew Fiedler on policies for extending coverage to the remaining uninsured populations in the United States.
Dr. Matthew Fiedler is a fellow with the Center for Health Policy at the Brookings Institution. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. J. Brian Byrd on the recall of products containing angiotensin-receptor blockers and the implications for patient care.
Dr. J. Brian Byrd is an assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. David Ansell on racial disparities in health that result from unequal distribution of power and resources.
Dr. David Ansell is the senior vice president for community health equity at Rush University Medical Center. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Isaac Kohane on machine learning in medicine.
Dr. Isaac Kohane, the interviewee, is chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and professor of biomedical informatics and pediatrics at Harvard…
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NEJM Interview: Terry Langbaum and Dr. Tom Smith on issues faced by long-term survivors with metastatic cancer.
Terry Langbaum is chief administrative officer at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. Dr. Tom Smith is a medical oncologist and the director of palliative…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Ingrid Binswanger on gaps in treatment for opioid use disorder for people who are incarcerated.
Dr. Ingrid Binswanger is a senior investigator at the Institute for Health Research at Kaiser Permanente Colorado and an associate professor of internal…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Laszlo Madaras on caring for people who diverge from the typical patient imagined by health care institutions.
Dr. Laszlo Madaras is chief medical officer of the Migrant Clinicians Network and a clinical assistant professor at Penn State College of Medicine. Stephen…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Cynthia Chuang on federal efforts to weaken the ACA’s contraceptive-coverage mandate.
Dr. Cynthia Chuang is a professor of medicine and public health sciences at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. Stephen Morrissey, the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. George Daley on the prospects for using genome editing to prevent genetic diseases.
Dr. George Daley is dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Matthew H. Porteus on therapeutic editing of the human genome.
Dr. Matthew H. Porteus, the interviewee, is professor of pediatrics–stem cell transplantation at Stanford University. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is…
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Audio roundtable discussion on learning to foster better teams.
Dr. Neel Shah is an assistant professor of obstetrics at Harvard Medical School and director of the Delivery Decisions Initiative at Ariadne Labs. Dr. Amy…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Kenneth Poole on the challenges involved in interpreting patient-experience ratings, including bias against black physicians.
Dr. Kenneth Poole is an internal medicine physician and the medical director of patient experience at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. Stephen Morrissey, the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Scott Stonington on structures within medicine that may systematically harm patients.
Dr. Scott Stonington is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and an internal medicine physician. Stephen Morrissey, the…
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NEJM Interview: Prof. Mark Hall on strategies for addressing inadequate provider networks and surprise medical bills.
Prof. Mark Hall is a professor of law and director of the Health Law and Policy Program at Wake Forest University. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Benjamin S. Freedman on organoids as preclinical models of human diseases.
Dr. Benjamin S. Freedman, the interviewee, is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology at the University of Washington School of Medicine…
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NEJM Interview: Drs. Jeffrey Drazen and Lisa Rosenbaum on finding meaning and connecting with patients in modern medical practice.
Dr. Jeffrey Drazen is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum is a national correspondent for the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer…