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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: Tom Frieden on the role of the CDC and current threats to the U.S. public health infrastructure.
Tom Frieden is the president and chief executive officer of Resolve to Save Lives and former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
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NEJM Interview: Nancy Tomes on the century-long transition to a corporate business model in U.S. health care.
Nancy Tomes is a professor of history at Stony Brook University. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. N. Tomes…
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NEJM Interview: Jason Schwartz on changes to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and approaches to sustaining U.S. vaccination efforts.
Jason Schwartz is an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Yale School of Public Health. Stephen Morrissey, the…
NEJM InterviewsNEJM Interview: Rohan Khazanchi on the gradual but incomplete shift to race-free equations for interpreting pulmonary function tests.
Watch the NEJM In Studio video of this interview at NEJM.org. Rohan Khazanchi is a research affiliate at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard…
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NEJM Interview: Katie Watson on the interaction of abortion laws with advance-directive and end-of-life laws.
Katie Watson is a professor of medical education, medical social sciences, and obstetrics and gynecology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of…
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NEJM Interview: Peter Marks on the disruption of traditional approaches to establishing Covid-19 vaccine policy in the United States.
Peter Marks is the former director of the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing…
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NEJM Interview: Patricia Mae Santos on the effects of U.S. anti-immigrant policies on immigrant health care workers and their patients.
Patricia Mae Santos is an assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine. Stephen Morrissey, the…
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NEJM Interview: Erin Fuse Brown on the manifestations and effects of corporatization in health care.
Erin Fuse Brown is a professor of health services, policy, and practice at the Brown University School of Public Health and a member of the Journal’s…
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NEJM Interview: Dariush Mozaffarian on the health harms of ultraprocessed foods and related policy actions.
Dariush Mozaffarian is the director of the Food is Medicine Institute at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and a…
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NEJM Interview: I. Glenn Cohen on the professional implications of the use of artificial-intelligence–based monitoring systems in medicine.
I. Glenn Cohen is a professor of law and deputy dean at Harvard Law School and faculty director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology…
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NEJM Interview: Amanda Kallen on the history of women’s health research and recent actions that are jeopardizing progress in women’s health.
Amanda Kallen is an associate professor in the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine…
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NEJM Interview: Amar Kelkar on NIH indirect-cost coverage and U.S. medical research.
Amar Kelkar is a physician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is…
NEJM InterviewsNEJM Interview: David Jones on the disparate historical approaches to anemia diagnosis and their lessons for physicians.
Watch the NEJM In Studio video of this interview at NEJM.org. David Jones is the Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine at Harvard University. Harleen…
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NEJM Interview: Zirui Song on the rise of concierge and direct primary care practices in the United States.
Zirui Song is an associate professor of health care policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School and a general internist at Massachusetts General Hospital…
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NEJM Interview: Alice Chen on responding to the U.S. administration’s threats to health and physicians’ values and maintaining hope in difficult times.
Alice Chen is a primary care internist in Washington, DC, and former executive director of Doctors for America. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the…
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NEJM Interview: Christopher Duggan on the effects of ending U.S. foreign-assistance and global health programs.
Christopher Duggan is the director of the Center for Nutrition at Boston Children’s Hospital, a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and a…
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NEJM Interview: Arthur Robin Williams on alcohol consumption in the United States and the effects of alcohol taxes.
Arthur Robin Williams is an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University and a research scientist at the New York State Psychiatric…
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NEJM Interview: Lauren Jatt on the efficacy of twice-yearly lenacapavir for preexposure prophylaxis and its implications for the development of an HIV vaccine.
Lauren Jatt is an infectious diseases fellow at the University of Washington. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the…
NEJM InterviewsNEJM Outbreaks Updates — H5N1 in Indiana
In this NEJM Outbreaks Update, Editor-in-Chief Eric Rubin and Deputy Editor Lindsey Baden are joined by Indiana Commissioner of Public Health Lindsay Weaver to…
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NEJM Interview: Patricia Zettler on a proposed FDA rule on nicotine yields and potential challenges moving forward.
Patricia Zettler is a professor of law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor…
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NEJM Interview: John Patrick Co on a stipend program designed to address cost-of-living concerns for residency applicants.
John Patrick Co is vice president of education at Mass General Brigham and an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey…
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NEJM Interview: Rochelle Walensky on the increased workload and emotional and financial burden associated with applying to medical school.
Rochelle Walensky is the Bayer fellow in health and biotech at the American Academy in Berlin, a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, and an executive…
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NEJM Interview: Erin Fuse Brown on telehealth arrangements that have prompted concerns about inappropriate prescribing and unnecessary spending.
Erin Fuse Brown is a professor of health services, policy, and practice at the Brown University School of Public Health and a member of the Journal’s…
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NEJM Interview: Alex Keuroghlian on responding to policy threats to protections for transgender and nonbinary people.
Alex Keuroghlian is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the director of the Division of Public and Community Psychiatry at…
NEJM InterviewsNEJM Outbreaks Update — H5N1: A View from the States
In this audio interview, Editor-in-Chief Eric Rubin and Deputy Editor Lindsey Baden are joined by state public health leaders Robbie Goldstein and Jennifer…
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NEJM Interview: Sara Gerke on the potential for genetic data and other personal information to be included in business transactions in the United States.
Sara Gerkeis an associate professor of law at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor…
NEJM InterviewsNEJM Outbreaks Update — H5N1
In this NEJM Outbreaks Update, Editor-in-Chief Eric Rubin and Deputy Editor Lindsey Baden are joined by veterinarian and virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka to…
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NEJM Interview: John Kelly on shifts in approaches for addressing substance use disorder.
John Kelly is the director of the Recovery Research Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of psychiatry in addiction medicine at Harvard…
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NEJM Interview: Peter Ubel on strategies for protecting patients from high out-of-pocket costs for drugs with questionable benefits.
Peter Ubel is a professor of business, public policy, and medicine at Duke University. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of…
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NEJM Interview: Yashaswini Singh on the expansion of private equity investments in health care and actions to safeguard patient interests in various countries.
Yashaswini Singh is an assistant professor of health services, policy, and practice at Brown University. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Joseph Ross on the newly implemented Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model.
Joseph Ross is a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the…
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NEJM Interview: Daniel Aaron on a Supreme Court case about e-cigarettes that could have implications for the FDA’s authority and for public health.
Daniel Aaron is an associate professor of law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Craig Spencer on the need for action to address persistent inequities in global health.
Craig Spencer is an emergency medicine physician and an associate professor of the practice of health services, policy, and practice at the Brown University…
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NEJM Interview: Carmel Shachar on modernizing labor laws and strike regulations to support physicians, patients, and hospitals.
Carmel Shachar is an assistant clinical professor of law and faculty director of the Health Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School. Stephen Morrissey, the…
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NEJM Interview: David Velasquez on care for older, low-income adults who can’t enroll in Medicare or Medicaid because they’re undocumented immigrants.
David Velasquez is an internal medicine resident physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing…
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NEJM Interview: Joey Mattingly on providing widespread access to HCV treatment at the lowest possible price.
Joey Mattingly is an associate professor in the Department of Pharmacotherapy at the University of Utah College of Pharmacy. Stephen Morrissey, the…
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NEJM Interview: Lauren Schiff on the need for improved training and increased comfort in treating autistic people.
Lauren Schiff is an associate professor of Ob/Gyn and a minimally invasive gynecologic surgeon at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the…
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NEJM Interview: Bindu Kanapuru on the FDA’s new expedited withdrawal procedure for accelerated approvals.
Bindu Kanapuru is a hematologist–oncologist physician in the Office of Oncologic Diseases at the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Stephen…
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NEJM Interview: Karen Joynt Maddox on the Transforming Episode Accountability Model recently announced by CMS.
Karen Joynt Maddox is an associate professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Andrew Hantel on a source of discrimination against some patients in cancer research and care practices.
Andrew Hantel is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a faculty member in the Divisions of Leukemia and Population Sciences at…
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NEJM Interview: Benjamin Rome on the results of the initial round of drug-price negotiation under the Inflation Reduction Act.
Benjamin Rome is a physician and health policy researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School…
NEJM InterviewsNEJM at AHA — Phase 1 Study of AAV9.LAMP2B Gene Therapy in Danon Disease
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Jane Leopold is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing…
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NEJM at AHA — Routine Spironolactone in Acute Myocardial Infarction
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Jane Leopold is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing…
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NEJM at AHA — CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing with Nexiguran Ziclumeran for ATTR Cardiomyopathy
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Jane Leopold is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing…
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NEJM at AHA — Catheter Ablation or Antiarrhythmic Drugs for Ventricular Tachycardia
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Jane Leopold is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing…
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NEJM at AHA — Intensive Blood-Pressure Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Jane Leopold is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing…
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NEJM at AHA — Left Atrial Appendage Closure after Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Jane Leopold is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing…
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NEJM at AHA — Tirzepatide for Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Obesity
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Jane Leopold is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing…
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NEJM Interview: Heather Hsu on an institutional conference series that provides opportunities for addressing the adverse effects of bias and medical racism.
Heather Hsu is a pediatric hospitalist at Boston Medical Center and an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian…
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NEJM Interview: Vincent Guilamo-Ramos on the need to rethink the response to HIV in Latino communities.
Vincent Guilamo-Ramos is the executive director of the Institute for Policy Solutions at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Stephen Morrissey, the…
NEJM InterviewsThe Marburg Virus Outbreak in Rwanda
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Sabin Nsanzimana, M.D., Ph.D., is the Minister of Health of…
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NEJM Interview: Liam McCoy on concerns about the implementation of large language models in note writing and related clinical tasks.
Liam McCoy is a resident physician in neurology at the University of Alberta. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the…
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NEJM Interview: Mark Wicclair on approaches to protecting both physicians’ conscience and patients’ health.
Mark Wicclair is an adjunct professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Bioethics and Health Law and a professor of philosophy emeritus at…
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NEJM Interview: Jose Figueroa on the potential effects of the results of the 2024 elections on health care access, affordability, and equity.
Jose Figueroa is an associate professor of health policy and management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an assistant professor of medicine…
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NEJM Interview: Jean Nachega on the mpox Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
Jean Nachega is an associate professor of infectious diseases and microbiology and of epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health and…
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NEJM Interview: Jonathan Oberlander on the implications of the 2024 U.S. elections for health care reform.
Jonathan Oberlander is a professor of social medicine and of health policy and management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Stephen…
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NEJM Interview: Abigail Cutler on providing training in abortion care to Ob/Gyn residents amid legal restrictions.
Abigail Cutler is an assistant professor and associate residency program director in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin…
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NEJM Interview: Charles Weijer on the potential benefits and ethical challenges associated with pragmatic and cluster RCTs.
Charles Weijer is a professor in the Departments of Medicine and Philosophy at Western University. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
NEJM InterviewsNEJM at ESMO — Phase 3 Trial of Cabozantinib in Advanced Neuroendocrine Tumors
Did you miss the ESMO Congress 2024? Listen here: NEJM Editor-in-Chief Eric Rubin and NEJM Evidence Associate Editor Oladapo Yeku discuss research that was…
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NEJM at ESMO — Zolbetuximab in Gastric or Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma
Did you miss the ESMO Congress 2024? Listen here: NEJM Editor-in-Chief Eric Rubin and NEJM Evidence Associate Editor Oladapo Yeku discuss research that was…