by Rome Madison | Jul 11, 2026 | 2026 Season 2, AI, Population Health, Uncategorized
In This Episode Today Rome sits down with a living legend: Dr. Lee Hood, CEO of Phenome Health, a trailblazer who helped launch the Human Genome Project and has spent 60+ years pushing medicine forward. This triumphant conversation shows how precision medicine—using...
by Rome Madison | Jun 18, 2026 | 2026 Season 2, genetic testing, Patient Advocacy
For decades, Mariela Ayala lived under the weight of misdiagnosis—insomnia, depression, recurring infections, medication side effects, and steady weight gain. As prescriptions stacked up (25 at one point), she kept pushing, studying, and showing up for life. But...
by Rome Madison | Jun 8, 2026 | 2026 Season 2, genetic testing, Patient Advocacy
EPISODE DESCRIPTION: In this episode Kasey Walsh explains how simple social media connections grew into formal research collaborations, a nonprofit, and a patient‑owned data platform, all motivated by her determination to help her daughter Robbie, who was born with an...
by Rome Madison | Jun 1, 2026 | 2026 Season 2, Cancer, Hereditary cancer testing, Population Health
Rome experienced a career high talking with Dr. Otis W. Brawley, a globally recognized Medical Oncologist and Epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, about his work to reduce healthcare disparities. Dr Bawley is a former Chief Medical and...
by Rome Madison | May 27, 2026 | 2026 Season 2, Cancer, genetic testing, Hereditary cancer testing
Journalist Larry Ingrassia speaks candidly with Rome about the years his family spent facing unexplained, early‑onset cancer diagnoses before anyone knew Li‑Fraumeni syndrome existed. He recounts the shock of watching relatives fall ill, the delays in diagnosis, and...
