Podcast Episodes
2026 Season 2
#46 Powering Precision Medicine in Primary Care: How Endeavor Health is Lowering Downstream Cost of Cancer Care and Chronic Rare Disease
Endeavor Health is proving that precision medicine isn’t just for academic centers or rare-disease clinics. it can be In this episode, Rome talks with Justin Brueck, Vice President of Innovation and Research at Endeavor Health, about how their...
#45 Country Miles to a Clinical Trial – Bridging the Gap to Precision Medicine in Rural America
JJ Singleton was a 27-year-old athlete from the small Appalachian town in North Carolina, when he was diagnosed with aggressive colorectal cancer. His story highlights the alarming rise of early-onset colorectal cancer, a disease now the leading...
#44 You Bet Your Ass! Don’t Gamble on Colorectal Cancer – Win With Screening and Biomarkers
Marianne Pearson, VP of Patient Care and Lindsey Glaspell, Clinal Nurse Navigator at the Colorectal Cancer Alliance, join Rome for a blunt, funny — but deadly serious — briefing on colorectal cancer prevention. Marianne breaks down how knowing your...
#43 A Spark of Courage: How Genetic Testing Can Empower You to Prevent Cancer
She thought she was just another woman with lumps and dismissive doctors until a simple saliva test rewrote her future. Veronica Tucker’s story rips through complacency: from being told “(the cancer) is on your father’s side, don’t worry”; the...
#42 Live Boldly! How Amy Cohen’s NYC Marathon Finish Redefined the Limits of Sickle Cell Disease
We are honored to speak with Amy Cohen, who made history as the first person with sickle cell disease to run and finish the New York City Marathon. She opens up about her diagnosis, and the pivotal moment in high school when the reality of...
#41 Precision Medicine in Heart Failure: How Genetic Testing Can Prevent Sudden Death
In this episode research geneticist and author Susan Liebman joins us to tell the personal and scientific story behind her memoir The Dressmaker’s Mirror: Sudden Death, Genetics, and a Jewish Family’s Secret. Susan unpacks generations of silence...
Episode 40 – UNBREAKABLE: Precision Medicine and the Strength of the Sickle Cell Community
In this powerful episode Rome interviews Wumi Bakare and Christelle Salomon, two amazing women who are sickle cell warriors and hosts of the Through the Genes podcast. September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month. Wumi and Christelle share their...
Episode 39 – Next-Gen Cancer Care: An Expert Look at Physician Adoption and Patient Access to Life-Saving Biomarker Testing
Rome sits down with Stephane Budel, Founding Partner at Decibio, a premier strategy consulting firm dedicated to advancing precision medicine. This conversation aims to demystify the complex world of NGS testing, providing patients, caregivers,...
Episode 38 – Positive Genes = Personal Power! How Genetic Testing Drives Confident Healthcare Decisions
This week we sit down with Sara Kavanaugh, the voice behind The Positive Gene Podcast, who shares her deeply personal story as a cancer pre-vivor. Discovering not one, but two gene variants (CHK2 and MSH6 associated with Lynch Syndrome) that...
Episode 37 – More Than a Test: Rome Madison’s Personal Mission to Ensure Patient Access to Precision Medicine
In this special New Year's episode, host Rome Madison steps into the interviewee chair, sharing the driving force behid his two-decade career in precision medicine with DNA Today Podcast host Kira Deneen. Rome recounts his unexpected entry into the...