Raise the Line
Join host Lindsey Smith and other Osmosis team members for a global conversation about improving health and healthcare with prominent figures in education and healthcare innovation such as Chelsea Clinton, Mark Cuban, Dr. Ashish Jha, Dr. Eric Topol, Dr. Vivian Lee and Sal Khan, as well as senior leaders at organizations such as the CDC, National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins University, WHO, Harvard University, NYU Langone and many others.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 540
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Letting the Student Voice Drive Teaching Innovation - Dr. Athanasios Hassoulas, Director of the Master of Science Psychiatry Program Cardiff University and Winner of a 2022 Osmosis Raise the Line Faculty Award
Join us on this special episode as we start a series of conversations with the winners of the Osmosis from Elsevier 2022 Raise the Line Faculty Awards which recognize the inspirational educators who …
The Connection Between Rare Disease Research and Treatments for Common Diseases - Dr. Jules Berman, Pathologist and Author
Regular listeners to Raise the Line know that research into rare diseases should matter to everybody because it has led to treatments for much more common conditions that have improved and saved mill…
Physicians Fight for Their Daughter and All Children with Single Gene Disorders - Dr. Geri Landman, Co-Founder of Moonshots for Unicorns
Lucy Landman is one of only a few children known worldwide to have a genetic disorder called PGAP3, in which a single missing gene can cause seizures and severe physical and cognitive limitations. Lu…
Unlocking Potential Cures For Rare Diseases With Gene Therapy - Dr. Gaurav Shah, CEO of Rocket Pharma
Eighty percent of rare diseases are caused by genetic mutations, which is why many of our recent guests have highlighted the importance of pursuing gene therapies as potential treatments and cures. T…
Turning What You Know Into a Business - Justin Welsh, Founder of The Saturday Solopreneur
“Burnout to me is about losing control, not overwork. It's about being unable to solve problems, and problems beginning to stack up with no end in sight.” Today’s Raise the Line guest Justin Welsh ea…
Educating Doctors to Be Leaders and Changemakers - Dr. Abebe Bekele, Dean of the School of Medicine at University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda
“The qualities of a provider that were envisioned fifty years ago are completely different from what the world needs for tomorrow. It’s completely different,” insists Dr. Abebe Bekele, who is entrust…
Empowering Rare Disease Patients to Solve Problems - Annie Kennedy, Chief of Policy, Advocacy and Patient Engagement at the EveryLife Foundation
“Our rare disease community is looking to solve for many different types of policy barriers because we have a very diverse patient community,” says Annie Kennedy, who was drawn to the rare disease is…
Lessons From ‘Patient School’ That Medical School Doesn’t Teach - Dr. Alin Gragossian, Heart Transplant Recipient and Emergency Medicine Specialist
“In about three weeks, I went from a completely normal thirty-year-old to somebody with a heart transplant. It was crazy,” says Dr. Alin Gragossian, who shares her remarkable experience on this editi…
Navigating Changes, Choices and Challenges Facing Med Students and Faculty - Dr. Kim Tartaglia of Ohio State University Wexner College of Medicine
There are so many choices to make as an undergrad in med school: selecting which medical field to go into; whether to go down the academic path; and how to use your knowledge and skills to find succe…
Patients Can Be the Most Effective Teachers - Dr. Mark Korson, Director of Education and Physician Support Services at VMP Genetics
A singing guest! A poetic chat bot! This special episode of Raise the Line features those unusual artistic highpoints along with the substantive and interesting conversation you always get with host…
The Unexpected Career Opportunities in Life Sciences - Marc Cummings, President & CEO of Life Science Washington and Dr. Tina Albertson, Chief Medical Officer at Lyell Immunopharma
“There's a real diversity of jobs available that folks don’t always think about initially when they think about going into healthcare,” says Marc Cummings, the President and CEO of Life Science Washi…
A Patient-Centered Approach to Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy - Dr. Manish Agrawal, Co-Founder and CEO of Sunstone Therapies
“With psychedelics right now, there's a lot of hype around the compound, which is somewhat important, but Sunstone Therapies is really founded on the belief that the delivery is more important than t…
At the Crossroads of Social Justice and Medicine - Dr Githinji Gitahi, Group CEO of Amref Health Africa
Our guest on this episode of Raise the Line, Dr. Githinji Gitahi, ended up in the medical field because he’s always had a nagging need for social justice. “That was a place that I found where social …
Seeing Language Differences as An Opportunity, Not a Barrier - Dr. Pilar Ortega, Founding President of the National Association of Medical Spanish
Why is it that Hispanics make up 20% of the U.S. population, but only 6% of the physician workforce? Well, Dr. Pilar Ortega, founding president of the National Association of Medical Spanish and co-f…
The Limitations of Medical Knowledge - Dr. Lisa Sanders, Author of the "Diagnosis" Column for The New York Times
“Patients don’t understand how little we actually know in medicine. I'm not sure if doctors understand this, either,” says Dr. Lisa Sanders, an associate professor at Yale School of Medicine who is p…
The Need for Leadership Training in Medical School - Nita Gombakomba, National President of the Student National Medical Association
“In medical school, you don't learn about leadership. You don't learn about what skills are required to make large-scale strategic decisions that can impact your patients,” says Nita Gombakomba, who …
An Inside Look At the Long Battle to Legalize Psychedelics: Dr. Rick Doblin, Founder & Executive Director of MAPS
“I know it's hard for people to think about holding on if they're in despair, but there's the possibility of healing coming ahead. Don’t give up hope,” says Dr. Rick Doblin, who has devoted his caree…
Fostering Respect for Science and Support for Health Innovation - Max Bronstein, Assistant Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
The growth in skepticism about science that was fueled by disinformation during the pandemic has been a frequent topic on Raise the Line, with many insightful guests from medicine and academia offeri…
Using AI to Solve Medical Mysteries and Spur Rare Disease Treatments – Dr. Matthew Might, Kaul Precision Medicine Institute at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
“It's still early days in the application of all this technology relative to its long-term potential, but even so, it's already producing some big wins for patients,” says Dr. Matthew Might, whose im…
Navigating Change in the U.S. Healthcare System - Susan Dentzer, President & CEO of America’s Physician Groups
We welcome one of the nation's most respected health and health policy thought leaders to Raise the Line on this episode. Susan Dentzer’s remarkable career includes many years of reporting on health…