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
Empowering Better Health with Wearables and Other Digital Tools - Dr. Kapil Parakh, Senior Medical Lead at Google
For our 400th episode we’re happy to be diving into one of our favorite topics -- direct-to-consumer healthcare -- with a leading force in the space, Dr. Kapil Parakh. In his role as senior medical l…
Helping Nurses Find Their Voice - Rebecca Love, IntelyCare
“We don't have a shortage of nurses in this country. We have a shortage of nurses willing to practice in the healthcare environments as they are today,” says Rebecca Love, an educator, innovator and …
Creating a Model for Healthcare in Rural America - Dr. Mike Waldrum, Dean of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and CEO of ECU Health
Twenty years ago, health outcomes in Eastern North Carolina lagged behind state averages but those deficits have largely been erased, and Dr. Mike Waldrum, Dean of the Brody School of Medicine at Eas…
Deep Community Ties Enhance Medical Education – Dr. Allison Brashear, Dean and Vice President for Health Sciences at the University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine
If you were to make a word cloud based on this episode of Raise the Line, community would be the most prominent term. For starters, Dr. Allison Brashear was attracted to Buffalo for its reputation a…
A Father-Son Team Helps Shape Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy - Dr. Bill Richards and Dr. Brian Richards, Sunstone Therapies
“We thought it was the end of psychedelic research, and the great dreams we had were for some future generation,” says Dr. Bill Richards, referring to the 1970s when the Nixon administration criminal…
Shifting Healthcare to a Preventive Model - Andrew Lacy, Founder & CEO of Prenuvo
“After an hour in this machine, I learned more about my health than the health system had told me my entire life.” That’s our Raise the Line guest Andrew Lacy describing a full body MRI scan he under…
Challenging Medical Dogma to Save Her Child - Dr. Tracy Dixon-Salazar, Executive Director of the LGS Foundation
When Tracy Dixon-Salazar was a young mother of two she described herself as a mediocre high school student with no real academic or career ambitions. Today, she has a PhD in Neurobiology and Neurosci…
The “Four Cs” of Innovation - Dr. Lloyd Minor, Dean of Stanford University School of Medicine
“There's never been a better time to do what we do in our fields and the future of life sciences is so incredibly bright,” says Dr. Lloyd Minor. From his perch as dean of Stanford University School o…
Visualizing Health Sciences Education - Andrew Dos-Santos, Founder, President & CEO of Fenix Alma Solutions
Educating someone to be a nurse, physician or allied health professional is obviously a complex process for learners, faculty and administrators. Today, our new Raise the Line co-host (and Osmosis CO…
Increasing Medication Adherence with Video Technology - Sebastian Seiguer, CEO of Scene Health
The failure of patients to take their medications as prescribed costs the U.S. healthcare system more than $500 billion a year, not to mention the adverse health outcomes it causes. Today’s Raise the…
The Challenge of Providing the Right Data at the Right Time - Jake Engle, Senior Director at Oracle Cerner and Dr. Sam Engle, Pediatric Endocrinologist at Children’s Wisconsin
To the uninitiated, interoperability may sound like a surgical term, but it actually refers to how IT systems and other technologies communicate with each other. The goal, of course, is seamless comm…
Using Psychedelics to Understand Spiritual Experiences - Dr. David Yaden, Roland R. Griffiths Professor in Psychedelic Research on Secular Spirituality and Well-Being at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Dr. David Yaden’s interest in studying spiritual experiences started with one of his own. As he describes it, it was a totally spontaneous experience involving an intensely altered state of conscious…
“The Time for Innovation is Upon Us” - Dr. Julie Pilitsis, Dean of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine and Vice President of Medical Affairs at Florida Atlantic University
“I think we're doing something really special here to change the way healthcare is delivered in South Florida, so keep an eye on us,” says Dr. Julie Pilitsis, dean of the Charles E. Schmidt College o…
Injecting Ancient Philosophy Into Modern Medical Education - Dr. Charles Lockwood, Executive Vice President of USF Health in Tampa
Shortly after starting his job as Dean of the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine in 2014, Dr. Charles Lockwood was presented with the exciting opportunity to help design a new medical education b…
“We Want to Be the Most Inclusive University in the Country” - Dr. Janelle Sokolowich, Academic Vice President and Dean of the Leavitt School of Health at Western Governors University
After battling chronic illness as a child, Dr. Janelle Sokolowich swore she’d never step foot in a hospital again and started pursuing a different path in college. But life had a way of bringing her …
“A Fascinating Time to Be Involved in This Work”- Dr. Al Garcia-Romeu, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University
Major depression, smoking, anorexia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Alzheimer’s disease...is it possible for psychedelics to play a positive role in all of these conditions? There are indicat…
Bringing Efficiency to the Prescription Process for Providers and Patients - Deepak Thomas, Co-Founder of Phil, Inc.
When Deepak Thomas contracted Lyme disease in his twenties, he quickly discovered how difficult it can be for a person to navigate the healthcare system, particularly when filling prescriptions. “Whe…
“A Pull From Below On the Whole Central Nervous System”- Dr. Miguel Bautista Royo-Salvador, Director of the Institut Chiari & Syringomyelia Escoliosis de Barcelona
As our Year of the Zebra focus on rare diseases continues, we’re putting several neurological conditions in the spotlight whose symptoms include neck pain, vertigo, swallowing issues, memory trouble …
AI Draws New Value from Old Medical Technology - Dr. Jacob Donoghue, Co-Founder & CEO of Beacon Biosignals
In this episode of Raise the Line, we dive into the fascinating story of a very old technology, EEGs, being mined for data using a very new technology, AI, that's changing the way treatments are bein…
The Broadening Exploration of Potential Uses for Psychedelics: Dr. Fred Barrett, Associate Director of The Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research
If psychedelics are eventually authorized by the FDA for use in mental health treatment, much credit will go to The Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research which sparked a ren…