Trials, Tales and Trails

How do we effectively engage patients and what is the guidance from the WHO? Kate Groff, Chief Nursing Officer at FirstHx, talks to Andy and Chris about how AI is helping to revolutionize the patient experience when it comes to healthcare - and next, clinical trials.

TTT hits the road, and for the first time we haven't recorded in the campervan! This episode explores how big data can be used to gauge net treatment benefit (NTB) to allow patients, clinicians and researchers to make better informed choices during clinical trials. Definitely one for the lovers of data and statistics, mathematician and researcher Dr Sébastien Coppe - CEO of One2Treat - talks to Andy and Chris about leveraging data to create single endpoints and reduce sample sizes, cutting costs and promoting choice.

On the road again in this TT&T short, Andy and Chris catch up with Gary Quashie on his return from a six-year stint in San Francisco that encompassed three roles and a number of significant geopolitical occurrences, the shockwaves from which are still being felt: Trump (Part I), George Floyd, Covid, and more.

Welcome to episode one of Trials, Tales and Trails - the new podcast for the pharmaceutical clinical research drug development industry. Encompassing healthcare and life sciences, hosts Andy Thurstan and Chris Wells hear guests' stories on how they got into the industry, what makes them tick, their views on current and future trends - and more.

In episode one we speak to Kate Groff - mom, nurse practitioner, would-be FBI agent and Chief Nursing Officer at FirstHx. Kate talks about her 'swapshop' Major, her role in helping neutralise a live shooter, and how she's part of an organisation aiming to revolutionise the patient experience of healthcare interactions through Artificial Intelligence.

Lifetime entrepreneur Catherine Canales chats to a very chilly Andy and warm and cosy Chris about her book on why sexism in the workplace is no joke, and gives practical tips on how to speak up against inappropriate behaviour, in episode 3 of Trials, Tales and Trails. She tells of her work coaching women in business on negotiation via NoGap and her mission to help cut the 130+ year odyssey to salary equity. Catherine speaks of her hope for the future through a steadfast next generation, and how a childhood business plan gone awry helped build her entrepreneurial spirit.