Discusses the unique ethical challenges virtual reality raises for research, including participant risk, consent, privacy, and institutional oversight. Our guest today is Myra Luna-Lucero, who is the Research Compliance Director at Teachers College. Her contributions to academia span a diverse array of topics, including studies on student motivation within STEM disciplines and advancing ethical research practices. Additional resources: CITI Program’s Tech Ethic...

Discusses the ethical challenges that telehealth providers must consider, including informed consent, standards and quality of care, professionalism in virtual care, verification and trust, and equity and access. Our guest today is Kathy Wibberly, who is the Director of the Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center, which is one of 14 federally funded telehealth resource centers working to expand access to quality care through telehealth solutions for communities facing the greates...

Discusses the regulation of cell therapy products and the importance of training on this topic. Our guests today are Kathy Loper and Jared Schuster. Kathy serves as the Director of Regulatory Affairs for NMDP, a nonprofit providing life-saving cellular therapies to patients. Kathy has extensive experience in biological product manufacturing and works closely with regulatory agencies, professionals, and other organizations to move the industry forward. Jared also has ...

Discusses how the development and deployment of ethical technology products is a competitive advantage for companies. Our guests today are Jennie Baird and Robert Levitan from the Ethical Tech Project. Jennie is the Co-Chair of the Ethical Tech Project and a digital media trailblazer. Throughout her 30+ year career, she's driven growth and innovation for some of media’s most successful digital brands and legacy-to-digital crossovers. Today, she dedicates her work to supporting ...

Discusses key takeaways from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s revised Clinical Decision Support Software and General Wellness Product guidance documents. Our guests today are Christina Kuhn and Olivia Dworkin from the law firm Covington. Christina advises medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotech companies on a broad range of FDA regulatory strategy and compliance matters. She has experience with cutting-edge and complex medical technologies, including software and digit...

Discusses digital health solutions that support health promotion and disease prevention. Our guest today is Danielle Louder, who serves as the Co-Director of MCD Global Health’s U.S. Programs and the Director of the Northeast Telehealth Resource Center. In these roles, she is responsible for advancing the use of digital health strategies to improve health access and outcomes. Additional resources: National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers: https://tele...

Discusses voice as a biomarker of diseases, including ethical considerations and how this technology could change the way we diagnose and monitor diseases. Our guest today is Yael Bensoussan, who is an Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of South Florida Health Morsani College of Medicine and a fellowship-trained laryngologist. She is also the principal investigator of the Bridge2AI-Voice project, a multi-institutional endeavor funded by the National Institute...

Discusses Active Physical Intelligence, a model designed for real-time data collection and acquisition, which serves as an adaptive foundation. Our guests today are the co-founders of KavAI: Tara Javidi and Sam Bigdeli. Tara has been appointed as the inaugural holder of the Jerzy (George) Lewak Endowed Chair in the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Tara and UCSD have been selected to join the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Scien...

Discusses the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed rule for the 2026 hospital outpatient prospective payment system and ambulatory surgical centers. Our guest today is Eric Tower, a partner at the law firm Blank Rome. Eric serves as a trusted advisor to healthcare clients on a wide range of corporate transactional and operational matters. He is well-versed in handling mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, fraud and abuse compliance, physician practice acquisitions...

Discusses vibe research or science, which is an emerging approach to scientific research using AI. Our guests today are from MIT Critical Data, which develops local AI capacity in healthcare by building open data and software, fostering community engagement through datathons, and advocating for AI equity in research. Sebastian Cajas Senior is an AI scientist at CeADAR with expertise in generative AI, quantum machine learning, and responsible AI. Sebastian is a former fellow in com...