Insightful conversations with leading experts in the field of health care, medical research, policy, and more from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Each episode examines the many complexities found at the junction of medicine and society.
NEJM Interview: Dr. Paul Ginsburg on what the 2016 election will mean for health care reform.
10 mins; October 05, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Anthony Fauci on potential strategies for conducting clinical trials of Zika virus vaccines.
14 mins; September 28, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Jeffrey Drazen on the future of sharing clinical trial data.
9 mins; September 21, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Thomas Bodenheimer on the evolving roles of physicians and nurses in the provision of primary care.
8 mins; September 14, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. David Blumenthal on approaches to caring for the 5% of patients who account for 50% of annual health care spending.
10 mins; September 07, 2016
NEJM Interview: Prof. R. Alta Charo on the implications of the Whole Woman’s Health case and likely future anti-abortion strategies.
10 mins; August 31, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Richard Bohmer on the strategies of health care organizations that have successfully implemented continuous improvement.
10 mins; August 24, 2016
Dr. Christopher Dale on better ways of deploying quality metrics to improve the value of health care.
7 mins; August 17, 2016
Dr. Scott Podolsky on the evolution of the essential methods of randomized, controlled trials.
8 mins; August 10, 2016
Dr. Harlan Krumholz on the movement toward broader, responsible, productive sharing of data from clinical trials.
14 mins; August 03, 2016
Dr. Alan D.T. Barrett on the current yellow fever epidemic and lessons about vaccine supply and global health.
8 mins; July 27, 2016
Dr. Benjamin Sommers on the future cost of insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
7 mins; July 20, 2016
Dr. Alisha Rankin on the clinical trials and drug approval processes of the 16th through 18th centuries.
7 mins; July 13, 2016
Dr. Eric Rubin on the current state of the Zika epidemic and directions for research and prevention.
Dr. Jeffrey Drazen on evolving efforts to make clinical trials data accessible and useful for further research.
6 mins; June 22, 2016
Dr. Ameet Sarpatwari on state bills that aim to reduce drug spending by requiring companies to disclose R&D costs.
9 mins; June 15, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Perri Klass on the health effects of child poverty in the United States and the AAP’s new policy statement on screening.
6 mins; June 08, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Jeffrey Drazen on a new article series, The Changing Face of Clinical Trials.
7 mins; June 01, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Deborah Schrag on an experiment testing new ways of reimbursing physicians for drugs administered under Medicare Part B.
16 mins; June 01, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Alice Shaw on a new model for accelerating the development of promising oncology drugs.
10 mins; May 25, 2016
NEJM Interview: Greg Simon on the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative and its goal of fueling cancer research in the United States.
9 mins; May 18, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Lindsey Baden on the state of the Zika virus outbreak and the challenges involved in containing it.
10 mins; May 11, 2016
NEJM Interview: Robert Mechanic on what happens when patients are treated by multiple providers participating in different Medicare payment models.
9 mins; May 04, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Michelle Mello on legislation aimed at reducing young people’s access to cigarettes.
6 mins; April 27, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Debra Houry on a new opioid-prescribing guideline from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
7 mins; April 20, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Jonathan Oberlander on the renewed interest in single-payer health insurance and its prospects in the United States.
8 mins; April 13, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Amy Fairchild on public health recommendations regarding electronic cigarettes in England and the United States.
10 mins; April 06, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Ronald Paulus on a program at his health system for educating board members about care delivery.
6 mins; March 30, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. David Bellinger on lead contamination in Flint, Michigan, and the lack of political will to protect public health.
10 mins; March 23, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Ashish Jha on lessons from the recent Veterans Health Administration crisis and future directions at the VA.
4 mins; March 16, 2016
NEJM Interview: Prof. R. Alta Charo on recent advances in gene editing and concerns about medical tourism.
11 mins; March 09, 2016
NEJM Interview: Cecile Richards on expanding access to birth control and threats to that progress.
10 mins; March 02, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Rena Conti on policy proposals that could help rein in the cost of prescription drugs.
9 mins; February 24, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Robert Galvin on the effects of the Affordable Care Act on employer-sponsored insurance.
10 mins; February 17, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Walter Orenstein on the final steps in the global effort to eradicate polio.
8 mins; February 10, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Steven DeKosky on youth football, head injuries, and a recent American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement.
12 mins; February 03, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Daniel Alford on how prescriber education can help address the epidemic of prescription-opioid misuse.
12 mins; January 27, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Scott Podolsky on the history of weak oversight of homeopathic remedies in the United States and what the future may hold.
10 mins; January 20, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Terri Fried on different approaches to shared decision making driven by different clinical circumstances.
9 mins; January 13, 2016
NEJM Interview: Prof. Timothy Jost on a lawsuit brought by the House of Representatives over the Affordable Care Act’s cost-sharing-reduction program.
9 mins; January 06, 2016
NEJM Interview: Dr. Peter Neumann on the use of various new value-based frameworks for assessing drugs and drug prices.
8 mins; December 30, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Michele Heisler on attacks on physicians and health care facilities in Syria and the response from the international community.
11 mins; December 23, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Charlotte Haug on the growing number of article retractions attributable to peer-review fraud.
7 mins; December 16, 2015
NEJM Interview: Prof. Alexander Capron on proposed changes to regulations governing human-subjects research.
16 mins; December 09, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Anthony Fauci on the ways in which new evidence has improved our strategies for treating and preventing HIV infection.
9 mins; December 02, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. David Courtwright on a 19th-century epidemic of opiate addiction and its lessons for the current crisis.
7 mins; November 25, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Paul Ginsburg on how Medicare can improve care delivery and control spending going forward.
9 mins; November 18, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Michael Lauer on peer review of NIH grant applications and how it can be improved.
11 mins; November 11, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan on trends in the numbers of U.S. medical school graduates and GME positions.
6 mins; November 04, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. H. Gilbert Welch on trends in the incidence of metastatic cancers and their implications for both screening and our understanding of cancer.
6 mins; October 28, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Kevin Schulman on the recent approval of two PCSK9 inhibitors and what their prices could mean for insurance premiums.
9 mins; October 21, 2015
NEJM Interview: Drs. Allan Goroll and Ateev Mehrotra on whether the annual physical should be retained, eliminated, or modified for 21st-century realities.
15 mins; October 14, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. David Urbach on a plan to concentrate certain surgical procedures among the physicians and hospitals that perform the most of them.
9 mins; October 07, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Michael Fiore on the potential for regulation of nicotine levels in cigarettes to help smokers quit.
9 mins; September 30, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Jonathan Oberlander on the outlook for Medicare’s new physician payment system.
8 mins; September 23, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Christopher Robertson on the FDA’s new draft guidelines on direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising.
7 mins; September 16, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Hermes Taylor-Weiner on the regulation of stem-cell clinics offering unproven therapies.
5 mins; September 09, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Georgina Peacock on improvements in care and access to services for people with disabilities and where more work is needed.
7 mins; September 02, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Michelle Mello on a new California law that eliminates religious and philosophical exemptions for vaccination mandates.
6 mins; August 26, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Philip Landrigan on health concerns associated with genetically modified crops and the herbicides used on them.
7 mins; August 19, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. David Asch on strategies for testing new ideas in health care quickly and efficiently.
11 mins; August 12, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Ronald Bayer on why the heightened focus on precision medicine misses the point when it comes to public health.
10 mins; August 05, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Steffanie Strathdee on needle-exchange policies and the recent HIV outbreak in rural Indiana.
6 mins; July 29, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Stanley Plotkin on a strategy for stimulating and supporting global vaccine research.
9 mins; July 22, 2015
NEJM Interview: Prof. Amy Kapczynski on provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership that could affect access to drugs in the United States and abroad.
17 mins; July 15, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Joshua Sharfstein on the process of approving new sunscreen ingredients for marketing in the United States.
8 mins; July 08, 2015
NEJM Interview: Prof. Ted Kaptchuk on the outlook for harnessing the benefits of placebo effects in medicine.
12 mins; July 01, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Jerry Avorn on the 21st Century Cures Act’s potential implications for drug development and safety.
8 mins; June 24, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Aaron Kesselheim on the challenges of bringing follow-on biologic drugs to the market.
12 mins; June 17, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Dhruv Khullar on uses of behavioral economics concepts in modifying physicians’ behavior under value-based health care models.
9 mins; June 10, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Neel Shah on new guidelines from the United Kingdom on the safety of midwife-guided deliveries.
7 mins; June 03, 2015
NEJM Interview: Prof. Leemore Dafny on ways of producing health care mergers that are good for both patients and providers.
7 mins; May 27, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Henry Aaron on new legislation that reforms physician reimbursement under Medicare.
13 mins; May 20, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Jerry Avorn on a new estimate of the cost of bringing a drug to market.
12 mins; May 13, 2015
NEJM Interview: Prof. Sara Rosenbaum on a Republican proposal for repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, which would restructure Medicaid.
10 mins; May 06, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Thomas Lee on a strategic approach to value for health care organizations seeking to compete in the current market.
7 mins; April 29, 2015
NEJM Interview: Prof. John McDonough on Vermont’s attempt to implement a single-payer health care system - and why it failed.
14 mins; April 22, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Vin Gupta on a medication-adherence program to address latent tuberculosis in Seattle’s homeless population.
8 mins; April 15, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Nicole Lurie on the lessons learned from the Ebola epidemic and how to prepare for future global disease threats.
14 mins; April 08, 2015
NEJM Interview: Prof. Wendy Mariner on state laws that regulate physicians’ speech and behavior in the context of abortion.
7 mins; April 01, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Benjamin Sommers on the potential effects on the health care system of President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration.
9 mins; March 25, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Mary Bassett on factors contributing to poorer health outcomes among black Americans and what physicians can do to reduce racial disparities.
7 mins; March 18, 2015
NEJM Interview: Prof. Robert MacCoun on the marketing of marijuana edibles and the risks posed by legalizing retail marijuana.
7 mins; March 18, 2015
NEJM Interview: Prof. Barak Richman on hospital mergers and the decision in the Partners HealthCare case.
14 mins; March 04, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Francis Collins on what to expect from the recently announced Precision Medicine Initiative.
10 mins; February 25, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Peter Ubel on the influence of insurance-exchange website design on consumers' choices.
8 mins; February 18, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Priscilla Slanetz on legislation on breast density and supplemental breast-cancer screening.
12 mins; February 11, 2015
NEJM Interview: Steven Lewis on health care in Canada and the challenges facing a fragmented system.
10 mins; February 04, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Perri Klass on experiencing weekends in the hospital from a patient’s point of view.
10 mins; January 28, 2015
NEJM Interview: Lynne Wilkinson on a community-based strategy to promote HIV treatment adherence in South Africa.
7 mins; January 21, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Jeffrey Drazen on the IOM proposal for the sharing of patient data from clinical trials.
9 mins; January 14, 2015
NEJM Interview: Dr. Steven Weinberger on the pros and cons of the new Maintenance of Certification standards.
11 mins; January 07, 2015
NEJM Interview: Prof. Jonathan Oberlander on what the midterm election results mean for the future of the Affordable Care Act.
8 mins; December 24, 2014
NEJM Interview: Prof. Sara Rosenbaum on Medicaid payments, physician participation, and access to care.
17 mins; December 17, 2014
NEJM Interview: Dr. Lindsey Baden on the state of the ongoing Ebola epidemic and progress on vaccines and treatments.
9 mins; December 10, 2014
NEJM Interview: Dr. Christine Cassel on the lessons of past performance-measurement efforts and promising future directions.
13 mins; December 03, 2014
NEJM Interview: Dr. Brian Strom on the first year of experience with GlaxoSmithKline’s data-sharing initiative.
10 mins; November 26, 2014
NEJM Interview: Dr. Jason Schwartz on the past, present, and future of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
14 mins; November 19, 2014
NEJM Interview: Dr. Jennifer Woo Baidal on nutrition, childhood obesity, and the battle over school-lunch standards.
