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Bridging the Gap: Market Access From Three Sides of the Table - with Vidhya Segar Real Pharma, hosted by Na-Ri Oh and Ian Wendt, with intern Amos Fung Episode Summary Health technology assessment is usually described as a system. Vidhya Segar describes it as a negotiation between people who are each asking a different question. When she worked in government, the question was always why: why this drug, why now, why this population. In industry, it became why not. In this episode, Na-Ri, Ian, an

The Mold Blind Spot: Ariana Thacker on Building the First Scalable Model of Care for CIRS Real Pharma, hosted by Na-Ri Oh and Ian Wendt Episode Summary Somewhere between one in four Americans carries a genetic profile that makes it hard to clear biotoxins from the body, and there is still no dedicated ICD-10 code for the illness that can follow. In this episode, Na-Ri and Ian talk with Ariana Thacker, founder and CEO of MoldCo, about how a mystery illness and a mold inspection turned a venture c

From Patient Involvement to Patient Leadership: A Conversation with Donna Cryer, JD Real Pharma, hosted by Na-Ri Oh and Ian Wendt Episode Summary As AI moves deeper into drug development, from trial design to evidence generation, the more pressing question isn't what the technology can do. It's who has the authority to decide how it's used. In this episode, Na-Ri and Ian sit down with Donna Cryer, JD, founder of the Global Liver Institute, longtime FDA patient representative, and the person cr

When Healthcare Policy Incentives Backfire: 340B, Hospital Pricing, MFN, and Drug Affordability with Deborah Williams Healthcare policies are often evaluated by what they are intended to accomplish. But what happens when the incentives created by those policies produce very different results? In this episode of RealPharma, Ian Wendt and Dr. Na-Ri Oh speak with longtime health policy expert Deborah Williams about the unintended consequences embedded in the U.S. healthcare system—from hospital r

Episode Summary In this episode of Real Pharma, hosts Na-Ri Oh and Ian Wendt sit down with Kristiaan Rawlings, Executive Director at EPM Scientific, to unpack what is really happening in the biopharma talent market right now. From the surprising resurgence of market access hiring to the growing influence of AI in recruiting and candidate preparation, this conversation explores the forces reshaping commercial talent strategy in 2026. The group also digs into salary inflation, title compression,

🧠 Episode Summary What if we’ve been thinking about cancer all wrong? In this deeply personal and paradigm-shifting episode of RealPharma, hosts Dr. Na-Ri Oh and Ian Wendt sit down with Dr. Christopher Gregg—neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and stage 4 cancer patient—to explore a bold new vision for cancer care. Dr. Gregg shares how his own diagnosis sparked a radical rethink of oncology: moving away from the “war on cancer” mindset toward managing it as a chronic, controllable condition. Drawin