AMPLIFY: A Podcast Powered by Patient Voice Partners
Patient Voice Partner Team Co-Hosts on Amplify
Amplify isn’t just another podcast — it’s a movement. A space where real stories spark bold conversations and diverse voices come together to challenge the status quo. Here, patients, caregivers, clinicians, decision makers, and innovators all share the mic to shape the future of healthcare.
BRENT KORTE
ANNE MARIE HAYES
BARRY LIDEN
Living With Huntington’s: Inheriting Risk, Finding Purpose
🎧 Listen to the Episode Episode Summary In this powerful episode of Amplify, hosts Ursula Mann and Christina Pisapia speak with Erin Paterson, a writer, caregiver, and advocate whose life was transformed by Huntington’s Disease (HD). Just as Erin and her husband...
Beyond the Dome: Humanizing Healthcare with Mark Stolow
🎧 Listen to the Episode Episode Summary In this conversation, Ursula and Anne Marie sit down with Mark Stolow, Founding Director of People Before Patients, to explore what it truly means to humanize healthcare. Drawing from early caregiving experiences and over two...
Stage Zero, Full Strength: Share’s Story of Early Detection, Self-Advocacy, and Choosing Light
🎧 Listen to the Episode A routine nudge from a family doctor changed everything. After being sent for a mammogram she had delayed, Share was diagnosed with stage 0, triple-negative breast cancer—caught extraordinarily early. In this candid conversation, she walks us...
From Physician to Patient to Pioneer: Dr. Shazhan Amed on Surviving TEN and Building Haibu Health
🎧 Listen to the Episode Episode Summary What happens when a physician becomes the patient—and then an entrepreneur? Pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Shazhan Amed shares her harrowing, transformational journey through toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN), a rare,...
Postpartum Psychosis: Cara’s Story of Crisis, Care, and Recovery
🎧 Listen to the Episode Trigger warning This episode includes discussion of severe postnatal mental health challenges, including postpartum psychosis, hospitalization, and panic. If you or someone you know needs medical assistance, please contact your healthcare...
Making Data Meaningful: From Health Literacy to Real-World Evidence
🎧 Listen to the Episode In this episode, Ursula and Christine are joined by Tara Cowling, Founder and President of Medlior Health Outcomes Research—a Canadian leader in real-world evidence (RWE), health technology assessment (HTA), and health outcomes research....
Listening as a Leadership Superpower: A Conversation with Brigitte Nolet (Roche Canada)
🎧 Listen to the Episode How do you embed patient voices across a complex, research-driven organization—and across a country’s health system? Brigitte Nolet shares how her own journey with psoriatic arthritis shaped her leadership, why Roche Canada created a Chief...
Fresh Voices, New Perspectives: Meet Izi
🎧 Listen to the Episode Welcome to Amplify: Elevating Patient Voices, a podcast powered by Patient Voice Partners. In each episode, hosts Ursula Mann and Brent Korte bring together patients, caregivers, and healthcare change makers to spark bold conversations...
A Life in Healthcare: Christine Pisapia on Caregiving, Advocacy, and Patient Voices
🎧 Listen to the Episode In this episode of Amplify: Elevating Patient Voices, hosts Ursula Mann and Brent Korte sit down with their teammate Christine Pisapia for a deeply personal and professional conversation about her decades-long journey in...
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