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
Chronic Hand Eczema: A Nurse’s Story of Pain, Work, and Family
What happens when the very hands you rely on for work, caregiving, and everyday life become a source of pain?
In this episode of Amplify, Amy Wright shares her personal journey living with chronic hand eczema while working as a neonatal nurse practitioner and raising two young children. Amy opens up about the physical discomfort, emotional impact, workplace challenges, and advocacy efforts surrounding this often misunderstood condition.
Beyond Accommodation: Building Workplaces Where Everyone Can Thrive
🎧 Listen to the Episode Episode Summary What happens when lived experience becomes a catalyst for systemic change? In this episode of Amplify, Ursula Mann and Anne Marie sit down with accessibility consultant, speaker, entrepreneur, and founder of Accessible Creates,...
From Caregiver to Changemaker: Transforming Rare Disease Advocacy Through Policy
🎧 Listen to the Episode Episode Summary What does it take to turn personal caregiving experience into lasting healthcare change? In this episode of Amplify: Elevating Patient Voices, Ursula Mann and co-host Barry Liden welcome Annie Kennedy, Chief Mission Officer of...
Rewriting the Rules of Women’s Health: Power, Policy, and Patient Voice
🎧 Listen to the Episode Episode Summary In this powerful episode of Amplify, Carmen Wyton joins Ursula Mann and Anne Marie for a bold conversation about the invisible gaps in women’s healthcare — and the movement to change them. Carmen shares how her experience...
From Motherhood to Medicine: Curiosity, Connection, and Reinvention
🎧 Listen to the Episode Episode Summary This episode is sponsored by Medlior Health Outcomes Research. Sponsorship supports Amplify, while all conversations and perspectives remain independently produced. In this episode of Amplify: Elevating Patient Voices, Ursula...
Listening to the Heart: Lived Experience as a Catalyst for Better Cardiac Care
🎧 Listen to the Episode Episode Summary What happens when surviving cancer in your 20s leads to a completely different health journey decades later? In this powerful episode of Amplify: Elevating Patient Voices, hosts Ursula Mann and Anne-Marie Hayes sit down with...
From Wheezing to Leadership: Living with Asthma and Leading Change
🎧 Listen to the Episode Episode Summary This episode is sponsored by Medlior Health Outcomes Research. Sponsorship supports Amplify, while all conversations and perspectives remain independently produced. In this episode of Amplify: Elevating Patient Voices, hosts...
The Gift of Life, Twice: Charles Cook on Why Organ Donation Matters
🎧 Listen to the Episode Episode Summary In this deeply moving episode of Amplify: Elevating Patient Voices, we sit down with Charles Cook—a two-time deceased donor transplant recipient who received a life-saving heart transplant in 2016 and a kidney transplant in...
Breaking the Silence: Harjeet Kaur on Rare Cancer, Cultural Stigma, and Turning Pain into Purpose
🎧 Listen to the Episode Episode Summary In this powerful episode of Amplify: Elevating Patient Voices, Harjeet Kaur shares her journey through an ultra-rare stage IV blood cancer—subcutaneous panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma (SPTCL)—and the life-altering moments...
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