Good Clinical
Good Clinical is a podcast that explores the world of emerging medical technologies and the future of medicine and human health. Host Charles Beasley interviews experts and innovators in these fields. New episodes are released weekly. The show is part of the Good Clinical network, which also includes segments like Good Clinical Explains and Good Clinical Events.
Episodes
Ep 43 - A/Prof Rodger Tiedemann - NZ's Medicines Deficit: Why are Kiwis Missing Out?
In this weeks episode I sit down with A/Prof Rodger Tiedemann, a Consultant Haematologist, A/Prof of Medicine, Researcher, and advocate for medicines access and clinical trials in New Zealand.We begin by chatting about Rodgers involvement in multiple myeloma research and the treatment landscape, and how targeted therapies have improved survival rates for this type of cancer.We then centre the disc
Ep 42 - Professor John Windsor - From Concept to Clinic: Innovating Post-Surgical Recovery
Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series.In this episode meet Professor John Windsor, a Consultant Surgeon, Professor of Surgery, and Director of the Surgical & Translational Research Centre at The University of Auckland. Our conversation focuses on the development of the Limpet drainage device at Ape
Ep 41 - Dr Patrick McHugh - Heart Rate Variability and its Role in Mental Health
Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series. In this latest episode meet Dr Patrick McHugh, a general practitioner located in Tairāwhiti, Gisborne.Patrick plays a role in several different organisations including Te Whatu Ora Tairāwhiti, Mātai Medical Research Institute, and the iwi health provider Turanga H
Ep 40 - Dr Jo Nunnerly | Utilising Virtual Reality for Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation
Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series.This weeks guest is Dr Jo Nunnerley, a physiotherapist and researcher based at the University of Otago. We chat about Jo's development of a virtual reality tool for supporting individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI), a project supported by Te Titoki Mataora.J
Ep 39 - Dr Robin Whittaker | From Ideas to Impact: Building New Zealand's MedTech Ecosystem
Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series.In this episode meet Dr Robyn Whittaker, the Director of Research Evidence and Clinical Trials at Te Whatu Ora, Health New Zealand.Our discussion focuses on Robyns involvement in Te Titoki Mataora and TTMs key role in fostering MedTech innovation in New Zealand. We
Ep 38 - Dr Haruna Suzuki-Kerr & Dr Julie Choisne | Future Leaders in MedTech - Te Titoki Mataora
Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series.In this episode I chat with two Senior Research Fellows within The University of Auckland, Dr Haruna Suzuki-Kerr from the Faculty of Medical & Health Sciences, and Dr Julie Choisne, from Auckland Bioengineering Institute.Dr Julie Choisne's research is in the re
Ep 37 - Dr Caz Hales - Advancing Safe and Equitable Healthcare for People Living with Obesity
Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series. In this episode, meet Dr Caz Hales, a registered nurse and academic working in the research field of obesity care within health systems, based at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research focuses on reshaping the approach to healthcare for people living with
Ep 36 - Dr Gavin Harris - An Algorithmic Tool for Breast Cancer Assessment
Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series.In this episode, meet Dr Gavin Harris, Anatomical Pathologist from Canterbury Health Laboratories, who discusses the development of a diagnostic assessment tool using machine-learning algorithms to assess breast cancer aggressiveness and recurrence risk.We chat abo
Ep 35 - Prof. Maggie-Lee Huckabee & Emma Hayes - How Swaltech is Transforming Dysphagia Therapy
Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series.In this latest episode, meet Prof. Maggie Huckabee, Founding Director and Chief Scientific Officer, and Emma Hayes, Chief Executive Officer, at Swaltech.Swaltech is a medical device company that have developed innovative assessment tools that clinicians can incorpo
Ep 34 - Dr Yarra Yarmut - The Intricacies of MedTech Innovation and Success
Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series.In this episode, meet Dr. Yaara Yarmut, the Chief Regulatory Officer at Alimetry, a medical device company who have developed an innovative gastric monitoring device that performs body surface gastric mapping using an electrode array.Yaara discusses her journey fro
Ep 33 - Dr Grace Walker - Diabetes Management: Tautoko Tech’s Patch Pump and Support System
Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series.In this episode, Dr. Grace Walker, Co-founder and Chief Regulatory Officer at Tautoko Technology discusses her work in developing a patch insulin pump with wraparound support and education software to improve diabetes management.One of Tautoko Technology's main goa
Ep 32 - Professor Grant Searchfield - Understanding Tinnitus as a Network Problem
Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series.In this episode, Professor Grant Searchfield, Head of Audiology at The University of Auckland and Founder and Scientific Director of TrueSilence Therapeutics, discusses the development of a non-invasive polytherapeutic method for the treatment of Tinnitus. The meth
Ep 31 - Dr Xuxu Amoozegar-Montero - The Problems with Traditional Bras....explained to a guy
Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series.In this epsiode, Dr. Xuxu Amoozegar-Montero, founder of Uuna, discusses the problems with traditional bras and the innovative solution her company is developing. Uuna uses 3D scanning and knitting technology to create custom-fit bras that address issues of comfort,
Ep 30 - Dr Vickie Shim - Personalized Treatment Plans after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series.In this epsiode, Dr. Vickie Shim, a Senior Research Fellow at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, discusses her work in neuromechanics and its application to injury and degenerative diseases, specifically mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). She explains that neur
Ep 29 - Dr Maddie White - The Role of Translational Scientists in Creating Real-World Impact
Today’s guest is Dr Maddie White, Translational Scientist and Strategic Partnerships Manager at the Gillies McIndoe Research Institute in Wellington, New Zealand.This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting.Dr. Maddie White, a translational scientist and strategic partnerships manager at Gillies-McIndoe Institute, discusses the role of translational scientists in moving research from the lab
Ep 28 - Dr Victor Dieriks - Early Detection of Parkinson's Diseases
Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series.Today’s guest is Dr Victor Dieriks, the Head of the Apha Synuclein Lab at the Centre for Brain Research at the University of Auckland. Dr Dieriks studies the role of alpha synuclein in the development of Parkinson's Disease and Multiple System Atrophy (MSA).Parkins
Ep 27 - Dr Haruna Suzuki-Kerr - Using light to elucidate the secrets of the Inner Ear
Today’s guest is Dr Haruna Suzuki-Kerr, Research Fellow at the University of Auckland in the Auditory & Vestibular Translational Neuroscience Cluster.This episode is part of the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series, in collaboration with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator.Hearing loss is a common problem, in fact 1 in 6 people experience some form of hearing loss. Broadly speaking,
Distinguished Professor Sir Peter Hunter - Introduction to Te Titoki Mataora
Good Clinical has teamed up with Te Titoki Mataora, the MedTech Research Translator, to bring you the Te Titoki Mataora Podcast Series. Te Titoki Mataora (TTM) is a New Zealand-based organization focused on translating basic science into real outcomes in healthcare.Here to provide an background to Te Titoki Mataora, the current framework to support research translation and some forward thinking pe
Ep 26 - Charlotte Bradshaw - Developing Technology to Streamline Clinical Trial Recruitment
Today’s guest is Charlotte Bradshaw, the Founder & CEO of Evrima Technologies.This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting: https://www.saproconsulting.com.au/Evrima aims to solve the problem of finding patients for clinical trials by building networks of clinicians and integrating trial information into their workflow. The goal is to make it easier for healthcare providers to identify e
Ep 25 - John Robson - True Venture Capital vs. Vulture Capital
Today’s guest is John Robson (JR), General Manager at Bridgewest Ventures NZ, and Managing Director of BioOra, a company that is automating the manufacture of CAR T-cells.This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting: https://www.saproconsulting.com.au/The development of new technologies, whether it be medical or otherwise, requires a lot of resources. One of those resources is capital - fina
Ep 24 - Cameron Quilter - How to get CRA job and how to make the most of it
Today’s guest is Cameron Quilter, and Clinical Research Associate (CRA) at Novotech.This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting: https://www.saproconsulting.com.au/In most Clinical Research Trials, there are three players:The "Sponsor" - the entity that is funding the research and could be a pharmaceutical company, insitute or other non-profit entity;The "Site" - hospital or private researc
Ep23 - Dr Zahra Champion - The Future of Biotechnology in New Zealand
Today’s guest is Dr Zahra Champion, Executive Director of BiotechNZ.This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting: https://www.saproconsulting.com.au/Biotechnology is a broad category, and ranges from the use of yeast to brew beer, something humans have been doing for the past 9,000 years to manipulating our DNA to fight cancer, something we have been doing for last 20 years. Biotech is a pla
Ep 22 - Dr Paul Hamilton - Clinical Trials are the Future of Medicine and Healthcare
Today’s guest is Dr Paul Hamilton, Clinical Director of Early Phase Research at Pacific Clinical Research Network (PCRN).This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting: https://www.saproconsulting.com.au/New medicines are first studied in animals before they are tested in humans. Animal testing provides an insight into the efficacy, safety and tolerability of the new medicine. But before a new
Ep 21 - Dr Brian Ward - How I built a $200 million Biotech Business
Today’s guest is Dr Brian Ward, Founder and CEO of Aroa Biosurgery, an ASX-listed, biotech company with with a ~$200 m AUD market capitalization.This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting.Aroa Biosurgery is a New Zealand-based, ASX-listed biotech company that develops and commercializes novel products that promote wound healing and soft-tissue repair. Their proprietary products, developed
Ep 20 - Madhu Vyas - Using Radiation for the Diagnosis and Treatment of diseases
Today’s guest is Madhu Vyas, Theranostics Site Leader at Mercy Radiology, and Programme Lead at Unitec. This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting PTY Ltd https://www.saproconsulting.com.au/Nuclear Medicine, Molecular Imaging and Radiochemistry sound like terms pulled straight from a science fiction novel. Yet the use of radioactive materials for the purposes of diagnosing and treating dis
Ep 19 - Will Charles - Technology Transfer - taking University Intellectual Property from the Academic to the Commercial world
Today’s guest is Will Charles, the Executive Director of Investment at UniServices.This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting PTY Ltd https://www.saproconsulting.com.au/UUniversities are a great place to get higher education, but they're also places where new ideas, concepts and technologies first take root. But how do new ideas make their way from the academic setting to the commercial se
Ep 18 - Dr Rohit Katial - Contributing to tommorrow's medical breakthroughs...today
Today’s guest is Dr Rohit Katial, a Research Physician involved in Early Phase Clinical Trials in New Zealand.This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting PTY Ltd https://www.saproconsulting.com.au/Unfortunately, in New Zealand our access to modern medicines is well behind our OECD peers, and it typically takes 10 years before a new medicine is funded by Pharmac after being approved by Medsa
Ep 17 - Shamubeel Eaqub - The Drivers of an Innovation Ecosystem: New Zealand as a Case Study
Today’s guest is Shamubeel Eaqub, and economist, author and commentator. This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting PTY Ltd https://www.saproconsulting.com.au/In this episode Shamubeel and I discuss New Zealands productivity has not kept up with our OECD peers. Reasons for this include some things we cannot change, such as the fundamental realities of our small population and remote locati
Ep 16 - Natalia Lopez - Commercialisation of Novel Medical Technologies
Today’s guest is Natalia Lopez, the Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer of Kitea Health. This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting PTY Ltd https://www.saproconsulting.com.au/In our first episode of 2024, we are picking up where we left of in 2023 with another guest from Kitea Health - this time with Chief Operations Officer Natalia Lopez.We talk about Natalia's journey from the automo
Ep 15 - Dr Simon Malpas - Catalyzing a Paradigm Shift towards Proactive Healthcare
This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting PTY Ltd https://www.saproconsulting.com.au/Today’s guest is Dr Simon Malpas, the Co-founder and CEO of Kitea Health. Simon is a distinguished New Zealand scientist and entrepreneur, and has co-founded three successful medical device & life science companies from his research, including Kitea Health, a Start up company transforming healthcare f
Ep_14 - Sir Ray Avery - From Street Kid to a Sir: A lifetime of Innovation
Ep_13 - Matt Needham_Medicines Access & the widening gap between New Zealand and other Countries
Ep_12 - Dr Chris Wynne_Groundbreaking Clinical Research in New Zealand
This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting PTY Ltd https://www.saproconsulting.com.au/Dr Chris Wynne is the Chief Scientific Officer at New Zealand Clinical Research (NZCR). Chris has had a career of giant proportions in Clinical Research, and has been involved in a wide range of trials, including the early trials that laid the groundwork for the function cure of Hepatits C, down to the Ph
Ep_11 - Courtney Rowse_What Makes Clinical Research such an Attractive Career
This episode is brought to you by SAPRO Consulting PTY Ltd https://www.saproconsulting.com.au/Courtney Rowse is the Clinical Operations Manager for MSD (ANZ). Clinical Research is one of those industries where most people get into it by accident. There are no consistent pathways into the industry, in fact if you were to sample 100 people, the only consistency would be inconsistency.Join us for Epi
Ep_10 - Kieran Jina | Venture Capital - where Finance Bro meets Science Guy
Kieran Jina is Partner at Pacific Channel, a Venture Capital firm focusing on start-up companies using breakthrough science and advanced engineering to seucure the future of Health, Environment and Food, aka "Deep Tech". Their second Fund "Pacific Channel Fund II" is the largest fund of its type and sector in New Zealand.Venture Capital has a certain mystique to it. What does a Venture Capitalist
Ep_9 - Dr Diana Siew - MedTech Innovation For Long-term Success
Dr Diana Siew is the Strategic Partnerships Lead for the Bioengineering Institute and the Co-Founder of the Consortium for Medical Device Technologies (CMDT).Twelve years ago, there was not much in the way high-value Medical Research commercialization - publicly-funded research was sitting idle, and international companies were bypassing New Zealand in favor of other countries. Dr Siew has been pi
Ep_8 - Hanie Yee - Startup Lessons from a MedTech Maverick
Hanie Yee is the COO of Alimetry, a New Zealand-based MedTech company developing a device for the non-invasive diagnosis of gastric disorders; as well as the Investment Committee Chair for the Return on Science MedTech and Surgery Investment Committee.Hanie began her career in Clinical Research and worked with some of the big names in the industry including Genetech and Takeda, before moving to Fi
Ep_7 - Julie Jones - Precision Medicine Research is Not for the Faint of Heart
Julie Jones is the Founder and CEO of BioValeo, a New Zealand-based Contract Research Organization (CRO) providing services to companies developing Precision or Personalized Medicine Interventions.As medicine progresses, treatments are becoming more specific and tailored to the individual patient. Rather than bundling patients according to a high-level disease category, next generation treatments
Ep_6 - Prof Greg O'Grady - From Surgeon to CEO
Prof Greg O'Grady is a Professor of Surgery and the CEO of Alimetry, a New Zealand-based MedTech company developing a device for the non-invasive diagnosis of gastric disorders, such as neuromuscular dysfunction, Gut-brain disorder, Gastric Outlet Disease, to name a few.Greg's career is truly impressive, and with each rung he has climbed, the scale of the impact he can effect has increased. As a d
Ep_5 - Dr Edward Watson - Clinical Trials are an Under-utilized Tool in our Healthcare System
Dr Ed Watson is the CEO of Aotearoa Clinical Trials, a network of hospital based clinical trial sites with over 20 years experience in clinical trials in Aotearoa - New Zealand.While it is well understood that Clinical Research plays a crucial role in advancing medical knowledge, and developing new therapies, we need to also recognize that it also contributes to the reduction of Health Inequities
Ep_4 - Kris Vette - Risk vs. Reward, the two sides of the Genetic Data "coin"
Kris Vette is the Founder and CEO of Genecrypt, a platofmr providing end-to-end encryption of genomic data.As technology advances, we can expect genetic data to be used more frequently in both research and clinical settings. The promise of Precision medicine is we could use our unique genetic fingerprints inform healthcare decisions, and thus get the most out of our health, whether it be treatment
Ep_3 - Dr Malvindar Singh-Bains - Brain Health and the New Era of Neurodegenerative Disease Research
Dr Malvindar Singh-Bains' is a Research Fellow at the University of Auckland Centre for Brain Research, and her work is contributing to a paradigm shift in the way we investigate Neurodegenerative disease and design future treatments.One of Malvindar's areas of research is Huntington's Disease (HD), a neurodegenerative disease characterized by the accumulation of a mutated version of the aptly-nam
Ep_2 - Dr Sarah Diermeier - Druggable targets in DNA "Dark Matter"
Dr Sarah Diermeier is a pioneer in the world of RNA therapeutics.Armed with a PhD, she completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the prestigious Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory in Long Island New York, before re-locating to New Zealand with her family to take up a tenured role at Otago University and founding Amaroq Therapeutics.Amaroq is a Venture-backed, pre-clinical, biotech start-up leve
Ep_1 - Abbas Al-Murrani - Why we need more Health Economists
Abbas Al-Murrani is a Health Economist and the Managing Director of Health Economist Consulting NZ.In this episode of Chat_GCP we explore why upfront costs are not the be all and end all, the importance of values in decision-making, and hear Abbas' take on why we need more Health Economists in New Zealand. You can find Abbas here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbasalmurrani/http://www.hec.nz/
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