Transforming Biopharma
Episodes
‘Move slow to go fast’: Keeping pace with responsible AI with Michael Shaw
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The rapid evolution of generative AI has led to increased adoption but also raises significant compliance challenges. ZS Principal Michael Shaw joins ...
Cultivating resilience: Building a better supply chain with McKesson’s Ammie McAsey
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As senior vice president of customer distribution experience at McKesson, Ammie McAsey makes it a point to connect her day-to-day work with the compan...
‘We can’t do it alone’: UCB’s Colin Lake on partnerships, patients and rare diseases
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Colin Lake, VP and head of digital care transformation, neurology and rare disease at UCB, is passionate about helping patients with rare diseases. He...
‘The hinge moment’: Envisioning transformation with Amgen’s Alex Koehler
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How should pharma companies respond to the current “hinge moment” where new technologies are enabling breakthroughs in drug discovery, manufacturi...
‘We’re all tech leaders now’: A conversation with Salesforce’s Kyrsten Musich
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The opportunities to reshape customer engagement have never been greater for pharma, but what role does the customer relationship management (CRM) sys...
How CRM can help pharma break barriers and transform customer engagement
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Drive behavior-changing personalized customer engagement at scale by addressing customer barriers with a powerful customer relationship management (CR...
Expanding access to cell and gene therapies with McKesson’s Joe DePinto
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joe DePinto, McKesson’s head of cell and gene advanced therapies, supports patients, providers and payers throughout the treatment journey. He’s p...
Future focus: How the AHA is tackling cardiac health and more with Juliana Crawford
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If we want to make change in healthcare, we can’t take a one-dimensional approach. We need a multifaceted plan. Having just celebrated its 100th ann...
Advancing pharma research for everyone: The clinical site perspective
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Clinical trial sites are important players in biopharma’s success. In this episode, we hear from site experts Lauren Wall of the University of Chica...
‘Culture is critical to performance’: Aligning values and strategy with Paul Ingram
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the role of culture in an organization and how can it play a pivotal role in shaping performance or even helping businesses transform? Maria ...
Beyond process improvement: Why organizational architecture matters with Mike Tushman
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Whitman interviews Mike Tushman, professor at Harvard Business School, about the importance of organizational architecture during times of trans...
Navigating the system, meeting patients where they are with Oya Gilbert
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can healthcare and biopharma meet patients where they are? Maria Whitman interviews Oya Gilbert, a podcaster and patient advocate, about his journ...
From data collection to data connection: Reinventing pharma’s commercial model
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can pharma use AI and other technology to deliver a better customer experience? Maria Whitman and a panel of ZS experts discuss pharma’s next-ge...
Resetting how we think about obesity: A patient’s point of view
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Recent headlines about the use of prescription drugs for weight loss make obesity a prominent and relevant topic in today’s discussions about health...
Living with myeloma: Patient advocate Yelak Biru’s story
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yelak Biru, president and CEO of the International Myeloma Foundation, is passionate about patient advocacy with good reason—he’s been one himself...
Disruptors, influencers and the modern customer experience with Arun Shastri
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As biopharma transforms its commercial model, what can it learn from other industries? To find out, Maria Whitman sits down with Arun Shastri, global ...
On the path to digital transformation with Madhavi Ramakrishna
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Madhavi Ramakrishna, global vice president and chief digital officer of commercial, GSK, is passionate about data and technology. A former executive i...
‘Patients first, people always’: Science and strategy with Savitri Basavaiah
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Savitri Basavaiah, vice president portfolio and commercialization strategy at Janssen, the Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, has a de...
‘Take the risk’: On the frontier of digital therapeutics with Susa Monacelli
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Propeller Health brings digital therapeutic expertise together with respiratory care experience to create solutions that improve patients’ lives. Ge...
Key capabilities for precision medicine with Dennis Flannelly
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As head of precision medicine for Merck U.S. Oncology, Dennis Flannelly is thinking ahead. He joins Maria Whitman in this episode to talk about the ca...
‘Inspired to go above and beyond’: Value creation in precision medicine with Kris Elverum
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Biotech CEO/CBO Kris Elverum has worked in large pharma and small biotech firms. He currently acts as a consultant and advisor to both biotech and ven...
Healthcare from products to patients to policy: The CEO’s view with Pratap Khedkar
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What’s on the minds of global healthcare leaders right now? To find out, in this episode Maria Whitman talks with ZS CEO Pratap Khedkar. The company...
‘I have MS; MS doesn’t have me’: Anita’s story
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anita Cameron has been living with multiple sclerosis (MS) for more than 30 years. But her condition hasn’t stopped her from learning all she can ab...
‘We all have to be at the table’: Action for health equity with Josette Gbemudu
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Transforming Biopharma, Maria Whitman hears from Josette Gbemudu, executive director of health equity and social determinants of he...
‘We can use this data for good’: Flatiron Health CEO Carolyn Starrett
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Founded in 2012, Flatiron Health helps cancer centers to thrive and deliver better care for patients. CEO Carolyn Starrett joins Maria Whitman to talk...
A deeper dive into ZS’s connected health research with Rob Jekielek
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
ZS worked with The Harris Poll to conduct its latest research on the future of health. In this episode, host Maria Whitman welcomes Rob Jekielek, mana...
Listening to the patient: Robin’s story of cancer and recovery
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Robin Ameny, a passionate patient advocate and a survivor of multiple myeloma. In this episode, host Maria Whitman invites us to see the patient ...
Leading through transformation with Dr. Linda Hill
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Linda Hill, Ph.D., a professor at the Harvard Business School, has advised a number of organizations in the process of digital transformation. The...
Data as an asset: From real-world evidence to actionable insights with Dr. Aarti Shah
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Aarti Shah, former senior vice president and chief information and digital officer at Eli Lilly & Company, knows pharma and technology inside ...
The state of digital health: What’s next for consumers and biopharma with Ahmed Albaiti
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When we use the terms digital health or digital medicine, what do we really mean? Host Maria Whitman takes up this question with Ahmed Albaiti, Head o...
The future of healthcare: Distributed, digitally enabled and decentralized with Shantanu Nundy
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Transforming Biopharma by ZS, a podcast that covers a variety of perspectives on the topics shaping health and the...