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Advances in Care

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On Advances in Care, epidemiologist and science communicator Erin Welsh sits down with physicians from NewYork-Presbyterian hospital to discuss the details behind cutting-edge research and innovative treatments that are changing the course of medicine. From breakthroughs in genome sequencing to the backstories on life-saving cardiac procedures, the work of these doctors from Columbia & Weill Cornell Medicine is united by a collective mission to shape the future of health care and transform the lives of their patients. Erin Welsh, who also hosts This Podcast Will Kill You, gets to the heart of her guests’ most challenging and inventive medical discoveries.

Advances in Care is a show for health careprofessionals and listeners who want to stay at the forefront of the latest medical innovations and research. Tune in to learn more about some of medicine’s greatest leaps forward.

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#61
September 3 · 20 min
Exploring Psychedelics as the Next Wave of Psychiatric Innovation
On this episode of Advances in Care, Erin Welsh revisits her conversations with Dr. Richard Friedman, a clinical psychiatrist at NewYork-Presbyterian and director of the Psychopharmacology Clinic at Weill Cornell Medicine, and Dr. David Hellerstein, a research psychiatrist at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia, about the challenges of conventional therapeutics like SSNRIs and SSRIs and how psychedelic compounds could provide different treatment mechanisms. They discuss the challenges of testing c
#60
August 6 · 23 min
GUARDIAN Screening Panel Expands Early Detection for Rare and Treatable Diseases
On this episode of Advances in Care, host Erin Welsh revisits the story behind the GUARDIAN study, which screens thousands of newborn babies against rare disease by sequencing their genes, and looking for more conditions than any of the current standard screening panels. She hears from Dr. Jordan Orange on why genetic testing is a promising way of not only catching treatable rare diseases in infants but also expanding health equity and medical resources to marginalized populations, and Dr. Josh
#59
July 23 · 18 min
Groundbreaking Gene Therapy Restores Natural Hearing for Genetic Deafness
On this episode of Advances in Care, Erin Welsh is joined by Dr. Lawrence Lustig, otolaryngologist-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia. Dr. Lustig has spent decades working to advance various interventions to treat genetic hearing loss and after years of research his team was the first to show that gene therapies could be effective at reversing genetic hearing loss in mouse models and eventually, humans. In April 2026, the FDA approved the first ever gene therapy for a rare form of ge
#58
July 9 · 18 min
A Novel Immune-Based Cell Therapy Improves Treatment for Metastatic Melanoma
On this episode of Advances in Care, Erin Welsh is joined by Dr. Barbara Ma, a medical oncologist at NewYork-Presbyterian who leads Cellular Therapy for Solid Tumors at Weill-Cornell Medicine. Dr. Ma and her team are at the forefront of utilizing a new therapy in the treatment of metastatic melanoma called tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte therapy—or TIL therapy—which received FDA approval in 2024. Patients receiving TIL therapy have seen tumors shrink in as little as one week after their first roun
#57
June 25 · 16 min
The Positive Impact of Electroconvulsive Therapy for Severe Psychiatric Illness
On this episode of Advances in Care, Dr. Leonardo Lopez, a psychiatrist at NewYork-Presbyterian and vice chair for inpatient services in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine, joins Erin Welsh to discuss a transformative but widely inaccessible psychiatric treatment: electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Dr. Lopez describes the history of the treatment, how it has evolved since its inception to become one of the safest procedures done under general anesthesia, and the dramatic resp
#56
June 11 · 15 min
How a Complex Partial Liver Transplant Saved a Two-Month Old Infant
On this episode of Advances in Care, Dr. Steven Lobritto, pediatric medical director for liver transplant at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia, joins host Erin Welsh to tell the story of the high-risk pediatric partial liver transplant to save the life of a two month old baby, after the center where the baby was originally treated deemed her inoperable. Dr. Lobritto explains how he and his team coordinated with the patient’s initial care team across the country to prepare the critically ill, 11-
#55
May 28 · 18 min
Cerebral Organoids Provide New Strategy to Personalize Glioblastoma Treatment
On this episode of Advances in Care, Erin Welsh speaks with Dr. Howard Fine, neuro-oncologist at NewYork-Presbyterian and director of the Brain Tumor Center at Weill Cornell Medicine, about his groundbreaking research in glioblastoma. Dr. Fine’s lab is bioengineering cerebral organoids - called mini brains - from human embryonic stem cells through a platform called GLICO, which creates genetically matched, patient-specific brain models using an individual's immune cells and glioma cells. These m
#54
May 14 · 17 min
Navigating High-Risk Pregnancy with Multidisciplinary Cardio-Obstetrics Care
Many women in the US are having children at a later age than in the past, and with that comes an increased occurrence of common conditions like high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol that can put them at risk for heart disease while pregnant or afterwards. In fact, cardiovascular disease is now the leading cause of maternal mortality in the US, with pulmonary hypertension and peripartum cardiomyopathy posing significantly high risks. Dr. Jennifer Haythe joins Advances in Care host E
#53
April 30 · 19 min
Redefining Treatment for Chiari Malformation with a Transitional Care Model
Chiari malformation is a rare, potentially very serious condition that can easily be misdiagnosed without proper expertise. Untreated, complications like hydrocephalus, CSF leaks, cysts in the spinal cord, and nerve and muscle damage can develop but Dr. Jeffrey Greenfield, a pediatric neurosurgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian, is addressing the unmet need for better management of this disorder through the Chiari CARE program at Weill Cornell Medicine–a multidisciplinary care model involving neurolog
#52
April 16 · 17 min
Single Port Robotic Surgery Transforms Outcomes for Lung Tumor Removal
Dr. Jeffrey Port joins Advances in Care host Erin Welsh to discuss advances in thoracic surgery and the unique collaborative care model NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine employs to operate on complex chest tumors. In recent years, new robotic approaches to thoracic surgery have revolutionized the field and currently, NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine is one of only 10 centers nationwide that is performing advanced lung procedures utilizing single port robotic technolo
#51
April 2 · 20 min
Improving Preterm Birth Outcomes with Virtual Cervix Technology
Advances in Care host Erin Welsh is joined by Dr. Mirella Mourad, maternal-fetal medicine specialist at NewYork-Presbyterian and co-director of the Preterm Birth Prevention Center at Columbia, to talk about her groundbreaking work in obstetrics and high-risk pregnancy care. Along with her collaborator Dr. Kristin Meyers from Columbia’s School of Engineering, Dr. Mourad has developed a patient-specific “digital twin” of the cervix: an innovative model designed to improve the assessment, diagnosis
#50
March 19 · 19 min
How ECMO Leadership is Driving Improved Survival and Post-ICU Recovery
Advances in Care host Erin Welsh is joined by Dr. Cara Agerstrand, director of the Medical ECMO Program at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia, and Dr. Matthew Baldwin, critical care specialist and research lead for Columbia’s Baldwin Lab which focuses on the study of critical illness survivorship. They discuss the strength of NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia’s critical care teams, including how they have established a world-renowned expertise in managing patients on rescue therapies like extra-c
#49
March 5 · 15 min
Phase 3 Trial Reduces Risk of Progression in Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Advances in Care host Erin Welsh is joined by Dr. Scott Tagawa, medical oncologist at NewYork-Presbyterian and director of the Genitourinary Oncology Program at Weill Cornell Medicine, to talk about the latest developments in prostate cancer care. Dr. Tagawa recently led a Phase III randomized trial– called PSMAddition–to assess targeted radioligand therapy in men with hormone-sensitive metastatic prostate cancer, which yielded notable declines in PSA levels and slowed cancer progression by 28%.
#48
February 19 · 17 min
Breakthrough Technology Improves Concussion Assessment and Player Safety
Advances in Care host Erin Welsh sits down with sports medicine physician and concussion specialist Dr. Thomas Bottiglieri to explore the current landscape of concussion care, limitations in assessment, and how a newly discovered biomarker may be the key to more accurate diagnosis and return-to-play decisions. After Dr. Bottiglieri and his team identified a unique biomarker linked to severe concussion, they developed ProScope: an eyetracking software tool that measures head and neck stability an
#47
Dec 18, 2025 · 19 min
2025 Year in Review: Revisiting the Top Takeaways from Advances in Care
In this year-end episode, the hosts of NewYork-Presbyterian’s Advances in Care and Health Matters podcasts come together to reflect on the most compelling insights from their 2025 conversations with physicians , researchers, and other health experts. From groundbreaking innovations to impactful patient stories, they share their top takeaways from a year of meaningful dialogue in medicine.
#46
Dec 4, 2025 · 26 min
Revisiting the Network Effect: Analyzing Brain Structures to Treat Depression
This week on Advances in Care, we’re revisiting an episode about innovative treatments for depression. When Dr. Conor Liston first began mapping the brains of people suffering from major depression he noticed something strange. In depressed brains certain networks were expanded and, as a result, had pushed into other networks. This finding made Dr. Liston think that the expanded network could explain why depression presents differently from patient to patient. In this conversation with former Ad
#45
Nov 13, 2025 · 30 min
Revisiting Deep Learner: Building AI to Improve Cardiovascular Care
This week we revisit a conversation between former host Catherine Price and Dr. Pierre Elias, cardiologist and Medical Director of Artificial Intelligence for NewYork-Presbyterian, who explains how utilizing artificial intelligence and deep learning in medicine can help doctors more accurately predict cardiovascular disease, and allow them to focus on bringing the human care element back to health care.
#44
Oct 30, 2025 · 34 min
Revisiting Surgical Robot: Advancing Medicine with Robot-Assisted Technology
This week we revisit the stories of three doctors who come from different specialties, united by one goal: to advance the implementation of surgical robotics. In this episode, Dr. Jason Hawksworth, Dr. Arnar Geirsson, and Dr. Tamatha Fenster discuss how robots are revolutionizing the fields of hepatobiliary, gynecological, and cardiac surgeries–and what’s coming next for the future of medicine.
#43
Oct 16, 2025 · 24 min
Revisiting Heartmaker: Revolutionizing Pediatric Heart Surgery
In the first ever episode from the Advances in Care archives, Dr. Emile Bacha, Chief of the Division of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia, tells the story of how he successfully implanted a total artificial heart into one of the youngest patients in the world to undergo the surgery.
#42
Oct 2, 2025 · 27 min
Revisiting Team Doc: Engineering a Better Recovery
This week we’re revisiting a conversation between former Advances in Care host Catherine Price and Dr. Chris Ahmad, just in time for the MLB playoffs. Dr. Ahmed, orthopedic surgeon and the team doctor for the New York Yankees, explains how he uses his engineering expertise to innovate one of the most famous operations in sports medicine: Tommy John surgery.

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