The RWD & RWE Podcast

Ep 190 [01 October 2025]: Jeff Morgan and Karla Feghali – RWE & GenAI: Insights from Deloitte’s 2025 Survey

Ep 190 [01 October 2025]: Deloitte's Jeff Morgan and Karla Feghali – We discussed the history of RWE in our venacular and we unpacked the highlights of Deloitte’s 2025 Real-World Evidence (RWE) Benchmarking Survey.In this conversation, we’ll explored:> How are pharma leaders modernizing their RWE capabilities to support the enterprise?> What role is generative AI really playing in reshaping evidence generation — and where are the biggest hurdles?> Which capabilities and partnerships are setting top performers apart?> What’s next: How will patient-centric approaches, expanding data ecosystems, and evolving regulation shape the future of RWE?You can review the full survey here in advance:https://www.deloitte.com/content/dam/assets-zone3/us/en/docs/services/consulting/2025/ada-compliant-2025-rwe-benchmarking-report.pdfPlease check-out our website to join the club, get updates and see podcast recordings: https://rwd-rwe.clubDisclaimer: The views expressed in this podcast are the guest's and host's alone, and do not reflect the official position of any organization or entity with whom they are, or have been, professionally affiliated.

Ep 189 [24 September 2025]: Ivana Naeymi-Rad MS – Pharma and health tech don’t lack data--they lack clarity!

Ep 189 [24 September 2025]: Ivana Naeymi-Rad MS, COO at IMO Health – Pharma and health tech companies don’t suffer from a lack of data; they suffer from a lack of clarity as clinical insights are buried under billing codes, unstructured notes, and inconsistent language that distort intent. Manual reviews and mapping struggle to keep pace, leading to gaps, noise, and lost reproducibility and endpoints. Ivana shared why normalization and IMO Health’s terminology is the essential companion to all real-world data, ensuring clinical intent is preserved, transforming costly RWD investments into insights and evidence you can trust.Please check-out our website to join the club, get updates and see podcast recordings: https://rwd-rwe.clubDisclaimer: The views expressed in this podcast are the guest's and host's alone, and do not reflect the official position of any organization or entity with whom they are, or have been, professionally affiliated.

Ep 187 [10 September 2025]: Special collaborative Real World Wednesday with the with the RWEsearch Annual Summit 2025 (hosted by Healthark Insight) that was conducted live: Application of RWD for RWE.

Ep 187 [10 September 2025]: Special collaborative Real World Wednesday with the with the RWEsearch Annual Summit 2025 (hosted by Healthark Insight) that was conducted live on 10 September 2025 with Charlie Barr MD MPH, Stuart McCully PhD, and Radek Wasiak PhD: Conceptualize, Realize and Operationalize: Application of RWD for RWE.- Charlie Barr MD MPH, Managing Director & Founder of Pivotal Strategic Consulting, Chief Medical Officer at Adaptic Health- Stuart McCully PhD, CEO & Co-founder of RWRegs- Radek Wasiak PhD, CEO & Co-founder of rAIRe(TM), Director & Co-founder of Adigens HealthPlease check-out our website to join the club, get updates and see podcast recordings: https://rwd-rwe.clubDisclaimer: The views expressed in this podcast are the guest's and host's alone, and do not reflect the official position of any organization or entity with whom they are, or have been, professionally affiliated.

Ep 188 [17 September 2025]: Melanie Philofsky – RWW: Why RWD standardization matters

Ep 188 [17 September 2025]: Melanie Philofsky, a former nurse and currently Director of Clinical Informatics that leads the RWD consulting group at EPAM Systems – We discussed why RWD standardization matters, including the harmonization of disparate healthcare data sources into the OMOP Common Data Model to support research and operational analytics, with expertise in health systems, clinical informatics, data analysis, data quality and data modeling.Please check-out our website to join the club, get updates and see podcast recordings: https://rwd-rwe.clubDisclaimer: The views expressed in this podcast are the guest's and host's alone, and do not reflect the official position of any organization or entity with whom they are, or have been, professionally affiliated.

Ep 185 [30 July 2025]: Ewa Kleczyk PhD – Linked RWD: Half the Data, Half the Truth

Ep 185 [30 July 2025]: Ewa Kleczyk PhD, SVP of Operations at Target RWE – We explored deeper RWD curation through linking and this curated dataset’s relevance in evaluation of rare conditions, with extrapolation to under-represented and broadly accessible patient populations alike.Please check-out our website to join the club, get updates and see podcast recordings: https://rwd-rwe.clubDisclaimer: The views expressed in this podcast are the guest's and host's alone, and do not reflect the official position of any organization or entity with whom they are, or have been, professionally affiliated.

Ep 184 [23 July 2025]: Scott DuVall PhD – Extraction Not Distraction: Insights from the RWD Evolution

Ep 184 [23 July 2025]: Scott DuVall PhD, renown medical informatics expert in healthcare machine learning / NLP and records linkage – We explored the history and evolution of applied machine learning / NLP towards current AI/LLMs as applied to electronic health records.Scott referenced this article:Jones BE, Jones MM. Pneumonia and Electronic Health Records-A Window Into Disease, A Mirror of Our Behavior, or Just Another Streetlight? Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Oct 23;71(7):1613-1615. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz1053. PMID: 31665250. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31665250/Please check-out our website to join the club, get updates and see podcast recordings: https://rwd-rwe.clubDisclaimer: The views expressed in this podcast are the guest's and host's alone, and do not reflect the official position of any organization or entity with whom they are, or have been, professionally affiliated.

Ep 183 [09 July 2025]: Van Crocker MBA – "Networks” in RWE and why they often have no “center”

Ep 183 [09 July 2025]: Van Crocker MBA, Founder and President of Agonist Health – We explored the potential - and reality - of networks in the RWE arena.Please check-out our website to join the club, get updates and see podcast recordings: https://rwd-rwe.clubDisclaimer: The views expressed in this podcast are the guest's and host's alone, and do not reflect the official position of any organization or entity with whom they are, or have been, professionally affiliated.

Ep 182 [02 July 2025]: Ardy Arianpour MBA – Beyond the Trial: RWD That Scales

Ep 182 [02 July 2025]: Ardy Arianpour MBA, CEO & Co-Founder at SEQSTER – We discussed how consented, longitudinal RWD is accelerating clinical research, enabling patient-finding, and solving post-market challenges—faster and at increasing scale.Please check-out our website to join the club, get updates and see podcast recordings: https://rwd-rwe.clubDisclaimer: The views expressed in this podcast are the guest's and host's alone, and do not reflect the official position of any organization or entity with whom they are, or have been, professionally affiliated.
 

Ep 181 [25 June 2025]: Mark Shapiro PhD – Extraction, Coding, and Summarization of EHR Data with LLMs

Ep 181 [25 June 2025]: Mark Shapiro PhD, Chief Operating Officer (COO) at xCures – We discussed the recent advancements in AI, LLMs and "models" in general, as well as the impact that Large Language Models (LLMs) are having on the use of EHR data for evidentiary use cases.Please check-out our website to join the club, get updates and see podcast recordings: https://rwd-rwe.clubDisclaimer: The views expressed in this podcast are the guest's and host's alone, and do not reflect the official position of any organization or entity with whom they are, or have been, professionally affiliated.

Ep 180 [18 June 2025]: Nicole Garberg MS – Getting Real About Patient Experience in Real-World Evidence

Ep 180 [18 June 2025]: Nicole Garberg MS, Head of RWE at KJT – We discussed her 20+ year healthcare focus that has allowed her to work across several key stakeholder groups, including payors, medical device, medical technology, and pharmaceutical manufacturers, HEOR teams, healthcare providers, and most importantly, patients. Specializing in real-world evidenced-based healthcare research, Nicole is focused on understanding patient experience, patient quality of life, and healthcare journeys to improve outcomes by incorporating patient voice into all real-world data-based research efforts.Please check-out our website to join the club, get updates and see podcast recordings: https://rwd-rwe.clubDisclaimer: The views expressed in this podcast are the guest's and host's alone, and do not reflect the official position of any organization or entity with whom they are, or have been, professionally affiliated.