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by Adam Walker
I’m Adam Walker a Biometrics consultant, and this is the Pharma Prescribed Podcast—where leaders, innovators, and hidden voices in healthcare open up. No soundbites. No spin. Just raw insight—one prescription at a time.”In an industry driven by data, protocols, and pressure, we rarely pause to ask the human questions: What drives us? What breaks us? And what truths live behind the titles we wear?
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- Today52 min
Andreas Beust on how a small CRO covers the globe without growing | Pharma Prescribed
Andreas Beust is CEO and Managing Director of GCP Service International, a Bremen-based CRO working across medicinal products, medical devices and in vitro diagnostics. He's also President of ACROS — the Association of International CROs — and a guest lecturer at the University of Bremen. He started on the biostatistics desk. He's now running the company, elected by a leader who — not yet 50 — went looking for a successor because clinical research moves too fast to leave succession to chance. In this episode Andreas makes complex things accessible, which is his stated mission. He explains the ACROS model: ten similarly-sized, like-minded CROs from the US to Europe, the Middle East, India, China and Australia, who agree that once a partner joins, their country is off-limits to the others. It lets a small CRO run trials globally — 20 concurrent studies across Spain, Italy and Portugal through one trusted partner — without ballooning into the kind of large, rigid, expensive organisation that can't serve smaller sponsors. Grow together, not bigger. He's refreshingly frank on AI: a lot of overpromise and underdeliver, quarter-of-a-million-per-seat licence fees that no small or mid-size company can pay, and real but modest gains in medical writing, programming and knowledge capture — always human in the loop. And he's honest about the thing that actually drives growth: discomfort. Curiosity, listening first, and putting yourself in the shop window of the unknown. An optimistic, grounded conversation about how the human end of this industry actually works — and how to break into it. 🎧 LISTEN TO THE AUDIO Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7Ks5oLfSDf0u9F1I8GUjti Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adam-walkers-pharma-prescribed-podcast/id1829715970 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1a43eb87-b83e-441d-9a87-321263e3f821/adam-walker%E2%80%99s-pharma-prescribed-podcast Podbean: https://pharmaprescribed.podbean.com Full transcript and episode notes: https://pharmaprescribed.com/episodes ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:35 Meet Andreas Beust 3:00 From the biostats desk to CEO 7:00 Podcasting, curiosity and listening first 11:00 Breaking into clinical research 16:00 Advice for young talent 21:00 Hiring for attitude 23:00 Leading without ego 26:00 A flexibility mindset 27:00 Building the ACROS alliance 30:00 The presidency and the mission 35:00 A communal growth model 37:00 AI in clinical trials — a reality check 42:00 Compliance, costs and human in the loop 44:00 Hope amid uncertainty 46:00 Quickfire round 50:00 Final takeaways 👤 ABOUT ANDREAS BEUST CEO and Managing Director of GCP Service International (Bremen). President of ACROS, the Association of International CROs. Guest lecturer at the University of Bremen. Biologist by training who joined GCP Service in the biostatistics department and rose to lead the company through its international expansion. Advocate for accessible clinical research and for training new talent from the ground up. 💼 Search "Andreas Beust" on LinkedIn 🌐 https://www.gcp-service.com 🎙️ ABOUT PHARMA PRESCRIBED Pharma Prescribed is the podcast where leaders, innovators and hidden voices in healthcare open up. No soundbites, no spin. Just raw insight, one prescription at a time. Hosted by biometrics consultant Adam Walker. 🌐 https://pharmaprescribed.com ▶️ https://youtu.be/GxVq88C6ChA 💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamwalkerbiometrics 🏢 https://uk.linkedin.com/company/pharma-prescribed-podcast #AndreasBeust #GCPService #ACROS #CRO #ClinicalResearch #ClinicalTrials #PharmaPrescribed #AIinPharma #ClinicalTrialCareers #GCP #ContractResearch
- 6 days ago50 min
Graham Allcott on Kind, Psychological Safety & the Quiet Power of Kindness | Pharma Prescribed
Graham Allcott — bestselling author of How to Be a Productivity Ninja and Kind: The Quiet Power of Kindness at Work — joins Adam Walker for a conversation about why the ruthless-boss archetype is scientifically wrong. Graham founded Think Productive, now operating across the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands. His latest book won the 2025 Leadership Book of the Year from the Institute of Leadership and a Business Book Award. His argument is simple and evidence-backed: kindness builds trust, trust builds psychological safety, and psychologically safe teams outperform everyone else. Adam and Graham first met at the Sussex University Kindness Conference. This is the conversation that followed. 🎧 LISTEN ON YOUR PREFERRED APP Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/episode/04glB17p7bBWVmLjlwIO7z?si=WfiLpCsPQuatGlGcV2_NQQ Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/graham-allcott-on-kind-psychological-safety-the-quiet/id1829715970?i=1000778402287 Amazon Music → https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1a43eb87-b83e-441d-9a87-321263e3f821/episodes/dd83fbdb-4053-468f-8486-9e346073b5f6/adam-walker%E2%80%99s-pharma-prescribed-podcast-graham-allcott-on-kind-psychological-safety-the-quiet-power-of-kindness-pharma-prescribed Podbean → https://pharmaprescribed.podbean.com/ Youtube → https://youtu.be/1i1_TIZRBmI 📖 WHAT WE COVER - Why we got the success archetype wrong — Mr Burns, Dragon's Den and the myth of the ruthless leader - "Trust and kindness are our rocket fuel" — the company value that became a book - How trust eliminates due diligence — and the Apple purchase analogy - Why organisations without shareholders find kindness easier: Timpson, Richer Sounds, Reed - James Timpson: "The easiest way to make the numbers go up is to flog everybody" - Why charities are often the least kind places to work - The biggest source of accidental unkindness is busyness - The kindness window: why the opportunity closes the moment you notice it - Slowness isn't about speed, it's about savouring - Erling Kagge, the South Pole and the apple that connected him to the tree - How Seth Godin blurbed the book — and the watermark that nearly stopped it - Kindness starts with you: abundance versus scarcity - DJing jazz, funk and soul at Brighton Sundae ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction & podcast mission 1:00 Meet Graham Allcott 1:30 The mission: thinking differently about work 2:00 Why the success archetype is scientifically wrong 3:00 Meeting at the Sussex Kindness Conference 4:00 The bridge between productivity and kindness 4:30 "Trust and kindness are our rocket fuel" 5:00 Culture without a water cooler 6:00 Psychological safety and what the research shows 8:00 Trust eliminates due diligence — the Apple analogy 9:00 What happens when trust is lost 10:00 Scandinavian workplaces, hygge and Copenhagen 12:00 The shareholder problem — family businesses do it better 13:00 James Timpson on flogging everybody 15:00 Common threads across kinder organisations 17:00 Kindness to customers, not just employees 18:30 The charity sector reality check 21:00 Attention, meetings and How to Fix Meetings 22:00 Nancy Kline's Time to Think 23:00 Podcasting and the attention economy 25:00 Busyness and kindness — do they mix? 27:00 The kindness window and the London Tube seat 28:00 Item four — the praise you never gave 29:00 Busyness as a badge of honour 30:00 Adam's back surgery and rebuilding slowly 32:00 Carl Honoré and the slow movement 33:00 Slowness is savouring, not speed 34:00 Erling Kagge, the South Pole and the apple 36:00 Seth Godin and Beyond Busy 38:00 The advice that named the book 39:00 The watermark that nearly stopped the blurb 40:00 "Blurbs help the author walk taller" 42:00 Kindness starts with you 44:00 Abundance versus scarcity 45:00 "There is enough. I am enough." 46:00 Rev Up for the Week 47:00 Quick-fire: book the ticket 47:45 DJing at Brighton Sundae 48:30 Golden rule: stay curious 👤 ABOUT GRAHAM ALLCOTT Author, speaker and entrepreneur. Founder of Think Productive. Author of How to Be a Productivity Ninja and Kind: The Quiet Power of Kindness at Work — 2025 Leadership Book of the Year. Resident DJ at Brighton Sundae. 🌐 https://www.grahamallcott.com 📧 Rev Up for the Week — free Sunday newsletter 🎧 brightonsundae.com 🎙️ ABOUT PHARMA PRESCRIBED Long-form conversations with leaders in clinical research, digital health and mental wellbeing, hosted by Adam Walker. 🌐 https://pharmaprescribed.com 💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamwalkerbiometrics #GrahamAllcott #Kind #KindnessAtWork #ThinkProductive #Pr
- 2 weeks ago38 min
Adam Walker interviews namesake Adam Walker; GMP, Sepsis & 900k NHS Doses a Year | Pharma Prescribed
Two Adam Walkers, one conversation. This week the host is joined by his namesake — Adam Walker, Qualified Person, Head of Development and Innovation at the North East and North Cumbria Medicines Manufacturing Centre, and co-founder of the Help Me GMP educational platform. Adam qualified as an NHS pharmacist in 2003 and quickly realised the clean room, not the ward, was where he could do the most good. In this episode he explains the quiet revolution underway in NHS pharmaceutical manufacturing: a new hub-and-spoke model, one of four national aseptic pathfinder hubs, and a brand-new facility in Northumberland going live in 2027 — built to produce around 150,000 chemotherapy doses and up to 750,000 ready-to-administer antibiotic doses a year. The patient impact is immediate. A ready-made antibiotic bag pulled from a fridge means the one-hour door-to-needle target for suspected sepsis is met, and nurses get 12–15 minutes per dose back for patient care. Then the conversation turns personal. Adam shares his "why" — his mother's Grade 4 metastatic bowel cancer diagnosis in 2003, her remarkable response to the FOLFOX regimen, and the nine extra years it bought: his wedding, meeting his first son. It's why he gets up in the morning. He also opens up on mentorship, Annex 1, and building Help Me GMP for the "TikTok generation" of pharma professionals. Two disciplines — GMP and GCP — one shared mission: getting the right medicine to the patient at the right time. 🎧 LISTEN TO THE AUDIO Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7Ks5oLfSDf0u9F1I8GUjti Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adam-walkers-pharma-prescribed-podcast/id1829715970 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1a43eb87-b83e-441d-9a87-321263e3f821/adam-walker%E2%80%99s-pharma-prescribed-podcast Podbean: https://pharmaprescribed.podbean.com Full transcript and episode notes: https://pharmaprescribed.com/episodes Youtube: https://youtu.be/2MoNyxxkDiE ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:35 Meet Adam Walker (QP) 1:00 Finding pharma manufacturing 9:00 Development & innovation: the NENC hub 15:00 Patient impact and the sepsis window 18:00 A personal why: his mother's cancer and FOLFOX 21:00 Mentors and career shapers 27:00 The Help Me GMP mission 31:00 Creating content with AI — the GMP way 33:00 Quick fire round 36:00 Golden rule and wrap up 👤 ABOUT ADAM WALKER (GUEST) Qualified Person and pharmaceutical quality leader. Head of Development and Innovation at the North East and North Cumbria Medicines Manufacturing Centre, leading the build of next-generation NHS manufacturing facilities. Co-founder of Help Me GMP, delivering free, practical GMP training worldwide. NHS pharmacist since 2003, specialising in GMP manufacturing, aseptic processing and medicine supply. 💼 Search "Adam Walker Help Me GMP" on LinkedIn 🌐 https://www.whatisgmp.com ▶️ Help Me GMP on YouTube 🎙️ ABOUT PHARMA PRESCRIBED Pharma Prescribed is the podcast where leaders, innovators and hidden voices in healthcare open up. No soundbites, no spin. Just raw insight, one prescription at a time. Hosted by biometrics consultant Adam Walker. 🌐 https://pharmaprescribed.com ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@pharmaprescribedpodcast 💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-walker-2327951/ 🏢 https://uk.linkedin.com/company/pharma-prescribed-podcast #AdamWalker #HelpMeGMP #GMP #NHS #AsepticProcessing #MedicinesManufacturing #PharmaPrescribed #PatientSafety #Chemotherapy #Sepsis #QualifiedPerson #Pharma
- 2 weeks ago45 min
Lisa Kerr on why 95% of eligible patients never join a clinical trial | Pharma Prescribed
Lisa Kerr is Head of Patient Engagement at Evinova, AstraZeneca's health tech business — a PhD chemist who climbed to global project director, hit a cliff edge, and came back with a mission. In this episode Lisa talks openly about the divorce, the clinical depression, and the three months as an outpatient at the Priory that reshaped her career. She founded AstraZeneca's Safe Space employee resource group after one Workplace post she thought would end her career — and built mental health navigation tools that scaled globally. She then turns that lived experience on the industry itself: only 5–7% of eligible patients ever join a clinical trial, and that number has barely moved in a decade despite digitisation and healthcare transformation. Lisa explains the EACH framework, why patients are the real investors in a trial (time, health, trust — given for free), and why AI has just destroyed pharma's last excuse for not designing trials with patients. Honest, funny, and unusually direct. No soundbites, no spin. 🎧 LISTEN TO THE AUDIO Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7Ks5oLfSDf0u9F1I8GUjti Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adam-walkers-pharma-prescribed-podcast/id1829715970 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1a43eb87-b83e-441d-9a87-321263e3f821/adam-walker%E2%80%99s-pharma-prescribed-podcast Podbean: https://pharmaprescribed.podbean.com Full transcript and episode notes: https://pharmaprescribed.com/episodes ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:35 Meet Lisa Kerr 1:30 A mission built on lived experience 2:50 From PhD chemist to global project director 4:20 The cliff edge: divorce, depression, the Priory 5:50 "Ask people how they are twice" — the colleague who saved her 8:50 The mental health access crisis 11:40 Building Safe Space at AstraZeneca 16:10 The navigation tools that scaled globally 20:10 Purpose, energy and humour 22:45 Lessons from the Priory 26:40 Patient engagement: being the voice in the room 29:10 The EACH framework and patients as consumers 30:50 Why only 5–7% of eligible patients ever join a trial 32:35 When the system fails even the well-informed 35:30 AI kills the industry's last excuse 38:10 Misinformation, hallucination and pharma's silence on social 41:50 Quick fire round 44:20 Where to find Lisa 👤 ABOUT LISA KERR Head of Patient Engagement at Evinova (AstraZeneca). PhD chemist, 20+ years across global pharma and health tech. Founder of AstraZeneca's Safe Space ERG and the Evinova I&D network. Advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights, neurodivergent communities and trauma survivors. Charity trustee. Singer in rock and pop covers band The Torrists. 💼 Search "Lisa Kerr" on LinkedIn 🎸 The Torrists — on Instagram and Facebook 🎙️ ABOUT PHARMA PRESCRIBED Pharma Prescribed is the podcast where leaders, innovators and hidden voices in healthcare open up. No soundbites, no spin. Just raw insight, one prescription at a time. Hosted by biometrics consultant Adam Walker. 🌐 https://pharmaprescribed.com ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@pharmaprescribedpodcast
- 4 weeks ago41 min
Alen Hadzic on Engineering Clinical Trial Enrollment with Predictive AI | Pharma Prescribed
Alen Hadzic — founder and CEO of Clinical Trial Scan, Olympic fencer and patent-pending inventor of Dyno AI — joins Adam Walker for one of the most data-driven conversations on the Pharma Prescribed Podcast. Alen's path to clinical trials started with Facebook ads, a friend called Artyom, and $5–7 million in advertising spend across 50 studies. When margins got squeezed, he didn't walk away — he took control of the funnel, built a predictive AI that calculates the true cost per enrollment before a study starts, and filed a patent on the methodology. His golden rule: just show up. Kobe Bryant said it best. 🎧 LISTEN ON YOUR PREFERRED APP Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/episode/3sRsBTqdRbRK7sTzhjSWi1?si=TQgkyijsS-WTX7OXGwoC0g Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/alen-hadzic-on-engineering-clinical-trial-enrollment/id1829715970?i=1000775363752 Amazon Music → https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1a43eb87-b83e-441d-9a87-321263e3f821/adam-walker%E2%80%99s-pharma-prescribed-podcast Podbean → https://pharmaprescribed.podbean.com/ Youtube → https://youtu.be/02tkkvXY4VU?si=-6PyzKLqEqWK-E-T 📖 WHAT WE COVER - $5–7M in Facebook ad data across 50+ clinical trials — and what it revealed - Dyno AI: predicting the true cost per enrolled patient before you spend a dollar - The seven funnel steps from ad click to enrollment — and why each probability matters - Monte Carlo simulations for enrollment cost forecasting - Why a 10% deviation in one funnel step can double your cost per patient - Hot leads vs cold databases: why speed to call changes everything - 70% answer rate across nine calls — but only if you call in the evening - The Colombia call centre: American Colombians running three call blocks a day - Why most AI in clinical trials doesn't work — and how Alen's actually does - Olympic fencing, coach Alexey Cheremsky and waking up at 4am - Bosnian father, French literature PhD mother and never listening to advice - Recording a death metal album while scaling a clinical trial startup - Patent pending on the cost per enrollment methodology ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction & podcast mission 1:00 Meet Alen Hadzic — founder of Clinical Trial Scan 2:00 Former Olympic fencer, musician, writer, drummer 3:00 How sport and consulting gave him a unique perspective 4:00 Finding clinical trials through Spravato and COVID 5:00 Affiliate marketing: running ads for the biggest recruitment vendors 6:00 $5–7M in advertising data across 50+ studies 7:00 Margins squeezed — so he took control of the funnel 8:00 Understanding the real cost per enrollment 9:00 Why questionnaire design kills your ad performance 10:00 Cost per lead by city: $66 Detroit, $52 Miami 12:00 The algorithm, keywords and why simple ads outperform 13:00 Dyno AI: protocol upload to funnel prediction 14:00 The seven funnel steps — call to enrollment 16:00 Dropout, concierge and speed to call 17:00 Why cold databases fail and hot leads win 18:00 48-hour contact window — the critical threshold 19:00 End-to-end delivery and site-centric pricing 20:00 Small funnel deviations = massive cost changes 21:00 Colombia call team: bilingual, driven, three blocks a day 24:00 Initiation fees, difficulty scores and transparent pricing 25:00 AI hype reality check — "we are not an AI company" 26:00 Why small databases won't save your study 27:00 How Dyno's AI actually trains and improves 28:00 Monte Carlo simulations and confidence intervals 29:00 Expanding: Colombia, Brazil and LATAM 31:00 Mentors: coach Cheremsky, parents, the clinical trials community 34:00 Quick-fire: let life do the work — stop forcing outcomes 36:00 Show up, good attitude, bring yourself 37:00 Music: Iron Maiden changed everything — recording an album 38:00 Golden rule: show up — Kobe Bryant said it best 41:00 dyno.clinicaltrialscan.ai and closing thanks 👤 ABOUT ALEN HADZIC Founder and CEO of Clinical Trial Scan. Creator of Dyno AI (patent pending). Former Olympic fencer. Columbia University. Vlerick Business School. 🌐 https://dyno.clinicaltrialscan.ai 💼 Search "Alen Hadzic" on LinkedIn 🎙️ ABOUT PHARMA PRESCRIBED Long-form conversations with leaders in clinical research, digital health and mental wellbeing, hosted by Adam Walker. 🌐 https://pharmaprescribed.com 💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-walker-2327951/ #AlenHadzic #ClinicalTrialScan #DynoAI #PatientRecruitment #ClinicalTrials #PharmaPrescribed #AdamWalker #CostPerEnrollment #MonteCarlo #DigitalAdvertising #FacebookAds #OlympicFencer #LifeSciences #ClinicalResearch #PatentPending
- Jun 25, 202641 min
Dr. Pat Boulogne on Functional Medicine, Fasting Since 17 on Zero Medications @71 | Pharma Prescribed
Dr.Pat Boulogne — performance optimisation strategist, functional medicine expert and bestselling author — joins Adam Walker for one of the most practical wellbeing conversations on the Pharma Prescribed Podcast. Dr.Pat is 71, takes zero medications, works 14-hour days with full mental clarity, and has spent 30+ years helping high performers close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Her father wanted her to be an electrical engineer. She chose to become an engineer of life and health instead. Her approach is pharma unprescribed. 🎧 LISTEN ON YOUR PREFERRED APP Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Xda2P6nkvkSzHwKyRr02f?si=8sT0tSfNQf-E1m6MApUnwQ Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dr-pat-boulogne-on-functional-medicine-fasting-since/id1829715970?i=1000774232267 Amazon Music → https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/1a43eb87-b83e-441d-9a87-321263e3f821/adam-walker%E2%80%99s-pharma-prescribed-podcast 📖 WHAT WE COVER - 71 years old, zero medications, 14-hour days — how she does it - Root cause medicine vs symptom masking: the sleep medication story - Intermittent fasting since age 17 — before anyone called it that - How to pair foods so your body isn't stressed — and why timing matters - Alkaline tide: why you crash after lunch and what to do about it - The three brains: lizard, mammalian and conscious — and how they talk - Why affirmations only work if you ask "why" at the end - The organic broccoli dating analogy — and the woman who stole it - "If it's brown, don't eat it in the morning" - Adam's back surgery, the body keeping score and the V-shaped trees - Be true to yourself — the golden rule ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction & podcast mission 1:00 Meet Dr.Pat Boulogne — performance optimisation strategist 2:00 Mission: saving lives through physical, mental and emotional health 3:00 From electrical engineering to engineer of life and health 4:00 71, zero medications, sharp brain — how 5:00 University of Michigan and the question that got her uninvited 6:00 Outside-the-box medicine and why she never looked back 7:00 85% of headaches are metabolically involved 8:00 The sleep medication story: first full night in weeks 9:00 Intermittent fasting since 17 — one meal a day 10:00 Water intake calculated by body weight 11:00 Brain performance: when to study, eat and exercise 12:00 Alkaline tide: why food makes you crash 13:00 In-a-Gadda-da-Vida: exercise to a heartbeat 14:00 Bread, self-regulation and pushing away from the table 15:00 Scarpetta la piatra: how Italians eat bread right 16:00 Microbiome, labels and knowing your food sources 17:00 Corn syrup, ultra-processed foods and why labels lie 18:00 Injured gut: probiotics won't save you 19:00 Dairy: raw milk vs dead milk — source matters 21:00 Body signals: bloating, cramps and what they mean 22:00 Foot adjustment: five days pain-free after 20 years 23:00 Adam's back surgery and the body keeping score 25:00 Three brains: lizard, mammalian and conscious 26:00 Affirmations plus "why" — rewiring the mammalian brain 28:00 The V-shaped trees, the ring and Adam's daily ritual 30:00 Golfer's pickup and protecting your pelvis 32:00 "I open the fridge and look in the medicine cabinet" 34:00 Organic broccoli is like dating — the story 36:00 Food as medicine: lifestyle not diet 37:00 "Play with your grandkids or watch them?" 39:00 Quick-fire: go to school sooner, say what you think 40:00 Honesty, integrity, action — and cooking 41:00 Golden rule: be true to yourself 👤 ABOUT DR. PAT BOULOGNE Performance optimisation strategist. Functional medicine expert. Author of Why Are You Sick, Fat, and Tired? 30+ years clinical experience. 📚 Amazon UK and US 💼 Search "Dr Pat Boulogne" on LinkedIn 🎙️ ABOUT PHARMA PRESCRIBED Long-form conversations with leaders in clinical research, digital health and mental wellbeing, hosted by Adam Walker. 🌐 https://pharmaprescribed.com 💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-walker-2327951/ #DrPatBoulogne #FunctionalMedicine #PerformanceOptimisation #PharmaPrescribed #AdamWalker #IntermittentFasting #RootCause #Wellbeing #Nutrition #ThreeBrains #Affirmations #OrganicFood #Microbiome #GutHealth #HealthyAging
- Jun 21, 202637 min
Andy York on AI, Data Science & Why 80% Accuracy Isn’t Good Enough | Pharma Prescribed
Adam Walker sits down with Andy York — statistician, clinical data science leader, and former VP of Clinical Data Science at Novo Nordisk — for a masterclass in where pharma's data revolution has been, where it's heading, and why the AI hype needs a reality check. With over 30 years spanning Roche, Covance, and Novo Nordisk, Andy now advises Verisian, a company building next-generation AI and traceability tools for clinical reporting. He brings rare historical depth and hard-won perspective to one of the industry's most pressing questions: can we actually trust AI with patient safety? In this episode: Why 80% AI accuracy equates to a process out of control — and what the Six Sigma reality check means for drug development The journey from paper CRFs and carbon copies to EDC, CDISC standards, and AI-assisted programming SAS vs R vs Python — what the shift to open source really means for regulatory submissions How guardrails, not raw AI, are the key to hitting 95%+ accuracy in clinical reporting The future of statistical programming: from code developers to validators Why pharma's AI revolution will realistically take a decade — and what to do in the meantime Career advice for the next generation entering clinical data science Whether you're a statistical programmer, data scientist, biometrician, or simply curious about AI's real role in drug development, this conversation will challenge your assumptions and sharpen your thinking. 🎙️ Pharma Prescribed is hosted by Adam Walker, biometrics consultant and independent voice in clinical research and healthcare leadership. 🔗 Listen on all platforms: pharmaprescribed.com 📧 Connect with Adam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-walker-2327951/ ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 01:00 Meet Andy York — Career & Mission 02:00 Why Pharma? The Noble Cause Behind the Data 04:30 Lessons From 30 Years — Advice for Newcomers 05:30 From Paper CRFs to EDC: How Data Collection Evolved 07:00 Standards, CDISC, SAS & the Programming Revolution 08:30 AI in Pharma — The Reality Check 10:00 The 80% Problem & Six Sigma Thinking 11:00 Guardrails: How to Make AI Reliable in Clinical Reporting 13:00 Human in the Loop — The FDA's Stance on AI Submissions 15:00 Parallel Streams & Freeing Up Resource Through Automation 17:00 Expanding Drug Indications With AI Efficiency 18:00 Conference Trends — The Move From SAS to R 20:00 Open Source vs Validated Systems — Regulatory Perspectives 23:00 SAS, R, Python — The Right Language for the Right Job 24:30 Future Roles: From Programmer to Data Scientist 27:00 The Next Generation — Gamers, AI Natives & Skills for Tomorrow 29:00 Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact 30:30 Verisian's Roadmap — What's Coming Next 32:30 Andy's Closing Advice for Programmers at Every Stage 🏷️ TAGS clinical data science, statistical programming, AI in pharma, drug development, clinical trials, SAS vs R, open source pharma, CDISC standards, regulatory submission, FDA AI, Novo Nordisk, Verisian, biometrics, data science careers, pharma podcast, clinical research, Adam Walker, Pharma Prescribed, Andy York, EDC, SDTM, ADaM, PharmaVerse, R consortium, double programming, AI accuracy, patient safety, pharmaceutical industry, clinical data management, real world evidence, pharma careers
- Jun 8, 202655 min
Pharma Prescribed with Dermot Whelan, Broadcaster; Beyond the Busyness: Finding peace in a chaotic world
I’m Adam Walker a Biometrics consultant, and this is the Pharma Prescribed Podcast—where leaders, innovators, and hidden voices in healthcare open up. No soundbites. No spin. Just raw insight—one prescription at a time. In an industry driven by data, protocols, and pressure, we rarely pause to ask the human questions: What drives us? What breaks us? And what truths live behind the titles we wear? Today’s guest is Dermot Whelan, one of Ireland’s most recognisable broadcasters and a leading voice in accessible, science‑informed mindfulness. A multi‑award‑winning radio and TV presenter, bestselling author, comedian and certified Masters of Wisdom and Meditation Teacher, he has helped thousands rethink stress and emotional wellbeing through his book Mind Full, his nationwide tours and his chart‑topping podcast. I first met Dermot at a conference in Prague in early 2025 when in the throes of grief, and the impact was immediate. In a room full of industry noise, he brought something rare: grounded clarity, humour and a human‑centred approach to behaviour change that cut straight through. That conversation and our connection following a guided meditation shaped how I think about resilience and vulnerability in corporate settings. Today, Dermot works globally with organisations and individuals, translating complex psychological concepts into practical, relatable habits—an ethos that aligns powerfully with the mission of Pharma Prescribed.
About Adam Walker’s Pharma Prescribed Podcast
I’m Adam Walker a Biometrics consultant, and this is the Pharma Prescribed Podcast—where leaders, innovators, and hidden voices in healthcare open up. No soundbites. No spin. Just raw insight—one prescription at a time.”In an industry driven by data, protocols, and pressure, we rarely pause to ask the human questions: What drives us? What breaks us? And what truths live behind the titles we wear?
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