Real, Smart People
The real story of how medicine moves forward, one smart person at a time.
Podcasting since 2020 • 8 episodes
Real, Smart People
Latest Episodes
Miriam: The Dancing Scientist
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, is an evangelist for the immune system. “What's my mission in life? To reveal the power of the immune system in treating most human diseases,” she says on Real, Smart People. An internationally acclaimed physicia...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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4:30
Bevin: The Problem Solver
Bevin Cohen, PhD, MS, MPH, RN, is Director of Research and Evidence-Based Practice at The Mount Sinai HospitalLinks:Nursing at Mount Sinai
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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6:22
Jess: Love Thy Neighbor
Jess Ting, MD, has learned to thrive without road maps. As a kid, he taught himself to play the upright bass and went on to study at Juilliard. Now he’s blazing trails in transgender medicine and surgery. “It’s a great field because it’s so you...
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Episode 5
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6:50
Joshua: The Sculptor
Neurosurgeon Joshua Bederson, MD, has performed more than 4,000 neurosurgeries at Mount Sinai. In this audio profile, he talks about the beauty of the brain and the connection between neurosurgery and his other passion: sculpting. Dr. Bederson ...
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Episode 4
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6:07
Mary: Autopsies Save Lives
Early in the pandemic, when little was known about the SARS-CoV-2 virus, neuropathologist Mary Fowkes, MD, PhD, volunteered to perform autopsies on COVID-19 victims. Wearing a full-body protective suit and often working alone, she painstakingly...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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