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.

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Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/alen-hadzic-on-engineering-clinical-trial-enrollment/id1829715970?i=1000775363752 

Youtube → https://youtu.be/02tkkvXY4VU?si=-6PyzKLqEqWK-E-T

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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.

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Dermot Whelan — broadcaster, comedian, bestselling author and certified meditation teacher — joins Adam Walker for one of the most personal and practical conversations on the Pharma Prescribed Podcast.

This episode holds a special place — meeting Dermot in Prague in early 2025, 

Dermot left his radio show at Today FM at the height of its ratings to dedicate himself full-time to making mindfulness accessible. In this conversation, he shares the panic attack in 2007 that changed everything, why stress has terrible marketing, and the simple tools — including Navy SEAL box breathing — that can shift your nervous system in just 16 seconds.

Adam opens up about his own breakdown following his father's stroke, and how meeting Dermot at a conference in Prague in early 2025 became a turning point. Raw, warm, and full of practical frameworks you can use today.

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⚠️ This episode discusses suicide, traumatic brain injury, and grief. Please take care if these topics are difficult for you.

Sharmila Hume — known as the "Biomedic Detective" — joins Adam Walker for one of the most profound and wide-ranging conversations on the Pharma Prescribed Podcast.

Originally trained as a telecoms engineer, Sharmila rebuilt her life after her own battle with ME and fibromyalgia, then spent months in Mexico rehabilitating her brother Arnie after a near-fatal head-on collision with a drunk driver. When Arnie later died by suicide, Sharmila connected the dots between his unaddressed traumatic brain injury and his death — and turned that grief into a mission.

Today she runs the Headstrong campaign and her Bioperformance System, using German bioresonance technology to treat the body as a communication network — identifying and clearing the disruptions that conventional medicine misses. This is a conversation about what we overlook, and what it costs us.

Adam also opens up about the death of his sister Naomi by suicide, and the striking connections between viral meningitis, brain function, and the mental health crisis that followed.

Recorded during Mental Health Awareness Week.

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Bilal Bham — founder and CEO of Amodaia — joins Adam Walker to explore what it really takes to guide a biotech, pharma or medtech company through its most critical decision points.

Bilal brings nearly two decades of life sciences experience across regulatory affairs, medical affairs, market access, marketing communications and fundraising. But what sets him apart is the lens through which he approaches all of it: lived experience. His own journey with Graves' disease and thyroid eye disease, alongside family mental health challenges and his experience as an autistic leader, has shaped a consultancy built around the belief that science and human perspective are inseparable.

This is a conversation about the gap between clinical data and commercial reality — and what it takes to close it.

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Adam Baumgart — biometrics and risk consultant with 38 years across AstraZeneca, Covance and beyond — joins Adam Walker for a masterclass in risk-based quality management, the future of clinical trials, and what it actually takes to build a career worth having.

Adam fell into clinical research in 1988 when data was collected on non-carbon required paper. He's watched the industry move from paper forms to web-based entry, integrated databases, and now AI-driven analytics. Along the way he discovered a passion for RBQM — and spent four years leading the risk-based monitoring initiative at Covance that transformed how clinical trials are overseen.

This episode is part technical deep-dive, part career masterclass, and part honest conversation about mentorship, loss, men's mental health and the Monday morning accountability group that changed both Adam's life and the host's.

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Helen Palk — general practice lead nurse with nearly 30 years in the NHS — joins Adam Walker for one of the warmest and most grounded conversations on the Pharma Prescribed Podcast.

Inspired by her grandmother, an army nurse who cared for injured troops during the Second World War, Helen's path began behind a pharmacy counter and took her through urology, theatre recovery, midwifery and finally to general practice in the southeast of England — where she has been ever since.

This is a conversation about what nursing actually looks like from the inside: the intimacy, the consent, the emergencies that change your mind about a career, the COVID vaccine hubs that ran on sheer goodwill, and why a smile is still the most powerful clinical tool in the room.

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Steven Thompson — founder of Next Trial AI — joins Adam Walker to explain why 85% of clinical trials are delayed before a single patient is enrolled, and what he's building to fix it.

Steven spent two decades in high-stakes regulatory environments: first with American Airlines on FAA compliance, then with Embraer in Brazil, then building data engineering pipelines for oncology and vaccines at Biogen and Takeda. When his father died of cancer — after going through an informed consent process based on static eligibility data that couldn't predict whether he'd even tolerate the trial — it became personal.

Now, from his base in Brazil, Steven is building the infrastructure that makes clinical trials predictable. Trial ready in 30 days. Zero rejection packets. AI that is provably right — not probably right.

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⚠️ This episode discusses suicide loss and grief. Please take care. If you need support: Samaritans → 116 123 (UK, free, 24/7)

Amelia Wrighton — co-founder and CEO of Suicide&Co — joins Adam Walker for the most personal conversation on the Pharma Prescribed Podcast.

Amelia lost her mother to suicide at 19. She navigated that grief alone, without signposting, without counseling, suppressing everything until alopecia and a mental health crisis forced her hand. A decade later she met her co-founder Emma — who had lost her father — and the parallels in two completely different lives were the catalyst for Suicide&Co.

For Adam, this episode is deeply personal. He lost his sister Naomi to suicide in September 2024. Suicide&Co supported his family from day one. This is his first public conversation about it.

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#AmeliaWrighton #SuicideAndCo #SuicideLoss #SuicideBereavement #MentalHealth #GriefSupport #TalkingTherapy #PharmaPrescribed #AdamWalker #SuicidePrevention #Bereavement #MentalHealthUK