BDO's Health & Life Sciences Rx Podcast

In this episode of BDO’s Health & Life Sciences Rx Podcast, BDO’s Howard Levine sits down with leaders from the Allen Institute for Brain Science, Comet Therapeutics, and McDermott Will & Emery to discuss how life sciences leaders can evaluate whether to continue pursuing a drug development program or cancel it.

In this episode of BDO’s Health & Life Sciences Rx Podcast, BDO’s Todd Berry sits down with leaders from Universal Cells, Fortress Biotech, and McDermott Will & Emery to discuss how leaders in biotech can assess the current M&A and IPO landscape to choose the right exit strategy for their organization.

Nurses are already leading patient care innovation, but their full potential has yet to be unleashed. Listen to the latest episode of BDO’s Health & Life Sciences Rx Podcast to hear from the women working to change that.

In this episode of BDO's Health & Life Sciences Rx Podcast, Bobby Guy, shareholder at Polsinelli, leads a conversation about emerging areas for investment in senior living—with leaders from BlueMountain Capital Management, Lancaster Pollard, Silverado Senior Living and Summit Healthcare REIT.

In this episode of BDO’s Health & Life Sciences Rx Podcast, Welltower CEO Tom DeRosa, sits down with Patrick Pilch, managing director and national leader of The BDO Center for Healthcare Excellence & Innovation, to discuss the role senior housing—and the community it can provide—plays in elder care’s future.

The growth of the aging population—and providing proper care to that population—is an urgent challenge facing the global economy. Although each market has its own regulatory and cultural intricacies, we’ve found an antidote becoming more common across borders: an empathy-based elder care system focused on preserving independence.

The healthcare industry is experiencing disruption from all sides – and private equity is taking notice. In this episode, Faruk Amin of Juna Equity Partners and Patrick Pilch, co-leader of BDO's Center for Health Care Excellence and Innovation, join BDO's Todd Kinney to discuss these topics and more. Additionally, BDO's Steven Shill offers an outlook for the eldercare industry.

Steven Shill, partner and national leader of the BDO Center for Healthcare Excellence & Innovation, talks with Bert Notini, managing director with New Mountain Capital; and Ira Coleman, chairman and partner of McDermott Will & Emery, about where investors are placing their bets in healthcare, and why consumer-centric strategies seem most poised for growth.

Patrick Pilch, Managing Director and National Leader of BDO’s healthcare advisory practice, talks with Lisa Alderson, co-founder and CEO of Genome Medical; Lee Jones, CEO of Rebiotix; Martin Kelly, founder and CEO of HealthXL; and Dr. William Payne, co-founder and CEO of myowndoctor.com, about how disruption is creating some opportunity for investments in healthcare and improving patients’ lives.

Dr. Karen De Salvo—Professor of Medicine & Population Health, UT Austin Dell Medical School, former US Assistant Secretary for Health (Acting) & National Coordinator for Health IT—talks with Patrick Pilch, Managing Director and National Leader of BDO’s healthcare advisory practice, about the future of digital health and how data can be leveraged for public health purposes, population health management, planning, and disaster recovery.