Beyond the Books

Join us as we welcome Dr. Noah Philip, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and the founding Section Chief of Psychiatric Neuromodulation at VA Providence. We discuss his research in the field of diagnostic tools for trauma and mood-related disorders, go over conventional and novel approaches to treating psychiatric disorders, and discuss what the future of he field holds!

Award-winning professor, researcher, entrepreneur, published novelist, and the inventor of photoacoustic remote sensing (PARS®) microscopy, Dr. Parsin Haji Reza joins the podcast this week. Dr. Reza talks about his research, his company IllumiSonics, his career as a writer, and much more! Join us as we go Beyond the Books!

Physician turned entrepreneur Dr. Joshua Liu, the CEO and co-founder of Seamless MD, joins the podcast this week. Dr. Liu tells us about the digital platform he's developed to revolutionize the patient care experience, his decision to push away practicing medicine after finishing med school, the challenges medical companies face when trying to bring products to market, and much more! Join us as we go Beyond the Books!

We're joined this week by Dr. Gwen Healey Akearok, the executive and scientific director of the Qaujigiartiit Health Research Center in Iqaluit, NU, which aims to enable health research to be conducted locally in a supportive and culturally sensitive environment. We discuss healthcare research in relation to Inuit populations, relationships between healthcare research methods and Inuit Elders, and much more! Join us as we go Beyond the Books!

Beyond the Books is back with Neil Degrasse Tyson! For our season 4 premiere we talk to the Director of the Hayden Planetarium about his work promoting science to the masses, his thoughts on the multiverse, science education, his feature on Logic's album, and go over some of his greatest tweets. Join us as we go Beyond the Books!

We speak with Dr. Adrian Brown, Deputy Program Scientist at NASA about his research looking for extraterrestrial life on Mars! Dr. Brown discusses the evidence they see on Mars' surface to suggest foreign life forms exist, how Earth's 3.5 billion year old life relates to what we've seen on Mars, and more. When will the first human step on Mars? What will alien life on Mars look like? Why does SpaceX and Elon Musk have the most power in the race to colonize Mars? This and more, join us as we go Beyond the Books!

We're joined this week by Anissa Armet, PhD Candidate at the University of Alberta. Anissa specializes in personalized nutrition and her research focuses on the gut microbiome. We discuss her passion for nutritional research, how genetics play a key role in the gut microbiome, the future of personalized nutrition and much more! Join us as we go Beyond the Books!

This week we are joined by the Canada Research Chair in Youth Mental Health, Dr. Mark Ferro. Dr. Ferro talks with us about his research into the intersection between physical and mental health (multimorbidity) in young persons and what this means for the future. We discuss COVID's impact on mental health, how schools can improve their student health campaigns, a common misconception about mental health, and much more. Join us as we go Beyond the Books!

Another Canadian STEM legend joins the podcast as Beyond the Books talks with Bob McDonald! Host of CBC's Quirks and Quarks, former host of Heads Up!, and all around science enthusiast Bob McDonald joins the show to share his knowledge. We talk about the evolution of science journalism through the decades, his thoughts on social media as a new platform, his dislike of "pseudoscience" and much more. Join us as we go Beyond the Books!

Beyond the Books is back! For our season 3 premiere, we're joined by Dr. Karim Karim, CTO of KA Imaging, a Waterloo based X-ray Imaging startup. We spoke with Dr. Karim about the process of starting up his own company, securing funding during the COVID pandemic, the gaps between academic research and industry, and lots more.