Nurse Rosa's INsights

Heart disease is still the #1 killer, in a world where your watch monitors your heart 24/7. Something isn't adding up.

In this episode, Nurse Rosa sits down with Dr. Aline Pedroso, Assistant Research Scientist at Yale School of Medicine, to explore the gap between what's possible in healthcare and what patients actually experience.

Originally trained in Brazil, where she completed her master's and PhD in cardiovascular disease prevention, Dr. Pedroso now works at the intersection of cardiovascular data science, artificial intelligence, digital health, and wearable technology.

Together they dig into how AI, wearables, and patient-generated data can catch cardiovascular disease earlier, sharpen treatment decisions, and make care more proactive; and why none of that matters unless these tools are rigorously tested and built to serve diverse populations rather than widen existing disparities.

In this episode:

- Why patients are still diagnosed too late in an era of abundant health data

- How wearables and EHR data can move care from reactive to proactive

- What it takes to translate innovative tools into solutions patients and clinicians will actually use

- The equity question: making sure AI helps close gaps in care instead of deepening them

- Dr. Pedroso's vision for an equitable, learning health system, from interoperable data infrastructure to large-scale, real-world studies of AI and digital health tools

Connect with Dr. Aline Pedroso on LinkedIN

Nurse Rosa's INsights is a nurse-led healthcare leadership and innovation podcast hosted by Rosa Hart, BSN, RN, SCRN. Each episode features evidence-based insights, expert interviews, and actionable strategies for nurses, healthcare professionals, system leaders, and advocates.

Topics covered include AI in nursing and health tech, clinical innovation, workforce sustainability, nursing leadership, healthcare policy, and the future of patient care.

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What if new nurses could build gut instinct in months instead of years? Ryan Schmaltz, CEO and co-founder of PatientReady, joins Nurse Rosa to explore how AI-powered simulation is transforming clinical education and tackling the global nursing workforce shortage.

Ryan spent two decades in emerging tech, from Uber's global expansion to immersive VR and AR, before turning his focus to healthcare's most urgent problem: preparing clinicians for high-stakes decisions at scale. In this conversation, he and Rosa dig into AI patient simulations, the pandemic-era experience gap, nurse skepticism about AI, the faculty shortage, and the one thing technology can never replace: the human connection at the bedside.

Rosa even shares her own experience talking with "Lauren," PatientReady's AI patient, and asks Ryan her signature question: how would you invest $1 billion in healthcare? His answer might surprise you.

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In this episode, host Rosa Hart sits down with nursing thought leader, keynote speaker, and bestselling author Sara Fung to talk candidly about the realities of nursing career transitions - from the bedside to remote roles and everything in between.

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What happens when a piano prodigy gets diagnosed with brain cancer at 21 - and never shuts up about it?

Matthew Zachary, founder of Stupid Cancer and author of the new book "We the Patients" , joins Nurse Rosa to talk about his extraordinary journey from Staten Island music prodigy to one of America's most fearless healthcare advocates. We cover his diagnosis, 30 years of fighting for patients, and his bold new proposal: organizing America's sick and angry into a bipartisan voter bloc to take on the health insurance industry.

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What can you do with a nursing license? According to Marsha Battee, just about anything.In this episode of Nurse Rosa's INsights, host Rosa Hart welcomes Marsha Battee, RN, host of The Bossy Nurse Podcast and a Nurse.org top content creator nominee. Through her platform, thebossynurse.com, Marsha empowers nurses to advance their careers, increase their income, and explore entrepreneurship.Marsha describes The Bossy Nurse Podcast as honest interviews with nurse creators, innovators, and risk-takers, including a standout episode with Dr. Dan Weberg on Nurse Capital and the basics of venture capital, a world most nurses never realize they can enter.Then she takes us through her remarkable 15-year nursing journey: from a burn trauma step-down unit to the ED, forensic nursing, nurse education, travel nursing during COVID, eating disorder treatment, prison nursing, and DOJ work, before making the leap into healthcare consulting. Her advice for nurses wondering what's next? Be curious, and try new roles.In her current Medicaid-focused consulting role, Marsha translates new laws and regulations into actionable workflows, conducts gap analyses, forms workgroups, and leads implementation to keep organizations compliant. It's proof that clinical experience translates into high-value expertise far beyond the bedside.And when Rosa asks how she'd spend a $1 billion healthcare grant, Marsha doesn't hesitate: she'd build a volunteer-based, free education infrastructure to expand the healthcare workforce and improve access to care for everyone.Timestamps:00:45 Bossy Nurse Website Mission02:13 Inside The Podcast03:41 Nurse Capital Explained06:44 Career Journey Highlights08:32 Forensic Nursing Deep Dive11:13 Be Curious And Try New Roles12:58 Remote Consulting Breakthrough16:50 Gap Analysis In Medicaid21:30 Billion Dollar Healthcare Idea25:21 Education Access And Capacity28:55 Wrap Up And Contact InfoConnect with Marsha Battee:Website: thebossynurse.comPodcast: The Bossy Nurse Podcast, available on all major platformsConnect with Nurse Rosa:Website, book, and speaking: link hub hereSpeak Up, Start Now is available now on Amazon Kindle and AudibleIf this conversation opened your eyes to what's possible in nursing, share it with a colleague and leave a rating and review to help more nurses find the show.

What if a single strand of hair could reveal your body's chemical exposure history, all the way back to the womb? Dr. Manish Arora, environmental epidemiologist, CEO of LinusBio, and professor at Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, joins Nurse Rosa Hart to explain why your environment shapes your health more than your genes ever could.

Dr. Arora's team developed the TRACED test, an at-home, hair-based exposure test that measures 15 essential and toxic elements (including lead, arsenic, cadmium, and aluminum) with time-stamped resolution across roughly 30 days. Unlike blood or urine tests that capture a single moment, TRACED gives you a molecular movie of your exposure over time; no clinic visit, no needles, no blood draw. His research also earned FDA Breakthrough Designation for an autism biomarker detectable as early as one month old.

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0:00 — Intro & Dr. Arora's background

0:51 — The story behind his name (named himself at age 3!)

2:43 — What is Linus Bio and why he founded it

5:10 — Personal journey: triplet daughters & a misdiagnosis of autism

8:38 — Why genomic medicine alone isn't enough

9:07 — Introducing the exposome: the complement to the genome

10:43 — How the TRACED hair-based test works

11:43 — Why hair vs. blood or urine testing

13:41 — TRACED: what it measures (lead, arsenic, aluminum, and more)

16:13 — Weekend vs. weekday exposure patterns

15:39 — How AI models interpret your results

17:05 — Making it accessible: no prescription needed, available on Amazon

17:38 — Why they bypassed the healthcare system intentionally

20:24 — The rhythm of cholesterol (and a Springsteen analogy)

23:43 — Clinical blind spots TRACED addresses

25:21 — PFAS, microplastics, phthalates — what's coming in the next version

30:00 — Wildfire community deployment (Eaton & Palisades fires)

35:33 — How academics can turn research into real-world products

36:42 — What it took to build a business from science

43:44 — How clinicians should interpret TRACED results

45:11 — TRACED for telehealth, longevity & remote communities

35:07 — The research-to-practice translation gap (13–17 years!)

46:27 — The billion-dollar question: newborn autism screening + universal exposome profiling

37:33 — ClearStrand ASD: screening for autism at 1 month old

43:55 — How to order TRACED (traced.life) & connect with Dr. Arora

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Nurse Rosa Hart on LinkedIn & your favorite social media platform  @NurseRosaSpeaks

Nurse Rosa's INsights is a nurse-led healthcare leadership and innovation podcast hosted by Rosa Hart.

We explore nursing leadership, healthcare policy, primary care challenges, AI in healthcare, clinical practice transformation, and bold solutions from clinicians, founders, and thought leaders.

Subscribe for weekly episodes featuring evidence-based insights, expert interviews, and actionable strategies designed for nurses, healthcare professionals, system leaders, and advocates.

Topics include:

• Primary care system reform

• AI in nursing & health tech

• Clinical innovation & patient outcomes

• Workforce sustainability & nursing leadership

• Healthcare communication & advocacy

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What if a single strand of hair could reveal your body's chemical exposure history, all the way back to the womb? Dr. Manish Arora, environmental epidemiologist, CEO of LinusBio, and professor at Mount Sinai, joins Nurse Rosa to explain why your environment shapes your health more than your genes ever could.

What if the reason people don't trust healthcare isn't the science- it's the communication? Rosa Hart sits down with Hamid Ghanadan, behavioral strategist, researcher, and author of Not Buying It, to explore why science and healthcare have a usability problem - and what communicators, clinicians, and companies can do about it.

From the neuroscience of decision-making to the Space Shuttle Challenger to vaccine hesitancy and children's mental health, Hamid and Rosa cover what it really takes to communicate in a way that moves people. Ethically, effectively, and humanly.

⏱ Episode Chapters

00:00 – Introduction & Guest Welcome

📚 Resources Mentioned

Not Buying It: The Art of Selling to Scientists, Doctors, and Other Professional Skeptics — Hamid Ghanadan

Speak Up Start Now — Rosa Hart

The Linus Group: thelinusgroup.com

Connect with Hamid on LinkedIn

Follow Rosa: @NurseRosaSpeaks

🎙️ About the ShowNurse Rosa's Insights explores healthcare from every angle, interviewing the stakeholders, thinkers, and changemakers shaping the future of health. Subscribe wherever you listen, and leave a review if this episode made you think differently.

What if 40% of the people sitting in your waiting room, working on your team, or enrolled in your health plan were quietly carrying an invisible weight, and had no idea there was a name for what they were doing?

Alexandra Drane has spent years hunting for those people. As co-founder and CEO of ARCHANGELS, a public benefit corporation, she's on a mission to find unpaid caregivers who don't identify as caregivers, and connect them to the employer benefits, health plan resources, and community supports already waiting for them. The barrier isn't access. It's recognition.

In this conversation, Rosa and Alexandra dig into the science and the soul behind Archangels, including the intensity score (clear, yellow, red) that creates the "aha" moment caregivers didn't know they needed, the surprising data trails that reveal caregiving hiding inside every workforce, and what a stint as a Walmart cashier taught Alexandra about the real weight people carry through their days.

They also go deep on stroke caregiving specifically, including the abrupt, total life shift that caregivers of stroke survivors experience, often with no warning and no roadmap. If you work in neurology, if you know a stroke caregiver, or if you are one, this conversation was made for you.

What You'll Hear:

- Why so many caregivers don't know they're caregivers, and what happens when they finally see themselves clearly

- The Archangels intensity score and how a simple red/yellow/clear framework creates connection points instead of stigma

- How Alexandra's prior company, Eliza, revealed that "life stress" is the biggest driver of health outcomes, and how that realization changed everything

- A deeply personal story about glioblastoma, end-of-life care, and the lessons that shaped Archangels from the inside out

- What working as a Walmart cashier revealed about the caregiving burden hiding in plain sight across the American workforce

- The data employers and policymakers are now using to actually invest in caregiver support

- What stroke does to a caregiver's daily reality, including the medication maze, the financial friction, and the emotional overnight shift

- The free Care Badge that translates caregiving into professional skills and resume languageHow to connect with Archangels at archangels.work

Chapters:01:46 What Archangels Does05:35 Finding Hidden Caregivers08:18 Intensity, Not Burden09:54 Why Alexandra Cares11:11 Eliza and Life Stress Data13:04 Glioblastoma and Hospice Lessons15:54 Walmart Origins19:28 Data to Drive Support23:54 Stroke Caregiving Reality28:30 Stroke Changes Everything29:53 Rethinking Caregiver Reality31:29 Banks and Caregiving Friction35:01 The Medication Maze and Employers37:34 Planning for the Care Crunch42:08 The Red Phone Support System42:59 The Billion-Dollar Care Plan47:36 Care Badge and Career Skills50:37 Where to Connect and Wrap

Connect with Alexandra Drane and Archangels:

Website: archangels.work

Care Badge: archangels.work/care-badge

Connect with Rosa:Website: nurserosaspeaks.com

Instagram: @NurseRosaSpeaks

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosa-hart-scrn/

Nurse Rosa's INsights is produced by Rosa Hart Media Consulting, LLC.

What if the key to better mental health wasn't a new medication or therapy technique, but something already hardwired inside you? In this episode of Nurse Rosa's INsights, I sit down with Dr. Royan Kamyar, physician, MBA, and founder and CEO of Owaves, a circadian wellness app used by over one million people worldwide. Dr. Kamyar shares the raw personal story behind why he built it, including his own rock-bottom moment after medical training, and the science that changed everything for him.

If you've ever felt like you're running on empty no matter how hard you try, this one is for you.

IN THIS EPISODE:

0:48 – AI Med Shark Tank: Owaves wins 3rd place

1:30 – What is Owaves? Digitizing lifestyle medicine & circadian biology

2:15 – Royan's background: MD + MBA, from medicine to entrepreneurship

3:32 – Growing up entrepreneurial in a family of physicians

4:37 – The intern year revelation: ignoring prevention in medicine

5:25 – The "24-hour formula" insight that sparked Owaves

5:46 – Discovering UC San Diego's Circadian Biology Center

6:04 – Wearable integrations: Oura, Apple Watch, WHOOP

7:03 – Why Owaves is a planner, not just an activity tracker

8:08 – The forward-looking approach to lifestyle change

8:35 – Dean Ornish's lifestyle medicine pillars & the calendar as the core tool

9:40 – Being honest with yourself: planning vs. reality

10:27 – Hours & minutes as a more accessible health metric than lab values

12:18 – Gen Z & health culture: why they're the ideal audience

13:03 – Gen Z, mocktails, and the shift away from alcohol

14:04 – Owaves' traction with college students: ADHD, time blindness, and mental health

14:57 – The billion-dollar question

15:24 – A nationwide lifestyle medicine course for college students

16:13 – Yale's Happiness Course & the student wellness movement

17:23 – N=1: students as citizen scientists of their own health

18:24 – YouTube vs. university: where health education actually lands

19:25 – The mental health crisis on campus & lifestyle psychiatry as prevention

20:40 – Chronotherapy, peer support, and the Blue Zone campus effect

22:03 – Rosa's APSU 1000: why every college already has the format

22:50 – UW's "quantified self" course: students analyzing their own wearables data

24:05 – Obesity, pre-diabetes, and why we must get in front of it early

25:27 – Proving the endpoints so students want the course (no mandate needed)

26:23 – Chronotype & GPA: aligning your schedule with your biology = 0.4 GPA boost

27:24 – Relationships as a lifestyle pillar: why eye contact matters

28:05 – Planning date nights: Jordan Peterson's 90-minute life management session

28:52 – Owaves helps you see if your time matches your stated values

29:55 – Bridging the delta: what you planned vs. what actually happened

30:56 – Where to find Owaves: owaves.com / bodyclock.ai / "My Body Clock" in the App Store

31:33 – How to connect with Royan: [email protected] / LinkedIn

31:42 – Closing & Rosa's book: Speak Up, Start Now at nurserosaspeaks.shop

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