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Guest: Joseph Gulfo Joseph V. Gulfo, MD, MBA, is the author of Innovation Breakdown: How the FDA and Wall Street Cripple Medical Advances and contributor of Inc.com's Diagnoses from the Trenches column. A faculty member of the GLG Institute, he has more than 25 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical and medical device industries. In 2012, he received the American Business Awards’ Maverick of the Year Award and was an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist. He teaches graduate cancer biology and business and entrepreneurship classes and maintains an educational cancer biology blog. Dr. Gulfo is currently CEO of Breakthrough Medical Innovations, a team of industry experts specializing in biopharma and medtech product and commercial development, sales and marketing, regulatory (FDA and CE), quality, and policy advocacy. Prior to this, he served as President & CEO of MELA Sciences (2004-2013), and was Chairman of the Board (2011-2013). THE BOOK: “ Innovation Breakdown” Winner of Maverick of The Year Award and Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, and featured by WSJ, Fortune and Bloomberg TV for his battle to defeat unlawful actions by the FDA, Dr. Joseph V. Gulfo provides a first-hand riveting account of an against-all odds fight that demonstrates what it takes to advance breakthrough medical products that truly benefit patients. Having been responsible for the development and FDA approval of three innovative cancer products, he provides the reader with ringside seats to the struggles that entrepreneurs of biotech and medtech companies must fight to successfully bring ideas to marketed innovative products that truly advance the lives of patients. As exclaimed by one real-life witness to a high profile public battle recounted in the book, “It was like watching Gladiator!” The only difference is that this really happened. Sometimes life is more dramatic and unbelievable than fiction; the courtroom-like trial in front of FDA’s medical Advisory Panel is certainly one of those times. A second was the “declaration of war” – filing a Citizen Petition against the FDA demanding that it follow its own laws and acts transparently in honoring its binding agreements. A third was a Congressional Hearing at which the FDA subsequently admitted that a mistake was made. The book contains public record facts woven together in a series of compelling stories complete with unique characters and deeply personal insights. Unrelenting focus, even to the level of personal destruction, and leadership through crises are other major themes.
Guest: Jack El-Hai Jack El-Hai is a writer of books and articles who covers medicine, science, and history. He has contributed more than 500 articles and essays to The Atlantic, Scientific American Mind, Wired, The Saturday Evening Post, The History Channel Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, and many other newsstand publications, as well as to magazines of the University of California, the University of Minnesota, Yale University, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Mayo Clinic, among others. His books include The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII (PublicAffairs Books, 2013), Non-Stop: A Turbulent History of Northwest Airlines (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness (John Wiley & Sons, 2005; winner of a Minnesota Book Award and the annual book award of the Medical Journalists’ Association of the U.K.), Lost Minnesota: Stories of Vanished Places (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), and Minnesota Collects (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1992), as well as commissioned corporate histories of Andersen Windows, Land O’Lakes, Super 8 Motels, FedEx, and many other firms. Several of Jack’s works have been produced or optioned for production as TV programs, movies, and documentaries. Mythology Entertainment has optioned both The Nazi and the Psychiatrist and The Lobotomist, and in 2008 the PBS series American Experience broadcast a documentary based on the latter book. Jack is a member of the faculty of the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Augsburg College. He frequently lectures and leads workshops on writing and on his book topics. A native of Los Angeles, Jack earned a B.A. in English from Carleton College and an MFA in creative writing from Bennington College. He is past president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. His awards and honors include the June Roth Memorial Award for Medical Journalism, a Loft McKnight Fellowship in Creative Prose, and research grants from the Jerome Foundation and the Center for Arts Criticism. He lives in Minneapolis. THE BOOK: “The Nazi and the Psychiatrist” WIn 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox. The suitcases contained all manner of paraphernalia: medals, gems, two cigar cutters, silk underwear, a hot water bottle, and the equivalent of $1 million in cash. Hidden in a coffee can, a set of brass vials housed glass capsules containing a clear liquid and a white precipitate: potassium cyanide. Joining Göring in the detention center were the elite of the captured Nazi regime—Grand Admiral Dönitz; armed forces commander Wilhelm Keitel and his deputy Alfred Jodl; the mentally unstable Robert Ley; the suicidal Hans Frank; the pornographic propagandist Julius Streicher—fifty-two senior Nazis in all, of whom the dominant figure was Göring. To ensure that the villainous captives were fit for trial at Nuremberg, the US army sent an ambitious army psychiatrist, Captain Douglas M. Kelley, to supervise their mental well-being during their detention. Kelley realized he was being offered the professional opportunity of a lifetime: to discover a distinguishing trait among these arch-criminals that would mark them as psychologically different from the rest of humanity. So began a remarkable relationship between Kelley and his captors, told here for the first time with unique access to Kelley’s long-hidden papers and medical records. Kelley’s was a hazardous quest, dangerous because against all his expectations he began to appreciate and understand some of the Nazi captives, none more so than the former Reichsmarshall, Hermann Göring. Evil had its charms. Jack Girardi, Partner at Girardi Keese, is one of America's Finest Trial Lawyers and our Co-Host, as always, brings out the most important key elements to the success of today's guests. He and his firm have been dedicated to working hard and getting the best possible recovery for its clients. Girardi Keese's mission is to provide aggressive representation of individuals and businesses who have been injured in sous way, whether by physical harm, property damage, damage to business, or damage to economic interests. Girardi & Keese has two offices in California: Downtown Los Angeles and San Bernardino. www.girardikeese.com Hosted by Steve Murphy
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