Innovators

The Innovators podcast, a product of Harris Search Associates, features interesting conversations with global thought leaders in the areas of higher education and research, engineering, technology, and the health sciences and provides our listeners an opportunity to benefit from lessons learned from the national leaders changing the landscape of innovation and discovery. Visit the Harris Search Associates website here.

Assessing the State of Cancer Research: Insights from an Innovative Clinician-Scientist

Feb 23, 2022

Dr. Raymond Bergan, Deputy Director at the University of Nebraska Medical Center Fred and Pamela Buffet Cancer Center and Professor in both UNMC’s Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and the Division of Oncology and Hematology in the Department of Internal Medicine, joins Innovators to share his assessment of the...

Healthcare Information Security (with Jack Kufahl, Chief Information Security Officer at Michigan Medicine)

Nov 17, 2021

Jack Kufahl, Chief Information Security Officer at Michigan Medicine, joins Innovators to talk about the world of information security as it relates to healthcare.

Jack Kufahl is responsible for planning, developing, implementing, and maintaining the Michigan Medicine information assurance program. He directs all...

Cybersecurity Strategy, Policy, and People (with Fred H. Cate, Vice President for Research at Indiana University)

Nov 2, 2021

Fred H. Cate – vice president for research, Distinguished Professor, C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law and adjunct professor of informatics and computing at Indiana University – joins Innovators to talk about the state of cybersecurity and how policies in the cybersecurity world impact people around the...

The Challenged Authority of Science: Research, Public Health & Public Policy (with Dr. David Allison, Dean and Provost Professor at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington)

Oct 19, 2021

Dr. David Allison – Dean of the School of Public Health at Indiana University Bloomington – joins Innovators to talk about what perceptions and trust are like today in fields like research, public health, and public safety, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Allison became Dean and Provost Professor at the...

Good News for Children and the COVID-19 Vaccine: The State of Pediatric Research

Oct 6, 2021

Very soon, the likelihood is that one or more of the COVID-19 vaccines will be approved for use with children under age 12 and for the first time in the pandemic, children will be afforded the protection provided adults.

Listen to a special Innovators podcast of excerpts from three guests — leaders in pediatric...