Adam Walker’s Pharma Prescribed Podcast

Andreas Beust on how a small CRO covers the globe without growing | Pharma Prescribed

Andreas Beust is CEO and Managing Director of GCP Service International, a Bremen-based CRO working across medicinal products, medical devices and in vitro diagnostics. He's also President of ACROS — the Association of International CROs — and a guest lecturer at the University of Bremen.

He started on the biostatistics desk. He's now ...

Graham Allcott on Kind, Psychological Safety & the Quiet Power of Kindness | Pharma Prescribe

Graham Allcott — bestselling author of How to Be a Productivity Ninja and Kind: The Quiet Power of Kindness at Work — joins Adam Walker for a conversation about why the ruthless-boss archetype is scientifically wrong.

Graham founded Think Productive, now operating across the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands. H...

Adam Walker interviews namesake Adam Walker; GMP, Sepsis & 900k NHS Doses a Year | Pharma Prescribed

Two Adam Walkers, one conversation. This week the host is joined by his namesake — Adam Walker, Qualified Person, Head of Development and Innovation at the North East and North Cumbria Medicines Manufacturing Centre, and co-founder of the Help Me GMP educational platform.

Adam qualified as an NHS pharmacist in 2003 and qui...

Lisa Kerr on why 95% of eligible patients never join a clinical trial | Pharma Prescribed

Lisa Kerr is Head of Patient Engagement at Evinova, AstraZeneca's health tech business — a PhD chemist who climbed to global project director, hit a cliff edge, and came back with a mission.

In this episode Lisa talks openly about the divorce, the clinical depression, and the three months as an outpatient at the Priory that reshaped her ...

Alen Hadzic on Engineering Clinical Trial Enrollment with Predictive AI | Pharma Prescribed

Alen Hadzic — founder and CEO of Clinical Trial Scan, Olympic fencer and patent-pending inventor of Dyno AI — joins Adam Walker for one of the most data-driven conversations on the Pharma Prescribed Podcast.

Alen's path to clinical trials started with Facebook ads, a friend called Artyom, and $5–7 million in advertising spe...

Dr. Pat Boulogne on Functional Medicine, Fasting Since 17 on Zero Medications @71 | Pharma Prescribed

Dr.Pat Boulogne — performance optimisation strategist, functional medicine expert and bestselling author — joins Adam Walker for one of the most practical wellbeing conversations on the Pharma Prescribed Podcast.

Dr.Pat is 71, takes zero medications, works 14-hour days with full mental clarity, and has spent 30+ years h...

Andy York on AI, Data Science & Why 80% Accuracy Isn’t Good Enough | Pharma Prescribed

Adam Walker sits down with Andy York — statistician, clinical data science leader, and former VP of Clinical Data Science at Novo Nordisk — for a masterclass in where pharma's data revolution has been, where it's heading, and why the AI hype needs a reality check.
With over 30 years spanning Roche, Covance, and Novo Nordisk,...

Dermot Whelan on Burnout, Anxiety & the Science of Mindfulness | Pharma Prescribed

Dermot Whelan — broadcaster, comedian, bestselling author and certified meditation teacher — joins Adam Walker for one of the most personal and practical conversations on the Pharma Prescribed Podcast.

This episode holds a special place — meeting Dermot in Prague in early 2025,  in the middle of my own grief, was one of the...

Sharmila Hume on Brain Injuries, Suicide Prevention & the Body's Hidden Signals | Pharma Prescribed

⚠️ This episode discusses suicide, traumatic brain injury, and grief. Please take care if these topics are difficult for you.

Sharmila Hume — known as the "Biomedic Detective" — joins Adam Walker for one of the most profound and wide-ranging conversations on the Pharma Prescribed Podcast.

Originally trained as a telec...

Bilal Bham on Life Sciences Strategy, Human Perspective & Building Amodaia | Pharma Prescribed

Bilal Bham — founder and CEO of Amodaia — joins Adam Walker to explore what it really takes to guide a biotech, pharma or medtech company through its most critical decision points.

Bilal brings nearly two decades of life sciences experience across regulatory affairs, medical affairs, market access, marketing communications...

Adam Baumgart on RBQM, AI in Clinical Trials & 38 Years of Hard-Won Pharma Wisdom | Pharma Prescribed

Adam Baumgart — biometrics and risk consultant with 38 years across AstraZeneca, Covance and beyond — joins Adam Walker for a masterclass in risk-based quality management, the future of clinical trials, and what it actually takes to build a career worth having.

Adam fell into clinical research in 1988 when data was ...

Helen Palk on 30 Years of NHS Nursing, COVID Vaccines & Human Side of Healthcare | Pharma Prescribed

Helen Palk — general practice lead nurse with nearly 30 years in the NHS — joins Adam Walker for one of the warmest and most grounded conversations on the Pharma Prescribed Podcast.

Inspired by her grandmother, an army nurse who cared for injured troops during the Second World War, Helen's path began behind a pharmac...

Steven Thompson on AI, Clinical Trial Activation & Why 85% of Trials Are Delayed | Pharma Prescribed

Steven Thompson — founder of Next Trial AI — joins Adam Walker to explain why 85% of clinical trials are delayed before a single patient is enrolled, and what he's building to fix it.

Steven spent two decades in high-stakes regulatory environments: first with American Airlines on FAA compliance, then with Embraer in ...

Amelia Wrighton on suicide loss, grief & the charity that helped Adam's family | Pharma Prescribed

⚠️ This episode discusses suicide loss and grief. Please take care. If you need support: Samaritans → 116 123 (UK, free, 24/7)

Amelia Wrighton — co-founder and CEO of Suicide&Co — joins Adam Walker for the most personal conversation on the Pharma Prescribed Podcast.

Amelia lost her mother to suicide at 19. She navi...

Scott Schliebner on DCTs, Patient-Centric Trials & 30 Years of Pharma Innovation | Pharma Prescribed

Scott Schliebner — founder of Ascent Biostrategies and veteran of nearly 30 years across biotech, CROs and nonprofit life sciences — joins Adam Walker for a candid, longitudinal view of how drug development actually evolves. And how often it refuses to.

From being one of the first to transition a clinical team from p...

Helene Quie on MedTech Regulation, Danish Innovation & Getting Devices to Patients | Pharma Prescribed

Helene Quie — cell biologist turned MedTech CEO — joins Adam Walker for a wide-ranging conversation about what it really takes to get a medical device from concept to market.

Helene founded qmmed Consulting in 2006 after senior roles at Cook Medical, where she entered an industry she describes as "cowboy land" &mda...

Sylvain Berthelot on Patient-Centricity, Korean Innovation & Simplifying Trials | Pharma Prescribed

Sylvain Berthelot — clinical technology professional, CRS Cube, and host of two podcasts — joins Adam Walker to talk about what it really means to simplify clinical trials, and why the industry's use of "patient-centricity" is often hollow.

Sylvain started his podcast On One Condition because he was reviewing 10 clini...

Thibault Geoui on AI, Drug Discovery What Next Generation of Scientists Must Learn | Pharma Prescribed

Dr. Thibault Geoui — scientist, Director of Transformation at Zühlke and host of the Tech and Drugs podcast — joins Adam Walker to explore what happens when engineers from gaming, finance and social media turn their attention to drug discovery.

Thibault is a biologist by training who moved into digital health strategy,...

Jura Lasas on Rare Disease, Patient Advocacy & a One-Way Ticket to America | Pharma Prescribed

Jurate Lasiene — PhD neurobiology, clinical research leader and rare disease consultant — joins Adam Walker for one of the most globally grounded conversations on the Pharma Prescribed Podcast.

Jurate's story starts in a newly independent Lithuania, at an airport with $400 and a one-way ticket to America. From there: a PhD...