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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!