Game Changers in Medicine
Game Changers in Medicine is a groundbreaking medical history podcast about the serendipitous events, chance encounters, and unlikely heroes and heroines behind some of the world’s most significant medical discoveries. Through oral histories, memoirs, and other first-person accounts, we get to know the scientists whose curiosity, innovation, and dogged determination contributed to game-changing medical discoveries that almost didn’t happen—and which continue to define patient care today.Created by Dramatic Health co-founder Sean Moloney, who serves as executive producer, with host Dr. Rubin Pillay, Professor of Medicine and Business, Assistant Dean for Global Health Innovation, School of Medicine, and Chief Innovation Officer at UAB Health System, University of Alabama at Birmingham. New episodes monthly.
Game Changers in Medicine
Smallpox Vaccine: Why the world's first vaccine matters now
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Dramatic Health, Inc.
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Season 1
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Episode 3
You may have heard the story of Edward Jenner, the milkmaids, and the discovery of the smallpox vaccine. But is that story really true? In today’s episode, Dr. Pillay pulls back the curtain to reveal some little-known serendipity behind the discovery of the world’s first vaccine. As scientists strive to find a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, does that long-ago medical breakthrough have lessons to teach us even today? Listen to find out.
This week’s esteemed guests include Dr. Arthur Boylston, Dr. Paul Goepfert, Dr. Alice Phillips, Dr. Michael Saag, and Dr. Paula Traktman.
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To access the Smallpox Eradication Oral History Project at Emory University, click here.
To listen to Mary Guinan’s full oral history click here.