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Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Leadership in Surgery: Dr. Amy Lightner

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Education

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Join BTK's Dr. Scott Steele for the first episode of a new leadership series that explores opportunities outside of clinical medicine. In this episode, Dr. Steele sits down with Dr. Amy Lightner who is the Chief Medical Officer for Direct Biologics.

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0:00.0

Behind the Night, the surgery podcast, relevant and engaging content designed to help you dominate the day.

0:13.0

Okay, welcome to another episode of BTK and part of our series looking at opportunities outside of clinical medicine.

0:29.0

I'm very pleased to have Dr. Amy Lightner, who is the Chief Medical Officer for Direct Biologics. Amy, thanks for joining us.

0:36.0

Thank you for having me.

0:38.0

So obviously you've done a ton in colorectal surgery.

0:41.0

You've been very, very high volume surgeon. You've done a lot of different trials.

0:47.0

You've done some top of wine research that we're going to get into here a little bit in terms of stem cells.

0:52.0

But we're going to focus on that last best that we're now talking about.

0:57.0

Opportunities outside of clinical medicine and specifically with working with industry.

1:02.0

So why don't you tell us a little bit about your journey and then just about what you're doing right now.

1:07.0

Yeah, so I got very interested in cell therapy.

1:11.0

Actually, as an undergraduate back early 2000s and then during my residency when back to Stanford did a postdoc in stem cell biology.

1:19.0

So it's always been a definite interest of mine.

1:22.0

It's man, I've been very passionate about in clinical trials in my clinical practice.

1:26.0

You know, certainly a Cleveland clinic and began consulting with this group about a year and a half ago and they were looking at a stem cell derived product.

1:38.0

And they moved through the FDA pretty quickly because of COVID, because initially they were studying their products in ARDS, COVID related ARDS.

1:47.0

So I started consulting with them.

1:49.0

Thought that the science was very interesting.

1:51.0

We can't really scale cell therapy, but we can scale this therapy, which is a stem cell derived product, which can actually be utilized in stored at room temperature.

2:00.0

And then started treating some of the patients at Cleveland Clinic on the transplant side under these emergency INDs where you do a single patient treatment at a time.

2:09.0

And clinically the products worked very, very well and got more, more interested in the science behind the product and then started working with the company more.

2:19.0

And then they offered me an opportunity to come in and really lead the science effort in the clinical trial efforts. That's how I got introduced to them.

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