Patient involvement and the future of clinical research
Most clinical research treats patients like data points. What gets lost when researchers stop listening to the people they study, and what does it cost the science itself? Niharika Singh is a biomedical engineer and pre-medical student with research experience at Genentech, Abbott, AstraZeneca, and the Keck School of Medicine, and a global ambassador with the United Nations SURGhub. She discusses the KevinMD article "Patient involvement transforms modern clinical research." You will hear the difference between treating a patient as a data set, engaging them as a collaborator, and inviting their emotional and lived experience into the study design. She walks through the Tiger Project hernia training across India and Ghana, what medical device design verification taught her about surgical research, and why AI in medicine is making patient voice harder to hear. You will hear a research methodology that treats the patient's voice as data worth collecting, and a case for defending human connection as AI changes how medicine is practiced.
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