
Mark Sendak
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Aug 27, 2026
The Cost of Cutting NIH Research: Voices from the Frontlines
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Additional thanks this week to Rachel Bender Ignacio, Jeremy Berg, Otis Brawley, Aaron Carroll, Dan Cooper, Elena Fuentes Affleck, Robert Kelchin, Danielle Martinez, Rafe Reggie, Sarah Spreitzer, and Sarah Zanton.
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Thanks to all our listeners who helped to support our work, including Mark Sendak, Shannon Crane, Aaron Tobin, Marilyn Stone, Seal Tilney, and Amy Jensen.
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Our media partner is SideFX Public Media based at WFYI.
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Tradeoffs is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Arnold Ventures, the Sozoze Foundation, the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts, the National Institute for Healthcare Management Foundation, the California Healthcare Foundation, and the Leonard Davis Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.
REFILL | Naomi Lopez on Healthcare AI, ACCESS, TEMPO, and the Future of Care (Originally Aired: January 23, 2026)
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37:10Naomi LopezGUEST
Adam Thierer from R Street Institute and, um-
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37:14Joe GroganHOST
Mark Sendak from Vega
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37:15Naomi LopezGUEST
Yes, Mark Sendak from Vega Health.
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37:17Naomi LopezGUEST
So what this really, um, you know, I think that there's, there was, I mean, close to unanimous agreement in the room that having 50 different regulatory systems for, for AI was a non-starter.
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37:29Naomi LopezGUEST
That that is-
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37:49Naomi LopezGUEST
... technologies.
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37:50Naomi LopezGUEST
But really to pilot them, pi- you know, pioneer them, and then allow them to expand and possibly get real-world evidence and elevate it to the federal level if, if that's, you know, something that they wanna do.
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38:02Naomi LopezGUEST
And then the other really exciting thing was Mark Sendak of Vega Health, who's formerly of Duke Health, being ab- and who's also a physician, being able to create a Costco-type evaluation process for healthcare AI.