Tina Valbh, BS Pharm, RPh is a pharmacist with 28 years in life sciences — Managing Partner at Pharma Connect and founder of Tina’s Warriors. She builds patient access programs. Then she got cancer — and discovered none of it worked the way the slide decks said.
Karla Loken, DO, OBGYN, FACOOG practiced OB-GYN for 20+ years before leading clinical development and medical affairs roles at Hologic, Roche, HerMD, and FEMSelect. She was diagnosed with appendix cancer 3 months ago. She’s navigating the system she helped build.
In Today’s Episode We Discuss:
- Misinformation Is Everywhere — From TikTok to Pharma Pamphlets
- “I Got the Same Drug Info 5 Different Ways — None of It Matched”
- GLP-1s: Even Physicians Can’t Find the Right Source of Truth
- Medical Affairs Teams Are Being Defunded
- Patient Journey Mapping Misses 20+ Touch Points
- Men Get Left Behind Too: The 18-25 Healthcare Gap
- Clinical Trial Enrollment Fails Without Community Trust
- “I Started to Feel Guilty About How Resourced I Am”
- Misdiagnosed 4 Times — Told I Was Depressed, Angry, Seeking Attention
- When NCCN Guidelines Can’t Keep Up with Innovation, Patients Get Left Behind
- Denial Fatigue: “I Got a Denial Yesterday. I Haven’t Picked Up the Phone.”
- “We Are the Dollar Sign on an Excel Spreadsheet”
- Reimbursement Is 30% Higher for Male Surgeries on Equivalent Organs
- Why Tina Started Tina’s Warriors — “Truth Telling Has Politics Too”
- “The Light Side of the Dark Side” — Why Physicians Join Pharma
- Advice to Industry: Fund the Advocacy Groups
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