Not Just Patients
Hi! We’re Caitlin Rich and Clarinda Cerejo, Co-Hosts of Not Just Patients, a global podcast that aims to bring stakeholders together and break barriers to meaningful patient involvement in healthcare.
We both live with rare diseases, are EUPATI Fellows, and work in healthcare research and communications. Over the past two and a half years, we have hosted in-depth conversations with a range of healthcare stakeholders to examine how healthcare can become more inclusive, collaborative, and effective.
We were recently interviewed by the World Medical Journal, won the Acquisition International Non-Profit Organisation Award for Excellence in Driving Patient Engagement 2025, and were named Patient Advocacy Podcast of the Year in the Corporate LiveWire Awards 2025/2026.
Our guests are patient advocates, healthcare professionals, industry representatives, and other stakeholders who interact with the health system at large. Each of our guests brings in a unique perspective on patient engagement and shares stories of initiatives they’ve championed or been involved in.
We will soon be launching a special series on Underserved Communities in Healthcare. The series will explore what meaningful patient involvement looks like for communities that healthcare systems too often fail to adequately see, hear, or design for. This includes children and young patients, disabled and neurodivergent people, LGBTQIA+ communities, racial and ethnic minorities, and people from lower- to middle-income countries.
Have feedback or suggestions for us? We'd love to hear from you! Email us at info@notjustpatients.com or find us on LinkedIn.
Episodes
32 episodes
THE LGBTQIA+ COMMUNITY: Underserved in Healthcare | Carter Hemion & Simon Stones
Welcome to this episode focused on the LGBTQIA+ Community as an Underserved Community in Healthcare! In this episode, Caitlin and Clarinda are joined by Carter Hemion...
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DEFINING Underserved Communities in Healthcare | Ashish Rishi
Welcome to the launch episode of our special new series on Underserved Communities in Healthcare. On this episode, Caitlin and Clarinda are joined by Ashish Rishi, Founder and CEO of
Underserved Communities in Healthcare | A Not Just Patients Series
📣 COMING SOON ⌛Very excited to announce that our new podcast series on Underserved Communities in Healthcare will be reaching you soon!For this series, we are getting bigger and bolder and having tougher conversations that we ca...
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Transforming Health Systems Through Social Participation | Dheepa Rajan
Join us for a compelling conversation with Dr. Dheepa Rajan, who serves as a Health Systems Advisor at the European Observatory...
Ensuring Patient Safety in Clinical Trials and Medical Practice | Stacy Hurt
Join us for a powerful conversation with Stacy Hurt as we dive into what patient safety really means in clinical trials and everyday medical practice.Stacy is Chief Patient Officer at...
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Creating Space for Patients in Medical Publishing | Emma Doble
Joining Caitlin and Clarinda for this episode of Not Just Patients is Emma Doble, Patient and Public Strategy Editor at The BMJ, for a po...
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Empowering Patients through Access to Medical Records | Richard Fitton
Join us for an enlightening conversation with Dr Richard Fitton, retired GP and long-time champion of patient access to electronic medical records, as we explore what it really means to share data, power, and responsibility with patients.
Developing Patient-Centred Outcomes Measures | Jennifer Bright
Join us for an enlightening conversation with Jennifer Bright, President and CEO of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHO...
Advancing Rare Disease Care through Patient Advocacy | Emily Reuben OBE
Join us for this special Rare Disease Day episode with Emily Reubin OBE, Co‑founder and CEO of
Galvanising Multistakeholder Collaboration for Meaningful Change | Derick Mitchell
Join us for an inspiring conversation with Derick Mitchell, Executive Director of
Reflections on 2025, Hopes for 2026 | The Community Speaks
What was one key learning around patient engagement that you're taking away from 2025? What gave you hope in patient engagement and advocacy this year? What’s one thing you’d love to see in patient engagement next year?<...
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Co-Creating HealthTech Solutions | Cécile Tardy-Srinivasan
Join us for an insightful conversation with Cécile Tardy-Srinivasan, EUPATI Fellow, patient advocate, and leader of the DayOne Accelerator, as we explore what it takes to bring meaningful p...
LIVE: National PPI Festival Launch at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Love to listen or prefer to watch? For the first time, the video recording of this episode is available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ansbXaF9B6cJoin us for the first in-person recorded episode of Not Just Patie...
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Raising Public Awareness through Multi-Channel Advocacy | Trishna Bharadia
Patient advocate and engagement consultant Trishna Bharadia joins Caitlin and Clarinda to explore how advocacy can be supercharged by tapping into diverse channels, from niche community...
Building Empathy by Understanding Patient Experience | Mark Doyle
Join us for a thought-provoking conversation with Mark Doyle, as we explore the vital role of empathy in healthcare and how truly understanding the patient experience can drive bette...
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Equipping Patients for Shared Decision-Making | Estelle Jobson
Join us for an empowering conversation with Estelle Jobson, EUPATI Fellow and patient expert living with endometriosis, about equipping patients for shared decision-making.<...
Shaping Health Policy with Patient Input | Urvashi Prasad
Join us for this inspiring conversation with Urvashi Prasad as we discuss how patients can be involved in shaping healthcare policy. Urvashi was a Director in the Office ...
Professionalising Patient Engagement┃Emma Sutcliffe
This episode of Not Just Patients is all about the need for viewing patient engagement as a professional practice integral to healthcare, rather than just passion work.Our expert guest today is
A Year in Review┃LIVE TAKEOVER with Joel Nelson
In celebration of our First Anniversary at Not Just Patients, we hosted a very special LinkedIn LIVE Podcast Takeover with Guest Host
Balancing Professional Life and Chronic Illness┃Lilly Stairs
On this episode, we talk to Lilly Stairs about thriving in your career and managing your health while living with a chronic illness.Lilly Stairs is an internationally recognized pati...
Bolstering Rare Disease Research through Collaboration┃Jo Balfour
Join us for this special Rare Disease Day episode of Not Just Patients, where we speak with Jo Balfour, Managing Director and Co-founder of Ca...
Designing Patient-Aligned Clinical Trials┃Maya Zlatanova
Join us for an insightful conversation with Maya Zlatanova, CEO and Co-founder of FindMeCure and TrialHub, as we discuss patient-aligned clinical trials that consider both scientific rigo...
[LIVE] The Advocacy Life | Danielle Drachmann and Sumaira Ahmed
Join us for this special (unedited) recording of Not Just Patients, which was streamed LIVE on LinkedIn!To celebrate our 10th episode, we were joined by two incredibly inspiring advocates,
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