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Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary

Matthew Zachary

Booking Overview

An interview-led healthcare and cancer podcast focused on patient experience, healthcare systems, advocacy, and institutional failures, featuring survivors, clinicians, researchers, founders, and healthcare insiders. PR agencies could credibly pitch healthcare policy experts, oncology professionals, patient advocates, researchers, and founders with relevant lived or professional experience; booking difficulty is medium, as substantive expertise and a strong perspective matter more than celebrity status.

Metrics

Episodes: 519

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Instagram: 3.2k followers

Contact Information

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hello@matthewzachary.com

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Host

Matthew Zachary - A 30-year brain cancer survivor who built the young adult cancer movement and has spent nearly two decades exposing failures and inequities in American healthcare.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Healthcare professionals, researchers, patient advocates, survivors, healthcare executives, founders, and policy or benefits experts with substantial subject-matter expertise, professional experience, or relevant lived experience.
Required Achievements:  
Founded a healthcare, advocacy, or research organization, Published a book or peer-reviewed research, Held senior roles in healthcare, law, finance, or medicine, Developed expertise through significant patient or caregiver experience

Recent Guest Discussions

Rebecca Bloom - Cancer Care, Health Insurance, Employee Benefits, Workplace Protections, Disability Coverage, Caregiving, And Patient Advocacy.

Vasanta Pundarika - Women’s Health, Behavioral Health, Healthcare Investment, Private Equity, Caregiving Burdens, Patient Trust, And Healthcare Business Models.

Brad Power - Cancer Navigation, Patient Literacy, Insurance Barriers, Personalized Medicine, Car-t Therapy, Artificial Intelligence, And Healthcare Decision-making.

Nirosha Murugan - Tissue Regeneration, Bioelectricity, Biomedical Research, Academic Publishing, Scientific Credibility, And Access To Research Mentorship.

Jessica Peatross - Physician Burnout, Chronic Illness, Healthcare Incentives, Medical Trust, Functional Medicine, Cannabis Therapy, And Prevention-focused Care.

Recent Topics

Cancer, Healthcare, Patient Advocacy, Health Policy, Caregiving

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary
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Fitz Happens: The Marvelous Fitz Koehler

September 22, 2026

Fitz Koehler is a fitness expert, race announcer, author, and breast cancer survivor whose career spans decades of helping people move, train, and live healthier lives. After earning a master’s degree in exercise and sport sciences, she built the Fitzness brand, launched the Morning Mile school fitness program, and became one of the country’s most recognizable voices at endurance events before cancer abruptly shifted the conversation.  She spent 15 months enduring chemotherapy, surgery, ...

SurgeON: Dr. Jeremy Heffner

September 08, 2026

Jeremy Heffner, MD, FACS is a board-certified trauma surgeon, former Chair of Surgery at Lima Memorial Health System, and cofounder of Surgery Unified, one of the largest physician-led communities in surgery. His perspective carries weight because he has spent decades inside operating rooms, hospital leadership, physician culture, and the growing collision between medicine and corporate healthcare. He grew up in a blue-collar Ohio family of firefighters, railroad workers, police officers, and...

[HIATUS] The Cancer Mavericks EP8: The Inequity of Cure: Who Gets to Matter

September 03, 2026

In 1971, the National Cancer Act transformed cancer into a national research priority. More than 50 years later, the next frontier is no longer defined solely by scientific discovery, but by how quickly knowledge, lived experience, and patient voices can reshape healthcare itself.The concluding chapter of The Cancer Mavericks: A History of Survivorship explores how the cancer advocacy movement continues to evolve in an era of digital communities, social media, precision medicine, and grassroo...

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