Raise the Line

Lindsey Smith, Michael Carrese

m.carrese@elsevier.com

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Booking Overview

This interview podcast focuses on improving health and healthcare through conversations with prominent physicians, educators, healthcare innovators, nonprofit founders, authors, and senior leaders from major health organizations. Agencies could credibly pitch board-certified clinicians, public-health leaders, healthcare executives, medical educators, health-policy experts, and authors with substantial field experience; booking difficulty is high because the show favors nationally recognized experts and institutional leaders.

Metrics

Episodes: 590

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 3.8M subscribers

Instagram: 406.0k followers

Contact Information

m.carrese@elsevier.com

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Host

Lindsey Smith - Host of a healthcare-focused podcast exploring health improvement, medical education, and healthcare innovation.

Michael Carrese - Host of a healthcare-focused podcast exploring health improvement, medical education, and healthcare innovation.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Board-certified physicians, healthcare executives, medical educators, public-health leaders, nonprofit founders, healthcare innovators, authors, and senior leaders at prominent health organizations.
Required Achievements:  
Leading a prominent healthcare, public-health, education, or nonprofit organization, Founding a recognized initiative or national movement, Publishing a book relevant to health, healthcare, leadership, or advocacy, Holding senior leadership or clinical roles at major institutions

Recent Guest Discussions

Christle Guevarra, DO - Obesity Medicine, Glp-1 Medications, Weight Management, Muscle Loss, And The Relationship Between Biology And Weight.

Shannon Watts - Grassroots Organizing, Gun Safety Advocacy, Leadership, Women In Midlife, And Translating Movement-building Experience Into Coaching.

Shoshana Ungerleider, MD - End-of-life Care, Palliative Care, Patient Goals And Values, Healthcare Alignment, And Changing How Death Is Portrayed In The Media.

Recent Topics

Healthcare, Healthcare Innovation, Medical Education, Public Health, Medicine

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Raise the Line
:

Modernizing PA Practice Laws to Match the Realities and Needs Of Healthcare Delivery: Dr. Jennifer Kolb, Chief Medical Officer of the American Academy of Physician Associates

July 30, 2026

"We have an untapped army of 200,000 PAs that really could step up and drive some change in the healthcare system if we weren’t restricted,” says Dr. Jennifer Kolb, capturing her motivation for pushing to update practice regulations for physician associates that date back more than 50 years.  As Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Clinical Affairs at the American Academy of Physician Associates, Dr. Kolb has been in the middle of the fight at the state and federal level to gra...

The Interplay of Behavioral Science and Communications Technology in Tobacco Cessation: Dr. Amanda Graham, Chief Health Officer at Truth Initiative

July 23, 2026

Most adults who smoke want to quit, and about half try to do so in any given year, yet fewer than one in ten succeed. That persistent gap between intention and outcome is one of the central challenges in public health, and it's exactly the kind of problem that calls for new thinking about how to communicate with people to support behavior change.  Dr. Amanda Graham has been a leading force in doing just that in her role as chief health officer at Truth Initiative, the nation's largest non-pro...

A Physician's Personal Reckoning with GLP-1s and the Future of Weight Management: Dr. Christle Guevarra, DO, Family and Sports Medicine Physician

July 16, 2026

"I always remember feeling like I was part of the clean plate club," says Dr. Christle Guevarra, recalling a childhood spent quietly convinced that her weight was a matter of willpower. That belief followed her through a competitive powerlifting career and medical practice until she finally tried a GLP-1 medication herself and, as she describes it, the constant mental noise around food quieted down. Now a board-certified family and sports medicine physician, traveling team doctor for U.S. Fig...

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