Brain Aneurysm Foundation Executive Director Christine Buckley hosts powerful conversations with survivors, experts, and advocates, sharing stories of resilience, hope, and awareness.
Two Ruptured Aneurysms and the Husband Who Knew the Signs: Rosie Maxheimer
On August 21, 2025, Rosie Maxheimer was on a date night with her husband when a sudden "whoosh" of a headache made her pass out. She thought it was the worst food poisoning of her life. Her husband had heard the warning signs of a brain aneurysm before, and he pushed her to go to the ER. A scan found two ruptured brain aneurysms side by side. In this Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month episode of The 1 in 50 Podcast, host Christine Buckley talks with Rosie, a mom of three and the creator behind Th...
25 Aug 2026
Inside the Aneurysm Wall: Dr. Ethan Winkler on the Cell Biology Behind Rupture Risk
For decades, doctors have judged aneurysm risk mostly by two things: size and location. In this episode, Dr. Ethan Winkler — Co-Chief of Neuroendovascular Surgery and Director of the Vascular Anomalies and Stroke Computation Laboratory at UCSF, and a past Brain Aneurysm Foundation research grant recipient — explains why that picture is incomplete. Dr. Winkler and host Christine Buckley discuss his team's recent paper in Nature, which identifies a destructive feedback loop between fibroblasts ...
28 Jul 2026
Mission:BRAIN's Fight to Close the Global Neurosurgery Gap
In this episode, host Christine Buckley sits down with April Sabangan, RN and CEO of Mission:BRAIN, to talk about the staggering global shortage of neurosurgical care — from the roughly 29 countries that don't have a single neurosurgeon to the access gaps that persist in rural areas of the U.S. April traces Mission:BRAIN's fifteen-year path from a handful of UCSF colleagues volunteering in Mexico to a network of over 130 chapters in 30 countries, and shares a firsthand story from Sierra Leone...
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