Unstable Vitals

About Unstable Vitals

Welcome to Unstable Vitals, where healthcare experts Dr. Adam Brown and Dr. Lara Zibners navigate the ever-evolving healthcare landscape. Adam, an emergency physician, professor, and founder of ABIG Health, brings a wealth of leadership experience and expertise in healthcare strategy and DEI. Lara, a nationally recognized educator and co-founder of Calla Lily Clinical Care, combines clinical insights with business expertise to address the industry's most pressing challenges. In each episode, Adam and Lara break down complex topics, offering practical insights and clarity in the often unstable world of healthcare. From policy shifts to healthcare economics, they provide the knowledge you need to navigate today's healthcare system. Tune in for fresh perspectives, expert analysis, and a dose of reality in every episode!

Publisher

Dr. Adam Brown and Dr. Lara Zibners

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Apr 2025

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

29 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026

   Get Paid for What You Know: Michelle Higginson on Putting Clinicians in the Room

   Every clinician has opened a new tool at work and wondered who picked it. Michelle Higginson co-founded Inlightened to get that question asked before the product ships. Her platform connects vetted healthcare professionals with the startups, pharma companies, and innovators who need their input, and pays them for it. Michelle came to healthcare from Boston startups and tech, then led service line marketing for the transplant and heart centers at Boston Children’s Hospital. She tells Dr. Adam ...

2. 

   29 Sept 2026

   The Waiting Room: Infertility, Loss, and the Stories We Don't Tell with Audrey Ward

   Why does almost nobody talk about how hard it can be to get pregnant? Dr. Lara Zibners and Dr. Adam Brown are joined by Audrey Ward, a former Sunday Times writer and editor and the author of The Waiting Room: Stories of Love, Loss, and Hope on the Path to Parenthood. Audrey went through recurrent miscarriage and failed rounds of IVF before she had her two sons. For the book, she gathered stories from people aged 28 to 68 who took every possible route: IVF, egg donation, surrogacy, adoption, a...

3. 

   15 Sept 2026

   Closing the Knowledge Gap: Why Medical Schools Are Failing Menopause

   Only 6-7% of doctors feel adequately trained in menopause care, and Dr. Adam Brown and Dr. Lara Zibners argue that gap is costing the healthcare system billions. In this episode, they unpack their new white paper, "The Business Case for Integrating Menopause Education into Medical School Curriculum," making the case that teaching menopause isn't about adding new coursework, but "completing the sentence" in courses that already exist. They dig into the real stakes: how untreated genitourinary ...

Who has been a guest on Unstable Vitals

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Mac Deford
• Alison Fragale
• Dr Jocelyn Wittstein
• Dr Steven Farmer
• Dr Stefanie Simmons

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

141

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

34

Social presence

0

YouTube

64

Engagement

32