Episode 120

What's the Holdup? - Part 3 (Episode 120)

Guest: Kent New

Welcome back to our final episode in this three-part series about the barriers to progress and the treatment of spinal cord injuries. We’re once again joined by neurosurgeon, researcher and lived experience advocate, Dr. Kent New. In this episode, we finish up our discussion of the many barriers to developing treatments, focusing primarily on regulatory agencies. We then move on to consider potential solutions to the problems we've uncovered in part 1 and part 2.

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Bumper music: Dig a Hole by Freaque

Guest Bio

Dr. Kent New, from Alexandria, Virginia, obtained a BA in Chemistry at the University of Virginia in 1989. He entered an MD/PhD program at Georgetown University, earning his PhD in Microbiology and Immunology. In 1998, Dr. New began residency training in Neurosurgery at Duke University where he also completed a funded research fellowship in tumor immunology. From 2005-08, Dr. New worked at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville specializing in brain tumor research and clinical work. In 2008, Dr. New moved to Ascension St Vincent’s Southside hospital where he pursued private practice until suffering a C6 spinal cord injury in a MVA in late 2014.

Dr. New currently oversees clinical research at St Vincent’s neurosurgery, serves on the board of directors for the Brain Tumor Network and a retirement community, and recently joined SCOPE and the expert committee for scitrialfinder.net to broaden his involvement in the SCI community.