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In COVID-19 news: An advisory committee recommends both J&J's and Moderna’s booster, Regeneron seeks full approved for its treatment and Merck seeks EUA for treatment. In cancer, the FDA approves Verzenio for early breast cancer, Keytruda for advanced cervical cancer, and Tecentriq in early nonsmall cell lung cancer.

In this video segment, Bhat discusses his early career as community health worker in East Baltimore and starting and leading the growth of Healthify, a company that helps healthcare organizes address the social determinants of health. Healthify has recently been acquired by Wellsky and Bhat's title is vice president of SDOH operations and sales. Bhat also discusses the sacrifices his parents made for him and his brother and their work ethic.

In this week’s episode, Managed Healthcare Executive Associate Editor Briana Contreras had the pleasure of meeting CEO of Quanterix and founder of Powering Precision Health, Kevin Hrusovsky. Quanterix is a blood-based biomarker analysis company. In this discussion, the two discussed Powering Precision Health and some tools like the Disruptive Innovation 5-step model that brings his vision closer of detecting and improving the health of patients sooner.

Matthew Bennett is senior vice president of Evernorth Care Delivery, a health services company and subsidiary of Cigna. Bennett is one of the emerging health leaders featured in the October 2021 issue of Managed Healthcare Executive. In this video he talks about the career achievement that has given him the greatest satisfaction, dissects his recent promotion and who has had the greatest influence on his life.

Ellen Beckjord, Ph.D., M.P.H., vice president of population health and clinical transformation at UPMC Health Plan in Pittsburgh, is one of the emerging health leaders featured in the October 2021 issue of Managed Healthcare Executive. In this video she talks about the career achievement that has given her the greatest satisfaction and the person who has had the greatest influence on her life.

Pfizer officially seeks EUA for pediatric COVID vaccine, AstraZeneca seeks EU for COVID-19 prevention, J&J submits data for COVID-19 booster, a gene therapy is approved for leukemia, and Janssen submits Stelara for psoriatic arthritis in children.