Meet Your Hosts

Danielle DiPietro

Financial Advocate, Board Certified Patient Advocate, and VA-Accredited Claims Agent

Danielle DiPietro is a Financial Advocate, Board Certified Patient Advocate, and VA-accredited claims agent at The Mesothelioma Center, the nation’s most trusted mesothelioma resource. She helps all mesothelioma patients and their families find the best answers to their financial and VA questions.

Missy Miller

Medical Outreach Director

Missy Miller is the medical outreach director for The Mesothelioma Center, the nation’s most trusted mesothelioma resource. She writes about outreach initiatives as a contributing author for Asbestos.com.

Dr. Catherine Perrault

Chief Medical Officer and Board-Certified Family Physician

Dr. Catherine Perrault is a Chief Medical Officer with The Mesothelioma Center’s Medical Outreach Program and a Board-Certified Family Physician. She helps patients and their families understand their treatment options. Dr. Perrault also provides resources about clinical trials that may help patients.

Walter Pacheco

Managing Editor

Managing Editor Walter Pacheco is an award-winning journalist with over 20 years of experience. He filled integral roles at the Miami Herald and Orlando Sentinel news organizations before joining The Mesothelioma Center at Asbestos.com, the nation's most trusted mesothelioma resource.

Archive

Previous Episodes

Understanding Asbestos Exposure and Emergency Restoration
39 min

Derrick J. Hall

Chief Operating Officer and Principal Project for ELEMENT Building Sciences

Understanding Asbestos Exposure and Emergency Restoration

Managing editor at The Mesothelioma Center at Asbestos.com, Walter Pacheco, interviews Chief Operating Officer and Principal Project Consultant for ELEMENT Building Sciences, Derrick J. Hall. The podcast dives into the role of restoration in asbestos exposure, Hall’s experience encountering asbestos in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, increasing asbestos awareness and training, and his work with the Restoration Industry Association, among other topics related to asbestos exposure.

Apr 13, 2026 Episode 4
The Push for an Asbestos Ban at a Critical Moment
39 min
Linda Reinstein, President of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization

Linda Reinstein

President and CEO of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization

The Push for an Asbestos Ban at a Critical Moment

Medical Outreach Director Missy Miller of The Mesothelioma Center interviews Linda Reinstein, BCPA, president and co-founder of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization. Reinstein champions the Alan Reinstein Ban Asbestos Now Act, named after her husband who passed from mesothelioma. Among the topics discussed in this podcast, Reinstein explains how the ARBAN bill seeks to ban all 8 asbestos fibers and raises transparency concerns about the White House East Wing demolition, having filed Freedom of Information Act requests to verify whether administration officials followed proper asbestos inspection, abatement and disposal regulations in that project.

Mar 30, 2026 Episode 3
The Impact of Federal Funding on Cancer Research
49 min

Dr. Michele Carbone

Director of Thoracic Oncology, University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center

The Impact of Federal Funding on Cancer Research

Chief Medical Officer at The Mesothelioma Center, Dr. Catherine Perrault, and Director of Thoracic Oncology at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Dr. Michele Carbone, discuss the impact of federal funding on cancer research, specifically its progressive decline over the last 25 years. This episode particularly explores how the decrease in funding affects all cancers, but rare cancers like mesothelioma are disproportionately impacted because funding prioritizes more common malignancies like lung, breast and prostate cancer.

Feb 16, 2026 Episode 2

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