Doctor Locker

Coming soon to YouTube · New episodes every week

The questions patients can't ask

Doctor Locker is a long-form video interview show. A molecular biology Ph.D. sits down with the best doctors in their fields and asks what you'd want to know, in plain words.

The show

Friendly conversations with top doctors

Long-form

60 to 90 minutes with one doctor. Room for the full answer, not the sound bite. Short clips too, for when you only have a minute.

A scientist's questions

Our host spent years in the lab studying how genes are switched on and off. She asks the follow-up you'd think of on the drive home.

Claims that hold up

Every episode's health claims are reviewed by a clinician before it's published. We cite, and we never hype.

How every episode runs

  1. Cold openThe best 45 seconds
  2. Act 1 · OriginWhy medicine
  3. Act 2 · Hard truthsWhat patients get wrong
  4. Act 3 · TakeawaysWhat everyone should know
  5. Rapid-fire closeQuick questions, quick answers

Seasons

One part of the body at a time

First up

Season 1 · The Heart

Cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, electrophysiologists, lipidologists and ER physicians on what keeps a heart going, and what they wish every patient knew.

  • 2The Brain
  • 3Longevity
  • 4Cancer
  • 5Gut & Metabolism
  • 6Women's Health
  • 7Kids
  • 8Emergency
Dr. Zoya Kai, host of Doctor Locker

Your host

Dr. Zoya Kai

Ph.D., Molecular Biology · UC San Diego

Zoya earned her Ph.D. at UC San Diego studying microRNAs, the tiny molecules that help decide which genes a cell turns on. Her research was published in Nature and Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. After a postdoc at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, she went on to teach STEM at California State University San Marcos.

On Doctor Locker she brings a scientist's curiosity and a teacher's habit of making hard ideas simple. Doctors are people first, and she lets them talk like it.

For doctors

Be a guest

One session, about two hours, from your own office or home over video. We record and edit it into a full episode plus short clips.

  • The full episode and every clip, edited and captioned, for your own channels
  • A link to your practice in every description
  • You see the questions ahead of time
  • No individual treatment advice, ever

Appearances are unpaid. Know a doctor we should talk to? Recommend them below.