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Passionate Pioneers with Mike Biselli, a nationally ranked healthcare and innovation podcast, and a member of the Health Podcast Network, highlights the innovators, the game changers, and the pioneers who are deeply passionate and relentless in valiantly solving the problems our healthcare industry is facing.
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Episode Overview:
How can we build a sustainable, future-ready healthcare workforce to ensure exceptional patient care and advance health equity?
Our next guest, Geoffrey Roche, is tackling this challenge as the inaugural North America Director of Workforce Development at Siemens Healthineers.
With over 16 years of experience in hospital and higher education leadership, Geoffrey brings a unique perspective on bridging the gap between education and healthcare employment.
Driven by a passion for diversity and innovation, Geoffrey shares Siemens Healthineers' pioneering vision to transform workforce development through strategic partnerships, apprenticeship programs, and cutting-edge technology.
Join us to discover how Geoffrey and his team are attracting diverse talent, supporting current and future healthcare professionals, and revolutionizing career pathways to create a thriving, equitable healthcare ecosystem. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Geoffrey emphasizes the importance of developing workforce solutions by listening to the voices of patients and consumers, highlighting Siemens Healthineers' commitment to understanding and addressing real healthcare needs.
- Siemens Healthineers is tackling the critical shortage of imaging technologists, which is causing significant delays in patient care and financial losses for healthcare systems. Their approach includes attracting more diverse talent to the profession and creating supportive work environments.
- The company is partnering with academic institutions to create innovative educational programs that prepare students to be "future-ready" healthcare professionals, addressing both current workforce shortages and anticipated future needs.
- Geoffrey shares insights from a recent trip to the UK, where he studied their apprenticeship degree programs. He advocates for similar models in the US, allowing individuals to earn degrees while working and learning on the job.
- Siemens Healthineers is engaged in unique, long-term partnerships with major health systems like SSM Health and Atrium Health, focusing on community-based initiatives to improve economic mobility and healthcare access in underserved areas.
About our Guest:
Geoffrey M. Roche, MPA, is the son of a nurse, healthcare expert, diversity advocate, and education enthusiast, presently serving as the inaugural North America Director of Workforce Development at Siemens Healthineers, Executive Advisor, LEAD3R, Vice President, Axios Strategy, and National Healthcare Practice Executive Advisor at Core Education PBC.
Roche speaks often on healthcare workforce topics at national conferences such as Becker's Annual Conference, HIMSS, HLTH, ASU+GSV, and ViVE. In 2022, Roche was nominated to the Forbes Business Council for his national level work.
Roche has over 16 years of experience in hospital and higher education leadership in the United States. He has served on various boards and committees, including the United Way of
North Carolina, United Way of Lebanon County, United Way of Pennsylvania, and Patient Safety Committee for WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital. Roche also presently serves on the JFF
Corporate Innovation Council, representing the healthcare industry.
Roche also serves as a Senior Advisor with Econsult Solutions, Partner with Product10x, DNPs of Color Advisory Committee, and Leavitt School of Health Advisory Council at Western Governors University, and strategic advisor to numerous startups
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Episode Overview:
How can we transform health research to make it more accessible, efficient, and impactful?
Our next guest, Chris Peng, is tackling this challenge as co-founder and CEO of Labfront.
With a background in nonprofit work and a passion for solving global health issues, Chris brings a unique perspective to the world of health tech.
Labfront is disrupting academic health research through its innovative platform, enabling real-world data collection and analysis at a fraction of the traditional cost and time.
By addressing the funding dynamics and incentive systems in clinical research, Chris and the Labfront team are working to democratize health research and accelerate groundbreaking discoveries.
Join us to explore how Labfront is empowering researchers, leveraging wearable technology, and reimagining the future of health research. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Origin Story: Chris's journey from college dropout to co-founding Labfront after healthcare projects in Thailand and Ethiopia.
- Solving Research Challenges: Labfront addresses funding limitations, participant recruitment issues, and the need for real-world data collection.
- Wearable Technology: The platform uses wearables for continuous, real-world data collection, enhancing research comprehensiveness.
- Cost Reduction: Labfront significantly lowers research costs, making studies more accessible for smaller budgets and pilot projects.
- Future Vision: Plans to create new revenue streams for researchers, potentially reducing dependence on traditional grant funding.
About our Guest:
Chris is the co-founder and CEO of Labfront, a startup working to solve health by fixing health research. Labfront enables real-world research, taking the science out of the lab, 10x-ing research workflows while saving time and budgets. By addressing the funding and cost dynamic, Labfront helps disentangle the incentive systems from the pharmaceutical and corporate interests that fund the majority of clinical research.
Before Labfront, Chris was involved in nonprofit and volunteering projects in Thailand, Ethiopia, and Taiwan, including the building of the first ambulance system in Ethiopia.
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- Labfront Website: CLICK HERE
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Episode Overview:
Is it possible to reimagine kidney care to improve outcomes and reduce costs for millions of our fellow Americans?
Our next guest, Chris Riopelle, believes deeply that the answer is yes and he is tackling this challenge as co-founder and CEO of Strive Health.
With over two decades of healthcare leadership experience, Chris brings a unique perspective to transforming kidney care delivery. Driven by a passion to help underserved patients, he's leading Strive's innovative approach of combining technology-enabled interventions with local provider integration.
Under Chris's leadership, Strive has improved care quality while significantly reducing hospitalizations and costs.
While together, Chris shares how Strive Health is partnering with payers and providers to create an integrated care delivery system supporting patients from chronic to end-stage kidney disease.
Join us as we explore how Chris and his team of "Strivers" are pioneering value-based kidney care and reshaping the future of health and care. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Strive Health's mission to transform kidney care using advanced data analytics and AI
- The innovative "care multiplier" platform enabling targeted, efficient patient care
- Success in reducing costs, improving patient satisfaction, and extending lives
- Growing importance of specialty value-based care, with kidney care at the forefront
- Future integration of AI in care delivery and increasing patient readiness for new care models
About our Guest:
Chris Riopelle is the co-founder and CEO of Strive Health, a value-based kidney care company. He leads the company in its efforts to improve the lives of underserved patients living with kidney disease – from chronic through end-stage. Strive Health supports 110,000 patients across 50 states with $3.8 billion in medical spend under management. Founded in 2018, Strive is home to 700 “Strivers” and has been recognized multiple times as a best place to work. Chris and Strive are proud to be partnered with blue chip investors such as NEA, CapitalG (Alphabet), CVS Health Ventures, and Town Hall Ventures.
In his role as CEO, Chris works to drive value for patients, providers and payors by transforming how kidney care is delivered in the U.S. Under his leadership, Strive Health’s innovative clinical model has improved care quality and reduced hospital admissions by nearly 50%, re-admissions by 30% and total cost of care by 20%.
Chris was recognized as a Denver Business Journal Most Admired CEO in 2023 and was named an E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year in 2021. Chris started his career in healthcare at GeriMed, a company that sparked his interest in underserved populations and risk-bearing healthcare businesses. He spent 10 years in the kidney care industry at Gambro and DaVita, culminating in leading a $1 billion division of DaVita. Chris also served as COO of LaVie Care Centers, a $1 billion skilled nursing company, where he led the turnaround and successful exit of the business. He was also CEO of NorthStar Anesthesia, an anesthesia management company that grew from $130 million to $500 million in revenue under his leadership. Chris has a BA in Economics from Albion College and holds a JD/MBA from the University of Detroit Mercy.
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- Strive Health Website: CLICK HERE
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Episode Overview:
Rural healthcare in America faces a critical shortage of providers and resources.
Our next guest, Dr. William Paiva, is on a mission to transform rural and Native American health through innovative solutions.
As Managing Partner of OLSF Ventures and Executive Director of Oklahoma State University's Center for Health Systems Innovation, William brings over two decades of experience in healthcare venture capital and innovation.
With a unique background spanning molecular biology, business, and finance, William offers invaluable insights into addressing rural healthcare disparities.
Join us as William shares his journey of "being lucky" in healthcare innovation, his leadership roles in supporting groundbreaking care delivery and IT solutions for underserved communities, a sneak peek into his upcoming book, "My Life in the Middle Seat," and how he and his team are bridging rural America’s health disparities gap with innovative solutions. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How "being lucky" is a combination of preparation, opportunity, and openness
- William’s focus on transforming rural and Native American health through innovative solutions
- Key highlights regarding our nation’s severe shortage of healthcare providers in rural areas
- The development of clinical decision support tools to aid primary care in managing subspecialty care
- Drawing parallels between rural US healthcare and healthcare in developing countries
About our Guest:
Dr. William D. Paiva is the Managing Partner of OLSF Ventures, an early-stage healthcare fund, operational in Oklahoma for 24 years.
In parallel, William stood up Oklahoma State University's Center for Health Systems Innovation (CHSI) with Cerner CEO and OSU alum, Neal Patterson. The Center is focused on transforming rural and Native American health by implementing innovative care delivery and IT solutions. William holds a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Oklahoma; an MBA from Dartmouth College's Amos Tuck School of Business; and completed an international finance program at the London School of Business. At a personal level, William enjoys golf, fishing (aka ripping lip), card magic, stand-up comedy, discussions about spirituality, the universe, crystals, Buddha, Tao, etc., and solving the Rubik’s cube.
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- Center for Health Systems Innovation Website: CLICK HERE
- William Paiva LinkedIn page: CLICK HERE
- Mike Biselli LinkedIn page: CLICK HERE
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Episode Overview:
How can we combat the growing epidemic of chronic sleep disorders?
Our next guest, Morgan Moncada, has a vision to transform sleep health through AI-personalized therapy.
As CEO and co-founder of Neru Health, Morgan is tackling this challenge head-on, starting with the 20+ million shift workers whose sleep struggles cost employers over $100 billion annually.
Drawing from his own experiences and a decade of life science entrepreneurship, Morgan is developing groundbreaking solutions to improve workforce productivity, safety, mental health, and cardiometabolic wellbeing.
Join us as Morgan shares Neru Health's pioneering approach to democratizing access to personalized sleep care and elevating sleep as a critical pillar of holistic health and wellness. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Morgan's personal journey with sleep issues inspired his mission to tackle this critical health challenge.
- Neru Health's AI-personalized approach addresses the complexities of sleep disorders.
- Shift workers represent a $100B market opportunity for Neru Health's solutions.
- Neru's tech can reduce medical errors in night shift nurses by 60% and trucking accidents.
- Morgan invites the community to test Neru's AI system and connect the company with potential partners.
About our Guest:
Morgan Moncada is CEO and co-founder of Neru Health. His passion for sleep health began with his own challenges overcoming insomnia and sleep apnea while also witnessing his family members who are shift workers struggle with sleep for years. Morgan has more than a decade of life science entrepreneurship and investing experience, ranging from antibody therapeutics to a synthetic biology nose-on-a-chip technology. He is currently completing his Harvard Blavatnik Life Science Fellowship working in Neru. Morgan earned his MBA and MS Biotechnology from Harvard University and his B.S. Biology from Stanford University.
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- Neru Health Website: CLICK HERE
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- Neru Health LinkedIn page: CLICK HERE
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Episode Overview:
How can we transform musculoskeletal care to improve outcomes and reduce costs?
Our next guest, Rob Cohen, is tackling this challenge and more as CEO of Livara Health.
With over two decades of healthcare leadership experience, Rob brings a unique perspective on value-based care and population health management. Previously leading companies like Bamboo Health and Evolent Health, Rob witnessed firsthand the transformative impact of innovative healthcare solutions.
While together, Rob shares why he is driven by a passion to make healthcare more connected and sustainable and his vision to reimagine musculoskeletal management through comprehensive care planning, delivery, and navigation.
Join us to discover how Livara’s purpose-built solutions are enhancing patient experiences, optimizing clinical outcomes, and driving down costs for health plans and providers. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Emphasizes improving healthcare by building on existing strengths rather than total disruption
- Addresses musculoskeletal (MSK) spend challenge: $400 billion annually, growing twice as fast as general healthcare
- Offers comprehensive MSK care: planning, navigation, and delivery to reduce unnecessary procedures
- Reports significant outcomes: 45% cost reduction, 35% fewer surgeries, 60% less opioid use
- Predicts future trend: integration of specialty value-based care programs for cohesive patient care
About our Guest:
Rob Cohen is the CEO of Livara Health, a value-based musculoskeletal (MSK) management company providing care planning, care delivery and care navigation to improve outcomes and lower costs for people with MSK conditions.
Prior to joining Livara, Rob was the CEO at Bamboo Health, where he led the company’s national expansion from 25 states to 45 states and was responsible for rapid revenue growth in new product lines and new market segments. Prior to Bamboo, Rob served as Market President at Evolent Health where he was responsible for market growth and managed the P&L and operations for partnerships with health systems. Prior to Evolent, Rob held leadership roles with Healthways, Wellpoint, The Walt Disney Company, and McKinsey & Company.
He is a firm believer in the power of healthcare as a catalyst for positive change and is committed to making a meaningful difference in the lives of others.
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- Livara Health LinkedIn page: CLICK HERE
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Episode Overview:
Key industry industry leaders are stepping up and shepherding healthcare organizations that are seeking new and innovative ways to engage patients and drive better outcomes. Our next guest, Will Johnson, is at the forefront of this revolution as Vice President & General Manager of +Oscar.
With a background in healthcare strategy and a passion for solving consumer pain points, Will leads the charge in commercializing innovative tech solutions for providers and payers.
Drawing from his extensive experience at Oscar Health Insurance, Will brings a unique perspective on leveraging technology to improve healthcare outcomes.
While together, Will and I discuss how +Oscar's Campaign Builder is revolutionizing patient communication, driving better utilization, and ultimately creating healthier, happier populations.
Join us to gain Will’s insights on the future of personalized healthcare and how technology can empower both providers and patients in this rapidly evolving landscape. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Personal negative healthcare experience inspired Will's career path in consumer-centric solutions
- Plus Oscar commercializes engagement technology and behavior change tools for payers and providers
- Platform shows impressive results: 118% increase in wellness visits, 96% MA plan retention
- Emphasis on personalized, scalable strategies for managing diverse and complex patient populations
- Future trend towards individualization in healthcare, with focus on near one-to-one communication
About our Guest:
Will Johnson is the Vice President & General Manager of +Oscar, Modular Solutions, where he leads a team focused on commercializing discrete components of +Oscar's tech stack to both providers and payers. The team’s current focus is on the growth of Campaign Builder, +Oscar’s Engagement and Automation platform. The product is now serving 500K lives between external payors and provider clients across a variety of markets and LOBs.
Prior to joining +Oscar, Will held many roles within Oscar Health Insurance and was a key driver of both their growth to 1M+ lives and their profitability efforts. With a particular focus on TX and Southeast markets, Will owned core Growth, P&L management, and Value-Based Care Strategy and Contracting functions for the regions throughout his seven year tenure with Oscar Health Insurance.
Before joining Oscar, Will was an Associate Consultant at Bain and Company where he advised Telecomm, Technology, and Healthcare clients on Market Entry Strategy and Product Portfolio Management. Will is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he was also a member of their 2011 College World Series baseball program.
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- +Oscar Website: CLICK HERE
- Will Johnson LinkedIn page: CLICK HERE
- +Oscar LinkedIn page: CLICK HERE
- Mike Biselli LinkedIn page: CLICK HERE
- Mike Biselli Twitter page: CLICK HERE
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Episode Overview:
Bridging technology and innovation that unlocks and empowers compassionate care is a passion that drives many of today's pioneers in the healthcare industry.
Our next guest, Dr. Jake Lancaster, embodies this spirit as the Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care.
With a unique blend of medical expertise and informatics knowledge, Jake is at the forefront of leveraging technology to enhance patient care and clinician experiences.
From implementing virtual scribes to navigating the complexities of AI integration, he's tackling the industry's most pressing challenges.
While together, Jake also shares his journey of being the author of "The Matter of Medicine," and why he enjoys bringing his creative perspective to healthcare transformation.
Join us as we explore how Baptist Memorial Health Care and Dr. Jake Lancaster is embracing cutting-edge solutions to reduce administrative burden, improve efficiency, and ultimately bring more joy back to medical practice for clinicians and patients. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Jake's journey from aspiring cardiologist to CMIO, driven by his passion for healthcare leadership and technology's growing role in medicine.
- The rapid adoption of AI-powered virtual scribes across healthcare systems, saving physicians 30 minutes to 2 hours daily and bringing joy back to medical practice.
- Baptist Memorial Health Care's focus on serving diverse communities across three states, including urban and rural areas with underserved populations.
- Jake's unique approach to exploring healthcare challenges through fiction, resulting in his book "The Matter of Medicine," which reimagines King Arthur's tale in a hospital setting.
- The ongoing challenge of funding innovative healthcare solutions within the current payment system, highlighting the need for systemic changes to support technological advancements.
About our Guest:
Dr. Jake Lancaster is the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) for Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation and Chief Medical Officer for the Baptist Medical Group. He also continues to practice as an internist part-time for the Baptist Medical Group (BMG).
Dr. Lancaster completed his undergraduate degree in physics at the University of Mississippi and Sally McDonald Barksdale Honors College, where he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. He earned his medical degree at the University of Mississippi, where he served as student body president and was inducted into the medical honor society Alpha Omega Alpha. He then went on to complete an internal medicine residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he simultaneously completed a Master of Science in Healthcare Administration from the UAB School of Health Related Professions.
After residency, he pursued a fellowship in the field of Clinical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and earned an additional Master’s degree in Applied Clinical Informatics from Vanderbilt University. After completing fellowship, he went on to be the Chief Medical Information Officer at West Tennessee Healthcare in Jackson, TN, where he practiced as an outpatient internal medicine physician and hospitalist.
He is board certified in internal medicine through the American Board of Internal Medicine and clinical informatics through the American Board of Preventive Medicine. He is a member of the American College of Physicians and the American Medical Informatics Association. He is also a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association and the author of the book “The Matter of Medicine.”
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- Baptist Memorial Health Care Website: CLICK HERE
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Episode Overview:
How can leaders fully embrace their responsibility to nurture the well-being of those they serve?
Our next guest, Dr. Kent Bradley, is addressing this challenge as CEO of BTN Advisors and author of "Full Embrace."
With a diverse background spanning military service, healthcare leadership, and board roles at multi-billion dollar companies, Kent brings a unique perspective on activating change and unlocking human potential.
While together, and drawing from his experiences as a retired Army Colonel and former healthcare executive, Kent shares insights on leadership, well-being, and the future of healthcare delivery.
Join us to explore how Kent's philosophy of leading with humanity, love, and responsibility is shaping a new paradigm for leadership in healthcare and beyond. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Understanding healthcare systems' historical context and the need for a reflective approach to reimagining healthcare.
- The evolution of consumerism in healthcare, from early telehealth interest to current expectations of consumer-like experiences.
- The growing gig economy in healthcare, highlighting independent entrepreneurs closely connected to consumers' needs.
- Introduction of Kent’s book "Full Embrace," focusing on leadership responsibility and well-being, structured around humanity, love, and responsibility.
- Perspectives on healthcare's future, including AI integration, delivery consolidation/fragmentation, and addressing health data privacy concerns.
About our Guest:
Kent is passionate about activating change and challenging individuals and organizations to tap into their leadership potential. He has held senior executive roles of two publicly traded companies, provided expertise as a member of the board of directors of three multi-billion dollar companies, serves as an adjunct professor at both a business school and a medical school, and founded a nonprofit focused on activating change in health at the community level.
He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer for BTN Advisors and serves on the board of directors of a health tech startup and an advisor to two additional health tech companies.
Kent is a retired Army Colonel, graduate of the United States Military Academy and has a Master in Public Health from the University of Minnesota, an executive MBA from the University of Denver, and his Medical Degree from the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD. He is board certified in Public Health and Preventive Medicine. He has a certificate in Corporate Governance from INSEAD.
Links Supporting This Episode:
- BTN Advisors Website: CLICK HERE
- Dr. Kent Bradley LinkedIn page: CLICK HERE
- BTN Advisors LinkedIn page: CLICK HERE
- Mike Biselli LinkedIn page: CLICK HERE
- Mike Biselli Twitter page: CLICK HERE
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Episode Overview:
How can we transform chronic condition management and empower patients to take control of their health?
Our next guest, Oren Nissim, is tackling this challenge as CEO and co-founder of Brook Health.
With over two decades of experience as a serial entrepreneur in the digital world, Oren brings a unique perspective bridging technology and healthcare.
Driven by his personal experience as a Type 2 Diabetic, Oren is on a mission to transform remote patient care.
While together, Oren shares how Brook Health is combining AI-powered insights with compassionate support from skilled health specialists to deliver continuous, always-on care.
Additionally, Oren discusses how their innovative approach is shifting the paradigm from reactive check-ups to proactive, habitual care that is improving patient outcomes and reducing healthcare costs.
Join us as Oren shares Brook's pioneering vision to extend care beyond the doctor's office and into patients' daily lives. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Oren's personal diabetes experience inspired Brook Health's creation
- Brook provides remote care with high patient retention and engagement rates
- Approach treats patients as consumers, emphasizing engagement
- CMS reimbursement changes in 2019 enabled remote patient monitoring
- Future prediction: ubiquitous health monitoring and AI-driven patient feedback
About our Guest:
Oren Nissim is the CEO and cofounder of Brook Health, a remote health care company. As an idea creator, product strategist and serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the digital world he is energized by facing intractable problems, envisioning solutions, and then taking those solutions from inception to final execution. In his entrepreneurial ventures, he has sought to use his fascination with and understanding of technology in the service of solving human problems and improving lives. He has founded several startup ventures and sold his last company, Telmap, a world leader in mobile location-based services, to the Intel Corporation in 2012. Now, as a Type 2 Diabetic for the last 15 years, his current mission- and the focus of his new venture, Brook Health- is to help make people with this chronic condition achieve wellness, and live happier and healthier lives.
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- Brook Health LinkedIn page: CLICK HERE
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Episode Overview:
Is it possible to revolutionize kidney disease treatment and redefine conventional care? Our next guest, John Erbey, is doing just that as the founder and CEO of Roivios.
With over 25 years of pioneering experience in the medical field, John brings a unique blend of analytical rigor, physiological insight, and deep understanding of customer needs, which has driven ground-breaking advancements across the medical device and pharmaceutical sectors.
Inspired by personal experiences with kidney disease in his family, John is on a mission to transform patient lives.
Join us as we explore how Roivios is reshaping kidney health management, potentially saving billions in healthcare costs, and paving the way for a future where kidney function can be sustained and enhanced. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Embracing discomfort for true innovation in healthcare
- Addressing kidney disease's $250 billion annual cost in the US
- Targeting renal impairment during cardiac surgery
- Developing JuxtaFlow technology with future wearable applications
- Envisioning implantable devices to prevent kidney disease progression
About our Guest:
John Erbey, a visionary with over 25 years of experience in the medical field, is the founder and CEO of Roivios. His dynamic leadership and pioneering approaches have led to substantial advancements in therapeutic development and medical devices.
At Roivios, John has revolutionized the treatment of kidney disease by introducing an innovative approach that redefines conventional wisdom about kidney filtration. This led to the creation of the groundbreaking JuxtaFlow® Renal Assist Device (RAD), marking a significant evolution in kidney health management.
John's leadership extends across the medical device and pharmaceutical sectors, where he has led the launch of CardioMEMS and defined the EU pricing strategy for Ezetrol (Zetia). As a strategist, his mission is to enhance patient lives by providing superior tools to healthcare providers. His unique blend of analytical rigor, physiological insight, and deep understanding of customer needs has enabled him to leverage scientific innovations, creating value for brands like CardioMEMS™, Zetia™, Vytorin™, and Avandia™.
Since founding Roivios in 2015, John's personal journey has been a driving force behind his commitment to transformative healthcare solutions. Having witnessed the profound effects of kidney failure within his own family and through poignant stories shared by potential investors, John's resolve to make a positive impact on patients facing similar challenges has only strengthened over time.
John holds a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health, where his groundbreaking research in this field has earned him induction into Delta Omega, the prestigious National Honor Society for Public Health.
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- Roivios LinkedIn page: CLICK HERE
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Episode Overview:
What if we could advance brain health by making early detection of cognitive disorders accessible to everyone?
Our next guest, Dr. David Bates, is on a mission to do just that as the CEO and co-founder of Linus Health. With a diverse background spanning science, engineering, and entrepreneurship, David brings a unique perspective to the challenges of brain health.
Linus Health is leveraging cutting-edge neuroscience, clinical expertise, and artificial intelligence to transform how we detect and address cognitive and brain disorders.
While together, David shares how Linus Health’s innovative digital cognitive assessment platform is empowering healthcare providers with actionable insights and supporting individuals with personalized action plans.
Join us as we explore David's vision for a future where proactive brain health is the norm, potentially changing millions of lives worldwide. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- David discusses the formation of Linus Health, inspired by his fascination with the brain and a pivotal conversation with a cognitive neurologist, leading to the company's founding in June 2019.
- Linus Health uses AI, sensors, and advanced analytics to deliver brain health insights and action plans, enabling people to take agency over their brain health and live their best lives.
- The company addresses a critical gap in healthcare, with 92% of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) cases currently undiagnosed and potentially long wait times for specialist care.
- Linus Health's platform mimics the observational skills of neurological specialists using AI, allowing for detailed analysis of cognitive function and potentially reducing diagnosis time from months to a single appointment.
- David envisions a future where brain health is given as much importance as heart health in standard care, with expanded capabilities to assess various neurological conditions and empower individuals to optimize their brain health from a younger age.
About our Guest:
David is the CEO and co-founder of Linus Health. He is a scientist, engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and investor. David was a founding partner of Tamarisc Ventures and he co-founded Bode, a tech-enabled hospitality company for group travel. He is on the board of several technology companies, as well as the philanthropic TMCity Foundation. David has previously held positions at Morningside Ventures, F-Wave, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, University of Louisville, and Georgia Tech. David earned his PhD in Chemical and Materials Engineering from the University of Auckland and earned his BS and MSc in Applied Biology from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He resides in Boston with his wife and kids.
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Transforming remote healthcare with an advanced AI-powered platform that leverages ECG data to predict and diagnose chronic illnesses- that's the mission driving our next guest, Chris Darland, CEO of Peerbridge Health.
With over 15 years of global finance and operating experience across multiple industries, including healthcare, Chris brings a strategic mindset and a proven track record of delivering results.
While together, Chris deep dives into Peerbridge Health's pioneering work, harnessing the power of ECG and AI to revolutionize cardiac care and how their innovative device, Peerbridge Cor, is bringing hospital-grade cardiac diagnostics into the home, enabling early intervention, reducing hospital visits, and ultimately saving lives.
Join us as Chris shares how he and his team at PeerBridge Health is unlocking the future of remote cardiac care. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- The importance of having a clear "North Star" mission when trying to innovate and disrupt in the highly regulated healthcare industry
- How Peerbridge Health is leveraging decades-old ECG research combined with modern AI/machine learning to enable predictive diagnostics for conditions like heart failure
- The need to design solutions that work within existing clinical workflows rather than trying to completely upend them
- The excitement from healthcare stakeholders like payers and providers around Peerbridge's technology, while still maintaining appropriate caution
- Chris' optimism about the future of AI augmenting and empowering clinicians, not replacing them, by reducing administrative burdens
About our Guest:
Chris Darland is a seasoned executive, with more than 15 years of global finance and operating experience across multiple industries including healthcare, manufacturing, services, and media.
Most recently, Darland served as the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of $2B+ Global Groups with General Electric (GE) Transportation and Ecolab Healthcare & Life Sciences. During his tenure, he was responsible for business performance including M&A efforts, margin enhancement, cash flow optimization, and implementing lean operating principles to drive growth and efficiency. He is a strategic thinker with a proven track record of delivering results and driving shareholder value.
As CEO & President, Darland leads Peerbridge Health in its mission to transform remote healthcare with an advanced AI-powered platform that leverages ECG data to predict and diagnose chronic illnesses. He oversees all aspects of the company’s strategy and operations, with a focus on expanding its product portfolio, growing its customer base, and driving innovation.
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How can we effectively address the health crisis of loneliness and social isolation in vulnerable populations?
Our next guest, Cindy Jordan, co-founder and CEO of Pyx Health, is tackling this challenge head-on.
After witnessing a family member's mental health crisis, Cindy was driven to find a solution for this pervasive yet often overlooked issue. Pyx Health's innovative approach combines compassionate technology with timely human interventions, offering patients, health insurers, and at-risk organizations a scalable solution.
While together, Cindy shares her deeply personal, touching and inspiring journey, and the experiences that fueled her mission to the groundbreaking strides Pyx Health is making in addressing this U.S. health epidemic.
Join us for this important conversation as we work together in the fight against loneliness! Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Cindy's personal experience watching a loved one's mental health decline due to loneliness and social isolation, which motivated her to start Pyx Health.
- How Pyx Health combines technology with human "peer mentors" to engage lonely and isolated individuals and help them re-engage with their health and communities.
- The staggering statistics around the prevalence and impact of chronic loneliness, including it being most common among 18-24 year olds.
- The powerful story of Cindy's stepdaughter Riley, whose loneliness contributed to her struggles with bipolar disorder before her tragic passing.
- Cindy's vision for Pyx Health's peer mentor model helping fill workforce gaps and becoming the standard for caring for vulnerable, disengaged populations.
About our Guest:
After witnessing a family member’s mental health crisis, Cindy co-founded Pyx Health with Anne Jordan in 2017. As the CEO, Cindy continues to fuel innovation and growth. Finding a near perfect balance of technology and compassionate human intervention, she leads the company on its mission to effectively address the health crisis of loneliness and social isolation.
For Cindy's full background, see on the Pyx Health website here: https://www.pyxhealth.com/about/
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Championing compassion and restoring the human connection in healthcare- that's the driving force behind our next guest, Dr. Kathy Reeves, President and CEO of The Arnold P. Gold Foundation. With over two decades of experience in medical education, urban health, and health equity initiatives, Dr. Reeves brings a unique perspective on fostering humanism in healthcare.
As the leader of the esteemed Gold Foundation, she is determined to ensure that healthcare professionals provide care that is as compassionate as it is technologically sophisticated.
While together, Dr. Reeves shares her vision for creating human-centered spaces, empowering clinicians to prioritize the patient experience, and reshaping the culture of healthcare to prioritize kindness, safety, and trust.
Join us for this important and inspiring conversation as Dr. Reeves shares how we can continue to work together to create systems and cultures that support humanistic care for all. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- The importance of keeping healthcare human and fostering the human connection, even as technology rapidly advances in the healthcare field.
- Dr. Reeves' personal experiences as a pediatrician in underserved communities like North Philadelphia, which taught her the value of understanding patients' life contexts to provide truly compassionate care.
- The Gold Foundation's mission to champion humanism in healthcare through initiatives like the white coat ceremony, Gold Humanism Honor Society, and the new "human-centered spaces" program.
- Dr. Reeves' vision for changing healthcare metrics to focus on how clinicians connect with patients, rather than just patient volume.
- The need to integrate the voice of local communities into medical education to bridge the gap between academic medical centers and the populations they serve.
About our Guest:
Dr. Kathleen Reeves is the President and CEO of The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, the leading national nonprofit organization that champions humanism in healthcare. She is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Urban Health and Population Science, the Center for Urban Bioethics, and the Department of Pediatrics at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. Her specialties include the human connection in healthcare, ethics, trauma-informed care, substance misuse, urban health, healthcare professions education, and health equity.
She spent 20 years at the Katz School of Medicine before taking the helm of the Gold Foundation. Her leadership positions there included Founding Director, Center for Urban Bioethics; Chair, Department of Urban Health and Population Science; Senior Associate Dean of Student Affairs; and inaugural Senior Associate Dean for the Office of Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. She is a Gold Humanism Honor Society member and was previously recognized as an Honorable Mention for the Gold Foundation’s Pearl Hurwitz Humanism in Healthcare Award.
Dr. Reeves earned her Bachelor of Science degree from Juniata College, graduated from the Sidney Kimmel College of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University, and completed her Pediatric Residency at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She is board certified in both general pediatrics and pediatric hospital medicine and continues to practice as a pediatric hospitalist. She has served in the leadership team as part of the Northeast Group on Student Affairs within the American Association of Medical Colleges.
Dr. Reeves resides outside of Philadelphia with her husband, Edisio, who is a practicing pediatric gastroenterologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. They have two children, Ben and Ann.
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How can innovative architectural design improve patient care and clinician wellbeing? Our next guest, Sharon Woodworth, Healthcare Sector Leader at HED, is leading the charge to create healthcare facilities that optimize efficiency and sustainability.
With extensive experience and over 11 million square feet of healthcare facility design, Sharon brings a unique perspective from her background as a former clinician. Deeply concerned about post-COVID staff shortages, she's driven to design environments that alleviate burnout and attract top talent.
While together, Sharon shares HED's pioneering vision to augment caregivers through responsive, human-centered design solutions.
Join us as we explore how HED is reshaping the future of care delivery, from outpatient clinics to smart hospitals. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Sharon stresses the importance of clinicians putting on their "oxygen mask" first before caring for others to avoid burnout
- HED specializes in taking existing healthcare facilities and redesigning them for future flexibility to adapt to changes like pandemics
- Outpatient facilities are being redesigned without traditional waiting rooms, using concierge greeters to improve the patient experience
- Data from IoT sensors will increasingly drive architectural design decisions based on actual usage patterns
- Post-occupancy evaluations are critical to get feedback from clinicians and patients on what's working well or needs improvement in a new facility
About our Guest:
Sharon is the Healthcare Sector Leader of HED, a national integrated architecture and engineering firm with 400+ employees and elite clients such as USC, the VA Medical Center, and the U.S. State Department. Her sector specializes in designing innovative healthcare centers for efficient patient care.
Sharon is a licensed architect with 11M+ square feet of healthcare facility planning and design. She is known for driving change in operations and care through architectural design — much needed now, with operating costs rising by 10% in healthcare due to inflation and labor.
She saw healthcare systems firsthand as a former clinician, with her experience spanning a global range of operational and continuum-of-care issues from neonatology to senior living. She is concerned about the post-COVID staff shortages causing delayed care and closed centers.
In 2017, the AIA elevated Sharon to the College of Fellows for outstanding influence in the field of design. In addition to practicing architecture full-time, she is an Assistant Professor at UCSF, teaching “Leadership in Healthcare Environments” to future healthcare CEOs.
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How can technology empower clinicians to focus on what matters most- connecting with patients? Our next guest, Dr. Stephanie Lahr is tackling this challenge as President of Artisight.
With nearly two decades of informatics and healthcare leadership experience, Stephanie possesses a unique perspective bridging medicine and technology. Previously serving as a health system CIO, she experienced firsthand the transformative impact of Artisight's smart hospital platform.
Driven by a passion to reduce friction and reignite joy in medicine, Stephanie shares Artisight's pioneering vision to augment clinicians through ambient AI.
Join us to discover how Artisight’s cutting-edge solutions are automating tasks, optimizing workflows, elevating patient care, and supercharging the smart hospital experience. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Stephanie's unique journey from physician to healthcare IT leader and now President of Artisight, bridging medicine and technology.
- How Artisight's smart hospital platform leverages ambient AI like computer vision and natural language processing to automate tasks and optimize clinical workflows.
- The value Artisight delivers today through virtual nursing models that give time back to nurses at the bedside.
- The exciting future vision of ambient sensor technology acting as "process improvement engineers" in every hospital room to capture rich data and drive process optimization.
- Stephanie's passion for reducing friction in healthcare and "bringing the joy back to medicine" through the empowering use of technology.
About our Guest:
Dr. Lahr brings leadership, vision, and a distinct perspective to her role as President of Artisight. A former customer, she experienced firsthand the transformative power and impact of Artisight’s technology.
A physician with nearly two decades of informatics and healthcare administration expertise, Dr. Lahr possesses a unique skill set that bridges the worlds of medicine and technology. She intimately understands clients’ challenges in delivering quality patient care in a complex healthcare landscape.
Previously, Dr. Lahr served as a combined CIO and CMIO for over six years at Monument Health. Board-certified in clinical informatics, she recognizes the vital role of clinical engagement in developing and implementing technology solutions.
She is an active member of the health IT community, having served on several organizational and vendor boards of advisors, including the CHIME Board. Recognized by HIMSS as an inaugural Changemaker Award recipient in 2021, Stephanie has been featured on thought-leading podcasts and interviews and is an advocate and mentor for women in Health IT.
Dr. Lahr is driven by her passion and commitment to reduce friction and bring joy back to medicine.
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Clinicians are drowning in a deluge of unstructured medical data, struggling to efficiently extract critical insights that could improve patient care and outcomes. Our next guest, Dr. Tim O'Connell, is taking on this monumental challenge as the co-founder and CEO of emtelligent.
With a unique background spanning IT, radiology, and medical informatics, Tim experienced firsthand the limitations of existing natural language processing tools in healthcare settings. Driven to develop a powerful solution, he founded emtelligent to harness cutting-edge AI and language models.
While together, Tim shares his pioneering journey building emtelligent's innovative technology that structures overwhelming volumes of unstructured patient data and how he and his colleagues are empowering healthcare organizations to operate more efficiently, reduce physician burnout, and unlock data-driven insights to transform care quality.
Join us to learn from Tim and how the emtelligent team is unlocking healthcare's unstructured data troves. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Tim's advice: Get out and make a change, find a business partner with complementary skills ("your Anoop", his co-founder)
- Origin story: Seeing limitations of existing NLP tools, partnering with NLP expert Dr. Anoop Sarkar
- Cutting-edge technology: Structuring massive volumes of unstructured medical data with advanced language AI
- Powerful use cases: Transforming needle-in-a-haystack data challenges, drastically reducing manual chart review workloads
- Future vision: AI-augmented healthcare teams over next 2-5 years, reducing burnout by automating drudgery tasks
About our Guest:
Dr. Tim O’Connell is a practicing radiologist in Vancouver and cofounded emtelligent in 2016. He has served as vice chair of medical informatics in the University of British Columbia’s Department of Radiology since 2017. Prior to his clinical and entrepreneurial careers, Dr. O’Connell worked as an IT professional for Nortel Networks and Bell, where he was director of engineering for the Bank of Montreal account.
Early in his career, Dr. O’Connell realized that radiologists were often tasked with a volume of work that didn’t afford them the time needed to carefully review and understand each patient's clinical history. In 2015, he met Dr. Anoop Sarkar, a widely published Ph.D. and full professor of natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence. Dr. Sarkar shared Tim’s interest in medical language processing and desire to develop meaningful solutions that would have a positive impact on the lives of patients and care providers. It quickly became obvious to both that they were perfectly matched to solve the problem Tim had identified, together bringing a powerful combination of deep clinical and data science expertise.
emtelligent was officially formed when Drs. O’Connell and Sarkar joined forces with Jeff O'Connell, an experienced technology operations management leader; and Dan Carriere, a seasoned expert in building and scaling biomedical startup ventures, adding experienced entrepreneurship and business leadership to the team. Collectively, the team successfully built and launched emtelliPro®, one of the industry's first deep-learning-based Medical Language Understanding engines.
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What if a pioneering venture capital model could catalyze healthcare innovation by delivering continuous funding, growth, and resources throughout a startup’s journey? Our next guest, Dr. Rebecca Mitchell, is doing exactly this as Executive Vice President at Vive Collective.
With a diverse background spanning academic research, public health, product leadership at several leading digital health companies, and now venture capital, Rebecca is at the forefront of funding and scaling the next generation of disruptive health tech companies.
While together, Rebecca shares her vision and mission of bringing together seasoned industry experts with fresh perspectives to mentor and propel bold founders who are passionate and determined to reimage our healthcare industry.
Join us to learn how Rebecca and the Vive Collective team have created a new model to build, fund and scale the best digital health companies that are destined to make a sizable impact in the healthcare industry. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Rebecca's powerful advice: "Find the insiders who still think like outsiders, and the humble outsiders who can expand your sense of what's possible."
- How Vive Collective is a new VC model purposely built with an interdisciplinary team of clinicians, builders, and investors to mentor startups.
- Vive’s innovative "collective" that provides startups with an unmatched network of industry experts and resources to accelerate their growth.
- Rebecca's bullish outlook on the future- profitable digital health giants emerging, virtual care brands becoming national, and seamless integration with traditional systems.
- Her rallying cry for more diverse voices to courageously join the "collective" and help invent the future of healthcare.
About our Guest:
Rebecca’s 20 year career has focused on building more effective, person centered technology enabled care models. She uses her unique background in product development, medicine, and public policy as both an Investor at Vive Collective and to go deep with companies on product, go to market, and scaling up the organization from early stage through growth.
Rebecca began her career in global health as an academic researcher and Fulbright Fellow in maternal health, and as Co-Founder of a not for profit that supports local social entrepreneurs across Sub Saharan Africa. She received her Medical Degree from the University of CA San Francisco, where she focused on primary care innovation and the burgeoning role of technology in medicine. Rebecca then served as the Medical Officer for Innovation at Health and Human Services, working on early policy and standards development to improve patient access to health data and interoperability. She then returned to Silicon Valley and spent the last decade in product leadership at startup, growth stage, and public companies including leading one of the earliest remote monitoring products for chronic conditions at Validic, and as an early product leader at Livongo and then Teladoc post acquisition. She most recently helped the Homeward Health team launch a new care model for older adults living in rural America before joining the Vive Collective. Out of recognition that health requires far more than a better healthcare system, she also personally invests in increasing quality, affordable housing for community members living with medical disabilities.
In her personal life, Rebecca is matriarch to a blended family of 5 kids, 4 chickens, and one enormous cat on their urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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What if we could transform healthcare for underserved communities by empowering independent practices to deliver value-based care? Our next guest, Dr. Michael Poku, is doing just that as Chief Clinical Officer at Equality Health.
With extensive experience in clinical leadership, medical informatics, and value-based care models, Dr. Poku is spearheading a transformative approach that equips independent practices with technology, care coordination, and hands-on support to optimize whole-person care for diverse populations, especially those on Medicaid.
Join us as Dr. Poku shares his journey and Equality Health's mission to eradicate healthcare disparities via their pioneering model that is driving better outcomes, reducing costs, and delivering value-based care for diverse communities. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Equality Health's mission to eradicate healthcare disparities by empowering independent practices to deliver value-based care for underserved, diverse communities, especially those on Medicaid.
- Dr. Poku's background spanning clinical leadership, medical informatics, and expertise in value-based care models positions him uniquely to drive Equality Health's innovative approach.
- Equality Health provides independent practices with technology, care coordination tools, and hands-on support to optimize performance and outcomes in value-based care.
- The transformative model meets practices where they are, helping under-resourced clinics adopt value-based care to improve patient health while increasing financial sustainability.
- Dr. Poku's vision for leveraging AI, predictive analytics and a "do good, do well" mentality to bring greater health equity through data-driven, whole-person care.
About our Guest:
Dr. Michael Poku is an accomplished healthcare executive with extensive experience in clinical leadership, medical informatics, and value-based care. Prior to serving as the Chief Clinical Officer for Equality Health, he was Senior Medical Director at Oak Street Health, overseeing multiple clinical teams and driving innovative models of value-based care delivery, resulting in improved patient outcomes and increased operational efficiency. His expertise lies in enterprise-wide strategy, clinical delivery innovation, medical cost management, and the development of technology-enabled and data-informed clinical tools and processes.
Dr. Poku was also previously Chief Medical Officer at NextHealth Technologies through the company’s acquisition by Softheon Technologies, where he formulated and executed clinical and product strategies for an AI-powered healthcare analytics platform. During his tenure, he successfully led client success, sales, and ongoing product development, optimizing informatics processes to enable health plan customers to achieve maximum ROI from their analytics investments. Dr. Poku also served as Senior Medical Director at Signify Health, where he developed and led clinical strategies and execution for complex care management and at-home wellness programs.
Dr. Poku continues to practice, holding academic faculty positions at various health systems. Throughout his career, Dr. Poku has authored numerous publications on topics such as care coordination, healthcare analytics, patient relationship management, and several topics at the intersection of healthcare and technology.
Dr. Poku received his MD from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. He trained at Johns Hopkins Hospital in internal medicine, where he focused on primary care medicine and urban health; he is also board certified in clinical informatics.
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What if philanthropy and investment could work hand-in-hand to revolutionize cancer care? Our next guest, Alice Pomponio, is pioneering a groundbreaking model to do just that.
As the Managing Director of BrightEdge - the American Cancer Society's impact investment arm - Alice is harnessing the power of venture capital to fuel mission-driven healthcare startups.
By investing in innovative technologies across the cancer care continuum, BrightEdge aims to not only generate financial returns, but also drive tangible improvements in cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship.
Join us as Alice shares her personal journey that led her to this role, and explains how BrightEdge is reshaping the landscape of cancer philanthropy. Discover how this unique model is unlocking capital, amplifying impact, and bringing more equitable solutions to patients in need. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Alice shares her personal story of how tragedy transformed into a strategy to drive impact in the cancer space
- She explains how BrightEdge, the American Cancer Society's impact investment arm, is pioneering a unique model to generate financial returns and drive mission-driven innovation
- Alice discusses how BrightEdge invests across the entire cancer care continuum - from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship
- She highlights how BrightEdge leverages the American Cancer Society's deep expertise and vast network to support and accelerate its portfolio companies
- Alice outlines the future vision for BrightEdge, including plans to further infuse impact considerations into investment decisions and unlock new sources of capital
About our Guest:
Alice brings an extensive experience in life sciences and business, coupled with her passion for the American Cancer Society’s lifesaving mission.
She is an expert in rare disease and precision oncology, and focuses on disruptive technology adoption and companion diagnostic/therapeutic co-development strategies with an eye toward value-based care. Most recently, she was an advisor at Red Sky Partners LLC and the founder and managing director of Accendo. At Red Sky Partners, Alice advised high-growth life sciences and health tech companies on go-to-market and product value strategies. In 2018, she founded Accendo to accelerate entrepreneurial consumer-facing approaches to patient access and affordability of quality care.
She held prior strategy and operational leadership roles at Radius Health, AstraZeneca, and Sanofi Genzyme, where she launched multiple US and global specialty products and championed orphan drug and health equity initiatives across the globe. Her public sector experience spans innovation, trade, and healthcare policy through roles in the UK Government and US Office of Management and Budget.
Alice holds a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from MIT. She serves on the Boards of Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, MassEcon, and PhagePro Inc. Additionally, she is a faculty member at Harvard-MIT HST Sloan Healthcare Ventures, a role she will retain during her tenure with the American Cancer Society.
In addition to her industry experience, Alice is a longtime American Cancer Society and American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network volunteer leader.
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How can technology reinvent the standard of prenatal and postpartum care? According to our next guest, Anish Sebastian, the answer lies in delivering a new virtual care model for expectant mothers.
As the co-founder and CEO of Babyscripts, Anish is on a mission to eliminate maternal mortality and improve access to care through innovative digital solutions. Under his leadership, Babyscripts has built a clinically validated platform that allows providers to manage up to 90% of pregnancies virtually, empowering earlier detection of risks and the automation of elements of care.
While together, Anish shares his insights on leveraging remote patient monitoring, data-driven experiences, and strategic partnerships to transform the maternal healthcare landscape.
Discover how Babyscripts is redefining the patient-provider journey and championing a new era of proactive, personalized prenatal and postpartum care. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Anish's personal experience with high-risk twin pregnancies inspired his mission to improve maternal health outcomes
- Babyscripts is delivering a new virtual care model for prenatal and postpartum care, leveraging remote monitoring and digital tools
- Under Anish's leadership, Babyscripts has partnered with over 75 health systems managing 250,000+ pregnancies annually
- Babyscripts' research efforts have resulted in multiple first-of-their-kind publications validating the benefits of their platform
- Anish's vision is to transform maternal care and ensure expectant mothers have access to the support and resources they need
About our Guest:
Anish Sebastian is the co-founder and CEO of Babyscripts, an innovative maternal healthcare company focused on reinventing the standard of prenatal and postpartum care through the delivery of digital education and remote patient monitoring experiences. In his time as CEO, Anish has led product development and has orchestrated partnerships with more than 75 health systems around the country that manage over 250K pregnancies annually, as well as partnerships with multiple national health plans and 30+ managed care organizations. Anish has led several evidence-based research endeavors that have resulted in multiple first-in-kind publications and white papers, further quantifying and validating the benefits of the Babyscripts product, including a pilot with GW-MFA for Babyscripts maternal mental health product, which is in beta-testing at the site and will be the subject of a focused research study. He is a recognized thought leader in the field of maternal healthcare and technology and a frequent speaker on the future of healthcare.
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How can artificial intelligence and predictive analytics transform the healthcare industry? According to our next guest, Rajeev Ronanki, it lies in simplifying the business of care.
As the CEO of Lyric, Raj's leadership is marked by a commitment to reimagine healthcare through the lens of AI by reducing complexity and maximizing efficiency. With over 25 years of experience in innovation across healthcare and technology, Raj shares his valuable insights on leveraging machine learning, predictive modeling, and responsible AI to empower health plan payers with increased accuracy and cost savings
Join us to learn how Raj and the Lyric team are driving innovation, harnessing the power of AI to simplify transactions, enhance collaboration between payers and providers, and ultimately deliver personalized, proactive care. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Leveraging AI, machine learning, and predictive analytics to simplify the business of healthcare
- Driving innovation to increase payment accuracy and transactional efficiency for health plans
- Enhancing collaboration between payers and providers through transparent data sharing
- Enabling personalized, proactive care by predicting potential health trajectories
- Advocating for responsible and human-centric approaches to deploying AI in healthcare
About our Guest:
Rajeev Ronanki has over 25 years of experience in innovation-driven industry and social change across healthcare and technology. As the CEO of Lyric, his leadership is marked by a commitment to reimagine healthcare, through the lens of artificial intelligence, to reduce complexity and help simplify the business of care.
Previously, Raj spearheaded the transformation of Elevance Health into a digital health platform as President of Carelon Digital Platforms. Prior to that, he established and led Deloitte’s life sciences and healthcare advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and innovation practices.
A best-selling author and an authority on AI in healthcare, Raj is a coveted speaker, recently headlining the inaugural TED AI conference. He champions responsible AI, advocating for human-centric approaches, fairness, and bias reduction in technology. His career is a testament to his visionary leadership, constantly pushing the boundaries of healthcare technology.
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Episode Overview:
How can virtual care and innovative technology transform healthcare delivery? According to our next guest, Dr. Sarah Pletcher, it requires reimagining care models by leveraging cutting-edge solutions.
As System Vice President and Executive Medical Director for Strategic Innovation at Houston Methodist, Dr. Pletcher leads the nationally renowned health system in developing and accelerating pioneering care strategies for the next decade.
An accomplished surgeon and telehealth trailblazer, Dr. Pletcher shares her valuable insights on virtual nursing programs reducing burnout, wearables enhancing patient monitoring, expanding hospital-at-home offerings, implementing ambient AI for safety, and rolling out system-wide virtual rounding capabilities.
Join us to learn how Dr. Pletcher is driving innovation at Houston Methodist, enhancing experiences and outcomes through tech-enabled, forward-thinking care delivery. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Pioneering virtual nursing programs that reduce burnout and retain staff
- Leveraging wearable sensors and remote monitoring to enhance patient care
- Expanding "hospital at home" and virtual care offerings to improve access
- Implementing ambient AI and computer vision for safety and efficiency
- Rolling out system-wide virtual rounding capabilities in every patient room
About our Guest:
Dr. Sarah N. Pletcher is the System Vice President and Executive Medical Director for Strategic Innovation at Houston Methodist. In this role, she leads the health system on strategy, development, acceleration and execution of new care models and innovations that will move the health system into its next decade.
Prior to joining Houston Methodist, Dr. Pletcher was the founder of the Centers for Connected Care & Telehealth at Dartmouth- Hitchcock, where she led the health system in the selection and implementation of new strategies utilizing telehealth technology platforms, and developed new clinical products and telemedicine programs across multiple specialties, and in multiple settings. This work includes a national scale telemedicine program which includes more than 60 specialties and six 24/7 hospital service lines, covering 100 hospitals across 10 states, and providing care through 20,000 patient encounters every month.
As a consultant, Dr. Pletcher has advised health systems, policymakers, and investors about disruptive technologies and new business models that can provide value in serving populations. With over 25 years of healthcare innovation experience, she is frequently sought as a thought leader and invited speaker in areas of telemedicine, mhealth, innovation, clinical quality improvement, provider education and rural program development; and has been the principal investigator on over 15 million dollars of grant and foundational funding to advance these initiatives.
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Episode Overview:
How can innovative technology accelerate the shift to value-based care? According to our next guest, Jay Ackerman, CEO of Reveleer, it starts by empowering healthcare organizations with AI-driven data analytics.
As a veteran enterprise software leader, Jay is focused on Reveleer's mission to streamline quality improvement, risk adjustment, and member management through their transformative platform.
While together, Jay shares his vision for leveraging natural language processing and machine learning to digest clinical data at scale and he reveals how Reveleer helps health plans and providers unlock insights, enhance outcomes, and confidently execute value-based care initiatives.
Join us to learn how Jay and his team are pioneering the future of data-driven healthcare delivery! Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Pioneering the use of AI, NLP, and machine learning to digest massive clinical data sets
- Helping healthcare organizations accelerate the transition to value-based care models
- Reducing administrative burdens on providers through intelligent data workflows
- Unifying disparate clinical data sources to enhance quality improvement and risk adjustment
- Driving the future of data-driven healthcare through advanced analytics capabilities
About our Guest:
Jay is an Enterprise Software executive responsible for setting the vision, strategy, and objectives for Reveleer. As a leader, he is also keenly focused on shaping and stewarding the culture at Reveleer to attract a robust collaborative team, while driving an innovation mandate to execute our mission to accelerate value-based care.
He is a seasoned software and services executive with over 30 years of experience in various leadership capacities. While at Reveleer, he established the company as a leader in SaaS solutions to enable our customer set to take control of these critical value-based care programs.
Before Reveleer, Jay was the Chief Revenue Officer at Guidance Software, a publicly traded software security company. He is equally proud of his contribution to the success of ServiceSource, where he was the Worldwide Head of Sales and Customer Success at ServiceSource and WNS North America. WNS, where he was the President & CEO. Both organizations grew rapidly and joined the public markets.
Jay holds his MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Connecticut College. Jay recently concluded a ten-year stay on the Board of Trustees at Lawrence Academy, a college preparatory school he attended in Massachusetts. Jay resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two boys and can often be found on the weekend coaching or cheering on his boys.
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Episode Overview:
How can we positively impact mental healthcare through technological innovation? According to our next guest, Ernie Wallerstein, CEO of Mental Health Technologies, it starts by enabling quantifiable improvements in patients' journeys to wellness.
Driven by a passion to address the growing challenges of providing mental health and substance abuse services, Ernie and his team built an innovative SaaS platform that seamlessly integrates validated psychometric testing into healthcare providers' existing workflows.
While together, Ernie shares how MHT's technology empowers medical professionals to -screen patients, objectively collect mental health data, and enhance billing practices. Ernie also reveals his vision for horizontally integrating the entire mental health process and leveraging data analytics to proactively identify negative treatment trends.
Join us to learn how Ernie and the MHT team are streamlining mental health screening through technological innovation! Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Integrating seamlessly into existing EHR/EMR systems to minimize workflow disruption for healthcare providers
- Achieving over $1 million in annual recurring revenue while bootstrapped, without VC or PE funding
- 60% patient completion rate for MHT's assessments, demonstrating strong engagement
- Positioning MHT's data analytics capabilities to predict optimal assessments and identify negative treatment trends
- Addressing a critical need by enabling better identification and care pathways for mental health/substance abuse
About our Guest:
Ernie Wallerstein is revolutionizing the mental health industry by enabling quantifiable and qualitative improvements in patients' journey to wellness. Through his innovative SaaS assessment platform, medical practitioners can seamlessly administer a range of validated psychometric tests, providing a comprehensive understanding of patients' mental health.
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Episode Overview:
How can we expand clinical education to develop the healthcare workforce we desperately need?
According to our next guest, Kyle Swinsky, co-founder and CEO of AMOpportunities, it starts by equipping universities and healthcare providers with scalable infrastructure.
Drawing from a passion to increase opportunities for international medical trainees, Kyle built a workforce solution that matches students to hands-on rotations while supporting host sites through technology and services.
While together, we explore AMO's mission to address bottlenecks preventing schools from graduating qualified healthcare professionals and Kyle reveals how his company augments limited teaching capacity, facilitates ideal student-site relationships, and drives strategic growth into allied health fields.
Join us to hear how Kyle and the AMO team is successfully expanding clinical education to develop healthcare’s workforce! Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- AMO bridges clinical education gaps by matching students to hands-on training opportunities
- Their platform and services augment limited teaching capacity at hospitals/clinics
- Students get experience where they want while sites gain pipeline of future workforce
- AMO has helped over 5,500 trainees secure rotations to advance their careers
- Strategic growth planned for nursing, PA, rehab therapy, and other allied health fields
About our Guest:
Kyle Swinsky is the co-founder and CEO of AMOpportunities, a Chicago-based company that helps international medical students and graduates secure U.S. rotations and supports hospitals and schools in managing trainees through high-quality services and software solutions.
In 2013, Kyle, along with co-founder and COO Ben Bradley, launched AMOpportunities to make U.S. clinical experiences accessible to medical trainees around the world. Since 2013, AMO has tripled in size, raised $8.9 million in funding, won the President’s “E” Award for Exports and PIEoneer of the Year, and helped more than 3,600 trainees rotate in the U.S. The company counts Kaplan Medical and AMSA as partners as well as institutions such as University of Miami, Chicago Medicine, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, and Florida International University.
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Episode Overview:
How can we reimagine women’s health by meeting them where they are- virtually and compassionately?
According to our next guest Joanna Strober, founder and CEO of Midi Health, it starts with understanding the overlooked symptoms of perimenopause and menopause that deeply impact quality of life.
Drawing from her own frustrating journey to receive proper hormonal care, Joanna built an accessible, insurance-covered virtual clinic tailored to women navigating this transition.
While together, Joanna shares Midi Health’s mission to deliver personalized, expert protocols for the over 30 symptoms related to declining estrogen, and also reveals how her company identifies gaps like painful sex and weight gain to build specialty services.
Additionally, Joanna shares the vision for Midi Health to become a trusted partner supporting long-term health, and why partnerships with health systems are imperative.
Join us to learn how Joanna and the Midi Health team is successfully reshaping women's health through virtual menopause care! Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Midi Health meets women where they are by providing virtual, insurance-covered care for overlooked perimenopause/menopause symptoms
- They take a listening-based approach to build specialty services addressing gaps like painful sex and midlife weight gain
- The goal is for Midi Health to be a 20-year partner supporting women's long-term health needs
- Partnerships with health systems are crucial for referrals and sharing patient data
- Midi Health is successfully reshaping care to center the woman in her midlife healthcare journey
About our Guest:
Joanna is the co-founder and CEO of Midi Health, the leading virtual care clinic focused exclusively on women navigating midlife hormonal transition. The company brings insurance-covered expert care for the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause to women nationwide. A successful serial entrepreneur in the digital health space, Joanna previously served as CEO and founder of Kurbo, the first digital therapeutic for childhood obesity, which she sold to Weight Watchers. Recently named to the “Forbes 50 Over 50” list and a featured speaker at the 2023 Fortune Most Powerful Women Conference, Joanna is a frequently quoted expert on issues related to digital health, women in business, startups and leadership. Prior to becoming a founder, Joanna spent more than 20 years in direct private equity and venture capital investing in health and consumer companies, including a number of notable consumer internet companies, such as BlueNile, eToys, Babycenter, HotJobs and Flycast. Joanna is also the author of the book, “Getting to 50/50,” a primer on how women can succeed and thrive at work and at home.
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What does it take to reimagine metabolic health by harnessing the power of sport and technology?
According to our next guest, Phil Southerland, Founder and CEO of Supersapiens, it starts with audaciously believing that real-time biometric data can revolutionize wellbeing for all.
Drawing from his lifelong journey managing type 1 diabetes through exercise, Phil shares Supersapiens' mission to make continuous glucose monitoring accessible worldwide. Their cutting-edge ecosystem inspires better nutritional choices by visualizing individualized glucose responses whether you're a pro-athlete or everyday parent.
While together, Phil reveals how Supersapiens is tackling insurance obstacles to customize care, why helping youth build healthy habits is imperative, and the pivotal role entrepreneurs play in shaping preventative healthcare policy.
Join us to hear Phil's vision of using sports and technology to unlock the power of glucose that can fuel our amazing human potential! Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Harnessing sport and activity as a platform to inspire better metabolic health
- Bringing real-time glucose insights to people with and without diabetes
- Overcoming early startup mistakes by listening to customer feedback
- The need for payers to cover CGM technology for preventative care
- Inspiring all people to believe in themselves to invest in their wellbeing
About our Guest:
Phil Southerland, Founder and CEO of Supersapiens, is a visionary leader whose expertise in health technology and personal experience with diabetes fuel the company's innovative approach. Living with type 1 diabetes since he was just 7 months old, his leadership and strategic vision are instrumental in steering Supersapiens towards groundbreaking achievements in diabetes management, reflecting a deep commitment to improving healthcare outcomes through technology.
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Episode Overview:
How can health systems transform operations via real-time locating innovations?
According to our next guest, Caryn Hewitt, Senior Director of Consulting Services at CenTrak, it starts with responsibly harnessing actionable data to drive productivity, cost savings, and elevated care experiences.
With over 37 years improving hospital operations and four years as a health system Chief Information Officer, Caryn brings invaluable wisdom that is helping empower healthcare with actionable data. Currently, she leads CenTrak teams that are helping over 2,000 healthcare organizations worldwide to increase asset visibility, respond faster to staff duress, reduce patient wait times, and more through cutting-edge IoT solutions.
While together, Caryn shares her journey from bedside nursing to pioneering connective technologies, how real-time locating awareness unlocks shared asset utilization across facilities, and why she urges innovators to imagine expanded use cases that could further transform point-of-care operations.
Join us as Caryn reveals how to tap data streams towards revolutionizing healthcare functionality. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Always put the patient and family first when considering care improvements
- Real-time locating systems can increase asset sharing between hospitals to reduce costs
- Staff duress solutions are currently very popular to protect staff safety
- Tracking patient workflow can identify bottlenecks and opportunities to add more patient revenue
- Imagine expanded use cases for how real-time data could further elevate point-of-care workings
Guest Bio:
Caryn Hewitt has been involved in hospital operations for 37 years as a Nursing Executive. She has held various roles, including 4 years as the Chief Information Officer of a large health system. Caryn brings extensive experience in several healthcare technology projects including all facets of planning and opening a new 400-bed hospital which was inclusive of many real-time location system (RTLS) use cases. Currently, Caryn is CenTrak’s Senior Director of Consulting Services, leading a team of highly experienced professionals with a wide variety of clinical and operational healthcare expertise.
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Episode Overview:
What will it take to shatter systemic barriers obstructing timely and equitable pediatric care?
According to our next guest, Dr. Sharief Taraman, Chief Executive Officer of Cognoa, it starts with responsible AI adoption designed to uplift all patients.
As creators of the first and only FDA-authorized diagnostic for autism, Cognoa continues pioneering digital health solutions upholding diversity, cost savings, and care team empowerment.
While together, Dr. Taraman passionately shares Cognoa's mission of democratizing quality care, how their autism diagnostic is dissolving geographic and financial obstacles through telehealth accessibility, and why he urges investors to back ventures tackling pediatric device gaps spanning ADHD, anxiety, speech impediments, and more.
Join us as Dr. Taraman shares why he and his team at Cognoa are so dedicated to unlocking equitable pediatric care. Lets go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Cognoa launched 1st ever FDA-authorized diagnostic test for autism
- Extracting digital biomarkers from parental questionnaires and child observation videos
- Reducing disparities by maintaining high accuracy across patient demographics
- Auto-generating necessary evaluation documentation to alleviate administrative burdens
- Cognoa’s pursuit to earn breakthrough designation for condensed 6-week autism behavioral therapy
About our Guest:
Dr. Sharief Taraman, MD, DABPN, DABPM, FAAP, is dual board-certified in Neurology with special qualifications in Child Neurology from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and Clinical Informatics from the American Board of Preventive Medicine. He formerly served as the Division Chief of Pediatric Neurology for the CHOC Children’s Specialists Pediatric Subspecialty Faculty and is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UC Irvine School of Medicine. Dr. Taraman is the Chief Executive Officer of Cognoa, a leading early childhood development and pediatric behavioral health company, creator of the first and only FDA
authorized diagnostic for autism and early, rapid developmental health evaluation, designed to increase childhood access to life-changing early intervention and treatment of behavioral health conditions.
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With over a decade focused on propelling global sustainability initiatives, Bergthora Hlidkvist Skuladottir knows navigating the road toward environmental stewardship requires unwavering commitment from every stakeholder.
As Global Sustainability Director at Össur, Bergthora leads the charge on continuously seeking innovative mobility solutions that balance ecological health, social equity, and economic prosperity.
During our conversation, Bergthora unpacks Össur's steadfast environmental efforts spanning greenhouse gas emissions, raw material efficiencies, renewable energies, diversity programs, science-based targets, and ushering in the circular economy across the healthcare industry.
Join us for this passionate conversation on spearheading sustainable transformation and empowering an integrated ownership model that permeates every facet of business. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Set and achieved goal of sourcing 100% green electricity for operations
- Established science-based emission targets aligned with 1.5°C global warming trajectory
- Implemented ambitious electric vehicle adoption plan, targeting 75% by 2030
- Launched "Responsible for Tomorrow" umbrella sustainability program with cross-department ownership
- Providing customers sustainability-focused product enhancements like eco-friendly packaging
About our Guest:
With a robust background in environmental science, Bergthora has devoted her career to advancing sustainable practices and fostering global environmental stewardship. Her passion for bridging the gap between scientific research and actionable sustainability solutions continues to drive impactful change for Össur by championing initiatives that balance ecological health, social responsibility, and economic viability.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we spend time with Colby Takeda, co-founder and CEO of Pear Suite, a game-changing company pioneering tech-enabled community health workers to address social drivers of health.
With a career improving community wellbeing through social determinants programs, Colby saw technology’s potential to empower this workforce.
While together, Colby shares how Pear Suite’s platform captures data, coordinates care, and tracks outcomes to elevate community health workers’ impact.
Additionally, we discuss the invaluable but untapped role these workers play in building trust and relationships with patients where health systems can’t reach and how connecting them to resources, social programs, and care coordination closes important health and care gaps.
By making these workers scalable, Colby sees healthcare finally utilizing community assets for equitable access. Join us for this passionate and impactful conversation. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Origins: Inspired by community health workers’ potential with better tech enablement
- The Platform: Centralizes workflows, surfaces insights and coordinates care
- Trusted Role: Community health workers build relationships and address social needs
- Scalable Model: Tech elevated data and care coordination drives sustainability
- Vision: Connecting community and health systems for equitable access
About our Guest:
Colby Takeda is the co-founder and CEO of Pear Suite, a digital health company working to empower community health workers and better address the social determinants of health.
Through Pear Suite’s social care navigation platform, health plans, providers and community-based organizations can boost member engagement, improve health outcomes, and reduce the cost of care in a person-centered, culturally, and linguistically centered way.
Colby is a former senior living executive and has dedicated most of his professional career to improving community well-being through population health management programs, policy change, and technology solutions, particularly around the social determinants of health. After completing his undergraduate studies in health sciences, Colby completed a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Shidler College of Business and a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health.
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Episode Overview:
Joining us on today’s episode is Shannon Goggin, CEO and co-founder of Noyo, a passionate innovator and entrepreneur on a mission to build the digital infrastructure necessary to power modern benefits experiences.
With over a decade focused on developing technology to tackle meaningful impacts on people's daily lives, Shannon started Noyo to ensure everyone can easily understand and utilize their healthcare benefits.
While together, we discuss the inspiration behind Noyo's founding and Shannon's advice for entrepreneurs seeking large-scale change by both envisioning an ideal future state and deeply understanding current real world constraints.
Shannon also explains Noyo's role as a bridge helping antiquated systems adapt to enable much needed consumer-centric innovation around benefits experiences.
Through this pursuit, Shannon aims to eliminate common pain points like surprise bills and improve trust through correct, readily available benefits information.
Join us for this exciting look at the data fueling the next generation of benefits. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Envisioning an ideal future state and understanding current constraints
- Bridging modern innovation and antiquated legacy systems
- Eliminating common benefits pain points like surprise bills
- Improving access to correct benefits information
- Data powering next-generation benefits experiences
About our Guest:
Shannon Goggin is the CEO and co-founder of Noyo, the benefits data platform built to power next-generation benefits experiences for everyone. Shannon has been building software for nearly a decade and is passionate about putting technology to work on issues that have a meaningful impact on people’s daily lives. Shannon started Noyo to make sure everyone can easily understand and use their healthcare and benefits every day. She lives in San Francisco, where Noyo is headquartered.
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Episode Overview:
Joining us on this episode is Dan Wright, Chief Nursing Officer at Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital, a passionate executive pioneering authentic connections between leaders and frontline staff to improve care culture.
With over 19 years of nursing leadership experience aimed at elevating care quality, patient outcomes, and colleague engagement, Dan believes deeply in people-centered leadership.
While together, Dan shares how regular rounding on units, hosting open forums for team member feedback, and inviting caregivers to shadow him helps humanize executive roles while building trust.
We also discuss the challenging reality of current nursing shortages and burnout. Dan explains that re-inspiring and motivating staff through relationship building and helping them feel valued and invested is key to overcoming these crises.
By putting people first, Dan sees a path forward for healthcare that enables both compassionate, quality care and a positive work environment. Join us for this important, timely, and invigorating conversation. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Leading with authenticity- being your true self breaks down barriers between leaders and staff
- Rounding and shadowing- increased informal interactions strengthen connections
- Nursing shortages and burnout- COVID aftermath has challenged workforce mental health
- Inspiring caregivers- helping staff feel valued and invested fosters engagement
- It’s about people first- focusing on culture and environment enables quality care
About our Guest:
Dan has more than 19 years of combined leadership experience with positive patient outcomes and colleague engagement. Early in his nursing career, Dan worked his way from staff nurse to charge nurse, nurse manager, nursing director and beyond. He has taken on leadership roles overseeing perioperative services, clinical operations and patient care services, and also served as Corporate Director of Nursing Practice Standards for HCA Healthcare. He served in various nurse executive roles including Chief Nursing Officer in MetroWest Boston and as a system Chief Nursing Officer in New York. He currently is the Chief Nursing Officer at Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital.
Dan received his Associate Degree in Nursing from Hondros College School of Nursing, and both his Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master in Health Administration from Ohio University. He has also completed the HCA Executive Development Program where he received the EDP CNO Award in 2020.
He believes in people-centered leadership and making connections with all those he serves from caregivers, patients, and the community. His focus and passion is investing in caregivers to improve both the culture and environment for people to prosper and provide the best quality and compassionate care for the community.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we spend time with Shani Bocian, founder and CEO of Allermi, an innovative telehealth startup aiming to improve the lives of allergy sufferers through personalized prescription nasal sprays.
Born from Shani’s mission to enhance the health of others and her father’s 30 years of allergy research at Stanford University, Allermi provides customized relief by combining medications to target individual symptoms.
While together, Shani explains how Allermi’s approach helps chronic allergy patients who struggled with over-the-counter options and brings specialized care to those unable to access in-person allergists. We also explore Allermi’s rocketship growth, serving thousands of customers in just one year, and how Shani is taking the company to the next level.
With an unrelenting focus on patients’ allergy health, Shani and Allermi team are pioneering much-needed innovation in a $15 billion industry. Join us as she shares her vision for leading change in allergy care nationwide. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Origins: Allermi was born from Shani's father, Dr. Robert Bocian's 30 years of allergy research and "potions" at Stanford to provide better relief
- Customized Care: Personalized multi-ingredient nasal sprays target individual symptoms vs one-size-fits-all over-the-counter options
- Telehealth Innovation: On-demand virtual allergist appointments increase access and care nationwide
- Rocketship Growth: Served over 15,000 customers in just the first year since launching
- Funding The Future: Recently closed a $7.5 million seed round to fuel further expansion
About our Guest:
Shani Bocian is the visionary founder and CEO of Allermi, a groundbreaking telehealth startup based in San Francisco that aims to improve the lives of chronic and seasonal allergy sufferers with personalized prescription nasal sprays. Founded in 2021, Allermi has quickly garnered attention and funding for its innovative approach to combating allergy symptoms.
Born and raised in Palo Alto, California, Shani’s family has a background in the medical field and her father, Robert Bocian, MD, PhD, FAAAAI, is a Professor of Allergy-Immunology at Stanford University. Her father’s expertise and passion for helping patients with rhinitis and hay fever served as the catalyst for Allermi’s creation.
With Shani’s mission to help people improve their health and her father’s decades of clinical experience, Allermi became a family endeavor. They assembled a team of dedicated professionals, including six full-time employees on the operational side and approximately 20 licensed physicians providing telehealth services across all 50 states.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we spend time with Scott Gray, CEO of Clincierge, pioneering concierge-level support services to enhance clinical trials.
Bringing extensive experience in pharmaceutical events, Scott is driven to remove obstacles patients face in accessing potentially life-changing trials.
While together, Scott shares how Clincierge manages logistics and finances so patients can focus on treatment and why his team is so passionate in building trust and customized care by aligning coordinators directly with participants throughout lengthy trial regimens.
Additionally, we discuss innovations enabling continuation of research and patient safety amidst the pandemic's disruption.
Join us as Scott advocates for considering the immense value of improving trial experiences to speed novel therapies to market and how his team at Clinciege is doing exactly this! Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Scott brings pharmaceutical events expertise to transform clinical trial experiences.
- Clincierge manages logistics and finances so patients can focus on treatment.
- Custom care and trust stem from aligned coordinators supporting patients.
- Scott drove creative solutions enabling trials to continue safely despite COVID.
- Scott exemplifies the immense value of improving experiences to progress faster.
About our Guest:
Scott Gray is the co-founder and CEO of Clincierge, a provider of patient support services for clinical trials. Since 2015, Clincierge patient coordinators have managed logistics and reimbursements in more than 300 clinical trials worldwide.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we sit down with Dr. Holly Urban, VP of Clinical Product Design at CliniComp, pioneering intuitive EHRs to combat clinician burnout.
Bringing deep medical expertise, Holly is driven to create the right tools so clinicians can deliver better care.
While together, Holly shares how CliniComp is building a new system focused on streamlining workflows for modern healthcare's digital age and how her company is leveraging the latest innovations around AI and automation to further accelerate documentation and administrative efficiencies.
We also discuss the future of increased EHR competition and innovation in a mature yet dissatisfied market.
Join us as Holly advocates for technology that lets providers practice medicine rather than data entry and to hear her dedication to improving care through thoughtful design. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Holly brings extensive clinical leadership spanning practice and informatics.
- CliniComp is creating intuitive EHRs purpose-built for streamlined workflows.
- The goal is to reduce burdensome tasks so providers can focus on patients.
- Holly sees opportunities for increased competition and innovation in EHRs.
- She exemplifies commitment to combating clinician burnout through design.
About our Guest:
Dr. Holly Urban, as a pediatrician and clinical informaticist, is passionate about the power of healthcare information technology to enhance patient care at scale. Holly completed her undergraduate degree at Stanford, received her MD from the University of Colorado, and her MBA from Regis University.
After completing her pediatrics residency at Children's Hospital Denver, Dr. Urban went on to practice as a pediatrician, providing primary care and attending to her low-acuity hospitalized patients.
Subsequently, Holly transitioned to product management roles at top-tier healthcare IT vendors, where she served as a product leader for McKesson Horizon Clinicals EHR and Hearst Health's evidence-based content companies, Zynx Health and MCG Health.
As a recognized leader in the field, Dr. Urban served as CMIO at Oracle Cerner before recently assuming her current position as VP of Clinical Product Design at CliniComp. Her extensive expertise in clinical product design and healthcare informatics, coupled with her passion for improving patient care through cutting-edge technologies, has made her an invaluable asset to the field of healthcare IT.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we connect with Luka Yancopoulos, CEO of Grapevine Technologies, pioneering supply chain automation to revolutionize healthcare purchasing.
Driven by firsthand experiences amid COVID-19 shortages, Luka is committed to reinventing antiquated distribution models. While together, Luka shares how Grapevine unites all vendors onto one platform to optimize savings for independent practices.
Additionally, Luka unpacks building seamless operations that let clinicians focus on medicine rather than supply logistics.
We also discuss the future of disintermediation to reduce healthcare costs by streamlining redundant middlemen markups.
Join us as Luka advocates for putting service over profits to increase healthcare accessibility and how Grapevine equips providers with resilient, efficient supply chains. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Luka brings supply chain expertise to transform healthcare purchasing.
- Grapevine unites vendors onto one platform to optimize savings.
- The goal is seamless supply operations so clinicians can focus on medicine.
- Luka sees massive cost reductions from cutting redundant middlemen.
- He exemplifies commitment to increasing healthcare accessibility.
About our Guest:
Luka Yancopoulos is the dynamic CEO of Grapevine Technologies and a rising force in the healthcare industry. As a distinguished VIPER student at UPenn, Luka's impactful academic journey has equipped him with invaluable knowledge. With six years of research and professional experience under his belt, including groundbreaking nanopore bioanalytic research and collaboration with esteemed institutions like CHOP, Luka's passion for improving healthcare logistics became evident. Inspired by the challenges he witnessed firsthand, Luka fearlessly founded Pandemic Relief Supply (PRS) in April 2020, spearheading the delivery of over $20M in critical supplies, including generous donations to the AFYA Foundation. Now, with the founding of Grapevine in June 2021, Luka's unwavering commitment to revolutionizing the healthcare supply chain shines bright. Stay tuned as he leads Grapevine on a transformative journey to redefine the industry.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we spend time with Marty Gauvin, CEO of Fertilis, a fast-growing startup pioneering precision devices to modernize IVF treatments.
As a serial entrepreneur, Marty is driven to eliminate the heartbreak of infertility impacting millions. While together, Marty shares how Fertilis provides unprecedented environmental control and standardization to improve outcomes. Additionally, Marty unpacks the future of micro-fertility innovations addressing systemic issues limiting accessibility and success rates as well as global population health impacts driving increased prioritization and access.
Join us as Marty advocates for supporting people emotionally and physically on their journey to start a family while also sharing his dedication to helping IVF finally live up to its extraordinary potential through continuous improvements. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Marty’s startup expertise to transform the IVF experience for patients.
- How Fertilis controls embryos' environments and reduces variability.
- Marty’s vision is to solve systemic issues limiting IVF's accessibility and 30% average success rate.
- Why Marty sees global prioritization growing as infertility becomes a population health issue.
- Marty’s commitment to the mission of eliminating the heartbreak of infertility.
About our Guest:
Marty Gauvin is CEO and Co-Founder of Fertilis, where he works to commercialize the team's pioneering technology and make it accessible to millions of people around the world. Marty is a serial entrepreneur, co-founding several startups including Hostworks, Australia’s largest critical application hosting company, and is currently CEO at Virtual Ark. He served two terms as Chair of The Innovation Investment Committee in the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science in Australia since 2016, which governs the VC sector in Australia. He has been a member of several government and private investment boards that have invested or overseen the investment of billions of dollars into the commercialization of Australian research.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we connect with Lisa Blue, Chief Clinical Innovation Officer at Providertech, a leading company pioneering better patient engagement and care management.
Bringing deep nursing expertise, Lisa is driven to transform complex healthcare journeys through human-centric design.
While together, Lisa shares how Providertech leverages behavioral science and clear navigation to drive meaningful actions.
Lisa also unpacks real-world implementations empowering vulnerable populations through simplified education and direct access and the continued push towards value-based care and population health enabled by smart technologies.
Join us to hear how Lisa and the Providertech team advocate for advancing healthcare through creativity, relationships, and persistently believing better is possible and to gain inspiration from her dedication to improving care team workflows and patient experiences. Lets go!
Episode Highlights:
- Lisa brings clinical leadership experience from acute to community care settings.
- Providertech uses behavioral science and navigation to drive patient actions.
- Real-world examples show simplified education and access empowering populations.
- Lisa sees continued momentum towards value-based care and population health.
- She exemplifies creativity, persistence, and leveraging connections to transform care.
About our Guest:
Lisa Blue is the Chief Clinical Innovation Officer with Providertech, which offers technology solutions to address the complexity of scaling patient engagement while improving operational efficiencies. She is an enthusiastic population health leader who believes that doing healthcare differently, and better, is possible. She is a registered nurse with clinical experience from acute care to FQHCs, giving her the ability to effectively translate and enhance healthcare workflows. She earned her Diploma of Nursing from St Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center in Ohio, her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Grand Canyon University, and her Master of Healthcare Innovation from Arizona State University.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we spend time with Dr. Agim Beshiri, Chief Medical Officer of Nutromics, an international leader pioneering continuous diagnostic monitoring to transform personalized care.
Bringing over 20 years of clinical and industry expertise, Agim is driven to advance patient-centric precision medicine.
While together, Agim shares how Nutromics utilizes synthetic DNA sensors for real-time, first-order molecular recognition. Additionally, Agim unpacks the future of scaling personalized treatment through continuous multiplexed monitoring.
We also discuss reinventing antiquated blood testing methodologies and paradigm shifts enabling preventative intervention.
Join us as Agim outlines a vision for mimicking implanted diagnostic tools across diverse disease states and to gain inspiration from his dedication to elevating global standards of care through innovative diagnostics. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Agim brings deep medical affairs experience to transform diagnostic testing
- How Nutromics uses synthetic DNA sensors for continuous, multiplexed monitoring
- Ways in which Nutromics enables real-time precision dosing adjustments and early interventions
- Agim envisions scaling continuous diagnostics across diverse disease states
- How Agim exemplifies commitment to profoundly advancing personalized medicine
About our Guest:
Agim Beshiri, M.D., is the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) at MedTech startup Nutromics. His passion is in elevating the standard of care for all patients. With over 20 years’ experience in the IVD field both in the clinical setting and industry. Dr Beshiri developed methods and collaborations that enabled patient-centric application of diagnostics addressing underserved patients in disease states from cardiology to oncology.
A leading industry expert in developing a medical affairs organization and driving medical research and education. With a broad background in internal medicine, hematology, general cardiology, and laboratory medicine, Dr Beshiri initiated and collaborated on research programs resulting in over 800 research collaborations and over 1000 publications.
Prior to Nutromics, Dr Beshiri was Senior Medical Director at Abbott Laboratories where he developed supporting their Diagnostics organization for over 16 years. His clinical experience includes the Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas, the 452nd Combat Support Hospital in Wisconsin and Aurora/Advocate Clinical Laboratories in Wisconsin and Illinois, and South-eastern Europe.
Dr. Beshiri is a member of several organizations, including the American Medical Association, American Heart Association, European Society of Cardiology, International Society for Laboratory Hematology, European Hematology Association, American Society of Hematology, and American Society of Clinical Oncology. He has also served on guideline subcommittees for the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute.
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During this episode, we connect with Chuck Rinker, CEO of PRSONAS, an industry leader pioneering digital personality technology to revolutionize healthcare engagement.
Bringing expertise from the gaming and entertainment industries, Chuck is driven to apply AI for more humanistic care.
While together, Chuck shares how PRSONAS creates virtual assistants to guide patients, providing a vital, personalized touch at scale. Additionally, Chuck unpacks real-world implementations that ease patient journeys through empathy and diverse representation. We also discuss shifting mindsets as pioneering providers embrace future-focused care transformation.
Join us as Chuck outlines a vision for 24/7 digital advocates that unite holistic teams behind-the-scenes to deliver tailored support and relieve overwhelmed staff by injecting compassion and humanity into our healthcare system. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Chuck brings a fresh perspective from gaming to transform impersonal healthcare journeys.
- PRSONAS uses AI personalities to provide empathetic guidance and support.
- Virtual assistants act as the face of health systems to boost patient satisfaction.
- Chuck advocates for pioneering providers to embrace care transformation.
- The vision is 24/7 digital advocates uniting holistic care teams behind-the-scenes.
About our Guest:
Chuck Rinker is simply an "Imagineer without the ears!". He has spent his entire professional and personal life stimulating both sides of his brain, pursuing advanced degrees and career positions that exploit his self-proclaimed mastering of both artistic expression and technical know-how.
Rinker's professional career has taken him from developing black-ops military tech and NASA/space-borne avionics through gaming, including directing the NCAA / Madden series of games for EA Sports. This lead to the creation of nuMedia Innovations and the patented technologies behind it. Their premier offering is the PRSONAS™ Digital Personality Engine bringing human engagement to self-service solutions for airports, hospitals, and commercial markets.
His educational background spans degrees and post-graduate education in electrical engineering, computer science, multimedia technologies, advanced 3D animation, and digital audio.
Rinker's professional experiences have only been trumped by the pure luck he enjoys having a wonderful wife of 30 years and two incredibly talented and respectful daughters. He also indulges other passions as a general aviation pilot, a devoted fan of Walt Disney's genius, attempting to find time to enjoy the 7 musical instruments he plays. Most of all, Rinker enjoys the arts, dance, and theater with an appreciation that only living with three ladies in his life have brought out in him.
Rinker's only goal is to keep doing what he's doing in all aspects of his life with only two changes: "Do it bigger" and "Do it better"!
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we connect with Dr. Jay Shah, Chief Medical Officer of Aktiia, a high-growth startup revolutionizing blood pressure monitoring.
Bringing deep clinical expertise, Jay is driven to apply technology to solve practical problems in medicine. While together, Jay shares how Aktiia’s innovative cuffless arm bracelet tracks optical blood pressure signals to provide continuous, actionable data. Additionally, Jay unpacks the potential to empower patients through tests assessing interventions over time, facilitated by remote monitoring. We also delve into leveraging partnerships to scale impact beyond the device itself.
Join us as Jay outlines the future of preventative, patient-centered hypertension care enabled by novel digital health technologies and gain inspiration from his dedication to improving this silent epidemic by impacting over 1 billion people worldwide. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Jay brings clinical leadership to disrupt antiquated blood pressure monitoring technology
- Aktiia’s cuffless bracelet tracks optical signals to deliver continuous blood pressure data
- Remote monitoring allows carefully assessing interventions over time
- Future digital tools can empower patients in preventative self-care
- Jay exemplifies commitment to tackling the global hypertension crisis
About our Guest:
Dr. Jay Shah has 15+ years of medical expertise and leadership in healthcare delivery at city general hospitals, to community settings, to the Mayo Clinic. He has brought his experience and expertise to the Swiss startup Aktiia, to change the paradigm of how the world’s most common disease – hypertension – is understood and managed. Also an angel investor and advisor, he is passionate about applying technology to solve practical problems in medicine and believes strongly in the power of positive thinking and collaboration.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we sit down with Dr. Clark Chang, Director of Global Medical Affairs at Glaukos, a pioneer in micro-invasive glaucoma surgeries.
Motivated by enriching patient lives, Dr. Chang brings a clinician's perspective to advancing care for chronic eye diseases like keratoconus.
While together, Dr. Chang shares insights into Glaukos' corneal cross-linking procedure, iLink, which halts disease progression and how this strengthens the cornea, allowing for visual optimization with specialty lenses.
We also discuss the overwhelmingly positive patient feedback and Glaukos' mission of developing novel therapies.
Tune in as Dr. Chang outlines key priorities like improving diagnosis and education to ensure patients receive timely, effective treatment. Join us to gain inspiration from his dedication to elevating patient’s quality of life through persistence and collaboration. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Clark's clinical background motivates him to pursue upstream solutions for complex eye diseases.
- Glaukos' iLink cross-linking procedure halts keratoconus progression by strengthening the cornea.
- Overwhelmingly positive patient feedback shows the impact on quality of life.
- Priority areas are improving diagnosis and education around eye disease.
- Clark exemplifies persistence and commitment to elevating patient care through collaboration.
About our Guest:
Clark Chang, OD, MSA serves as the director of global medical affairs at Glaukos.
He pursued both Doctor of Optometry and Master of Science degrees in Low Vision Rehabilitation. After the completion, Dr. Chang undertook additional residency training in the area of primary care to augment his knowledge in the management of ocular pathologies. Dr. Chang’s residency training culminated his interest in the cornea and contact lenses, which led to the completion of his fellowship in Cornea and Contact Lens at The Cornea and Laser Eye Institute.
In addition, he has been involved in many clinical studies, during both his residency and fellowship. Dr. Chang lectures both nationally and internationally.
At the Cornea and Laser Eye Institute and its Center for Keratoconus, Dr. Chang concentrated on providing preoperative and postoperative care for refractive surgery patients and participants in onsite clinical trials.
He also specializes in designing specialty contact lenses for optical rehabilitation in patients with various corneal conditions including keratoconus, ectasia, post-intacs, post-collagen cross-linking, post-corneal transplantation, and post-ocular trauma.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we chat with Narinder Singh, co-founder, and CEO of LookDeep Health, an innovative company leveraging AI and computer vision to revolutionize virtual care in the hospital.
Motivated by his mother's harrowing healthcare journey, Narinder brings an outsider's perspective to solving systemic access issues of continuously monitoring patients that drive healthy outcomes.
While together, Narinder shares how LookDeep Health enables hospital-wide video surveillance through affordable hardware and software, while nudging providers' attention via AI.
Narinder unpacks the virtual command center experience for clinicians and feedback from nurses who feel they finally "have more resources" with LookDeep’s technology.
We also discuss the measured approach to implementing human and AI collaboration and the mindset shifts required in skeptical healthcare settings.
Join us to gain inspiration from Narinder's passion for applying technology to ease care provider burdens and keep patients safe. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Narinder's personal healthcare crisis revealed gaps in hospital care and monitoring.
- LookDeep uses computer vision and AI to monitor patients hospital-wide continuously.
- Affordable hardware model enables ubiquitous video surveillance and virtual monitoring.
- Feedback shows nurses feel like they "have more resources" supporting patients.
- Thoughtful change management is key for human-AI collaboration in healthcare.
About our Guest:
Narinder is co-founder and CEO of LookDeep Health. Prior to that, he was co-founder and president of Appirio, a pioneer in cloud computing and the first cloud investment of Salesforce.com and Sequoia Capital. Appirio grew to over 1,200 employees and was acquired by Wipro in 2016. Previous to Appirio, Narinder worked in the Office of the CEO at SAP and ran product development at webMethods.
He holds a BS from Northwestern, an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Masters in Translational Medicine from The University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley. He serves on the boards of Par Technologies (NYSE:PAR) and the Sikh Coalition.
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During this episode, we sit down with Marty Ray, Executive Director of Workforce Optimization at Providence, a national-leading health system spanning the West Coast.
With hands-on experience across clinical, technology, and leadership roles, Marty brings creative problem-solving to address workforce challenges.
While together, Marty gives us a behind-the-scenes look at Providence's strategic approach to empowering caregivers and adopting new technologies. Marty also unpacks the multifaceted nature of workforce optimization, from using AI to augment human workflows to listening intently to caregiver needs.
Join us as Marty shares feedback directly from Providence's vast network of frontline clinicians and staff on emerging technologies and hear his passion for collaborating across the healthcare industry to reimagine our caregiver workforce during this national staffing crisis. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Listening deeply and asking questions is critical for understanding needs and finding common ground
- Workforce optimization puts frontline caregivers at the center when evaluating workflows, pain points, and potential tech solutions
- Getting raw feedback from clinical end users is crucial to ensure tech helps rather than hinders
- Healthcare has unique change challenges requiring building trust and overcoming automation stigma through collaboration
- To address workforce shortages, increased collaboration across organizations is needed- healthcare must unite to solve shared problems
About our Guest:
Martin Ray is an accomplished healthcare leader with practical experience in clinical, technology, and executive environments. He brings creative and collaborative leadership to every situation and environment, aiming to overcome the challenges facing healthcare by fostering opportunities that strengthen connections between culture, strategy, technology, and operational execution. With a diverse set of skills including Balanced Scorecard development and strategy execution, business intelligence data management, Lean Six Sigma project management, and technology product/services implementation, he is well-equipped to achieve his goals.
Throughout his career, Martin has been a valuable member of successful business and clinical teams, where he has cultivated a positive workplace culture through inclusive communication and decision-making processes. He firmly believes in the power of diverse perspectives when crafting opportunities for interpersonal, professional, and organizational growth.
Martin understands that leadership and culture are shaped by the process and communication of decision-making. He strives to maintain a balance between emotion and reason, ensuring that his decisions positively impact his team, customers, stakeholders, and the organization as a whole.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we sit down with Dave Bennett, President and CEO of pCare, a visionary company leading the charge in patient engagement through digital and mobile technologies. With a storied history dating back 75 years, pCare has evolved from a TV rental business to a cutting-edge patient experience platform integrated with healthcare systems. Dave shares the profound impact of culture on technology adoption and the invaluable lessons learned during the pandemic. Join us as Dave highlights the power of digital transformation in healthcare and how it can improve patient outcomes and experiences. Get ready to be inspired by Dave's dedication to making a difference in the healthcare industry through pCare’s work of elevating patient engagement. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- pCare's evolution from a TV rental business to a leading patient engagement company with a 75-year history.
- The vital role of culture in successful technology adoption for meaningful patient engagement.
- Opportunities and challenges in healthcare's digital transformation, accelerated by the pandemic.
- Heartwarming pandemic stories: pCare facilitating patient and family connections.
- Dave's passion for healthcare impact and the call for collaboration to drive innovation in patient engagement.
About our Guest:
Dave Bennett's visionary approach to patient engagement, digital and mobile technologies, and IT integration ensure continuous innovation of the #1-KLAS ranked pCare platform and a company culture dedicated to delighting customers. Prior to joining pCare, Dave served in a variety of executive roles at ViiMed, GetWellNetwork and StayWell. Dave holds a CISM certificate from ISACA and is an active member of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), and the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)..
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we are joined by Josh Rubel, the Chief Commercial Officer at MDClone, a passionate industry expert leading a trailblazing health tech company on a mission to revolutionize healthcare data analytics.
While together, Josh delves into the crucial role of striking a harmonious balance between clinical and business aspects when crafting innovative healthcare solutions. Discover how MDClone's cutting-edge ADAMS Platform empowers health systems, payers, and life science organizations to organize, access, and protect patient data, driving research, quality improvement, and innovation for better patient outcomes.
Additionally, Josh shares his thoughts on emerging technologies like ChatGPT and generative AI, poised to shape the future of our industry. Join us for a thought-provoking discussion of how Josh and the MDClone team are unlocking healthcare data to transform care. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Importance of the clinical case and business case in healthcare innovation
- Josh's background and how he joined MDClone
- MDClone's vision of improving healthcare via real-time learning of health systems
- Examples of how MDClone has helped healthcare providers
- Emerging technologies in healthcare, such as chat GPT and generative AI
- The importance of data in decision-making and the challenges around it
- Labor shortages in healthcare and how to make use of data
About our Guest:
Josh Rubel leads MDClone's commercial team with a focus on building relationships with public and private health systems, life science, and health plan organizations through direct sales, partners, and channel alliances. Prior to joining MDClone, Josh spent 20 years in both established and new venture healthcare IT organizations including commercial leadership roles at GE Healthcare, Optum, and Enli Health Intelligence.
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As a passionate and trailblazing digital health physician entrepreneur with a mission to disrupt the healthcare landscape, our next guest combines cutting-edge technologies and insights from diverse industries to empower individuals to live healthier, longer, and more productive lives.
Dr. Ravi Komatireddy, Founder and CEO of Daytona Health, joins us to explore his company's groundbreaking approach of leveraging personalized coaching and behavior change techniques to drive positive health transformations.
Join us to learn how Dr. Komatireddy's expertise in translational medicine and digital health startups has helped him build his fast-growing company, as well as the inspiring discussion we had about navigating healthcare data, harnessing the power of AI, and driving innovation in the pursuit of a better world. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Komatireddy shares his journey as a clinician, translational medicine, digital health, and previous startups
- Why Dr. Komatireddy launched Daytona Health
- The challenges of navigating the sea of data in healthcare
- The importance of combining technology with human persuasion to turn data into actionable insights
- The potential of machine learning and AI in the coaching space
About our Guest:
Ravi Komatireddy, MD, MCTI is a digital health entrepreneur, former Chief Medical Officer, and Board-certified physician with a solid reputation of leveraging cutting-edge technologies and innovations to disrupt the healthcare landscape. He looks outside the field of healthcare to other industries to translate ideas, tools, and solutions into proactive, preventive approaches to medicine that foster health, wellness, performance, and longevity.
Ravi creates value by:
- Delivering Accessible, Affordable Care – Ravi understands and addresses the problems of costly hospital-based care with digital innovations that provide access to people of every gender, race, age, and socioeconomic status.
- Translating Ideas into Real-World Solutions – Across a wide range of industries, Ravi connects with experts who have successfully ideated and released innovations in the real world. He reframes problems in healthcare and leverages solutions from other fields to move healthcare away from complex, narrow vision to new ways of thinking.
- Championing Improvements in Human Behavior – Ravi builds intelligent teams of experts and tech solutions that motivate behavior change, resulting in better health and enabling people to be their most productive, disease-free selves.
In his current role as the Founder and CEO of Daytona Health, Ravi leads a network of experts to provide ultra-personalized coaching for behavior change and modification, resulting in improved health, longevity, and performance. Daytona Health leverages algorithms, advanced software, sensors, and human data to help its members achieve meaningful, measurable outcomes in metabolic disease, range of motion, energy levels, and stress management.
Previously, Ravi co-founded and served as Chief Medical Officer for 2 digital health startups: Reflexion Health and Lumiata. He provided the product vision and clinical oversight to spinout a digital medicine, telehealth physical therapy solution – Reflexion Health – from the Scripps Research Institute and West Health Institute. This was one of the world’s first motion tracking-enabled home virtual physical therapy platforms that pioneered the use of consumer devices for FDA-cleared healthcare...
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we spend time with Jason Bornhorst, the Co-Founder, and CEO of First Dollar, a groundbreaking company revolutionizing the healthcare benefits industry.
While together, Jason shares his passion for making healthcare work seamlessly and the determination he and his team has to simplify consumer-focused healthcare payments using innovative technology.
Additionally, Jason outlines the importance of identifying and understanding the pain points entrepreneurs should aim to solve, which led to Jason sharing the inspiring backstory of First Dollar's founding team and their unwavering determination to fundamentally transform the way benefits are bought and sold, creating a better solution for individuals in need of a health wallet.
Join us as we explore how Jason and the First Dollar team are building healthcare’s benefits infrastructure. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Importance of falling in love with the pain that entrepreneurs want to solve before crafting a solution
- Backstory of First Dollar's founding team and their mission to simplify consumer-focused healthcare payments
- First Dollar's approach to improving the healthcare benefits industry through technology
- Trends toward preventative care in health plans' benefit offerings
About our Guest:
Jason Bornhorst is the Co-Founder and CEO of First Dollar, a technology company that builds healthcare benefits infrastructure. Bornhorst is a successful repeat founder passionate about making healthcare work like it should. His previous company, care coordination platform PatientIO, was sold to athenahealth in 2016.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, I spend time with Patty Hayward, GM of healthcare and life sciences at Talkdesk, as she shares her expertise in personalized patient experiences and the pivotal role of technology in achieving them.
While together, Patty outlines how Talkdesk's cloud-based contact center technology revolutionizes patient care by seamlessly connecting communication channels and enhancing interactions.
Additionally, Patty sheds light on Talkdesk's collaboration with Memorial Health Care during the pandemic, showcasing their rapid scaling and innovation to deliver exceptional value to their end users.
Join us for this important conversation as we explore the challenges faced by the healthcare industry, such as technology adoption and change fatigue, and how Patty and her team at Talkdesk are dedicated to personalizing healthcare. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Patty's career path and eventual leadership role at Talkdesk
- The importance of personalized patient experiences and Talkdesk's cloud-based contact center technology
- Challenges faced by the healthcare industry during the pandemic and the role of technology in adapting to virtual care
- Talkdesk's personalized product for healthcare, integrating with EMR and automating manual processes
- The transformative potential of Generative AI in healthcare and the importance of smartly consuming technology
About our Guest:
Patty Hayward, GM of healthcare and life sciences at Talkdesk, has over a quarter century of industry strategy experience, including at organizations such as McKesson, Medicity, and Humedica. She is an expert in HIE, population health, pharmacy, process redesign for healthcare systems, and increasing access to patient information.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we spend time with Josh Soldo, the Chief Scientific Officer at Veravas, and a healthcare innovator dedicated to developing diagnostic tests that enhance patient survival rates and reduce preventable medical tragedies.
While together, Josh shares his personal and professional journey to entrepreneurship and why he is on a mission to revolutionize healthcare and improve patient care. We explore his deep industry expertise, the importance of networking, Veravas' exciting ventures, his company’s strategic business model pivot, and Josh's vision for the industry's future.
Join us to learn from Josh how he and the Veravas team are saving lives by transforming laboratory medicine! Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Josh’s deep industry experience that prepared him to help lead Veravas
- Why networking is important to help discover new career opportunities
- What Josh and the Veravas team are most excited about
- How Veravas pivoted their business model to meet market needs
- Where Josh sees the industry heading over the coming years
About our Guest:
Josh Soldo is a healthcare innovator who has dedicated his career to developing diagnostic tests with the mission of giving patients a greater chance of survival and reducing the number of preventable medical tragedies. He has over 25 years of experience in diagnostic technology, product development, and commercialization in the life sciences industry, and he is a subject matter expert in solid phase chemistry, sample interference, and Vitamin D testing.
He is a sought-after speaker and educator, and his research and patent portfolio include six granted US patents and over 50 international patents. His expertise in assay development and solid phase chemistry has been instrumental in his invention of Veravas' proprietary magnetic bead technology for sample interference elimination and biomarker enrichment.
Josh has held numerous R&D and Scientific Affairs leadership roles over the past 20 years at Roche, Anteo Technologies, DiaSorin, and Beckman Coulter. He received the 2017 Roche Career Achievement Award for demonstrating continued commitment and achievement of excellence within Medical & Scientific Affairs, and the 2006 Beckman Coulter “Innovation in Technology” corporate award for his research to improve the quality and manufacturing scale of the Access immunoassays. At DiaSorin his teams developed and commercialized the market-leading LIAISON 25 OH Vitamin D Total Assay, and he was the principal inventor of the world's first fully automated, extraction-free immunoassay for the accurate detection of 1,25 Dihydroxyvitamin D. Josh’s vision for Veravas is to continue leveraging its innovative VeraBIND technology platform to develop better diagnostics tools and treatments, ultimately improving patient care.
Josh’s leadership is playing a significant role in the company’s success and has enabled Veravas to provide tools supporting the development of assays with unparalleled accuracy and sensitivity.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we are joined by Helene Rutledge, President and Co-Founder of Mend, a revolutionary healing company that is transforming healthcare through Nutripharma-Powered Digital Wellness.
While together, we discuss Helene’s extensive experience in the healthcare industry and her vision of leveraging personalized nutrition and digital support to make measurable impact on patient outcomes.
Additionally, Helene takes us on the journey of Mend, from her background as a chemical engineer to the formation of the company. We also delve into Mend's offerings, including personalized regimens for different episodes of care and the incorporation of digital components for better surgical outcomes.
Join us to discover how Helene and the Mend team are shaping the future of healthcare through personalized nutrition and digital support. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Personalization of healthcare and leveraging individual backgrounds and expertise
- Journey and formation of Mend, starting from Helene's career as a chemical engineer
- The merger between Upgraid and Mend and the unique approach to clinical nutrition
- The digital component of Mend's offerings and personalized regimens for different episodes of care
- What the patient feedback on the prevention of emergencies has been like
About our Guest:
Helene Rutledge brings a career of experience in the Healthcare industry to her current role as President and Co-Founder of mend Labs, the Healing Company that is revolutionizing healthcare through Nutripharma-Powered Digital Wellness.
Known as an innovator and change agent, Helene has held senior leadership roles including Global Head of Open Innovation at GlaxoSmithKline, Chief Innovation Officer at New Avon, VP of R&D at Nature’s Bounty (now the Bountiful Company), and Head of Global Clinical Supplies at Pfizer. In addition, Helene has served on the Board of Personal Care Products Council (PCPC) and is an award-winning product developer and subject matter expert on Innovation.
Helene earned an Executive MBA from NYU Stern School of Business and a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Chemistry from Manhattan College, where she has returned as an adjunct professor and to coach teams of entrepreneurs. She is a native New Yorker and amateur triathlete and relies on mend™ products for her performance and recovery.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, Dr. David Klimstra, Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Paige, joins us to discuss how his company is driving a new era of diagnostics and precision treatment to improve the lives of cancer patients.
While together, Dr. Klimstra shares how Paige has created decision-support diagnostic tools and a cloud-based platform for pathologists, enabling them to review digital slides and perform AI tasks on tissue samples.
Additionally, Dr. Klimstra emphasizes the importance of prioritizing patient care in developing and using AI technologies and advises healthcare transformers to be patient and persistent in their pursuit of transforming healthcare.
Join us for this timely and important conversation and to learn how Dr. Klimstra and the Paige team are transforming cancer diagnosis and treatment with artificial intelligence. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Paige uses AI assistance in cancer diagnosis and treatment
- How Paige creates decisions that support diagnostic tools and a platform for pathologists
- Digital biomarkers for the prediction of mutations, survival, and recurrence/response to treatment
- How Paige received Breakthrough Status from FDA for prostate biopsy model
- Importance of patient care in the development and use of AI technologies
- Advice for healthcare transformers to be patient and persistent
About our Guest:
David Klimstra, M.D. is Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Paige, the first company to receive FDA approval for an AI product in digital pathology, Paige Prostate. He also serves as Medical Consultant at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. An internationally recognized expert on the pathology of tumors of the digestive system, pancreas, liver, and neuroendocrine system, he has published over 425 primary articles and his research focuses on the correlation of morphological and immunohistochemical features of tumors of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, biliary tree, and (most notably) pancreas with their clinical and molecular characteristics. Dr. Klimstra received his M.D. and completed a residency in anatomic pathology at Yale University, and he completed fellowship training in oncologic surgical pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we are joined by Dr. Phil Wagner, CEO, and Founder of Sparta Science, a Movement Health Intelligence company dedicated to helping the world move better.
While together, Dr. Wagner shares his journey in the health technology industry, the early beginnings of Sparta Science, and how his company is combining modern data science, clinical expertise, and epidemiological principles to fuel organization-wide movement health decisions. He also addresses common misconceptions about movement health intelligence and highlights the benefits of Sparta Science's technology for healthcare providers and patients.
Additionally, Dr. Wagner emphasizes the importance of resilience, conviction, and flexibility in pursuing innovation in the healthcare industry.
Join us for this exciting conversation as Dr. Wagner discusses how the Sparta Science team optimizes movement intelligence. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Phil Wagner's journey in the health technology industry
- The early beginnings of Sparta Science
- Importance of resilience in pursuing innovation in the healthcare industry
- Insights into the innovative solutions provided by Sparta Science
- Addressing common misconceptions about movement health intelligence
- Benefits of Sparta Science's technology for healthcare providers and patients
- The positive impact of Sparta Science's movement health intelligence platform on compliance and patient outcomes
About our Guest:
Dr. Phil Wagner is founder-CEO of Sparta Science, a physician and a strength coach whose own athletic career as a football and rugby player was cut short by a series of avoidable injuries. Dr. Wagner’s commitment to data-driven coaching and athlete development began as a strength coach for U.C. Berkeley and UCLA and as a professional rugby coach in New Zealand and Australia.
Frustrated by the lack of evidence-based approaches in performance and injury prevention, Phil received his medical degree from USC focused on biomechanics. Phil’s passion for improving movement health and longevity through movement coupled with his medically-oriented human performance mindset inspired him to found Sparta Science, a human movement technology and data science company dedicated to helping the world move better.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we are thrilled to welcome Dr. Ruchi Thanawala, Thoracic Surgeon and co-founder of FireFly Lab.
While together, Dr. Thanawala shares her journey of becoming an entrepreneur after pursuing a career in surgery, and how FireFly Lab's Innovative Medical Acceleration Learning platform is helping doctors, residents, and surgeons master their surgical procedures through timely, actionable, individualized feedback and learning curves.
We also address the advances of AI to power educational platforms and the way surgeons are trained, the game-changing impact of edtech platforms for future surgeons as well as advice for aspiring entrepreneurs looking to make a difference in the healthcare industry.
Join us as Dr. Thanawala shares how she and the FireFly lab team are accelerating medical and surgical mastery. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Thanawala’s journey of becoming an entrepreneur after her pursuit of being a surgeon
- Why Dr. Thanawala started FireFly Lab
- How accelerated learning platforms make a difference in surgeon residents' education process
- What areas of education FireFly Lab is focused on today
- Dr. Thanawala’s advice for other aspiring entrepreneurs
About our Guest:
Dr. Ruchi Thanawala, Thoracic Surgeon and co-founder of FireFly Lab, Dr. Thanawala was recruited to Oregon Health and Science University in late 2020. She joined the thoracic surgery faculty as an assistant professor, after completing her cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at the University of Iowa and her general surgery residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate Medical center. She also completed a Master of Science in Health Informatics from Northwestern University and a Surgical Education Research Fellowship from the Association of Surgical Education, becoming one of a very small number of thoracic surgeons informaticians with education research training in the U.S.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, Dr. Bob Booth, Chief Care Officer at TimelyMD, joins us to discuss the importance of addressing mental health issues in college students and how their virtual care platform works with universities to provide care.
While together, Dr. Booth shares his journey of joining TimelyMD, as well as the company's mission to improve the well-being of college students by making virtual medical and mental health care accessible anytime, anywhere. Additionally, Dr. Booth emphasizes the need for a population health approach and empowering students to take ownership of their own wellness. We also explore the future of the learning environment and mental health, as well as the importance of mental and behavioral health in our communities across the nation.
Join us for an insightful conversation at the intersection of healthcare and higher education. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- The importance of doing hard things and embracing failure in healthcare innovation
- Dr. Booth's journey to joining TimelyMD
- Timely MD's mission to provide virtual health and wellbeing solutions for higher education students
- The importance of addressing mental health issues in college students
- How TimelyMD works with universities to provide mental and behavioral health care through their platform
- The future of higher education and mental health
- The importance of mental and behavioral health in communities
About our Guest:
Dr. Bob Booth brings extensive expertise in clinical administration and a unique combination of medical, mental health and higher education experiences that make him perfectly suited to lead the dynamic and innovative care team at TimelyMD.
Most recently, Bob served as Regional Chief Medical Officer, VP of Physician Services at NorthStar Anesthesia, where he provided clinical and operational leadership across 43 hospital contracts from Texas to Montana. In this role, he led enterprise-wide strategy around developing and guiding clinical leaders to foster wellness in healthcare workers. He also played an integral role in shaping NorthStar’s approach to leadership development by addressing burnout, promoting well-being and building resiliency among providers.
Prior to attending medical school at Texas Tech and completing his residency in Anesthesiology at Baylor Scott and White in Temple, Texas, he worked in student affairs. After earning his B.S. at Abilene Christian University, he worked as the Director of Living and Learning Communities for four years at ACU while pursuing his master’s degree in Counseling Psychology.
Between his residence life and housing experience and completing practicum hours at the university’s on-campus counseling center, Bob has a deep and first-hand understanding of what college students are going through – from the continuum of homesickness to suicidal ideation.
Bob’s heart for helping college and university students flourish physically, mentally, and spiritually aligns perfectly with TimelyMD’s vision to help students be well and thrive in all aspects of their lives.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we're joined by Melissa Kozak, co-founder of Citus Health, a digital health transformation leader that enables real-time, secure collaboration between patients, care teams, care partners, physicians, and family members to optimize the patient experience and positively impact the financial outcome of the care provider.
While together, Melissa shares her personal experiences as a post-acute nurse and the communication and care coordination challenges she faced while connecting frontline clinical teams with patients and partners in home-based care.
Melissa also provides valuable advice for aspiring entrepreneurs looking to start a company in the home-based care space. Join us to learn about Citus Health's mission, the impact of the pandemic on the shift of care to the home setting, and the need for collaborative efforts to solve the clinical shortage problem. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Melissa’s experience as a post-acute nurse
- Communication and care coordination challenges faced by frontline clinical teams with patients
- Melissa's advice for aspiring entrepreneurs in the post-acute space
- Why Melissa is so passionate about Citus Health's mission
- The pandemic's impact on the shift of care in the home setting
- Melissa’s concern about the clinical shortage in nursing
- The need for collaborative efforts within the community to solve the clinical shortage problem
About our Guest:
As a post-acute nurse, Melissa saw first-hand the communication and care coordination challenges connecting front line clinical teams with patients, field staff and partners in home-based care. She also recognized that providers were relying on manual processes to communicate and deliver care, causing inefficiencies and decreasing quality of care. Melissa teamed up with a leading healthcare technologist and founded CitusHealth in 2016 to tackle these challenges head on by providing real-time, secure solutions that ensure a high level of care team coordination and family engagement.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, I’m excited to welcome David Garner, the Chief Operating Officer of CalmWave, the world's first AI-Based platform that empowers providers with the insights they need to deliver more data-driven, more efficient, and quieter care.
While together, David shares his journey of co-founding CalmWave and the future of healthcare innovation. Additionally, David outlines how CalmWave plans to expand across the healthcare paradigm and the potential for his company to work beyond the healthcare industry.
Join us to learn how David and the CalmWave team create a sustainable and less stressful environment for patients and healthcare providers. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- How the application of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics enables healthcare practitioners to give more data-driven, effective, and quieter treatment.
- The significance of having a strong sense of passion for what you do, especially in healthcare innovation.
- David’s journey that led to co-founding CalmWave
- The inspiration behind CalmWave
- How Alarm Fatigue affects both healthcare workers and patients.
- How CalmWave transforms operations through data science and AI.
- The potential for Calm Wave's data science and AI-focused solutions to be applied to various industries beyond healthcare, such as supply chain, IT, and travel.
About our Guest:
An engineer & designer by training, David is a talented Sales, Marketing, & Business leader with broad, yet extensive, experience in Healthcare and Medical Devices. He’s held leadership roles across R&D, Product Management, Marketing, Digital, Design, Customer Success, Strategy, E-commerce, Sales, and Services. He's an expert on assessing markets and identifying growth opportunities. His passion for leading new initiatives and changing the healthcare landscape motivates him to take on the most challenging issues of today and the future.
He's raised $250M+ for a mid/late stage startup, built full commercial teams, and implemented comprehensive go to market plans. He's built, led, & grown businesses from $0 to $100M+, and has 'growth hacked' to accelerate and win where others have not. He has built best-in-class, high performing teams at every company he’s worked, and it's fundamental to his success. He has both big company and small startup experience, with 2 of his last 3 startups reaching successful exits.
He’s currently Chief Operations Officer at CalmWave, Inc., where he leads a number of operational and commercial activities. Before joining, David was on a journey to start and build a company from the ground up, zero-to-one, while continuing his mission of leveraging technology to positively impact the world. That led him to the Paul Allen Institute for AI’s (AI2) Incubator, whose focus is to launch companies that leverage AI for the common good. While planning to take on a role as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, he met Ophir Ronen, a serial entrepreneur, IT expert, and CEO/founder of CalmWave, who was looking to leverage his prior work in enterprise IT/data science towards healthcare, with the goal to improve patient outcomes, enhance operations, and reduce burnout. David was blown away by the problem space, and what Ophir was working on. It was a great fit, and aligned with David’s impact-focused interests in healthcare. Since inception in spring of 2022, CalmWave has raised $4M in seed funding, and is only gaining momentum.
Prior to joining CalmWave, David was CEO of Vave Health, a wireless digital imaging company that was hit hard by the component crisis, and before that, he led Butterfly Network’s (‘BFLY’) early commercial success leading to a ‘unicorn’ exit. David has spent a career using the latest technology to disrupt the healthcare industry. Prior to his startup activity, he held various health-tech leadership roles at Verathon Medical (‘ROP’), Philips (‘PHG’), Advisory Board (now Optum ‘UNH’).
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we are excited to welcome Dr. Subha Airan-Javia, CEO of CareAlign, a HIPAA-compliant care orchestration platform that empowers clinical teams to collaborate effectively while reducing the risk of communication-related medical errors. Dr. Airan-Javia is a seasoned clinician and informaticist with over 15 years of experience bridging the gap between frontline clinicians and technology teams designing care delivery.
While together, Dr. Airan-Javia shares her passion for healthcare innovation and why she co-founded CareAlign to address the inefficiencies and errors in medicine caused by communication breakdowns among clinicians. She also discusses how CareAlign is leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to help clinicians make more informed decisions and ultimately improve patient outcomes.
Join us to learn how Dr. Airan-Javia and the CareAlign team are bringing care orchestration to clinicians' fingertips. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Airan-Javia's advice on reimagining the health of our world
- How and why CareAlign was formed
- The inefficiencies and errors in medicine, and the need for effective communication in healthcare
- CareAlign's mission to make it easier for clinicians to do the right thing for patients and save time
- CareAlign's three main features
- The importance of building on the foundation of EHRs
About Our Guest:
Dr. Subha Airan-Javia has been practicing medicine and clinical informatics as a hospitalist at Penn Medicine since graduating from residency there in 2007. She has spent the last 15 years focused on bridging the gap between front line clinicians, and the teams building and designing the technology used to deliver care. Formerly the Associate Chief Medical Information Officer for Penn Medicine, Dr. Airan-Javia’s research focus has been on designing and implementing communication platforms to improve team coordination – from handoffs, to discharge to documentation. She also redesigned and implemented a handoff simulation education program for trainees at Penn Medicine as well as a curriculum in using technology effectively in clinical environments. Dr. Airan-Javia now serves as CEO of CareAlign, a Penn Medicine spin out dedicated to improving clinician workflows, and ensuring technology is designed to improve the quality of and experience delivering care.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, Sean O'Malley, CTO of Monocle Insights, joins us to discuss how his company is providing precise, simple, and actionable healthcare data to address the industry's toughest problems.
With a background in behavioral economics and machine learning, Sean brings a unique perspective to healthcare innovation and shares with us his passion for injecting insight into an industry drowning in noise.
While together, Sean stressed the importance of building skills and maintaining curiosity to make a meaningful impact.
Sean also outlined the challenges of selling healthcare products and how Monocle Insights has pivoted to meet its clients' needs. By operating outside of a traditional healthcare system, Sean’s company has been able to find solutions to complex problems for the industry..
Join us to learn more about the exciting innovations Sean and his team are building at Monocle Insights. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Importance of building up one's skill set and nurturing a sense of humble curiosity in healthcare innovation
- Sean's journey from being academically capable to understanding the additional dynamic of solving problems in a language that people speak
- The complexity of the healthcare industry and the changing culture within it
- Why Sean and his team launched Monocle Insights and their aha moments
- The behavioral economic aspect of selling healthcare products in the marketplace
- Challenges in creating unlocks for some health tech companies due to analysis paralysis and nebulous understanding of ROI
- Monocle Insights' pivot to offer clients the ability to quantify the ROI of their product and understand opportunities in the market.
About our Guest:
Sean O’Malley has spent his career in the practical application of behavioral economics, machine learning, and social network science aimed at the optimization of markets, improvement of complex systems, and betterment of the individuals therein. After building his technical chops in digital advertising, a stint working in developing world public health sparked a love affair with healthcare that continues until today.
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Episode Overview:
Being deeply committed to transforming the way we approach clinical trials with the goal of bringing medical innovations to patients faster and more efficiently, our next guest has been a driving force in improving trial design and execution for over 25 years.
Jane Myles, Vice President of Clinical Trial Innovation at Curebase, joins us to share the importance of collaborative problem-solving and openness to new opportunities that is at the heart of her personal success and what helped lead her to Curebase. She also discusses the integration of healthcare and clinical trials, and the potential benefits of data aggregation at scale, leading to more accurate results and avoiding unnecessary tests for patients.
Join us as we explore Curebase's exciting journey toward better patient care, and learn how you can contribute to advancing the future of clinical trials. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Jane’s journey to Curebase and the power of saying "yes"
- The DTRA initiative and the playbook for decentralized clinical trials at Curebase
- Curebase's flexible solution for clinical trial data capture, patient engagement, and insights
- The tension between drug development organizations and regulatory requirements for population data in drug development
- The new omnibus legislation driving Curebase's mission
- The future of clinical trials and the importance of blending healthcare and clinical trials
- Data aggregation at scale and making hidden signals more visible
About our Guest:
Jane has focused on improving clinical trials and patient experience for more than 25 years. Her passion is driving innovation into the trial design and execution to get medicines to patients faster. Currently, she is the V.P. of Clinical Trial Innovation at Curebase, a DCT technology & services provider.
She’s also an initiative co-lead and a member of the DTRA leadership committee. She worked at Roche / Genentech for 17 years in many roles, including operational program manager for hematology, ultimately working on driving patient-facing technology into global trials.
In prior lives, she held various roles in DCT optimization at LabCorp, and ran
global trials at Lilly and Sanofi.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we are joined by Lynn Carroll, the Chief Operating Officer at HSBlox, a national-leading company empowering healthcare organizations with the tools and support to deliver value-based care successfully and sustainably.
While together, Lynn shares insights on how to scale value-based care programs, emphasizing an incremental approach using modular building blocks of technology. He also highlights the importance of tailored solutions that meet providers' specific needs rather than large-scale implementations that may not fit their requirements.
Join us as Lynn discusses his experiences in the healthcare industry and the innovative work being done at HSBlox to drive value-based care forward! Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Lynne's experience in starting and building companies, and the launch of HSBlox
- Importance of starting with the customer in healthcare solution design
- The modular approach of HSBlox
- The need for innovation to improve outcomes and reduce costs
- The importance of aligning benefit design with value-based care goals
- The role of employers in driving value-based programs
About our Guest:
Lynn Carroll, COO and head of strategy at HSBlox for almost six years, is a high-energy business professional who launched a successful healthcare payments platform business in the infancy of HIPAA compliance and helped lead its growth through the ACA and beyond. An expert in value-based contracts, bundled payments, P4P and global reimbursement, alternative payment models, episodes of care and contract administration, Carroll possesses an in-depth knowledge of the healthcare insurance and integrated payments ecosystems. Among his successful launches: enterprise solutions for premium invoicing and collection, digital payments, patient financial engagement, prospective bundled payments, and value-based contract administration.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, we welcome a national healthcare leader who is passionate about delivering innovative and market-leading solutions that improve the health and wellness of the global population.
Kathy Ford, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at Project Ronin, joins us to discuss how her company is revolutionizing the delivery of cancer care through its cutting-edge clinical intelligence software.
While together, Kathy also shares how she became a part of this game-changing company and what is on the horizon for Project Ronin.
Join us as we explore how Kathy and her team are simplifying the complex process of delivering individualized care and providing oncologists with the insights they need to make informed decisions and produce better outcomes for patients. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- The brokenness in our healthcare system
- How Kathy became part of Project Ronin
- Project Ronin’s solution for better patient flow
- What is coming on the horizon for Project Ronan
About our Guest:
Kathy Ford is a veteran healthcare executive who is passionate about delivering game-changing solutions to the healthcare global market. With over 25 years of experience driving strategic business development and solution commercialization in the Global Healthcare IT and Medical Device sectors, Ford has a long history delivering innovative technology at leading health IT companies such as Project Ronin, Rhinogram, GE Healthcare, Siemens Medical, McKesson and NantHealth. She is responsible for the ideation, development and commercialization of Ronin, a provider of cutting-edge clinical intelligence software and AI services that helps clinicians understand the context between data points for patients undergoing oncology treatment.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, I am honored and excited to welcome Dr. Tom Young, a board-certified family physician, a national mental health expert, and the Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Proem Behavioral Health.
While together, Dr. Young shares how his company uses a fresh and innovative approach to deliver mental healthcare through an evidence-based behavioral health workflow engine that simplifies the complex process of delivering mental healthcare and helps providers and researchers get the data they need to make more informed clinical decisions and produce better outcomes for patients suffering from mental illness.
Join us as we discuss how Dr. Young and the Proem Behavioral Health team are starting patients on the right path to improved mental health. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Dr. Young started his career in the mental healthcare field
- The ah-ha moments for creating Proem Behavioral Health
- What biometric markers in behavioral health mean in 2023 and beyond
- The effect of the pandemic on mental health and how Proem has helped others during these difficult times
About our Guest:
Thomas R. Young, MD is a board-certified family physician with more than 35 years of medical experience. He is also a recognized thought leader on ways to better identify and manage mental health disorders, especially among adolescents and teens.
Dr. Young currently serves as the Medical Director for Port of Hope in Nampa, ID, where he provides psychiatric services for clients with substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health
disorders. Dr. Young is also the Founder and Chief Medical Officer ofProem Behavioral Health, a behavioral health technology company providing tools for physicians and researchers to help diagnose psychiatric disorders accurately and efficiently.
Previously Dr. Young served for six years as the Medical Director of Idaho Medicaid and has remained active in the formation of medical and mental health policy for the state of Idaho. Dr. Young was also Chief Clinical / Medical Officer of Idaho Medicare QIO Qualis Health.
Dr. Young also served as President of Behavioral Imaging Solutions, a technology firm recognized for its application of video imaging for the treatment of children with autism. Most recently, he served as Chief Operating Officer at US Preventive Medicine, a health technology leader in Population Health Management.
He is also a successful entrepreneur. His business ventures include Diversified Franchises, LLC which owns a chain of specialty restaurants, a home health business, and Elite Sports Society, a successful sports marketing business where he serves as the business development officer.
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Episode Overview:
As someone who has seen firsthand the struggles patients face in navigating care, and the burnout clinicians and staff experience due to unstandardized 1:1 conversations, our next guest knew something had to change.
Meghan Nechrebecki, CEO of Health Care Transformation, joins us to discuss her passion for finding solutions to systemic healthcare challenges, and how her team at HCT is revolutionizing the way care is delivered through innovative digital video technology.
Join us to learn how Meghan and the HCT team are not only making healthcare more effective and efficient for patients but also reducing burnout and improving the overall experience for clinicians and staff by implementing asynchronous video technology. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How did HCT start
- The responses Meghan first received about HCT
- The gaps in ensuring a value-based care
- Who is HCT, and the benefits it brings to clinicians and patients
- The financial ROI of async video technology
- Meghan’s vision for the industry and where HCT is heading
About our Guest:
Meghan Nechrebecki, MSPH, is the founder and CEO of Health Care Transformation. She is a leading healthcare administration expert who has been solving complex systemic healthcare challenges at top institutions for over a decade, including UCLA Health, Privia Health, The Advisory Board Company, and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield. Her expertise lies in healthcare systems improvement, healthcare analytics, value-based care, population health, and digital marketing. She earned her MSPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where she was a Delta Omega Alpha scholar and she earned her B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Biochemistry and Spanish where she was a Hilldale Scholar. Check out Meghan's Ted Talk “Shaping the Future of Health Care”. She has been a top speaker at conferences including ViVE, HIMSS, and the Healthcare Facilities Symposium. She has been featured on many shows, podcasts, and written publications including Good Morning LaLa Land, Business Rockstars, Thrive Global, Authority Magazine, Medical Economics, and more. Health Care Transformation is her first company.
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Episode Overview:
From not planning a career in healthcare to having over 35 years of amazing experience in digital health technology, our next guest is more passionate than ever about moving our industry forward by lowering the cost of care and improving the patient experience.
Greg Miller, Chief Growth Officer at Lumeon, joins us to discuss how his company is providing a cloud-based care orchestration platform that automates the tasks, workflow, activities, and events that occur during the process of coordinating care.
Join us to learn how Greg and the Lumeon team are orchestrating patient care that allows healthcare staff to deliver more efficient and meaningful patient experiences. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Greg entered the healthcare industry
- Why Lumeon was created
- What automation means to the healthcare industry and the patients it serves
- Top issues the healthcare industry struggles with
- Lumeon’s impact on the healthcare system
- Greg’s vision for the industry and Lumeon
About our Guest:
Greg is the Chief Growth Officer for Lumeon, leading Lumeon’s go-to-market strategy in North America. With more than 35 years of experience in the Digital Health industry, Greg brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to Lumeon and its customers. He has held executive leadership roles in sales, marketing, corporate operations, and strategy in leading Digital Health companies such as TSI, Picis, IBM, Medicity, Aetna, Health Catalyst, and Talkdesk. Greg has made it his mission to transform healthcare, with a focus on lowering the costs of care, enhancing quality and improving the patient and member experience. Greg is certified in healthcare quality and process improvement from the Healthcare Delivery Institute’s Advanced Training Program at Intermountain Healthcare.
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Episode Overview:
After battling infertility and recurrent miscarriages, seven in total, our next guest applied her scientific expertise to uncover problems with ovulation quality, which led her to launch her high-growth startup that is providing fertility insights to families across the country.
Dr. Amy Beckley, Founder and CEO of Proov, joins us to discuss her founding journey of building her startup, the positive impacts the technology has on others trying to conceive, and where she envisions Proov to be over the next few years.
Join us for this powerful conversation with Dr. Beckley, a mompreneur who doesn't take no for an answer as she and the Proov team empower women at every stage of life to track their hormones quickly and easily at home. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Why Dr. Beckly created Proov after her battle with infertility and recurrent miscarriages
- How IVF is not the last resort to getting pregnant
- How Proov gained FDA clearance
- The response from families using Proov
- Dr. Beckley’s vision for Proov over the coming years
About our Guest:
Amy Beckley, PhD, is the founder of Proov and the inventor of the first and only FDA-cleared test to confirm ovulation at home. When Amy and her husband tried to get pregnant, they suffered through several years of infertility, including seven miscarriages and two rounds of IVF – the second of which resulted in her son. When Amy decided she wanted another child (without another round of IVF), she used her background in hormone signaling to uncover a problem with ovulation which caused a progesterone deficiency (also called a luteal phase defect). With the help of an inexpensive progesterone supplement, Amy and her husband were blessed with their daughter. Amy invented the original PdG test in her basement to help women identify problems with ovulation at home, and started selling them in plastic bags on Amazon with a $50 logo off Upwork.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, Adeel Malik, Chief Executive Officer of Clearstep, joins us to discuss his passion and mission to revolutionize how patients can find and access the right care while enabling healthcare organizations to leverage advanced digital technologies.
While together, Adeel outlines how he and his team have built an AI "Smart Care Routing" engine used by health systems and payers to make it easy for patient-consumers to know their best next step for care.
Additionally, Adeel shares his exciting vision for the healthcare industry and where Clearstep is heading.
Join us to learn how Adeel and Clearstep are building industry-leading smart care routing technology to enhance patient experiences and outcomes. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Why Adeel founded Clearstep
- Adeel’s passion for patients accessing care
- Clearstep’s value prop for health systems
- Adeel’s vision for how to better serve patients
About our Guest:
Adeel co-founded Clearstep out of a desire to revolutionize the way patients can find and access the right care while enabling healthcare organizations to better leverage advanced digital technologies. In his role, he coordinates with Clearstep customers, product teams, healthcare industry experts, investors, and others to ensure Clearstep remains at the forefront of driving innovation in smart care routing.
Under Adeel’s leadership, Clearstep has partnered with some of the leading healthcare institutions in the world. He was featured in Built In Chicago's 50 Startups to Watch in 2020 and was one of the inaugural members of the UnitedHealthcare accelerator. Adeel was also named one of Chicago's 20 in their 20's by Crain's Chicago Business in 2020.
Before co-founding Clearstep in 2018, Adeel was a strategy and analytics consultant at Accenture where he worked with some of the largest institutions in healthcare across pharma, health tech, health systems, and retail. Before joining Accenture, he also spent three years as a neuro-immunology researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, Kelly Roman, CEO of Fisher Wallace Labs, a pioneering company in wearable prescription technology, joins us to discuss how his team is building industry-leading innovations that treat the brain electrically to reduce the symptoms of depression, anxiety, and insomnia.
Additionally, Kelly shares how Fisher Wallace came to be, why he is so passionate about liberating people from depression, and his vision for wearable technology as the next frontier for mental health treatment.
Join us to learn how Kelly and the Fisher Wallace team help treat neuropsychiatric disorders with novel wearable technology. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Fisher Wallace came to be after a pivotal meeting with his co-founder
- Reducing the cost of mental health treatment with Fisher Wallace’s technology
- Consumer feedback on Fisher Wallace’s technology
- Why wearable devices are the next frontier for mental health treatment
About Our Guest:
Kelly Roman is the Co-Founder & CEO of Fisher Wallace Labs. He has helped pioneer the prescription wearable category for more than a decade, with a proven track record in product development, regulatory affairs, and clinical trial strategy. Before co-founding Fisher Wallace, Kelly graduated from Harvard and served as an award-winning executive in the digital advertising and SaaS industries.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, Lisbeth Votruba, Chief Clinical Officer of AvaSure, a pioneering company and market leader in virtual patient monitoring, joins us to discuss her vision to revolutionize inpatient care delivery through virtual telehealth technology.
Additionally, Lisbeth shares how AvaSure has helped health systems across the nation to create safer environments for patients, families, and caregivers with their advanced patient observation and communication platform.
Join us to learn how Lisbeth and the AvaSure family support augmented care with virtual teams. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Important advice from Lisbeth about the role of technology and reimagining healthcare
- Lisbeth’s journey to working for AvaSure
- Who is AvaSure and what they provide in the healthcare industry
- How AvaSure helps in the demand of nurses during COVID-19
- Response from patients, clinician, and administrator on the company’s technology
- Lisbeth Votruba’s vision for the healthcare industry and AvaSure
About our Guest:
Lisbeth Votruba, MSN, RN, is the chief clinical officer of AvaSure. She has a vision to revolutionize inpatient care delivery through virtual technology. She is a pioneering nurse executive committed to continuous improvement of healthcare and the diffusion of new technologies to drive patient and staff safety. Votruba is dedicated to advancing dialogue at the state and national policy level as well as influencing how industry and nurse leaders collaborate to develop and implement technology in rapidly evolving and highly regulated healthcare environments. She is recognized for providing compassionate leadership; promoting the nursing profession; and safeguarding the dignity and quality of care for patients, families, and healthcare professionals. She published one of the first research articles on video monitoring for patient safety in 2016. Alongside her colleagues, Dr. Pat Quigley and Jill Kaminski, she has co-authored four more research articles on the ways virtual care can reduce falls, mitigate workplace violence and support nurses during a pandemic.
Votruba volunteers her time in support of nurses and women struggling with substance use disorder. She has served Michigan’s nurses as the Michigan Board of Nurses appointee to the Health Providers Recovery Committee, the state’s healthcare provider monitoring program. She currently serves as the president of the board of Our Hope, a residential treatment program for women. In doing so she strives to contribute to the de-stigmatization of mental health issues. As a third-generation nurse, she is a long-time advocate for the well-being of caregivers and is passionate about providing quality care for patients.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, Dr. Waqaas Al-Siddiq, Founder and CEO of Biotricity, a business recognized as one of the Top 50 Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company, joins us to discuss the why and the how of building his medical diagnostic and consumer healthcare technology startup.
Additionally, Dr. Al-Siddiq shares the positive impact his team is having as they continue to bring their biometric remote monitoring solutions to market.
Join us to learn how Dr. Al-Siddiq and the Biotricity team are powering healthcare with connected medical devices and real-time communication. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Why and how Dr. Al-Siddiq started Biotricity
- Two critical pieces of advice from Dr. Al-Siddiq that can help innovate healthcare
- Patient feedback about Biotricity’s technology
- Dr. Al-Siddiq’s’ vision for the healthcare industry and Biotricity
About our Guest:
Waqaas Al-Siddiq, CEO and founder of Biotricity, is a serial entrepreneur, a former investment advisor, an expert in corporate strategy, and an innovative technologist. Academically, he has been distinguished for his various innovative designs in digital, analog, embedded, and micro-electro-mechanical products. Waqaas has held several high-level design positions at IBM, AMD, and Intel. He also has vast experience leading various groups through his board experience and executive roles within start-ups, mid-sized companies, and non-profits. Waqaas has raised over a $100M as an entrepreneur and built companies that have been recognized as leaders in their space.
In his current role as CEO of Biotricity, a medical diagnostic and consumer healthcare technology company, Waqaas guides and continues to lead the company through every stage of bringing its biometric remote monitoring solutions to market. The company is considered one of the leading digital health companies and has been recognized as one of the Top 50 Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company and the most Innovative Medical Device Company.
As an industry enthusiast, Waqaas publishes extensively on the future of healthcare. Waqaas’ publication experience spans back to his academic work, which was published in various conferences such as IEEE and the National Communication Council. Since founding Biotricity Waqaas has become deeply vested in the potential that IoT connected technology, enhanced with artificial intelligence, could bring to healthcare. He has published a variety of articles that focus on thought-provoking discussions around topics such as artificial intelligence, implementation of new technologies into the healthcare sphere, and the development of medical devices for underserved and remote communities.1 Waqaas is considered a thought leader and a regular contributor for MedCity News, Becker’s, and other industry publications that are sources for research and insights on emerging technology.
Waqaas has a dual Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and Economics, a Master’s in Computer Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology, and a Master’s in Business Administration and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Henley Business School, specialized in Transformative Innovations and Billion Dollar Markets.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, Bjarne Bergheim, President and CEO of Sonendo, a commercial-stage medical technology company committed to solving tooth decay, the most prevalent chronic disease globally, joins us to discuss his deeply rooted commitment and passion for his company’s mission to save teeth and improve lives.
While together, Bjarne shares his entrepreneurial journey, why and how he became Sonendo’s first employee in 2007, and the bright vision for Sonendo’s future.
Join us as Bjarne, and I discuss the importance of oral care as we continue to work together to move the health of our world forward! Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Bjarne’s background and entrepreneurial journey
- What lead to the big vision for Sonendo
- The 3 building blocks of Sonendo
- A prediction of Sonendo and the Dentistry Industry in the future
About our Guest:
Bjarne Bergheim has served as Sonendo’s President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors since 2008. Mr. Bergheim was the company’s first employee and previously served as Chief Operating Officer from 2006 to 2008. Prior to joining Sonendo, Mr. Bergheim was a co-founder and member of the management team of Fjord Ventures, LLC, a life science accelerator located in Laguna Hills, California focused on building and operating companies in the medical device, diagnostic and biopharmaceutical sectors.
Previously, Mr. Bergheim was the first employee of 3F Therapeutics, Inc., which was acquired by ATS Medical and later by Medtronic, Inc. Mr. Bergheim received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Irvine and an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Mr. Bergheim also studied cardiovascular and biomedical engineering at NTNU, Norway in collaboration with Stanford University and California Institute of Technology.
He has spent decades in the medical technology industry and is passionate about advancing Sonendo’s mission to save teeth and improve lives.
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Episode Overview:
In a digital-heavy world coupled with the youth mental health crisis, our next guest has made it her life’s work to protect every child’s digital journey.
Teodora Pavkovic, a prominent figure in the global digital wellness community, and the Director of Community Engagement at Linewize, joins us to discuss her inspiring work and mission and how she and her team are working tirelessly to build the industry-leading safety management system for the academic setting.
Additionally, Teodora shares how parents can be more positively involved in their kids’ technology and digital lives.
Join us as we discuss this timely and important topic with a passionate and dedicated expert helping lead the charge for positive change in cyber safety. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Teodora became passionate about digital wellness
- Why it is important to implement digital wellness in the academic setting
- Why Teodora became involved with Linewize
- Teodora’s vision for a safer and healthier digital lifestyle for all
About our Guest:
Teodora Pavkovic is the Director of Community Engagement at Linewize, where she leverages her decade-plus of experience as a youth psychologist, parenting coach and digital wellness practitioner to provide guidance and advice to parents, teachers and school administrators on topics concerning mental health, responsible and safe use of technology, tech ethics, parenting in the digital age and child development. A prominent figure in the global digital wellness community, Pavkovic is a member of both the American and British psychological associations, co-chair of Fairplay’s (formerly Campaign For a Commercial-Free Childhood) parenting professionals’ group and an advisory board member of several educational and mental health organizations. She has dedicated herself to helping people preserve and protect their wellbeing and relationships in this increasingly digital world, teaching them to use technology mindfully, intentionally and humanely.
Pavkovic has her master’s in clinical psychology and has trained in both psychotherapy and coaching. She has lived in nine different countries and is a sought-after public speaker, thought leader and media expert who has spoken at conferences like TEDx in Singapore, Human After All in New York City, and HUMANITECH, the first virtual digital wellness conference that she both organized and moderated.
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Episode Overview:
During this episode, Dr. Matt Sakumoto, virtual-first primary care physician and clinical informatics champion, joins us to discuss his personal experiences at multiple health systems and telehealth startups, which has led him to develop a national-leading approach to digital empathy and web-side manner for telehealth consults that are enabling care teams to better connect with patients.
Join us to learn from Dr. Sakumoto how care team providers can humanize their telehealth visits. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Sakumoto’s outlines his approach to digital empathy and and how to foster web-side manner
- Humanizing the telehealth visit
- Delivering care beyond the clinic walls
- Ways to engage with patients beyond the specific point in time of the consult
- Why engaging with startups/innovation community was an important factor in developing Dr. Sakumoto’s approach
About Our Guest:
Dr. Matt Sakumoto is a virtualist primary care physician in San Francisco. He is also fellowship-trained in clinical informatics at UCSF, with a focus on virtual care and provider efficiency tools for the EHR. Through personal experience at multiple health systems and telehealth startups, he has developed an approach to Digital Empathy and Web-side Manner to better connect with patients.
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Episode Overview:
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, infectious diseases ran rampant in US nursing homes, and the nursing home industry has been struggling with infection prevention and control practices for decades. Thankfully our next guest has a deeply-rooted passion and bold vision for change!
Dr. Buffy Lloyd-Krejci, CEO of IPCWell, joins us to discuss how her organization is devoted to mitigating infectious diseases to reduce adverse events, infections, antibiotic resistance, re-admissions, and death through targeted, data-driven solutions and advanced statistical analytics.
Additionally, Dr. Buffy shares her journey of visiting hundreds of nursing homes and why her experience led her to write her book BROKEN: How the Global Pandemic Uncovered a Nursing Home System in Need of Repair and the Heroic Staff Fighting for Change.
Join us for this timely and needed conversation to learn how Dr. Buffy and IPCWell team are working tirelessly to combat the estimated one to three million infections leading to more than 380,000 deaths annually in the nursing home industry. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Dr. Buffy became so passionate about her mission
- IPCWell’s process to prevent harm and deaths from infections
- What Dr. Buffy experienced on the frontlines of healthcare when she was writing her book
- The importance of going on-site to provide coaching and mentoring for healthcare facilities
About our Guest:
Dr. Buffy Lloyd-Krejci is one of the foremost authorities on infection prevention and control in nursing homes and long-term care facilities. She is a frequent contributor and interview source for national and trade press concerning infection prevention and control and mitigation. With more than 20 years of healthcare and public health experience, Dr. Lloyd-Krejci's data-driven approach is hands-on and collaborative. Using her experience with more than 700 healthcare facilities across the United States she works tirelessly to combat the estimated one to three million infections leading to more than 380,000 deaths every year in the nursing home industry. She has worked with the CDC and other organizations on infection control studies and research such as the Arizona Emergency Preparedness Infection Control(EPIC) grant, the Institute of Health (IHI) and, Project ECHO, a hub-and-spoke knowledge-sharing network to support Nursing Home leadership during COVID-19.
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Episode Overview:
With deep knowledge and expertise, delivering critically needed and life-saving therapies to patients with rare, ultra-rare, and orphan diseases is our next guest’s passion and mission in life.
Jeff Beck, Chief Development Officer at Biocare, joins us to discuss his company’s three brands- BioCareSD, a leading national specialty distributor of life-saving therapies, CanyonCareRX, a full-service specialty pharmacy, and LogiCare3PL, a national provider of time and temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical logistics services.
Additionally, Jeff shares why and how the company remaining patient-focused has been the key to its success since 1982.
Join us to discover how Jeff and his team at BioCare are delivering life-saving therapies to patients across our nation. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Jeff’s time with the Harlem Globetrotters prepared him for healthcare
- Distribution and supply chain logistics during the pandemic
- Creating the LogiCare 3PL extension
- A look into the orphan drugs market
- Life-changing testimonies from patients
- BioCare’s umbrella services
About Our Guest:
As Chief Development Officer at BioCare, Jeff is responsible for setting current and future strategic direction for the company’s brands, including BioCareSD, CanyonCareRx and LogiCare3PL.
Additionally, Jeff leads the expansion and diversification of BioCare’s manufacturer and product portfolio. With a proven ability to build loyal relationships through value-driven selling and rapid problem identification and resolution, Jeff’s demonstrated capabilities include strategic planning, budgeting, employee development and cross-functional team collaboration.
Prior to joining BioCare, Jeff served as Vice President of National Accounts a Baxalta, where he was responsible for setting strategic direction and tactical execution.
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Episode Overview:
Recognizing the smartphone as one of the most significant pieces of technology ever invented, our next guest has made it his life’s pursuit to leverage this technology to bring fundamental change to how people understand their health.
Vlado Bosanac, Co-Founder & Head of Strategy at Advanced Human Imaging, joins us to discuss how his company has developed a proprietary dimensioning innovation that enables users to privately and accurately check, track, and assess their body dimensions and composition using only a smartphone.
Additionally, Vlado shares how advancements in mathematics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence have fueled his company’s human scanning technology to become a leading global innovation.
Join us for this fascinating conversation as Vlado shares where Advanced Human Imaging is today and what is in store for the future as he and his team advance human imaging with a smartphone! Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Advanced Human Imaging began
- The technologies and innovations needed to enable Vlado’s company
- Vlado’s vision for Advanced Human Imaging
- How consumers can help improve Advanced Human Imaging
About our Guest:
Vlado Bosanac is an accomplished business leader & advisor with over 30 years experience across a range of sectors including bio-medical devices, technology, and healthcare. Vlado co-founded MyFiziq in 2014, now known as AHI. Vlado has been passionately showcasing and demonstrating our amazing technology all over the world and believes it will bring fundamental change to how people understand their health and the risks they post to themselves through their lifestyle.
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Episode Overview:
To positively impact and change the lives of the patients she serves, our next guest has dedicated her career to strengthening her organization through processes, systems, partnerships, and new ventures.
Paula Turichhi, Chief Strategy Officer at Parkland Community Health Plan, joins us to discuss how she and her team are finding innovative ways to eliminate barriers to care, including financial, language, health literacy, and housing challenges.
Additionally, Paula discusses her experience in managing the continuum of care for women and their infants, including ambulatory, emergency, and inpatient for one of the largest maternity services in the United States.
Join us to learn how Paula and Parkland Community Health Plan fosters a holistic wellness environment for the communities they serve. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Working at the Women and Infants Specialty Health (WISH) to help create a health plan for all
- Providing women with continuum care, including ambulatory, emergency, inpatient, and continuous care
- Changes and challenges that happened at Parkland and when COVID-19 happened
- Creating new processes that patients need to receive healthcare services in a financially and sustainable way
About our Guest:
Paula Turicchini, Chief Strategy Officer at Parkland Community Health Plan strives to make a difference for patients and their families by strengthening the business of the organization through processes, systems, partnerships, and new ventures. She has more than 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry and previously served as the vice president of hospital operations and administrator of Women and Infants Specialty Health (WISH) at Parkland Health & Hospital System, where she oversaw operations for one of the largest maternity services in the United States. In addition, Paula was instrumental in the design and construction of the new Parkland Hospital facility and the Moody Center for Breast Health. She is board certified in healthcare administration by the American College of Healthcare Executives and holds a Master of Healthcare Administration from Trinity University and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Arkansas.
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Episode Sponsor:
This episode’s Community Champion Sponsor is Salesforce. Salesforce believes the future of health is connected, do you? Learn more at www.salesforce.com/businessofhealth
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Episode Overview:
In today’s life sciences environment, developing and approving new drugs can take upwards of twelve to 15 years. One significant reason for these arduous processes and timelines is the lack of automation and artificial intelligence integration. Our next guest and his company are poised to change the game!
Emmanuel Walckenaer, CEO of Yseop, joins us to discuss his journey of becoming the CEO and how his company specializes in artificial intelligence and natural language processing to help pharmaceutical companies adopt modern technology solutions and bring their life-saving therapeutics to market faster.
Join us to learn how Emmanuel and Yseop team free time and money in the life sciences space with their company’s intelligent automation. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Emmanuel's journey on becoming the CEO of Yseop
- How Yseop was pulled into the pharmaceutical industry with one phone call
- What is CSR, its importance to healthcare, and how Yseop is automating it
- Emmanuales’s vision of AI and automation in the years to come
About our Guest:
Emmanuel joined Yseop as CEO in 2017, leading the company’s growth and vision to bring the benefits of automation and NLG to enterprise companies globally. He brings over 25 years of international experience in high-tech service and business development.
Emmanuel joined Yseop in 2017 from Sierra Wireless, where he was General Manager and Senior Vice President of the Cloud & Connectivity Services business unit. He led the growth of this unit across Europe and North America through strategic acquisitions and the development of a bespoke cloud and connectivity offering for the expanding Internet of Things (IOT) market.
Before joining Sierra Wireless, Emmanuel was Senior Vice President at Gemalto where he was responsible for the development of global Telecom business services. He had previously held various positions with Esso across IT and business development.
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Episode Overview:
Due to healthcare’s systemic and intractable challenges and needs, digital transformation is now widely recognized as the conduit to meet those challenges we face and the patients we serve. Fortunately, some inspiring leaders and organizations are answering the call! Our next guest is helping lead the pack!
Kevin Riley, Chief Customer Officer and Senior Vice President for Healthcare and Lifesciences at Salesforce, joins us to discuss his company’s efforts of powering the business of health by helping the healthcare and life sciences industries reshape how they operate and collaborate for better outcomes.
Additionally, Kevin shares his journey of becoming a senior leader at Salesforce, including creating the widely respected modelh strategic framework to build better healthcare businesses.
Lastly, Kevin discusses the key findings from his company's recently published Connected Health Consumer Report.
Join us for this timely, informative, and inspiring conversation to learn how Kevin and the Salesforce team are supporting a global movement of healthcare trailblazers to inspire and drive change. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Kevin’s improbable journey into healthcare and innovation
- Getting out of the building and talking to customers
- Being committed to equity and sustainability in the healthcare industry
- Highlights from Salesforce’s Connected Health Consumer Report
- What Kevin and the team are driving with Salesforce Health Cloud
- How Kevin and the team are delivering personalized digital experiences
- How the modelh strategic framework came to be and how to access it
About Our Guest:
Kevin Riley is an entrepreneur, executive, and business model innovator who created the modelH strategic framework to build better healthcare businesses. Over the course of his career, he has applied his skills and deep industry experience to startups and legacy companies across the healthcare industry. Currently, Kevin leads products for healthcare and life sciences at Salesforce. Before Salesforce, he was the founder and CEO of a national healthcare retail company, and held leadership roles for several national retail health startups. He served as the first Chief Innovation Officer for a major insurance plan. Kevin has also founded and sold multiple innovative health-focused companies. Kevin holds a Master of Business in entrepreneurship and marketing from Rice University.
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Episode Overview:
After years of experience and becoming a nationally recognized healthcare executive leader, our next guest has married his expertise with his passion for helping make health and care more accessible in communities across our country.
Brett Hickman, Chief Commercial Officer at Modivcare, joins us to discuss his storied journey and why he is so passionate about Modivcare’s mission to provide equity, hope, and healing to those in need.
Additionally, Brett shares how Modivcare has become a leading technology-enabled healthcare services and value-based solutions company to address the social determinants of health and enable greater access to care, reduce costs, and improve outcomes.
Join us for this inspiring episode and message from Brett and how the Modivcare team is addressing social determinants of health. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Brett’s passion to serve the community and fixing economic barriers to healthcare
- Why social determinants of health became more apparent through the pandemic
- How Modivcare is moving the SDOH space and industry into value-based care
- Brett’s vision for Modivcare to address loneliness that impacts so many people
About Our Guest:
Brett Hickman was appointed Chief Commercial Officer in April 2022. Prior to joining Modivcare, Hickman was Chief Growth Officer for Cityblock Health, a leader in making healthcare accessible and affordable to the country’s most vulnerable populations. He has held various executive leadership roles at Optum and ProVenture, an Aetna subsidiary for joint venture provider-sponsored health plans and is a retired partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
Hickman graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from DePauw University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Indianapolis.
Modivcare Inc. (“Modivcare”) (Nasdaq: MODV) is a technology-enabled healthcare services company that provides a platform of integrated supportive care solutions for public and private payors and their patients. Our value-based solutions address the social determinants of health (SDoH), enable greater access to care, reduce costs, and improve outcomes. We are a leading provider of non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT), personal care and remote patient monitoring. To learn more about Modivcare, please visit www.modivcare.com.
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Episode Overview:
When our next guest was at the peak of his medical career as a triple board-certified physician, he saw an opportunity to write his second career chapter as a health care CEO. Taking everything he’d learned as a doctor, medical director, and educator, he launched two businesses - a vaccine clinic and a drug-testing enterprise - driven by technology and designed for fast, customer-centric service.
Dr. Jonathan Baktari, founder and CEO of e7 Health, joins us to discuss how his leadership positions within the clinical, educational, administrative, and insurance company settings positioned him to build world services and technologies to serve Americans across the country and to make a material impact on preventative medicine.
Join us to learn how Dr. Baktari and the e7 Health team have built an industry-leading systems company that has invested heavily in developing electronic cloud-based software to leverage technology for their operations, patients, and clients. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Jonathan’s story from being a medical student to e7 Health’s CEO
- Why Dr. Baktari chose to focus on preventive medicine and adult vaccination
- How e7 Health was a COVID company before COVID hit
- The importance of a strong digital presence for healthcare companies
About Our Guest:
When Jonathan Baktari, M.D., was arguably at the peak of his medical career as a triple board-certified physician, he saw an opportunity to try something new. Taking everything he’d learned as a doctor, medical director, and educator, he launched two businesses—a vaccine clinic and a drug-testing enterprise—that are driven by technology and designed for fast, customer-centric service. Now, as those businesses grow, he’s continuing to write his second career chapter as a health care CEO.
Dr. Baktari’s company e7 Health was named the best technology company in the healthcare space in 2019. e7 Health could best be described as “the Uber of preventive medicine” in that it is a systems company that has invested heavily in developing their own electronic cloud-based software to leverage technology for the benefit of their operation, patients, and clients. In addition to vaccines, antibody testing, and many other medical services essential to employers around the country, e7 is now providing at home COVID-19 tests for individuals and companies all over the US. Dr. Baktari has always believed that helping others was the ultimate achievement in life.
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Episode Overview:
When our next guest was at the peak of his medical career as a triple board-certified physician, he saw an opportunity to write his second career chapter as a health care CEO. Taking everything he’d learned as a doctor, medical director, and educator, he launched two businesses - a vaccine clinic and a drug-testing enterprise - driven by technology and designed for fast, customer-centric service.
Dr. Jonathan Baktari, founder and CEO of e7 Health, joins us to discuss how his leadership positions within the clinical, educational, administrative, and insurance company settings positioned him to build world services and technologies to serve Americans across the country and to make a material impact on preventative medicine.
Join us to learn how Dr. Baktari and the e7 Health team have built an industry-leading systems company that has invested heavily in developing electronic cloud-based software to leverage technology for their operations, patients, and clients. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Jonathan’s story from being a medical student to e7 Health’s CEO
- Why Dr. Baktari chose to focus on preventive medicine and adult vaccination
- How e7 Health was a COVID company before COVID hit
- The importance of a strong digital presence for healthcare companies
About Our Guest:
When Jonathan Baktari, M.D., was arguably at the peak of his medical career as a triple board-certified physician, he saw an opportunity to try something new. Taking everything he’d learned as a doctor, medical director, and educator, he launched two businesses—a vaccine clinic and a drug-testing enterprise—that are driven by technology and designed for fast, customer-centric service. Now, as those businesses grow, he’s continuing to write his second career chapter as a health care CEO.
Dr. Baktari’s company e7 Health was named the best technology company in the healthcare space in 2019. e7 Health could best be described as “the Uber of preventive medicine” in that it is a systems company that has invested heavily in developing their own electronic cloud-based software to leverage technology for the benefit of their operation, patients, and clients. In addition to vaccines, antibody testing, and many other medical services essential to employers around the country, e7 is now providing at home COVID-19 tests for individuals and companies all over the US. Dr. Baktari has always believed that helping others was the ultimate achievement in life.
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Episode Overview:
When our next guest was at the peak of his medical career as a triple board-certified physician, he saw an opportunity to write his second career chapter as a health care CEO. Taking everything he’d learned as a doctor, medical director, and educator, he launched two businesses - a vaccine clinic and a drug-testing enterprise - driven by technology and designed for fast, customer-centric service.
Dr. Jonathan Baktari, founder and CEO of e7 Health, joins us to discuss how his leadership positions within the clinical, educational, administrative, and insurance company settings positioned him to build world services and technologies to serve Americans across the country and to make a material impact on preventative medicine.
Join us to learn how Dr. Baktari and the e7 Health team have built an industry-leading systems company that has invested heavily in developing electronic cloud-based software to leverage technology for their operations, patients, and clients. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Jonathan’s story from being a medical student to e7 Health’s CEO
- Why Dr. Baktari chose to focus on preventive medicine and adult vaccination
- How e7 Health was a COVID company before COVID hit
- The importance of a strong digital presence for healthcare companies
About Our Guest:
When Jonathan Baktari, M.D., was arguably at the peak of his medical career as a triple board-certified physician, he saw an opportunity to try something new. Taking everything he’d learned as a doctor, medical director, and educator, he launched two businesses—a vaccine clinic and a drug-testing enterprise—that are driven by technology and designed for fast, customer-centric service. Now, as those businesses grow, he’s continuing to write his second career chapter as a health care CEO.
Dr. Baktari’s company e7 Health was named the best technology company in the healthcare space in 2019. e7 Health could best be described as “the Uber of preventive medicine” in that it is a systems company that has invested heavily in developing their own electronic cloud-based software to leverage technology for the benefit of their operation, patients, and clients. In addition to vaccines, antibody testing, and many other medical services essential to employers around the country, e7 is now providing at home COVID-19 tests for individuals and companies all over the US. Dr. Baktari has always believed that helping others was the ultimate achievement in life.
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As a medical student, physician, and administrative executive, our next guest personally experienced the struggles of insufficient technology to address the demands of the ever-evolving world of medicine and healthcare.
Deeply passionate about propelling healthcare innovation forward, Dr. Justin Graham, Chief Medical Officer of Gyant, joins us to discuss why he joined the company and how he is driving Gyant's clinical and product vision for leading health systems across the nation.
Join us to learn why and how Dr. Graham and the Gyant team guide patients through their digital healthcare journey. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- How and why Justin joined Gyant
- Bringing technology informatics into the healthcare system
- Why embracing failure helps drive innovation
- How Gyant’s AI provides medical assistance virtually
About Our Guest:
Justin Graham, MD, MS, is a senior physician executive and digital health product innovator with over 25 years of experience in medicine, infectious disease, informatics, electronic health records, and healthcare operations.
Since 2020 Dr. Graham has been the Chief Medical Officer at GYANT, a digital health start-up specializing in complex medical conversational AI. As CMO, Dr. Graham helps lead product strategy and oversees the development and management of the complex set of clinical triage algorithms that power GYANT’s virtual assistant.
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As a medical student, physician, and administrative executive, our next guest personally experienced the struggles of insufficient technology to address the demands of the ever-evolving world of medicine and healthcare.
Deeply passionate about propelling healthcare innovation forward, Dr. Justin Graham, Chief Medical Officer of Gyant, joins us to discuss why he joined the company and how he is driving Gyant's clinical and product vision for leading health systems across the nation.
Join us to learn why and how Dr. Graham and the Gyant team guide patients through their digital healthcare journey. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- How and why Justin joined Gyant
- Bringing technology informatics into the healthcare system
- Why embracing failure helps drive innovation
- How Gyant’s AI provides medical assistance virtually
About Our Guest:
Justin Graham, MD, MS, is a senior physician executive and digital health product innovator with over 25 years of experience in medicine, infectious disease, informatics, electronic health records, and healthcare operations.
Since 2020 Dr. Graham has been the Chief Medical Officer at GYANT, a digital health start-up specializing in complex medical conversational AI. As CMO, Dr. Graham helps lead product strategy and oversees the development and management of the complex set of clinical triage algorithms that power GYANT’s virtual assistant.
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As a medical student, physician, and administrative executive, our next guest personally experienced the struggles of insufficient technology to address the demands of the ever-evolving world of medicine and healthcare.
Deeply passionate about propelling healthcare innovation forward, Dr. Justin Graham, Chief Medical Officer of Gyant, joins us to discuss why he joined the company and how he is driving Gyant's clinical and product vision for leading health systems across the nation.
Join us to learn why and how Dr. Graham and the Gyant team guide patients through their digital healthcare journey. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- How and why Justin joined Gyant
- Bringing technology informatics into the healthcare system
- Why embracing failure helps drive innovation
- How Gyant’s AI provides medical assistance virtually
About Our Guest:
Justin Graham, MD, MS, is a senior physician executive and digital health product innovator with over 25 years of experience in medicine, infectious disease, informatics, electronic health records, and healthcare operations.
Since 2020 Dr. Graham has been the Chief Medical Officer at GYANT, a digital health start-up specializing in complex medical conversational AI. As CMO, Dr. Graham helps lead product strategy and oversees the development and management of the complex set of clinical triage algorithms that power GYANT’s virtual assistant.
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Episode Overview:
After struggling to solve his son’s gut health issues with generic probiotics, our next guest took it upon himself to create a custom probiotic for his child and now aims to do the same for the millions of people worldwide who suffer from gut health issues.
Sunny Jain, CEO and founder of Sun Genomics, joins us to discuss how he and his team are personalizing gut health by customizing precision probiotics and nutrition for individuals based on their DNA and biomarkers.
Join us as Sunny walks us through his founding story of Sun Genomics and how his company’s technology is transforming lives for years to come. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- What led Sunny to create Sun Genomics
- Sunny’s overview of studying DNA, gut microbiome, and biomarkers to provide precision probiotics and nutrition
- How Sun Genomics has been reshaping the lives of people
- Sunny’s vision of the future for Sun Genomics and the customers they serve
About our Guest:
With over 20 years of Molecular and Microbiology experience, Sun Genomics’ founder and CEO Sunny Jain originally had the idea for Floré after struggling to solve his own young son’s gut health issues with generic probiotics from the shelves. Sunny took it upon himself to create a custom probiotic that worked for his son, and now aims to do the same for the hundreds of millions of people who suffer from gut health issues worldwide.
Before starting Sun Genomics, Sunny worked at Illumina for seven years. He was part of the team to establish the Illumina Clinical Services Laboratory and went on to sequence the first whole human genome in a CLIA-certified, CAP-accredited laboratory. Prior to Illumina, Sunny worked for Labcorp in the molecular oncology laboratory and has over 20 years of experience in commercializing biomarkers.
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Episode Overview:
After struggling to solve his son’s gut health issues with generic probiotics, our next guest took it upon himself to create a custom probiotic for his child and now aims to do the same for the millions of people worldwide who suffer from gut health issues.
Sunny Jain, CEO and founder of Sun Genomics, joins us to discuss how he and his team are personalizing gut health by customizing precision probiotics and nutrition for individuals based on their DNA and biomarkers.
Join us as Sunny walks us through his founding story of Sun Genomics and how his company’s technology is transforming lives for years to come. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- What led Sunny to create Sun Genomics
- Sunny’s overview of studying DNA, gut microbiome, and biomarkers to provide precision probiotics and nutrition
- How Sun Genomics has been reshaping the lives of people
- Sunny’s vision of the future for Sun Genomics and the customers they serve
About our Guest:
With over 20 years of Molecular and Microbiology experience, Sun Genomics’ founder and CEO Sunny Jain originally had the idea for Floré after struggling to solve his own young son’s gut health issues with generic probiotics from the shelves. Sunny took it upon himself to create a custom probiotic that worked for his son, and now aims to do the same for the hundreds of millions of people who suffer from gut health issues worldwide.
Before starting Sun Genomics, Sunny worked at Illumina for seven years. He was part of the team to establish the Illumina Clinical Services Laboratory and went on to sequence the first whole human genome in a CLIA-certified, CAP-accredited laboratory. Prior to Illumina, Sunny worked for Labcorp in the molecular oncology laboratory and has over 20 years of experience in commercializing biomarkers.
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This episode’s Community Champion Sponsor is Catalyst. To virtually tour Catalyst and claim your space on campus, or host an upcoming event: CLICK HERE
Episode Overview:
After struggling to solve his son’s gut health issues with generic probiotics, our next guest took it upon himself to create a custom probiotic for his child and now aims to do the same for the millions of people worldwide who suffer from gut health issues.
Sunny Jain, CEO and founder of Sun Genomics, joins us to discuss how he and his team are personalizing gut health by customizing precision probiotics and nutrition for individuals based on their DNA and biomarkers.
Join us as Sunny walks us through his founding story of Sun Genomics and how his company’s technology is transforming lives for years to come. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- What led Sunny to create Sun Genomics
- Sunny’s overview of studying DNA, gut microbiome, and biomarkers to provide precision probiotics and nutrition
- How Sun Genomics has been reshaping the lives of people
- Sunny’s vision of the future for Sun Genomics and the customers they serve
About our Guest:
With over 20 years of Molecular and Microbiology experience, Sun Genomics’ founder and CEO Sunny Jain originally had the idea for Floré after struggling to solve his own young son’s gut health issues with generic probiotics from the shelves. Sunny took it upon himself to create a custom probiotic that worked for his son, and now aims to do the same for the hundreds of millions of people who suffer from gut health issues worldwide.
Before starting Sun Genomics, Sunny worked at Illumina for seven years. He was part of the team to establish the Illumina Clinical Services Laboratory and went on to sequence the first whole human genome in a CLIA-certified, CAP-accredited laboratory. Prior to Illumina, Sunny worked for Labcorp in the molecular oncology laboratory and has over 20 years of experience in commercializing biomarkers.
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After resigning from her steady job just before the pandemic hit, and finding out she was pregnant during lockdown, our next guest was forced to quickly prove that her expertise and passion as a population geneticist could contribute to a better genetic data platform for pregnant women and their children.
Estelle Giraud, co-founder and CEO of Trellis Health, joins us to discuss how she and her team are creating lasting change to reframe the way pregnant moms take control of their care.
Additionally, Estelle shares her company's ultimate vision of building the industry-leading distributed privacy-preserving personalized health management and insights platform.
Join us as Estelle shares her team's passion for improving the healthcare journey for everyone! Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Estelle’s journey in building Trellis Health
- What Trellis Health offers to the healthcare industry
- The importance of learning about your genetics
- How Trellis Health deploys data gathering and data privacy
- Trellis Health’s long-term vision
About our Guest:
Estelle Giraud is a PhD scientist (population genetics) turned commercial operator and leader in biotech and frontier medicine at Illumina, and now turned founder. Also a mother and woman founder, Estelle has had to navigate the change and challenges that come with this journey. She is deeply excited and scared by the rise of (big) data in healthcare and wellness, and passionate about creating a better healthcare system from the ground up, especially for individuals. Estelle believes people don’t neatly fit in single boxes, and some of the most interesting insights about people and the world come from the unplanned intersections. She brings authenticity and openness to tough conversations about the hard problems we face, and thrives in finding new understanding through conversation.
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After resigning from her steady job just before the pandemic hit, and finding out she was pregnant during lockdown, our next guest was forced to quickly prove that her expertise and passion as a population geneticist could contribute to a better genetic data platform for pregnant women and their children.
Estelle Giraud, co-founder and CEO of Trellis Health, joins us to discuss how she and her team are creating lasting change to reframe the way pregnant moms take control of their care.
Additionally, Estelle shares her company's ultimate vision of building the industry-leading distributed privacy-preserving personalized health management and insights platform.
Join us as Estelle shares her team's passion for improving the healthcare journey for everyone! Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Estelle’s journey in building Trellis Health
- What Trellis Health offers to the healthcare industry
- The importance of learning about your genetics
- How Trellis Health deploys data gathering and data privacy
- Trellis Health’s long-term vision
About our Guest:
Estelle Giraud is a PhD scientist (population genetics) turned commercial operator and leader in biotech and frontier medicine at Illumina, and now turned founder. Also a mother and woman founder, Estelle has had to navigate the change and challenges that come with this journey. She is deeply excited and scared by the rise of (big) data in healthcare and wellness, and passionate about creating a better healthcare system from the ground up, especially for individuals. Estelle believes people don’t neatly fit in single boxes, and some of the most interesting insights about people and the world come from the unplanned intersections. She brings authenticity and openness to tough conversations about the hard problems we face, and thrives in finding new understanding through conversation.
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After resigning from her steady job just before the pandemic hit, and finding out she was pregnant during lockdown, our next guest was forced to quickly prove that her expertise and passion as a population geneticist could contribute to a better genetic data platform for pregnant women and their children.
Estelle Giraud, co-founder and CEO of Trellis Health, joins us to discuss how she and her team are creating lasting change to reframe the way pregnant moms take control of their care.
Additionally, Estelle shares her company's ultimate vision of building the industry-leading distributed privacy-preserving personalized health management and insights platform.
Join us as Estelle shares her team's passion for improving the healthcare journey for everyone! Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Estelle’s journey in building Trellis Health
- What Trellis Health offers to the healthcare industry
- The importance of learning about your genetics
- How Trellis Health deploys data gathering and data privacy
- Trellis Health’s long-term vision
About our Guest:
Estelle Giraud is a PhD scientist (population genetics) turned commercial operator and leader in biotech and frontier medicine at Illumina, and now turned founder. Also a mother and woman founder, Estelle has had to navigate the change and challenges that come with this journey. She is deeply excited and scared by the rise of (big) data in healthcare and wellness, and passionate about creating a better healthcare system from the ground up, especially for individuals. Estelle believes people don’t neatly fit in single boxes, and some of the most interesting insights about people and the world come from the unplanned intersections. She brings authenticity and openness to tough conversations about the hard problems we face, and thrives in finding new understanding through conversation.
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Deeply passionate about following patient care from beginning to end, our next guest is creating opportunities for underserved communities to equitably access excellent healthcare across our nation.
Cody Hall, founder and CEO of Octiva Healthcare, joins us to discuss how he and has team are partnering with facilities to provide telehealth and hybrid-based wrap-around services for his customer’s existing operations.
Additionally, Cody shares why he launched Octiva Healthcare, the ups and downs of being a startup founder, and what Octiva Healthcare’s long-term vision is.
Join us for this uplifting and important conversation to learn how Cody and the Octiva Healthcare team enable access to excellent healthcare. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- What is Octiva Healthcare
- How Octiva Healthcare came to be
- Cody’s view on value-based care
- Cody’s long-term vision for Octiva Healthcare
- Feedback from Octiva Healthcare patients
About Our Guest:
Cody Hall is the Founder and CEO of Octiva Healthcare. Cody has a diverse background in military, technology, and healthcare making him capable of leading organizations and teams effectively. Cody led customer service and Human Resource teams from early-stage startups to industry-leading tech giants, creating benchmark customer experiences and employee journeys for teams, large and small.
Following his time with larger organizations, he set off to impact innovative companies, starting and assisting multiple startups in developing world-class teams, customer experiences, and technology workflows. After years in technology, Cody was recruited to join the Titanium Healthcare Team as the Chief Compliance Officer. Cody led the company’s cultural development, policy and refined the organization’s human capital management abilities. Cody’s time at Titanium inspired the creation of Octiva in 2020.
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Deeply passionate about following patient care from beginning to end, our next guest is creating opportunities for underserved communities to equitably access excellent healthcare across our nation.
Cody Hall, founder and CEO of Octiva Healthcare, joins us to discuss how he and has team are partnering with facilities to provide telehealth and hybrid-based wrap-around services for his customer’s existing operations.
Additionally, Cody shares why he launched Octiva Healthcare, the ups and downs of being a startup founder, and what Octiva Healthcare’s long-term vision is.
Join us for this uplifting and important conversation to learn how Cody and the Octiva Healthcare team enable access to excellent healthcare. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- What is Octiva Healthcare
- How Octiva Healthcare came to be
- Cody’s view on value-based care
- Cody’s long-term vision for Octiva Healthcare
- Feedback from Octiva Healthcare patients
About Our Guest:
Cody Hall is the Founder and CEO of Octiva Healthcare. Cody has a diverse background in military, technology, and healthcare making him capable of leading organizations and teams effectively. Cody led customer service and Human Resource teams from early-stage startups to industry-leading tech giants, creating benchmark customer experiences and employee journeys for teams, large and small.
Following his time with larger organizations, he set off to impact innovative companies, starting and assisting multiple startups in developing world-class teams, customer experiences, and technology workflows. After years in technology, Cody was recruited to join the Titanium Healthcare Team as the Chief Compliance Officer. Cody led the company’s cultural development, policy and refined the organization’s human capital management abilities. Cody’s time at Titanium inspired the creation of Octiva in 2020.
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Deeply passionate about following patient care from beginning to end, our next guest is creating opportunities for underserved communities to equitably access excellent healthcare across our nation.
Cody Hall, founder and CEO of Octiva Healthcare, joins us to discuss how he and has team are partnering with facilities to provide telehealth and hybrid-based wrap-around services for his customer’s existing operations.
Additionally, Cody shares why he launched Octiva Healthcare, the ups and downs of being a startup founder, and what Octiva Healthcare’s long-term vision is.
Join us for this uplifting and important conversation to learn how Cody and the Octiva Healthcare team enable access to excellent healthcare. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- What is Octiva Healthcare
- How Octiva Healthcare came to be
- Cody’s view on value-based care
- Cody’s long-term vision for Octiva Healthcare
- Feedback from Octiva Healthcare patients
About Our Guest:
Cody Hall is the Founder and CEO of Octiva Healthcare. Cody has a diverse background in military, technology, and healthcare making him capable of leading organizations and teams effectively. Cody led customer service and Human Resource teams from early-stage startups to industry-leading tech giants, creating benchmark customer experiences and employee journeys for teams, large and small.
Following his time with larger organizations, he set off to impact innovative companies, starting and assisting multiple startups in developing world-class teams, customer experiences, and technology workflows. After years in technology, Cody was recruited to join the Titanium Healthcare Team as the Chief Compliance Officer. Cody led the company’s cultural development, policy and refined the organization’s human capital management abilities. Cody’s time at Titanium inspired the creation of Octiva in 2020.
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After losing a loved one due to a delayed melanoma diagnosis, our next guest is on a mission to improve the lives of millions by providing non-invasive precision dermatology solutions that enable individualized care.
Dr. John Dobak, CEO of DermTech, joins us to discuss how he and his team are creating a new category of medicine, precision dermatology, enabled by its non-invasive skin genomics platform.
Join us to discover why and how Dr. Dobak and the DermTech team are revolutionizing melanoma detection. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Dobak’s experience and passion for building DermTech
- The impact of losing a loved one due to melanoma
- DermTech’s mission to disrupt the status quo in medicine
- Feedback from service providers using DermTech’s new technology
About our Guest:
As President and CEO of DermTech, Dr. John Dobak oversees DermTech’s strategic direction, resources and execution. Additionally, in his role as President, Dr. Dobak collaborates with DermTech’s Board of Directors to establish short- and long-term company goals. A testament to his experience throughout the industry, Dr. Dobak is also the President of the JAKK Group, a life sciences technology accelerator, which has created several companies, including Lithera, INNERCOOL Therapies and CryoGen/CryoCor. Dr. Dobak and these companies are the recipients of several awards for entrepreneurship and innovation, including the University of California, San Diego Connect’s Most Innovative New Product and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s TR 100. Dr. Dobak received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and a medical doctorate from the University of California, San Diego.
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With the digital revolution accelerating in the healthcare industry, our next guest is leveraging the power of health data and social networks for patients and consumers to develop meaningful relationships with others who share the same, often life-changing, journey.
Amnon Bar-Lev, CEO of Alike, joins us to discuss how he and his team are unlocking the power of patient similarity networks. Through proprietary AI technology, crowdsourcing, and big data, Alike is transforming medical records to empowering insights and connecting patients to a supportive community of individuals who share the same journey - all without sacrificing user privacy.
Join us for this important conversation as we learn how Amnon and the Alike team are building a new world for patients wanting to actively engage in their healthcare journey. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Amnon’s transition to the life science industry and why he created Alike.
- Alike’s aim to be the world’s largest patient similarity network.
- What the current end-user feedback has been for the Alike team.
- Amnon’s view of the future of health data and its importance to all of us.
About Our Guest:
Amnon Bar-Lev, co-founder and CEO of Alike Health was the former President at Check Point Software Technologies. Prior to joining Check Point, Amnon was the founder and CEO of Xpert Integrated System Ltd. Amnon began his career in the Israeli Air Force and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science and Management from Tel-Aviv University and has continued his studies at the faculty of medicine, school of graduate studies.
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With over 20 years of experience working to solve rising costs and uneven quality of care, our next guest is redefining holistic value-based care and expanding primary care access with a focus on bettering the professional lives of nurse practitioners everywhere.
Sylvia Hastanan, CEO of Greater Good Health, joins us to discuss her company’s tech-enabled, dialogue-driven healthcare network that provides holistic, clinically expert, and value-based care through prioritizing patient and caregiver needs, with a specific focus on empowering nurse practitioners.
Join us to discover how Sylvia and the Greater Good Health team are creating a game-changing experience to empower nurse practitioners to take charge of their lives and careers so they can best serve their patients. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Sylvia’s experience in provider services and her observations on the industry’s physician-centered model.
- Why Greater Good Health’s platform is centered on supporting nurse practitioners to thrive in primary care.
- How end-user feedback is what is differentiating Greater Good Health’s nurse-centered platform.
- Sylvia’s observations of healthcare moving away from quantitative care and migrating towards qualitative value-based care.
About Our Guest:
Sylvia has spent her career trying to “fix healthcare,” aiming to solve struggling rising costs and uneven quality. With almost two decades of healthcare experience, Sylvia brings to Greater Good Health her talent for marrying clinical and business operations and translating that union into value. With patients and providers always at top of mind, she took on roles to systematically transform the care delivery model for both the payer and the provider.
She has a deep understanding of the healthcare system, specifically in managed care and value-based models. As an operator, Sylvia has pioneered medical management programs that address the needs of the highest-risk patients. As a strategist, she has developed innovative initiatives to improve provider burnout, patient experience, evidence-based practice, and leadership development. Sylvia resides in Manhattan Beach, CA with her husband and three daughters.
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Understanding firsthand the importance of preventive healthcare after undergoing a crucial operation in high school, our next guest has made it his mission to solve this core pain point for the industry. As the paradigm in healthcare delivery shifts, it’s time for the industry to answer the call of what people are demanding and seeking for their care.
Cavan Klinsky, CTO of Healthie, joins us to discuss the company's white-label and API platform, which serves as the underlying infrastructure for digital health companies and health and wellness organizations striving to deliver accessible, digital-first healthcare.
Join us to learn how Healthie’s HIPAA-compliant software is elevating telehealth business management so healthcare providers everywhere can focus on offering a preventative, personalized care experience that leads to better health outcomes. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Cavan met his co-founder and got involved in the health and technology space.
- Healthie’s mission to help power the digital health revolution.
- What the pandemic did for Healthie and the greater virtual health movement.
- How Healthie’s platform will help scale virtual care initiatives so they can focus on delivering high-quality healthcare.
About Our Guest:
Cavan Klinsky is the Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of Healthie, where he spearheads the development of the company’s comprehensive white-label and API platform, empowering health and wellness professionals to grow their businesses and build digital-first relationships with clients. He works closely with Healthie’s startups to integrate into other tools used in the growing digital health ecosystem.
From writing the first line of code to scaling an application that powers millions of requests each day, Cavan has built Healthie’s strong, scalable foundation that powers digital health’s future. A self-taught developer from an early age, Cavan has freelanced for different startups, small businesses, and non-profits with a focus on building minimum viable products, and during high school co-founded Gevva, the “First Search Engine to Focus on Getting Things Done”. Cavan completed his first year of college at the University of Pennsylvania, where he met his Healthie co-founder, before dropping out to build Healthie.
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While living with her grandmother during the pandemic, our next guest was distraught at the lack of fitness opportunities for older adults. This experience deeply inspired her to create a platform that equates fitness to healthcare so others like her grandmother can engage in a low-risk active lifestyle that empowers them to live the best lives they deserve.
Katie Reed, CEO, and Co-Founder of Balanced joins us to discuss how she and her team are creating a personalized digital wellness community that inspires movement, mindfulness, and joy through group exercise and community building.
Join us to experience Katie’s passion for the movement she has created and how her team at Balanced is delivering a new experience of fitness for older adults that motivates them to live healthier and more fulfilling lives. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Why Katie started the company due to her experience with her grandmother during the pandemic.
- How Balance’s digital fitness platform engages its users to live a healthy and active lifestyle.
- What the digital fitness experience has been like for Balance’s users and its fitness trainers.
- Katie’s plan to drive engagement with insurance companies without requiring Balance’s users to pay out of pocket to maintain their health.
About Our Guest:
Katie Reed is the co-founder and CEO at Balanced, where she oversees the company’s day-to-day business operations. She works directly with teams across the organization, from product management to marketing, to realize the company’s mission of becoming the ultimate fitness platform for healthy aging.
Prior to Balanced, Katie was an Engineering Manager at Ro where she was responsible for the developer workflows and automated testing teams. Prior to Ro, she consulted with non-profits and think tanks on product development strategy. Katie began her career in technology as a software engineer at Namely where she first experienced the lessons that come with a rapidly scaling organization from 10 to 50+ engineers.
Katie co-founded Balanced after living with her grandmother during the COVID-19 pandemic. The two could do everything together but when it came to exercise, Katie had a variety of digital exercise programs, but nothing of that caliber existed for her grandmother––limiting her ability for functional movement. Realizing her co-founder Kelly Froelich experienced something similar with her grandparents, the two set out to build Balanced and launched in November 2021.
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When professional telecommuting was still in its infancy, our next guest saw the future of healthcare during a trip to the Philippines that exposed him to the incredibly talented medical professionals who positively contribute to medical practices in their country and beyond.
Dr. Steven Kupferman, CEO of MedVA, joins us to discuss how he is leveraging skilled healthcare virtual assistants to help solve medical and dental practice staffing needs at a fraction of the cost.
As the healthcare industry continues to experience the ever-growing human capacity crisis, join us for this timely conversation to learn how Dr. Kupferman and the MedVA team are solving healthcare staffing problems. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Kupferman’s trip to the Philippines served as his realization of the future of the private practice of healthcare.
- What Dr. Kupferman’s virtual assistant team does for his practice and why he specifically chose the Philippines.
- How MedVA provides top-of-the-line healthcare through its virtual assistant workforce.
- Why Dr. Kupferman sees the virtual assistant economy expanding beyond private practice healthcare and into the mainstream.
About Our Guest:
Steven Kupferman DMD, MD, Co-Founder, and CEO of MedVA , holds D.M.D. and M.D. degrees from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, respectively. He brings nearly two decades of experience in the healthcare industry. He is the founding surgeon of LACOMS, Los Angeles’s premier Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery practice, where he first pioneered the use of Virtual Assistants to optimize the management of his six doctor practice while simultaneously improving the quality of patient care.
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With the ever-increasing complexity of patient health data-sharing and real-time interoperability requirements, our next guest has been deeply committed to helping healthcare organizations create a patient-centric view of clinical data.
Dr. Oleg Bess, CEO of 4medica, joins us to discuss how he and his team have been solving data integrity, financial, and wellness management challenges to achieve accurate clinical interoperability and transparency in healthcare.
Join us for this needed conversation to learn more about 4medica’s integrative Big Data Management and Clinical Data Exchange cloud solutions that bring health data to life. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Bess’ journey from physician to technology entrepreneur.
- The biggest barriers to digitizing patient data.
- What’s behind 4medica’s state-of-the-art patient health record and connectivity platform.
- Dr. Bess’plans to further aggregate data to improve patient safety.
About Our Guest:
Oleg Bess, M.D., is a founder and chief executive officer of 4medica. He leads the 4medica leadership team and the company’s product development strategy across inpatient, ambulatory, and other new care settings to meet the demand for affordable and rapidly deployable cloud-based interoperability and connectivity solutions.
With a quarter-century of healthcare experience, Dr. Bess has spent the last 20 years honing his development and leadership expertise in informatics while maintaining his 25-year-old OB/GYN practice in Los Angeles. A board-certified OB/GYN physician, he is a nationally recognized gynecological and laparoscopic surgeon.
Dr. Bess is a member of several medical societies including the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). He earned a bachelor of science degree in zoology from Louisiana State University (LSU) and a doctorate degree at LSU Medical School Medical Center in New Orleans. Dr. Bess completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at LSU – Charity Hospital in New Orleans and fellowship training in laparoscopic reproductive surgery at the Society of Reproductive Surgeon/ Endoscopic Gynecologic Surgery, Center for Pelvic Health.
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After working for over 15 years in healthcare management, our next guest has experienced the frustrating inertia and exciting breakthroughs that impact the healthcare industry. Now, he’s engaging with thousands through his podcast community to promote innovation and collaboration for a better healthcare industry.
Peter Birch, CEO of Talking HealthTech, joins us to discuss his passion and mission for his podcast and membership community dedicated to connecting others to advance healthcare technology in Australia and beyond.
Join us as we learn more about Peter’s commitment to moving healthcare innovation forward through timely conversations and community collaboration. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How the idea of the Talking HealthTech Podcast came to be.
- Talking HealthTech’s glossary of health tech information and how its community is collaborating for meaningful change.
- Pete’s observations of a mindset shift in healthcare executives towards innovation and startups.
- What makes the Australian healthtech ecosystem unique and powerful.
- Pete’s plans for Talking HealthTech to scale-out globally with the help of startups and established healthcare companies.
About Our Guest:
Pete is the founder and host of Talking HealthTech, a podcast and membership community featuring Doctors, Developers, and Decision Makers looking to learn and connect about the use of technology in healthcare.
Pete is also the Company Director at MetaOptima Australia, creating intelligent technology to help doctors detect and treat skin cancer.
Additionally, Pete serves as the Company Director of the Medical Software Industry Association (MSIA), representing the software vendors of the healthcare industry in Australia.
He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA), is a qualified Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA), and Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA).
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Frustrated with the reactionary healthcare industry and nutrition treatment as a last resort, our next guest is determined to help others be proactive with their health to prevent chronic diseases and to live the long healthy lives they deserve.
Carlee Hayes, Nutrition Manager at NutriSense, joins us to discuss her company’s digital platform that aims to help others discover and reach their health potential. Through NutriSense’s powerful software and a team of expert dietitians, users can analyze their blood glucose levels in real-time to better equip them to make smarter health decisions for their nutrition and lifestyle plans.
Join us to learn more about the NutriSense mission as Carlee dives into how her team provides the tools and support to help others improve their metabolic health and enable lasting behavior change. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- What sparked Carlee’s passion for nutrition as a medical intervention.
- Why NutriSense uses blood glucose levels as their primary health biometric.
- Carlee’s personal experiences working alongside NutriSense’s users.
- NutriSense’s plans to move toward a preventive and personalized approach to nutrition.
About Our Guest:
Carlee Hayes is a registered dietitian nutritionist and the lead dietician at NutriSense – a metabolic health company that utilizes Continuous Glucose Monitoring (GCM) technology to provide real-time data to clients. Carlee also was an original founder of NutriSense, and helped the company grow from 2 dieticians to a team of over 20 within the 1st year!
As an alumnus of Western Illinois University, Carlee was able to incorporate her Dietetics degree into specializing in bariatric nutrition therapy and weight loss!
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With a desire for making a difference at an exponential scale, our next guest is passionately bringing empathy, transparency, and intelligence to every patient touchpoint outside the hospital.
Dr. Adam Silverman, Chief Medical Officer at Syllable, joins us to discuss how he and his team are helping healthcare providers remove communication barriers between patients and the care they need through conversational AI.
By alleviating accessibility burdens on patients, Dr. Silverman shares why Syllable is now the leading healthcare call center solution for a frictionless end-to-end experience.
Join us to discover how Dr. Silverman and the Syllable team are helping providers communicate with patients using Artificial intelligence. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Why Dr. Silverman’s chose to go from practicing physician executive to digital healthcare startup.
- Dr. Silverman’s feelings and insights during his career transition.
- How Syllable uses conversational AI to efficiently tackle access issues for patients.
- What end user feedback has been like for Syllable’s technology.
- Syllable’s long-term mission to care for patients throughout their healthcare journey.
About Our Guest:
Adam is a passionate healthcare innovator with 30 years of experience as a physician and executive. He has a diverse work history that includes private practice, academic medicine, and physician leadership in both hospital and ambulatory settings.
He is a board-certified General Internist who relocated to the west coast in 2019 to serve as the inaugural Chief Medical Officer of Syllable.ai. The Sunnyvale-based conversational Ai healthcare technology company focuses on improving the patient experience and reducing health care costs by promoting self-service and automation.
Adam is the host of Syllable’s podcast, “Can Silicon Valley Save Healthcare?”, which can be found on the Syllable YouTube channel. He has deep accountable and value-based care experience and has had senior leadership roles in large health systems. He co-directed the Connecticut Institute for Primary Care Innovation and has presented nationally on the concept of the primary care office of the future and population health. Adam has dedicated this portion of his professional journey to helping create a healthcare system that will have the capacity to care for his mother without his intervention.
Adam received his BA in Geography at Middlebury College, his MD at the Pennsylvania State University School of Medicine, and completed his residency at the Northwestern University School of Medicine.
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After serving abroad in the Peace Corps and seeing the opportunity to create his own business, our next guest built brick and mortar language schools in Mexico, where students could engage in true language immersion.
But his students wished they could experience the same level of immersion and education from the comfort of their homes.
Over thirteen years later, and delivering the needs and solutions his students wished for, Ray Blakney, CEO of Live Lingua, now operates the oldest online language learning school on the planet!
Along the way, Ray and his team discovered exciting opportunities to help educate and empower our healthcare workers by teaching them other languages to better serve their patients and colleagues.
Join us to hear Ray’s inspiring journey of building Live Lingua and how his company is passionately teaching new languages to improve healthcare. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Ray’s journey of becoming an entrepreneur.
- How Live Lingua was born.
- Redefining failure.
- The unique ways Live Lingua is helping our healthcare workers and industry.
- The benefits of learning a new language, both personally and professionally.
About Our Guest:
Ray Blakney is the CEO and co-founder of Live Lingua, a renowned online language school. Live Lingua offers a unique and immersive approach to mastering a new language, as it pairs users who want to learn Spanish, French, German, Chinese, and more with their own hand-picked, certified, native-speaking tutor for online teaching sessions.
An award-winning, Filipino-American entrepreneur, speaker, and podcaster, Ray builds and helps others build 6- and 7-figure businesses on a bootstrap budget using SEO.
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During this episode, Ari Tulla, CEO of Elo Health, joins us to discuss how he and his team are applying cutting-edge precision AI to personal health biomarkers to improve nutrition over time.
Additionally, Ari shares how he is tapping into his experience as a video game developer to apply game mechanics to the healthcare industry to develop and sustain healthier habits.
Join us to learn how Ari and the Elo Health team are applying personal health biomarkers to deliver precision to nutrition. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Ari’s personal journey into healthcare and his passion for precision health.
- The problems between the food market and the healthcare industry.
- How Elo Health is utilizing blood as a biomarker to generate a personalized nutrition plan.
- Two main developments that occurred over the past two years accelerated the development of smart nutrition.
About Our Guest:
Ari Tulla is a San Francisco-based entrepreneur and the co-founder & CEO of the smart nutrition service, Elo, whose mission is to transform food from the leading cause of disease to medicine. Ari is also an active angel investor and advisor with a portfolio of 40 startups, including Virta Health, Good Eggs, and Ōura. Previously, Ari was the CEO of Quest Analytics, the market leader in doctor data and network management. When not working or co-parenting his two young children with his wife, Ari spends his time on the steep cliffs, powdery slopes, and big cold waves that only Northern California can offer.
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After discovering how underserved most communities are in primary preventive care, our next guest’s mission is to revolutionize on-demand access to healthcare and unlock the full potential of telehealth so patients can receive the affordable and high-quality care they deserve.
Anthony Capone, President of DocGo, joins us to discuss how he and his team are transforming healthcare through peerless innovation and on-the-ground care.
While together, Anthony shares why DocGo is deploying a workforce of full-time traveling clinicians and proprietary AI-powered software that is dramatically improving healthcare accessibility and cost for millions of patients across the United States.
Join us for this important and timely conversation to discover how Anthony and the determined and passionate team at DocGo are redefining on-demand access to healthcare. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Why Anthony chose to focus on mobile care and how DocGo is addressing the various needs in that space.
- DocGo’s patient feedback and Anthony’s personal thoughts on the journey so far.
- Anthony’s insights on how we can reduce our healthcare spend through additional value-based care arrangements.
About Our Guest:
Anthony has served as DocGo’s president, CTO, and CPO since 2017, having built one of the nation’s largest ambulance companies and managed technology at five companies from start-up to acquisition. He also founded the largest free developer conference in the US, Engineers4Engineers, and raised hundreds of millions of dollars in assets under management.
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With over 25 years of leading technology and media companies, our next guest is leveraging his information technology expertise to drive patient engagement and create a frictionless and more meaningful patient experience.
Michael Boerner, CEO of Engage Technologies Group, joins us to discuss how he and his team are removing barriers to patient education through short-form video-based technology that transfers relevant knowledge from diagnosis to post-op instructions.
In addition, Michael also shares how Engage's efforts to close knowledge gaps are producing a strengthened relationship between providers and their patients.
Join us for this exciting conversation to discover how Michael and his team are transforming lives by removing barriers to patient education. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Why scaling information and wisdom is what drives Michael to change people’s lives for the better.
- How Engage delivers information to patients in a timely and engaging manner.
- What the patient and provider experience has been like for Engage.
- Michael’s prediction of the healthcare industry will move toward trusted automation.
About Our Guest:
Michael Boerner is the Founder and CEO of Engage Technologies Group, Inc., and
has over 25 years of experience founding and leading technology & media companies.
He is an entrepreneur responsible for innovating a number of short-form video-based enterprise technologies enabling data-driven video personalization & mass constituent engagement.
Michael is a TEDMED 2013 Frontline Scholar, as well as a national award-winning film and video producer and technologist. He led one of the first hospital pilots to use the iPad for patient engagement the day the iPad debuted on April 3rd, 2010 at the Disney Children’s Hospital in Orlando.
His company's clients have included: Johnson & Johnson, CVS, Ford, Samsung, UnitedHealthcare, DePuy, Covidien, UPMC, St. Luke’s Health System, K12, Blue Cross Blue Shield MN, and the Ken Blanchard Companies, to name a few.
In October 2009, Michael presented a new approach to patient engagement at the prestigious Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco and won the award for medical technology innovation in the crowded Launch! competition.
Mr. Boerner was appointed by the Governor of Idaho to the Governor’s Coordinating Council for Families and Children and served on the board of directors for the National Institute of Marriage, a non-profit entity started by best-selling author, Gary Smalley, to help serve marriages facing crisis.
Mr. Boerner has appeared nationally on CNN, Fox News, ABC Radio Network News, as well as numerous press articles covering his media and technology innovations. Michael’s first press coverage for entrepreneurial creativity appeared on the front page of a Gannett Newspaper when he was 14.
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After experiencing personal health issues and being dismissed by healthcare providers, our next guest is using his deep technical expertise and passion for helping others to find answers in their health data and break the limitations of wearable technology for greater performance and higher quality of life.
Patrick Samy, CEO of Span, joins us to discuss how his team is blending research, coaching, and technology to translate biometric data into personalized habit experiments to unlock a person’s health potential.
Join us to learn how Patrick and the Span team are unlocking longevity fitness. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Patrick became passionate about longevity and identifying medical interventions to support it.
- What Span does as a longevity coaching platform that uses data from your current wearable technology.
- Insights Patrick received after launching Span in the marketplace.
- The reception from consumers around the idea of experiments.
About Our Guest:
Patrick Samy has always had a passion for pursuing knowledge. As a kid, he explored the internet of the early 2000s by building websites, and in college he supplemented his Computer Science degree with classes in design and neuroscience to broaden his learning experience. So when his passions led him from engineering to the intersection of healthcare and technology with Span, Patrick dove in headfirst.
Patrick was building Skype consumer products for his job with Microsoft when he noticed that his 10-hours-a-day desk job was taking a toll on his physical activity and long-term health markers. Concerned for his health, Patrick began monitoring his health metrics with various wearable technology. But though Patrick could track the data, it didn’t help him discover what his metrics meant—or how to fix them.
It was longevity MD Adam Bataineh who helped Patrick make sense of the data and change his lifestyle effectively. Patrick delved into the world of health and technology and realized he wasn’t the only one struggling to leverage his health metrics. So he and Adam created Span, a company that analyzes data from wearables to help people maximize their health potential. Patrick’s goal isn’t just to help people improve their health metrics. He wants to help them live their best lives for as long as possible.
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Committed to unleashing the power of data and interoperability to advance the future of health and care, our next guest is helping lead the charge in connecting healthcare’s fractured data systems.
Madhuri Sebastian, GM, and Head of Data Management & Interop Solutions at Philips, joins us to discuss how she and her team utilize its integrated interoperability platform to transform data into actionable insights for better quality, care, and access.
Join us to learn how Madhuri and Philips are accelerating digital transformation for the healthcare industry to achieve life-changing health and data outcomes for billions of people across the world. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Madhuri’s journey of becoming a national leader in healthcare innovation at Philips.
- Why contemporizing health informatics and data flow can make a difference in improving the health of the world.
- How Philips achieves greater data outcomes and rectifies the issue of lack of seamless patient data sharing through its interoperability platform.
- How interoperability and data management are being used to advance cardiology outcomes.
About Our Guest:
Madhuri Sebastian is the GM and Head of Data Management & Interop Solutions at Philips, based in Boston. Madhuri joined Philips in July 2021, having been at GE Healthcare for 17 years, where she was VP of AI Clinical Partnerships. At GE Healthcare, Madhuri led the AI product development with major academic institutions in operational and workflow analytics.
Madhuri is a leader in the digital health space and brings innovation and execution together at Philips. Madhuri is on a mission to use data to enable insights for better care, quality, and access.
Madhuri’s specialties lie in:
- AI for imaging and workflow automation
- Consumption & SaaS-based business models
- Deployment, Adoption & Customer Success in SaaS solutions in healthcare
- DevOps, Service & Technical Operational Excellence
- Talent Development & Team Leadership
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With over twenty-five years of founding startups and leading global product and innovation initiatives, our next guest is leveraging his passions and skillset to help our healthcare industry rapidly and sustainably create, adopt, and implement healthcare innovation at scale.
Aaron Martin, Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Innovation Officer at Providence, joins us to discuss how he and his team are building a world-class digital innovation hub to identify unmet needs and drive solutions designed to improve health at the community level.
Additionally, Aaron shares how his previous professional pursuits set the stage for him to help lead a national movement of industry professionals prioritizing healthcare innovation that improves convenience, lowers costs, and improves quality.
Join us for this timely conversation to learn why and how Aaron and his team invest in its communities and health innovation leaders to create lasting change across the healthcare industry and our nation. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Aaron’s professional career leading up to Providence and the value he brings to the organization as someone from outside of healthcare.
- Providence Venture’s process of focusing on innovation and commercial partnership within the greater healthcare ecosystem.
- The three big opportunities health systems can take in solving some of the industry’s biggest problems.
About Our Guest:
Aaron Martin is the Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Innovation Officer for Providence where he leads Digital, Marketing, and Ventures for Providence. Aaron is also Managing General Partner for Providence Ventures where he is responsible for early stage/venture technology and device investments for the $300M Providence Venture fund.
Aaron has more than 25 years of experience in product, ventures, and technology, including leadership of the Amazon teams that transitioned traditional publishing from physical books to Kindle. He has experience as an executive/founder at two venture-backed startups and has held strategy positions at McKinsey & Company. He currently serves on the board of Wildflower Health, Avia, Xealth, and Kyruus. He is also a board member of Presbyterian Healthcare Services in New Mexico. Aaron holds a BS in Economics and Music from Austin College and an MBA in finance and healthcare management from The Wharton School.
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On a mission to transform healthcare for the good of patients, providers, and payers, our next guest is paving the way to finally connect both sides of healthcare’s fax machine.
Dr. Jeremy Friese, President of Payer Market at Olive, joins us to discuss how he and his team are building the only artificial intelligence and process automation company designed specifically for healthcare.
Join us for this inspiring conversation to discover how Dr. Friese and the Olive team are rapidly growing their Payer business in coordination with their established Provider business to deliver value across the healthcare ecosystem as they continue their march in creating the Internet of Healthcare. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- The importance of Dr. Friese’s journey at Mayo Clinic that helped enable him to be a successful entrepreneur
- Olive’s mission of connecting providers, payers, and patients to create the Internet of Healthcare
- What automation means for the healthcare industry
- Dr. Friese’s plans for Olive to play an increasing role in making the healthcare industry more interconnected
About Our Guest:
Dr. Jeremy Friese, M.D., M.B.A., is a physician executive with a demonstrated passion for improving healthcare, first as a physician executive at Mayo Clinic and then as a successful entrepreneur.
Prior to Olive, Jeremy started or invested in dozens of healthcare companies and most recently founded and led Verata Health, a venture-backed AI technology company acquired by Olive in 2019. Prior to his transition to entrepreneurship, Jeremy was an internationally recognized physician and executive at Mayo Clinic and Harvard. During his Mayo career, he held executive leadership positions for Mayo’s most profitable business, the Mayo Clinic Strategic Investment Fund, and for Global Business Development. Additionally, Jeremy served as a director on several U.S. and international boards for leading venture firms, the International Monetary Fund, and the American Cancer Society.
As Olive’s President, Payer Market, Jeremy is on a mission to transform healthcare for the good of patients, providers, and payers. His responsibilities span all activities related to Olive’s rapidly growing Payer business and coordination with Olive’s established Provider business to deliver value across the healthcare ecosystem.
Jeremy earned his M.D. at Mayo Clinic School of Medicine and his M.B.A. at Harvard Business School.
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Dedicated to fixing his health after suffering from many health issues since childhood, our next guest has dedicated himself and his company to helping others find holistic and natural recommendations based on their health data.
Joe Cohen, CEO of SelfDecode, joins us to discuss how he and his team are revolutionizing the healthcare industry by providing individuals personalized lab-based health recommendations based on their DNA. Additionally, Joe shares why SelfDecode is continually driven by its mission to help people optimize their health.
Join us for the exciting conversation to learn how Joe and the SelfDecode team are paving the way for precision health. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Joe’s passion came to be for studying genetics so he can better understand his body and become healthier
- SelfDecode’s evolution to a precision health platform for individuals based on their genetics
- What sets SelfDecode apart from other precision health companies
- Why Joe thinks healthcare is going to become more personalized in the next five years
About Our Guest:
Joe Cohen won the genetic lottery of bad genes. As a kid, he suffered from inflammation, brain fog, fatigue, digestive problems, anxiety, depression, and other issues that were poorly understood in both conventional and alternative medicine.
Frustrated by the lack of good information and tools, Joe decided to embark on a journey of self-experimentation and self-learning to improve his health - something that has since become known as "biohacking".
After creating the biohacker's ultimate resource website, SelfHacked, Joe moved on to found SelfDecode, the ultimate biotech software platform for DNA and lab-based health recommendations. Today, Joe leads a team of trained scientists, MDs, PhDs, and skilled engineers at SelfDecode to help thousands of people take their health into their own hands with holistic and natural recommendations based on their own health data.
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Deeply committed and passionate for helping drive transformational change in the healthcare industry, our next guest is leveraging digital innovation to unleash our healthcare workers' superhuman powers that significantly increase operational efficiency and consumer satisfaction.
Brian Dowd, Executive Leader of Digital Transformation and Innovation at MemorialCare, joins us to discuss how he and his team are improving individual, family, and community health by establishing and supporting an environment of technological advancement and best practice.
Additionally, Brian outlines how other healthcare leaders can cultivate a culture of mutual trust, learning, and understanding between healthcare providers and the tech industry.
Join us for this authentic, and refreshing conversation to discover how Brian and the MemorialCare team are reimagining the future of healthcare by evaluating, developing, and delivering solutions and programs that foster transformational change so many of us are seeking. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Brian’s personal experience with healthcare that springboarded his leadership role at MemorialCare
- What transformation and innovation means to MemorialCare and the patients they serve
- Real-world examples of implementing a culture of transformational innovation at MemorialCare
- Brian’s advice for innovators passionate to reimagine healthcare through technology and innovation
- What Brian thinks of healthcare’s current state of data analytics and digital transformation and where he sees it heading toward in the future
About Our Guest:
Brian C Dowd, MBA is the Executive Director of Digital Transformation and Innovation at MemorialCare Health System. He collaborates with key technical teams and is responsible for the evaluation, development, and delivery of solutions and programs that foster transformational change in line with MemorialCare’s organizational strategies, values, and priorities. His role will establish and support an environment of digital innovation and best practice, ensuring the use of evolving technologies for the benefit of consumer satisfaction and operational efficiencies.
Brian began his career at MemorialCare in 2015 where he joined the Lean Resource Office as a Lean Fellow. Brian was promoted to Master Fellow in 2018 and graduated from the MemorialCare Leadership Academy in 2019. Prior to MemorialCare, he was an Executive Director of Lease End Customer Experience where he redesigned Lexus, Toyota, and Scion leasing strategies, supply chain, marketing, financing and customer experience.
Brian received his undergraduate degree in Law and Criminal Justice from California State University, Long Beach. He also received his graduate degree in Business Administration, Management and Operations (M.B.A.) from California Coast University graduating Summa Cum Laude. Brian is also an Adjunct Professor at Concordia University Irvine where he teaches graduate-level courses in Leadership in the Masters of Healthcare Administration (M.H.A.) Program.
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Dedicating herself for over 20 years to end the needless death and suffering for patients living with allergies and asthma, our next guest answered the call to take her passion to a national scale by leading one of the most established and respected patient advocacy organizations in the United States.
Tonya Winders, President & CEO of the Allergy & Asthma Network, joins us to discuss how she and her team are engaging, educating, and empowering millions of healthcare professionals and patients to improve quality of life and promote equitable and optimal health outcomes for Americans diagnosed with respiratory conditions.
With the patient’s voice and well-being at the heart of the Allergy & Asthma Network’s mission, join us to learn how Tonya and her team are helping Americans breathe easier. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Tonya’s journey in the allergy and asthma field and growing into her position of CEO
- Allergy & Asthma Network’s grassroots operations to actively engage the patient voice and drive policy change
- How the COVID-19 pandemic opened a new door of opportunity for Allergy & Asthma Network
- Why achieving the balance between grassroots and high-speed digital engagement serves as the guiding path for the organization’s future
About Our Guest:
Tonya Winders, MBA is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Allergy & Asthma Network, the leading patient advocacy organization dedicated to ending the needless death and suffering due to asthma, allergies and related conditions.
Tonya has over 20 years experience in leadership roles within the allergy and asthma industry. From sales and marketing leadership to managed markets access, she has worked tirelessly to ensure patients have access to effective diagnostic and treatment tools.
Tonya serves on several expert panels including the ATS Public Advisory Roundtable & GINA international guidelines. Furthermore, she is on the board of directors for the Alliance to Prevent Legionnaires Disease and the American Respiratory Care Foundation and is the current president of the Global Allergy & Airways Patient Platform, representing >60 patient organizations throughout the world.
Personally, Tonya is the mother of five children, four of whom have asthma and/or allergies, ranging in age from 16-23 years old. She enjoys spending time with her husband of 26 years Brian Winders and doting on her first grandchild, Brentlee.
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Profoundly engaged in his company’s purpose to improve people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation, our next guest is guided by one consistent belief: there’s always a way to make life better.
Kees Wesdorp, Chief Business Leader of Precision Diagnosis at Philips, joins us to discuss the global transformation he and his company is leading that is helping billions of people to live healthy and prevent disease.
Additionally, Kees shares how Philips is giving clinicians the health technology tools they need to make precision diagnoses and deliver personalized care supported by a seamless flow of data.
Join us to learn how Kees is leading his team at Philips to drive a positive societal impact for billions of people worldwide. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Kees’ advice for others who are passionate about reimagining the healthcare industry
- Philips’ transition from a diversified conglomerate to a focused and globally-leading health-tech company
- What Philips’ transformation has been like for Kees and his team
- Philips’ dedication to enhancing billions of lives by 2030
About Our Guest:
Kees Wesdorp leads Philips’ Precision Diagnosis business cluster, which brings together connected diagnostic systems and integrated diagnostic insights - including imaging, monitoring, laboratory, genomics and longitudinal data - to enable a clear care pathway with predictable outcomes tailored for every patient. Kees is also a member of the Royal Philips Executive Committee and jointly responsible for Diagnosis & Treatment.
This cluster of businesses includes Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT), Advanced Molecular Imaging (AMI), Diagnostic X-Ray (DXR), Ultrasound, Enterprise Diagnostic Informatics and Precision Diagnosis Solutions (including Pathology, Oncology and neuro-radiology Solutions.)
Kees joined Philips in 2017, as the General Manager of the Diagnostic Imaging business. He led the transformation of the business by increasing customer and employee engagement, renewing the product and solutions portfolio, and improving profitability.
Prior to joining Philips, Kees was an executive vice president at Bain Capital and focused on driving transformation in selected Bain Capital portfolio companies. Before Bain Capital, Kees worked for NXP Semiconductors and was involved in the transformation of NXP in a variety of operational and functional roles in the business.
Kees is profoundly engaged with Philips' purpose of improving the health and well-being of 2.5 billion people per year by 2030, including 400 million in underserved communities. We aim to achieve this goal in part through a dynamic combination of customer engagement, technological innovation, and business transformation.
Kees is married and has four children, lives in Bloemendaal in the Netherlands. He is currently engaged in health and well-being mentoring, and enjoys running and skiing.
“By advancing precision diagnosis, Philips aims to turn the most defining moments in healthcare into a clear care pathway with predictable outcomes for every patient.” -Kees Wesdorp
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With the impending obsolescence of 3G technology, and the detrimental impact this poses for our nation’s seniors and at-risk population, our next guest is leading the charge in helping these individuals live safely in their homes while we transition to 5G technology.
John Brady, CFO & COO of Connect America, joins us to discuss how his team delivers innovative connected care solutions into the home that improve the safety, care, and quality of life of thousands of individuals across the country.
Additionally, John outlines how he and his team are helping lead the charge during this critical time of network migration.
Join us as John shares his expertise and perspective on how we can continue to safely connect and care for our fellow Americans in their home. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- John’s observations on the tech industry’s rapidly evolving trends
- Connect America’s role as North America’s largest provider of Personal Emergency Response Services
- How Connect America adapted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
- The current state of 3G and its impact on the elderly and vulnerable populations
- John’s perspective of what we need to do to safely transition from 3G to 5G
About Our Guest:
John Brady is Connect America’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), where he manages supply chain, fulfillment, customer service, and financial operations for the company.
A long-time industry veteran, John established The Resource Group, Inc. and later transferred the Security Group to TRG Associates, Inc. Previously, John acted as General Manager, Installation, and Service Manager for more than twenty alarm companies, with a focus on improving installation quality, service response, technical training, and system design.
Earlier in his career, John served as Controller for the Mount Tolman Mining project on the Colville Indian Reservation in Grand Coulee, WA. Before that, he held CFO or Treasury positions with Page Wilson, Smith & Wesson, and Setlowear prior to joining Securitylink as CFO.
John earned his MBA from Babson College and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a Connecticut CPA certification.
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After studying the healthcare industry from the inside out for over 25 years, our next guest was inspired to create a company that would bring other leaders together who have a passion for succeeding, learning, and delivering improved access and value of the healthcare dollar.
Mike Waterbury, CEO of Goodroot, joins us to discuss how he and his team are developing a community of businesses to improve the current state of the healthcare industry and reform and replace inefficiencies that hold the industry back. In addition, Mike shares his vision in creating a solution for better health plans to reduce the burden of medical debt for patients across the nation.
Join us for this inspiring conversation as Mike shares how he’s bringing passionate leaders together to reinvent healthcare one system at a time. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Mike’s eye-opening revelations about the healthcare system
- Goodroot’s family of companies that's focused on reinventing healthcare, one system at a time
- Why Mike believes medical debt is healthcare oppression and how we can end the cycle
- Goodroot’s focus on creating solutions that they can offer to all customer types
About Our Guest:
For over 25 years Mike has studied the healthcare system from the inside out.
He advanced from a financial role to an executive leadership role at Oxford Health Plans, and then Magellan Health Services. While at Magellan, Mike pioneered the integration of ICORE Healthcare, a company focused on solving specialty pharmacy challenges, and the development of a new medical pharmacy program.
Mike was inspired to create a company that could be built from his years of industry expertise, the result—RemedyOne. He wanted to bring together talented minds—people who, like him, had a passion to succeed and to learn, and who pay attention to the details necessary to make real and lasting change, regardless of how complex the situation.
Most recently, to further the RemedyOne mission, Mike has launched Goodroot, building a team and community of companies committed to dedicating their time and careers to reinventing healthcare one system at a time. That team has created a passionate culture Mike is proud of, and has produced outcomes that have changed thousands of lives for the better by saving over $800M in healthcare costs.
Today, he continues to free and amplify talent to join the Goodroot cause working towards a goal of saving the healthcare system $30 Billion in the next five years.
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As the costs of genomic sequencing continue to decrease, our next guest's mission is to ensure all stakeholders understand this technology's transformative power and why it will positively impact personalized medicine for generations to come.
Dr. Mikolaj Raszek, Founder of Merogenomics, joins us to discuss how his company is enhancing safe access to genomic sequencing technologies worldwide.
Additionally, Dr. Raszek shares why he believes we all should take an active role with genomic sequencing as we continue to shape our collective knowledge and understanding of it from biological, ethical, and legal points of view.
Join us for this needed conversation as we learn how Dr. Raszekj and the Mergogenomics team are improving access to genomic sequencing. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Mikolaj’s background that contributed to his passion to study genome sequencing
- Merogenomics’ services of providing access to medical DNA testing
- The one DNA test Dr. Mikolaj recommends everyone should do
- How Merogenomics can contribute to a future where genome sequencing is widely available and included in general medical practice
About Our Guest:
Merogenomics Inc., based in Edmonton, Canada, was founded by Dr. Mikolaj Raszek in 2015, who currently manages the corporation. Dr. Mikolaj Raszek holds a degree in Honours Genetics as well as a doctorate degree in Biochemistry, both obtained at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. During graduate studies, Dr. Raszek became excited by combinatorial biosynthesis and its application to genomics.
After defending his PhD dissertation, Dr. Raszek moved to Germany in 2012 to work at the University of Leipzig. Continued interest in microbial genomics exposed him to the still novel but burgeoning field of genomic medicine based on human DNA sequencing, and he decided to continue his career in this area of science.
Upon his return to Canada in 2013, Dr. Raszek found employment in Edmonton at Livestock Gentec, a young company dedicated to exploring the commercial benefits of genomic research in the Canadian livestock industry. The benefits that genomic sequencing could offer became clear, and in 2014 Dr. Raszek decided to start a business that would provide access to genome sequencing to the general public. Merogenomics Inc. came into existence to provide greater awareness and education about the benefits (and limitations) of genome sequencing.
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After being continually frustrated with his experience with the pharmaceutical industry, our next guest is building a game-changing company that delivers prescriptions straight to a patient’s location with a simple tap of a button.
Eric Kinariwala, CEO of Capsule, joins us to discuss why and how he and his team provide consumers with the simplest and easiest way to manage their medications.
Additionally, Eric outlines why the pharmacy serves as the highest interaction point in healthcare and how Capsule has become a trusted brand that consumers and providers can rely upon during their healthcare journey.
Join us to learn how Eric and his team are rebuilding the pharmacy industry that enables customized outcomes for doctors, hospitals, insurers, and manufacturers. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Eric’s personal experience that led him to founding Capsule
- The importance of mothers as a guiding principle for Capsule’s journey
- Why consumer preferences and incentives are so important to Capsule’s business model
- Eric’s view of the pharmacy’s role in the greater healthcare ecosystem
About Our Guest:
Eric Kinariwala is the founder and CEO of Capsule, a technology business rebuilding the pharmacy industry from the inside out with an emotionally resonant consumer experience and technology that enables customized outcomes for doctors, hospitals, insurers, and manufacturers. Capsule has raised over $500 million from some of the best healthcare and technology investors in the world, including Durable Capital, Baillie Gifford, T Rowe Price, TCV, and Thrive Capital.
Prior to founding Capsule, Eric invested in global healthcare, technology, and retail companies as part of the investment teams at Bain Capital and Perry Capital. He received his undergraduate degree as a University Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and earned his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he held the position of Chief Investment Officer of GSB Endowment Student Investment Trust.
Eric is an EY Entrepreneur of the Year winner and has by interviewed in publications including Fast Company, Fortune, Bloomberg, and the Wall Street Journal; appeared on television including CNBC, Fox Business, CNN, PBS, and ABC; and presented at conferences including ShopTalk, HLTH, NRF Big Show, and TechCrunch Disrupt.
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After serving as an active-duty military physician, our next guest harnessed her passion and dedication for advancing telehealth and has emerged as a leading entrepreneur moving the industry forward in profound ways.
Dr. Laura Purdy, Co-Founder of MD Integrations, joins us to discuss how she and her team have built a telemedicine technology company that serves as an all-in-one solution for every constituent they serve.
As her team addresses the discrepancies in healthcare, Dr. Purdy shares how her platform supports companies and clinics in the virtual care space with its best-in-class telemedicine portal integrated with a physician-only clinical network.
Join us to learn from Dr. Purdy as she and her team continue to shape the future of telehealth and strive for higher quality and more accessible healthcare across the nation. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Purdy’s full-time transition from military physician to telehealth medicine practitioner
- The public perception of telemedicine before and after COVID-19
- What MD Integrations offers its clients looking to create their own telehealth company
- Why telehealth is here to stay
- Dr. Purdy’s call to innovators to work together to further support and improve the telehealth industry
About Our Guest:
Dr. Laura Purdy is a board-certified family medicine physician currently licensed in 48 states. She served as a physician in the US Army for 14 years and has worked in both outpatient and inpatient settings providing care for all ages.
Additionally, she has held several leadership positions in the telemedicine industry, with experience as a virtual health physician, medical director, consultant, and PC Owner. Dr. Purdy believes that telemedicine is the future of healthcare, and is excited to offer virtual health services to patients across the country.
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After personally experiencing the brokenness of the American healthcare industry with the death of his father, our next guest has become a national-leading advocate of market-based reform and is building healthcare’s superstore that delivers convenient, high-quality, full-scope medical care at affordable prices.
David Goldhill, CEO of Sesame, joins us to discuss his team’s strategy of bringing healthcare services into the 21st century by removing the complexities and commitments that burden its consumers for a meaningfully better experience.
Join us to learn why and how David and the Sesame team are on a mission to deliver radically normal healthcare for our nation as we continue to work together to move our industry forward. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- David’s critique of the lack of democratization of healthcare services
- Sesame’s direct-pay platform for patients and providers to sell and buy healthcare services in a normal way
- Sesame’s innovations before and during the pandemic that ensures patients receive great value from their services
- Why hasn’t a healthcare marketplace such as Sesame’s been able to previously exist?
About Our Guest:
David Goldhill is the founder and CEO of Sesame, which operates an innovative direct pay marketplace for the full range of health care services. Sesame (https://sesamecare.com/) launched its service in Kansas City in 2019. Goldhill has been a leading voice of market-based health care reform since publication of “How American Health Care Killed My Father” as the cover story of the September 2009 issue of The Atlantic.
Goldhill is the author of “Catastrophic Care: Why Everything We Think We Know about Health Care is Wrong” (Knopf, January 2013) and of “The Real Costs of American Health Care” (Vintage 2016). He is co-editor of New York’s Next Health Care Revolution (Manhattan Institute, 2015). Goldhill is chair of the Board of Directors of the Leapfrog Group, an employer-sponsored organization dedicated to hospital safety and transparency.
In his business career, Goldhill was president and CEO of GSN, which operates a US cable television network seen in 80 million homes and one of the world’s largest digital games companies. He previously served as president and COO of Universal Television Group, the largest division of Universal Studios. In this capacity, he oversaw all operations at the company’s domestic and international cable television networks, cable and network television studios, first-run syndication business and worldwide television distribution.
Goldhill was also chairman and CEO of Independent Network Holdings, Ltd. (INTH), which created and operated the TV3 television network in Russia. Prior, Goldhill was the CFO of Act III Communications, a privately-owned holding company with interests in television stations, movie theaters, magazines, and film/television production. He has served as Director of Commerce Hub (CHUBA), Expedia (EXPE), eLong (LONG), and numerous private companies.
Goldhill graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. degree in history and holds an M.A. degree in history from New York University.
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With 50 million Americans living with autoimmune conditions, our next guest is on a mission to bring personalized care to each and every patient.
Rory Stanton, Founder of Aila Health, joins us to discuss how she and her team have built a virtual precision health clinic to empower patients to understand and manage their symptoms with online education, supportive communities, and expert holistic care from their board-certified doctors.
Join us to learn how Rory and her team at Aila Health are taking aim at personalizing autoimmune care for millions of people across our country. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Why the silos in healthcare served as Rory’s main reason to start Aila Health
- Aila Health’s integrative approach to clinical services for systemic diseases
- The importance of data to Aila Health’s mission on improving autoimmune care
- Aila Health’s migration towards value-based care that provides better outcomes for its patients at a lower cost
About our Guest:
Rory Stanton is the founder and CEO of Aila Health, a virtual-first care platform for patients living with complex autoimmune conditions. She received her MBA from UC Berkeley and her undergraduate degree in Human Biology from Brown University. Prior to graduate school, she led the Digital Patient Product Team at Decision Resources Group, where she worked with life sciences companies to develop their digital engagement strategies to improve the experience for autoimmune patients. Currently, she leverages her decade of expertise in digital health and interacting with patient communities to lead Aila’s product and commercial teams. She is passionate about building consumer-driven healthcare experiences that meet the patient where they are to drive better outcomes. Her mission is to generate new evidence in women’s health, advancing clinical care and research for inflammatory conditions, so that millions who are so often underserved will get access to the personalized care that they need.
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During these times of significant acceleration in digital transformation, our next guest is pushing the healthcare industry to embrace and implement structural change so organizations can deliver their mission in effective ways.
Alex Castro, CEO of M Corp, joins us to discuss how he leads the world's only outcome management company focused on selecting and executing strategic initiatives that deliver a faster and more successful outcome.
Additionally, Alex discusses his book, 'Measure, Execute, Win,' which examines the industry's cognitive biases that profoundly influence decision-making practices and the need to strip those biases out for more precise data-driven services.
Join us to learn how Alex and his team are bridging the gap between strategy and execution so companies can maximize outcomes. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- M Corp’s origins and Alex’s work in the immunization space
- The disruptive market shift from information-gathering back to information-utilization
- The industry’s predisposed biases and beliefs discussed and why they contribute to healthcare’s structural issues
- Why the industry needs to move away from ancillary practices and towards adaptation and mission delivery
About our Guest:
Alex Castro is Co-founder and CEO of M Corp, where they believe your potential is their purpose. He is an execution strategist, has a best-selling book 'Measure, Execute, Win,' and has developed platforms that take ideas to outcome faster and more successfully.
One area of M Corp's expertise is public health, where they have been guiding and delivering immunization program outcomes for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state public health departments for more than 16 years. In the last 18 months, M Corp has delivered the initial COVID-19 vaccine ordering systems and deployed cloud-based robotic process automation solutions to clear backlogged and pending data records to enhance COVID reporting, forecasting, and rollout digital vaccine records.
Alex is a father of two, an avid rower, mountain biker, and hiker, and lives in the mountains not too far from Lake Tahoe.
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After coming to grips that his professional work was creating data silos, our next guest set out to fix what he sees as healthcare’s number one problem- the disconnection of the data ecosystem.
Ardy Arianpour, CEO of Seqster, joins us to discuss how his company has become an industry leader capable of aggregating, standardizing, and visualizing disparate health data into a comprehensive 360-degree view of a patient in real-time.
While together, Ardy also shares why Seqster is poised to help lead the revolution of breaking down data silos.
Join us for this passionate conversation to learn how Ardy and the Seqster team make it quick and easy for anyone to have real-time access to their health data. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Ardy’s beginnings in the healthcare industry that gave him the idea of creating true longitudinal health records
- His fateful meeting with Bills Gates and the importance of transparent data sharing
- The top 3 things that Ardy’s most excited about and what sets Seqster apart from other healthcare data companies
- Ardy’s future vision for the industry
About our Guest:
Ardy Arianpour is CEO & Co-Founder of Seqster, the leading patient-centric SaaS healthcare technology company that enables organizations to drive efficient healthcare via comprehensive medical records (EHR), individual genomic profiles (DNA), and personal health device data. For the first time, users create their own matched, longitudinal health data profile across all of their US-based healthcare data sources through person-centric interoperability.
Ardy is a visionary health tech executive and serial entrepreneur in biotech and digital health. Prior to starting Seqster, Ardy launched several clinical and consumer-based genetic tests as CCO of Pathway Genomics, and served as SVP of Ambry Genetics, which sold to Konica in 2017 for $1 Billion.
As a key player in the 2013 landmark SCOTUS decision scrapping gene patents, Ardy played an instrumental role in expanding genetic testing access with the launch of BRCA testing benefiting patients and family members across the country.
Ardy received his BS in Biological Sciences from UC Irvine and an MBA from Marshall Goldsmith School of Management. He was a Medical, Marketing, and Media’s (MM&M) Top 40 Healthcare Transformer and San Diego Business Journal 40 under 40.
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Living in a world where the digital and physical realities have begun to intertwine, our next guest is rewriting the standard healthcare playbook by providing accessible quality front-end medical services to achieve a positive global impact.
Iulian Circo, Co-Founder of Hyfe, joins us to discuss how his team has built the world’s most advanced AI-assisted cough classifier that provides individuals and physicians essential diagnostic information. Julian also shares how Hyfe is empowering its patients by combining acoustic epidemiology and AI learning that delivers cost-effective and real-time data to their smartphone.
As innovation in healthcare is rapidly accelerating, join us to discover how Iulian is transforming the industry and impacting global health through advancing AI cough detection. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Iulian’s roots in humanitarian work helped him create a purpose-driven tech startup that resonates with his customers
- Hyfe’s clinical applications for individuals and physicians as a digital platform that quantifies coughs at scale
- How Hyfe is building their machine learning model by collecting millions of real world sample data
- The big changes Iulian’s excited to see coming into healthcare, including the transfer to a digital space that provides better accessibility and diagnostics
About our Guest:
Iulian Circo is the Co-Founder of Hyfe, the world's best acoustic AI cough detector. He is a serial entrepreneur and recovering humanitarian operating at the frontiers of technology and impact.
Iulian has taken to scale and founded global impact ventures in health and fintech, among others. These included dozens of humanitarian missions as well as building & running country operations for global organizations in places such as Somalia and Mozambique. Iulian is also actively involved with several impact-minded ventures, either as co-founder, adviser, investor, or board member.
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After recognizing the public health perspective was missing from the world of entrepreneurship and innovation, our next guest is passionately leveraging his medical expertise to help entrepreneurs make a positive impact on the healthcare industry.
Dr. Behrooz Behbod, CEO of The Entrepreneur's Doctor, joins us to discuss how he's mentoring entrepreneurs from non-healthcare backgrounds to navigate the clinical sector and dive deeper into tackling the underlying causes affecting our health across all sectors of society. Additionally, Dr. Behbod shares highlights from his book, "Startup Therapy," which gives his clients a roadmap to transform their passion into a startup to improve societal health and wellbeing.
Join us for this enlightening conversation to discover how Dr. Behbod and his team are helping startup businesses reshape the framework of public healthcare for a healthier and happier world. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- The events that finally urged Dr. Behbod to take action and launch The Entrepreneur’s Doctor.
- “Startup Therapy’s” top byline of teaching entrepreneurs how to overcome the challenges involved with creating their health startup.
- What the term “start up” means to him and his team, and the importance of entrepreneurship to the innovation economy.
- The three pillars that will make their public health approach more tangible.
About our Guest:
Dr Behrooz Behbod, aka The Entrepreneur’s Doctor, helps Entrepreneurs create a healthier, happier world. Behrooz is a Harvard, Oxford, and US CDC trained public health / preventive medicine physician, Chief Medical Officer to startups & scaleups, and author of Startup Therapy. Learn more: www.entrepreneurs.doctor
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“Sometimes a little revolution is a good thing” are the words of our next guest after his frustrating experience with navigating the healthcare system. Now, he embarks on a mission to disrupt the industry’s status quo to create a long-lasting and positive impact.
Michael Wood, Chief Strategy Officer of Insightin Health, joins us to discuss how his team has built an industry-leading platform to provide a complete personalized member engagement experience for each step of their healthcare journey. Additionally, Michael outlines how his company’s technology leverages quality health plan measurements and member experience along the way.
Join us for this bold conversation to learn how Michael and his team are humanizing the healthcare experience by creating an effective and needed shift in the industry towards a healthier population for health plans. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Michael’s personal history with navigating the healthcare system that led to his desire for industry change
- What it’s been like for Michael on his unexpected journey as an entrepreneur
- Insightin Health’s aim to work with health insurers to connect the data ecosystems together
- What Insightin Health is doing to improve their front-end user’s experience and positively impact the industry
- Insightin Health’s path towards market consolidation and elevating both mental and behavioral health into the mainstream
About our Guest:
As Chief Strategy Officer, Michael Wood provides strategic consulting and technology guidance to Insightin Health’s customers. His deep insight into the Medicare Advantage marketplace provides the team with a highly informed and knowledgeable view from the health plan’s perspective. Prior to Insightin Health, Michael led program management at Highmark, with a focus on member engagement and member experience.
Beginning with his work for the UK Department of Work & Pensions, Michael has focused his career around complex transformation in public change. An Accenture alum, he spent time working within the Human Change team providing consulting, technology implementation, and business analysis for various direct-to-consumer industries.
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From the operating room to building a tech company, our next guest is determined to fix the fragmented state of the healthcare administrative process so healthcare providers can return to focusing on what they do best- taking care of their patients.
Dr. Ian Madom, Chief Strategy Officer of Mocingbird, joins us to discuss why and how he built a CME management platform that automates the process of continuing education requirements, and makes license renewal and CME compliance efficient, accurate, and easy.
Join us for this passionate discussion with Dr. Madom as he and his team continue their pursuit to innovate the process of ongoing credentialing that will lead to a better, more efficient, and more empowered healthcare industry. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How administrative pain points Dr. Madom and his colleagues experienced led to the creation of Mocingbird
- How his experience as a tech entrepreneur enriched his role as a physician
- The importance of Mocingbird as a service education platform for healthcare providers in today’s industry
- Dr. Madom’s goal of working with organizations to move towards providing more efficient and accessible care at a lower cost
About our Guest:
Dr. Madom is the co-founder of Mocingbird and currently serves as the Chief Strategy Officer for the company. His passion is creating solutions to the fourth pillar of the Quadruple Aim: Improving the Healthcare Provider Experience. Dr. Madom is an Orthopedic Spine Surgeon at Orthopedics Rhode Island where he serves as a clinical and organizational leader. He has focused his practice on innovation and robotics in spine surgery as well as assisting hospitals with service line development. Dr. Madom is a fellow of the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery and the American Association of Orthopedic Surgery. He also serves as teaching faculty for AO Spine/AO North America and is an active member of the North American Spine Society. Dr. Madom has spoken on this topic at various conferences including Startup Grind in Silicon Valley and has appeared in media outlets such as NBC and CBS.
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After personally experiencing persistent inefficient knowledge transfer between him and his patients, our next guest is making it his mission to enhance physician efficiency by incorporating doctor-created digital explanations into their practice.
Dr. David Grew, CEO of PRIMR, joins us to discuss how he utilizes his passion for teaching to build a digital platform for healthcare providers who can create curated medical content for their patients to view securely and on-demand and free from misinformation.
Join us to find out how Dr. Grew and his team are shifting the current knowledge paradigm by creating a new future for healthcare communication and education at scale. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Dr. Grew’s time doing whiteboard teaching for medical students served as the big lightbulb movement to create PRIMR
- PRIMR’s aim to solve the inefficient knowledge transfer between doctor and patient
- How Dr. Grew overcame the hurdle of ensuring the security of patient-specific data and information
- Dr. Grew’s advice and insights for those interested in pursuing entrepreneurship
- Where PRIMR’s content creation focus fits into an industry where automations and workflows are quickly advancing
About our Guest:
David Grew is a radiation oncologist and the founder of PRIMR, a new platform for doctors to share digitally recorded versions of their common explanations with patients. He is the chair of the Cancer Committee at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, CT and has numerous peer reviewed publications and oral presentations at international medical conferences on an array of cancer types including head and neck, breast, lung, gastrointestinal and prostate cancer. His vision for doctors in the future: "Where my predecessors sketched on exam table paper, the next generation of doctors will conduct an orchestra of their own digital assets." He is a pioneer in the growing new category of doctor creators.
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After personally experiencing chronic anxiety and seeing many others suffer the same, our next guest is bringing relationship-centered behavioral healthcare into the spotlight and creating access to it at scale.
Denise Shiffman, CEO of GroupWell, joins us to discuss how she utilizes her background in data science and analytics to offer effective personalized care in a virtual group setting that enables individuals to connect and heal with others in meaningful and sustained ways.
In a global pandemic that makes us feel more isolated than ever, join us for this encouraging conversation and learn how Denise and her team are changing the future through the healing power of shared experiences and mutual support. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Denise’s experience with chronic anxiety and her introduction to group therapy
- GroupWell’s systematic and data-driven approach to virtual group therapy and how it differs from individual therapy
- The logistical and financial accessibility of virtual group therapy
- The impact of social health on societal and individual physical and mental well being
- GroupWell’s goals for an industry-wide systematic measurement approach that is built upon applying real time data to therapy
About our Guest:
Studying sociology and organizational behavior as an undergrad and graduate student, Denise has always been curious about what makes people and groups tick. She built a career that has spanned leading product management for a $4B product portfolio to pursuing product market fit in an early-stage startup by deeply understanding customers and underserved market needs.
Recently, when Denise experienced chronic anxiety, her therapist recommended she go to group therapy. That set her on a journey of discovery into the extraordinary value of group therapy and the difficulty in finding and joining a group with the right fit, leading her to found GroupWell, a data-driven group therapy telehealth designed to solve these challenges.
As a top operator leading product management, marketing, R&D, and operations teams at companies including GlaxoSmithKline, DriveScale (acquired by Twitter), Juniper Networks, and Sun Microsystems, Denise has seen firsthand the mental health impact that chronic stress and anxiety has had on members of her teams. This deepened her passion to bring advancements in tech to mental health.
A runner and hiker, Denise has learned balance through exercise, deep breathing, eating lean, and carving out ample quality time with friends and family. Denise enjoys mentoring and supporting women and early-stage founders. And she is deeply grateful for the support she receives from others.
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After personally experiencing suboptimal solutions meant to tackle the problems present in healthcare administration, our next guest made it her mission to create game-changing technologies to empower our overburdened healthcare workers and to eliminate patient waiting rooms.
Shelby Sanderford, CEO of DOCPACE, joins us to discuss how her company is using artificial intelligence and data science to keep schedules operating at maximum throughput and streamline communication and efficiency for healthcare businesses.
Join us to learn how Shelby and her team are revolutionizing healthcare administration using their data-driven tool that allows industry leaders to run a high-volume practice and deliver high-value care. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How a pair of Toms Shoes and a Gandhi quote led to the creation of DOCPACE
- Ho DOCPACE is benefiting both the provider and patient by eliminating wait times using AI
- The importance of end-user feedback for the success of DOCPACE
- Why Shelby chooses to look at the future of her company and the healthcare industry through a positive lens during these challenging times
About our Guest:
Shelby is a New Orleanian with a background in Healthcare Administration and a passion for improving healthcare logistics for providers and patients. Shelby and DOCPACE completed the Idea Village accelerator program, VillageX, where she was the recipient of the IdeaPitch Award for the 2020 Cohort. Her mission to eliminate wait time for doctor’s appointments began in 2014 when realizing advanced data science and real-time monitoring was the solution to Healthcare’s uniquely challenging coordination inefficiencies. Shelby’s patent-pending technologies efficiently align healthcare provider’s time with healthcare consumer’s needs thus reducing wait times, eliminating wait room crowding, and allowing caregivers to see more patients. She is a graduate of Tulane University’s MBA program and an alum of Southern Methodist University where she got her BS degree in Applied Physiology and Enterprise.
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After surviving brain cancer that put an end to his dreams of becoming a concert pianist, our next guest rerouted his fiery passion and became a global leading cancer advocate for his generation by igniting conversations and activating others through the simplicity of radio.
Matthew Zachary, CEO of Offscrip Media, joins us to discuss his journey of building an unshakable community, amplifying voices, and promoting health equity and patient advocacy through the power of storytelling.
Additionally, Matthew discusses his original nonprofit, Stupid Cancer, and how he created the young adult cancer movement advocating for age-appropriate equity and dignity for millions worldwide.
Join us for this moving and powerful conversation as Matthew continues his march to improve the quality of life for patients and caregivers in oncology and rare disease. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Matthew’s experience with cancer and how it led him to founding his first nonprofit, Stupid Cancer.
- Matthew’s 3 key influencers for Stupid Cancer and its fundamental premise to disrupt society’s conversation on cancer.
- Creating Offscrip Media and America’s desire to consume content and healthcare.
- His hill to die on: channeling the anger of his listeners towards creating effective policy and guaranteeing consumer protections.
- The democratization of health services and economics.
About our Guest:
Ten years after surviving brain cancer at age 21, Matthew Zachary founded the award-winning nonprofit Stupid Cancer, created The Stupid Cancer Show (the first health podcast), and gave birth to the young adult cancer movement advocating for age-appropriate equity and dignity for millions worldwide.
Having stepped down as CEO of Stupid Cancer in 2019, Matthew is now Co-Founder and CEO of OffScrip Media, the first audio broadcast network and educational publisher focused on health equity and patient advocacy.
Hailed as "The Howard Stern of Healthcare" and "The People's Voice in Healthcare," Matthew is still behind the mic with his acclaimed show Out of Patients, a no-BS podcast about how to make healthcare suck less for cancer and rare disease communities.
Matthew is also an award-winning concert pianist and film composer. He lives with his wife and twins in Brooklyn, NY.
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“Sometimes the simplest of ideas become the most disruptive innovations” are the words of our next guest as she passionately develops actionable research solutions with the goal of reforming the country’s criminal justice system.
Dr. Carrie Pettus, Executive Director of the Institute for Justice Research and Development at Florida State University, joins us to discuss her vision of reducing the reliance on the criminal justice system by providing solutions that promote the overall wellbeing of incarcerated individuals, communities, and professionals working within the system.
Join us for this insightful, timely and important conversation as Dr. Pettus shares how she and her team are working towards making an impact in criminal justice reform using science-backed research and data driven solutions. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- What brought Dr. Pettus to launching a research institute for prison reform
- The reception from Florida State University towards her research
- Her approach that calls for improving the overall wellbeing and trauma symptoms of both parties involved in the criminal justice system
- Identifying the prevention points of adults cycling in and out of prison
- The institute’s plans for adopting artificial intelligence and machine learning while still acting within its ethical confines
About our Guest:
Dr. Carrie Pettus is Associate Professor of Social Work at Florida State University and
Founding Executive Director of the Institute for Justice Research and Development.
Dr. Pettus conducts applied research on smart decarceration of prisons and jails through policy and practice intervention development. Pettus generates research on ameliorating racial, economic, and behavioral health disproportionality. She works with community partners to develop interventions to enhance positive social support, treat trauma experiences and behavioral health disorders, and generate well-being for those impacted by criminal justice involvement.
Dr. Pettus holds a doctorate in social work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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While experiencing a chronic condition that greatly impacted her daily life, our next guest leveraged her knowledge of big data for a better cause to help herself and others around the world.
Bettina Hein, CEO of juli, joins us to discuss how she and her team are helping users manage their chronic conditions such as asthma, migraine, depression, bipolar disorder, and chronic pain.
Additionally, Bettina overviews her innovative approach of using secure data tracking and artificial intelligence that assesses a patient’s current state of health to make daily actionable improvements to their condition.
Join us to learn how Bettina and her company are transforming people’s lives by helping others manage their chronic diseases with an AI-powered app that combines their healthcare data in one place. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Why juli was founded because of Bettina’s personal experiences
- Why juli is focused on being a chronic condition digital platform that applies a modern science data-centric approach directly to the patient and for the patient
- Bettina’s plans to expand juli’s library of chronic conditions and to share more health data without compromising its user’s privacy
- The potential of technologies such as juli in aiding the youth and fellow parents
About our Guest:
Bettina Hein is a serial software entrepreneur that has built technology companies in both Europe and the United States. She is most recently the founder of digital health startup juli, her third software company. She is also the founder of Pixability, a video advertising company in Boston. Prior to Pixability, Bettina co-founded SVOX, the Swiss-based speech technology company which was acquired by Nuance Communications (NUAN) for $125 million. Bettina has received numerous awards and recognitions such as the 2018 Immigrant Entrepreneur of the Year Award, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, L’Oreal NEXT Generation Award, and The Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40 Award.” Bettina holds an MS degree from MIT, a law degree from the University of Constance, and a business degree from the University of St. Gallen. Bettina holds two software patents and is the co-author of Video Marketing for Dummies. She is also a “shark” on the Swiss version of Shark Tank called “Höhle der Löwen Schweiz.”
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With over 30 years of experience as a senior global leader in the pharmaceutical industry, our next guest is transforming standard of care therapies with proprietary transdermal technology to improve the quality of treatment for patients living with cancer and to give them the opportunity for a healthier future.
Pedro Lichtinger, CEO of Starton Therapeutics, joins us to discuss how his team is developing their approach and technology to provide people with cancer the reality for a longer, high-quality life by unlocking the full potential of approved drugs.
Join us to learn how Pedro and his team are setting a new standard in oncology treatment development that is poised to move this field of healthcare innovation forward. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Pedro’s advice for aspiring healthcare innovators
- Pedro’s background in the healthcare industry and the scientist who gave him the idea that led to the creation of Starton Therapeutics
- How Starton Therapeutics helps benefit cancer patients’ lives by transforming given medicines into a more effective and accessible form
- Why Pedro believes that in the future cancer can be managed like a chronic disease
About our Guest:
Pedro Lichtinger is the Chairman and CEO of Starton Therapeutics. An industry executive with a 37-year career in biotechnology and a proven track record of developing turnaround and financing strategies, executing strategic alliances, and building commercial and R&D capabilities.
He is the former President and CEO of Asterias Biotherapeutics and Optimer Pharmaceuticals with 16 years’ experience at Pfizer Inc as President of Global Primary Care and President of Europe.
Pedro currently serves on the Advisory Board of Zero Gravity. He holds an MBA degree from Wharton School of Business and an engineering degree from the National University of Mexico.
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While COVID-19 served as a turning point for telehealth and remote care, our next guest had already created an industry-leading virtual healthcare experience for patients and healthcare professionals well before the pandemic.
Julian Flannery, CEO of Summus, joins us to discuss how and why his organization has built a virtual medical platform for companies across the country that creates an elevated healthcare experience for their employees and supports better, cost-efficient outcomes across all health questions and stages of care.
Join us to learn how Julian and the Summus team are setting a new standard for speed of access to high-quality medical expertise that is driving industry-leading engagement with employers. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Julian developed the idea of applying his research and experience with tech-enabled platforms to the healthcare industry
- The industry’s reception of the Summus platform
- How Summus serves as a virtual front door for the market and the members it serves
- Julian’s hopes of moving the industry away from a tapestry approach
About our Guest:
Julian Flannery is the founder and CEO of Summus Global. He previously served on the management team and was Managing Director, Global Research at Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG), the world's largest membership-based platform for professional expertise. He oversaw GLG's service operation, products, and content, and directed management of its 400,000+ expert membership base. He formerly worked at Morgan Stanley as Associate and Chief of Staff to the Chairman & CEO and in Special Situations and Investment Banking. In 2001, he served in The White House as an aide to the Chief of Staff to the President. He received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and B.A. in Economics from Duke University.
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As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin, it may seem that type 2 diabetes treatment has come a long way. However, therapeutics and treatment have evolved very little since 1921. Our next guest is a scientist turned entrepreneur who is determined to create innovative breakthroughs that address the root cause of type 2 diabetes. By leveraging his groundbreaking insights of the intestine's role in metabolic disease, his company is developing entirely new treatment approaches to type 2 diabetes and other metabolic diseases.
Dr. Harith Rajagopalan, CEO of Fractyl Health, joins us to discuss his vision of a healthier society free from the burdens of metabolic diseases and how you can get involved.
Join us as Dr. Rajagopalan shares his journey towards changing the trajectory of metabolic disease risk that will move the health of our communities forward. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Rajagopalan’s career change from physician to entrepreneur
- Fractal Health’s origin story and the company’s passion of tackling the root cause of diabetes
- Why gut health is so important for overall health
- Fractal Health’s long-term goal of reducing the risk of various metabolic diseases
About our Guest:
Harith Rajagopalan, M.D., Ph.D., is Co-founder and CEO of Fractyl, having started the company while serving as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at General Catalyst Partners. Prior to founding Fractyl, Harith was an academic cardiologist and physician-scientist. He received his B.S. in chemistry from Stanford University and went on to obtain M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. At Johns Hopkins, Harith did groundbreaking and award-winning research on intestinal cancers that was published in top medical journals including Nature and Science. After medical school, Harith trained in internal medicine and clinical cardiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and completed a research fellowship at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute at Harvard Medical School.
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With a storied career in the gaming and emerging technology industries, our next guest is leveraging his expertise and passion for creating game-changing virtual reality experiences to level up the fields of neuro and behavioral science.
Amir Bozorgzadeh, CEO of Virtuleap, joins us to discuss how his team is advancing virtual reality gaming and artificial intelligence to develop high-quality cognitive assessment and ability training to aid patients with specific brain health issues like Alzheimer’s and beyond.
Additionally, Amir shares his story of becoming a startup founder, what the journey has been like, and the advice he has for others who are passionate about creating innovative technologies and solutions.
Join us for Amir’s empowering story on how he is improving brain health with virtual reality as we continue to work together to move the health of our communities forward. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Amir saw the potential of virtual reality beyond gaming and sought to apply it to fields such as education and healthcare
- The current state of VR alongside its reception and accessibility to the public
- Virtuleap working towards bringing their training technology into the hands of healthcare researchers and users
- The future evolution and applications for VR technology and the industry at large
About our Guest:
Amir is co-founder and CEO at Virtuleap, a VR startup that unlocks neuroscience in order to detect and delay the early onset of cognitive illnesses like Alzheimer’s. Previous to Virtuleap, Amir founded Gameguise, a mobile games studio based in Dubai, and Time Dirham, the first social impact startup to introduce time banking to the Middle East. He is an alumni of York University and THNK School of Creative Leadership. Amir is a contributing writer to tech blogs like VentureBeat and Tech Crunch on the topics of emerging tech, spatial computing, and startup ecosystems.
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Using his personal experience as a previously diagnosed cancer patient, our next guest has made it his goal and mission to help other patients amplify their voices and become active participants in their treatment.
Brad Power, the founder of CancerHacker Lab, joins us to discuss the power of his collaborative community of medical experts and patients that have rallied together to help others find their best next treatment option.
Additionally, Brad shares with us the positive outcomes the organization is experiencing and where Brad sees the work of his community heading into the future.
Join us to experience Brad’s passion for helping other patients and how you and your community can be a part of CancerHacker Lab as we continue to work together to move the health of our nation forward. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Brad found his calling by using his voice as a previous cancer patient
- Collaborating with his friend, Bryce, to create hackathons for cancer patients
- How his lab gives support to patients to be more active and engaged in their treatment process
- Where Brad sees his community heading towards in the future
- How the healthcare community contribute to CancerHacker Lab’s goals
About our Guest:
In 2018 Brad Power was a process innovation researcher and consultant with over 35 years experience and an author of over 75 articles for the Harvard Business Review when he was diagnosed with lymphoma. Brad went through a standard course of chemotherapy, which was successful, and he currently has no evidence of disease. While attending a conference on personalized medicine at Harvard Medical School, he spoke up to provide his experience as a patient and was told in the breaks afterward by many attendees that he had a voice. He felt this must be his calling, and he decided to focus his skills and experience on accelerating innovation in cancer treatment. Because of his experience in working with large, successful companies, he was skeptical that incumbents would drive the big, disruptive process changes as fast as patients need. He decided to do what he could to help (1) patients that actively engage in solving their problems and make them available to others, and (2) startups that are disrupting the health system to help patients get educated, navigate, and form community.
In late 2020 Brad was talking to his friend Bryce Olson, who said he had hit a wall in keeping his metastatic prostate cancer at bay. Brad suggested to Bryce that they could run a hackathon (a collaborative effort of a diverse crowd of experts) for him to find his best next treatment option, which they did from December 2020 to March 2021. Brad is currently hosting two hackathons: one for Linnea Olson, a lung cancer patient, and another for Kasey Altman, a young woman with a rare cancer. Brad hopes to make hackathons available to many more patients who are facing complex treatment decisions.
Brad is a founding member of Ennov1; an advisor to Blue Note Therapeutics, Rabble Health, and Cancer101.org; and is an active contributor to the Personalized Medicine Coalition.
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Driven by the passion to achieve peak performance, our next guest shares how he broke past the limitations of a-then growing health data industry to help make data more accessible and optimized for the masses by bringing it right to our fingertips and devices with personalized analytics and insights.
Dave Korsunsky, founder of Heads Up Health, joins us to discuss how his background in data analytics led to the creation of his company and its aim to aid everyone- from health enthusiasts to everyday Americans- on how to make better sense of our health by quantifying it in more intuitive and meaningful ways.
Join us to hear from one of the industry’s most passionate and dedicated entrepreneurs as we continue to work together to move the health of our nation forward. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Dave’s experience in data analytics brought him into the healthcare industry
- The limitations he observed in the industry recording health data and how to meaningfully apply it
- The creation of Heads Up Health as a consolidate for personalized health data and community provider’s reception
- The sustainability of Heads Up Health in the long-term and post-COVID
- The future he aims to achieve for his company and the healthcare industry as a whole
About our Guest:
David has fifteen years of experience working for industry leading technology firms and most recently served as Director of Technical Alliances at VMware (NYSE: VMW), Inc. where he led strategic partnerships with global EHR companies including EPIC, Cerner, McKesson, GE, Allscripts, and many more. David went on to lead sales engineering at CloudPhysics, a big data firm collecting and analyzing over 80B data points per day. As an avid health enthusiast, he recognized an opportunity to build a software solution that makes it easier for anyone to take control over their health through better use of their data.
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With the motivation that no other patient should go through the same struggles he did, our next guest has made it his mission to improve patient education and empower them to make confident and better informed decisions in kidney care and beyond.
Tim Fitzpatrick, CEO of IKONA Health, joins us to discuss how his company aims to provide quality value-based kidney care through storytelling, technology, and learning science while simultaneously tackling health literacy barriers that have plagued our communities for far too long.
Join us to learn how we can provide better education and support for patients as we continue to work together to move the health of our nation forward. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Tim’s patient experience while serving the US Navy
- The concept of using VR technology for patients that sparked the creation of IKONA Health
- How IKONA Health evolved to become a learning platform focused on kidney health
- Plans for the future of IKONA Health and kidney care
- How can we as a community contribute to Tim and IKONA Health’s mission
About our Guest:
Tim Fitzpatrick is the co-founder and CEO of IKONA Health, a company that combines learning science, immersive technologies, and storytelling to improve patient education in healthcare. His interest in the field resulted from his own experience as a patient while serving in the US Navy. After eighteen months filled with several back surgeries and hundreds of painful wound care treatments, Tim became deeply aware of the roles uncertainty and health literacy play in a patient’s health outcomes. Following his recovery, Tim spent two years as an institutional equities trader for a bank in New York, where he covered the technology and media sectors. It was in this role that he began to see the potential of emerging technologies like AI, machine learning, virtual and augmented reality in shaping the future of information delivery, particularly in healthcare settings. Building on his co-founders’ research on clinical applications of virtual reality, Tim launched IKONA Health in 2017 to help tackle the uncertainties he once faced for others across the globe, and currently serves as Principal Investigator on two of IKONA’s federally funded research grants to examine the feasibility and effectiveness of immersive technologies in kidney education.
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In the face of a new age of rapid information and technology expansion, our next guest has dedicated his life’s work and mission to what he sees as the new future for healthcare.
Dr. Daniel Kraft, Founder and Chair of Exponential Medicine, joins us to discuss how the unlimited potential technology has to innovate the healthcare industry and ensure better personalized treatment at lower costs and his mission to accelerate health equity through technology.
Join us for this inspiring conversation as Dr. Kraft shares how innovation can come from unexpected places and why collaboration will move the healthcare industry forward. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Dr. Kraft’s military medicine experience and the acceleration of technology catalyzed his entrepreneurial side
- His advice to aspiring entrepreneurs
- The convergence of minds that led to the creation of Exponential Medicine
- How COVID-19 sparked collaborative innovation from various fields of work
- What’s in store for Exponential Medicine’s future and his current focus
About our Guest:
Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator. He is currently serving as the Chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic Alliance Task Force. With over 30 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation, Dr. Kraft has chaired the Medicine for Singularity University and is founder and chair of Exponential Medicine, a program that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare.
Following undergraduate degrees from Brown University and medical school at Stanford, Daniel was Board Certified in both Internal Medicine & Pediatrics after completing a Harvard residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital & Boston Children's Hospital, and fellowships in hematology, oncology and bone marrow transplantation at Stanford.
He has multiple scientific publications and patents through NIH funded faculty positions with Stanford University School of Medicine and as clinical at UCSF.
Daniel is a member of the Inaugural class of the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship and is also a Kauffman Fellow. He is heavily involved in healthcare innovation, recently founded Digital.Health, and is an advisor to several leading startups and healthcare organizations.
Daniel is an avid pilot and has served in the Massachusetts and California Air National Guard as an officer and flight surgeon with F-15 & F-16 fighter Squadrons. He has conducted research on aerospace medicine that was published with NASA, with whom he was a finalist for astronaut selection.
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As a practicing anesthesiologist with an entrepreneurial passion to help improve the healthcare industry through innovative technology, our next guest has made it his mission to help ease the administrative burden for his profession that has plagued his colleagues for far too long!
Dr. Michael Bronson, CEO of AnesthesiaGo, joins us to discuss the arduous and time-consuming process for scheduling anesthesiologists and why his technology is freeing human capacity and potential so anesthesiologists and their practices can get back to doing what they do best- taking care of patients!
Join us for this inspiring conversation with a front-line healthcare provider turned tech entrepreneur as we continue to work together to move the healthcare industry forward! Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Bronson’s entrepreneurial journey and passion while practicing medicine
- What Dr. Bronson learned along his journey that helped him launch AnesthesiaGo
- Why the AnesthesiaGo platform is so needed, especially as healthcare professionals are overworked
- Who the AnesthesiaGo platform is built for and what Dr. Bronson’s team is achieving
About our Guest:
Dr. Michael Bronson is a UC-San Diego trained and board-certified anesthesiologist working in Orange County, California. Aside from his role as a full time physician, he has built and scaled multiple healthcare businesses and currently serves as the CEO of both AnesthesiaGo (scheduling software for anesthesiologists) and the Wellness Clinic of Orange County (therapeutic infusions for mood and pain disorders). His first solo business, a physician educational website, was sold in 2015.
He serves in various leadership roles within his private practice group, notably on the Board of Directors as well as the Orthopedic and Neurosurgical Service Line Director. At the hospital level he has served on a number of committees with experience on a Multidisciplinary Peer Review team and as a current member of the Medical Executive Board.
Dr. Bronson also functions as an advisor and consultant to various medical device companies that seek his expertise and opinion at various stages of development. Prior to gaining experience in business development, as a Chief Resident at UCSD he worked closely with world renown anesthesiologist, Jonathon Benumof, and authored several chapters in his textbook, Clinical Anesthesiology.
In his free time Dr. Bronson enjoys spending time with his wife and three children— cooking, reading, traveling, picnics at the beach and attending sporting events.
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After witnessing the lack of connective technology in the maternal care field through the lived experiences of her mother’s work as a labor and delivery nurse, our next guest made it her life’s mission to make it easy for payers, providers, and patients to coordinate comprehensive prenatal and postpartum healthcare from anywhere.
Melissa Hanna, CEO of Mahmee, joins us to discuss the national crisis of mothers and babies falling through the cracks of our fragmented healthcare system, how preventable issues are not being caught fast enough because of siloied patient data, and how her startup’s rapid growth is coming to the rescue.
Join us to learn how Melissa and the Mahmee team connect the dots between patients, practitioners, and data and how you can get involved in their inspiring work and mission. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Melissa’s first-hand experiences with her Mother that influenced her to launch Mahmee
- Advice for launching your own startup
- The dramatic statistics for the reasons why Mahmee is needed
- How you can get involved in the Mahmee movement
About our Guest:
Melissa Hanna, JD, MBA, is co-founder and CEO of Mahmee, a comprehensive prenatal and postpartum care coordination platform that increases positive health outcomes for moms and babies, backed by Serena Williams and Mark Cuban. By using its proprietary HIPAA-secure technology, Mahmee's staff of certified and trained maternity support professionals are able to deliver proactive, ongoing education and guidance to new families everywhere at a fraction of the cost.
An activist-entrepreneur, Melissa received her Masters of Business Administration from the Peter F. Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, and her Juris Doctor from Southwestern Law School where she now teaches as an adjunct professor of corporate and technology law. She has worked in operations and strategy at startups in healthcare, education, digital media and consumer goods. Prior to launching Mahmee, Melissa served as Assistant Director of the Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia Business School.
Melissa’s modus operandi has always been to forge cross-industry collaborations and partnerships to solve big challenges, and she believes that equitable access to healthcare for women and children is a challenge we can all solve by working creatively together. She’s been featured in Entrepreneur, Business Insider, Cheddar TV, Black Enterprise, USA Today, and much more. Melissa was recently named to Inc. Magazine’s “2019 Female Founders 100” list.
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Driven by a relentless passion for improving patient care via the convergence of biology and technology, our next has dedicated himself to curating global communities that are positively moving industry forward.
Dr. Amir Kalali, Co-Chair of the Decentralized Trials and Research Alliance, and Chairman and Chief Curator of the CNS Summit, joins us to discuss his storied career of leading global drug development and health care services in the neuroscience industry and how his experiences have propelled his passion for convening other industry-leading pioneers to improve patient care.
Join us for this action-packed conversation and call-to-action as we continue to work together to move the healthcare industry forward. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Kalali’s storied career and globally leading initiatives
- Why Dr. Kalali has dedicated himself to curating communities to move healthcare forward
- How to get involved in Dr. Kalali’s initiatives
About our Guest:
Dr. Kalali is a physician scientist, recognized globally as a leading innovator at the intersection of life sciences and technology, and a convener of collaborative high impact forums.
He is a board director of both private and publicly traded companies, and advises companies in the life sciences and technology sectors, universities and investment groups.
Dr. Kalali is the Co-Chair of the Decentralized Trials and Research Alliance (DTRA), Chairman and Chief Curator of the CNS Summit, a forum focused on the future of life sciences, and was the Founding Chairman, and sits on the Executive Committee of the International Society for CNS Drug Development (ISCDD), one of the first independent non-profits to bring together leaders in drug development to collaborate, and on the Executive Committee of the International Society for CNS Clinical Trials and Methodology (ISCTM).
He is Professor of Psychiatry at University of California San Diego, Editor of the journal Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience, and the Lead Editor of the book Essential CNS Drug Development., published by Cambridge University Press. He has authored over 250 peer-reviewed publications, and numerous book chapters. He has been involved in initiatives by the Institute of Medicine, as well as the NIH FAST and the NIH NCATS programs.
Previously, for almost 20 years, he was the Global Head of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at Quintiles, now known as IQVIA. In this role, he led the enterprise-wide strategy for neuroscience, encompassing drug development and health care services. He was responsible for numerous successful drug development programs that have led to dozens of approved new treatments for patients.
Dr. Kalali regularly speaks at national and international scientific meetings on topics including drug development, clinical trials, innovation, technology, digital medicine, biohacking, and health.
Dr. Kalali’s contributions have been recognized by life sciences media including The Medicine Maker’s Power List and the PharmaVOICE magazine’s Inaugural Red Jacket award, recognizing those who have been most lauded by their peers.
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The COVID-19 vaccine offers incredible hope and optimism for our nation. However, the mere availability of the vaccine will not ensure every American will get the shot. Getting people vaccinated against the virus will require personalized and consistent outreach.
During this episode, April Gill, Chief Strategy Officer at Welltok, joins us to discuss her company’s recent COVID-19 vaccine consumer report and why Welltok is uniquely positioned to help our communities receive their shot.
While together, April discusses the key findings in the report, which includes who consumers think will get vaccinated, the best ways to get consumers’ attention and drive action, as well as the most significant barriers to people getting vaccinated.
Join us as we discuss this critical topic as we continue to work together to move the health of our nation forward. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- April overviews Welltok’s report regarding COVID-19 vaccine consumer report
- Why Welltok is uniquely positioned to help providers, health plans and employers with the COVID-19 vaccine and beyond
- Key lessons learned from the report and where we go from here
About our Guest:
April Gill is the Chief Strategy Officer at Welltok, a consumer activation company. April oversees the development of market solutions at Welltok, which help to solve critical business challenges for a variety of organizations including employers and health plans. She’s dedicated her 20+ year career to improving lives and the experience of health and wellbeing through innovative technology.
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Inspired by his personal experience as a front-line physician during the pandemic, our next guest joins us to discuss his new book 'The Art of Human Care for COVID-19' and his story of loss, triumph, and a message of hope for our community during these trying times.
Dr. Hassan Tetteh, a heart and lung transplant surgeon and the current Health Mission Chief for the United States Department of Defense, shares how the pillars of his book series- purpose, personalization, and partnership- directly apply to this historical moment that has fundamentally altered the world.
While together, Dr. Tetteh outlines why COVID-19 can be a forcing function to positively impact our communities and what each of us can do to achieve these positive outcomes.
Join us for this timely and needed message as we continue to work together to move the health of our nation forward. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Tetteh’s experience as a front-line healthcare professional during COVID-19
- Why Dr. Tetteh wrote this new book for his series, Art of Human Care
- How technology will further impact healthcare because of COVID-19
- The opportunities Dr. Tetteh’s sees coming out of COVID-19
About our Guest:
Dr. Hassan A. Tetteh is a US Navy Captain and Associate Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and adjunct faculty at Howard University College of Medicine. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow from 2012-13, assigned to the US Congress, Congressional Budget Office, (CBO), and recently served as the Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) for the United States Navy. Currently, Tetteh serves as the Health Mission Chief for Warfighter Health at the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) in the Department of Defense (DoD), and he is a Thoracic Surgeon for MedStar Health and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. He leads a Specialized Thoracic Adapted Recovery (STAR) Team, in Washington, DC, and his research in thoracic transplantation aims to expand heart and lung recovery and save lives.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Tetteh received his BS from State University of New York (SUNY) at Plattsburgh, his MD from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, his MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, his MBA from Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School, and his MS in National Security Strategy with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence from the National War College. He completed his thoracic surgery fellowship at the University of Minnesota and advanced cardiac surgery fellowship at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Tetteh is a bestselling author of four books including: Gifts of the Heart, Star Patrol, The Art of Human Care, and Seven Pillars of Life. He has finished twenty marathons, and delivered the popular TEDx talk, From Death to Life, based on his work in transplant surgery. Tetteh is board certified in thoracic surgery, general surgery, clinical informatics, and healthcare management, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
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As a nationally recognized thought leader on health equity, community, and social health, our next guest has dedicated his work and mission to solving healthcare’s complexities through thoughtful innovation.
Dr. Michael Petersen, Chief Clinical Innovation Officer at NTT Data Services, joins us to discuss how his journey as an emergency medicine pediatrician at several large health systems, including five years as Chief of Pediatrics, has positioned him to drive industry value through patient-centric experiences, data analytics, and leading-edge technologies.
Additionally, Dr. Petersen shares why the power of partnerships is critical to solving the issues that have held the healthcare industry back for so long.
Join us for this conversation as we continue to work together to move the health of our nation forward. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Why Dr. Petersen’s childhood was so impactful on his life journey
- How innovation will continue to positively shape the healthcare industry
- Dr. Petersen’s call-to-action to other industry leaders
About our Guest:
Dr. Michael Petersen is a transformative physician executive and Chief Clinical Innovation Officer at NTT DATA Services in the healthcare provider consulting practice. He’s focused on helping clients solve complex challenges by bringing NTT DATA Services unique innovative capabilities that drive value by continuously putting the patient and health care provider first, through patient centric experiences, data, analytics, and leading-edge technologies. Dr. Petersen brings over 20 years of deep health industry knowledge of emerging technologies, strategy and consulting that drives value for clients. As an industry recognized thought leader on health equity, community, and social health, he brings proven experience in helping clients understand and address the complexities of solving the social determinants of health while bringing a sophisticated approach on focused return on investments.
As a seasoned physician executive, Dr. Petersen leverages his clinical leadership as an emergency medicine pediatrician at several large health systems including 5 years as Chief of Pediatrics. He developed his proven empathetic leadership skills while serving in the United States Army and during his clinical career.
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Having a deep-rooted passion for technology, information security, and problem-solving, our next guest is shaping the future of data security and protecting sensitive personal data for communities around the world.
Gabe Gumbs, Chief Innovation Officer at Spirion, joins us to discuss his vision for data privacy in the next decade and beyond, leading the way to a more secure and private tomorrow for us all.
While together, Gabe shares actionable insights about information security, why he is excited about the opportunities to create a more secure data environment in the healthcare industry, and how you can get involved with his mission to re-imagine how we meet today’s data security and privacy challenges.
Join us for this critical conversation as we continue to work together to move the healthcare industry forward. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Gabe’s love of chess helps him in business
- Where his love for information security began
- The importance of the NYC infosec security community to his career path
- What Chief Innovation Officer means to his company
- Three tips our community should be contemplating about information security
About our Guest:
Gabe Gumbs has a deep-rooted passion for technology, information security, and problem-solving. As Chief Innovation Officer of Spirion—a leader in rapid identification and protection of sensitive data—he’s channeling that passion to make the digital world a safer place. By spearheading Spirion’s vision for data privacy in the next decade and beyond, he’s leading the way to a more secure and private future for us all.
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When COVID-19 began to lock the world down, our next guest realized he was in a unique position to save lives and help revolutionize the enormous infection prevention industry.
Grant Morgan, CEO of R-Zero, joins us to discuss how he leveraged his proven entrepreneurial track record and an extensive background in designing medical devices and IoT-enabled hardware to create hospital-grade biosafety technologies at a fraction of the cost.
While together, Grant shares why he became so passionate in creating a UV light tower capable of destroying 99.99% of pathogens in a room in minutes while also making it commercially available to the masses.
Additionally, Grant outlines the future for R-Zero and the infection prevention industry well beyond the pandemic.
Join us for this illuminating conversation as we continue to work together to move the health of our nation forward. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Grant’s previous entrepreneurial ventures helped him launch R-Zero
- The strategy the R-Zero team used to democratize access to biosafety technologies
- Managing explosive growth during the pandemic while planning for the long-term
- Personal stories of positive impact and success Grant’s customers are experiencing
- How you can get involved in the R-Zero movement
About our Guest:
While most of us were busy hoarding toilet paper or binge-watching Netflix,
Grant Morgan was working on a plan to change the world. As co-founder and CEO of R-Zero, he's democratizing access to hospital-grade biosafety technologies, restoring trust in our common spaces and the organizations that operate them, and helping establish a new standard for public health in the COVID-19 era and beyond.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Grant realized he was in a unique position to save lives — and to revolutionize the $200B+ infection prevention industry. With a proven entrepreneurial track record and an extensive background designing medical devices and IoT enabled hardware, his skillset was tailor-made to meet the moment.
Soon, he and a small team were working day and night to reverse-engineer the hi- tech biosafety equipment used in hospitals across the country, searching for ways to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Less than six months later, his newly- founded company shipped its first product — a portable UV light tower capable of destroying 99.99% of pathogens in a room in minutes, and at a fraction of the cost of commercially-available alternatives.
Since then, R-Zero’s trajectory has been meteoric. Grant has assembled an all-star team featuring seven former founders or CEOs, booked $5M in sales in 3 short months since [shipping the first product, and secured the backing of top venture capital firms and cross-industry thought-leaders. Today, R-Zero’s products are in use in thousands of classrooms, restaurants, and small businesses, helping to pave the way to a new normal — one that’s healthier and safer than ever before.
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After receiving her breast cancer diagnosis, our next guest made it her mission to help others by earning her health coaching certification, which guided her to discover an opportunity to innovate in the increasingly important field of health coaching.
Marina Borukhovich, CEO of YourCoach Health, joins us to share her very personal, courageous, and inspiring story of struggle, despair, and triumph, ultimately leading her to create a global movement to kickstart the health coaching revolution.
While together, Marina discusses how her company came to be, what differentiates her platform, and the reasons why YourCoach Health is experiencing explosive growth.
Additionally, Marina shares how you and your community can get involved in her revolution.
Join us for this heartwarming and energized conversation as we continue to work together to move the health of our world forward! Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How her cancer diagnosis set her on a mission
- Why her family was integral in launching her startup
- Advice for other aspiring entrepreneurs
- How the YourCoach platform is so differentiated
- Marina’s mission around the power of health coaching
- Ways to get involved in Marina’s company
About our Guest:
Marina is a transformative tech leader, an exemplar of the power of health coaching, a breast cancer superhero, and a passion-driven CEO. After moving to Amsterdam and receiving her breast cancer diagnosis, her mission became to help other women feel in control and beautiful. Shortly after her diagnosis, she received her health coaching certification, which guided her to discover an opportunity to innovate in the increasingly important field of health coaching.
She founded YourCoach.Health as a practice management platform and interface for all things health coaching, to kickstart the Health Coaching Revolution. It’s Marina’s mission to bring the power of health coaching to as many people as possible. Out of the office, Marina enjoys boxing, wife-ing, mom-ing and catering to Bentley, her French bulldog and Chief Emotional Support Officer.
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As a seasoned healthcare executive with a proven track record of building impactful businesses, our next guest leveraged his unique experience with EMR’s, consulting, and AI products to launch his latest venture.
Erick McKesson, CEO of Rotera and an Olive Ventures company, joins us to discuss how his startup came to be and the importance of Olive’s leadership embracing his team to build a services company to help bring AI to the entire healthcare industry.
Additionally, Erick and I discuss cybernetics, why this technology will transform the industry by enhancing human productivity and effectiveness, and how you can get involved.
Join us for this impactful conversation as we continue to work together to move the healthcare industry forward. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Erick’s love of technology began as a child
- The impact of aging and health had on him and his family
- Erick’s first experience with health technology that has shaped his leadership today
- Lessons learned of being a serial entrepreneur
- What is Rotera?
- How Cybernetics will help transform healthcare
- The opportunities to get involved with Rotera
About our Guest:
Erick has been in the healthcare technology industry for the past 15 years. He began his career at Epic Systems where he had a knack for pushing the boundaries: leading the new Model System, the first Single Billing Office implementation, and first hospital community connect project. In 2010 he joined McKinnis Consulting Services as a Partner and Consulting Director. As a startup, he wore many hats at McKinnis, but had an emphasis on productizing solutions that leverage the EMR to automate routine tasks.
After a successful exit to Navigant Consulting in 2016 he continued to push the boundaries of system optimization and also began the early stages of their healthcare intelligent automation team. In 2018 Erick founded Venddy to help solve healthcare vendor selection and management challenges. Inspired by the mission, he decided to join Olive in the summer of 2019 where he has served as VP of Product. His unique experiences with EMRs, consulting, and AI products led him to start Rotera, the only AI consulting and custom development company built on the Olive platform. Erick is based in Denver Colorado and is a proud member of the Catalyst healthcare community.
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As the healthcare industry continues to experience massive change, there is more opportunity than ever for entrepreneurs to positively impact the outcome.
But, for these entrepreneurs to realize their goals to reimagine the healthcare industry, we must develop support systems for these inspiring leaders.
Our next guest, Taylor McPartland, CEO of ScaleHealth, joins us to discuss his company's mission to build a global health innovation ecosystem by connecting entrepreneurs, startups, strategic partners, and communities.
While together, Taylor shares why he became so passionate about enabling entrepreneurs, where ScaleHealth is expanding to, and why partnerships with companies like Olive are critical to the success of ScaleHealth.
Join us for this exciting conversation to learn how you and your community can get involved with ScaleHealth as we continue to work together to reimagine the healthcare industry. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Why Taylor is so passionate about enabling entrepreneurs
- How his passion for healthcare innovation began
- Where ScaleHealth is growing across the nation
- The importance of partnerships with companies like Olive
- Where Taylor sees healthcare innovation moving forward into the future
About our Guest:
A Northern California native, Taylor moved South in 2003 to attend Whittier College. Upon graduating, he became heavily involved in the growing Los Angeles tech community when he co-founded a data marketing platform in 2010. Over the next several years, Taylor developed a passion for empowering entrepreneurs to chase solutions to address the systemic problems that face our society. With this mission in mind, he founded ScaleHealth in 2018 and, subsequently, the ScaleLA Foundation. With the mission of building a global health innovation ecosystem by connecting startups, strategic partners, and communities, ScaleHealth supports several hundred startups and works with over 100 investment funds as well as many hospitals, insurers, and strategic partners. Growing rapidly, ScaleHealth now has hubs in Orange County, Vietnam, Austin, Detroit, and Ohio with others on the way.
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Through a 20-year journey and track record in leading several successful healthcare ventures, our next guest came to recognize the significant need to affect exponential change in advanced illness management.
During this episode, Jeremy Powell, CEO of Acclivity Health Solutions, joins us to discuss how his business exits with the same leadership team positioned them to notice the gaps in advanced illness management and why Acclivity Health Solutions has become an industry leader.
Additionally, Jeremy shares where he sees palliative care heading into the future and how you and your community can get involved with the critically needed efforts of his organization and mission.
Join us to learn from Jeremy, a true servant-leader, as we continue to work together to move the health of our nation forward. Let’s go!
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As a college student fascinated by the transformative power of sleep, our next guest has made it his life’s mission to build a technology company that improves cognitive, emotional, and physical health by preventing issues and correcting broken sleep. One night at a time.
Matt Berg, founder of Somni, joins us to discuss his journey of building a high-growth startup, the reasons why he remains so passionate about sleep, and where Somni is heading into the future with combining sleep health and genetics testing.
Additionally, Matt shares some exciting avenues for you and your community to get involved with the Somni mission.
Join us for this important topic of conversation as we continue to work together to move the health of our nation forward. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Matt and I first met
- Why Matt founded Somni and what it took to pull it off
- The reasons why Matt is so passionate about sleep health
- The magnitude of the sleep problem in the United States
- Where Somni is heading into the future with genetics testing
- How you and your community can help Somni move forward
About our Guest:
Matt Berg is a believer that sleep is the Archimedes' lever of health. He works across Somni teams to help design, build, and deploy products and services aimed at improving health and longevity through meaningfully improving sleep. Previous to starting Somni he worked on a translational research team developing new therapeutic targets for Niemann Pick Type-C, a neurodegenerative disease. He has a background in Psychology and Chemistry and is a graduate from the University of Notre Dame.
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What began as a six-month assignment to help his father’s organization has turned into a multi-decade journey of helping to bring relief and healing to our world’s most vulnerable and needy citizens.
During this episode, I am honored to be joined by Dr. Douglas Jackson, President and C.E.O. of Project C.U.R.E., the world’s largest distributor of donated medical equipment and supplies to resource-limited communities across the globe.
While together, Dr. Jackson shares why Project C.U.R.E. began, how he and his team successfully built a network of over 135 countries to deliver medical relief, and why he remains so passionate and dedicated to the mission of the organization.
Additionally, Dr. Jackson discusses the other services Project C.U.R.E. has launched over the years, where the organization is heading, and how you and your community can get involved.
Join us for a heart-warming conversation about the art of the possible as we continue to work together to move the health of our world forward. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Project C.U.R.E. began with Douglas’ Father
- What Project C.U.R.E. is and who the organization serves
- How medical suppliers got involved with Project C.U.R.E.
- The strategy Project C.U.R.E. took to work with over 135 countries
- What other services Project C.U.R.E. has launched over the years
- Where Project C.U.R.E. is heading into the future
About our Guest:
Dr. Douglas Jackson serves as the President/CEO of Project C.U.R.E. Each week, Project C.U.R.E. delivers approximately four semi-truck loads of donated medical supplies and equipment to desperately needy people around the world. Since 1987, Project C.U.R.E. has delivered equipment and supplies to hospitals and clinics in over 135 countries. Project C.U.R.E. is consistently recognized with the highest rankings from Guidestar and Charity Navigator, and was named by Forbes as one of the top 20 charities in America.
In addition to delivering nearly 200 forty-foot containers each year through the C.U.R.E. Cargo program, the C.U.R.E. Clinics program sends teams of medical professionals to assist partner hospitals and clinics. Project C.U.R.E. also provides hundreds of hours of training through the Helping Babies Breathe and Helping Mothers Survive curriculum. Thousands of dollars of medical supplies are carried by traveling doctors and nurses in the form of C.U.R.E. Kits. More than 25,000 people volunteer with Project C.U.R.E. every year, making the organization one of the most efficient and effective grass-roots organizations in the country.
Douglas graduated magna cum laude from Northwest Nazarene University in 1982, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration. In 1985, he earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Colorado at Boulder, receiving the American Jurisprudence Award for Excellence in the study of law. In 1992, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Business Administration with an emphasis in finance and econometrics from the University of Colorado at Boulder, authoring a dissertation on leveraged buyouts and secondary public offerings. In 2018, Dr. Jackson was awarded the Honorary Doctorate of Medicine from ABUAD University in Ekiti, Nigeria for his work in Africa. Douglas is a member of the Alpha Delta Sigma and the Beta Gamma Sigma national honor societies, and recently completed post-graduate Executive Education at the Stanford University School of Business.
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Named as one of the top Top 50 Health Influencers by PR Week and Fast Company’s “50 People to Watch in the New World of Work,” our next guest is a globally recognized healthcare innovation leader that inspires so many others to create impactful solutions that can bring positive change to the healthcare industry!
Gil Bashe, Managing Partner of Global Health for Finn Partners, joins us to discuss his journey from the battlefield to the boardroom and his mission to inspire others to advance people’s well-being and access to health innovation.
Additionally, Gil shares why he continues to seek to mobilize communities of influence through his work at Finn Partners and as a health policy author for Medika Life on Medium, as well as where he sees healthcare innovation heading into the future and how and why you should be a part of this exciting movement.
Join us for this energy-filled and inspirational message from Gil as we continue to work together to move the health of our communities forward!
Episode Highlights:
- Gil’s time spent as a military medic continues to fuel him to innovate healthcare
- Where and how all of us can help the healthcare industry innovate
- Areas of significant opportunity for innovation from Gil’s perspective
- What we need to contemplate while the healthcare industry continues to dramatically change
- What Gil and his team are dedicated to at Finn Partners
- Opportunities to engage with Gil and his international work and mission
About our Guest:
Champion for health innovation to sustain life and improve patient care, Gil has been tapped by PharmaVOICE "as one of the 100 most inspiring people in healthcare;" included in the Fast Company “50 People to Watch in the New World of Work”; chosen as a MM&M Top 10 Innovation Catalyst; by PRWeek/MM&M as a Top 50 Health Influencer;" noted by Medium's Medika Life as a "Top 50 Healthcare Influencer;" recognized by the PRSA Health Academy with its "Excellence in Public Relations" award, PM360 with its "Trailblazer Lifetime Achievement Award" and selected for the PR News "Hall of Fame." Gil has led four top agencies cited by PRovoke Media (The Holmes Report) as "Healthcare PR Agency of the Year" winners. He is a Medika Life Medium "Being Well" author and a Top 10 digital/health influencer. He serves on a number of national industry and patient advocacy boards.
Gil has led agency teams that contributed to numerous global med/tech and biopharma blockbusters in cancer, diabetes, heart, respiratory, women's health and non-communicable and orphan disease therapies. His background in payer, provider, policy, pharma marketing and patient-advocacy communications enables him to integrate ideas that impact patient access to health innovation.
Dedicated to inspiring colleagues to succeed for clients and their customers, he was Group Company CEO, CommonHealth, and at WPP Group sister-company Hill + Knowlton, EVP, Worldwide Health Practice Director - its first Global Practice Head. He served as CEO of Health!Quest Global Communication Partners, a GTCR-backed private-equity firm now with $10 billion in active assets.
Gil held leadership positions with New York-based agencies Makovsky, Medicus, (today part of Publicis Healthcare), and at pioneering integrated health-marketing agency Sutton Healthcare Group (acquired by Medicus). As a drug development policy and environment lobbyist, he served as a director with the New Jersey Health Products Council representing the health products industry. He completed his military service as a...
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While leading his military team on patrol in Afghanistan in 2012, our next guest was shot in the spine and instantly paralyzed during an intense gun battle.
At that moment, Derek Herrera’s life as a Marine Special Operations Officer took a dramatic yet innovative turn that is helping others live more healthy and whole lives through his work as an industry-leading medical device entrepreneur.
While together, Derek shares his journey of becoming a passionate and dedicated medical technology founder and executive after his injury and why he is uniquely positioned to create devices suited for the needs of others like him.
Additionally, Derek and I discuss how he is giving back to our communities across the nation by uplifting other veterans to explore and secure professional career opportunities in the life science, medical device, and health technology sectors.
I am honored to welcome one of our nation’s heroes onto this podcast, and I can’t wait for you to get to know this inspiring servant leader that has dedicated his life’s work to healthcare innovation. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Derek’s experience and devastating injury while serving in the military
- How Derek’s experience propelled him to build his companies
- Why he launched UroDev Medical
- What Derek is now working on with Habit Camera
- Derek’s passion to help other veterans enter the Medtech industry
- How our community can help Derek better understand medical reimbursement for his technologies
About our Guest:
Derek is the Founder and CTO of UroDev Medical (formerly Spinal Singularity), an early-stage medical device company that designs devices to improve the quality of life for people living with Spinal Injury. He created UroDev Medical after he was injured while serving as a Marine Raider in Afghanistan. After medically retiring from the Marine Corps, Derek graduated from the Executive MBA program at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Derek serves as President & Chairman of MedTechVets (formerly MVPvets), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that assists and prepares to transition service members and military veterans for meaningful employment in medical device and life science companies. MedTechVets’ network has grown to nearly 100 life science and medical device companies, hundreds of mentors, and thousands of veterans. The organization’s programming is offered at no cost to its participants. He is also the Founder of Habit Camera™, the first low-cost, wireless camera purpose-built for skin inspection and telehealth.
Derek currently serves as the Board President of the Marine Raider Foundation and Board Member of the American Technion Society – Western Region. He resides in San Clemente, CA with his wife Maura and their sons Hudson and Hunter.
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With a mission to unite healthcare leaders and digital health innovators to advance musculoskeletal care, our next guest shares his journey of becoming an internationally recognized leader who has inspired so many to move the industry forward.
Dr. Stefano Bini, Founder and Chair of the Digital Orthopedics Conference, joins us today to discuss when he became passionate about digital health technology and why orthopedic medicine is ideal for it.
Additionally, Dr. Bini outlines the unique aspects of his annual conference and how you can get involved.
Join us for this fun and imaginative conversation with one of the brightest minds in the healthcare industry.
Episode Highlights:
- Why Dr. Bini became so passionate about technology while living in San Francisco
- The reasons why orthopedics is a great space for digital technology innovation
- What DOCSF focuses on when bringing together technologists and orthopedics experts together
- The big impact policy and regulation has on healthcare innovation
- The segments of the DOCSF conference that make it unique
- How to get involved in DOCSF conference
About our Guest:
Dr. Stefano Bini is a Professor of Orthopedic Surgery specializing in hip and knee replacement at the University of California San Francisco, ranked in the top 6 departments in the USA. He is the Founder and Chair of the Digital Orthopaedics Conference (DOCSF) and the host of the Digital Orthopaedics Podcast. DOCSF aims to bridge digital health and clinical orthopaedics and thereby catalyze the adoption of digital health tools in the musculoskeletal vertical. At UCSF Dr. Bini serves as the Chief Technology Officer for the department and is on the UCSF Center for Digital Health Innovation committee as well as the board of the UCSF Health Hub Accelerator. Stefano also serves as the Chair of the Digital Health Committee for the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, consults for multinational organizations and several start-ups, and has authored a book on change management. Current research interests include quantifying the impact of digital health on orthopedic care delivery, the use of sensor data to create predictive analytics using AI/ML, and bringing precision medicine to total knee procedures using caliper based knee alignment techniques. Stefano is an Associate Editor for Arthroplasty Today, on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Arthroplasty where he serves as an Elite Reviewer, has authored numerous papers in major journals and has delivered well over 100 lectures and keynotes nationally and internationally on both clinical and digital orthopedics.
Prior to UCSF, Stefano gained administrative experience working at Kaiser Permanente. He held numerous leadership positions including Chief of Orthopedics and was a recipient of the California Health Care Foundation’s Leadership Fellowship.
Stefano was born in Italy, raised in Australia, and educated in California. He is married to his (amazing) wife and has two (awesome) kids. He is adamant about learning guitar despite having no inherent musical talent.
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For healthcare professionals to deliver the best care possible, it is more important than ever for care teams to capture meaningful, complete, and accurate data.
Our next guest has been valiantly leading the charge to ensure digital empathy is at the forefront of critical communication gaps in the healthcare industry.
Eric Gombrich, CEO of Tickit Health, joins us to discuss his storied journey in moving healthcare technology innovation forward, how and why his organization came to be, and the inspiring results his company's technology delivers.
Additionally, Eric shares the significant need for his technology to aid in the well-being of adolescent students because of the pandemic and how you and your network can get involved in the Tickit Health mission.
Join us as we discuss the power of digital empathy and its positive and needed impact in our communities. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Eric discovered Tickit Health, right when they were founded
- Why Eric has remained so energized about health technology over the years
- How Tickit Health began with its founder, Dr. Sandy Whitehouse
- What digital empathy is
- Where Eric sees Tickit Health making an impact in the future, including education systems
About our Guest:
Eric Gombrich is a global technology executive with three decades of experience commercializing solutions in the healthcare industry with startup and established organizations. Prior to joining Tickit Health as CEO, Eric served as Chief of Commercialization of the Innovation Group of Providence Healthcare in Seattle, CEO of the North American division of the UK-based Emis Inc., Vice President of International Business for one of the first healthcare portal companies, and Vice President of Sales & Marketing for an in-vitro diagnostics company applying proteomic and genomic techniques to cancer screening. He has a track record of success building and leading early and growth-stage organizations as they “cross the chasm.”
He has served in management roles with companies moving through significant growth stages, including undertaking initial and secondary public offerings, and overseeing regulatory processes for medical devices (including software) with the FDA, Health Canada, and within the European Union. He has served on numerous Boards of Directors for both private commercial entities, and not-for-profit organizations.
Born in the United States, Eric moved to Canada 20 years ago and now resides with his wife in British Columbia. He is married with two children, enjoys great food & wine, golf, skiing, and sailing, along with traveling to unique destinations.
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After personally experiencing the effects of diabetes in his family, coupled with his training and expertise as a fitness and nutrition coach, our next guest became determined and deeply passionate to help as many people around the nation as possible by delivering diabetes education from industry-leading experts to the palm of a patient’s hand.
Miguel Johns, Founder, and CEO of KingFit, joins us to share how his company is helping people living with diabetes and why sustained behavior change is critical to conquering the disease.
Additionally, Miguel outlines where he sees diabetes education, coupled with technology and innovation, will head in the future.
Because of leaders like Miguel, I remain confident we can move the health of our nation forward! Join us for this meaningful and passionate conversation. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How diabetes has personally impacted his family
- Why he started KingFit
- Where KingFit is focused with patients living with diabetes
- The importance of behavior change to solve diabetes
- How KingFit is leveraging the Netflix and Hulu ‘effect’ to create engaging content
- The feedback of patients how have used KingFit
About our Guest:
Miguel Johns is passionate about human performance, mindset, and health and is the founder of KingFit. He is a professional public speaker, former nutrition coach, strength coach, and former D-1 athlete, with a background in exercise science. Additionally, Miguel loves to solve complex problems that take patience and consistent effort. Almost everyone in Miguels’s family over 50 has diabetes, including his father and grandmother...so he decided to start there.
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After attending medical school and becoming a family caregiver, our next guest personally experienced the need for a more connected and efficient healthcare industry.
Because of this experience and his deep desire to help transform healthcare with innovation, our next guest, Dr. Sandeep Pulim, Chief Medical Officer at Bluestream Health, has dedicated his career and journey to precisely this.
While together, Dr. Pulim shares how a Health Datapalooza hackathon many years ago was a critical turning point that has helped him become a key national figure in moving healthcare technology forward.
Additionally, Dr. Pulim and I discuss how and why he joined Bluestream Health and the mission-critical work his company has been doing over the past several years, how COVID-19 impacted his company’s trajectory, and where he sees the industry heading into the future.
Join us for a candid and heartfelt message from Dr. Pulim, one of the brightest minds in healthcare technology innovation. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How his experience as a family caregiver influenced him to work in digital health
- Recognized being an entrepreneur was more fulfilling than going back to residency training
- Why the Datapalooza hackathon was critical to Sandeep’s health tech innovation career
- What is Bluestream Health
- What happened to Bluestream Health when the pandemic broke out
- How providers can get involved with Bluestream Health
About our Guest:
Dr. Sandeep Pulim is the Chief Medical Officer at Bluestream Health. He most recently served as the Chief Innovation Officer at Medici, and prior to joining the Medici team, Sandeep worked to enable cognitive technology at the point of care for HCPs and patients, to positively impact clinical learning and quality measures for healthcare organizations, pharma, and payers. Previously as co-founder of Health Recovery Solutions, he helped empower patients to better manage their health and improve quality of life using evidence-based interventions.
In the past, Sandeep served as Senior Medical Editor at MDLinx. An award-winning, practical medical information tool that busy physicians, healthcare professionals use to stay up to date with the latest research in the medical field. The company aggregates medical articles, medical journals, medical newsletters and research from more than 1,200 peer-reviewed journals and leading news media on a daily basis.
Sandeep also helped create sustainable healthcare innovation via enabling fellows to improve the health of communities by creating innovative technology solutions that deliver transformational impact while molding the next generation of leaders at Health for America.
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By combining the power of moonshot thinking, a transformer mindset, and collaborative communities, our next guest believes anything is possible to move the healthcare industry forward.
For over ten years, Unity Stoakes, President and Cofounder of StartUp Health, has been building a global movement to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone in the world by investing and supporting a global army of entrepreneurs committed to solving Health Moonshots — the biggest health challenges of our time.
While together, Unity shares how his team is moving the healthcare innovation movement forward, where StartUp Health is heading into the future, and how you can get involved in their moonshot thinking AND doing.
I’m honored to have this global healthcare innovation leader on our podcast and to share his sincere and authentic message with our community. Join us for this episode filled with boundless energy and possibility. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- When Unity was first exposed to the broken healthcare industry and why he wanted to fix it
- How StartUp Health was hatched because of his personal experience
- What a health moonshot is
- Why health systems, insurers, and government are key to transforming healthcare
- Unity’s call-to-action for our listeners
About our Guest:
Unity Stoakes is on a life-long mission to transform global health. By combining the power of moonshot thinking, a transformer mindset, and collaborative communities, he believes anything is possible.
In 2011, Unity co-founded StartUp Health to organize, support and invest in a global army of Health Transformers to embark on one extraordinary crusade -- to achieve 12 Health Moonshots, each of which can improve the lives of at least a billion people.
Today, StartUp Health has the world’s largest portfolio of health innovation companies (more than 360 from 6 continents) and has assembled a worldwide network of 200,000 innovators, leaders, and investors committed to reinventing the future of health. Over the coming years, StartUp Health will invest in thousands of Health Transformers to achieve Health Moonshots.
Unity has been a tech entrepreneur since the mid-nineties, previously co-founding OrganizedWisdom and helping build The Privacy Council, Middleberg Interactive, and Webstakes.com/Promotions.com, which he helped take public on NASDAQ with his business partner of 20+ years, Steven Krein.
Unity has written for Forbes and TechCrunch, has appeared on Bloomberg TV, CNBC, CNN, NPR and USA Today, and speaks around the world about the future of health. He is the publisher of StartUp Health Magazine and co-host of StartUp Health NOW, a weekly web series.
A few of Unity's interests include designing behavior change for good, traveling off the beaten path, learning about new cultures & people, great food, photography, writing, graffiti art, design, inspiring architecture, day-dreaming, backgammon, bocce ball, meditating, and walking. Most of all, I love spending time with my friends, wife Katya, and rapidly growing kiddos Oz and Coco!
Unity grew up on a farm in Oxford, Iowa, went to Boston University, spent 22 years in NYC + currently lives in Berkeley CA. Learn more at www.startuphealth.com or connect @unitystoakes
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After years of being treated by a healthcare system that didn’t know how to identify and manage autoimmune diseases effectively, our next guest believed that decoding the body’s hidden patterns would lead to a truly personalized approach to disease management.
As an authority on autoimmune issues, Mette Dyhrberg, Founder and CEO of Mymee, joins us to share how she began using data to overcome her chronic autoimmune disease and why she took her passion and expertise to launch her fast-growing startup.
Join us to learn from Mette and how you can be a part of the Mymee mission as she and her team passionately dedicate themselves to improving the quality of life for people living with autoimmune diseases. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- After being told to be happy with her diagnosis, Mette began her journey in hacking her own health
- How Mette started to use data to overcome her chronic autoimmune disease
- Why Mette built her company out of sheer stubbornness
- Because of the biohacking movement and Mette being involved, Mette began building Mymee
- How you can be a part of the Mymee mission
About our Guest:
Mette Dyhrberg, an economist turned diagnostician, is the founder and CEO of Mymee Inc. She conceived of Mymee after years of being treated by a healthcare system that did not know how to effectively identify and manage autoimmune diseases. From the very beginning, she believed that decoding the body’s hidden patterns would lead to a truly personalized approach to disease management. As an authority on autoimmune issues, Mette speaks regularly on how to reinvent healthcare.
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This week marks my 6th month anniversary as the Vice President of Emerging Technology Partnerships at Olive. If you aren’t familiar with Olive, we are one of the fastest-growing health technology companies in the industry and our vision is to create the "Internet of Healthcare," where the plethora of disjointed back-end systems could speak to one another and create a better experience for patients and providers.
During this episode, I wanted to share some updates I’ve experienced during my six-month journey with Olive, and why our team is so excited to work alongside the dreamers, the innovators, and the entrepreneurs who envision a better healthcare system for all. Of course, I’ll also share how you and your network can plug into our work at Olive!
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While the healthcare industry is typically slow to adopt new and innovative technologies, the fast-growing acceptance and use of conversational artificial intelligence is apparent and exciting.
During this episode, Nate Treloar, President and COO of Orbita and a conversational AI expert, joins us on the podcast to share where the technology is and how it's currently impacting healthcare today and where Nate sees the technology taking the industry in the future.
Join us for an ear-opening conversation powered by two real humans as we discuss the impact conversational artificial intelligence is having on our industry and in our lives. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Nate shares the founding story of how Orbita came to be.
- How Nate and the Orbita team pivoted their startup to fulfill industry needs.
- Why Nate is so excited about conversational artificial intelligence.
- Why Orbita is laser-focused on the healthcare market.
- The impact of COVID-19 and the positive use of conversational ai.
About our Guest:
Nathan Treloar is President and Co-founder of Orbita. He’s a respected expert and frequent speaker on consumer and business trends in voice and conversational user experiences in healthcare, as well as search, text and data mining, content management, and knowledge management, and has advised hundreds of the world’s largest companies and government agencies on their applications. Previously, Nathan held key executive positions at FAST Search, Microsoft, RAMP, and Ektron.
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Only recently has the healthcare industry begun to truly leverage the power of big data and artificial intelligence. Because of this wider adoption and implementation, founders of companies like our next guest are brilliantly solving some of the most costly issues facing healthcare.
During this episode, Dr. Bora Chang, CEO of KelaHealth, joins us to discuss how her experience as a researcher at Duke University propelled her to launch her company and how her technology is dramatically improving the surgical care journey.
Because of leaders like Dr. Chang, I remain confident we can reimagine the healthcare industry. Join us for this enlightening, timely, and important conversation! Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How Dr. Chang applied her research background to building her KelaHealth
- Why Dr. Chang’s journey at Duke University was so impactful to her KelaHealth journey
- How KelaHealth improves surgical care with its technology
- Evidence and results for how KelaHealth works
- Dr. Chang’s view of what lies ahead for the healthcare industry
About our Guest:
Dr. Bora Chang, Founder and CEO of KēlaHealth, is passionate about improving surgical care and driving impact at the intersection of medicine and technology. Bora oversaw early product development and led the commercialization process for KēlaHealth’s surgical risk prediction tool. As the Principal Investigator of a National Science Foundation-funded small business grant, an industry expert for the NSF Smart and Connected Health panels, and a trained physician, Bora’s clinical and scientific expertise has informed the integration of the product into the point-of-care clinical workflow. Bora holds a BS in Biochemistry from the University of Washington and a MD from Duke University School of Medicine.
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As the leading cause of death in our nation, heart disease impacts too many of our community leaders, friends and loved ones.
But, I remain hopeful that we can make sizable gains battling this disease through the power of innovation and technology.
Driven by a passion for taking technological solutions and applying them to benefit people's lives, our next guest has dedicated his company to conquer heart disease through digital prevention programs and to serve over 1 million patients annually.
Dr. Harsh Vathsangam, CEO of Moving Analytics, joins us to discuss how his team has built intuitive, turnkey, home-based post-acute care management solutions for cardiopulmonary disease that improves patient outcomes, reduces readmissions, and empowers the effective and efficient delivery of quality care to patients.
Additionally, Harsh shares where he sees the industry and his technology heading and how you can get involved.
Join us for this needed and inspiring message from Harsh as we continue to work together to conquer heart disease.
Episode Highlights:
- Why Harsh launched Moving Analytics
- What Moving Analytics is and the problems they are solving
- The impact Moving Analytics is having on the patients they serve
- Where Harsh sees the industry and Moving Analytics moving toward
About our Guest:
Dr. Harsh Vathsangam is the Co-founder and CEO of Moving Analytics, maker of the Movn digital prevention program for cardiovascular disease.
Movn changes that equation – based on over 20 years of research, the program uses evidence-based treatment regimens to help patients adopt healthier lifestyle habits and cut their risk of cardiovascular disease.
Prior to Moving Analytics, Harsh cut his teeth as a PhD student at USC School of Computer Science, where he developed AI-based tools that helped assess human behavior that can lead to obesity and other chronic diseases.
When he’s not working, Harsh is usually in the kitchen trying to stir up some concoction or another for his very patient wife or trying to catch up on his tennis.
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Over the years, social media platforms have been impactful to drive global connection and collaboration for healthcare industry leaders and innovators.
While adhering to social distancing during the Coronavirus pandemic, the need for online communities has become even more critical. Due to this current state of affairs, the new social audio platform, Clubhouse, has quickly become an outlet for authentic connection worldwide.
During this episode, engineer turned product marketer Henry Peck joins us to discuss why he launched and built the MedTech Club on Clubhouse, a healthcare-focused community that has rapidly grown to over 50,000 members and followers.
Join us to hear Henry's patient journey, how he started his Clubhouse community, why he is so passionate about the social audio movement, and your opportunity to be a part of the journey. Let's go!
Episode Highlights:
- Henry explains his current work with robotic-assisted surgery
- Why Henry launched the MedTech club in Clubhouse
- What Clubhouse is
- The future state of digital collaboration and social platforms for healthcare
About our Guest:
Henry Peck is an engineer turned product marketer, building the next generation of robot-assisted surgery at Johnson & Johnson. He leads the MedTech Club on Clubhouse, one of the largest healthcare-focused communities with 50,000+ members and followers. Inspired by his own patient journey, his background spans prosthesis, exoskeletons, and additional emerging technologies in healthcare.
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The family caregiver's role has become increasingly prevalent and essential to ensure our loved ones' health.
Our next guest has dedicated his mission and expertise to create digital health programs to engage members with cognitive impairment via their family caregivers.
Dirk Soenksen, CEO of Ceresti Health, joins us to discuss why he launched his company and the reasons he remains incredibly passionate after eight years of operating his high growth startup.
Additionally, Dirk shares how Ceresti Health improves family caregiver effectiveness by leveraging predictive analytics to reduce hospitalizations and costs for its members while increasing the quality of life for the people Ceresti Health serves.
Join us to learn from Dirk and the inspiring mission he and his team are on as we continue to work together to reimagine how we deliver better health and care for our communities across the nation.
Episode Highlights:
- Why Dirk started Ceresti Health
- What Ceresti Health is accomplishing for families affected by cognitive impairment
- How COVID-19 affected Ceresti Health
- Future trends for the industry and Ceresti Health
About our Guest:
Dirk is co-founder and CEO of Ceresti Health. Ceresti has expertise in virtual care for seniors with cognitive impairment (e.g., dementia, stroke, Parkinson’s). Ceresti Health’s digital health programs engage members with cognitive impairment via their family caregivers. We improve family caregiver effectiveness and leverage predictive analytics to reduce hospitalizations and costs for members and increase the quality of life for caregivers and members. Our customers are Medicare Advantage (MA) health plans and at-risk providers who can realize cost savings in a large, growing, and not-currently-engaged population of vulnerable and costly members.
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A critical deficiency holding the healthcare industry back from its true potential to serve its consumers best is the lack of simple and secure access to vital medical data.
Fueled by his mission to break down data silos, our next guest is poised to catalyze dramatic change for the industry.
Troy Bannister, CEO of Particle Health, joins us to discuss how his company is leveraging opportunities brought forth by new legislation, how he is integrating with the largest electronic medical records, and why he is so passionate about building a developer-friendly environment to dismantle the complexities of traditional healthcare integrations.
Joins us for this energizing and eye-opening conversation as Troy shares with us the possibilities for a more connected and silo-free healthcare system!
Episode Highlights:
- What Troy learned while working at StartUp Health
- Why Troy started Particle Health
- What Particle Health offers
- Where Troy believes the industry is headed
About our Guest:
After working as an EMT, a med student, a clinical researcher, and early-stage healthcare VC, Troy realized no one had access to health data in a very meaningful way. He started Particle to solve one of the biggest issues at the core of the US Health System - simple access to critical data.
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It has become painfully evident that our nation desperately needs to quickly, affordably, and reliably test its citizens for the COVID-19 virus.
Because of brilliant entrepreneurs like our next guest, this need is being solved by his company’s first-of-its-kind at-home rapid COVID test. A test using a self-administered nasal swab and is proving to be 99% effective, even with asymptomatic patients.
Peter Marx, the Managing Partner of BiologyWorks, joins us during this episode to discuss his team’s use of seven patents developed by the Alfred Mann Foundation for Scientific Research, how his team is navigating the FDA’s emergency use authorization, and why Peter is so passionate about delivering this rapid and reliable at-home COVID test to the masses.
Join us for this timely, energizing, and hopeful message as we continue to work together to battle this pandemic.
Episode Highlights:
- How BiologyWorks is using patent protected technology to test for COVID-19
- Why BiologyWorks’ at-home rapid test is 99% accuracy
- How Peter is navigating FDA emergency use authorization
- Peter’s passion to use this technology to help people safely gather again
About our Guest:
Peter Marx is well-known in the technology world and is currently the founder of BiologyWorks where he has developed and is in the production process of a first of its kind at-home COVID test. Previously, Peter served as the CTO of the City of Los Angeles, VP of Business Development at Qualcomm Labs, Inc., VP of the Technology and Digital Studio at Mattel, Inc., CTO for Vivendi-Universal Games and VP of Emerging Technologies for Universal Studios. Early in his career, he served as an engineer on a variety of telemedicine, digital video, radiological imaging, and biomedicine applications for UCLA and 3M Company.
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Overcoming the throes of drug misuse to eventually lead a national organization and movement to help others in our communities experiencing addiction is the very definition of triumph and who a passionate pioneer is.
During this episode, Fred Muench, the President of the Partnership to End Addiction, shares his heartrending personal journey and how his experiences transformed his life to serving others across our country.
While together, Fred also outlines how the Partnership to End Addiction came to be, why technology has been transformative for the people he serves, where he sees the organization heading into the future, and how you and your community can get involved.
Join me to hear Fred’s powerful and inspiring message for all of us as we continue to work together to reimagine the health of our nation.
Episode Highlights:
- Fred’s own experience with addiction and overcoming it
- The reality of the situation right now in this pandemic and the healthcare support system
- The changes that we need to help our communities across the country
- Partnership to End Addiction’s method and process to help our nation
About our Guest:
Fred is a clinical psychologist and the President of The Partnership to End Addiction (www.drugfree.org), which is the merger of The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse and The Partnership for Drug-free Kids, where he served as the President and CEO. His focus is on building, testing, and implementing digital interventions to prevent problem substance use and treat addiction in real-world and clinical settings. This includes the comprehensive direct to parent and caregiver services offered by the Partnership including it’s national helpline, mobile support applications, online support groups, peer support services, and self-guided e-learning. In addition, Fred has been the PI on multiple behavioral health grants from NIAAA, NIDA, FDA, RWJF Pioneer, Upswing, Twilio, and many other foundations and is an author on numerous articles to improve health outcomes using technology. Fred is also the co-founder of Vagus Labs (www.vaguslabs.com), which uses their patented non-invasive passive stimulation technology to improve physical and mental health.
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During the Coronavirus pandemic, many deficiencies of our nation’s healthcare system have been laid bare. Yet, we are fortunate to have industry leaders who have experienced these faults in the delivery of care and have helped pave the way for the healthcare industry to adapt to meet the needs of COVID patients and to carry these lessons learned well beyond the current public health crisis.
Our next guest is a shining example of the inspiring frontline heroes who are valiantly working to bring relief and normalcy back to our families and communities.
Dr. Amy Boutwell, President of Collaborative Healthcare Strategies, is a nationally recognized thought leader in the field of delivery system transformation, specifically focused on reducing readmissions, cross-continuum collaboration, and improving care for multi-visit patients. Additionally, Dr. Boutwell is a practicing physician who has been taking care of patients in the Covid Field Hospital in Massachusetts.
While together, Dr. Boutwell shares her harrowing experience of working on the frontlines to battle the virus, what she learned along the way, and how we can implement her findings to propel us to a brighter and more sustainable healthcare industry in the future.
Join me for this timely, candid, and informative conversation as we continue to work together to reimagine a better healthcare delivery system for all.
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Boutwell’s journey of becoming a national thought leader
- Why Dr. Boutwell chose to practice medicine on the frontlines
- Her experience on the frontlines working to battle the virus
- The lessons learned and what we can take forward beyond the pandemic
About our Guest:
Amy Boutwell, MD, MPP, President of Collaborative Healthcare Strategies and a practicing physician who has been taking care of patients in the Covid Field Hospital in Massachusetts. Dr. Boutwell is a nationally recognized thought leader in delivery system transformation, specifically focused on reducing readmissions, cross-continuum collaboration, and improving care for multi-visit patients. Over the past decade, Dr. Boutwell has designed and led dozens of delivery system transformation initiatives involving hundreds of teams and thousands of participants at the regional, state and national levels. Dr. Boutwell is a graduate of Stanford, Brown Medical School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where she received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Public Service. She trained in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Welcome back to the podcast and for spending a few moments with me. If you’re plugging in for the first time, I’m glad you’re here.
Recently, I had the fortunate opportunity to welcome Dr. Davin Lundquist as a guest blogger over at mikebiselli.com. Dr. Davin is a Family Medicine physician, and is affiliated with Dignity Health, a part of CommonSpirt Health, in California. He also serves as Augmedix’s Chief Medical Officer.
You may have also tuned into our previous episode, Rehumanizing Healthcare in which we learned from Dr. Davin the amazing journey he’s been on in helping build Augmedix.
Given the importance of what Dr. Davin shared in his guest blog post, I wanted to make sure our podcast community had the opportunity to hear Dr. Davin’s Top 10 healthcare trends to watch in 2021.
So, what is Dr. Davin’s top 10 healthcare trends list? Join us on this next session of A Moment with Mike!
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At times, when patients experience healthcare's inefficiencies and brokenness, some of these patients turn their frustration into innovative startups that are dedicated to reimagining an industry that we all know can be so much better.
During this episode, Andrew Lockhart, the CEO of Fathom, joins us for an insightful discussion about how his team is applying the intersection of deep learning and natural language processing to the healthcare industry medical record.
While together, Andrew shares how his knee injury, and receiving his medical bill, opened his eyes to the opportunities to improve medical coding, a massive area in healthcare ripe for innovative ideas and technology.
Join us to learn from Andrew and the mission he is on in building Fathom and how you can get involved as we continue to work together to move our healthcare industry forward!
Episode Highlights:
- Andrew’s knee injury that led him to experiencing the broken healthcare system
- How Andrew went about learning the intricacies of medical coding
- Why Andrew knew there is significant opportunity for improving the industry
- The opportunities to engage and partner with Andrew and the Fathom team
About our Guest:
Andrew Lockhart is the cofounder and CEO of Fathom, a Google Ventures and Founders Fund backed startup using machine learning to automate medical coding. Previously, Andrew cofounded another venture-backed machine learning startup as well as lead design and innovation projects for Fortune 500 clients for global design firm, Idea Couture. He is active in the startup communities in both San Francisco and Toronto as a seed investor and mentor with StartX. Andrew received his MBA from Stanford and his BA from the University of Toronto.
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Over the past several years, more healthcare leaders understand and admit the opioid epidemic has impacted all walks of life in every corner of our country.
Because of this reckoning, more healthcare innovation leaders are applying their brilliance and passion for helping others by building game-changing innovations to empower patients experiencing opioid dependence and addiction.
During this episode, Ankit Gupta joins us for a powerful and meaningful conversation. Ankit is the CEO of Bicycle Health and has dedicated his company to help patients lead fulfilling and opioid-free lives.
While together, Ankit outlines why he began building his startup and the positive results his technology is producing in the marketplace. Additionally, Ankit shares the personal joy he receives from hearing the real-life patient stories of triumph his team is helping to achieve.
Join us for this inspiring conversation as we continue to work together to help move our nation's health forward!
Episode Highlights:
- Ankit’s journey of building and selling his company to LinkedIn
- How Ankit got into the healthcare industry by first visiting India
- Ankit’s business model to fight against the opioid crisis
- Where Ankit sees his platform making an impact in the future
About our Guest:
Ankit Gupta is the Founder and CEO of Bicycle Health. Ankit is passionate about the power of technology to create patient-centric experiences that can deliver high-quality outcomes at scale.
Before Bicycle Health, Ankit was the Co-Founder and CTO of Pulse News. With over 30 million users and a shoutout by ex-Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Pulse was acquired by LinkedIn and has now become the LinkedIn Newsfeed. He graduated from IIT Bombay with a bachelor’s and Stanford University with a masters in Computer Science (specializing in Machine Learning).
In his spare time, Ankit volunteers for his non-profit Docs and Hackers which aims to bridge the gap between the technology and healthcare worlds. He also enjoys a good cup of coffee, a hike and a good brew, ideally in that order.
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Creating and maintaining strict infectious disease protocols for our frontline healthcare workers while caring for COVID-19 patients has been an ongoing challenge, with detrimental and deadly impact.
Our next guest has applied his company’s pre-existing technology to address this significant need for our nation’s health systems and its heroes.
Dr. Robert Hamilton, the Chief Scientific Officer for NovaSignal, shares how his company’s product, NovaGuide, helps providers assess their patients while minimizing exposure to the Coronavirus.
Additionally, Dr. Hamilton discusses the positive results of this work, which was recently published in conjunction with Mt. Sinai Hospital as well as where Dr. Hamilton sees the future of cloud computing and data analytics to assess brain health well beyond this current public health crisis.
Join us for this important and needed conversation as we continue to work together to safely battle and eliminate the Coronavirus pandemic.
Episode Highlights:
- History of how NovaSignal came to be
- How Robert’s team responded to the COVID-19 outbreak
- Why NovaSignal focused their energy and technology to address the pandemic
- NovaSignal’s COVID-19 partnership with Mount Sinai and early results
- Where Robert sees his technology being applied beyond the pandemic
About our Guest:
Dr. Robert Hamilton is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at NovaSignal. He is an accomplished entrepreneur, engineer, and clinical researcher with a passion for innovative technologies in the area of brain health management. Robert is an expert in image/signal processing and machine learning, with extensive experience in cerebral blood flow, traumatic brain injury, stroke, and other neurological disorders.
During his tenure at the company, Robert has acted as principal investigator on federal grants and contracts totaling more than $25M from the Department of Defense, National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation. Additionally, Dr. Hamilton has been invited to give several talks and presentations on entrepreneurship, technology development, and healthcare. He has achieved greater than 100 citations of his work in peer-reviewed publications and conferences and holds over 100 patent assets related to the core technology developed during his PhD studies.
In addition to his work at NovaSignal, Robert serves on the board of the Goggio Family Foundation (GFF). The foundation’s mission is to transform lives and strengthen communities by fostering innovation, creating knowledge, and promoting social progress. GFF provides grants in several program areas including community development, environmental preservation, and education. This aligns well with Robert’s passion for international collaboration, having worked in Malawi, Haiti, and China on brain health projects. Robert also serves on the UCLA Bioengineering Alumni Advisory Board.
Robert earned a B.A. in mathematics from the College of Idaho, B.S. in biomedical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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As a Kenyan-American immigrant who helped his parents bootstrap their home health small business to a few hundred employees, our next guest has applied those learnings to his mission of redesigning the healthcare experience for the consumers his company serves.
In today’s episode, Joseph Kitonga, the Founder of Vitable Health, joins us for an eye-opening and insightful conversation about the difficulties living wage workers face in accessing affordable healthcare and how he and his team are solving these critical issues.
While together, Joseph shares his journey of applying his childhood experiences, coupled with his adult professional learnings from outside of healthcare, and launching his fast-growing and thriving startup.
Join us for this refreshing conversation filled with passion, determination, and hope that we can reimagine, redesign, and build a new health plan for everyday people from the ground up.
Episode Highlights:
- How Joseph’s childhood experience with his parent’s business shaped his desire to impact healthcare
- Joseph’s journey in becoming a healthcare innovation entrepreneur
- Vitable Health’s unique model of providing care to its members
- Where Joseph sees the industry heading in the next two years
About our Guest:
Joseph Kitonga is a Kenyan-American immigrant who helped his parents bootstrap their home health small business to a few hundred employees and is now applying those learnings to building his current company, Vitable Health. He is a 2020 Thiel Fellow and was a part of Y Combinator's S20 Batch. He previously studied Computer Engineering at Penn State and was an intern at Microsoft on Xbox before turning down his full-time offer and dropping out from school.
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As we now recognize, the Coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the structural problems and inequities in our healthcare system. However, this crisis has also accelerated the adoption of many technologies to care for patients the industry aims to serve.
During this episode, Dr. Kim Gandy, a remote patient monitoring expert, and a national health technology industry leader joins us to discuss Play-it Health's efforts to battle COVID-19 with its personalized remote patient monitoring and virtual care management platform.
While together, Dr. Gandy shares how her company came to be and the quick and decisive business decisions she made during the pandemic's early onset. Additionally, Dr. Gandy outlines how Play-it Health is helping our frontline healthcare heroes and the opportunities for our community to engage with her team.
Join us for this timely expert Coronavirus update as we continue to work together to overcome the most significant public health challenge in our lifetimes.
Episode Highlights:
- History and overview of Dr. Gandy’s vision and need for Play-it Health’s technology
- How Dr. Gandy and the team quickly adjusted their strategy to address the pandemic
- Play-it Health’s commitment to using their technology for remote monitoring in nursing facilities
- The use of educational modules to help battle the pandemic, including vaccine hesitancy
About our Guest:
Dr. Kim Gandy is a physician, scientist, and entrepreneur with a deep-seated belief in the potential of digital health solutions for optimizing health outcomes. She launched Play-it Health (PIH) in the health adherence engagement space, aiming to utilize digital health technologies to improve adherence, one of the elements known to have the most potential for impact in value-based medicine. Though value-based care never reached significant adoption in the health marketplace, remote patient monitoring or the ability to monitor patient biometrics outside of the clinical setting did. Since RPM was a part of the PIH platform from the beginning, Play-it Health has found itself poised with an RPM solution embedded in a platform with some of the highest adherence rates in the industry.
Over the last year, PIH has sought to use its platform, Plan-it Med, to improve community efforts to combat the Coronavirus. Dr. Gandy is not only a former pediatric cardiac and transplant surgeon, she is a scientist, having obtained her Ph.D. from Stanford and having run international committees in translational research. As such, she was imminently qualified to be able to mold the PiH platform to meet community needs in a pandemic.
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Without question, the power of mentorship of our youth, especially at-risk children, creates a long-lasting ripple effect for every corner of society in our nation.
Additionally, mentoring relationships produce positive mental health benefits for all involved, which is critically important during these challenging times.
To discuss these needs in our communities and more, Artis Stevens, the President and CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, joins us on the podcast.
While together, Artis shares how his upbringing has fueled his passion to empower our nation’s youth, the importance of being the first black President and CEO in the organization’s 117-year history, and where he and his team will be taking this storied non-profit into the future.
I’m incredibly honored to share this touching and heart-filled message of hope and unity as we continue to work together to create brighter days ahead for our country.
Episode Highlights:
- The impact of Artis’ father on his life path
- How Artis’ life in church helped form his passion to serve others
- Artis’ vision for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
- How Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is helping with the mental health crisis
- The importance of people of color in leadership to inspire change
About our Guest:
Artis Stevens is an award-winning nonprofit marketing veteran whose passion is building purpose-driven brands. Highly skilled in developing innovative marketing strategies at the grassroots and national levels, driving revenue, relevance, and reach to impact youth, families, and communities in need, Stevens has produced sustaining purpose and cause-marketing partnerships with some of the most well-known brands in the country.
Bringing more than 20 years of strategic marketing experience, Stevens serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, leading national 4-H marketing and communications efforts driving the organization's positioning, brand strategy, marketing campaigns, communications, digital presence, consumer insights, and field marketing efforts. He is also responsible for driving revenue across the organization’s e-commerce and merchandising business, as well as digital fundraising.
A proven visionary leader and strategist, his experience in marketing strategy, partnership and celebrity engagement, and board management provide a diverse mix of expertise positioning him as a sought-after speaker on revitalizing nonprofit brands, infusing brand culture, and converting marketing to engagement.
Before joining 4-H in June 2014, Stevens served as national Vice President, Marketing, Strategy & Operations at Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) where his most notable accomplishment was spearheading BGCA's new tagline and most impactful brand awareness campaign launch to date – Great Futures Start Here.
Named American Marketing Association Foundation's (AMAF) 2018 National Nonprofit Marketer of the Year, the highest honor bestowed by the AMA/AMAF on nonprofit marketing professionals, Stevens was recognized for his leadership in revitalizing 4-H's 100-year-old brand image.
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Experiencing grief and loss is inevitable and, at times, can feel unbearable.
Through her own personal experience of profound loss, our next guest has dedicated her life’s work to supporting people to heal and transform through the process of grief.
Wendy Black Stern is the President of the Grief Support Network, whose mission, programs, and network of resources are inspired and informed by Wendy’s personal experience of losing her son.
In 2007, when Noah passed away, her grief propelled her into a process of profound transformation, which taught her to live with more joy and gratitude in her life.
Join us for this candid and touching conversation to learn more about Wendy’s vision of a culture that does not run from grief but embraces it as an opportunity for growth and connection.
Episode Highlights:
- Wendy’s personal story of loss
- Wendy’s choice to travel abroad to process her family’s loss
- The creation of the Grief Support Network
- The phoenixes that can rise from the ashes of the pandemic
- The future of grief support in society
About our Guest:
Wendy dedicates her life’s work to supporting people to heal and transform through the process of grief. In 2012, she founded a non-profit organization, Grief Support Network, whose mission, programs, and network of resources are inspired and informed by Wendy’s personal experience of loss and professional background as a yoga therapist, yoga instructor, teacher trainer, and group facilitator. Wendy has devoted the last 20 years to being a student and teacher of yoga.
She has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and is certified as a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist, yoga teacher, reiki practitioner, and facilitator of yoga therapy groups for grief support and self-empowerment. Before the loss of her son, Noah, Wendy had spent years helping others to explore, express, and integrate experiences through the practices of yoga and body/mind exploration. In her private practice as a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Practitioner and PRYT faculty member, Wendy witnessed the ways that thoughts, emotions, and life traumas manifest through our bodies.
In 2007, when Noah passed away, her grief propelled her into a process of profound transformation, which has taught her to live with more joy and gratitude in her life. Through this journey, Wendy found herself deepened in her commitment to supporting others. Wendy is filled with love for her husband, Brian, and daughters, Hannah, and Layla. She feels the most at home while hiking with her family in Boulder, Colorado.
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In 2020, with the pandemic raging across the United States, the healthcare industry's inefficiencies and inequities were laid bare for all of us to contemplate.
One area pushed to the breaking point has been the vital work of healthcare staffing for our nation's heroes.
To learn more about this systemic problem in healthcare, Matt Pierce, the President of Trusted Health and a national expert on the future of work related to the healthcare industry, joins us for a timely conversation.
While together, Matt shares his entrepreneurial journey of building Trusted Health, which was listed on Forbes' Next Billion-Dollar Startup List for 2020, how his company is addressing the industry’s challenges, and where he sees the future work heading.
Join us for this inspirational, candid, and critical conversation as we continue to work together to rebuild our healthcare industry.
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Matt is a future of work thought leader who is passionate about the impact flexible workforce solutions can bring to the healthcare industry. As the President of Trusted Health, he is responsible for defining the vision and go-to-market strategy for the company.
Prior to joining Trusted, Matt was a General Manager at tech talent marketplace Hired, where he oversaw product and go-to-market strategy for the company’s contingent worker division. Prior to that, he started his career at TEKsystems, the world’s largest provider of IT staffing. While there, Matt progressed from a technical recruiter to the company’s executive leadership program.
In 2018, Matt was named one of Staffing Industry Analyst’s 40 Under 40. He is CCWP certified, served as a Board Member for the Risk Management Association, and advises organizations in the future of work category.
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In times of great need, the healthcare industry is fortunate to have dedicated and passionate entrepreneurs who step up to answer the call to deliver solutions that better our communities' health.
During today's episode, Piotr Orzechowski, the CEO of Infermedica, joins us to discuss his company's efforts in answering the call for help to battle COVID-19.
Join us for this powerful conversation to hear why Piotr, a former video game developer, applied his brilliance to the healthcare industry, how his team quickly pivoted to create solutions for the pandemic, and how you can get involved in Infermedica's inspiring, meaningful and timely mission.
Episode Highlights:
- How Infermedica was conceptualized
- Creating a COVID-19 risk assessment tool
- How Infermedica stays current with new discoveries about COVID-19
- The future of Infermedica in a post-pandemic world
About our Guest:
Piotr Orzechowski is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Infermedica, one of the leading Artificial Intelligence health companies dedicated to improving the process of medical diagnosis. Piotr is an energetic IT entrepreneur with a strong technical background with key interests in digital health and machine learning. Before founding Infermedica, he was engaged in several startup ventures; Piotr previously worked as CTO at Sky Storage and co-founded QCode, the software house that delivered custom IT solutions for Toshiba TTCE Poland.
Infermedica aims to provide each patient with a better idea of what kind of care to look for, offering recommendations for courses of action to take to receive medical diagnoses from a doctor-- all by answering a simple list of questions.
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Episode Overview:
For many entrepreneurs who are deeply passionate and committed to reimagining the healthcare industry, their drive comes from personal, life-altering experiences.
Today, Yishai Knobel, the founder and CEO of HelpAround, an entrepreneur and company on a mission to simplify specialty patient access, joins us on the podcast.
While together, Yishai shares his powerful family story, how his family's journey has fueled his company's success, and where he sees the industry heading into the future.
Additionally, Yishai and I discuss what it is like to build a company from scratch, the ups and downs while doing so, and the valuable lessons we've both learned along the way.
Join us for this touching, personal, and inspiring conversation with one of healthcare's key innovators. With leaders like Yishai helping to move the healthcare industry forward, there is no doubt brighter days are ahead for the patients it serves.
Episode Highlights:
- How Yishai was inspired to create value for families affected by diabetes
- Yishai talks about how it’s like be an entrepreneur
- Statistics and hurdles on the process of how patients receive new medications
- Where Yishai sees the future of his industry
About our Guest:
Yishai Knobel is a founder and current CEO of HelpAround, one of the first mobile patient concierge platforms for specialty prescriptions.
Before starting his company, Yishai worked under AgaMatrix, working on mHealth and bringing to life Sanofi’s iBGStar glucose monitor. He holds an MBA from MIT and a BA from Bar Ilan University.
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As the COVID-19 vaccine begins to roll out across the nation, every American must have confidence in the technology and the system administering it to overcome this deadly virus.
Given the dark history of mistrust and abuse in our communities of color with the healthcare system, I asked Duane Reynolds to come back onto the podcast to discuss this mistrust and its direct and indirect impact on these communities accepting the vaccine.
Duane is the CEO of Just Health Collective and is a national expert and leader who has helped shape the industry’s conversation and thinking around diversity, inclusion, and health equity, illuminating new perspectives and assisting others in connecting the dots between value transformation and belonging.
Join us for this timely, insightful, and needed discussion as we continue to work together to overcome the most significant public health crisis of our lifetimes.
Episode Highlights:
- The history of mistrust in the healthcare system in communities of color
- The history of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- Microaggressions in the healthcare systems against communities of color
- Actions that need to be taken to instill confidence in the healthcare system for communities of color
- Actionable steps to ensure communities of color take part in the COVID-19 vaccine
About our Guest:
Recognized by countless organizations as a change-maker within his field, Duane Elliott Reynolds, MHA, has helped to lead the national conversation around diversity, inclusion, and health equity, illuminating new perspectives and helping others connect the dots between value transformation and belonging.
As 2018 Modern Healthcare and Business Equality Magazine up and comer, Reynolds’ ideas have led mission-driven organizations to boost consumers’ access to care and have also enabled clients to realize millions of dollars in savings, while driving top-line revenue growth. But more importantly, since the onset of his more than two-decade career, Reynolds has actively created space for diversity, inclusion, and health equity advancement where none before existed.
As a healthcare consulting leader for The Advisory Board Company, Reynolds developed the division’s first inclusion and diversity department — and served as its first chief executive. Reynolds was most recently the president and CEO of the American Hospital Association's Institute for Diversity and Health Equity and has held leadership positions at other prominent organizations including Johns Hopkins Medicine, Emory Healthcare, OhioHealth, and Optum, a UnitedHealth Group company. His work for the latter earned the organization recognition as a 2017 and 2018 “Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality” by the Human Rights Campaign. During his graduate studies, Reynolds pioneered the development of an academic course centered on diversity in health care leadership and also co-founded the health services management and policy diversity committee at The Ohio State University. In that same year, he was published in the Journal of Healthcare Management and won first place in the National Association of Health Services Executives national case competition.
As founder and CEO of Just Health Collective, Reynolds and his team discover hidden opportunities to drive organizational change and uncover diverse points of view, which lead businesses to breakthroughs once considered out of reach.
Reynolds’ empathy, business savvy, and knack for building trust enable him to diagnose cultural blind spots and work fluidly across teams. He passionately...
According to a recent study, 75% of clinicians say they spend over 10 hours per week on paperwork and medical notes.
Given this administrative burden and the high burnout rate amongst clinicians, it is more important than ever for our healthcare innovators to dedicate themselves to stemming these crises and building innovative, novel, and supportive technology to help our clinicians get back to the joy of practicing medicine.
During this episode, Dr. Davin Lundquist, the first Chief Medical Information Officer at CommonSpirit Health and the current Chief Medical Officer at Augmedix, joins us on the podcast.
While together, Dr. Davin shares his remarkable journey in the healthcare industry, when and where he was first introduced to Augmedix, why he joined the company, and the profound impact the technology is having on him, a physician who still practices medicine, and his peers across the nation.
Additionally, Dr. Davin discussed his organization’s industry-leading remote medical documentation platform that uses remote AI-assisted live scribes to observe, listen, and capture relevant details from natural conversation for over 35 specialties.
Join Dr. Davin and me for this inspiring conversation and hear why we’re more excited than ever that we can help reduce the administrative burden on clinicians and truly bring back the joy of practicing medicine! Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Davin’s journey in becoming CommonSpirit Health’s first CMIO
- When and where Dr. Davin first met the Augmedix team
- The results Dr. Davin experienced when first using the Augmedix technology
- Why Dr. Davin became Augmedix’s Chief Medical Officer
- Why Dr. Davin believes it is important to continue to treat patients
- How you can get involved with Augmedix’s inspiring mission and company journey
About our Guest:
In December 2019, Dr. Davin Lundquist joined Augmedix as its Chief Medical Officer.
In this role, Dr. Lundquist drives rapid technological innovation across Augmedix’s product development teams while maintaining clinical excellence and tight alignment with the fast-changing US healthcare landscape.
Dr. Lundquist is working on introducing next-generation natural-language-processing automation modules into the Augmedix workflow. He is working with the Augmedix team to advance their real-time support systems to prompt doctors to close care gaps and tend to other critical quality initiatives. Dr. Lundquist supports the company’s commercial efforts as it expands its footprint among major US health care systems.
Dr. Lunquist is a graduate of the USC Keck School of Medicine. He completed his family medicine residency at Naval Hospital Bremerton in Bremerton, WA, and for eight years served as a Chief Medical Information Officer at CommonSpirit Health. While at CommonSpirit, he was responsible for, among other things, implementations, end-user competencies, IT optimization, and evaluation of new technologies to streamline clinical workflows.
While serving as Chief Medical Officer at Augmedix, Dr. Lundquist continues to practice medicine with CommonSpirit Health and contributes as a market CMIO for Ambulatory Services in Ventura County. In this role, he supports a select number of innovation projects with CommonSpirit.
Dr. Lundquist was a champion for CommonSpirit becoming the first enterprise adopter of Augmedix in 2013. He has personally been a user of Augmedix for more than 6 years, and the service has continued to evolve under his guidance. “What makes Augmedix so promising is that the service seamlessly combines remote scribe operations with scalable technology,” said Dr. Lundquist. “This unique human-in-the-loop model enables clinicians to have natural conversations with their patients while the system ambiently documents...
Welcome back to the podcast and for spending a few moments with me. If you’re plugging in for the first time, I’m glad you’re here.
During this episode, I wanted to take a moment to share a few positive messages I recently received from many of our supporters of the podcast, especially as we continue to work toward and remain hopeful for a post-COVID world.
To get to know and connect with the community members we highlighted in today’s episode, I have left their LinkedIn profiles in the episode notes.
To each and every one of you- thank you. Thank you for supporting our work with this podcast and I’m looking forward to highlighting even more of you in future episodes. For now- be well, be safe, and let’s remain hopeful for brighter days ahead as we continue to work together to move the health of our communities forward!
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Americans are facing serious problems with our healthcare system- skyrocketing costs, a lack of patient access, and inefficient delivery. Despite all the political debates and media coverage on healthcare policy and reform, there is typically one glaring omission: feedback from the people in the trenches- the doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals who provide care to the patients.
To shed light on these critically important issues, we are joined by Dr. Alejandro Badia, Chief Medical Officer of OrthoNow and author of the acclaimed book, Healthcare from the Trenches. Dr. Badia shares his personal journey of becoming a national-leading orthopedic surgeon and why he is so dedicated to scaling his healthcare delivery model.
Join us to hear Dr. Badia’s powerful message for every American to understand the root causes of our healthcare crisis and demand meaningful reform.
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Badia’s dreams of being a surgeon as a child
- Dr. Badia’s journey in orthopedics
- The faults in the US Healthcare system
- The lack of innovation and healthy competition in healthcare
- Red tape holding back healthcare from patients
- Why Alejandro wrote his book, “Healthcare from the Trenches”
About our Guest:
Alejandro Badia, MD, FACS, FRCSI is a hand and upper extremity surgeon at Badia Hand to Shoulder Center in Doral, Florida. Badia studied physiology at Cornell University and obtained his medical degree at NYU, where he also trained in orthopedics. A hand fellowship at Alleghany General Hospital in Pittsburgh was followed by an AO trauma fellowship in Freiburg, Germany. He runs an international hand fellowship, served on the review board of a hand surgery techniques journal, and previously organized a yearly Miami meeting for surgeons /therapists devoted to upper limb arthroscopy and arthroplasty. This international meeting was held at the renowned Miami Anatomical Research Center ( M.A.R.C. ) which Badia co-founded in 2005.
In 2008 he created the Badia Hand to Shoulder Center and Surgery Center at Doral while in 2010, he launched OrthoNOW®, the first immediate orthopedic care center in South Florida, later franchising the concept which can now be licensed to orthopedic colleagues and healthcare systems.
He is past president of the International Society for Sport Traumatology of the Hand (ISSPORTH) is a member of several orthopedic societies (AAOS, ASSH, AAHS, EWAS), honorary member of more than 10 international hand surgery and arthroscopy associations, and served as an honored professor at the prestigious Philadelphia Hand Course in 2012. Having lectured in all seven continents he is currently focused on improving healthcare delivery in the orthopedics and sports medicine realm.
Dr. Badia has outlined his journey and delved into the major challenges and hurdles of delivering healthcare in the U.S. through his Amazon best-selling book, “Healthcare from the Trenches” published during the Covid19 pandemic.
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For months, all of us have been personally or professionally battling COVID-19, or both.
This global public health crisis has inflicted terrible physical, mental, emotional, financial, and spiritual strain on billions of people around the world.
Yet, during these challenging times, another crippling disease has taken root across our nation- we are now facing an infodemic that is, unfortunately, impacting some of our friends, colleagues, and loved ones.
To confront the issue of disinformation during this pandemic, I asked Susan Dentzer to join us to shed light on this critically important issue.
For ten years, Susan was the former on-air Health Correspondent for the PBS NewsHour. Additionally, she was the editor-in-chief of the policy journal Health Affairs and is currently a Senior Policy Fellow for the Robert J. Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University.
I’m grateful to have Susan on our podcast to confront the infodemic scourge plaguing many of our communities and the opportunity to learn from her how we can work together to move the health of the nation forward. Work that must be based on facts and science. Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- Susan’s storied career, including PBS NewsHour On-Air Health Correspondent
- Uncertainty of facts during the pandemic
- Politics and COVID-19
- Impact of misinformation to our society, nation, and the world
- Susan’s current work with the Robert J Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University
About our Guest:
Susan Dentzer is Senior Policy Fellow for the Robert J. Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University. Based in Washington, DC, where the center’s research team is located, she focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic response; health system transformation, such as through telehealth; biopharmaceutical policy; health care issues in the 2020 elections, and other key health policy issues.
Dentzer is one of the nation's most respected health and health policy thought leaders and a frequent speaker and commentator on television and radio, including PBS and NPR, and an author of commentaries and analyses in print publications such as Modern Healthcare. She was also the editor and lead author of the book Health Care Without Walls: A Roadmap for Reinventing U.S. Health Care, available on Amazon.com.
From March 2016 to February 2018, Dentzer was President and Chief Executive Officer of NEHI, the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization then composed of more than 80 stakeholder organizations from across all key sectors of health and health care. From 2013 to 2016, she was a senior policy adviser to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation’s largest philanthropy focused on health and health care in the United States, and before that, was the editor-in-chief of the policy journal Health Affairs. From 1998 to 2008, she was the on-air Health Correspondent for the PBS NewsHour. Dentzer wrote and hosted the 2015 PBS documentary, Reinventing American Healthcare, focusing on the innovations pioneered by the Geisinger Health System and spread to health systems across the nation.
Dentzer is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) and also serves on the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice of the National Academies of Science, Medicine, and Engineering. She is an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations; a fellow of the National Academy of Social Insurance; and a...
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Passion, empathy, determination, and a deep commitment to humanizing healthcare are only a few of many ways to describe our next guest and his far-reaching impact of resolving health disparities with technology.
Jamey Edwards, the CEO of Cloudbreak Health, joins us on today’s episode to discuss his entrepreneurial journey of founding his company that is now positioned as a national leading unified telemedicine platform that currently performs over 100,000 encounters per month in over 1,500 healthcare venues across the country.
Additionally, Jamey shares with us how his recent billion-plus dollar merger to create UpHealth came to be, even after years in the making. UpHealth is focused on empowering providers, health systems, and payors globally to manage care for people with complex medical, behavioral, and social needs, while dramatically improving access to primary care.
Join us as we spend time with one of the leading members of the Global Army of Healthcare Transformers from StartUp Health, and to hear his rally cry to all of us as we continue to work together to positively reimagine the health of our communities around the world!
Episode Highlights:
- How and why Jamey founded Cloudbreak Health
- How the merger of Cloudbreak Health and UpHealth happened
- Innovating during the pandemic
- How Jamey launched Cloudbreak’s telequarantine program
- The silver lining to COVID-19
About our Guest:
Jamey is on a mission to fix healthcare. As a serial entrepreneur, Jamey has founded or co-founded companies in hospital management, physician outsourcing, and telemedicine space. He is currently the CEO of Cloudbreak Health, a leading unified telemedicine company currently performing over 100,000 encounters per month in over 1,500 healthcare venues nationwide.
Cloudbreak's mission is to #HumanizeHealthcare by leveraging technology to resolve health disparities and ensure health equity for underserved patients across the country. The first disparity Cloudbreak pioneered was ensuring Limited English Proficient and deaf patients were empowered to take control of their healthcare by bringing Certified Medical Interpreters to the point of care at the push of a button via its telemedicine platform.
Jamey is a member of the Global Army of Healthcare Transformers of StartUp Health and is focused on two main moonshots of increasing access to care and driving the cost of care to zero.
Prior to Cloudbreak, Jamey was the CEO of Emergent Medical Associates. During his tenure at EMA, EMA grew into the leading multi-specialty group (ER, Hospitalist, Anesthesia) in the southwest US & was honored as a 4x INC. 5000 & 2x Modern Healthcare Hottest company. He remains with EMA as a Board Member.
He is also Board Member for Los Angeles Chapter of the American Red Cross, American Heart Association, the Partners in Care Foundation and the Young President's Organization (Santa Monica Bay Chapter).
He graduated as a Tradition Fellow from Cornell University in 1996 & received his MBA from Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management in 2003.
Jamey is a proud member of the #PinkSocks Tribe of healthcare innovators that can be found on Twitter and beyond working to disrupt healthcare from the ground up and drive positive change for patients and providers.
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While in the midst of a crisis, like the COVID-19 pandemic, I believe there is an excellent opportunity to challenge old norms and to create an environment for new ideas, innovations, and technologies to take flight.
One area ripe for new thinking and innovation is the age-old topic of indoor air quality.
During today’s episode, we are joined by a national thought leader and business executive who has been leading the charge on the importance of addressing indoor air quality for more than a decade.
Harry Pliskin is the President of Atreo, an industry-leading organization that designs and installs pneumatic transport solutions in highly complex environments of all sizes and geographical locations.
While together, Harry shares with us how his clients are adjusting to the realities and needs the pandemic has created and how he is leading the charge in reimagining designs and solutions for indoor air quality well after the pandemic is behind us.
Join us for this meaningful and encouraging conversation about the importance of indoor air quality during the Coronavirus outbreak and beyond.
Episode Highlights:
- The importance of indoor air quality before, during and after COVID-19
- Simplifying and managing critical air quality information about COVID-19
- Opportunities for improved indoor air quality and innovation beyond COVID-19
About Our Guest:
Harry Pliskin is President of Atreo, a Colorado-based environmental services and management company. He has worked with hundreds of clients to design and implement science-based, cost-effective infection prevention and indoor air quality solutions. Harry and his team of engineers, researchers, project managers and technicians have worked with customers in multiple industries including hospitals and universities, office buildings, hotels, residential developments, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations. Clients have included Mayo Clinic, Stanford University, Penn Medicine, and the University of Texas. Harry participated in the Sloan Foundation’s Microbiome Project at the University of Chicago and is a frequent speaker on the most effective and efficient science-based strategies and tools to mitigate the risk of exposure to COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. He has been warning about the transmission of airborne viruses and bacteria and recommending a more robust response in the private and public sector for more than the past decade.
Prior to Atreo, Harry was founder and CEO of TeleWeb Worldwide, one of the first business process outsourcing companies providing services from locations around the world (now FirstSource – www.firstsource.com.) Previously, Harry worked in Washington, D.C. overseeing legislative advocacy efforts for maintaining the affordability of telecommunications and energy at the state and federal levels for one of the country’s largest advocacy group. Harry graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A., Economics, and a J.D. from George Washington University.
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To create a meaningful and lasting positive impact for our community members exposed to substance abuse, I believe the healthcare industry must implement behavioral, medical, and social care treatments for them.
During this episode, I spent time with a national leader who is creating trauma-informed care teams, while in her personal life is the author of two books that focus on the loss of loved ones and transition.
Rebecca Whitehead Munn is the Chief Operating Officer of 180 Health Partners, a fellowship of care providers, community builders, and healthcare pioneers passionate about impacting the trajectory of lives with exposure to substance use and devoted to finding new ways to do so.
Rebecca shares her journey as an author and how her professional career has perfectly positioned her to help 180 Health Partners continue to expand their critically important work across the nation.
Additionally, Rebecca shares how she and her team help save health plans money while also delivering better outcomes for the patients they serve.
Join us for this inspiring conversation of hope, resilience, and dedication to a brighter future as Rebecca and 180 Health Partners continue to serve as treatment allies for our providers and community members across the nation.
Episode Highlights:
- Rebecca’s journey of being an author and healthcare executive
- What is 180 Health Partners and the Strongwell Program
- The impact of 180 Health Partners’ work for the people they serve
- The expansion of 180 Health Partners across the United States
About our Guest:
Rebecca is passionate about rethinking possible and brings intellectual humility to all her endeavors. She has served in healthcare executive roles for several global companies, most recently UnitedHealthcare. In Rebecca’s 25+ years of leadership experience, she has achieved success with leading innovation of new business models, prototyping emergent community-based delivery models, and segmenting consumer delivery approaches yielding growth and client satisfaction.
Rebecca is currently the Chief Operating Officer for 180 Health Partners, a multi- state provider of behavioral health care + community services that help women and men recover from substance- exposed living and live a life of thriving recovery.
Rebecca has been trained in the Nuka System of Care from Southcentral Foundation, Anchorage, Alaska and the Buurtzorg holistic system of care, the largest home-based clinical model in the world, in Almelo, Netherlands.
She is an award-winning author of two books and the immediate past Board Chair for Hands on Nashville Board of Directors. Rebecca is passionate about teaching and is an adjunct professor in the Lipscomb University Healthcare Administration Master’s program.
She earned a B.B.A. in marketing with a minor in psychology from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, an executive M.B.A. degree from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado, in 2017, became a Nashville Healthcare Council Fellow, in 2018, became certified as an End of Life Doula from the University of Vermont College of Medicine, and in 2019, became certified in Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Rebecca is happiest outdoors, practicing yoga, being a mom, finding great Mexican food, and using her chaotic Aries energy for good. She has lived in Nashville, Tennessee since 2005.
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Access to healthcare has not been equal for our nation's citizens and is now further exacerbated and pronounced amid this pandemic.
In today's episode, we are joined by Dr. Jag Singh to discuss the stark realities of the lack of access to virtual care for minority groups and the disenfranchised during the Coronavirus outbreak.
Dr. Singh is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and served as the Clinical Director of the Cardiology Division from 2015 to 2020. He is also the Founding Director of the Resynchronization and Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center.
While together, Dr. Singh shares the early findings from his institution's study regarding the lack of access to virtual care and the direct negative impact it is having on many of our fellow Americans. Dr. Singh also shares valuable and insightful recommendations for our industry leaders to be contemplating to fix this crisis.
Additionally, Dr. Singh and I discuss the future of connected care, sensor technologies, and what innovation will mean for patients moving forward.
Join us for this frank, candid, and critical conversation as we continue to work together to move our nation's health forward.
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Singh’s background and work during the pandemic
- Why virtual care is not accessible to all
- How to solve accessibility issues
- Reasons why internet should be a human right
- What role government should play in virtual care
- What does healthcare look like after the pandemic
- The future of sensors and the connected patient
About our Guest:
Dr. Jag Singh is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has served as the Clinical Director of the Cardiology Division and the Roman W. DeSanctis Endowed Chair in Cardiology (2015-2020). He is the Founding Director of the Resynchronization and Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics Program, at the Massachusetts General Hospital Heart Center. Dr. Singh received his medical degree from BJ Medical College, Pune University, India. He completed his internal medicine residency, cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology fellowships at Mass General Hospital. He also earned a doctorate from Oxford University, a Master of science in clinical investigation from MIT-Harvard and a research fellowship at the Framingham Heart Study.
Dr. Singh is a well-recognized scientist and educator and has given over 300 lectures at multiple national and international conferences over the last few years. He is a fixture on numerous educational panels and a speaker at several ‘Meet the Masters’ and ‘Meet the Expert’ sessions at national and international conferences. He has served as the program director of over 30 educational symposia.
Dr. Singh's research interests are in clinical cardiac electrophysiology. He is the national & global principal investigator on 4 ongoing multi-center clinical trials in device therapy and sensor strategies for heart failure and atrial fibrillation. He is also a member of several steering committees for large multicenter research studies. Much of his current efforts are focused on healthcare redesign, digital health and medical device innovations. Dr. Singh has served as an International Associate editor for the European Heart Journal (2012-2015) and Deputy Editor of the Journal of American College of Cardiology: Clinical EP (2015-2020). He serves on the editorial board of several medical journals and is currently the Editor-in-chief of the Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine. Dr. Singh has over
Over the past several years, the healthcare industry and the inspiring leaders working within it have experienced increased clinical, operational, administrative, and economic strain. And, of course, this collective strain has only been further exacerbated by the global pandemic.
However, because of leaders like our next guest, I remain hopeful and optimistic that we can positively impact and reimagine the health of the healthcare industry.
During this episode, we spent time with Jim Gaffney, the Chief Strategy Officer for Ensemble Health Partners, a leading innovator in revenue cycle management. Jim and his team empower healthcare providers to improve financial outcomes and patient experiences with an unrivaled depth of expertise and best-in-class technologies.
While together, Jim and I discuss his storied career, why he joined Ensemble, and how his company is helping their customers flourish during these times.
Additionally, we discussed the importance of company culture while being socially distant during the pandemic and the mission Ensemble is on with their Voices of Purpose campaign.
Join us for this important, informative, and inspiring episode as we continue to work together to move our healthcare industry forward!
Episode Highlights:
- Jim’s storied background and impact on the industry
- Who is Ensemble
- The reasons for Ensemble’s rapid growth
- The big issues Ensemble is tackling
- Ensemble’s Voices of Purpose campaign
About our Guest:
As Chief Strategy Officer for Ensemble Health Partners, Jim serves as a critical member of the executive management team, where he is responsible for articulating and implementing a strategic vision for Ensemble. In this role, he focuses on continual core business improvement, emerging business strategies, and guiding a long-term vision for what is possible in the Revenue Cycle.
Jim was previously a management consultant with extensive strategic and operational experience in improving the financial effectiveness of healthcare providers and revenue cycle services and technology firms. He comes to Ensemble from PwC, where he served as key leader in the Healthcare Provider Operations Practice. Jim worked closely with Boards of Directors and C-Level executives to determine how the revenue cycle can help health systems achieve their mission and vision.
He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois, and currently resides in Chicago with his wife Caitlyn and dog Theo. On a personal level, Jim enjoys golf and all mountain activities. When at home, Jim can be found cooking or enjoying Chicago’s rich culinary scene.
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Welcome back to the podcast and for spending a few moments with me. If you’re plugging in for the first time, I’m glad you’re here.
During the previous episode, we hit a major milestone for any podcast, and I can’t wait to share more. Congratulations go to this community and the amazing guests we have the honor to feature!
Also, since launching this podcast in September 2019, there has been a lot that has happened with this show, the world as we know it, as well as a few things in my professional journey along the way.
During this episode, I’m looking forward to discussing all of this and more.
Episode Highlights:
- Mike celebrates 100 episodes
- What is next for the podcast
- Mike’s new journey with Olive
- How you can nominate new podcast guests
- How you can get involved with Olive
- How you can get involved with Catalyst
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Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, I have been continually inspired by so many communities that have banded together to help battle this deadly virus.
Dr. Jon Klein from Louisville, Kentucky is our next guest who exemplifies a community leader with the tenacity and dedication to servitude that we need during these unprecedented times.
Calling the University of Louisville his professional home, Dr. Klein has been instrumental in helping the recently formed Co-Immunity Project become a force of good in the fight against the pandemic.
The purpose of the Co-Immunity Project is to study COVID-19 infection and immunity among healthcare workers and in the broader Louisville community and track the movement of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Louisville’s waste and surface water.
These findings and understanding from the Co-Immunity Project will help us restart the economy, return to work and schools safely, and ease the burden of worry that uncertainty creates.
Join us in our latest Expert Coronavirus update to learn from Dr. Klein as we continue to work together to overcome the most daunting public health challenge of our lifetimes.
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Klein’s academic background and mission
- What is the Co-Immunity Project
- Who are the Co-Immunity Project stakeholders
- Wastewater detection data and its uses
- The use of data to guide policy
- What the Co-Immunity Project can teach other communities
About our Guest:
Dr. Jon Klein is the founder and director of the University of Louisville Core Proteomics Laboratory and the Clinical Proteomics Program. The Clinical Proteomics Program is focused on biomarker discovery and is recognized as one of the first programs to employ proteomic methods to study renal physiology and pathophysiology and to identify biomarkers of renal disease.
Additionally, Dr. Klein is helping lead the Co-Immunity Project, a large scientific research study led by the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, the Center for Predictive Medicine and the University of Louisville. Using their combined forces, they will study COVID-19 infection and immunity among healthcare workers and the broader Louisville Metro-Jefferson County community and track movement of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Louisville’s wastewater and surface water.
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As many of you know, I am very passionate about elevating the conversation regarding our mental health and wellbeing and I remain more committed than ever to move this vital part of our lives out of the dark corners and into the light.
To further my commitment, I asked a national leader in the field of pediatric mental health to share his pioneering journey, work and mission of improving the mental wellbeing of children across the country.
During this episode, we are fortunate to learn from Dr. Parker Huston, Clinical Director for the On Our Sleeves Program, which is part of Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Huston and his team are working tirelessly to make mental healthcare accessible to all children, and their caregivers, in every community across our nation.
I look forward to having you a part of this important and timely conversation, and how you and your community can help Dr. Huston’s mission with the On Our Sleeves program as we continue to work together to move our mental health and well-being forward during these critical times.
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Parker Huston’s background in science
- Identifying and solving for gaps in pediatric mental health
- Introduction and overview of the On Our Sleeves program
- Ways to interact and support On Our Sleeves
About Our Guest:
Parker Huston, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and Clinical Director of the On Our Sleeves Program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. He is also the Population Health Clinical Lead for Behavioral Health. He works part-time in the Comprehensive Pediatric Feeding Clinic as well. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Miami University of Ohio, then earned master’s and doctoral degrees from Michigan State University. He continued his training at Allegheny General Hospital and The Children’s Institute Rehabilitation Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA followed by a fellowship in Pediatric Psychology at Akron Children’s Hospital. He has a current faculty appointment as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
In his role with the On Our Sleeves movement, Dr. Huston works on population mental health initiatives. He develops, manages and shares mental health content and advocates for children's mental health on a local, regional, and national level. He also provides education and programming to families, schools and companies on how to discuss mental health and improve mental wellness and access to services in their community. He enjoys speaking with children, families, community and business leaders, and others who are passionate about improving children’s mental health and bringing increased awareness and access to resources into the community.
Dr. Huston's passion is rooted in providing education and opening doors so that children and their families can achieve their maximum potential and feel like they have agency in their lives. He believes that improving children’s mental health is important to set them up for success as adolescents and adults. Focusing on good mental health practices during childhood can create healthy habits throughout the lifespan.
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With COVID-19 cases surging across the country, it is more important than ever to identify, create, and implement scalable solutions to help detect and track infections in order to help bring this crisis to manageable levels.
During this episode, we spent time with Kitty Kolding, the CEO of AudibleHealthAI to discuss her team’s pioneering efforts of leveraging artificial intelligence as an effective and scalable solution to aid in the fight against the virus.
AudibleHealthAI’s initial suite of products are designed to detect coughs in a variety of sound environments, and then visualize and classify the coughs as being
COVID-19, or any additional cough types, including asthma, bronchitis, COPD, emphysema, and tuberculosis.
I look forward to you joining this inspiring and thought-provoking conversation as we continue to work together to overcome one of the greatest healthcare challenges of our lifetimes.
Episode Highlights:
- How AudibleHealthAI came to be
- How Kitty and Dr. Michelle Archuleta met and joined forces
- The use of AI in the fight against COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses
- AudibleHealthAI in a post-COVID world
About Our Guest:
Kitty Kolding is the Co-Founder & CEO of Audible Health AI. She is a social entrepreneur out to create solutions to help out the fight against Covid and other respiratory health conditions.
She is a born leader, lover of data, fanatic about conceptualizing and building startups, increasing sales velocity and delivering operational excellence. She is irresistibly attracted to the creation of new business approaches that transform what came before.
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As many of us know and experience, both personally and professionally, the American healthcare system is fraught with complexity and financial opaqueness.
Fortunately, there are passionate and determined leaders in our community working tirelessly to solve these systemic issues we face as a nation.
In this episode, we are joined by Joseph Schneier, CEO of Trusty Care, to discuss his team's mission to improve older adults' financial and health outcomes and make sure no American goes through bankruptcy because of healthcare costs.
I look forward to having you join us for this meaningful and important conversation as Joseph shares with us his long journey of working to solve complex social issues, why he started Trusty Care, and how you can get involved. Let's do this!
Episode Highlights:
- Why and how Joseph began building Trusty Care
- Joseph’s motivation even after multiple startup exits
- How his wife inspired him to build Trusty Care
- Trusty Care in the face of COVID-19 pandemic
- What’s next for the Trusty Care team
About Our Guest:
Joseph Schneier is a serial entrepreneur who with his co-founder, founded and exited two companies in the Ed Tech sector. Following that, Mr. Schneier worked with behavioral research scientists productizing their research with technology-based solutions for patient behavioral change with a focus on HIV drug adherence, health literacy, pandemic response, and addiction.
In 2013, he co-founded Cognotion--a company focused on solving the talent shortage of healthcare workers. In 2018, Mr. Schneier founded Trusty.care, an insurtech company for the retiree population, whose mission it is to make sure no retiree goes through bankruptcy because of out of pocket healthcare costs. In 2020, with James Firman, the former CEO of the National Council on Aging, Mr. Schneier founded Bellage, a company empowering older adults in health choices.
The company has launched a Covid-19 application for older adults with Florida, Michigan, New York, St. Louis, LA County and Washington State. Mr. Schneier has spoken at TedMed, Lake Nona, JP Morgan Healthcare and is a mentor at New York University, Wharton, Cornell, Techstars, and is a Columbia University Fellow.
Mr. Schneier sits on the board of The Sam and Devorah Foundation for transgender youth, Superbia Credit Union, a LGBTQ credit union, and the board of Stonewall Community Development Corporation, a non-profit focused on LGBTQ senior housing and is a member of the LGBTQ+ Biden Council.
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During the early days of the Coronavirus pandemic, our next guest cared for some of the first patients in the United States that contracted COVID-19.
Dr. Nick Mark is an attending ICU physician at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Washington and is also the founder of OnePager ICU.
I recently spent time with Dr. Mark and asked him to share his harrowing personal and professional journey of being one of the first physicians in our nation to confront and battle this deadly virus.
Additionally, Dr. Mark and I discuss his new organization, OnePage ICU and the inspiring outcomes already happening for care teams worldwide due to him and his team’s mission with their work.
I look forward to having you a part of this powerful, moving, and inspiring conversation so we can rally around Dr. Mark and his mission as we work together to defeat COVID-19.
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Mark shares his experience being in the epicenter of the first COVID outbreak
- How OnePager ICU came to be
- How to get involved with OnePager ICU
- How Dr. Mark and his team are dealing with the challenges brought about by COVID-19
About Our Guest:
Dr. Nick Mark, MD is a pulmonary / critical care physician, medical educator, and medical technology consultant in Seattle, Washington. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Brown University and a Medical Degree from New York University School of Medicine.
Dr. Mark completed an internal medicine residency and then fellowships in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Washington. He is an attending intensivist (ICU doctor) at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Washington.
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As many of us know and experience, runaway drug costs for patients the healthcare industry serves are no longer sustainable, and it is due time for innovators to help put our system back on the right track.
In this episode, I sat down with Carm Huntress, the CEO of RxRevu, to share his journey and passionate mission of providing solutions to promote cost transparency, improve patient satisfaction, and support data-driven medication savings opportunities.
With over 20 years of experience in startups focused on consumer and enterprise technology, Carm is well-positioned to guide us toward helping doctors help patients receive better medications at a better price, right when they need it.
Get ready for a powerful and inspiring conversation that will demonstrate that we can reimagine the healthcare industry when we work together! Let’s go!
Episode Highlights:
- How RxRevu was founded
- Carm’s journey as an entrepreneur working beside RxRevu Co-Founder Dr. Kevin O'Brien
- RxRevu’s adoption in the healthcare system
- What’s next for RxRevu
About Our Guest:
As CEO and Co-founder of RxRevu, Carm Huntress has successfully taken Prescription Decision Support from a concept to a reality for physicians, payers, health systems, and patients. At the center of this work is to transform the value of healthcare through better prescribing decisions and a more informed, frictionless prescribing process.
At a national level, Carm has played a key role in supporting interoperability and patient access to data through the development of the FHIR standards and other projects with the ONC.
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It is well documented that speed is life in order to battle this global pandemic.
During this episode, I’m honored to be joined by Ramin Bastani, the CEO of Healthvana, to learn how his digital platform is rapidly delivering COVID-19 test results and how he and his company are already preparing for the upcoming vaccination rollout.
I look forward to having you a part of this critically important conversation and to learn how Healthvana is serving health practitioners and patients with its mission to help eliminate COVID-19 with their rapid test result deployment technology and beyond!
Episode Highlights:
- What is Healthvana
- How Healthvana expanded its platform to help battle COVID-19
- Importance of speed and accuracy in delivering COVID-19 test results
- Ramin’s thoughts on the COVID-19 vaccine
- Ramin’s vision on Healthvana’s roles when we go back to normal
- What and how we can help/contribute to Healthvana’s mission
About Our Guest:
A firm believer in putting the patient first, Ramin Bastani has worked at the convergence of healthcare and technology for the last decade. As CEO of Healthvana, Ramin leads the mission, strategy and growth for the nation’s leading patient platform for delivering COVID-19 and HIV-related test results.
Healthvana's mission is to end HIV and COVID-19. The company is fighting towards these goals by connecting patients and their healthcare providers through mobile technology that feels more like Instagram, and less like Windows 95. Since 2015, Healthvana has helped hundreds of thousands of HIV-related patients and three million COVID-19 patients.
A graduate of the University of Southern California, Ramin has presented at the White House, Stanford University and the National Library of Medicine and many other health-related events around the U.S.
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Providing patient care while meeting the constant requirements of non-clinical duties has become overwhelming. Over 40% of physicians report signs of burnout, and 30% also spend 20 hours or more each week on administrative tasks.
Because of this unsustainable environment our physician leaders are experiencing, I asked Niraj Swami to share his expertise and passion for helping physicians and their practice teams navigate, learn and adapt to clinical, administrative, and personal risks.
Niraj is the CEO of Adaptrack, an AI-powered nudge platform for medical practices to reduce risk and increase productivity.
I look forward to having you be a part of this conversation with Niraj and for us to find ways to support him and his team during these critical moments of healthcare delivery and beyond.
Episode Highlights:
- How Niraj started Adaptrack
- What is Adaptrack
- Who are the users of Adaptrack
- Physician’s feedback of Adaptrack
- What the future holds for Adaptrack
About Our Guest:
Niraj Swami is a serial entrepreneur & technologist with deep interests in digital products, AI, and behavioral economics. Throughout his career, he has built products & strategies for human-centric challenges in Healthcare, Human Capital & Conservation. His latest venture is Adaptrack - an AI-powered personalized nudge platform to help lower physician risks with data, design, and incentives.
Keen on impact work, Niraj also serves as a senior advisor at The Nature Conservancy and a partner at SCAD Ventures, a boutique impact-tech firm. Niraj completed his undergraduate in Computer Engineering & Mathematics from Marquette University '06 and holds an MBA with Honors from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business '12. Niraj lives in Chicago, and enjoys nature, cooking, and writing music in his free time.
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It is now well proven that accurate diagnoses help prevent the spread of COVID-19, but there is still much work needed in this arena to help battle this deadly virus.
In this episode, we have Diagnostics Evangelist Mara Aspinall with us to more deeply share the vital role of diagnostics and their power to help us overcome this crisis.
Mara is a pioneering healthcare industry leader and is the Managing Director of BlueStone Venture Partners, a venture fund investing in life science technology companies, and the Co-founder of the Biomedical Diagnostics Program at Arizona State University.
During our time together, Mara highlights the significance of diagnosis and testing and how she helps lead the Arizona State University's COVID-19 Diagnostics Commons' critical efforts, in conjunction with the Rockefeller Foundation, which is helping to empower many global organizations to work together to overcome this public health catastrophe.
Episode Highlights:
- Diagnostics in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Overview of ASU’s COVID-19 Diagnostics Commons
- The partnership between Arizona State University and the Rockefeller Foundation
- COVID-19 Diagnostics Commons resources, including their new T3 Blog
About Our Guest:
Aspinall is a healthcare industry leader and pioneer committed to active civic involvement. She is Managing Director and Co-Founder of BlueStone Venture Partners, a venture fund investing in life sciences technology companies in the US Southwest. She is also Managing Director of the Health Catalysts Group, a consulting firm dedicated to the growth of diagnostics and health information technology firms, publishing the popular Health Catalysts Diagnostics Year in Review. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Abcam plc (ABC), Allscripts (MDRX), Castle Biosciences (CSTL), Orasure (OSUR), and Blue Cross Blue Shield Arizona. Most recently, Aspinall was certified in Cybersecurity Oversight from Carnegie Mellon University.
Aspinall is co-author of The Rockefeller Foundation National COVID-19 National Testing & Contact Tracing Action Plan and curator for TestingCommons.com – the most comprehensive database of COVID related tests on the market or in development worldwide.
As President and CEO of Ventana Medical Systems, a billion-dollar division of The Roche Group, (now Roche Tissue Diagnostics) Aspinall led her world-class team to new financial success, more than two dozen major instrument and assay launches as well as global leadership in companion diagnostics.
Previously, Aspinall spent 13 years at Genzyme Corporation where she served as President of Genzyme Genetics and Genzyme Pharmaceuticals. Genzyme Genetics was a leading provider of diagnostic testing and genetic counseling in the oncology and reproductive markets. Aspinall transformed the business from a small specialized player to one of the top five laboratories in the country while setting the industry standard for quality testing. The business was sold to LabCorp for nearly $1billion. Previously, she led Genzyme Pharmaceuticals and its transformation to an international leader in specialized pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturing.
A leader in educating payers and policymakers on personalized medicine, she served on the Health and Human Services Secretary’s Advisory Council on Genetics, Health & Society (SACGHS) in the Obama and Bush administrations. With a passion for education about the importance of diagnostics in healthcare, Aspinall co-founded the Biomedical Diagnostics program at Arizona State University, the first and only program dedicated to Diagnostics as an independent discipline. ASU awarded their first Master degrees in Diagnostics in 2015 and has 100 students matriculating this year.
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A majority of our decisions are heavily influenced by unconscious bias, which creates detrimental effects in the healthcare industry and beyond.
To better understand how to confront and eliminate unconscious bias, I asked a national expert and passionate leader to help guide us through these timely and important topics.
Dr. Arie Nettles is the Director of the Office of Inclusion and Health Equity at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which encompasses education and training on cultural awareness, unconscious bias, and offers the Respect@Work series with a focus on sexual harassment, bystander intervention, and workplace safety.
Join me in this episode to learn more about the curriculum that Dr. Nettles and her team created and how it can help generate better workplace culture for health practitioners and better health outcomes for the patients this industry honorably serves.
Episode Highlights:
- How Dr. Nettles established the Office of Inclusion and Health Equity at VUMC
- Dr. Nettles explains the curriculum that she and her team created and deployed across the country
- How Dr. Nettle’s curriculum plays a role in the COVID-19 pandemic
- How we can keep the conversation going in a safe place with respect and trust
About Our Guest:
Dr. Nettles is professor of clinical pediatrics and psychologist for school age children to young adults with developmental disabilities, autism, and cleft craniofacial in the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC).
Founder and director of VUMC’s Office of Inclusion and Health Equity (OIHE) since 2011, Nettles has expanded the program from its origins at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt to encompass the education and training of the entire medical enterprise on cultural awareness, unconscious bias, and Respect@Work series with focus on sexual harassment, bystander intervention, and workplace safety.
Nettles is a licensed psychologist in Tennessee and Michigan; nationally certified school psychologist; and nationally registered health service provider. Appointed by the Governor, Nettles chairs the Tennessee Statewide Planning and Policy Council for the Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Her current research is inclusion and health equity and best practices in health care.
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COVID-19 has laid bare an undeniable fact: the people hardest hit are those who already lack resources, have limited access to quality social and clinical care, and in some cases are one paycheck away (or even worse) from putting food on the table or paying the rent.
Study after study shows that the people who are suffering the most, both medically and economically, during the pandemic are the ones who were underserved before the global crisis became reality.
Tune into our next episode to learn from Dan Brillman, CEO of Unite Us, and how he and his team are using their proven infrastructure to align all stakeholders from healthcare, government, and the community around a shared goal to improve health, especially during the Coronavirus outbreak.
Episode Highlights
- Dan shares his background, including being a fighter pilot
- What is Unite Us all about
- How Dan’s team is responding to the coronavirus pandemic and helping lead out nation to better health
- What’s next for Unite Us
About Our Guest:
Dan Brillman graduated from Yale University in 2006 and worked in finance and consulting before joining the Air Force Reserves as a combat pilot, where he still serves today.
As an aircraft commander assigned to the 76 ARS at McGuire Air Force Base, NJ, Dan earned several combat air medals during multiple deployments both in Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns. After earning his MBA from Columbia Business School in 2012, Dan worked in venture capital in NYC, where he focused on investing and technological innovation.
Dan co-founded Unite Us in 2013. He is a recipient of the Jefferson Award for Public Service and was recently added to Business Insider’s “30 People Under 40 Changing Healthcare.” Passionate about helping others and tackling tough issues, Dan is a fierce advocate of programs that improve public health.
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As many of you in our community know, I am a very passionate advocate for mental health and well-being. Moreover, I continue to remain dedicated in leveraging our podcast to help move the topic of mental health out of the dark corners of daily life and proudly into the light.
In continuing my commitment, I am honored to be joined by a national leader who is advocating for increased awareness of reproductive mental health, with a goal to bring improved access to care for mental health related to pregnancy, infertility, and menstrual cycle issues.
In this episode, Dr. Linda Kim, CEO of LuvLuk Health, joins us to discuss these issues and more. I can’t wait for you to meet Dr. Kim and to hear her passion and dedication for the mission in front of her team.
As Dr. Kim and I both believe- the more we talk about mental health openly, the more people will get the necessary help they need to live more full and abundant lives.
Episode Highlights:
- How LuvLuk Health started and what is it all about?
- Dr. Kim’s journey before she started LuvLuk Health
- What’s next for LuvLuk Health
- How you can contribute to LuvLuk Health’s work and mission
About our Guest:
Dr. Linda Kim is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist with many years of clinical and leadership experience and currently specializes in reproductive psychiatry.
Prior to founding LuvLuk Health, she acted as Chair and Director of a large health care organization (Kaiser Permanente), spearheading the strategy and operations of all mental health delivery practices for over 4 million members in Northern California. She was also Chief of Psychiatry at the East Bay Kaiser Permanente medical center and helped thousands of patients during her career.
Dr. Kim started LuvLuk Health earlier this year to advocate for increased awareness of reproductive mental health, with a goal to bring improved access to care for mental health issues in general, but also specifically related to pregnancy, infertility, and menstrual cycle issues. She is an avid proponent of advocating for mental health awareness in the workplace, because the more we talk about it openly, the more people will get help for their mental health issues.
Company Overview:LuvLuk offers mental health care for women and their loved ones who desire to be fearless in the face of mental health challenges. They support those who are battling depression, anxiety, insomnia, or any other mental health challenge, and won’t let that stand in their way.
LuvLuk desire to build you a team of support so that you can feel your emotional best.
LuvLuk offers best in class care and experience in Mental Health Telepsychiatry for women and their families; As well as support to partners, spouses, and loved ones, too.
They specialize in reproductive psychiatry and other women's mental health issues (PMS, PMDD, infertility, perimenopause) to maximize emotional health across the lifespan.
Combined professional leadership background and certified training in executive coaching, LuvLuk offers expert care to help achieve your personal and professional best!
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Due to the growing physical and mental demands and implications on caregivers while we battle COVID-19, it is of great importance our community better understands these demands in order to support these courageous servants across the nation.
During this episode, we are joined by Maureen Sullivan, the chief strategy and innovation officer for Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, America’s largest health insurer covering one-in-three of all Americans.
While together, Maureen details the findings from BCBS’ recently published Health of America Report, titled “The Impact of Caregiving on Mental and Physical Health,’ tips and tricks for how our innovation community can innovate within BCBS and the caregiving space, and how all of us can participate in their upcoming Health of America Virtual Forum.
I’m grateful to Maureen and her team for shining a light on this important and timely subject, as we continue to work to move the health of our industry and nation forward, by doing it together.
Episode Highlights:
- Overview of the Blue Cross Blue Shield project with caregivers and report
- BCBS partnership with Archangel
- The stressors of mental and physical health of caregivers during the pandemic
- Leveraging innovation and technology to help empower caregivers
- An invitation to BCBS’ upcoming Health of America Virtual Forum
About Our Guest:
Maureen Sullivan is chief strategy and innovation officer for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), a national federation of 36 independent, community-based and locally operated Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies. The Blue System is the nation's largest health insurer covering one-in-three of all Americans.
Sullivan has overall accountability for BCBSA’s strategy, marketing, development and innovation, research, group purchasing, strategic communications and educational programs. In this capacity, she leads several teams in providing wide-ranging services and strategic counsel to BCBSA leadership and BCBS Plans.
Among the critical thought leadership initiatives Sullivan drives on behalf of the BCBS System are efforts to effectively leverage BCBS data to bring new insights to healthcare. This suite of programs includes the Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Index, a first-of-its-kind measure of community and national health; the Health of America report series, which highlights data-driven information on timely health topics; and the Alliance for Health Research, a partnership with leading academic institutions.
Sullivan also supports BCBS companies in their efforts to transition care delivery to become more patient-focused and to succeed in all lines of business in an increasingly consumer-driven market. Her strategic guidance spans the development of innovative solutions within BCBSA and across the BCBS System, as well as multiple initiatives to further strengthen the BCBS brand across all lines of business, from individual consumers to large national employers.
Sullivan earned a master’s degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where she was a Kennedy Fellow. She also holds a bachelor’s degree with honors from Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Conn.
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Our mental well-being is a critical component to producing meaningful and positive change many of us want to see in the world.
Entrepreneurs are working tirelessly to help improve the health of our industry, and the health of our country. That's why I know this episode is going to be incredibly valuable and transformative for our community!
I am honored to share our next guest’s timely message for startup founders, entrepreneurs and innovators that are dedicating themselves to reimagining the healthcare industry.
Join me to learn from Aaron Houghton, the CEO of Founders First, and to experience his inspiration and dedication to the entrepreneurial community and how all of us can be supporting this noble and important movement.
Episode Highlights:
- Aaron’s experience of battling depression, panic attacks, pressure and brokenness after achieving enormous business success
- Why the Founders First movement was created
- Aaron’s five factors of health and performance
- How our community can help Founders First, no matter your background
About Our Guest:
Aaron Houghton believes it is possible for entrepreneurs to be healthy and happy while they build great companies that change the world. Since starting his first business at age 17, he’s built and launched more than eleven tech startups, scaling one from conception to 350 employees and $50M in annual subscription revenue. Aaron sold two companies to private buyers and one to a publicly-traded company for $169M before his 30th birthday.
Aaron was selected as an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008 and was listed to Inc Magazine's 30 Under 30 list in 2010. He’s shared his story and his thoughts on personal growth, digital marketing, and startup leadership with hundreds of audiences, including Harvard University, Entrepreneurs Organization, and StartupNation.
Looking back, Aaron can see his success came with the hidden costs of long term stress; including panic attacks, debilitating anxiety, and a cancer diagnosis in 2009. He had a habit, like many of us, of pushing himself to the absolute limit. He was trading sleep to hit deadlines, trading nutrition to save pennies, and enduring chronic stress year after year so he could chase his dreams.
Aaron knew there must be a better way. He spent five years studying how entrepreneurs manage stress and personally tested techniques for achieving high performance while maintaining mental and physical health. Aaron then created the Founders First System , manifesting two decades of experience and years of research into a simple set of processes, disciplines, and metrics designed to improve the experience of founders and business leaders around the world.
Company Overview:
Founders First is a community of founders who have experienced the chronic stress, anxiety and life-impacts of entrepreneurship firsthand. Our mission is to make your journey easier. The Founders First System focuses on the intersection of self-care and business goals, keeping you mentally and physically strong while you build your company. There are thousands of frameworks out there to improve businesses. This one improves you, the founder.
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As we now all experience, COVID-19 has disrupted our daily routines, both for adults and children. This crisis has also reduced access to social and medical services, which has significantly impacted community members with autism and other behavioral concerns.
However, I am joined today by a forward-thinking and passionate industry leader who has relentlessly dedicated herself to answering the call and needs during these challenging times.
To ease the burden of parents with autistic children and other behavioral concerns, Dr. Marcy Willard, CEO of CLEAR Child Psychology, is leading a movement to guide one million families toward their best possible lives, during this pandemic and beyond.
Tune in to find out how Dr. Willard and the CLEAR Child Psychology team is empowering parents and supporting autistic individuals today, and tomorrow and how you can support their worthwhile mission!
Episode Highlights:
- Overview CLEAR Child Psychology
- What you need to know about telehealth assessment for autism during this pandemic
- The 3 offerings of CLEAR Child Psychology that help guide families
- What is neurodiversity and how does it help us better understand a child’s profile?
- Dr. Willard shares what it’s like to close a $1.95M venture funding during a pandemic
- Parental Tips & Tricks
About Our Guest:
Dr. Willard is a tech entrepreneur, licensed psychologist, nationally certified school psychologist, and published author. She is passionate about helping children and families navigate their challenges and thrive. Dr. Willard has experience as a Psychologist, conducting diagnostic assessments at local clinics and as a Fellow at JFK Partners in partnership with the Children’s Hospital.
Before founding CLEAR, she worked as a School Psychologist for several years, providing training, assessment, and consultation. She has trained other psychologists in Autism Assessment using both a clinical model and a school identification model. She lives in Colorado with her husband, two boys and her dog that looks remarkably like an ewok.
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Connecting with and supporting others who have been through similar experiences as you are at the core of our next guest’s mission in life and the inspiring work happening with her company.
Joining me in this episode is Dr. Charu Ramanathan, the CEO of Vitalxchange, a platform centered around the needs of you and your loved ones!
Charu shares why she started her company, how the Vitalxchange app works, and how she and her team are supporting and empowering families caring for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Find out how Vitalxchange is giving a new sense of hope and is shaping a better and brighter future for the wellness of its users and communities!
Episode Highlights:
- What is Vitalxchange and its mission of empowering healthcare consumers
- How Charu and her team are supporting and empowering families caring for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities
- How Vitalxchange is adapting during the pandemic
- Bringing consumerism to healthcare
About Our Guest:
Dr. Charu Ramanathan is a repeat entrepreneur, passionate about using technology to positively impact and elevate human life.
She is the co-founder and CEO of vitalxchange, a person focused health network centered around people, patients, caregivers and families. Vitalxchange (https://www.vitalxchange.com/) uses advanced AI technology to match community members with others in similar situations as well as information and resources to thrive.
Dr. Charu is also the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Lokyata Global, which is developing advanced credit scoring algorithms to foster financial inclusion in emerging economies.
Prior to this, she co-founded CardioInsight, a Company specializing in noninvasive cardiac imaging systems. She led CardioInsight through its growth stages and ultimately its acquisition by Medtronic in 2015. Dr. Ramanathan has been the recipient of several awards for her contributions to technology and humanity including Crain’s 40 under 40, TiE Immigrant Entrepreneur and American Red Cross Hero. She holds a BS from Cochin University and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, USA.
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As we continue our fight against COVID-19, healthcare leaders and innovators are at the forefront of this battle to ensure we are equipped with the right arsenal to overcome one of the biggest public health crises of our lifetimes.
Dr. David Asch, Executive Director of the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation, and his team are among the leaders creating and implementing game-changing innovations during this pandemic.
Join us in today’s episode as Dr. Asch dives deeply into Penn Medicine’s COVID Watch technology and their COBALT program to bring mental health relief to their employees while in the midst of the Coronavirus and beyond.
Dr. Asch exemplifies the passion his team and other innovators have in helping the world as we rally and work together in order to claim victory over this virus and prepare us for a brighter and healthier future.
Episode Highlights:
- What is Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation
- Overview of COVID Watch
- Patients' experience with COVID Watch
- Overview of COBALT program
- How COBALT is helping frontline employees and first responders
About Our Guest:
Dr. David Asch is Executive Director of the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation and the John Morgan Professor at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research aims to improve how physicians and patients make health choices, combining economic analysis with psychological theory and consumer marketing in the field now called behavioral economics.
From 1998 to 2012 he was Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. He created and from 2001 to 2012 co-directed the VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion—the Department of Veterans Affairs’ national center to support vulnerable populations and reduce disparities in health and health care.
Since 2012, he has directed health care innovation at Penn Medicine. Defining projects include streamlining clinical services, re-directing digital information flows for better clinical care and reduced clinician burden, developing and deploying information technology platforms to better engage patients in the management of acute and chronic disease, reducing dependence on tobacco and opioids and increasing the uptake of effective cancer screening and management, moving care safely out of hospitals and emergency rooms, and reshaping health benefit designs for greater value and employee satisfaction.
He is a founding partner of the behavioral economics consulting firm, VAL Health.
Dr. Asch received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and his MD from Weill-Cornell Medical College. He was a resident in Internal Medicine and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and received his MBA in Health Care Management and Decision Sciences from the Wharton School.
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Inspired by his near-death event and experience as a patient long before his training as a physician and transplant surgeon, our next guest shares his inspiring formula of delivering the right treatment, to the right patient, at the right time.
Dr. Hassan Tetteh, a heart and lung transplant surgeon, and the current Health Mission Chief for the Department of Defense, joins us to discuss the three pillars of his book, ‘The Art of Human Care’: purpose, personalization, and partnership. Additionally, Dr. Tetteh sheds light on why his formula is needed now more than ever during COVID-19, as burnout is reaching all-time highs.
While together, Dr. Tetteh also shared his deep passion for artificial intelligence, technology, and why innovation can fundamentally impact and improve the lives of the patients he serves and the industry overall.
It is my honor to share with you Dr. Tetteh’s story and passion for making the world a better place for so many of us working so hard to do the same. Because of leaders like Dr. Tetteh, I remain incredibly confident and inspired that we will positively move the healthcare industry forward for our nation, not only in the midst of the current global pandemic, but beyond.
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Hassan Tetteh’s book: The Art of Human Care
- What is human care
- The three pillars of human care
- Human care during COVID-19
- The impact of artificial intelligence in health care
About Our Guest:
Dr. Hassan A. Tetteh is a US Navy Captain and Associate Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and adjunct faculty at Howard University College of Medicine. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow from 2012-13, assigned to the US Congress, Congressional Budget Office, (CBO), and recently served as the Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) for the United States Navy. Currently, Tetteh serves as the Health Mission Chief for Warfighter Health at the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) in the Department of Defense (DoD), and he is a Thoracic Surgeon for MedStar Health and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. He leads a Specialized Thoracic Adapted Recovery (STAR) Team, in Washington, DC, and his research in thoracic transplantation aims to expand heart and lung recovery and save lives.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Tetteh received his BS from State University of New York (SUNY) at Plattsburgh, his MD from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, his MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, his MBA from Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School, and his MS in National Security Strategy with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence from the National War College. He completed his thoracic surgery fellowship at the University of Minnesota and advanced cardiac surgery fellowship at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Tetteh is a bestselling author of four books including: Gifts of the Heart, Star Patrol, The Art of Human Care, and Seven Pillars of Life. He has finished twenty marathons, and delivered the popular TEDx talk, From Death to Life, based on his work in transplant surgery. Tetteh is board certified in thoracic surgery, general surgery, clinical informatics, and healthcare management, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
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As physicians and healthcare leaders continue to innovate, especially during this pandemic, the needs and use cases for artificial intelligence is becoming more and more prevalent.
AI has the potential to transform the industry in so many powerful ways. It can be utilized to lessen the burden on physicians, improve quality care for patients, and decrease costs for the entire system.
In order to address this important topic, we are joined by Dr. Uli Chettipally in today’s episode. Dr. Chettipally is an emergency physician, innovator, and the author of Punish The Machine!: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care, where he shares his invaluable perspective on the ways that cutting edge technology is revolutionizing healthcare research, treatments, and how it’ll affect the industry in the future.
Join us as we learn from Dr. Chettipally how AI can be used to revolutionize the industry and aid all of us during these unprecedented times with COVID-19 and beyond!
Episode Highlights:
- An overview of InnovatorMD
- How can artificial intelligence help empower physicians and the healthcare system during a crisis like COVID-19?
- Dr. Uli explains what his book, Punish the Machine! is all about
- How can we deliver care to patients despite burnout and stress from uncertain times
- Examples of how the industry is integrating machine learning and AI to battle COVID-19
- Tips for physician and healthcare providers who have a solution to a problem within the healthcare industry
- What to do when you have a solution to a certain healthcare problem but unsure of what measures to take
About Our Guest:
Dr. Uli K. Chettipally is an emergency physician, researcher, author, and an innovator. He is currently the President of InnovatorMD, a healthcare innovation company.
As a physician-scientist, he is interested in technology-enabled care. He received the Pioneer Award for Innovation from Kaiser Permanente and Morris F. Collen Research Award from The Permanente Medical Group.
His other roles include President, San Mateo County Medical Association; Chairman, Society of Physician Entrepreneurs, San Francisco Bay Area chapter; Advisor, Mentor, and Investor at various healthcare start-ups. His book, "Punish the Machine! The Promise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare" is available on Amazon.
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Almost 80% of US children who need mental health treatment do not have access to the traditional healthcare system. And, for the kids who do get treatment, only 17.6% of parents are fully satisfied with the care they receive.
For kids to have better access to mental healthcare, our next guest has made it her life’s work to create a platform that will help democratize mental health care for our youth!
In this episode, the passionate and energizing health-tech innovation leader, Damayanti Dipayana joins us. She is the CEO of Manatee- a digital platform that empowers mental health providers and families by integrating therapy into daily life.
Find out why Damayanti is so committed to bringing more awareness and solutions to pediatric mental health and how you can help the Manatee team further their incredibly important mission for some of our youngest community members across the nation.
Episode Highlights:
- The big problem with therapy for kids
- How do you translate therapy into daily life?
- How Manatee is impacting the lives of children and their parents
- How Manatee made therapy fun for kids
- What’s next for Manatee?
About Our Guest:
Damayanti Dipayana, Co-Founder & CEO of Manatee, has been at the early beginnings of various successful startups (up to series C and a total of $76M received to date). She used to run Customer Success and Professional Services and built high performing, cross-functional teams in London and across North America (NYC, SF and LA).
She grew up in the Netherlands with a neurodiverse brother and is on a mission to reimagine behavioral health for families. She's lived and worked in 9 different countries across 4 continents in Europe, Asia, North and South America.
Through her exposure to different cultures and beliefs, she loves challenging existing assumptions through honest conversation, which is why she also founded the video production company, Be Frank.
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For far too long, a disparate chasm has existed between adult and pediatric healthcare innovation creation.
To address the challenges we're facing within digital pediatric healthcare product development, I have some great news to share!
In this episode I’ll be talking about the big news from Omkar Kulkarni’s camp, regarding the launch of the KidsX Accelerator and global ecosystem! KidsX is created to bridge the gap of digital health solutions in pediatric healthcare, and ultimately, provide exceptionally effective, safe, efficient and convenient health solutions and care for children and their families.
If you want to know how you can support this incredibly important cause, I invite you to listen to this episode to find out how this global ecosystem of pediatric innovators are working together to transform pediatric care!
Episode Highlights:
- What is KidsX all about
- Why KidsX matters
- How to support KidsX
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Providing care and services in the home is more important than ever, given the constraints and pressure this pandemic has placed on the healthcare industry.
To discuss this important and timely topic, Bruce Greenstein, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at LHC Group, joins us on today's podcast. Bruce's company is one of the biggest home healthcare providers in the country and has been a courageous leader in continuing to deliver high-quality in-home care amid this crisis.
Bruce is also one of the industry's most prominent advocates for innovators and startups and shares valuable insights and advice on how disruptors and visionaries can flourish in the healthcare industry, especially during these unprecedented times.
Because of leaders like Bruce helping to move the healthcare industry forward while also empowering startups and their new ideas during this pandemic, I remain confident and optimistic we can improve patient outcomes for our community members in their homes and beyond.
Episode Highlights:
- The shifts of in-home healthcare due to COVID-19
- LHC Group overview and why Bruce decided to join the organization
- Technology and innovation for in-home healthcare
- Advice and insights for healthcare startups and innovators
- The explosion of telemedicine and remote patient monitoring
- Redefining how healthcare will be delivered in the future
About Our Guest:
Bruce D. Greenstein joined LHC Group in 2018. As the Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, he leads the company’s value-based contracting, ACO management company, and alternative payment and delivery model strategies. He also oversees the company’s operations for technology and for the innovations business segments, as well as LHC Group’s healthcare vision initiatives.
Bruce previously served as chief technology officer (CTO) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in Washington, D.C. He has an extensive healthcare industry background in both government and the private sector, having served as president-west for New York-based Quartet Health, CEO of Blend Health Insights, and as managing director of Worldwide Health for Microsoft.
He was a cabinet member in Louisiana, serving as secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals. He also previously ran Medicaid-managed care and waivers and demonstrations at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
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As we close in on Passionate Pioneer’s one year anniversary, I wanted to take a moment to share with you the lessons I’ve learned from our inspiring guests and how we all can integrate those lessons into our daily lives!
In this episode, I’ll be sharing a recap and learnings from several previous episodes that exemplify the notion of determination, grit, perseverance, and passion.
I look forward to hearing from you after you have tuned-in: what is your spark and passion to make our world a better place?
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Since the COVID-19 outbreak, healthcare provider systems across the nation have experienced shortages in personal protective equipment and other essential products to keep frontline workers protected and to keep the virus at bay. Due to these realities, what have been the lessons learned to better arm our healthcare heroes moving forward?
Our next guest is perfectly positioned to answer these vexing questions.
In this episode, Chaun Powell, Vice President of Strategic Supplier Engagement at Premier, joins us to talk about his team’s work and how they're solving these massive and systemic problems.
Premier is a healthcare improvement company uniting an alliance of approximately 4,000 U.S. hospitals and health systems and more than 175,000 other providers and organizations to transform healthcare.
Chaun leads the COVID-19 disaster response team for Premier, which went into action in January to respond to the global crisis. Chuan and his team have been diligently working to help inform the CDC, FEMA, Secretary Azar, and the White House task force on the challenges in front of us and how best to counteract them.
Join Chaun and me to find out how Premier is working to meet our healthcare providers' needs to battle the Coronavirus and beyond.
Episode Highlights:
- The mission of Premier’s disaster response team
- What it means to diversifying supply chain both onshore, nearshore, and offshore
- Why is it critical to have innovators working alongside large organizations like Premier as well as federal agencies
About Our Guest:
Chaun Powell is the Group Vice President of Strategic Supplier Engagement with 15 years of experience in sales, marketing, national accounts, business and corporate development, and GPO negotiation.
As the Group Vice President of Strategic Supplier Engagement at Premier, Powell is responsible for providing leadership, strategy and execution to supply chain services consisting of product planning, contract management, negotiation, field liaison and member engagement; leading strategic engagements and developing of business plans for all suppliers of the surgical services and med/surg distribution service lines; and positioning Premier, supply chain services and strategic supplier engagement with strategic suppliers, their expanded organizations, leadership and the overall healthcare industry.
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Despite having quality and cutting-edge healthcare in the United States, the truth is, systemic barriers exist and are preventing many of our fellow citizens from receiving quality care and achieving optimal health.
In order to address this issue and more, a digital application that is aimed to empower the voice of underserved patients has been created!
To help empower the voices of the underserved patient, our next guest, Kistein Monkhouse, the creator of the #HumanizingHealthCare documentary, founded Patient Orator to better serve the underserved and to make it easier for them to communicate their medical concerns and connect them to the healthcare resources they need.
Kistein joins us and discusses the disparate health experiences of people of color and of other socio-economic backgrounds, how her technology is working to address these problems and what we can do to help improve the patient care experience, destroy systemic barriers within the healthcare industry, and ultimately humanize healthcare for our communities across the nation!
Episode Highlights:
- How Kistein is empowering underserved patients in healthcare
- Raw and real stories of underserved patient suffering
- Racial anxiety stereotypes
- How Patient Orator is serving patients to have their voices heard
- Creating better access and quality care for underserved patients
About Our Guest:
Kistein Monkhouse, MPA is the CEO & founder of Patient Orator, a digital health startup, that is using a mobile app to help underserved patients document their medical symptoms to empower their voices in their healthcare experience. She is a public policy expert and former healthcare frontline staff who saw an urgent need to build bridges across communities in healthcare.
She is an award-winning documentarian of the documentary Humanizing Health Care, a narrative-driven emotionally paced film about healthcare experiences in the United States. Kistein is an advisory board member of We The Patients NY, an initiative by the Community Service Society of NY. She is a patient advocate on a mission to dismantle systemic inequities that cause health disparities across the healthcare ecosystem.
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The pandemic has dramatically impacted the way we live our lives in profound ways. Some of us are dealing with mental anguish and trauma, while some with physical affliction and death.
During these hard times, there are leaders who step up and show their vulnerability to share tips and techniques to help others cope and thrive during these times.
In this episode, I’d like to highlight a very real and heartfelt post of a long time friend and highly admired leader, Pat Riley. Pat is the CEO of the Global Accelerator Network (or GAN) as well and the Managing Partner of GAN Ventures. He shared a LinkedIn post - “The New Non-Work Schedule for an Energetic Life” - which has made a positive impact on me and I want to make sure I share it with all of you today!
After listening to this session and reading Pat’s inspirational post, I look forward to hearing from you to learn some of the tips and techniques you and your family are implementing in your daily lives during these unprecedented times.
Episode Highlights:
- Daily Rhythms for positive mental well-being
- The 24-hour Non-Work Schedule
- Self-love and self-care
- Being relentless and deliberate in what we implement in our lives professionally and personally
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The demand for artificial intelligence in the healthcare industry is steadily increasing, especially now, as we continue to fight COVID-19.
In this episode, we’re joined by Kaisa Helminien, the Chief Operating Officer of Aiforia Technologies, an organization developing intelligent software solutions for digital pathology using artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
While together, Kaisa shared how Aiforia is perfectly positioned during this pandemic to help pharma companies develop therapeutics and vaccines, researchers in understanding the pathophysiology of the virus, and scientists developing antibody and novel diagnostic tests.
I’m excited for you to learn from Kaisa and to better understand her vision in providing the most intelligent tools to democratize healthcare globally during this crisis and beyond.
Episode Highlights:
- What is Aiforia
- How Aiforia was founded
- Aiforia’s scalable solutions for COVID-19
- What’s next for Aiforia
- Is home testing going to be a reality soon?
- How Aiforia is helping pharma companies speed up the creation of vaccines
About Our Guest:
Kaisa Helminen is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Aiforia. Kaisa joined Aiforia in 2014 and has previously worked for international companies Sartorius, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. and a Finnish biotech company Finnzymes Oy. Kaisa has a strong background in life science sector where she has gained almost 20 years of experience in the global business. She has a wealth of experience in global sales, marketing and strategic product management in life science businesses. She holds an MSc degree in Biochemistry.
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It takes courage, grit, and dedication to be a leader and entrepreneur and it’s even more challenging when you’re a woman. For far too long, women have been underrepresented in healthcare industry leadership positions and entrepreneurship. But, because of leaders like our next guest, that unfortunate reality is now shifting!
In this episode, we are joined by the inspiring and fearless Emma Sayle! She is the CEO and founder of the global female empowerment brand, Killing Kittens! She is also the co-founder of the Sistr app which is specifically designed to empower women in their professional pursuits, which is producing positive mental health contributions for its users along the way!
Find out how Emma has been trailblazing female empowerment for over fifteen years and why she is more committed than ever to support female leaders to forge their path and to elevate the conversation around this important and needed global movement.
Episode Highlights:
- How Emma built an international network with female empowerment at its core
- The importance of networking and community
- How entrepreneurs identify the problem and need, and effectively provide a solution
- The beauty of feminism
- Normalizing conversations around sex for women
- Sistr app: the app that gives women access to a community of inspiring and supportive peers and friends
- How our female community members can get involved with Emma’s global female empowerment movement
About Our Guest:
Emma is one of the UK’s leading female entrepreneurs’. She made her name launching the global female empowerment brand Killing Kittens in 2005, now incorporated into the KK Group with over 150,000 members having launched events across the US, Australia and Europe and has grown online into an online community network with empowering women at its core. The press have pronounced her a leader at the cutting edge of the new dawn of female liberation. Recently in Business Leaders 2019 top 30 inspirational UK entrepreneurs and recognized by other awards and media setups including Natwest Great Entrepreneur awards 2019 Finalist and Top 10 women entrepreneurs Game Changer Magazine 2019
She has appeared in national and international media from TV shows to broadsheets to radio debates and corporate talks.
June 2019 saw her launch Sistr a networking and community for professional women from all industries to connect both on and offline
When she’s not dominating the male-heavy adult entertainment world, Emma can be found running the Sisterhood. The Sisterhood is a group of gritty females boldly going where not many girls have gone before, competing in extreme and adventure sports, creating havoc whilst maintaining a perfect ph balance between Lucozade and wine
The group to date has raised over £700,000 for various women's charities. Emma herself has run the worlds hardest ultra marathon: the Marathon de Sables across the Sahara, won the women’s Great Amazon raft race, climbed kilamanjaro, swam 6.5km across the Bosphorus, swum the Channel, run from LA to Vegas and is now showing women can have it all by juggling a 4 year old, a 3 Yr old and a 1year old with KK world domination.
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Ever since the lockdown was enforced due to the pandemic, I’ve been bringing global leaders who are courageously battling COVID-19 as guests on this podcast. I’ve been amazed and inspired by all of them and given the feedback that we received from many of you, we’ve decided to extend this series in order to share more of these inspiring stories!
In this episode, I’m going to share episode highlights and learnings from global leaders who are passionately working to move the health of our communities forward and how we can continue to work together to overcome this crisis!
I’m also inviting you to nominate a passionate leader (including yourself!) to share his/her stories and their truth to overcome the challenges that are in front of us.
I’m looking forward to your submissions and I can’t wait for you to listen to these new, fresh, exciting, and inspiring messages that will help advance the health of our global community!
Episode Highlights:
- Highlights and learning from previous Expert Coronavirus Update episodes
- How you can get involved and be of help in this crisis
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It's been almost six months since COVID-19 became a global pandemic, and no country has been spared from this crisis. As we now know, this is the most significant global public health threat we have faced in generations.
Despite this, many nations have systematically fought the virus and have prevented it from devastating its people and communities.
But what about the United States? How has the world's most powerful country dealt with the pandemic, and where do we go from here?
Join me in this episode as former Health Commissioner of the City of Detroit, national activist, and author Dr. Abdul El-Sayed discusses his book, "Healing Politics," and shares his diagnosis and prescription for how we can work together to move the health of our nation forward during this unprecedented time.
Episode Highlights:
- The epidemic within this pandemic
- Where do we stand as a country amidst the pandemic
- How the notion of insecurity is negatively impacting our nation in times of crisis
- Why we as a society are unable to invest in a collective action
- What leaders should be thinking of to prepare for the future
- Addressing the current failures of our culture
- Highlights from Dr. Abdul’s book, “Healing Politics”
About Our Guest:
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a physician, epidemiologist, progressive activist, educator, author, speaker, and podcast host. He is the Chair of Southpaw Michigan and a Political Contributor at CNN. He serves as a Sanders appointee and one of eight members of Vice President Biden’s 2020 Unity Task Force for Healthcare. His book, Healing Politics (Abrams Press), diagnoses our country’s epidemic of insecurity and the empathy politics we will need to treat it, and his forthcoming book Medicare for All: A Citizen’s Guide ( Oxford University Press, 2021) co-authored with Dr. Micah Johnson, offers a no nonsense guide to the policy. He is the host of “America Dissected,” a podcast by Crooked Media, which goes beyond the headlines to explore what really matters for our health. He is a Scholar-in-Residence at Wayne State University and American University, where he teaches at the intersection between public health, public policy, and politics. He was previously a SIne Fellow at American University’s Sine Institute of Policy & Politics, and Pritzker Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.
In 2018, Abdul ran for Governor of Michigan on an unapologetically progressive platform. Though he finished second of three earning over 340,000 votes in the Democratic primary, his bid was endorsed by Senator Bernie Sanders, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and The Nation. Prior, he served the City of Detroit as Health Director, appointed to rebuild Detroit's Health Department after it was privatized during the city's bankruptcy. He was the youngest health official in a major American city and was awarded “Public Official of the Year” by the Michigan League of Conservation Voters and "40 under 40” by Crain’s Detroit Business in view of his leadership. Prior to entering public service, he was Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health where he led Columbia’s Systems Science Program and Global Research Analytics for Population Health. He has over 100 peer reviewed scientific publications that have been cited over 1700 times.
Abdul earned a Doctorate in Public Health from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He also holds a Medical Degree from Columbia University where he was an NIH-funded Medical Scientist Training Program Fellow and Soros New Americans Fellow. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Highest Distinction from the University of Michigan, where he was chosen to deliver the student remarks alongside President Bill Clinton and was awarded the Bicentennial Alumni Award in 2017. He...
We make thousands of decisions consciously and unconsciously everyday. And we’re constantly faced with an increasing number of choices, but are we making the right ones?
Routinely, healthcare industry executive leaders are confronted to make quick, high impact, and far-reaching decisions.
If you want to become a better and more effective decision-maker, then you’re in for a treat as Matthew Confer, VP of Strategy and Business Development at Abilitie, a company that provides award winning leadership programs using simulations for leadership development, joins me in this episode to talk about all things decision making!
Matthew shares 3 tips on how you can make better decisions effectively and he’ll also walk us through the process of simulation training and how Abilitie is helping companies enhance and develop their leaders!
Episode Highlights:
- How Matthew became the effective executive leader that he is today
- How to be an effective decision maker
- 3 Steps to better decision making
- How Matthew was discovered and selected to speak on the TEDx stage
- What paralyzes us from making effective and important decisions?
- How Abilitie is contributing to the healthcare industry
About Our Guest:
Matthew Confer is the VP of Strategy & Business Development at Abilitie focused on new client relationships and partnership development in the learning & development industry.
Matthew’s interest in the learning & development space began at Deloitte Consulting where he was a Manager in their Project Controller Practice and worked to help develop and then facilitated a brand new on boarding program for new campus hires.
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Besides healthcare, another major industry that is being fundamentally disrupted is the education space.
And since it’s that time of the year again where students head back to their learning environments, this presents exciting opportunities for us to engage with these brilliant minds across the nation and around the world.
During episode 69, I wanted to take a moment and discuss how we, as healthcare executives and leaders, can support these brilliant minds so that we can pay it forward, but to also receive amazing gifts in return.
If you want to learn how you can become a part of the innovation happening in the healthcare and education space, and how you can support these brilliant students that are creating new business models and products, then tune in to this episode and be prepared for actionable steps to get involved!
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:* Catalyst HTI: Its conception, purpose, and why academic stakeholders are involved * Why education and academia are talent pipelines for the healthcare industry of the near future * Approaches you can take to contribute * How entrepreneurial programs within academic institutions are creating new startups and how (and why) you should be involved
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There’s a science behind why we do what we do… or don’t do.
In this episode, we’re going to get a clear understanding of what behavioral economics is all about and its importance in driving real engagement and change in the healthcare industry.
Our guest for today is Karen Horgan, the CEO of VAL Health, and health’s Chief Engagement Officer. For over eight years, she has been leading a nationally recognized health-related behavioral economics consulting firm that tackles the hardest problems in healthcare using proven behavioral economics science.
Karen will talk about the importance of behavioral economics in healthcare and how it is applied to help move the industry forward. Karen also talks about the challenges they had at VAL Health and she shares some of her insights on the explosion of telehealth due to COVID-19.
Make sure you listen to this episode as we unravel how behavioral economics can help transform and improve health and healthcare!
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:* How Karen created VAL Health as the leading health related behavioral economics consulting firm * Why and how VAL Health became health’s Chief Engagement Officer * What is behavioral economics? * Applying behavioral economics to drive engagement and change in the healthcare industry * Reframing how you use your words * Creating quick wins to get people started * The endowment effect * How helping others with their underlying challenges can bring out the true element of health
ABOUT OUR GUEST:Karen is the CEO of VAL Health. She spearheaded the development of hundreds of behavior change programs that enable clients to overcome healthcare’s biggest challenges.
Karen is a thought leader in the application of behavioral economics and an expert in developing high impact engagement programs to drive health-related behavior change. Her passion for health and belief in evidence-based approaches led her to co-found VAL Health, the leading health behavioral economics firm.
Prior to joining VAL Health, Karen was Chief Marketing Officer at Keystone Strategy, a consulting firm affiliated with experts from Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, and MIT, where she led global client engagements to develop R&D and innovation solutions for Fortune 500 companies including PepsiCo, Microsoft, and Johnson & Johnson.
Karen has also led marketing and product management teams for early-stage technology companies and was a consultant with Bain and Company in Boston and Hong Kong. She also holds a M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a B.A. with honors from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. with honors from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Everyone has a story to tell. And sharing whatever creative content you have can make a huge difference, especially when your audience are people living with chronic illness.
Storytelling can help people with chronic illness and rare diseases to move from a sad narrative to a more hopeful one where they can see themselves as people who have manageable chronic disease.
In this episode, I’m joined by Patrick James Lynch, CEO of Believe LTD and host of Bloodstream Media. He shared with us how he and his team create engaging stories that positively impact people with chronic and rare disease, as well as his personal experience with loss and triumph, and his personal journey of living with severe hemophilia.
Join me as we dive into how Patrick turned Believe LTD into a sustainable business and why they create content to make a difference in the world!
Episode Highlights:
- Hobbies and activities that Patrick enjoys outside of his work at Believe LTD
- Patrick talks about his work at Believe LTD and their mission
- Content is King: What it means and why?
- How Believe LTD is serving the community of hemophilia and other chronic rare diseases
- How Patrick turned Believe LTD into an actual and sustainable business
- Always keep the end-users in mind when doing business
- The most important thing to consider when creating authentic content
About Our Guest:
Patrick James Lynch is a filmmaker, media professional, and globally-recognized health advocate who has delivered more than 100 presentations, all around the world.
He's been recognized with the Hemophilia Federation of America's (HFA) Health & Wellness Award (2013), the National Hemophilia Foundation's (NHF) Meritorious Service Award (2014), was a featured speaker during World Federation of Hemophilia's (WFH) World Congress (2016, 2018), is an executive producer of Save One Life's 2020 content campaigns, has served as founding board president of the 501(c)(3) Entertainment 2 Affect Change since 2013, and since 2011 has been the CEO of Believe Limited. His work has been featured by Backstage, BuzzFeed, Forbes, Fox News, HemAware, Hemophilia News Today, HuffPo, PBS, Reuters, VoyageLA, and elsewhere.
Film credits include documentaries Bombardier Blood (director/producer; EP Alex Borstein), My Beautiful Sutter (EP; also EP: Paul Rudd), Poster Child (director/producer, in production), and the scripted films Elsewhere (director/actor; Best Picture HRIFF; Best Ensemble NYCIFF) sometimes, i think about dying (EP, Sundance 2019, Oscars 2020 shortlist), and Ryan's Mom (producer/writer, in development w/ Jersey Films).
Notable digital content includes the comedy web series "Stop The Bleeding!" (9 seasons; numerous awards; bi-lingual), The BloodStream Podcast (creator/host, also founder: BloodStream Media), and Hemophilia: The Musical, an original 6-song musical, co-created with teen participants (original cast recording streamable on website!)
Bleeding disorders programs of note include the arts workshop Breaking Through!,...
With the COVID-19 outbreak bringing the world to its knees, it’s encouraging to see executives and organizations quickly respond to the emergency that’s right in front of us.
This only speaks to who we are as a nation and the types of entrepreneurs that make this country so great.
In this episode, I’m joined by Josh Disbrow, Chief Executive Officer of Aytu Bioscience. He’ll help us gain a better understanding about antibodies and COVID-19. Josh shares his organization’s journey in receiving their emergency authorization use for their COVID-19 rapid antibody test and why Aytu BioScience is perfectly positioned to help fight the global pandemic.
We also receive a sneak peek into the company’s future innovation roadmap and why these new and forthcoming technologies have significant potential to save many lives impacted by this devastating disease.
If you want to stay updated about Aytu Bioscience and its COVID-19 efforts, as well as the innovative products they are creating to help battle the pandemic, then you should definitely listen to this episode!
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
- How Aytu Bioscience is helping fight COVID-19
- Why antibody testing is important during the pandemic
- How antibodies help with creating a vaccine
- Other technologies Aytu Bioscience is known for before the outbreak
- The process of how antibody testing got into the marketplace
- What emergency use authorization is and why it is important
- How Aytu Bioscience created their COVID-19 antibody test
- Future technology that Aytu Bioscience is creating
ABOUT OUR GUEST:Josh Disbrow is the Co-Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Aytu BioScience, Inc. (NASDAQ: AYTU). Founded in 2015, Aytu BioScience is a specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in the global commercialization of novel prescription therapeutics and consumer healthcare products. Josh has been in the life sciences industry for over twenty three years across pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and medical devices. Prior to co-founding Aytu, Josh served as the Chief Operating Officer of Colorado-based Ampio Pharmaceuticals (NYSE MKT: AMPE) and co-founded the Luoxis Diagnostics subsidiary.
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During episode 65, we spent time with a serial entrepreneur who lost it all due to bankruptcy and found his calling in leading a global movement to teach others how to embrace failure to achieve success.
Miha Matlievski is the CEO of Operation: Firehouse and known worldwide as the Fail Coach.
While together, Miha shared his very personal story of loss, despair, and his inspiring comeback that has now positioned him to help thousands of leaders around the world to better understand and embrace failure as part of the process in achieving success.
Because of Miha's passion and servant leadership to help us better understand and embrace failure, I'm confident his inspiring mission will help you think anew as we continue to work together to move the health of our industry and nation forward.
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In episode 64, as we continue to publish relevant, timely, and expert Coronavirus updates, we also believe it is important to highlight the innovators who are making a sizable impact in battling the pandemic.
During this episode, we spent time with the GoodCell team to learn more about the company and their efforts to leverage its data platform to collect and intelligently analyze cell quality to better understand COVID-19 and to help doctors better assess at-risk patients.
I'm excited for you to learn from this very passionate and world-class team and, most importantly, how you can join the GoodCell fight as we continue to band together to conquer one of the most significant challenges of our lifetimes.
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During episode 63, I had the opportunity to spend time with a former healthcare industry outsider who is now making a sizable impact for providers and the patients they serve.
Bryan Cush is the President of Tidal Health Group, a specialized agency focused on the digital representation of quality doctors and the care they provide. By showcasing a doctor's expertise and patient experience online, Bryan and his team are able to better connect the proper patient with excellent medical attention.
While together, Bryan shared how his previous career outside of healthcare empowered him to bring fresh perspective and capabilities to the industry.
Additionally, Bryan shared what fuels his team's mission of reducing the number of healthcare system interactions by better understanding a consumer's needs and connecting them with the right care.
It is because of passionate and innovative leaders like Bryan that I remain confident and excited that we can move the healthcare industry's health forward, with the ultimate goal of better serving its patients across our nation.
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During episode 62, I wanted to take a moment to discuss the change in the speed of innovation adoption in the healthcare industry during COVID-19 and what we can all learn from it.
Episode references: Healthcare IT Today Podcast, ‘Feel the Rush’- https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2020/06/15/feel-the-rush-healthcare-it-today-podcast-episode-38/, KPMG Article- https://home.kpmg/xx/en/home/insights/2020/04/covid-19-puts-insurers-on-fast-track-to-technology-adoption.html
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During episode 61, I invited a global higher education expert onto the show to share how he and his team are making sizable contributions in the healthcare industry, especially during these turbulent times as we battle COVID-19.
Andrew Malley is the CEO of Dignity Health Global Education, a leading healthcare workforce development company. Dedicated to providing customized educational opportunities and a student-centric experience, Andrew and his team partner with top-ranked academic institutions and thought-leading professionals to create online programs and workforce development.
While together, Andrew shared how his almost two-decade world journey has prepared him to lead DHGE as the go-to resource for developing the healthcare workforce to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. Additionally, Andrew gave healthcare professionals valuable and insightful advice to navigate these uncertain times for our industry.
I'm grateful for Andrew sharing his perspective and message of hope with our community, as we continue to react and adapt to the quickly changing healthcare professional landscape.
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During this expert Coronavirus update, I spent time with a teaching physician leader to better understand how integrated systems of care are helping to battle COVID-19 and the positive impacts that are already being demonstrated.
Dr. Ira Nash is a Board Member for the Council of Accountable Physician Practices and the Executive Director at Northwell Health Physician Partners. Additionally, Dr. Nash is a Professor of Cardiology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, where he also hosts the radio show "Well Said with Dr. Nash."
While spending time with Dr. Nash, his passion and commitment to improving the health and care for the patients and communities he serves, especially during this pandemic, was quickly felt.
There is much to learn from Dr. Nash through the initiatives he is helping lead, and I'm looking forward to you getting to know him as we continue to work together to overcome this crisis in front of our nation.
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During this episode, we spent time with a seasoned healthcare innovation leader and serial entrepreneur who has been positively impacting our nation's health for many years and discussed why he is dedicated now more than ever in furthering his life's mission.
Kevin Riddleberger is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer for DispatchHealth, a company laser-focused in creating the most advanced and complete in-home care model in the world. By offering on-demand healthcare for people of all ages in the comfort of their home, DispatchHealth is helping to reduce unnecessary emergency room visits and hospitalizations and is improving clinical outcomes while decreasing burdensome costs for the overall healthcare system.
While together, Kevin highlighted the journey his team has been on over the past several years while building their high-growth company, as well as how DispatchHealth is meeting the current needs of their communities due to COVID-19. Additionally, Kevin shared insight as to what the future and expanded model of DispatchHealth will look like, which is incredibly exciting and inspiring!
I'm eager for you to learn from Kevin, someone who I highly admire and is an industry leader who is deeply passionate and committed to moving the health of our nation forward for years to come.
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During episode 58 and this expert Coronavirus update, we spent time with a highly admired physician-turned-executive to discuss the reopening of the healthcare system, after being shuttered due to COVID-19.
Dr. Randy Hawkins is the Chief Medical Officer at ConsumerMedical, an organization that collaborates with health plans, employers, and a host of partner providers to help participants navigate the ever-complex healthcare system and access care from the highest-quality providers—leading to better health outcomes and lower costs.
While together, Dr. Hawkins shared how ConsumerMedical is meeting its members' needs during the pandemic and discussed the organization's recent study of the impact the virus has had on elective surgery demand and how industry leaders can manage it.
I'm thankful for Dr. Hawkins and his team's leadership as they continue to help steward the health of over four million Americans across our country during these unprecedented times.
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With the recent murder of George Floyd and the subsequent protests and riots across our nation, there is no denying these are some of the most profound moments of racial unease we have experienced in our lifetimes. But, I believe we have an opportunity in time like no other to honestly confront the festering wound that has hampered us for generations: systemic racism.
To lend my voice and platform to help move our community forward, I asked a national leader to join us on the podcast to discuss systemic racism in the healthcare industry. I’m humbled, honored and thankful that Duane Elliott Reynolds accepted our invitation and is with us today.
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During this expert Coronavirus update, we learned from a globally-recognized family guidance teacher and how she is applying her expertise to the crisis this pandemic has created.
After more than 15 years of teaching the Guidance Approach to Parenting, Katherine Winter-Sellery founded the Conscious Parenting Revolution to help people locate and understand their own triggers, avoid family resentment developing into retaliation, rebellion, and resistance. Her desire is to support parents to create safe and stable homes and families, especially during the societal shifts COVID-19 has created.
While together, Katherine also shared her very personal and touching experience with racism and how she is also applying her work to the current societal unrest after George Floyd’s murder.
I’m grateful for Katherine’s passion, determination, and mission to bring her expert perspective and guidance to families during these trying times for so many of us across our country and beyond.
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During episode 55, we learned from an innovative healthcare business executive in both venture-backed and Fortune 50 organizations and why she launched her company while starting a family of her own and seeing firsthand the gaps in healthcare for consumers.
Leah Sparks is the CEO of Wildflower Health; a company incredibly passionate and deeply committed to growing healthy families. By integrating their technology into healthcare and personalizing the user experience, Wildflower helps the entire healthcare ecosystem meet today’s consumer expectations, which is driving a meaningful impact for the health of families across the nation.
While together, Leah shared her personal and touching story she and her family experienced and why she has dedicated her career to helping other families like hers, and beyond.
Leah also updated us on how Wildflower is helping families across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic and how healthcare providers can access their platform for free during these trying times.
I’m grateful for Leah, and her team for dedicating themselves to making intelligent connections between consumers and their healthcare as Wildflower’s work is needed more than ever.
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During episode 54, I spent time with a visionary leader and serial entrepreneur in the field of Women's Health.
Dr. Jessica Grossman is the CEO of Medicines360, a non-profit pharmaceutical organization dedicated to removing cost as a barrier to health by developing and providing affordable women's health products.
While together, Jessica shared her journey of becoming an entrepreneur and eventually the CEO for Medicines360. We also discussed the ups and downs successful entrepreneurs like her experiences along the way.
After discussing Jessica's journey, she detailed why and how COVID-19 is making it nearly impossible for women to access proper reproductive health and care during the pandemic and how she and Medicines360 are bravely working to reverse this crisis.
I'm incredibly grateful for Jessica's dedication and relentless pursuit to address the gaps women face in accessing the medicines they need. Because of leaders like Jessica, I remain confident we can make positive changes to health and care for all citizens across our nation.
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During episode 53, I wanted to take a moment with all of you and share some thoughts and observations I’ve recently experienced regarding the topic of mental health and well-being during this pandemic.
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During episode 52 and this expert Coronavirus update, we spent time with a nationally-recognized community health worker turned entrepreneur to discuss the impact on social determinants of health during the pandemic.
Manik Bhat is the Chief Strategy Officer of Healthify, a New York-based startup that provides leading solutions to address the social determinants of health at scale.
By building infrastructure to formalize relationships between healthcare and community-based organizations, Healthify brings its partners one step closer to closing the health equity gaps in their communities.
While together, Manik shared how Healthify is addressing COVID-19 both with its technology as well as its community partnerships and the early successes his ecosystem is experiencing.
I’m grateful for Manik’s continued devotion and advocacy for addressing the social determinants of health through equitable and collaborative partnerships between healthcare and social service organizations.
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During episode 51, I spent time with a best-selling author, acclaimed TED speaker, and one of the nation's most influential digital health leaders that is laser-focused on accelerating the adoption of practical, non-partisan fixes to our healthcare system.
Dave Chase is the co-founder of Health Rosetta and leads the vision to empower community-owned health plans, which is considered a blueprint for 21st-century health benefits.
While together, Dave shared his background and storied career and why his experiences led him to become relentlessly passionate in building an ecosystem to replicate healthcare's fixes.
Dave also updated us on how he and his team are collaborating with the federal government to bring sensible COVID-19 solutions to the healthcare industry.
I can't wait for you to get to know Dave, and learn from this brilliant servant leader who is stewarding over 4 million lives through the Health Rosetta community and is continually working to bring healthcare's fixes to all of us across the nation.
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During episode 50, I took a moment to discuss the recently launched COVID-19 Data Challenge with the American Heart Association, Hitachi, and our team at BurstIQ and to offer a behind-the-scenes look how the data challenge came to be and why this global initiative was actually years in the making.
Before we dive in, it is evident now more than ever the tremendous need for connectedness and collaboration during this pandemic, and there is no doubt we will achieve solving the problems in front of our world by banding together! Roll up your sleeves and let’s go!
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During episode 49 and this expert Coronavirus update, I felt it was essential to learn from a national healthcare innovation leader how the pandemic is impacting the health of our k-12 students across the nation.
Josh Golomb is the CEO of Hazel Health, a healthcare company offering all children access to healthcare through in-school virtual medical clinics. Hazel Health is now partnering with schools and families affected by COVID-19 for new telemedicine offerings.
While together, Josh shared what his company’s partners are experiencing, how they have quickly responded to continue to take care of their students, and how they are also creatively supporting students’ families.
I’m thankful for Josh’s continued passion and determination to ensure our next generation of leaders continue to receive the healthcare they desperately need during these trying times for our nation.
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During episode 48, I spent time with an ivy league trained neuroscientist turned entrepreneur to discuss her pioneering and impactful brain health work and company.
Dr. Yael Katz is the co-founder and CEO of BrainCheck, a comprehensive cognitive health startup to help people of all ages understand what's happening in their brains. BrainCheck's easy-to-use platform supports primary care physicians and neurologists in assessing, diagnosing, and caring for patients with dementia, Alzheimer's, and other forms of cognitive impairment.
While together, Dr. Katz and I discussed her professional training and entrepreneurial pursuits as well as her founding journey with BrainCheck, how her organization is helping her partners and patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, and where she sees cognitive health heading in the future.
It's a privilege to be able to share Dr. Katz's important work and mission at BrainCheck- to help physicians deliver the highest quality, person-centered cognitive care, and to help people of all ages understand what's happening in their brain. Because of leaders like Dr. Katz, I know the healthcare industry will better understand the importance of cognitive health for our communities across the nation.
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During episode 47, and since it is National Nurses Week, we brought LinkedIn’s Top Nursing Influencer, national thought leader, author, and innovation evangelist onto the podcast.
Dr. Bonnie Clipper is the chief clinical officer at Wambi and was the first vice president of innovation for the American Nurses Association, where she created the innovation framework that is inspiring 4 million registered nurses to transform health through nurse-led innovation. Before these roles, Bonnie spent more than 20 years in executive nursing roles.
Given the super-human efforts our nurses are bringing to their profession during the COVID-19 pandemic, I felt it was vital for us to understand better what these heroes are going through, what is needed most at this time, and what the nursing profession will be like in the future.
I’m fortunate for us to be able to learn from Bonnie so we can do our part to help some of our nation’s bravest citizens.
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In episode 46, I had the honor to spend time with a healthcare visionary who has dedicated his 30-year career to leading disruptive medical technology companies and shepherding a global movement to transform healthcare to Precision Health.
Kevin Hrusovsky is the Chairman and CEO of Quanterix and the Founder and Chairman of Powering Precision Health and is regarded by his peers as a pioneer in his industry.
Because of Kevin's leadership, he has accelerated the adoption and value creation of many game-changing non-invasive early detection technologies for Oncology, Neuro-Degeneration, and Cardiology, which has transformed drug development and disease prevention.
While together, Kevin also shared his passions outside of his pioneering work, as well as how his professional journey has positioned him to help lead his globally-recognized organizations. Additionally, Kevin outlined how his teams are well-positioned to help with the global battle against COVID-19.
I can't wait for you to get to know Kevin, and experience the passion and determination he has to make our world a healthier place. It is because of leaders like Kevin that I remain incredibly confident we will conquer crises like the Coronavirus pandemic, by rallying around leaders like Kevin and by doing it together!
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During episode 45, I took a moment to share my thoughts as to how the status quo in the healthcare industry is quickly dying, how we all need to be thinking about the future ahead in order to bring value to the marketplace, and some powerful advice from several industry thought leaders.
Before we dive in, it is evident now more than ever the tremendous need for connectedness and collaboration during this pandemic, and there is no doubt we will achieve solving the problems in front of our world by banding together! Roll up your sleeves and let’s go!
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In episode 44, as we continue to publish relevant, timely, and expert Coronavirus updates, we felt it was also time to begin highlighting the dreamers, the doers, and the action-takers that are battling this pandemic with their abilities.
During this episode, we spent time with the BurstIQ team to learn how the organization quickly re-directed its efforts to offer their expertise and technological capabilities to help empower others to battle the virus with data.
I'm excited for you to learn from this very passionate and world-class team and, most importantly, how you can join the fight as we continue to band together to conquer one of the most significant challenges of our lifetimes.
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During episode 43, I spent time with the former clinical director of innovation at Boston Children's Hospital and a trained pediatric GI doctor.
During my time with this national healthcare innovation leader, we discussed his personal experience with burnout and feeling overwhelmed by all the administrative tasks the healthcare system places on care providers and staff and how he is going about solving this crisis.
Dr. Michael Docktor is the Founder and CEO of Dock Health - a HIPAA compliant task management and collaboration platform designed for healthcare. This simple yet robust and powerful platform helps healthcare teams collaborate much as they do in other industries using products like Jira, Trello, or Wunderlist, but it's secure to meet the needs of the healthcare industry.
Mike and I had a spirited discussion about the painful realities the industry's professionals deal with, and why the entire Dock Health team is extremely determined to do something about it.
Additionally, Mike shared how Dock Health is supporting frontline healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and how you and your colleagues can leverage Dock Health's powerful technology, free of charge at this time.
I'm confident you will enjoy getting to know Mike and what he and his team are building at Dock Health. After learning from Mike, it is my hope you will reach out to him as he continues to dedicate his life's work to eliminate the administrative burden for our critically important frontline care providers.
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During episode 42, I wanted to take a moment to highlight some recent and exciting updates and to share resources in order for you to learn more and to get involved in the amazing work happening in our community and beyond.
Before we dive in, it is evident now more than ever the tremendous need for connectedness, even while being socially distant, and there is no doubt we will achieve solving the problems in front of our nation by banding together! Roll up your sleeves and let’s go!
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In episode 41, we spent time with two patients who are recovering from their battle with COVID-19, as we feel it is essential to hear from the people in our communities that are most impacted by this virus.
Ruth Sanchez is an Executive Director at Project C.U.R.E. and resides in Phoenix, Arizona, and Brian Higgins is a Colorado real estate developer, Architect, and General Contractor at Oyster International.
Both Ruth and Brian have been gracious enough to share their harrowing bouts with the Coronavirus, and I feel incredibly grateful to be able to help share their stories with you and our community across the world.
It is my hope you and your family will find value in what Ruth and Brian shared with us, and you will help spread their message to those closest to you, as we continue to battle this pandemic together.
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During episode 40, and before the Coronavirus outbreak, I had a touching conversation with a precision medicine expert and executive who is dedicating her life’s work to bring relief to our community members living with cancer and to empower their healthcare providers.
Rebecca Owens is the President of Taproot Health, a fast-growth company that has developed the necessary infrastructure to collect and share high-quality, patient-consented data to provide precision care to cancer patients.
While spending time together, Rebecca shared when she told her mother that she would dedicate her career to cancer and the many reasons she is deeply committed to moving the disease towards a cure. We also discussed why she and her Co-founder at Taproot Health were able to form their business partnership quickly, which led to the launch of their company.
Additionally, Rebecca outlined where she sees the field of precision cancer medicine is heading and why Taproot Health is well-positioned to help lead this transformative area of healthcare.
I’m excited for you to get to know Rebecca and to find ways to be a part of the movement she is creating with her life’s work. Because of leaders like Rebecca, I remain confidently optimistic that we will eliminate cancer for our communities across the world.
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In episode 39, we felt it was critically important to discuss the state of mental health for our nation during the Coronavirus pandemic and invited a visionary and national leader onto the podcast to share her unique perspective and expertise.
Dr. Megan Jones Bell is the Chief Science Officer at Headspace, a leader in the field of digital health in making mental health care more effective, affordable, and accessible to all populations.
As part of Megan’s ground-breaking digital health research, she developed and validated over 20 digital health interventions, including co-founding Lantern, an evidence-based digital mental health company.
I’m incredibly thankful for Megan’s time and commitment to sharing her insights on our podcast regarding how we can better practice mindfulness and what we should expect and prepare for as we navigate this global pandemic moving forward.
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In episode 38, I had the opportunity to spend time with a serial entrepreneur and globally-minded social impact innovator that I deeply admire and respect.
Christian Cotichini is the Co-Founder and CEO of HeroX, empowering everyday people to create, compete, and share XPRIZE style incentive contests to solve local and global problems. In short, HeroX's platform is the world's problem-solver community.
During our time together, Christian shared his passion and commitment to empowering knowledge workers and the global economy they are creating.
After three successful startup exits, Christian is more excited than ever to help innovate our world and to offer the HeroX platform to battle COVID-19.
While recording and on the spot, Christian and I decided to share a sneak peek into a game-changing partnership we have created to help others take on the pandemic at scale!
I'm incredibly grateful to be surrounded by innovative thinkers and doers like Christian, especially during these trying times. I can't wait for you to get to know Christian and to experience his genuine spirit to make our world a better place, even while facing a global pandemic.
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In episode 37, we asked a public servant and one of healthcare’s most influential leaders to spend time with our community in order to update us about the fast-moving Coronavirus pandemic and his perspective and counsel how we should proceed as a nation moving forward.
Dr. David Shulkin was the ninth Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, where he represented America’s 21 million veterans and was responsible for the nation’s largest integrated health care system with over 1,200 sites of care.
Prior to leading the VA, Dr. Shulkin was a widely respected healthcare executive having served in executive and physician leadership positions of national leading hospitals and health systems.
Being named one of the ‘50 Most Influential Physician Executives in the Country’ by Modern Healthcare and a ‘Top 100 Physician Leaders of Hospital and Health Systems’ by Becker’s Hospital Review, I’m honored to have Dr. Shulkin’s perspective and guidance shared with our community during these unprecedented times.
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In episode 36, I visited with an incredible force of positive change for the healthcare industry, and at times I was left speechless and in awe by this leader dedicated to driving cultural disruption and transformation.
Sonia Rhodes is the Founder of The Experience Lab, an incubator of ideas and accelerator for action. Her team of Experience Catalysts use innovative Experience Design principles, lenses, and techniques to strategize, guide, equip, and inspire visionary healthcare executives to imagine anew. Together, with their lab partners, they are intentionally designing a new future for healthcare.
During our time together, which was before the Coronavirus outbreak, Sonia shared her remarkable journey of building, selling and then buying back her company, how she and her team are addressing challenges in the healthcare industry, and how all of us can be participating in designing a new and healthier future, a future with patients included.
I can’t wait for you to meet and hear from Sonia. It is because of pioneers like her, I remain confident we can in fact positively impact and reimagine the healthcare industry and the lives it serves.
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In episode 35, we spent time with an emergency room physician and a healthcare industry champion to update our community about the fast-moving Coronavirus pandemic.
Dr. Darria Long is a renowned expert in making life and health better for women and is a regular health contributor on CNN, author of the best-selling book Mom Hacks, as well as a board-certified Emergency Department physician and a digital health executive. Given her experience and expertise, Dr. Darria holds a unique, multifaceted perspective of the healthcare system, especially during these unprecedented times.
During our time together, Dr. Darria helped clear up several misconceptions about COVID-19 and discussed practical ways we can be managing our families and ourselves while practicing social distancing with the goal of finding balance and mental well-being.
I’m thankful for Dr. Darria’s passion and desire to spend time with our community while she dedicates taking care of hers while on the front lines of this pandemic.
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In episode 34, we spoke with a digital health expert and industry leader who is creating pathways for the healthcare industry to adopt new and efficacious technologies.
Meg Barron is the Vice President of Digital Health Strategy at the American Medical Association and is driving real, lasting change by collaborating with physicians, technology leaders and solution innovators to improve the delivery of care.
I am excited for you to get to know Meg and hear her deep commitment and passion she has for innovating the industry, which is creating better health outcomes for many lives across our nation.
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In episode 33, we asked a national leading emergency medicine physician and healthcare innovation thought-leader to update our community about the fast-moving Coronavirus pandemic.
Dr. Rich Zane is the Chair of Emergency Medicine and the Chief Innovation Officer at the UCHealth.
Dr. Zane has been widely published in peer-reviewed publications, and his work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review and Wall Street Journal. Recently, Dr. Zane was named a New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst Thought Leader in Medicine.
By partnering with companies, from small start-ups to multinationals, and using the power of data science, remote monitoring and prescriptive intelligence, Dr. Zane is attempting to fundamentally alter and improve the way in which healthcare is delivered.
I’m fortunate for Dr. Zane’s leadership, perspective, guidance, and determination during these trying times for our nation and beyond.
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In episode 32, we visited with a national healthcare innovation thought-leader and executive who is quickly advancing new models of health and care delivery.
Torben Nielsen is the CEO of Zoom Care, the organization building the world's first on-demand platform that offers both retail and digital healthcare.
While spending time together, Torben shared with us his journey of becoming the CEO of his fast-growing company and how his previous experiences as a consumer goods executive, including Lego, have perfectly positioned him to create a new and unique experience for the healthcare consumers Zoom Care serves.
I'm excited for you to get to know Torben, a leader, and friend I highly admire and look to while the healthcare industry continues to evolve and innovate. After hearing from Torben, I hope you will help support Zoom Care's mission to further expand the deliverance of on-demand consumer access to trusted professionals when and where needed.
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In episode 31, I shared my thoughts regarding the current state of the Coronavirus pandemic, why I have started a new type of episode for the podcast, and what we will accomplish together moving forward.
Before we dive in, it is evident now more than ever the tremendous need for community and connectedness, even while being socially distant, and there is no doubt we will achieve solving this need by banding together! Roll up your sleeves and let’s go!
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In episode 30, we spent time with a licensed clinical psychologist and a national expert within the intersection of population health, digital health, and behavioral science.
Dr. Ellen Beckjord is the Associate Vice President of Population Health at UPMC Health Plan, one of the nation's fastest-growing health plans and owned by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, a world-renowned health care provider.
During our time together, Dr. Beckjord shared how her previous experiences in applying just-in-time adaptive intervention methodologies have now helped position her to focus on the use of digital tools in clinical operations to achieve efficiency and impact in population health management.
Dr. Beckjord's guiding principle, "lead with love," is evident throughout our conversation. Her passion and commitment to improving the health of the communities she serves are incredibly inspiring. It is my hope you will connect with Dr. Beckjord as she helps further her organization's mission by providing its members with better health, more financial security, and the peace of mind they deserve.
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In episode 29, we asked a global public health expert and national leader to update our community about the fast-moving Coronavirus epidemic.
Dr. Judy Monroe is the president and CEO of the CDC Foundation and is advancing priority programs that improve the health of people around the world and to prepare other nations to prevent, detect and respond to dangerous health threats.
Under Dr. Monroe’s leadership, the CDC Foundation is currently supporting CDC’s response to COVID-19 and I’m fortunate for Dr. Monroe’s leadership, perspective and guidance during this emergency podcast recording.
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In episode 28, I had the opportunity to spend time with a seasoned digital health executive, a self-described behavioral nerd, and a national leader I deeply admire.
Dr. Ed Buckley is the CEO of Peerfit, a company and platform that connects employers, brokers, and insurance carriers to local fitness experiences.
While spending time together, Dr. Buckley and I discussed Peerfit's ten-year journey and the opportunities he and his team have discovered, which is fueling explosive national growth for the company.
But, most importantly, our conversation quickly turned very authentic and emotionally raw as we discussed how difficult it is to build a company from scratch, and the ups and downs an entrepreneur experiences both personally and professionally. Dr. Buckley then offered inspiring advice for taking care of oneself during the journey.
I am excited for you to experience Dr. Buckley's immense passion for his mission in life, where him and his team at Peerfit are heading, and the advice he seeks from all of us toward the end of the podcast. Because of committed leaders like Dr. Buckley, and community members like you supporting him, we will continue to move the health of our country forward, by doing it together!
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In episode 27, we welcomed a brilliant and dedicated health-tech entrepreneur from Baltimore onto the podcast.
Sathya Elumalai is the CEO of Aidar Health, a healthcare technology, and digital therapeutics company reimagining today's standards for clinical trials, chronic care management, and health monitoring.
During our time together, Sathya discussed his journey with his mother's chronic conditions and how this experience drives him to continue to build innovative technology to help others like his mother. Additionally, Sathya shared with us how he became the CEO of a fast-growth startup after being an employee at Johns Hopkins University for many years and what this experience has been like for him, both personally and professionally.
Sathya's story of relentless passion and pursuit to make our world a healthier place by what he is building at Aidar Health will leave you inspired. It is my hope after learning from Sathya that you will reach out to him and his team as they continue to dedicate themselves to bringing life-changing digital therapeutics to our communities across the world.
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In episode 26, we spent time with a seasoned health-tech entrepreneur turned CEO of a national leading industry association.
Ann Mond Johnson is the CEO of the American Telemedicine Association, the only organization entirely focused on accelerating the adoption of Telehealth. Under Ann's leadership, the ATA is committed to ensuring that everyone has access to safe, effective, and appropriate care when and where they need it, and enabling the system to do more good for more people.
During our time together, Ann shared how her experience as a serial health-tech entrepreneur was a welcomed attribute by the ATA's board of directors during her hiring process and how she never thought she was going to be the leader of a national association. Ann also expressed her excitement as to why she is more optimistic than ever to help enable the delivery of more cost-effective and efficient care across our nation.
I am excited for you to get to know Ann and gain her valuable insights as to where our industry is heading and how all of us can be involved in the journey. It is because of passionate and dedicated leaders like Ann that more citizens in our nation will have more access to safe and effective care. I look forward to you supporting Ann on her journey at the ATA as she and her team further their pioneering pursuits!
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In this episode, we’re taking some time to thank you, our passionate and dedicated listening community for helping us reach episode 25!
This is a huge accomplishment for any podcast. And, we achieved it together!
So, we’re taking the time with this episode to share our appreciation for all of you, highlight some stories of the feedback we have received over the past 24 episodes, and to discuss some upcoming and exciting developments for our podcast community!
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In episode 24, I spent time with a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur who is building a fast-growing and impactful platform for patients and care providers.
But, most importantly, I shared the podcast studio with someone I deeply admire, respect, and consider a close friend, and I'm excited for you to be a part of our conversation.
Mehmet Kazgan is the CEO of cliexa, a platform that enables physicians and hospitals to fully leverage patient-reported data to improve clinical care and outcomes while maximizing reimbursement. cliexa's applications are easily customized to address specific requirements of chronic care management and reimbursement, while also removing financial and IT-integration barriers.
During our time together, Mehmet shared how cliexa came to be and how he went about building a company from scratch after identifying a need in the marketplace and turning his platform into an industry-recognized innovation.
Mehmet also shared with us what it was like being a fighter pilot. Yes- a fighter pilot!
Before we hear from Mehmet and his incredible life journey, I want to thank him and the entire cliexa team for their sincere dedication and relentless pursuit to improve the healthcare industry. After you hear from Mehmet, it is my hope you will reach out to him and the team and support them on their mission to reinvent the way the healthcare industry manages medical conditions.
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In episode 23, we learned from a national leading innovator in the field of newborn medicine and his passion for breaking down the barriers that exist between the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and the newborn’s home.
Dr. Ross Sommers is the Founder and CEO of Firstday Healthcare, a company offering a suite of digital healthcare solutions that are empowering parents of NICU graduates with innovative models of home healthcare, leading to fewer emergency room visits and hospital readmissions.
During our time together, Dr. Sommers shared his experience of becoming an Ivy League trained Neonatologist and witnessing first-hand the lack of the continuum of care for his patients between the hospital setting and care at home.
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I am excited for you to get to know Dr. Sommers and hear his passion for delivering better health outcomes for our smallest and newest community members. It was evident during our discussion that Dr. Sommers and his team are well on their way in reimagining how our healthcare system engages with NICU graduates. It is my hope you and your community will reach out to help further empower Firstday Healthcare while on their pioneering journey!
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In episode 22, we invited a dear friend onto the podcast and someone who is a transformative force of good for our healthcare industry and the nation!
Imran Cronk is the Founder and CEO of Ride Health, a technology platform that partners with healthcare organizations and transportation providers to manage transportation benefits for patients in need.
During our time together, Imran shared a very personal and touching story of seeing a discharged patient from a hospital that had no ride home and the a-ha moment that occurred from that experience and how that led him to found his high-growth startup.
Imran also detailed the massive financial burden and the detrimental physical and mental impact patients experience when transportation is not available.
I want to thank him and the entire Ride Health team for their inspiring work and mission of the organization: that no person should have to forego healthcare- or basic social needs- because they cannot get there. It is my hope you will continue to support these passionate pioneers as they drive better health outcomes in our communities across the country.
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In episode 21, we brought on a nationally recognized and seasoned business executive who is now dedicating his professional pursuits and passions to helping others.
Keith Harband is the Co-Founder and Practice Director for NewEnamel, an online dental telehealth practice, featuring a preventive care system that offers prescription-strength products, and easy-to-follow, personalized instructions all in the comfort of the patient's home.
During this episode, Keith discussed how he, as a healthcare outsider, broke into the industry after a fateful lunch meeting several years ago, which led him to co-found NewEnamel.
Keith also shared in detail the detrimental impact poor oral health and tooth decay have on holistic health and how NewEnamel is drastically increasing better oral care outcomes with the novel treatment pathways the organization offers. Lastly, Keith shared where he and the team are taking the organization over the next several years and how they are addressing the explosive growth of the startup.
Before we have a bit of' tooth talk,' I want to thank Keith and the entire NewEnamel team for their relentless passion and dedication to bringing compelling and cutting-edge oral care to the patients they serve. It is very evident during our conversation that Keith cares deeply about his company's pioneering pursuits, and I hope you will support him and his team on their journey!
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In episode 20, we spent time with a globally recognized information security leader and the Founder of the company that I recently joined as a full-time executive operator.
Frank Ricotta is the CEO of BurstIQ, a fast-growing, health-focused global network that connects businesses and people. More specifically, BurstIQ is Igniting a global movement through transformative connections with its HIPAA and GDPR compliant platform by creating health profiles for people, places and things, and empowering the interactions between them, at scale.
During this episode, we learned from Frank how his background and journey within the technology industry helped him identify an opportunity to create a global ecosystem around properly securing and unleashing health data.
Additionally, Frank and I shared where and how we became fast friends, why I formally joined the BurstIQ team, and what is in store for the company. Given that BurstIQ is now universally recognized as one of the top blockchain companies in the world, and the premier organization in the health space, we had much to discuss.
I want to personally and deeply thank Frank for what he means to me, my family, our community in Colorado, and his immense and bold vision he has to improve humanity across the globe. Because of Frank’s deep commitment to his vision, millions of people around the world will continue to be touched by his work for years to come.
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In episode 19, we welcomed a globally recognized healthcare innovation ecosystem builder, friend, and industry champion to our podcast studio in Denver, Colorado.
Hayley Hovious is the President of the Nashville Healthcare Council, a premier association of health care industry leaders working together to inspire global collaboration to improve healthcare by serving as a catalyst for leadership and innovation.
During this episode, we learned from Hayley the origins of how Nashville and Tennessee grew into a healthcare economic leader and how she and others in the community are preparing to embrace and shepherd the innovation revolution that is inevitably coming to the healthcare industry.
Additionally, Hayley shared how her previous professional experience has prepared her to lead one of the most important business communities for our country’s largest industry, and why she is more excited than ever for the limitless opportunities that the Nashville and Tennessee ecosystem offers to many of us across the nation.
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Before we dive into the episode, I want to thank Hayley for spending time with me during her visit to Denver, another city, and community deeply dedicated to improving the healthcare industry and the health of our nation. Because of Hayley’s relentless pursuit and passion for bridging relationships between industry incumbents and the healthcare innovation community, the health of many lives the industry serves will continue to flourish.
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In episode 18, we learned from a highly trained Prosthetist about the functional challenges that come with injury and amputation and how he is bringing renewed hope to the many lives he serves.
Eric Neufeld is the Founder and Chief Prosthetist of Agile Orthopedics, a mobile prosthetic and orthotic service that combines experience, empathy, and cutting edge technology by utilizing innovation, skill, and compassion, to better serve patients in need.
During this episode, Eric shared his professional journey of working in the industry and seeing an opportunity to innovate care delivery for patients needing prosthetic services, by bringing the services to them.
Eric also highlighted the moment he convinced his wife that he wanted to start his own company and the anxiety of leaving a corporate job and jumping off the entrepreneurial cliff. Most importantly, he passionately discusses the inspirational stories of the life-changing impact that his company is bringing to so many.
Before we learn from Eric, I want to honor him and his team for recognizing an opportunity to serve the injured around us and his passion for restoring hope and ability for these community members. Our conversation became very emotional, and I am confident you will feel it while listening to this episode. It is my hope you will support Eric and his team while on their journey as they work to expand their reach and servitude across our nation.
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In episode 17, we took the podcast to Nashville, Tennessee during a business trip and spoke with a self-taught serial entrepreneur, healthcare innovation venture capitalist, author, and professional sports team owner.
Marcus Whitney is the President and co-founder of Briovation, an innovation catalyst company with the mission to be the catalyst of the world’s most important health innovations. Through Briovation, Marcus is the CEO of Health:Further, a strategic advisory firm for the healthcare industry, as well as a Founding Partner of Jumpstart, a new kind of venture capital firm focused on innovative, early-stage healthcare companies.
During this episode, Marcus shared his journey in becoming a leading national voice for investing in and empowering healthcare innovation and disruption.
But, most importantly, Marcus shared with us how he came to grips with confronting decades of unaddressed trauma that was triggering self-sabotaging behavior. Marcus is now flourishing with his daily mental well-being exercises and offered insights on how all of us can also participate in being authentic to ourselves and find mental well-being in our daily lives.
I want to thank Marcus for spending time with me during my visit to Nashville, a city and community that continually welcomes me with open arms. Most importantly, I want to celebrate Marcus for bringing his inspiring authenticity to our conversation on this podcast, which I know will help empower others to invest in self to invest in the world around them.
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In episode 16, we spent time with a nationally recognized healthcare innovation leader, who is laser-focused on bringing elegant and helpful life empowerment solutions to a large and fast-growing demographic, our nation’s seniors.
Andrew Parker is the Founder and CEO of Papa, an on-demand personal assistance platform and service to provide socialization for our elders. Papa connects seniors with college students, or Papa Pals, who can then help our seniors complete tasks, assist with transportation, house chores, technology lessons and other services.
During this episode, Andrew shared his personal and family journey with his own grandfather, and how he recognized the extreme difficulty associated with juggling daily life and senior family member needs.
While the Papa platform was initially built to support Andrew’s own grandfather, Andrew and his family recognized how impactful and positive it was to connect their grandfather with a young, energetic, and enthusiastic individual. After the first visit, Andrew knew he had something special to offer other families with the same need.
Before we dive into the podcast, I want to celebrate Andrew and his team for their passion and commitment in building such and impactful and game-changing solution to repair the social isolation and loneliness epidemic many of our seniors experience and die from. This was a moving and meaningful conversation and I hope you will help Andrew and his team further their mission: to deploy grandkids-on-demand across the nation!
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In episode 15, we spoke with a globally recognized public health practitioner with over 15 years of experience working across the public and private sectors in the United States, East and West Africa, and the Caribbean.
KP Yelpaala is a professor and expert in national health program implementation and is the Founder and CEO of access.mobile, a digital health company dedicated to improving patient engagement for underserved communities through the use of mobile technology.
During this episode, KP discussed his journey in the public health industry and how his global work helped him discover the opportunity to leverage cellular technology to bring healthcare to the masses across Africa. Additionally, KP shared how his company recently uncovered significant opportunity for their technology platform to positively impact care for high risk patients here in the United States.
Before we dive into the podcast, I want to thank KP and his team for their relentless desire and passion to bring critically needed care to some of the most underserved communities across the world. I hope you will take the time to support KP and his team on their journey as they continue to work toward their inspiring mission: to deploy a diverse team with expertise across public health, behavioral science, multicultural communications and health technology to improve patient care through intelligent mobile engagement.
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In episode 14, we took the podcast to London, England during a business trip and spent time with the most watched surgeon in human history.
Dr. Shafi Ahmed is a world renowned, multi award winning surgeon, teacher, futurist, author, innovator and entrepreneur at The Royal London and St Bartholomew’s Hospitals.
Because of Dr. Ahmed’s passion of merging the world of medicine, global education, and virtual and augmented reality to democratize and scale surgeon education, millions of people around the world are now able to further pursue their surgical passions.
During this episode, Dr. Ahmed discussed how he was able to spot upstart technologies, like Google Glass, and their future potential to globally impact how millions can access learning, where he sees technology shaping the healthcare industry in the future, and how other healthcare industry leaders can create an environment for their peers to leverage game-changing innovations to fundamentally impact an industry that touches every person.
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I want to thank Dr. Ahmed for spending time with me in London and sharing his mission in life on our podcast: to merge the world of medicine, global education, and virtual and augmented reality to democratize and scale surgical education and to make it affordable and accessible to everyone by using the power of connected technology. It is my hope you will join Dr. Ahmed on his inspiring journey to make our globe a more equitable and educated place.
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In episode 13, we spoke with a machine learning engineer turned entrepreneur and startup founder.
Charu Singhal is the Founder and CEO of Etta, an artificial intelligence engine that uses massive data-sets of hospital-verified images to provide data-driven skin insight.
During this episode, Charu discussed her journey as a machine learning engineer and how her previous pursuits have led her to Founding Etta and the life saving results the technology has already demonstrated.
Additionally, Charu outlines where her team is planning on applying their artificial intelligence expertise within other disciplines of the healthcare industry.
Lastly, Charu shares how our listening community can implement simple tactics to adopt proper skin monitoring techniques for themselves and their loved ones. While listening to any of our episodes, please share feedback and ideas for our guest via our guest feedback form link and nominate other passionate pioneers for a future episode via our guest nomination form link. Lastly- please take a moment to subscribe to the podcast so you will automatically receive episode updates in your podcast player.
I want to thank and celebrate Charu and her team for building their life-saving technology. While Etta is still considered a startup, their company has already screened almost 3,000 people and has saved over forty lives! After listening to this episode, it is my hope you will connect with Charu and her team to help further propel their startup that is making an impact in so many communities across the nation.
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In episode 12, we spent time with an internationally recognized entrepreneur, engineer and inventor.
Michael Golway is the President and CEO of Advanced Solutions Life Sciences and has dedicated his company to the discovery, design, and development of integrated software and hardware solutions for the fields of science that involve living organisms, molecular biology, and biotechnology.
In short, Michael and his team are helping lead the global 3D bioprinting revolution through proprietary, cutting-edge and innovative technology that is turning this new and nascent industry into reality.
During this episode, Michael shared his history as an entrepreneur and some of the terrifying moments of building companies from scratch, and how his almost ten year old company and bioprinting platform is perfectly positioned to empower scientists and innovators around the world to uncover new discoveries in their pursuits to bring a new health paradigm to the human race.
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I want to thank Michael and his team for their relentless pursuit and passion to unlock the mysteries of the human body and to discover new ways to bring physical health to so many people around the world. In personally knowing Michael, I have no doubt he will achieve his mission he discusses during the episode. I hope you join Michael and his team during their pioneering journey for mankind!
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In episode 11, we spoke with an inspiring nurse practitioner seeking to change healthcare from the inside and embrace the superpowers of our next generation.
Weaving the threads of mom, entrepreneur, teacher, nurse, primary care provider, and science geek, Amy Edgar founded the Children's Integrated Center for Success in 2014.
Amy's Center unites systems thinking and integrated care delivery models to create a primary care center focused on children with behavioral health needs.
From the latest in genetics research, nutrition, and occupational therapy and speech, to art and equine therapy, to staffing school advocates and marriage counselors, Amy's organization offers hope and answers for the families the Center serves and the need to reach every child, every time.
During this episode, Amy shared her inspiring work with the Center and the positive impacts the organization has had on thousands of families in Pennsylvania and beyond, and how Amy is now focusing on scaling her passions with her technology company, Blackbird Health.
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In episode 10, we spent time with two inspiring leaders who have dedicated their lives to childhood bereavement for community members in Colorado and beyond.
Dr. Brook Griese, Co-Founder and recently appointed Board Member, founded Judi’s House in 2002. Judi’s House is a national-leading free-standing organization devoted solely to providing research-based care to grieving children and their families.
For over 15 years, Judi’s House has supported nearly 10,000 youth and caregivers, by being focused on a vision that no child should be alone in grief.
Recently, Brook and the Judi’s House Board of Directors appointed Jessica Matlind Mayo as their new CEO.
During our time tougher, Brook shared her very personal family story of how her husband experienced childhood bereavement, her professional background that prepared her for her mission in life and how Judi’s House came to be.
Additionally, Jessica described how Judi’s House provided loving and life-changing care to her family during unspeakable tragedy and how this experience has perfectly positioned her to lead Judi’s House today and into the future.
And, because of the generosity of their donors, there is no cost to families receiving care and services from the Judi’s House staff.
It is my hope you will consider donating to Judi’s House and share with your networks the humbling work this inspiring organization is delivering to the many in need.
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In episode 9, we spoke with a senior corporate executive and entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in healthcare consulting and software development, and is a recovering addict.
After battling addiction for 15 years, Matt Seefeld started his company, myLifeLink. myLifeLink is empowering those who are actively dealing with addiction to connect and engage with other recovering addicts, and receive guidance and support in their journey to abstinence.
Additionally, myLifeLink is being used by care providers, hospitals and behavorial health clinics as a recovery tool to help and support their patients to achieve positive and long-term success with their care plan.
During our time together, Matt courageously shared his very personal story of pain and despair and how he has triumphed to now lead a global sober tribe, through the community he has created and the technology his team has built.
Toward the end of the podcast, Matt shared several action items how others can plug into his community and receive help, both for people seeking answers and the family members and friends that are dedicated to supporting them.
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In episode 8, we spent time with one of Chicago’s “Most Notable Women in Healthcare” for 2018 and learned about the staggering financial costs that uncoordinated patient healthcare is creating, and more importantly, the negative physical and mental impacts this is having in our communities across the nation.
Carrie Kozlowski, is a senior executive with 18 years of strategic, tactical, and management experience in the healthcare industry and is the Co-Founder and COO at Upfront Healthcare, a high growth company using proven marketing techniques combined with a rules-driven healthcare content management platform to publish secure and personalized landing pages to patient consumers. In the form of text messages and other digital means, Upfront Healthcare creates a unique digital experience that is specific to each individual consumer based on their visit history, health needs, demographics, insurance, and more.
During our time together, Carrie shared the real-world impacts uncoordinated care has on our industry as well as some real wold examples and statistics of how Upfront Healthcare is truly moving the needle in achieving holistic care coordination for patients in our communities!
Toward the end of the podcast, Carrie shared a few action items all of us can implement today to better improve the healthcare system that inevitably touches all of us and our loved ones.
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In episode 7, we learned about the opioid epidemic and its devastating impact on our country from a leading expert in prescription drug monitoring, adherence, and patient-focused outcomes as we well how this national leader is battling this public health crisis through the power of community and technology.
Dr. Rob Valuck, a pharmacy industry expert, is the Founder and CEO of Opisafe, an award-winning solution provider of platforms designed to manage the opioid response for prescribers, dispensers, public health agencies, first responders and the general public. Their comprehensive approach helps close the gap between the epidemic and the solutions that stakeholders need to respond.
During our time together, Dr. Valuck shared how this public health crisis came about, and why him and his team at OpiSafe are perfectly positioned to bring relief to our nation.
Toward the end of the podcast, Dr. Valuck shared three action items all of us can take today to help our friends, neighbors, and family confront and battle this epidemic that touches every corner of our nation.
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In episode 6, we spent time with a national healthcare innovation leader who is guiding his organization to safely and sustainably reverse type 2 diabetes in 100 million people by 2025.
Amit Shah is the Head of Operations and Patient Success for Virta Health, where his focus is on leading a team of clinicians and customer service associates on delivering personalized, evidence-based continuous remote care to patients across the United States.
Amit joined Virta in 2016 and brings experience scaling operations and culture in entrepreneurial and high growth organizations. Prior to Virta, Amit was an early team member at Paladina Health, a direct primary care subsidiary of DaVita, and served as market leader and Vice President of Operations.
During our time together, Amit shared why Virta started, how they are handling their explosive growth, and where Amit sees the Virta mission continuing in the coming years and how you and your family can get involved.
Amit also shared some patient stories that are profound and demonstrate the remarkable power and results Virta is bringing to our communities across the nation.
At the end of the podcast, Amit called on all of us to to think about and discuss diabetes differently in our communities. Stay tuned for this very thought-provoking and actionable game plan that Amit shared with us!
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In episode 5, we spent time with two healthcare innovation executives who started a global movement of connection, empathy, and love through the simple act of gifting pairs of pink socks.
What started as one gifted pair of pink socks in 2015 has turned into almost 60,000 pairs today.
Nick Adkins is the Co-Founder of Pinksocks Life, a nonprofit organization focused on promoting authentic human connection around the world. In addition to empowering people from all walks of life to connect with anyone and anywhere, he serves on the advisory boards at Cloudbreak Health and doc.ai.
Andrew Richards is the other Co-Founder of Pinksocks Life. In addition to his work with the Pinksocks movement, Andrew leads health technology innovation at the Elson S Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University. He also co-founded Amend Health, which drives start-up companies to address healthcare challenges in rural and underserved communities.
During our time together, Nick and Andrew shared how this globally reaching movement and community started, where they are today with their non-profit, and their plan to further grow the important work of the organization.
I also asked Andrew and Nick to share some specific examples of how the power of connection and gifting of pink socks has made our communities better around the world. Stay tuned for some very inspiring stories that demonstrate the power of this movement!
Toward the end of the podcast, we explored a few examples of how you can start your journey of creating community and togetherness as well as how you can get involved with the pinks sock organization.
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In episode 4, we spent time with a successful serial entrepreneur and discussed the companies he has built.
Our guest also authentically shared the challenges and failures along the way and how he overcame his struggles to be able to help others tell stories at scale.
Kyle Shannon is the inventor & CEO of Storyvine. Founded in 2012, Storyvine is a Guided Video platform that automates video production and allows clients to automagically create authentic, professional video content.
He’s innovated in storytelling and digital media for more than two decades. In 1995, Kyle Co-Founded, and was the Chief Creative Officer of the pioneering digital agency, AGENCY.COM. and helped grow the company to more than 2200 employees, $200mm in revenue, and a successful IPO on the NASDAQ.
Toward the end of the podcast, I asked Kyle to share several action items for how you can to tell your organization or personal brand stories at scale.
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In episode 3, we had the opportunity to sit down with Lisa Sabey- a mother fiercely dedicated to find answers for her daughter’s mental health afflictions and turned her answer-seeking journey into a nationally recognized non-profit and an award winning documentary film making organization.
Lisa is the President of Parents-to-Parents, a non-profit organization that collaborates with top scientists and science-based organizations to create film documentaries about effective mental health care, preventative care and creating mental health from birth on.
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In episode 2, I’m excited to have Dr. Benjamin Miller from Well Being Trust as we discuss mental well-being in our nation and communities. We even discussed the love of sushi, the cowbell and the guitar and a very important question Dr. Miller asked of all of us toward the end of the podcast.
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In episode 1, I'm excited to share with you why we're turning this podcast on, a bit of my backstory, what we plan to accomplish with the podcast and, most importantly- how you, our listeners, will be taking an active role in the community we will be building through this podcast!
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