Big Picture Medicine
Episodes
#137 $1.1B MedTech Turnaround CEO – Joe DeVivo (Butterfly Network)
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What actually happens after you sell a company for $1.1B and never need to work again?Joe DeVivo is a legendary MedTech CEO who sold InTouch to Telado...
#136 Nabla, AI Ambient Scribe ($120M Raised) — CEO, Alex LeBrun
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2023, Alexandre Lebrun pointed two exits in conversational AI at Medicine. Nabla raised $120M and spread to 130+ orgs and 85,000 clinicians in reco...
#135 $1.4bn Startup Tackling Loneliness, Papa (CEO, Andrew Parker)
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2017, Andrew Parker launched Papa with a 1-800 number, offering 'grandkids-on-demand' in Miami. By 2021, the company was valued at $1.4bn (...
#134 Sean Duffy, Omada Health ($1bn+ Valuation)
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
According to Business Insider, Omada Health has quietly filed its S-1 to prepare for an IPO. Here's how Sean Duffy (CEO & Co-founder) built it. 0...
#133 A New Radiology Foundation Model ($160M Raised) — Harrison.ai CEO, Dr Aengus Tran
27 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Aengus Tran is the CEO of Harrison.ai — an Australian radiology AI startup who have raised $160M. Harrison.ai just released their radiology foun...
#132 Arcadia CEO ($100M ARR) on How To Sell Enterprise Healthcare — Michael Meucci
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Meucci (CEO) transformed Arcadia — formerly a mid-sized consultancy into a healthcare platform with $100M of Annual Recurring Revenue. How? ...
#131 Scaling Contraceptive App to 2M Users By Daring Not to Be Free (Dr Elina Berglund, CEO Natural Cycles)
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Elina Berglund is the CEO/Co-founder of Natural Cycles, which she has grown to 2M users. When every other app seemed to be free — she made a brav...
#130 Kaia Health, Raising $125M By Turning $50,000 Elite Pain Rehab into an App (CEO, Konstantin Mehl)
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Konstantin started Kaia Health after paying $50,000 to cure his back pain at an elite pain rehab centre. It worked. But it seemed stupid. Why did this...
#129 Jon Ronson on Writing, Hustle and the Psychopath Test
04 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Ronson is one of the most interesting people alive today — period. He’s the author of the Men Who Stare at Goats, So You’ve Been Publicly S...
#128 AgeTech: Shopify vs Amazon Model — Birdie CEO, Max Parmentier
24 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Max Parmentier is the CEO of Birdie, a Series B AgeTech startup who have raised $52M from the likes of Sofina, Omers Ventures and Index Ventures — a...
#127 Gentle Disruption Wins in Healthcare — DrDoctor CEO Tom Whicher
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Wicher is CEO of DrDoctor — who have served over 20M patients and just raised £10M in their recent Series A round. But he spent the first 7 yea...
#126 Drug Discovery is Becoming More $$$ — Here's Why, And The Startup Fixing It (Lindus Health)
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Drug discovery is becoming more expensive and producing less results than ever before (Eroom's Law)—why? One of the ballooning costs are clinic...
#125 The $350M Startup Creating Perfect Memory (Rewind.ai — CEO Dan Siroker)
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rewind.ai just raised their Series A at a valuation of $350M. Investors include Andreesen Horowitz, Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian and OpenAI’s Sam Altma...
#124 Wearable Data is Bullsh*t Debate — Maitham Dib (Vital YC21)
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
People are wearing Apple Watches to their wedding days. Has this whole 'quantified self' movement gone bananas? Is any of this data actually u...
#123 How To Write Killer Healthcare Content — Healthcare Huddle (acquired by Workweek)
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Jared Dashevsky writes Healthcare Huddle (acquired by Workweek). He's scaled to over 30,000 subscribers. And it was pretty simple. Here are 12 ...
#122 Why AI Drug Discovery Is So Hard — Dr Imran Haque (Recursion)
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Despite $billions of investment into the sector — there are still no AI discovered drugs on the market. Why? Recursion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: RXR...
🔥 NVIDIA Pumped $50M Into This Startup You've Never Heard Of (TechBio)
20 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
0:00 NVIDIA's $50M investment into Recursion Pharmaceuticals 2:28 NVIDIA is becoming a seed investor 3:45 Bull case for Recursion Pharmaceuticals ...
#121 Raising $17M Uber for Medical Scans — Charlie Bullock (Scan.com)
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ever waited months for a scan? Scan.com is making getting a scan as easy as booking an Uber. Behind the scenes of the disruptor changing medical imagi...
🔥 What David Sinclair is Hiding From Elon Musk
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
0:00 David Sinclair's controversial claim 1:39 Bull v bear case 6:23 David Sinclair's history of exaggerating and profiteering 8:34 Adam Neum...
🔥 Regulators Hate Doctor ChatGPT (Here's Why) — Dr Hugh Harvey (Hardian Health)
23 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
0:00 Why not let the builders build? Move fast and break things? 1:56 Why don't you ban people from googling their symptoms? 3:28 Is a disclaimer ...
🔥 Spotify Founder's Longevity Startup: Bear v Bull Case (Neko Health)
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Ek (Spotify Founder) has raised $65M for his new longevity startup: Neko Health. 0:00 What is Neko Health 2:18 They're doing nothing new 5...
🔥 Apple's Plan to Dominate Healthcare (And Why It Will Fail)
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
0:00 Leaked secret Apple health report 5:06 What Apple are up to in healthcare 9:21 Decentralised clinical trials 11:35 Apple healthcare leaked docume...
#120 Billion $ Healthtech 'Soonicorn' Huma: Lessons from Jony Ive and Big Pharma — Dan Vahdat (CEO)
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Huma is about to reach a 1 billion dollar valuation, and is thriving while other digital health companies are dying. But what’s their secret sauce? ...
🔥 Beauty and the Bucks: Inside GetHarley's $52M Triumph in Skincare
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
0:00 Intro 1:04 The genius business model of GetHarley 5:26 How important is marketing? 50% of revenue 14:57 Why aren't they doing cooler more inn...
🔥 News: Pills for Profit — The Dark Side of D2C Health Startups
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
0:00 Intro 0:20 DEA comes after DTC health startups 3:18 How DTC health startups hacked customer retention 10:30 Will this kill the economics of D2C h...
#119 The Unusual Path to Make a Billion $ Men's Health Startup — Numan CEO (Sokratis Papafloratos)
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Numan have raised $70M+ and are set to become the biggest men's digital health startup, ever. Here's how. From their eccentric Founder. 0:00 ...
🔥 News: The Rise and Demise of Babylon Health
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
0:00 Intro 0:18 Ali Parsa's Immigrant Story 1:57 Picking a Problem That Was Too Big 4:15 The Supply Induced Demand Problem 5:55 The Unit Economics...
🔥 News: VC Dirty Money and Trillion $ Alzheimer's Opportunity
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
0:00 Intro 0:38 VC Dirty Money (LP Sources) 8:30 Power Dynamics Founder vs VC 12:56 Trillion $ Alzheimer's Opportunity 14:26 Eli Lily's New Al...
🔥 News: ChatGPT vs Doctors: Who Will Win?
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Papers Mentioned— ChatGPT better + more empathetic than human doctors (JAMA Int Med Paper): https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fu...
🔥 News: It’s Time to Build in Healthcare (a16z) and Why are VCs Miserable?
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
0:00 Intro 0:32 Why are VCs so unhappy? 2:18 What’s hard about being a VC? 3:56 Hustle culture, FOMO, always-on culture in VC 9:54 Is it ever easy t...
#118 Martin Shkreli on Drug Pricing, Being Hated/Rich and His GPT-4 Doctor
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Shkreli is an American Investor, Pharmaceutical Executive and Hedge Fund Manager who became the most hated man in America in 2015 when he obtai...
#117 Dr Ben Maruthappu On Raising $400M for Cera Care
16 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Ben Maruthappu is the the Co-founder and CEO of Cera Care; a digitally-enabled social care company which has raised over $400M dollars. He was made...
#116 Be Bombastic To Get Ahead — Dr Ala Alenazi (Ascension VC)
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Ala Alenazi is a TechBio Investor at Ascension and holds a PhD in Molecular Genetics from Cambridge University — she describes herself as a recov...
🔥 News: AI Too Powerful? Peter Attia's Longevity Bible and Why Are Americans Dying So Young?
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
0:00 Intro 0:54 Is AI Too Powerful? 17:59 Outlive, Peter Attia's New Longevity Bible 45:16 Why Are Americans Dying So Young? Joined by: Dr Adam...
#115 Think Like a Doctor to Make Executive Decisions — Dr John Whyte (Chief Medical Officer, WebMD)
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr John Whyte is the Chief Medical Officer of WebMD, he’s also worked at Director level at the FDA and was also Chief Medical Expert at the Discover...
🔥 News: Microsoft's GPT-4 Healthcare Play and Self-Driving Drug Development
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
0:00 Intro 1:00 AI drug development 7:04 Big picture impact of AI drug development 9:14 Counterintuitive facts about drug development 11:06 Why can...
#114 Alexa for Doctors — Dr Shiv Rao (CEO Abridge)
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Shivdev Rao is a Cardiologist and CEO/Co-founder of Abridge, who have raised over $22M. Think of Abridge like an Alexa or Siri (or other voice assi...
🔥 News: Semaglutide (Wegovy) TikTok Conspiracy, Alcohol Disruptor and Where Are the UK Healthtech Exits?
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
0:00 Intro 1:27 Semaglutide (Wegovy) lowdown, use in longevity clinics 6:38 Is a 'pill for everything' a bad thing? 10:39 What's goi...
🔥 News: David Sinclair's New Startup, Transhumanist Gene Editing to Sleep Less and ChatGPT for Drug Development
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
0:00 Intro 1:09 David Sinclair's New Startup 11:25 ChatGPT for Drug Development 28:32 Transhumanist Gene Editing to Sleep Less ...
#113 Mental Models for Health Entrepreneurship — Dr Ignacio Medrano (CEO Savana)
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Ignacio Medrano is the Founder of Savana (raised $44M dollars with over 100 employees). They use AI to unlock all the value out of clinical records...
#112 Yelp for Doctors — Dr Stephanie Eltz (CEO Doctify)
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Stephanie Eltz is a Trauma Surgeon and CEO and Co-founder of Doctify, which is basically Yelp/Trustpilot for Doctors. They’ve raised >£22M do...
#111 Raising $139M, Biotech, Introversion and Happiness — Jason Foster (CEO Ori Biotech)
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Foster is the CEO of Ori Biotech; a cell and gene therapy company who have raised $139M in funding. He also sits on the boards of companies like...
🔥 News: Bryan Johnson's Blueprint, Spotify Enters Health and VitaDAO Raises $4M
04 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Adam Bataineh is a Longevity Doctor and Founder of Span Health (acquired by EightSleep). 0:00 Intro 0:15 Bryan Johnson's Blueprint Prog...
#110 Networking, BioSecurity and Generative AI — Morgan Cheatham (VP Bessemer Ventures)
28 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Morgan Cheatham is Vice President at Bessemer Ventures and an MD Student at Brown. He was Forbes30u30 for Venture Capital. Morgan is a super smart guy...
🔥 News: David Sinclair's New Paper, Amazon RxPass, Decline in Disruptive Science and Metformin is the New Birth Control — With Dr Adam Bataineh
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Adam Bataineh is a Longevity Doctor and Founder of Span Health (acquired by EightSleep). We discuss: 0:00 David Sinclair's New Ageing Paper — Leg...
#109 Billion $ Health Ideas w/ Dr Chris Lovejoy: Generative AI, DTC Weight Loss + Cross Border Care
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
New series. We brainstorm billion $ health ideas. Dr Chris Lovejoy is a Cambridge-trained Medical Doctor, Startup Founder and Data Scientist specialis...
#108 Why I've Got More Employees than WhatsApp — Dr Anas Nader (CEO Patchwork Health)
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Anas Nader is the CEO and Co-founder of Patchwork Health; an end-to-end workforce solution which helps health systems tackle the staffing crisis. T...
#107 Fertility-Tech, Cake or Death and Storytelling — Tess Cosad (Co-founder Béa Fertility)
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tess Cosad is the Co-founder and CEO of Béa Fertility; who have raised £2.2M in an effort to democratise access to safe and affordable fertility tre...
#106 Five TechBio Myths That Must Go — Guillermo Vela (Co-Founder NeuScience)
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Guillermo Vela is the CEO and Co-Founder of NeuScience, a VC-backed TechBio company using AI to discover novel cancer biomarkers. 0:00 In...
#105 The Obstacle is the Way — Dr Ivan Beckley (Co-Founder Suvera Health)
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Ivan Beckley is the Co-Founder of Suvera Health, a Google-backed virtual clinic which has raised over £6M in funding. 0:00 Intro 0:42...
#104 Dr Daniel Kraft on the Art of the Possible
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard-trained physician-scientist and inventor. He serves as faculty chair for Medicine at Singularity Unive...
#103 Sir Jeremy Farrar on How to Spend £16bn for Good (Director, Wellcome Trust)
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you spend £16 billion to improve the world’s health? That is the job of Sir Jeremy Farrar, the Director of the Wellcome Trust. In 1936, Brit...
#102 Angel Investing, Money and Happiness — Dr Imran Mahmud
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Imran Mahmud studied Medicine at Oxford, before studying Public Health at Harvard on a Fulbright Scholarship. He then ranked first in the country e...
#101 FashionTech x HealthTech, Finding Purpose and Building Relationships — Dr Ahmed Zaidi
10 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After missing out on getting into Medical School, Ahmed studied Computer Science — later completing his PhD at Cambridge University. As a student, h...
#100 Where This is All Going
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks for listening.
#099 Paying Indians to be Healthy, Play-to-Earn and the Hybrid HealthTech/FinTech Model — Dr Sandeep Bansal (CEO Carebyte Health)
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Sandeep Bansal is the Founder and CEO of Medic Bleep; a pager replacement which raised over £3M. On top of that, he recently co-founded Carebyte H...
#098 Frameworks for Success — Dr Molly Gilmartin (AlbionVC)
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Molly Gilmartin is an Investment Manager at AlbionVC who manage over $1bn in assets and have invested in companies like Arecor, Healios and Pando. ...
#097 I've Never Worked Harder — Joe Stringer (Octopus Ventures)
31 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Stringer is a Partner at Octopus Ventures, one of the largest European Venture Capital firms with £1.8 billion under management. He was Partner a...
#096 The Power of Network — Dr Patrick Malone (Northpond Ventures)
22 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Patrick Malone is an MD, as well as having a PhD in Neuroscience. His research focused on computational cognitive neuroscience and AI applications ...
#095 DAOs in Healthcare — Niklas Rindtorff
16 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Niklas Rindtorff is a Physician-Scientist and one of the Pioneers in decentralised healthcare and life sciences. He has an MD from Heidelberg Universi...
#094 Digital Alzheimer's Detection — Nikhil Patel (Founder Craniometrix)
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nikhil Patel is the Founder and CEO of Craniometrix, where they’re using innovative deep learning and digital health tools to diagnose Alzheimer’s...
#093 Skin Cancer AI — Neil Daly (CEO Skin Analytics)
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Neil Daly is the Founder and CEO of Skin Analytics; a company which uses AI to detect skin cancer. Neil started Skin Analytics in 2012 after wor...
#092 How to Raise VC Money — Gian Seehra
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gian Seehra co-founded Pebble Labs and Trait Biosciences — having raised a total of $16M. He was also a VC at Octopus Ventures, where he oversaw ove...
#091 How to Lead
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare leadership advice from Sir Bruce Keogh, Dr Eric Topol, Dr Susan Thomas, Dr Fiona Godlee, Dr Ben Maruthappu, Dr Claire Novorol, Will Gibbs, ...
#090 Levelling Up the Health of the Nation — Tina Woods
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tina Woods is Director of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity secretariat and CEO of Collider Health; who work with private, public a...
#089 The Longevity MD — Dr Adam Bataineh
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Adam Bataineh is a Longevity Doctor in the UK and Co-Founder of Span Health, a data-driven health coaching company which was built to increase huma...
#088 Building Instagram for Doctors — Dr Joshua Landy (Co-founder Figure 1)
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Joshua Landy is a Canadian Intensive Care Doctor and Co-founder of Figure 1. Figure 1 is sometimes described as Instagram for doctors — but it es...
#087 Human Longevity 101 — Dr Nir Barzilai
15 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Nir Barzilai is Professor and Founding Director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Director of ...
#086 Democratising Blood Testing — Hamish Grierson (CEO Thriva)
02 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hamish Grierson is the CEO and Co-founder of Thriva, a company which offers direct to consumer blood testing — with a broader mission of increasing ...
#085 I Have More Impact as a VC Than MD — Dr Stephen Reeders (Founder MVM Partners)
17 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Stephen Reeders founded MVM Partners in 1997. They invest in high growth businesses with bases in London and Boston. He’s had three different liv...
#084 Networking in Healthcare 101 — Dr Vishaal Virani (Head of UK Health, YouTube)
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Vishaal Virani is Head of UK Health at YouTube. He started his career as an NHS doctor, before moving to healthcare strategy consulting. He then wo...
#083 Strava for Health — Mehdi Yacoubi (CEO & Co-Founder Vital)
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mehdi Yacoubi is Co-Founder and CEO of Vital — where they are building the Strava for Health. Essentially a service which incorporates data from wea...
#082 Doing Well and Doing Good — Deena Shakir (Partner Lux Capital)
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Deena Shakir is a Partner at Lux Capital where she likes to invest in underdog entrepreneurs building breakthrough companies to accelerate advances an...
#081 Medical Innovation 101 — Dr David Albert (Founder AliveCor)
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr David Albert is a physician, inventor and serial entrepreneur. He studied at both Harvard and Duke University Medical School. In 2001, he sold Data...
#080 Clinical Lead, Google Health UK — Dr Susan Thomas
13 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Susan Thomas trained as a Geriatrician, before joining Ernst and Young — eventually becoming Health and Sciences Lead Partner. In 2021 she left t...
#079 Chief Medical Officer, Uber Health — Dr Michael Cantor
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Michael Cantor studied both Law and Medicine at the University of Illinois, before completing his Residency at Harvard Medical School’s Beth Isra...
#078 Do, Rather Than Think — Dr Claire Novorol (Co-Founder Ada Health)
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Claire Novorol trained as a Specialist Registrar in London before completing a PhD in Developmental Neurobiology at the University of Cambridge. Wi...
#077 Boundless Optimism — Peony Li (CEO Jude)
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peony Li is Founder and CEO at Jude — a company bringing bladder care into the mainstream. She studied Economics at Cambridge, and has worked in Inv...
#076 Digitising Surgical Consent — Dr Dafydd Loughran (CEO Concentric Health)
20 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Dafydd Loughran trained as a surgeon, before joining Babylon Health as an AI Clinician and then founding Concentric Health. Concentric is digitisin...
#075 I'd Won, But I Was Miserable — Dr Keith Grimes (Babylon)
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Keith Grimes is Clinical Digital Health & Innovation Director at Babylon Health — essentially, he teaches machines medicine. He’s also a Ge...
#074 Lessons Learnt from Modern Day Hunter-Gatherers — Prof Herman Pontzer
20 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Herman Pontzer is an Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University. He studies how our species’ deep past shapes our health an...
#073 To Be Interesting, Be Interested — Dr Imran Mahmud
02 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Imran Mahmud studied Medicine at Oxford, before studying Public Health at Harvard on a Fulbright Scholarship. He then ranked first in the country a...
#072 Chief Medical Officer, Bupa (1995–2012) — Dr Andrew Vallance-Owen MBE
25 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Andrew Vallance-Owen MBE was the Chief Medical Officer of Bupa between 1995–2012. He led work to bring patient reported outcomes into vogue in bo...
#071 Patient Flow & Diversity — Dr Rebecca Pope (Roche)
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Rebecca Pope is the UK Digital & Data Science Innovation Lead at Roche, Senior Research Fellow in AI applied to real healthcare problems at UCL...
#070 AI Sepsis Prediction — Dr Michael Moor (ETH Zurich)
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Michael Moor is a medical doctor doing his PhD in the Machine Learning and Computational Biology Lab at ETH Zurich. Some of his most interesting re...
#069 Taboo Health — Dr Patrick Carroll (CMO Hims & Hers)
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Patrick Carroll is the Chief Medical Officer of Hims & Hers — a US Telehealth company which he helped go public in a $1.6 billion dollar SPAC...
#068 Being a Little Bit Obsessive — Dr Christopher Kelly (Google)
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Christopher Kelly is a Senior Research Scientist at Google and a Neonatal Intensive Care Doctor in London. He founded CK Net whilst at Medical Scho...
#067 Syria -> Oxford University — Dr Alexey Youssef
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to leave Syria during the Civil War and become the first Syrian Rhodes Scholar? Dr Alexey Youssef trained in Medicine in Syria — w...
#066 Bias in Medical AI — Prof Ziad Obermeyer (Berkeley School of Public Health)
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we design AI systems which remove human bias — rather than perpetuate it? Ziad Obermeyer is Associate Professor and Blue Cross of California...
#065 Becoming a Great Clinical Academic — Prof Neil Sebire
26 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to become a great clinical academic? Neil Sebire is a Professor of Pathology at the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) which is the...
#064 Overnight Success — Dr Yusuf Sherwani (CEO QuitGenius)
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Yusuf Sherwani is the Co-founder and CEO of QuitGenius — a digital clinic for addiction. QuitGenius started life as a smoking cessation app, which Y...
#063 Chief Medical Officer, AstraZeneca — Dr Ann Taylor
14 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Ann Taylor studied at Harvard Medical School, practiced as an Endocrinologist at Mass General Hospital before shifting over to Pharma — now sitti...
#062 Sleep and the Evidence Base of Digital Health — Prof Colin Espie (Co Founder Big Health)
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Colin Espie is Professor of Sleep Medicine at Oxford University as well as Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Big Health. With insomnia, there ar...
#061 The Joys of Fundraising — Cyndi Williams (CEO Quin)
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cyndi Williams is the Co-founder and CEO of Quin; a digital therapeutic for type 1 diabetes. The app provides personalised, data-led support for insul...
#060 Open Source is the Future of Medicine — Dr Marcus Baw
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Secrets, in Medicine, are a crime against humanity. Dr Marcus Baw holds an unusual career as a GP, Emergency Physician and health hacker. He makes a c...
#059 Meritocracy — Prof Sir John Burn
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Sir John Burn is Professor of Clinical Genetics at Newcastle University, a Non-Executive Director of NHS England and Vice Chairman of Quantu...
#058 BMJ Editor-in-Chief — Dr Fiona Godlee
25 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What's the biggest existential threat to the BMJ? Dr Fiona Godlee is the Editor-in-Chief of the British Medical Journal and is an Executive Director o...
#057 Capturing 5% of Google Searches — Daniel Nathrath (CEO Ada Health)
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you capitalise on a problem spanning 5% of Google searches? Daniel Nathrath is the Co-founder and CEO of Ada Health; a self-assessment health a...
#056 First Principles — Melissa Morris (CEO Lantum)
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you save the NHS £1 billion? Melissa Morris is founder and CEO of Lantum; a company aiming to save the NHS £1 billion in workforce costs. She...
#055 Getting Punched in the Face — Adnan Iqbal (CEO Luma Health)
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Founding a company is like getting punched in the face, a lot. Adnan Iqbal is CEO and Co-Founder at Luma Health; a company which better connects patie...