Podcasts by Big Picture Medicine

#127 Gentle Disruption Wins in Healthcare — DrDoctor CEO Tom Whicher from 2023-12-03T13:36:22

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 years bootstrapping, and diverged from his colleag...

#126 Drug Discovery is Becoming More $$$ — Here's Why, And The Startup Fixing It (Lindus Health) from 2023-10-31T16:46:17

Drug discovery is becoming more expensive and producing less results than ever before (Eroom's Law)—why? One of the ballooning costs are clinical trials. Pharma/biotech often outsource thei...

#125 The $350M Startup Creating Perfect Memory (Rewind.ai — CEO Dan Siroker) from 2023-10-24T17:35:36

Rewind.ai just raised their Series A at a valuation of $350M. Investors include Andreesen Horowitz, Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian and OpenAI’s Sam Altman. Rewind sits on your computer and phone, and ...

#124 Wearable Data is Bullsh*t Debate — Maitham Dib (Vital YC21) from 2023-09-20T19:35:50

People are wearing Apple Watches to their wedding days. Has this whole 'quantified self' movement gone bananas? Is any of this data actually useful? I spoke to Maitham Dib about this. H...

#123 How To Write Killer Healthcare Content — Healthcare Huddle (acquired by Workweek) from 2023-09-15T13:01:28

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 frameworks that work for healthcare c...

#122 Why AI Drug Discovery Is So Hard — Dr Imran Haque (Recursion) from 2023-09-04T18:58:46

Despite $billions of investment into the sector — there are still no AI discovered drugs on the market. Why? Recursion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: RXRX) is one of the hottest AI drug discovery com...

🔥 NVIDIA Pumped $50M Into This Startup You've Never Heard Of (TechBio) from 2023-08-20T21:33:30

0:00 NVIDIA's $50M investment into Recursion Pharmaceuticals 2:28 NVIDIA is becoming a seed investor 3:45 Bull case for Recursion Pharmaceuticals 9:20 Recursion's two big acquisitions 13...

#121 Raising $17M Uber for Medical Scans — Charlie Bullock (Scan.com) from 2023-08-09T22:47:05

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 imaging forever. 0:00 Race to the bottom? 1:34 A...

🔥 What David Sinclair is Hiding From Elon Musk from 2023-08-01T05:00

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 Neuman's involvement 11:40 Raising from unso...

🔥 Regulators Hate Doctor ChatGPT (Here's Why) — Dr Hugh Harvey (Hardian Health) from 2023-07-23T22:11:11

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 enough?

5:27 Why are LL...

🔥 Spotify Founder's Longevity Startup: Bear v Bull Case (Neko Health) from 2023-07-10T20:09:36

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 5:33 The bull case; why it's going to be ...

🔥 Apple's Plan to Dominate Healthcare (And Why It Will Fail) from 2023-07-03T05:00

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 documents controversy

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#120 Billion $ Healthtech 'Soonicorn' Huma: Lessons from Jony Ive and Big Pharma — Dan Vahdat (CEO) from 2023-06-26T05:30:01

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? Dan Vahdat is the Johns Hopkins dropout — wh...

🔥 Beauty and the Bucks: Inside GetHarley's $52M Triumph in Skincare from 2023-06-19T16:30:50

0:00 Intro 1:04 The genius business m...

🔥 News: Pills for Profit — The Dark Side of D2C Health Startups from 2023-06-13T02:14:18

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 health startups?

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#119 The Unusual Path to Make a Billion $ Men's Health Startup — Numan CEO (Sokratis Papafloratos) from 2023-06-05T19:17:51

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 Intro 0:42 Valuation 1:46 Lessons from Calm....

🔥 News: The Rise and Demise of Babylon Health from 2023-05-17T21:00:16

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 Problem

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🔥 News: VC Dirty Money and Trillion $ Alzheimer's Opportunity from 2023-05-12T11:56:48

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 Alzheimer's Bl...

🔥 News: ChatGPT vs Doctors: Who Will Win? from 2023-05-04T19:18:21

Papers Mentioned—

ChatGPT better + more empathetic than human doctors (JAMA Int Med Paper): Listen

🔥 News: It’s Time to Build in Healthcare (a16z) and Why are VCs Miserable? from 2023-04-26T12:21:10

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 to become rich?

#118 Martin Shkreli on Drug Pricing, Being Hated/Rich and His GPT-4 Doctor from 2023-04-24T16:18:56

Martin Shkreli is an American Investor, Pharmaceutical Executive and Hedge Fund Manager who became the most hated man in America in 2015 when he obtained the drug Daraprim and increased its pric...

#117 Dr Ben Maruthappu On Raising $400M for Cera Care from 2023-04-16T05:30:26

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 a Member of the Order of the British Empire...

#116 Be Bombastic To Get Ahead — Dr Ala Alenazi (Ascension VC) from 2023-04-05T15:41:01

Dr Ala Alenazi is a TechBio Investor at Ascension and holds a PhD in Molecular Genetics from Cambridge University — she describes herself as a recovering scientist with extreme FOMO.

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🔥 News: AI Too Powerful? Peter Attia's Longevity Bible and Why Are Americans Dying So Young? from 2023-04-03T11:51:52

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 Ada...

#115 Think Like a Doctor to Make Executive Decisions — Dr John Whyte (Chief Medical Officer, WebMD) from 2023-03-27T19:53:01

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 Discovery Channel.

0:00 Intro

0:54 Anxie...

🔥 News: Microsoft's GPT-4 Healthcare Play and Self-Driving Drug Development from 2023-03-24T11:19:42

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't we just make...

#114 Alexa for Doctors — Dr Shiv Rao (CEO Abridge) from 2023-03-17T20:21:51

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 assistant) that sits there whilst the phy...

🔥 News: Semaglutide (Wegovy) TikTok Conspiracy, Alcohol Disruptor and Where Are the UK Healthtech Exits? from 2023-03-10T06:30:11

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 going to happen to all the DT...

🔥 News: David Sinclair's New Startup, Transhumanist Gene Editing to Sleep Less and ChatGPT for Drug Development from 2023-03-03T17:21:10

0:00 Intro 

1:09 David Sinclair's New Startup  

11:25 ChatGPT for Drug Development 

28:32 Transhumanist Gene Editing to Sleep Less 

37:38 Banter/A...

#113 Mental Models for Health Entrepreneurship — Dr Ignacio Medrano (CEO Savana) from 2023-02-22T17:48:02

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 and produce real world evidence.

0:0...

#112 Yelp for Doctors — Dr Stephanie Eltz (CEO Doctify) from 2023-02-13T20:05:56

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 dollar in funding to date.  

0:00 Int...

#111 Raising $139M, Biotech, Introversion and Happiness — Jason Foster (CEO Ori Biotech) from 2023-02-09T16:26:20

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 GripAble, Credentially, and Auxita — and is...

🔥 News: Bryan Johnson's Blueprint, Spotify Enters Health and VitaDAO Raises $4M from 2023-02-04T01:23:58

Dr Adam Bataineh is a Longevity Doctor and Founder of Span Health (acquired by EightSleep). 

0:00 Intro 

0:15 Bryan Johnson's Blueprint Program 

12:32 Spotify...

#110 Networking, BioSecurity and Generative AI — Morgan Cheatham (VP Bessemer Ventures) from 2023-01-28T21:45:27

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 who has lots of interesting theses a...

🔥 News: David Sinclair's New Paper, Amazon RxPass, Decline in Disruptive Science and Metformin is the New Birth Control — With Dr Adam Bataineh from 2023-01-26T23:14

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 — Legit?

15:52 Amazon RxPass — All Hy...

#109 Billion $ Health Ideas w/ Dr Chris Lovejoy: Generative AI, DTC Weight Loss + Cross Border Care from 2022-12-23T20:08:23

New series. We brainstorm billion $ health ideas.

Dr Chris Lovejoy is a Cambridge-trained Medical Doctor, Startup Founder and Data Scientist specialising in medical AI and health informat...

#108 Why I've Got More Employees than WhatsApp — Dr Anas Nader (CEO Patchwork Health) from 2022-12-01T17:41:23

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. They have raised over $30M.  

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#107 Fertility-Tech, Cake or Death and Storytelling — Tess Cosad (Co-founder Béa Fertility) from 2022-11-25T01:41:33

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 treatment.   

0:00 Intro  Listen

#106 Five TechBio Myths That Must Go — Guillermo Vela (Co-Founder NeuScience) from 2022-11-08T18:09:11

Guillermo Vela is the CEO and Co-Founder of NeuScience, a VC-backed TechBio company using AI to discover novel cancer biomarkers.   

0:00 Intro 

0:55 Eroom's Law&nbs...

#105 The Obstacle is the Way — Dr Ivan Beckley (Co-Founder Suvera Health) from 2022-10-27T12:32:02

Dr Ivan Beckley is the Co-Founder of Suvera Health, a Google-backed virtual clinic which has raised over £6M in funding.  

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#104 Dr Daniel Kraft on the Art of the Possible from 2022-10-04T09:25:42

Dr Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard-trained physician-scientist and inventor.  He serves as faculty chair for Medicine at Singularity University, is founder and chair of Exponential M...

#103 Sir Jeremy Farrar on How to Spend £16bn for Good (Director, Wellcome Trust) from 2022-09-29T16:22:54

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, British pharmaceutical magnate Sir Henry Wel...

#102 Angel Investing, Money and Happiness — Dr Imran Mahmud from 2022-09-13T13:28:39

Dr Imran Mahmud studied Medicine at Oxford, before studying Public Health at Harvard on a Fulbright Scholarship. He then ranked first in the country entering the Ophthalmology training programme...

#101 FashionTech x HealthTech, Finding Purpose and Building Relationships — Dr Ahmed Zaidi from 2022-09-10T13:59:37

After missing out on getting into Medical School, Ahmed studied Computer Science — later completing his PhD at Cambridge University. As a student, he launched his own health AI startup — which d...

#100 Where This is All Going from 2022-09-06T21:36:37

Thanks for listening.

#099 Paying Indians to be Healthy, Play-to-Earn and the Hybrid HealthTech/FinTech Model — Dr Sandeep Bansal (CEO Carebyte Health) from 2022-08-30T00:21:27

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 Health — which offers personalised on-demand h...

#098 Frameworks for Success — Dr Molly Gilmartin (AlbionVC) from 2022-08-05T05:30:17

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.

She studied Medicine at Oxford, was a...

#097 I've Never Worked Harder — Joe Stringer (Octopus Ventures) from 2022-07-31T17:36:57

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 at Ernst & Young for 10 years, befo...

#096 The Power of Network — Dr Patrick Malone (Northpond Ventures) from 2022-07-22T12:12:46

Dr Patrick Malone is an MD, as well as having a PhD in Neuroscience. His research focused on computational cognitive neuroscience and AI applications in radiology.

In 2020, he joined the ...

#095 DAOs in Healthcare — Niklas Rindtorff from 2022-07-16T20:57:53

Niklas Rindtorff is a Physician-Scientist and one of the Pioneers in decentralised healthcare and life sciences.

He has an MD from Heidelberg University and he received his Master's Degre...

#094 Digital Alzheimer's Detection — Nikhil Patel (Founder Craniometrix) from 2022-07-05T20:40:23

Nikhil Patel is the Founder and CEO of Craniometrix, where they’re using innovative deep learning and digital health tools to diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease — and position themselves as the a...

#093 Skin Cancer AI — Neil Daly (CEO Skin Analytics) from 2022-06-22T17:45:34

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 working extensively in mobile innovation...

#092 How to Raise VC Money — Gian Seehra from 2022-06-16T21:19:05

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 over $200M in funding. He led QuitGenius’s...

#091 How to Lead from 2022-06-08T11:32:26

Healthcare leadership advice from Sir Bruce Keogh, Dr Eric Topol, Dr Susan Thomas, Dr Fiona Godlee, Dr Ben Maruthappu, Dr Claire Novorol, Will Gibbs, Prof Pearse Keane, Prof Neil Sebire, Melissa...

#090 Levelling Up the Health of the Nation — Tina Woods from 2022-05-31T20:51:40

Tina Woods is Director of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity secretariat and CEO of Collider Health; who work with private, public and...

#089 The Longevity MD — Dr Adam Bataineh from 2022-05-27T18:59:58

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 human performance. Span helped members optimise ...

#088 Building Instagram for Doctors — Dr Joshua Landy (Co-founder Figure 1) from 2022-05-20T21:52:29

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 essentially allows healthcare professiona...

#087 Human Longevity 101 — Dr Nir Barzilai from 2022-05-15T15:44:06

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 the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of ...

#086 Democratising Blood Testing — Hamish Grierson (CEO Thriva) from 2022-05-02T23:47:29

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 healthspan — the number of years people spend ...

#085 I Have More Impact as a VC Than MD — Dr Stephen Reeders (Founder MVM Partners) from 2022-04-17T22:13:58

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 lives—

Firstly he obtained a BA in Natural...

#084 Networking in Healthcare 101 — Dr Vishaal Virani (Head of UK Health, YouTube) from 2022-04-07T17:47:53

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 worked at Ada Health as Business Develo...

#083 Strava for Health — Mehdi Yacoubi (CEO & Co-Founder Vital) from 2022-03-29T19:54

Mehdi Yacoubi is Co-Founder and CEO of Vital — where they are building the Strava for Health. Essentially a service which incorporates data from wearables (your HRV, your glucose levels, your sl...

#082 Doing Well and Doing Good — Deena Shakir (Partner Lux Capital) from 2022-03-24T19:29:14

Deena Shakir is a Partner at Lux Capital where she likes to invest in underdog entrepreneurs building breakthrough companies to accelerate advances and equity in human and population health. She...

#081 Medical Innovation 101 — Dr David Albert (Co-Founder AliveCor) from 2022-03-16T22:09:18

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 Critical to GE in a deal that valued...

#081 Medical Innovation 101 — Dr David Albert (Founder AliveCor) from 2022-03-16T22:09:18

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 Critical to GE in a deal that valued...

#080 Clinical Lead, Google Health UK — Dr Susan Thomas from 2022-03-13T12:47:11

Dr Susan Thomas trained as a Geriatrician, before joining Ernst and Young — eventually becoming Health and Sciences Lead Partner. In 2021 she left to become Clinical Director of Google Health UK...

#079 Chief Medical Officer, Uber Health — Dr Michael Cantor from 2022-03-01T21:37:29

Dr Michael Cantor studied both Law and Medicine at the University of Illinois, before completing his Residency at Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Hospital.

He is a Geriatrician and h...

#078 Do, Rather Than Think — Dr Claire Novorol (Co-Founder Ada Health) from 2022-02-25T12:40:29

Dr Claire Novorol trained as a Specialist Registrar in London before completing a PhD in Developmental Neurobiology at the University of Cambridge. With 18 months left until becoming a Consultan...

#077 Boundless Optimism — Peony Li (CEO Jude) from 2022-02-23T15:04:27

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 Investment Banking, she worked as Head of ...

#076 Digitising Surgical Consent — Dr Dafydd Loughran (CEO Concentric Health) from 2022-02-20T18:09:15

Dr Dafydd Loughran trained as a surgeon, before joining Babylon Health as an AI Clinician and then founding Concentric Health.

Concentric is digitising the consenting of patients prior to...

#075 I'd Won, But I Was Miserable — Dr Keith Grimes (Babylon) from 2022-02-08T17:15:33

Dr Keith Grimes is Clinical Digital Health & Innovation Director at Babylon Health — essentially, he teaches machines medicine. He’s also a General Practitioner with a special interest in Di...

#074 Lessons Learnt from Modern Day Hunter-Gatherers — Prof Herman Pontzer from 2022-01-20T18:30:53

Herman Pontzer is an Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University. He studies how our species’ deep past shapes our health and physiology today.

He is the author of...

#073 To Be Interesting, Be Interested — Dr Imran Mahmud from 2022-01-02T14:31:21

Dr Imran Mahmud studied Medicine at Oxford, before studying Public Health at Harvard on a Fulbright Scholarship. He then ranked first in the country and entered the Ophthalmology training progra...

#072 Chief Medical Officer, Bupa (1995–2012) — Dr Andrew Vallance-Owen MBE from 2021-12-25T15:13:13

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 both the private and public sectors — and he was...

#071 Patient Flow & Diversity — Dr Rebecca Pope (Roche) from 2021-12-14T21:33:03

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 and a Clinical Neuroscientist.

She w...

#070 AI Sepsis Prediction — Dr Michael Moor (ETH Zurich) from 2021-12-07T18:17:16

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 research looks at predicting sepsis usi...

#069 Taboo Health — Dr Patrick Carroll (CMO Hims & Hers) from 2021-11-18T19:46:10

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 deal. Hims & Hers focuses on many taboo h...

#068 Being a Little Bit Obsessive — Dr Christopher Kelly (Google) from 2021-11-01T16:32:20

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 School at Cambridge — which was generatin...

#067 Syria -> Oxford University — Dr Alexey Youssef from 2021-10-26T22:03:36

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 — where he practiced during the Civil War,...

#066 Bias in Medical AI — Prof Ziad Obermeyer (Berkeley School of Public Health) from 2021-10-04T17:27:06

How can we design AI systems which remove human bias — rather than perpetuate it?

Ziad Obermeyer is Associate Professor and Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Poli...

#065 Becoming a Great Clinical Academic — Prof Neil Sebire from 2021-09-26T14:36:58

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 country’s leading children’s researc...

#064 Overnight Success — Dr Yusuf Sherwani (CEO QuitGenius) from 2021-08-25T19:45:50

Yusuf Sherwani is the Co-founder and CEO of QuitGenius — a digital clinic for addiction.

QuitGenius started life as a smoking cessation app, which Yusuf and his Co-founders created whilst...

#063 Chief Medical Officer, AstraZeneca — Dr Ann Taylor from 2021-08-14T21:25:36

Dr Ann Taylor studied at Harvard Medical School, practiced as an Endocrinologist at Mass General Hospital before shifting over to Pharma — now sitting as AstraZeneca’s Chief Medical Officer.

#062 Sleep and the Evidence Base of Digital Health — Prof Colin Espie (Co Founder Big Health) from 2021-07-08T16:48:44

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 are two mainstays of treatment. The fir...

#061 The Joys of Fundraising — Cyndi Williams (CEO Quin) from 2021-06-29T13:21:18

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 insulin dosing decisions, based on physiological ...

#060 Open Source is the Future of Medicine — Dr Marcus Baw from 2021-06-21T14:27:31

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 controversial claim: That we ha...

#059 Meritocracy — Prof Sir John Burn from 2021-05-03T00:37:41

Professor Sir John Burn is Professor of Clinical Genetics at Newcastle University, a Non-Executive Director of NHS England and Vice Chairman of QuantumDx.

His story is fascinating and sli...

#058 BMJ Editor-in-Chief — Dr Fiona Godlee from 2021-04-25T22:56:01

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 of the BMJ Company.

She trained...

#057 Capturing 5% of Google Searches — Daniel Nathrath (CEO Ada Health) from 2021-04-20T16:16:41

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 app for patients.

Ada has 10 mi...

#056 First Principles — Melissa Morris (CEO Lantum) from 2021-04-13T17:39:33

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 started her career as a McKinse...

#055 Getting Punched in the Face — Adnan Iqbal (CEO Luma Health) from 2021-04-07T17:15:15

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 patients and doctors. He’s raised over $30...

#054 Becoming a Superconnector — Will Gibbs (Octopus Ventures) from 2021-03-29T09:34:12

How can you become a superconnector?

Will Gibbs leads the Future of Health team at Octopus Ventures; one of the largest Venture Capital firms in Europe — with over £1.3bn under management...

#053 Chasing Failure — Dr Mala Mawkin (Cellen) from 2021-03-23T18:11:34

What does it mean to become addicted to failure?

Dr Mala Mawkin is a Doctor, Head of Market Development at Cellen and hosts the Royal Society of Medicine’s Digital Health Podcast.

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#052 Digital Twins in Clinical Trials — Dr Charles Fisher (Unlearn.ai) from 2021-03-15T17:47:59

How can you use digital twins for faster clinical trials requiring fewer patients?

Dr Charles Fisher is the CEO and Founder of Unlearn.ai — which uses digital twins to reduce the numb...

#052 Digital Twins in Clinical Trials — Dr Charles Fisher (CEO Unlearn.ai) from 2021-03-15T16:47:59

How can you use digital twins for faster clinical trials requiring fewer patients?

Dr Charles Fisher is the CEO and Founder of Unlearn.ai — which uses digital twins to reduce the number o...

#051 Surgeon -> VC — Dr Benedict Evans (InHealth Ventures) from 2021-03-07T23:48

What is VC and how do I raise it?

Dr Benedict Evans was set on becoming an orthopaedic surgeon, before he fell out of love with Medicine and saw a system in which he could make a positive...

#050 Imperial -> McKinsey -> Mayo Clinic (US) — Dr Ikram Haq from 2021-02-28T16:11:47

What's the difference between UK and US medical training?

Dr Ikram Haq trained at Imperial College Medical School, interning at McKinsey before starting training at the Mayo Clinic in the...

#049 AI Therapy and Going Viral — Ross Harper (CEO Limbic) from 2021-02-22T21:14:49

Can you automate therapy?

Ross Harper studied both Neuroscience (Cambridge) and Mathematical Modelling (UCL) — combining the two into his lovechild: Limbic...

#048 Decision Making in Health Leadership — Prof Sam Shah from 2021-02-13T12:45:25

How do you make good decisions in health leadership?

Professor Sam Shah is founder of the Faculty of Digital Health, Chief Medical Strategy Officer at Numan and former Director of Digital...

#047 Longevity: The Disposable Soma Hypothesis — Prof Tom Kirkwood CBE from 2021-02-03T15:41:23

How can you extend life?

Professor Tom Kirkwood is Emeritus Professor at Newcastle University where he headed the Institute for Ageing and Health. He delivered the famous Reith Lectures a...

#046 Radiology -> Venture Capital — Dr Fiona Pathiraja (Crista Galli Ventures) from 2021-01-25T13:00

What are the pros and cons of VC funding as a doctorpreneur?

Dr Fiona Pathiraja was a Consultant Radiologist at UCLH and is now Founder and Managing Director of Crista Galli Ventures — a ...

#045 Former Special Advisor to the Health Secretary — Richard Sloggett from 2021-01-13T22:05:01

So it's your first day as Health Secretary — what do you do!?

Richard Sloggett was former Special Advisor to the Health Secretary (Matt Hancock) during which he worked across public healt...

#044 Rare Disease AI — Rudy Benfredj (CEO Mendelian) from 2021-01-01T18:39:59

How can we use models to diagnose patients with rare diseases earlier?

Rudy Benfredj is Co-founder and CEO of Mendelian; who are helping doctors fin...

#043 Brain Computer Interfaces — Prof Karl Friston from 2020-12-25T04:00

Professor Karl Friston is the most frequently cited neuroscientist in the world. Some of his most fascinating ideas centre around brain imaging, and of course, his infamous free energy principle...

#042 Spatial Cognition — Prof Hugo Spiers (SpiersLab) from 2020-12-17T04:00

What can you learn from studying the brains of London cabbies?

Hugo Spiers is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. He studies how we remember, navigate and imagine space.

So...

#041 Leadership Shorts: Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram BEM from 2020-12-11T13:05:41

Do you need to be a d**k to be a good leader? Here's what Dr Nadine said...

Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram BEM is a plastic surgeon and CEO of Proximie — an augmented reality platform for virtua...

#040 Leadership Shorts: Dr Eric Topol from 2020-12-10T15:13:38

Do you need to be a d**k to be a good leader? Here's what Dr Eric Topol said...

Dr Eric Topol is in the top 10 most cited doctors in the history of Medicine. He is a cardiologist, genetic...

#039 Do You Need to be a D**k to be a Good Leader? (Series Launch) from 2020-11-30T17:51:59

Look around and you’ll be surrounded by let’s face it... d**ks. Not just in politics and business — but also in Medicine.

We’re taught lots about the multidisciplinary team and how import...

#038 Ferraris to Fitness — Dr Yusef Smith (Propane Fitness) from 2020-11-22T05:00

Why switch from Investment Banking to Medicine?

Dr Yusef Smith is a doctor, competitive gymnast and powerlifter. In a previous life, he was an investment banker before packing it in and t...

#037 Deliveroo for Drugs — Stephen Bourke (Co-Founder Echo) from 2020-11-15T05:00

Stephen Bourke is the co-founder of Echo; the online pharmacy. If you haven’t heard of Echo, it’s a bit like Deliveroo for your medication. It delivers repeat prescriptions to your door, free of...

#036 My Notes on Leadership and Success — Sir Bruce Keogh (Former National Medical Director) from 2020-11-08T05:00

Sir Bruce Keogh was National Medical Director for over a decade — leading clinical policy and strategy as well as being responsible for clinical leadership, quality and innovation. Sir Bruce was...

#035 The Clinician Scientist — Dr Joe Ledsam (Google/DeepMind) from 2020-11-02T20:24:18

How does a doctor start working for DeepMind/Google? 🤖 

Joe Ledsam is a Clinician Scientist at Google Japan after formerly working at DeepMind. He started his career off as a doctor...

#034 The Doctor Policymaker — Dr Simon Eccles (Deputy CEO NHS X & CCIO Health and Care) from 2020-10-19T14:01:47

Dr Simon Eccles is the Chief Clinical Information Officer for Health and Care and Deputy CEO of NHS X. Amongst many responsibilities, he’s accountable for delivery of the Personal Health and Car...

#033 You Need to Learn How to Code — Dr Josh Case from 2020-10-04T12:03:49

Why should doctors learn how to code?

Josh is really cool. He’s an Australian doctor on a big mission — to empower medics with code.

Josh recently released Listen

#032 AI, Academia and Business — Prof Geraint Rees (Pro-Vice-Provost AI at UCL) from 2020-09-27T21:46:29

Where are the dark horses in medical AI? 🐴 

Professor Geraint Rees is the Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences at UCL, Pro-Vice-Provost of AI and is also the director of UCL Busines...

#031 The NHS Clinical Entrepreneur — Prof Tony Young OBE from 2020-09-17T06:39:03

Do we want a Silicon Valley for healthcare?

Professor Tony Young is the National Clinical Director for Innovation at NHS England, co-founder of the UK’s £500M MedTech Campus, founder of t...

#030 AI Too Smart for Clinical Trials: SPIRIT-AI and CONSORT-AI — Professor Alastair Deniston and Dr Xiao Liu from 2020-09-09T15:00

A paper published in the Lancet Digital Health found that less than 1% of clinical AI studies reviewed were of sufficient quality to have confidence in their results. This is a huge problem.

#029 Life of a Doctor-CEO — Dr Ben Maruthappu MBE (CEO Cera Care) from 2020-09-06T01:02:11

What's it like running a company which has raised $90M?

Dr Ben Maruthappu is the co-founder and CEO of Cera Care — a technology enabled home care company.

I could speak about Ben’s...

#028 The Benevolent Leader 😇 — Professor David Lomas (Vice Provost Health UCL) from 2020-08-29T14:10:49

Do you need to be a silverback gorilla to be a good leader? 🦍 

Professor David Lomas is the Vice Provost (Health) at University College London and Head of UCL Medical School. He is ...

#027 The Digital ENT Surgeon — Dr Krishan Ramdoo (CEO TympaHealth) from 2020-08-20T19:12:11

Do you want the granular step-by-step on how to launch your own MedTech startup?

Dr Krishan Ramdoo was an ENT Surgeon before co-founding TympaHealth; the world’s first all in one hearing ...

#026 The AI Radiologist — Dr Hugh Harvey (Hardian Health) from 2020-08-16T02:00

What does the future radiologist look like? What does everyone get wrong when regulating their AI startup?

Dr Hugh Harvey trained as a consultant radiologist and is now the managing direc...

#025 How to Get Published — Dr Azeem Alam BEM (Co Founder BiteMedicine) from 2020-08-13T10:15:20

You're an average medical student with no connections — how do you get published!?

*Congratulations to Azeem who was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to Medical Educa...