Tech Tonics: Jerry Harrison & Brian Smith – Making Beautiful Music Together...
An unlikely pair, Brian Smith and Jerry Harrison came together over their shared passion for music and science and helping entrepreneurs succeed. Together they are helping healthcare startups find...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Allison Kurian, Bringing Curiosity and Compassion To Breast...
Allison Kurian never had a chance. The daughter of two prominent academics, Diana Chapman Walsh the former President of Wellesley College and Chris Walsh, a renowned Harvard biochemist – Allison was...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Toyin Ajayi – No Power Suit, But a Powerful Goal to Change...
When she was a kid, Toyin Ajayi’s career goal was to “be the boss of something.” Drawn to power suits and authority, she aspired to become an unspecified boss lady. She may be a boss now, but her...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Carolyn Magill – May the Fast, Steep Road Rise Up to Meet You!
Carolyn Magill had planned a life in foreign service or international relations. But it wasn’t until she found herself at the nexus of healthcare and public policy that she realized she found her...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Andy Coravos, Championing Responsible Digital Medicine
Andy Coravos left a promising career at a top private equity firm to follow her passion and pursue intensive training as a software developer; she now works on the frontier of engineering and medicine...
View ArticleTech Tonics: From Farm to Negotiating Table – James Dromey of the Murdoch...
Dr. James Dromey was supposed to be a farmer in County Cork, Ireland and has the milking experience to prove it. But apparently cows were not his destiny, even though he was a farm family’s only son....
View ArticleTech Tonics: Calum MacRae, Reimagining Medicine From Within
A brilliant cardiologist and geneticist, Dr. Calum McRae rose to the top of academic medicine – then decided to reinvent it, from the inside. He just may be the person to do it. Born on the Isle of...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Rebecca Kaul – Bending Tech to People, Not People to Tech
Rebecca Kaul had planned to be a doctor. But life and the HMO era got in the way. As a result she went down an entirely different and windy path through chemical engineering, public policy,...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Karen Hong, Turning Grad School Pain To VC Gain
In graduate school, Karen Hong’s dream of becoming a biologist crashed into the inconvenient reality that she couldn’t stand working in the lab. Undaunted, Karen, pivoted into venture capital, and...
View ArticleZoe Barry: Driving Entrepreneurship from the Fast Lane
When Zoe Barry was a kid, she had two things she wanted to be when she grew up, either a veterinarian or “someone who writes checks.” She gave the first a shot and ended up settling on the second....
View ArticleTech Tonics: Imran Haque, Grounded Data Scientist
A computational biologist by training, Imran Haque has managed to achieve the near-impossible: embracing the promise of data science in medicine while retaining his critical faculties. He may well be...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Sumit Nagpal, At the Crossroads of Tech and Healthcare
Sumit Nagpal was born to a pair of healthcare entrepreneurs and raised in Kashmir, India. When he was 13, he came to the United States where he saw diversity for the first time. Sumit followed his...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Chris Gibson, Free Range Innovator
With confidence he attributes to his free-range childhood, Chris Gibson has followed his instincts and his heart, stepping away from the MD/PhD program in which he’s enrolled to co-found and lead...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Navigating the Healthcare Highway with Megan Callahan, Lyft’s...
When Megan Callahan was growing up, she was supposed to end up in healthcare – she didn’t even know there were alternatives. And she has spent her career and life in and around the field in more ways...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Glenn Pierce, All In
Physician, scientist, patient, advocate: Glenn Pierce inhabits all four roles, and seems the physical embodiment of the translational impulse, driven by his own experiences coping with severe...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Tanisha Carino
Tanisha Carino’s family fled from the Ferdinand Marcos regime in the Phillipines and settled in what she still believes to be the sweetest of homes: Alabama. As she travelled through young adulthood...
View ArticleTech Tonics: David Altshuler, Physician-Scientist In Pursuit Of The New
David Altshuler was living the academic dream as professor and human geneticist at Harvard and MIT, where he was co-founder and Deputy Director of the Broad Institute. Yet in December 2014, he left...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Kari Nadeau, Where Curiosity Meets Compassion
Stanford professor Kari Nadeau lives the life, some would say the dream, of what Judah Folkman has called the inquisitive physician, integrating her deep knowledge of chemistry, her experience in...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Sam Brasch, A Modern Day Alex P. Keaton at Work
Born and bred in Mill Valley, California, where we record our podcast, Sam Brasch saw himself as a modern-day Alex P. Keaton – he just wanted to be a business man. He was “that kid” who was reading the...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Shami Feinglass – Doctor, Policy-Maker, BMX rider
Shamiram “Shami” Feinglass, MD, MPH, should have been a born again flower child. She spent her childhood among the San Francisco royalty that defined the 60’s and 70’s rock and roll culture here in...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Jason Lehmbeck of SpecialX – Empathy as a Service
Like many entrepreneurs, he was born with the itch. Jason Lehmbeck grew up around his father and grandfather, both entrepreneurs in their own areas of expertise– dad was a geologist who worked with the...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Jim Manzi, Pragmatic Analytics For Business
A physics and math wonk from MIT, Jim Manzi figured out early in his career that he loved the application of pragmatic, quantitative approaches to solve pesky real-world business problems, including...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Nancy Schlichting, Always Unconventional
Many people have heard of Nancy Schlichting, as she has been part of the fabric of the U.S. healthcare system for nearly 40 years. She has built a long and amazing career as someone who takes chances,...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Matthew De Silva, CEO & Founder of Notable Labs
Matthew De Silva was a macro finance guy working for Peter Thiel’s hedge fund, Clarium Capital, when a family illness profoundly changed the course of his career, leading him to found Notable Labs, a...
View ArticleNew Tech Tonics Podcast Episode: Sean Khozin: Attuned To Data Science
After escaping the revolution in Iran, Sean Khozin found his way to the United States, harmonizing his passion for patients and data into a career that’s led him into startups, the FDA, and most...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Seth Feuerstein – Behavioral Health Entrepreneur Before It Was Cool
Seth Feuerstein’s grandfather was a physician and his parents were both attorneys, so naturally his parents thought he would become…a comedian! While that didn’t come to be, he did end up as both a...
View ArticleDr. Lynda Chin – Bringing AI to Medicine Through Infrastructure
Taking on challenges is nothing new for Dr. Lynda Chin. It started with learning English well enough in a couple of years to graduate valedictorian of her high school, evolved to a distinguished career...
View ArticleLaurie Zephyrin, MD: Public Health as Destiny
Dr. Laurie Zephyrin was disappointed to learn that a less-than-rock-star voice was going to stand in the way of her career as a singer, but fortunately she locked onto her healthcare destiny in her...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Torrie Fields, The Business of Making Better Memories
A childhood fraught with illness, loss and uncertainty drove Torrie Fields to an adulthood focused on making these experiences better for others. Torrie sincerely believes that we are all here for a...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Toby Cosgrove – Resilient, Dyslexic Physician-Innovator
A brilliant and creative cardiac surgeon who went on to become the brilliant and creative CEO of the Cleveland Clinic for 14 years, Dr. Toby Cosgrove surprised many when he was invited back to his alma...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Tele-behavioral Health – Breaking Down Barriers and Stigmas at a...
For 20 years, advocates of telemedicine have been trying to break through to common usage. For all of modern human history, those with mental health challenges have held back from seeking treatment due...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Craig Lipset – Patient-Centric Before It Was Cool
As a boy, Craig Lipset thought he wanted to become a doctor – but over time, he came to appreciate that his real interest was, as he put it, engaging in the spirit of medicine at the population level –...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Patrick Hines – Helping People is in His DNA
Since March 23, 2020, Dr. Patrick Hines, physician, scientist and entrepreneur has spent most of his time between the Detroit Children’s Hospital and a nearby hotel room, where he stays to minimize...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Making It Happen – Madeline Bell, CEO, Children’s Hospital of...
Madeline Bell is one of those people who decides what they want and does what it takes to make it happen. She grew up wanting to be a nurse, wanting to work with children and ultimately deciding she...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Arnaub Chatterjee – Making Healthcare Smart
Arnaub Chatterjee comes from a long line of physicians, and in his youth, assumed he’d follow the family tradition. At college at the University of Michigan, he pursued a well-traveled path towards...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Jill Hagenkord’s Wild Ride
Growing up in a small town in Iowa, Jill Hagenkord never imagined herself as a doctor, or scientist, or entrepreneur – yet she became all three, blazing her own path and charting for herself a...
View ArticleAndrew Trister: From Jersey Boy to Digital Doc
With a knack for engineering and a passion for patients, Andrew Trister career has taken this Jersey boy from radiation oncology to Apple to his current role at the Gates Foundation, where he’s...
View ArticleTech Tonics: John Groetelaars – Connecting MedTech to the Digital World
John Groetelaars learned to work with his hands on his family’s vegetable farm, but he realized early that he was more interested in using those hands to build motorcycles and mechanical devices. He...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Dr. Ken Mandl – Forging Connection Through Technology
Ken Mandl has a gift for listening to other people, whether they’re mentors offering the advice that shaped his career in pediatrics and informatics at Boston’s Children Hospital and Harvard Medical...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Geeta Nayyar, Executive Medical Director, Salesforce
Geeta Nayyar started off wanting to be a teacher, but then decided “science is the answer to everything” and became a doctor. Today she is the recently-appointed Executive Medical Director at...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Diana Brainard – A Passion for Patients, A Talent for Leadership
Diana Brainard’s passion for understanding our stories and experiences initially led her to study comparative literature in college; but sometime during her junior year abroad in Lyon, she realized she...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Kevin Lyman – From Halo to CEO
Kevin Lyman was once the world’s highest ranked Warlock in Worlds of Warcraft and a professional Halo2 player. But that wasn’t his original plan. In fact, growing up in New Jersey, Kevin always wanted...
View ArticleMatthew Zachary – Making Noise and Making a Difference that is Music to...
Matthew Zachary, CEO of Offscrip Media has had multiple careers despite the fact that he shouldn’t have had any. He had studied to be a concert pianist and composer and conductor through college, but...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Dr. Sally Shaywitz: Advancing Science, Driving Policy,...
Dr. Sally Shaywitz – Yes, she is David’s mom – has brought an entrepreneur’s mindset to her life’s work in dyslexia, recognizing the condition as a prevalent and underappreciated need, then working...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Paul Bleicher – Physician, Scientist, Entrepreneur, Innovator
A self-described “nerdy” kid from a working class family in a bedroom community of “The City,” on the South Shore of Long Island, Paul Bleicher trained as a physician-scientist, and was heading towards...
View ArticleTakeda’s Ariel Dowling: An Engineer With A Passion For Digital Health
A Jersey girl drawn first captivated by engineering while in college at Dartmouth, Ariel Dowling went on to pursue her PhD at Stanford, exploring the use of wearables to anticipate and prevent knee...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Stacy Feld – Innovating Where the Consumer Meets Life Sciences
Stacy Feld had settled into a satisfying career in biotech business development when she accidentally found her way into a meeting with Genentech’s CEO and a tiny startup company called 23andMe. The...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Amy Emerson and Her Psychedelic Mission
Amy Emerson, CEO of MAPS Public Benefit Corp. (MAPS), grew up in Kodiak, Alaska and fell in love with both animals and science as a child. Later in life, when considering veterinary school, she...
View ArticleMatt Wilsey, Leading with Grace
Matt Wilsey grew up wanting to serve. He spent his early career in government working for both blue and red administrations, but was eventually lured back to where he grew up–Silicon Valley—to join...
View ArticleTech Tonics: Griffin Weber – Bringing Clinical Sense & Sensibility to...
Inspired by health technology from the age of five, Griffin Weber has pursued this passion both doggedly and joyfully. Now an associate professor of medicine and bioinformaticist at Harvard, Griffin...
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