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Tech Tonics: Rasu Shrestha – Living Inside the Culture Clash
Rasu Shrestha, MD, is one of those doctors who found his way from medicine to technology. As he puts it, he rolled downhill from his birthplace in Kathmandu, Nepal, across many continents and into...
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Tech Tonics: Sridhar Iyengar on IoT Meets Life Science Research
Many entrepreneurs and investors on our podcast advise would-be innovators to focus on the problem to be solved, rather than become wrapped up in a particular technology. “Your solution,” VC Dave...
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Tech Tonics: Susannah Fox, Internet Geologist
Susannah Fox eloquently described her job as U.S. HHS Chief Technology Officer – a role which just came to an end in the transition to a new administration – as “helping Health and Human Service (HHS)...
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Tech Tonics: Chris Benko, From Fortune 100 to Fortune Seeker
Chris Benko first joined Merck when he was but a lad of eighteen, rising through the ranks in HR and talent management to become one of the youngest VPs in the history of the organization, at the age...
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Tech Tonics: The Intersection of Medicine and Marijuana
Reports suggest that today there are between 1.2 to 2.6 million legal medical marijuana users in the U.S. But as we know, there is great controversy about medical marijuana as a “legitimate” medical...
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Tech Tonics: Deborah Kilpatrick – Calling Audibles
Deborah Kilpatrick grew up on a family farm in rural Georgia; her dad was a teacher and football coach; she describes life in her town as “very Friday Night Lights.” With a passion for math and...
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Tech Tonics: Jess Mega of Verily Actually Is Making the World a Better Place
Jessica Mega, an accomplished cardiologist and now Chief Medical Officer at Alphabet’s Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences), says she joined the venerable Silicon Valley company to help patients....
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Tech Tonics: Jan Bruce and the Science of Resilience
When you ask Jan Bruce where she grew up, she says “in the media business.” Jan worked early on in the magazine and then digital media sectors, backing into the health and wellness category through...
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Tech Tonics: Data Scientist Eric Perakslis, “I Build Stuff.”
“I build stuff” is how data scientist Eric Perakslis modestly describes his breathless career, a journey that’s taken him from industry to academia and back again, with a brief stop at the FDA. Eric’s...
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Tech Tonics: iRhythm’s Uday Kumar… What Makes Him Tick
The medical device company iRhythm has been described as that rarest of all breeds – a digital health company with an actual, viable business model behind it. On today’s Tech Tonics podcast, we’re...
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Tech Tonics: Glen de Vries – A Series Of Quite Fortunate Events
Glen de Vries grew up in Manhattan, a nerdy kid who admired Richard Feynman, loved his TRS-80, and went to Carnegie Mellon University planning to study chemistry and computer science. A summer of...
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Tech Tonics: Zak Kohane On Medicine and Computers
The son of Eastern European immigrants, Zak Kohane was born and raised in Switzerland; he then came to the United States where he’s nurtured a passion for medicine and computers to become one of the...
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Tech Tonics: Deneen Vojta – Skating to Where the Healthcare Puck is Going
Deneen Vojta has played virtually every possible position in the healthcare world. She has at various times been a physician, an entrepreneur and a payer. Today it’s a hat trick, bringing all three of...
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Tech Tonics: Margaret Laws, Where Non-Profit & For-Profit Healthcare...
Margaret Laws has been working at the intersection of the for-profit and not-for-profit healthcare world for many years. This world has had an explosion of activity to find solutions to major public...
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Tech Tonics: Jeff Reid and the Impassioned Pursuit Of Bad Music and Great...
From tinkering with computers as a kid, to matriculating at Johns Hopkins while his peers were entering 11th grade, to his PhD in physics, to his current work at drug discovery at Regeneron, Jeff Reid...
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Tech Tonics: While Designing the Clinic of the Future In New York, Joel...
From the frozen tundra of Wisconsin, to the desert of Arizona, to the Eden that is Palo Alto, to his current home in the greatest city on earth, Joel Dudley has followed his interests and instincts to...
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Tech Tonics: Rachel Francine and the Many Applications of Music Therapy
For many, music as medicine has long been put in that category of things that seem nice but not like “real medicine” We all know that music can make us feel better individually, but there is an...
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Chris Cassel: Accidental Doctor to Ultimate Physician Leader
Dr. Christine Cassel never set out to be a doctor but a chance encounter between a kindly navy corpsman and her unexpectedly broken leg took her down the road to medicine. Over the years she has...
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New Tech Tonics Podcast: Amy Abernethy – Dosage, Disney & Data
If anyone can bridge the gap between technology and health, it just might be Amy Abernethy, oncologist and technologist, who has led the charge, first at Duke and now at Flatiron, for rethinking the...
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Tech Tonics: Atul Butte – When it Comes to Data, More is More
An infectiously exuberant champion of science, sharing, and entrepreneurship, Atul Butte is the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor at the UCSF School of Medicine. Among the...
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