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Tech Tonics: Brad Hirsch, A Cancer Doctor With Management Chops
If Alex P. Keaton was from Texas, went on to med school, and then trained in oncology, he might have emerged looking something like today’s guest, Dr. Brad Hirsch, an MD/MBA with a doctor’s heart and a...
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Tech Tonics: Sek Kathiresan, When The Genetics of Heart Disease Becomes...
When Harvard cardiologist and geneticist Sek Kathiresan was promoted earlier this year to full professor at Harvard Medical School (he also has an appointment at the Broad Institute), he shared the...
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Tech Tonics: Microsoft Global Chief Medical Officer Simon Kos, Using...
Medical technology thought leader by day, computer gamer by night, Dr. Simon Kos, Global Chief Medical Officer of Microsoft, is a physician, business strategist and technologist who by his own...
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Tech Tonics: Dr. Carla Pugh on Serendipity and the Technology of Touch
Dr. Carla Pugh does a lot of things. She is trauma surgeon, entrepreneur, researcher and educator and is officially a professor of surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine (she also went to UC...
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Tech Tonics: Stephanie Tilenius – Work, Not Worry
An accomplished investment banker who transitioned to become an accomplished executive at leading tech companies including eBay and Google, Stephanie Tilenius has now set her sights on an even more...
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Tech Tonics: Sarah Iselin of Florida Blue – Bringing Light to the Darkness
Growing up on Capitol Hill in a Washington, DC political family, Sarah Iselin did the obvious thing, at least to her, by rebelling and going to art school. But when her practical self realized that was...
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Tech Tonics: Ari Caroline: Broad Intellect Meets Deep Humanity
An accomplished linguist who planned to take a job after college with a Russian oligarch (but rethought the notion after the man was nearly assassinated), Ari Caroline’s journey has taken him from...
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Tech Tonics: Darshak Sanghavi, Public Health Pediatrician
Passionate about the intersection of policy and medicine, Darshak Sanghavi’s career has taken him from pediatric cardiology to the Obama Administration to his current role as CMO, OptumLabs, always...
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Tech Tonics: Axel Heitmueller, Everything is a Shade of Gray
Axel Heitmueller, Ph.D. grew up in Germany, the son of an engineer. Yet, despite the often discrete intellectual structure engineering can impose, Axel’s personal experiences have taught him how...
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Tech Tonics: Susan Desmond-Hellmann, The Inquisitive Leader
Her illustrious career has taken her from clinician to biotech executive to university chancellor to CEO of the world’s largest foundation, yet throughout this exceptional journey, Susan...
View ArticleTech 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....
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