Tech 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...
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