Tech 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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