State of Medtech

295. Engineering the Future of Surgery: Catherine Mohr on Training, Access & Innovation


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Episode Breakdown:

00:00 – Intro

00:30 – Catherine Mohr on solving wicked problems in healthcare

01:36 – From engineer to surgeon to global strategist

04:42 – Early Intuitive years: misunderstood startup to category leader

07:29 – Ad 1: Blue Goat Cyber

10:28 – Why she created the Intuitive Foundation

13:59 – Asia and Africa will dominate healthcare by 2050

17:59 – How to identify problems worth solving

22:17 – Behind the creation of the Ion platform

28:22 – Ad 2: Showpad

29:38 – How much disruption is too much in clinical innovation?

36:37 – AI won’t replace surgeons—but it will coach them

38:55 – Why access to surgery is a bigger crisis than HIV, TB, and malaria

46:11 – Training at the point of care: solving rural access

49:00 – Stanford’s simulation center and outcomes impact

54:48 – Can technology replace parts of surgical judgment?

1:00:16 – The biggest myth in global health (and how to fix it)

1:01:35 – Outro & CTA


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