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Episode Overview: 

After battling infertility and recurrent miscarriages, seven in total, our next guest applied her scientific expertise to uncover problems with ovulation quality, which led her to launch her high-growth startup that is providing fertility insights to families across the country. 

Dr. Amy Beckley, Founder and CEO of Proov, joins us to discuss her founding journey of building her startup, the positive impacts the technology has on others trying to conceive, and where she envisions Proov to be over the next few years. 

Join us for this powerful conversation with Dr. Beckley, a mompreneur who doesn't take no for an answer as she and the Proov team empower women at every stage of life to track their hormones quickly and easily at home. Let's go! 

Episode Highlights:

• Why Dr. Beckly created Proov after her battle with infertility and recurrent miscarriages
• How IVF is not the last resort to getting pregnant
• How Proov gained FDA clearance
• The response from families using Proov
• Dr. Beckley’s vision for Proov over the coming years

About our Guest: 

Amy Beckley, PhD, is the founder of Proov and the inventor of the first and only FDA-cleared test to confirm ovulation at home. When Amy and her husband tried to get pregnant, they suffered through several years of infertility, including seven miscarriages and two rounds of IVF – the second of which resulted in her son. When Amy decided she wanted another child (without another round of IVF), she used her background in hormone signaling to uncover a problem with ovulation which caused a progesterone deficiency (also called a luteal phase defect). With the help of an inexpensive progesterone supplement, Amy and her husband were blessed with their daughter. Amy invented the original PdG test in her basement to help women identify problems with ovulation at home, and started selling them in plastic bags on Amazon with a $50 logo off Upwork.

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During this episode, Adeel Malik, Chief Executive Officer of Clearstep, joins us to discuss his passion and mission to revolutionize how patients can find and access the right care while enabling healthcare organizations to leverage advanced digital technologies.

While together, Adeel outlines how he and his team have built an AI "Smart Care Routing" engine used by health systems and payers to make it easy for patient-consumers to know their best next step for care. 

Additionally, Adeel shares his exciting vision for the healthcare industry and where Clearstep is heading. 

Join us to learn how Adeel and Clearstep are building industry-leading smart care routing technology to enhance patient experiences and outcomes. Let's go! 

Episode Highlights:

• Why Adeel founded Clearstep
• Adeel’s passion for patients accessing care
• Clearstep’s value prop for health systems
• Adeel’s vision for how to better serve patients 

About our Guest: 

Adeel co-founded Clearstep out of a desire to revolutionize the way patients can find and access the right care while enabling healthcare organizations to better leverage advanced digital technologies. In his role, he coordinates with Clearstep customers, product teams, healthcare industry experts, investors, and others to ensure Clearstep remains at the forefront of driving innovation in smart care routing.

Under Adeel’s leadership, Clearstep has partnered with some of the leading healthcare institutions in the world. He was featured in Built In Chicago's 50 Startups to Watch in 2020 and was one of the inaugural members of the UnitedHealthcare accelerator. Adeel was also named one of Chicago's 20 in their 20's by Crain's Chicago Business in 2020.

Before co-founding Clearstep in 2018, Adeel was a strategy and analytics consultant at Accenture where he worked with some of the largest institutions in healthcare across pharma, health tech, health systems, and retail. Before joining Accenture, he also spent three years as a neuro-immunology researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

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During this episode, Kelly Roman, CEO of Fisher Wallace Labs, a pioneering company in wearable prescription technology, joins us to discuss how his team is building industry-leading innovations that treat the brain electrically to reduce the symptoms of depression, anxiety, and insomnia. 

Additionally, Kelly shares how Fisher Wallace came to be, why he is so passionate about liberating people from depression, and his vision for wearable technology as the next frontier for mental health treatment. 

Join us to learn how Kelly and the Fisher Wallace team help treat neuropsychiatric disorders with novel wearable technology. Let’s go!

Episode Highlights:

• How Fisher Wallace came to be after a pivotal meeting with his co-founder
• Reducing the cost of mental health treatment with Fisher Wallace’s technology
• Consumer feedback on Fisher Wallace’s technology
• Why wearable devices are the next frontier for mental health treatment

About Our Guest: 

Kelly Roman is the Co-Founder & CEO of Fisher Wallace Labs. He has helped pioneer the prescription wearable category for more than a decade, with a proven track record in product development, regulatory affairs, and clinical trial strategy. Before co-founding Fisher Wallace, Kelly graduated from Harvard and served as an award-winning executive in the digital advertising and SaaS industries.

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During this episode, Lisbeth Votruba, Chief Clinical Officer of AvaSure, a pioneering company and market leader in virtual patient monitoring, joins us to discuss her vision to revolutionize inpatient care delivery through virtual telehealth technology.

Additionally, Lisbeth shares how AvaSure has helped health systems across the nation to create safer environments for patients, families, and caregivers with their advanced patient observation and communication platform. 

Join us to learn how Lisbeth and the AvaSure family support augmented care with virtual teams. Let’s go!

Episode Highlights:

• Important advice from Lisbeth about the role of technology and reimagining healthcare
• Lisbeth’s journey to working for AvaSure
• Who is AvaSure and what they provide in the healthcare industry
• How AvaSure helps in the demand of nurses during COVID-19
• Response from patients, clinician, and administrator on the company’s technology
• Lisbeth Votruba’s vision for the healthcare industry and AvaSure

About our Guest: 

Lisbeth Votruba, MSN, RN, is the chief clinical officer of AvaSure. She has a vision to revolutionize inpatient care delivery through virtual technology. She is a pioneering nurse executive committed to continuous improvement of healthcare and the diffusion of new technologies to drive patient and staff safety. Votruba is dedicated to advancing dialogue at the state and national policy level as well as influencing how industry and nurse leaders collaborate to develop and implement technology in rapidly evolving and highly regulated healthcare environments. She is recognized for providing compassionate leadership; promoting the nursing profession; and safeguarding the dignity and quality of care for patients, families, and healthcare professionals. She published one of the first research articles on video monitoring for patient safety in 2016. Alongside her colleagues, Dr. Pat Quigley and Jill Kaminski, she has co-authored four more research articles on the ways virtual care can reduce falls, mitigate workplace violence and support nurses during a pandemic.

Votruba volunteers her time in support of nurses and women struggling with substance use disorder. She has served Michigan’s nurses as the Michigan Board of Nurses appointee to the Health Providers Recovery Committee, the state’s healthcare provider monitoring program. She currently serves as the president of the board of Our Hope, a residential treatment program for women. In doing so she strives to contribute to the de-stigmatization of mental health issues. As a third-generation nurse, she is a long-time advocate for the well-being of caregivers and is passionate about providing quality care for patients.

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During this episode, Dr. Waqaas Al-Siddiq, Founder and CEO of Biotricity, a business recognized as one of the Top 50 Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company, joins us to discuss the why and the how of building his medical diagnostic and consumer healthcare technology startup.  

Additionally, Dr. Al-Siddiq shares the positive impact his team is having as they continue to bring their biometric remote monitoring solutions to market. 

Join us to learn how Dr. Al-Siddiq and the Biotricity team are powering healthcare with connected medical devices and real-time communication. Let's go!

Episode Highlights:

• Why and how Dr. Al-Siddiq started Biotricity
• Two critical pieces of advice from Dr. Al-Siddiq that can help innovate healthcare
• Patient feedback about Biotricity’s technology
• Dr. Al-Siddiq’s’ vision for the healthcare industry and Biotricity

About our Guest: 

Waqaas Al-Siddiq, CEO and founder of Biotricity, is a serial entrepreneur, a former investment advisor, an expert in corporate strategy, and an innovative technologist. Academically, he has been distinguished for his various innovative designs in digital, analog, embedded, and micro-electro-mechanical products. Waqaas has held several high-level design positions at IBM, AMD, and Intel. He also has vast experience leading various groups through his board experience and executive roles within start-ups, mid-sized companies, and non-profits. Waqaas has raised over a $100M as an entrepreneur and built companies that have been recognized as leaders in their space.

In his current role as CEO of Biotricity, a medical diagnostic and consumer healthcare technology company, Waqaas guides and continues to lead the company through every stage of bringing its biometric remote monitoring solutions to market. The company is considered one of the leading digital health companies and has been recognized as one of the Top 50 Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company and the most Innovative Medical Device Company.

As an industry enthusiast, Waqaas publishes extensively on the future of healthcare. Waqaas’ publication experience spans back to his academic work, which was published in various conferences such as IEEE and the National Communication Council. Since founding Biotricity Waqaas has become deeply vested in the potential that IoT connected technology, enhanced with artificial intelligence, could bring to healthcare. He has published a variety of articles that focus on thought-provoking discussions around topics such as artificial intelligence, implementation of new technologies into the healthcare sphere, and the development of medical devices for underserved and remote communities.1 Waqaas is considered a thought leader and a regular contributor for MedCity News, Becker’s, and other industry publications that are sources for research and insights on emerging technology.

Waqaas has a dual Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and Economics, a Master’s in Computer Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology, and a Master’s in Business Administration and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Henley Business School, specialized in Transformative Innovations and Billion Dollar Markets.

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Episode Overview: 

During this episode, Bjarne Bergheim, President and CEO of Sonendo, a commercial-stage medical technology company committed to solving tooth decay, the most prevalent chronic disease globally, joins us to discuss his deeply rooted commitment and passion for his company’s mission to save teeth and improve lives. 

While together, Bjarne shares his entrepreneurial journey, why and how he became Sonendo’s first employee in 2007, and the bright vision for Sonendo’s future. 

Join us as Bjarne, and I discuss the importance of oral care as we continue to work together to move the health of our world forward! Let’s go!

Episode Highlights:

• Bjarne’s background and entrepreneurial journey 
• What lead to the big vision for Sonendo
• The 3 building blocks of Sonendo 
• A prediction of Sonendo and the Dentistry Industry in the future

About our Guest: 

Bjarne Bergheim has served as Sonendo’s President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors since 2008. Mr. Bergheim was the company’s first employee and previously served as Chief Operating Officer from 2006 to 2008. Prior to joining Sonendo, Mr. Bergheim was a co-founder and member of the management team of Fjord Ventures, LLC, a life science accelerator located in Laguna Hills, California focused on building and operating companies in the medical device, diagnostic and biopharmaceutical sectors.

Previously, Mr. Bergheim was the first employee of 3F Therapeutics, Inc., which was acquired by ATS Medical and later by Medtronic, Inc. Mr. Bergheim received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Irvine and an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Mr. Bergheim also studied cardiovascular and biomedical engineering at NTNU, Norway in collaboration with Stanford University and California Institute of Technology.

He has spent decades in the medical technology industry and is passionate about advancing Sonendo’s mission to save teeth and improve lives.

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In a digital-heavy world coupled with the youth mental health crisis, our next guest has made it her life’s work to protect every child’s digital journey.  

Teodora Pavkovic, a prominent figure in the global digital wellness community, and the Director of Community Engagement at Linewize, joins us to discuss her inspiring work and mission and how she and her team are working tirelessly to build the industry-leading safety management system for the academic setting. 

Additionally, Teodora shares how parents can be more positively involved in their kids’ technology and digital lives.

Join us as we discuss this timely and important topic with a passionate and dedicated expert helping lead the charge for positive change in cyber safety. Let’s go! 

Episode Highlights:

• How Teodora became passionate about digital wellness
• Why it is important to implement digital wellness in the academic setting
• Why Teodora became involved with Linewize
• Teodora’s vision for a safer and healthier digital lifestyle for all

About our Guest: 

Teodora Pavkovic is the Director of Community Engagement at Linewize, where she leverages her decade-plus of experience as a youth psychologist, parenting coach and digital wellness practitioner to provide guidance and advice to parents, teachers and school administrators on topics concerning mental health, responsible and safe use of technology, tech ethics, parenting in the digital age and child development. A prominent figure in the global digital wellness community, Pavkovic is a member of both the American and British psychological associations, co-chair of Fairplay’s (formerly Campaign For a Commercial-Free Childhood) parenting professionals’ group and an advisory board member of several educational and mental health organizations. She has dedicated herself to helping people preserve and protect their wellbeing and relationships in this increasingly digital world, teaching them to use technology mindfully, intentionally and humanely. 

Pavkovic has her master’s in clinical psychology and has trained in both psychotherapy and coaching. She has lived in nine different countries and is a sought-after public speaker, thought leader and media expert who has spoken at conferences like TEDx in Singapore, Human After All in New York City, and HUMANITECH, the first virtual digital wellness conference that she both organized and moderated.

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Episode Overview: 

During this episode, Dr. Matt Sakumoto, virtual-first primary care physician and clinical informatics champion, joins us to discuss his personal experiences at multiple health systems and telehealth startups, which has led him to develop a national-leading approach to digital empathy and web-side manner for telehealth consults that are enabling care teams to better connect with patients.

Join us to learn from Dr. Sakumoto how care team providers can humanize their telehealth visits. Let’s go!

Episode Highlights:

• Dr. Sakumoto’s outlines his approach to digital empathy and and how to foster web-side manner
• Humanizing the telehealth visit
• Delivering care beyond the clinic walls
• Ways to engage with patients beyond the specific point in time of the consult
• Why engaging with startups/innovation community was an important factor in developing Dr. Sakumoto’s approach

About Our Guest: 

Dr. Matt Sakumoto is a virtualist primary care physician in San Francisco. He is also fellowship-trained in clinical informatics at UCSF, with a focus on virtual care and provider efficiency tools for the EHR. Through personal experience at multiple health systems and telehealth startups, he has developed an approach to Digital Empathy and Web-side Manner to better connect with patients.

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Episode Overview: 

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, infectious diseases ran rampant in US nursing homes, and the nursing home industry has been struggling with infection prevention and control practices for decades. Thankfully our next guest has a deeply-rooted passion and bold vision for change!

Dr. Buffy Lloyd-Krejci, CEO of IPCWell, joins us to discuss how her organization is devoted to mitigating infectious diseases to reduce adverse events, infections, antibiotic resistance, re-admissions, and death through targeted, data-driven solutions and advanced statistical analytics.

Additionally, Dr. Buffy shares her journey of visiting hundreds of nursing homes and why her experience led her to write her book BROKEN: How the Global Pandemic Uncovered a Nursing Home System in Need of Repair and the Heroic Staff Fighting for Change. 

Join us for this timely and needed conversation to learn how Dr. Buffy and IPCWell team are working tirelessly to combat the estimated one to three million infections leading to more than 380,000 deaths annually in the nursing home industry. Let’s go!

Episode Highlights:

• How Dr. Buffy became so passionate about her mission
• IPCWell’s process to prevent harm and deaths from infections
• What Dr. Buffy experienced on the frontlines of healthcare when she was writing her book
• The importance of going on-site to provide coaching and mentoring for healthcare facilities 

About our Guest: 

Dr. Buffy Lloyd-Krejci is one of the foremost authorities on infection prevention and control in nursing homes and long-term care facilities. She is a frequent contributor and interview source for national and trade press concerning infection prevention and control and mitigation. With more than 20 years of healthcare and public health experience, Dr. Lloyd-Krejci's data-driven approach is hands-on and collaborative. Using her experience with more than 700 healthcare facilities across the United States she works tirelessly to combat the estimated one to three million infections leading to more than 380,000 deaths every year in the nursing home industry. She has worked with the CDC and other organizations on infection control studies and research such as the Arizona Emergency Preparedness Infection Control(EPIC) grant, the Institute of Health (IHI) and, Project ECHO, a hub-and-spoke knowledge-sharing network to support Nursing Home leadership during COVID-19.

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With deep knowledge and expertise, delivering critically needed and life-saving therapies to patients with rare, ultra-rare, and orphan diseases is our next guest’s passion and mission in life. 

Jeff Beck, Chief Development Officer at Biocare, joins us to discuss his company’s three brands- BioCareSD, a leading national specialty distributor of life-saving therapies, CanyonCareRX, a full-service specialty pharmacy, and LogiCare3PL, a national provider of time and temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical logistics services. 

Additionally, Jeff shares why and how the company remaining patient-focused has been the key to its success since 1982. 

Join us to discover how Jeff and his team at BioCare are delivering life-saving therapies to patients across our nation. Let’s go!

Episode Highlights:

• How Jeff’s time with the Harlem Globetrotters prepared him for healthcare
• Distribution and supply chain logistics during the pandemic 
• Creating the LogiCare 3PL extension
• A look into the orphan drugs market
• Life-changing testimonies from patients
• BioCare’s umbrella services

About Our Guest: 

As Chief Development Officer at BioCare, Jeff is responsible for setting current and future strategic direction for the company’s brands, including BioCareSD, CanyonCareRx and LogiCare3PL.

Additionally, Jeff leads the expansion and diversification of BioCare’s manufacturer and product portfolio. With a proven ability to build loyal relationships through value-driven selling and rapid problem identification and resolution, Jeff’s demonstrated capabilities include strategic planning, budgeting, employee development and cross-functional team collaboration. 

Prior to joining BioCare, Jeff served as Vice President of National Accounts a Baxalta, where he was responsible for setting strategic direction and tactical execution.  

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