What factors must we overcome for healthcare Machine Learning to reach its full potential? How can LMICs globally be included in the healthcare informatics and data ecosystem?
Join this episode as Dr. Leo Anthony Celi answers these questions and talks about the future of AI in health!

Leo is the Clinical Research Director and Principal Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory of Computational Physiology and a Staff Physician at the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He holds an MPH in Clinical Effectiveness from Harvard University School of Public Health, an MSc in Biomedical Informatics from MIT, and an MD in Medicine from the University of the Philippines.

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How does one identify the market opportunity and the go-to-market strategy? And how can one drive market adoption while being a practicing physician? What is the current state of medical education? And how can it improve to unleash the creative potential of doctors? David Grew addresses these questions and other topics on our 42nd episode.

David is the founder of PRIMR, an application that allows physicians to provide patients with digitally recorded, personalized explanations regarding their medical conditions and treatments.

David is a Connecticut-based radiation oncologist practicing at Trinity Health of New England. He holds an MD from Tulane University School of Medicine and an MPH from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

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What are some of the inflection points that are needed to unlock the commercial side of the market of digital therapeutics? How can MDs demonstrate that they’ll add value in areas of interest to a prospective employer? In our 41st episode with Dr. Andrey Ostrovsky, we answer all these questions and more!

Andrey is Managing Partner at Social Innovation Ventures. He was the CMO of the US Medicaid Program, where he helped Medicaid develop its opioid strategy, plant the foundation for becoming a learning organization, and move toward data-driven policymaking. He also advocated for accurate, accountable, and ethical dissemination of information from the government to the public. Andrey holds an MD from Boston University School of Medicine and undergraduate degrees in Chemistry and Psychology. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Andrey completed his pediatrics residency training in the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Medical Center and Boston Children’s Hospital, where he was a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School.

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How to optimize telehealth and digital medicine to create a helpful layer of privacy? How to protect your competitive edge in the market? How to address the needs of a sensitive market such as women's sexual health? In our 40th episode, we discuss those topics and more with Dr. Lyndsey Harper.

Lyndsey is an Obstetrician and Gynecologist, an Associate Professor of Ob/Gyn for Texas A&M College of Medicine, a Fellow of The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and a Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health. Lyndsey is the Founder and CEO of Rosy Wellness, a sexual Wellness app that started in 2019 which connects women who have sexual health concerns with hope, community, and research-backed solutions. She has been named Forbes Top 53 Women Disrupting Healthcare, People Newspapers’ 20 Under 40, a Top Innovator in North Texas for 2020, and a DBJ Top Women in Technology honoree.

Dr. Harper earned a BS in Microbiology and an MD from The University of Arkansas. Dr. Harper completed an OB-GYN residency at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. She is now an Ob-Gyn Hospitalist at Baylor Scott & White Health in Dallas.

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Why is the cross-pollination of ideas so important in healthcare? How and when to jump into entrepreneurship? What is perceptual AI? How to use video games for good? How to promote wellness through esports? In this episode, we answer all these questions and more with Dr. Khizer Khaderi, MD, MPH.

Khizer is a Neuro-Ophthalmic surgeon. He is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Byers Eye Institute at Stanford University, the Director/Founder of the Stanford Human Perception Laboratory (HPL) and the Stanford Vision Performance Center (VPC), and faculty at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. Khizer is an advisor to Magic Leap, NBA, Aerie Pharma, the Global Esports Federation, CompHealth Global, and the World Health Organization. He is the Founder of Vizzario, a perceptual AI company. He graduated from the University of Utah in 2002 and did a residency in ophthalmology at the University of Arizona.

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How important is it to have a teamwork mentality in medicine? What values does humanitarian work add to someone’s perspective, and how can it affect their entrepreneurial career? How can we, as MDs, take action steps towards better care at the end of the day and make a positive influence in the most straightforward ways? This episode answers all these questions and more as we explore Dr. Naji Gehchan’s journey of growing up and working in settings of war and tension and how he overcame these challenges.

Naji is the co-founder of Sohati, a healthcare startup serving the Middle East, and the host of the podcast “SpreadLove In Organizations,” where he interviews leaders from across the globe on their personal stories and how they spread love in their organizations for people to feel safe to thrive and deliver positive impact for the company’s stakeholders. He holds an executive MBA from MIT Sloan.

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What additional barriers often affect women and minorities and make the medical journey even harder? How can we employ the stories of women of color to motivate aspiring female physicians and physicians of color? In our next episode, we answer these questions and explore the story of Jasmine Brown, who dedicated her academic research at the University of Oxford to explore the lives of pioneering African American female physicians. We discuss her recently published book “TWICE AS HARD”

Jasmine is an MD Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in Neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis, then an MPhil in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at the University of Oxford supported by the Rhodes Trust. She has been involved in advocacy work for many years helping minority students get involved in research. Jasmine just released her first book, “TWICE AS HARD”. The book covers the history of Black women physicians in the US from the civil war to the 21st century.

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What can we contribute to the different areas of healthcare? And how can we as MDs demonstrate added value in areas beyond clinical care? How can you contribute to important decisions that drive the future of the sector? How essential are AI and machine learning for the process, and the future of medicine in general? In this episode, we answer all these questions and more through an enlightening talk with our guest, Dr. Jonathan Ng, CEO of Iterative Health.

Jonathan is the CEO of Iterative Health, a pioneer in applying artificial intelligence-based precision medicine to gastroenterology to establish a new standard of care for the detection and treatment of gastrointestinal (GI) diseases.

Jonathan is Chairman of Children of Cambodia (Singapore), a nonprofit organization that aims to improve the lives of children and families in Cambodia by providing better healthcare facilities. He specifically worked to advance comprehensive medical education solutions in Cambodia and South East Asia.
He is the Co-Founder of Optimimed Pte Ltd, a research and experimental development on medical technologies business-based company located in Singapore. Previously, he was a medical officer at the Hospital Services Division in the Ministry of Health, Singapore.

Jonathan holds an MD from the National University of Singapore, an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MPA in healthcare policy from Harvard Kennedy School.

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How to venture early off the beaten path? How to gain multiple skills and still focus on investments in healthcare and life sciences from early to growth stages? How to venture in the domain of healthcare technologies and accumulate experience in heakthcare IT startups?

And many more questions are to be answered in today's episode with Morgan Cheatham.

Cheatham. Morgan is a Vice President at Bessemer Venture Partners, a global venture capital firm with over $19 billion in assets under management, where he focuses on investments in healthcare.

Morgan was accepted to medical school at age 17 and was working as a data scientist at a healthcare startup by age 19. Morgan is pursuing his medical degree at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a B.S. in neuroeconomics

Recently, Morgan was featured on Forbes List 30 Under 30 for Venture Capital (2023).

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