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“For anyone with a uterus out there, we're about to blow your mind.” With that, Dr. Sophia Yen set the stage for an interview as fascinating and lively as any of the 100+ we’ve done. For instance, Yen asks why women should endure 350-400 menstruations in their lifetime when, on average, they only have two babies. Ever thought of that? Yen, a Stanford professor and pediatrician, believes “periods should be optional” as a way to reduce health risks and what can be a significant disadvantage for women in their personal and professional lives. “I want my daughters to be on equal playing ground with everyone next to them. I don't want them randomly hit with menstruation 1 week out of 4 for 20 years.” While #PeriodsOptional is a passion, the main business of the company she co-founded is making it easier for women to get birth control prescriptions.
Pandia Health (www.pandiahealth.com) customers can order online and have it delivered, eliminating the need for a medical appointment or trip to the drug store. Yen says COVID has made that model very attractive. Tune in to learn more about those business tailwinds, her cautions about telemedicine and much more in this memorable episode with host Shiv Gaglani.
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Fred Singer has a message for those in higher ed grappling with the imperative to deliver education online: offering “Zoom University” isn’t enough. “Simply repurposing a classroom doesn't make any more sense going forward than it did in the 1990’s for the newspapers to dump content online and assume the world's going to change. It didn't work that way.” And Singer knows what he’s talking about because he was there when the Washington Post first went online. He’s built a fascinating career “chasing interesting, disruptive movements” as an internet pioneer and entrepreneur. As CEO of Echo360, he now sits at the intersection of innovation and education. His company, which is the first video platform designed to foster active, engaged, and personalized video-based learning, has been boosted by COVID as schools of all types have been forced to offer and improve distance learning. In this episode with host Shiv Gaglani, Singer highlights the parallels he sees between the relatively slow adoption of learning technologies in both education and healthcare, and predicts that major change is going to happen faster than people might realize. “All the technology and tools exist to deliver much cheaper education, much more convenient education. I think there will be huge opportunities for people that know how to embrace the change and not try to block it.”
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