Kseniya Ponomareva is the Business Development Manager at EMedSupport. EMedSupport helps physicians make evidence-based decisions to prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases and has offices in Cyprus and the UAE. Kseniya joined EMedSupport about a year ago after having had a career as a Product Manager at Sanofi.

Kseniya moved to the UAE two years ago, and she shares her learnings about the scope of healthcare innovation across the Middle East, the pathways to seek regulatory approval for new or existing health innovations & technologies, and the best way for others to explore opportunities in the region as she did.

Tune in to learn about how Kseniya has been able to navigate a career in the cardiovascular space to now working towards bringing evidence-based medicine to the Middle East and beyond. Check out EMedSupport: www.emedsup.org

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Lauren Barker is the CEO of Uresta. Uresta is a Canadian female health organization that is looking to solve bladder leaks and urinary incontinence with an innovative health product. Lauren joined Uresta after having had a career in Investment Banking and Private Equity intrigued by positive impact Uresta could have on women’s health.

Tune in to learn about Lauren’s journey into entrepreneurship and how she’s been able to create a go-to-market and organic growth strategy for a problem space that’s been considered taboo in the past.

Lauren also talks about the need for Regulatory Consultants early on in a products development, the challenges of building and growing in the femtech space and how she has been able to lean on the entrepreneurial community in Canada for continuous learning. Check out Uresta: www.uresta.com

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Nikhit Anilbhai and Sonakshi Senthil are the co-founders of Your Cue. Your Cue is a UK-based startup that came to fruition out of the COVID-19 pandemic after Nikhit experienced challenges with ensuring patient safety without consistent vital signs monitoring during work as a frontline physician when healthcare systems were at a breaking point. With the goal of ensuring every patient is continuously monitored at an affordable price, Sonakshi and Nikhit began ideating on solutions that ranged from software to hardware solutions before settling on a finger-based wearable device.

They share their experience of prototyping their product without a technical co-founder and considering how to get their product to market, whether that would be care homes in the UK, private hospitals in India and Africa or public health systems like the NHS. This is Nikhit and Sonakshi’s first entrepreneurial stint, and they share how they have been able to obtain support from mentors, advisors and the UK’s favorable entrepreneurship environment to keep them going. Check out Your Cue: www.yourcue.co.uk

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Eric Alvarez is the Founder and CEO of Grapefruit Health. Grapefruit Health is looking to relieve pressure caused by staffing shortages on the U.S. healthcare system by contracting clinical students to take over lower acuity work, improving patient outcomes.

Eric shares what Grapefruit Health has been able to accomplish over the past year and a half, including iterating on feedback, successfully fundraising, and creating a flexible and versatile solution catered to the needs of providers. Eric also shares how Grapefruit Health has benefitted from his prior experiences working at a now-acquired enterprise healthcare solutions company and as a health system administrator. Check out Grapefruit Health: www.grapefruit.health

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Shannon Aylesworth is the Founder and CEO of Ursamin. Ursamin is looking to help patients suffering from chronic illnesses and their caregivers make better health decisions by improving access to easily-interpretable health data.

We talk about the growing problem of chronic illnesses impacting the U.S. healthcare system, how we can collect and interpret health data from multiple sources for meaningful health insights, and how an entrepreneur can position themselves to make an impact in healthcare. Check out Ursamin: www.ursamin.com

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Welcome to Scalpels & Spreadsheets. This episode lays down my goals with this podcast.