To kick off our new season, we’re joined by Joseph Peterson, co-founder of Simbiosys, a company that’s breaking new ground in precision cancer care.

Personalized care is the future, especially for cancer care, and Simbiosys' use of computational modeling and digital twins is one to watch.

Joe’s journey is really impressive - from pouring silanes into concrete as a novice mason to now building digital replicas of tumors to guide life-saving treatment decisions.

We discuss -

•  How Joe's fascination with physical materials evolved into a passion for biology, supercomputing, and ultimately, transforming how breast cancer is diagnosed and treated.
• Product strategy, clinical impact, AI in the OR, and the unglamorous truths of real-world implementation.
• All things digital twins in cancer care and beyond
• The startup's journey from concept to FDA engagement
• Building credibility in a high-stakes clinical space
• How to balance scientific depth with startup speed

If you're curious about the future of personalized cancer care - or what construction and oncology have in common! - this one's for you.

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Stepping outside of your comfort zone is talked about a lot, but how many of us actually do it? 

You can be ‘succeeding’ by all common metrics, but are you happy? Fulfilled? Or is life passing you by?

Tamanna Bembenek was enjoying a high-flying career at the intersection of healthcare and technology. Blending a scientific background with a passion for art, she flew through the ranks from regulatory through to key marketing leader for both GE and Phillips.

Most people, enjoying such a career trajectory, would continue marching that path. After all, having a good job and seeing continual progress is the whole point, right? 

As we discuss on today’s show, Tamanna thought very differently. A philosophical thinker since childhood, she began asking herself the hard questions; questions that led her to making a monumental career change to shake things up.

Tamanna and her husband moved to Mexico in 2020 to purchase the Mexico News Daily, with the bold ambition of transforming the media landscape over there. 

This comfort-zone-shattering decision has had profound implications on Tamanna’s life and only amplified the lessons she’s learnt over a storied life.

Join us as we discuss - 

• Tamanna’s background and the important of reading both fiction and non-fiction
• The important of early mentors and how they shaped Tamanna’s love to science
• The integration of art and science, and how Tamanna has applied both to great success
• Tamanna’s definition of marketing, how to do it properly, and the correct approach in healthcare
• The role in the inner guide/coach in healthcare - why are so many good people leaving healthcare? Can a new role of internal guide help employees as well as retain priceless knowledge?
• The importance of trusting the process, and always seeking the uncomfortable
• Culture - the different cultures at GE and Phillips, as well as the Mexican culture
• The significance of separating news from opinions and perspectives in media

And much, much more! This is our most introspective, philosophical discussion to date. 

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Dr Woojin Kim, CMIO of Rad AI, radiologist, serial entrepreneur and health AI thought leader joins the show.

A perfect example of a clinician that bridges the gap between healthcare and technical innovation, Woojin began solving his own problems early. Combining a passion for technology - taught himself how to code! - with radiological expertise and an eye for solving problems, Woojin found that solving his own problems led to successful companies.

Building and exiting 3 start-ups, including Montage Healthcare to Nuance Communications and Equium Intelligence to Rad AI, Woojin shares the core principles and lessons that have resulted in such success.

Now CMIO at Rad AI, he's helping deliver innovative AI reporting technology to radiologists globally.

We discuss - 

• Woojin’s early life, teaching himself English and the obstacles he overcame to get into Brown and medical school
• Why he chose the path of radiology
• The role of the Radiologist as a Vendor
• The different paths available to radiologists today
• The story behind Woojin’s start-ups
• RadAI and recent success
• Foundation models in healthcare
• Advice to other companies building

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Chaitanya Gharpure, co-founder and CTO of Sully.ai joins the show.

Sully's mission is 'one human, one doctor' i.e. every human on the planet should have access to a doctor when needed.

They've recognised that doctors everywhere are overburdened with administrative tasks, tasks that take their attention away from what matters - the patient.

Sully are utilizing AI to automate the most time-consuming tasks including patient notes, pre-screen assessments and writing clinical plans.

We discuss - 

- Chaitanya's background, work at Google and transition into entrepreneurship
- The company's vision: "One human, one doctor."
- The experience finding the right co-founders
- Foundation models in healthcare
- Experience integrating with the clinical workflow
- The steps they took to understand the problem
- Chaitanya's advice to other founders

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Leander Markisch, co-founder of Floy, joins the show. Floy are a radiology AI start-up based in Munich and they’ve already achieved incredible success. 

Millions of routine scans happen every year, but oftentimes early signs of disease are extremely difficult for radiologists to pick up. Floy’s solution utilises AI to combat this issue, alerting the radiologist of potential abnormalities in the scan, paving the way to more proactive care.

What’s fascinating about Floy’s approach is their commercial strategy – their direct to patient approach puts the decision to use AI in the patient’s hands. Needless to say, this has been a huge success, with Floy picking up 14% of the German radiology market in their first 2 years.

We discuss -

- Leander's background and entrepreneurial mindset
- The story that led him to Floy
- The experience of building for healthcare as a newcomer
- The importance of a patient-centric approach
- How Leander learnt about AI without a technical background
- The importance of seamlessly integrating into clinical workflow and how Floy do this
- Floy's unique commercial approach
- Plans for the future

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Morris Panner, President of Intelerad and successful healthtech entrepreneur, joins the show.

Morris has added huge value to the space across an impressive career, pioneering tech to improve medical imaging data access.

He’s founded & sold two companies including Ambra Health to Intelerad, where he’s now President.

We discuss -

• Morris's entrepreneurial journey and how solving a personal challenge led to the founding of Ambra
• The critical role of technology, especially AI and cloud computing, in addressing global healthcare demands.
•  Differences and similarities between the UK and US healthcare systems
• The importance of integrating smoothly with the clinical workflow & demonstrating clear ROI
• The role Intelerad is playing in global healthcare & future plans
• Morris’ advice to budding leaders in the space

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Kovey Kovalan, CEO & Founder of LifeVoxel joins the show

LifeVoxel won Aunt Minnie’s Best New Radiology Vendor for 2023, utilizing GPUs to greatly enhance the capabilities of medical imaging

Kovey’s journey from aerospace engineering to medical imaging AI is a fascinating one - he spotted the potential for GPUs with vector processors whilst working in aerospace, and has applied similar techniques to commoditise GPU technology for the healthcare world.

We discuss how LifeVoxel are opening up an affordable and effective use case of GPUs to massively improve data access and sharing, diagnostic process and patient outcomes.

We also go into a huge passion of Kovey’s that is preventative treatment, and how radiology is the best place to pick up on illness earlier.

• Kovey’s path from aerospace engineering to healthcare technology.
• The moment that sparked the idea to use GPUs in medical imaging.
• A deep dive into how GPUs an revolutionize medical imaging.
• The advantages of using commodity hardware to reduce costs and increase accessibility in healthcare.
• Overcoming industry resistance to integrating AI into medical systems.
• Kovey’s vision for AI’s future role in preventive medicine and ongoing patient care.
• Kovey's advice to other founders on navigating the startup ecosystem, from ideation to scaling

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John & Charlotte Kalafut, founders of Asher Orion join the show.

Industry pioneer John understands the space from almost every angle

Previously Chief Scientist for Informatics @ GE Healthcare, he’s a true innovator, with 40+ patented medical devices with 12 currently being sold globally. 

Charlotte complements John perfectly with a fantastic blend of strategic insight & operational expertise; not to mention a genuine passion for bringing innovation to poorer communities.

The complexities of bringing AI innovation to healthcare are enormous - for both sides. Healthcare systems are being flooded with potential tools they don’t understand, and conversely new AI vendors are often unaware of the pitfalls that exist when trying to implement.

Enter John and Charlotte, who’s combined experience is the perfect antidote to stakeholders trying to make sense of AI in healthcare.

We discuss - 

• John’s journey from an amateur radio & astronomy enthusiast to being a pivotal figure in healthcare AI

• The transition from academia to industry

• The importance of a user-centric approach

• The complexities of the healthcare system - what you need to understand when building for the space

• Charlotte & John’s passion for healthcare equity, and how they plan to bring AI to lower resourced communities

• How Asher Informatics are helping hospitals formulate AI strategy 

And much more!

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Data access is a huge problem in medical imaging AI. To meet safety criteria and have a positive impact on patients, AI models need rich and diverse datasets. Only it’s so difficult to get hold of.

Enter Gradient Health. Gradient have spent years partnering with hospitals globally to establish a huge medical imaging library, an on-demand data infrastructure that AI developers can plug into.

Ouwen and his co-founders are no strange to entrepreneurship, having founded and exited a computer vision satellite company during their college years. They wanted to apply their skills to something meaningful i.e. medicine, so turned their attention to medical imaging AI. Which is where the stark reality of data access became apparent.

Join us as we discuss - 

• How Gradient was formed
• How Gradient have assembled so much data
• Making data suitable for ML algorithms
• LLMs in healthcare
• Ouwen’s entrepreneurial advice and building businesses with friends

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Synthetic data is all the rage right now.

With data access proving a huge problem in healthcare AI, the possibility of synthetic data is enticing.

Kathrin Khadra is the co-founder of Ryver.AI, who are specialists in this ever-emerging field.

Their technology is able to generate medical images indistinguishable from reality.

With a keen focus on underrepresented data, their solution is furnishing AI developers & vendors with rich datasets of medical images for more accurate AI analysis.

We discuss - 

• How synthetic data works & Ryver’s solution
• The scepticism for synthetic data & how this will be overcome
• How multi-modality is impacting the space
• The many potential applications of synthetic data
• Kathi’s own entrepreneurial journey - hiring advice, investment advice etc

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