The DR K Podcast with Oskar Kiwic, MD

The DR K Podcast with Oskar Kiwic, MD

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The DR K Podcast with Oskar Kiwic, MD episodes

  • David Rosenthal, MD: Primary Care x Longevity

    Dr. David Rosenthal, MD is a primary-care physician, Yale School of Medicine faculty member, and Director of Strategic Partnerships at Yale’s Center for Biomedical Innovation & Technology (CBIT). He is also a Healthcare Venture Partner at AlleyCorp, the New York VC powering next-gen health-tech. David additionally serves as an advisor and angel investor to a roster of medical-device, digital-health, and care-delivery start-ups.


    Episode links mentioned by Dr. Rosenthal:

    • TAME: A Metformin Anti-Aging Clinical Trial
    • identifeye Health - company created by Dr. Rosenthal
    • Implementing High-Quality Primary Care (2021 NASEM Report)
    • RVS Update Committee (RUC)
    • Instant reply (Healthcare Volume 1, Issues 1–2, June 2013)
    • The General Public Vastly Overestimates Primary Care Spending in the United States (The Annals of Family Medicine February 2025)
    • Witnessing Death: a grandson's reflections on Alzheimer's (directed by Dr. Rosenthal)
    45 min
  • Akash Magoon: Unlocking the Revenue Cycle for Providers

    Akash Magoon is a serial healthcare tech founder and the CEO & co-founder of Adonis, an NYC-based company using AI to monitor and automate the healthcare revenue cycle. He also co-founded and previously served as CTO of Nayya, which created a TurboTax-like experience for employee benefits and open enrollment. Akash has raised over $150M across both companies. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, he earned a Computer Science degree from the University of Maryland, where he also serves on multiple boards. He was also named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

    43 min
  • Amina Resheidat: Impact Investing x Healthcare

    Amina Resheidat is an investor at Stand Together Ventures Lab (STVL), where she supports startups tackling critical consumer challenges in health care. Her career, like her work at STVL, is united by the word impact.
    Stand Together Ventures Lab is an investment firm and founders’ studio that supports entrepreneurs transforming society. They invest in and build companies that disrupt the healthcare industry, driven by the principle that when individuals are treated as customers, providers compete for their business, deliver greater value, and prioritize prevention and wellness over "sick care."


    Amina began her career in management consulting, advancing research, developing clinical practice guidelines, and designing behavior-change interventions in cardiometabolic and genetic diseases. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Florida State University and a Master of Science in Data Analytics and Policy from Johns Hopkins University.

    46 min
  • Ray Dogum: Blockchain in Healthcare.
    Ray Dogum is a Senior Consultant at Equideum Health (previously known as ConsenSys Health), and a Podcaster at Health Unchained, a show featuring blockchain and healthcare professionals who are rebuilding the health industry all over the world.
    More about Equideum Health: 
    Equideum Health creates next-gen person-centered healthcare and research networks to advance health equity and outcomes by optimizing data liquidity across enterprise and individual data silos, powered by Ethereum.
    More about Health Unchained: 
    Health Unchained features insights from the top healthcare innovators, entrepreneurs, and executives who are applying blockchain technology solutions to disrupt the health industry. Ray discusses their strategies, challenges, and unique experiences in this exciting new field.
    Link to all Health Unchained episodes: https://healthunchained.org/episodes
    35 min
  • Shawn Sefton and Jason Harber: Intelligent Automation for Healthcare.
    Hospital IQ provides an operations management software platform that uses artificial intelligence enabling health systems to achieve peak operational performance that improves patient access, care delivery and staff productivity. 
     
    Hospital IQ is helping over 100 hospitals and health systems across the country to deliver optimized surgical resource alignment, patient flow, and staff scheduling capabilities.
    About our guests:
    Shawn Sefton
    Shawn is the Chief Nursing Officer and VP of Client Operations for Hospital IQ. She is a Registered Nurse and has more than 30 years combined clinical and consulting experience. Her expertise includes healthcare administrative leadership, clinical transformation, process redesign, quality improvement and cost structure improvements in Surgical, Emergency, Endoscopy, Critical Care, Anesthesia services and Care Coordination in a variety of healthcare provider settings. Prior to joining Hospital IQ, Shawn was a Director at PwC’s Health Advisory practice where she led operational and financial improvement engagements at a number of health systems.
     
    Jason Harber
    As Chief Operating Officer & Chief Strategy Officer, Jason is the driving force behind Hospital IQ’s product strategy. He brings more than 10 years of experience in healthcare technology, data and analytics, and product management. Prior to joining Hospital IQ, he was the VP of Product Management for TeleTracking Technologies, where he developed product strategy and strategic launches for the company’s product portfolio.
    27 min
  • Jo Aggarwal and Zereana Jess-Huff: Mental Health Support For Everyone.
    Wysa is a mental health company helping users to self-manage stressors by blending AI-guided listening with professional expert support. 
    Wysa was developed to make the world more mentally resilient - an AI chatbot that leverages evidence-based cognitive-behavioral techniques (CBT) to make people feel heard. Blended with professional human support, Wysa provides 24/7 high-quality mental health support.
    “Sometimes you need to talk things through, and all you need is someone who will listen and ask the right questions to help you figure things out. That's Wysa!” - Jo Aggarwal, Wysa founder
    About our guests:
    Jo Aggarwal
     Jo Aggarwal is the founder and CEO of Wysa, a global leader in conversational AI for behavioral health. She was recognized as one of the Top 25 Women Leaders in Consumer HealthTech of 2021 by The Healthcare Technology Report. Previously, Aggarwal was the founding director for Technology & Innovation for a UN-backed foundation and has been the managing director of Pearson Learning Solutions in the U.K. Her work on mobile employability post-Arab Spring helped connect over 1 million young people to skills and jobs. She was recognized by the eLearning Center in the UK as one of the top three global thought leaders in education technology.
     
    Zereana Jess-Huff, Ph.D.
     Zereana Jess-Huff, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical practitioner with over 15 years of experience in clinical innovation, operations strategy, and product development with a specific focus on digital behavioral health. Zereana is an experienced writer authoring several articles on behavioral health in the age of digital health. Her background includes serving as the CEO of Beacon Health Options, Maryland managing the Public Behavioral Health System where she secured a $77 million 5-year award. She has extensive experience working with large US Health Systems on integrated care management and behavioral health service delivery.
    Recommended by Jo:
    Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words by David Whyte
    29 min
  • Tisson Mathew: Bringing people and data together.
    SkyPoint is transforming customer experience and business outcomes through the power of AI on a unified and privacy-first view of the customer data.
    Our platform combines our integrated Custom Data Platform, Zero Trust Data Vault, Privacy Compliance Automation and APIs that allow our customers and developers to easily deploy solutions that leverage unified customer records in healthcare and consumer industries.
    Quickly build professional-grade apps, manage data privacy, create automated workflows, connect to diverse data sources, and embed AI into your apps when you use SkyPoint APIs. It’s how you become more agile to delight your customers.
    Industry leaders and over 6 million end users currently use SkyPoint.
    About our guest:
    Tisson Mathew is CEO and Founder of SkyPoint Cloud, a privacy-first customer data platform that enables consumer and healthcare brands to unlock deeper, more meaningful relationships with their customers and patients. Before founding SkyPoint Cloud, he was Chief Technology Officer at Alignment Healthcare and, prior to that, at Cambia Health Solutions. Mathew also led the team that built and operated the Amazon logistics technology platform that powers Amazon Prime Now, Amazon Fresh, and Amazon Flex. He holds four U.S. patents, a Master of Science in computer science and engineering from Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Ore., and completed the Stanford Executive Program for Growing Companies at Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
    21 min
  • Matteo Penzo: Creating unique conference experiences.
    Frontiers Health emerged as one of the premier global digital health innovation events, with a strong focus on digital therapies, breakthrough technologies, healthcare transformation, investments, and ecosystem development.
    It is the health vertical by Frontiers Conferences, creating engaging conference experiences for 10 years, home of innovation and all things digital. 
    About the guest: 
    Matteo Penzo is an entrepreneur and experienced executive, in the past 10 years, he has led the EMEA Technology teams at frog, a global design and strategy firm.
    In 2005, he founded the internationally successful Frontiers Conference event, which brings innovators in business and design together. Matteo also co-founded Talent Garden Milano—the biggest co-working space in Italy—an investment he successfully exited in 2018.
    Matteo has also solid experience in leading (and building) teams and providing strategic expertise to Clients in the telecom and media industry (Al Jazeera, du, Saudi Telecom, Vodafone, SKY Italy), healthcare (Novartis, Roche, Astra Zeneca), and from the financial services (AXA, KKR, CheBanca!, UBS, Allianz).
    More recently, he co-founded Zick learn, an Ireland based startup that is developing a digital platform to create and distribute beautiful & accessible “text messages based training courses” for the Enterprise. 
    Recommended by Matteo: 
    1930 Cocktail Bar
    27 min
  • Ophir Tanz and Dr. Kyle Stanley: The future of dentistry, powered by AI.
    Pearl was founded on the notion that artificial intelligence can be the dental practitioner’s always-on assistant and the patient’s most trustworthy friend. Its founders have a uniquely personal connection to the dental industry’s intricacies, as well as the knowledge and education to actualize the full and practicable potential that AI has to offer.
    Both Ophir and Dr. Stanley grew up with dentist fathers, so concern for oral care has been ingrained in their hearts since childhood. Ophir and Cambron joined forces at digital media company, GumGum, which Ophir founded in 2008, where they spent 10 years applying AI technology to deliver solutions for digital advertising and sports sponsorship. Dr. Stanley, who became a dentist like his father, joined forces with Ophir and Cambron Carter in 2015. Together they set their sights on the next great AI revolution: healthcare. Pearl is the product of their efforts.
    Collectively, their vision and experience make them the ideal founders, practitioners and futurists to bring Pearl’s services—delivering better bites, trillions of bytes at a time—to an office near you.
    About our guests:
    Ophir Tanz (CEO of Pearl)
    Prior to founding Pearl, Ophir was the founder and CEO of GumGum, an applied computer vision company focused on the media category. Prior to this, Ophir was CEO and co-founder of Mojungle.com, a mobile-media sharing platform that was sold to Shozu.com in 2007. Before this, Ophir co-founded and sold Fluidesign, an interactive and branding agency. He holds a BS and MS from Carnegie Mellon University.
    Dr. Kyle Stanley (Chief Clinical Officer of Pearl)
    Named as "The Next Generation of Cosmetic Dentistry" by the AACD in 2015 and "Top 10 Young Educators in Dentistry" by the Seattle Study Club, graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC and then completed a dental implant residency along with a dental implant specialty in Brazil. While at USC, Dr. Stanley completed an Esthetic mini-residency with a world leader, Dr. Pascal Magne, and was honored with the Charles L. Pincus Award for outstanding achievements in esthetic dentistry by the American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry. He is also a dedicated researcher who has published in some of the top international dental journals about topics relating to esthetics, dental implants, and smile design. Dr. Stanley is a KOL for many well-respected companies and has presented on five continents as a highly in-demand speaker. With his company Pearl, he is changing the way patients are treated through artificial intelligence and is a leader in this field. Dr. Stanley is the leading advocate of mental health in dentistry. He maintains an exclusive private practice in Beverly Hills, CA.
    Recommended by Dr. Stanley:
    Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker PhD 
    Recommended by Ophir:  
    Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
    The “What is money” Show by Robert Breedlove
    27 min
  • Josh Rubel: MDClone, a healthcare data platform.
    MDClone is a technology firm focused on unlocking healthcare data and empowering exploration, discovery, and collaboration to improve patients’ health.
    The MDClone ADAMS Platform is a powerful, self-service data analytics environment enabling healthcare collaboration, research, and innovation.
    About our guest: 
    Josh Rubel leads MDClone's commercial team with a focus on building relationships with public and private health systems, life science, and health plan organizations through direct sales, partners, and channel alliances. Prior to joining MDClone, Josh spent 20 years in both established and new venture healthcare IT organizations including commercial leadership roles at GE Healthcare, Optum, and Enli Health Intelligence.
    Recommended by Josh: 
    Beyond Selling Value - A Proven Process to Avoid the Vendor Trap by Mark Shonka and Dan Kosch
    Joe Abercrombie books
    32 min

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The DR K Podcast (fka Digisection) – Hosted by Oskar Kiwic, MD, this podcast brings you deep conversations with top healthcare founders, investors, and researchers, uncovering evidence-based strategies that are redefining medicine and improving patient care.