The Healthtech VC

Dr Saira Ghafur is lead for Digital Health at Imperial College London’s Institute of Global Health Innovation and also a practising Consultant Respiratory Physician. She manages a portfolio career spanning policy, academia, frontline medicine alongside being a founder of two startups.

Saira discusses her work on healthcare cybersecurity, evidence generation in digital health and the value of healthcare data in the NHS. She provides tips for managing a wide-ranging portfolio career, provides advice for startups looking to develop clinical partnerships and has tips for those looking to publish research in the digital health sector.

Saira’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saira-ghafur-943a1b1b/

Get in touch with Fiona: https://twitter.com/dr_fiona

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In episode four of The Healthtech VC, Crista Galli Ventures' founder Dr Fiona Pathiraja, is joined by Dr Tom Carrell - the founder and CEO of Cydar Medical. Tom was working as a consultant vascular surgeon in London when he decided to collaborate with Graeme Penney, an imaging scientist at King’s College London to turn traditional surgical visualisation on its head and transform patient outcomes in endovascular surgery. During the podcast, Tom and Fiona discuss the story of Cydar Medical and the journey from hospital research to commercial product, as well as sharing their insights and advice on fundraising, growing a team, selling to the NHS and taking the leap from medicine.

For episode three of The Healthtech VC, Crista Galli Ventures' founder Dr Fiona Pathiraja, is joined by Julie Sufana, Chief Marketing Officer of portfolio company contextflow, a Vienna based healthtech start-up developing deep learning-based tools to improve radiology workflows. Originally from the US, Julie has an enviably diverse range of cross-sector experience, prior to joining contextflow.

In this week’s episode of The Healthtech VC, Dr. Fiona Pathiraja meets fellow former radiologist Dr Lizzie Barclay, who is now medical director of Aidence, an Amsterdam based start-up creating innovative AI that helps radiologists in the diagnosis of lung cancer.

In the first episode of The Healthtech VC, Crista Galli Ventures' founder, Dr Fiona Pathiraja, interviews Neil Daly, founder and CEO of Skin Analytics: a research-led, AI dermatology company committed to helping more people survive skin cancer. The Skin Analytics team has developed a clinically validated machine learning tool, DERM AI, that is as effective as a dermatologist and is key to creating AI-powered clinical dermatology pathways. Neil worked extensively in mobile innovation and strategy consulting, holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Western Australia and an Executive MBA from London Business School.