Christopher McCann is the CEO and co-founder of Current Health . Christopher conceived Current as a medical student, eventually dropping out to focus on the company full time. Chris holds a master's degree in engineering and computer science from the University of Dundee, Scotland. Current Health (formerly snap40) has a goal of preventing illness for one million patients around the world by 2021. The Edinburgh-based firm provides a patient management product that predicts diseases and recommends...
Nov 26, 2020•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast For this week's Sunday Session, we have some bonus content from last week's guest, Jonathan, the founder and CEO of Machine Medicine. He gives his top tips for healthtech entrepreneurs, including eating humble pie to act in the best interests of your company! Latest healthtech news 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk
Nov 22, 2020•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast As a practicing neurologist, Jonathan O' Keefe saw that his impact in clinical practice was linear — you see one patient, you impact one patient, patient number doubles, impact doubles, and you start again. Instead he wanted to combine his neurology and computer science background to impact deeper than he ever could using one discipline alone, by building a startup. Perfectly positioned to see the flaws in the system, and with the expertise to solve them, he set about building his company Machin...
Nov 19, 2020•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week's Sunday Session features bonus content from last week's guest, Dr. Peter Kecskemethy from Kheiron Medical. Peter joins us to tell us his top tips for entrepreneurs... Get in touch with Peter: www.kheironmed.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/kecsky/ Get in touch with Dr James Somauroo: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk...
Nov 15, 2020•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Peter Kecskemethy is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO/co-founder of Kheiron Medical, an AI cancer diagnostics company based in London. He is a computer scientist by background and prior to Kheiron, he founded two tech start-ups and was lead developer in two others. Peter did his PhD and post-doctoral research at the University of Oxford in high performance computing and computational statistics for population genetics. Kheiron’s mission is to give a better fighting chance against cancer and...
Nov 12, 2020•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Anthony Mazzarelli is CEO of Cooper University Health Care, the leading provider of health services, medical education & clinical research in Southern New Jersey & Delaware Valley PA. He received his masters degree in bioethics from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and trained in emergency medicine at Cooper University Hospital, where he also served as chief resident and as well as his CEO role, he is actively practicing in the emergency department at...
Nov 09, 2020•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week's Sunday Session is all about the fact that you don't need to found a billion dollar company to make impact with healthtech. For example, Dr. Gerald Diaz is Cofounder and Chief Medical Officer at GrepMed. Gerald is a former software engineer and computer scientist and got his MD from SLU, completed his residency at UC Davis Medical Center, and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and he currently works as an Academic Hospitalist. GrepMed is a community-sourced, searchable medical im...
Nov 08, 2020•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dilraj is a Doctor, Academic and Entrepreneur. He trained at the University of Oxford, where he continues to publish with colleagues about Patient Empowerment. He is a Lecturer in Digital Health at the University of Warwick and uses Lifestyle Medicine to help patients reverse disease in his online clinic - Hippocrates Lounge. Shocked that 80% of health outcomes are due to health behaviours, socioeconomic background and physical environment, Dilraj is focused on Health at Work. Time and again, he...
Nov 01, 2020•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast This week, James is joined by Nader Alaghband, the founder and CEO of Ampersand Health, which creates clinically-validated, behavioural science-based digital therapeutics for complex long term conditions, including IMIDs and rare diseases. Ampersand Health is a social purpose company. Their primary objective is to improve the health and quality of life of patients with inflammatory conditions like Crohn's, Colitis, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Atopic Dermatitis. They work with other subject matter e...
Oct 29, 2020•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast For this week's Sunday Session, James discusses the state of AI in the UK healthcare, naming a few examples of the startups deploying and developing the technology right now The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning: https://ethical.institute/ The Topol review: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamessomauroo/2019/02/11/nhs-announces-workforce-plan-for-genomics-ai-and-digital-medicine/ emteq labs: www.emteqlabs.com Feebris: www.feebris..com Tympahealth: www.tympahealth.com Ampersand: www.amp...
Oct 25, 2020•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jason Foster is the CEO of OriBiotech and has held leading roles in consulting, healthcare and technology companies for nearly 20 years in the US, UK and Europe. He is also the Founder and Managing Director of Health Equity Consulting, a healthcare growth consultancy, a Venture Partner and/or mentor at a number of funds and accelerators in the healthtech space and a member of the Tech London Advocates healthtech working group. Ori Biotech is a London and New Jersey-based innovator changing the g...
Oct 22, 2020•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's Sunday Session, James has a chat with Dr Gyles Morrison about the value of good UX in healthtech. Dr Gyles Morrison is a Clinical User Experience (UX) Specialist and Digital Health Consultant, improving the usability, accessibility and fun people have with healthcare technology. He uses knowledge and experience of behaviour change to improve the way technology is successfully used in healthcare. He has worked with the NHS and a variety of healthcare companies in the UK, South Afri...
Oct 18, 2020•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Thomas Vande Casteele is CEO and co-founder at Awell Health. He is a serial entrepreneur and made the decision to apply his expertise to optimise patient journeys and care pathways in healthcare in 2018 to found the company. To date, Awell works with approximately 25 hospitals across Europe and allows users to create digital care pathways help ease the burden on clinical staff and improve patient outcomes. https://awellhealth.com/ Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk...
Oct 15, 2020•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Erin McEachren is Regional Vice President for Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, EMEA, leading the team to address the unmet needs of patients and eye care professionals around the world. Erin was previously a top level skier and after suffering injury, has a deep connection to medical devices, in which, she now excels. She is an exceptional leader with a track record and breadth of experience in commercial leadership, franchise development and sales execution across Medical Devices and in g...
Oct 15, 2020•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, James is joined again by Graeme from emteq labs who told us his story a few weeks ago. emteq labs have just released a whitepaper: "Measuring what Matters in Immersive Environments," which explains how the technology behind emteq labs’ VR headset builds on over 40 years of research into the relationship between facial expression and emotions to unveil a new paradigm in understanding of mental health and behavioural science. Download the emteq labs whitepaper: https://www.emteqlabs-whi...
Oct 11, 2020•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Alex is Head of Corporate Finance at OSI and a former physician. Alex was a medical student and junior doctor in the Oxford training deanery before transitioning to investment banking. He has over 12 years’ experience in the healthcare and other investment banking sectors, including equity and debt capital raisings, mergers and acquisitions as well as licensing transactions gained at UBS and Lazard. Alex holds a BA in Physiological Sciences and a BM BCh from Oxford University. Oxford Sciences In...
Oct 08, 2020•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast For this week's Sunday Session, we have a clip of James on the Virti Human Performance Podcast talking about what he and the team at somX do to build brand for healthtech companies, get their messaging on-point and how they think about content generation to specific audiences in healthcare. Whether you're building your personal brand or your healthtech company's brand, this one is worth a listen! Listen to the full episode on the Virti Human Performance Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/pod...
Oct 04, 2020•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Neelam is MedCity’s CEO, responsible for leading the team and operations, driving the strategy and relationships with key stakeholders and funders. She is also the lead for clinical trials, supporting companies seeking clinical and research expertise and collaborations. Neelam has extensive experience in Pharma, R&D, NIHR service improvement & strategy. MedCity is the cluster organisation for the world-leading health and life sciences sector in London and the Greater South East of Englan...
Oct 01, 2020•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this week's Sunday Session, James gives you a couple of tips for getting a job in healthtech, outlines a few jobs available at some of the best healthtech organisations and ends with some bonus content from last week's discussion with Lissy Hu, who gives us her top tip for healthtech entrepreneurs. Read this week's Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: https://somx.substack.com/p/-007-death-tech-and-awell-health Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk...
Sep 27, 2020•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lissy Hu is the founder and CEO of Careport and came up with the concept while she was getting her MD and MBA at Harvard. She entered and won a Harvard business plan competition in 2012. That same year, she got additional funding, $3.8 million, through the Techstars Boston accelerator program, allowing her to launch CarePort in 2013. The company built out its software, which patients use to find a post-acute provider and hospitals use to track patient outcomes. In 2016, national healthcare IT co...
Sep 24, 2020•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's Sunday session, James drops a clip from the Scrubbed In podcast. He was on that podcast last week discussing personal branding, healthtech and giving his advice to young medics and entrepreneurs. You can catch the full episode at the link below! Scrubbed In with Dr James Somauroo: https://open.spotify.com/episode/24l3QO7zZj6g8pHNnvQcG3?si=7q7fppxbQZSF9xr0AjXIag Read the latest Healthtech Pigeon newsletter 🐦 https://somx.substack.com/p/-006-telehealth-cyberattacks-and Get in touch...
Sep 20, 2020•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, James is joined by Dr Fiona Pathiraja, a consultant radiologist by background and now Managing Partner at Crista Galli Ventures, a brand-new healthtech-specific VC fund investing pan-Europe into companies building the future. James and Fiona discuss her background through clinical medicine, management consulting, and MBA and now founding her own fund. They also discuss the vision for Crista Galli Ventures and Fiona's passion for diversity in both the healthtech and investing spaces. T...
Sep 16, 2020•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week's Sunday Session is all about AI in healthcare. James talks about NHSX's AI Lab and its projects, particularly the The Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care Award, which, excitingly, just issued £50M to 42 AI projects... Get all the updates you need from the Healthtech Pigeon newsletter 🐦 https://somx.substack.com/p/-005-nhsx-awards-50m-and-theres-a Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk...
Sep 13, 2020•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nicholas Kelly is the chairman of Axela group, which was set up to deliver on the vision of changing the way people view healthcare by supporting the care lifecycle and making care accessible to all. He has over 12 years experience in social care having set up his first domiciliary care agency in 2006, which has grown to be a corner stone of the Axela group. Nicholas has over 10 years leadership experience working in a tech and health environment having previously had senior involvement with App...
Sep 10, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week's Sunday session features some tips for entrepreneurs from Joseph Mossel, CEO of Ibex Medial Analytics, info on an upcoming digital health event and info on Healthtech Pigeon 🐦 a newsletter you can sign up to which summarises what James has been reading and listening to in the healthtech world. It's all you need in a 1 minute read! Get discounted tickets for Digital Primary Care 2020: https://hopin.to/events/digital-primary-care-20?code=d20aa6a5-6c8f-439a-8b0f-893e76abe9da Free sign u...
Sep 06, 2020•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Joseph Mossel is CEO and Co-Founder of Ibex Medical Analytics, a next generation cancer diagnostics startup aiming to reduce diagnostic error and improve patient care. Over his career he served as a software engineer, product manager and in leadership roles in startups, corporates and non-profits, and has taken products from inception to multi-million dollar businesses. He holds a MSc in computer science from Tel Aviv University, and a MSc in environmental science from VU Amsterdam. Ibex Medical...
Sep 03, 2020•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast For this week's Sunday Session, James chats to Prof Sultan Mahmud, Director of Innovation, Integration and Research at Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust in the UK. From the humblest of beginnings, 'Sul' as he likes to be known rose the ranks through the NHS via jobs in big pharma and is now involved at the coalface of healthtech, helping his Trust bring in technologies like Zesty (you can hear Lloyd Price, cofounder of Zesty a few episodes ago). Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.so...
Aug 30, 2020•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, James is joined by Graeme Cox, cofounder and CEO of emteq labs. Graeme has led multiple startup companies from initiation to exit, acting both as CEO and CTO with a 25-year track record in AI, software development, client engagement, problem solving and organisational development. His latest company, emteq labs, uses VR, multiple biometrics and machine learning to quantify human emotion. Their integrated system is the most ecologically valid and user-friendly solution on the market an...
Aug 27, 2020•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week's Sunday Session features some bonus content from a conversation between James and Amer Fasihi, cofounder and CEO of healthtech company, Kraydel. The full episode will be out in a couple of weeks, but you'll hear a chat between James and Amer from before they officially started recording the episode. They chat about identity and how it changes as you move careers and companies, the opportunity that comes with first-mover-advantage and entrepreneurs' self confessed affinity to high-risk...
Aug 23, 2020•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Lord Victor Adebowale is an influential and high profile healthtech leader who combines commercial acumen with a commitment to social responsibility and personal values. He is the founder and chair of healthtech company Visionable and was previously Chief Executive of the social care enterprise Turning Point. Lord Adebowale was one of the first to become a People's Peer and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to the New Dea...
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