Arvind Tewari is the Chief Operating Officer of Oxford VR. After studying a BSc and MSc in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry at Oxford, Arvind worked in M&A at Rothschild focussing on global Consumer and Healthcare businesses. He then worked in private equity during which time he invested over $500m of capital and held numerous Board positions to accelerate the growth of businesses through strategic clarity and operational excellence. At Oxford VR he leads on go to market and product strat...
Mar 21, 2021•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, James is joined by Connor Landgraf, CEO and co-founder of Eko, a cardiopulmonary digital health company. Eko is elevating the way clinicians detect and monitor cardiac and respiratory disease by bringing together advanced sensors, patient and provider software, and AI-powered analysis. Connor shares his quick tips with us for entrepreneurs entering the health tech space. Get in touch with Connor at: connor@ekohealth.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦 www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in...
Mar 18, 2021•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr Abdullah Albeyatt i is the CEO and Co-Founder of Medicalchain . Medicalchain is a company that uses blockchain technology to store health records securely. By digitizing health records, Medicalchain aims to empower patients and create a more comprehensive healthcare experience. And, myclinic.com uses Medicalchain technology to allow patients to communicate directly with doctors and share their health records for online consultations. Dr Albeyatti graduated from Imperial College London as a do...
Mar 11, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, James is joined by Vishaal Virani, a doctor by background now working in digital health. After spending a couple of years in the NHS Vishaal spent some time in healthcare strategy consulting. He then moved into digital health, working at Ada Health, an AI-powered symptom assessment technology. He is now developing digital health innovations for RB, which owns brands such as Nurofen, Gaviscon and Durex. He is also a co-founder of Doctorpreneurs, the global community of healthcare innov...
Mar 07, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mymee Dyhrenberg, is CEO of Mymee. Mymee is changing lives with a patient- and data-centric approach to tackling autoimmune disease, based on helping people identify their unique individualized triggers. The results of their new clinical study in lupus patients was just published in JMIR - showing clinically significant and meaningful improvements in Quality of Life among patients. Get in touch with Mette: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mettedyhrberg https://www.mymee.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech P...
Mar 04, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week I'm joined again by Sina Habibi, co-founder and CEO of Cognetivity Neurosciences. He holds a PhD in Engineering from University of Cambridge and has experience in Ultra-precision Engineering, Nano-technology, product management, and high-tech consultancy. Sina was on the podcast a couple of years ago and has made awesome progress, pivoting through challenges and he explains all on the episode today. Get in touch with Sina: info@cognetivity.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.hea...
Feb 28, 2021•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr Harro Stokman is CEO & Founder of Kepler Vision Technologies, an Amsterdam-based health-tech start-up which uses artificial intelligence to look after the well-being of humans at night through vision-based body language recognition software. Kepler Vision's mission is to make the job of nurses operating in elderly care homes less stressful and more enjoyable by freeing them to focus on providing care through real-time body language recognition. A spin-off company from the University of Am...
Feb 25, 2021•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's Sunday Session, we're asking the question: why has remote monitoring failed? The technology has been around for years, so why isn't remote monitoring ubiquitous across healthcare right now? Are poor quality signals and lack of good-enough AI the answer? My guest is Elina Naydenova. Elina is a biomedical & AI engineer, with a PhD in Machine Learning for Healthcare Innovation from Oxford University. She is the CEO & co-founder of Feebris – a company whose AI-powered platform...
Feb 21, 2021•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, James is joined by Geoff von Maltzahn, CEO and co-founder at Tessera Therapeutics. Tessera is an early-stage biotech start-up that launched this summer with $50M in financing to pioneer a new category in ‘gene writing.’ Going even further than CRISPR, Tessera’s gene writing technology presents the potential to cure genetic disorders, cancers, and even infectious diseases like COVID-19. Geoffrey was awarded a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering and medical physics from MIT. Get in touch wi...
Feb 18, 2021•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week on my Sunday Session I'm joined by Mimi Billing Senior reporter at @siftedeu . Mimi writes about European health-tech and innovation in the Nordics. Previously at @didigital_se . Get in Touch with Mimi: @MimiBilling on Twitter Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk...
Feb 14, 2021•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week I'm joined by Arturo Sanchez, founder and CEO of Sofia, a Mexican competitor to European digital health platforms, taking aim at the Mexican health insurance and primary care sectors. In the $65bn USD Mexican healthcare sector, 91% of private spending is paid out of pocket, with too many people forced to pay extraordinary costs for care and pressures on access to primary services. Arturo Sanchez is hoping to change that with a new digital service bringing care to patients at a lower co...
Feb 11, 2021•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast My Sunday Session this week is with Martin Blinder, CEO and founder of Tictrac (a leading health engagement company). In this podcast Martin gives us his top tips for entrepreneurs. You can listen to his full chat with me on episode #170. Get in touch with Martin: https://tictrac.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk...
Feb 08, 2021•2 min•Transcript available on Metacast Martîn Blinder is the CEO and founder of Tictrac. Tictrac is a personalized digital health and wellness platform designed to empower individuals to take greater control of their wellbeing. Martîn recently appeared on Sky News to discuss the increased demand in HealthTech tools and why now is a pivotal moment for health and wellbeing. He believes that the workplace of the future will not just be about ensuring a productive team, but supporting the health and wellbeing needs of staff. Get in touch...
Feb 04, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this weeks Sunday Session I'm joined by Mala Mawkin, Head of Market Development at pain management start-up Cellen. Cellen launched the UK's first online chronic pain clinic. Mala was featured on Forbes 30 Under 30, Vogue UK 10 Rising Female Stars 2018 and Women of the Future UK Awards Finalist 2019. Get in touch with Mala: www.malamawkin.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk
Jan 31, 2021•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Rudy Benfredj is co-founder and CEO at Mendelian . Mendelian aim to help doctors diagnose rare diseases faster using their MendelScan software. Rudy is a Computer Scientist graduated from Imperial College London with a degree in Engineering during which he worked under the supervision of Dr. Aldo Faisal in the bioengineering faculty and Prof. Marek Sergot, Head of the Logic and Artificial Intelligence department. Passionate about health, he moved to Tel Aviv to work at the Israeli med tech diagn...
Jan 28, 2021•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week’s Sunday Session I'm joined by Nader Alaghband, co-founder & CEO of Ampersand Health. Ampersand have just launched a brand new digital therapeutic into the NHS for people suffering with inflammatory arthritis and on this episode, Nader explains all... Get in touch with Nader: https://ampersandhealth.co.uk Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk
Jan 24, 2021•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this weeks Sunday Session I chat to Aditya Nori, lead of the Health Intelligence theme at Microsoft Research Cambridge, where their mission is to transform the practice of medicine via trusted and human-centred AI. In the past, Aditya has developed AI-based productivity tools for cancer treatment ( The InnerEye Project ), and also explored various synergies between programming languages and machine learning which inspired new perspectives in formal verification, probabilistic programming, and...
Jan 17, 2021•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Exo ’s CEO and Co-Founder, Sandeep Akkaraju. Exo (pronounced “Echo”) is a health information and devices company with an initial aim to reinvent ultrasound. Currently, 75% of the world’s population doesn’t have access to any form of medical imaging. If made available, basic medical imaging could help solve many life-saving issues, including accurate diagnoses of COVID-19. Akkaraju recently led Exo through a Series B+ fundraising round, bringing the total to nearly $100 million in funding to date...
Jan 14, 2021•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast This weeks Sunday Session is a preview of an upcoming episode with CEO of Mymee, Mette Dyhrberg. Mette is changing lives with a patient- and data-centric approach to tackling autoimmune disease, based on helping people identify their unique individualized triggers. She shares with us some tips for health tech entrepreneurs. Get in touch with Mette: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mettedyhrberg/ https://www.mymee.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦 https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/ Get in touch: w...
Jan 10, 2021•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tom Whicher is founder of DrDoctor & an NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow . Tom is a biomedical engineer by background and worked for a management consulting firm before identifying an opportunity to improve hospital outpatient appointment bookings. In 2012, he launched his own company, DrDoctor, which aims to improve communication around scheduling outpatient appointments between patients and hospitals. Get in touch with Tom: https://www.drdoctor.co.uk/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: ww...
Jan 07, 2021•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's Sunday Session, I chat again to Elliott Engers, CEO and Co-Founder of Infinity Health. In 2015 following a conversation with an NHS doctor who was battling with paper based task lists Elliott saw a technical challenge a start-up he could really contribute to. He set out to make task management safer and more efficient whilst improving clinicians’ experience of their crucial, high-pressure roles; Infinity Health was born. Get in Touch : https://infinity.health/elliott-engers Subscr...
Jan 03, 2021•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Per Edlund is the Head of Radiology Commercial Operations Asia Pacific in the Bayer Pharmaceuticals Division. Per has about 20 years of experience leading multi-cultural teams to drive innovation, growth and patient-centricity, to meet unmet needs in the field of diagnostic radiology. He currently heads a diverse business featuring a portfolio that includes Contrast Agents, Medical Devices, Services, and Informatics. Get in touch with Per: https://www.linkedin.com/in/per-edlund-a9609550 https://...
Dec 31, 2020•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week's guest on the Sunday session is Dr Arthur Roach, Director of Research at Parkinson's UK. Arthur has spent 25 years in research, discovery and development for drug companies and universities, working on projects developing new treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and MS. "My big preoccupation is with finding the best means to convert the genetic and biochemical discoveries of the past decade into new treatments that will make a difference to people with Parkinson's. I know that this...
Dec 27, 2020•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, James is joined by Dr Chris Lovejoy, a Data scientist with a background as a medical doctor. He studied Medicine at University of Cambridge, he has a big YouTube following and makes videos about machine learning, healthcare, career transitions, productivity and anything else on his mind. Get in touch with Chris : https://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisLovejoy/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk...
Dec 24, 2020•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this weeks Sunday Session I speak to Dr Mala Mawkin. Mala works at Cellen, a healthcare technology company innovating in chronic pain. She also is the Digital Medicine Innovation Lead at Imperial College London, and the host of the Digital Health Podcast for the Royal Society of Medicine. Prior to this, Mala was a doctor in the NHS and has worked at institutions such as European Space Agency, Malawi’s e-health programme and several healthtech companies in London. She has also held roles at Un...
Dec 20, 2020•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast For this week's Sunday Session, James is joined by Sarah Ticho, founder & CEO of Hatsumi and Ross O'Brien, Associate Director of Innovation and Technology at CNWL to talk about adopting healthtech innovation - in this case, with VR... Get in touch with Sarah: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-ticho/ Get in touch with Ross: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ross-o-brien-a270917b/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk...
Dec 13, 2020•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Head of Clinical Innovation at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. In 2015, the NHS clinical entrepreneur drew on her surgical experiences and her passion for innovation and education, to create Proximie ; a technology platform on a mission to save lives by sharing the world’s best clinical practice. Nadine received the British Empire Medal in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours for her innovative work within the fields of surgery...
Dec 10, 2020•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this week's Sunday Session, Dilraj Kalsi is back to talk about some of the practical steps to take and hurdles to overcome to become an entrepreneur in the wellness space. Subscribe to healthtech pigeon: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk
Dec 06, 2020•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dag Larsson is founder and CEO of Doccla, a virtual ward company. Dag graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics and formerly held executive positions at MTG, Viaplay and Turnpikegroup. Doccla uses the latest wearable devices to allow medical staff to monitor the vital signs of a patient remotely, through a secure web browser, while the patient is at home. Its virtual wards allow NHS trusts to reduce the number of vulnerable patients required to remain in hospital, increasing capacity to l...
Dec 03, 2020•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week's Sunday Session features Dr Indra Joshi, once an emergency medicine physician and now the Director of AI at NHSX. James and Indra discuss her background and how she came to lead the AI efforts for NHSX, along with some of the specific projects that NHSX are undertaking to increase the adoption of AI into the UK healthcare system. Once of these projects is the AI in Healthcare Award, which is encouraging applications from companies across triage, imaging, screening, and intelligent ope...
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