The Healthtech Podcast (Dr. James Somauroo)
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| 19 Dec 2019 | Episode 54: The Story of Novoheart and Artificial Organs 💙 | 00:54:44 | |
Can you grow a beating heart in a lab? Could you test cardiac drugs on it? Could you transplant it into a human? This week, James is joined by Dr. Kevin Costa, Co-founder & Chief Scientific Officer at biotech firm Novoheart, the first company in the world to have developed miniature beating human hearts from stem cells which are being used to change the way drugs are able to be screened for cardiac effects. The company itself has worked on a multi-phase research partnership with Pfizer and has filed IP on its proprietary system which can create healthy as well as sick mini hearts and combines organoid data with AI to screen for drug toxicity and efficacy with an exceptionally high degree of accuracy. As well as his work with Novoheart, Dr. Costa is also the Associate Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. | |||
| 27 May 2021 | #200 The Story of IBM Research with Neuroscientist Sara Berger 🧠 | 00:49:38 | |
This week, James is joined by Sara E. Berger, Research Staff Member and Cognitive & Behavioral Neuroscientist at IBM Research. She holds a PhD in Neuroscience from Northwestern University, and a Bachelor's degree in Neuroscience from Macalester College. Sara's background lies in systems and cognitive neuroscience, with an emphasis on chronic pain conditions and psychology. In the past, she has focused on identifying, quantifying and predicting changes in acute and chronic pain in both animals and humans - with a decade of experience in the field of pain. At IBM, she is applying her knowledge of neuroimaging, psychology and clinical research to address a wide variety of questions and applications. IBM Research is the research and development division for IBM, an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 170 countries. Get in Touch with Sara: sara.eberger@ibm.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk | |||
| 18 Oct 2020 | #140: The value of clinical UX in healthtech, with Dr Gyles Morrison 🩺 | 00:48:51 | |
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 Africa and America on digital healthcare products including Electronic Patient Record systems, remote monitoring tools and digital therapeutics. | |||
| 08 Feb 2023 | #290 Building a Successful Healthtech Team with Chris Caulfield | 00:13:49 | |
This week, we are throwing it back to episode 105 with Chris Caulfield, registered nurse, Union leader and co-founder of Intelycare. They have built a solution to reduce the growing issue of staffing shortages and burnout experienced by nurses across the US. James and Chris dive into the topic of building a successful healthtech founding team, and how to attract talent that truly understand the healthcare problem. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 10 Oct 2019 | Episode 44: The Story of Bonzun and Pregnancy-Tech 🤰🏽 | 01:00:24 | |
This week, James is joined by Bonnie Roupé, a Swedish-born international businesswoman and social entrepreneur, best known as the founder of Bonzun, a health company providing pregnant women and parents with unbiased evidence based medical information. In 2004, Bonnie started a publishing house and founded the Swedish Golf Magazine for women, Red Tee, the first niched sports magazine for women. In 2005 she was named the most promising entrepreneur of the Year in Sweden and in 2012 she was listed as one of Sweden's super talents. She was rewarded Innovation Against Poverty by SIDA 2012 for Bonzun's work spreading medical information in the countryside in China. In 2001 and 2003 Bonnie sailed on around Svalbard and from Greenland to the United States, making her one of few people to cross the Arctic Sea, Greenland Sea, Labrador Sea and North Atlantic Ocean on a 47.7 feet sailboat! bonnie@bonzun.com | www.linkedin.com/in/bonnieroupe For more information and content, check out our website www.hs.ventures. You can follow us on Twitter @HSVenture, on Instagram @hs.ventures, on Linkedin at HS. and you can email us at info@hs.live You can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo, at www.jamessomauroo.com and you can follow him on Twitter @jamessomauroo, on Instagram @j_soms and on Linkedin at james-somauroo | |||
| 15 Nov 2020 | #148: Focus on impact... it's an extremely hard journey 🚀 | 00:04:41 | |
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... | |||
| 05 May 2022 | #268 The Story of Amazon Web Services with Dr Taha Kass-Hout, Chief Medical Officer and Director of Machine Learning | 00:33:40 | |
This week, James is joined by Dr. Taha Kass-Hout, Chief Medical Officer and Director of Machine Learning at Amazon Web Services. Dr. Kass-Hout leads the Health AI strategy and efforts, including Amazon Comprehend Medical and Amazon Health Lake. He works with teams at Amazon responsible for developing the science, technology, and scale for COVID-19 lab testing, including Amazon’s first FDA authorization for testing our associates—now offered to the public for at-home testing. A physician and bioinformatic, Taha served two terms under President Obama, including the first Chief Health Informatics officer at the FDA. During this time as a public servant, he pioneered the use of emerging technologies and the cloud (the CDC’s electronic disease surveillance), and established widely accessible global data sharing platforms: the open FDA, which enabled researchers and the public to search and analyze adverse event data, and precision FDA (part of the Presidential Precision Medicine initiative). LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tahak/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/ | |||
| 02 Jan 2025 | #381 Why Medicine Needs Outside-the-Box Thinkers with Peter Rezkalla, aka Doctor Disney | 01:47:05 | |
This week, James is joined by Peter Rezkalla: a paediatrician, actor, and social media sensation known as "Doctor Disney," with over 50 million views. Combining his musical theatre expertise with his medical knowledge, Peter creates engaging and educational videos to support parents, families, healthcare professionals, and children. By integrating media, theatre, and healthtech, Peter is pioneering a new approach to holistic healthcare—one that transcends traditional medicine and empowers communities worldwide. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 23 Feb 2020 | Episode 71: Health Economics and Solving a $1 Trillion Problem 💰 | 00:08:22 | |
This week's Sunday Session is about health economics and features a preview to next week's episode, where our guest is solving the $1 trillion mental health problem. Mentioned this week:
www.hs.ventures | |||
| 28 Oct 2021 | #242 The Story of Octopus Ventures with Principal Will Gibbs 🐙 | 00:46:30 | |
This week, James is joined by Will Gibbs, Principal at Octopus Ventures - one of Europe's largest and most active Venture Capital firms investing in startups in the areas of health and digital therapeutics. Prior to Octopus Will set up multiple small-scale enterprises including a rare-breed pig farm and an organic spirits company. Will holds a degree in Ancient History and Classical Archaeology from Oxford University. When not investing in new health companies or working with Portfolio Companies, Will is most likely to be found messing around on boats, climbing mountains, reading books on random topics or at home with his fiancé, growing a collection of 50+ house plants. Previously, his passion for sailing has led him to sail twice around the UK as part of the Round Britain and Ireland race.
Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/ | |||
| 22 Feb 2024 | #339 Working in healthcare is a privilege, with Francesca Wuttke CEO of nen | 01:16:53 | |
Francesca Wuttke is the founder and CEO of nen, a digital health company founded to help children with cancer, their families, and HCPs with pain management. nen offers a novel mission-driven approach to address pain management through play, leveraging gamification approaches and CBT to modulate pain and improve overall wellbeing. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Grab a ticket for The Healthtech Podcast LIVE and use the code james50 for 50% off! Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 31 May 2023 | #305 From Loss to Legacy: Paul Gaudin's Journey to Solve Social Care | 01:38:59 | |
This week James is joined by Paul Gaudin, a mechanical engineer turned serial entrepreneur. He founded the New York Bagel Co., ran national screening programs, and now focuses on medtech, insurtech, and investing in innovative businesses. Paul is also the cofounder of carerooms.com, which introduces a new model of care using the sharing economy and technology-enabled support. He chairs several boards and is on the advisory board of the Biometric Research Centre. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 16 Dec 2021 | #256 The Story of Wellframe with co-founder Dr Trishan Panch 🇺🇸 | 00:48:31 | |
This week James is joined by Dr. Trishan Panch, co-founder and chief innovation officer at Wellframe. Wellframe fixes the two biggest problems with American health insurance: The patient experience, and the rising cost of care . Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/ | |||
| 26 Dec 2019 | Episode 55: The Story of Radiology AI with Dr. Hugh Harvey 🦾 | 00:55:36 | |
How do you build an AI company in healthcare? What can AI in radiology actually do? What should it be doing? Are clinicians ever going to be replaced? What does the future look like in healthcare AI? This week, James is joined by Dr. Hugh Harvey, who was a consultant radiologist before entering academia and completing an MD research degree in computational analysis of prostate MR, and winning science writer of the year twice in a row. Hugh worked as a consultant radiologist in the NHS (Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Trust), and sat on the Royal College of Radiologists committee for medical imaging informatics as well as the AI working group. He now acts as a consultant and advisory board member for AI start-ups in the UK, EU and America within the imaging and healthcare space, as well as sitting on several AI and academic committees including the KSS Academic Health Science Network AI Core Advisory Group. He has co-authored several white papers and reports on AI in healthcare, alongside bodies such as Reform, an independent think-tank, and Health Education England and is an associate editor at Nature: Digital Medicine. He acted as co-chair of the Topol Review, a seminal independent report for the UK Secretary of State for Health into preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver the digital future - read my take on the Topol Review for Forbes here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamessomauroo/2019/02/11/nhs-announces-workforce-plan-for-genomics-ai-and-digital-medicine/ And Hugh has deep start-up experience both as the lead for regulatory affairs at Babylon (recently valued >$1B) and then the Clinical Director at Kheiron Medical ($22M series A raise), where they developed deep learning software to improve breast cancer screening, and were the first UK company to receive the CE mark for a deep learning application in radiology. Hugh's unique career enables dynamic bridging between the medical, technical and business worlds, with academic, clinical and operational expertise in cognitive digital solutions. He’s a pragmatist, a realist and incredibly refreshing and entertaining on social media @DrHughHarvey | hugh@hardianhealth.com For more information and content, check out our website www.hs.ventures. You can follow us on Twitter @HSVenture, on Instagram @hs.ventures, on Linkedin at HS. and you can email us at info@hs.live You can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo, at www.jamessomauroo.com and you can follow him on Twitter @jamessomauroo, on Instagram @j_soms and on Linkedin at james-somauroo | |||
| 13 Sep 2020 | #130: Artificial Intelligence in Health and Care 🤖❤️ | 00:06:50 | |
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... | |||
| 25 Nov 2022 | #281 Building confidence as a healthtech leader, with Dr. Tarlochlan Toor, Director of Innovation at Holland & Barrett | 00:21:18 | |
This week, James is joined by Dr. Tarlochlan Toor, Director of Innovation at Holland & Barrett, to discuss building confidence as a founder. Navigating the path to entrepreneurship is no easy feat - often feelings of Imposter Syndrome and a lack of experience can hold innovators back from starting their own venture. In this episode, we hear how Dr Tarlochlan Toor used key lessons in emotional intelligence and determination to harbour confidence and become a healthtech leader. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 19 Jul 2024 | #359 Changing the Model of Cancer Care with Dr Toby Basey-Fisher, CEO of Entia | 01:06:16 | |
This week, James is joined by Dr Toby Basey-Fisher, CEO & Founder of Entia, an oncology service provider supporting more effective cancer care by predicting and preventing treatment side effects. Having seen family members struggle with the challenges of poorly personalised cancer therapy, Toby founded Entia to change this. He received his PhD in Biomedical Physics from Imperial College London where he also holds an honorary lectureship. Toby has served as a board member at BIVDA and is a Blavatnik Enterprise Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He has overseen the growth of Entia from a university spin-out to an established market leader in oncology remote patient monitoring. Learn more: https://www.entia.co/ Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 27 Dec 2020 | #160: Healthtech and Parkinson's disease, with Dr Arthur Roach 💊 | 00:45:43 | |
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 will mean finding the best way to work with university researchers, biotech and pharma companies, and people living with Parkinson's. At Parkinson's UK we have built the teams and programmes to do this, and with the resources provided by our supporters, we are determined to make a difference." Get in touch with Arthur : https://uk.linkedin.com/in/arthuroach Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk | |||
| 14 Jan 2021 | #165: The Story of Exo, with Sandeep Akkaraju 💊 | 00:50:27 | |
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. With an unwavering vision, a dedication to hiring the best technology and medical device talent in the world, and a steady hand guiding Exo forward every step of the way, Akkaraju is a powerful force for medical innovation. Get in touch with Sandeep: Sandeep Akkaraju | LinkedIn or www.exo.inc/leadership/sandeep-akkaraju/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk | |||
| 14 Feb 2021 | #173: Healthtech journalism with Mimi Billing, Senior Reporter at Sifted 📰 | 00:47:17 | |
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 | |||
| 12 Nov 2020 | #147: The Story of Kheiron Medical, with Peter Kecskemethy ☤ | 00:50:05 | |
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 its current focus is breast screening. The company’s first product, Mia, has European regulatory approval, and won best new radiology solution for 2019. | |||
| 13 Nov 2024 | #374 From Idea to Impact: The Ultimate Startup Founders’ Playbook with Devika Wood, CCO of Brain+ | 01:03:00 | |
This week, James is joined by Devika Wood, Chief Commercial Officer at Brain+, pioneers of digitised cognitive stimulation therapy for dementia and with a mission to bring the best-in-class dementia therapies to all. With a Masters in Public Health from Imperial College London and over thirteen years of experience across healthcare, life sciences, and investment sectors, Devika began her career at Google and subsequently joined Babylon as one of their first hires, later founding Vida in 2016 and successfully exiting as CEO in 2019. Devika was recognised in Forbes 30 under 30 for Healthcare and Science and alongside advising women's health startups, she founded 'I am Arla,' an AI powered women's mental health. Learn more: https://www.brain-plus.com/ Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 05 Jan 2020 | Episode 57: The First Sunday Session 🤓 | 00:12:36 | |
The first Sunday Session episode - a short, sharp selection of Sunday inspiration featuring some bonus content from previous guests, recent healthtech news, recommendations for events, books, articles and some Q&A from all the comments and feedback. | |||
| 26 Jan 2020 | Episode 63: Focus 📌 | 00:07:55 | |
This week's Sunday Session - a short, sharp selection of Sunday inspiration featuring some bonus content from previous guests, recent healthtech news, recommendations for events, books, articles and some Q&A from all the comments and feedback.
If you want to suggest a guest or appear on the podcast, email James a pitch at james@hs.live or if you want a question answered on one of the Sunday Sessions, send it to that email too or message him on his socials (below). | |||
| 04 Jul 2021 | #211 The Story of Samsung Electronics with Mark Notton | 00:39:31 | |
This week, James is joined by Mark Notton, from Samsung Electronics. As one of the global technology leaders, Samsung’s vision is to build a “Better Normal” through technology and innovation, creating experiences that improve our daily lives and the world we live in. Mark leads Samsung’s mobile product and commercial operations in Europe, and will be exploring with James how both mobile devices and wearables are becoming an important part of personal health monitoring. In his private life, Mark is studying for an Advanced Diploma in Medical Science and Nutrition and is an avid health and fitness enthusiast.
Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/ | |||
| 30 Sep 2021 | #234 The Story of Kinnevik with CEO Georgi Ganev 💸 | 00:39:36 | |
This week, James is joined by Georgi Ganev, who has been CEO of Kinnevik since 2018. Kinnevik is one of Europe’s leading listed investors in tech-enabled businesses, and backs some of the most exciting healthtech companies in the world, including Babylon Health, Village MD, Cityblock and Teladoc Health. Georgi is a technology expert with deep industry experience and a passion for growth-stage businesses that are disrupting incumbents and making life better for people everywhere. He recently led Kinnevik through it’s latest successful strategic pivot, and is now focused on backing the business models that will underpin shifting consumer trends as the world emerges from the worst of the pandemic.
Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/ | |||
| 17 Jun 2021 | #206 The Story of Cipher Skin with Dr Shaka Bahadu | 00:51:51 | |
This week, James is joined by Dr. Shaka Bahadu, a Healthcare operations expert, clinical informatics, and COO and co-founder of Cipher Skin. Shaka holds a doctorate in Medicine from the Joan & Sanford Weill Medical College of Cornell, and an MBA from Stanford Business School. Using his expertise, he helps lead Cipher Skin, a technology startup that is on a mission to predict and analyze structural failures in the body and give data in real time to help prevent your next injury. Get in touch with Shaka: shaka@cipherskin.com or info@cipherskin.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk | |||
| 19 Feb 2025 | #387 How AI is Accelerating Cardiac Imaging with Charlotte Manisty from MyCardium AI | 00:52:11 | |
This week, James is joined by Charlotte Manisty, Professor of Cardiology at University College London, cardiac MRI specialist, and clinical lead for Cardio-Oncology at Barts Heart Centre. Charlotte is also a director and co-founder of MyCardium AI, a UCL spinout revolutionising cardiovascular scanning. By leveraging clinician-developed AI, MyCardium AI enhances the accuracy, precision, and consistency of diagnostic imaging, driving innovative treatments to improve patient outcomes. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 22 Oct 2020 | #141: The Story of Oribiotech with Jason Foster ⭕️ | 00:51:12 | |
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. | |||
| 27 Apr 2020 | Episode 90: Qure.ai Deploys AI Radiology Software In The Fight Against COVID-19 | 00:10:29 | |
This week's Sunday Session is all about AI in radiology and the announcement that Qure.ai, a healthtech company specialising in artificial intelligence (AI) has deployed its COVID-19 progression monitoring software in a UK hospital. This is a big moment for AI in radiology in the UK and could be a pivotal moment for the adoption of AI in healthcare. | |||
| 21 Jun 2020 | #106: VR in healthcare 🕶 | 00:09:59 | |
In this week's Sunday session, James talks about the latest in VR in healthcare and you can read the Forbes article below. | |||
| 04 Mar 2021 | #178 The Story of Mymee with CEO Mette Dyhrenberg 🦠 | 01:08:50 | |
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/
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| 23 Mar 2025 | #391 Quick Tips for Entrepreneurs, with Sehaam Cyrene | 00:04:49 | |
This Sunday James is joined by Sehaam Cyrene, founder of Coachlead as she gives us her quick tips for entrepreneurs. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 12 Apr 2020 | Episode 86: Hiring in Healthtech | 00:09:57 | |
Hiring is hard. In healthtech it's even harder. But right now, it's needed more than ever with so many people out of work. The expertise is pretty niche, it's tough finding people that 'get it' in healthtech with public/private sector and clinical/managerial/business nuances, there's specific sales and marketing knowledge, there's no one place to go to find jobs/hires and recruiters still face the same issues. At HS., we've already solved the problem more times than we can count through the podcast and our events and now we've built something very exciting... | |||
| 28 Nov 2019 | Episode 51: The Story of Infinity Health and Hospital Productivity 🏥 | 01:00:32 | |
How do you go from the post room at Virgin Records to becoming a healthtech entrepreneur? How does watching iTunes disrupting the music industry prepare you to disrupt healthcare? In healthtech, why is it so important to delight users with a great experience? All these answered and more on this week's episode where James is joined by Elliot Engers, founder and CEO of Infinity Health, a London-based start-up that has developed a suite of digital tools to improve workflow and task management in healthcare. | |||
| 02 Aug 2020 | #118: Tips from the President and CEO of GE Healthcare 🏅 | 00:11:29 | |
It's a 241 on GE healthcare this week - Rob Walton, President and CEO across 13 markets is back to give us his top tips for healthtech entrepreneurs. James also talks about perfection being the enemy of progress and how he's had to combat it in the last week! | |||
| 05 Jul 2020 | #110: VR in anaesthesia | 00:39:08 | |
This week, James is joined by an old friend and colleague, Dr. Kevin Rafferty. James and Kevin did anaesthetics together and Kevin still practices today. He uses his own VR headset design when anaesthetising his paediatric patients and tells us all about that and his vision for VR right across the patient-journey when it comes to anaesthetics and surgery. | |||
| 09 Jan 2022 | #258 Quick Tips with Dr. Tarlochan Toor, Director of New Wellness Partnerships & Propositions at Holland&Barrett 🌿 | 00:07:59 | |
This week our Quick Tips for entrepreneurs come from Dr Tarlochan Toor, Director of New Wellness Partnerships and Propositions at Holland and Barrett. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drtarlochantoor/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/ | |||
| 11 Oct 2020 | #138: The future of VR and Healthtech Pigeon highlights 🐦 | 00:17:41 | |
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. | |||
| 11 Feb 2021 | #172: The Story of Sofia with CEO and Founder, Arturo Sanchez 🩹 | 00:47:41 | |
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 cost. Get in touch with Arturo: https://www.sofiasalud.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk | |||
| 29 Jul 2021 | #216 Quick Tips with Casper Wilstrup, Founder of Abzu | 00:08:15 | |
This week, James is joined by Casper Wilstrup from the Danish artificial intelligence startup, Abzu. He gives us his quick tips for entrepreneurs.
Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/ | |||
| 11 Mar 2021 | #180 The Story of Medicalchain, with CEO Dr Abdullah Albeyatti ⛓ | 01:02:59 | |
Dr Abdullah Albeyatti 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 doctor in 2011 and started his medical career as a surgical trainee in London before moving onto GP Specialty Training. He continues to practice as a GP and is a familiar face in the medical community, speaking at various events. Prior to co-founding Medicalchain, Dr Albeyatti founded Discharge Summary, an application used in hospitals to produce accurate and reliable discharge summaries. Get in touch with Abdullah: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-abdullah-albeyatti-mbbs-bsc-mrcs-ent-mrcgp-49916973/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk | |||
| 07 Jun 2023 | #306 LLMs will save healthcare, with Rob Brisk, NHS cardiologist & computer scientist | 01:14:49 | |
This week, James is joined by Rob Brisk. Rob is an NHS cardiologist with a PhD in computer science. Alongside his clinical work, he has been a scientific advisor on to the Department of Health during COVID, overseen the life sciences research programme for the UK's most powerful supercomputer, and is now bringing large language models to the point of care in his role as Chief Scientific Officer of Eolas Medical. Rob is a passionate believer in the power of machine learning-based technologies to revolutionise healthcare. He is a strong advocate for medics upskilling in this space to help shape the future of healthtech. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 12 Mar 2025 | #389 The Reality of Being a Resident Doctor Today with Dr Tom (Jia) Yifan, from BMJ Future Health | 01:23:17 | |
This week, James is joined by Dr Tom (Jia) Yifan, resident doctor at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and co-founder of HealthNest, a healthtech company improving at home blood pressure monitoring. Tom is also co-chair of the Future Generations Committee at BMJ and passionate about combining healthcare with innovation and ensuring people have meaningful time to focus on what matters most. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 01 Mar 2023 | #293 Innovating gut health with co-founder and CEO Dr Thomas Gurry | 00:51:31 | |
This week, James is joined by PhD computational biologist, Dr Thomas Gurry. He has spent more than 15 years in academic research exploring dietary fibre and its influence on the gut microbiome, before venturing into entrepreneurship. After recognising the importance of fibre in maintaining a healthy gut and preventing chronic diseases, he co-founded myota. They combine patented research technology and precision fibre supplementation, designed to suit every person and every microbiome. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 26 Mar 2020 | Episode 81: COVID-19: The Story of Pando and The Flow of Information | 00:49:08 | |
This week, we're still getting our heads around coronavirus. We’re newly locked down in the UK, we're all getting used to remote working and as we heard on the last episode with Dr Aman Gupta, the front line is preparing in almost military style for what is going to be a war on coronavirus and a huge influx of patients. | |||
| 13 Sep 2023 | #320 How I co-founded a healthtech company that's raised $189.5M, with Daniel Nathrath from Ada Health | 01:16:16 | |
This week, James is joined by Daniel Nathrath, CEO and co-founder of Ada Health. Ada is a global health company founded by doctors, scientists, and industry pioneers to create new possibilities for personal health and transform knowledge into better outcomes. Daniel is a serial entrepreneur with 20+ years’ experience in high-growth markets and technological transformation. During his career, he has founded and led several internet startups based in Denmark, Germany, the US and the UK. Daniel was a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and studied law as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Houston. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 13 Jun 2019 | Episode 27: The Story of Albion VC and the History of Healthtech ⏳ | 01:07:53 | |
This week James is joined by Andrew Elder, Deputy Managing Partner at Albion VC. Andrew initially practised as a surgeon for six years, specialising in neurosurgery, before joining the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as a consultant in 2001. Whilst at BCG he specialised in healthcare strategy, gaining experience with many large, global clients across the full spectrum of healthcare including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, service and care providers, software and telecommunications. Andrew now focuses on medical technologies, digital health and technology-enabled services to the life-science sector, and has served on the boards of companies ranging from diagnostics, imaging and software to pharmaceuticals and biomarkers. He joined Albion Capital in 2005 and became a partner in 2009. He has an MA plus Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery from Cambridge University and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (England). Andrew also oversees the management of the UCL Technology Fund in collaboration with UCLB. | |||
| 13 Aug 2020 | #121: The Story of Oviva with Mark Jenkins | 00:46:00 | |
Dr Mark Jenkins is Co-Founder and Medical Director at Oviva UK Ltd, a company digitising behaviour change therapy for lifestyle conditions such as Type 2 diabetes and obesity. Mark trained as a doctor at Guy’s & St Thomas Hospitals in London, where he also completed an academic foundation programme specialising in nephrology and then worked at the Boston Consulting Group. Mark is Oviva's UK Managing Director and leads Oviva’s research strategy and partnerships with the NHS. | |||
| 03 Oct 2019 | Episode 43: The Story of Ieso Digital Health and NLP 🗣 | 00:53:12 | |
Are you keen to learn the basics of AI and NLP? Are you looking to use NLP in your company? Could you? Should you? This week, James is joined by Valentin Tablan, SVP for Artificial Intelligence at Ieso Digital Health which delivers high-quality cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) online, for people experiencing common mental health issues. Valentin has spent nearly 20 years in the field of Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation, and Artificial Intelligence. His team apply advanced AI techniques to Ieso’s vast dataset to determine which evidence-based therapy interventions are most effective. Under his leadership, Ieso has created the industry’s first (real-time) AI-enabled tools that augment therapists’ which in turn increases quality and improves clinical outcomes. Prior to joining Ieso Valentin was the lead scientist on the question-answering service that powers Amazon’s Alexa smart assistant; he is now using that expertise to help computers familiarise with the way patients express themselves during therapy. Valentin holds a PhD from the University of Sheffield and is a multi-lingual language specialist. He is a frequent speaker on deep learning tools and techniques which can revolutionise healthcare applications, medicine and diagnostics. https://www.linkedin.com/in/vtablan/ For more information and content, check out our website www.hs.ventures. You can follow us on Twitter @HSVenture, on Instagram @hs.ventures, on Linkedin at HS. and you can email us at info@hs.live You can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo, at www.jamessomauroo.com and you can follow him on Twitter @jamessomauroo, on Instagram @j_soms and on Linkedin at james-somauroo | |||
| 08 Dec 2023 | #332 The dangers of the microbiome hype & the need for scientific rigour | 00:18:24 | |
This week we look back at episode 293, where James and Thomas discuss the recent surge in public understanding of nutrition and the microbiome, the remaining knowledge gap, and the need to be wary of "cowboy" companies mistaking correlation for causation. Thomas Gurry is a computational biologist and co-founder of myota, a prebiotic supplement tailored to improve gut health Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 18 Sep 2024 | #366 The Rise of Computational Pathology: How AI is Shaping Cancer Diagnosis with Thomas Fuchs, CEO of Paige.AI | 00:51:32 | |
This week, James is joined by Dr Thomas Fuchs, Founder and Chief Scientist at Paige, a healthtech company using the power of AI to drive a new era of cancer discovery and treatment. Paige is the first company to receive FDA approval for a clinical AI application in digital pathology. It's cloud-based platform transforms pathologists’ workflow and increases diagnostic confidence as well as productivity on a global scale. Learn more: https://paige.ai/ Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 18 Jul 2019 | Episode 32: The Story of GlaxoSmithKline and the Importance of Design In Healthtech 🧬 | 00:53:28 | |
James is joined by Andrew Barraclough, VP of design and innovation at GlaxoSmithKline. With thirty years’ experience, Andrew Barraclough is a leading voice at the heart of design and innovation in the healthcare and FMCG sectors. Andrew joined GlaxoSmithKline in 2011, having previously worked Design Business Association, Novartis Consumer Health, Reckitt Benckiser and Pure Realisation, which he founded. As Vice President of design and innovation at GSK, Andrew has continued to push the boundaries of perception of design across 146+ markets for 25+ global brands, including Panadol, Sensodyne, Theraflu and Flonase. Andrew’s mission at GSK is to embed world class design-thinking and culture across all customer touchpoints. Andrew and James talk about the importance of design in healthtech, how to apply design thinking, the value of designers to healthtech startups and all startups need to apply design thinking from day one. https://www.gsk.com/ | |||
| 09 Apr 2021 | BONUS EPISODE with Thomas Vande Casteele of Awell Health 🌡️ | 00:17:25 | |
Thomas Vande Casteele is CEO and co-founder at Awell Health and was a guest a couple of months ago. He's back on this bonus episode commenting on the news that the WHO has launched its first SMART Guideline, a landmark effort to accelerate the availability and impact of WHO health and data recommendations within digital systems at the country level, starting with antenatal care. Thomas is perfectly positioned to tell us all about the significance of this news based on his work with Awell. Get in Touch with Thomas Vande Castelle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasvdc Read about the new WHO pathways: https://www.who.int/news/item/18-02-2021-from-paper-to-digital-pathway-who-launches-first-smart-guidelines Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk | |||
| 22 Feb 2023 | #292 Lessons of leadership with healthtech CEO Robert Miller | 00:39:27 | |
In this episode, James is joined by Robert Miller, CEO of Wellbeing Software. They explore Robert's diverse background from designing nuclear power stations to CEO of the UK's leading provider of radiology and maternity software solutions. They dive into the qualities that make a successful CEO, and why building a culture of purpose and collaboration is essential for success. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 26 Sep 2019 | Episode 42: The Story of Natalie Douglas and Being A Healthtech CEO 🤷🏼♀️ | 01:01:52 | |
This week, James is joined by Natalie Douglas, who has over 20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare services sector and is an award-winning business leader and entrepreneur. Following a sales and marketing career in the pharmaceutical industry, most notably at Johnson and Johnson, she led and secured an MBO, developed an executed an international growth strategy for the company, building a highly successful business and brand, establishing operations in North America, Europe and India. Natalie was the CEO of Healthcare at Home Limited from May 2014. She is also the founder of Lucidity LLC which is based out of New York. natalie@lucidity.com For more information and content, check out our website www.hs.ventures. You can follow us on Twitter @HSVenture, on Instagram @hs.ventures, on Linkedin at HS. and you can email us at info@hs.live You can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo, at www.jamessomauroo.com and you can follow him on Twitter @jamessomauroo, on Instagram @j_soms and on Linkedin at james-somauroo | |||
| 08 Mar 2020 | Episode 75: Getting Things Right From Day One ☝🏼 | 00:08:55 | |
This week's Sunday Session has some bonus content from Jacob Haddad, cofounder of AccuRx who appeared in Episode 52. Jacob gives his tips on how healthtech startups can get things right from day one by building for the end user, having your own office to build the best culture, get the unsexy basics right and optimising for adoption. Mentioned this week:
Twitter @HSVenture Instagram @hs.ventures Linkedin at HS. email us at info@hs.live Your can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo at: Twitter @jamessomauroo Instagram @j_soms Linkedin james-somauroo | |||
| 06 Feb 2020 | Episode 66: The Story of Vivienne Parry OBE and Tomorrow's World 🌍 | 01:07:59 | |
If you want to know what Prince Charles says to you as you're appointed Order of the British Empire (OBE), how a liver surgeon and a paediatrician put an ear on a mouse’s back with a 3D cell 'car park,' or what the future of precision medicine and genomics might be... then incredibly, you're in the right place. | |||
| 20 Jun 2021 | #207 Quick Tips with Dr Shaka Bahadu from Cipher Skin. | 00:04:38 | |
This week Dr. Shaka Bahadu, a Healthcare operations expert, clinical informatics, and COO and co-founder of Cipher Skin gives James his quick tips for entrepreneurs. Get in touch with Shaka: shaka@cipherskin.com or info@cipherskin.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk | |||
| 04 Nov 2021 | #244 The Story of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute with Faculty Haribabu Arthanari ⚗️ | 00:59:16 | |
This week James is joined by Haribabu Arthanari, a faculty at the Harvard Medical School and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. His scientific training has been in the field of chemistry, physics, and biophysics. His expertise is in NMR spectroscopy and structural biology methods to understand the molecular architecture of micro-machines, proteins, and nucleic acids that orchestrate life.
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| 15 Oct 2020 | #139: The Story of Johnson & Johnson with Erin Mceachren 👁 | 00:37:22 | |
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 growth areas, such as robotics. | |||
| 04 Apr 2021 | #185 The Story of Sensely with Adam Odessky 🥼 | 00:45:36 | |
This week, James is joined by Adam Odessky, an engineer who founded Sensely after his first-hand experiences of helping to coordinate the healthcare of his grandmother. A virtual health assistant platform, Sensely today collaborates with insurers all over the world to help deliver superior experiences to their member bases, while simultaneously increasing enterprise efficiencies. Get in touch with Adam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamodessky/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk | |||
| 31 Mar 2019 | Episode 16: The Story of Health Tech Investing and Octopus Ventures 🐙 | 00:47:53 | |
This week Alex and James are joined by Gian Seehra an investor at Octopus Ventures to talk about transitioning from entrepreneur to venture capital, health tech investments and how both founders and investors should approach setting early valuations. Gian focuses on health investments at Octopus and splits his time on deal origination and assessment of investment opportunities. Prior to joining Octopus, Gian spent two years in Canada building a biotechnology company called Pebble Labs tackling vector-borne, animal and plant diseases, and Trait Biosciences within the cannabis industry. Gian holds a degree in Industrial Economics from the University of Nottingham. He spent two months training in Muay Thai Boxing in Thailand and plans to spend two weeks a year training there. Octopus Ventures are one of Europe’s largest Venture Capital teams with £1bn under management. Octopus is a generalist fund but with specialist investments in health-tech. Based in London and New York, they have Venture Partners in San Francisco, Singapore and China. Their typical initial investment is from £1m for Seed to around £5m for Series A. For more information and content, check out our website www.hs.ventures. You can follow us on Twitter @HSVenture, on Instagram @hs.ventures, on Linkedin at HS. and you can email us at info@hs.live You can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo, at www.jamessomauroo.com and you can follow him on Twitter @jamessomauroo, on Instagram @j_soms and on Linkedin at james-somauroo | |||
| 30 Aug 2020 | #126: Healthtech, leadership & innovation with Prof Sultan Mahmud 🥇 | 00:44:03 | |
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). | |||
| 07 Oct 2021 | #236 The Story of Toca.io with CEO and Founder Mat Rule ⚙️ | 00:47:31 | |
This week James is joined by Mat Rule, CEO and Founder of no-code automation platform, Toca.io. A Chartered Engineer and technical innovator, Mat has a passion for bringing simplicity to complicated technology landscapes.
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| 23 Aug 2023 | #317 Snapchat's surprising role in revolutionising brain health, with Dr. Hamzah Selim, CEO of MindStep | 00:53:14 | |
Hamzah Selim is the Co-Founder & CEO of mindstep. Mindstep is creating a new care standard for cognitive health by providing AI-driven neurodiagnostics, screening for relevant risk factors, and comprehensive interventions. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 16 Apr 2025 | #396 Dr Laura Falvey from Reset Health: Obesity isn’t a choice, so why is treatment still controversial? | 01:15:44 | |
This week, James is joined by Dr Laura Falvey, the Executive Clinical Director at Reset Health, a digital health company pioneering tech-driven, patient-centred solutions for metabolic health. With extensive experience in digital health interventions, Laura has played a key role in embedding virtual weight management services into NHS pathways. Before transitioning to digital health, she worked across medical, surgical, and primary care settings in the NHS, bringing frontline clinical insight to her work in health tech. Learn more: https://www.roczen.com/en-gb/nhs Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 25 Apr 2021 | #191 The Story of GSK Healthcare with Global Medical Director, Simon Rowland ❤️ | 00:37:00 | |
This week James is joined by Simon Rowland, Global Medical Director at GSK Consumer Healthcare. GSK is a science-led global healthcare company with a special purpose: to help people do more, feel better, live longer. Get in contact with Simon: linkedin.com/in/simonrowland05 Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk | |||
| 24 Jul 2023 | BONUS: Tips for incoming FY1 doctors | 01:07:13 | |
Join us for a fascinating bonus episode as we delve into the exciting and nerve-wracking world of newly graduated junior doctors as they step into the wards of UK hospitals in August, taking on the role of Foundation Year 1 (FY1) doctors. Host James, along with NHS cardiologist and computer scientist Rob Brisk, discuss the specific anxieties that come with being a junior doctor. Will, a current FY1, shares his experiences, while Tom, a medical student about to start his FY1, asks insightful questions. The discussion spans various scenarios, covering both routine medical tasks and high-stress emergencies, giving an authentic glimpse into the rollercoaster ride that awaits young doctors. Check out the FY1 Survival Guide from Eolas Medical: https://app.eolasmedical.com/access-link/86099d7e-490f-4559-a590-21b330380ca9 Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 21 Nov 2019 | Episode 50: The Story of Alpha, Women's Health and The Silicon Valley Formula 👩🏽💻 | 00:50:29 | |
What's the future of women's healthcare? Gloria Lau, cofounder and CEO of Alpha, believes that the future of health services and product delivery, whether prescription or OTC, insurance-covered or cash, will have a simple and personalised commerce experience supported by a team of AI-assisted doctors and pharmacies. Her current company, Alpha, is a health services brand that enables easy access to online diagnosis and prescription treatment, and focuses on healthcare’s primary decision makers - women. Alpha believes that the healthcare journey starts with basic medical needs - offering hormonal contraceptives, acne & anti-aging treatment, and elective cosmetic therapy. Alpha patients have access to a team of doctors and nurse practitioners, support for both insurance-covered and outside-of-insurance conditions, along with free shipping right to the patients home. You can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo, at www.jamessomauroo.com and you can follow him on Twitter @jamessomauroo, on Instagram @j_soms and on Linkedin at james-somauroo | |||
| 09 Jul 2020 | #111: The Story of Unlearn.ai with Charles Fisher | 00:58:26 | |
Charles is a scientist with interests at the intersection of physics, machine learning, and computational biology and is the founder of Unlearn.ai . Previously, Charles worked as a machine learning engineer at Leap Motion and a computational biologist at Pfizer. He was a Philippe Meyer Fellow in theoretical physics at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and a postdoctoral scientist in biophysics at Boston University. Charles holds a Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard University and a B.S. in biophysics from the University of Michigan. | |||
| 29 Nov 2023 | #331 Gender stereotypes and leadership: rejecting the pressure to conform with Sasha Tory from Ally Health | 00:25:32 | |
This week we're revisiting episode 302, where James and Sasha covered some of challenges women encounter in business, unpacking issues such as gender stereotypes in leadership roles and the pressure to conform to masculine traits, as well as highlighting the unique benefits women bring to the table. Sasha is the co-founder of Ally Health, a platform to connect patients and practitioners effectively to relieve pressure from the health ecosystem whilst delivering better patient outcomes. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 24 Sep 2020 | #133: The Story of CarePort Health with Lissy Hu 🏥 | 00:46:50 | |
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 company Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) acquired CarePort. CarePort’s software is now available both as a standalone product and integrated into Allscript’s platform, which is used by 1,000 hospitals and 20,000 post-acute care facilities. Lissy runs both the CarePort business unit and the larger Allscripts care coordination unit, which were rolled under the CarePort name this year. | |||
| 17 Oct 2019 | Episode 45: The Story of Cereproc and Speech Synthesis 🗯 | 00:52:20 | |
What would you do with a cloned version of your voice? What if it sounded so real, it could turn text into jokes and even sing? What if someone cloned Her Majesty The Queen's voice? This week, James is joined by Dr. Matthew Aylett, a recognized world authority in speech technology research and development and was working at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at Berkeley, California, before returning to Scotland in late-2005 to co-found CereProc. Matthew helps patients with conditions like throat cancers and neurological disorders to clone their voices and is exploring many other value propositions in health and healthtech. Prior to ICSI he was the senior development engineer at speech synthesis leader Rhetorical Systems (later acquired by Scansoft), which he joined at its formation. At Rhetorical, Matthew was responsible for the design, implementation, and testing of the company's core speech technology. Before Rhetorical, he spent five years at the University of Edinburgh researching speech and dialogue technologies. Dr. Matthew Aylett holds a BA in Computing and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex, and an MSc with Distinction and PhD in Speech and Language Technology from the University Of Edinburgh. info@cereproc.com | www.cereproc.com For more information and content, check out our website www.hs.ventures. You can follow us on Twitter @HSVenture, on Instagram @hs.ventures, on Linkedin at HS. and you can email us at info@hs.live You can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo, at www.jamessomauroo.com and you can follow him on Twitter @jamessomauroo, on Instagram @j_soms and on Linkedin at james-somauroo | |||
| 26 Jun 2020 | #107: The Story of Qure.ai with Prashant Warier | 00:54:30 | |
This week, James is joined by Prashant, an expert in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Deep learning. He has architected and commercialized several data science solutions in his 15 year career. He is also a prolific researcher, author, and speaker on topics related to data science and machine learning. He is passionate about using deep learning to make healthcare affordable and accessible. | |||
| 10 Jun 2021 | #204 The Story of Bit.Bio with CEO Dr Mark Kotter | 00:45:46 | |
This week James is joined by Dr Mark Kotter, a stem cell biologist and neurosurgeon at the University of Cambridge. He is the founder and CEO of bit.bio, who have developed opti-ox, a benchmark technology for the efficient and consistent production of human cells for use in research, drug development, and cell therapy. He also founded cultured meat startup Meatable. Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk | |||
| 03 Apr 2024 | #344 Why we need more women in Pharma, with Aline Gegout from Roche | 01:03:45 | |
This week, James is joined by Dr Aline Gégout, Global Head of Operations and Quality at Roche Diabetes Care. After starting with the company in 2009, she has held multiple leadership positions, including leader of a chemical production site, matrix leader in a global environment for different business units, and as Head of Operations in a diagnostics business area before accepting her current role in Diabetes Care in 2021. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 12 Apr 2019 | Episode 18: The Story of Thriva and Consumer Health 💉 | 00:49:36 | |
This week, James is joined by Hamish Grierson, founder and CEO of Thriva, who has raised over £6M to provide a home-blood-testing service to UK consumers (and now some NHS patients). Hamish is a serial entrepreneur and moved into healthtech from fintech and talks about his journey and some of the similarities and differences between the two sectors. Hamish will also be appearing in the Forbes Healthtech Stories series in May, so look out for that shortly. For more information and content, check out our website www.hs.ventures. You can follow us on Twitter @HSVenture, on Instagram @hs.ventures, on Linkedin at HS. and you can email us at info@hs.live You can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo, at www.jamessomauroo.com and you can follow him on Twitter @jamessomauroo, on Instagram @j_soms and on Linkedin at james-somauroo | |||
| 09 Nov 2022 | #280 The Story of Woebot Health, with Founder Dr. Alison Darcy | 00:47:50 | |
This week, James is joined by Dr Alison Darcy, Founder and Partner at Woebot Health. Alison is a Psychologist by research and a healthcare designer with over 20 years experience building health tech. With a passion to make mental healthcare solutions smart, scaleable and accessible, she founded Woebot Health - the world’s first mental health ally for people and businesses, with meaningfully engaging AI. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 12 Feb 2025 | #386 How is Big Tech Shaping the Future of Healthcare, with Umang Patel from Microsoft | 01:03:13 | |
This week, James is joined by Umang Patel, Chief Clinical Information Officer at Microsoft. As a Paediatric Doctor at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust and the former Managing Director - Value Based Care and Director of Clinical Strategy at Babylon Health, Umang has 15 years of experience in clinical practice, health technology, and business leadership. He is passionate about leveraging the power of data, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing to transform healthcare delivery and improve health equity. Connect with Umang: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drumangpatel/?originalSubdomain=uk Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 14 May 2020 | Episode 95: The Story of Pharmaphorum and Healthcare Communication 🗣👨🏻⚕️ | 00:43:37 | |
This week James is joined by Paul Tunnah, founder of pharmaphorum, which combines industry leading publications with a specialist strategy and creative consultancy. Paul is an experienced pharmaceutical industry thought leader and adviser, with a specialist focus on cross-stakeholder communication, digital / social media engagement and collaborative innovation. James and Paul cover all things healthcare and communication and there's a lot of lessons for entrepreneurs looking to communicate what they do in this space! | |||
| 03 Jul 2020 | #109: The Story of NCL Technology Ventures with Jerry Biggs 💰 | 00:52:27 | |
This week, James is joined by Jeremy (Jerry) Biggs, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at NCL, a specialist investment management firm focusing on high growth technology companies, predominantly in the medical and energy sectors. Jerry has over 15 years of investment and corporate finance experience and sits on the board of a number of high growth businesses. Previously, Jeremy worked for Northern Trust Global Investments, HSBC Investment Bank and BoS Investments and has been the Investment Director for a UK based family office. | |||
| 20 Apr 2019 | Episode 19: The Story of Nurokor and Bioelectric Medicine ⚡️ | 00:46:08 | |
This week, James is joined by Rick Rowan, the patient-founder of Nurokor, a company that creates pain-relieving products that use a technology called microcurrent. Their first product is a device that looks pretty similar to a smartphone, with small electrodes attached that are put onto the skin. It's a Class IIa medical device, FDA approved, CE marked and is selling into 5 different countries, with sufferers of many forms of chronic pain, including Olympic athletes, shouting about positive results. James and Rick talk about Rick’s background as a chronic back-pain sufferer, his motivations from seeing family members in pain to combatting the opioid epidemic and how initially selling B2C has helped the business across healthcare. https://www.nurokor.com/ For more information and content, check out our website www.hs.ventures. You can follow us on Twitter @HSVenture, on Instagram @hs.ventures, on Linkedin at HS. and you can email us at info@hs.live You can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo, at www.jamessomauroo.com and you can follow him on Twitter @jamessomauroo, on Instagram @j_soms and on Linkedin at james-somauroo | |||
| 06 Sep 2020 | #128: Tips, events and newsletters | 00:08:09 | |
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! | |||
| 21 Oct 2021 | #240 The Story of Alan with CEO Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve 💺 | 00:39:22 | |
This week James is joined by Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve, the co-founder & CEO of Alan, the healthcare super-app offering personalized access to a health insurance coverage bundled with innovative healthcare services.
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| 12 Jul 2020 | #112: Healthtech Reports From McKinsey and Octopus Ventures 📒 | 00:11:19 | |
James has read the reports from the McKinsey Global Institute and Octopus Ventures so you don't have to... but they're also linked below. McKinsey's "Prioritizing health: A prescription for prosperity" concludes that by improving health globally, we can save lives and inject trillions into the global economy and they lay out some key findings in the exec summary which gives you the best overview. And Octopus Ventures have pinpointed huge innovation opportunities in fertility treatment, with global investment over the last five-year period topping $2.2bn (rising to $750m last year). | |||
| 11 Oct 2024 | #369 Personalised Therapy: How Technology is Changing Mental Health Care with Charlie Wells, CEO of HelloSelf | 01:35:42 | |
This week, James is joined by Charlie Wells, Founder and CEO of HelloSelf. In what he calls his ‘before life’ Charlie studied neurobiology at Oxford before moving to London to work in healthcare marketing, then in 2011 a life-threatening brain haemorrhage changed everything. After surviving a coma and pioneering surgery, Charlie decided to make the most of his second chance, focusing on personal well-being, relationships and making a positive impact. HelloSelf was founded off the back of this, responding to the growing demand for mental health services. HelloSelf helps people feel better, faster, and stay better, longer, by pairing individuals with therapists through their clinical matching team, designing therapy to fit an individuals' unique needs. Get in touch with the HelloSelf team: http://www.helloself.com Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 02 Sep 2021 | #226 The Story of Primary Venture Partners with Partner Jason Shuman 🗽 | 00:39:08 | |
This week, James is joined by Jason Shuman, a Partner at Primary Venture Partners, the largest seed fund exclusively focused on New York City based companies. Jason leads new consumer and marketplace investments for Primary including consumer healthcare. Primary's previous healthcare investments include K Health, Alma, Dandy and most recently Perry Health. Jason was named Forbes 30 under 30 in venture capital and was listed by the venture capital journal as one of Venture Capital's 40 rising stars. Outside of work Jason serves on the Board of the Jeffrey Modell Foundation that supports research for Primary Immunodeficiencies as he was diagnosed with the disease at 6 months of age and he's a big supporter of mental health awareness.
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| 03 Dec 2020 | #153: The Story of Doccla, with Dag Larsson 🏥 | 00:48:59 | |
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. | |||
| 28 Nov 2021 | #251 Quick Tips with machine learning engineer Max Antson from Feebris ⚙️ | 00:07:38 | |
This week Max Antson a machine learning engineer from Feebris gives us his quick tips.
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| 06 Jun 2019 | Episode 26: The Story of Elvie, Femtech and a $42M Raise 🚺 | 00:48:23 | |
James is joined by Tania Boler, the cofounder and CEO of Elvie, a health and lifestyle brand developing smarter technology for women. Elvie takes the best of medical technology and turns it into premium consumer products that women love to use. Together with her co-founder, Alex Asseily (co-founder, Jawbone), she has raised > $50M in investment, most recently their $42M Series B round led by IPGL and supported by Octopus Ventures and Impact Ventures UK. Their first product, Elvie Trainer, is a category-defining Kegel trainer and is sold in major retailers, including Nordstrom and John Lewis and their latest product is the Elvie Pump, a breast pump that made its debut on the catwalk at London Fashion week. James and Tania talk about her background, coming from UN policy into entrepreneurship, the importance of design in healthtech, how to launch a B2C medical device and the ever growing femtech space in health.
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| 27 Dec 2024 | #380 The Secret to Building Biotech Companies That Succeed with Kerstin Papenfuss from Deep Science Ventures | 01:09:58 | |
This week, James is joined by Dr. Kerstin Papenfuss, Director of Pharma at Deep Science Ventures. Deep Science Ventures is pioneering a new approach to building healthtech companies from the ground up, focusing on four key outcomes: restorative cultivation, scaling intelligence, reversing global heating, and curative therapeutics. Kerstin has over a decade of experience in leadership roles at impact-driven organisations advancing medicine and therapeutics and has been leading the pharma sector at Deep Science Ventures for the past four years. https://www.deepscienceventures.com/ Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 19 Apr 2020 | Episode 88: How to get your healthtech fast-tracked as a COVID-19 solution | 00:09:20 | |
This week, I heard that a previous colleague tragically lost his life to COVID-19. I saw all the tributes to him on social media and hope that his family and friends are doing as best they can. Beyond the statistics are real people with families who are having their lives turned upside down by this and frontline NHS workers are literally giving their lives to serve the public. Please stay at home and stop the spread 🙏🏼💙 | |||
| 27 Jun 2019 | Episode 29: The Story of Endomag and Nanotechnology 🤖 | 00:56:37 | |
James is joined by Eric Mayes, serial nanotechnology entrepreneur and CEO of Endomag. Eric has 20 years of experience in technology. He was named the Royal Society of Chemistry’s ‘Entrepreneur of the Year 2003’ for his founding role in NanoMagnetics. He is also an advisor to the University of Texas at Austin’s ‘Texas Health Catalyst’ and the European Healthtech Translation Advisory Board (HealthtechTAB). Eric believes that everyone deserves a better standard of cancer care and so joined Cambridge-based healthtech start-up Endomag as CEO. They manufacture a metallic seed, smaller than a grain of rice, which uses magnetism to help doctors locate breast cancer tumours to be removed. James and Eric chat about Eric's previous companies, his journey to healthtech and discuss some lessons learned in adoption of new innovation across healthtech. | |||
| 11 Jan 2023 | #286 Empowering people with measurable insights into brain health with Caitlin Baltzer, co-founder of MYndspan | 00:54:07 | |
This week, James is joined by Caitlin Baltzer, co-founder of MYndspan, a company that is revolutionising the treatment of brain and mental health. Caitlin has a diverse background in investment and finance, and has served as VP of Strategy and Operations in the functional imaging industry. She joins us to talk about how MYndspan is empowering people with rich information about their brain function, providing measurable insights into brain health and helping to identify meaningful changes over time. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 12 Aug 2021 | #220 Sam Turka, Founder and CEO of Third Eye Intelligence 👁️ | 00:43:36 | |
This week James is joined by Sam Tukra, Founder & CEO of Third Eye Intelligence. Every year, 85 million patients are admitted to intensive care with organ failure globally. Despite constantly monitoring patients and providing the highest echelon of care, intensive care units have the poorest patient outcomes in any given hospital unit. To give these patients a fighting chance, Third Eye has developed a self-designing AI-driven early warning system. Our AI utilises data routinely collected in intensive care to predict the risk of organ failure, mortality, and length of stay, in view of guiding doctors in evidence-based decision making. Sam is a final year PhD student in AI & Computer Vision at Imperial College London.
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| 25 Jan 2023 | #288 Expanding Capacity for Mental Health with Dr Melinda Rees | 00:40:34 | |
This week, James is joined by Dr Melinda Rees, a pioneering consultant clinical psychologist and healthtech entrepreneur on a mission to revolutionise mental health assessment and triage in the UK. Listen as they discuss the power of language-forming reality, attachment theory, and how technology is accelerating our understanding of mental health. They dive deep into the psychology of building a startup and how Melinda and her team at Psyomics are using clinically developed technology to get more people on the right care pathway, faster. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 09 Nov 2020 | #146: The Story of Cooper University Health Care with Dr Anthony Mazzarelli 🏥 | 00:49:02 | |
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 Cooper in Camden. Get in touch with Dr James Somauroo: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk | |||
| 22 May 2024 | #351 What does real innovation in healthcare look like? With Sara Siegal from Deloitte | 00:57:07 | |
This week, James is joined by Sara Siegal, Global Health Care Sector Leader at Deloitte. Drawing on her 20 years of experience at Deloitte, Sara shares her perspective on managing healthtech innovation networks in the UK. She highlights the value of varied backgrounds in healthcare leadership, the challenges and potential of AI in the NHS, and the complexity of implementing innovative solutions at scale. Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com Learn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health | |||
| 27 Feb 2020 | Episode 72: The Story of Limbic and the Line Between Art and Science 👨🎨 | 00:47:36 | |
This week, James is joined by Ross Harper, founder and CEO of Limbic, on a mission to model human psychology. In doing so, they're solving the biggest problems in psychological therapy today. Combining artificial intelligence with beautiful digital product design, they're making it easier than ever for patients to provide their clinicians with high quality data. You can get our host, Dr. James Somauroo, at | |||