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Thursday Oct 12, 2023
Thursday Oct 12, 2023
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In this week’s episode Konrad shares his journey from running a fashion brand to working in digital media before transitioning into pharma and now leading innovation in healthcare.
We discussed:
🎓 Starting the entrepreneurial journey at school
💡 Are entrepreneurs born or made?
👗 Running a fashion brand in Germany
😭 Dealing with startup failure after 6 years
💷 Moving to the UK with only £500 to build a new life
🦸♂️ Becoming the master of your own destiny
📞 Working at a call centre to make rent
💻 First big break in e-commerce (Digital River)
💳Working with Mastercard in a digital media agency
🤹♀️ Transferrable skills and gift of the gab
🐝 Dealing with the ‘itch’ of entrepreneurship
⚖️ Discovering the importance of stability in life
💊 Transitioning into Pfizer and later Novartis
⚖️ The ABPI code and Ethics Committees
👨⚕️ The need for more collaboration between industry and healthcare
🤝Solving national problems in conjunction with vendors
🇺🇸 Why are healthtech companies moving to the USA or UAE?
💸 Do companies need to share royalties/financial gain which originated in the UK from innovation grants etc?
🏥 Becoming the director for NHS Innovation Accelerator
📈 The motivation to move from the private to the public sector
💡 What is the NHS Innovation accelerator?
🤝 The benefits of joining the accelerator?
Konrad Dobschuetz is the National Director for NHS Innovation Accelerator and Chief Enterprise Officer at UCLPartners. He has previously worked for both Pfizer and Novartis and is a Business Mentor and Digital Healthcare Specialist with cross-sector experiences.
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Monday Oct 02, 2023
Monday Oct 02, 2023
In this week’s episode, Susan shares how she went from being a geriatric doctor to becoming a partner at EY to now leading the Google Health team in the UK!
Topics discussed:
👩⚕️ First few years as a doctor + pursuing geriatric medicine
🇦🇺 Practising as a doctor in Australia
💸 Dealing with personal + financial hardships early on in her career
💼 Building a career in consulting at EY
🤝 Role of a Partner at EY
❓ Do brands matter on your CV?
🎯 Finding fulfilment in your career
🦸 Dealing with imposter syndrome
🙅♂️ Why consulting isn’t always the best alternative career for doctors
📞 The phone call from Google
🏢 Leaving EY and starting a new career at Google
🔀 How to make big career decisions when at crossroads
👷♂️ Not everyone needs to be an entrepreneur or founder
🏥 How and why is Google involved in healthcare
🇬🇧 Responsibilities of leading Google health in the UK
🔍 Discovering the skillset that Google needed for the UK healthcare system
Dr Susan Thomas is Director of Google Health, UK, previously a Partner at EY with a geriatric background in medicine.
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Sunday Sep 24, 2023
Sunday Sep 24, 2023
In this week’s episode Geraint shares his journey from clinical medicine to public health, inventing the concept for ‘Virtual Wards’ to now being the Director of Population Health at Microsoft.
We discussed:
👩⚕️ First few years in clinical medicine
👨⚕️ Practising as an ED doctor in Australia -> coming back to the UK
⚕️Building a career in public health
🗣️ Explaining what public health is for non-clinicians
💡 Creativity while practising medicine
😷 Dealing with COVID as a public health doctor
👩💻 Inventing ‘Virtual Wards’
🇺🇸 Fellowship in America and becoming a Senior Director at Walgreens
📊 Becoming the Chief data officer for NHS England
🧱 Building systems, structures and a team while at NHS England
🧠 How to become first of mind for career opportunities
💬 The tweet that landed a role at Microsoft
🗣️ Becoming an industry advisor for Microsoft
🖡 Role as a ‘translator’ between big tech and healthcare in the NHS
🏥 Real-life applications from Microsoft in the NHS
Dr Geraint Lewis is the Director of Population Health at Microsoft, previously served as Chief Data Officer at NHS England and a Senior Director at Walgreens. He is a Public Health Consultant, having worked on virtual wards, remote monitoring, and predictive analytics. Dr Lewis has authored a postgraduate textbook and published over 40 peer-reviewed papers.
In partnership with Microsoft:
Webinar - Microsoft for Healthcare focused ISVs - Recording
Apply to the Microsoft Startup program - Founders Hub
Join the Microsoft UK ISV LinkedIn group
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Sunday Sep 17, 2023
Sunday Sep 17, 2023
In this week’s episode Harry shares how he merged his background in healthcare within the NHS together with his passion for software engineering to ultimately founding Open Medical.
🤔 Designing and developing software since age of 14
🛠️ Natural inclination towards engineering and design
🏥 Deciding to pursue a career in orthopaedics
🩺 Exercising + suppressing engineering tendencies during surgical training
⚕️ Deciding to re-engage into engineering during surgical training
👩⚕️ Advantages of understanding the clinical user experience + pathways
👩⚕️ Working one day a week as a surgeon
👨⚕️ Building a patient-centric product
🚑 Building flexibility into clinical products for unpredictable environments
🏥 The trauma board story behind Open Medical
0️⃣ to 1️⃣ for Open Medical
📈 How to scale a healthtech startup like Open Medical
📊 How to survive the valley death in Healthtech
👨⚕️ Being a clinician gives you advantages of access for bottom-up companies
👩⚕️ How to get adoption as an early stage company compared to a growth stage company
💰 Why VC funding is distracting
💰 Why Open Medical uses revenue to drive growth instead of external funding
📈 Experiences leading a healthtech company
❌ The costly and expensive mistakes made as a CEO
❓ What is the end-goal for Open Medical
Harry Lykostratis is the Founder, CEO and Lead Software Engineer at Open Medical. He is also a practising orthopaedic surgeon at London North West Healthcare NHS Trust.
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Sunday Sep 10, 2023
Sunday Sep 10, 2023
This week we share Dr Janak’s journey from clinical medicine to working within healthcare operations, technology + consulting for large corporates, public sector and start-up environments.
Topics Discussed:
⚕️ Motivations to study medicine
💼 Transitioning from medicine into consulting
💡 First consulting role at Accenture
💰 Why non-clinical work became more appealing
⚖️ Freelancing as a consultant vs working for a company
💻 Developing a passion for technology and startups during an MBA
🏢 Path to becoming a COO then CEO at Mindwave Ventures
🤝 How to get team buy-in as a leader
👓 How to delegate and manage a team without becoming too imposing
📊 Becoming the Head of Healthcare data and analytics at KPMG
🏥 Important touch-points for clinicians in healthcare data
📚 The story behind publishing a book (AI in healthcare)
📈 How to increase the surface area for opportunities
Dr. Janak Gunatilleke is the Head of Healthcare data and analytics at KPMG. He is the Co-founder of ConscientAI, previously has served as both COO and CEO at Mindwave Ventures and started his consulting career at Accenture.
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Sunday Sep 03, 2023
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
In this week’s episode Liam shares his journey to becoming a creative distruptor and the landscape of digital innovation within the NHS.
We discussed:
💡 What is means to be a creative?
💥 Struggling with authority and being a ‘disruptor’
⚙️ What is systems-design thinking?
🤝 How to build a collective grass-roots project in the NHS
❌ Why innovation goes wrong in the system
🗺️ Navigating the NHS landscape as a healthtech company
📈 How to gain traction in the NHS
⏰ Timing and identifying the stakeholders/problem-owners in the NHS
🏢 The problems of the system adopting innovation
❓ Important questions to answer before building any healthtech company
🛑 Why and where healthtech companies go wrong
💸 The problems with VCs and funding in the NHS/healthcare
❓ How you can build a viable and sustainable business in the NHS
🏥 The venture studio model in healthcare
💪 Motivation, healthy mindset and purpose-driven work
Liam Cahill is the Founder of Together Digital and facilitates digital-organisation change. He has built and scaled a successful social enterprise building medicines pathways to be commissioned by the whole NHS (incl. Scotland, Wales, HSCBNI). Advised over 20 healthtech companies of all shapes and sizes. Advised NHS EI, NHSX, The Health Foundation, The States of Guernsey on digital in frontline care. Advisor to numerous frontline HSC providers around digital, running experiments.
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Monday Aug 21, 2023
Monday Aug 21, 2023
In this week’s episode Ben shares his journey from clinician to advising the CEO of NHS England and now building Europe's largest provider of digital-first home healthcare.
We discussed:
🏥 Deciding a career between banking and medicine
💡 Foresight into the adoption of technology in healthcare
🏢 Surrounding yourself with people who are pushing boundaries and different sectors
👑 Becoming an advisor to the CEO of the NHS
📈 The landscape in healthtech (Saturation, Market size etc)
🚀 0 to 1 in building Cera
💥 Response to Cera from traditional brick and mortar companies
🏠 How to build a healthy remote culture
⚖️ Differentiating between a passion project and a viable business
🚩 Identifying when a startup is failing or needs to pivot
🛡️ Staying in the driving seat and not being pushed out
🤝 Trusting team members and letting go of responsibility
🧠 Mental health and well-being as a founder
Dr. Ben Maruthappu is a London-based doctor, Co-founder of multi-award winning technology company Cera. Advised the CEO of NHS England for 3 years. First from British healthcare included in Forbes' 30under30; listed in WIRED's 10 Innovators revolutionizing Healthcare; Disruptive Leader of the Year. Received an MBE in the Queen's 2020 New Year Honours list for services to Health & Care technology.
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Sunday Aug 13, 2023
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
In this week’s episode we share the three career defining pivots that brought Vishal to leading YouTube Health in the UK.
We discussed:
🌱 The seeds being planted for an alternative career in medicine
💡 Discovering the world of healthcare strategy consulting
💼 The role of a healthcare strategy consultant
🚀 Fostering an entrepreneurial mindset
🔗 The importance of networking
🗣 Why you need to have interesting conversations with interesting people
🤝 How healthtech founders can integrate and commercialise within the NHS
👑 The opportunity to lead YouTube Health, UK
🌌 The future for clinician creators and YouTube
Dr Vishaal is an NHS doctor who transitioned into healthcare strategy consulting later following his interest in digital health, working as business development and client success lead at Ada Health, a venture-backed AI health technology company. He now works at YouTube, where he is building out the brand new Health offering to empower millions of YouTube users and NHS organisations across the UK.
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Episode Sponsor: Locum's Nest
The Locum's Nest app has been revolutionising the way NHS doctors are supported by technology since 2015 and is now wired across all NHS professions.
On a mission to remove barriers to workforce mobility across the NHS, Locum's Nest has pioneered the formation of digital collaborative workforce banks across the country, enabling cross-covering of shifts across an ever-growing number of NHS Trusts.
Currently the best-rated app for flexible working in the NHS, Locum's Nest is transforming shift work in the NHS into a more inclusive and fulfilling experience by giving healthcare professionals ownership and control of their work life balance.
Download the app Now: Apple App Store & Google Play Store
Manage your shifts, your rosters and your pay all from one secure place!
https://locumsnest.co.uk/healthcare-professionals
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Monday Aug 07, 2023
Monday Aug 07, 2023
In this week’s episode we share Keith’s journey to discovering his tribe after 28 years of searching to building a successful career in digital health and innovation.
In this episode we discussed:
⚕️ Motivations to Study Medicine
💻 First Experience using Technology to Improve his Clinical Practice
🤯 Frustrations and dealing with burnout as a Clinician
💡 Discovering the world of Digital Health and Entrepreneurship
🤝 Finding his Tribe after 28 years of Searching
🏨 Clinical Product Management at Babylon
🎓 The Future of Training and Becoming a Digital Doctor
📈 Practising Medicine through Clinical Products at Scale
💸 Missed Opportunities of the dot-com boom
🚀 How to Build a Career in Digital Health
Dr Keith Grimes is Digital Health Specialist, Clinical Product Manager, and experienced General Practitioner with over 25 years of experience in primary care and medical leadership. Using AI and Digital Health technology to meet the growing gap between demand and supply of healthcare globally, he has successfully led clinicians and product teams to deliver world-class data-driven products at Babylon such as Symptom Checker, Monitor, and Health IQ.
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Episode Sponsor: Locum's Nest
The Locum's Nest app has been revolutionising the way NHS doctors are supported by technology since 2015 and is now wired across all NHS professions.
On a mission to remove barriers to workforce mobility across the NHS, Locum's Nest has pioneered the formation of digital collaborative workforce banks across the country, enabling cross-covering of shifts across an ever-growing number of NHS Trusts.
Currently the best-rated app for flexible working in the NHS, Locum's Nest is transforming shift work in the NHS into a more inclusive and fulfilling experience by giving healthcare professionals ownership and control of their work life balance.
Download the app Now: Apple App Store & Google Play Store
Manage your shifts, your rosters and your pay all from one secure place!
https://locumsnest.co.uk/healthcare-professionals
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Monday Jul 24, 2023
Monday Jul 24, 2023
In this week’s episode Edward shares his journey into venture capital and why it took him so long!
In this episode we discuss:
👔 Working at a Blue Chip Company vs Startups
🚀 Introduction to Venture Capital and Octopus Ventures
🔝 Getting onto the right career ladder
🧠 Building a mentality to also step down ladders to get closer to goals
🎬 Behind the scenes at a leading VC firm
💡 How to get the attention of VCs
💔 How founders can deal with VC rejections
🤝 How does Octopus Ventures help Startups and Founders
💼 Founder vs Investor Mentality
🎓 Do you need an MBA for VC?
😕 Not being a good enough angel investor
Edward Keelan is a partner at Octopus Ventures focussing on B2B software, overseeing deal origination, execution and portfolio management, and sitting on the investment committee. Outside Octopus, he’s involved with the Entrepreneurship Centre at Saïd Business School, and the University of Oxford, where he achieved an executive MBA.
Read Edward's article - How to become a “VC” (and why it took me so long!)
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