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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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Sunday Jul 16, 2023
Sunday Jul 16, 2023
This week Nayan shares his journey from medicine, pharma to helping clinicians + organisations build digital health products using HealthMachine™, a shopify for DHPs (12 Live Products, 1.4 Million Users and 14 Countries)
In this episode we cover:
🏥 Transition from clinician to the world of pharma (Johnson & Johnson)
💡 The Origin story of Avegen Health
🤝 Co-founder relationships and dealing with conflict
🚨 Identifying early signs of failure (Users, Traction, Revenue etc)
🚀 How to get from 0 to 1 - (Founder Led)
📈 How to scale from 1 to 100 - (Team and People Led)
💻 Building the Shopify for digital health products
🔗 Why a platform approach is the future of Digital health products
📊 How he uses decision analysis to improve performance
Dr Nayan Kalnad is the CEO and Co-founder of Avegen Health. He has over 20 years of experience in healthcare. Beginning his career as a practising medic, before transitioning into the world of pharma to work at the forefront of digital health. Nayan knows firsthand the challenges facing healthcare and firmly believes a platform approach is needed to maximise the impact of DHPs on health outcomes.
Avegen’s core product, HealthMachine®, is a cloud-hosted, product development platform for pioneers in digital healthcare, including healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies, to deploy high-quality robust digital health applications.
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Sunday Jul 09, 2023
Sunday Jul 09, 2023
In this week’s episode we share Dr Sam Shah’s journey and career pivots covering:
- Motivation to become a clinician
- Consultant in Public health
- Pivoting his career to leadership and consulting roles
- Roles in pathway redesigns, policies and building business cases for hospitals
- Re-training in Law and becoming a public advocate
- Clinical Lead for 111 to Director of Digital Development at NHS England
- Transitioning into Digital Health
- Role at Numan as Chief Medical Strategy Officer
- Building a mindset for opportunities and change
- Difference between careers in the public sector, private companies and startups
- Breaking the ceiling of career progression
Dr Sam Shah is the Chief Medical Strategy Officer at Numan, Visiting Lecturer at UCL Global Business School for Health, Public Health Consultant, Chief Clinical Digital Advisor at ORCHA, Senior Advisor at Freuds and Ex-Director of Digital Development. His interests lie in improving access to services, behaviour change + digital care delivery and supporting social mobility through education and training.
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Sunday Jul 02, 2023
Sunday Jul 02, 2023
In this week’s episode, Jas and Jo share their journey from corporate strategy, to business school to co-founding a healthtech startup called Luna.
We discuss:
- Leaving the corporate world to go business school
- The Pros and Cons of an MBA
- First impressions of each other as co-founders
- The founding story of Luna
- The first few days + weeks as new startup founders
- Fundraising process and cold-calling Investors
- Building a digital health platform as non-clinicians
- Feedback and user led product growth
Jas Schembri-Stothart and Jo Goodall are the co-founders of Luna, the world's first digital health companion for teens. Jas had a previous career in Consulting, both as a Corporate then with her own Consulting business. She met Jo while doing her MBA at Oxford, whose previous career was in Big 4 Consulting and Strategy.
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Sunday Jun 25, 2023
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
In this weeks episode with Tom we hear the founding story of DrDoctor and their journey from 0 to 1.
We discussed:
- Not being afraid to solve hard problems
- The importance of iteration as an early stage -> growth startup
- Data sharing and interoperability with other platforms
- Fundraising £10 million
- Serving over 16 million patients across the NHS
- Why you need champions at top and bottom for true adoption
- The coolest thing about being a startup founder
- Why people should lean into their spikiness
Thomas Whicher is the Founder and CEO of DrDoctor, a patient engagement platform that serves over 16 million patients in the NHS. He is an NHS Innovation Fellow and Startup Mentor at Bethnal Green Ventures.
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Sunday Jun 18, 2023
Sunday Jun 18, 2023
In this episode, we chat with Sandeep "Sunny" Sadana, a dentist and the director of DRE Composite. Sunny shares his journey from failure to success, including his experiences working in unfulfilling environments, losing over £250k in the world of crypto, and discovering the Greater Curve® Matrix System.
Sunny talks about the importance of life-long learning and mentorship, and how he co-developed DRE Composite with Dr. Dennis Brown to teach dentists around the globe how to use the Greater Curve® Matrix System.
If you're a dentist who's looking for inspiration or a change in your career, this episode is for you. Sunny's story is a reminder that failure is not the end of the road, and that it's possible to turn your biggest failures into your biggest successes.
Dr Sandeep ‘Sunny’ Sadana is a Dentist and the Director of DRE Composite, a hands on training program he co-developed with Dr Brown, teaching dentists around the globe how to use the Greater Curve® Matrix System and is on a mission to empower dentists.
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Sunday Jun 11, 2023
Sunday Jun 11, 2023
In this week’s episode Abdullah shares his entrepreneurial journey spanning property, crypto and now digital health. We discuss his motivation for building a digital first pharmacy and what he thinks of healthcare as a non-clinician.
Abdullah talks about why we need to take a step back to really understand which parts of the system are ‘broken’ and can benefit from ‘tech’. He shares the obstacles they faced when getting regulatory approval and the impact digital pharmacy is having for their patients.
Abdullah Iqbal is the Co-founder of Caplet, a digital first pharmacy. Previously he was Co-founder at blokbot and Igloo Crowd (Excited) and now on a mission to use technology can save the broken healthcare system.
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If you are building a healthtech app or platform, you can now integrate Caplet as a pharmacy for a more complete service to your patients.
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Sunday Jun 04, 2023
Sunday Jun 04, 2023
In this week’s episode Dr Abeyna shares the moment she finally decided to take control of her career and give up her urology training number. We discuss why she felt medicine was no longer the right career for her and her experiences with burnout. Abeyna shares why she is now on a mission to connect 1 million doctors with the best diverse career opportunities by 2030.
We delve into the various alternative careers she explored and how she founded Medic Footprints. Abeyna shares the struggles and obstacles she has faced, more recently becoming a new mother and still managing to build a flourishing business.
Dr Abeyna is the CEO and Founder of Medic Footprints. She is on mission to connect 1 million doctors with the best diverse career opportunities by 2030. She is also a Consultant Occupational Health Physician.
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