Career Pivot - From Clinical Cardiology to CMO of a Startup Focused on Hypertension with Jay Shah, MD

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Dr. Jay Shah is Chief Medical Officer at Aktii, where they are developing technology focused on identifying and monitoring hypertension. Dr. Shah is a practicing Cardiologist who pivoted his career from strictly patent care, to becoming the CMO of a start-up. In this episode he shares  his thoughts on career pivots, how he researched options that were the right fit for him, what it is like to be a CMO in a start-up, what hypertension is and the difficulty of diagnosis, and how wearables can change the way hypertension is managed.    

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• Jay Shah, MD LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jshahmd/
• Aktiia https://aktiia.com/

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