The Healthtech Podcast

To kick off the first episode of season 3, James is joined by Chris Naoumidis, the co-founder of Mindset Health, who is building a portfolio of digital therapeutic apps using hypnosis-based techniques to tackle underserved health conditions. After going through Startmate, Y Combinator and raising over $8m, he now leads a team of 30 people on the mission to help a billion people manage their health by unlocking the power of their minds. Mindset Health’s first product Nerva, focused on irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), was launched in mid-2019 and has now surpassed helping over 80,000 people improve their health. Chris' LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisnaoumidis/Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.comLearn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health

This week, James is joined by Vishal Doshi, the Founder of AUM Biosciences, an Award-winning oncology focused biotech company. The company aims to reshape the drug development landscape in oncology to deliver pioneering and affordable targeted drugs across a broad spectrum of cancers. Through its robust strategic collaborations with leading academic institutions, pharmaceutical and biotech companies globally, AUM is now leading an ecosystem of multi-modality line up of small molecule targeted therapies, including in-house research programs.LinkedIn: https://sg.linkedin.com/in/vishalcdoshiApply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.comLearn more about SomX for your healthtech company at somx.health

This week James is joined by Dr Dafydd Loughran, a surgeon by training and now CEO of Concentric Health - the market leading digital consent to treatment application seeing rapid adoption to support the record surgical backlogs being seen internationally. Trivia: James and Daf previously worked together clinically in operating theaters in Wales!LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dafloughranApply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.comLearn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/

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).Taha holds doctor of medicine and master of science in bio-statistics degrees from the University of Texas and completed clinical training at Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tahak/Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.comLearn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/

This week I'm joined by Dr. Kate Cordell, CEO, Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder at Opeeka and CMO and fellow co-founder Ken Knecht.  Dr. Cordell is a nationwide thought leader for behavioral health technology, integrating data systems to support a whole-person approach to care. She has built models for federal, state, county, healthcare providers and community-based agencies to convert behavioral health and social program data into decisions and decisions into positive outcomes. Ken is a veteran in software design and digital marketing with over 30 years of experience working with hundreds of businesses from brand conception to multi-channel marketing.Together they founded Oppeka , a company that enables success-focused care to promote well-being for all. Improving well-being by identifying what works. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/opeeka/Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.comLearn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/

Dr Tom Oakley CEO of Feedback PLC gives James his quick tips for entrepreneurs.  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drthomasoakley/?originalSubdomain=ukApply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.comLearn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/

This week James is joined by Dr Tom Oakley, CEO of Feedback PLC. Tom joined Feedback PLC in 2019 and quickly recognised that the technology that drove its current services Texrad and Cadran had the potential to revolutionise the ways clinicians engage and communicate with each other. At which point Bleepa was born. Bleepa is a medical imaging communications app, that allows clinicians to view and share patient specific data (images, notes, reports) using any internet-connected device, enabling control of patient cases when clinicians are on the go.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drthomasoakley/?originalSubdomain=ukApply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.comLearn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/

This week James is joined by Nikhil Malhotra, Chief Innovation Officer and creator of Makers Lab, a unique Thin-q-bator space within Tech Mahindra. With 20+ years of experience Nikhil has been a researcher all his life and is now leading the growth of AI, machine learning, robotics and quantum research within Tech Mahindra. Nikhil’s area of personal research helps explain how quantum computing and neuroscience has inspired the growth of AI and how the two fields can merge in the future.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhilmalhotra2009/Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.comLearn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/

This week James is joined by Dr. Abeyna Bubbers-Jones an Occupational Health Physician and Founder of Medic Footprints.Medic Footprints is a doctor-led organisation on a mission to dramatically elevate health outcomes in the world by connecting ambitious high growth companies with the best in medical talent. This week we discuss the growing demand for doctors as leaders in health tech companies and effective ways to find the best ones that will help scale your company.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abeynajones/?originalSubdomain=ukApply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.comLearn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/

This week James is joined by Dr Claudia Pastides a General Practitioner by background and now a full-time Medical Advisor at Flo Health. She spent 12 years working as a doctor and has always had an interest in writing and marketing. Flo is the world’s leading women’s health app with over 220 M users. Flo aims to build a better future for female health and supports women during their entire reproductive life cycle: from first periods to perimenopause, from pregnancy to young moms.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudiapastides/Apply to be a guest: www.thehealthtechpodcast.com/Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.comGet in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.comLearn more about SomX for your healthtech company: https://www.somx.co.uk/