The Healthtech Podcast

Martîn Blinder is the CEO and founder of Tictrac. Tictrac is a personalized digital health and wellness platform designed to empower individuals to take greater control of their wellbeing. Martîn recently appeared on Sky News to discuss the increased demand in HealthTech tools and why now is a pivotal moment for health and wellbeing. He believes that the workplace of the future will not just be about ensuring a productive team, but supporting the health and wellbeing needs of staff. Get in touch with Martin: https://tictrac.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

On this weeks Sunday Session I'm joined by Mala Mawkin, Head of Market Development at pain management start-up Cellen. Cellen launched the UK's first online chronic pain clinic.  Mala was featured on Forbes 30 Under 30, Vogue UK 10 Rising Female Stars 2018 and Women of the Future UK Awards Finalist 2019. Get in touch with Mala: www.malamawkin.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

Rudy Benfredj is co-founder and CEO at Mendelian. Mendelian aim to help doctors diagnose rare diseases faster using their MendelScan software. Rudy is a Computer Scientist graduated from Imperial College London with a degree in Engineering during which he worked under the supervision of Dr. Aldo Faisal in the bioengineering faculty and Prof. Marek Sergot, Head of the Logic and Artificial Intelligence department. Passionate about health, he moved to Tel Aviv to work at the Israeli med tech diagnostics company Healthy.io focusing on image recognition and remote diagnosis as an early team member. As a Product Manager he helped the company grow to get its FDA clearance. Get in touch with Rudy: https://www.mendelian.co Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

On this week’s Sunday Session I'm joined by Nader Alaghband, co-founder & CEO of Ampersand Health.  Ampersand have just launched a brand new digital therapeutic into the NHS for people suffering with inflammatory arthritis and on this episode, Nader explains all... Get in touch with Nader: https://ampersandhealth.co.uk Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

On this weeks Sunday Session I chat to Aditya Nori, lead of the Health Intelligence theme at Microsoft Research Cambridge, where their mission is to transform the practice of medicine via trusted and human-centred AI. In the past, Aditya has developed AI-based productivity tools for cancer treatment (The InnerEye Project), and also explored various synergies between programming languages and machine learning which inspired new perspectives in formal verification, probabilistic programming, and reliable machine learning. He has also built several programmer productivity tools, including the 2nd generation of the Static Driver Verifier toolkit for Microsoft Windows. Get in touch with Aditya: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/adityan/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

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

This weeks Sunday Session is a preview of an upcoming episode with CEO of Mymee, Mette Dyhrberg.  Mette is changing lives with a patient- and data-centric approach to tackling autoimmune disease, based on helping people identify their unique individualized triggers.  She shares with us some tips for health tech entrepreneurs.  Get in touch with Mette: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mettedyhrberg/ https://www.mymee.com/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦 https://www.healthtechpigeon.com/ Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

Tom Whicher is founder of DrDoctor & an NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow . Tom is a biomedical engineer by background and worked for a management consulting firm before identifying an opportunity to improve hospital outpatient appointment bookings. In 2012, he launched his own company, DrDoctor, which aims to improve communication around scheduling outpatient appointments between patients and hospitals. Get in touch with Tom: https://www.drdoctor.co.uk/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch with James: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

On this week's Sunday Session, I chat again to Elliott Engers, CEO and Co-Founder of Infinity Health.  In 2015 following a conversation with an NHS doctor who was battling with paper based task lists Elliott saw a technical challenge a start-up he could really contribute to. He set out to make task management safer and more efficient whilst improving clinicians’ experience of their crucial, high-pressure roles; Infinity Health was born. Get in Touch : https://infinity.health/elliott-engers Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

Per Edlund is the Head of Radiology Commercial Operations Asia Pacific in the Bayer Pharmaceuticals Division. Per has about 20 years of experience leading multi-cultural teams to drive innovation, growth and patient-centricity, to meet unmet needs in the field of diagnostic radiology.  He currently heads a diverse business featuring a portfolio that includes Contrast Agents, Medical Devices, Services, and Informatics. Get in touch with Per: https://www.linkedin.com/in/per-edlund-a9609550  https://www.bayer.com/en/worldwide/asia-pacific  Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com  Get in touch with James : www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk