The Healthtech Podcast

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

This week's guest on the Sunday session is Dr Arthur Roach, Director of Research at Parkinson's UK. Arthur has spent 25 years in research, discovery and development for drug companies and universities, working on projects developing new treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and MS. "My big preoccupation is with finding the best means to convert the genetic and biochemical discoveries of the past decade into new treatments that will make a difference to people with Parkinson's. I know that this will mean finding the best way to work with university researchers, biotech and pharma companies, and people living with Parkinson's. At Parkinson's UK we have built the teams and programmes to do this, and with the resources provided by our supporters, we are determined to make a difference." Get in touch with Arthur : https://uk.linkedin.com/in/arthuroach www.parkinsons.org.uk Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com  Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

This week, James is joined by Dr Chris Lovejoy, a Data scientist with a background as a medical doctor. He studied Medicine at University of Cambridge, he has a big YouTube following and makes videos about machine learning, healthcare, career transitions, productivity and anything else on his mind. Get in touch with Chris : https://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisLovejoy/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com  Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

In this weeks Sunday Session I speak to Dr Mala Mawkin. Mala works at Cellen, a healthcare technology company innovating in chronic pain. She also is the Digital Medicine Innovation Lead at Imperial College London, and the host of the Digital Health Podcast for the Royal Society of Medicine. Prior to this, Mala was a doctor in the NHS and has worked at institutions such as European Space Agency, Malawi’s e-health programme and several healthtech companies in London. She has also held roles at Unilever and Uber and has worked at Harvard & Boston Children’s Hospital’s Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator. Mala is a keen science communicator and has written for Microsoft Health, was The Times student ambassador and has written feature articles for The Guardian. She also wrote an official blog for Imperial College London for 6 years. Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

For this week's Sunday Session, James is joined by Sarah Ticho, founder & CEO of Hatsumi and Ross O'Brien, Associate Director of Innovation and Technology at CNWL to talk about adopting healthtech innovation - in this case, with VR... Get in touch with Sarah: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-ticho/ Get in touch with Ross: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ross-o-brien-a270917b/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram is a  Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Head of Clinical Innovation at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. In 2015, the NHS clinical entrepreneur drew on her surgical experiences and her passion for innovation and education, to create Proximie; a technology platform on a mission to save lives by sharing the world’s best clinical practice. Nadine received the British Empire Medal in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours for her innovative work within the fields of surgery and medicine. She also undertakes a number of roles to help advance surgery, including council member of the Royal College of Surgeons Future of Surgery Commission, council member of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), Innovation UK and council member of the Royal Society of Medicine plastic surgery section. Proximie: https://www.proximie.com Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk