The Health Technology Podcast

Ali Tamaseb, a partner at DCVC, a venture capital firm with over $2 billion under management and with investments in more than 10 billion-dollar startups. He holds leadership and board director positions at multiple companies, including Carbon Health, Medical Informatics, and PlotLogic. In this episode, Ali gives us a sneak peek into his new book, “Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups.” He debunks the myths of what makes a good founder or a successful company and reveals the simple commonality at the core of all entrepreneurs. Do you have any thoughts? Please email us at hello@rosenmaninstitute.org. We post new episodes every Monday. “The Health Technology Podcast” is produced by Herminio Neto, hosted by Christine Winoto, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.

Jon Norris is Managing Director for Business Development at Silicon Valley Bank. Jon spearheads strategic relationships with many healthcare venture capital firms and serial entrepreneurs. With over 20 years of banking experience, Jon frequently speaks at major investor and industry conferences about healthcare investment trends. In this episode, Jon gives us the rundown on how the pandemic has affected and will continue to affect investment in health technology and device startups. He covers cyclical funding patterns, which sectors of healthcare are the most appetizing to investors, and why right now is the perfect time for startups to find capital. Do you have any thoughts? Please email us at hello@rosenmaninstitute.org. We post new episodes every Monday. “The Health Technology Podcast” is produced by Herminio Neto, hosted by Christine Winoto, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.

  If you’re looking for guidance on how to become a better leader, this is the episode for you. Erika Andersen is the founding partner of Proteus and the author of multiple books on leadership, and the host of the podcast, the Proteus Leader Show. She shares profound insights on self-awareness, changing your self-talk, and the six attributes at the core of all good leaders. Do you have any thoughts? Please email us at hello@rosenmaninstitute.org. We post new episodes every Monday. “The Health Technology Podcast” is produced by Herminio Neto, hosted by Christine Winoto, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.

Lusi Chien, a commercial executive who specializes in developing go-to-market strategies for startup technologies. Lusi recently left Subtle Medical as their Chief Commercial Officer and is now a Managing Partner at Outlier Ventures, a consultancy that partners with health technology companies. Lusi shares her insights from her time in international development, working within coffee farming in Rwanda, healthcare in India, and rural banking in China. What values and needs are universal to all people, and how do you understand each individual’s cultural context to improve their lives?  Do you have any thoughts? Please email us at hello@rosenmaninstitute.org. We post new episodes every Monday. “The Health Technology Podcast” is produced by Herminio Neto, hosted by Christine Winoto, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.  

Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr. is an executive partner with Madison Dearborn Partners, a private equity firm based in Chicago, Illinois, and a Clinical Professor of Leadership at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He was named the 2008 Kellogg School Professor of the Year. Harry is the author of two bestselling leadership books: From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership and Becoming The Best: Build a World-Class Organization Through Values-Based Leadership. In this episode, Harry shares his insights on the importance of relating to those you want to lead. He also offers a simple test on how to know if you have true self-confidence Do you have any thoughts? Please email us at hello@rosenmaninstitute.org. We post new episodes every Monday. “The Health Technology Podcast” is produced by Herminio Neto, hosted by Christine Winoto, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.  

Kate comes from a family of inventors. She earned her PhD in Bioengineering at UC Berkeley and UCSF, completed a Postdoctoral fellowship in Neurosurgery, and has developed neurotherapies with companies such as Brainlab, Autonomic Technologies, and Genentech. She shares her insights on pursuing meaningful innovation despite the volatile landscape of startups in Silicon Valley. Do you have any thoughts? Please email us at hello@rosenmaninstitute.org. We post new episodes every Monday. “The Health Technology Podcast” is produced by Herminio Neto, hosted by Christine Winoto, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.

Claudia previously served as Senior Advisor for Health Technology and Innovation at the White House, helping to lead President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative. She believes that the next step to improve healthcare in America is to unlock information from its silos and put it in the hands of innovators. Do you have any thoughts? Please email us at hello@rosenmaninstitute.org. We post new episodes every Monday. “The Health Technology Podcast” is produced by Herminio Neto, hosted by Christine Winoto, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.

Zeeshan Syed, PhD is the CEO of Health at Scale. Zeeshan’s story begins with his time in academia: he was formerly a Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford Medicine and an Associate Professor with Tenure in Computer Science at the University of Michigan. After his father suffered a silentheart attack that might have been mitigated by proactive care, Zeeshan pivoted to impacting real-world outcomes by starting Health at Scale. He aims to improve patient outcomes through machine intelligence.

  Oren Levy is the CEO and co-founder of SonoMotion, a clinical-stage medical device startup developing non-invasive solutions for the treatment of kidney stones. Oren has overall responsibility for the company’s management, strategic direction, clinical, hiring, and fundraising activities.  At Sonomotion, Oren has raised $17 Million in equity investment from institutional, strategic, and physician investors located in the US, Japan, and Singapore as well as $8 Million in non-dilutive NIH and NASA grants.  Under Oren’s leadership, SonoMotion has negotiated rights to an extensive IP portfolio from the University of Washington, established a strategic and OEM relationship with GE Healthcare, and initiated a multi-national First-In-Human clinical trial of its flagship stone fragmenting solution.  Oren also currently serves on the board of directors of a therapeutic urology company called NewUro. In this episode, Oren talks about finding your life’s path through the pursuit of a good challenge, managing a startup’s cash burn rate during a pandemic, and positioning yourself to take advantage of luck when it comes.

Dr. Katherine Scangos, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who focuses on circuit-level models of depression as an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco Department of Psychiatry. Her clinical work centers on interventional psychiatry. She co-directs the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Neuromodulation clinic at UCSF. She also conducts quantitative neuroscience research on the development of electrophysiologic biomarkers in patients with mood disorders and works to develop new forms of brain stimulation therapies. Her goal is to translate these findings into a better understanding of neuropsychiatric illness and the development of novel therapeutics. She currently co-leads a clinical trial of personalized closed-loop deep brain stimulation in patients with depression. Dr. Scangos is a recipient of the National Institute of Mental Health’s Outstanding Resident Award Program in 2017. She currently receives funding from the Brain and Behavioral Research Foundation NARSAD Young Investigator Grant and from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders. She received her medical degree and a doctorate in neuroscience from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (MD/PhD). She subsequently completed a psychiatry residency at the University of California, Davis, and a fellowship in Interventional Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco.