The DaVinci Hour

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Bradley Block, M.D., ENT surgeon and Host of Physician's Guide to Doctoring Podcast where he interviews a diverse lineup of guests discussing a wide variety of topics to help doctors, including practice better medicine, contract negotiations, manage their finances, pursue non-clinical opportunities, and leading more fulfilling lives. Dr. Block tells...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Jani Tuomi, Co-Founder of Imaware, a digital health platform for home-based lab testing. Jani describes how a family member's illness due to a preventable disease inspired him to start Imaware to enable patients to take control of their health and enable early long-term monitoring of one's health. Jani gives an overview of how employers, hospitals an...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Katrina Firlik, M.D., Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of HealthPrize Technologies, a digital health company developing a web-based platform to improve patient compliance in an engaging way to provide better outcomes. Dr. Firlik is also a neurosurgeon and the author of the non-fiction book Another Day in The Frontal Lobe. Dr. Firlik tells the lis...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Kathy Fields, M.D., a Dermatologist in private practice in San Francisco that is also a serial entrepreneur as a Co-Founder of Proactive and Rodan + Fields. Dr. Fields tells the story of how she and Co-Founder Dr. Katie Rodan developed Proactiv into a multi-billion dollar brand as early attendings using their own money and TV infomercials in the 1990...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Tiffany Moon, M.D., anesthesiologist, TV personality, speaker, and entrepreneur. Dr. Moon gives us an overview of her clinical practice as an attending anesthesiologist at University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine. She tells the listeners how she became a cast member of Bravo TV's Real Housewives of Dallas and her experience of filming a re...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Keith Matheny, M.D., an ENT Surgeon and serial medtech entrepreneur. Dr. Matheny discusses how he maintains his ENT private practice while also running multiple companies involved in group purchasing for ENT practices, ENT surgical devices, and digital health applications for monitoring sleep apnea treatment. He discusses the initial steps for protec...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Douglas Beall, M.D., a Musculoskeletal Interventional Radiologist in private practice in Oklahoma City. Dr. Beall is a leading authority on interventional spine, musculoskeletal IR, pain management, and osteoporotic fractures. He has been a Co-PI of multiple level 1 clinical trials and developed numerous new interventional procedures and technologies...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Alexander Vaccaro, M.D., Ph. D., MBA, President of the Rothman Orthopaedic Institute and Department Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Vaccaro outlines the unique practice and business model for the Rothman Orthopaedic Institute, a physician owned and operated orthopaedic surgery practice that also serves as the acade...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Peeyush Shrivastava, Co-Founder and CEO of Genetesis, a MedTech company developing new technology that utilizes biomagnetic imaging to diagnose disease. Genetesis's CardioFlux Imaging Device is a new modality that images the biomagenetic fields of the heart with no contrast, no pharmaceuticals, and no stress to quickly and accurately measure cardiac...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Nisha Mehta, M.D., a Radiologist, Writer, Speaker, and Founder of Physician Side Gigs, an online community for physicians to find and discuss ways to supplement their clinical income. Dr. Mehta discusses why so many physicians are deciding to pursue side gigs and how side gigs are helping physicians pursue their passions, supplement their income, and...

In this episode of The DaVinci Hour Podcast Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews David Canes, M.D., a Urologist at Lahey Hospital and Founder of WellPrept, a platform for doctors to provide accurate and informative educational materials to their patients. Dr. Canes gives an overview of his urology practice and describes how frequently giving the same explanations for diseases and procedures to patients...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Ricardo Komotar, M.D., Professor of Neurosurgery, Residency Program Director, and Brain Tumor Center Director at University of Miami. In this episode Dr. Komotar discusses how he built the University of Miami Brain Tumor Center into a high volume brain tumor surgery center with highly prolific clinical, translational, and basic science research endea...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Scott Becker, Founder of Becker’s Healthcare and Partner at the law firm McGuireWoods, LLP. Scott tells the listeners about his legal practice working with hospitals, healthcare systems, and ambulatory surgery centers. He tells the story of how he started Becker’s Healthcare and how it has evolved into a major healthcare multimedia company providing...

In this episode Dr. Maxwell Cooper interviews Matthew Vuckovich, The Surgeon Agent, Founder of White Coat Career, Host of Interview with the Surgeon Podcast, and Partner at Paradigm Gilbert. Matthew previously worked as a Major League Baseball (MLB) Agent for many years before becoming an Agent for physicians navigating the job market. Matthew provides advice for how physicians can network during...

In this episode Dr. Maxwell Cooper interviews Dr. Rami Wehbi, Host of the Beyond Medicine Podcast, Founder of Beyond Medicine Group, and Advisor to several Digital Health start-ups. Dr. Wehbi discusses his journey from starting the Beyond Medicine Podcast as a medical student to leaving clinical medicine to pursue entrepreneurship and advising digital health start-ups full-time. Dr. Wehbi gives ad...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews John Whyte, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of WebMD. Dr. Whyte gives an overview of his unique background starting with training in internal medicine and then working in roles at Medicare, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and as Chief Medical Expert at The Discovery Channel. Dr. Whyte continues to see patients as an internist and tells the listen...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. talks with Medical Ethicist and Emory University Professor John Banja, Ph. D. about the ethics of AI and medical errors, specifically what will happen when AI can outperform radiologists? Professor Banja has spent much of his career looking at the ethics involved in medical errors and recently has turned his focus to AI and radiology. He hosts the AI, Radiology...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Gary Michelson, M.D. about his career as a physician-inventor and the invention process. Dr. Michelson practiced spine surgery for over 25 years while at the same time inventing numerous spine surgery devices, resulting in over 900 patents worldwide. In 2005 he sold his portfolio of patents to Medtronic for $1.4 billion. He went on to start a number...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Navin Goyal, M.D., Co-Founder and CEO of LOUD Capital. Dr. Goyal discusses his career path that began as an anesthesiologist working in a private practice that became involved with angel investing and advising start-ups, and eventually co-founding multiple companies. He discusses why he left clinical practice to pursue entrepreneurship and investing...

In this episode Dr. Maxwell Cooper interviews Dr. Lars Svensson, a cardiothoracic surgeon and the Heart & Vascular Institute Chair at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Svensson is an expert in aortic surgery and minimally invasive techniques, including percutaneous transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). He was a PI for the groundbreaking PARTNER clinical trials that established TAVR as a safe and effe...

In this episode Dr. Maxwell Cooper interviews Dr. Yang Yang, an integrated vascular surgery resident at MedStar Health/Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr. Yang gives an overview of the field of vascular surgery and why she chose the specialty. Dr. Yang also describes a typical day, lifestyle, and call for a vascular surgery resident. She talks about her gap years before medical school an...

In this episode Dr. Maxwell Cooper interviews Richard J. Brown, M.D., a plastic surgeon in private practice in Scottsdale, AZ. Dr. Brown gives an overview of the field of plastic surgery and the focus of his current practice. He tells the story of how he started his private practice out of training and built up a reputation and referral base in his community. Dr. Brown also discusses how he has bu...

In this episode Dr. Maxwell Cooper interviews Pelu Tran and Kenneth Ko, Co-Founders of Ferrum Health. Pelu and Ken give an overview of how Ferrum Health provides AI Hubs for healthcare systems that consist of validated AI algorithms that improve workflow efficiency, diagnostic ability, and outcomes for a variety of clinical areas, including oncology, orthopaedics, and cardiology. The AI algorithms...

In this episode Dr. Maxwell Cooper interviews Mark Cuban, a serial entrepreneur, Owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA Team, a Shark on ABC's Shark Tank Series, and Co-Founder of Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs. Mark outlines how Cost Plus Drugs is obtaining medications directly from manufacturers and wholesalers to provide medications at the lowest prices possible in the most transparent way. He also desc...

In this episode we interview Todd Hanna, M.D., D.D.S., an Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery in private practice in New York City. He has a special clinical focus in face and jaw aesthetic surgery and head and neck microvascular reconstruction. Dr. Hanna tells us the story of his training pathway toward his current practice, which involved going to medical school and dental school along with completing...