Doctors in Business

In this episode, our guest is Dr. Siyu Shi, MD, MBA. Dr. Shi is an investor at venture capital firm F-Prime Capital. She has over 10 portfolio companies, across healthcare sub sectors including MedTech, IT, and therapeutics, in which she led or co-led the investment. She also collaborates with Eight Roads, F-Prime’s sister company, based in Asia to work with Chinese startups. She talks about her e...

In this episode, our guest is Dr. John Whyte , MD, MPH, and CMO of WebMD. Dr. Whyte brings years of experience from working for the FDA, CMS, and Discovery Channel to WebMD and helps create high level strategy. Focusing on healthcare mis/information, we discussed the role of AI, drug advertising, challenges during the pandemic, and consumerism in healthcare. This episode ought to be of interest to...

In this episode, our guest is Dr. Reid Waldman, M.D., Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2024, dermatologist, and founder and CEO of Veradermics. With over $40 million raised, Veradermics is looking to change the fact that there has been little to no innovation in dermatology in recent years. Dr. Waldman took a huge risk by jumping from medicine to the startup space. He talks about how he can make a much...

In this episode, our guest is Dr. David L. Nathan, M.D., psychiatrist, founder of Doctors for Drug Policy Reform ( D4DPR ), and co-designer of the universal cannabis symbol. We talk about his motivation behind founding a non-profit and the challenges that came with it. We also explore what it’s like working with politicians to make physician voices heard and to create evidence-based policies. In 2...

In this episode, join Dr. Lucy McBride as we unravel the intricate tapestry of what true health entails. She is the host of the podcast “Beyond the Prescription,” where she brings on guests ranging from musicians to politicians, discussing how their life challenges allowed them to view holistic health differently. She shares her personal motivation behind creating the podcast and the health challe...

In this episode, Dr. Shilpa Darivemula shares about how her experiences as both a dancer and a doctor led her to create the Aseemkala Initiative. This group is dedicated to harnessing the power of traditional dance to perform modern stories about healthcare inequities. Dr. Darivemula is trained in a form of Indian classical dance known as Kuchipudi. She is also an OB/GYN, currently completing a Ge...

In this episode, learn more how to harness the power of technology to improve mental health, from digital psychiatrist and creative extraordinaire Dr. Nina Vasan. She shares about her experiences as the founder and executive director of Brainstorm: The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation, designing new tools for Pinterest and TikTok, as the chief medical officer of Real, a startup dedicated...

In this episode, learn more about the Reimagining Medicine Festival, a traveling, virtual festival exploring the intersection of arts with justice in medicine. The theme of this year's festival, hosted by Weill Cornell and sponsored by the American Medical Women's Association Dance and Theater Task Force, is "Metamorphosis." We hear from members of the planning committee, Kate Cox, Andrea Samson,...

In this episode, Elaine Ma interviews Dr. Mimi Winsberg, a Harvard and Stanford trained psychiatrist. While serving as the resident psychiatrist at Facebook, she co-founded the behavioral health startup, Brightside Health. Most recently, Dr. Winsberg released her first book, titled “Speaking in Thumbs” a psychiatrist decodes your relationship texts so you don’t have to. During their conversation,...

Dr. Evan Ashkin is the director and founder of the North Carolina Formerly Incarcerated Transition (NC FIT) program, which helps connect chronically ill formerly incarcerated individuals to primary care medical services. He currently serves as a professor of family medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, teaching in the underserved track of the residency program, and sees patients at Piedmont Heal...

Dr. Yuan He is currently an attending primary care doctor with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Karabots Pediatric Care Center, a pediatric clinic serving patients in West Philadelphia. Dr. He is also a postdoctoral research fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania and an affiliate trainee at the CHOP PolicyLab, where she examines racial dis...

In this episode, learn more about how one general surgeon created balance in his life and moved his family and work to New Zealand! Dr. Charles Black is a prolific writer and photographer. In his most recent Doximity Op-Med he writes about how "Good Enough is Good Enough, in the OR and in Life." You can read more about Dr. Black's creative pursuits on his personal blog and on Doximity.  If yo...

Listen to Dr. Jaclyn Perreault’s original "Vaccine" song parody, sung to the tune of Dolly Parton's "Jolene" in this episode of Doctors Who Create. As an IM resident, Dr. Perreault has managed to inject creativity into her work inside and outside the hospital. Aside from songwriting and singing, she explores her talents through Indonesian gamelan music and artistic endeavors.  If you are intereste...

In this episode, Margaret Wang interviews Dr. Subha Airan-Javia, CEO and founder of CareAlign, a digital tool used by healthcare systems in conjunction with the electronic medical record to facilitate efficient clinical workflow, provider communication, and patient safety in the hospital. Dr. Airan-Javia is also a distinguished hospitalist and previous Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer a...

This episode was brought to you by some of the newest members of the Doctors Who Create podcast team! In this episode, Elaine Ma interviews Dr. Roberta Kung, anesthesiologist and founder of GiftedTaste. This experiential platform focuses on promoting wellness and empowering women through retreats and other innovative programming. Dr. Kung shares candidly about the personal and professional experie...

Now that we're a few months into our intern year, I sat down with my class to discuss how we've managed to create a community amongst ourselves and how we've been able to keep up our creative hobbies in residency. In this episode, we cover so many topics from Dungeons & Dragons to boy bands. Come join us as we talk about how we bring fun, play, and creativity back into medicine.  If you a...

We are back (after a brief hiatus as we both started intern year)!  In this episode, we sat down with Dr. Adam Stern, psychiatrist and author of Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training. His memoir was featured on People Magazine's Book of the Week and Amazon Editor's Pick for Best Biographies and Memoirs. He shares about the creative process in transforming his writing from idea...

Dr. Eleanor Love created The Simple Sunflower in medical school, inspired to combine her passions for floristry and medicine. Her organization collects flower donations from wedding parties and rearranges them into bouquets for patients in hospitals in her local community of Richmond, VA. The Simple Sunflower has grown and grown since its inception in 2019. In this podcast episode, Dr. Love shares...

Meet Dr. Syed Hoda! A person, photographer, poet, bone and soft tissue pathologist, and so much more...  In this episode of Doctors Who Create, Dr. Hoda talks about his path to medicine and beyond. He speaks candidly about creativity and its role in our personal and professional lives. For all the new interns out there this July, you won't want to miss out on his valuable advice for keeping l...

In this episode of Doctors Who Create, Drs. Mekala Neelakantan and Karan Pandher reflect back on their experiences creating and maintaining a relationship throughout college, medical school, and into residency. They speak candidly about both the joys and challenges of dating another person in medicine. Listen to this episode to hear their advice on love and the couples match!  At Doctors Who...

For Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we interview Dr. James Lee, a psychiatry resident at the University of Washington and author of the recent NEJM perspective piece entitled, "Combating Anti-Asian Sentiment - A Practical Guide for Clinicians." Learn more about how you can better support AAPI patients and colleagues, amidst surging rates of anti-Asian attacks and hate crimes. I...

A big congratulations to all those future doctors out there!  In this special episode, we are shaking things up... join co-producers Darlina Liu and Mekala Neelakantan as they share their stories from the one-of-a-kind residency application season this year, from applying to interviewing to Match Day itself. With the rapid transition from in-person to virtual, applicants, programs, and school...

In this episode of Doctors Who Create, co-producer Mekala Neelakantan interviews Dr. Shikha Jain (@ShikhaJainMD), a hematology and oncology physician who has found creative ways to advocate for her patients and colleagues. She founded IMPACT, a COVID-19 action and advocacy group, the Women in Medicine Summit and Symposium, and the Rush Center for the Advancement of Women in Health Care, just to na...

Welcome to the last episode in our Re-imagine Healthcare mini-series! This time, we’ll be talking all about consults . Whether you're the primary team or the consulting service, you can learn something new in this episode, where we chat with Dr. Michelle Brooks (@michellebr00ks) and Dr. Jose Barreau (@HaloHealthInc) about their ideas on how to improve the clinical workflow and ultimately, better c...

Welcome to episode 2 of 3 in our Re-imagine Healthcare mini-series! This time, we’ll be talking all about medical documentation . In this episode, learn how Dr. Danielle Ofri , Dr. Prashant Patel , and Dr. Ken Braslow write their clinical notes and hear their ideas on how to improve the documentation process. You can check out more of Dr. Ofri’s work at www. DanielleOfri.com and the Bellevue Liter...