Entrepreneur Rx

For Episode 15 of Entrepreneur Rx, I was delighted to talk to Sharon T McLaughlin, a plastic surgeon and entrepreneur with tremendous experience in digital marketing through Sharon Mack Wellness and Sharon Mack Consulting. She is also the founder of Female Physician Entrepreneurs, a Facebook group that connects women physicians. We discussed her experience as a surgeon and entrepreneur, how Female...

For Episode 14 of Entrepreneur Rx, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr.  Jonathan Kaplan , a plastic surgeon and CEO/Founder of  BuildMyHealth® . BuildMyHealth is a unique platform that helps consumers check potential costs for healthcare services. During this episode we discuss how Jonathan became interested in plastic surgery, the start of BuildMyHealth, the functionality of BuildMy...

In Episode 13 of Entrepreneur Rx, I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Sanjay Prasad, a surgeon, and physician with over 30 years specializing in Neurotology and Otology. Sanjay is the CEO of SurgiPrice, SurgiQuality, SurgiConnect, and the author of Resetting Healthcare. Sanjay shares his background, how his companies allow patients to choose their surgeon based on quality scoring, what his co...

This week, John welcomes Dr. Charles Theuer, the President and CEO of TRACON, a biopharmaceutical company that develops targeted therapies for cancer. He’s also the author of Unnecessary Expense: An Antidote to the Billion Dollar Drug Problem. Charles talks about what inspired his transition from the operating room to the pharmaceutical, and how TRACON is changing the way drugs are developed today...

John's guest this week is John Paul Tutela, a board-certified plastic surgeon with offices in New York City and New Jersey. John has been featured in the Daily Mail and Reader’s Digest after becoming the go-to plastic surgeon for the cast of The Jersey Shore. John talks about being part of three generations of doctors in the Tutela family, why he chose plastics, and how he leverages social media t...

Joining John this week is physician and entrepreneur Dr. Shantanu Nundy. Shantanu is the Chief medical officer at Accolade, where he oversees the company’s clinical strategy and solutions to improve health outcomes, and he’s the author of the new book, “Care After Covid.” Shantanu shares his circuitous journey into healthcare, the inspiration to write about the pandemic, and why he thinks his 3D m...

Past episodes have featured physicians that have leveraged social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to grow their entrepreneurial ventures, but this week John is joined by Dr. Kevin Jubbal, M.D., a Doctor and YouTube star. A few years ago, Kevin started posting videos because he wanted to help struggling medical students. Now, he has over a million subscribers to his channels de...

This week John speaks with Dr. Susan Nicholas. Susan is a physician and surgeon turned serial entrepreneur, podcast host, author, and international speaker. Dr. Nicholas is a thought leader on human consciousness and often contemplates the interplay of essence and form. Susan shares how her conscious awakening influenced her to walk away from clinical medicine, how she inspires audiences to alter...

John welcomes Dr. Lily Talakoub to the podcast. Lily is a board-certified dermatologist and founder of Derm To Door, a customized online skin care experience. Lily talks about why dermatologists are almost uniformly entrepreneurial, whey she made the switch from orthopedic trauma to dermatology, her work in the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General, and how her startup is using AI for virtual dermato...

John welcomes Dr. Krishan Ramdoo to the podcast.  Krishan is the CEO and Founder of Tympa Health, a London-based start-up that has created the world’s first all-in-one hearing health assessment system. Krish talks about what inspired his transition from medicine to entrepreneurship, how he developed the hardware and software for Tympa Health, and what the future of hearing health looks like.

This week's episode of Entrepreneur RX features a conversation between John Shufeldt and Dr. Nisha Mehta, a radiologist and the founder of Physician Side Gigs. Nisha is an international speaker and writer specializing in physician advocacy and addressing physician burnout. She is the founder of two online physician community groups reaching more than 100,000 physicians.  Nisha discusses the inspir...

Joining John this week is Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram, a surgeon, lecturer and clinical entrepreneur. Nadine is the co-founder of Proximie, a health technology business that uses augmented reality to allow the world’s top surgeons to virtually transport themselves into any operating room.  Nadine explains why CNN dubbed Proximie the "future of surgery”,  the future of Augmented Reality (AR) and medic...

Not every medical entrepreneur builds the same thing; some build apps, some build groundbreaking devices, some build alternative care methods. This week’s guest built a floating hospital in the Congo. Her name is Dr. Amy Lehman and she’s the Founder of the Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic, a revolutionary health clinic that is saving lives in Africa. Amy talks about how she transitioned from...

Medicine is hard, but there probably isn’t anything harder to solve in medicine than the obesity epidemic. The CDC considers 42% of Americans obese. That fact didn’t scare off John's guest this week. His name is Shantanu Gaur, the co-founder of Allurion Technologies, a leader in the development of innovative, scalable and weight loss solutions. Shantanu describes his journey from Harvard medical s...

John's first guest is physician turned entrepreneur, Dr. Dana Corriel. Dana is a board-certified internist and founder of SoMeDocs, a platform that connects physicians across the globe, providing networking opportunities to help form successful online brands.  Dana discusses why she became disillusioned with healthcare, how she utilizes Twitter and LinkedIn to connect with doctors and what inspire...