High Impact Medicine Podcast

Episode Description: In this episode of  High Impact Medicine , we speak with  Dr. Carl Otto Schell , a senior consultant physician, global health researcher, and co-inventor of the  Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC)  movement. With extensive experience across emergency medicine, internal medicine, cardiology, and critical care, Dr. Schell brings a rare blend of clinical insight, system...

Dr Michael Greger is a physician and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition. His science-based nonprofit, NutritionFacts.org , offers a free online portal hosting more than 2,000 videos and articles on myriad health topics. Dr. Greger is a sought-after lecturer and has presented at the Conference on World Affairs and the World Bank.  A graduate of Cornell University School of Agriculture...

*Recorded Talk* Dr. Akhil Bansal is a UK-based medical doctor and global health researcher. He is a research advisor for the Help Women and Girls Fund at The Life You Can Save . In this podcast, Dr. Bansal discusses his journey from treating victims of violence in emergency rooms to advocating for cost-effective, impactful interventions that aim to prevent violence against women and girls. In this...

Dr Keyur Doolabh is an Australian doctor, with a background in Emergency Medicine. He has interests in philosophy and making positive social change. He is the co-founder of a global health charity, Healthy Futures Global, that works to end congenital syphilis.  In this podcast episode, we chat about:  Keyur’s experience of the Charity Entrepreneurship programme  Why congenital syphilis is an impor...

Dr Anemone is a German doctor with a background in global health and infectious diseases. At the time of recording this podcast, she was working as an advisor at the nonprofit organisation 80,000 Hours. She is now pursuing a Masters in Public Health. Prior to all this, she was a clinical trial physician at Alvea, a start-up company aiming to accelerate medical countermeasure development and deploy...

Dr Benjamin Alba is an Emergency Medicine doctor with experience in Expedition Medicine, having recently worked a whole season at Mount Everest. He is now transitioning into humanitarian medicine. He graduated from Cardiff University in 2018 and has gone on to pursue a career path well beyond UK hospitals. He is the founder of ‘Ubuntu Network’ - a space for expedition medical professionals to shar...

Dr Yassen Tcholakov is a Canadian doctor and the Clinical Lead in Infectious Disease at the Nunavik Department of Public Health in Canada. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and Public Health at McGill University, and he also currently serves on the Steering Committee of the WHO Youth Council. He has varied advocacy experience in representing organisations like the WHO, World...

Dr Ian Nesbitt is a consultant in anaesthesia and critical care. He has carried out life-saving treatments in some of the most challenging conditions with none of the resources typically available in a UK hospital. Having completed medical school at Newcastle Upon Tyne University, he then trained in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. He has volunteered in some of the world’s most dangerous war zon...

Dr Aakash Ganju is a healthcare entrepreneur from India, after completing his medical degree he went on to co-found Saathhealth , an impact-focused digital health company that leverages evidence-based preventive health and financial literacy content to generate awareness, engage with users and drive demand for health products and services. To date, Saathealth has already engaged more than 50 milli...

Dr Adrian Boyle is an Emergency Medicine Consultant at Addenbrooke’s Hospital Cambridge, UK. His research interests are about using health data to prevent intentional injury and reducing the harm of Emergency Department crowding. He is also President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and a member of the Q community. Resources mentioned in the interview: 1) Professor Jonathan Shepherd - wh...

Max Schons is a clinician-scientist, developer, and entrepreneur. He currently leads the clinical team at the biotechnology startup ⁠ Alvea⁠ . We discuss: -The importance of showing a proactive mindset and building rapport. -The value of a computer engineering mindset in your mental toolbox. - Max's "buffet of hacks" for young professional, which includes finding kick-ass leadership...

Dan Epstein is a Medical Doctor and an academic with a PhD from Monash University’s faculty of public health. His areas of expertise include Decision Making | Behavior Change | Tabletop Game Design | Behavioral Economics | Pandemic Prevention | Forecasting | Philanthropy. His previous lives included being an academic consultant across public and private sectors, a medical educator, amateur forecas...

Anna Christina is an ambitious and impact-driven entrepreneur with a commitment to evidence-based decision-making and a passion for improving health and well-being. She first became aware of the impact misinformation has on agency and maternal health in 2016 while researching the socio-cultural barriers to family planning uptake in rural Tanzania and has dedicated her work to solving this problem...

Dr Anju Goel is an experienced board-certified internist and public health specialist with MPH. Over 2 years at CDC on COVID-19 response and 10+ years in California public health system addressing communicable disease, health policy, health promotion, disaster preparedness, and correctional health. She's has a strong interest in public health and is an advocate for designing your life to suit your...

Today’s conversation is with Nadia Montazeri, who completed her medical school in Bonn, after which she worked as a psychiatry resident in Bern, Switzerland. Subsequently, she held the role of program director at Effective Altruism Switzerland. Effective Altruism (EA) is an organisation that uses evidence and reason to figure out how to most effectively make the world a better place. As part of he...

After finishing medical school in New Zealand, David Basset shifted his career towards consulting, with roles at EY and BCG, before returning to train in radiology.  He shares some advice that would be useful for doctors and medical students, who are trying to figure out whether consulting would be a good fit for them. We discuss the benefits of combining business experience with clinic exper...

Today’s conversation is with Hunter Lau, who is an emergency medicine resident at Strong Memorial Hospital, and the group founder for Effective Altruism Medicine. We discuss some interesting points; for example, how focusing on impact can lead to unhappiness, the consequences of sub-optimal incentives in the medical education and the ways in which the typical medical student can stay resilient in...

Dr Akhil Bansal is a doctor who has worked with mental health NGOs, as a research fellow at Stanford Existential Risk Initiative and has recently joined Charity Entrepreneurship as an analyst. He is passionate about doing research that makes a difference and is developing his career to include both policy and clinical practice.  We discuss his experience with:  • building resilience into...

Dr Jake Mann is a clinical paediatrics registrar with research specialisation in metabolism and liver disease. He studied at Birmingham medical school and currently trains in Cambridge where he is a Wellcome Trust clinical fellow. He has a strong interest in clinical research and high impact research focuses for doctors and we were really excited to chat to him about his work as well as balancing...

Dr Henry Howard is a junior doctor in Australia who donated 50% of his income in 2021 to charity. He has pledged to give 10% of his income to effective charities forever having taken the Giving What We Can Pledge. He’s also really interested in Medtech and entrepreneurship. We’ve really enjoyed talking to him about his career, effective giving and his thoughts on doctors' ability to do a huge amou...

Dr Jan Brauner is a PhD candidate in the Centre for Doctoral Training on Intelligent and Autonomous Machines and Systems (AIMS CDT), and a member of the Future of Humanity Institute DPhil Scholars program. His current research interests include AI safety, applications of AI in medicine and biomedical research, and clinical research on cognitive enhancement. Before his DPhil, Jan studied medicine i...

Dr Alastair Yeoh is a Junior Doctor in the UK who recently returned from working in Ethiopia with Medicins Sans Frontieres. He also worked in Zambia and is looked to pursue a career in infectious diseases and global health. He’s also passionate about effective giving, having taken the GWWC pledge in 2019 and currently donates 20% of his income after tax to effective charities. We really enjoyed ta...

Dr Chris Lovejoy is a data scientist and medical doctor in London, passionate about scalable impact through technology and education. Currently, he is in the early stages of starting his own company, backed by Entrepreneur First. He is also a guest lecturer at teaching assistant in machine learning at UCL . We were really excited to talk to him about the potential for impact in medicine through te...

Dr Lucia Coulter is a clinical doctor turned charity founder! After completing medical school in Cambridge, she worked as Junior Doctor. Over a year ago she co-founded the Lead Exposure Elimination Project, LEEP, a non profit working to reduce lead exposure via lead based based. She is currently the co-director of LEEP. We were really excited to chat to Lucia about her experiences founding a not-f...