The Health Technology Podcast

Glen Tullman, Managing Partner, 7wireVentures Glen Tullman is the Founder and former Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Livongo Health, the first at-scale consumer digital health company to truly empower people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives using data science. In his final year, Tullman led Livongo through the largest consumer digital health Initial Publ...

Harith Rajagopalan, M.D., Ph. D., Co-Founder & CEO, Fractyl Dr. Harith Rajagopalan is co-founder and CEO of Fractyl, having started the company while serving as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at General Catalyst Partners. Prior to founding Fractyl, Harith was an academic cardiologist and physician-scientist. He received his B.S. in chemistry from Stanford University and went on to obtain M.D. and Ph...

Jon Bloom, MD, CEO & Co-Founder, Podimetrics Dr. Jon Bloom is a board-certified physician and entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in technology development, patient monitoring, biomedical research, and health care delivery. He is the chief executive officer of Podimetrics, a virtual care management company dedicated to preventing diabetic amputations, one of the most debilitating and cos...

Matt Abrahams, Co-Founder and Principal, Bold Echo Communications Matt Abrahams is a passionate, collaborative and innovative educator and coach. He teaches Effective Virtual Communication and Essentials of Strategic Communication at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.   Matt is also Co-Founder and Principal at Bold Echo Communications Solutions, a presentation and communication ski...

Crystal Evuleocha, CEO & Founder, Kiira Health Crystal Evuleocha is Co-Founder and CEO of Kiira Health, a digital health company on a mission to increase access to women’s health resources for young women. Kiira’s first product is a virtual women’s health clinic and advanced AI care coordinator for colleges and universities. Crystal is a serial entrepreneur turned healthtech professional with over...

Aswin Gunasekar, CEO & Founder, Zeto Aswin is a former electrical engineer and management consultant. He turned to entrepreneurship to solve serious problems in health care. Zeto’s mission is to transform the way neurological conditions are recognized, managed and treated. Under his leadership, Zeto has brought to market the first true dry electrode EEG headset and cloud platform cleared by the FD...

Christine Lemke, Co-Founder, Co-CEO, & President, Evidation Health Christine is the Co-founder, Co-Chief Executive Officer, and President of Evidation Health. Previously, Christine was the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Sense Networks, developers of the first machine learning platform for mobile phone activity data (exited to YP.com). She has also held roles at 3iGroup (Paris), Microsof...

Matt Fairhurst, Co-Founder & CEO, Skedulo Matt Fairhurst is the co-founder and CEO of Skedulo, a leading mobile workforce management platform. Matt founded Skedulo with James Davies in 2013 with a vision of creating applications and technology to manage the growing number of mobile service industry workers. He has a background in user experience and user interface design and is a graduate of the Q...

Abner Mason, Founder & CEO, ConsejoSano Before creating ConsejoSano, Abner was Founder and CEO for the Workplace Wellness Council of Mexico, now the leading corporate wellness company in Mexico. From 2003-2008, he was founder and Executive Director of AIDS Responsibility Project, driving the creation of CONAES and JaBCHA, the first business councils on HIV/AIDS in Mexico and Jamaica. Abner previou...

Amr Salihieh, President & CEO, Shifamed Amr is a seasoned medical device entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in the medical device industry. Amr is the founder of Shifamed LLC, a Silicon Valley-based medical device incubator founded in 2009, from which Legacy Portfolio Companies Maya Medical, Kalila Medical, and Apama Medical have successfully exited and through which three additional co...

Joe R. Bengfort, SVP, Information Technology & CIO, UCSF Health Joe R. Bengfort is senior vice president, information technology, and chief information officer at UCSF Health as well as an associate vice chancellor at UCSF. His responsibilities span across the university, including UCSF Health, research, education and administration, as well as strategic information technology (IT) initiatives at...

Charles K. Fisher, PhD, CEO & Founder, Unlearn. AI Charles is a scientist with interests at the intersection of physics, machine learning, and computational biology. Previously, Charles worked as a machine learning engineer at Leap Motion and a computational biologist at Pfizer. He was a Philippe Meyer Fellow in theoretical physics at École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and a postdoctoral s...

Malay Gandhi, Senior VP, Business Operations, Evidation Health Malay is an active angel investor in early stage, health-focused startups and advises a number of leading health tech companies. Most recently, Malay served as the SVP of Business Operations at Evidation Health, and prior was an EIR at Greylock Partners and led Rock Health as its CEO and Managing Director. As an investor, Malay origina...

John Adler, Jr., MD John Adler is the CEO of both Zap Surgical Systems and Cureus Inc. Dr. Adler is world-renowned for inventing the CyberKnife and the related field of image-guided therapeutic radiation. Dr. Adler has been on the faculty of Stanford University since 1987, being appointed the Dorothy and TK Chan Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology in 2007. His entire medical and neuro...

Frank Fischer, Chairman of the Board, Neuropace Frank Fischer has more than 40 years of senior management experience in the medical device industry. He co-founded NeuroPace in Dec 1997, led the company as its President and Chief Executive Officer from January 2000 thru July 2019, served on its Board of Directors since inception and is currently Chairman of the Board. Prior to joining NeuroPace, Mr...

Frederick St Goar, MD Dr. Frederick St. Goar is a cardiology specialist, physician inventor, and entrepreneur. He currently serves as vice chairman of the board of the Fogarty Institute in Mountain View, CA. His career was jump-started at Stanford when he joined Paul Yock in working on intravascular ultrasound imaging. Subsequently he became involved in launching Heartport. He invented the minimal...

Thomas Osborne, MD, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, VA Palo Alto Health Care System Thomas Osborne, MD, is the Chief Medical Informatics Officer at VAPAHCS. He graduated from Dartmouth Medical School, and completed his diagnostic radiology residency at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, MA, and neuroradiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He is board-certified in radi...

Ali Farahanchi, Managing Director, DHVC Ali Farahanchi is Managing Director at DHVC, an early-stage tech and life science fund in Palo Alto. With more than $650M assets under management and 100+ companies in its portfolio, DHVC invests in variety of areas in healthcare including therapeutics, diagnostics and tools, and digital health, with strong emphasis on novel mechanisms and data-driven platfo...

Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, UCSF School of Medicine Dr. Prasad Shirvalkar is a neurologist and interventional pain medicine specialist who provides the full spectrum of care for chronic pain conditions. This includes conservative, nonsurgical treatments such as medications and nerve blocks (anesthetic injections near nerves that are sending pain signals). He also treats patien...

Heather Bowerman, Founder & CEO, DotLab Heather Bowerman is the founder and CEO of DotLab, a molecular diagnostics company in women’s health. DotLab has been named as an “Amazing Medical Breakthrough” by Reader’s Digest and as one of the “Fierce 15” companies of 2019 by FierceMedTech. Bowerman has been recognized as a Top 35 Global Innovator by the MIT Technology Review, a World Technology Award F...

Steve Blank Entrepreneur‐turned‐educator Steve Blank is the Father of Modern Entrepreneurship. Credited with launching the Lean Startup movement, he’s changed how startups are built; how entrepreneurship is taught; how science is commercialized, and how companies and the government innovate. Steve is the author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany, The Startup Owner’s Manual and his May 2013 Harvard...

Ajay Dharia, MD, Pulmonary & Critical Care, UCSF Medical Center; Principal, MedTech Venture Partners Ajay Dharia received his medical degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA after obtaining his engineering degree from UC Berkeley. He completed his residency and fellowship in internal medicine and pulmonary/critical care at UCSF Medical Center. After completing his fellowship, Ajay...

Harsh Vathsangam, PhD, CEO & Co-Founder, Moving Analytics Harsh Vathsangam is the CEO of Moving Analytics. He is driven by a passion for taking technological solutions and applying them to benefit people’s lives. Prior to Moving Analytics, Harsh received his PhD from the University of Southern California working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and mobile health. He is the author of...

Joe Mandato, Managing Director, DeNovo Ventures Joe joined De Novo Ventures as a Managing Director in March 2003. Prior to joining De Novo, Joe served as Chairman of Confer Software, a developer of software used to create efficiencies and streamline processes in healthcare. He also served as President/CEO of Origin Medsystems, a developer of minimally invasive surgical devices for use in general,...

James Eadie, MD, Partner, Santé Ventures James Eadie, MD, is Partner at Santé Ventures. He joined the firm in 2010. Previously, James served in the Air Force and was the medical director and Vice-Chair of Emergency Medicine at Wilford Hall Medical Center, an academic level-one trauma center in San Antonio. He completed two tours in Iraq as a critical care transport team chief and as the emergency...