The Health Technology Podcast

Matt Milford, Co-Founder & CEO, Foresight Mental Health From the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology website Matt Milford and Doug Hapeman dropped out of UC Berkeley with a vision to transform mental health care. Their venture, Foresight Mental Health, is a data-driven mental health care service that uses modern technology to deliver highly personalized, data-backed treatment plans t...

Ryan Van Wert, Co-Founder & CEO, Vynca Dr. Van Wert is a co-founder and CEO of Vynca. In addition to his role at Vynca, Dr. Van Wert is a part-time Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University, where he maintains a small clinical practice. Prior to Vynca, Dr. Van Wert co-founded AWAIR, Inc., a medical device company focused on reducing complications for critically ill patients, which was ac...

Thomas J. Fogarty, MD, Founder, Fogarty Institute for Innovation Dr. Fogarty is an internationally recognized cardiovascular surgeon, inventor, entrepreneur and vintner. He has dedicated his entire career to improving patient care and has acquired 190 medical patents for his revolutionary work, including the “industry standard” Fogarty balloon catheter and the widely used Aneurx Stent Graft that r...

Thomas J. Fogarty, MD, Founder, Fogarty Institute for Innovation Dr. Fogarty is an internationally recognized cardiovascular surgeon, inventor, entrepreneur and vintner. He has dedicated his entire career to improving patient care and has acquired 190 medical patents for his revolutionary work, including the “industry standard” Fogarty balloon catheter and the widely used Aneurx Stent Graft that r...

Sean Duffy, Co-Founder & CEO, Omada Health Sean Duffy is the co-founder and CEO of Omada Health, a digital behavioral medicine company dedicated to inspiring and empowering people everywhere to live free of obesity-related chronic conditions like heart disease and type 2 diabetes. In 2017, Omada was recognized as one of Fast Company’s World's Most Innovative Companies and in 2016, the company was...

Gabriel Sanchez, PhD, Founder & CEO, Enspectra Health Gabriel Sanchez, PhD, is founder and CEO of Enspectra Health. As a doctoral student at Stanford University, Gabriel was the lead inventor of portable second harmonic generation microendoscopy and created the first functional system for in vivo tissue imaging of human skeletal muscle and connective tissues: the Zebrascope. Prior to founding Ensp...

Charlie Silver, Co-Founder and CEO, Mission Bio Charlie is CEO and co-founder of Mission Bio where he leads a team dedicated to solving complex biological problems with precision engineering, innovative biochemistry, and supported bioinformatics. Charlie has dedicated his career to commercializing next-generation hardware technology and scientific instrumentation at emerging ventures in healthcare...

Beverly Huss, President & CEO, Qool Therapeutics Beverly Huss joined Qool Therapeutics as President and CEO in September 2013. Previously, Beverly was President and CEO of Vibrynt, Inc. a company that developed a novel minimally invasive therapeutic device for treatment of morbid obesity. Prior to this, Beverly was with Santa Clara, California-based Guidant since 1986, fulfilling a variety of exec...

Keith G. Lurie, MD Dr. Keith Lurie is a practicing cardiac electrophysiologist and resuscitation scientist who, over the past 30 years, has developed novel ways to resuscitate patients experiencing sudden cardiac arrest. As one of the leading innovators in the field, he has helped to develop new devices and methods that optimize cardiopulmonary resuscitation and improve the likelihood of survival...

Shoshana Ungerleider, MD, California Pacific Medical Center Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider is a physician, philanthropist and speaker. She works as an internist practicing hospital medicine at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. She received her medical degree from Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, OR and completed residency at California Pacific Medical Center where she is...

Santhi Analytis, PhD, CTO & Co-Founder, Moxxly Santhi Analytis (née Elayaperumal) is CTO and co-founder of Moxxly, Inc., a San Francisco based consumer tech company designing products for women. Moxxly’s first product is an FDA-cleared breast pump system for today’s mobile mom. Moxxly was acquired by Olle Larsson Holding, the parent of Medela and Bravado. This episode was recorded early this year,...

Lisa Suennen, Leader, Manatt Digital & Technology Lisa Suennen is the leader of Manatt Digital and Technology and the firm’s venture capital / emerging companies practice. With more than 30 years’ experience as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, board member and strategic advisor, she has focused broadly on new technologies and how they are transforming businesses. She has spent much of her care...

Kareem Barghouti, Co-Founder, VastBiome Kareem Barghouti is co-founder of VastBiome, a company that partners with scientists conducting clinical trials aimed at elucidating the influence of the microbiome on response to therapy. With an undergraduate degree in biology from UC Irvine and an MBA from Duke University, Kareem worked at Google for six years before taking a Biodesign Fellowship at TMC I...

Rachel Kuperman, MD, CEO, Eysz, Inc. During Dr. Kuperman's 10 years at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, Oakland, she developed the epilepsy program by focusing on excellence in clinical care, and research. She stepped back to focus on developing Eysz. Eysz comes out of her clinical work to help parents, caregivers and physicians quantitate the burdens of epilepsy: seizures, side effects and cogni...

Holly Rockweiler, Co-Founder & CEO, Madorra Holly Rockweiler is co-founder and CEO of Madorra, a women’s health company dedicated to changing the treatment paradigm for vaginal dryness. Rockweiler co-founded Madorra three years ago as a spin-out of the Stanford Biodesign Fellowship. Prior to Biodesign, she worked as a senior research scientist in the Cardiac Rhythm Management division of Boston Sc...

Matthew Likens, President and CEO, GT Medical Technologies Matt Likens is currently president and CEO of GT Medical Technologies, Inc., inventors of Gammatile(TM) Therapy, with a corporate purpose of "Improving the Lives of Patients with Brain Tumors". Previously, he held the same position at Ulthera, Inc., which grew from start-up to over $100M in revenue before being sold to Merz Pharma in July,...

Dorna Hakimi, PhD, Founder & CEO, BioInspire Technologies Dorna Hakimi, PhD, is CEO of BioInspire Technologies, a Palo Alto startup whose core technology is a bioresorbable, biocompatible medical film that can deliver therapies to specific locations. BioInspire has developed a flexible, therapeutic film made of human plasma fibrinogen, a naturally occurring protein. The film can be easily placed o...

Caroline Corner, PhD, Managing Partner, Westwicke Partners Caroline Corner, Ph. D., joined Westwicke Partners in 2016 as a Managing Director leading our San Francisco effort in Medical Technology. Caroline’s focus is working with both public and private companies in the medical device and diagnostics areas. Her expertise and extensive C-level industry relationships stem from more than 12 years wor...

Niquette Hunt, CEO, Candesant Biomedical Niquette Hunt, CEO, has over twenty-five years’ experience in developing, launching and commercializing 20+ products across multiple verticals in the consumer medicine market. Every business she managed increased sales, profits and/or market share. Before founding Candesant, Ms. Hunt charted the commercial strategy at Revance Therapeutics and helped raise o...

Steve Axelrod, PhD, President & CEO, G-Tech Medical Steve received his Ph. D. from Yale in Elementary Particle Physics and did his post-doc in the same field at Stanford. He worked at Measurex-Honeywell for 15 years where he was Director of Measurement System and Hardware Engineering. In 2003 he entered the medical device field, and helped develop and commercialize the Xoft Axxent microTube and ra...

Jonathan Coe, Co-Founder, President & CEO, Prescient Surgical With more than a decade of experience in the medical device industry, Jon is both an inventor and a leader. Before co-founding Prescient Surgical as a Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellow, Jon held a range of roles in engineering, marketing, and leadership in the surgical instrument divisions of Johnson & Johnson and Covidien. He is an...

Shubhra Jain, MD, Senior Associate, Cota Capital Dr. Shubhra Jain joined Cota in 2018 as a Senior Associate where she is responsible for sourcing, executing and analyzing healthcare investments. Prior to Cota, Shubhra was Associate Director of Commercial Strategy and Corporate Development at Natera where she focused on Biopharma Partnerships, the diligence of potential acquisitions, market researc...

Ryan Pierce, Co-Founder and CEO, Nine, & Lecturer in Bioengineering, Stanford This is a recording of a live event. Download the presentation deck Ryan Pierce is Co-Founder and CEO of Nine, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Rock Health, and Lecturer in Bioengineering at Stanford, where he teaches BIOE 70Q: Medical Device Innovation. He has served as VP of Design and Innovation at Ventus Medical, VP of B...

Michael R. Harrison, MD Principal Investigator & Clinical Lead, UCSF-Stanford Pediatric Device Consortium Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, UCSF Director Emeritus, UCSF Fetal Treatment Center Since retiring from active clinical practice in 2006, Dr. Harrison has dedicated his time and research efforts to the PDC, including mentoring junior i...

Gene DeJuan, Jr., MD, Founder & Vice-Chairman, ForSight Labs Renowned retinal surgeon, inventor and entrepreneur Dr. Eugene de Juan, Jr., serves as Vice-Chairman of ForSight Labs, where he participates as an active inventor and advisor in early-stage ophthalmic device opportunities. Dr. de Juan, Jr., splits his time between ForSight Labs and UCSF. He holds the “Jean Kelly Stock Distinguished Chair...