The Healthtech Podcast

On this weeks Sunday Session I chat to Aditya Nori, lead of the Health Intelligence theme at Microsoft Research Cambridge, where their mission is to transform the practice of medicine via trusted and human-centred AI. In the past, Aditya has developed AI-based productivity tools for cancer treatment ( The InnerEye Project ), and also explored various synergies between programming languages and mac...

Exo ’s CEO and Co-Founder, Sandeep Akkaraju. Exo (pronounced “Echo”) is a health information and devices company with an initial aim to reinvent ultrasound. Currently, 75% of the world’s population doesn’t have access to any form of medical imaging. If made available, basic medical imaging could help solve many life-saving issues, including accurate diagnoses of COVID-19. Akkaraju recently led Exo...

This weeks Sunday Session is a preview of an upcoming episode with CEO of Mymee, Mette Dyhrberg.  Mette is changing lives with a patient- and data-centric approach to tackling autoimmune disease, based on helping people identify their unique individualized triggers.  She shares with us some tips for health tech entrepreneurs.  Get in touch with Mette: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mettedyhrberg/ htt...

Tom Whicher is founder of DrDoctor & an NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellow . Tom is a biomedical engineer by background and worked for a management consulting firm before identifying an opportunity to improve hospital outpatient appointment bookings. In 2012, he launched his own company, DrDoctor, which aims to improve communication around scheduling outpatient appointments between patients and...

On this week's Sunday Session, I chat again to Elliott Engers, CEO and Co-Founder of Infinity Health.  In 2015 following a conversation with an NHS doctor who was battling with paper based task lists Elliott saw a technical challenge a start-up he could really contribute to. He set out to make task management safer and more efficient whilst improving clinicians’ experience of their crucial, high-p...

Per Edlund is the Head of Radiology Commercial Operations Asia Pacific in the Bayer Pharmaceuticals Division. Per has about 20 years of experience leading multi-cultural teams to drive innovation, growth and patient-centricity, to meet unmet needs in the field of diagnostic radiology.  He currently heads a diverse business featuring a portfolio that includes Contrast Agents, Medical Devices, Servi...

This week's guest on the Sunday session is Dr Arthur Roach, Director of Research at Parkinson's UK. Arthur has spent 25 years in research, discovery and development for drug companies and universities, working on projects developing new treatments for Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and MS. "My big preoccupation is with finding the best means to convert the genetic and biochemical discoveries of the past...

This week, James is joined by Dr Chris Lovejoy, a Data scientist with a background as a medical doctor. He studied Medicine at University of Cambridge, he has a big YouTube following and makes videos about machine learning, healthcare, career transitions, productivity and anything else on his mind. Get in touch with Chris : https://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisLovejoy/ Subscribe to Healthtech Pigeon 🐦:...

In this weeks Sunday Session I speak to Dr Mala Mawkin. Mala works at Cellen, a healthcare technology company innovating in chronic pain. She also is the Digital Medicine Innovation Lead at Imperial College London, and the host of the Digital Health Podcast for the Royal Society of Medicine. Prior to this, Mala was a doctor in the NHS and has worked at institutions such as European Space Agency, M...

For this week's Sunday Session, James is joined by Sarah Ticho, founder & CEO of Hatsumi and Ross O'Brien, Associate Director of Innovation and Technology at CNWL to talk about adopting healthtech innovation - in this case, with VR... Get in touch with Sarah: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-ticho/ Get in touch with Ross: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ross-o-brien-a270917b/ Subscribe to Healtht...

Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram is a  Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Head of Clinical Innovation at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. In 2015, the NHS clinical entrepreneur drew on her surgical experiences and her passion for innovation and education, to create Proximie ; a technology platform on a mission to save lives by sharing the world’s best clinical practice. Nadine received the British E...

In this week's Sunday Session, Dilraj Kalsi is back to talk about some of the practical steps to take and hurdles to overcome to become an entrepreneur in the wellness space. Subscribe to healthtech pigeon: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

Dag Larsson is founder and CEO of Doccla, a virtual ward company. Dag graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics and formerly held executive positions at MTG, Viaplay and Turnpikegroup.  Doccla uses the latest wearable devices to allow medical staff to monitor the vital signs of a patient remotely, through a secure web browser, while the patient is at home. Its virtual wards allow NHS trusts...

This week's Sunday Session features Dr Indra Joshi, once an emergency medicine physician and now the Director of AI at NHSX. James and Indra discuss her background and how she came to lead the AI efforts for NHSX, along with some of the specific projects that NHSX are undertaking to increase the adoption of AI into the UK healthcare system. Once of these projects is the AI in Healthcare Award, whi...

Christopher McCann is the CEO and co-founder of Current Health . Christopher conceived Current as a medical student, eventually dropping out to focus on the company full time. Chris holds a master's degree in engineering and computer science from the University of Dundee, Scotland. Current Health (formerly snap40) has a goal of preventing illness for one million patients around the world by 2021....

For this week's Sunday Session, we have some bonus content from last week's guest, Jonathan, the founder and CEO of Machine Medicine. He gives his top tips for healthtech entrepreneurs, including eating humble pie to act in the best interests of your company! Latest healthtech news 🐦: www.healthtechpigeon.com Get in touch: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk

As a practicing neurologist, Jonathan O' Keefe saw that his impact in clinical practice was linear — you see one patient, you impact one patient, patient number doubles, impact doubles, and you start again. Instead he wanted to combine his neurology and computer science background to impact deeper than he ever could using one discipline alone, by building a startup. Perfectly positioned to see the...

This week's Sunday Session features bonus content from last week's guest, Dr. Peter Kecskemethy from Kheiron Medical. Peter joins us to tell us his top tips for entrepreneurs... Get in touch with Peter: www.kheironmed.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/kecsky/ Get in touch with Dr James Somauroo: www.jamessomauroo.com | www.somx.co.uk 

Dr. Peter Kecskemethy is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO/co-founder of Kheiron Medical, an AI cancer diagnostics company based in London. He is a computer scientist by background and prior to Kheiron, he founded two tech start-ups and was lead developer in two others. Peter did his PhD and post-doctoral research at the University of Oxford in high performance computing and computational statisti...

Dr. Anthony Mazzarelli is CEO of Cooper University Health Care, the leading provider of health services, medical education & clinical research in Southern New Jersey & Delaware Valley PA. He received his masters degree in bioethics from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and trained in emergency medicine at Cooper University Hospital, where he also served as...

This week's Sunday Session is all about the fact that you don't need to found a billion dollar company to make impact with healthtech. For example, Dr. Gerald Diaz is Cofounder and Chief Medical Officer at GrepMed. Gerald is a former software engineer and computer scientist and got his MD from SLU, completed his residency at UC Davis Medical Center, and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and...

Dilraj is a Doctor, Academic and Entrepreneur. He trained at the University of Oxford, where he continues to publish with colleagues about Patient Empowerment. He is a Lecturer in Digital Health at the University of Warwick and uses Lifestyle Medicine to help patients reverse disease in his online clinic - Hippocrates Lounge. Shocked that 80% of health outcomes are due to health behaviours, socioe...

This week, James is joined by Nader Alaghband, the founder and CEO of Ampersand Health, which creates clinically-validated, behavioural science-based digital therapeutics for complex long term conditions, including IMIDs and rare diseases. Ampersand Health is a social purpose company. Their primary objective is to improve the health and quality of life of patients with inflammatory conditions like...

For this week's Sunday Session, James discusses the state of AI in the UK healthcare, naming a few examples of the startups deploying and developing the technology right now The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning: https://ethical.institute/ The Topol review: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamessomauroo/2019/02/11/nhs-announces-workforce-plan-for-genomics-ai-and-digital-medicine/ emteq l...

Jason Foster is the CEO of OriBiotech and has held leading roles in consulting, healthcare and technology companies for nearly 20 years in the US, UK and Europe. He is also the Founder and Managing Director of Health Equity Consulting, a healthcare growth consultancy, a Venture Partner and/or mentor at a number of funds and accelerators in the healthtech space and a member of the Tech London Advoc...