Your First 100 for Medical Practices & Entrepreneurs

You understand the science. But do you understand the stock? As a healthcare professional, you already have an edge most investors can never buy — you can read clinical literature, evaluate treatment efficacy, and spot genuine medical breakthroughs. The missing piece? The financial framework to turn that expertise into smarter investing decisions. In this episode, I sit down with Bryant Burciaga —...

Dr. Therese Canares is an assistant professor of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at John Hopkins. She is also the founder and CEO of CureDX, a vision-based AI solution that uses your cell phone to diagnose strep throat and other diseases.  In this episode we discuss her story pitching to Shark Tank, how she got a $750,000 non-dilitutive grant for CurieDx, and how to develop a piece of medical technol...

Dr. Therese Canares is an assistant professor of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at John Hopkins. She is also the founder and CEO of CureDX, a vision-based AI solution that uses your cell phone to diagnose strep throat and other diseases.  In this episode we discuss the CurieDX origin story, and how she used grants such as the I-Corps to help fund her startup without giving up ownership/equity.  #tel...

Dr. Shalini Prasad, PhD is a professor of bioengineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is the co-founder of EnLiSense, a wearable patch to monitor biomarkers crucial for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), and other disease states. She also has worked on countless other devices, ranging from sensors to detect aflatoxin in corn to breath-based tests for lung cancer.  In this episode we di...

Dr. Jeffrey Michaelis is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician. Together with his colleagues, he was able to start and sell a private practice. He then started a podcast Justice in Scrubs. In this podcast we discuss his incredible career trajectory, lessons learned from running a private practice, and the value of a personal touch with patient career (ie what many would call "the basics" l...

Karim Wabib is a Physician Assistant, and MBA candidate. He has experience on both the front and back end of healthcare, both having provided direct patient care as a physician assistant and then also serving as a practice manager. He's also the founder of FixCare Direct, a platform that combines direct primary care (DPC) and medical cost-sharing to provide an alternative to health insurance. In t...

This is actually a best-of episode. I went through and clipped high-value lessons from each of my podcast guests so far. Here is a table of contents on what you can find in this episode:   1.) Christine Bishara, MD of Within Medical on how gained 26,000 Instagram followers. 2.) Mario Amaro, MD of Ease on how to build a digital community. 3.) Dr. Joseph Pazona of Pazona MD on how he got over 1,000...

Dr. Christina Hamm is a family medicine and urgent care physician. She is also the founder of Percent Apparel, a GOTS-certified 100% organic cotton scrub company. In this episode we explore how she used affiliate marketing to reach her customer base. We also dive into how she went from idea to actually getting her scrubs into production by manufacturers, as well as the overall origin story behind...

Adewumi Bakare, PA-C has thousands of positive 5-star reviews on the major telehealth platforms. Of note, he has 1,488 stellar patient reviews on Sesame. He also provides patient care on Zocdoc and WebMD. He is the CEO of Fastdocnow.com, his own telemedicine platform and practice. In this episode we discuss how he accomplished these amazing feats, and how you can go about doing the same! #telemedi...

Jawad Ali is the co-founder and president of Austin Medtech Connect. Austin Medtect Connect brings together founders, funding, and stakeholders in the medtech/biotech industry. In its five years since inception, Dr. Jawad has grown AMC to regularly having 100+ thought-leaders attend each of these events. Dr. Jawad is also an affiliate professor at the University of Texas @Austin, as well as the As...

Gil Carvalho, MD PhD is a physician, research scientist, and science communicator. He is the founder of the YouTude channel Nutrition Made Simple, which is watched by over 500,000 people monthly. Dr. Carvalho trained as a medical doctor at the University of Lisbon, and later obtained a PhD in Biology from Caltech (California Institute of Technology).   In this episode, we discuss how he developed...

Dr. Kirk Parsley is a retired Navy SEAL and physician. He has been a guest on renowned Podcasts such as the Jocko podcast, and has been a speaker at TEDx. During his active career in the SEALs, Dr. Parsley served on SEAL Team Five. He left the SEAL community to pursue a college education, and later decided to pursue medicine. After completing his medical training, Dr. Parsley returned to the SEAL...

Dr. Hilary Gallin MD/MBA is a board-certified anesthesiologist. She got her MD degree at Washington University. She completed her residency at Mass General. She earned her MBA through Harvard business school. Dr. Gallin is the co-founder of two companies: Fastline and ARX. Fastline is a medical device company with the goal of improving central line placement. ARX is making high-quality PPE tailore...

Dr. Palak Majmudar is an associate professor of ophthalmology at Mt. Sinai. She is also the co-founder of LV8Health, a precision and longevity medical practice. In this episode we discuss the founding of LV8Health, as well as how Dr. Majmudar used her warm network to get her first DPC/cash-pay patients. We also discuss LV8Health is getting corporate clients.

Dr. Uri Goldberg is the founder of Harmony Palliative. In this episode Dr. Goldberg discusses how he built a physician referral network to grow his DPC palliative care practice!

In this Episode Dr. Younglove discusses how she started her medical practice, how public speaking drove patient acquisition, and lessons learned from medical operations.

This episode is a little bit different. Rather than interviewing a physician who has an established practice, I thought it would be fun to interview a physician who is in the thick of founding her practice. In this episode we discuss the type of practice Dr. Armoush is trying to start and her progress so far.

A valuable 60-second bite on how to build a referral network with other medical practices. From our recent episode with Dr. Pazona.

In this episode we discuss how to get reviews for your practice Google profile, how to build a referral network with other physicians, and the practicality of brainstorming the type of practice you want to run.

Dr. Warren Silverman is the founder of both Workplace Forensic s and Access Health Systems. He has served as a medical director and consultant on countless other medical entities. He also has a distinguished consulting career. In this interview we discuss how he got started with his first medical practice. We also discuss how he got into global medicine.

Dr. Mario Amaro is the Founder & CEO of Ease. Ease is a platform that makes it easier for physicians to launch and/or franchise their medical practice. He has shepherded many physicians through the process of launching their practice. Among other accomplishments, Dr. Amaro and his team were one of 20 teams selected out of 2,000 applications to participate in the Amazon AWS Startup Program. In...

Dr. Christine Bishara runs a From Within Medical. From Within Medical is a medical practice that focuses on gut health, weight loss, and wellness. This practice offers aesthetic services as well. In this podcast we discuss Dr. Bishara's journey of growing From Within Medical from scratch during the COVID pandemic. We discuss how Dr. Bishara went from 0 to over 10K followers on Instagram, and the d...