Big Picture Medicine
By Mustafa Sultan, MD
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The health entrepreneurship podcast โ focusing on big picture stuff.
Interviews with health/biotech entrepreneurs and leaders having impact at scale. Health stuff a techbro/sis would find interesting. Think health meets the Tim Ferriss Show.
Get in touch: pod@musty.io
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#141 $1.1B exit... then a MedTech with 12mo of runway called โ Joe DeVivo (Butterfly Network)
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May 27, 2026 |
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#140 Should the NHS Trigger the ยฃ330M Palantir Break Clause? An Insider's Take
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May 11, 2026 |
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๐ฅNews: The New Healthcare AI Broker, Palantir Under Fire and Big Tech's Drug Discovery Mirage
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May 09, 2026 |
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๐ฅ News: Sequoia's Services Thesis, Kalshi for Clinical Trials and the PCP Apocalypse
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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๐ฅ News: Peptides, OpenEvidence and World Models in Healthcare with Ala Alenazi, PhD and Jared Dashevsky, MD
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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#139 Oura's $11B Bet, What a Gaming Exec Learned Building in Healthcare (Jason Oberfest โ VP Healthcare at Oura)
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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#138 Six Lessons On Building a $100M Healthtech Company (Steve Kraus โ Bessemer Venture Partners)
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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#137 $1.1B MedTech Turnaround CEO โ Joe DeVivo (Butterfly Network)
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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#136 Nabla, AI Ambient Scribe ($120M Raised) โ CEO, Alex LeBrun
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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#135 $1.4bn Startup Tackling Loneliness, Papa (CEO, Andrew Parker)
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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#134 Sean Duffy, Omada Health ($1bn+ Valuation)
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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#133 A New Radiology Foundation Model ($160M Raised) โ Harrison.ai CEO, Dr Aengus Tran
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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#132 Arcadia CEO ($100M ARR) on How To Sell Enterprise Healthcare โ Michael Meucci
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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#131 Scaling Contraceptive App to 2M Users By Daring Not to Be Free (Dr Elina Berglund, CEO Natural Cycles)
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May 27, 2024 |
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#130 Kaia Health, Raising $125M By Turning $50,000 Elite Pain Rehab into an App (CEO, Konstantin Mehl)
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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#129 Jon Ronson on Writing, Hustle and the Psychopath Test
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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#128 AgeTech: Shopify vs Amazon Model โ Birdie CEO, Max Parmentier
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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#127 Gentle Disruption Wins in Healthcare โ DrDoctor CEO Tom Whicher
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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#126 Drug Discovery is Becoming More $$$ โ Here's Why, And The Startup Fixing It (Lindus Health)
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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#125 The $350M Startup Creating Perfect Memory (Rewind.ai โ CEO Dan Siroker)
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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#124 Wearable Data is Bullsh*t Debate โ Maitham Dib (Vital YC21)
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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#123 How To Write Killer Healthcare Content โ Healthcare Huddle (acquired by Workweek)
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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#122 Why AI Drug Discovery Is So Hard โ Dr Imran Haque (Recursion)
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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๐ฅ NVIDIA Pumped $50M Into This Startup You've Never Heard Of (TechBio)
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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#121 Raising $17M Uber for Medical Scans โ Charlie Bullock (Scan.com)
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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๐ฅ What David Sinclair is Hiding From Elon Musk
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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๐ฅ Regulators Hate Doctor ChatGPT (Here's Why) โ Dr Hugh Harvey (Hardian Health)
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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๐ฅ Spotify Founder's Longevity Startup: Bear v Bull Case (Neko Health)
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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๐ฅ Apple's Plan to Dominate Healthcare (And Why It Will Fail)
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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#120 Billion $ Healthtech 'Soonicorn' Huma: Lessons from Jony Ive and Big Pharma โ Dan Vahdat (CEO)
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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๐ฅ Beauty and the Bucks: Inside GetHarley's $52M Triumph in Skincare
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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๐ฅ News: Pills for Profit โ The Dark Side of D2C Health Startups
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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#119 The Unusual Path to Make a Billion $ Men's Health Startup โ Numan CEO (Sokratis Papafloratos)
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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๐ฅ News: The Rise and Demise of Babylon Health
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May 17, 2023 |
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๐ฅ News: VC Dirty Money and Trillion $ Alzheimer's Opportunity
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May 12, 2023 |
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๐ฅ News: ChatGPT vs Doctors: Who Will Win?
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May 04, 2023 |
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๐ฅ News: Itโs Time to Build in Healthcare (a16z) and Why are VCs Miserable?
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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#118 Martin Shkreli on Drug Pricing, Being Hated/Rich and His GPT-4 Doctor
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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#117 Dr Ben Maruthappu On Raising $400M for Cera Care
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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#116 Be Bombastic To Get Ahead โ Dr Ala Alenazi (Ascension VC)
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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๐ฅ News: AI Too Powerful? Peter Attia's Longevity Bible and Why Are Americans Dying So Young?
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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#115 Think Like a Doctor to Make Executive Decisions โ Dr John Whyte (Chief Medical Officer, WebMD)
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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๐ฅ News: Microsoft's GPT-4 Healthcare Play and Self-Driving Drug Development
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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#114 Alexa for Doctors โ Dr Shiv Rao (CEO Abridge)
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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๐ฅ News: Semaglutide (Wegovy) TikTok Conspiracy, Alcohol Disruptor and Where Are the UK Healthtech Exits?
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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๐ฅ News: David Sinclair's New Startup, Transhumanist Gene Editing to Sleep Less and ChatGPT for Drug Development
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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#113 Mental Models for Health Entrepreneurship โ Dr Ignacio Medrano (CEO Savana)
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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#112 Yelp for Doctors โ Dr Stephanie Eltz (CEO Doctify)
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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#111 Raising $139M, Biotech, Introversion and Happiness โ Jason Foster (CEO Ori Biotech)
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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๐ฅ News: Bryan Johnson's Blueprint, Spotify Enters Health and VitaDAO Raises $4M
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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#110 Networking, BioSecurity and Generative AI โ Morgan Cheatham (VP Bessemer Ventures)
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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๐ฅ News: David Sinclair's New Paper, Amazon RxPass, Decline in Disruptive Science and Metformin is the New Birth Control โ With Dr Adam Bataineh
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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#109 Billion $ Health Ideas w/ Dr Chris Lovejoy: Generative AI, DTC Weight Loss + Cross Border Care
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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#108 Why I've Got More Employees than WhatsApp โ Dr Anas Nader (CEO Patchwork Health)
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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#107 Fertility-Tech, Cake or Death and Storytelling โ Tess Cosad (Co-founder Bรฉa Fertility)
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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#106 Five TechBio Myths That Must Go โ Guillermo Vela (Co-Founder NeuScience)
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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#105 The Obstacle is the Way โ Dr Ivan Beckley (Co-Founder Suvera Health)
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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#104 Dr Daniel Kraft on the Art of the Possible
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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#103 Sir Jeremy Farrar on How to Spend ยฃ16bn for Good (Director, Wellcome Trust)
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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#102 Angel Investing, Money and Happiness โ Dr Imran Mahmud
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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#101 FashionTech x HealthTech, Finding Purpose and Building Relationships โ Dr Ahmed Zaidi
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Sep 10, 2022 |
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#100 Where This is All Going
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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#099 Paying Indians to be Healthy, Play-to-Earn and the Hybrid HealthTech/FinTech Model โ Dr Sandeep Bansal (CEO Carebyte Health)
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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#098 Frameworks for Success โ Dr Molly Gilmartin (AlbionVC)
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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#097 I've Never Worked Harder โ Joe Stringer (Octopus Ventures)
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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#096 The Power of Network โ Dr Patrick Malone (Northpond Ventures)
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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#095 DAOs in Healthcare โ Niklas Rindtorff
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Jul 16, 2022 |
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#094 Digital Alzheimer's Detection โ Nikhil Patel (Founder Craniometrix)
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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#093 Skin Cancer AI โ Neil Daly (CEO Skin Analytics)
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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#092 How to Raise VC Money โ Gian Seehra
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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#091 How to Lead
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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#090 Levelling Up the Health of the Nation โ Tina Woods
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May 31, 2022 |
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#089 The Longevity MD โ Dr Adam Bataineh
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May 27, 2022 |
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#088 Building Instagram for Doctors โ Dr Joshua Landy (Co-founder Figure 1)
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May 20, 2022 |
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#087 Human Longevity 101 โ Dr Nir Barzilai
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May 15, 2022 |
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#086 Democratising Blood Testing โ Hamish Grierson (CEO Thriva)
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May 02, 2022 |
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#085 I Have More Impact as a VC Than MD โ Dr Stephen Reeders (Founder MVM Partners)
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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#084 Networking in Healthcare 101 โ Dr Vishaal Virani (Head of UK Health, YouTube)
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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#083 Strava for Health โ Mehdi Yacoubi (CEO & Co-Founder Vital)
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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#082 Doing Well and Doing Good โ Deena Shakir (Partner Lux Capital)
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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#081 Medical Innovation 101 โ Dr David Albert (Founder AliveCor)
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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#080 Clinical Lead, Google Health UK โ Dr Susan Thomas
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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#079 Chief Medical Officer, Uber Health โ Dr Michael Cantor
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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#078 Do, Rather Than Think โ Dr Claire Novorol (Co-Founder Ada Health)
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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#077 Boundless Optimism โ Peony Li (CEO Jude)
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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#076 Digitising Surgical Consent โ Dr Dafydd Loughran (CEO Concentric Health)
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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#075 I'd Won, But I Was Miserable โ Dr Keith Grimes (Babylon)
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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#074 Lessons Learnt from Modern Day Hunter-Gatherers โ Prof Herman Pontzer
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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#073 To Be Interesting, Be Interested โ Dr Imran Mahmud
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Jan 02, 2022 |
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#072 Chief Medical Officer, Bupa (1995โ2012) โ Dr Andrew Vallance-Owen MBE
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Dec 25, 2021 |
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#071 Patient Flow & Diversity โ Dr Rebecca Pope (Roche)
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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#070 AI Sepsis Prediction โ Dr Michael Moor (ETH Zurich)
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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#069 Taboo Health โ Dr Patrick Carroll (CMO Hims & Hers)
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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#068 Being a Little Bit Obsessive โ Dr Christopher Kelly (Google)
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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#067 Syria -> Oxford University โ Dr Alexey Youssef
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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#066 Bias in Medical AI โ Prof Ziad Obermeyer (Berkeley School of Public Health)
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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#065 Becoming a Great Clinical Academic โ Prof Neil Sebire
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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#064 Overnight Success โ Dr Yusuf Sherwani (CEO QuitGenius)
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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#063 Chief Medical Officer, AstraZeneca โ Dr Ann Taylor
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Aug 14, 2021 |
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#062 Sleep and the Evidence Base of Digital Health โ Prof Colin Espie (Co Founder Big Health)
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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#061 The Joys of Fundraising โ Cyndi Williams (CEO Quin)
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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#060 Open Source is the Future of Medicine โ Dr Marcus Baw
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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#059 Meritocracy โ Prof Sir John Burn
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May 03, 2021 |
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#058 BMJ Editor-in-Chief โ Dr Fiona Godlee
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Apr 25, 2021 |
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#057 Capturing 5% of Google Searches โ Daniel Nathrath (CEO Ada Health)
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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#056 First Principles โ Melissa Morris (CEO Lantum)
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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#055 Getting Punched in the Face โ Adnan Iqbal (CEO Luma Health)
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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#054 Becoming a Superconnector โ Will Gibbs (Octopus Ventures)
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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#053 Chasing Failure โ Dr Mala Mawkin (Cellen)
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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#052 Digital Twins in Clinical Trials โ Dr Charles Fisher (CEO Unlearn.ai)
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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#051 Surgeon -> VC โ Dr Benedict Evans (InHealth Ventures)
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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#050 Imperial -> McKinsey -> Mayo Clinic (US) โ Dr Ikram Haq
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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#049 AI Therapy and Going Viral โ Ross Harper (CEO Limbic)
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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#048 Decision Making in Health Leadership โ Prof Sam Shah
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Feb 13, 2021 |
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#047 Longevity: The Disposable Soma Hypothesis โ Prof Tom Kirkwood CBE
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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#046 Radiology -> Venture Capital โ Dr Fiona Pathiraja (Crista Galli Ventures)
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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#045 Former Special Advisor to the Health Secretary โ Richard Sloggett
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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#044 Rare Disease AI โ Rudy Benfredj (CEO Mendelian)
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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#043 Brain Computer Interfaces โ Prof Karl Friston
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Dec 25, 2020 |
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#042 Spatial Cognition โ Prof Hugo Spiers (SpiersLab)
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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#041 Leadership Shorts: Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram BEM
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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#040 Leadership Shorts: Dr Eric Topol
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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#039 Do You Need to be a D**k to be a Good Leader? (Series Launch)
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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#038 Ferraris to Fitness โ Dr Yusef Smith (Propane Fitness)
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Nov 22, 2020 |
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#037 Deliveroo for Drugs โ Stephen Bourke (Co-Founder Echo)
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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#036 My Notes on Leadership and Success โ Sir Bruce Keogh (Former National Medical Director)
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Nov 08, 2020 |
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#035 The Clinician Scientist โ Dr Joe Ledsam (Google/DeepMind)
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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#034 The Doctor Policymaker โ Dr Simon Eccles (Deputy CEO NHS X & CCIO Health and Care)
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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#033 You Need to Learn How to Code โ Dr Josh Case
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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#032 AI, Academia and Business โ Prof Geraint Rees (Pro-Vice-Provost AI at UCL)
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Sep 27, 2020 |
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#031 The NHS Clinical Entrepreneur โ Prof Tony Young OBE
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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#030 AI Too Smart for Clinical Trials: SPIRIT-AI and CONSORT-AI โ Professor Alastair Deniston and Dr Xiao Liu
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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#029 Life of a Doctor-CEO โ Dr Ben Maruthappu MBE (CEO Cera Care)
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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#028 The Benevolent Leader ๐ โ Professor David Lomas (Vice Provost Health UCL)
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Aug 29, 2020 |
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#027 The Digital ENT Surgeon โ Dr Krishan Ramdoo (CEO TympaHealth)
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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#026 The AI Radiologist โ Dr Hugh Harvey (Hardian Health)
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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#025 How to Get Published โ Dr Azeem Alam BEM (Co Founder BiteMedicine)
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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#024 The Augmented Reality Surgeon ๐ฒ โ Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram BEM (CEO Proximie)
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Aug 08, 2020 |
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#023 BioBeats ๐ถ โ Dr David Plans (CEO BioBeats)
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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#022 The VR Surgeon ๐ฅฝ โ Professor Shafi Ahmed
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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#021 NHS Referrals are Broken โ Dr Owain Hughes (CEO Cinapsis)
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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#020 Deep Medicine ๐ โ Dr Eric Topol
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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#019 Personal Branding and Forging Your Own Career Path โ Dr James Somauroo (somX)
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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#018 Babylon and the Business World โ Dr Umang Patel (Director of NHS Services Babylon Health)
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Jul 19, 2020 |
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#017 The Effectivity Masterclass ๐ฏ โ Professor Neil Sebire
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Jul 12, 2020 |
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#016 Medical Cannabis 101 โ Dr Benjamin Viaris de Lesegno (CMO Cellen)
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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#015 Medical Student Entrepreneurship โ Dr Harvinder Power (CEO Motics)
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Jun 21, 2020 |
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#014 Ali Abdaal on Building a YouTube Empire, Personal Branding and Passive Income as a Medic โ Dr Ali Abdaalยฎ
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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#013 Quit Genius: Medical Student to Y Combinator, 1 Million Users and Silicon Valley โ Dr Sarim Siddiqui (Co-Founder Quit Genius)
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Jun 06, 2020 |
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#012 Management Consulting for Medics, Digital Health and Why You Need a Performance Coach โ Dr Charlotte Lee (UK Director Big Health)
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May 30, 2020 |
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#011 Validation over Valuation: An Oncologist's Battle Against Babylon Health โ Dr David Watkins aka @DrMurphy11
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May 23, 2020 |
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#010: Collaborating with DeepMind and How to Get into MedTech โ Dr Pearse Keane (Moorfields Eye Hospital)
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May 16, 2020 |
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#009 The First Brit in Space and the Peculiar Doctor-Astronaut Relationship โ Helen Sharman OBE
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May 09, 2020 |
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#008 Machine Learning for Medics 101 ๐ค โ Dr Chris Lovejoy (Doctor and Data Scientist )
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May 03, 2020 |
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#007 The Logistics of Buying PPE from China โ Dr Alisa Pearlstone (NHS Hero Support)
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Apr 26, 2020 |
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#006 Scuba Masks and PPE ๐คฟ โ Mr Ryan Kerstein (Oxford Inspired)
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Apr 18, 2020 |
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#005 Prediction Models for Diagnosis and Prognosis of COVID-19 (BMJ Paper) โ Professor Laure Wynants (Maastricht University)
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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#004 Predicting the Future of COVID-19 Using Epidemiological Models โ Dr James Hay (Computational Epidemiologist at Harvard School of Public Health)
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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#003 AlzEye, Deep Fakes and the Eye as a Window Into the Soul โ Dr Siegfried Wagner (Moorfields Eye Hospital)
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Mar 15, 2020 |
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#002 AI in Paediatrics and Pathology โ Professor Neil Sebire (Chief Research Information Officer at GOSH)
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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#001 Blockchain and What Doctors Should Know About It โ Dr Abdullah Albeyatti (CEO MedicalChain)
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Feb 24, 2020 |