Season 1

April 25, 2025

Physician led innovation - Ed Lee, MD, MPH

In this episode, I interview Ed about his diverse career path. Ed shares insights from his childhood as the son of immigrants in San Francisco, his journey through medicine from primary care to developing health technology, and his recent focus on lifestyle medicine. We discuss how early career exp…

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Feb. 28, 2025

Thoughts on the Canadian venture ecosystem - Meryeme Lahmami (Pender …

I spoke with Miriam from Pender Ventures about her journey from building a healthcare tech startup to venture capital. We covered the tough lessons learned as an entrepreneur, especially in deep tech, and her transition to investing. Miriam shared her framework for evaluating founders and companies…

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Jan. 23, 2025

My Vipassana (10 day silent meditation) experience and thoughts on re…

In this episode, I share a deeply personal account of attending a 10-day silent Vipassana meditation retreat. Before diving into the experience itself, I explore the concept of subjective versus objective reality and discuss how our limited senses shape our perception. I then detail the rigorous sc…

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Jan. 17, 2025

Lessons from burning out - Rishad Usmani

In this episode, I share my deeply personal story of experiencing burnout in the summer of 2022. I open up about the journey that led me to that moment, exploring the impact of my childhood in India, my relentless pursuit of success and validation through work, and the challenges I faced along the …

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Jan. 10, 2025

AI adoption in hospitals - Michael Page (Unity health)

In this episode, I interview Michael Page about his fascinating and unconventional career path. Michael shares his story, from growing up in a working-class family and pursuing a degree in the arts, to transitioning into technology and AI, and now teaching at IV Business School and working in healt…

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Dec. 8, 2024

Physician burnout and quitting medicine - Chris Borth

In this episode, I talk with Chris about his remarkable journey from practicing Urology for nearly two decades to building a second career at the intersection of medicine and business, including working with AI startups. Chris shares candidly about his childhood shaped by his family's refugee exper…

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Sept. 25, 2024

Will AI save Healthcare? - Neil Naik: Physician, Leader and Entrepren…

In my conversation with Dr. Neil Naik, a family physician from Waterloo with a strong interest in tech, we explored the exciting future of healthcare. He shared his journey and his belief in AI's power to personalize medicine in ways we haven't seen before. We discussed AI's potential in surger…

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Aug. 8, 2024

Physician, Investor and Entrepreneur - Sohaib Siddiqui (Medly Therape…

It was a pleasure speaking with Dr. Sohaib Siddiqui, he was very forthcoming with sharing several great insights from his experiences as an entrepreneur and investor. We talk about - His journey to running a family office fun...

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June 27, 2024

Opportunities for AI in Healthcare - Spencer Dorn (UNC)

Spencer is the Vice Chair of Medicine and the Lead Informatics Physician at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I and very thankful to him for sharing his insights and thoughts on healthcare with me. We talk abou...

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June 19, 2024

Raising $44 million and taking Mednow public - Karim Nassar

Karim is a deep thinker and I have been lucky to have several insightful conversations with him about all things healthcare. I am excited to share some of these with you. He previously was the CEO and co-founder of Mednow, ra...

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Feb. 12, 2024

Raising a $30 million venture fund in 30 days - Sahir Ali

Sahir Ali is a the founding general partner of Modi Ventures, an early stage venture fund investing in tech-bio startups. He is also an LP in multiple funds including Draper Associates and Khosla Ventures. He is an accomplish...

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Aug. 6, 2023

Finding purpose as a physician, artist, investor and entrepreneur.

Key takeaways: Selling a product or interviewing for a job isn’t about you, its about the customer, the user and the company respectively. Identify the world as it is, recognize the incentives and levers in place. After doing...

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July 31, 2023

Profitability in Healthcare: Akhilesh Pathipati - MVM Partners

I am grateful for Akhilesh Pathipati, MD, MBA to share his journey, experience and knowledge! We talk about: 1. His journey in venture capital 2. AI in Healthcare 3. Profitability in Healthcare 4. Health system design 5. Futu...

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July 6, 2023

A pharmacists journey into startups - Zain Syed: Digital Thoughts

Zain is someone I have known and become friends with over the past year. I am a big fan of his progress so far and can't wait to continue following his journey. It was a pleasure to have the opportunity to speak with him abou...

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June 29, 2023

How to scale a startup - Owen Willis of Opal Ventures

Owen Willis is the Founder and General Partner at Opal Ventures. He was previously the Chief Operating Officer at Osmosis and Program Partner at On Deck. We talk about: Introduction and childhood Gender and Race Teaching as a...

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June 13, 2023

From Physician To Venture Capitalist: Saumitra Thakur (MedMountain Ve…

It was amazing to have both Saumitra Thakur and Amit Mehta, MD join me for this webinar. Both have been an inspiration for myself in finding my path. I am incredibly thankful for: Saumitra for sharing his frameworks and schem...

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June 9, 2023

A physician's journey to reducing medical errors: Steve Charlap - SOA…

Steve is a physician and founder of SOAP health. Steve Charlap: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-charlap-md-mba-8911906/ SOAP Health: https://soap.health/ Rishad Usmani: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishadusmani/ HealthTech ...

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May 23, 2023

How To Pick Healthcare Startups

In this webinar we start with a short presentation about due diligence followed by a fireside chat with two experienced healthcare venture capitalists. Key Takeaways: 1. Have a structured due diligence process. 2. Market risk...

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May 9, 2023

A quantum view into investing and life - Leon Eisen: Entrepreneur, Ph…

Leon is an incredibly intelligent and thoughtful human. After completing his PhD in Quantum Physics he went on found Oxitone Medical. He is also a Venture partner at Network VC. We talk about: Intuition vs structure in decisi...

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March 30, 2023

Picking the best startups and VCs: Shubhra Jain - Tarsadia Investments

Shubhra Jain is the Head of Healthcare investments at Tarsadia Investments . She moved to US after completing her MBBS in India, to pursue a Masters in mechanical engineering at Stanford after which she completed her MBA from...

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March 8, 2023

Insights from a physician, entrepreneur and investor: Shrawan Patel -…

Shrawan is a physician, entrepreneur and angel investor. He is the managing director at Strategy Health and founding team member at PharmStars . I have known Shrawan for a few months now and find him to be deeply reflective, ...

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March 1, 2023

Leaving clinical medicine - Harvey Castro

Harvey is curious, kind and humble. He is a physician, healthcare consultant, and serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in the healthcare industry. He is the author of ChatGPT Healthcare and Success Reinvention . We t...

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Feb. 17, 2023

Investing with intuition - David Zhou: On Deck Angels

David Zhou runs ops and deal flow at On Deck Angels. He is a mentor and advisor to several accelerators and incubators including Techstars, WEVE, City University of New York and Alchemist Accelerator. You can follow his thoug...

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Feb. 11, 2023

How to go from scientist to venture capitalist: Bharat Srinivasa - Am…

Bharat is a co-founder and and principal at Amplitude Venture Capital. He has a PhD in Experimental Medicine and Masters of Science in Microbiology and Immunology from McGill University.

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