This week on the podcast, John interviews John Cordier, founder and CEO at Epistemix. Epistemix is a company that uses computational modeling and mathematics for decision support in public health through synthetic population data, testing interventions to improve outcomes with infectious diseases. Epistemix understands that even a small behavior change can affect the greater outcome. So, they have built a platform where researchers can test out different interventions and policies and simulate outcomes to inform decision and policymakers about the potential results. John also shares insights on the journey Epistemix underwent to get to their current business model and talks about finding the right way to monetize it. Listen to this episode to learn more about how synthetic data can bring precision to the masses and help decision-making in public health matters!

This week on the podcast, John sits down to talk with Elizabeth Clayborne, emergency medicine physician, and founder and CEO of NasaClip. NasaClip is an easy-to-use, convenient device that quickly stops bleeding in any setting, be it medical or at home. The device holds a customized external nasal compression with Oxymetalozine pre-medicated sponges that go into the nose. Working as an emergency medicine physician resident, Elizabeth couldn’t believe there was nothing in the market that helped people treat nosebleeds easily by combining compression and medication simultaneously, which led her to create and patent the NasaClip device. In this conversation, she shares her journey of developing the idea from the ground up as a black female entrepreneur and mother. She discusses how she came up with her idea and made it real, and also subjects like funding, work-life balance, and the pandemic as factors that were key along the way. Tune in to this episode to listen to Elizabeth’s entrepreneurial journey and how she’s soon bringing to the world what may as well be the band-aids for nosebleeds!

This week on the podcast, John talks about physician leadership, digital health, and burnout with Dr. David H. Berger, CEO of University Hospital at Downstate and the main teaching affiliate of Downstate Health Sciences University. Mentorship and networking have been pillars present in the opportunities that led David toward a leadership role in healthcare. Throughout the conversation, he discusses the importance of physician leaders running healthcare organizations and how he is helping other physicians in that transition. They talk about how digital tools will revolutionize the healthcare industry and relieve the current burnout, pondering on the incoming generations of physicians and highlighting suicide prevention amongst fellow colleagues. Tune in to this episode to learn about being a physician in a leadership role who embraces the incoming change in healthcare!

This week on the podcast, John has a packed conversation with Emilio Galan, co-founder, and CEO of Robin Healthcare. Robin is a medical technology company that improves the experience of both doctors and patients by removing the healthcare billing and insurance-related paperwork through a smart recording device. Emilio dropped out five months before getting his M.D. when he realized the doctor experience has taken the back seat within the healthcare ecosystem and started Robin as a way to directly address it using AI-powered smart devices to record the patient’s visit, allowing the doctor to focus on care. Emilio talks about the inner works and pricing, adoption, and application of Robin devices and explains how this technology relieves expenses on paperwork and insurance-related hindrances becoming a staple tool for patient care. Tune in to this episode to learn how Robin will make the doctor experience about providing care again!!

This week on the podcast, John has a very awe-inspiring conversation with Stacy Blain, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Concarlo Therapeutics. The team of scientists at Concarlo is developing new medications that use p27, a natural inhibitor, to stop cancer cells from multiplying in drug-resistant patients. Stacy Blain pursued the path of investigation and drug development after her university studies, introducing her to the world of entrepreneurship, fund raising, and building her team to change the way cancer is treated. She shares the journey it took her to get Concarlo to where it currently is and explains the work they are doing with p27, in addition to targeted therapy, to bring cancer patients a treatment that is less toxic and seeks to avoid remission, mutations, or ultimately, drug resistance. Tune in to this episode and learn from Stacy’s experience venturing into business with her discovery!

This week on Entrepreneur Rx, John has a very valuable conversation with Dr. Orrin Aillioni-Charas, Founder and Managing Director at Cura Capital. Cura Capital is a venture fund that is raising $50 million dollars to invest in Seed and Series A US-based digital health and MedTech companies. As an anesthesiologist, Orrin felt commoditized and followed his gut from medicine into the venture capital world. In this episode, he talks about his entrepreneurial journey and what his venture fund does and looks for in health and MedTech companies. Both he and John believe that doctors have everything in them to become entrepreneurs, and so, Orrin provides advice to those who might have a calling to do something of their own. Tune in to this episode and listen to how the business world has lessons to be learned that you probably didn’t learn in medicine!

This week’s on Entrepreneur Rx John is delighted to have Steven Charlap, founder and CEO of SOAP Health. SOAP, standing for Subjective Objective Assessment Plan, is a company that focuses on reducing misdiagnosis and improving early disease detection. After losing his brother to a late cancer diagnosis, Steven went down a non-traditional path into medicine, guided by his mission to solve misdiagnoses and save the lives of millions of people he’ll never meet, through SOAP and its Perfect Medical Interviewer, their AI-powered conversational digital human. This tool is his solution to misdiagnoses and eradicating cognitive bias, situations that often appear when a provider sees a patient. He also explains the research and development of this AI tool and how it works alongside existing EHRs. Tune in to this episode and listen to how Steven Charlap is creating a solution with AI to help human doctors be the best version of themselves! David shares how he started down the inventor path while still at college, what his experience has been like in the world of health entrepreneurship, and offers advice for upcoming medical inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs. David shares how he’s taking inventions all the way to market, how building a consumer brand is important without risking the medical validity of the product, and gives advice for people that have reached out to him saying they want to do the same as he did when he was young.

For this episode of Entrepreneur Rx, John is delighted to interview Dr. David Albert, a serial entrepreneur, inventor, and MD, that has founded three successful companies: InnovAlarm, Lifetone Technology, and AliveCor, and has worked in several startups. David shares how he started down the inventor path while still at college, what his experience has been like in the world of health entrepreneurship, and offers advice for upcoming medical inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs. David shares how he’s taking inventions all the way to market, how building a consumer brand is important without risking the medical validity of the product, and gives advice for people that have reached out to him saying they want to do the same as he did when he was young.

In this week’s episode of Entrepreneur Rx, John has the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Andrew Le, CEO and cofounder of Buoy Health, a Boston-based digital health company that uses AI technology to provide personalized clinical support. Andrew tells us the story of Buoy’s foundation, his entrepreneurial journey within healthcare, taking a leap of faith when not following the traditional physician journey, and starting a business from the ground. He also encourages aspiring healthcare entrepreneurs to not let their own thoughts put them down; if they have an idea worth fighting for, go ahead and explore it!

This week’s guest on Entrepreneur Rx is Katrina Firlik, a neurosurgeon turned digital health entrepreneur, co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of HealthPrize, whom John is honored to have on the show. HealthPrize is a company that brought education, behavioral science, and way to improve health outcomes together in one single place. Katrina didn’t initially think she would dedicate her life to medicine, less take the entrepreneurial road in life, but she did both! She reflects deeply on her career, entrepreneurship, starting a company while keeping practice and changing patient’s behavior for better outcomes. Tune in to this wonderful episode full of insights and advice for any type of entrepreneur!