The Health Technology Podcast

Ivana Schnur: The Healing Contract

Ivana Schnur, MD/PhD, is the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Sense.ly, an avatar-based clinical platform that helps physicians better monitor and manage chronically ill patients. Ivana brings a unique combination of clinical knowledge, product insight, and business development to power the transformation of clinical workflows in scalable, compassionate ways. Ivana shares her own incredible journey to medicine; from growing up in the Eastern bloc in Czechoslovakia, moving to the US to become a doctor, to recovering from a spinal cord injury that left her paralyzed, and understanding the potential of virtual reality in medicine. She offers a powerful vision for the future of palliative care, one informed by the sacred contract between patient and clinician.  

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“The Health Technology Podcast” is produced by Herminio Neto, hosted by Christine Winoto, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.

Chyrell D. Bellamy: The Value of Lived Experience

Chyrell D.Bellamy, Associate Professor of Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry. She also serves as the Director of Peer Support Services and Research; and the Interim Director of the Office of Recovery Community Affairs at the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addictions Services. Dr. Bellamy discusses her own journey through the mental health system as a teenager and how it informs her work today. She advocates for increased access to technology and to mental health services, development of recovery supports, and increased valuation of lived experience in treating mental illness.

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“The Health Technology Podcast” is produced by Herminio Neto, hosted by Christine Winoto, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.

Erin Parks: Treating Eating Disorders

Dr. Erin Parks is a clinical psychologist, researcher, and former director at the leading UC San Diego Eating Disorder Center. She has 15+ years of experience with adolescents and adults in inpatient, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient settings and opened the first pediatric eating disorder program. She has led dozens of national and international training in evidence-based eating disorder treatment and is passionate about improving access to quality care. Erin covers the basics of data-driven eating disorder treatment and barriers to access. She advocates for Family-Based Treatment, an approach that involves a patient’s entire support system and prioritizes their lived experience.  

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“The Health Technology Podcast” is produced by Herminio Neto, hosted by Christine Winoto, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.

Eric Dy: To Providers or Consumers?

Eric Dy, PhD is co-founder and CEO of Bloomlife, a women’s health company designing remote prenatal care solutions to improve the health of women and babies. Eric is a biomedical engineer turned entrepreneur whose work focuses on wearable technologies. Eric talks about the challenges of deployment into health care systems versus the challenges of entering the consumer market. He discusses the factors that make Silicon Valley the optimal intersection of research and commercialization.

Do you have any thoughts? Please email us at hello@rosenmaninstitute.org. We post new episodes every Monday. “The Health Technology Podcast” is produced by Herminio Neto, hosted by Christine Winoto, content writer Kelly Muskat, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.

Ravyn Miller: Speedbumps Accelerate Access

As the Sr. Marketing Director for Medtronic’s High Power Global Growth team, Ravyn Miller is responsible for creating and executing strategies that accelerate access for patients appropriate for CRT and ICD indications. Upon graduating with a dual Master’s in Business and Divinity from Vanderbilt University, she joined the company through their Leadership Development Rotation Program (LDRP). In her previous roles at Medtronic, Ravyn worked as the Commercial Marketing Director for Venous, led a cardiac and vascular group wide market development effort focused on reducing cardiac health care disparities for women and people of color, worked as a Health Policy Fellow in DC and was the National Implementation Leader for the Cardiac and Vascular Group (CVG) Strategic Solutions Organization. 

Ravyn advocates for necessary “speedbumps” in healthcare processes that can ensure guideline based and value-based care for all. We discuss the barriers that people of color face in accessing care, confronting our own biases, and empowering patients to advocate for themselves.

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“The Health Technology Podcast” is produced by Herminio Neto, hosted by Christine Winoto, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.

Alison Darcy: Robot Empathy

Alison is a clinical research psychologist and health tech visionary dedicated to creating smart, scalable and accessible mental healthcare solutions. Her work to explore how digital treatments can help solve human problems began more than 20 years ago, when she created one of the first online support groups for people with eating disorders.

In this episode, Alison reflects on the power of technology to empower patients and caregivers outside of the clinical setting. We discuss the value of AI mental health support as a tool for breaking barriers of access and stigma. 

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Jason Bellet: Advisers and Adopters

Jason is the Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer of Eko, a digital health company applying machine learning in the fight against heart and lung disease.

Jason has been named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and is an outspoken advocate for leveraging telehealth and AI to improve cardiopulmonary screening. He was invited by President Obama's HHS Department to speak at the White House on pressing issues in cardiovascular care.

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“The Health Technology Podcast” is produced by Herminio Neto, hosted by Christine Winoto, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic: Confidence and Competence

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is an international authority in psychological profiling, talent management, leadership development, and people analytics. His commercial work focuses on the creation of science-based tools that improve organizations' ability to predict performance, and people's ability to understand themselves. He is currently the Chief Talent Scientist at ManpowerGroup, cofounder of DeeperSignals and Metaprofiling, and Professor of Business Psychology at University College London and Columbia University. He has previously held academic positions at New York University and the London School of Economics, and frequently lectures at Harvard Business School, Stanford Business School, London Business School, and IMD, as well as being the co-founder and CEO of BrazenX and the former CEO at Hogan Assessment Systems. 

In this episode, Tomas gives us an inside look into his new book, “Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?” He discusses the dangers of choosing confident leaders, how to value substance over style, and how we need to change what we look for in leaders.

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“The Health Technology Podcast” is produced by Herminio Neto, hosted by Christine Winoto, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.

 

Daniel Kraft: Harnessing Digital Exhaust

Daniel Kraft, a true renaissance man of health tech: he’s a physician-scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur, and he’s currently serving as the Chair of the XPrize Pandemic Alliance Task Force. Daniel is also the Chair of Medicine for Singularity University, and founder and chair of Exponential Medicine. Daniel has given several TED and TEDMED Talks about the future of health, and in this episode, we discuss specifically the future of pandemics. He believes that covid has been an accelerant for a “new health age,” one in which digital tools will help us improve the standard of care at a quicker pace than ever before.

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“The Health Technology Podcast” is produced by Herminio Neto, hosted by Christine Winoto, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.

 

Ali Tamaseb: What Makes a Super Founder?

Ali Tamaseb, a partner at DCVC, a venture capital firm with over $2 billion under management and with investments in more than 10 billion-dollar startups. He holds leadership and board director positions at multiple companies, including Carbon Health, Medical Informatics, and PlotLogic. In this episode, Ali gives us a sneak peek into his new book, “Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups.” He debunks the myths of what makes a good founder or a successful company and reveals the simple commonality at the core of all entrepreneurs.

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“The Health Technology Podcast” is produced by Herminio Neto, hosted by Christine Winoto, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.