Join the UCSF Rosenman Institute as we sit down with the most inspiring innovators in the healthtech industry. Our guests are creating technologies that save and improve patients’ lives. Listen in as they share their journeys, career insights, and invaluable lessons learned. Be inspired by the best and brightest in healthtech as they discuss their contributions to the future of healthcare.
Episodes
Monday May 10, 2021
Monday May 10, 2021
Jon Norris is Managing Director for Business Development at Silicon Valley Bank. Jon spearheads strategic relationships with many healthcare venture capital firms and serial entrepreneurs. With over 20 years of banking experience, Jon frequently speaks at major investor and industry conferences about healthcare investment trends.
In this episode, Jon gives us the rundown on how the pandemic has affected and will continue to affect investment in health technology and device startups. He covers cyclical funding patterns, which sectors of healthcare are the most appetizing to investors, and why right now is the perfect time for startups to find capital.
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, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.
Monday May 03, 2021
Monday May 03, 2021
If you’re looking for guidance on how to become a better leader, this is the episode for you. Erika Andersen is the founding partner of Proteus and the author of multiple books on leadership, and the host of the podcast, the Proteus Leader Show. She shares profound insights on self-awareness, changing your self-talk, and the six attributes at the core of all good leaders.
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, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.
Monday Apr 26, 2021
Monday Apr 26, 2021
Lusi Chien, a commercial executive who specializes in developing go-to-market strategies for startup technologies. Lusi recently left Subtle Medical as their Chief Commercial Officer and is now a Managing Partner at Outlier Ventures, a consultancy that partners with health technology companies. Lusi shares her insights from her time in international development, working within coffee farming in Rwanda, healthcare in India, and rural banking in China. What values and needs are universal to all people, and how do you understand each individual’s cultural context to improve their lives?
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, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.
Monday Apr 19, 2021
Monday Apr 19, 2021
Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr. is an executive partner with Madison Dearborn Partners, a private equity firm based in Chicago, Illinois, and a Clinical Professor of Leadership at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He was named the 2008 Kellogg School Professor of the Year. Harry is the author of two bestselling leadership books: From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership and Becoming The Best: Build a World-Class Organization Through Values-Based Leadership. In this episode, Harry shares his insights on the importance of relating to those you want to lead. He also offers a simple test on how to know if you have true self-confidence
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, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Kate comes from a family of inventors. She earned her PhD in Bioengineering at UC Berkeley and UCSF, completed a Postdoctoral fellowship in Neurosurgery, and has developed neurotherapies with companies such as Brainlab, Autonomic Technologies, and Genentech. She shares her insights on pursuing meaningful innovation despite the volatile landscape of startups in Silicon Valley.
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, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.
Monday Apr 05, 2021
Monday Apr 05, 2021
Claudia previously served as Senior Advisor for Health Technology and Innovation at the White House, helping to lead President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative. She believes that the next step to improve healthcare in America is to unlock information from its silos and put it in the hands of innovators.
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, and engineered by Andrew John Rojek.
Monday Mar 29, 2021
Monday Mar 29, 2021
Zeeshan Syed, PhD is the CEO of Health at Scale. Zeeshan’s story begins with his time in academia: he was formerly a Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford Medicine and an Associate Professor with Tenure in Computer Science at the University of Michigan. After his father suffered a silentheart attack that might have been mitigated by proactive care, Zeeshan pivoted to impacting real-world outcomes by starting Health at Scale. He aims to improve patient outcomes through machine intelligence.
Monday Mar 22, 2021
Monday Mar 22, 2021
Oren Levy is the CEO and co-founder of SonoMotion, a clinical-stage medical device startup developing non-invasive solutions for the treatment of kidney stones. Oren has overall responsibility for the company’s management, strategic direction, clinical, hiring, and fundraising activities. At Sonomotion, Oren has raised $17 Million in equity investment from institutional, strategic, and physician investors located in the US, Japan, and Singapore as well as $8 Million in non-dilutive NIH and NASA grants. Under Oren’s leadership, SonoMotion has negotiated rights to an extensive IP portfolio from the University of Washington, established a strategic and OEM relationship with GE Healthcare, and initiated a multi-national First-In-Human clinical trial of its flagship stone fragmenting solution. Oren also currently serves on the board of directors of a therapeutic urology company called NewUro.
In this episode, Oren talks about finding your life’s path through the pursuit of a good challenge, managing a startup’s cash burn rate during a pandemic, and positioning yourself to take advantage of luck when it comes.
Monday Mar 15, 2021
Monday Mar 15, 2021
Dr. Katherine Scangos, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who focuses on circuit-level models of depression as an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco Department of Psychiatry. Her clinical work centers on interventional psychiatry. She co-directs the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Neuromodulation clinic at UCSF. She also conducts quantitative neuroscience research on the development of electrophysiologic biomarkers in patients with mood disorders and works to develop new forms of brain stimulation therapies. Her goal is to translate these findings into a better understanding of neuropsychiatric illness and the development of novel therapeutics. She currently co-leads a clinical trial of personalized closed-loop deep brain stimulation in patients with depression. Dr. Scangos is a recipient of the National Institute of Mental Health’s Outstanding Resident Award Program in 2017. She currently receives funding from the Brain and Behavioral Research Foundation NARSAD Young Investigator Grant and from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders. She received her medical degree and a doctorate in neuroscience from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (MD/PhD). She subsequently completed a psychiatry residency at the University of California, Davis, and a fellowship in Interventional Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco.
Monday Mar 08, 2021
Monday Mar 08, 2021
Connor Landgraf founded Eko while undergraduate studying bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley, with the goal of improving monitoring for cardiovascular and pulmonary disease patients through machine learning non-invasive sensors. Eko became the youngest team to receive FDA clearance for a medical device, and Eko technology is used today by more than 4,000 hospitals, health systems, clinics, and practices for cardiac and pulmonary screening. Since its founding, Eko has built the world’s largest database for heart sounds and has successfully put the ears of a trained cardiologist in any clinician’s stethoscope. Connor Landgraf has been listed as a Forbes 30 under 30. We discussed the topic of recognizing an opportunity for growth in an industry, persevering through the challenges of finding early investors, and holding onto the core of the company’s mission.