Medcity Pivot Podcast

  • Artificial Intelligence

    MedCity Pivot Podcast: A Conversation With Unlearn.AI CEO About Clinical Trials

    The founder and CEO of Unlearn.AI seeks to make clinical trials more efficient and less costly by leveraging its Digital Twin technology. If the company is successful, drugs could potentially be brought to market sooner and in a cost effective manner.

    / Aug 23, 2023 at 1:29 PM
  • BioPharma

    MedCity Pivot Podcast: Season 3 Launches With A Conversation On the Potential Toxicity of Immunotherapy

    Transformations in the Life Sciences is the focus of the second season of the MedCity Pivot Podcast. My personal journey as a caregiver of a cancer patient made me choose Dr. Sumanta Pal, co-director of the City of Hope’s Liver Cancer program as a guest after he co-authored an interesting study on immunotherapy that was published in the Lancet.

    / Jul 24, 2023 at 6:21 PM
  • Artificial Intelligence

    MedCity Pivot Podcast: 2 Perspectives on how AI Can Soothe Burnout, Burden of Prior Authorization

    I interview Punit Singh Soni, CEO of Suki and Niall O’Connor, CTO, Cohere Health to evaluate two areas where AI can have an outsize impact: clinical documentation and prior authorization.

    / Jun 21, 2023 at 7:02 PM
  • Artificial Intelligence

    MedCity Pivot Podcast: It’s Time To Talk About Responsible AI

    A conversation with Suchi Saria, associate professor of medicine at John Hopkins University and director of its Machine Learning and Healthcare Lab about responsible AI.

    / May 26, 2023 at 5:55 PM
  • Devices & Diagnostics, Artificial Intelligence

    Season 2 of MedCity Pivot Podcast Launches with Conversation of Zephyr AI CTO

    Season 2 of our MedCity Pivot Podcast launches today with a conversation about how AI can be leveraged to transform precision medicine.

    / Apr 26, 2023 at 8:26 PM
  • Health Tech, Payers

    MedCity Pivot: Blue Shield of California CEO Says Value of HealthTech Has Been Mixed So Far

    Paul Markovich believes in the value of health tech in managing both chronic diseases and in general health and wellness. In this episode, he talks about the company’s Wellvolution platform and the digital tools that are offered there to members, now even to those on Medicaid.

    / Mar 30, 2023 at 1:38 PM
  • Health Tech

    Medcity Pivot Podcast: Chronic Disease Management With an Interventional Cardiologist

    Steve Driver is an interventional cardiologist as well as medical director of digital therapeutics at Advocate Aurora Health, which last year merged with Atrium Health. In this episode, he talked about a pilot involving Omada Health targeting a prediabetes population, among other things.

    / Feb 28, 2023 at 8:16 PM
  • Health Tech

    MedCity Pivot Podcast Season 1 Launches With Focus on Chronic Disease Management

    Season one focusing on chronic disease management kicks off with a conversation with Stephanie Tilenius, CEO of Vida Health that aims to treat both the mind and the body.

    / Jan 31, 2023 at 6:18 PM
  • Health Tech, SYN

    MedCity Pivot Podcast: What does the CEO of Zocdoc believe the future of telehealth to be?

    Kharraz made a bold declaration about telehealth back in December 2020. In the final episode of 2022, we ask him about that and more.

    / Dec 21, 2022 at 2:45 PM
  • BioPharma

    Medcity Pivot Podcast: A Conversation With COTA CEO Miruna Sasu About RWE

    Miruna Sasu, CEO of RWE company COTA, explained that studies have shown meaningful improvements in efficiency if RWE is used in drug development and that translates into real savings. However, will such efforts continue amidst the ongoing belt-tightening in a tough economy?

    / Nov 30, 2022 at 2:33 PM
  • Consumer / Employer

    MedCity Pivot podcast: A chat with executive search firm CEO Sonia Millsom

    In this episode, we are conversing with Sonia Millsom, CEO of executive search firm Oxeon, to discuss trends shaping the marketplace following the Great Resignation as well as how Oxeon is spurring innovation through its venture studio.

    / Oct 27, 2022 at 6:27 PM
  • Pharma, Sponsored Post

    MedCity Pivot Podcast: A conversation with Gilead Sciences VP Anu Osinusi

    Gilead Sciences is a leader in the field of virology treatments. As VP of clinical research for hepatitis, respiratory and emerging viruses at Gilead, Anu Osinusi talked about the pharma company’s work in HIV and hepatitis and how her personal background informed her team’s work in developing a Covid-19 treatment.

    / Oct 13, 2022 at 8:30 AM
  • Consumer / Employer, Health Tech

    Pivot Podcast: Hinge Health CEO Dan Perez exhorts all healthtech firms to validate, publish results

    Digital health technologies have received plenty of attention, cash and sky-high valuations but do they deserve it? In the latest episode of MedCity’s Pivot podcast, CEO of Hinge Health says companies need to validate their results in order to move the industry forward.

    / Sep 26, 2022 at 1:59 PM
  • Devices & Diagnostics, SYN

    MedCity Pivot Podcast: A conversation with Renee Ryan, CEO of Cala Health

    Renee Ryan hopes to see the vision of Cala Health’s founder – who believed that Cala Health’s wearable neurostimulation device can be one of the treatment modalities for chronic diseases like essential tremor – translated to reality.

    / Aug 29, 2022 at 5:15 PM
  • Health Tech

    MedCity Pivot Podcast: A conversation with Kevin Dedner, CEO of mental healthcare startup Hurdle

    Hurdle wants to address mental healthcare for minority populations whose problems are not well-addressed by the prevalent healthcare infrastructures. Learn about cultural humility (not cultural competency) and how that can address the depression and anxiety felt by so many. My own recent loss helps me understand the important work that Kevin and others are undertaking.

    / Jul 26, 2022 at 10:21 AM