The Penn HealthX Podcast
Business & Economics Podcasts
The Penn HealthX Podcast focuses on the intersection of medicine and business, with an emphasis on healthcare management, entrepreneurship, and technology (H-MET). This podcast has two aims. First, we want to highlight excellent work happening at The University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, and beyond. Second, we want to help students and those early in their medical careers understand how to become leaders in the field, and use their skills outside of strictly clinical medicine. We intend to achieve these goals by interviewing students and faculty members who are working in the H-MET space. We also plan to discuss current events, trends and opportunities in healthcare, and other topics future healthcare leaders need to know about. Penn Health-X is supported by our generous donors - Dr. Wong. Dr. Slevin, Dr. Anand, and Dr. Wills. Find us on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-penn-healthx-podcast/id1271378904?mt=2
Location:
United States
Description:
The Penn HealthX Podcast focuses on the intersection of medicine and business, with an emphasis on healthcare management, entrepreneurship, and technology (H-MET). This podcast has two aims. First, we want to highlight excellent work happening at The University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, and beyond. Second, we want to help students and those early in their medical careers understand how to become leaders in the field, and use their skills outside of strictly clinical medicine. We intend to achieve these goals by interviewing students and faculty members who are working in the H-MET space. We also plan to discuss current events, trends and opportunities in healthcare, and other topics future healthcare leaders need to know about. Penn Health-X is supported by our generous donors - Dr. Wong. Dr. Slevin, Dr. Anand, and Dr. Wills. Find us on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-penn-healthx-podcast/id1271378904?mt=2
Twitter:
@pennhealthx
Language:
English
Contact:
2013167450
Website:
http://pennhealthx.com/
Episodes
78 - Josh Makower - A Career of Innovation in Med Tech and Venture Capital
3/10/2021
Today’s episode is a conversation between Sope Eweje, one of the VP’s of Entrepreneurship and Ventures for Penn HealthX, and our guest, Dr. Josh Makower. Josh currently leads medical device investment as a general partner at NEA, one of the world’s largest and most active venture capital firms. Josh is also the Founder and Executive Chairman of ExploraMed, a medical device incubator that has created 8 companies over the past 20 years. Notable transactions from the ExploraMed portfolio...
Duration:00:59:44
77 - Sandy Varatharajah - Planning For a Career to Transform Healthcare Via Digital Health
10/17/2020
Today’s episode is a conversation with one of my colleagues, Sandy Varatharajah. Sandy is a 2nd year MBA student and a member of the Healthcare Management program at Wharton. In the episode, we discuss what drew her to the healthcare space, her previous experiences, including interning at the white house, consulting, and working for CityBlock. We also discussed the decision to get an MBA, and some of the interviews she has done for the Pulse Podcast by the Wharton Digital Health club. We end...
Duration:00:57:03
76 - Dr. Arpan Parikh - Using Business Skills to Improve The Future of Psychiatry
8/23/2020
Today’s episode is a conversation I had with Dr. Arpan Parikh. Dr. Parikh was a colleague of mine at Wharton last year. He has since graduated and moved on to a role with CareMore Health. Dr. Parikh got his MD at Ohio State, and completed his residency in Psychiatry at Mt. Sinai in New York City. In the episode, we discuss what drew him to medicine and psychiatry, memories he had as a student, clinical roles he took on, why he chose to get an MBA, and how he will use his skills at CareMore...
Duration:00:57:31
75 -Adam Lessler - From EM Residency to Consulting and Venture Capital/Growth Equity
8/16/2020
Today’s episode is a conversation I had with Dr. Adam Lessler, who is currently a Principal at Evidity Health Capital in New York City. He is a licensed physician with residency training in emergency medicine and over a decade of healthcare industry experience counseling Boards and senior leadership teams. Prior to joining Evidity, Adam was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company, where he served clients across the health care value chain, with a focus on provider growth and...
Duration:01:04:26
74 - Kwaku Owusu - CEO of DrugViu - Eliminating the Underrepresentation of POC in Clinical Trials
8/9/2020
Today’s episode is one I co-hosted with Mariam Alausa, who is the current co-VP of Curriculum for Penn HealthX. Our guest was Kwaku Owusu, who is the founder and CEO of DrugViu and TrialViu. Drugviu aggregates patient-related outcomes for people of color who take specific pharmaceutical drugs. TrialViu is a companion site that then educates those same patients about clinical trials, and then matches them to trials they may qualify for using AI. Their lofty mission is to eliminate...
Duration:00:45:39
73 - Erik Maltais, CEO of IMMERTEC - Innovation in Surgical Education Using Virtual Reality
8/3/2020
Today’s episode is with Erik Maltais, who is the founder and CEO of IMMERTEC, which is a company using virtual reality tools to bring remote surgeons and trainees into the OR to teach them skills and how to use certain medical devices. He has a really cool background in both the business and medical worlds, and it was a pleasure to speak with him to learn about his journey, the process of founding IMMERTEC and finding physicians to collaborate with, and what the long term goals are. I hope...
Duration:00:56:57
72 - Catherine Bryt - Creating a Healthcare Services Marketplace with Sibi Health
7/15/2020
This episode is a conversation I had with one of my friends and Wharton colleagues, Catherine Bryt. Catherine is the CEO and founder of Sibi Health. Put simply, Sibi Health is a marketplace for healthcare services, now serving the Philadelphia area. You can compare local doctors and pre-set service prices for both in-person and video visits, select, book, and pay in advance using a credit card or HSA/FSA card, and then receive care. In the episode, we discuss Catherine’s background studying...
Duration:00:53:00
71 - Dr. David Nash - A Deep Dive Into Population Health and the Future of the U.S Healthcare System
6/20/2020
In this episode, back by popular demand, is Dr. David Nash. Dr. Nash was a guest back in March for episode #45 when we spoke about how population health transforming the healthcare system. We decided to have him back to continue the conversation and delve deeper into how clinicians are actually utilizing data being collected, and what the future holds. Dr. Nash is the Founding Dean of the Jefferson College of Population Health in Philadelphia. He completed his MD at the University of...
Duration:00:58:20
70 - Zack Gray - Co-Founding Ophelia to Improve Access for Patients Addicted to Opioids
6/17/2020
In this episode, I interview Zack Gray, who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ophelia, which seeks to address the opioid epidemic by making medication-assisted treatment (MAT) private, convenient, and affordable for patients. Zack is a graduate of Columbia where he studied Astrophysics and Philosophy. After being in the working world for a few years, he pursued an MBA at Wharton. During this time, he was able to work on building Ophelia. Ophelia took the 1st Place prize at the Penn HealthX...
Duration:00:51:38
69 - Dr. Jane Zhu - What's the Deal with Private Equity in Healthcare Services?
6/14/2020
This episode is an interview with Dr. Jane Zhu. Dr. Zhu is an assistant professor of medicine at OHSU, and a practicing primary care provider. She studied global health at Duke, received both an MD and an MPP from Harvard, completed her internal medicine residency at USCF, and was a National Clinician Scholar at Penn. She remains a senior fellow for the Leonard Davis Institute at Penn, which is how I found out about her exciting research! Her interests span across many fields and include...
Duration:01:15:21
68 - Michellene Davis - How We Can Fight to Address the Social Determinants of Health
6/7/2020
In light of the recent events across the country, I wanted to read a statement that Penn HealthX sent out to our community and the Perelman School of Medicine. Along with this, we decided to move up an episode in our release schedule with Michellene Davis. Michelle is a healthcare leader who has dedicated her entire career to addressing the Social Determinants of Health, especially as they impact communities of color. I’ll begin by reading our statement, and then I’ll tell you more about...
Duration:01:14:32
67 - Dr. Angela Bradbury - Improving Communication About Cancer Genetics in an Evolving Field
5/23/2020
This episode was done in collaboration with the American Cancer Society or ACS. May is National Cancer Research Month, and we wanted to help promote a great program they have launched called ResearcHERS. We'll share some links in the show notes, but in short, to share some words from the team, ResearcHERS empowers women to fundraise in support of women-led cancer research, but it's more than just a fundraising campaign. ResearcHERS is a movement. A sisterhood of purpose determined to sustain...
Duration:00:47:00
66 - COVIDCast #17 - Elana Meer and Maguire Herriman - Developing a COVID Chatbot With Google
5/21/2020
This episode is a continuation of our COVIDCast series. In it, Jonathan Wakim and I speak with Maguire Herriman and Elana Meer about a COVID Chatbot project they worked on at Penn along with Google to better address questions posed by those who visit the Penn Medicine website to learn about the coronavirus and current policies. To give you some more perspective on the project, I’ll read off from an article highlighting the work. A Penn team led by Roy Rosin, MBA, and Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD,...
Duration:00:29:38
65 - COVIDCast #16 - Prof Mauro Guillen - The Economic Impact of the Pandemic
5/18/2020
This episode is a recording of a virtual talk hosted by Penn HealthX with Professor Mauro Guillen. In the talk, Professor Guillen discussed the economic impacts of the pandemic and makes the case for opening the economy as soon as we can do so safely. Though the presentation included slides, the audio is easy to follow along with. The intended audience for the talk was medical students without a background in economics, and many of the questions asked and discussion that resulted from them...
Duration:00:59:04
64 - COVIDCast #15 - Dr. Umang Jain - How COVID Has Changed Life for an EM Resident
5/13/2020
In this episode, I spoke with Dr. Umang Jain, who is a 3rd-year emergency medicine resident at Penn. We start off the episode discussing his interdisciplinary background and interests and what drew him to emergency medicine. We then speak about how COVID-19 has impacted his experience working in the emergency room, and how it has impacted residency training and the types of patients that he has been seeing. We also touch on some unexpected consequences of social distancing on the types of...
Duration:00:51:21
63 - COVIDCast #14 - Rolling Out COVID Watch to Monitor Patients At Home
5/11/2020
his episode was created for The Perelman School of Medicine’s online Health Systems curriculum for second-year clerkship students. In it, third-year medical student Casey Kim (who was previously featured on the Podcast for her work with POHPS and creating COVIDigests) and finished our interview with Dr. Kirstin Knox and Dr. Anna Morgan. In part 2 we discuss the COVIDWatch program which uses SMS to check in on and triage patients who are awaiting testing results, or who are COVID-positive and...
Duration:00:16:12
61 - COVIDCast #12 - Adapting to the Unique Safety Concerns of COVID-19
5/11/2020
This episode was created for The Perelman School of Medicine’s online Health Systems curriculum for second-year clerkship students. In it, third-year medical student Casey Kim (who was previously featured on the Podcast for her work with POHPS and creating COVIDigests) and I interviewed Caryn Douma and Cynthia Line. Caryn is Corporate Director of Patient Safety for Penn Medicine, and Cynthia is the Senior Improvement Advisor for Clinical Effectiveness Quality Improvement. In the episode, we...
Duration:00:20:00
62 - COVIDCast #13 - The STEP-19 Program for Patients with the Highest Needs
5/11/2020
This episode was created for The Perelman School of Medicine’s online Health Systems curriculum for second-year clerkship students. In it, third-year medical student Casey Kim (who was previously featured on the Podcast for her work with POHPS and creating COVIDigests) and I interviewed Dr. Kirstin Knox, Dr. Anna Morgan, Amber Kuestner who is an RN, and Catherine Stieglitz who is a social worker at Penn Med. In part 1 of this episode, all our guests discuss their roles, how they have changed...
Duration:00:18:28
60 - COVIDCast #11 - Dr. Julie Uspal - Coordinating an ED's Response to COVID
5/11/2020
This episode was created for The Perelman School of Medicine’s online Health Systems curriculum for second-year clerkship students. In it, third-year medical student Casey Kim (who was previously featured on the Podcast for her work with POHPS and creating COVIDigests) and I interview Dr. Julie Uspal, who is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, and is the Co-Director for Quality and Safety for the HUP EM department. In the episode, we discuss how the health system and...
Duration:00:12:59
59 - COVIDCast #10 - Improving Prenatal and Postpartum Care In the Era of COVID
5/11/2020
This episode was created for The Perelman School of Medicine’s online Health Systems curriculum for second-year clerkship students. In it, third-year medical student Casey Kim (who was previously featured on the Podcast for her work with POHPS and creating COVIDigests) and I interview Dr. Anna Graseck and Dr. Kirstin Leitner, who are both Ob/Gyn physicians. They tell us more about the THEA program for blood pressure monitoring in prenatal patients, and the Healing at Home program which...
Duration:00:16:35