MedStreet Journal

Laura Gardner is the CEO of Persimmon AI Inc. Their solution, OTC FinderTM, helps both USA-born and new arrivals. OTC Finder is the first web-app that matches the new arrival’s home medication to the analogous USA OTC and provides predefined conditions that anyone, American or newcomer, can select to get a list of appropriate OTC’s. Being a serial entrepreneur, she has seen most of what the healthcare industry can offer. In this episode of MedStreet Journal, Laura Gardner shares her journey through the healthcare industry and how she and her team developed a solution that would help people select the right medication that they need.

Tim Washburn is the Chief Clinical Officer of Electronic Caregiver. They innovated Addison, the Virtual Caregiver: Addison. Addison can engage with and help monitor the health of individuals and families via touch-screen devices strategically placed throughout a residence. In this episode, Tim Washburn shares his story from making automobile batteries to being the healthcare industry. He would also bring fresh insights to the table as he discusses the importance of telehealth which is poised to offer technology that can help people during these trying times.

Lisa Charlebois is the Head of Creative in Omada Health. She has been working as a Creative Director for different kinds of industries focusing on advertising. Lisa started her career in Toronto, Canada, and moved to the United States to work for various well-known companies such as SAP, HP, IBM, and Cisco. From these companies, she slid in on to startup life, which led her to Omada Health. In this episode of MedStreet Journal, Lisa shares the core values of Omada Health and how putting the healthcare participants' interest at best can have a ripple effect on both the employees and business.

Omar Shaker is the CEO and Founder of Resilient Doctor. He is a medical doctor turned data-science consultant and is very active in the healthcare community. Resilient Doctor operates in Egypt and Nigeria that works exclusively with the doctors. In this episode of MedStreet Journal, Omar Shaker shares his insights and stories about why he focuses a lot on physician burnouts and tackles the solution around it. According to him, the degree to which a doctor can be fatigued is imminent based on his personal experience. This led him to develop and apply functional medicine to decrease risk of burnout - integrating labs and wearables to really quantify Doctor’s health.

Ibraheem Alinur is the CEO and founder of City Health Tech. City Health Tech educates and helps build healthy communities by mitigating the spread of diseases globally. In this episode, Ibraheem shares his story about how he came with the vision and mission of City Health Tech. He will be telling us what makes City Health Tech one of the 25 most promising student startups in the country and was featured by the Obama Foundation, founded in 2017 with the thesis of investing in disease prevention solutions.

Muthu Krishnan is the President and CEO of the AI-assisted patient engagement platform, Kencor Health Inc. For over 16 years, he has been in the healthcare industry continuously learning and innovating ways on how to give patients the simplest form of assistance while keeping their engagement. In this episode of Med Street Journal, Muthu Krishnan will share his knowledge combined with his broad experience to help us see through the importance of developing a technology that helps people and engage with them as a person and not just as a patient.

Mark Lewis is the founder and CEO of Solos Health Analytics. His team currently develops hardware and software health aid to help people learn their normal body temperature and detects anomaly from the information gathered. In this episode of MedStreet Journal, we will know how Mark Lewis started his virtual team and pulled off a successful and very innovative technology that focuses on learning each body’s unique temperature and perceive fever early so one can act upon it realtime.

Catherine Hendy is the director and co-founder of ELANZA Wellness, and a passionate advocate for women’s reproductive healthcare. In this episode of the Med Street Journal, Catherine shares her personal journey towards fertility treatments and egg freezing, and how she utilized the opportunities she encountered by creating a company that offers a one of a kind experience and community of support to all women who are having challenges in their reproductive health.

Doug Miller is the Chief Technology Officer at SmartTab and a Senior Engineer with wide experience in developing biomedical devices, designing software and prototypes, and just about everything that involves electronics, computer systems, and technology. Doug will join us in this episode to talk about the innovations they’re currently working on in SmartTab for the Healthtech industry and how wireless technology plays a critical role in the accuracy and efficacy of diagnosis and treatments of various diseases especially cancer and other critical conditions. More interestingly, he’ll show us the wonders of pursuing our passions and spending the rest of our lives doing the things we love.

Ameya Phadke leads Technology and Digital Partnerships at Chiesi Group. He’s in charge of the company’s overall activities involving partnerships with other corporations on digital health developments and technology, fulfilling business needs and growth. In this episode, Ameya shares all the insider tips and tricks he has on his sleeve to teach Healthtech CEOs in making conclusive decisions before they venture and collaborate with other potential Healthtech companies as partners.