Tech Tonics

When Zoe Barry was a kid, she had two things she wanted to be when she grew up, either a veterinarian or “someone who writes checks.” She gave the first a shot and ended up settling on the second.  Today [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Carolyn Magill - May the Fast, Steep Road Rise Up to Meet You!Tech Tonics: Amir Dan Rubin, Change AgentTech Tonics: Scott Barclay of Data Collective, Journeying Down the Data StreamTech Tonics: Jerry Harrison & Brian Smith – Making Beautiful Music Together with…Tech Tonics: From Farm to Negotiating Table – James Dromey of the Murdoch Royal…

In graduate school, Karen Hong’s dream of becoming a biologist crashed into the inconvenient reality that she couldn’t stand working in the lab. Undaunted, Karen, pivoted into venture capital, and hasn’t looked back. As befits a future geneticist, Karen chose [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Sam Blackman, Translation With HeartTech Tonics: Dr. Carla Pugh on Serendipity and the Technology of TouchTech Tonics: Calum MacRae, Reimagining Medicine From WithinTech Tonics: Microsoft Global Chief Medical Officer Simon Kos, Using Technology to…Tech Tonics: A Brief History of Iya Khalil

Rebecca Kaul had planned to be a doctor.  But life and the HMO era got in the way.  As a result she went down an entirely different and windy path through chemical engineering, public policy, consulting on information systems and [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Rasu Shrestha – Living Inside the Culture ClashTech Tonics: Toyin Ajayi – No Power Suit, But a Powerful Goal to Change…Tech Tonics: Carolyn Magill – May the Fast, Steep Road Rise Up to Meet You!Tech Tonics: Sometimes You Just Need to Start Things – Marcus Osborne and the…Tech Tonics: Axel Heitmueller, Everything is a Shade of Gray

A brilliant cardiologist and geneticist, Dr. Calum McRae rose to the top of academic medicine – then decided to reinvent it, from the inside.  He just may be the person to do it. Born on the Isle of Skye off [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Merck’s Robert Plenge on Human Biology and Social MediaTech Tonics: Sek Kathiresan, When The Genetics of Heart Disease Becomes Intensely PersonalTech Tonics: Microsoft Global Chief Medical Officer Simon Kos, Using Technology to…Tech Tonics: Dr. Carla Pugh on Serendipity and the Technology of TouchTech Tonics: Jess Mega of Verily Actually Is Making the World a Better Place

Dr. James Dromey was supposed to be a farmer in County Cork, Ireland and has the milking experience to prove it. But apparently cows were not his destiny, even though he was a farm family’s only son. Instead, James left [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Jim Joyce, A Man of Genius Makes No MistakesTech Tonics: Carolyn Magill – May the Fast, Steep Road Rise Up to Meet You!Tech Tonics: Matthew Stoudt – Real Empathy in a Virtual WorldTech Tonics: Lisa Alderson and her Long and Winding Road to GenomicsTech Tonics: The Intersection of Medicine and Marijuana

Andy Coravos left a promising career at a top private equity firm to follow her passion and pursue intensive training as a software developer; she now works on the frontier of engineering and medicine as CEO and co-founder of Elektra [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Rachel Francine and the Many Applications of Music TherapyTech Tonics: Kara Dennis and the Development of New TherapiesTech Tonics: Katherine Chou – How A Quintessential Googler Wraps Her (Deep) Mind…Tech Tonics: Brad Hirsch, A Cancer Doctor With Management ChopsTech Tonics: Susan Desmond-Hellmann, The Inquisitive Leader

Carolyn Magill had planned a life in foreign service or international relations.  But it wasn’t until she found herself at the nexus of healthcare and public policy that she realized she found her home.  She has now traveled through the [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Owen Tripp – Grand FounderTech Tonics: Amir Dan Rubin, Change AgentTech Tonics: Jerry Harrison & Brian Smith – Making Beautiful Music Together with…Tech Tonics: Sometimes You Just Need to Start Things – Marcus Osborne and the…Tech Tonics: Lisa Alderson and her Long and Winding Road to Genomics

When she was a kid, Toyin Ajayi’s career goal was to “be the boss of something.” Drawn to power suits and authority, she aspired to become an unspecified boss lady. She may be a boss now, but her authority is [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Molly Coye’s 360 View of the Healthcare SystemTech Tonics: Ken Tarkoff – Back to the Future of Medicine in a Brave New World of DataTech Tonics: Amir Dan Rubin, Change AgentTech Tonics: Axel Heitmueller, Everything is a Shade of GrayTech Tonics: Lisa Alderson and her Long and Winding Road to Genomics

Allison Kurian never had a chance.  The daughter of two prominent academics, Diana Chapman Walsh the former President of Wellesley College and Chris Walsh, a renowned Harvard biochemist – Allison was destined by genetics and environment, it seems, to become [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Sek Kathiresan, When The Genetics of Heart Disease Becomes Intensely PersonalTech Tonics: Brad Hirsch, A Cancer Doctor With Management ChopsTech Tonics: Darshak Sanghavi, Public Health PediatricianTech Tonics: Amy Abernethy – Dosage, Disney & DataTech Tonics: Atul Butte – When it Comes to Data, More is More

An unlikely pair, Brian Smith and Jerry Harrison came together over their shared passion for music and science and helping entrepreneurs succeed. Together they are helping healthcare startups find their rhythm and chart a path to success through a new [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Martin Kelly, Conductor of a Global Orchestra of EntrepreneurshipTech Tonics: Ken Tarkoff – Back to the Future of Medicine in a Brave New World of DataTech Tonics: Dawn Meyerriecks – Bringing the Fail Fast Thinking of Silicon…Tech Tonics: Lisa Alderson and her Long and Winding Road to GenomicsTech Tonics: Amir Dan Rubin, Change Agent

Her illustrious career has taken her from clinician to biotech executive to university chancellor to CEO of the world’s largest foundation, yet throughout this exceptional journey, Susan Desmond-Hellmann has remained empathetic, inquisitive, and emphatically true to herself. Growing up in [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Stephanie Tilenius – Work, Not WorryTech Tonics: From Maine to Mainstream – The Noah Craft StoryTech Tonics: Diego Miralles – Physician, Scientist, Drug Developer, HumanistTech Tonics: Atul Butte – When it Comes to Data, More is MoreTech Tonics: David Van Sickle, Drummer… Digital Health Pioneer

Axel Heitmueller, Ph.D. grew up in Germany, the son of an engineer. Yet, despite the often discrete intellectual structure engineering can impose, Axel’s personal experiences have taught him how important it is to find comfort with a state of gray. [See the full post…] Related Posts:Telecom Infra Project – Intel Chip Chat Network Insights – Episode 174Tech Tonics: Sometimes You Just Need to Start Things – Marcus Osborne and the…Tech Tonics: Molly Coye’s 360 View of the Healthcare SystemTech Tonics: Jessica Rousset – Today’s Kids Are Tomorrow’s AdultsTech Tonics: Amir Dan Rubin, Change Agent

Passionate about the intersection of policy and medicine, Darshak Sanghavi’s career has taken him from pediatric cardiology to the Obama Administration to his current role as CMO, OptumLabs, always seeking to define and improve on one thing in particular: [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Brad Hirsch, A Cancer Doctor With Management ChopsTech Tonics: Sek Kathiresan, When The Genetics of Heart Disease Becomes Intensely PersonalTech Tonics: Atul Butte – When it Comes to Data, More is MoreTech Tonics: Jessica Rousset – Today’s Kids Are Tomorrow’s AdultsTech Tonics: Taha Kass-Hout – OpenFDA, Open Mind, Open Heart

An accomplished linguist who planned to take a job after college with a Russian oligarch (but rethought the notion after the man was nearly assassinated), Ari Caroline’s journey has taken him from language to economics to business to his [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Patients are why technology mattersTech Tonics: Deborah Kilpatrick – Calling AudiblesTech Tonics: Data Scientist Eric Perakslis, “I Build Stuff.”Tech Tonics: Katherine Chou – How A Quintessential Googler Wraps Her (Deep) Mind…Tech Tonics: Susannah Fox, Learning from MacGyver Patients

Growing up on Capitol Hill in a Washington, DC political family, Sarah Iselin did the obvious thing, at least to her, by rebelling and going to art school. But when her practical self realized that was going to make for [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Molly Coye’s 360 View of the Healthcare SystemTech Tonics: Axel Heitmueller, Everything is a Shade of GrayTech Tonics: Deneen Vojta – Skating to Where the Healthcare Puck is GoingTech Tonics: Sometimes You Just Need to Start Things – Marcus Osborne and the…Tech Tonics: Margaret Laws, Where Non-Profit & For-Profit Healthcare Innovation Collide

An accomplished investment banker who transitioned to become an accomplished executive at leading tech companies including eBay and Google, Stephanie Tilenius has now set her sights on an even more difficult challenge. As CEO of Vida Health she is focused [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Susan Desmond-Hellmann, The Inquisitive LeaderTech Tonics: Ken Tarkoff – Back to the Future of Medicine in a Brave New World of DataTech Tonics: When Companies Go AwryTech Tonics: A Brief History of Iya KhalilTech Tonics: From Maine to Mainstream – The Noah Craft Story

Dr. Carla Pugh does a lot of things. She is trauma surgeon, entrepreneur, researcher and educator and is officially a professor of surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine (she also went to UC Berkeley so Go Bears!) and also [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Microsoft Global Chief Medical Officer Simon Kos, Using Technology to…Tech Tonics: Sam Blackman, Translation With HeartTech Tonics: Brad Hirsch, A Cancer Doctor With Management ChopsTech Tonics: The Most Interesting Man in Silicon ValleyTech Tonics: Kara Dennis and the Development of New Therapies

Medical technology thought leader by day, computer gamer by night, Dr. Simon Kos, Global Chief Medical Officer of Microsoft, is a physician, business strategist and technologist who by his own admission is drawn to “bright shiny objects.” But a commitment [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Dr. Carla Pugh on Serendipity and the Technology of TouchTech Tonics: Ken Tarkoff – Back to the Future of Medicine in a Brave New World of DataTech Tonics: Jess Mega of Verily Actually Is Making the World a Better PlaceTech Tonics: The Intersection of Medicine and MarijuanaTech Tonics: Matthew Stoudt – Real Empathy in a Virtual World

When Harvard cardiologist and geneticist Sek Kathiresan was promoted earlier this year to full professor at Harvard Medical School (he also has an appointment at the Broad Institute), he shared the news in a poignant tweet that basically said, [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Merck’s Robert Plenge on Human Biology and Social MediaTech Tonics: Allison Kurian, Bringing Curiosity and Compassion To Breast Cancer GeneticsTech Tonics: Darshak Sanghavi, Public Health PediatricianTech Tonics: Amalio Telenti, International Man of (Genetic) MysteryTech Tonics: Brad Hirsch, A Cancer Doctor With Management Chops

If Alex P. Keaton was from Texas, went on to med school, and then trained in oncology, he might have emerged looking something like today’s guest, Dr. Brad Hirsch, an MD/MBA with a doctor’s heart and a businessman’s head, [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Darshak Sanghavi, Public Health PediatricianTech Tonics: From Maine to Mainstream – The Noah Craft StoryTech Tonics: Glen de Vries – A Series Of Quite Fortunate EventsTech Tonics: Allison Kurian, Bringing Curiosity and Compassion To Breast Cancer GeneticsTech Tonics: Amy Abernethy – Dosage, Disney & Data