Tech Tonics

A capitalist colored by a deep streak of social consciousness, Marcus Osborne, the leader of Health Transformation at Walmart, grew up in the South and planned on a political life.  But experience in the White House and later [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: Amir Dan Rubin, Change AgentTech Tonics: Jack Barrette – Turning Patient Expertise into ActionWalmart Embracing OpenStack and Open Source Culture at Scale – Intel Chip Chat…

Story teller, writer, drug developer – Sam Blackman is all three, a philosophy major who became a pediatric oncologist and then a creative drug developer with a penchant for imaginative solutions to translational challenges. Although he was the son of [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: From Maine to Mainstream – The Noah Craft StoryTech Tonics: Dr. Carla Pugh on Serendipity and the Technology of TouchTech Tonics: Chris Benko, From Fortune 100 to Fortune SeekerTech Tonics: Glen de Vries – A Series Of Quite Fortunate EventsTech Tonics: Darshak Sanghavi, Public Health Pediatrician

Owen Tripp, Founder and CEO of Grand Rounds, was brought up by parents who taught him that you could do whatever you chose to do and that there was not one clear path to the right door. Owen [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: A Brief History of Iya KhalilTech Tonics: Molly Coye’s 360 View of the Healthcare SystemTech Tonics: Sometimes You Just Need to Start Things – Marcus Osborne and the…Tech Tonics: Amir Dan Rubin, Change AgentTech Tonics: Lisa Alderson and her Long and Winding Road to Genomics

He’s one of those tech people that came to healthcare to find a career of significance, but Matthew Stoudt has actually been destined for the health tech world since his youth. Matthew Stoudt aspired to be a lawyer, then a [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: The Intersection of Medicine and MarijuanaTech Tonics: Jess Mega of Verily Actually Is Making the World a Better PlaceTech Tonics: Jack Barrette – Turning Patient Expertise into ActionTech Tonics: A Brief History of Iya KhalilTech Tonics: From Maine to Mainstream – The Noah Craft Story

Dr. Molly Coye comes from a family who was obsessed with innovation and had a high tolerance for risk. They also had a history of commitment to anything that would disrupt unjust social paradigms and passed that down through the [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Amir Dan Rubin, Change AgentTech Tonics: Sometimes You Just Need to Start Things – Marcus Osborne and the…Tech Tonics: Ken Tarkoff – Back to the Future of Medicine in a Brave New World of DataTech Tonics: Axel Heitmueller, Everything is a Shade of GrayTech Tonics: Deneen Vojta – Skating to Where the Healthcare Puck is Going

Raised in a small town in Maine, and passionate about infectious diseases in the developing world, Noah Craft may not seem like your typical health tech entrepreneur – but on today’s show, we’ll hear how he’s channeled his passions into [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Brad Hirsch, A Cancer Doctor With Management ChopsTech Tonics: Sam Blackman, Translation With HeartTech Tonics: Kara Dennis and the Development of New TherapiesTech Tonics: Glen de Vries – A Series Of Quite Fortunate EventsTech Tonics: Matthew Stoudt – Real Empathy in a Virtual World

In the course of his fascinating career, physician-scientist Amalio Telenti has had the opportunity to work in two imiscible centers of excellence in genomics: Eric Lander’s Broad Institute and Craig Venter’s Human Longevity Institute (HLI); on today’s show, we’ll learn [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Merck’s Robert Plenge on Human Biology and Social MediaTech Tonics: Diego Miralles – Physician, Scientist, Drug Developer, HumanistTech Tonics: Dorit Donoviel, To Infinity and BeyondTech Tonics: Data Scientist Eric Perakslis, “I Build Stuff.”Tech Tonics: Jeff Reid and the Impassioned Pursuit Of Bad Music and Great Science

Scott Barclay is a nearly ubiquitous presence around the healthcare IT world, standing at the intersection of technology and health since 2005. He has journeyed down the data stream from CVS to startup whisperer to venture capital investor over the [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Ken Tarkoff – Back to the Future of Medicine in a Brave New World of DataTech Tonics: Lisa Alderson and her Long and Winding Road to GenomicsTech Tonics: Molly Coye’s 360 View of the Healthcare SystemTech Tonics: David Van Sickle, Drummer… Digital Health PioneerTech Tonics: Chris Benko, From Fortune 100 to Fortune Seeker

Eric Leuthardt, MD, is quite the Renaissance Man. An accomplished neurosurgeon, inventor, playwright, book author, clothing designer and father of two, Eric has built a career with and around brains in a way no one would have imagined early [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Data Scientist Eric Perakslis, “I Build Stuff.”Tech Tonics: Jessica Rousset – Today’s Kids Are Tomorrow’s AdultsTech Tonics: Amalio Telenti, International Man of (Genetic) MysteryTech Tonics: Rachel Francine and the Many Applications of Music TherapyTech Tonics: Margaret Laws, Where Non-Profit & For-Profit Healthcare Innovation Collide

Katherine Chou is in many ways the quintessential Googler – super smart, a passion for computer science, an engineer through and through. On today’s episode of Tech Tonics, we’ll learn how this rock star at Google decided to turn her [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Taha Kass-Hout – OpenFDA, Open Mind, Open HeartTech Tonics: O-K K-A-R-D-I-A, The Dave Albert StoryTech Tonics: Deborah Kilpatrick – Calling AudiblesTech Tonics: Daphne Koller – Guiding Health From AI to Actual IntelligenceTech Tonics: iRhythm’s Uday Kumar… What Makes Him Tick

Although his dad was a prominent politician who eventually became Speaker of the House, AliveCor Founder Dave Albert always knew he wanted to a career in medicine – it was the passion he discovered for engineering and entrepreneurship that took [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: iRhythm’s Uday Kumar… What Makes Him TickTech Tonics: Katherine Chou – How A Quintessential Googler Wraps Her (Deep) Mind…Tech Tonics: Dorit Donoviel, To Infinity and BeyondTech Tonics: Sridhar Iyengar on IoT Meets Life Science ResearchTech Tonics: Taha Kass-Hout – OpenFDA, Open Mind, Open Heart

For a skydiver who’s motto is “Just jump out and go”, the journey from chasing down Sandanista kidnappers to driving Disney strategy to genomics pioneer sounds sort of rational. Lisa Alderson, founder and CEO of Genome Medical, is [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Ken Tarkoff – Back to the Future of Medicine in a Brave New World of DataTech Tonics: iRhythm’s Uday Kumar… What Makes Him TickTech Tonics: Amir Dan Rubin, Change AgentTech Tonics: Jerry Harrison & Brian Smith – Making Beautiful Music Together with…Tech Tonics: The Intersection of Medicine and Marijuana

The daughter of a commercial airline pilot and the oldest of two kids, Gini Deshpande grew up in Mumbai and told her parents that by the time she was forty, she wanted to own her own car, house, and company. [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Kara Dennis and the Development of New TherapiesTech Tonics: Katherine Chou – How A Quintessential Googler Wraps Her (Deep) Mind…Tech Tonics: Zak Kohane On Medicine and ComputersTech Tonics: Diego Miralles – Physician, Scientist, Drug Developer, HumanistTech Tonics: Deborah Kilpatrick – Calling Audibles

Deborah DiSanzo had a plan. She was going to be a stockbroker and make a ton of money to rise out of the rough circumstances of her childhood and make it big. When she realized she hated the role, but [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Deborah Kilpatrick – Calling AudiblesTech Tonics: iRhythm’s Uday Kumar… What Makes Him TickTech Tonics: When Companies Go AwryTech Tonics: Chris Benko, From Fortune 100 to Fortune SeekerTech Tonics: Glen de Vries – A Series Of Quite Fortunate Events

Iya Khalil is a woman who’s always been ahead of her time. In middle school she was captivated by the writing of Stephen Hawking. After graduating school at Cornell with a PhD in physics, while colleagues were heading to Wall [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Chris Benko, From Fortune 100 to Fortune SeekerTech Tonics: iRhythm’s Uday Kumar… What Makes Him TickTech Tonics: Owen Tripp – Grand FounderTech Tonics: Matthew Stoudt – Real Empathy in a Virtual WorldTech Tonics: From Maine to Mainstream – The Noah Craft Story

Tech Tonics has shared many stories of digital health pioneers who were passionate about health and computers from a young age, and fell effortlessly into a career at the interface of these interests. David Van Sickle, on the other [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Kara Dennis and the Development of New TherapiesTech Tonics: Chris Benko, From Fortune 100 to Fortune SeekerTech Tonics: 2016 PreviewTech Tonics: iRhythm’s Uday Kumar… What Makes Him TickTech Tonics: Zak Kohane On Medicine and Computers

A self-proclaimed optimist who calls himself “a change-agent with a funny foreign name,” Amir Dan Rubin has spent his career shaping and reshaping healthcare delivery systems. Today, Amir is the CEO of One Medical, a company focused on making [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: Sometimes You Just Need to Start Things – Marcus Osborne and the…Tech Tonics: Lisa Alderson and her Long and Winding Road to GenomicsTech Tonics: Jerry Harrison & Brian Smith – Making Beautiful Music Together with…

While most of us spent our early teens dealing with the drama of middle school, Daphne Koller was in Israel simultaneously completing high school and college. She was a computer science prodigy on the fast path to a career as [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Katherine Chou – How A Quintessential Googler Wraps Her (Deep) Mind…Tech Tonics: iRhythm’s Uday Kumar… What Makes Him TickTech Tonics: Chris Benko, From Fortune 100 to Fortune SeekerTech Tonics: Kara Dennis and the Development of New TherapiesTech Tonics: Amalio Telenti, International Man of (Genetic) Mystery

In what might be one of the coolest government roles you could find, Dawn Meyerriecks job is to bring the latest and greatest science and technology to the Central Intelligence Agency –she gets to be a modern day Q in [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Jerry Harrison & Brian Smith – Making Beautiful Music Together with…Tech Tonics: Ken Tarkoff – Back to the Future of Medicine in a Brave New World of DataTech Tonics: A Brief History of Iya KhalilTech Tonics: Scott Barclay of Data Collective, Journeying Down the Data StreamTech Tonics: Matthew Stoudt – Real Empathy in a Virtual World

We have had numerous guests on Tech Tonics who went to medical school only to find their way into non-medical roles. But Ken Tarkoff, whose original career plan was to follow his father into medicine, chose the long way. Ken [See the full post…] Related Posts:Tech Tonics: Scott Barclay of Data Collective, Journeying Down the Data StreamTech Tonics: Lisa Alderson and her Long and Winding Road to GenomicsTech Tonics: The Intersection of Medicine and MarijuanaTech Tonics: Molly Coye’s 360 View of the Healthcare SystemTech Tonics: Jess Mega of Verily Actually Is Making the World a Better Place