Doctors in Business

Jun 14 2024 60 ep. 27 mins 29
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Stories about creativity in medicine. Follow us @doctorsinbiz on all platforms to stay updated Formerly Doctors Who Create

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Dr. Siyu Shi: Investor at F-Prime & Healthcare Venture Capital

Jun 14 2024 20 mins  
In this episode, our guest is Dr. Siyu Shi, MD, MBA. Dr. Shi is an investor at venture capital firm F-Prime Capital. She has over 10 portfolio companies, across healthcare sub sectors including MedTech, IT, and therapeutics, in which she led or co-led the investment. She also collaborates with Eight Roads, F-Prime’s sister company, based in Asia to work with Chinese startups. She

Dr. John Whyte: CMO of WebMD & Healthcare Information

Mar 04 2024 38 mins  
In this episode, our guest is Dr. John Whyte, MD, MPH, and CMO of WebMD. Dr. Whyte brings years of experience from working for the FDA, CMS, and Discovery Channel to WebMD and helps create high level strategy. Focusing on healthcare mis/information, we discussed the role of AI, drug advertising, challenges during the pandemic, and consumerism in healthcare. This episode ought to be

Dr. Reid Waldman: Forbes 30 Under 30 & Dermatology Innovation

Feb 01 2024 21 mins  
In this episode, our guest is Dr. Reid Waldman, M.D., Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2024, dermatologist, and founder and CEO of Veradermics. With over $40 million raised, Veradermics is looking to change the fact that there has been little to no innovation in dermatology in recent years. Dr. Waldman took a huge risk by jumping from medicine to the startup space. He talks about how he

Dr. David Nathan: Drug Policy Reform & Cannabis Legalization

Jan 07 2024 44 mins  
In this episode, our guest is Dr. David L. Nathan, M.D., psychiatrist, founder of Doctors for Drug Policy Reform (D4DPR), and co-designer of the universal cannabis symbol. We talk about his motivation behind founding a non-profit and the challenges that came with it. We also explore what it’s like working with politicians to make physician voices heard and to create evidence-base

Dr. Lucy McBride: Health "Beyond the Prescription"

Dec 31 2023 35 mins  
In this episode, join Dr. Lucy McBride as we unravel the intricate tapestry of what true health entails. She is the host of the podcast “Beyond the Prescription,” where she brings on guests ranging from musicians to politicians, discussing how their life challenges allowed them to view holistic health differently. She shares her personal motivation behind creating the podcast a

Dr. Shilpa Darivemula: Story of the Aseemkala Initiative

May 05 2023 33 mins  
In this episode, Dr. Shilpa Darivemula shares about how her experiences as both a dancer and a doctor led her to create the Aseemkala Initiative. This group is dedicated to harnessing the power of traditional dance to perform modern stories about healthcare inequities. Dr. Darivemula is trained in a form of Indian classical dance known as Kuchipudi. She is also an OB/GYN, currently

Dr. Nina Vasan: Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation

Apr 07 2023 46 mins  
In this episode, learn more how to harness the power of technology to improve mental health, from digital psychiatrist and creative extraordinaire Dr. Nina Vasan. She shares about her experiences as the founder and executive director of Brainstorm: The Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation, designing new tools for Pinterest and TikTok, as the chief medical officer of Real, a st

#49 Reimagining x DWC

Nov 25 2022 20 mins  
In this episode, learn more about the Reimagining Medicine Festival, a traveling, virtual festival exploring the intersection of arts with justice in medicine. The theme of this year's festival, hosted by Weill Cornell and sponsored by the American Medical Women's Association Dance and Theater Task Force, is "Metamorphosis." We hear from members of the planning committee, Kate Cox,

#48 “Speaking in Thumbs” with Dr. Mimi Winsberg

Jul 08 2022 28 mins  
In this episode, Elaine Ma interviews Dr. Mimi Winsberg, a Harvard and Stanford trained psychiatrist. While serving as the resident psychiatrist at Facebook, she co-founded the behavioral health startup, Brightside Health. Most recently, Dr. Winsberg released her first book, titled “Speaking in Thumbs” a psychiatrist decodes your relationship texts so you don’t have to. Durin

#47 Creating the right FIT: Health Equity 2

Jun 03 2022 27 mins  
Dr. Evan Ashkin is the director and founder of the North Carolina Formerly Incarcerated Transition (NC FIT) program, which helps connect chronically ill formerly incarcerated individuals to primary care medical services. He currently serves as a professor of family medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, teaching in the underserved track of the residency program, and sees patients