Category: Career

Discovery of Covid Biomarker Through Lipid Research, Preview of Int. w/ Dr. Besim Ogretmen, Med. Univ. of S.C.

In this short video, we talk about our highlights from this week’s interview with Dr. Besim Ogretmen of the Medical University of South Carolina.

Dr. Ogretmen typically focuses on cancer research, but during the covid-19 pandemic, he and his team pivoted their efforts.

They discovered a lipid biomarker that had more than a 90% accuracy rate of determining if someone would have an asymptomatic or symptomatic case of covid-19.

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Harnessing the Power of Data to Gain Insights & Drive Personal Connections: Interview with Minal Patel, CEO/Founder, Abacus Insights

Minal Patel is the CEO & Founder of Abacus Insights, a company that enables data by breaking down data silos to help health plans make sense of their data.

The clean and accurate data from Abacus allows health plans to make information available to people, allowing those people to make better healthcare decisions.

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From Pharma To Health Tech Ceo: Using Data To Overhaul The Specialty Drug Industry Interview with Pramod John, CEO, Vivio Health

Driven by a personal passion to change healthcare and “the obligation to do the right thing for the good of every American,” Pramod John, CEO of Vivio Health, is on a mission to overhaul the specialty drug market.

He and the team at Vivio – founded by a leaders previously working in Pharma – want to use data to help people get the right drug, at the right time.

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Role and Benefits of Participatory Medicine for Patients and Providers: Interview with Dr. Danny Sands and Dave deBronka

Since the early 2000s, Dr. Danny Sands and his patient, Dave deBronkart have been working collaboratively on Dave’s care – breaking boundaries of the old standard of care and communication between doctor and patient.

Together they co-founded the Society for Participatory Medicine.

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