The You+AI Podcast

On the Spot is a new segment of the You+AI Podcast where the focus is on fun and candid moments with guests on Healthcare+AI scenarios. Enjoy segments such as True or False, Fill in the ________, A Tweet Saves The Day etc. Jeremiah Robison is the founder and CEO of Cionic, an innovative company that builds lightweight and durable bionic clothing driven by powerful algorithms that adapt in real time to each individual's mobility needs. He is a proponent and an advocate for creating better solutions for people with mobility issues caused by neurological conditions and illnesses such as cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, stroke, and more.If you liked this segment and would want to know more about our guest and how they lead from the front in Healthcare+AI, do tune in to the full You+AI Podcast episode with this guest.You will be able to go through all episodes of past seasons as well as the current one @ youplusai.com.

Our Guest: Jeremiah Robison(@jerobi)Jeremiah Robison is the founder and CEO of Cionic, an innovative company that builds lightweight and durable bionic clothing driven by powerful algorithms that adapt in real time to each individual's mobility needs. He is a proponent and an advocate for creating better solutions for people with mobility issues caused by neurological conditions and illnesses such as cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, stroke, and more.In this episode, Jeremiah gives us a peek into what human augmentation is. He makes us understand the spectrum of abilities of the human body and how technology may be used to superpower those abilities. If you think that Bionic Clothing  is Sci-Fi, this is an episode you should definitely listen to.Jeremiah then answers interesting questions posed by the audience.You will not want to miss the companion audio (called On The Spot) and video segments (called Vodcast) where guests share their spontaneous views on Healthcare+AI scenarios.You can connect to all the episodes via youplusai.com.

Our guest: Prashant NatarajanPrashant Natarajan is the Vice President of Strategy & Products at H2O.ai. He is a best-selling author and co-author of books on healthcare & life sciences who focuses on demystifying complex technology topics, strategy, and digital transformation programs. His latest book is,  Demystifying AI for the Enterprise- a Playbook for Business Outcomes & Digital Transformation (2021).In this episode, Prashant takes us on a Data trip. He introduces us to Data Fidelity and explains the various attributes of data that may be relevant in a healthcare setting. He gives us a blueprint of how a healthcare enterprise may start planning their journey towards AI adoption.Prashant then answers interesting questions posed by the audience.You will not want to miss the companion video segment with him on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.You can connect to all the episodes of the You+AI Podcast and and the You+AI Vodcast via youplusai.com.

Our guest: Dr. Gidi SteinDr. Gidi Stein is the CEO & Co-Founder of MedAware, which utilizes AI-driven outlier detection technology to mitigate medication-related risks and evolving adverse drug events. He is an award-winning physician, researcher, technologist and an expert in medical informatics. Early in his career, he served as CTO and Chief Architect of several algorithm-rich startup companies in Israel.In this episode, Dr. Stein starts off by giving us a context of medical errors and patient safety. He then gives us eye opening examples of how unintentional but yet simple medical errors like an incorrectly prescribed drug, an overdose of a drug or a treatment pathway that doesn't match the profile of the patient being treated may have catastrophic consequences. The AI based patient safety platform that Medaware has built helps safeguard patients from these possibilities while not overburdening clinicians with irrelevant alerts during the course of care. Dr. Stein then answers interesting questions posed by the audience.You will not want to miss the companion video segment with him on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.You can connect to all the episodes of the You+AI Podcast and and the You+AI Vodcast via youplusai.com.

Our guest: David AponteDavid Aponte is a machine learning engineer, working in machine learning infrastructure and ML-Ops. With a background in molecular biology, education, and data science, he enjoys building solutions to support multidisciplinary domains. He also helps lead and organize the ML-Ops Community, a global community of ML-Ops practitioners dedicated to sharing and promoting best practices for machine learning in production.In this episode, David starts off by giving us a peek into his day-to-day as a machine learning engineer. He gives us an insider view of the drug discovery domain and how AI/ML is helping with real-life examples of the developments during the pandemic.David is passionate about the focus on data and emphasizes it as the fuel that drives the AI/ML engine - the more the better, the higher quality fuel there is, the better access that one gets will all result in the best outcomes.David then answers interesting questions posed by the audience.You will not want to miss the companion video segment with David on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.You can connect to all the episodes of the You+AI Podcast and and the You+AI Vodcast via youplusai.com.

Our guest: Vishnu RachakondaVishnu Rachakonda is a Machine Learning engineer at Tesseract Health, a 4Catalyzer company focused on retinal imaging. In this role, he builds machine learning models for clinical workflow augmentation and diagnostics in on-device and cloud use cases.  Outside of work, he is the operations lead for the ML-Ops Community, a 3500-person online hub of ML-Ops practitioners and enthusiasts, and co-hosts the ML-Ops Coffee Sessions podcast.In this episode, Vishnu starts off narrating his day to day as an ML engineer in a Healthcare startup. We then delve into what's going well for AI in Healthcare. The realist in Vishnu explains what's not going well with AI in Healthcare with emphasis on whether AI is helping to bridge the clinical gap in knowledge. The focus then shifts to novel geographies and how solutions to local healthcare problems would be best sourced locally from homegrown companies rather than come from big pharma or big tech. Given Vishnu's passionate engagement with ML-Ops, we discuss how this field and community is maturing.Vishnu then answers interesting questions posed by the audience.You will not want to miss the companion video segment with Vishnu Rachakonda on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.You can connect to all the episodes of the You+AI Podcast and and the You+AI Vodcast via youplusai.com.

Our guest: Reshma SureshReshma Suresh heads Operations at Qure.ai. She has over 8 years of experience in building and scaling product innovations in healthcare. She focuses on strategic operations and is passionate about new technologies and last mile healthcare delivery. With a background in engineering as well as management, she works closely with clients and the product specialists to convert products to meaningful solutions.She strongly believes that true impact can stem only from a patient-centric healthcare approach.In this episode, Reshma starts with the early days of Qure.ai and the foundational aspects that are vital. Then she leads us through the challenges the pandemic presented and how Qure.ai was able to pivot their solution towards screening for Covid-19.We then discuss ML-Ops that is critical to engineering delivery and Reshma shares examples on how important it is for the ML pipeline to support various solution needs i.e. speed, accuracy, reliability and reproducibility. This episode is the first to have questions from our audience and Reshma answers a variety of them.You will not want to miss the companion video segment with Reshma Suresh on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.You can connect to all the episodes of the You+AI Podcast and and the You+AI Vodcast via youplusai.com.

Our guest: Hicham Naim(@PharmInnove)Hicham Naim is the Global Head of Integrated & Personalized Care Program at Takeda, Digital Advisory Board. He is a Pharmacist by training, he has a Doctorate Degree in Pharmacy and an MBA. He has over 20 years hands-on experience in the healthcare industry from strategy to implementation. Hicham Naim goes by the motto -- Better Health for People, Brighter Future for the World.In this episode, Hicham demystifies what is Digital Therapeutics and gives us a taste of it's various flavors. He then elaborates on a structure that details the key attributes of digital health apps and solutions that would drive their widespread adoption. He puts himself in the shoes of a healthcare practitioner and echoes how digital therapeutics should integrate with the clinical workflows. You will not want to miss the companion video segment with Hicham Naim on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.You can connect to all the episodes of the You+AI Podcast and and the You+AI Vodcast via youplusai.com.

Our guest: Dr. Josh Case(@_JoshCase)Dr. Josh Case is a doctor and software developer from Brisbane, Australia. He is passionate about innovation, global health and very interestingly, teaching doctors to code. He sees huge opportunities for medics in the tech industry, and has made it his mission to empower other clinicians to embrace technology.In this podcast episode, he explains why his decision to leave full-time medicine to work at the intersection of healthcare and technology is a low risk, high rewards play. Dr. Case makes the case for why medics should have a keen appetite for technology and make use of the myriad opportunities that are opening up. He talks about his book "Code Blue" and how it is empowering a community of doctor coders. In true maker spirit, he then walks us through an example of a recent project that he is working on, shedding light on what it takes to do what he does. You will not want to miss the companion video segment with Dr. Josh Case on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.You can connect to all the episodes of the You+AI Podcast and and the You+AI Vodcast via youplusai.com

Our guests: Eva Poggio and Nikos GreenEva Poggio is one of the co-founders of RoX Health. She takes care of all company building topics and projects in the field of Neurodegenerative diseases. She is a certified Design Thinking coach from the reputed Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany.Nikos Green is a Senior Venture Architect at RoX Health. He is a Neuroscientist with a medical background who is passionately committed to fight Alzheimer’s disease. Before RoX, he worked for a digital health incubator and has done consultancy work in the  healthcare sector.In this podcast, Eva and Nikos dive into how RoX Health is helping startups developing digital health apps for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease based on digital biomarkers. They lead us through an exciting journey of what it takes to bring a digital health app into the healthcare ecosystem. There is much to learn and explore about what digital health holds in store.You will not want to miss the companion video segment with Nikos Green on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.You can connect to all the episodes of the You+AI Podcast and and the You+AI Vodcast via youplusai.com. 

Our guest: Dr. Chris Lovejoy(@ChrisLovejoy_)Dr. Chris Lovejoy is a medical doctor who has spent the last several years exploring data science. He has a master's degree in machine learning at UCL, and he currently works as a data scientist. He's been involved with several AI for healthcare projects, including a model to predict health deterioration, and a BMJ systematic review looking at the quality of AI studies.On his blog and YouTube channel, he shares his thoughts and experiences of applying machine learning to healthcare. Most recently, one of his fun coding projects where he created his own alternative to the YouTube algorithm for finding interesting videos went viral.In this episode, Dr. Lovejoy starts by delving into why he decided to code up his own YouTube videos recommendation algorithm. We then discuss the state of AI in medical research and explore what could be the gold standard of reporting results on the use of AI in medical studies. Chris explains how explainthispaper.com started and how is it going and shares his experiences in building a engaged community interested in Healthcare + AI.You will not want to miss the companion video segment with Dr. Chris Lovejoy on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.You can connect to all the episodes of the You+AI Podcast and and the You+AI Vodcast via youplusai.com. 

Our guest: Dr. Stefan Buttigieg(@stefanbuttigieg)Dr. Buttigieg is a specialist in Public Health Medicine with an avid interest in Clinical Informatics, Social Media and Digital Health. He currently lectures at the University of Malta Faculty of Health Sciences on the topics of Digital Health and Social Media in Healthcare. As the co-lead of the data management team of the Covid19 public health response team in Malta, his team built a Covid19 contact tracing digital health app in Malta which had a high adoption percentage.In this episode, Dr. Buttigieg shares the journey of how this app was built, the best practices that the team kept up with, the challenges - which were not just technical and the learnings that may be applicable to digital health apps in general.You will not want to miss the companion video segment with Dr. Stefan Buttigieg on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.You can connect to all the episodes of the You+AI Podcast and and the You+AI Vodcast via youplusai.com. 

Our guest: Dr. Sven Jungmann(@s_jungmann)Dr. Sven Jungmann is the Chief Medical Officer at FoundersLane, a corporate venture builder.  He is the co-author of the book Fightback Now  that released on Oct 01-2020.He sits on the advisory board of Wellster, a major German online prescription platform, advises healthcare start-ups globally and supports investors in their due diligence for new digital health investments.In this episode, Dr. Jungmann talks about writing a book in a pandemic, the connection between healthcare and climate change, what successful healthcare startups get right, what are the major impediments in building towards a digital health future and why all of this is so important now more than ever.You will not want to miss the companion video segment with Dr. Sven Jungmann on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.You can connect to all the episodes of the You+AI Podcast and and the You+AI Vodcast via youplusai.com.

Our guest: Soufiane Ajana(@Soufiane_Ajana)Dr. Soufiane Ajana is an epidemiologist at Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, based in Bordeaux, France. He did his PhD in Machine Learning in Public Health at Bordeaux University.In this episode, Dr. Ajana talks through what made him choose this path and how his work in machine learning is about predicting progression to advanced Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) from clinical, genetic and lifestyle factors.He is a laureate of the SPARK program, an initiative launched by the Stanford Faculty of Medicine, to start a deep-tech startup based on his research work to prevent the onset of a AMD, a blinding eye disease.You will not want to miss the companion video segment with Dr. Soufiane Ajana on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.You can connect to all the episodes of the You+AI Podcast and and the You+AI Vodcast via youplusai.com.

Our guest: Nilakash DasIn this episode, Nilakash Das delves into how he became a clinical data scientist, his work on using deep learning for Spirometry and offers a workable approach for students to break into AI for healthcare. Nilakash Das is a final year Ph.D. researcher in the field of clinical data science. His work lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and respiratory medicine. Recently, he was awarded the prestigious Young Scientist Scholarship by the European Respiratory Society.Currently, he works at the laboratory of respiratory medicine and thoracic surgery at KU Leuven, Belgium. He also collaborates extensively with Artiq, a spin-off company of their laboratory, in translating AI research into clinical practice.You will not want to miss the companion video segment with Nilakash Das on the You+AI Vodcast which is full of fun and candid moments.You can connect to all the episodes of the You+AI Podcast and and the You+AI Vodcast via youplusai.com.

Our guest: Dr. Revati MasilamaniIn this episode, Dr. Revati Masilamani demystifies immunity - what it is, what it is not, what are the types of it, can we get lifelong immunity to a pathogen, can immunity be measured, who are immuno-compromised people and so much more.Dr. Revati Masilamani is a researcher with a background in Immunology and Infectious Diseases. She did her PhD in Immunology from The Rockefeller University in New York City, USA. She then went on to do a Post Doctorate in Infectious Diseases.She currently works at the Center for Science Education at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, USA. She works there with a group of scientist-educators to create cutting edge biomedical science curriculum for high school and undergraduate programs.All the episodes of the You+AI Podcast are available at youplusai.com.

Our guest: Dr. Amitabh GautamDr. Amitabh Gautam is an accomplished organ transplant surgeon who has been serving as a faculty at the Boston University, USA from 2007.In this episode, Dr. Gautam traces the arc of organ transplantation from it's very beginnings to the present day algorithm adopted for kidney transplantation in the USA. Along the journey, he offers valuable insights into what all needs to be taken into consideration and how the changing conditions lead such a system to adapt and support more sub-groups of people than thought of previously.This podcast conversation may serve as a guide to know what challenges may come up once an algorithmic system is deployed for common use, the governance needed to be inclusive of all stakeholder inputs and the willingness to adapt and thrive.   You may check out all the previous podcast episodes at youplusai.com.

Our guest: Dr Sriniket Raghavan(@raghurants)Dr Sriniket Raghavan is a Specialist Senior Registrar at the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, India.In this episode, he lays out the various ways in which AI lends a helping hand in Cancer prevention and detection. Dr. Raghavan makes an important point that AI is a powerful tool but that it must be wielded by the right hands.You may check out all the episodes of the You+AI podcast at youplusai.com.

Our guest: Dr. Sandhya RamanathanDr Sandhya Ramanathan is a General Practitioner who practices in Auckland, New Zealand.Since the beginning of the Covid19 pandemic, she has been active on social media raising public awareness regarding the precautions that need to be taken to avoid Covid19. One of her many YouTube videos titled, “Home medical management plan for mild Covid-19” went viral and has been seen by millions of people who have appreciated her efforts to share these simple and practical tips.In this podcast episode, Dr Sandhya Ramanthan gives us a peek into the response in New Zealand, the practical tips that helped her family, friends and her patients, what led her to make videos, the feedback that she has been receiving and her insights on the way forward.You may follow Dr. Sandhya Ramanathan on her Twitter handle and connect on her Facebook page.Check out podcast episodes and more at youplusai.

Our guest: Dr Ron Daniels BEM(@SepsisUK)Dr. Ron Daniels is an NHS Consultant in Intensive Care, based in Birmingham, U.K. He’s also the Executive Director of the UK Sepsis Trust and sits on the Executive Board of the Global Sepsis Alliance.In this episode, Dr. Daniels discusses the long road to recovery for patients who come out of critical care. He lays out that #longcovid effects could be physical, cognitive, psychological and offers guidance on what should people look for and who should they reach out to when they need help.A charity that he founded, The UK Sepsis Trust @ https://sepsistrust.org/ is at the front-line of providing professional support to #Covid19 survivors and has teamed up with https://www.longcovid.org/ as well.