500 Amputations a Day. Meet Three Founders Fighting to Stop It.

If a foot wound isn't healing, the clock is already ticking. Every day in the United States alone, 500 people lose a limb to peripheral vascular disease - and 40% of them were never even diagnosed before the amputation. Jill Somerset spent over 20 years as a vascular ultrasound tech before a moment of curiosity altered the arc of her career: she put a probe on her own foot and what she discovered led to inventing a metric - Pedal Acceleration Time - that could objectively measure blood flow in ways the standard tests simply couldn't. Today, that discovery now has over 30 peer-reviewed papers behind it and a global following. But... there was a problem: to use it, you basically had to be Jill. Enter Abu Khalifa, an ICU doctor who kept seeing these patients arrive too late, and Adam Gold, a veteran medtech engineer already well into his third career life. Together, the three of them founded Moonrise Medical to automate Jill's expertise into a device anyone can use - with FDA clearance and commercialization on the horizon this year. This episode is a conversation about curiosity, complementary obsessions, and what happens when three people from completely different worlds find the same unmet need.Subscribe to First in Human: - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/first-in-human/id1842644737 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3C1xG5SxPei8m2lI63WSkd Visit Moonrise Medical online: https://moonrisemedical.com/Connect with Jill on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-sommerset-rvt-fsvu-68110010/Connect with Adam on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-gold-4b2394/Connect with Abu on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abubaker-khalifa-87171a107/