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Innovation4Alpha is a podcast dedicated to the intersection of finance, technology, leadership and healthcare innovation with the goal of both entertainment and education for our community.

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  1. Lessons Learned as a Surgeon & Fund Investor

    In this episode, Ryan Khanna, MD, MBA co-hosts a discussion with Robert Eastlack who runs a premier surgical spine practice in San Diego, CA and is a GP in a venture capital fund. Dr. Eastlack shares the background of how he got into angel and venture investing and offers some insights on how…

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  2. Petra Capital Properties

    Petra Capital Properties is a mission-based real estate investment management company dedicated to serving their clients with high quality real estate investment opportunities with a special emphasis on leveraging 1031 exchanges. They combine the experience of a seasoned investment team with the...

  3. Beam Wellness - Blanketing Red Light Therapy

    Beam Wellness was born out of the CEO's experience as a marketer in the cosmetic industry. It's now being incubated at Health Wildcatters in Dallas after launching within the SMU MBA and incubator programs. The company is leading with a blanket housing two variations of red light frequencies.…

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  4. Torque3: Advancing Stroke Rehabilitation w/ VR

    Torque3 is developing a neurorehabilitation solution that has shown in early testing to result in significantly better recovery outcomes. A wealth of research over the last 30 years has strongly indicated that stroke recovery can be significantly improved through immersive stimulation and robotic...

  5. Track, Hockey & Kids - Richard Lehman, MD (Orthopedic Surgeon )

    Richard Lehman, MD does not let moss grow under his feet. As you will hear in this episode, he is involved in the whole spectrum of sports, but has a special focus on track & field and hockey. He is also an author with a new book underway and a previous book: How to Raise an Athlete (available on...

  6. Pathkeeper: Next Generation Surgical Robot

    PathKeeper is an innovative robotic company founded in Israel. The company's disruptive, proprietary technology provides laser-like accuracy for spinal procedures. The unique technology tracks the surgical tools and vertebrae independently to guide accurate implant positioning for positive…

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  7. Startup Profile: Vitro BioPharma

    In this episode, we visit with Christopher Furmon who leads Vitro based in Colorado. Christopher doesn't come from a traditional biopharma track. Instead, he spent decades helping build the financial juggernaut Janus. Vitro Biopharma has a goal to become a leader in developing differentiated...

  8. HIPPO Health: Clinician Founded and Owned EMR for Care Teams (236)

    Hippo Health was founded by experienced emergency physicians who wanted to ease healthcare frustrations and make tele-health and excellent care coordination accessible to all. Hippo Health is now offering providers the ability to build out their own personalized care networks to improve the…

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  9. SomnoSeal: Enhancing the CPAP Experience & Compliance (235)

    Kimberly Hutchison, MD is a neurologist who specializes in Sleep Medicine. While there is expectation that someday the CPAP will be replaced as a sleep aid, it remains the Gold Standard. for now. Even though it's the best way to treat many patients, compliance remains a problem. To help with...

  10. Lung Technologies: A scrappy team addressing DVTs. (234)

    Kerry Curran brings a career in medical device technology to a nimble startup leveraging student engineering skill to design products addressing post surgical Pulmonary Atelectasis and Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT’s). While in it's early stages, this company is demonstrating how creative use of...

  11. NXgenPort: Advancing remote care of cancer patients requiring a port (233)

    NXgenPort (NGP), has designed an innovative and transformative technology to maximize remote care in cancer patients requiring an implantable chemo-port catheter. Combining proven chemo-port efficacy with microchip and sensor technology, NGP measures, monitors and reports physiological body...

  12. David Kay, MD: Orthopedic Surgeon and Prolific Entrepreneur (232)

    Dr. Kay is a Foot & Ankle surgeon based in Ohio. Like many physicians, he and his colleagues saw better ways to treat patients and began to take steps to implement these ideas. The result is a long history of innovation, learning and hard work which now results in not one, but three companies in...

  13. AllCore360: Innovative & Effective Core Rehab & Conditioning (231)

    AllCore360° exists to empower patients, athletes, seniors, and everyday people to train their core muscles for improved performance and recovery in a new, more efficient way. Scott Bertrund is the Founder and shares the story of the company and how it has evolved from a rehab focus to one that…

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  14. Pacific Echelon Security Services: Innovation & Hyper Growth in Physical Security (230)

    Alex Stone is the Founder/CEO of Pacific Echelon Security Services, one of the fastest growing security companies in the United States. The company is based on of Portland, ground zero in many ways, for the chaos that has erupted over the past few years. Combining both innovative community...

  15. Mark Cherney: Founder, US Urology Partners - The State of Private Equity (229)

    Mark Cherney is the Founder and Executive Chairman of both US Urology Partners and Prologics. This past year Mark transitioned from the CEO role into the Executive Chair role and in this brief discussion he introduces some of the headwinds ahead for both Private Equity & the medical practices…

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  16. Star Harbor: Accelerating innovation through space education, training and research (228)

    Maraia Tanner is the CEO of Star Harbor based in Lone Tree, Colorado. She shares insights into the mission of the organization and how its cross disciplinary work will accelerate innovation in everything from medicine to ag-tech etc. As an example of the cross disciplinary work ahead, the CU...

  17. Ai Medica: Turbo-charging EHRs for Better Outcomes & More (227)

    Ai Medica makes it easy to create clinical and economic value from EHR data using evidence based medicine. They have built a platform on SMART on FHIR interoperability standards that allows them to integrate evidence based calculators into the EHR in a matter of weeks. Their mission is to…

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  18. MRG Health: Chronic Care Management on a New Level (226)

    MRG address issues involving access to care, chronic disease management, patient adherence & compliance to doctors orders, and frees up clinicians time through leveraging technology so they can better monitor and manage larger amounts of patients more effectively and efficiently. Smart Care 360…

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  19. TearSolutions: Naturally Treating Dry Eye (225)

    TearSolutions' lead product, called Lacripep, delivers what no other approved or pipeline drug has been able to: rapid healing of the ocular surface and relief of dry eye symptoms with a best-in-class safety and comfort profile. This was all proven in their first-in-human clinical trial which has...

  20. Sage Medical: Bringing Intelligence to Medical Coding & Billing (224)

    With Sage’s AI Driven Medical Coding, Billing and Dictation, practitioners are eliminating the costly overhead of a medical coder while increasing productivity by 20%. The easy-to-use mobile app processes in real-time, eliminates coding & billing errors while increasing revenue by $250k+ ARR. The...

  21. Improving Emergency Dental Care: Dentriage (222)

    DenTriage is a comprehensive mobile and web-based platform that will provide a convenient way for patients to receive timely guidance and care for urgent and non-urgent dental issues using Tele-Dentistry. DenTriage enables consumers to have urgent questions answered, obtain a video consult with a...

  22. From Ukraine to Uganda - Project Cure Delivers Critical Medical Equipment and Supplies (223)

    Project Cure CEO Douglas Jackson, PhD shares the mission of Project Cure in a wide ranging discussion that illustrates the incredible supply chain expertise of Project Cure. Project C.U.R.E. was founded in 1987 to address the staggering shortage of medical resources around the world. Project...

  23. Clint McGill: Mental Toughness for Youth Athletes (221)

    Clint McGill is addressing one of the biggest challenge in youth sports - building mental toughness. As a former high level baseball player himself, Clint was like many parents involved with their kid's sports activities...but he decided to apply well proven mental toughness tips and tools to…

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  24. Neobe: Battling Cancer With Safe Bacteria (220)

    Neobe Therapeutics is an early-stage startup engineering safe recombinant bacterial products to enable immune infiltration in solid tumors. Their bacterial products combine innate tumor colonization with genetically engineered inducible biosensors to disrupt tumor microenvironment barriers to...

  25. Lazurite: The Medical Device Company Turning the OR Wireless (219)

    In a wide ranging discussion, with Lazurite Co-Founder/CEO Eugene Malinskiy, we learn more about the origins of the company, it's current status, and get a glimpse into where its headed. For Lazurite’s inaugural device, the necessity of safety served as the mother of invention. While observing a...

  26. Tommy Barletta: Governmental Affairs Advisor to Startups (218)

    Mr. Barletta is the founder of an advisory firm based in Washington DC called Jones Point. The firm possesses a unique combination of more than two decades of experience in Washington and deep Wall Street relationships. This differentiator allows Jones Point to successfully address the disconnect...

  27. ParaNano: Applying nano technology to wound care (216)

    ParaNano Wound Care (PWC) solves a global problem in treatment of infection in chronic wounds: detection, notification, and early intervention. Infection in chronic wounds currently drives $27 billion of cost into the U.S. health care system , and comprises 3% of health care costs in developed...

  28. DelNova: Addressing complications from Botox (217)

    DelNova, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on addressing unmet medical needs. DelNova is resolving complications arising from botulinum toxin therapies (eg. Botox®). The first product under development, ReViVox™ is based on a clinically validated drug currently approved for a different...

  29. CadexGenomics: Taking the Fight to Stage 4 Cancer (215)

    The Cadex Genomics mission and passion is to improve the lives of cancer patients. They have developed a novel, blood-based assays for patients with cancer. Over the past several years they have been working diligently to bring their first product to patients and the physicians who serve these...

  30. ScriptChain: Applying Artificial Intelligence to Chronic Heart Related Issues (214)

    ScriptChain is a digital health platform that sits on top of EHR systems and requests patient medical data from the EHR, runs through the platform's algorithms and identifies high risk patient for physicians seeing outpatients with actionable insights.

  31. Getting Why Right: Colorado Medical Society (213)

    Bryan Campbell leads the Colorado Medical Society and started of his mission going back to the fundamental question of why CMS exists. How can it best serve its physician members? Bryan comes to this role after having started his career in broadcasting and later moving into medical society...

  32. Fluo Labs: The Future of Allergy Relief (212)

    Fluo Labs, Inc. is a premarket clinical stage medical device company pursuing innovative technology to provide drug-free relief of nasal allergy (i.e. hay fever) symptoms. They are inventing a whole new way for sufferers of seasonal allergies to get symptom relief, and ultimately improve their...

  33. ConveyMed: The podcasting app for medical professionals (211)

    ConveyMED is an Ed Tech Marketplace and the first podcast platform designed specifically for Professional Education. Busy physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other professionals want the convenience of a mobile audio platform to complete their annual continuing education requirements but open...

  34. Triple Threat - Clinician, Researcher & Teacher: Ian Sarembock, MD (210)

    Ian Sarembock, MD - is a retired Coronary & Structural Interventionalist and was previously the Harold C. Schott Endowed Chair in Structural Heart at The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH. His work spanned Interventional Cardiology, Valve & Structural Heart, Cardiology, Clinical Research, and...

  35. John Pigott, MD FACS - Surgeon, Entrepreneur, Head of Innovation - Promedica (209)

    John P. Pigott, MD, FACS, currently serves as Chief Innovations Officer/Strategic Business Development for ProMedica and ProMedica Innovations, where he works with thought leaders from across the health system to turn ideas into results that generate a measurable impact in the areas of life…

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  36. David Yakobi, MD - Insights On Serving as a Physician Advisor to Startups (208)

    David Yakobi, MD is a Board Certified Cardiac Surgeon and specialist in Cardiology, Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine, Hemodynamics, and Physiology. Dr. Yakobi has vast experience in Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), Valvular disease, and Pediatric congenital heart disease. He also plays a key role...

  37. Saralyn Mark, MD - Human centered design on Earth and in Space (207)

    Saralyn Mark, MD, a world renowned leader in women’s health, is an endocrinologist, geriatrician and women’s health specialist. She was the first Senior Medical Advisor to the Office on Women’s Health within the Department of Health and Human Services. She designed the first women’s health...

  38. Michael Meighen, MD - Holistic medicine and life (206)

    Dr. Michael Meighen is a physician who is board certified in Physiatry and Pain Medicine. He is the author of #1 Best Selling Book "A New You: Using the Body's Regenerative and Restorative Healing Powers to Optimize Orthopedic, Hormonal, and Sexual Health Function". He is a specialist in...

  39. Jaffar Raza, MD - Opportunities, Cost Management and Technology (205)

    Jaffar Raza, MD is a board certified Interventional Cardiologist affiliated with Lenox Hill, Hackensack and Holy name hospitals. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at United Health Services Hospitals and his Geriatrics and Cardiovascular fellowship at East Carolina University. He...

  40. Doug Freedberg, MD - Orthopedic Surgeon & Sports Medicine (203)

    Doug Freedberg, MD is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon (with sports medicine subspecialty certification) specializing in knee and shoulder arthroscopy, ACL reconstruction, sports medicine, golf injuries, injuries to the throwing athlete as well as total knee arthroplasty. He followed his...

  41. Amir Baluch, MD - Physician Side Hustle & Bio Wise Fund I & II (201)

    Amir Baluch, MD, is an investor, serial entrepreneur, and fund manager at BioWise Capital. Dr. Baluch has ten years experience in private equity and securities with series 22 and 63, four years experience under a broker-dealer where he trained to evaluate opportunities, negotiate, mitigate risk,...

  42. David Finkel, Founder/CEO of Maui Mastermind (Part 1) (030)

    David Finkel is the Founder and CEO of Maui Mastermind®, one of the world’s premier business coaching companies with thousands of clients worldwide. He is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author of eleven books, including SCALE (co-authored with Priceline.com Co-founder Jeff Hoffman) and The...

  43. Transverse Medical (029)

    TMI is developing the POINT-GUARD, the first and only cerebral embolic protection device with dynamic Double-Edge Sealing. The seal adapts and conforms to complex arch anatomy by maintaining contact with the aorta, enabling maximum great arch vessel coverage, and directing debris-laden blood...

  44. Physician, Innovator & Advisor - Ramin Rafie, MD (028)

    Ramin Rafie, MD is an Internist trained in Geriatric, Hospice & Palliative Medicine. Dr. Rafie was born in Iran and grew up in Los Angeles, CA where he attended UCLA for his undergraduate degree, graduating with honors with a B.S. in Neuroscience. Dr. Ramin attended the University of California,...

  45. Matan Magril - Innovator, Investor and Guide (027)

    One of the most creative, insightful and articulate startup leaders in the industry, Matan Magril is always fascinating to talk with. At 22, he launched the full-scale event production and branding agency, Imperial Entertainment, which he successfully exited at 25 to join the founding team of...

  46. Clinician Innovator: Asheesh Gupta, MD (026)

    Dr. Gupta is very active working with innovative startups across medical device and digital health and serves as a Sr. Clinical Advisor with AngelMD and as a member of the AngelMD Clinical Advisory Board. He specializes in hip arthroscopy and sports medicine at the Nova Orthopedic & Spine Care...

  47. Will Walker of Hall Venture Partners (025)

    Hall Venture Partners is the venture fund sponsored by and investing alongside the Hall Family. The Halls are a 3rd generation family office that operates a massive incubation campus in Provo, UT called Hall Labs. Web site: www.hallvp.com Opportunity Zone talk: https://youtu.be/S8kqhrzn48Q 30...

  48. Startup Profile: Embrace Prevention Care (024)

    Embrace Prevention Care provides Personal Prevention Care to older adults with heart failure and other chronic conditions to help them take healthy actions that reduce preventable hospital stays. They partner with physicians to extend their reach into the home to help patients follow their...

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