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423. Scalable Surgery: Predictability, Efficiency and the ASC Opportunity with Jeffery Alvarez of Moon Surgical

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422. Remote Surgery and the New Infrastructure of Healthcare with Brian Miller of SOVATO

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421. Career: Omar M. Khateeb on building a career in medtech, the state of venture capital and more

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420.Surgical Robotics: Expanding Global Access Through Telesurgery with Sudhir Srivastava, MD of SS Innovations

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419.MedTech Venture Growth: Becoming Magnetic to Capital, Clinicians and Talent

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418. Venture Capital: Jenny Barba and Jeff Chu of Features Capital

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417. Unlocking Capital for Medtech Through QSBS

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416. Venture Capital: Aneta Sottil of Andera Partners on Building MedTech Companies Investors Can Scale

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415. Urology Venture Capital: AUA Nexus with Gavin Leonard of MedTech Syndicates and Steven Kaplan MD of the American Urological Association

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414. Corporate Venture:Virginia Giddings of Edwards Lifesciences on the MedTech Innovation Journey

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413. Cardiovascular Innovation at Scale: David Hochman of Orchestra BioMed on Medtronic, AVM Therapy and Strategic Partnerships

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412.This Month in MedTech: Physical AI, Strategic M&A and the Evolution of Intelligent Medical Devices

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411. Venture: Eric S. Heinz of Heinz Ventures

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410. Physical AI Could Make MedTech the Next Big AI Opportunity

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409. How NVIDIA Is Building the Virtual Training Ground for Medical Robots with David Niewolny

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408. Travis Kalanick’s Lessons on Fundraising, Scale and Resilience for MedTech Founders

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407. The Sleep Apnea Treatment Renaissance: Amir Reuveny, CEO of Wesper, on Reinventing Diagnosis

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406.Why Most MedTech Investor Decks Fail and What Actually Persuades

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405. Venture: Neurotech’s Next Billion-Dollar Breakthrough with Amy Kruse of Satori Capital

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404.Peter Thiel's Company Building Framework Every MedTech Founder Should Master

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403.How Mike Minogue Built Abiomed Into a $17B MedTech Unicorn and Now Wants to be Massachusetts' Next Governor

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402. Market Engineering and the Science Behind MedTech Category Leadership

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401. NeuroTech Investing Is Entering the Human 3.0 Era with Brom Rector and Samantha Rector of XEIA Venture Partners

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400. Venture: Reacting to H1 2026 with Henry Peck of LSI and Jon Norris of HSBC Innovation Banking

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399. Why MedTech Needs a Bubble to Create the Next Trillion Dollar Industry

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398. Physical AI: The AI Platform That Could Transform Open Surgery with Peter Verrillo, CEO of Redefine Surgery

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397.Category Design 101: Why Category Strategy Beats Product Strategy

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396. AI Strategy: The Invisible Shift Every CEO Must Understand with Harry Glorikian of Scientia Ventures

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395.This Month in MedTech: Medtronic's Double Bet, a New Heart Valve Market & $92M for Male Birth Control

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394.How AI Powered Implants Need a New Energy Platform with Omari Bouknight of Resonant Link Medical

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393.Why Most MedTech Startups Lose After Finding Product Market Fit and Never Build Durable Market Power

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392. Improving Breast Surgery Outcomes Through a Prehabilitation Platform with Saahil Mehta of Plexāā

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391. Why Early Adopters Are a Risk for Medtech Startups Scaling to Mainstream Market

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390. Neuromod: How non-invasive ultrasound neuromodulation could change autoimmune disease treatment with Nishant Doctor of Surf Therapeutics

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389.Should You Quit Your Job for a Startup? The Psychology of Startups vs Corporations Through the Barbarians to Bureaucrats Framework

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388.Market Engineering with Bruce Cleveland of Traction Gap Partners

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387. This Month in MedTech: Q1 Earnings, M&A Momentum, and the Rise of Focused Strategics

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386.Matt Curl of Apollo.io on Why Modern Go To Market Is Becoming the Biggest Competitive Advantage in Business

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385. How to manage your board using the Elephant Slide

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384: Venture: Virginia Giddings of Edwards Lifesciences & Deborah Kilpatrick of Sonder Capital

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383. Founder Mode Was Always Barbarian Energy: Hardball Leadership and Market Conquest

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382.Cardiology's Blind Spot: Why Cardiac Intelligence Platforms Are Redefining Early Detection with Chris Darland, Peerbridge Health

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381.Chamath Was Right: Attention Is the Operating System of AI, Media, and Markets

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380. Urology: MRI-native robotic platform for prostate cancer with Fazila Seker, CEO of Insight Medbotics

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379. This Month in MedTech 2026: Cardiovascular M&A, Medtronic’s $100M Bet, and the Platform Wars

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378. TechMed: Autonomous Surgery Leadership with Nick Damiano of Andromeda Surgical

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377. Exits: 7 Lessons from $17B in Medtech Exits That Every Founder Must Know

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376. Venture: Dennis McWilliams of Santé Ventures

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375. Crossing the Chasm and The Technology Adoption Curve for Medtech Founders

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374. Venture: What MVM Partners Really Wants in a MedTech Company with Kyle Dempsey

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373.How Market Engineering Gets Medtech Startups Funded

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372. Corporate Venture: Hikma Pharma's VP Corporate Development & Ventures Lana Ghanem on Investing in Medtech

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371.Digital Surgery with George Murgatroyd GM & VP of Medtronic on Digitizing the Operating Room

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370.MD&M 2026 Keynote: Are we innovating or iterating? $6.1B worth of advice from Ray Cohen and Tom West moderated by Omar M. Khateeb

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369. This Month in MedTech: What Q1 2026 Reveals About Where the Market Is Going

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368. Trump MRI and the Truth About Longevity Scans with Sean O'Mara MD JD and Daniel J. Durand MD

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367.The Book of Elon: Exploring Elon Musk’s Most Useful Ideas with Author Eric Jorgenson

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366. Listening: How to Listen Better and Master the Subtle Art of Shutting Up

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365. Strategics: How Olympus Innovation Ventures Is Building the Future of MedTech Innovation with Abigail Hunter-Syed

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364.Leadership: INSIGHTEC CCO Jake Ghannam On Scaling a Breakthrough Neurosurgery Company

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363.Longevity: How Prenuvo Is Pioneering Whole Body Scans for Longevity with CMO Daniel J. Durand MD

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362.US Surgical: Joe DeVivo on Leon Hirsch's The Ten Techniques and How It Built an Empire

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361.US Surgical Chuck Vivian Inside the Most Intense Sales Culture in Medical Device

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360. US Surgical: Tony Recupero and the Sales Training that Built a Billion Dollar Empire

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359.US Surgical: VP of R&D Kurt Azarbarzin on Scaling Product and Innovation of a Billion Dollar Empire

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358.Surgical: Christian Babini on Mentorship, Culture First Leadership, and Billion Dollar Execution

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357.US Surgical: Jose R. Aguirrechu on Sales Culture and Building a $550M Division

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356.US Surgical: Lee Cohen Sr Director of Laparoscopy on Launching Endoclip, Trocars, and the Laparoscopic Gold Rush

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355.US Surgical: The History of Leon Hirsch and Medtech's Most Infamous Company

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354.Cardiology: iRhythm CEO Quentin Blackford on Scaling proactive & predictive care with AI in cardiology

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353.Venture: Diego Serrano Cabrera On Venture, Writing and How to Build a Profitable Medtech Company

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352. Med Reps: Exposing corruption in the vendor credentialing system in medical device sales with Dr. Brian Blackwood

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351.Elon Musk on Robot Surgeons: Why AI Could Redefine Surgery and the Future of Medical Care.

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350. LSI Keynote: Masimo Founder Joe Kiani on beating Apple and lessons learned on the path to building a billion dollar company

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349: Microbiome: How AI Predicts Disease and Personalizes Your Diet with Leo Grady of Jona

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348:Gut Health's New Frontier: Scott Hickle on Throne's Smart Toilet

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347: This Month in Medtech Dec 2025: Single-Use Robot Breakthrough, Freenome's $330M SPAC, and Edwards' Strategic Move.

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346:The 2026 MedTech Exit Playbook: How Spin-Outs Like DePuy Synthes Are Changing M&A Forever.

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345. Marketing: Eko Health’s Director of Enterprise Marketing Grace Hanson

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344. Cardiology: Reinventing the EKG: A Conversation with Crimson Scientific Founders Dr. Michael Cetta & Mark Zachary.

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343. Marketing: Showpad's Moon Kang on AI, Revenue & The Full Funnel

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342. Cardiology: CathWorks CEO Ramin Mousavi on AI, Physiology & the Future of Coronary Care

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341. Venture: Medtech’s New Era: Big Tech, AI & Diagnostics with Venture Capital Investor Garheng Kong.

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340.Cybersecurity: What Founders Must Fix Early with Christian Espinosa.

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339.This Month in Medtech: $21B Deals, Cardiovascular Boom & AI Surges

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338. Strategics: How Siemens Invests in Medtech with Komeil Nasrollahi, Sr. Director of Innovation & Venture Partnerships at Siemens Healthineers

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337. Biz Dev: Inside the Mind of a MedTech Buyer: A Conversation with Brent Lavin⁠ of BD.

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336. Vascular: New Endovascular Aneurysm Repair (EVAR) Approach for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms with Dr. Anahita Dua

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335. Career: Doug Boyd , SVP & GM at Imperative Care

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334.How Your Microbiome Controls Your Health with Leo Grady, Founder and CEO of Jona

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333. Longevity: How Visceral Belly Fat Reveals How Long You'll Live with Dr. Sean O'Mara

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332. Spine: Robert Isaacs, M.D of TrackX Explains Why Real-Time Instrument Tracking is Needed in Spine Surgery

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331. This Month in Medtech: Boston Sci’s new billion dollar venture, J&J’s ortho spinout plus LSI's Compass Reveals Q4 Hot 25

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330. Presidents Club with Medical Sales Rep Gina Torres

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326. Neuro: World’s first and only drug delivery system to bypass the blood-brain barrier for direct, targeted treatment with Dr. Chad Gordon

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329. Ortho: Fixing God's Worst Invention: A Surgeon's Quest to Heal Shoulders

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328. Cardio: How AI & Deep Tech Are Transforming Cardiac Care with Eman Namati CEO at SpectraWAVE

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327. Derm: Why Every Soldier's Backpack Needs Omega Sheets with Joseph Connell CEO of NeuEsse Inc.

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Neurotech: How Graphene Is Redefining Brain-Computer Interfaces (with Carolina Aguilar)

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324. Sales: Using AI to Close More Deals in MedTech with Omar Khateeb & Showpad's Chris Kosrow

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