54: Can you use AI to discover rare diseases? With Dr Peter Fish from Mendelian
15 Minutes With The Doctor: Learn from Healthcare Entrepreneurs and Innovators
English - September 06, 2023 17:07 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsScience Business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On this episode, Dr Peter Fish, the CEO of Mendelian joins the show. Their mission is to make it easier for clinicians to diagnose rare diseases. Their AI based platform can sift through medical records to discover more than 100 rare conditions. As a serial entrepreneur, he has built and invested in various tech companies, combining his medical background with his passion for the tech industry. Learn about his investment experience starting at the age of 18, why they created the product, how it works, their journey to development, and their ambitious plans for addressing rare diseases, which seem to be not as rare as we think.
On the show, you’ll find out:
Peter’s background and experience in molecular genetics
How he became a serial entrepreneur in South Africa at just 18
What Peter learnt from failures and success in entrepreneurship
How optimism and a can-do attitude are essential attributes for entrepreneurs
How Mendelian began life in California with a few software engineers and a clinician
How they decided to tackle the ‘diagnostic odyssey’ affecting those with rare diseases
How research into disease and genetics mean that rare diseases may become more prevalent in the future
How MendelScan is identifying patients with patterns of symptoms to provide better diagnosis and/or treatment
How all their algorithms use deep clinical data in their iterations
How their NHS pilots have allowed them to scan 700 000 patient files records so far
How their work earned them the NHS AI Award 2023
Guest: Dr Peter Fish
Website: https://www.mendelian.co/
Host: Dr Vinay Shankar
Website: https://www.oncedaily.co
On this episode, Dr Peter Fish, the CEO of Mendelian joins the show. Their mission is to make it easier for clinicians to diagnose rare diseases. Their AI based platform can sift through medical records to discover more than 100 rare conditions. As a serial entrepreneur, he has built and invested in various tech companies, combining his medical background with his passion for the tech industry. Learn about his investment experience starting at the age of 18, why they created the product, how it works, their journey to development, and their ambitious plans for addressing rare diseases, which seem to be not as rare as we think.
On the show, you’ll find out:
Peter’s background and experience in molecular genetics
How he became a serial entrepreneur in South Africa at just 18
What Peter learnt from failures and success in entrepreneurship
How optimism and a can-do attitude are essential attributes for entrepreneurs
How Mendelian began life in California with a few software engineers and a clinician
How they decided to tackle the ‘diagnostic odyssey’ affecting those with rare diseases
How research into disease and genetics mean that rare diseases may become more prevalent in the future
How MendelScan is identifying patients with patterns of symptoms to provide better diagnosis and/or treatment
How all their algorithms use deep clinical data in their iterations
How their NHS pilots have allowed them to scan 700 000 patient files records so far
How their work earned them the NHS AI Award 2023
Guest: Dr Peter Fish
Website: https://www.mendelian.co/
Host: Dr Vinay Shankar
Website: https://www.oncedaily.co