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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 quantitative analytics of a proprietary real estate technology platform.  The result is optimized portfolio construction with risk adjusted returns.  In this 30-minute episode, Tobin Arthur talks...

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. They are appealing to spas and others who know the benefits of red light therapy and want to apply the same technology to a full body experience. Pre-orders are underway with a commercial launch coming...

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 assistance.  The Torque3 system leverages this research with an approach of uncompromising design and implementation combining a robotic chair and virtual reality. In this episode, Founder/CEO ...

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 clinical outcomes. In this episode we visit with Erez Lampert the Founder of Pathkeeper and Ryan LeBlac who heads up their US Operations. Learn how this device reduces radiation exposure in patients an...

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 Amazon). Dr. Lehman grew up in Miami, Florida. He completed his training at Washington University and the University of Pennsylvania, and completed a sports medicine fellowship in 1986. He was a ...

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 product candidates in a rapid and efficient manner for the immunology and inflammatory market; and ultimately, to address well-established multi-billion-dollar commercial markets. The team has over 30 ...

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 modern day care experience for patients and providers. Founder, Kevin McGarvey, MD shares some of the latest updates on this rapidly growing tele-health platform including the recent addition of a seaso...

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 compliance, Dr. Hutchison has developed the SomnoSeal to provide a better fit for CPAP machines. Learn more about this product and about an entrepreneurial physician working to provide better outcomes fo...

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 student skill and ingenuity, combined with a strong clinician feedback loop, can lead to useful innovation.

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 functions in vivo over the course of disease and treatment. In this episode,  Founder and CEO Kathy Skinner shares the details of how this port advances care for a very important patient population and h...

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 the pipeline. In this introductory discussion, you'll get a glimpse into Dr. Kay's formula, which includes getting some of the best specialized expertise in a given field involved in the venture. Int...

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 also includes rotational sports training and all-around health. The AllCore360 website lists locations across the country where you can find and experience this unique equipment. Physicians, Physical ...

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 integration and cutting edge technology, Echelon is able to secure commercial properties with results that blow the competition away. Their solutions are appropriate for everything from multi-tenant hous...

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 that have been part of PE roll-ups.

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 Anschutz School of Medicine even has a space oriented medicine program described as follows: The University of Colorado Space and Extreme Environment Medicine Program is an interdisciplinary collaborati...

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 simplify evidence based clinical work flows using EHR data to drive better application of evidence to care for patients, decreased effort and burnout for physicians, and better integration, reporting and ...

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 is a complete and comprehensive care management platform that allows physicians and caregivers to manage the full continuum of care. By continuous monitoring of a patient’s vitals, nutrition, medicat...

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 led to formal written FDA alignment on our clinical and regulatory path to an unrestricted general Dry Eye indication (which is the same path a dry eye drug called Xiidra took, which sold to Novarti...

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 company is raising a Seed investment round and their story can be heard here: Online audio pitch deck: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fv4q02s642zpn8u/Sage%20Medical%20-%2003%3A2022%20Pitch.mp4?dl=0 

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 dentist, search for nearby dentists, and make appointments with ease.  DenTriage is working to improve ease of access to dental care and as a result, a reduction of no shows and unfilled appointmen...

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 C.U.R.E. has become the world’s largest distributor of donated medical supplies, equipment and services to doctors and nurses serving the sick and dying in more than 135 countries. Each week Project C....

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 help his kids and others. The result is the Bulletproof Hitter Educational Program and Baseball Notes. In this discussion, Clint shares his experience launching an educational programming business and ...

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 infiltration. By enabling successful infiltration of immune excluded tumors using our bacterial products they will be able to multiply the number of patients that respond to existing immunotherapies, wi...

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 surgery in 2015, CEO and Cofounder Eugene Malinskiy watched helplessly as a physician’s assistant tripped and fell over cables connected to the surgical tower. The accident drew Eugene’s attention t...

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 between companies seeking to navigate the regulatory landscape, the Washington lobbying community and investors seeking deeper political insights.

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 medical use and route of administration. The novel formulation will manage undesirable side effects resulting from neurotoxin injections in both medical and cosmetic applications. 

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 countries, globally. PWC was founded in 2018 with the goal to develop and commercialize a truly smart wound care product that would detect and treat infection in a wound. Through market research and cu...

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 patients. They are currently developing a new product called Alibrex, which is a blood-based assay that allows physicians to detect, in real-time, if the disease of their stage IV cancer patients is pr...

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. 

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 leadership. Now emerging from the pandemic lockdowns, and still addressing clinician burnout and stress, Bryan is leading a number of new initiatives to serve and expand CMS, setting an example for societi...

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 quality of life. The Fluo device is designed to use light therapy to reduce inflammation and temporarily alleviate allergy symptoms as a completely drug-free alternative to common allergy medications.

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 platforms like Apple Podcasts and Spotify cannot fulfill this purpose. The Convey mission is to elevate podcasting as an educational medium for professional learners, and our goal is to be the premiere...

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 Medical Education. He earned his Doctor of Medicine (MD) focused in Cardiovascular Science from University of Cape Town.

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 science technologies, patient outcomes, and new revenue streams. He is also a member of ProMedica’s executive strategy team. Dr. Pigott has designed, developed and implemented recognized and award-winning...

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 as a medical consultant to major startup companies in the healthcare industry with particular emphasis on medical devices and digital-health. 

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 as a medical consultant to major startup companies in the healthcare industry with particular emphasis on medical devices and digital-health. 

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 fellowship in the US, helped create the National Centers of Leadership in Academic Medicine, the National Centers of Excellence in Women’s Health, and landmark educational campaigns on critical health issu...

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 musculoskeletal and health transformation as well as longevity and restorative medicine. His practice and approach to medicine is both proactive and practical with the goal of helping patients optimize healt...

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 completed his fellowship in Interventional Cardiology and Peripheral Intervention at Lenox Hill Hospital. Dr. Raza’s interests include complex coronary interventions, radial access, peripheral intervent...

David Finkel Founder/CEO of Maui Mastermind - (Part 3) (204)

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 orthopedic residency at the Hospital for Special Surgery in NY, the #1 ranked orthopedic program in the country, with a sports medicine fellowship with world renowned Dr. James Andrews. He is a team orth...

David Finkel Founder/CEO of Maui Mastermind - (Part 2) (202)

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, and underwrite. He is also an internationally best-selling author of the wealth management and investment book “Make It, Keep It – New Age Wealth Strategies for Physicians” and a regular contributor...

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 Freedom Formula: How to Succeed in Business Without Sacrificing Your Family, Health, or Life.  David’s syndicated business articles can be seen on Inc.com, Fastcompany.com, and Forbes.com and have garn...

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 through the filter. Thus, safeguarding the brain to provide complete embolic protection for addressing the unmet clinical need to keep debris out of the cerebral arteries and protect all territories of t...

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, Irvine - School of Medicine and now practices in the Detroit, MI area. He is an active startup advisor and member of the AngelMD Sr. Clinical Advisory Team.

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 Advocacy Asia, China’s first word-of-mouth platform. Matan is the Founder of FoodieTrip, the NYC-based marketing spearheads peer-to-peer marketplace that connects travelers to local food guides for aut...

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 division of The Centers in Woodbridge, Virginia. Dr. Gupta has gained hands-on experience in the sports medicine field through his fellowship with New York University Hospital for Joint Disease and his...

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 second video overview: https://vimeo.com/596778849/07635d0bfd

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 prevention plans and drug regimens to achieve the goals that matter most to the patient while reducing the cost of care. Embrace is  the first to combine the tele-health care of local nurse practitioners w...