The Heart of Innovation with Kym McNicholas

Shocking Conversations Between Patients and Doctors

Description: What patients say and what doctors hear is often very different. That's often the case with what doctors say and patients hear as well. But sometimes those conversations are well understood by both the patient and the physician, and may leave either one or both, speechless. During this episode, patients share stories about conversations with their doctor that have left them speechless. Hosts Kym McNicholas and Interventional Cardiologist Dr. John Phillips are joined by Dr. Kirk ...

How Vascular Disease Can Impact Sex... and What to do About It

Description: If you have been diagnosed with a form of vascular disease such as Heart Disease, plaque build-up that has the potential to restrict blood flow in the coronary arteries or Peripheral Artery Disease, which impacts the leg arteries then it is likely you have plaque build-up in other vessels in the body, especially small vessels including those that feed the prostate. In this episode, hosts Kym McNicholas and Dr. John Phillips are joined by Board Certified Vascular and Intervention...

Fibroids As An indicator of Cardiovascular Risk, and New Treatment Options

Description: It might be odd to think that on a show about vascular health, hosts Kym McNicholas and Dr. John Phillips are talking about fibroids, which are noncancerous growths in a woman's uterus. There is a vascular connection. First, studies show that cardiovascular risk factors were slightly more common for women with fibroids than for women without fibroids. Fibroids have been associated with hypertension and atherosclerosis, and some recommend using fibroids as a marker for future car...

How To Avoid Common Foot Problems in the Summer

In the summer, your feet are exposed to the elements more often which is especially concerning for those with diabetes, neuropathy, and Peripheral Artery Disease (P.A.D.), which is poor circulation due to plaque build-up in the arteries. Podiatrist Dr. David Alper joins hosts Kym McNicholas and Dr. John Phillips to talk about how to prevent common foot problems and complications. An important part of today’s discussion was about how lack of circulation can put patients at-risk of more seve...

Cutting-Edge Cardiovascular Bloodwork

Are your arteries on fire? Are there hidden (or obvious) correctable risk factors that are fueling the fire? In most cases specialized blood testing, along with a careful evaluation by a knowledgeable healthcare provider, can uncover multiple addressable areas that can reduce your risk of ongoing artery damage. On this week's The Heart of Innovation, hosts Kym McNicholas and Dr. John Phillips are joined by Dr. Michael Dansinger, Medical Director at heart-health company Boston Heart Diagnos...

Why Veins Dont Have Fun In The Summer Sun

Quote of the Day: “You have the power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” ~ Marcus Aurelius Why do my veins seem bigger in the summer? That question leads Emmy Award-winning Journalist Kym McNicholas into an in-depth discussion with co-host Interventional Cardiologist Dr. John Phillips, Hill Vascular's Vascular Surgeon Dr. Bradley hill, and world-renowned vein expert from London, Dr. Mark Whitely, about varicose veins, chronic venous insufficienc...

How Fun in the Sun Can Impact Vascular Health

While most vascular events seem to happen in winter versus summer, fun in the sun can impact your vascular health, increasing your morbidity and mortality. So, during episode five of The Heart of Innovation, co-hosts Emmy Award-winning Journalist Kym McNicholas and Interventional Cardiologist Dr. John Phillips are joined by Interventional Cardiologist Dr. George Adams, Director of Cardiovascular & Peripheral Research at Rex Hospital in North Carolina, to talk about who is most at-risk of wea...

How Doctors Stay on The Cutting-Edge

Why is it that some doctors are on the cutting-edge with new treatments while others still use the tools and techniques they learned from medical school despite advancements in medicine?  That’s the topic Emmy Award-winning Co-host Kym McNicholas and Interventional Cardiologist Dr. John Phillips are tackling in this week’s The Heart of Innovation show. Kym is LIVE from Italy on the heels of CLI-C, one of the most prestigious conferences in the world for treating blocked arteries in the legs,...

The Life and Limb Saving CHAT You Must Have with Your Doctor

C.H.A.T. is an acronym for Carotids, Heart, Abdomen, and Toes. In this show, Hosts Kym McNicholas and Dr. John Phillips, along with guest co-host Nurse Practitioner Kay Smith drive home the importance of urging your doctor to perform a full head-to-toe vascular assessment during each annual exam, especially if you have high-risk factors such as family history, diabetes, autoimmune disease, celiac disease, obesity, former/current smoker, and more. What do we mean by C.H.A.T.: C, Carotids....

Silent Epidemic Needlessly Costing Life and Limb

Everyone knows of the condition Cardiovascular Disease, also known as Heart Disease, which is plaque build-up in the arteries around the heart. In the legs, plaque build-up in the arteries is known as Peripheral Artery Disease (P.A.D.). It can also impact the arms and sometimes the small arteries in the brain. But it's mainly the legs. Three-in-five heart attack sufferers, one-five over age 60, and one-three diabetics over age 50 have it. Globally, it is estimated that over 200 million pe...

Driving Factors for Change in Healthcare

What is The Heart of Innovation? This first episode, Co-Hosts Emmy Award-winning Journalist/Patient Navigator Kym McNicholas and Interventional Cardiologist Dr. John Phillips talks about the catalysts for creating change in healthcare through this radio show/podcast. We specifically address vascular diseases with Heart Disease remaining the #1 killer and the many associated ailments contributing to vascular complications, whether diabetes, autoimmune disorders, COVID-19, Peripheral Arter...

Calling All Innovators: Dole's New Sunshine Fund Aims to Bear New Fruit

Covid 19 has shed light on the incredible inequities when it comes to access to nutritious foods.   Food insecurity is a big factor when it comes to nutritional deficiencies that leave our bodies vulnerable to viruses and chronic illness – whether it’s covid, diabetes, heart disease, or peripheral artery disease. You can’t stay healthy without nutrition and you can’t heal without nutrition. Therefore, it’s a vicious cycle that needs to be broken. But Dole Asia Holdings and its subsidia...

New Option for No-Option Vascular Patients

A 45-year-old woman recently shared her story with me after finding our patient advocacy nonprofit The Way To My Heart and wishing she had found it sooner because we may have helped her save not just one leg but both. Two months after being diagnosed with Peripheral Artery Disease, a narrowing of mainly the leg arteries due to plaque build-up, her hospital vascular specialist told her that the vessels below her knee were severely compromised and too small to treat. He told her to walk until...

New Technology Designed To Make 'Stents' Obsolete

Treatment for vascular blockages is getting a much needed innovation makeover. Alucent is first tackling one of the most debilitating diseases – peripheral artery disease, plaque build-up in mainly the legs that narrows blood flow causing excruciating pain. They’re focus is making the well-known ‘stent,' currently used to maintain diseased arteries and veins open, obsolete. The stent is a foreign object that when placed in the body can trigger an inflammatory response leading to more build-u...

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Extreme Tech Challenge Top Ten - January 5, 2018

Extreme Tech Challenge Top Ten - January 5, 2018 by Kym McNicholas On Innovation

The Most Innovative Practical Gifts For Car Owners - December 15th, 2017

The Most Innovative Practical Gifts For Car Owners - December 15th, 2017 by Kym McNicholas On Innovation

The Most Innovative Beverages of the Holiday Season - December 8th, 2017

The Most Innovative Beverages of the Holiday Season - December 8th, 2017 by Kym McNicholas On Innovation Summary: Claude Blankiet was a pioneer in stone washing denim and is now applying the same innovative thinking to wine making. While visiting New York from France, he noticed very traditional styles and a lack of ingenuity in fashion. He moved there in the 1970’s to continue his work in the jean business, eventually creating a technique of washing denim in pumice stones to create worn...

Top B2B Startups To Watch In 2018 - December 1st, 2017

Top B2B Startups To Watch In 2018 - December 1st, 2017 by Kym McNicholas on Innovation

Legendary Sports Agent Leigh Steinberg on Game Changing Sports Innovation - November 17th, 2017

Legendary Sports Agent Leigh Steinberg on Game Changing Sports Innovation - November 17th, 2017 by Kym McNicholas On Innovation

The Creative Sprint To Spark Your Next Billion Dollar Idea - September 29th, 2017

The Creative Sprint To Spark Your Next Billion Dollar Idea - September 29th, 2017 by Kym McNicholas On Innovation

Goodbye Websites, Hello Chatbots - September 22nd, 2017

Goodbye Websites, Hello Chatbots - September 22nd, 2017 by Kym McNicholas On Innovation

Startups - How To Break Out Without Breaking The Law - September 8th, 2017

Startups - How To Break Out Without Breaking The Law - September 8th, 2017 by Kym McNicholas On Innovation

How To Fill 1.8 Million Cybersecurity Jobs in 24 Hours - September 1st, 2017

How To Fill 1.8 Million Cybersecurity Jobs in 24 Hours - September 1st, 2017 by Kym McNicholas On Innovation

Relay Ventures; Fundamentals of Raising Venture Capital - August 25, 2017

Relay Ventures; Fundamentals of Raising Venture Capital - August 25, 2017 by Kym McNicholas On Innovation

How To Get Your Innovation Noticed By Samsung - August 18, 2017

How To Get Your Innovation Noticed By Samsung - August 18, 2017 by Kym McNicholas On Innovation

Innovating With A Purpose, Phil McKinney - August 11, 2017

“Innovating with a purpose,” is something you might hear often. What does that really mean? Phil McKinney and Kym McNicholas touch on the upcoming technologies the cable industry and specifically CableLab are stirring up for the future -- for the better. CableLabs is the research and development arm for the cable industry. The role that broadband now plays in the world is truly remarkable. The question is -- how can they get broadband to those who don’t have it. It’s not longer a “nice-to-hav...

Kym McNicholas On Innovation - Aug 4, 2017

Kym McNicholas On Innovation - Aug 4, 2017 by Kym McNicholas On Innovation

What IS the Blockchain? What you need to know. - July 28, 2017

What is the blockchain according to Bill Tai? The internet. The blockchain is the same thing but with assets. It can aggregate history into groups of information with communities of interests surrounding it. CEO of ABRA, Bill Barydt. ABRA has recently partnered with the extremely well known American Express. ABRA is a digital currency wallet for IOS and Android. It allows you to store digital dollars on your smartphone with no bank involved. It is the only application that interoperates betwe...

Alan Amron, the inventor of the Sticky Note, answers questions from entrepreneurs! - July 21, 2017

Today on KDOW was Alan Amron, inventor of Post-it Notes. Alan’s piece of advice? Simplify to understand. Secondly, don’t protect your product. Patent and communicate. Get the word out and don’t be afraid of idea stealing thieves. If you have the patent, you have the power. Alan took a number of callers from different companies in the Extreme Tech Challenge. First was Chris Trifecta from Tactical and fourth was Miro Svetlik from PrintRod. How do they educate the market quick enough to make it ...

Got Millennials? What You Need To Know To Get Them As Customers - July 14, 2017

Next Gen Innovation reporter Gabby, also a student at the University of Southern California told KDOW what entrepreneurs need to know about millennials today, and what is going to catch their attention. What are some things entrepreneurs need to know about millennials? Stop calling them millennials! The word is not only outdated but it carries negative connotations of narcissism. Secondly, they aren’t looking for you so you have to reach out to them. When creating a technology for millennials...

Want To Learn How To Pitch and Grow? Find out with Sandeep Johri - July 14, 2017

Today on KDOW we had Sandeep Johri, CEO of Tricentis with 25 years of enterprise software experience. When a company writes the code for a piece of software it must be tested to make sure it works and that can be timely and costly. Tricentis software testing technology speeds up the process and reduces the cost for their customers like HBO, Toyota, Starbucks, BMW, Deutsche Bank, and even UBS. Tricentis is truly targeted at larger enterprises that have every technology imaginable-- old and new...

Solutions To The "Creeps" Of Silicon Valley - July 7, 2017

It started with a handful of women who called out Binary Capital co-founder Justin Caldbeck for what they call inappropriate behavior, making unwarranted advances towards women who approached him for funding. He and his business partners at Binary Capital have offered to resign. Then 500 Startups co-founder Dave McClure was called out for alleged inappropriate behavior. And in a public apology, said he is a self-proclaimed "creep'. This has caused a long overdue stir in Silicon Valley. But th...

New Laser's "Unheard of" FDA Study Results - June 30, 2017 - Pt 2

Doctor Raghotham Patlola says he's never seen a medical device in the field of cardiology with the track record of Ra Medical System's DABRA Laser System. After presenting at an industry conference in Florida, he reminisced with the inventor of the excimer laser, which is used to unclog arteries using the power of light, about his early skepticism. With an unbelievable trial success rate of 95%, Dr. Patlola has now identified the patients that will benefit from this procedure. The idea of a p...

New Social Network Creates Transparency For Doctors - June 30, 2017 - Pt 1

ResultCare is a social network and search engine for doctors. Physicians bring their opinion to the platform on a specific scientific topic. Say there’s a cardiologist with 15 years of practice behind them who is about to submit an entry--ResultCare will have them go through their publications and how long they have been practicing, ultimately giving you a score. Your boat will end up carrying a lot more weight than say, a podiatrist who has been practicing for five years. A doctor makes 256 ...

Veronica Serra talks how she makes investments and making your company more attractive to investors!

Veronica Serra, one of the most sought after investors in all of Brazil talks about the criteria she uses when making investments. She tells KDOW listeners to find the right entrepreneurs to back. Caller Michael asked Veronica what she looks for in a company to have accomplished when looking to invest. First, Veronica looks if the company has a quality team. Second, she says get cases built around what your company is trying to do. Veronica tells Michael to engage in partnerships that can hel...

The Next Billion Dollar Medical Breakthrough - June 16, 2017

No debt. No venture capital. Profitable since year three. FDA clearances are in-hand. What's next, IPO? Ra Medical Co-founder/CEO Dean Irwin talks about how a technology, once only used for LASIK surgery, has now been adapted to tackle the number one killer in America, Cardiovascular Disease. Their ultimate goal with this technology? To prevent heart attacks by unclogging coronary arteries. Despite what your mother always told you growing up about sun exposure, UV radiation can actually be li...

Secrets To Scaling Sales; Keys To Storytelling; New Social Video Platform - June 9, 2017

Mohit Garg is the co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer at MindTickle--a company that trains, coaches and aligns sales teams to be more effective. On today’s show, Mohit shared with us some “Secrets to Scaling Sales” and provided answers to a few startups that called in. Mohit points out how the nature of the sales process today has changed significantly from a “notion of asymmetry” to be “much more value-centric.” This relates to how today, the market is much more democratic and the process i...

How To Think Big When You Don't: The Secrets to Scaling Your Startup - June 2, 2017

How do you think big when you don’t. What a great question. You start a company. You find success initially with your product. You may be profitable. But you’ve plateaued – what next? How do you scale? Or let’s say You start a company. You have a great product. You’re not yet profitable. And you need to raise money to subsidize growth? Over the next hour we have Aurelia Setton to share the secrets to scaling your business. She is the founder and CEO of MontBlanc Ventures, which does seed inve...

Meet The Woman Developing A New Universal Language Everyone Understands - May 26, 2017

A new universal language is being developed by a Silicon Valley entrepreneur! It has the potential of breaking down communications barriers globally! It's incredibly intuitive. In fact, it's a language we all speak already and never really think about it.It's visual! it's pictures! And Anna Vital, a Girls in Tech Amplify startup competition finalist is creating it!. Now, you might wonder how you can not only tackle a task so daunting as to create an organized visual language. I mean, where wo...

AirPR CEO Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer, Susan Thomas from 10Fold - May 19, 2017

AirPR CEO Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer, Susan Thomas from 10Fold - May 19, 2017 by Kym McNicholas On Innovation

Innovation Tackling America's #1 Killer - May 12, 2017

I’m at the SCAI conference in New Orleans Louisiana this week. It’s the Society for Cardiovascular and Angiography Interventions. Basically, it’s a conference with a heavy focus on unclogging arteries. Why is this important? Cardiovascular disease is the #1 killer in the United States. Peripheral Artery Disease, which targets the peripherals, mainly the legs, impacts more than 50% of people over the age of 60. It used to be that invasive surgical procedures such as bypasses or even amputation...

New Hackers, Old Tactics, And Yet You Still Fall For It: The Danger Ahead! - May 5, 2017

TrapX Security CEO Greg Enriquez warns of a new threat headed West. OilRig is what authorities say is a new organization of hackers using old tactics to get into your network. And it’s working. He explains how you can protect yourself and your business. Also, the new threats to your health involve hackers, not viruses. Enriquez talks about why hackers are targeting medical facilities and medical devices such as MRI’s and Pacemakers. Plus, Greg explains why Point-of-Sale devices are such an at...

No SEO For Press Releases Via Google Search? How To Get Attention! - May 5, 2017

How many years have I been preaching that the press release, and its traditional use are antiquated. The press release is dead. And yet, I still receive them when a PR person pitches me a company to be on my show. Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer, cofounder and CEO of data analytics company, AirPR, explains when a press release is valuable and how to transition to the new wave of PR that’s more effective in today’s digital age. He also talks about the disease plaguing startups in Silicon Valley: Media...

Glasswall, "The Cheat Code", Healthtech with Dr. Michelle Longmier - April 28, 2017

Glasswall, "The Cheat Code", Healthtech with Dr. Michelle Longmier - April 28, 2017 by Kym McNicholas On Innovation

What's Driving Driveless Vehicles? The "Inside" Scoop! - April 21, 2017

Just months after Apple confirmed it is in fact developing a driverless vehicle, California THIS WEEK has given the hardware and software giant permission to test them on the streets of the Golden State. This adds yet another major competitor in the autonomous vehicle race for what some reporters are calling the future of safer driving. And while Tesla, Mercedes-Benz, Infiniti, and BMW are all in this race in terms of building the hardware. It looks as though Apple is focused not necessarily ...

Hacking Phenom Plots To Secure The World; Shopkick's New Market - April 14, 2017

He started coding at age 6, attended University at age 10, and now this 28 year-old Israeli hacking phenom is securing the world with his latest venture, Nyotron. Nir Gaist talks about his journey, which includes writing a curriculum for the Israeli Ministry of Education on offensive security, which he taught across high schools in Israel, before he even hit puberty!!! He also talks about one of the biggest threats in cyber security today, ransomware. It's netted cyber criminals more than $1 ...

Winning Innovation Secrets Of Two Sports Powerhouses - April 7, 2017

America’s greatest pastime has begun! Major League Baseball is underway! And there’s a new MVP! It’s the CIO! The lead technology strategist for MLB teams are not only changing the game for fans, but also the players. And I would argue that San Francisco Giants CIO Bill Schlough, is at the forefront of cutting edge technology to improve player performance. His IT team has put into play a number of proprietary analytic tools that are credited for helping the team earn three world series trophi...

Charles Michael Yim of Breathometer, Maintool, Reputation.com - March 31, 2017

Charles Michael Yim of Breathometer, Maintool, Reputation.com - March 31, 2017 by Kym McNicholas On Innovation

Meet The Dukes Of Drones And The New Innovative Entrepreneurial Opportunities They’ve Created

It's been more than 6 months since the FAA policy requiring people to become professional certified drone pilots. Now, new entrepreneurial opportunities for drone operators abound. Drones-As-A-Service is a legitimate business category thanks to DroneDeploy. Cofounder Jono Millin explains how entrepreneurs are using their image capture, data analytics, and 2D image building software as the foundation of this new business category. He also shares some of the other biggest trends happening in th...