Latest Medtronic Podcast Episodes
Precautions to take before Surgery
Health Charcha - June 27, 2022 15:42 - 11 minutesIn this episode, host Deepti Ahuja talks to Dr. Dwarakanath Srinivas, Professor and Head, Neurosurgery, NIMHANS about how has Covid impacted brain tumour treatment and how can one mentally prepare himself for this surgery? Tune in to know more!
Episode: 168 - Alleviant Medical CEO Adam Berman on the No-Implant Device Treating Diastolic Heart Failure
Medtech Talk - June 21, 2022 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsHost Geoff Pardo talks with Adam Berman, CEO of Alleviant Medical, about the groundbreaking device treating heart failure without hardware or permanent implants. The Alleviant device mitigates shortness of breath in patients with diastolic heart failure by leaving behind a shunt cut from interat...
Episode: 168 - Alleviant Medical CEO Adam Berman on the No-Implant Device Treating Diastolic Heart Failure
Medtech Talk - June 21, 2022 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsHost Geoff Pardo talks with Adam Berman, CEO of Alleviant Medical, about the groundbreaking device treating heart failure without hardware or permanent implants. The Alleviant device mitigates shortness of breath in patients with diastolic heart failure by leaving behind a shunt cut from interat...
Brain Tumor Surgery: Robots have arrived !
Health Charcha - June 21, 2022 07:18 - 24 minutesHow has neuronavigation and cranial robotics evolved the management of brain tumours and how does that apply to you? We will find out in this episode with Dr. Manas Panigrahi, HOD Neurosurgery at KIMS Hospital, Hyderabad. Tune in to know more!
I have Brain Tumor. What should I do next?
Health Charcha - June 15, 2022 13:19 - 12 minutesIn this episode, host Deepti Ahuja talks to Dr. Sudhir Dubey, Director and Head of Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery at Medanta, The Medicity Hospital, Gurgaon about things, situations or environments that increase the risk factor of getting a brain tumour. She also discusses whether all brain tumo...
What is Brain Tumour
Health Charcha - June 08, 2022 18:30 - 26 minutesIn this episode, we speak to Dr.Amitabh Chanda - Neurosurgeon at Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Kolkata. He talks about brain tumor, a mass or growth of abnormal cells in your brain. There are different types of brain tumors. Some brain tumors are noncancerous (b...
What is a Hernia | Symptoms and Treatments
Health Charcha - June 06, 2022 18:30 - 15 minutesIn this episode, host Deepti Ahuja talks to Dr. Ashwind Bawa, Associate Professor of Surgery, Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana about Hernia; a disease that occurs when an internal organ protrudes through the wall of a muscle or a tissue that normally contains it. If ignored, it could be fatal....
What are some myths about Parkinson’s Disease?
Health Charcha - April 29, 2022 18:30 - 17 minutesPeople are diagnosed with Parkinson’s at an average age of 60, anything younger than 50 is considered young-onset Parkinson’s, or YOPD. Rarely, Parkinson’s disease may be diagnosed in people younger than 40 — current estimates are that about 2 percent of the 1 million people with Parkinson’s were...
Life after DBS. What next? | Post Surgery Care and Caregiver Support
Health Charcha - April 23, 2022 02:30 - 18 minutesIn this episode, host Deepti Ahuja talks to Dr Aditya Gupta, Director of Neurosurgery at Artemis Hospital, Gurgaon about the DBS surgery experience and how it feels after that. The host also asks about some of the things one needs to watch out for during the 1st couple of weeks.
What are the advanced treatment options for Parkinson’s? | DBS
Health Charcha - April 21, 2022 04:20 - 15 minutesIn this episode, host Deepti Ahuja talks to Dr. Ravi Gopal Varma, Lead – Consultant Neurosurgeon, Aster hospital, Bangalore about some of the advance treatment options available for a person affected by Parkinson’s and she is also intrigued to ask what does DBS do for a person who is Parkinson’s ...
Episode: 167 - M&A, IPO or SPAC: CEOs Share Exit Strategies and Lessons Learned Along the Way
Medtech Talk - April 19, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsGeoff Pardo and three successful medtech CEOs who exited their companies through a different pathway— M&A, IPO, and SPAC—discuss the pros and cons of each. While market volatility is a given, Bruce Shook, Former President & CEO, Intact Vascular and Vesper Medical; Clint Carnell, Co-Founder & Cha...
How can I manage Parkinson’s Disease?
Health Charcha - April 15, 2022 04:30 - 17 minutesIn this episode, host Deepti asks Dr. Vijayashankar Paramanandam.MD, DM (Neurology) if Parkinson’s can be cured or reversed. The host is also intrigued to know if Parkinson’s too has stages like cancer? Tune in to know more!
What is Parkinson’s Disease?
Health Charcha - April 11, 2022 12:02 - 17 minutesParkinson’s Awareness Month is observed in April. Parkinson’s Awareness Month is an opportunity to increase awareness about the ailment and its symptoms, as well as to support victims. More than 10 million people worldwide are living with Parkinson’s as per Frontiers in Neurology. So in this epis...
Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month | A revision
Health Charcha - March 30, 2022 13:19 - 17 minutesWe lost one of our favourite Bollywood actors, Irrfan Khan to Colorectal Cancer disease. And do we really need a reason to better inform ourselves about the kind of cancer that is increasingly beginning to affect young adults and is the 3rd most common amongst men worldwide? So, to give us a d...
Episode 166: Nicole Walker on Diversity, Leadership, and Falling in Love with the Deal
Medtech Talk - February 15, 2022 11:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsNicole J. Walker brings far more diversity than just her race and gender to her role as managing partner at Arboretum Ventures. Her background was in operations and engineering, and she knows her perspective has given her valuable insight into the businesses she works with. Walker also credits h...
Episode 165: Dr. Aaron Kaplan— Still Making Music, A Clinician’s Perspective on Innovation
Medtech Talk - December 20, 2021 14:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsDr. Aaron Kaplan has several startups and many years of cardiology practice under his belt, and he is uniquely positioned to give a physician’s perspective on the medical device startup space and how big ideas actually impact the clinic. As a practicing interventional cardiologist and Director o...
Episode 164: Kurt Azarbarzin, Revolutionizing Surgery
Medtech Talk - November 22, 2021 15:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsKurt Azarbarzin grew up valuing discipline, hard work and a can-do attitude, and he credits much of his success to continuing to work and live by those principles. Having moved to the United States from Tehran, Iran in late 1970's as a senior in High School, Kurt was fortunate to live with an Am...
Episode 163: Venture Investing in a Post-COVID World
Medtech Talk - October 18, 2021 13:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThe pandemic has certainly affected many aspects of life, but what about the medtech industry? Specifically for this audience, did COVID impact medtech investment strategy? As part of the recent Medtech MVP conference, host Geoff Pardo moderated a panel interview with four medtech investors to t...
Episode 162: Bernie Haffey on Cutting Through to High Performance
Medtech Talk - September 22, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsBernie Haffey started his career as a high school physics teacher, then decided to go to business school. He remained interested in science and technology though, so he started working in the medtech industry at Hewlett-Packard’s Medical Products Group before transferring to Mentor Corp. After r...
Episode 161: Amar Sawhney on Finding the Right Chemistry for Entrepreneurial Success
Medtech Talk - August 23, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsNow a seasoned medtech entrepreneur and leader, Amar Sawhney first became interested in the industry starting in graduate school. He was studying chemical engineering and developing biodegradable polymers for adhesion prevention and hydrogels for light-activated polymerization within the body. H...
Episode 160: Securing Coverage and Payment for Your Innovative Medical Device: Advice from the Experts
Medtech Talk - July 19, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsNavigating the ever-changing sea of medtech reimbursement is never easy, particularly with the recent swings in policies pertaining to breakthrough devices. As part of the continued Medtech Talk Digital Discussion Series, host Geoff Pardo moderates a panel interview with three medtech reimbursem...
Episode 159: Lessons from Medtech Leader and Mentor Joe Mandato
Medtech Talk - June 15, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsThere’s nothing like those pivotal moments of a startup that lead to it becoming wildly successful. The excitement as the company’s first product begins to earn market share and attention from additional investors or acquirers. This month’s podcast guest Joe Mandato has been in that situation wi...
Episode 158: Now Hear This: Christian Gormsen on Breaking Convention in the Hearing Industry at Eargo
Medtech Talk - April 22, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsLike many entrepreneurs, Christian Gormsen admits he didn’t start his career with a passion for his current field. Instead, he backed into the hearing industry from his work in investment banking and consulting, and eventually wound up working at the world's 4th largest hearing aid company. Chri...
Episode 157: Success nVisioned, Surbhi Sarna’s Story
Medtech Talk - March 15, 2021 15:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsAfter passing out from extremely painful complex ovarian cists at age 13, Surbhi Sarna became all too familiar with the challenges and lack of adequate solutions for women’s health. Benefiting from intelligent and entrepreneurial parents, she became so determined to start a company to tackle wom...
12: Ae Dil hai muskil | Post-surgery care
Health Charcha - February 26, 2021 04:37 - 15 minutesDid you Know Pacemakers are now Bluetooth enabled and can connect to your smartphone In this episode, we have with us Dr Girish B Navasundi who introduces us to Bluetooth based pacemakers and the importance of managing this device post-surgery. Dr Girish will discuss what a pacemaker check-up me...
11: Dil to bachcha hai ji | Are leadless pacemakers safe?
Health Charcha - February 26, 2021 04:35 - 11 minutesTechnology and medicine have gone hand and hand for many years. This episode of Health Charcha with our expert, Dr Sanjeevkumar Kalkekar is devoted to discussing the advances in the cardiac space. He shares valuable inputs on how technology has impacted pacemaker surgery and important tips for p...
10: Dil Dhadke | All about pacemakers
Health Charcha - February 26, 2021 04:32 - 11 minutesDid you know Our heart has its own electricity!!! In this episode of Health Charcha, we will discuss Dr Viveka Kumar will discuss about pacemakers and how they are used to treat electrical abnormalities of our heart. He also encourages to listen their heart and if experiencing something unusual ...
9: Dil cheez kya hai | Heart & related diseases
Health Charcha - February 26, 2021 04:30 - 20 minutesIn this episode of Health Charcha, Dr Praveen Chandra will discuss the health of the most talked-about yet too often neglected organ -The Heart. He explains the basics of heart, complications associated with heat-related illness and shares numerous things you can do to lower the risk for heart d...
Episode 156: How Medtech Can Sustain its Momentum in 2021: Strategies for Successful Investment
Medtech Talk - February 22, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsDespite the pandemic, 2020 was a successful year for medtech. The industry reaped the fruits of over a decade of concerted effort to reduce regulatory hurdles, work better with hospitals and diagnostic companies, and increase innovation. As part of the continued Medtech Talk Digital Discussion S...
8: Obesity- Not Just a Cosmetic Problem
Health Charcha - February 18, 2021 16:08 - 26 minutesIn this episode of Health Charcha our expert, Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala answers queries related to the various myths that people have in their minds regarding obesity. He establishes the link between being obese and living with other associated diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and infertili...
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