Episodes

  • Tech Tonics: Griffin Weber – Bringing Clinical Sense & Sensibility to Healthcare Data

    Tech Tonics: Griffin Weber – Bringing Clinical Sense & Sensibility to Healthcare Data
    Feb 22 2021
    Inspired by health technology from the age of five, Griffin Weber has pursued this passion both doggedly and joyfully. Now an associate professor of medicine and bioinformaticist at Harvard, Griffin spends his days doing what he loves, leveraging technology to pragmatically improve the health and the care of patients. Griffin grew up in Virginia, the […]
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  • Tech Tonics: Matt Wilsey, Leading with Grace

    Tech Tonics: Matt Wilsey, Leading with Grace
    Feb 8 2021
    Matt Wilsey grew up wanting to serve.  He spent his early career in government working for both blue and red administrations, but was eventually lured back to where he grew up–Silicon Valley—to join the tech scene, and helped start and lead several successful tech companies, including Zazzle and CardSpring (sold to Twitter).  Along the way […]
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  • Tech Tonics: Amy Emerson and Her Psychedelic Mission

    Tech Tonics: Amy Emerson and Her Psychedelic Mission
    Jan 25 2021
    Amy Emerson, CEO of MAPS Public Benefit Corp. (MAPS), grew up in Kodiak, Alaska and fell in love with both animals and science as a child.  Later in life, when considering veterinary school, she realized that she loved biology but hated math – she would rather live in the wilderness on a lake and look […]
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  • Tech Tonics: Stacy Feld – Innovating Where the Consumer Meets Life Sciences

    Tech Tonics: Stacy Feld – Innovating Where the Consumer Meets Life Sciences
    Jan 11 2021
    Stacy Feld had settled into a satisfying career in biotech business development when she accidentally found her way into a meeting with Genentech’s CEO and a tiny startup company called 23andMe. The moment sparked a sudden realization that the best life science innovation would be focused around the consumer and a career finding ways to […]
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  • Tech Tonics: Takeda’s Ariel Dowling: An Engineer With A Passion For Digital Health

    Tech Tonics: Takeda’s Ariel Dowling: An Engineer With A Passion For Digital Health
    Dec 21 2020
    A Jersey girl drawn first captivated by engineering while in college at Dartmouth, Ariel Dowling went on to pursue her PhD at Stanford, exploring the use of wearables to anticipate and prevent knee injuries. After several experiences at tech-focused startups, Ariel has more recently found a home — and a calling — as a digital […]
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  • Tech Tonics: Paul Bleicher – Physician, Scientist, Entrepreneur, Innovator

    Tech Tonics: Paul Bleicher – Physician, Scientist, Entrepreneur, Innovator
    Dec 7 2020
    A self-described “nerdy” kid from a working class family in a bedroom community of “The City,” on the South Shore of Long Island, Paul Bleicher trained as a physician-scientist, and was heading towards a career in academic medicine when he boldly decided to pivot to industry, where he’s enjoyed a remarkable and storied career in […]
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  • Tech Tonics: Dr. Sally Shaywitz: Advancing Science, Driving Policy, Overcoming Dyslexia

    Tech Tonics: Dr. Sally Shaywitz: Advancing Science, Driving Policy, Overcoming Dyslexia
    Nov 23 2020
    Dr. Sally Shaywitz – Yes, she is David’s mom – has brought an entrepreneur’s mindset to her life’s work in dyslexia, recognizing the condition as a prevalent and underappreciated need, then working tirelessly to advance the science and enact the policy required to fully unlock the potential within so many brilliant individuals.  Sally has helped […]
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  • Tech Tonics: Matthew Zachary – Making Noise and Making a Difference that is Music to Patient’s Ears

    Tech Tonics: Matthew Zachary – Making Noise and Making a Difference that is Music to Patient’s Ears
    Nov 9 2020
    Matthew Zachary, CEO of Offscrip Media  has had multiple careers despite the fact that he shouldn’t have had any.  He had studied to be a concert pianist and composer and conductor through college, but at the age of 21, on his way to study in a USC graduate music program with Hans Zimmer, he was diagnosed […]
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