How to Outsmart Your Hungry Inner Couch Potato This week I am talking to Dr. Tim Church, Chief Medical Officer for Wondr Health (@WondrHealth) a company focused on Digital Behavior change especially focused on the obesity epidemic. Tim has spent a large part of his career focused on this area and as he puts it “bringing the […]
Shifting Intelligence Has the internet shifted our ability to learn and understand our world? And I don’t mean in a good way. The ready access to information has changed our access to knowledge and opened the doors for many. For many in my generation, they talk about the collection of the Encyclopedia Britannica (ironically the […]
Groups Recover Together This week I am talking to Gus Crothers, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Groups Recover Together (find out more here) who have focused on solving the Opiod Use Disorder (OUD). Gus’ journey to this role is interesting as he described his ‘beginner’s mindset’ that allowed him to see the opioid epidemic with fresh eyes […]
Supporting a Caring Health System This week I am talking to Collin O’Neill, the CEO of Pilleve (@Pilleve1) and Gautam Chebrolu, the Founder and CTO of Pilleve a company addressing the devastating effects of the opioid crisis with innovative technology built to work within the existing pharmaceutical distribution systems. The company’s early roots came from personal experiences bound […]
This week I am talking to Tom Knight, CEO & Founder of Invistics. The companies name derives from Inventory Visibility and Analytics where they started many years ago tracking inventory and providing better data to companies trying to manage production and their supply chain as the world moved to just in time manufacturing and shipping. […]
This week we take a look at mind-body therapies to reduce our need for medication in particular Opioids. JAMA published a Meta-Analysis study (A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis) this month. The researchers reviewed evidence from over 60 studies with more than 6000 people looking at a range of therapies including meditation, guided imagery, hypnosis, and cognitive-behavioral […]
Conversational Chatbots This week I am talking to Neal Sofian, CEO of Tuzag (@Tuzag_inc) a behavior optimization company and conversational chat bots. He was instrumental in setting up the “Free and Clear” smoking cessation program that managed to help so many quit smoking for life. We talk about the importance of culture and relationships and the way […]
This week I am talking to Shai Gozani MD, PhD, President and CEO of Neurometrix – a company focusing on improving the diagnosis and treatment of disease using digital technology. Shai has a background as an electrical engineer and worked for Bell Labs back in the mid 1980’s and studied for his PhD in Neurobiology focusing […]
The Opioid Epidemic 130 people die from an overdose of an opioid every day in the United States. Death from overdoses reached a staggering 47,600 people in the United States in 2017 – to put that into perspective that’s a 130 people per day, or 1 person every 11 mins, and now in the top 10 causes of […]
