2020 is almost OVER!!! woot woot! In our longest episode EVER, Jim Joyce and I recap the crazy 2020 and why we started #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, its positive impact on our own #mentalhealth (and hopefully other's) plus: 🧠 Mental Health stats compliments of Joshua Haynes at Masawa 🧠 2021 #digitalhealth predictions 🧠 Our hopes for "return of the smile" (as well as hugs) 🧠 Jim Joyce's recipe for mental health 🧠 some show stats: the crazy ~500 hours that all of you have spent watching us! Huge thanks and virtual hugs to all of our followers and 38 guests on our show including our better halves Emanuela Saccarola & Marina Borukhovich Fun mentions as always: Craig Lipset for the trifecta, Marco Mohwinckel, Steve Seuntjens, Robert Garber, William Taranto, Martin Kelly, Michelle Longmire, Lisa Suennen, ☀️Maneesh Juneja, Melinda Decker, Jeff Berkowitz, Lee Shapiro, Michael Garrow, John Brownlee, Daniel Couchman Kendall, Brian Dolan, Francesca Wuttke, Abhishek Shah, Wellthy Therapeutics

This episode of #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy felt like April Fools at times so Jim Joyce and I had loads of fun with the amazing Michelle Longmire. Growing up doing falconry with her dad and a mom who was a plutonium chemist, Michelle always loved experiments. We covered a lot of ground (like falcons): 🐧 Why entrepreneurship is an optimization problem? 🐧 World's awareness of "clinical trials" 🐧 Decentralized trials and the evolving nomenclature 🐧 Tips to entrepreneurs (hint: staying in the game) 🐧 oh and me trying to do Daniel Couchman Kendall podcast voice.. Fun mentions as always: Lisa Suennen Matthew Holt Yo Iwami, M.D., Ph.D Craig Lipset AMIR KALALI, MD Taha Jangda Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance (DTRA) Digital Health Today

On today's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy, Jim Joyce and I hosted the man who lives on the bleeding edge of drug development AMIR KALALI, MD - we keep hitting new records and this is our longest episode though we probably spent way to much time talking about designer shoes 👠 but also: 👠 Travel hacks especially when FBI is involved 👠 CNS Summit and importance of community building 👠 Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance (DTRA) launch 👠 oh and my favorite line "If something doesn't exist, I create it" Fun mentions as always: Craig Lipset Mike Rea Milind Kamkolkar Jane Metcalfe Michelle Longmire Maulik Majmudar, M.D.

Just when you thought you had enough... #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy is back! Jim Joyce and I kicked off Season 4 with the ever-energizing Jamey Edwards, CEO of Cloudbreak Health and a new member to the UpHealth Inc company. We had lots of fun talking about: 🏥 How Jamey is on a mission to humanize care 🏥 Physician burnout is a real issue!!! 🏥 Did you know that there are 126+ languages spoken in Columbus, OH? 🏥 Translation vs. Interpretation 🏥 #TeleQuarantine - isn't all quarantine tele? 🏥 Gatekeepers of healthcare and why Joe Biden should chose Jamey for health secretary :) 🏥 oh and... missing the conference family & #pinksocks Fun mentions as always: Jessica DaMassa Rasu Shrestha MD MBA GoodRx Chirinjeev Kathuria MedQuest Pharmacy Nick Adkins, MBA

And its a wrap 🎉🎉🎉 Jim Joyce & I recap S3 Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy. The world has gone through some #digitalhealth IPOs 💸, SPAC attacks 😂 , US elections 🗳, positive C19 vaccine trials 💉 & ... Check out this recap, then come back to this post & click on 1 of 10 amazing guests we had this season. Speaking of vaccines: S03E11 was our 1st infomercial on #TheShot 😂.. but on a serious note.. listen in to 2 amazing talents from HealthBeacon Sharifa Sarhan & Daniella Kaligorsky walk us through what the team has accomplished on vaccine administration and tracking - vaccines don't save lives, vaccine programs do Now select 1 or more below 😂 🎉 Martin Kelly 📺 https://lnkd.in/ereq9f3 🎉 Rashida Bobb 📺 https://lnkd.in/eaYNwtn 🎉 Shwen Gwee 📺 https://lnkd.in/ef5r4we 🎉 Mimi Billing 📺 https://lnkd.in/eX5vR5U 🎉 Daniel Kendall 📺 https://lnkd.in/eUv7ydN 🎉 Gautam Gulati, 📺 https://lnkd.in/eAXws3T 🎉 Lee Shapiro 📺 https://lnkd.in/eMHttnK 🎉 Unity Stoakes 📺 https://lnkd.in/euZ6w69 🎉 Chris Coburn📺 https://lnkd.in/efGHcFh 🎉 Jane Metcalfe📺 https://lnkd.in/e9bM76X

Jim Joyce and I had our minds blown by the one and only Jane Metcalfe on this week's "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy". Launching and later selling WIRED, investing in a chocolate business (amongst others) and then diving into the neobiological revolution via NEO.LIFE, Jane was an amazing guest and we talked: 🧬 Intersection of Neuroscience - Nutrition - Longevity 🧬 Parabiosis, micro-dosing and metformin 🧬 Human Vaccines Project & a short C19 vaccine update 🧬 Jane's hunt for signals and intentions 🧬 oh we even talked vampires... Fun mentions as always: Oura Josh Clemente Francesca Wuttke Lisa Suennen Levels Esther Dyson Frontiers Health NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration European Space Agency - ESA Alexandra Drane Jamey Edwards UpHealth Inc Matthew Holt

Jim Joyce and I had to dedicate our longest episode of "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy" to our first guest ever wearing a tie 👔 - Chris Coburn, Chief Innovation Officer at Mass General Brigham. We talked: 👔 Unremitting pressures on hospital systems 👔 Mental & Behavioral Health 👔 TheCoburn Hiring method: "Writing well = thinking clearly" 👔 Irish Authors, Arts, Movies (get your list here) 👔 Mass's next $250M fund 👔 oh and traveling down the memory lane to The Bronx.. As always fun mentions: Brian Dolan Daniel Couchman Kendall Lee Shapiro Unity Stoakes Stephen McHale

Today's episode of "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy" took Jim Joyce and I on a ride in the way-back machine to NYC circa 2008 and back to the future with Unity Stoakes from StartUp Health 🚀 How StartUp Health got started and the 25 year plan 🚀 Batteries-included #entrepreneurs 🚀 Importance of #mentalhealth 🚀 Streaming #Innovation 🚀 New administration and predictions for health innovation 🚀 oh and why did we see Howard Krein MD, PhD on stage with #BidenHarris Fun mentions as always: Matthew Holt ◾️Daniel Kivatinos◾️ Michael Nusimow Zocdoc DrChrono Roy Schoenberg MD MPH Amwell Seth Godin

In this #Election2020 & #COVID19-FREE-Zone episode of "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy", Jim Joyce and I got some amazing insights from non other than Lee Shapiro from 7wireVentures / Livongo : 🎯 How to pronounce "SPAC" and a bit of SPAC-101 🎯 What do "Hash House Harriers" have to do with investing 🎯 Deep dive into 7wireVentures thesis & investment decisions 🎯 The daily routine of an ever-entrepreneur hint: #meditation included 🎯 Leadership advice for #entrepreneurs: "Building companies is like sprinting a marathon" + much more 🎯 oh and why does Lee wake up to Glen Tullman's texts every morning.. 🤔 Watch now -> https://youtu.be/Q4xNkmTOG2E Fun mentions as always: Jessica DaMassa Matthew Holt Robert Garber Jennifer Schneider, M.D., M. S. Alyssa Jaffee Clover Health NOCD Stephen Smith Kristin Milburn Hemant Taneja Stephen Klasko John Hallock

Wow so many great nuggets in today's episode of "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy" I don't even know where to start... Jim Joyce and I had the honor of having Gautam Gulati, MD,MBA,MPH - pronounced (Ga-Thumb 👍 Ga-Lotty) and we spent a lot of it on the art of storytelling amongst other things: 💡 Why health = story over time not just point in time 💡 Storytelling-as-Medicine 💡 Why silence is powerful? 💡 Executing on a bad idea is a bad idea 💡 Deliberate creativity 💡 WellPlayed.Health and new Superhumans Series on Spotify 💡 oh and we all became self-proclaimed health artists 🎨 Fun Mentions as always: Martin Kelly Matthew Holt Jessica DaMassa Daniel Kraft, MD Glen Tullman Stephen Klasko Daniel Couchman Kendall Lisa Suennen Rasu Shrestha MD MBA Professor Shafi Ahmed Milind Kamkolkar Esther Dyson Mark Hyman, MD Dr. Jordan Shlain, M.D. Alexandra Drane Riccardo Sabatini David Ewing Duncan

It took way too long for Jim Joyce and I to have the godfather of "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy" on our show. Did you know that Daniel Couchman Kendall had a radio show in college and that he lived in UK for 18 years and still has no British accent? We had a blast and talked everything podcasts and more: 🎧 History of Digital Health Today 🎧 #JPM and Irish bar - yes all roads lead there 🎧 #DTx Series with yours truly 🎧 Health Podcast Network 🎧 Dan's health podcast predictions of micro-audiences 🎧 Chris Rock story.. 🎧 oh and what does Ozzy Osbourne have to do with digital health? Fun mentions as always: Martin Kelly & HealthXL Lisa Suennen Michelle Longmire Jennifer Lannon Antonio Estrella Mike Biselli

In this episode of "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy", Jim Joyce and got to spend some awesome time with Mimi Billing a management consultant turned journalist at Sifted. We chat about: 🚀 the "old machinery" of Europe 🚀 scaling #digitalhealth #startups in EU 🚀 startup honeymoons and how long they last? 🚀 oh and should startups PR or not PR.. Fun mentions as always: Kry Babylon Health Johannes Schildt Christina Farr John Thornhill Caspar Woolley Tyler Crowley

Another episode of "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy" = another memory lane. Jim Joyce and I had the pleasure of having Shwen Gwee, who despite his long career in #pharma has not lost any hair. We kicked off with Rock Health and StartUp Health digital health investment reports 📈, reimbursement news from Germany 🇩🇪 and then got deep into ☕️ Innovation vs. Structure ☕️ Played Buzzword Bingo ☕️ Shwen Gwee went all out with health #chatbots ☕️ #SXSW and virtual health disruptor dinner in 2021? ☕️ oh and discovered Shwen's former identity as a podcaster in 2005 : "Tales from the drug side"... Fun mentions as always: John Pugh Matthew Holt Jacob LaPorte, Ph.D. Garry Tan Dr. Mario Weiss

On this #InternationalPodcastDay was great to have the corporate refugee Rashida Bobb joining Jim Joyce and I on "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy" from New York City: 🥂 Barcelona 🇪🇸 - here I come and my #COVID19 test delivered by Ziphycare 🥂 Jim & Rashida on an island? 🥂 Rashida diving into pain recognition and management 🥂 Funding of under-represented founders 🥂 Can investors create new patterns? 🥂 Diverse talent on corporate boards and Rashida's latest project https://bit.ly/2Gde1JT 🥂 oh and... Jim Joyce telling us another joke.. Fun mentions as always: Dominick Kennerson Klaus Stöckemann Blueprint Health LLC Alex Fair Matthew Holt Rada Sumareva, DDS HealthXL

Welcome to Season 3 Premier of "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy" coming to you almost live from Florence 🇮🇹 & Dublin 🇮🇪. This season is all about "more fun, less pain" as Jim Joyce put it & there is no-one better to kick us into more fun than Martin Kelly, CEO of HealthXL: 🍋 My escape to Italy 🍋 Martin Kelly's trip down the memory lane as an inventor of SmartCamp 🍋 Genesis of HealthXL 🍋 Importance of ecosystems & networks 🍋 GoodRx IPO 🍋 oh and how Jim misses #JPM Fun mentions as always: Sean M Hogan Robert Garber Seth Akumani Steve Seuntjens Harry Stebbings Chris Coburn Alex Tew

All good things come to an end and so did Season 2 of "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy". We had a fun season recap with Laura Hamilton who says she volunteered (yeah right!), so if you don't have ~378 min to spare to binge the whole season then today's recap is for you .. (in other sad news: Jim Joyce and I lost out to Joe Rogan to host the presidential debate.. 1-liners: compliments of Laura: 🍾 John Brownlee Loved the Ryder Cup Memorabilia :) 🍾 William Taranto “Data is the currency to transact in future markets” 🍾 Professor Shafi Ahmed Educating via new tech as far away as a remote island in the middle of the Pacific.. 🍾 Nicole Baker PhD Importance of building connections and listening to people transitioning form academia 🍾 ☀️Maneesh Juneja His experience with #LongCovid was eye-opening 🍾 Jacob LaPorte, Ph.D. Making the onramp to Novartis less NJ and more Singapore by design. 🍾 Milind Kamkolkar: Loved his inspirational story of his professional climb and insight into Flagship. 🍾 Steve Seuntjens one of the early consumer directed #digitalhealth investors! 🍾 Melinda Decker : Transitioning from wine making to biotech! 🍾 Leonora O'Brien : The Irish precision! :)

Wednesday means "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy Day" and today's guest the self-taught musician, pharmacy regulator turned entrepreneur - Leonora O'Brien called Jim Joyce and I the Statler and Waldorf of #digitalhealth - 😂😂😂😂. On today's final episode of Season 2 we explore the pharmacy industry: 💊 What do airlines and pharmacies have in common? 💊 Should startups take grant money? 💊 Pharmacies and #DTx 💊 What happens to your friendly neighborhood pharmacy next? 💊 oh and there was a mention or two of Cartier Fun mentions as always: DocMorris Max Müller Olaf Heinrich Europa Apotheek Venlo B.V. Celesio AG Kristin Milburn Big Health CVS Health #pharmacists #prescriptions #pbm

Jim Joyce and I had an amazing guest on today that neither one of us met in person before and she definitely energized us for the week to come - Thanks Melinda Decker! We talked: 🍷 How it takes about a decade to build a "successful #DigitalHealth company? Right Sean Duffy, doug hirsch, Peter Hames 🍷 How making wine is almost like making drugs 😂 🍷 How to wrangle a sizable budget inside a pharmaco 🍷 How to #DTx inside pharma vs. in a startup like Mymee 🍷 And... is an introvert a social camel? Fun mentions as always: Edward Cox Martin Kelly MedStartr HealthMode Dan Karlin HealthXL MedImmune

This week, Jim Joyce and I had some virtual drinks with Steve Seuntjens (well.. real drinks in a virtual setting) on "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy"... Even with drinks we mostly made sense but you will be the judge of that: 🍺 We talked about Jim Joyce's broken ribs... heal fast Jim! 🍺 Steve's investment thesis tied with individual's own engagement in health 🍺 We listened to Steve's 30 second pitch of SkinVision (a portfolio company) - how did he do?? 🍺 Dichotomy of population health vs. personalized health 🍺 oh and you heard it here first - Jim introduces "The McGuffin" in a context of a startup Fun mentions as always: Given next week is the HealthXL Interactive somehow all those peeps were mentioned today and more : Martin Kelly Lisa Suennen William Taranto Glen Tullman .. In addition Dale Beermann Sanvello Health Francesca Wuttke Robert Garber Matthew Holt

Jim Joyce and I had a great time hanging with Milind Kamkolkar today on "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy". We went deep into human biology (well as deep as we can in ~40 min): ✅ Invention vs. Innovation ✅ Advances in understanding of cell behaviors ✅ Doing things better or doing better things! ✅ Drug Discovery and #AI ✅ TechBio or #Biotech ✅ Creating legacy when creating companies Fun mentions: Cellarity Flagship Pioneering B Capital Group Jessica DaMassa Jay Bradner Atomwise Insilico Medicine Alex Zhavoronkov Mathai Mammen and many more.

In this birthday 🎂 edition of "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy", Jim Joyce and I had the pleasure of having Jacob LaPorte, Ph.D., Co-Founder of Novartis Biome, who turned 25 today 😂and still decided to join us on his birthday! (also happy birthday Glen Tullman!!!) We talked about: ✅ Jacob's path from molecular biologist -> organic chemist -> consultant -> CRO -> Pharma ✅ How Novartis Biome is building an "onramp" for #digitalhealth startups just not a New Jersey kind 😄 ✅ EROOM law and pharma R&D productivity ✅ Novartis digital brain ✅ And two degrees of separation with Shwen Gwee .. oh and watch the whole episode to hear Jim Joyce give a #startup idea to the entrepreneurs out there (and its FREE) Finally we thought that Vas Narasimhan and his popularity will definitely push our show to 200 subscribers in one shot!

I don't know about you but I love Wednesdays!! It's "Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy" Day and today Jim Joyce and I really enjoyed having Maneesh Juneja on the show. Maneesh took the video call from his car (first for us) and we chatted about what he has been struggling with for the last 119 days - #LongCovid ✅ How he was un-diagnosed with #COVID19 ✅ How he used #digitalhealth technologies for self tracking (such as Oura) ✅ How there are over 100+ different symptoms that comprise #longcovid ✅How the #longcovid patient community came together As always fun mentions: John Hallock Glen Tullman Eric Topol, MD David Albert Robert Garber Martin Kelly Susannah Fox Gilles Frydman Dave deBronkart Omada Health Teladoc Health Livongo

Wow! We almost didn't make it today, but more on that next episode.. Today Jim Joyce and I spoke to Nicole Baker, CEO of biologit and an immunologist - this was a social experiment of its own in this virtual world (watch to find out why). Nicole broke the ice with a discussion of #Medbikini, then took us through her geographical journey: Brazil, Germany, UK, Ireland - I am still trying to figure out her accent though.. We then got deep into #pharmacovigilance, real world data & evidence, adverse events & #clinicaltrials oh my .. and not that deep into #hydroxychloroquine :) Fun mentions as always: our critics (Vishal Gulati, Matthew Holt), our fans (Elena Mustatea, Nana Bit-Avragim, Lisa Suennen, Charles Huang, Aline Noizet Macro Akili Interactive Proteus Digital Health, Inc #digitalhealth #DTx

Jim Joyce and I had the honor of having Professor Shafi Ahmed on with us today - who is an amazing entrepreneur, futurist, surgeon and teacher! We first decided to have our avatars speak to each other using Loom.ai but quickly switched to: ✅ Front lines of health & care have and will continue changing ✅ Health education needs to be reinvented otherwise we will end up with projected shortage of 14M+ healthcare workers by 2030 ✅ We talked what snapped Shafi (pun intended) into democratizing health education ✅ Jumped into the time machine for the future of robotics and digital surgery.. and sooooo much more - barely had enough time to scratch the surface.. Fun mentions as always: Snap Inc. Jean Nehme & Touch Surgery Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry Suitable Technologies (Beam Robot)

Season 2 Episode 2 of "A Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy": Jim Joyce and I had a blast as usual with William Taranto - we talked #CVC vs. #VC, private equity, virtual due-diligence and how things have not seemed to slow down much on the deals. We of course reminisced about our last trip to Barcelona for HealthXL, found out that Bill misses Francesca Wuttke and talked European #digitalhealth #startups and their scaling potential. oh and I took my first shot on the show, shamed Jim Joyce into doing pushups and we all agreed we cant wait to be back on a plane... plus a huge shout out to the The MAGIC Foundation Foundation and their upcoming virtual convention