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

We are back with Season 2 of "Shot of Digital Health Therapy" is here! Woot Woot! 🚙 Jim Joyce drove super fast on his family's long weekend getaway to Dingle, Ireland (what? where?) to make the show today 🌆 We are joined today by a great serial entrepreneur, John Brownlee, all the way from Minneapolis. 💸 We talk about raising money from venture capital vs. raising revenues from your customers 💊 Minneapolis as a #digitalhealth hub and how John gets into things 10 years ahead of everyone else 😂 ☎️ #Telemedicine , #BioTerror , #AI oh my... 🎤 Finally John talks about the impact of Andrea Bocelli and how the power & voice of our leaders and influencers should bring people together and unite us!

The season finale of "A Shot of #DigitalHealth Therapy" is here!!! Jim Joyce and I go down the memory lane and are joined by our better halves Emanuela Saccarola and Marina Borukhovich who stuck with us through the ups and downs of this entertainment career 😂 (most of our kids joined too). I was impressed that Jim did his homework and actually took notes of every episode so you can binge on all the episodes like my younger daughter does or watch this one for a recap.

"Troublemakers make the world go round" so Jim Joyce and I had the pleasure of having Anish Shindore with us from Barcelona. We talked about rare diseases, the tsunami of all the Digital Therapeutics news in last few weeks, Jim's beacon of health (aka HealthBeacon ) and how humans and tech together create magic. oh and Nashik, India - Anish's home town and the only place in India that produces wine! 🍷 #funfact Fun mentions as always: Francesca Wuttke Céline Ulmann Jessica Shull Kaia Health Jonas Duss Konstantin Mehl Big Health Peter Hames Akili Interactive Eddie Martucci Cris De Luca HealthXL

Jim Joyce and I were excited to chat with Chandana Fitzgerald, a doctor turned #digitalhealth guru living in the land of Guinness. We talk about how India is ripe for digital health, Jim's saliva test with Mapmygenome - Know Yourself and him going rogue comparing clinicians to venture capitalists. Chandana also talks about HealthXL digital lunches and explains the virtual handshake pics. https://lnkd.in/dDTbdb8 Fun mentions of Carman Kobza Abhishek Shah Wellthy Therapeutics TaskRabbit DailyRounds / Marrow Nick Adkins Martin Kelly Matthew Holt (missing his minute by minute)

This week we welcome the "Entrepreneur Inside" Sarah Fisher, yet another American in Europe (Amsterdam). We chat about her market access entry secrets for medical device #startups, her passion at intersection of food, ag and health and functional medicine and we talk about similarities between basketball and #digitalhealth

We had yet another American on the show today, but who is living in lovely #Barcelona - Francesca Wuttke. Jim Joyce and I are readying for a sale of our show to Spotify just like Joe Rogan #FakeNews).. Is Europe poised to drive value out of #digitalhealth? Virtual Clinical Trials and #DTx speeding ahead in this #C19 world. Emanuela Saccarola crashing the party and stealing Jim's spotlight.. and a visual of me in speedos.

Finally we have a non-US guest this week all the way from Solerno, Italy - Roberto Ascione. We talk about navigating Italian healthcare system, 10 years of #digitalhealth in 10 days and impact of a smile and two kisses oh and Frontiers LIVE - Fighting the pandemic #FH20live

This week we got a hold of world-famous Robert Gerber, partner at 7Wire Ventures and talked consumer driven health, entrepreneurship during crisis, China 🇨🇳 and yes virtual romance

This week we talk to Kristen Milburn about music as medicine, sleep, mediation, breathwork and Ayahuasca which puts me in a chill mode just typing this up.. oh and #sneakattack by my lovely wife Marina

Matthew Holt and Jessica DaMassa joined us for this fun filled episode where we talk the future of health conferences, can HIMSS make money on hospitals, is #JPM happening and what does that mean for dealmaking oh and a show-in-a-show takeover #Healthin2Point00

Pleasure to have our first guest Lisa Suennen where we talk about $$ money flowing in or out of DigitalHealth

Jim Joyce and I get comfortable on zoom and with each other (again), discuss the weather, play pandemic bingo and more

Born during the pandemic, therapeutic by design oh and comedy still included in a meticulously unproduced way.