Passionate Pioneers

Passionate Pioneers with Mike Biselli, a nationally ranked healthcare and innovation podcast, and a member of the Health Podcast Network, highlights the innovators, the game changers, and the pioneers who are deeply passionate and relentless in valiantly solving the problems our healthcare industry is facing.

Episodes

Building Clubhouse’s Healthcare Community with Henry Peck

This episode’s Community Champion Sponsor is Clear Child Psychology. To learn how they are shifting the paradigm in child mental health: CLICK HERE

Over the years, social media platforms have been impactful to drive global connection and collaboration for healthcare industry leaders and innovators.

While adhering to social distancing during the Coronavirus pandemic, the need for online communities has become even more critical. Due to this current state of affairs, the new social audio platform, Clubhouse, has quickly become an outlet for authentic connection worldwide.

During this episode, engineer turned product marketer Henry Peck joins us to discuss why he launched and built the MedTech Club on Clubhouse, a healthcare-focused community that has rapidly grown to over 50,000 members and followers.

Join us to hear Henry’s patient journey, how he started his Clubhouse community, why he is so passionate about the social audio movement, and your opportunity to be a part of the journey. Let’s go!

Episode Highlights:

  • Henry explains his current work with robotic-assisted surgery
  • Why Henry launched the MedTech club in Clubhouse
  • What Clubhouse is
  • The future state of digital collaboration and social platforms for healthcare

About our Guest:

Henry Peck is an engineer turned product marketer, building the next generation of robot-assisted surgery at Johnson & Johnson. He leads the MedTech Club on Clubhouse, one of the largest healthcare-focused communities with 50,000+ members and followers. Inspired by his own patient journey, his background spans prosthesis, exoskeletons, and additional emerging technologies in healthcare.

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Managing Cognitive Impairment with Dirk Soenksen

This episode’s Community Champion Sponsor is Clear Child Psychology. To learn how they are shifting the paradigm in child mental health: CLICK HERE

The family caregiver’s role has become increasingly prevalent and essential to ensure our loved ones’ health.

Our next guest has dedicated his mission and expertise to create digital health programs to engage members with cognitive impairment via their family caregivers.

Dirk Soenksen, CEO of Ceresti Health, joins us to discuss why he launched his company and the reasons he remains incredibly passionate after eight years of operating his high growth startup.

Additionally, Dirk shares how Ceresti Health improves family caregiver effectiveness by leveraging predictive analytics to reduce hospitalizations and costs for its members while increasing the quality of life for the people Ceresti Health serves.

Join us to learn from Dirk and the inspiring mission he and his team are on as we continue to work together to reimagine how we deliver better health and care for our communities across the nation.

Episode Highlights:

  • Why Dirk started Ceresti Health
  • What Ceresti Health is accomplishing for families affected by cognitive impairment
  • How COVID-19 affected Ceresti Health
  • Future trends for the industry and Ceresti Health

About our Guest:

Dirk is co-founder and CEO of Ceresti Health. Ceresti has expertise in virtual care for seniors with cognitive impairment (e.g., dementia, stroke, Parkinson’s). Ceresti Health’s digital health programs engage members with cognitive impairment via their family caregivers. We improve family caregiver effectiveness and leverage predictive analytics to reduce hospitalizations and costs for members and increase the quality of life for caregivers and members. Our customers are Medicare Advantage (MA) health plans and at-risk providers who can realize cost savings in a large, growing, and not-currently-engaged population of vulnerable and costly members.

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Breaking Down Data Silos with Troy Bannister

This episode’s Community Champion Sponsor is Clear Child Psychology. To learn how they are shifting the paradigm in child mental health: CLICK HERE

A critical deficiency holding the healthcare industry back from its true potential to serve its consumers best is the lack of simple and secure access to vital medical data.

Fueled by his mission to break down data silos, our next guest is poised to catalyze dramatic change for the industry.

Troy Bannister, CEO of Particle Health, joins us to discuss how his company is leveraging opportunities brought forth by new legislation, how he is integrating with the largest electronic medical records, and why he is so passionate about building a developer-friendly environment to dismantle the complexities of traditional healthcare integrations.

Joins us for this energizing and eye-opening conversation as Troy shares with us the possibilities for a more connected and silo-free healthcare system!

Episode Highlights:

  • What Troy learned while working at StartUp Health
  • Why Troy started Particle Health
  • What Particle Health offers
  • Where Troy believes the industry is headed

About our Guest:

After working as an EMT, a med student, a clinical researcher, and early-stage healthcare VC, Troy realized no one had access to health data in a very meaningful way. He started Particle to solve one of the biggest issues at the core of the US Health System – simple access to critical data.

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Expert Coronavirus Updates with Peter Marx | Session 38

This episode’s Community Champion Sponsor is Clear Child Psychology. To learn how they are shifting the paradigm in child mental health: CLICK HERE

It has become painfully evident that our nation desperately needs to quickly, affordably, and reliably test its citizens for the COVID-19 virus.

Because of brilliant entrepreneurs like our next guest, this need is being solved by his company’s first-of-its-kind at-home rapid COVID test. A test using a self-administered nasal swab and is proving to be 99% effective, even with asymptomatic patients.

Peter Marx, the Managing Partner of BiologyWorks, joins us during this episode to discuss his team’s use of seven patents developed by the Alfred Mann Foundation for Scientific Research, how his team is navigating the FDA’s emergency use authorization, and why Peter is so passionate about delivering this rapid and reliable at-home COVID test to the masses.

Join us for this timely, energizing, and hopeful message as we continue to work together to battle this pandemic.

Episode Highlights:

  • How BiologyWorks is using patent protected technology to test for COVID-19
  • Why BiologyWorks’ at-home rapid test is 99% accuracy
  • How Peter is navigating FDA emergency use authorization
  • Peter’s passion to use this technology to help people safely gather again

About our Guest:

Peter Marx is well-known in the technology world and is currently the founder of BiologyWorks where he has developed and is in the production process of a first of its kind at-home COVID test. Previously, Peter served as the CTO of the City of Los Angeles, VP of Business Development at Qualcomm Labs, Inc., VP of the Technology and Digital Studio at Mattel, Inc., CTO for Vivendi-Universal Games and VP of Emerging Technologies for Universal Studios. Early in his career, he served as an engineer on a variety of telemedicine, digital video, radiological imaging, and biomedicine applications for UCLA and 3M Company.

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Transforming how to Address Addiction with Fred Muench

This episode’s Community Champion Sponsor is Clear Child Psychology. To learn how they are shifting the paradigm in child mental health: CLICK HERE

Overcoming the throes of drug misuse to eventually lead a national organization and movement to help others in our communities experiencing addiction is the very definition of triumph and who a passionate pioneer is.

During this episode, Fred Muench, the President of the Partnership to End Addiction, shares his heartrending personal journey and how his experiences transformed his life to serving others across our country.

While together, Fred also outlines how the Partnership to End Addiction came to be, why technology has been transformative for the people he serves, where he sees the organization heading into the future, and how you and your community can get involved.

Join me to hear Fred’s powerful and inspiring message for all of us as we continue to work together to reimagine the health of our nation.

Episode Highlights:

  • Fred’s own experience with addiction and overcoming it
  • The reality of the situation right now in this pandemic and the healthcare support system
  • The changes that we need to help our communities across the country
  • Partnership to End Addiction’s method and process to help our nation

About our Guest:

Fred is a clinical psychologist and the President of The Partnership to End Addiction (www.drugfree.org), which is the merger of The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse and The Partnership for Drug-free Kids, where he served as the President and CEO. His focus is on building, testing, and implementing digital interventions to prevent problem substance use and treat addiction in real-world and clinical settings. This includes the comprehensive direct to parent and caregiver services offered by the Partnership including it’s national helpline, mobile support applications, online support groups, peer support services, and self-guided e-learning. In addition, Fred has been the PI on multiple behavioral health grants from NIAAA, NIDA, FDA, RWJF Pioneer, Upswing, Twilio, and many other foundations and is an author on numerous articles to improve health outcomes using technology. Fred is also the co-founder of Vagus Labs (www.vaguslabs.com), which uses their patented non-invasive passive stimulation technology to improve physical and mental health.

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Expert Coronavirus Updates with Dr. Amy Boutwell | Session 37

This episode’s Community Champion Sponsor is Clear Child Psychology. To learn how they are shifting the paradigm in child mental health: CLICK HERE

During the Coronavirus pandemic, many deficiencies of our nation’s healthcare system have been laid bare. Yet, we are fortunate to have industry leaders who have experienced these faults in the delivery of care and have helped pave the way for the healthcare industry to adapt to meet the needs of COVID patients and to carry these lessons learned well beyond the current public health crisis.

Our next guest is a shining example of the inspiring frontline heroes who are valiantly working to bring relief and normalcy back to our families and communities.

Dr. Amy Boutwell, President of Collaborative Healthcare Strategies, is a nationally recognized thought leader in the field of delivery system transformation, specifically focused on reducing readmissions, cross-continuum collaboration, and improving care for multi-visit patients. Additionally, Dr. Boutwell is a practicing physician who has been taking care of patients in the Covid Field Hospital in Massachusetts.

While together, Dr. Boutwell shares her harrowing experience of working on the frontlines to battle the virus, what she learned along the way, and how we can implement her findings to propel us to a brighter and more sustainable healthcare industry in the future.

Join me for this timely, candid, and informative conversation as we continue to work together to reimagine a better healthcare delivery system for all.

Episode Highlights:

  • Dr. Boutwell’s journey of becoming a national thought leader
  • Why Dr. Boutwell chose to practice medicine on the frontlines
  • Her experience on the frontlines working to battle the virus
  • The lessons learned and what we can take forward beyond the pandemic

About our Guest:

Amy Boutwell, MD, MPP, President of Collaborative Healthcare Strategies and a practicing physician who has been taking care of patients in the Covid Field Hospital in Massachusetts. Dr. Boutwell is a nationally recognized thought leader in delivery system transformation, specifically focused on reducing readmissions, cross-continuum collaboration, and improving care for multi-visit patients. Over the past decade, Dr. Boutwell has designed and led dozens of delivery system transformation initiatives involving hundreds of teams and thousands of participants at the regional, state and national levels. Dr. Boutwell is a graduate of Stanford, Brown Medical School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where she received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Public Service. She trained in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

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