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UCLA Biodesign Fireside Chat with Andrew Gostine, MD MBA

Join Dr. Andrew Gostine Thursday, September 23rd, 6PM-7:30PM PT for a Fireside Chat. Andrew Gostine, MD, MBA is a practicing physician and CEO of Artisight, Inc. He completed training in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Northwestern Medicine and Stanford Health Care, respectively. He left medicine in 2015 to work in venture capital at Jump Capital, one of the leading fintech and cryptocurrency investment firms. After returning to healthcare, he founded Artisight to bring IOT sensor-based automation to hospitals. Artisight's proprietary platform leverages computer vision, voice recognition, and ultrawide band tracking technologies to improve productivity and satisfaction for patients and frontline healthcare workers. Artisight Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yobdZTnwQzc Artisight Introductory Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e3OHIiV3DcPD_MP3TijIYEhTIb4Y-ugY/view

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UCLA Biodesign’s Fireside Chat Series: An Entrepreneur’s Journey – From Concept to Acquisition with Barrett Larson, MD

UCLA Biodesign Fireside Chat Monthly Series: An Entrepreneur's Journey - From Concept to Acquisition with Barrett Larson, MD Register here to join Barrett Larson, MD on Thursday, 10/28/2021, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PT Join Dr. Barrett Larson as he discusses how he went from uncovering an unmet clinical need to preventing pressure ulcers and pressure injuries and developing a solution through a business he subsequently sold to Smith & Nephew. Barrett will be sharing how corporates think about acquisitions and how he went from an entrepreneurial spark to identifying requirements for an unmet need, qualifying that unmet need to developing a solution, and launching it in the market. About the Speaker: Barrett Larson, MD is a board-certified anesthesiologist with [...]

UCLA Biodesign’s Fireside Chat Series: An Entrepreneur’s Journey – From IPO to NewCo with Candesant Biomedical CEO Niquette Hunt

UCLA Biodesign Fireside Chat Monthly Series: An Entrepreneur's Journey - From IPO to NewCo with Candesant Biomedical CEO Niquette Hunt Register here to join Niquette Hunt on Thursday, 11/16/2021, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM PT Join Niquette Hunt as she shares her journey and lessons learned along the road to IPO and commercialization, where she uncovered an unmet need and started a new company to tackle that need. About the Speaker: Niquette Hunt is CEO & President of Candesant Biomedical. Niqui has over 25 years experience in developing, launching and commercially scaling 20+ products in both large corporations (P&G, Warner Lambert) and early stage companies across multiple verticals in the consumer medicine market. Every business she managed has increased [...]

Corporate Insights – A Leading Biopharmaceutical Company’s Lens into Digital Health, Investments & Innovation

UCLA Biodesign Fireside Chat Monthly Series: Corporate Insights - A Leading Biopharmaceutical Company's Lens into Digital Health, Investments & Innovation Tuesday, 12/14/2021, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PT Join Dr. Debbie Lin as she sits down for a Fireside Chat with UCLA Biodesign's Medtech and Digital Health Innovation Hub, AILA, and BioscienceLA to discuss corporate innovation, board management, how she thinks about investment decisions, trends in digital health, and shares her experiences across the biopharmaceutical landscape during her exceptional 20 plus years of leadership. About the Speaker: Dr. Debbie Lin is Executive Director at Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund in the US and started and leads the Fund’s North American investment efforts in Digital Healthcare. She led the investments [...]

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UCLA Biodesign Fireside Chat with Global Chief Medical Officer Dr. Atul Gupta at Philips Image Guided Therapy

UCLA Biodesign Fireside Chat Monthly Series: With Global Chief Medical Officer Dr. Atul Gupta at Philips Image Guided Therapy Thursday, 1/27/2022, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PT About the Speaker: Atul Gupta, MD is global Chief Medical Officer and member of the management team for Image Guided Therapy (IGT) at Philips. He is responsible for our clinical strategy and is a key voice to our product roadmap and vision, supporting IGT systems, IGT devices and EPD Solutions - the three businesses of IGT. As an actively practicing interventional and diagnostic radiologist with over 20 years clinical experience, he serves as the key external clinical voice of Philips IGT. He also sits on the leadership team of our Royal [...]

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UCLA Biodesign Fireside Chat with Cofounder & President of StartupHealth Unity Stoakes

UCLA Biodesign Fireside Chat Monthly Series: With President, Co-founder & Managing Partner of StartupHealth Unity Stoakes Thursday, 2/17/2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM PT About the Speaker: Unity Stoakes is on a life-long mission to achieve the impossible: to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone in the world. By combining the power of moonshot thinking, a transformer mindset, and collaborative communities, he believes anything is possible. In 2011, Unity co-founded StartUp Health with Steven Krein, his business partner of more than 20 years, to invest in a global army of entrepreneurs, called Health Transformers, to embark on one extraordinary crusade: to achieve health moonshots, each of which can improve the lives of at least one billion people. [...]

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UCLA Biodesign Fireside Chat with Venture Chair & Board Member at Redesign Health Missy Krasner

UCLA Biodesign Fireside Chat Monthly Series: With Venture Chair & Board Member at Redesign Health Missy Krasner Thursday, 3/10/2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM PT About the Speaker: Missy Krasner is a seasoned healthcare operator with 30+ years in the digital health industry. She has worked at large technology companies (Amazon, Google, Box), startups, foundations, the U.S. government and venture capital. She was a founding member of the Alexa Health & Wellness team at Amazon, led Box’s healthcare & life sciences division, and was the founding executive of Google Health. Missy worked under President George W. Bush in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where she helped start the inaugural Office the National Coordinator for [...]

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UCLA Biodesign Fireside Chat with Amazon Pharmacy Chief Medical Officer Nworah Ayogu, MD, MBA

UCLA Biodesign Fireside Chat Monthly Series: A Tale of Two Cities: Pros/Cons to Startups and Big Companies Thursday, 5/12/2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM PT About the Speaker: Dr. Nworah Ayogu serves as the Chief Medical Officer for Amazon Pharmacy. Prior to Amazon, Nworah was the founding Medical Director for CityBlock Health – a company delivering team based virtual, in-home and clinic based medical, behavioral and social care to high cost, high social need populations. He has spent time working in the PBM space, at McKinsey working on payer strategy, co-founded a mobile health start-up in South Africa, and was part of the four-person team that launched state of Ohio’s first Office of Minority Health. He is a thought [...]

Fireside Chat with Nick Desai ’92, CEO & Co-Founder, HeyRenee

  Come hear from Nick Desai '92, a UCLA alum and serial entrepreneur who has started and led four successful start-ups over the last 20 years.   About this event   Nick Desai is a UCLA alum and an accomplished entrepreneur who has started and led four successful start-ups over the last 20 years, including Heal – a company he co-founded to re-boot the U.S. healthcare system leveraging the transformative power of technology-enabled doctor house calls. He started his current company, HeyRenee, with his wife and co-founder Dr. Renee Dua, a UC San Diego and USC alum who also completed a residency in internal medicine at UCLA. Nick raised over $165 million in venture funding for Heal, from [...]

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UCLA Biodesign’s 2nd Annual Women in Healthtech Leadership Lecture

Join Lisa Wipperman Heine for a conversation about her career journey and lessons learned across a cadre of roles at venture-backed startups to large, multinational companies to leading her first startup as CEO through to acquisition in less than four years. Lisa Wipperman Heine has served in the Medtech industry for over 30 years holding leadership roles in both large Medtech companies as well as venture-backed start-ups. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for 3 public medtech/biotech companies as well as 1 early-stage private company. Recently, Lisa was also President and Chief Executive Officer at preCARDIA, Inc., an early stage, heart failure focused medtech company which was acquired by Abiomed, Inc. in 2021. Ms. Heine also [...]

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