Episodes

Large numbers of people are affected by infertility in their lifetime. According to a new report published today by the World Health Organization, around 17.5% of the adult population – roughly 1 in 6 worldwide – experience infertility, showing the urgent need to increase access to affordable, high-quality fertility care for those in need. The new estimates show limited variation in the prevalence of infertility between regions. The rates are comparable for high-, middle- and low-income countri...

Breast cancer is the most commonly occurring cancer in women and the most common cancer overall. Treatment often starts with a surgery known as a lumpectomy to remove the cancer, but in a high % of cases, patients may undergo multiple re-excisions after their procedure in an attempt to obtain clear margins and avoid mastectomy. In this episode, CEO of Dilon Technologies, George Makhoul, shares how they are helping to significantly reduce the need for re-excision with the use of their MarginProb...

The rigid, plastic T-shaped intrauterine device (IUD) has been available for over 40 years, with little to no innovation. Insertion is painful and involves numerous painful steps, and removal requires bothersome dangling strings, which are a nuisance for women and their partners. Most importantly, the pain associated with insertion and removal is widely known, leading to a nearly universal fear, particularly among younger women, of selecting an IUD. This ‘fear factor’ is a significant barrier t...

Transforming the outcomes for a disease takes great innovation. With that, you need impeccable dedication and leadership for the team to deliver on taking a solution to market. Former CEO of LimFlow, Dan Rose, is one such leader who can attest to the trials and tribulations of this challenging journey. Dan joins this episode to share the story of how LimFlow’s technology has gone from an idea with potential, to a life-saving solution. In achieving this, the company has been able to re-design th...

Research suggests that women are more likely to experience joint pain, aching, and stiffness caused by arthritis or arthritic conditions. In fact, evidence suggests that women aged 50 to 60 years may be 3.5 times (350%) more likely to develop CMC osteoarthritis than men in the same age group. CEO and co-founder of Grace & Able, Sarah Dillingham, is one such arthritis sufferer. Following a life-changing moment, she decided to tackle the lack of suitable relief products for women. Through buildin...

What are metamaterials and how can they help improve the performance of MRI?? Step forward Ryan Mcnaughton, CEO and co-founder of Primetaz to reveal how their technology is set to dramatically enhance both the quality of imaging but more importantly, offer game-changing time-saving to a process that is seeing significant growing demand. MRI has become one of the most important tools for doctors to see inside the body to understand what is happening in disease. MRI shows soft tissues like the br...

Thirona’s CEO and Founder, Eva van Rikxoort, joins this episode to share how their FDA-approved device is now integrating into the clinical workflow to both enhance physician performance and patient outcomes. LungQ is built on more than 10 years of clinical trials and 200+ publications to utilize AI allowing automatic segmentation of pulmonary segments and subsegments found in the internal anatomy of the lung. This clearer understanding of lung anatomy helps enable broader adoption of minimally...

Breaking bones is unfortunately a common part of life; in fact doctors treat about 6.8 million fractures each year in the United States alone, and the average person can expect to sustain two fractures over their lifetime. In this episode, we are joined by Brian Hess, CEO and Founder of RevBio, who is helping to transform bone repair with their innovative adhesive. Not only is this solution boosting how bones can rapidly fuse back together through its biomimicry properties, this is a product th...

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), also known as enlarged prostate, has been in the headlines recently with Britain's King Charles revealing plans earlier this year to have a corrective procedure to alleviate the associated symptoms. In this episode, Tushar Sharma, Vivifi Medical’s CEO and Founder, joins us to guide listeners through an amazing anatomical insight of the condition and their novel treatment. An enlarged prostate is a fact of life for the majority of men as they age. Due to the p...

Studies show that over 65% of patients with chronic pain, Parkinson's Disease, post-acute stroke, and pelvic floor disorders do not fully recover with current treatments - resulting in hospital readmissions and ER visits. In this episode, we are joined by Siva Nadarajah, co-founder and President of JOGO Health, to share how more than a decade’s worth of research and testing has been undertaken to address this problem through their digital rehabilitation solution. Promising early results have sh...

The process of trying to conceive can prove to be an emotional rollercoaster – surprise, confusion, anger, worry, rage, sadness… Plus, the burden of having to monitor your body for signs of fertility that previously you'd never paid attention to can also add to the feelings of anxiety and guilt. As many as 8 million women in the US face difficulty when trying to become pregnant. Uros Kuzmanovic, CEO and co-founder of BioSens8, is on a mission to alleviate some of this burden by making tracking ...

Abdominal cavity examinations can be complex and expensive. This means they are often highly inaccessible for many people. OUI Medical was founded by Dr. Adarsh Patil in 2023 with a singular vision: to revolutionize the way abdominal examinations are conducted. Driven by a passion for innovation and a dedication to excellence, his team has set out to develop a solution that addresses the challenges of traditional diagnostic methods. The current standard involves laparoscopy, a minimally invasiv...

The healthcare landscape is primed and ready for consumers to have better control of their own health. With patients regularly facing significant out of pocket costs for diagnostic testing, combined with a poor user experience in trying to access the healthcare system, Nathalya Mamane, CEO and Founder of RT MicroDx, is stepping forward to leverage technology and provide an improved standard of care. In this episode, we discover how her startup is tackling testing issues head on. The company’s b...

Fundraising is a challenging process which is often confusing, drawn out, and ultimately leaves many founders frustrated. Statistics show that for certain founders, there appears to be an additional imbalance which is causing concern across the innovation ecosystem. Despite extensive data showing the benefits of a diverse founding team, underrepresented and underserved founders are still regularly being overlooked when it comes to dollars being distributed to startups. Allison Byers, CEO and F...

Starting a medical device company is hard. Successfully building a medical device company is even harder. Medtech entrepreneurs are therefore constantly searching for guidance and support on their journey. If you ever wanted a podcast episode to act as a roadmap to accelerate your journey from idea to market, then this is the one for you! Tune in to hear how FastWave Medical is truly making waves when it comes to Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL). Not only are they bringing exciting new treatment...

Some of the best technologies developed take their inspiration from the natural environment, and Limax Biosciences is following in this vein, with their novel hydrogel glue seeking to transform how we treat injuries inside and outside the body. Co-founder Ben Freedman steps into this episode’s guest seat to share his mission of putting an end to disruptive and excessive bleeding that creates substantial costs for the healthcare system. With multiple applications for their innovation, significan...

The inspiration behind Samay Health was founder Maria Artunduaga’s abuela, Sylvia. Maria witnessed her grandmother’s struggles to understand when her COPD was exacerbating. After she died, Maria decided to switch careers, so that no one else dies because of misdiagnosis. Maria Artunduaga is a Colombian-born physician-scientist and inventor with 50+ prizes and publications. Her pragmatic approach to building a novel solution is based on both a passionate foundation and recognition that the curre...

During this episode we learn how two Georgia Tech graduates came together to form Augment Health and settled on creating a smart bladder monitor for neurological conditions. There are 7 million people who have lost feeling and function of their bladder due to a chronic neurological condition. As two young entrepreneurs, Stephen Kalinsky shares how he and his fellow co-founder took on a number of challenges, pivoted into their innovation, and kept a steadfast mindset to understand the clinician ...

Gitte Pedersen is a Danish scientist and company builder using mRNA to design next generation cures for cancer. Together with her brother, she co-founded Genomic Expression where the familial tale extends into the startup’s origin story. In this episode, co-host @kyle kruse and I discover what led Gitte to tackle the significant issue faced by many cancer sufferers in the world. The lack of specificity that recognized therapeutics provide for cancer, or sometimes, the lack of any available trea...

We all know how easy it can be to hit your head against something, whether this be a light knock or a more serious collision. However, when it comes to recognizing the difference between the impact of these knocks, it’s not quite as easy! As a nurse practitioner, Debbie Kantor, has witnessed firsthand the issues this can cause. This inspired her to found Hero Medical Technologies and utilize a data-driven approach to improve how we diagnose and monitor TBIs. Hero Medical is developing a more ef...

Tragic moments in life are often the driving force behind big decisions that steer many of the outcomes we experience. For Alexander Colton of Cosmos Pharmaceuticals, he has taken one such moment as the inspiration to take action and help make every pill count. Alexander’s passion for the problem being addressed exudes throughout this high-energy discussion on how Cosmos is tackling one of the biggest little secrets in medical care, the challenges with medication adherence. There’s a reason tha...

How do you turn an academic research project into a truly accessible product to help improve or save lives?? There’s so much value to unpack from this conversation with Katherine Clayton of OmniVis as she discusses her journey from childhood dreams of curing all diseases, to Phd researcher, turned entrepreneur and startup leader. We touch on how having an inspirational supervisor and other key advisors helped transition from lab work to forging a pathway to commercialize her research, utilizin...

As we approach the end of Breast Cancer Awareness month, the #MedtechImpactPodcast wanted to shine a light on some exciting innovation which is offering a new level of precision and data driven insights for breast cancer imaging. In our latest episode, Kyle and Richard chat with CEO of DeepLook Medical, Marissa Fayer about how she is driving a collaborative strategy through their software solution. DeepLook’s FDA approved DL Precise is helping radiologists across the treatment pathway (Ultrasou...

From Day one of the IMPACT accelerator program, Mintz has been supporting the Cohorts, providing knowledge and legal guidance to each startup. Their Managing Member Steve Osborn, from the San Francisco office, leads the Preparing for Investment sessions which are a perennial favorite amongst the founders as he shares firsthand experience and insights. In this episode, co-host Kyle Kruse and I dive deep into the weeds with Steve to have an intimate discussion about what led him to into the legal...