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Raise the LineThe Challenges and Rewards of Completing Medical School at Seventy: Toh Hong Keng, Retired Business Executive and Recent Medical School GraduateThis episode of Raise the Line is special for a couple of reasons. Our guest, Toh Hong Keng recently graduated from medical school at the age of seventy, making him one of the oldest medical students in the world; and Shiv Gaglani is taking a break from his 3rd year of medical school -- which he is completing at the age of 35 -- to make a rare appearance hosting the show so he can compare notes with Toh about being a non-traditional med student and to learn from his inspiring example. Toh is a retired tech sales executive who...2024-11-2131 min
The Dr. Raj PodcastThe Journey from CEO back to Medical Student with Shiv GaglaniToday's EpisodeDr. Raj is joined by Osmosis co-founder Shiv Gaglani to discuss his career.Today’s GuestShiv Gaglani is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Osmosis.org, a leading health education platform with an audience of millions of current & future clinicians as well as their patients and family members. Shiv’s primary passion is developing innovative and scalable solutions in the fields of healthcare and education. To this end he curated the Smartphone Physical, which debuted at TEDMED, and the Patient Promise, a movement to improve clinician-patient rela...2024-07-1042 min
Smart Growth RocketFrom CEO to MD: Lessons on Healthcare and Entrepreneurship with Shiv GaglaniIn today’s podcast, Francesca Cadhit interviews Shiv Gaglani, the Co-founder & CEO of Osmosis.org, a leading health and medical education platform, which was acquired by Elsevier.
Shiv is passionate about creating scalable solutions in healthcare and education. He completed his undergraduate degree and an MBA at Harvard. In 2018, Shiv was also named one of Forbes’ Top 30 Under 30. He is currently a medical student at Johns Hopkins.
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✅ His unique journey from aspiring young doctor to successful entrepreneur and back to medical school at Johns Hop...2024-06-2627 min
Raise the LineA Revolutionary Moment in Transplant Surgery: Dr. Andrew Cameron, Surgeon-in-Chief of Johns Hopkins Medicine“There is a revolution at hand in which, after years of struggling to locate a new source of organs, there may finally be an answer and to everyone's surprise it is animal organs. Pigs may save the day,” says Dr. Andrew Cameron, chief of the Division of Transplantation at Johns Hopkins Medicine. While he’s encouraged by recent progress in using genetically-modified pig organs in humans, Cameron points to other ways of addressing this chronic shortage which include creative use of social media to raise awareness of the need, and even compensating people for donations. But, as you’ll learn on...2024-05-0342 min
Raise the LineChanging the Culture and Climate of Medicine: Dr. Susan Mackinnon, Director of the Center for Nerve Injury and Paralysis at Washington University School of MedicineToday’s guest is a trailblazing surgeon who performed the first successful nerve allograft, among other important achievements, but that’s actually not what host Shiv Gaglani wanted to focus on in this interview with Dr. Susan Mackinnon. After seeing her speak recently at a Johns Hopkins Grand Rounds presentation, Shiv immediately asked her to be a guest on Raise the Line because of her passion to change the culture and climate in the medical profession, partly by reconnecting it with its core mission. “We need to get it to a point where you can take the Hippocratic oath, which...2024-04-1855 min
Raise the LineCreating Therapeutic Journeys with Music: Kerry Devlin, MMT, Senior Music Therapist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Music and MedicineWhen Raise the Line host and third year medical student Shiv Gaglani witnessed the creation of a “heart song” at the bedside of a terminal patient during his recent neurology clerkship, he immediately wanted to know more about the clinical applications of music therapy and realized the Osmosis audience would want to as well. That’s why we’re happy to bring you this fascinating episode featuring Shiv’s interview with Kerry Devlin, MMT, a senior music therapist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Music and Medicine. “I like to describe music therapy as a relational therapeutic encounter. Music is both the t...2024-04-1141 min
The Cyber Business PodcastFrom Entrepreneurship to Medical Student With Shiv GaglaniShiv Gaglani is the Co-founder and CEO of Osmosis, a leading medical education platform acquired by Elsevier. With a background in medicine and technology, Shiv has been at the forefront of revolutionizing medical education. He co-founded Osmosis to make learning more efficient and effective for healthcare professionals worldwide. Under his leadership, Osmosis has become a trusted resource for medical students, residents, and clinicians, offering comprehensive study tools, video lectures, and interactive content. Shiv is dedicated to leveraging technology to improve healthcare education and enhance patient care. Additionally, he's a prolific writer who has authored two educational books and contributed...2024-02-2826 min
Holistic Leadership: The Future of Work & Education in HealthcareFrom Medical Student to Healthcare Innovator: Shiv Gaglani’s Blueprint for Transforming Medical EducationAs healthcare continues the path of technological transformation, how should it reimagine medical education now and in the future?The Holistic Leadership podcast welcomes a conversation that bridges the gap between healthcare and education through the experiences of those who dare to innovate. In this episode, host Geoffrey Roche engages with Shiv Gaglani, the co-founder and CEO of Osmosis.org. Gaglani's journey from medical student to leading a central educational platform offers a compelling look at how personal challenges within medical education can inspire solutions that benefit millions. His story is more than the creation of a...2024-02-2035 min
Real Estate Mogul, M.D.S2 #41 End of the Endless Med School Lectures with Shiv Gaglani Co-founder of Osmosis.orgSend us a textShaking up the education industry with Osmosis.org, Shiv shares his journey coming from an immigrant family who are all involved in medicine. He has created, built, and sold a tech-education company that is revolutionizing the "virtual" med-school world with "flipped classrooms". Can we now include real estate, finance and business education earlier in a physician's education career? Naval Ravikant - The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness has been very influential for Shiv on this journey.https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivgaglani/https://www.osmosis.org/2023-12-0632 min
The MD+ PodcastEp #5: Med-Ed Innovation with Shiv GaglaniIn this episode, our MD+ co-chair Clara Sun sits down with Shiv Gaglani - founder of the educational platform: Osmosis.2023-12-0139 min
The Underdog Physician PodcastFrom Medicine to Education: The Inspiring Journey of Shiv GaglaniShiv Gaglani, co-founder and CEO of Osmosis, shares his journey of becoming a doctor and developing the company. He discusses his early experiences in healthcare and how they inspired him to pursue a career in medicine. Shiv also talks about his interest in preventive medicine and education, which led him to create Osmosis.2023-10-3129 min
Raise the LineThe Path Ahead for MDMA-Assisted Therapy - Dr. Michael Mithoefer, Clinical Investigator at MAPS Public Benefit CorporationOf the many hopeful developments in psychedelic research in recent years, perhaps the most important is that FDA approval of MDMA-assisted therapy for treating post-traumatic stress disorder appears likely within the next year. That prospect is due in no small part to our Raise the Line guest, Dr. Michael Mithoefer, who has spearheaded clinical trials of MDMA-assisted therapy for more than twenty years and is a senior leader at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Public Benefit Corporation which has led this groundbreaking research. Although he notes that FDA approval isn’t guaranteed, Mithoefer is contemplating what the practicalities wi...2023-10-0540 min
The Mindset with Dr VeenaE5: The Mindset of Shiv Gaglani, CEO & Co-founder of Osmosis.orgShiv Gaglani, a visionary and accomplished entrepreneur, is the CEO and Co-founder of Osmosis- a medical education platform that serves over 3 Million users. With a passion for revolutionising healthcare education, Gaglani has led Osmosis to become a global leader in providing innovative study tools and resources for medical students and professionals. His educational b/g boasts an undergraduate in Biomedical Engineering at Harvard, Medical school at John Hopkins University School of Medicine ( he left in year 2 to build Osmosis and 10 years later has returned to now complete his doctorate) and further has an MBA from Harvard Business Sc...2023-07-1848 min
Raise the Line“The Time for Innovation is Upon Us” - Dr. Julie Pilitsis, Dean of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine and Vice President of Medical Affairs at Florida Atlantic University“I think we're doing something really special here to change the way healthcare is delivered in South Florida, so keep an eye on us,” says Dr. Julie Pilitsis, dean of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine and Vice President of Medical Affairs at Florida Atlantic University. For one thing, class sizes in the medical and nursing programs are both increasing to tackle less than ideal access to health services. “If you get diagnosed with a lump on your breast in Florida, it takes you thirty days on average to see a doctor, while the national average is three to five...2023-06-1425 min
The Bionabu MedTech Podcast#18 Osmosis CEO Talks: AI in Medicine, Effective Medical Learning and Engaging Health Education for all (Shiv Gaglani)Shiv Gaglani, Founder and CEO of Osmosis, shares his visionary perspective on the instrumental role of AI as we navigate the new era of medicine. We delve into how artificial intelligence is not only transforming but also revolutionizing the way we learn and teach medicine. This conversation goes beyond the conventional, exploring how AI is democratizing medical education and empowering students and patients alike.
We discuss the innovative approaches Osmosis is employing to make medical knowledge more accessible, digestible, and engaging. The CEO elucidates how these advancements are equipping medical students and patients with the tools they...2023-05-1549 min
Raise the LineOsmosis.org Co-founder & CEO Relies on His Own Learning Platform for Return to Med SchoolSome of you may have a general idea about how Osmosis got started, but today you are going to get the full, fascinating story from one of its co-founders, Shiv Gaglani, who we welcome back to the Raise the Line podcast as our special guest. Shortly into his first year of medical school at Johns Hopkins in 2011, Shiv, and his co-founder Ryan Haynes, realized medical education was overdue for an upgrade. “The research was clear on how people learn and how to get them to engage in their education, but professors weren't being taught how to teach. We wanted to br...2023-04-1329 min
The Business of Healthcare PodcastModernizing and Scaling Healthcare Education In this episode, host Dr. Bob Kaiser speaks with Shiv Gaglani, co-founder and CEO of Osmosis.org. They discuss why Gaglani and his co-founder Ryan Haynes paused their medical-school studies to tackle the building of a modern healthcare education platform and how Osmosis grew it into a user base of more than 3 million students. The episode was recorded on Rare Diseases Day. They discuss the initiative that the company launched to raise awareness of rare diseases through its Year of the Zebra newsletter.2023-03-2834 min
Raise the LineThe Inside Story of the Year of the Zebra Campaign - Shiv Gaglani, Co-Founder of Osmosis from ElsevierWe’re turning the tables on Raise the Line co-host Shiv Gaglani today who will be answering questions, instead of asking them, about Osmosis from Elsevier’s Year of the Zebra campaign.As Shiv explains to host Michael Carrese, he first became interested in rare diseases meeting patients as a medical student at Johns Hopkins University a decade ago. His discomfort with the standard advice given to medical students to think of horses (the common condition) and not zebras (the rare condition) when determining a diagnosis sparked an interest in learning more. In the ensuing years he creat...2023-03-2316 min
Raise the LineEducating Doctors to Be Leaders and Changemakers - Dr. Abebe Bekele, Dean of the School of Medicine at University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda“The qualities of a provider that were envisioned fifty years ago are completely different from what the world needs for tomorrow. It’s completely different,” insists Dr. Abebe Bekele, who is entrusted with educating this new breed of physician at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda. As Bekele explains to host Shiv Gaglani in this special in-person interview on the campus of UGHE in Butaro, Rwanda, COVID-19 has demonstrated that doctors now need to be able to serve as leaders of institutions, manage large projects, raise money and interface with influential public sector players such as policymakers and jou...2023-02-2324 min
The World We WantLeadership: Insights from Shiv Gaglani, Co-Founder & CEO, OsmosisShiv Gaglani is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Osmosis.org, a leading health education platform with an audience of millions of current & future clinicians as well as their patients and family members. Shiv’s primary passion is developing innovative and scalable solutions in the fields of healthcare and education. To this end he curated the Smartphone Physical, which debuted at TEDMED, and the Patient Promise, a movement to improve clinician-patient relationship through partnership in pursuing healthy lifestyle behaviors. Shiv is also an avid writer who has written two educational books, Success with Science and Standing out on th...2023-02-2238 min
The Radiology Report PodcastHealthcare Entrepreneurship with Shiv GaglaniOn this episode, host Daniel Arnold talks about healthcare entrepreneurship with Shiv Gaglani, the CEO and co-founder of Osmosis and host of the Raise the Line podcast.
Shiv Gaglani talks about his journey into healthcare entrepreneurship and his process of pursuing a business career versus a clinical career full-time.
Daniel and Shiv also talk in-depth about growing the Osmosis brand into a leading online health education platform, and the Year of the Zebra initiative.
Like this episode? We'd love it if you could leave us a five-star review! And make sure to subscribe, s...2023-02-1529 minThe Radiology Report PodcastHealthcare Entrepreneurship with Shiv GaglaniOn this episode, host Daniel Arnold talks about healthcare entrepreneurship with Shiv Gaglani, the CEO and co-founder of Osmosis and host of the Raise the Line podcast.
Shiv Gaglani talks about his journey into healthcare entrepreneurship and his process of pursuing a business career versus a clinical career full-time.
Daniel and Shiv also talk in-depth about growing the Osmosis brand into a leading online health education platform, and the Year of the Zebra initiative.
Like this episode? We'd love it if you could leave us a five-star review! And make sure to subscribe, s...2023-02-1529 min
WorkforceRxShiv Gaglani, Co-Founder of Osmosis: A Once and Future Med Student Shakes Up Health EducationAs a medical student at Johns Hopkins University ten years ago, Shiv Gaglani quickly realized it was time to shake up a century-old approach to medical education and make the experience more personalized and efficient. That was the spark for creating Osmosis, an online and mobile learning platform that he left med school to grow. The company, which was acquired last year by the European-based medical publisher Elsevier, has attracted millions of medical and allied health students to its learning system and short-form educational videos. “Osmosis has been designed around trying to make it as easy as possible for someone to...2023-01-2520 min
The Future Of...The Future Of... EdTech Driven HealthTech with Shiv Gaglani, Co-founder & CEO of OsmosisWelcome to the very first episode of "The Future Of...", a podcast where, you guessed it - we discuss the future. The future of various industries and sectors that make our global economy tick. It is presented by Product10x.com and hosted by Niraj Mulani, Director of Community at Product10x. On this podcast, Niraj is joined by visionaries and thought leaders from diverse industries as they dissect their sector into layers, understand its evolution and crystal-ball gaze on where it is headed and what the future holds.
On the very first episode, we are joined...2022-11-0139 min
EdUp HealthUp9. Scalable and Engaging Solutions in Education and Healthcare - with Shiv Gaglani, Co-Founder and CEO, Osmosis.org from ElsevierWe welcome YOU to America's leading higher education and healthcare podcast, EdUp HealthUp!
It’s YOUR time to #EdUpHealthUp
In this episode, YOUR guest is Shiv Gaglani, Co-Founder and CEO, Osmosis.org from Elsevier. YOUR host is Geoffrey M. Roche.
How can you help solve workforce challenges with innovative educational solutions? What can be done to develop new pathways into a healthcare career? What does Shiv believe needs to happen to address the healthcare workforce crisis?
Listen in to #EdUpHealthUp!
Thank YOU so much for tuning in. Join us on...2022-10-2534 min
The Scrubbed In Show by PeerrE111: The Founding Story of Osmosis - Shiv Gaglani (Co-Founder and CEO)In this week’s episode we meet Shiv, the Cofounder of Osmosis (recently been acquired by Elsevier) and his incredible journey to building a platform that serves millions across the world. Tune in as we uncover his passion and love for teaching, the decision making process he used to dropout of medical school (don’t worry he plans to return soon!). We delve into the obstacles and challenges he faced building a globally recognised educational platform and why collaboration with competitors is a better approach.
Shiv shares his experiences from Harvard Business school and the rationale behind their...2022-10-2354 min
The SliceShiv Gaglani: Learning Through OsmosisShiv Gaglani is CEO and co-founder of Osmosis, a wildly popular open-source health education platform used by millions of current and aspiring clinicians.. In this episode, Shiv details his mission to expand access to medical education around the world and reflects on some of the most challenging decisions of his entrepreneurial career. Justin and Shiv also discuss the perks and wonders of game-changing educational tools revolutionizing the way the industry approaches med school. JUMP STRAIGHT INTO:(01:06) - Choosing a degree in health policy and engineering - “Healthcare was kind of in my blood, but then I g...2022-09-0739 min
AMBOSS: Beyond the TextbookPart 2 of 2: Medical Education, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Healthcare with Osmosis founder and CEO Shiv GaglaniShiv Gaglani, the co-founder and CEO of Osmosis, joins host Dr. Tanner Schrank for part 2 of this interview. Osmosis is a leading online medical education platform, best known for their short videos. In this episode, Shiv describes how he and his colleagues are also dedicated to improving medical education, increasing medical literacy among patients, and he forecasts how the medical education field will be changing in the future. // Interviewee: Shiv Gaglani, co-founder and CEO of Osmosis.org // Osmosis from Elsevier / https://www.osmosis.org/ The Health Care B...2022-08-2217 minAMBOSS: Beyond the TextbookPart 1 of 2: Medical Education, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Healthcare with Osmosis founder and CEO Shiv GaglaniOsmosis is one of the leading online medical education platforms, specializing in animated videos with easy-to-follow narration. Their focus is on improving healthcare through better training of students, professionals, and even patients and their families. Osmosis was recently acquired by the publisher Elsevier, which should help in their goal of educating a billion people by 2025. Today, the Osmosis CEO sat down with us to talk about education, business, and the future of healthcare. Join us for part 1 of 2 of this interview. // Interviewee: Shiv Gaglani, co-founder and CEO of Osmosis.org // Osmosis from Elsevier / 2022-08-0817 min
Physicians Off The Beaten Path21- Physician-Entrepreneur Series: Shiv Gaglani (Osmosis.org)How did Osmosis, the popular health education platform, come about? Why do we need more MDs in spaces like health policy? In this episode, we answer all these questions and more with our guest, Shiv Gaglani.
Shiv is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Osmosis, which makes a popular web- and mobile-learning platform used by more than 3 million medical and allied health professions students and 30+ medical schools.
After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard College in 2010 with degrees in engineering and health policy, Shiv began his MD degree at the Johns Hopkins School of...2022-04-0653 min
Raise the LineDr. Mike Hoaglin - Medical Director of Prairie Health and Independent Telemedicine ConsultantWe’ve talked a lot on Raise the Line about the upsides of the telehealth boom, but our guest today, Dr. Mike Hoaglin, brings a new silver lining to light: it’s one way to help with the physician burnout crisis. “I've certainly been in the trenches of burnout in the past, and having the flexibility to be able to see patients when I'm at my best and when I'm able to be at home with my family is just a great setup for me to be successful, and my patients benefit.” In fact, “Dr. Mike” was an early adopter of telehealt...2022-03-2328 min
BackTable IndustryEp. 19 Overcoming the Doubt: Bias Towards Action with Shiv GaglaniIn this episode, medical education entrepreneur Shiv Gaglani and I discuss the founding, journey, and acquisition of Osmosis, a leading medical education platform.Reflect on how this Podcast applies to your day-to-day and engage to earn AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ via point-of-care learning activities here: https://earnc.me/WbmsekShiv shares the impetus behind Osmosis: He and classmate/co-founder Ryan Haynes were medical students at Johns Hopkins, and they wanted to find an efficient way to study high-yield topics for their exams. What started as a text-based question bank...2022-03-1143 min
Raise the LineOne Key to Behavior Change? Set the Bar Low and Keep It There: Dr. BJ Fogg, Stanford University Researcher and Author of Tiny HabitsYou might not think flossing one tooth a day would be worthy of celebration, but today’s Raise the Line guest says that’s actually the best way to become someone who regularly flosses all of their teeth, and he has decades of research to back it up. Dr. BJ Fogg, a Stanford University researcher perhaps best known for his bestselling book Tiny Habits, says his approach is based in part on the recognition that motivation fluctuates, so setting big goals can set people up for failure. “What you need to do in the tiny habits method is set the ba...2022-03-1034 min
The Doctor is OutS3E04: Ed Tech Innovation - Shiv Gaglani and Sievert WeissHow do you innovate as an entrepreneur in medical education?Join for a conversation with Osmosis Founder and CEO Shiv Gaglani and Amboss Founder Dr. Sievert Weiss on a conversation around building a startup in medical education. Learn about each entrepreneur's unique path into ed tech, the business model of education, the calculus of stepping away from medical school or clinical medicine to build a company, and how to transform passions in medical education into companies reaching millions of students globally.Check out as well the Osmosis podcast here: www.osmosis.org/raisethelinepodcast. --- S...2022-01-1956 min
Zero To 5000Time Management? - Shiv Gaglani, Osmosis Knowledge DiffusionAnother inspiring conversation on the Zero to 5000 Podcast today.
We were joined by Shiv Gaglani, the Co-founder of Osmosis Knowledge Diffusion.
We discussed:
- Properly managing your time in order to have a successful business.
- The importance of resource and tension for your business.
- It's more important to take things on one at a time than all at once.
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That Medic Podcast#032: Raising the Line: The Promise of Virtual Education 🎓 - Shiv GaglaniIn this podcast, we spoke to Shiv Gaglani, co-founder and CEO of Osmosis, which is a medical education company that has reached 50 million people. We discussed whether you can get a medical degree online, the similarities and differences between clinical entrepreneurship and medicine, and how the pandemic will forever change medical education.
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Finding Genius SeriesShiv Gaglani; OsmosisShiv Gaglani, founder of Osmosis - Knowledge Diffusion, With major healthcare worker shortages expected, Osmosis has built an online learning platform focused on healthcare to train anyone who wants to learn how to provide care in a high-quality way. Osmosis is backed by Greycroft and Aydin Senkut of Felicis Ventures. In our conversation, Shiv Gaglani talks about online learning, healthcare, growth hacks, working with Rishi Desai, MD, MPH (formerly of Khan Academy), and partnerships with universities and health systems such as Kaiser Permanente.
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Raise the LineCompassion, Passion, and Commitment - Dr. Mark Schuster, Founding Dean and CEO, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of MedicineDr. Mark Schuster has asked students in the entering class at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine to write a letter to themselves about their passions and goals that will be returned to them at graduation. After an extremely competitive, yet holistic admissions process to a program that has waived students' tuition with no strings attached, the admitted applicants “are the kinds of students who want to save the world,” Dr. Schuster boasts. He doesn't want the med school journey to burn out any of their spark. In addition to his role as Founding Dean and CEO of t...2021-01-2725 minRaise the LineUnderstand Every Person’s Role – Dr. Vivian Lee, President of Health Platforms at Verily Life Sciences“Why can't we get better health when we're spending two to three times as much money as any other high-income nation?” asks Dr. Vivian Lee, as so many other Americans have asked for so many years. But not many have developed answers as compelling as hers, making Lee one of the leading voices on healthcare reform in the country. Lee’s perspective, shaped by a rich set of experiences as a clinician, leader and academic, is strengthening a movement to make healthcare more centred on helping patients be as healthy as possible instead of being geared to just treat them when t...2021-01-2620 minRaise the Line"Chasing Interesting, Disruptive Movements" - Fred Singer, CEO of Echo360Fred Singer has a message for those in higher ed grappling with the imperative to deliver education online: offering “Zoom University” isn’t enough. “Simply repurposing a classroom doesn't make any more sense going forward than it did in the 1990’s for the newspapers to dump content online and assume the world's going to change. It didn't work that way.” And Singer knows what he’s talking about because he was there when the Washington Post first went online. He’s built a fascinating career “chasing interesting, disruptive movements” as an internet pioneer and entrepreneur. As CEO of Echo360, he now sits at the inte...2021-01-2226 minRaise the LineBeing Proactive About Risk - Marlene Icenhower, Senior Risk Specialist at CoverysRisk management is a critically important part of providing healthcare and, you might be surprised to learn, goes far beyond dealing with medical errors. In fact, modern risk management encompasses most aspects of healthcare operations, including HR and finances. When Marlene Icenhower, who has degrees in nursing and law, first got into risk management decades ago, it was largely reactive in nature. “It had to do with the process that occurred after a medical mishap, and it was pretty much confined to just the clinical arena and the legal mop-up that took place after that event.” Over the past severa...2021-01-1525 minRaise the LineTie Your Work to Improving People’s Lives - Omar Ishrak, Former CEO of MedtronicA strong, sustained sense of purpose is the bedrock of a successful company, with everything else flowing from that. So says Omar Ishrak, one of the most influential figures in medical technology and healthcare in the U.S. and globally. He earned that role in part by being Chairman and CEO of Medtronic, the world's leading medical technology company, from 2011 to 2020, but he was also president and CEO of GE Healthcare Systems earlier in his career. When it comes to having a durable purpose, Medtronic is hard to beat. Founded in the late 1940’s, the company has kept the same mi...2021-01-1322 minRaise the LineThe Benefits of Blended Learning - Scott Shaw, CEO of Lincoln Tech“While the switch to distance learning was traumatic at first, I think we're going to end up in a much better place when it's all said and done,” says Scott Shaw, president and CEO of Lincoln Tech which has always taken a hands-on learning approach. That’s because the blended in-person and online learning model emerging from COVID gives the school’s adult students more flexibility to manage their jobs and childcare now that they don’t always have to be on campus to take classes. Lincoln Tech started 75 years ago to educate WWII veterans in auto mechanics and HVAC. Now...2021-01-1224 minRaise the LineLearning How To Sell Yourself - Dr. Sahil Mehta, Founder of MedSchoolCoachIf you are thinking about applying to medical school, or are already in the process, this episode of Raise the Line is a must-listen. Host Shiv Gaglani is joined by Dr. Sahil Mehta, widely regarded as one of the top experts in the country on medical school admissions. As the founder of MedSchoolCoach, he’s guided thousands of successful medical school applicants. It’s a business that started with the simple realization that most people are not good at selling themselves. Helping some friends improve their applications led to a “basement” business that has grown over the years to become a...2021-01-1124 minRaise the LineLessons Learned in a COVID Epicenter - Dr. Brian Radbill, Chief Medical Officer at Mount Sinai Morningside“In less than a month we went from zero COVID patients to 285, and we’re only a 300-bed hospital,” says Dr. Brian Radbill, recalling the early weeks in March and April when coronavirus stormed New York City. As chief medical officer, Radbill oversaw the Manhattan hospital’s transformation into a COVID care facility, which required a lot of on-the-fly innovation. “It was a real team effort. I have to say, every single person stepped up in the hospital and we met every challenge.” For example, they had to get creative to maintain line of sight to critically-ill patients in spaces that were no...2021-01-0627 minRaise the LineDon't Go Back to Business as Usual - Sara Miller, Senior Director of the Quality Improvement Institute at Med-IQSara Miller’s advice for those in training to be healthcare professionals is fairly simple. “This is your opportunity to learn to be nimble and develop a spirit of innovation.” Miller believes taking this approach early leads to embracing lifelong learning, the benefits of which can be implemented in a provider’s job everyday. As Senior Director of the Quality Improvement Institute at Med-IQ, a leading healthcare improvement company, Miller's work centers around helping healthcare systems identify areas for improvement and to develop and evaluate programs addressing those needs. She has obviously had her hands full helping providers rapidly adjust to the c...2020-12-2915 minRaise the LineAspire to Be A Disruptor - Alex Frommeyer, CEO of Beam DentalAlthough the dental industry is not usually the first thing that comes to mind when you think of tech entrepreneurs, this is precisely where Alex Frommeyer has found himself. Frommeyer is the CEO and co-founder of Beam Dental, one of the country’s fastest-growing dental benefit providers offering employers a unique approach to coverage by incorporating dental hygiene behavior into policy pricing. This behavior is determined using artificial intelligence to interpret data gathered from the smart toothbrushes used by members. In this episode, Frommeyer describes to host Shiv Gaglani how Beam is trying to make dental hygiene more enjoyable, how th...2020-12-2823 minRaise the LineBuilding Mental Fitness and Resiliency Worldwide - Dr. Omar Dawood, Chief Medical Officer at CalmBattling stage 4 Hodgkin’s lymphoma as a teenager exposed Dr. Omar Dawood to many flaws in the healthcare system and sparked a desire to find ways to improve them. Although his early experience in medicine was in the public health realm, he eventually saw how he could blend his clinical expertise and strategic mindset to make an impact in the business world, thereby expanding the positive difference he could make in people’s lives. He had opportunities to do just that in leadership positions at Ginger IO and AliveCor -- two of the leading companies in digital health – and has brough...2020-12-2319 minRaise the LineThe Intersection of Innovation and Compassion - Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips, Chief Clinical Officer at Providence HealthHave you wondered what it was like for the doctors who treated the very first COVID-19 patients when so little was known about the disease? Well, you can find out directly from the source in this episode of Raise the Line. The initial cases were in Seattle where Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips works as the chief clinical officer at Providence Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems. In that role, she was deeply involved in quickly creating protocols to triage, test and treat the COVID patients who started to flow in. She was also involved in making masks for pr...2020-12-2123 minRaise the LineWalmart’s Vision for Healthcare: Marcus Osborne, Senior VP of Walmart HealthIf you’re curious about the impact “big box” retailers are going to have on healthcare delivery in the U.S., this episode of Raise the Line has some answers. Host Shiv Gaglani welcomes Marcus Osborne, a senior leader at Walmart Health, who is helping to build a new approach that could shake-up the whole industry. “If we can create a model that is actually compelling for consumers, and consumers are willing to pay for it, then we don't really care what the payers do about us,” says Osborne, who has plenty of other candid insights to share. For instance, he believe...2020-12-1624 minRaise the LineExercise Your “Caring Muscle” - Dr. Larry Benz, President and CEO of Confluent HealthWhile serving in the army decades ago, Dr. Larry Benz noticed the importance of bedside manner and other nonclinical factors in determining clinical success. Keeping that top of mind has served him well over his 30 years as a physical therapist. In fact, he argues that these so-called “soft skills” can be even more important in affecting outcomes than clinical skills. Benz is the author of the newly released book Called to Care, about putting the humanity back in healthcare. His curriculum by the same name has been adopted by many PT schools around the country and even some medical schools. In t...2020-12-1128 min
Brand Capital International's #thinkIndia Series#ThinkIndia Season 2: Redefining Medical EducationIn the sixth episode of #ThinkIndia Season 2, Piyush Puri sits down with Shiv Gaglani, co-founder and CEO of Osmosis.org to discuss online education and how he believes it can be applied to subjects even as detailed as the medical field. 2020-12-1026 minRaise the LineA New Model for Primary Care - Tim Barry, Co-Founder and CEO of VillageMDAs a young professional in Chicago in the early 1990’s, Tim Barry happened upon a poster in a store one day that simply stated, “You just can’t fake love, man”— and it was at that moment he realized he would focus only on things he was passionate about moving forward. After trying his hand as a tech entrepreneur, a friend convinced him to take a job in healthcare insurance, and he got hooked on the opportunity to impact the lives of others. Fast forward to seven years ago when he helped found VillageMD, which now provides thousands of primary care physi...2020-12-0730 minRaise the LineWhat Makes a Good Physician? - Dr. Jerry Balentine, Dean of New York Institute of Technology’s College of Osteopathic MedicineDr. Jerry Balentine thinks a lot about the qualities successful medical students and physicians need. “I think all medical schools wish there was a way of testing who's going to be a great physician, but there's just no such test, so we use markers such as the MCATs to make sure that they're successful academically.”
But he knows those markers don’t capture aspects of a person’s competence, character or experience that would make them a good fit for the profession. Qualities such as empathy, passion and grit are high on his list. In fact, he believes empathy is so impor...2020-12-0425 minRaise the LineWhere Science, Politics and Ethics Meet - Dr. George Daley, Dean of Harvard Medical School“Science transcends politics,” says Dr. George Daley. “My hope is that physicians and scientists will, in fact, be a force for global harmony, and that will be a silver lining to come out of the pandemic.” In this important conversation with Shiv Gaglani, Dr. Daley, who is an internationally recognized leader in stem cell science and cancer biology, describes his collaboration with recent Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna and others to call for restraint in experimentation with stem cell technology, and decries the current tension between the U.S. government and the scientific community. He also shares how, in response to COVID-19...2020-12-0319 minRaise the LineThe Doctor Is In…School - Josh Golomb and Jeannie Chen, Hazel HealthKids without regular access to healthcare are obviously at higher risk for developing health issues, but it also makes them more likely to face long-term consequences such as dropping out of school, having trouble finding work and ending up in jail. What’s the connection? Poor health access can lead to chronic school absenteeism, which can start a downward spiral. That’s where Hazel Health fits in, a medtech start-up which uses telehealth to connect kids on demand to providers during the school day. The company currently serves 60 districts nationwide with 1.5 million students, focusing on the underinsured and those from disa...2020-12-0226 minRaise the LineMaking Better Health Easier - Dr. Steven Scheinman, President and Dean of the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine“I think it's an enormous gift to pursue medicine and particularly academic medicine,” says former philosophy major Dr. Steven Scheinman, a distinguished researcher in the genetics of inherited kidney disease and dean of the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. The school in its current form is only a few years old, having not had a clinical system partner prior to 2017 when it aligned with the highly-ranked Geisinger Health System. Scheinman is thrilled with the learning opportunities the partnership is providing due to the health system’s emphasis on prevention and primary care. Forward-thinking programs in home care, geriatrics, whole genome screen...2020-11-2437 minRaise the LineBuilding a Better Supply Chain to Keep Providers Safe - Mike Alkire, President of Premier, Inc.If you’re wondering why the U.S. has had such a hard time during the pandemic keeping frontline health workers supplied with the protective equipment they need, or what is being done to improve the situation, Mike Alkire has some answers for you. He is president of Premier, Inc. which helps more than 4,000 hospitals and health systems improve efficiency and clinical outcomes through supply chain management and other strategies. He’s intimately familiar with the global medical supply chain and where the breakdowns and problems are that need to be addressed. Perhaps the most important change needed, he says, is m...2020-11-1926 min
The Binge FactorMeaningful Podcast Marketing With A Focus On Reasons And Not ROI With Shiv Gaglani Of The Raise The Line PodcastRaise the Line is not just a podcast. It is a brand. It is a name that is associated with a definite service in the healthcare education industry. Holding the mike as host of this incredibly successful podcast is Shiv Gaglani, the Cofounder and CEO of Osmosis.org, a platform that leads the way in developing innovative and scalable solutions in the fields of healthcare education. Joining Tracy Hazzard for a chat, he relates how they use podcasting as an extension of their brand message at Osmosis and how they are constantly recycling and repurposing content to achieve maximum i...2020-11-1832 minRaise the LineKeys to Effective Online Teaching - Dr. Keith Smith, Dean of Purdue University Global School of Health SciencesHealthcare needs to do a much better job of marketing truth, argues Dr. Keith Smith. Drawn to working with adult learners in the online world, Smith now oversees about 7,000 students across twenty programs, including medical assisting, health and wellness, public health, a military-only associate’s degree, and a master's in health informatics -- a field that Smith sees as key to helping citizens understand and respond to statistics they hear about during public health threats. In face of the COVID pandemic, Purdue was fortunate to already be an online institution, yet it still had to pivot in some ways to en...2020-11-1224 minRaise the LineThe "99 Percent" Should Be the Leaders in Healthcare - Dr. Mark Schweitzer, Dean of Wayne State University School of Medicine“I think our educational model, our mission and our tradition are ideally suited for this moment of crisis,” says Dr. Mark Schweitzer. “The Wayne State graduate is always a doctor who rolls up his or her sleeves and gets things done regardless of the environment.” With a diverse student population that Schweitzer describes as coming from “the 99 percent”, the medical school he leads is intent on adding can-do leaders to the corps of can-do providers it sends out into the world. “I think ‘the 99 Percent’ should be the leaders in healthcare. So we've started an organized curriculum to train students on all the skills...2020-11-1027 minRaise the LineTaking Big Swings - Dr. Sachin Jain, President and CEO of SCAN Health PlanDr. Sachin Jain has always been drawn to taking "big swings" at tough problems, and the disconnect between care delivery and care administration is one of them. As a leader in various capacities in government and the healthcare system, he's tackled this and other complex issues at a high level, but he has also has maintained his clinical practice in order to stay grounded. In this engrossing interview, Dr. Jain speaks with host Shiv Gaglani about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which have included an exacerbation of the loneliness epidemic, as well as renewed confidence in both the American...2020-11-0523 minRaise the LineEducation for Anyone, Anywhere - Salman Khan, Founder and CEO, Khan AcademyDescribed as “Bill Gates' favorite teacher” in Fortune Magazine, Salman Khan started his now-famous Khan Academy by tutoring his cousins long-distance in 2004. Since then, Khan's non-profit educational organization has evolved from experimental YouTube videos recorded in a bedroom closet to a standalone platform that has educated tens of millions of people. In this episode of Raise the Line, Khan speaks with Shiv Gaglani about the near-viral growth of Khan Academy and the recent impact of COVID-19 in accelerating that development. Listen-in to learn about the benefits of competency-based pathways and transcripts, the digital divide as the “dark cloud” of COVID, the grow...2020-11-0325 minRaise the LineThe Balance of Power is Shifting Toward Students - Burck Smith, Founder and CEO of StraighterLineStarting a traditional degree program can be a “risky proposition,” says Burck Smith, founder and CEO of the student success and college readiness company StraighterLine. For many, it makes sense to have low-cost, low-risk entry points where they can test the waters and prove themselves before diving in. Smith has a background in public policy, where he first became concerned about the burden caused by the rising price of college, and before StraighterLine, in 2009, he co-founded SMARTHINKING, the largest online tutoring provider for schools and colleges. In this episode of Raise the Line, he speaks with host Shiv Gaglani about stac...2020-10-2924 minRaise the LineUsing Technology to Enhance the Humanity in Medicine - Dr. Eric Topol, Executive VP of Scripps Research“It seems counterintuitive, but I believe we can use technology to enhance the humanity in medicine and get back to the deep connection with patients we used to have,” says Dr. Eric Topol, one of the most cited researchers and influential thinkers in the field. In a series of bestselling books on the future of medicine, Topol laid out that digitization of health information would lead to democratization of data and patient empowerment, and that applying machine learning and other technologies in the right ways could actually create room to enhance the level of humanity in medicine – something he feels has be...2020-10-2723 minRaise the LineKnowing Your Patients as a Person - Dr. Ken Johnson, Executive Dean of Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine“If a patient feels like their doctor knows them as a person, they're eight to nine times more likely to follow through with their treatment instructions,” says Dr. Ken Johnson. Creating that kind of connection is more challenging in a virtual visit, he worries, not to mention the reduced opportunity to take the actual “hands-on” approach to care that osteopathic physicians practice. But schools of medicine like the one he runs at Ohio University are finding ways to teach telehealth skills, and Johnson has confidence the students will make it work. “Students have great ideas about how to evolve things, and I chal...2020-10-1528 minRaise the LineA New Vital Sign for Behavioral Health - Mainul Mondal, Founder & CEO of Ellipsis HealthMental illness was on the rise in the U.S. even before COVID-19 hit, and studies show a majority of Americans say their mental health has been negatively impacted due to worry and stress over the coronavirus. In the absence of definitive blood or genetic tests for mental health disorders, and given the acknowledged limitations of self-reporting and questionnaires, there is certainly room for new screening and diagnostic tools. Work is underway to test the effectiveness of brain scans, mobile device data and other modern technologies for diagnosis, but turning to one of the oldest forms of communication might also...2020-10-0620 minRaise the LineMaking Healthcare Consumer Friendly – Dr. Florian Otto, CEO and Co-Founder of CedarYou can make purchases, travel plans and dinner reservations in a few clicks, but being able to pay your hospital bill with similar ease is a rarity. That's where Cedar comes in, a "fintech" start-up bringing personalization and transparency to the notoriously cumbersome world of healthcare, especially when it comes to billing and payment. Among the improvements Cedar enables are personalized reminders and payment plans, bill tracking, a customer service chat bot, and translation of indecipherable billing codes into understandable language. CEO Florian Otto, who holds an M.D., D.D.S. and PhD, started his business career as a...2020-10-0225 minRaise the LineHow Community Colleges are Navigating the Pandemic – Brian Spicker and Rochelle Rivas of Maricopa Community CollegesCommunity colleges are often described as the gateway to higher education because they are often the most affordable option. But they’re also the gateway to careers because of the many internship, certificate and shadowing programs that are typically arranged with local organizations. The Maricopa Community Colleges District, which serves 200,000 students on ten campuses in Arizona, is a poster child for this kind of community-based access and career training. Two leaders in the Maricopa system join Raise the Line host Shiv Gaglani to share how the system rallied to retain students thrown off-course by COVID, describe new partnerships spurred by th...2020-09-3023 minRaise the LineLet Physicians Impact Change – Dr. Bradley Younggren, Chief Medical Officer, 98point6"If we do things right, this will be your last job." That's the message Dr. Bradley Younggren has for physicians applying to join his company 98point6, which offers a text-based, AI-powered mobile app for delivering primary care. For Younggren, getting it right involves making doctors full-time employees with equity in the company, and encouraging them to innovate. "Providers know what the problems in healthcare are," says Younggren. "The key is creating a physician workforce that's allowed to impact change." His own impact includes service as a decorated Army combat physician and being at the center of handling one of the...2020-09-2824 minRaise the LineServing the "Silver Tsunami" - Alan Patricof & Abby Levy, co-founders of Primetime PartnersWe've all heard the U.S. population is aging, but even so, this is a pretty eye-popping statistic: 50% of people born in the U.S. in 2007 will live to be 100. Perhaps more surprising is the lack of products, services and experiences designed for older adults to help them live their "best lives." Filling that gap is the new focus for two veteran entrepreneurs and business leaders, Alan Patricof and Abby Levy, who joined forces this year to launch the investment firm Primetime Partners. As they explain to host Shiv Gaglani, they are finding plenty of founders who have ideas to...2020-09-1527 minRaise the LineWhat is Really Critical to Medical Education? - Dr. Lawrence Chin, Dean, College of Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical UniversityDr. Lawrence Chin loves telehealth and sees it as a positive byproduct of the COVID-19 pandemic, for providers and patients alike. Still, he admits, “You can't learn to be a doctor virtually...it is a social job.” In steering 500 faculty members and over 700 students through the COVID crisis, Dr. Chin and his team have had to re-evaluate what is truly essential to delivering a high quality medical education. Join him as he speaks with host Shiv Gaglani about the shift to online learning, the lasting changes COVID is making to the medical curriculum, providers as role models of compassion, and why...2020-09-1024 minRaise the LineYears of Change in Six Months - Cyril Philip, Principal, Providence VenturesA healthcare venture capitalist's take on COVID? The pandemic has basically been an accelerator. It's prompted a “digital, virtual revolution” that can be seen in the boom in telehealth and technologies like remote patient monitoring. Change that would have happened over several years or more, has happened in mere months. Join Cyril Philip of Providence Ventures, the venture capital arm of Providence St. Joseph Health (PSJH), one of the largest health systems and integrated delivery networks in the country, as he talks with Shiv Gaglani about these changes and what is currently driving his company's investment strategy. On his horizon as g...2020-09-0326 minRaise the LineGiving Voice to Patients - Mel Hall, Former CEO of Press Ganey AssociatesPracticing what he preached in inner city Detroit led Methodist minister Mel Hall to pursue a PhD in statistics. Not your typical path, perhaps, but Hall had a vision to use data to describe the conditions he observed and seek improvements. When he then connected with Press Ganey, the South Bend, Indiana-based health care company known for developing and distributing patient satisfaction surveys, the community he served expanded considerably. In this episode of Raise the Line, Hall speaks with Shiv Gaglani about the secrets behind Press Ganey's rapid growth and success, including his company's culture of accountability, its focus on...2020-09-0130 minRaise the LineIs Telemedicine Here to Stay? - Dr. Joseph Kvedar, President of the American Telemedicine AssociationIf there's one thing people in healthcare seem to agree on these days, it is that the use of telemedicine has never been higher. But after the crisis subsides, will the rules and regulations that severely limited its use for decades be re-established? "Cementing the gains" made by the technology during COVID is Dr. Joseph Kvedar's current focus, as well as developing national guidelines for medical education in telehealth. As Kvedar tells host Shiv Gaglani, now that everyone realizes telemedicine should be in the mix, the question is what are the most appropriate uses for it? Check out this episode...2020-08-2719 min
Seeking Sathya - Lessons from humans who are making a dent in the universe!Shiv GaglaniShiv Gaglani is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Osmosis.org, a leading health education platform with an audience of millions of current future clinicians as well as their patients and family members. Shiv’s primary passion is developing innovative and scalable solutions in the fields of healthcare and education. In his spare time he enjoys spending time with his family, snowboarding, skiing.2020-08-2322 minRaise the LineCalled to Caregiving - Kathy Boden Holland, Group President at Adtalem Global EducationIn any given year, more physicians in the U.S. healthcare system graduate from schools affiliated with Adtalem Global Education than any other medical schools in the world. Even before COVID hit, educating providers at that scale was a pretty complicated undertaking, and the pandemic obviously made it more so. But the ability of Adtalem's schools to quickly learn from each other as adjustments were made, and system resiliency built while recovering from a devastating hurricane several years ago, allowed for continuation of programs and even making lasting improvements. In this episode of Raise the Line, Kathy Boden Holland speaks...2020-08-2021 minRaise the LineYour Boss Might Pay for College - Paul Freedman, President of the Learning Marketplace at Guild EducationColleges and universities were struggling well before COVID knocked them for a loop because of declining birth rates and soaring tuition costs, among other factors. Now the on-campus model is in question, at least in the near-term. Taking all of those headwinds into account, Paul Freedman of Guild Education believes the institutions that shift their focus to serving working adults will be in a much stronger position to thrive in the future. As he explains to host Shiv Gaglani, it's a good time to be a working adult learner because more and more companies are offering to pay tuition costs...2020-07-2818 minRaise the LineBuilding the On-ramps to Education and Health Careers - Van Ton-Quinlivan, CEO of Futuro HealthThe gap is staggering. Just in California alone, 500,000 allied health workers are needed by 2024. Realizing it was time for new approaches to developing this workforce, a unique partnership formed this year with Kaiser Permanente and SEIU United Healthcare Workers to fund and facilitate the educational journey required. Leading the effort is veteran educator Van Ton-Quinlivan, who has her eye on all of the associated issues of student debt, diversity and inclusion, shifting skillsets due to COVID, and other factors. Check out this fascinating discussion with Shiv Gaglani on the innovative thinking and partnerships that are driving workforce development. If you...2020-07-2423 minRaise the LineFind a Problem to Solve - Dr. Michael Sherling, Chief Medical and Strategy Officer at Modernizing MedicineHow does a dermatologist wind up co-founding a successful electronic medical record (EMR) company? As Michael Sherling, MD, MBA tells host Shiv Gaglani, he tackled a problem he encountered in his own practice with "one-size-fits-all" EMRs, and designed a system that made things easier and faster for specialists. When new obstacles emerge for providers or patients, that problem-solving reflex kicks in and he and his team develop solutions. Take a listen to find out how Modernizing Medicine is navigating the COVID obstacle course and what Dr. Sherling thinks lies ahead for physician practices. If you like this podcast, please share...2020-07-2224 minRaise the LineTransitioning to High Growth Jobs - Dara Warn, Chief Customer Officer at Penn FosterThe COVID economy is prompting millions of unemployed Americans to learn new skills to help their chances of getting a job. That's obviously good news for companies like Penn Foster, which has been offering distance learning since 1890. To meet the strong demand for healthcare workers, make training more doable, and speed the transition back to work, Penn Foster has launched short form courses that break job skills into smaller bundles. It's just one of the ways COVID is forcing all of us to think in new ways, as Dara Warn explains to Shiv Gaglani in this episode of Raise the...2020-07-0819 minRaise the LineSkills Over Qualifications - Dr. Vu Tran, Co-founder & Head of Growth at GO1Dr. Vu Tran thinks doctors make the best salespeople, and he's in a good position to judge as both a general practitioner and growth leader at a booming workplace learning start-up. In fact, Tran believes the skills you develop as a physician to communicate complex information effectively and build trust with patients are valuable in almost any profession. As he explains to host Shiv Gaglani, grabbing every opportunity to add to your "non-medical" skillset maximizes your career opportunities and boosts your potential to make a difference. If you like this podcast, please share it on your social channels. You
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If you like this podcast, please share it on...2020-06-2611 minRaise the LineListen Carefully: Is the Stethoscope on Life Support? - Jason Bellet, Co-founder and CCO of EkoThe stethoscope has been around since 1816 and its basic design hasn't changed substantially in decades. But this tried and true tool has been launched into the world of machine learning and artificial intelligence in recent years largely thanks to the work of Jason Bellet and his co-founders at Eko. Today, over 50,000 clinicians in thousands of health systems across the globe are using Eko’s digital stethoscopes and echocardiograms to diagnose and monitor heart problems, and there's more change to come, as he explains to host Shiv Gaglani in this episode of Raise the Line. If you like this podcast, please sh...2020-06-2222 minRaise the LineThe Telltale Ventricle - Dr. Bijoy Khandheria, Aurora Saint Luke Medical CenterIt's well known that COVID-19 has negative effects on the heart, but it was unknown until recently that one of those impacts, strain in the lower right chamber, seems to be the best predictor of death in patients with severe infections. Dr. Bijoy Khandheria, director of the Echocardiography Laboratory at Aurora Saint Luke Medical Center in Wisconsin, is one of the doctors who zeroed in on this phenomenon, and in this episode of Raise the Line, he tells host Shiv Gaglani what other connections he's discovering between the heart and COVID. If you like this podcast, please share it on...2020-06-1919 minRaise the LineOpportunities Emerging from the COVID Crisis - Dr. O.T. Wendel, A.T. Still UniversityHere's another casualty of the coronavirus: strategic planning. But even though anticipating what medical education and health careers will look like going forward might be unusually difficult at the moment, Dr. Ted Wendel, Senior VP for University Planning and Strategic Initiatives at A.T. Still University, is starting to see where career opportunities might emerge in COVID's wake. Check out this episode with host Shiv Gaglani to hear the details, and some great advice about how to navigate through uncertain times. If you like this podcast, please share it on your social channels. You
can also subscribe to the series...2020-06-1724 minRaise the Line"Do What It Takes To Be Valuable" - Dan Rosensweig, CEO of Chegg.comIt isn't what you'd call a great start to a career. Dan Rosensweig, who went on to be a key leader at Yahoo and Guitar Hero, was laid off on the first day of his first job out of college. It set the pattern for a career full of unexpected setbacks and opportunities that led to driving a remarkable turnaround at the popular digital learning platform Chegg.com. In this engaging conversation with Shiv Gaglani, he's full of insight on handling career challenges, how to deal with the student debt crisis and what to expect next in a world utterly...2020-06-1128 minRaise the LineCOVID Testing at Home - Julia Cheek, Founder and CEO of EverlywellIt's now possible to do your own test for COVID-19 at home. It involves doing a simple nasal swab and mailing it to a pre-approved lab. Results are available in just a few days. These FDA authorized tests have the potential to make a big impact on detection and tracking of the disease, and Julia Cheek of Everlywell, one of just a few companies providing them, tells Shiv Gaglani the COVID crisis has sped up adoption of at-home testing for all sorts of conditions in lasting ways. If you like this podcast, please share it on your social channels. You
...2020-06-0923 minRaise the LineA Quarterback for Chronic Conditions - Dhiren Patel, VP of Medical Affairs at Pack HealthMaybe you can't pick-up your prescriptions because you can't afford to fix your car. Or maybe getting outside to exercise is a worry because your neighborhood isn't safe. Dhiren Patel and his colleagues at Pack Health, a digital health coaching company, realize there are many barriers to better health that go beyond what doctors have traditionally addressed, and that insight is built into their efforts to help people manage chronic conditions such as diabetes. As he discusses with host Shiv Gaglani, this work is more important than ever due to the greater threat COVID-19 poses to people with underlying conditions...2020-06-0422 minRaise the LineGetting More Health Out of Healthcare - Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthIf the U.S. healthcare system was a patient right now, you'd probably put it in the ICU. In the view of Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and host of the "Public Health On Call" podcast, the COVID crisis has exposed weaknesses in the way we finance healthcare and it could either derail existing efforts to reform the system, or it might spur change. In a wide-ranging discussion with host Shiv Gaglani, this influential national voice provides insight on contact tracing, the need for a public health service corps and the...2020-05-2918 minRaise the LineDr. Lois Nora - President Emeritus, Northeast Ohio Medical UniversityWe ask all of our guests what they think the COVID-19 crisis has revealed about the U.S. healthcare system. Dr. Lois Nora is the first to assert that "we do not have a healthcare system." As you'll hear in her conversation with Shiv Gaglani, Dr. Nora's background as a clinician, lawyer, and longtime academic leader grounds her unique perspective on what needs to be done to strengthen healthcare delivery and medical education.If you like this podcast, please share it on your social channels. You
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...2020-05-2721 minRaise the LineMary Jo Bondy - CEO, Physician Assistant Education AssociationTurns out there's nothing new about having a shortage of primary care physicians. In the late 1960's, the need to fill that gap led to the creation of physician assistants who have since expanded into nearly every medical speciality. As Mary Jo Bondy explains to host Shiv Gaglani, the broad-based training PAs receive makes them valuable players in meeting changing patient and workforce needs, as we're seeing in the COVID-19 crisis. If you like this podcast, please share it on your social channels. You
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www.osmosis...2020-05-2217 minRaise the LineAnant Agarwal - CEO, edXIt's not just K-12 and college students moving to online education these days. edX and other learning platforms have seen huge increases in enrollment over the past two months as millions of adults seek to learn new skills in a battered economy. As edX CEO Anant Agarwal explains to host Shiv Gaglani, part of edX's role now is teaching people how to learn, and teachers how to teach, using a format that will remain a key source of education long after the COVID-19 crisis has ended. If you like this podcast, please share it on your social channels. You
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Raise the LineArianna Huffington - Founder and CEO, Thrive GlobalArianna Huffington learned about burnout the hard way. Two years after starting the Huffington Post, she collapsed from overwork. She turned that moment of personal crisis into a movement to help people learn how to develop a healthier work-life balance and effectively manage stress. In this episode of Raise the Line, host Shiv Gaglani explores with Arianna how her company, Thrive Global, works with employers around the world to realize the benefits of employee wellness, the special effort she's made during the coronavirus crisis to support frontline workers through First Responders First, and some simple microsteps we can all take...2020-05-1815 minRaise the LineDonna Meyer - CEO, Organization for Associate Degree NursingHalf of all nurses in the U.S. are graduates of two-year programs when they first start practicing, and while a national push is on to encourage RN's to get bachelor's degrees, an associate's degree remains a critical path into the profession. Donna Meyer, who runs the only organization that advocates for these two-year programs, joins host Shiv Gaglani to explore the realities facing early-career nurses and discuss the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the nursing workforce. If you like this podcast, please share it on your social channels. You
can also subscribe to the series and check out...2020-05-0721 minRaise the LineJeff Maggioncalda - CEO, CourseraImagine this: college students back on campus, but older professors teaching from home. That's one of the scenarios Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda says might play out this fall as higher education regroups in response to COVID-19. What he knows for certain is his online education company, which already had 46 million learners and 200 university partners, has seen explosive growth in the past few months. Listen in as he and host Shiv Gaglani explore what's new, and what's coming, in online education.If you like this podcast, please share it on your social channels. You
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InceptionGuest Shiv Gaglani, CEO of OsmosisShiv Gaglani is the co-founder and CEO of Osmosis, which empowers the world's clinicians and caregivers with the best learning experience possible. In this episode, Shiv talks about what it's like to be the only tech entrepreneur in a family full of clinicians, why his company's first raise was successful, how he literally wrote the book on getting a perfect SAT score, and how Osmosis is revolutionizing the way that both clinicians and patients learn about health and medicine.2019-08-2929 min
Just Go Grind#49: Shiv Gaglani, Co-founder and CEO of Osmosis, on Building a Medical and Health Sciences Education Technology Company Impacting Millions of PeopleShiv Gaglani is the co-founder and CEO of Osmosis, a medical and health sciences education technology company aimed at revolutionizing the way clinicians learn and retain information. Osmosis' social learning platform and high-quality content are being used by 800,000 present and future medical practitioners. They also currently have around 1 million YouTube subscribers and a total of 100 million video views. Shiv is also an editor at Medgadget, the co-founder and chairman of Quantified Care, and has an MBA fro Harvard Business School. On this episode, Shiv tells us how he built Osmosis into the success it is...2019-04-0449 min
The Premed YearsThis Med Student Took a Leave of Absense and started OsmosisShiv Gaglani started medical school knowing he was interested in business. Two years later, he co-founded Osmosis and is now making an impact in the world. Links and Other Resources Full Episode Blog Post Check out my Premed Playbook series of books (available on Amazon), with installments on the personal statement, the medical school interview, and the MCAT. Related episode: Entrepreneurial Premed Stands Out for the Ivys. Related episode: 5 Reasons to Go to Medical School, and 5 Not To. Need MCAT Prep? Save on tutoring, classes, and full-length practice tests by using promo code “MSHQ” at Next Step Test Prep2016-11-0941 min