Healthcare Luminaries

Having worked under Steve Jobs at Apple — Talha joined the healthcare world — building divvyDOSE (acquired by United Healthcare) and Deep 6 AI. Now he's building an AI Oncologist at Spiraldot Health.

Jasmin Johnson is the Chief of Staff for Corporate Development at SCAN. She is initimately involved in SCAN's Corporate M&A activity, including their strategic investment in Abridge — an app that listens and intelligently transcribes your interaction with your healthcare professional. We talk about her incredible story, what excites her about health plan AI and how she just keeps on going.

Dr Krystal Sodaitis is Associate Chief Medical Officer at Health Alliance and a Neurodiversity Coach. She has an interesting career arc — spanning Paediatrics, Utilization Management and Coaching. She talks about why Utilization Management interested her and where she sees AI having the greatest impact, as well as her work in Neurodiversity Coaching — answering questions like “is neurodiversity a superpower”. All viewpoints are her own and don’t necessarily represent those of her employer —  I hope you enjoy.

Dr Shawn Griffin is the President and CEO of URAC; one of the leading independent healthcare accreditation organizations in the US and the largest telehealth accreditor in the world.

Dr Eric Bricker is an internet celebrity best known for his whiteboard videos in which he deconstructs the US healthcare system for millions of viewers at AHealthcareZ. He’s also a Physician, Medical Director at SimplePay Health, and Co-founder of Compass Professional Health Services which was acquired in 2018. I started off by asking Eric about how he turned from successful Entrepreneur and Physician — into a YouTuber…

Will leads +Oscar's Modular Solutions business, with a focus on commercializing discrete components of +Oscar's tech stack to both providers and payers. Will was drawn to the opportunity after spending copious hours with providers in FL and recognized the impact +Oscar's technology could have in accelerating Value-Based Care adoption nationwide. Prior to joining +Oscar, Will had a variety of roles within Oscar's Insurance business across Growth, P&L management, and Value-Based Care Strategy and Contracting. The bulk of his work has been in Florida, Georgia, and Texas over his seven plus years at Oscar. Prior to Oscar, Will was an Associate Consultant at Bain and Company in their Dallas office, where he advised Technology and Healthcare clients on market entry, product portfolio optimization, and new product development. Will is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he was also a member of their 2011 College World Series baseball program. He spends the majority of his time in Florida, but resides in Texas.

Jen Mueller was the Chief Operating Officer at Friday Health Plans — all whilst it torpedoed from 14,000 members to 400,000 members. And this episode brings you into the war room whilst this was happening. What happens, when practically overnight, your health plan doubles, quadruples? Jen has also held a number of other operational roles across other health plans and is an RN by background. I started off by asking Jen — what’s so hard about scaling a health plan anyway? Sounds easy right…

Rohan D’Souza was the former Chief Product Officer at Olive — a healthcare automation startup once valued at $4bn. He is now the CEO and Co-founder of Avante; an exciting play in the employee wellbeing space. Rohan explains how to build healthcare products that are not just 10x better, but 100x. In fact that’s his mantra, that being 10x better than the competition is just table stakes. Really, you need to be 100x better. He also talks about his big takeaway from his experience at Olive, and we discuss a number of product and entrepreneurship philosophies that he’s written about.

John Wray trained as a lawyer, and worked on the provider side before joining Cigna as Senior Vice President — responsible for delivery system joint ventures within the US and developing growth opportunities in emerging markets. He now sits on the Board of Directors for Opala and is Chairman of the Board at Mediktor. John talks about the biggest challenges at Cigna and how he overcame them, his leadership philosophy and the most interesting technology opportunities for payers. I hope you enjoy.

Join us on a journey through the lives and insights of these ‘Healthcare Luminaries’ who are shaping the future of US healthcare.