The DaVinci Hour

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Eugene Borukhovich, a serial entrepreneur, podcast host, and Co-Founder & COO of Your Coach, a digital health coaching platform. Eugene gives an overview of his 20+ year experience in the healthtech industry and how he became involved with Your Coach. He discusses what a health coach does, certification process, and how health coaches help their clients. Eugene gives an overview o...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Austin Poole, a General Partner at BIP Ventures, a venture capital firm in Atlanta, GA focused on B2B software and tech-enabled service businesses in the healthcare space. Austin gives an overview of the types and stages of companies BIP Ventures focused their investments in. Austin describes which companies have been a good fit for BIP Ventures and how those companies have been able ...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews David Shulkin, M.D. who served as the 9th Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs under Presidents Obama and Trump, former hospital system CEO, and current digital health advisor. Dr. Shulkin begins by describing his journey to becoming involved in hospital administration and his roles as Chief Medical Officer and CEO at multiple health systems. He then describes his appointme...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Raihan Faroqui, M.D., serial digital health entrepreneur and advisor that is currently the Head of Medical Affairs at Guaranteed, a HealthTech company focused on modernizing  end-of-life care. Dr. Faroqui discusses his path from practicing internal medicine to advising and helping start digital health companies. He also discusses his transition from clinical medicine to working full t...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Eric Gantwerker, M.D., pediatric otolaryngologist and VP, Medical Director at Level Ex, a company developing video games for medical education. He is also a Co-Host of the Backtable Innovation Podcast. Dr.. Gantwerker gives the listeners an overview of his practice as a pediatric otolaryngologist and how he balances his clinical work with his endeavors in medical education and entrepr...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Dr. Rock Adkins and Dr. Kasie Adkins, husband and wife and Co-Founders of STAT Careers, a healthcare recruitment platform that helps healthcare professionals and hospitals find the best fit for jobs. Rock and Kasie practice interventional radiology and Mohs surgery, respectively, and have faced a number of frustrations and challenges with the physician job market. They discuss how the...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Grenville Thynne, CEO of NeuroFlex, a Virtual Reality (VR) platform that assesses brain health and vestibular function. Grenville discusses how his family, which owns hospitals in Australia, became involved with NeuroFlex to help accelerate its growth. The NeuroFlex platform is currently used as a concussion assessment tool by multiple professional and collegiate sports teams and leag...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Ian Koons, a serial healthcare entrepreneur and Co-Founder and CEO of Karoo Health, a digital platform that deploys a value-based approach for cardiovascular care. Ian gives an overview of Karoo's digital platform which acts as an extension of cardiologists to give patients comprehensive health coaching for dietary management, smoking cessation, and other lifestyle modifications. Addi...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews John Shufeldt, MD, JD, MBA, an emergency medicine physician, serial HealthTech entrepreneur, author, and venture capitalist. Dr. Shufeldt tells the listeners about his early entrepreneurial journey starting multiple businesses and what he learned from those experiences. He goes on to discuss starting NextCare Urgent Care, an urgent care company with over 100 clinics in multiple states...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Amir Bozorgzadeh, Co-Founder and CEO of Virtuleap, a virtual reality platform with applications for treating cognitive disorders and learning challenges. Amir discusses the evolution of virtual reality technology and the enormous potential to impact both healthcare and education, the 2 main areas of interest at Virtuleap. Amir describes Virtuleap's VR platform consisting of virtual ga...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Amit Mehta, M.D., an interventional radiologist, serial medtech entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. Dr. Mehta tells the the listeners about how he became interested in medical innovation as an interventional radiology resident at Massachusetts General Hospital and went on to start Intrinsic Imaging, a company that provides diagnostic imaging services for clinical trials investigatin...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Danny Goel, M.D., an orthopaedic surgeon and Co-Founder and CEO of Precision OS, a virtual reality surgical simulation and training platform. Dr. Goel discusses how Precision OS is a platform used by surgeons and residents to learn new procedures, refine surgical skills, and demo new medical devices. Precision OS has recently released the first surgical training virtual reality curric...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Tamir Wolf, M.D., Ph.D., Co-Founder and CEO of Theator, a digital platform using AI and computer vision to help improve surgical care, optimize processes, and reduce variation in surgical outcomes. Dr. Wolf tells the listeners about his previous career as a trauma surgeon in the Israeli equivalent of US Navy Seal Team 6 and how his career transitioned toward medical innovation and ent...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Gail Lebovic, M.D., surgeon, serial medical device entrepreneur that has started and exited 8 companies. Dr. Lebovic is currently Founder and CEO of Silicon Valley Innovations. Dr. Lebovic tells the listeners about her journey as a surgeon that became heavily involved in inventing and commercializing medical devices mainly focused on improving oncologic care and reconstructive surgery...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews John Adler, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Neurosurgery at Stanford University, inventor of the CyberKnife, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Accuray, and Co-Founder and CEO of Cureus and Zap Surgical. Dr. Adler tells the story of how he became inspired to develop radiosurgery technology while doing a fellowship in Sweden with Dr. Leksell, father of radiosurgery. Dr. Adler discusse...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Mehdi Maghsoodnia, a serial entrepreneur that is currently Co-Founder and CEO of 1health, a digital health company with a centralized digital platform for diagnostic tests. Mehdi discusses his previous work in tech companies in Silicon Valley and how he has taken that experience to create 1health into an efficient digital infrastructure for ordering, receiving, and analyzing diagnosti...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Shan Padda, a serial medtech entrepreneur that is currently Founder and CEO of Harvard MedTech, a company that has developed a virtual reality (VR) treatment program for patients with chronic pain and/or that experienced previous trauma. Shan describes the neuroscience and clinical development behind Harvard MedTech's VR headset and home-based treatment program. Shan also gives an ove...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, MD interviews Harvey Castro MD, MBA, an emergency medicine physician, serial entrepreneur, digital health advisor, and author of multiple books, including his latest book ChatGPT and Healthcare. Dr. Castro gives an overview of his career path that began as an emergency medicine physician at a county hospital in Dallas, TX before going on to starting his system of independent emergency rooms, a medica...

In this episode Maxwell Cooper, M.D. interviews Seth Bogner, serial entrepeneur and Chairman and CEO of HeartPoint Global, a company developing innovative, minimally-invasive medical devices for heart patients. Seth gives an overview of HeartPoint's device that is an endovascular alternative to surgical pulmonary banding to help reduce excessive pulmonary blood flow and decrease pressure. Specifically, HeartPoint's endovascular ste...