The Pursuit of Health Podcast

A conversation with Sahil Diwan

The future of healthcare is proactive.

And that can start from the smallest of treatments - as simple as getting your ears cleaned.

Enter Sahil Diwan, Co-Founder and CEO of SafKan Health, the medtech company behind OtoSet, the first FDA-cleared automated ear-cleaning headphones.

Sahil and his brother have designed a product with mass appeal - it’s regularly going viral on social media with millions of vi...

This episode is a collaboration with Doctors for America. 

“ It's our turn to step up and speak out.”

In another special episode of the Pursuit of Health podcast, Dr. Eric Fethke collaborates with Doctors for America to reflect on the impact of the 4th July tax bill, and the extent of its threat to our healthcare system.

Calling on former guests to contribute, and through resharing pertinent snippets from previous episodes of the...

A conversation with Neal Shah

The healthcare insurance system is on the cusp of collapsing.

Enter former Wall Street hedge fund manager Neal Shah, who channelled personal experiences of managing care for family members into a mission for transforming our entire system.

As CEO of social enterprise and health tech platform CareYaya and Chairman of Counterforce Health, Neal is dedicated to spearheading a revolution: bringing direct relat...

A conversation with Ryan Johnson

Healthcare is a game of moving targets.

No one knows this quite like Ryan Johnson, an ER nurse turned CEO and co-founder of health-tech innovators Float.

Float are in the business of helping hospitals free-up needed capacity, empowering patients through home treatments, paying nurses fairly for their work, and easing staffing pressures.

The result? Reduced costs, better patient outcomes, and a mission t...

A conversation with Dr. Yousuf Zafar

Each patient has a 'sphere of life'.

And according to Dr. Yousuf Zafar, it’s critical we do everything we can to understand it.

As a gastrointestinal medical oncologist, Adjunct Professor at Duke University, and Chief Medical Officer at cancer data innovators AccessHope, he knows exactly what it takes to strive for the best patient outcomes.

Through data, personalized case reviews, subspec...

A conversation with Rob Andrews

“A rising tide lifts all boats.” - President Kennedy

Channelling the heart of this message in his words, actions, and distinguished career, is former Congressman and CEO of the Health Transformation Alliance (HTA), Rob Andrews.

As one of the original authors of the Affordable Care Act, Rob has set his sights on driving value-based healthcare reform through data, analytics, and employer-led innovation.

To...

A conversation with Dr. Megan Morris

How do we define quality of life? And how do we provide quality healthcare?

These are key questions in the work of Dr. Megan Morris, a health services researcher, speech-language pathologist, and Associate Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at NYU Langone Health.

Dr. Morris is focused on addressing structural and interpersonal ableism in the American healthcare system - today sh...

A conversation with Dr. Yoona Kim

Medication mismanagement is a massive issue in American healthcare.

Setting her sights on solving this problem is health economist, pharmacist, and CEO/co-founder of Arine - Dr. Yoona Kim.

Dr. Kim realized that identifying problematic medication plans can move the needle on clinical and economic outcomes, and her AI-enabled company is proof - cutting costs and saving time for providers across the coun...

A conversation with Vinay Patel

There are too many barriers in the pursuit of health: financial, infrastructural, systematic… American healthcare is set up to fail the patients it needs to prioritize.

Welcome Vinay Patel, a forward thinking pharmacist and healthcare entrepreneur who founded MakoRx, a company focused on disrupting traditional drug pricing models and improving pharmacy access.

He saw a system that failed patients - char...

A conversation with Charles Gaba

“We need to find a way to make improvements to the system without hurting people in the process.”

In our second collaborative episode with Doctors For America, Dr. Fethke is joined by healthcare policy and data analyst Charles Gaba. 

His work highlighting the numbers surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been influential, with citations by major publications like The Washington Post, Forbes and...

A conversation with Wendell Potter

“We need to get Wall Street out of control of our healthcare system.”

This is the opinion of Wendell Potter, a former health insurance exec for Humana and Cigna turned whistleblower - exposing the practices of his former industry and choosing to seek change.

Wendell knows first-hand how these insurers operate, how they incentivize profit, how they use their financial power to influence Congress, and ...

A conversation with Linda Macomber

We need a healthcare renaissance. AI could lead us there.

Here to share her optimism and enthusiasm for AI as a new frontier in healthcare, is Linda Macomber.

As a digital health expert with over 30 years of experience in health informatics and technology-driven healthcare solutions, Linda is best placed for informing us on the potential AI holds for improving patient experiences and optimising healt...

A conversation with Joanne Kenen

It’s time to help inform the public on what’s happening in healthcare today.

With changes coming to the ACA's subsidies in 2025 and debates about Medicaid expansion, veteran journalist Joanne Kenen is here to help us understand what's at stake.

She takes us through a history of health policy, so that we can make sense of recent instabilities, understand what the proposed changes fundamentally...

A conversation with Hugo Campos

“AI can help patients make better choices about their life and about their healthcare.”

Renowned patient advocate and White House Champion of Change, our guest Hugo Campos shares his personal journey into healthcare advocacy - revealing why he believes we are entering an era with huge potential for patients, clinicians, and the healthcare system as a whole.

But he notes a word of caution: powerful tools...

A conversation with Rosie Bartel

Nurturing the patient-physician partnership is the only way to heal healthcare.

Sharing her lived experience with openness and honesty is Rosie Bartel, a patient advocate and survivor of preventable medical error. Since contracting MRSA after a routine knee replacement surgery, Rosie has channelled a hugely difficult and prolonged healthcare experience into a mission for systemic change.

As she states,...

This episode is a collaboration with Doctors for America.

"This issue has been affecting my sleep. I'm not sleeping and I'm a pretty good sleeper, so this must be bothering me."

In this powerful special episode of the Pursuit of Health podcast, Dr. Eric Fethke collaborates with Doctors for America to sound the alarm about the proposed $880 billion in Medicaid cuts over ten years - a cut larger than the program&apo...

Ep68: Understanding the Interplay of Healthcare & Politics in America- w/ Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

“Politics are like a kaleidoscope. If you don't like where you are, just keep turning it.”

This week we are delighted to welcome physician, epidemiologist, author, and Director of Wayne County's Department of Health, Abdul El-Sayed.

He shares his opinion that our healthcare system is broken because our politics is broken. 

The sol...

A conversation with Dr. Jordi Piera Jiménez

Our money comes with us wherever we go, so why doesn’t our health data?

Sharing his innovative vision for transforming the way we use electronic health records and investing in prevention and patient empowerment, is Dr. Jordi Piera Jiménez.

As Director of the Digital Health Strategy at the Catalan Health Service in Spain, Dr. Jiménez shares a blueprint for modern healthcare that unites patie...

A panel with Dr. Don Berwick, Tanya Sanderson and Ron Howrigon

Today, Dr. Fethke calls on three previous guests to share their thoughts, insights, and solutions in the light of the UHC incident, a tragic murder that highlighted the scale of public anger at the state of our healthcare system.

With our panel drawing from their vast collective experience at clinical, administrative and federal level, this episode serves as a vital resou...