Med Tech Gurus
Med Tech Gurus is a podcast dedicated to helping medical device executives stay on the leading edge of their industry. Whether you’re looking to grow your sales team, commercialize new devices, set up national accounts, or improve your clinical performances, this podcast is designed to help. Each episode features an interview with a thought leader or practitioner, discussing topics like: sales force, innovation, patient outcomes, emerging technologies, supply chain, group purchasing organizations, device launches, value analysis, biotech, and more.
Episodes
What if the key to fixing pharma’s toughest challenges wasn’t more complexity—but more clarity?
In this episode of Med Tech Gurus, Shetal Vyas, SVP of Commercial Strategy & Development at Ardelyx, joins us to explore how digital-first strategies are reshaping how we bring therapies to patients. Shetal unpacks how to overcome the $200 billion patent cliff, reframe customer engagement, and bu...
What if we could detect Alzheimer’s disease before the first memory fades?
In this powerful episode of Med Tech Gurus, Dr. Maria-Magdalena Patru, MD, PhD—who leads the neurology medical team at Roche Diagnostics US—explains how early diagnosis is being radically transformed through CSF and blood-based biomarker innovations. With Alzheimer’s affecting over 7 million Americans, Dr. Patru outl...
What if the future of clinical trials wasn’t just faster—but dramatically more human-centered, efficient, and aligned with real-world outcomes? In this episode of Med Tech Gurus, Meri Beckwith, co-founder of Lindus Health, shares how a broken experience during a COVID trial sparked a revolution in trial design.
Lindus is reimagining the traditional CRO with fixed-cost models, milestone-base...
What if you could cut your product development time in half—and avoid the regulatory landmines that derail most startups? In this episode of Med Tech Gurus, Marcel Botha, CEO and Founder of 10XBeta, reveals how his Brooklyn-based venture studio helps innovators turn bold ideas into compliant, fundable, and scalable medical technologies.
With deep expertise in design, engineering, and regulatory strategy, Marcel shares how 10XBeta s...
What happens when clinical strategy, bioinformatics, and market access all live under one roof? Meet Tyler O’Malley, VP at Exagen, who shares how this rare triad is driving innovation in autoimmune diagnostics.
In this episode, Tyler reveals how real-world data fuels product strategy, why storytelling is key to market access, and how diagnostic innovators can scale in a payer-driven world. ...
Behavioral health is in crisis—not just from rising demand, but from the chaos of inconsistent care models, fragmented data, and outdated systems. In this episode of Med Tech Gurus, Jim Szyperski, CEO of Acuity Behavioral Health, shares how his team is bringing much-needed structure and accountability to inpatient psychiatric care.
Backed by a $1.5 million seed round and in collaboration with health systems, Acuity is creating da...
What if we could finally put real answers behind the brain fog, fatigue, and lingering symptoms so many patients still face post-COVID? In this episode, Dr. Nigel McCracken, Chief Operating Officer at Virax Biolabs, returns to Med Tech Gurus to reveal how their groundbreaking ViraxImmune platform is decoding the hidden dysfunctions of the immune system. With major NHS-led trials underway and U.S. clinical sites ramping up, Nigel sh...
Billions are being poured into healthcare AI, yet most innovations never make it past pilot projects. Why? And more importantly—how do we fix it?
In this episode of Med Tech Gurus, we sit down with Marco Smit, serial entrepreneur, life sciences executive, and AI commercialization expert. With leadership experience at Roche, Genentech, Gesund.ai, CareSyntax, and now Domelabs.ai, Marco has se...
What if we could finally crack the code on treating brain cancer by opening the door that’s blocked 98% of therapies? In this episode, Dr. Michael Canney, Chief Scientific Officer of Carthera, reveals how SonoCloud—a revolutionary ultrasound implant—temporarily opens the blood-brain barrier to deliver chemotherapy directly to tumors like glioblastoma. With over 100 patients enrolled in a Phase III trial across 40 global sites, this...
What if the key to solving the provider burnout crisis wasn’t adding more hours in the day—but using technology to give them back? In this episode of Med Tech Gurus, we meet David Norris, Co-Founder and CEO of Affinion Health.
David shares how his company is building an AI-powered clinical inbox that helps clinicians manage the overwhelming flood of lab results, patient messages, and admin ...
What if surgeons could eliminate the guesswork from complex procedures and walk into the OR with a personalized, pre-fitted solution ready to go? In this episode, we meet Vikram Ahuja, Co-Founder and CEO of OsseoLabs, who is transforming orthopedic and maxillofacial surgery using AI and 3D printing.
Vikram reveals how his platform builds patient-specific implants using biomechanical data—dr...
What turns a brilliant idea into a market-ready medical device? Jennifer Palinchik, CEO of SageMar Medical, has spent over two decades guiding innovators through that exact journey. In this episode, Jennifer shares the critical factors that determine whether your device gets adopted—or ends up on the shelf.
From navigating regulatory hurdles and defining market value to aligning R&D with commercialization from day one, Jennifer rev...
Gurus, what if treating prostate cancer no longer required surgery, blood loss, or hospital stays?
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Arun Menawat, CEO of Profound Medical, who is leading a bold transformation in prostate cancer care. With Tulsa Pro—an AI-powered, MRI-guided, incision-free therapy—his team is challenging the surgical status quo head-on. Arun shares how his journey throug...
What if your hospital could see, hear, and understand everything happening in the OR—and actually use that data to drive real-time improvements?
Dr. Andrew Gostine, CEO and co-founder of Artisight, is making that vision a reality. With AI-powered computer vision and ambient listening, Artisight enables hospitals to automate documentation, reduce delays, and even prevent wrong-site surgeries...
In a world where healthcare demands more from fewer resources, standing still isn’t an option.
Tim Tinnel, EVP and COO of IntelliGuard, reveals how ...
What if one small valve could change the lives of millions suffering from chronic venous i...
Gurus, what if the way we transport life-saving medications like insulin or biologics didn’t depend on ice packs, bulky compressors, or outdated infrastructure?
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Gurus, what if one of the most overlooked causes of hospital harm—and cost—was also one of the most preventable?
Meet Martin Burns, CEO of Bruin Bio...
Gurus, imagine a future where your voice can flag early signs of Parkinson’s or PTSD—where your smartwatch data helps build global research—and where you, not the system, own your health data.
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Gurus, what happens when a med student asks for a 3D printer for their birthday? For Dhruv Agrawal, Co-Founder and CEO of Aether Biomedical, that gift became the launchpad for a global MedTech breakthrough.
In this episode, Dhruv shares how he went from medical school to creating the Zeus Hand—the world’s first fully remote-adjustable, repairable, and Medicare-reimbursable bionic hand. With over 800 devices in use across 15 countri...
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