Penn HealthX

09/02/2020

Dear Penn HealthX community,

We are proud to present our first virtual conference event, Intelligent Partnerships, from 9AM-5PM ET on October 3rd, 2020!

Click the link below for more information and to register.

Penn HealthX

12/19/2017

Luxurna is the first directly administered gene therapy approved in the U.S. that targets a disease caused by mutations in a specific gene.

12/11/2017

Check out our most recent podcast episode with Chris Molaro and Adam Pardes, the co-founders of NeuroFlow! The two delve into stories - such as how they met, and how they were able to raise seed money - and share lessons and advice for those looking to launch their own medtech start-up! We can't wait to see what amazing things this team is able to accomplish!

In this episode, Ryan sits down with Chris Molaro and Adam Pardes, the co-founders of the Philadelphia start-up NeuroFlow. NeuroFlow is a digital health software firm that uses advanced data analytics

12/05/2017

The most recent episode of The Penn HealthX Podcast with Dr. Neha Vapiwala dropped earlier this morning! Check it out to learn more about Dr. Vapiwala's background, decision to pursue radiation oncology, and how she began to accumulate leadership positions at Penn and beyond!

In this episode, I was able to sit down with Dr. Neha Vapiwala who is one of my mentors, and overall one of my absolute favorite people at Penn Med. She just began work as the new Assistant Dean of St

11/22/2017

With the final HealthX seminar series event for the semester in the books, and in light of the Thanksgiving holiday, we wanted to look back and thank all of the amazing speakers we've been lucky to host!

Thanks to:

Alastair Blake
Dr. Scott Trerotola
Jonathan Bush
Dr. Jeffrey Solomon
Dr. Neha Patel
Emily Kramer-Golinkoff
Dr. Mehmet Oz
Dr. Arupa Ganguly
Dr. Howard Furst
Neil Ravitz

We especially wanted to thank Dr. Mehmet Oz, Dr. Arupa Ganguly, Dr. Howard Furst, and Neil Ravitz for helping us round out the semester with a strong "HealthX Week!"

We still have the Penn HealthX Conference to look forward to on Saturday, December 2nd! Get your tickets at the link below!

http://pennhealthx.com/events/conference

See you there!

11/17/2017

11/08/2017

Over the last two weeks, we had three amazing speakers share their stories and knowledge with us! We've also been able to release three awesome podcast episodes!

Thanks to Dr. Jeffrey Solomon for kicking off the Crash Course series by telling us about start-ups and the medical-device space.

Thanks to Dr. Neha Patel for speaking about healthcare quality improvement and value-based payment models.

Lastly, thanks to Emily Kramer-Golinkoff for sharing her story of starting Emily's Entourage, which is currently leading the charge to help fund the research and development of treatments for patients with Cystic Fibrosis who have rare nonsense mutations.

Thanks again to Nathan Dollinger at The Future of Healthcare Podcast, Phil Williams, Naveen Jain, and Jun Woo Jeon - the three founders of SpectrumScores - and Dr. Dana Kuhn for coming on the podcast!
Check out those episodes at the link below, or on iTunes.

https://soundcloud.com/pennhealthxpodcast

We are consistently amazed by the talented minds we have the privilege of learning from in the Penn community and beyond! Plenty more events coming up next week, and many more podcasts to come! Stay tuned!

11/02/2017

We dropped Episode 11 of the podcast this morning! The conversation with Phil Williams, Naveen Jain, and Jun Woo Jeon - the three founders of SpectrumScores - was an instant classic! We discussed their backgrounds, HealthX Labs, and the experience of getting Spectrum Scores off the ground. Now that the website is launched, we're excited to see just how far they can take it!

Help spread the word! --> http://www.spectrumscores.org/

Check out the episode on SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/2hmmHky

or iTunes: http://apple.co/2eCC7MS

If you like the show, please take the time to rate and review it! We're really proud of what we've put out so far, and have tons of great content on the way!