BackTable Innovation

In a society where discussions about medical malpractice are often concealed from the public eye, this episode of BackTable shines a spotlight on the powerful documentary ‘A World of Hurt: How Medical Malpractice Fails Everyone,’ produced by Viknesh Kasthuri, a fourth-year medical student at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Released earlier this year, the film explores how the American medical malpractice system harms and disconnects patients and providers through three compelling case studies. Stream the full episode: https://lnkd.in/ehu97fQ4 Watch the documentary: https://lnkd.in/ganBmSWp

Ali Golshan MD MBA speaks about navigating FDA approval, including benchtop and animal testing under the 510(k) pathway, aiming for availability in clinics within nine months.  He is the founder SOLVEIN™, a novel device to treat venous insufficiency. Learn more about his entrepreneurial journey in our full interview. Video interview: https://lnkd.in/ecpwisdU Audio interview: https://lnkd.in/e4rjjgSB #VI465 #SuperficialVenousDisease #VenousInsufficiency #Ablation #VenousAblation #Endovascular

Superficial venous disease can pose significant management challenges, particularly after patients have exhausted conservative and invasive therapies. In this episode, we interview Dr. Ali Golshan MD MBA, an interventional radiologist and the founder of SOLVEIN™. Dr. Golshan discusses the latest advancements in treating superficial venous disease, highlighting both the benefits and complexities of thermal and non-thermal ablation techniques. Video interview: https://lnkd.in/ecpwisdU Audio interview: https://lnkd.in/e4rjjgSB #VI465 #SuperficialVenousDisease #VenousInsufficiency #Ablation #VenousAblation #Endovascular

Dr. Samir Shah and our host Dr. Aaron Fritts discuss upcoming disruptions in radiology due to artificial intelligence (AI), including AI's role in making healthcare more accessible and affordable. Dr. Shah outlines his career trajectory, from his interventional radiology (IR) training to his entry into teleradiology. He describes his first encounter with AI through natural language processing for encoding radiology reports. Currently, he serves as the Chief Medical Officer of Qure.ai, a platform that utilizes deep learning to aid in diagnosing medical conditions from pathology and radiology imaging. He emphasizes that AI will streamline medical workflows by automating patient summaries, image recognition, and cancer detection. The discussion also explores the benefits and challenges of integrating AI into modern radiology workflows and the learning opportunities it presents for trainees. Stream here: https://ow.ly/S70W50SuwY4 #INN78 #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #NaturalLanguageProcessing #Radiology #Teleradiology #BackTable #Diagnostics #DiagnosticRadiology #MedicalImaging

In this episode of the BackTable Podcast, host Dr. Aaron Fritts interviews guest Dr. Ramsey Al-Hakim about the inception and journey of Auxetics, a med-tech company innovating in the vein stent market. Dr. Al-Hakim is the co-founder of Auxetics and the Section Chief of the Division of Interventional Radiology at Scripps Hospital in San Diego, CA. Dr. Al-Hakim covers the initial challenges of understanding the market and securing capital, the clinical significance of addressing stent-adjacent stenosis, and the process of developing a stent with a negative Poisson effect to counteract it. Dr. Al-Hakim highlights Auxetics' approach to combining cutting-edge interventional technologies with world-class imaging tools for enhanced procedural efficiency in venous interventions. The company’s progress through benchtop work, animal testing, and plans for first-in-human studies outside the U.S., aiming for commercialization within the next four to five years, is also outlined. Listen here: https://ow.ly/fMOf50SuwGs #INN72 #MedicalDevice #PhysicianEntrepreneur #Innovation #Vein #VenousIntervention #DeviceInnovation

Dr. Aditya Bagrodia sits down with Elie Toubiana, founder and CEO of ScribeMD.ai, to discuss the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical documentation. The full podcast episode (https://lnkd.in/envfmdnQ) covers the capabilities and benefits of using an AI-driven medical scribe that ensures HIPAA compliance, reduces physician burnout, and enhances patient interactions. Elie also shares his insights about the technology’s adaptability across various medical fields. Finally, Dr. Bagrodia and Elie discuss ethical considerations surrounding applications of AI in other aspects of healthcare, such as medical workup and diagnosis. #VI458 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MedicalDocumentation #Burnout #PhysicianBurnout #Healthcare #QualityImprovement #Ethics #MedicalScribe

In this episode, host Dr. Aaron Fritts interviews Dr. Anthony Chang, Founder of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIMed), about the realm of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential to enhance the efficiency of clinicians’ workflow and diagnostic processes. Driven by his fascination with mathematics and computer science, Dr. Chang took the leap to join Stanford's AI and Data Science program after dedicating 25 years to the practice of pediatric cardiology. Following four years of intensive education, he conceived AIMed—an innovative interface bridging the realms of clinicians and artificial intelligence. Dr. Chang envisions AI making a significant impact on clinicians through various avenues, such as revolutionizing medical imaging and devices, harnessing the power of deep learning, and integrating robotic process automation to alleviate the administrative load on clinicians and to enhance their efficiency. Listen here: https://ow.ly/ECrV50RWTpZ #INN57

In this episode, Dr. Aaron Fritts interviews Dr. Nisha Mehta, a radiologist and founder of the Physician Side Gigs online community. Dr. Mehta traces her journey from being a radiologist between jobs to managing and advocating for one of the largest grassroots physician communities, with more than 162,000 online members. She started Physician Side Gigs as a private Facebook group with a few doctors to get advice on managing finances for her paid writing and speaking engagements. Overtime, the size and scope of the group grew so much that there was a branch point where a separate group, Physician Community, formed. Both groups remain active today– while Physician Side Gigs still centers around business and personal finance education, Physician Community is more free flowing and fosters a variety of conversations about the healthcare environment, clinical practice, and physician advocacy. This advocacy really came into the spotlight during the peak of COVID-19, when members of the online community collaborated to create a list of physician demands for the federal government and were successful in securing $70 billion for physicians in a stimulus package. https://lnkd.in/e9FivYVh #Innovation #PhysicianEntrepreneurship #PhysicianAdvocacy #INN49

In this joint episode from BackTable Urology & BackTable Innovation, host Dr. Jose Silva speaks with Dr. Duke Herrell. Dr. Herrell is the CEO and CMO of Virtuoso Surgical, a robotic surgery tool known for its exceptional dexterity and precision. The surgical device features two 1-millimeter dextrous tools inserted through a rigid scope that is capable of carrying a versatile array of instruments. The device is currently intended for the urologic procedures including removal and enucleation of prostate tissue, bladder lesion removal and sampling, and transurethral resection of bladder tumors (TURBT). Notably, the device addresses a critical issue in tumor staging by improving the accuracy of margin determination, which is a game-changer for the 50% of TURBT procedures that yield specimens lacking muscle or clear margin information. Beyond urology, the device has the potential to improve other surgical procedures that utilize a rigid scope in a constrained environment including pulmonology, neurosurgery, and ENT interventions. Stream now: https://lnkd.in/e9Pkq_Xx #INN64

In this episode, Dr. Aaron Fritts interviews Dr. Mehdi Razavi about his journey to entrepreneurship and in developing Saranas Early Bird, a vascular device that allows for early detection of perioperative bleeding. Before venturing into entrepreneurship, Mehdi was a dedicated EP cardiologist with limited exposure to entrepreneurship. After his fellowship, Mehdi took part in a Medtronic project. This experience energized him and ignited a desire to explore more opportunities for entrepreneurship. Dr. Razavi conceived the idea for Early Bird when he suspected a hematoma in one of his patients following an atrial ablation procedure. Recognizing the risk of postoperative bleeding in such procedures, he envisioned a solution for early hematoma detection. The device that he developed is a specialized venous axis sheath equipped with ringed electrodes. These electrodes continuously emit sub-physiologic electrical signals both throughout and after a medical procedure, enabling real-time monitoring of the sheath's impedance or resistance. This technology can detect a drop in impedance, indicating potential bleeding. Because their technology works as a warning system, Dr. Razavi and his co-founder Dr. Alex Arevalos decided to name their company after the early bird genus, Saranas. Stream the full interview: https://lnkd.in/eqx3sk-v #INN60