Christina Farr brings together three clinicians with genuinely different views: cardiologist Venkatesh Murthy, rheumatologist Paul Sufka, and internist Sandeep Palakodeti, to react to Midjourney, the whole-body scanning startup that went viral after an Elon Musk retweet.
Episode 1 of Rounds. Christina Farr and Stephanie Davis are joined by SVB’s Megan Scheffel and Midi Health founder Joanna Strober on the expanding definition of women’s health, the latest SVB report, and how Midi built a billion-dollar company out of a gap the system ignored for decades.
Joanna Strober, CEO of Midi Health, joins Chrissy Farr to talk about building one of the first scaled companies in women's midlife health, and why the category didn't produce a unicorn until this year despite an obvious market need.
What’s Next for Lifers
Ric Sinclair, CEO of Cotiviti, joins Christina Farr to argue that healthcare does not have a data problem or a technology problem — it has a coordination problem. They discuss why payers and providers are not the villains, and why AI may make things worse before it makes them better.
In this episode of Lifers, Christina Farr sits down with Dr. David Carmouche, Chief Medical and Chief Commercial Officer at Lumeris and newly appointed advisor to HHS and CMS, to explore one of healthcare's most urgent questions: can primary care be saved, and is AI the thing that finally does it?
Artera CEO Guillaume de Zwirek and board member Dan Goldsmith join Christina Farr to ask what AI in healthcare actually is: neither traditional SaaS nor consulting, but bespoke solutions delivered at the speed and cost of software — and why companies missing that distinction are already dying.
This week on Lifers, Christina Farr sits down with Chris Altchek, who went from investment banking to building Mic, a digital media company that reached 100 million readers, before co-founding Cadence, a health tech company now managing nearly 100,000 chronic disease patients per day.
In this episode of Lifers, Christina Farr sits down with Heather Fernandez, CEO of Solv and former Trulia executive, to dig into the question that has stumped healthcare for decades: why don't patients know what their doctor visit will cost?
In this special episode of Lifers, Christina Farr sits down with Dr. Rian Kabir, a psychiatrist and medical AI expert, to discuss the mental health implications of Kalshi's $22 billion valuation.
In this episode of Lifers, Maven Clinic founder and CEO Kate Ryder joins host Christina Farr to discuss her journey building the first unicorn in the women's health category.
This week on Lifers, Christina Farr interviews Dr. Oliver Kharraz, the CEO of Zocdoc. They discuss the complexities of navigating the healthcare industry and the "culture shock" of modernizing medical scheduling.
