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What is MedConnect?
Spotlighting ambitious, innovative, and visionary leaders and companies who are transforming healthcare


Abdullah Baaj, MD, PharmD - Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Boston Oncology
What is the mission of your company, Boston Oncology? We started Boston Oncology when I was in Medical School, sometime between the...

Chanel Fischetti, MD - Emergency Medicine Physician and CMO of Centaur Labs
What is Centaur Labs’ mission? Centaur Labs is focused on improving data annotation to improve medical AI. To achieve quality deep...

Michael Tarnoff, MD, FACS - Surgeon-in-Chief at Tufts Medical Center
As Tufts’ Surgeon-in-Chief and a former VP/CMO of Covidien and Medtronic, you have had a vast array of responsibilities and experiences....

Aaron Lemieux, MD - Content and Creative Director of SketchyMedical (ft. Bryan Lemieux, MD - Founder
Mission Our mission stems from the current state of medical education and how it’s been unchanged for such a long time. We want to make...


Bhaskar Anepu, Co-Founder and CTO of Smirta Innovations
SMIRTA has 2 companies under its purview. How did that come about and what is SMIRTA’s role with both of them? I’ll start off by saying...


Troy Russell, MD, MPH - Founder of Carescribr
​ ​What is Carescribr? Carescribr is an EMR documentation application that addresses two of the largest health IT problems in the U.S....


Doug Hirsch - Founder of GoodRx
What is GoodRx and how does it work? GoodRx was founded on personal experience. I had worked at Yahoo and Facebook, and I’d spent about...


Debbie Lin Teodorescu, MD, MEng - Founder of SurgiBox
Mission: To ensure safe surgery for patients and providers at any time or place it is needed. How would you describe your product? And...


Greg Ruff, MD - Plastic Surgeon, Inventor of the Barbed Suture
The narrative of the barbed suture: The inspiration for the suture goes back long before I was a doctor. I grew up in southern Michigan...


Alisa L. Niksch, MD - Chief Medical Officer of Genetesis
What is Genetesis, what is the technology and how does it work? I’ve been involved with Genetesis since 2014. It’s a company that’s built...


Aiden Feng, MD, MBA - Founder of Pillo
Would you mind talking about Pillo, what the product is, and how you came up with the idea? My cofounder came up with the idea because of...


Mimi Yen, PhD - Founder of PhagePro
Company Vision/Mission We plan to use phage products to help the world’s most vulnerable communities. Our first product is aimed at...
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